Series
Cabinet Office: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: Registered files
Catalogue reference: CAB 197
Date: 1974-1979
This series contains registered files of the office of the Chancellor of the Lancaster for the period of Harold Lever.
Series
Trustees for the Sale of Crown Lands: Interregnum certificates
Catalogue reference: E 121
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E 121
This series consists of certificates relating to the sale, during the Commonwealth, of Crown lands. By an Act of 16 July 1649, thirteen trustees were empowered to dispose of royal lands in order to raise £600,000 to pay the army. Each sale...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- E 121
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Title (The name of the record)
- Trustees for the Sale of Crown Lands: Interregnum certificates
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1649-1659
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of certificates relating to the sale, during the Commonwealth, of Crown lands.
By an Act of 16 July 1649, thirteen trustees were empowered to dispose of royal lands in order to raise £600,000 to pay the army. Each sale produced a certificate, which stated the date of the contract, the number of years' purchase by which the value of the property was to be multiplied to constitute the sale price, and the terms of payment. Included also is the text of the particular, that is the detailed definition of the property being sold.
Commonly found annexed to the certificate is a copy of a statement of arrears due to military men, usually listed by regiment and often serving in the area covered by the sale. Other documents found include the debentures issued to the Military in token of their arrears; orders of the Committee of Obstructions set up in 1652 to remove obstacles to sales; and a few orders of the Trustees.
E 121/5/7 is an incomplete contemporary index to the certificates, by county, lacking the letters A, L to R, and T to W, Hampshire is included as Southampton
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Mostly by county.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some stray certificates are in
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Trustees for the Sale of Crown Lands, 1649-1659
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 40 bundle(s)
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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
- Army
- Crown lands and estates
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For an account of the process of sale during the Commonwealth, see S J Madge, The Domesday of Crown Lands (London, 1938) For an overview, see Confiscations, Sales and Restoration of Crown and Royalist Lands, 1642-1660: an introduction to sources in the Public Record Office (PRO Leaflet 88)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6567/
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