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Court of Chancery: Common Law Pleadings, Rolls Chapel Series
This series contains the pleadings, or formal statements by the parties, in common law suits brought in Chancery.The variety of suits include: actions on recognizances acknowledged in Chancery;actions on writs of scire facias, most of which concern t…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- c1485-c1625
- Reference
- C 43
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Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Supplementary Decree Rolls
These records contain decrees, orders and dimissions (cases dismissed) which were enrolled to provide a permanent and authoritative record of final judgements of the court of Chancery.Most of the decrees relate to land disputes, although the whole ga…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1534-1903
- Reference
- C 79
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Exchequer: Treasury of the Receipt: Chests
This series consists of chests, coffers (smaller strongboxes, usually kept inside chests) and forcers (small containers made of leather or wood, often reinforced with iron) used to provide secure storage for documents and objects of particular value …
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- c1255-c1600
- Reference
- E 27
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Exchequer of Normandy: Pipe Rolls
This series contains surviving accounts of the Exchequer of Henry II, Richard I and John as dukes of Normandy prior to the loss of the duchy to Philip II of France in 1204.The main contents of the series are rolls or parts of rolls for the years 1180…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1180-1203
- Reference
- E 373
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Exchequer: Treasury of Receipt: Diplomatic Documents
The series includes many of the surviving original treaties, ratifications, powers, letters of credence and notarial exemplifications of formal documents which were deposited for safe keeping in the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer prior to t…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- c1100-c1625
- Reference
- E 30
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Exchequer of the Jews: Plea Rolls
This series contains the surviving plea rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews from 1219 until 1286, four years before the Jews were expelled from England. All but five of these rolls date from the years between 1266 and 1286. Each is divided into severa…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1219-1286
- Reference
- E 9
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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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Chancery: Liberate Rolls
Enrolments of writs of liberate sent out by Chancery, which ordered the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to pay money out of the royal treasure for pensions, salaries, stipends, expenditure of the royal household and other expenses of the state.…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1200-1436
- Reference
- C 62
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Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature: Close Rolls
Letters close, which were usually of an executive nature conveying orders and instructions, and, therefore of a private and personal nature, were issued folded and 'closed' by the application of the great seal. They were enrolled on the close rolls.A…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1204-1903
- Reference
- C 54
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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
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Records of the Information Department and predecessor
Records of the Information Department and predecessor relating to publicity about the colonies in Britain and other countries.Correspondence of the department is in CO 875, and CO 1027 with registers in CO 978. Records of the Library are in CO 1059, …
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- 1940-1967
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Records of the Royal Parks Division
Correspondence and papers, registered files and maps, plans and drawings relating to the various royal parks and gardens in and around London for which the Office of Works and its successors were responsible.Files are in WORK 16. Plans and drawings a…
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- 1653-2001
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Copies of records of the European Coal and Steel Community
Copies of records of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) relating to the administration of a common market for coal and steel comprising microfiche copies of selected documents, along with printed finding aids in DG 6
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- 1952-1961
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Cabinet Minutes and Papers
No complete sets of circulated Cabinet papers were kept before 1916, but photocopies from various sources of papers circulated between 1880 and 1916 are in CAB 37. A small series of printed papers (G War) begun in January 1915 is in CAB 24. Photocopi…
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- 1868-1974
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Royal Mint: Quinquennial Series 4: Digitised Paper Files
The records in this series comprise digitised paper files from the Quinquennial Series 4.
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1977-1981
- Reference
- MINT 34
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Appropriation Registers
The Appropriation Registers record the allocation of an official number to ships registered in the UK and Dependant Territories. They document the ship's official number; name of the ship; tonnage; steam/sail; port of registration and date of registr…
- Held by
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- 1837-1987
- Reference
- BT 388
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: The Caption of Seisin of the Duchy of Cornwall
This series consists of the Caption of Seisin of the Cornish possessions of the Duchy of Cornwall, taken on behalf of Edward, eldest son of Edward III, in May 1337.The purpose of the document was for seisin to be taken of the Cornish lands, knights' …
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1337
- Reference
- E 120
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Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward II
The third series of inquisitions post mortem in Series I, dating to the reign of Edward II.
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- c1307-c1327
- Reference
- C 134
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Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward III
The fourth series of inquisitions post mortem in Series I, dating to the reign of Edward III.The size of the series reflects both the length of Edward III's reign and the great mortality caused by the Black Death. From the mid-1340s, the returns of t…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- c1327-c1377
- Reference
- C 135
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Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Henry IV
The sixth series of inquisitions post mortem in Series I, dating to the reign of Henry IV.
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- c1399-c1413
- Reference
- C 137