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  Home Office: Calendar of Prisoners

  These 'after-trial' calendars are lists, for the most part printed, of prisoners tried at Assizes and Quarter Sessions. They include the following information: number; name; age; trade; previous convictions; name and address of committing magistrates…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1868-1971

  Reference

  HO 140

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  Chancery: Criminal Inquisitions

  Inquisitions, with the initiating writ attached, held by a jury and respecting felonies and homicides, which were returned into Chancery.The writ ordering a special inquisition was usually requested by the accused, often when it was hoped to show tha…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  c1216-c1461

  Reference

  C 144

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  Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I

  Original petitions made by convicted persons or their friends, relations etc., seeking the revocation or reduction of their sentences. Attached to some petitions are related papers and some returns, made by the governors of convict prisons, of convic…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1819-1886

  Reference

  HO 17

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  Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, James I

  This series contains pleadings and proofs in criminal equity heard in the Court of Star Chamber during the reign of James I. Some proceedings from both earlier and later periods are also included. Fuller descriptions of these cases were completed in …

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  c1603-c1625

  Reference

  STAC 8

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  Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I

  This series contains legal proceedings heard before the Court of Star Chamber in the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603).Frequent allegations are of perversion of justice, abuse of legal procedure, frivolous litigation, false imprisonment, or crimes unp…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  c 1558-c 1603

  Reference

  STAC 5

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  Chancery: Significations of Excommunication

  Warrants sent into Chancery to secure the issue of a writ de excommunicato capiendo under the great seal.The significations informed the king that a certain person or persons had remained obdurately excommunicate for over forty days, and requested th…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1220-1611

  Reference

  C 85

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  Home Office: Parish Acreage Returns

  Returns for the several parishes in England and Wales showing the number of acres in each parish devoted to the different crops. The series contains a total of about 4,500 returns for England and nearly 550 for Wales, showing the number of acres devo…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1801

  Reference

  HO 67

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  Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II

  Original petitions made by convicted persons seeking the revocation or reduction of their sentences. Attached to some petitions are related papers and some returns, made by the governors of convict prisons, of convicts recommended for early release f…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1839-1868

  Reference

  HO 18

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  Chancery Files, Tower and Rolls Chapel Series, Stool Bundle

  This series contains counterwrits of the many writs supersedeas which issued out of Chancery addressed to sheriffs, justices of the peace, justices of assize and others, countermanding writs of error, exigi facias, capias, de excommunicato capiendo, …

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1377-1621

  Reference

  C 264

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  Court of Chancery: Common Law Pleadings, Tower 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…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  c1272-c1485

  Reference

  C 44

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  Palatinate of Chester: Courts of Great Sessions of Chester and Flint: Crown Books

  This series contains crown books kept by the prothonotary of Chester, who was also the clerk of the crown. These books are the equivalent of the crown books kept by the clerks of assize for the assizes held in ordinary English counties. The earliest …

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  c1532-c1831

  Reference

  CHES 21

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  Chancery: Records Upon Outlawries (Tower and Rolls Chapel Series)

  Writs certiorari super recordum et processum utlagarie, returned into Chancery as the first step to obtaining a pardon for outlawry.Until about 1312, roughly half the cases surviving in this series were of criminal outlawry, mostly for homicide. Ther…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1277-1628

  Reference

  C 88

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  Secretaries of State: State Papers Scotland: Warrant Books

  Secretary of State's entry books of royal warrants, docquets and occasionally of royal letters relating to Scotland, and some orders in Council and commissions to inquire into such problems as the disorders in the university of Glasgow in 1718, and t…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1707-1774

  Reference

  SP 57

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  Court of King's Bench: Crown Side: Baga de Secretis

  The official records of many of the most important 'state trials', mainly for treason, held between 1477 and 1813, including those of Sir Thomas More, Queens Anne Boleyn and Katharine Howard, Guy Fawkes, the Regicides and the Jacobite rebels of 1715 …

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1477-1813

  Reference

  KB 8

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  Home Office and Prison Commission: Female Licences

  Notes of licences to female convicts to be at large, and notes of revocation of such licences, under the Penal Servitude Acts 1853 and 1864 endorsed on old captions and, in some cases, transfer papers. Each file can include a photograph (from 1871 on…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1853-1887

  Reference

  PCOM 4

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  Secretaries of State: State Papers Scotland: Letter Books

  Letter books in which the out-letters of the 'third' Secretary of State appointed sometimes between 1709 and 1746 to take special responsibility for Scotland were copied.Many letters are in reply to petitions from individuals or bodies, such as burgh…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1713-1746

  Reference

  SP 55

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  Court of King's Bench: Crown Side: Precedents and Miscellanea

  Principally records and copies of records of the Crown Side of the Court of King's Bench brought together, probably over a long period, to provide precedent material for the use of the chief official of the Crown Side, known by the early nineteenth c…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  c1600-1907

  Reference

  KB 33

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  Thomas Paine: Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. Printed for the Society for Constitutional...

  Thomas Paine: Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. Printed for the Society for Constitutional Information

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1792 June 6

  Reference

  TS 24/3/4

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  Assizes: Western Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers

  The items in this series relate mainly to murder and other serious offences. A high proportion of the murders are cases of infanticide. After 1949 a wider range of offences is covered. The earlier depositions are sometimes annotated with verdict and …

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1861-1971

  Reference

  ASSI 26

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  Thomas Paine: Common Sense, an address to the Inhabitants of America

  Thomas Paine: Common Sense, an address to the Inhabitants of America

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1792

  Reference

  TS 24/3/5