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Chancery: Petty Bag Office: Parliament Pawns
Catalogue reference: C 218
What's it about?
C 218
This series consists of the enrolments of writs of summons of peers to Parliament and writs of election to the House of Commons.The documents concern peers spiritual and temporal, judges and legal officers of the Crown, sheriffs of counties who...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- C 218
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Petty Bag Office: Parliament Pawns
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1529-1880
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of the enrolments of writs of summons of peers to Parliament and writs of election to the House of Commons.
The documents concern peers spiritual and temporal, judges and legal officers of the Crown, sheriffs of counties who returned knights, the returning officers of some boroughs, the wardens of the Cinque Ports, the chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster and county palatine of Chester, the Welsh county sheriffs, and from 1678 the bishops of Durham.
Following the Act of Union with Scotland in 1707 the proclamations summoning the Scottish peers were added. Similarly, following the Act of Union with Ireland in 1801, there are writs of summons of Irish peers.
Until 1541, and again after 1874, the writs were enrolled on the dorse of the Close Rolls: C 54
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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 and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 87 files and rolls
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3750/
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