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Series
Palatinate of Chester: Exchequer Court: Records of Proceedings in the Pentice and...
Catalogue reference: CHES 8
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CHES 8
This series contains records of proceedings in cases before the two Chester city courts brought into the superior Exchequer of Chester for consideration, usually following the issue of a writ of certiorari. The great majority of the records...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CHES 8
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Title (The name of the record)
- Palatinate of Chester: Exchequer Court: Records of Proceedings in the Pentice and Portmote Courts of the City of Chester
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1551-c1762
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of proceedings in cases before the two Chester city courts brought into the superior Exchequer of Chester for consideration, usually following the issue of a writ of certiorari. The great majority of the records relating to both courts date from the latter end of the seventeenth century. Most are substantial records of individual cases, but items covering a range of years include a number of smaller records, with their accompanying writs, filed together. The writs which transferred the cases from the inferior courts to the Exchequer Court were usually writs of certiorari, but occasionally of error, issued in the name of the monarch or the Prince of Wales at Chester as appropriate.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Records of the courts themselves are in the Chester City Record Office.
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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
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Palatinate of Chester, Pentice Court, 1300-1830
- Palatinate of Chester, Portmote Court, 1300-1830
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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40 roll(s)
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- Topics
- Litigation
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Even before it achieved county status in 1506, the city of Chester received considerable judicial privileges from the crown. In 1300 it was the first city to be given the right to try pleas of the crown before the mayor and bailiffs.
The Portmote Court met several times a month, presided over by the mayor, and dealt with breaches of the peace and registered land transactions. The Pentice Court was held by the sheriffs, and met several times a week. It served as a market court, and also dealt with pleas of covenant, debt, trespass and detinue. On petition a case could be transferred to the Portmote Court, or even to the Chester County Court.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- See Selected Rolls of the Chester City Courts... ed A Hopkins, Chetham Society, 1905, for transcripts and a useful discussion of the early rolls of the Courts preserved in the Chester Record Office; and Historical Manuscripts Commission, 8th Report, App, pp 355-403.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4069/
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