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Exchequer: Pipe Office: Sheriffs' Accounts of Seizures
Enrolled accounts from the Exchequer Pipe Office containing details of land and property seized by the sheriffs, probably as a result of failure to pay an outstanding debt or confiscated as the result of outlawry.
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- Henry VI - 1660
- Reference
- E 379
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Exchequer: Pipe Office: Ancient Deeds, Series P
This series consists of a group of 50 miscellaneous deeds, largely evidences of title, accumulated and kept by the Pipe Office. On the abolition of the Pipe Office in 1833 the deeds passed into the custody of the King's Remembrancer before being tran…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1524-1608
- Reference
- E 354
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Reports and Certificates
Reports and certificates made by the Deputy Remembrancer, the sworn clerks, the Master of the Court and others, in response to matters referred to them by the orders and decrees of the Court of Exchequer.Many relate to the taxation of costs or the de…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1648-1841
- Reference
- E 194
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Palatinate of Durham: Assizes and Court of Pleas: Plea and Gaol Delivery Rolls
This series consists of surviving plea rolls of common law courts in the Palatinate of Durham, whether for the bishop's (to 1636) or the crown assizes, or for the bishop's Court of Pleas. The items of earliest date record pleas heard before the bisho…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1344-1845
- Reference
- DURH 13
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Chancery: Extents for Debts, Series II
This series consists of writs for the recovery of private debts registered in Chancery.The records include writs of elegit and of capias et extendi facias, returned with extents or reasons for failure to execute them, together with writs de liberacio…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1529-1648
- Reference
- C 239
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Palatinate of Lancaster: Files of Writs from the Central Courts of Common Law to...
This series consists of files of writs issued from the courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer at Westminster commanding the Chancellor of the county palatine of Lancashire to direct the sheriff to cause parties to appear in those courts o…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- c1625-1814
- Reference
- PL 13
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Insolvency Service: Dear Insolvency Practitioner Website
This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Insolvency Service: Dear Insolvency Practitioner website. [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive.]
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- From 2011
- Reference
- RF 13
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Chancery Files, Tower Series, Attachments Cepi Corpus
Writs directing the sheriff to attach one or more specified defendants to appear in Chancery to answer specified charges.The documents fall into two main groups: original writs in suits brought by Chancery clerks and their personal staff concerning d…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1384-1428
- Reference
- C 252
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Ancient Deeds, Series RS
This series is made up of receipts held by the King's Remembrancer's Office which were separated from the main series of deeds in E 210 on account of their fine seals. The series consists of receipts for expenditure of Crown revenue, which were obtai…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1290-1732
- Reference
- E 213
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Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer: Summons of the Green Wax
Summons of the green wax were written out by the Clerk of the Estreats from the estreats of fines, issues, amercements and recognizances delivered in to the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Office from the King's Bench, Common Pleas, justices of assiz…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- c1377-c1820
- Reference
- E 382
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer: KR Bille Files...
This series consists of files containing bills and petitions to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer.On the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's side are included appointments of attorneys by sheriffs, bailiffs of liberties, and escheators, for the r…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- c1272-c1820
- Reference
- E 207
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Exhibits
This series contains exhibits produced in support of equity proceedings heard in the Court of Exchequer. The documents include correspondence, accounts, surveys, deeds, maps, and a miscellany of other documents touching on a wide range of topics, inc…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1319-1842
- Reference
- E 140
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Bonds and Obligations
The documents in this series are principally bonds given by accountants at the Exchequer upon appointment to office; bonds by lessees of Crown lands for payment of rent and other dues; and bonds between third parties assigned by the creditor in such …
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- c1377-c1901
- Reference
- E 114
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Miscellaneous Books, Series II
This series consists of an artificial collection of documents, all of them in book form, and mostly from the King's Remembrancer's Office.The series contains four main elements: books and registers which supplement, and in some instances replace, the…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- c1488-1989
- Reference
- E 165
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Treasury: Various Entry Books of Warrants
Various Treasury entry books of warrants. Includes entry, warrant and account books dating from Archbishop Laud's term of office as First Lord, 1635 to 1636, and Bishop Juxon's Treasurership, 1636 to 1641, and a precedent book, 1620 to 1635, chiefly …
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1620-1863
- Reference
- T 56
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Series not used; formerly Bankruptcy Myths Website
Series not used. Transferred to GUK 194.
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- RF 11
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Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery, Common Pleas, Exchequer...
These are mainly records arising from actions in the Chancery and Queen's Bench Divisions of the High Court of Justice; down to March 1880 they belong to the Chancery Division. Thereafter, they also include pleadings from the Queen's Bench Division a…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1876-1998
- Reference
- J 54
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Fleet Prison: Commitments Files
Files of documents of commitment, render and surrender concerning the commital of debtors and bankrupts to the Fleet Prison. Each file (the later ones are in bundles) relates to an individual prisoner. The documents included the writ of habeas corpus…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1758-1842
- Reference
- PRIS 2
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Palatinate of Chester: Flint Justice's Sessions: Plea Rolls
This series of rolls is one of the most important and detailed sources for the history of medieval Wales. They record the proceedings held by the justice of Chester in Flintshire from the time of its creation following the English conquest of Wales i…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- c1284-c1820
- Reference
- CHES 30
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Court for Probate of Wills and Granting Administrations and Prerogative Court of...
An artificial series of various exhibits, including exhibits produced in causes, articles of agreement between creditors, proxies of renunciation and of curation, revoked letters of administration, excommunications, and affidavits.All the documents i…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1653-1721
- Reference
- PROB 36