Record revealed
The first American invention to obtain an English patent
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Series
Chancery Files, Rolls Chapel Series, Lenten Certificates
Catalogue reference: C 265
What's it about?
C 265
The immediate authority for the certificates in this series was the proclamation of 17 February 1561, repeated in the week before Lent in succeeding years, which ordered total abstinence from flesh between Shrove Tuesday and the Tuesday after...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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C 265
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery Files, Rolls Chapel Series, Lenten Certificates
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Date (When the record was created)
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1593-1641
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Description (What the record is about)
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The immediate authority for the certificates in this series was the proclamation of 17 February 1561, repeated in the week before Lent in succeeding years, which ordered total abstinence from flesh between Shrove Tuesday and the Tuesday after Palm Sunday, imposing severe penalties for offenders.
In London, to which these documents relate, the aldermen of each ward were to ensure that twelve honest and substantial citizens should tour their wards twice in each Lent and report on any who had killed, dressed or eaten meat without licence, or sold unlicensed drink. Their signed and sealed findings were to be returned to Chancery by the first day of the Easter term.
Few of the returns report any significant breach of the proclamation.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
As far as possible the documents have been arranged Lent by Lent.
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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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English and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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9 file(s)
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
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Most of the documents are badly faded and worn; some carry the remains of seals.
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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
- Food and drink
- Nationality
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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The records in this series were formerly among the unsorted miscellanea in the Rolls Chapel.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3797/
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Chancery Files, Rolls Chapel Series, Lenten Certificates
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