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Trustees for Crown Lands and Fee Farm Rents: Parliamentary Surveys
Catalogue reference: E 317
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E 317
In 1649 trustees were appointed by Parliament to sell the estates previously belonging to Charles I, Queen Henrietta Maria and Prince Charles. The trustees commissioned local surveyors to carry out surveys of the Crown lands prior to sale. Two...
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E 317
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Title (The name of the record)
- Trustees for Crown Lands and Fee Farm Rents: Parliamentary Surveys
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Date (When the record was created)
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1625-1659
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Description (What the record is about)
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In 1649 trustees were appointed by Parliament to sell the estates previously belonging to Charles I, Queen Henrietta Maria and Prince Charles. The trustees commissioned local surveyors to carry out surveys of the Crown lands prior to sale. Two copies of each local survey were made, and returned to the surveyor general, who retained one copy and forwarded the other to the trustees and registrar. The former constitute the records in this series.
The surveys are of four main types: surveys of manors and other properties to be sold under the 1649 act; surveys of hundreds to identify fee-farm rents to be sold; surveys of forest land; and certificates relating to title and other matters. Some of the surveys give information about buildings.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Copies of some of these surveys may be found in DL 32
The registrar's books of particulars are in CRES 39
For certain other records of Parliamentary sales of Crown lands see SP 26
Further copies are in
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Trustees for Crown Lands and Fee Farm Rents, 1649-1660
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1307 file(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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- Topics
- Manors
- Crown lands and estates
- Farming
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- An eleven volume typescript calendar by S J Madge, 'Parliamentary surveys of Crown lands during the Commonwealth' (1927), is available.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Brief entries for the surveys are given at the end of the county sections in the List of Rentals and Surveys, PRO Lists & Indexes, XXV
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6696/
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