Series
Privy Council: Registers (Papers and Digital Files)
Catalogue reference: PC 2
Date: 1540-2022
This series contains the register of the Privy Council, comprising the minutes of its proceedings, its orders, certain proclamations and the...
Series
Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Brevia Baronibus files
Catalogue reference: E 208
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E 208
This series consists of writs sent to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer under the great and privy seals sending or requiring information, giving general administrative orders, or directing them to grant discharge of an account or...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- E 208
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Title (The name of the record)
- Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Brevia Baronibus files
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Date (When the record was created)
- c1216-c1727
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of writs sent to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer under the great and privy seals sending or requiring information, giving general administrative orders, or directing them to grant discharge of an account or particular debt or debtor.
The series contains some obvious strays, including a bundle of writs addressed to escheators, and two bundles which concern the customs, with attached writs and schedules. The writs are enrolled on the Brevia directa section of the King's Remembrancer's memoranda rolls: E 159
The text of individual warrants may be enrolled in the memoranda rolls of either the Lord Treasurer's (E 368) or the King's Remembrancer.
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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 bundle(s)
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Debt
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The enrolment of writs and warrants sent to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer was, by the Cowick ordinances (1323), the sole responsiblity of the King's Remembrancer, although the business to which the writs related might be conducted on either the Lord Treasurer's or the King's Remembrancer's side.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6653/
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