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Series
Home Office: Criminal and Miscellaneous Warrant Books
Catalogue reference: HO 15
What's it about?
HO 15
These continue the entries of criminal warrants made before 1850 in HO 13, but after 1871 also include other warrants relating to domestic matters, including fishery regulations, public service pensions and gratuities, burial grounds, exhumation...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HO 15
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Criminal and Miscellaneous Warrant Books
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Date (When the record was created)
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1850-1898
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Description (What the record is about)
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These continue the entries of criminal warrants made before 1850 in HO 13, but after 1871 also include other warrants relating to domestic matters, including fishery regulations, public service pensions and gratuities, burial grounds, exhumation and removal of bodies, and transport of explosives. After 1887 warrants relating to individual prisoners were entered in HO 147
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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After 1887 warrants relating to licences for exhumations and reinternments were entered in HO 85
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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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30 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
- Pay and pensions
- Weapons
- Fishing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8879/
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