Series
Chancery: Cursitors' and Petty Bag Offices: Precedent Books and Registers of Writs
Catalogue reference: C 230
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C 230
Precedent books of legal memoranda, cases, forms of writ and commission, and rules for transacting business within the Petty Bag Office.There is also a register of the varieties of writ dealt with by the clerks of the Petty Bag, which contains...
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C 230
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Cursitors' and Petty Bag Offices: Precedent Books and Registers of Writs
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Date (When the record was created)
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17th century-1888
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Description (What the record is about)
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Precedent books of legal memoranda, cases, forms of writ and commission, and rules for transacting business within the Petty Bag Office.
There is also a register of the varieties of writ dealt with by the clerks of the Petty Bag, which contains details of the fees they charged.
There are, in addition, precedent books and a register of writs compiled by the cursitors, which were inherited by the Petty Bag Office on the abolition of the cursitors in 1835.
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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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Language (The language of the record)
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English and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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11 volume(s)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3762/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: C
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Chancery: Cursitors' and Petty Bag Offices: Precedent Books and Registers of Writs