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The first American invention to obtain an English patent
These intricate 1716 drawings were submitted by Sybilla Masters in the final stage of securing a patent for machinery for 'cleaning and curing Indian corn'.
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Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer: Bills of Proffers
Catalogue reference: E 375
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E 375
Files recording the appearance at the Exchequer of sheriffs, escheators, and liberty holders, including bishops and mayors of corporate boroughs, for the payment of their proffers. Appearance was either in person or by attorney. Proffers were...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- E 375
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Title (The name of the record)
- Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer: Bills of Proffers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1326-1744
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files recording the appearance at the Exchequer of sheriffs, escheators, and liberty holders, including bishops and mayors of corporate boroughs, for the payment of their proffers. Appearance was either in person or by attorney. Proffers were made twice yearly, in Michaelmas and Easter terms, and were the payments collected to date of the ancient farms of the county, of summonses of the pipe and the green wax, and of other debts. The formal record of appearance, together with the amount of the proffer, was entered under the Adventus vicecomitum section on the memoranda rolls of both remembrancers; and payments are recorded in the pipe and receipt rolls. The files contain occasional strays from other file series.
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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)
- 97 file(s)
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For the proffer in the 13th and early 14th centuries, see M H Mills, 'Adventus vicecomitum 1258-1272', English Historical Review, xxxvi (1921), pp 481-496; M H Mills, 'Adventus vicecomitum 1272-1307', English Historical Review, xxxviii (1923), pp 331-354
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6752/
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