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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Excise Accounts
Catalogue reference: E 139
What's it about?
E 139
These are the Pipe Office parchment duplicates of the declared excise accounts in the Audit Office, which remained in the King's Remembrancer's Office for auditing. They record the excise accounts of various parts of the United Kingdom and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- E 139
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Title (The name of the record)
- Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Excise Accounts
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1829-1849
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Description (What the record is about)
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These are the Pipe Office parchment duplicates of the declared excise accounts in the Audit Office, which remained in the King's Remembrancer's Office for auditing. They record the excise accounts of various parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland. The series also contains the Exchequer receipts for sums paid into the Bank of England from excise duties.
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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)
- 19 bundle(s)
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The records in this series were intended for transfer to the Bodleian Library in 1891. Had they been so they would have been destroyed in 1939 as copies.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6584/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: E
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