Series
Cabinet Office: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: Registered files
Catalogue reference: CAB 197
Date: 1974-1979
This series contains registered files of the office of the Chancellor of the Lancaster for the period of Harold Lever.
Series
Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues and predecessors: Court Rolls and other...
Catalogue reference: CRES 5
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CRES 5
Court rolls and books, estreats, rentals, presentments, etc, of Crown manors in England and Wales. In addition, there are a few records of the day-to-day working of some estates, which are not strictly manorial records.Some apparently early...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CRES 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues and predecessors: Court Rolls and other Manorial Documents from Crown Manors
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1441-1950
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Description (What the record is about)
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Court rolls and books, estreats, rentals, presentments, etc, of Crown manors in England and Wales. In addition, there are a few records of the day-to-day working of some estates, which are not strictly manorial records.
Some apparently early records such as CRES 5/56 and CRES 5/57 are later copies.
Includes some records originally in E 40.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Court rolls deposited with the Auditors of Land Revenue are in LR 3
Other court rolls will be found in SC 2
For estreats of court rolls see LR 11
Court rolls of the Duchy of Lancaster are in DL 30
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- LRRO 4 and LRRO 38
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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
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Crown Lands, 1925-1956
- Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1810-1832
- Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1851-1924
- Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings, 1832-1851
- Surveyor General of Crown Lands, 1625-1810
- Surveyor General of Woods and Forests, 1715-1810
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 543 bundles and volumes
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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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For an index to Court Rolls in this and other series see 'Union Indexes to Court Rolls'. Please speak to staff at the enquiry desk for the precise location.
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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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The stewards and lessees of Crown manors were bound to transmit duplicates of their court rolls (keeping a copy themselves), originally to the Auditors of Land Revenue, but upon their abolition in 1832, to the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- See alsoManor and other Local Court rolls, 13th Century-1922 Public Record Office Legal Records Information Leaflet 9.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5455/
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