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Series
Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Exhibits
Catalogue reference: E 140
What's it about?
E 140
This series contains exhibits produced in support of equity proceedings heard in the Court of Exchequer. The documents include correspondence, accounts, surveys, deeds, maps, and a miscellany of other documents touching on a wide range of topics,...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- E 140
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Title (The name of the record)
- Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Exhibits
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1319-1842
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains exhibits produced in support of equity proceedings heard in the Court of Exchequer. The documents include correspondence, accounts, surveys, deeds, maps, and a miscellany of other documents touching on a wide range of topics, including commercial, maritime, testamentary, title and tithe disputes.
Some commercial and maritime suits relate to the conduct of trade not only within Europe but also with the West Indies, the Americas, Africa and the Far East. Associated documents may comprise not only accounts, ledgers and journals but also correspondence and newsletters which include material of political, as well as economic, interest.
The series provides detailed trading accounts and business archives for a number of trades and professions, including the brewing industry, mines, ironworks, canal and water companies, wine merchants, coaching enterprises, drapers, and the legal and medical professions.
Suits arising from debt provide cultural and social evidence, such as a physician's notebook, documents concerning the tasks of teaching and transposition performed by an Italian music master, and garden and household accounts.
The series also includes papers and notebooks of the Clerks of the Exchequer Office and other strays.
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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)
- 246 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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Several manuscript calendars and indexes of proceedings heard in the Court of Exchequer.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6585/
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