Series
Chancery: Petty Bag Office: Bills and Warrants for the Appointment of Customs Officers
Catalogue reference: C 208
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C 208
Warrants from the lords commissioners of the Treasury, with bills attached, for letters patent appointing to office customers, collectors, controllers, searchers, undersearchers, and king's waiters.The warrants were delivered into the Petty Bag...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- C 208
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Petty Bag Office: Bills and Warrants for the Appointment of Customs Officers
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Date (When the record was created)
- c1714-1789
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Description (What the record is about)
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Warrants from the lords commissioners of the Treasury, with bills attached, for letters patent appointing to office customers, collectors, controllers, searchers, undersearchers, and king's waiters.
The warrants were delivered into the Petty Bag Office where the letters patent were made out. They were sent into Chancery to secure royal letters patent. Some customs officers held their position by virtue of letters patent of either the lord treasurer or the lords commissioners of the Treasury.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 6 bundle(s)
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Indexes to the warrants in this series are in C 202/267-269.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For the personnel structure of the customs service in the eighteenth century, see E E Hoon, The Organisation of the English Customs System, 1696-1786 (New York and London, 1938).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3740/
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Chancery: Petty Bag Office: Bills and Warrants for the Appointment of Customs Officers