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A Decree and Order Book of the Court of General Surveyors. Among the fly-leaves are...
Catalogue reference: E 315/106
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This record is about the A Decree and Order Book of the Court of General Surveyors. Among the fly-leaves are... dating from 1542 Apr 22-1547 Jan 28 in the series Court of Augmentations and Predecessors and Successors: Miscellaneous Books. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1542 Apr 22-1547 Jan 28
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A Decree and Order Book of the Court of General Surveyors. Among the fly-leaves are two of an alphabetical index in an early nineteenth century hand, and six of a contemporary alphabetical index of names only. As marginal headings are the names of the persons to whom the decrees were granted; each entry has as a caption the date of the decree. Easter, 34 Henry VIII to Trinity, 38 Henry VIII.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- 121 parchment membranes
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Government finances
- Litigation
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- A Calendar of the 158 decrees appears in the Thirtieth Report of the Deputy Keeper (1869), pp.166-196.
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Court of Augmentations and Predecessors and Successors: Miscellaneous Books
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