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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: Office of First Fruits and Tenths: Comptroller's State Books
Catalogue reference: E 335
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E 335
These volumes were compiled in the office of the comptroller of first fruits and tenths to record the current state of compositions for first fruits made by incumbents on institution to benefices, as an aid to the receiver of first fruits, who...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- E 335
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Title (The name of the record)
- Exchequer: Office of First Fruits and Tenths: Comptroller's State Books
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1688-1783
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Description (What the record is about)
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These volumes were compiled in the office of the comptroller of first fruits and tenths to record the current state of compositions for first fruits made by incumbents on institution to benefices, as an aid to the receiver of first fruits, who was responsible for the collection of the dues.
Entries, which are in chronological order, record the names of incumbents and the location of their benefices, the names of sureties and the dates of the various payments. The series is not complete.
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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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 15 volume(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
- Taxation
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- The earliest surviving volume contains an index of incumbents' names; a similar index was made for the first three folios of the next. Thereafter, indexes of incumbents' names, with references by term and serial number, are found in a series of indexes apparently common to the state books and the composition books in E 334. These indexes are available on open shelves, exept that for 1691-1705, which is E 336/10
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6714/
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