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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Miscellanea of the Exchequer
Catalogue reference: E 163
What's it about?
E 163
A series of documents of considerable importance but little coherence. It includes fragments of early Exchequer enrolments; writs, returns, and recorda, not only of the several departments of the Exchequer, but also of the common law; documents...
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 163
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Title (The name of the record)
- Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Miscellanea of the Exchequer
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Date (When the record was created)
- c 1154-c 1901
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Description (What the record is about)
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A series of documents of considerable importance but little coherence.
It includes fragments of early Exchequer enrolments; writs, returns, and recorda, not only of the several departments of the Exchequer, but also of the common law; documents subsidiary to accounts and the accounting process, and file strays; an early 'census' for Ealing, Middx; documents relating to taxation, debt, and enquiries into fees; registers, inventories, precedents and formularies of the Exchequer and other courts; strays from deposited archives, such as those of religious houses after dissolution; petitions, warrants, agenda and other documents of the King's and minor royal councils, and occasionally of parliament; and also a collection of manuscript and printed fragments recovered from book bindings and covers.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also LR 2
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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 and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 29 files, rolls and volumes
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The records in this series are drawn from the miscellanea of all parts of the Exchequer, including the offices of the King's Remembrancer and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer; the Pipe Office; the Exchequer of Pleas; the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer; the General Surveyors; the Augmentation Office (including records of the queens' councils, of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the councils of princes of Wales); the Auditors of the Land Revenue; the King's council; the Court of Star Chamber; and the courts of common law.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- A card index to the series, arranged by name and subject but including a selective index of place names and covering only part of the series, is available as an orderable document E 163/29/16
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6608/
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