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  Records of the Insolvency Service

  Records created or inherited by The Insolvency Service relating to bankruptcy procedures for both individual and corporate financial failure and the tackling of fraud and wrong-doing in insolvencies. Registered files of The Insolvency Service and its…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1950-2024

  Reference

  RF

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  Series

  Exchequer: Pipe Office: Chancellor's Rolls

  A series of duplicates of the Pipe Rolls, which recorded the accounts of the sheriff and other accountants at the Exchequer, kept for the Chancellor and held in the Exchequer Pipe Office.Supposedly a copy of the Pipe roll for the same year, each roll…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1162-1962

  Reference

  E 352

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  Series

  Foreign Office: Claims Department: Correspondence and Claims Files

  This series contains files of the Claims Department concerning compensation claims by British nationals against foreign governments arising out of the Second World War and subsequent claims by individuals and the government against foreign states, an…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1919-1990

  Reference

  FO 950

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  Series

  Lieut. General William C.E. Napier: Papers

  These are mainly of a family and personal financial nature but including some concerning army and related affairs. The early papers contain a series of letters of 1838-1839 from Sir George Napier to his sister, Emily Lady Bunbury, and further letters…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1804-1903

  Reference

  PRO 30/86

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  Series

  Chancery: Memorial Rolls of Annuities

  These rolls contain abstracts of deeds granting annuities or rent charges, that is legally binding payments made annually from one party to another, the rent charges drawing on income from real estate.The documents include the following information: …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1813-1854

  Reference

  C 63

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  Series

  Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature: Patent Rolls

  Letters patent were letters issued open or 'patent' expressing the sovereign's will on a variety of matters of public interest, sealed with the sovereign's great seal pendent. The patent rolls record the issue of letters patent from the reign of King…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1201-2012

  Reference

  C 66

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  Series

  Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Other Probate Jurisdictions: Miscellaneous Inventories,...

  Inventories, executors' and administrators' accounts, and associated documents including commissions to appraisers to make or receive inventories and accounts. It is likely that most of the documents in this series were produced as a result of litiga…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1643-1836

  Reference

  PROB 5

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  Series

  Chancery: Recognizances of Statute Staple

  This series consists of recognizances of statute staple returned into Chancery as part of a process for the recovery of debts.When a creditor wished to proceed against a debtor whose term had expired, he informed the clerk of the recognizances (or th…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1460-1710

  Reference

  C 152

• Catalogue level

  Series

  Chancery: Extents for Debts, Series I

  Writs for the recovery of private debts registered in Chancery, and private debts sealed under recognizances of statute staple, together with extents (valuations) taken by sheriffs of the lands and goods of debtors.Also included are a few capias writ…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1316-c1660

  Reference

  C 131

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  Series

  Chancery: Fine Rolls

  A series of rolls which were begun in order to record offerings made to the king or his justiciar for royal favour in such matters as the disposal of lands and offices, succession to fiefs and liberties, or simply to assuage the king's anger.Miscella…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1199-1648

  Reference

  C 60

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  Series

  Court of Bankruptcy: Proceedings under the Joint Stock Companies Acts, 1856 and 1857

  This series consists of a selection of files of the Court of Bankruptcy containing orders, petitions, examinations, etc, arising from winding up cases under the Joint Stock Companies Acts of 1856 and 1857.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1857-1863

  Reference

  B 10

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  Series

  Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, King's (Queen's) Bench Division:...

  These books contains details of the names of defendants appearing in the Supreme Court of Judicature between 1879 and 1937, their appearances, and from 1880, the names of solicitors acting for the parties. There is also information on the amount of a…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1879-1937

  Reference

  J 168

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  Series

  Palatinate of Durham: Court of Pleas: Miscellanea

  This series contains miscellanea from the Durham Court of Pleas. Comprises appearance in ejectment cases; cognovits, and warrants of attorney, in both cases signifying a defendant's concession of the plaintiff's case, usually in claims for debt; cour…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  c1603-c1860s

  Reference

  DURH 14

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  Series

  Board of Trade: Bankruptcy Department: Miscellanea

  Various records of the Bankruptcy Department including ledgers, accounts and registers of unclaimed dividends and of subsidiary documents; registers of bankruptcies, of resolutions at first meetings of the courts, and of special orders of the commiss…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1844-1903

  Reference

  BT 40

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  Series

  Board of Trade: Bankruptcy Department: Indexes and Registers of Correspondence

  Indexes and registers of correspondence of the Board of Trade's Bankruptcy Department.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1883-1902

  Reference

  BT 38

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  Series

  Board of Trade and successors: Bankruptcy Department and successors: Correspondence...

  Correspondence and papers recording general policy and precedents arising from the Bankruptcy Department's responsibility for the investigation, regulation and administration of insolvencies.The series includes re-registered files which would otherwi…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1883-1981

  Reference

  BT 37

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  Series

  Palatinate of Lancaster: Court of Chancery, Liverpool District Registry: Case Files

  This series consists of a selection of case files of the Liverpool District Registry which reflect the business of the Chancery Court.The case files include cases dealing with wills and probate (contentious probate actions and inheritance), trusts an…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1880-1971

  Reference

  PL 50

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  Series

  Board of Trade: Bankruptcy Department: Registers of Deeds of Arrangement

  Registers of deeds of arrangement of the Board of Trade's Bankruptcy Department.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1888-1947

  Reference

  BT 39

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  Series

  Southern Railway Company: Stock and Share Registers, etc.

  This series contains stock and share registers of the Southern Railway Company including preference and ordinary and annuity and debenture stock registers.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1922-1947

  Reference

  RAIL 646

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  Series

  Court of Common Pleas: Registers of Judgments etc in the Courts of Common Law and...

  Registers created under the Judgments Act of 1838 to extend the remedies available to creditors against the property of debtors, whereby judgments entered in any of the superior courts were to operate as a charge on estates if they were registered un…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1838-1868

  Reference

  CP 32