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Surveyor General of Land Revenues and successors: Surveys and other records; and...
Catalogue reference: CRES 39
What's it about?
CRES 39
This series consists of a number of volumes of reports from surveyors to the Surveyor General of Land Revenues and successors, sometimes accompanied by rentals, schedules of copyhold estates, court rolls, etc.; a collection of unbound surveys;...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CRES 39
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Title (The name of the record)
- Surveyor General of Land Revenues and successors: Surveys and other records; and Trustees for the Sale of Crown Lands: Registers of Particulars
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Date (When the record was created)
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1608-1884
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of a number of volumes of reports from surveyors to the Surveyor General of Land Revenues and successors, sometimes accompanied by rentals, schedules of copyhold estates, court rolls, etc.; a collection of unbound surveys; and a set of files containing individual surveys of London houses, with plans.
CRES 39/67-74, a collection of entry books of the Interregnum period, are the working copies of the deputy registrar, John Wheatley, used at Worcester House. They contain particulars for the sale of Crown lands, based on the Parliamentary Surveys.
They are indexed.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
According to the schedule of surveyors generals' records in CRES 39/46 (and also British Library Additional MSS 30206-30208), these were once four books, marked A to D: at some point they have been rebound and lettered A1, A2, etc. They were also wrongly labelled on the spine as 'Parliamentary Surveys'.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The surveys on which the particulars from the entry books are based are now in: and 276-304 E 317
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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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- Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1810-1924
- Surveyor General of Land Revenues, 1625-1810
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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212 files 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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Trustees for the Sale of Crown Lands had a registration department, based at Worcester House in the Strand, whose duty it was to make out the official particulars, based on the surveys, in order that official negotiations for the sale of the premises might begin.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- These volumes are the books described by S J Madge on pp 194 and 297 of The Domesday of Crown Lands (London, 1938), as the entry books containing 'particulars grounded on surveys, 1649-1653, and rated in order to the sale of several Crown lands'.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5489/
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