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"A book containing the several rates of certain lands, tenements, rents and hereditaments...
Catalogue reference: E 315/67
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This record is about the "A book containing the several rates of certain lands, tenements, rents and hereditaments... dating from 1548 in the series Court of Augmentations and Predecessors and Successors: Miscellaneous Books. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 315/67
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1548
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Description (What the record is about)
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"A book containing the several rates of certain lands, tenements, rents and hereditaments lately belonging, as well to colleges, chantries, free chapels, gilds, fraternities, obits, lights, lamps and other like things given to Edward VI by the Act of Parliament, 1 Edward VI and the Act 37 Henry VIII, sold to sundry and divers persons upon sundry bargains concluded and agreed by Sir Walter Mildmay, knight, one of the General Surveyors of the Court of Augmentations and Revenues and Robert Kellway, Surveyor of the Liveries in the King's Court of Wards and Liveries, by virtue of the king's Commission, 27 April 2 Edward VI." This volume originally formed a single volume, foliated 1 to 518 but now is in two parts. They record sales from 29 September 1548. The entries have no topographical order. Part 1 of 2. Particulars of sales are in IND 1/16980
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Government finances
- Litigation
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E 315
Court of Augmentations and Predecessors and Successors: Miscellaneous Books
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