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Plea roll for the Court of King’s Bench, with a portrait of Henry VIII
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Indictments: Berkshire
Catalogue reference: ASSI 5/1/1
What’s it about?
This record is about the Indictments: Berkshire dating from 1650 Mar 7 in the series Assizes: Oxford Circuit: Indictment files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ASSI 5/1/1
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1650 Mar 7
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Description (What the record is about)
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Indictments: Berkshire
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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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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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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
- Legal
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Transferred from Berkshire County Record Office in 1954. It had been sent to Berkshire by the archivist to the dean and chapter, Canterbury. Further portions of this file, sometime in the custody of the librarian, Lambeth Palace, were transferred from the Berkshire Record Office in 1962.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4637962/
Series information
ASSI 5
Assizes: Oxford Circuit: Indictment files
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Catalogue hierarchy
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: ASSI
Records of Justices of Assize, Gaol Delivery, Oyer and Terminer, and Nisi Prius
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Within the series: ASSI 5
Assizes: Oxford Circuit: Indictment files
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Indictments: Berkshire
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