Record revealed
Request for compensation for the Boston Tea Party
On 16 December 1773, 340 chests of tea were thrown into Boston harbour by protesting colonists. This letter from the East India Company requests reimbursement.
Series
Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Reports and Certificates
Catalogue reference: E 194
What's it about?
E 194
Reports and certificates made by the Deputy Remembrancer, the sworn clerks, the Master of the Court and others, in response to matters referred to them by the orders and decrees of the Court of Exchequer.Many relate to the taxation of costs or...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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E 194
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Title (The name of the record)
- Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Reports and Certificates
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Date (When the record was created)
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1648-1841
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports and certificates made by the Deputy Remembrancer, the sworn clerks, the Master of the Court and others, in response to matters referred to them by the orders and decrees of the Court of Exchequer.
Many relate to the taxation of costs or the deposit of monies in Court. Others are substantive financial statements enabling the settlement, distribution or sale of estates and assets in accordance with the decrees and orders of the Court.
Some reports include a summary of receipts and payments, names of tenants and creditors, with amounts paid, inventories of goods, and other data used to achieve a financial balance; others give the sum total only. Reports were prefaced by a brief note of the circumstances which occasioned the request for a report.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The reports are filed in numerical order within annual bundles.
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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112 files 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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- The original indexes (1648-1841) are arranged chronologically under the first letter of the plaintiff's surname, and give the number of the report within the year, and the date of the report: IND 1/16892-16896.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6639/
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