Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues and predecessors: Court Rolls and other...

CRES 5

1441-1950

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.

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

LRRO 4 and LRRO 38

Public Record(s)

English

• 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

543 bundles and volumes

Topics

Manors

Crown lands and estates

Forestry

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.