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Forfeited Estates Commission: Papers
Catalogue reference: FEC 1
What's it about?
FEC 1
A large collection of deeds and other documents produced before the Commissioners of the Forfeited Estates and relating to the estates of persons attainted during the rebellion of 1715. Some of these documents date back at least to the sixteenth...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FEC 1
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Title (The name of the record)
- Forfeited Estates Commission: Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1552-[1770]
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Description (What the record is about)
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A large collection of deeds and other documents produced before the Commissioners of the Forfeited Estates and relating to the estates of persons attainted during the rebellion of 1715. Some of these documents date back at least to the sixteenth century. They are arranged for the most part under the names of the attainted persons. They include: original claims of the various persons upon the several estates forfeited to the Crown; proceedings of the commissioners, including correspondence, minutes and memoranda, accounts, lists and schedules, and inventories of documents; returns by clerks of the peace of the names and estates of papist recusants in England and Wales arranged by counties; rentals and particulars of estates sold; and informations respecting lands given to superstitious uses.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Returns of papists' and nonjurors' estates are in E 174
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1724 bundle(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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For a further introduction to the series please see 'The Records of the Forfeited Estates Commission' (PRO Handbooks no 12, HMSO 1968). FEC 1/1113-1314 are described in 'The English Catholic nonjurors of 1715 : being a summary of the register of their estates, with genealogical and other notes, and an appendix of unpublished documents in the Public Record Office', edited by Estcourt and Payne (Burns & Oates, 1885).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7289/
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Forfeited Estates Commission: Papers
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