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Registrar of the High Court of Delegates, and Registrar of Ecclesiastical and Admiralty...
Catalogue reference: DEL 9
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DEL 9
Muniment books of the High Court of Delegates and from 1833 the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council used to register three main types of documents:Copies of exhibits delivered out of the custody of the registrar.Grants of wills proved and...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- DEL 9
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registrar of the High Court of Delegates, and Registrar of Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Causes of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: Muniment Books
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1651-1859
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Description (What the record is about)
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Muniment books of the High Court of Delegates and from 1833 the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council used to register three main types of documents:
- Copies of exhibits delivered out of the custody of the registrar.
- Grants of wills proved and grants of administration issued.
- Copies of documents relating to the conduct of business and the appointment of officials, including letters patent appointing registrars and orders in Council.
The documents registered relate mainly to testamentary causes and there is a high incidence of wills recorded, but other documents, tendered as evidence, include petitions, letters, land conveyances, bonds, Chancery bills, articles of agreement in maritime affairs, financial accounts and letters. Exhibits are sometimes accompanied by receipts written by the exhibitants or their proctors acknowledging the return of documents. In some instances receipts for sums of money or bequests ordered to be paid out of funds deposited in the Court are also recorded.
All volumes have original indexes.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Whilst in the custody of the Principal Probate Registry of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, the volumes were mostly rebound and some of their original indexes were amended, and manuscript notes in the hand of G R Rodman, an official of the Principal Probate Registry, were written on the documents or on papers left between the leaves of some of the volumes.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Indexes are in DEL 11
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 10 volume(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1962 Supreme Court of Judicature
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council's responsibility for appeals in English and Welsh probate causes was transferred to the House of Lords when the Court of Probate was created in 1858. The records in DEL 9 were transferred to the Court of Probate's registry, on account of the high incidence of records relating to probate among them. They were inherited from that registry by its successor, the Principal Probate Registry of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- An index to testamentary exhibits registered in DEL 9 is in The Genealogist new series XI and XII .
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5822/
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Registrar of the High Court of Delegates, and Registrar of Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Causes of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: Muniment Books
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