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Chancery: Certificates of Election of Coroners and Verderers (Tower and Rolls Chapel...
Catalogue reference: C 242
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C 242
Writs de coronatore eligendo and de viridario eligendo, for the election of coroners and verderers in county courts, returned into Chancery endorsed with the names of the officers elected or nominated.Many of these records were formerly included...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- C 242
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Certificates of Election of Coroners and Verderers (Tower and Rolls Chapel Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1283-1633
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Description (What the record is about)
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Writs de coronatore eligendo and de viridario eligendo, for the election of coroners and verderers in county courts, returned into Chancery endorsed with the names of the officers elected or nominated.
Many of these records were formerly included in C 47 and C 202
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The writs were originally on files which broke up when the thongs snapped, so are very incomplete.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For coroners' elections after 1889, see KB 16
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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)
- 22 file(s)
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- Topics
- Democracy
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Specimen writs for the election of coroners and verderers appear in Registrum Brevium (4th ed, London, 1687), pp 177-178. The returns are examined in R F Hunnisett, 'English Chancery records: rolls and files', Journal of the Society of Archivists, v (1975), pp 158-168.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3774/
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