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DEPOSITION BOOKS
Catalogue reference: EDC 2
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- EDC 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- DEPOSITION BOOKS
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Description (What the record is about)
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These contain the evidence given by witnesses under examination in court. The entries from 1529 - July 1541 relate to the court of the archdeacon of Chester; thereafter to the consistory court of the newly-founded diocese. Entries relate to the usual causes - matrimonial, defamation, probate and tithe etc and the court's language is in Latin with the witnesses actual evidence usually given in English. Volumes for 1561-1566 (EDC 2/7) and 1570-1573/4 (EDC 2/9) have 18th and 19th century indexes.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- <p>Entries from EDC 2/7 were published in F J Furnivall's Child Marriages, Divorces and Ratifications etc in the Diocese of Chester by the Early English Text Society 1897.</p>
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/c4e8eefe-a455-4ee1-80af-dbfbcbf80a64/
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DEPOSITION BOOKS