GENERAL COURT ROLLS

These include rolls of the Mayor's portmote court and the Sheriff's pentice court, which from 1561 were filed together. Some rolls of proceedings at quarter sessions are also included. Few portmote proceedings are filed after 1743 and actions in the portmote court in the 19th century appear to have originated in the exchequer of pleas. After the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, both portmote and pentice courts were held before the recorder.

SOME ARE AVAILABLE WITHOUT NOTICE

IMPORTANT NOTE

Unfortunately the following documents are filed in large bundles still attached to the original leather thong. They are very dirty and impossible to consult without the possibility of damaging the documents.

They form part of the City Record Office Conservation Programme but each file takes several months to repair. The City Record Office contains several hundred of these files and it will take some considerable time to complete the programme.

If you urgently need to consult the documents please speak to the Archivist about the possibility of some remedial conservation work being carried out.

The files affected are:

ZM/SR/1-3, 22, 29, 56-58, 78-81, 86, 101, 106, 107, 129-133, 136-138, 150, 151