Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we're still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

Series

Exchequer of Pleas: Depositions

Catalogue reference: E 20

What's it about?

E 20

These are the depositions of witnesses taken before a master or other person by order of court, or by commission abroad, under the acts of 1831 and 1854, including also some examinations of judgement debtors under the latter act. Many exhibits...

Full description and record details

Reference

E 20

Title
Exchequer of Pleas: Depositions
Date

1853-1879

Description

These are the depositions of witnesses taken before a master or other person by order of court, or by commission abroad, under the acts of 1831 and 1854, including also some examinations of judgement debtors under the latter act. Many exhibits are included with the depositions by commission.

Related material

Further depositions in suits in the Exchequer Division of the High Court of Justice, 1875-1880, are in J 16

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Physical description

17 bundle(s)

Unpublished finding aids
There is a contemporary index to examinations and commissions from January 1868 to April 1880 (IND 1/6631). An index of suits, 1853-1867, is also available.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6519/

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

393,709 records

Within the department: E

Records of the Exchequer, and its related bodies, with those of the Office of First...

You are currently looking at the series: E 20

Exchequer of Pleas: Depositions