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Exchequer of Pleas: Minute Books

Catalogue reference: E 11

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E 11

Volumes kept for the Clerk of the Pleas containing rough records of the orders made in the court.Many of the entries are cancelled. The books are informal in appearance, and one contains a doodle with accompanying verse.

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Reference
E 11
Title
Exchequer of Pleas: Minute Books
Date
1657-1830
Description

Volumes kept for the Clerk of the Pleas containing rough records of the orders made in the court.

Many of the entries are cancelled. The books are informal in appearance, and one contains a doodle with accompanying verse.

Arrangement
Arrangement

Chronological

Related material

Records of the orders made in the court were later more formally entered in the order books, in E 12

Subsequently they were entered in the rule books, in E 15

Separated material

Specimens from a later series of books of rules of course, running to 1876, which was formerly in this series but later destroyed, are in

J 89

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and Latin
Physical description
74 volume(s)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6510/

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