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Court of Augmentations: Deeds of Purchase and Exchange
Catalogue reference: E 305
What's it about?
E 305
This series consists of deeds of purchase and exchange by Henry VIII and Edward VI. Lands brought to the Crown by purchase and exchange were the responsibility of the Court of Augmentations from 1536 to1554, and were administered by a special...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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E 305
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of Augmentations: Deeds of Purchase and Exchange
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Date (When the record was created)
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1519-1553
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of deeds of purchase and exchange by Henry VIII and Edward VI.
Lands brought to the Crown by purchase and exchange were the responsibility of the Court of Augmentations from 1536 to1554, and were administered by a special Receiver-General, Auditor and Surveyor. The court also, therefore, kept the monarch's copy of the instruments of purchase and exchange, which form the basis of this series. These were signed and sealed by the subject.
The instruments of exchange are mainly indentures of bargain and sale in English, while those of purchase are mainly by deed of gift in Latin. There are also some letters patent under the great seal and other deeds, which must have belonged to the Duke of Somerset. The documents in this series exhibit many fine examples of personal and ecclesiastical seals.
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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 and Latin
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Court of Augmentations, 1536-1547
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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525 box(es)
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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)
- There are two manuscript calendars for this series IND 1/16981 and IND 1/16982, one for each reign, which include person and place-name indexes.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6684/
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