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Series
Chancery Files, Tower Series, Recognizances
Catalogue reference: C 259
What's it about?
C 259
Recognizances or bonds made in Chancery by one or more sureties, occasionally on a personal surety alone, undertaking that a named person or persons will carry out the detailed terms of the bond, commonly under pain of a specified penalty for...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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C 259
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery Files, Tower Series, Recognizances
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Date (When the record was created)
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1376-1428
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Description (What the record is about)
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Recognizances or bonds made in Chancery by one or more sureties, occasionally on a personal surety alone, undertaking that a named person or persons will carry out the detailed terms of the bond, commonly under pain of a specified penalty for failure to comply.
The recognizances cover a variety of topics. As part of keeping the peace, many persons were bound over to be of good behaviour towards specified persons and the procedure could equally well be more general in forbidding a man to indulge in convocations or assemblies.
Recognizances were also used to enforce legislation, and occasionally politics were involved, as in the personal bond entered into to be faithful and loyal to Richard II while he was in Ireland and to raise no insurrection against him.
Most of these records were formerly included in C 47 and C 202
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Later recognizances may be found in C 244
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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15 file(s)
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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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- Topics
- Conflict
- Treason and rebellion
- Ireland
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3791/
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Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
1,513,580 records
Within the department: C
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Chancery Files, Tower Series, Recognizances
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