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The Crown Estate and predecessors: Agricultural Estates Group and predecessors: Registered...
Catalogue reference: CRES 55
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CRES 55
Correspondence and papers of The Crown Estate commissioners and predecessors on gold and silver mines, to which the Crown is entitled by prerogative. Most files relate to mines or prospecting in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, although...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CRES 55
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Title (The name of the record)
- The Crown Estate and predecessors: Agricultural Estates Group and predecessors: Registered Files, Mines Royal
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1837-1989
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence and papers of The Crown Estate commissioners and predecessors on gold and silver mines, to which the Crown is entitled by prerogative. Most files relate to mines or prospecting in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, although there is a single file on prospecting in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire.
For information on the appraisal and selection decisions applied to records in this series see Operational Selection Policy OSP 2, The Crown Estate, 1975-1985.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Where identification has been possible, modern Welsh spellings of place names have been given. Otherwise place names have been spelt in the catalogue as they appear in the files.
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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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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, 1851-1924
- Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings, 1832-1851
- The Crown Estate, 1956-1956
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 144 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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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By prerogative right the Crown is entitled to all mines of gold and silver within the realm, whether the mines are situated in its own lands, or in the lands of a subject. Royal mines do not pass by implication in grants or conveyances by the Crown, although the Crown may grant the right to royal mines in the form of a franchise.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5505/
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