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Office of the Commissioners of Crown Lands and The Crown Estate Office: Legal Branch:...
Registered files of the Legal Branch of the Crown Estate Commissioners' Office, dealing with purchase of leases, freeholds and properties, conveyances, licenses, sporting rights, foreshores, liability and other property matters. Most pieces contain m…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1911-1983
- Reference
- CRES 59
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Duchy of Lancaster: Court of Duchy Chamber: Entry Books of Decrees and Orders
This series consists of entry books of orders and decrees issued during equity proceedings heard before the Court of Duchy Chamber.Before 1509 the volumes might be more accurately described as minute books of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, ou…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1474-1872
- Reference
- DL 5
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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
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Duchy of Lancaster: Drafts and Particulars for Letters Patent
This series consists mainly of the particulars and drafts for letters patent issued under the seals of the Duchy of Lancaster and the County Palatine of Lancaster. They relate to grants of lands and offices during the monarch's pleasure and for life.…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1514-1919
- Reference
- DL 13
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Duchy of Lancaster: Records of Appointment of the High Sheriff of the County Palatine...
The documents in this series result from the right of the Duke of Lancaster to appoint each year the Sheriff of the County Palatine of Lancaster. The records in this series only cover the period from 1684 to 1876. Each piece consists of bundles of fo…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1684-1896
- Reference
- DL 21
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Duchy of Lancaster and Justice of the Forest South of the Trent: Forest Records
This series comprises the relatively few surviving forest records of the Duchy of Lancaster, relating to the Duchy's forests mainly in the north of England and north midlands, with only two outliers in the south.The most numerous relate to Needwood f…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1207-1844
- Reference
- DL 39
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Court of Augmentations, and Exchequer, Pipe Office: Particulars for Crown Leases
Particulars for leases of Crown lands, including leases in reversion, prepared by the auditors of the Court of Augmentations before 1554 and the auditors of the land revenue thereafter, which were deposited by the Pipe Office amongst the records of t…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- c1509-c1625
- Reference
- E 310
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Committee on the Administration of Crown Lands: Records
Correspondence and papers, minutes and the report of the Committee on the Administration of Crown Lands.A copy of the report of the committee can be found in Piece 8B.
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1954-1955
- Reference
- CRES 48
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Surveyor General of Land Revenues and successors: Surveys and other records; and...
This series consists of a number of volumes of reports from surveyors to the Surveyor General of Land Revenues and successors, sometimes accompanied by rentals, schedules of copyhold estates, court rolls, etc.; a collection of unbound surveys; and a …
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1608-1884
- Reference
- CRES 39
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The Crown Estate Commissioners: Windsor Estate Map
The single volume in this series has been transferred to MPZ 1/23.
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1963
- Reference
- CRES 33
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Duchy of Lancaster: Court of Duchy Chamber: Affidavits, Reports, Certificates, Orders,...
This series contains a great variety of records created during equity proceedings heard before the Court of Duchy Chamber.There are entry books of appearances by defendants and affidavits; original affidavits, certificates explaining non-performance …
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1560-1924
- Reference
- DL 9
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Lord Chancellor's Office and Lord Chancellor's Department: Secretary of Commissions:...
This series contains Lord Chancellor's Office files on appointments of justices of the peace, general commissioners of income tax and Lord Chancellor's advisory committees for justices of the peace. They relate to cities, counties, boroughs and distr…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1929-1986
- Reference
- LCO 34
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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
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Records of the Crown Estate Paving Commission
These are records of the Crown Estate Paving Commission, which was set up to maintain facilities to, and to levy rates upon, certain properties in the Crown Estate in London, between Regent's Park and Whitehall. Minute books recording its proceedings…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1814-1970
- Reference
- HV
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Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues and predecessors: Court Rolls and other...
Court rolls and books, estreats, rentals, presentments, etc, of Crown manors in England and Wales. In addition, there are a few records of the day-to-day working of some estates, which are not strictly manorial records.Some apparently early records s…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1441-1950
- Reference
- CRES 5
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Surveyors General of Land Revenues: Papers
Correspondence and papers (some removed from LR 5) of successive Surveyors General and their deputies.In addition to papers relating generally to land revenues also included many original petitions with draft reports and memoranda, particularly about…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1627-1814
- Reference
- LR 17
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The Crown Estate Office and predecessors: Crown Estate Surveyor's Branch: Numbered...
Registered files of the Crown Estate Surveyor's branch, giving structural and architectural information about properties on the Crown estate (mostly in London).In particular they detail the redevelopment of the Millbank Estate following the mass expi…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1919-1988
- Reference
- CRES 57
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Office of Commissioners of Crown Lands: Crichel Down Inquiry Files
The files in this series relate to the Crichel Down Inquiry and contain a high proportion of Cabinet papers, including memoranda prepared for the Cabinet Home Affairs Committee, with minutes of the committee's meetings, and minutes 1-7 of the Cabinet…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1953-1955
- Reference
- CRES 44
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The Crown Estate and predecessors: Agricultural Estates Group and predecessors: Registered...
This series contains registered files produced by the various departments that have managed the Crown's agricultural and forest estates in England. The files deal with escheats, exchanges, purchases and sales of land, easements over Crown properties,…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1867-1999
- Reference
- CRES 63
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Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments: Enrolments by Books, Office of Woods
This series contains the enrolments of all deeds or instruments relating to the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of Crown lands recorded by the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments.The series also contains enrolments relating to Crown woods…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1833-1961
- Reference
- LRRO 13