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Charter issued by the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar
The oldest complete document at The National Archives, this charter recording a grant of land dates back over 1,000 years.
Series
Exchequer: Treasury of Receipt: Ancient Deeds, Series AS
Catalogue reference: E 42
What's it about?
E 42
This series consists of deeds of properties which the Crown had acquired from private individuals and which were stored in the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer.The records were originally part of E 40 but were removed to a separate series...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- E 42
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Title (The name of the record)
- Exchequer: Treasury of Receipt: Ancient Deeds, Series AS
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Date (When the record was created)
- c1100-1590
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of deeds of properties which the Crown had acquired from private individuals and which were stored in the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer.
The records were originally part of E 40 but were removed to a separate series because of the condition and quality of their seals. The series consists almost entirely of records of conveyances, but also includes some bonds and wills.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
It appears that these records were formerly maintained as a collection of individual estate archives, but that they were rearranged by county in the seventeenth century. Little trace of the original estate organisation now survives. Some deeds from other sources were probably added to the collection during the seventeenth-century rearrangement and at the time of the removal of the records from the Chapter House at Westminister to the Public Record Office.
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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)
- 549 parchment membranes
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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
- Landed estates
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- List of pieces 1-549 in List and Index Society Volume 158
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6541/
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