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Series
Palatinate of Durham: Court of Chancery: Cursitor's and Registrar's Miscellanea
Catalogue reference: DURH 8
What's it about?
DURH 8
This series contains a wide variety of records from the Chancery of Durham. Many of them are of an accounting nature, and there are a number arising from causes. The cursitor's records include a register of recognizances made in Chancery,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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DURH 8
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Title (The name of the record)
- Palatinate of Durham: Court of Chancery: Cursitor's and Registrar's Miscellanea
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1400-1958
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains a wide variety of records from the Chancery of Durham. Many of them are of an accounting nature, and there are a number arising from causes. The cursitor's records include a register of recognizances made in Chancery, 1507-1521 and selected writs and returns in cases originating in the exchequer of Pleas or other Westminster courts, Geo II to Victoria. The registrar's records include papers in causes in Chancery, 1634-1824; accounts of official business of the registrar and his deputy, 1720-77; private account books, 1716-94; and petitions, with reports under the Trust or Mortgage Estates Act 1708 and the Infant Trustees and Mortgages Act 1763, for conveyances by infants, 1764-1801.
Records of the registrar after the abolition of the cursitor's office include an enrolment book of deeds, 1879; books of account in Chancery causes, 1881-1918; daily cash books of Chancery receipts and expenditure, 1884-1918; a day-book of official business, 1909-11; and summons and warrant books, 1915-58. Some of the records in the series arise from enclosure awards, and there is also a stray Quarter Sessions file of 1693.
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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92 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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- Topics
- Common land
- Conveyancing
- Children
- Banking
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- A few items contain their own indexes. An index to cause papers in this series is available with the paper version of the DURH 8 catalogue, in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew. For records in this series relating to enclosure awards reference should be made to the 'List of some enclosure awards in the Public Record Office', which follows the (printed) catalogue of CP 43, also available in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6462/
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