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  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Palatinate of Chester: Exchequer of Chester: Exhibits

    This series consists of exhibits brought into the Exchequer Court of the Palatinate of Chester in a suit between Mrs Brown and Mrs Cartwright, plaintiffs, and Mr John Legh, defendant, in 1727.In the Chester Exchequer Court, as in other equity courts,…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    c1200-1673
    Reference
    CHES 11
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Public Record Office: Documents Acquired by Gift, Deposit or Purchase: Miscellaneous

    A very miscellaneous accumulation of records and objects acquired by the Public Record Office by gift, purchase, or deposit, including both documents which belong intellectually with existing record series, but which had strayed from public custody a…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    974-1994
    Reference
    PRO 30/26
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer: Bills of Proffers

    Files recording the appearance at the Exchequer of sheriffs, escheators, and liberty holders, including bishops and mayors of corporate boroughs, for the payment of their proffers. Appearance was either in person or by attorney. Proffers were made tw…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1326-1744
    Reference
    E 375
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Colonial Office and Successors: Agreements, Treaties and Miscellaneous Documents

    This series contains the British Government's copies of formal documents relating to agreements, treaties, etc, with and concerning various Commonwealth countries. In addition to treaties on defence and security, treaties of independence and agreemen…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1856-1969
    Reference
    DO 118
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Lord Steward's Department: Ledgers

    This Lord Steward's Department series includes general ledgers, 1761 to 1781; ledgers of salaries paid, 1775 to 1782; and ledgers of the bills paid at the several royal residences, 1821 to 1851.Barring the account of the cofferer (the officer of the …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1761-1851
    Reference
    LS 3
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer: Writs of Arrears

    This series consists of writs and schedules requiring the sheriff to enforce the collection of arrears outstanding on accounts formerly within the jurisdiction of the Court of Augmentations (dissolved in 1554).The writs are directed against former mi…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1555-1570
    Reference
    E 384
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Palatinate of Lancaster: Court of Common Pleas: Sessional Papers

    This series is an incomplete collection of 219 sessional or 'minute' files of the Court of Common Pleas of the county palatine of Lancaster accumulated by the clerks of the common pleas, styled prothonotaries, of the county palatine. In addition, the…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    Henry VIII-1848
    Reference
    PL 21
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Palatinate of Chester: Chester County Court and Court of Great Sessions of Chester:...

    This series of plea rolls contains the record of proceedings in the county court of Chester. Crown pleas ceased to be enrolled in the later seventeenth century, when the contents of the rolls came to consist almost entirely of civil pleas, mainly ple…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1259-1830
    Reference
    CHES 29
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Exchequer of Pleas: Term Papers

    This series is made up of orders by judges or assize judges, later made rules of court but not always entered in full in the Rule Books, together with some prisoners' papers.The latter are petitions of prisoners in the Fleet prison to be discharged u…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1729-1876
    Reference
    E 16
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Palatinate of Lancaster: Court of Common Pleas: Plea Rolls

    This series consists of rolls maintained by the Prothonotary of the Palatinate court of Common Pleas on which were recorded progress in common pleas (mainly trespass, debt and land) including pleadings, judgments, writs of process, recognizances, ess…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1400-1848
    Reference
    PL 15
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Enrolments of States of Accounts

    Documents designed to assist the King's Remembrancer in one of his principal responsibilities: to secure the payment or discharge of all debts to the Crown.The original purpose of the states of accounts was as a controlment on the audit process. The …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1404-1859
    Reference
    E 102
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Chancery: Petty Bag Office and Cursitors' Office: Administrative Books, Papers, etc

    Records of the Petty Bag Office and the neighbouring Cursitors' Office which were amalgamated by statute in 1835. The series includes inquisitions post mortem, relating to the responsibility of the Petty Bag Office to administer the escheat of lands …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    c1558-1921
    Reference
    C 220
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Lord Steward's Department: Accounts of Salaries Chargeable to the Civil List

    These Lord Steward's Department accounts of salaries are made out quarterly and show the salaries chargeable to the Civil List. The officers and servants of the Household are arranged under the several departments and included amongst the salaries ar…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1761-1854
    Reference
    LS 2
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Supplementary Exhibits

    Stray exhibits, including exhibits produced in causes, articles of agreement between creditors, proxies of renunciation and of curation, revoked letters of administration, excommunications, and affidavits.The series list for PROB 42 is not yet availa…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    16th century-19th century
    Reference
    PROB 42
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Palatinate of Lancaster: Chancery: Close Rolls

    This series consists of close rolls of the Palatinate of Lancaster Chancery.The rolls contain copies of documents which were mainly executive in nature. They include writs and other orders to the escheator, sheriff and other officers of the county, f…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1409-1470
    Reference
    PL 2
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    King's (Queen's) Bench, Fleet, Marshalsea and Queen's Prisons: Miscellanea

    Miscellaneous books relating to the Queen's Prison and its predecessors. Many of the books are of uncertain provenance owing to inadequate marking when the records of the three earlier institutions were placed together in 1842.The series includes the…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1697-1862
    Reference
    PRIS 10
  • Catalogue level
    Piece

    Elliot to Ch'i-shan. Encloses draft treaty. Requests date and place of meeting to...

    Elliot to Ch'i-shan. Encloses draft treaty. Requests date and place of meeting to sign it. Encl. Chinese version of draft treaty: (1) Chinese government will protect British merchants; (2) Chinese and British officials of equal ranks will correspond …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1841 Feb 13/TK 21 01 22
    Reference
    FO 682/1974/33
  • Catalogue level
    Piece

    'Sketch map of Soudan': map shows area boundaries. Table of debts, revenue and expenditure...

    'Sketch map of Soudan': map shows area boundaries. Table of debts, revenue and expenditure of the Sudan. Scale: 1 inch to about 120 miles (calculated). Harrison and Sons, lithographers, St Martin's Lane, London, 1880. Lithographed from original map …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1879-1880
    Reference
    FO 925/387
  • Catalogue level
    Piece

    Lists of prisoners discharged under the Discharge of Insolvent Debtors Act 1794....

    Lists of prisoners discharged under the Discharge of Insolvent Debtors Act 1794. There is no evidence concerning the identity of the prison.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1813-1823
    Reference
    PRIS 10/138
  • Catalogue level
    Piece

    Ch'i-ying to Davis. Has instructed Magistrate of Nan-hai to make P'an Shih-ch'eng...

    Ch'i-ying to Davis. Has instructed Magistrate of Nan-hai to make P'an Shih-ch'eng and P'an Shih-ping pay their debts.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1847 Jul 29/TK 27 06 18
    Reference
    FO 682/1980/33

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