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  • Catalogue level
    Series

    West India Relief Commissioners: Mortgage Indentures

    These records of the West India Relief Commission are mortgage indentures, made out to the Crown, used as securities against loans granted by the commissioners.They include supporting schedules of slaves, inventories of estates, and proof of ownershi…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1767-1845
    Reference
    PWLB 11
  • Catalogue level
    Department

    Records created or inherited by the Treasury Solicitor and HM Procurator General's...

    Records relating to litigation services undertaken for Government Departments and on behalf of the Monarch, including judicial and revenue matters, conveyancing, matrimonial issues, maritime law, company law and bankruptcy, etc.The papers of the Trea…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1483-2008
    Reference
    TS
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Great Northern Railway Company: Surveyor and Estate Agent: Correspondence Files

    This series consists of correspondence files dealing with the purchase of land required for new railways or the widening of existing railways, the disposal of surplus land, licensing of land and property to and by the company, enquiries from people a…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1871-1924
    Reference
    RAIL 1189
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Divison:...

    Papers transferred from the chambers of Master Pretor Whitty Chandler, who served in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1913 until 1938. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors o…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1850-1890
    Reference
    J 46
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Court of Common Pleas: Plea Rolls

    The series of plea rolls of the Court of Common Pleas from the beginning of the reign of Edward I onwards.Each roll covers a term and is made up from individual rotuli which carry a formulaic record of pleading and process in the court. They do not r…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1273-1874
    Reference
    CP 40
  • Catalogue level
    Department

    Records created or inherited by the Government Property Lawyers

    Records of the Government Property Lawyers agency relating to conveyancing and lands advisory services.The agency's annual reports are in KJ 1

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    Reference
    KJ
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Board of Education: Legal Branch: Enrolled Deeds

    Copies of Board of Education enrolled deeds transferring or granting lands for educational purposes made under the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Acts 1888-1892 or the Technical and Industrial Institutions Act 1892.Most of the deeds related to Church o…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1903-1920
    Reference
    ED 191
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Department of Trade and Industry (1983-2007): Electrical Engineering, Chemical (Process...

    Files in this series include the following subjects: An example of the loan guarantee in practice – in this instance for the liner Queen Mary II;Records on the history of the loan guarantee process;Ship Mortgage Finance Company (SMFC) committee …

    Held by
    Date
    1983-2002
    Reference
    NK 77
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Duchy of Lancaster: Court Rolls

    Court rolls of manors, hundreds and other local jurisdictions, and related manorial documents such as estreats, copies of court rolls, and a few ministers' accounts, of the Duchy of Lancaster.The bulk of the contents of the series are court rolls, th…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    c1272-1954
    Reference
    DL 30
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Lord Chancellor's Department: Committee on Conveyancing

    The series includes the agenda, minutes and circulated papers, invited comments of representative bodies and individual experts, together with letters, evidence and memoranda from other bodies and individuals and drafts of the Committee on Conveyanci…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1984-1985
    Reference
    LCO 35
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign Office: Various Consulates, China: Deeds

    This series contains deeds from various British consulates in China. Comprises title deeds, etc., of private individuals and companies; deeds relating to government property; deeds of trust, agreements, wills and powers of attorney; and miscellaneous…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1873-1959
    Reference
    FO 678
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Registrar of the High Court of Delegates and of the High Court of Admiralty: Cause...

    Mainly cause papers not filed in other High Court of Delegates series, but also a substantial number of records of the High Court of Admiralty, mainly from the mid seventeenth century, which may have been exhibited before the court. Miscellaneous mat…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    c1582-1834
    Reference
    DEL 2
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    HM Customs and Excise: Purchase of Land to Build Customs House, London

    This series contains records relating to the purchase of land to build Customs House, London. The records include mortgage and leasehold agreements, Land Tax receipts, copies of Last Will and Testaments, burial certificates, legal rulings on land own…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1612-1953
    Reference
    CUST 210
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Charity Commission: Enrolments under Various Acts, Series 1

    This series consists of voluntary and mortmain enrolments under various Acts including the Charitable Trusts Amendment Act 1855 and the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act 1888.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1856-1925
    Reference
    CHAR 12
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Duchy of Lancaster: Deeds, Series L

    The series consists, for the most part, of the documentation of conveyancing: the evidences of title relating to the several estates of the Duchy scattered throughout the kingdom. It is to a large extent made up of deeds from the archives of estates …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    c1100-1979
    Reference
    DL 25
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Exchequer: Treasury of Receipt: Deeds relating to Cardinal Wolsey's Colleges in Oxford...

    This series consists of 82 deeds from the Exchequer Treasury of Receipt relating to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's foundations of colleges at Oxford in June 1525, and in his home town of Ipswich in July 1528.Together with the surrenders in E 24 and other r…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1524-17th century
    Reference
    E 24
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Technology and successors: Electrical Engineering, Chemical (Process...

    This series relates to the development of policy on schemes introduced to promote competitiveness and industrial growth in the shipbuilding industry. The series also contains files on documentation procedures, the minutes and agenda of the Ship Mortg…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1968-1994
    Reference
    FV 93
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Office of Works and successors: Deeds, Series V

    This is the fifth series of title deeds relating to properties owned, leased or requisitioned by the Commissioners of Works and successors.The records in this series relate to various public buildings (including some overseas), royal palaces, the Duk…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1712-1992
    Reference
    WORK 91
  • Catalogue level
    Department

    Records of the Loan Commissioners and the Public Works Loan Board

    Records of the Loan Commissioners and the Public Works Loan Board relating to the provision of loans to fund public works.Minute books of the board are in PWLB 2, and annual reports are in PWLB 9Reports from the board's Solicitor on various aspects o…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1817-1989
    Reference
    PWLB
  • Catalogue level
    Department

    Records created or inherited by the Land Registry

    Records of the Land Registry relating to the registration of title in England and Wales.Files relating to the policy and general administration of the Land Registry are in LAR 1, which includes material of the Middlesex Registry of Deeds from 1822. A…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1822-2024
    Reference
    LAR

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