BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME FROM THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND THE GIFT OF Henrg M. Sage 1891 ^.-z,.3..^...s..7.../. : u./y./.a.f.,. 35I3-I 7, FLEET STREET, LONDON. list 0t Eato Wiovk^ PUBLISHED BY Messrs. BUTTERWORTH, LAW PUBLISHERS IN ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT WIAJESTY, AND '^uW»^exs to tSe luiltc Umttt Bepattment. I. SHEI.FORD ON THE LAW OF RAILVTAYS.— THIRD EDITION. Just published, royal 12mo. 30s. cloth. THE LAW of RAILWAYS, including the Three General Con- solidation Acts, 1845, and the other General Acts for regulating Rail- ways in England and Ireland, with copious Notes of Decided Cases on their Construction, including the Rights and Liabilities of Shareholders, Allottees of Shares, aiid Provisional Committee-men, with Forms, &c. By Leonard Shelford, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law. Thh-d Edition. 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NEW COMMENTARIES on the LAWS ov ENGLAND, in which are interwoven, under a new and original Arrangement of the general Subject, all such parts of the Work of Blackstone as are applicable to the present times ; together with full but compendious Expositions of the Modem Improvements of the Law up to the latest period; the original and adopted Materials being throughout the Work typographically distinguished from each other. By Henrt John Stephen, Serjeant at Law. Third Edition. Prepared for the press by James Stephen, of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, and Professor of English Law, &c. at King's College, London. " Assuming that all prudent Practitioners and Students will wash their hands of the past and begin to form small practical libraries entirely of the recent law, they could not find a better foundation than this third and new edition of Serjeant Stephen's Commentaries, which has been moulded throughout to the present state of the law and comprises all the recent alterations. 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He has presented the law as it is now with all its many changes, so that the Student may read it with confidence that he is not mistaking the old law for the new, and the Practitioner will find the double duty of Mralearning as well as learning, which is now imposed upon him, much facilitated by the comprehensive view which such a work as this will give him of the entire domain of the law of England, changed, modified, reformed, improved, botched and tinkered as it has been by skilful and unskilful hands, by practical and by unpractical men, by those who would improve as well as by those who would destroy the goodly fabric. We heartily recommend these Commentaries as beyond measure the best book that has ever appeared to form a foundation forthestudy of thelawof England." — The Law Times. " To speak in terms of approbation of a work on which the fiat of public opinion has so unmistakeably set its stamp would be altogether an act of supererogation. 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Nor are we sure that any amount of labour could give him the same comprehensive insight to the science he is about to enter upon. It is the grammar of the law. It is sheer nonsense to talk of the worth of Blackstone nowadays. We undertake to say that the Student who should read him now would have to unread half the work contains, and add as much more to his information when he had exhausted all that Blackstone knew. This results not merely from the changes which have since taken place, but from the diffuse and often verbose style in which Blackstone wrote his very faulty work, which it has been the fashion of a comparatively illiterate age to laud and extol. We venture to suggest to Serjeant btephen to discard Blackstone altogether, and to re-write the passages he has modestly but injudiciously interpolated in his own infinitely superior composition. 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" Mr. Christie has not only ably revised this Fourth Edition of the late Mr. Crabb's work, but very materially improved it by amending, and in many in- stances curtailing, the length of the original precedents, and adapting them to the established forms of the present day. The introductory statements of the law re- lating to each class of drafts are concise and highly useful, particularly to the articled clerk and young solicitor, who it is obvious should strive to unite an accu- rate knowledge of the principles of law applicable to the various kinds of legal in- struments with the practical forms by which the intentions of the parties are to be carried into eflFect, and by which means he will soon become master of his profes- sion. The Editor has with great care in the Prefaces to each class of Deeds, and the notes thereon, noticed the various alterations in the law which have taken place since the former edition of the work." — Legal Observer. " Crabb's Conveyancing is so well and favourably known to all conveyancers, as well as those persons generally connected with the transfer of property, that a new edition would have perhaps attracted less attention', were it not that the present is edited by so excellent a conveyancer as Mr. Christie. The circumstance of his editing the work stamps it at once with the profession as the best groundwork existing. The arrangement, the forms, selection of precedents, and general treat- ment of the subject were so well given in Mr. Crabb's original work, that an editor could mould them to the form and spirit of the present day, retaining all the valu- able portions, and rendering them applicable to practical purposes, as altered by the statutes passed since Mr. Crabb wrote. In looking over the various prece- dents, we find that generally speaking Mr. Christie has condensed, so as to render them more in accordance with the form of the drafts now adopted, and the most valuable portions of the work are the explanatory prefaces to the different sets of precedents revised with reference to the changes that have been made in law. It is too much the custom in books of conveyancing to give a variety of forms that are seldom required in practice, and which unnecessarily swell out a volume to a most unwieldy size j but in this instance Mr. Christie has only given such forms and precedents as really do occur in practice —such forms as belong to every-day business transactions, and which are alike required in the conveyancer's chambers, and in the offices of the London solicitor or country practitioner. The agreements are admirably drawn, and seem to meet every requirement or even specialty that may arise ; the assignments are copious, and as compact and clear as possible. The chapter on Bonds contains some most valuable forms applicable as well to indemnities as to all general purposes. Notices as to lands and railways are given, and some valuable forms for compositions and conveyances in trust for creditors. The conditions of sale are well adapted to their purpose; and forms of partnership deeds, covenants, trusts, leases that are truly valuable, mortgages, purchase deeds, releases, shipping forms and wills, make up every form and precedent that can by any possibility be required. As the notes and references to the various acts and decisions are given to each subject, the practitioner has at once a ready reference to solve every difficulty; and by reading carefully the preface to each subject, he will find that Mr. Christie has so ably and clearly pointed out every thing requiring attention, that it is impossible to omit any point of importance, or be led astray by momentary forgetfulness ; for not only have we the precedents as compact and concise as they can be made, but the whole bearing of the law down to the latest moment is placed before the reader, so that he feels as much at home as if he had studied each particular subject for the special occasion. We must award our warmest praise to Mr. Christie for producing a work so much required by the pro- fession, and which he has given in so perfect a form, that no lawyer will feel his library to be complete without it." — Bell's Messenger. Cornell University Library Z2016 .T45 + Hand-book to the public records. By F.S. 3 1924 029 565 672 olin Overs HAND-BOOK TO THE PUBLIC EECOEDS, By F. S. THOMAS, SECRETAKT OF THE PUBLIC EEOOKB OFFICE. LONDON: PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AKD WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, TEINTEES TO THE QUEEn'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. FOB HEK majesty's STATIONERY OFFICE. 1833. CONTENTS. Page Peeface - . . . . « v-vii Introduction - ... ix-xUi Synoptical Tables showing a general plan for the arrangement of the Records ..... xliil-Iix Addenda - ..... Ixi, bcii General Analyticai/ Index of Referenob to the Records; viz. : — Chancery - - ... i_96 Queen's Bench - ..... 97-116 Common Pleas - - .117-140 Exchequer - .... 141-284 Court of Exchequer Chamher .... 285, 286 Treasury of Receipt of Exchequer Department, or Chapter House ... . - - 287-297 Assizes Iters Quo Warranto ... - 298-300 Placita Forestse - - - - 301,302 Curia Regis - - 303,304 Court of Chivalry .... 305-307 Marshalsea and Palace Courts . - - 308, 309 Peveril Court ... . - 310 Court of Wards .... - 311-316 Court of Requests ... 317, 318 Court of Star Chamber - - - 319, 320 Welsh Records ... . . 321-333 Durham Palatine Records - - - 334, 335 Ely Records ...... 336 High Court of Admiralty ■■ - 337, 338 Admiralty Department - - 339-342 Privy Council - - - 343 Trade and Plantations - - - 344 Secretaries of State ..... 345 State Paper Department - - 346 Privy Signet Department - ... 347 Treasury .... - - 348-369 Audit Office - - ... 370-375 A 2 iv CONTENTS. Genekal Analytical Index of Eefbkence — cont. Page Slave Registration Department - - 376 Potato Crop Returns - - - 377 Commissioners for inquiring into Charities - - 378-380 Commissioners for inquiring into Forfeited Estates - 381-391 Commissioners for inquiring into Municipal Corporations' Boundaries - ... - 392 Commissioners for inquiring into Parliamentary Boundaries 393 Commissioners for liquidating Claims of British Subjects and others against the Government of France - - 394-399 Commissioners for inquiring into Claims of British Subjects for Losses from Seizures by the Danish Government - 400, 401 Commissioners for inquiring into Claims of British Subjects on Spain, and Spanish Subjects on Britain - - 402 Commissioners for inquiring into Claims of British Subjects for Losses sustained from Seizures by the Spanish Government .----. 403, 404 Commissioners for Slave Compensation - - 405-411 Appendix A., showing -where the Records have been deposited at different times, &c. ------ 415-449 Appendix B. List of works in connection with the Public Records, printed by Order of the Parliament or of the Govern- ment - - - - . - - 450-460 Genekal Index consolidating in one Alphabetical Index a reference to the information contained in the Analytical Index above referred to- - - - - - 461 PREFACE. A HAND-BOOK 01* mcans of general reference to the Public Records has long been a desideratum, and much difficulty has been felt from the want of such assistance. The present work is an attempt, as far as the records are arranged, to supply the want. It is intended to exhibit the various classes of records and documents, and much information contained therein, analytically and alphabetically arranged under the courts and departments to which they respectively belong, — Chancery ; Queen's Bench; Common Pleas; Exchequer, &c. {See the Contents, pages iii, iv.) .Thus, should any person desire to know what Surveys are among the Public Records, he will look for the head SURVEYS ; for instance, refer to the Chan- cery at page 89, it is there shown what kind of surveys are among the Chancery Records. Again, refer to the Exchequer, it will there be seen at pages 267 — 269 what is the nature of the surveys to be found in the different departments of that court. Surveys, for example, will be found in the following Exchequer Departments: — 1. The Queen's Remembrancer. 2. Lord Treasurer's Re- membrancer. 3. Augmentation. 4. First Fruits. 5. Land Revenue. 6. Treasury of the Receipt. So much for the Chancery and Exchequer; but like information may also exist in other courts. Each being under alphabetical arrangement, the searcher is referred to the same head in each department or court; but lest any difficulty might vi PREFACE. arise bj this necessary analytical arrangement, a strictly alphabetical index is given to the pages where the information required is to be found, so as to bring, as it were, into one focus the whole of the information on a particular subject. The searcher must not be dis- appointed in the example given if the particular survey he desires be not specially named ; all that is aimed at is to give a clue as to where the survey or other information is likely to be found. It is not to be supposed that all the various matters to be found in the Public Records are here brought out under heads ; such a work, which would extend to hundreds of volumes, would be of too great a magni- tude, even if it were practicable, which it never will be unless a minute index be first formed to each class ; in this work it is simply intended to give the classes of records, with the general information interspersed, and Avith notes and observations connected therewith ; a clue being given to the classes where the information required is to be found will naturally lead to a reference to the record, or to the calendars and indexes (if any exist), for the minute particulars. A work of this nature may always be increased according to the notions of individuals. Some feel an interest more particularly in one subject, some in another ; all may add to it as information comes to hand on matters in which they feel interested or otherwise, or may form new heads of reference ; the work being alphabetical, a proper place can readily be found to insert information from time to time ; in fact, it is a note or hand book of reference for every one touching the Public Records. It should be understood that an PREFACE. vii immense mass of miscellanea remains to be sorted and classed before the information contained therein can with safety be referred to. Many of the arrangements already made may even yet have to be altered. Rather than keep back from the public for years the assist- ance here afforded, we must consider the present as a foundation, or materials for the future more perfect work. The work is arranged in the following order : — I. By way of introduction, a brief outline of the History of the Pubhc Records from the earliest times down to the time of the present establishment of a Pubhc Record Office, and the erection of the new General Record Repository, pages ix — xlii, with Addenda, pages Ixi, Ixii. II. Synoptical Tables suggesting a general plan for the arrangement of the Records, pages xliii — lix. III. General Analytical Index of Reference to the Records arranged under Courts and Departments, as shown in the Contents. IV. Appendix A., contain- ing a statement showing where Records have been deposited at different times, &c. V. Appendix B., a statement of works published in connection with the Records at the expense of Government. VI. A General Index consolidating in one Alphabetical Index the references to the information contained in the Analytical Index above referred to. I cannot conclude these observations without expressing my thanks to Mr, John Edwards (one of the officers of the Record Department) for his great assistance in passing this work through the press. INTRODUCTION. A BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS. Nature of the Public Records. Much cavil lias at various times arisen as to what are and what are not records. Avoiding all technical distinctions, records in general will be found to consist of, — 1. Inrolments, which are intended to be official and authentic records of lawful acts made by the proper officer of any court upon rolls, or, in some cases, in official entry books of the same court. 2. Memoranda of acts or instruments brought into the proper office of any court by parties interested therein (or by their agents), either in the form of rolls or otherwise, and preserved in bundles or on files. 3. Books of entries, containing memoranda of acts, &c. entered by officers of the court. Such are the records of the courts. 4. State Papers form another branch of the records. These originally sprung from the Privy Council and Chancery, and now form various branches : the correspondence and other records of the Privy Council, Secretaries of State, and all other public departments. The following are examples of opinions of the nature of a record : — In the year 1837 the late Record Commissioners, in their Observations on the Eeport of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Eecord Commission in 1836, state that the Public Records are composed of four great classes : — 1. Independent Records, relating to many subjects, persons, and places, but alto- gether comprising only one whole ; of this kind are — Domesday Book, the Taxation of Pope Nicholas, and the Valor Ecclesiasticus of King Henry VIII. ; 2. Series of Inrolments, comprising upon one roll (consisting of many membranes united the one to the other so as to form a continuous roll) great varieties of separate and dis- a ^ INTRODUCTION. tinct entries, classed together either according to their formal cha- racter, as the Close, the Patent, and the Charter Rolls, or according to their subject matter, as the Liberate, the Oblata, the Norman, or the Gascon Rolls ; 3. Records containing entries of judicial proceed- ings, in which each subject matter has a distinct roll, and the several rolls of a particular tei-m or other period are all bound together at the top, the ends hanging loose ; and, 4. Separate documents, such as letters, inquisitions, commissions, privy seals, and all the other various descriptions of formal instruments. Lambard (Eirenarcha, 63) says, that " Records be nothing else " but memorials (or monuments) of things done before judges " that have credit in that behalf; " and (p. 64) " thus record (or " testimony) is first contained within the breast of the judge (as " our law speaketh), and afterwards committed to the rolls, which " are therefore figuratively called records also." Sir Edward Coke (Co. Lit. 117 b) says that, — " A record or inrolment is a memorial or monument of so high a " nature as it importeth in itself such an absolute verity, as if it be " pleaded there is no such record, it shall not receive any trial by witness, "jury, or otherwise, but only by itself; and 'every Court of Record is " the King's Court, albeit another may have the profit, wherein if the " judges do err a writ of error doth lie. But the County Courts, the " Hundred Courts, the Courts Baron, and such like are no Courts of " Record, and, therefore, the proceedings therein may be denied and " tried by jury ; and upon their judgments a writ of error Ueth not, " but a writ of false judgment, for that they are no Courts of Record, " because they cannot hold plea of debt or trespass if the debt or " damages exceed 40*., or of any trespass vi et armis ; monumenta qua " nos recorda vocamus sunt veritatis et vetustatis vestigia." And in another place the same learned person thus defines a record (Co. Lit. 260 a) : — " Eecordum is a memorial or remembrance in rolls of parchment of " the proceedings and acts of a court of justice, which hath power to " hold plea according to the course of the common law of real or mixed " actions, or of actions quare vi et armis, or of personal actions, whereof " the debt or damage amounts to 40*. or above, which we call Courts " of Record, and are created by Parliament, Letters Patent, or Pre- " scription." It is plain that this description or definition of a record is only the definition or description of a record of one particular kind. If taken to be general, it would exclude from the class of record-s not only the Rolls of Parliament, the Statute Rolls, the Close Rolls, the Patent Rolls, and many other important records of the Chancery of England, but also the records of the proceedings of the High Court of Chancery as a court of equity, the records of the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Courts, &c. INTRODUCTION. xi But it appears even in the same page from which the above definition is taken that Sir Edward Coke himself considered the word " record" to be of wider signification ; and in his Reports, IV. 5 4 6, he informs us, that in the case of the Saddlers' Com- pany divers points were resolved : — " In every case where the " King is entitled to any freehold or inheritance, his title is, I., " by matter of record, which is either (1) by record judicial, as " attainder, &c. ; (2) (by record) ministerial on oath, as oflice ; " (3) or by conveyance of record by assent, as fine, deed inrolled, " tSsc. II. Or by matter of fact, and found by office of record on " oath, as alienation in mortmain, purchase by aUen born, the " King's villain, escheat by death without heir, &c., and this " found by record ministerial, as before the escheator or other " officer. III. Or by matter of fact only, when land comes to " the King by escheat or other matter of fact, and the King's " oflicers put it in charge in the Exchequer without office." And in the same case he says (p. 56 a): — " Nota, Judicial Records, " as attainders and judgments, are preferred before Ministerial " Records, as inquisitions and offices before escheator ; and they " also (being found in course of lawful proceedings by oath) " before returns or conveyances of record, &c." In his Sixth Report (53 a) he says : — •" Nota, duke or not duke, earl or not " earl, baron or not baron, shall not be tried by the country, but " by record ; for if they be Lords of Parliament, it appears by " record, and therefore by record (viz. by the King's Writ) it " ought to be certified." And in his Ninth Report (31 a) we are informed that " In a plea of alien born, the league between the " King and the Sovereign of the ahen shall be tried by the " Record of the Chancery, for every league is of record (a) ; and " generally all matters of record shall be tried by the record " itself, and not by jury or otherwise. If ancient demesne be " pleaded of a manor and denied, it shall be tried by the Record " of the Book of Domesday in the Exchequer." See Blackstone, Com. III. 331. There can be therefore no doubt that the definition of records, as given in Co. Lit., though expressed in general words, is appiL- , cable only to the rolls or records of such Courts of Common Law as are comprised within its terms, viz. : — " Courts of Record, " the incidents belonging to which are stated to be, that their " acts and judicial proceedings are inrolled in parchment for a " perpetual memorial ; that they hold plea of matters cognizable (a) The Treaty Rolls ceased to be brought into Chancery after 22 Jac. I. a2 2cii INTRODUCTION. " by the common law of or above the value of forty shillings, and " of forcible injuries, and that their supposed errors are to be " amended by writ of error, and not by writ of false judgment." (Blackstone's Com. III. 24, 25 ; IV. 407.) But some latitude must be allowed in the consideration of what are properly to be called Courts of Kecord. Lambard (Eirenarcha, p. 65) and Sir Edward Coke (4th Inst. 177) consider Justices of the Peace to be Judges of Record. Sir Thomas Smith says that Parliament is the highest and most absolute Court of Record in the kingdom. (Common- wealth, p. 46, ed. 1589.) And Sir Edward Coke asserted, that the House of Commons was a Court of Record (Commons' Journal, I. 604). His lan- guage seems to have been strong : — " He wished his tongue " might cleave to the roof of his mouth that saith that this House " is not a Court of Record. And he that saith that this House has " no power of jurisdiction understands not himself; for although " we have not such power in all things, yet we have power of " jurisdiction in some things, therefore it is a Court of Record." (Gurdon's History of Parliament, II. 445.) The Judicial Records, or the Records of the Queen's Courts, being the memorials of authoritative determinations after in- vestigation and proofs, are no doubt to be considered as of the utmost importance ; and in an instrument on the Rolls of Parlia- ment, 46 Edw. III. (Rot. Pari. II. 314, No. 43.) these records are stated to be the perpetual evidences of the people, and there ordained to be accessible to all the King's subjects. The follow- ing is a translation of the article referred to : — " 43. Also the Commons pray, that whereas records, and everything " in the King's Court, ought to remain there for perpetual evidence and " aid of all parties thereto, and of all those to whom in any manner " they appertain, as occasion may require ; and now of late they refuse " to make search and exemplification in the Court of cur said Lord the " King. May it please you to ordain by statute that search and ex- " empliflcation may be made for all persons of any record which in " any manner concerns them, as well what makes against the King as " against others. " The King grants it." It is perhaps unfortunate that the pre-eminent authority of the Judicial Records should ever have been attempted to be characterized by applying to them exclusively the name of records; it must always have been observed that the same name could not be denied to other rolls and various other public documents, memorials, and memoranda, and to reconcile the discrepancy it has not been unusual to make a distinction INTRODUCTION. XI between a record and a thing recorded. And it has been held, that a deed inroUed, or a decree in Chancery inrolled, was not a record, but a deed or decree recorded ; not a record, but a matter of record, and sometimes not recorded, but entered or preserved as of record. All distinctions which have prevailed in legal proceedings are to be most carefully attended to in the arrangement of records, but the particular records to which such distinctions are appli- cable constitute only particular classes of the public records of the kingdom, which in fact comprise all documents of every description which belong to Her Majesty in right of Her Crown. And the Public Records Act 1 & 2 Vict. c. 94., after vesting in the Master of the Rolls the public records deposited in the several places or offices therein particularly named, and enabling Her Majesty in Council to order records deposited in any other office, court, place, or custody, to be transferred to the charge and superintendence of the Master of the Rolls, provides, that the word Records shall be taken to mean all rolls, records, writs, books, proceedings, decrees, bills, warrants, accounts, papers, and documents whatsoever of a public nature belonging to Her Majesty, or then deposited in any of the offices or places of custody before mentioned. Care and Preservation of the Public Records informer Times. The King's Palace appears anciently to have been the proper place for the records of the courts. The Exchequer, the Chancery, and the Sovereign Court of Ordinary Judicature, then styled Curia Regis, followed the King from place to place, and the records were kept at the court or place of the occasional residence of the Sovereign, (a) And when the courts became stationary they were held within the precincts of the King's Palace, and the records remained with the courts. The acts of Chancery cognizable at the Exchequer were trans- acted at the Exchequer ; but the Chancery, Madox conjectures, was separated from the Exchequer about the end of the reign of Ric. I., or the beginning of the reign of John, because about that time Chancery Rolls (distinct from the Exchequer) began to be formed. (6) The Court of Common Pleas was separated from the Curia Regis by one of the Articles of Magna Charta, and confirmed by (a) Ayloffe's Int. to CaL of Ancient Charters, p. vi. (6) Madox, Hist of Excheq., folio, p. 132. s^iv INTRODUCTION. the great charter of Hen. III., and appointed to be stationary, (a) From Stow's Survey, vol. ii. pp. 628-632, is gathered the follow- ing account of the courts : — " The King (Hen. III.) ordained, that there should be three Judg- " ment Seats in the Great Hall of Westminster : The Common Pleas at <' the entry of the Hall on the right hand ; The King's Bench at the "' upper end of the Hall on the right hand, or south-east corner ; The ■" Chancery on the left hand, or south-west corner. ■ " Within the entry into the Hall at Westminster, on either side, are ■" ascendings up into large chambers without the Hall adjoining thereto, " wherein certain courts are kept, namely, on the right hand is the Court " of Exchequer. This Court of Exchequer hath of old time, and, as I " think, since the Conquest, been kept at Westminster, notwithstanding " sometimes removed thence, by commandment of the King, for a time, " and after restored again, as, namely, in the year 1209 King John " commanded the Exchequer to be removed from Westminster to ■" Northampton, &c. On the left hand, above the stairs, is the Duchy ■" Chamber, wherein is kept the Court for the Duchy of Lancaster. The " rolls and records of this Court are in the custody of the clerk to " whose of&ce they appertain ; but the King's Evidences, Leases, and " Grants of the Duchy Land are in the keeping of the Auditors. Then " is there in another chamber the Office of the Receipts of the Queen's " Revenues for the Crown (i. e. Receipt of the Exchequer). Then " is there also the Star Chamber. This Star Chamber anciently was " the Council Chamber within the King's Palace of Westminster, where " the King's Council sat. At the upper end of the Great Hall, by the " King's Bench, is a going up to a great chamber called ' The White- " hall,' wherein is now kept the Court of Wards and Liveries, and " adjoining thereto is the Court of Requests. Adjoining to the House " of Lords a,Te Prince George's Chambers. Here, December 14, 1704, " was the first meeting of the Governors of Queen Anne's Hounty. " Under the Hall are certain subterraneous apartments, one called " Paradise, the other ITell. (b) " Within the ancient Palace is the King's Treasury, which in 1303 " (31 Edw. L) was robbed. Besides the Treasury for money, there " was within the Palace another Treasury of Records, relating to the " kingdom's public affairs, preserved in certain chambers and rooms. " Here are reposited many ancient and precious records. As within the " place called particularly The Treasury, where once the Court of " fVards was kept, are the Records of Leagues with the realms of " Arragon, Flanders, Germany, and some of France, and other places. " Also there are many records relating to the casting off the Bishop of " Rome's authority, and the subscriptions of almost all the priests of (a) Madox, Hist, of Excheq., folio, p. 145. (6) In the Palace of Westminster, temp. Hen. VUI., there -vras a house called " Paradise," another called " Hell," and another called " Purgatory," which houses, and five others, Hen. VHI. took for disposing and conserving the Records and Rolls of the Bxchec[uer, and for other uses, as appears by a deed 18 Car. I., 18 July 1 642, entered in the Auditor's Patent Book, No. 17, pp. 96-106, on the Receipt Side of the Exche- quer. -See also 1 Edw. VI., 16 May 1547, Auditor's Patent Book, No. 3, f. 5, where the same facts appear as above recited in a similar Patent of Edw. VI. It appears by the Issue Rolls on the Receipt Side of the Exchequer, Mich. Term, 15 Ric. II., 7 Dec, that certain Common Pleas Records were removed from a place at Westminster called " Hell" to the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer. INTRODUCTION. xv " the realm to the King's supremacy, and the books of the Orders " of St. George and St. Michael, the covenants of marriage between " King Philip and Queen Mary, and sundry books of foreign accounts, " and other matters of state. Also within the Abbey of Westminster '•' there was an older Treasury than that of the Palace, which was " called ' The Old Treasury,' a place always designed for the custody " of the Leagues of the kingdom ; it was vaulted with stone, and had " chests and presses that were empty. There is also another Treasury " in the Abbey of Westminster, vaulted also with stone, and so out of " danger of fire, but it wanted reparation both in glass and lead. " Here were kept all, or the most part of, the Records of the King's " Bench and Common Pleas, Fines, Writs, and Assizes of all the " Kings since the Conquest until the most part of the reign of " Hen. VII. Also in the custody of the Lord Treasurer and Cham- " berlains of the Exchequer were abundance of records in bags, as " Records of Pleas and Perambulations, and Inquisitions of Forests ; " Records of many men's lands in England and Wales, as Court Molls, " Auditor's Accounts, Accounts of sundry French Counties ; also Deeds " of Purchase made by sundry of Queen Elizabeth's progenitors, for " sundry their honours, manors, and lands. Within the Palace, " towards the south-west side of it, is the Augmentation Office" It will be seen tbat the Courts were anciently held in the King's Palace or place where he happened to be, which will account for many records having been found in castles and places, the occasional residences of the Sovereign ; and foUovdng this principle, when the Courts became stationary, as already stated, they were held in the King's Palace at Westminster, and Treasuries were appointed for the deposit of the records. The Treasiuy of the Exchequer appears anciently to have been the ultimate repository of records of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, and other records deposited for safe custody under the charge of the Treasurer and Chamberlains. The increase of the records caused an increase of Treasuries, for we find, as already shown, that there were four Treasuries, — described thus in Powell's Eepertory : — I. In the Court of the "Receipt. II. In the Palace of Westminster. III. In the Abbey of Westminster, in the Old Chapter House. IV. In the Cloister of the Abbey of Westminster. Bishop Nicolson describes them as follows : — I. A vault in the Cloisters of the Abbey at Westminster. II. The Old Chapter House. III. By the side of the Tally Court. IV. Over the gate leading from the New Palace Yard into St. Margaret's Lane. X" • INTRODUCTION. All the above Treasuries eventually merged in the Chapter House, Poets' Corner, Westminster, and laid the foundation of that repository. There -were other Treasuries for the Chancery Records. When Edw. I. was in Scotland certain Chancery Records were in the .New Temple, for there the Treasurer broke open a chest by the King's command, and sent to Scotland a Patent Roll of 39 Hen. III. and a Charter Roll of 22 Hen. III., which were returned the following year. Before the end of the reign of Edw. I. the Wardrobe in the Tower of London was used as the chief repository of the Records of Chancery, and the place where the records were deposited was called The King's Treasury, — that was the foundation of the office known as The Record Office in the Tower. By entries on the Close Rolls in the 11th and 14th years of the reign of Edw. II. we find that it was the practice of the Masters of the Rolls to keep the Chancery Records in their dwelling-house, and deposit in the Tower the rolls, bundles, and remembrances which had accumulated. This practice partially fell into disuse after Edw. IV., the records after that period were lodged in the Chapel of the Master of the Rolls, to which eventually an office was erected, which was the origin of the Record Office known as The Rolls Chapel Office, adjoining and communicating with the Chapel of the Master of the Rolls. But the accumulations of the Equity Records alone were still sent to the Tower, except the decrees. Note. — For the letters patent of Edw. III. annexing the Domus Gonversoruin Judceorum, i. e. the House of the Converted Jews (now the Chapel of the Rolls), to the Office of the Master of the Rolls, and the confirmation thereof by Ric. II., see Rot. Pat. 51 Edw. III. m. 20., 6 Ric. II. part 3. m. 12. Vol. I. of the Authentic Statutes, Introduction, p. xxxiv. note 2. In process of time the business of the courts increased, sittings after term were authorized, and offices for the preparation of the business were established in and about the inns of court, where records were accumulated ; these, as they became burdensome, were removed and warehoused in other places, and the records became scattered and fell into disorder. Appendix A. contains a statement of the offices and repositories where records have been found to have been deposited. But we proceed to show that th^ interest manifested by the Sovereigns for the welfare of the records prevented them from being entirely neglected. It is said that Edw. I. first established INTRODUCTION. xvu a repository for records and collected them (a) ; this may probably have reference to the Wardrobe at the Tower of London, for we find from the records that Adam de Osgodeby (6) was appointed Keeper of the Rolls of the King's Chancery at the Wardrobe in the Tower of London 1st Oct. 1295 (23 Edw. I.) in the same manner as other Keepers had been accustomed. Again, by a writ, 6th Nov. 1 305 (c), the Treasurer and Chamberlains of the Exchequer were commanded to deliver out of the Treasury to the Comptroller of the Wardrobe, by indenture between them, all the Papal privileges granted to the King and his ancestors, that the same might be conveyed to the Tower, and there kept under seal by A. de Osgodeby, Clerk Keeper of the RoUs of the King's Chancery, (d) Edw. II., in the 14th of his reign (7th August 1320) (e), directed a writ of Privy Seal to the Treasurer, Barons, and Chamberlains of the Exchequer to employ proper persons to superintend, methodize, and digest all the rolls, books, and other writings then remaining in the Treasuries of the Exchequer and in the Tower of London, declaring that they had not been disposed in such manner as they ought to have been for the public service. Two years after, on 3d Dec. 1322, the same King commanded them to make a calendar to the bulls, charters, and other writings preserved in the Treasury, the Wardrobe, and elsewhere. (/) And on the 24th of July the same year, by letters patent and by special writs, the King authorized Robert de Hoton and Thomas de Sibthorpe to search and arrange all his muniments in his castles of Pontefract, Tutbury, and Tunbridge, and such as lately came into the custody of the Custos of the Tower of London, and such as were ia the house of the friars preachers in the City of London, (g) In 20 Edw. II. W. La Zouche and two others caused four bags under their seals, containing sundry rolls, inquisitions, and me- moranda of the King's Chancery, seized by them in Swansea (a) Blackstone, vol. iv., ch. xxxiii., sect. 3. (6) Feed., new edit., i. 827. (c) Close Eolls, 33 Edtr. I., m. 3. ((/) Clerk Keeper of the Eolls of Chancerywas the ancient title of the Masters of the Eolls. See what Sir Joseph Jekyll says on this point in his " Discourse of the Judicial " Authority belonging to the Office of the Master of the Eolls," 2d edit., 8vo., 1728, pp. 14-16. The earliest mention on record of the Keeper of the Eolls of Chancery (or Master of the Eolls) is John de Langton (afterwards Chancellor), who certainly held the office of Keeper of the Eolls of Chancery in 14 Edw. I. -See Hardy's Catalogue of the Lords Chancellors, Keepers of the Great Seals, Masters of the Bolls, &c. (1843). See Eot. Pat. 14 Edw. I., m. 12, in Sched. (e) Close Eolls, 14 Edw. II., m. 22 ; Eecord Eep. 1732. If) Id., 16 Edw. II., m. 19, dorso; Eecord Eep. 1732. (jr) Eot. Pat. 16 Edw. n., p. 1, m. 28. ^m INTRODUCTION. Castle, to be brought to Queen Isabella's Chamber, in the Palace t of the Bishop of Hereford, where she then resided, and to be there delivered to Henry de Cliff, Custos Rotulorum of Chancery, then present, who had them conveyed with him to his house (" at secum ad hospitium suum deportari fecit.") (a) It is a curious fact that Mr. George Grant Francis, of Burrows; Lodge, Swansea, discovered in Swansea Castle the original con- tract of affiance between Edward of Caernarvon, Prince of Wales, and Isabella daughter of Philip the Fair, King of France, dated at Paris, 20th of May 1303. It is known from the records that when Edw. II. fled from Bristol for Lundy, and was driven by contrary winds to land in Swansea Bay, he deposited a number of the national archives in Swansea Castle for safety. It is pos- sible that the above document may have been left behind when the records above mentioned were seized. Mr. Francis sent it for insertion in the Archaeologia Cambrensis in 184:8. In 1 Edw. III. a writ was directed to Robert Hoton, Keeper of the Tower Records, to bring to the Exchequer all the writings, muniments, &c. which belonged to Thomas Earl of Lancaster, deceased, (b) In 14 Edw. III. all the Rolls, Bundles, and Memoranda of Chancery which were in the house of John St. Paul (i. e. Powel), then Keeper of the RoUs of Chancery, were sent by the King's command to the Tower, (c) In 10 Ric. II. John de Waltham, Keeper of the Privy Seal, was commanded to deliver all Petitions, Warrants, Indentures, and other memorable things of the late King Edward III. per- taining to the office of the Privy Seal, to the Keeper of the Records of the Tower, (d) In 39 Hen. VI. divers chests of Common Pleas Records were ordered to be removed from the Priory of St. Bartholomew, Smithfield, to the Tower of London, (e) In the third year of the reign of Edw. VI. many records were discovered in an old house in the Tower, unknown until search was made for a convenient place to deposit gunpowder, some of which had lain so long against the walls that they were eaten and perished by the lime, they were then placed with the other records. (/) Queen Elizabeth, in 1567 (g), being informed of the confused (a) Kot. Glaus., 20 Edw. II., m. 5. Eot. Knium, 20 Edw. II., m. 4. (b) Stow's Survey, vol. i., p. 117. (e) Stow's Survey, vol. i., p. 117. (c) Id. (/) Id.,p. 118. (rf) Id. (.9) Ayloffe's Calendars, xxviii. et seq. INTRODUCTION. xix and perilous state of the records of Parliament and Chancery, gave orders for rooms to be prepared ia the Tower to receive them, which was soon after done, and the Queen issued her warrant to Sir Wm. Cordel, Master of the Kolls, declaring that it was not meet that the Records of her Chancery, which were accounted as a principal member of the treasure belonging to herself, and to her Crown and realm, should remain in private houses and places, for doubt of such danger or spoil as theretofore had happened to the like records in the time of Ric. II. and Hen. VI., and directed him to deliver to Wm. Bowyer, Keeper of the Records within the Tower of London, all Parliament Rolls, Patent Rolls, Treasurer's Rolls, &c. &c. of the several reigns of Ric. III. to Hen. VI. This order was never executed, and the records remained at the Rolls Chapel. Further particulars of this nature are given in Appendix A. In the time of Car. II., Prynne (who was appointed Keeper of the Records in the Tower), in his Preface to the fourth volume of Parliamentary Writs, alludes to the interest manifested by the Sovereigns for the care of the records as follows : — " But I presume it will be your Majesties especial care (as it was " your Eoyal predecessor's) to preserve these ancient records not only " from fire, sword, but water, moths, canker, dust, cobwebs, for your " own and your kingdom's honor, service, they being such sacred re- " liques, such peerless jewels, that your noble ancestors have estimated " no places so fit to preserve them in as consecrated chapels, or Royal " treasuries and wardrobes, where they lay up their sacred crowns, " jewels, robes, and that upon very good grounds, they being the prin- " cipal evidences by which they held, supported, defended their Crowns, " kingdoms, revenues, prerogatives, and their subjects their respective " lands, lives, liberties, properties, franchises, rights, laws." Without here multiplying instances of the interest manifested by the Sovereign for the care and preservation of the records, we come down to more modern periods, when the Members of the Houses of Parliament took an interest in them. On 1 0th December 1703 a Committee of the House of Lords was appointed to con- sider of the method of keeping records in offices, and how they were kept, and to consider of ways to remedy what shoidd be found amiss ; to send for such officers as they should think fit, and to report their opinion; with power to appoint a sub-committee to consider thereof, and to inspect such offices and records as they should think fit ; and to report to the Grand Committee. This Committee was revived at various times, and reported from time to time until 1719, when, for the first time, the Report was printed in an octavo volume. In December in the same year XX INTRODUCTION. the Committee was revived, and other Committees continued to be appointed. At length in the early part of the year 1800 the state of the public records was brought under the consideration of the House of Commons, and thereupon a Select Committee was appointed, — " To inquire into the state of the public records of this Kingdom " and of such other public instruments, rolls, books, and papers as they " shall think proper ; and to report to the House the nature and con- " dition thereof, together with what they shall judge fit to be done for " the better arrangement, preservation, and more convenient use of the " same." In the same session the Committee presented to the House the result of their labours in England and Scotland, and sub- mitted certain measures contained in a large folio volume, commonly known as the Record Report of 1800, — the most important volume on the records of this country that ever ap- peared. It contains in fact two reports, the first containing the returns from the different repositories to the questions of the Committee as to the nature, state, &c. of the records ; the second containing an analysis of the returns, divided into two tables, the first table being a systematic classification of the records, according to some of the great subjects to which they relate, but too fanciful for practical use ; the second table is an alphabetical index of reference to the returns. Thereupon the House presented an address to His Majesty George III., dated 11th July 1800, " to give " directions for the better preservation, arrangement, and more " convenient use of the public records of the kingdom, and that " they, the Commons, would cheerfully provide whatever extra- " ordinary expenses might be incurred.'' His Majesty's reply is dated I7th July 1800, " that he would give directions as " desired." Accordingly a Commission for Great Britain was issued under the Royal Sign Manual, as follows : — « GEORGE R. " Geokge the Thied, by the Grace of God King of Great Britain, " France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. " To Our right trusty and right entirely beloved Cousin and Coun- " cillor, William Henry Cavendish Duke of Portland, Knight of the " most noble Order of the Garter, Our right trusty and well-beloved " Councillors William Wyndham Baron Grenville, and Henry " Dundas, Esquire, Our Three Principal Secretaries of State ; Our " right trusty and well-beloved Councillors, Henry Addington, " Esquire, Speaker of the House of Commons ; William Pitt, Es- " quire, Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of Our Exchequer, and " First Commissioner of Our Treasury; Sir Richard Pepper Arden, " Knight, Master of the Rolls ; Frederick Campbell, Esquire (com- INTRODUCTION. xs-i " monly called Lord Frederick Campbell), Our Clerk Register of " Scotland ; Sylvester Douglas, Esquire, one of the Commissioners " of Our Treasury ; Our trusty and well-beloved Sir John Mitford, " Knight, Our Attorney General ; Sir William Grant, Knight, Our " Solicitor General ; Eobert Dundas, Esquire, Our Advocate for " Scotland ; and Charles Abbot, Esquire, greeting. " Whereas the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and Commissioners " of Shires and Boroughs, in our Parliament of Great Britain assembled, « having taken into their consideration the state of the public records of " this kingdom, and the necessity of providing for the better arrangement, " preservation, and more convenient use of the same, have humbly laid " before Us a report of their proceedings thereon ; and have also humbly " represented unto Us, that the public records of the kingdom are " in many offices unarranged, undescribed, and unascertained; that " many of them are exposed to erasure, alteration, and embezzlement, " and are lodged in buildings incommodious and insecure ; and that it " would be beneficial to the public service that the records and papers " contained in many of the principal offices and repositories should be " methodized, and that certain of the more antient and valuable amongst " them should be printed ; and have humbly besought Us, that We " would be graciously pleased to give such directions thereupon as We " in Our wisdom shall think fit. " Now know ye, that We, considering the premises, and earnestly " desiring more effectually to provide for the better arrangement, pre- " servation, and more convenient use of the said records and papers, " and reposing great trust and confidence in your fidelity, discretion, " and integrity ; — " Plave authorized and appointed, and by these presents do authorize " and appoint, you the said William Henry Cavendish Duke of Port- " land, William Wyndham Baron Grenville, Henry Dundas, Henry Ad- " dington, William Pitt, Sir Richard Pepper Arden, Frederick Campbell " (commonly called Lord Frederick Campbell), Sylvester Douglas, " Sir John Mitford, Sir William Grant, Robert Dundas, and Charles " Abbot, and any three or more of you, to make a diligent and parti- " cular inquiry into the several matters which Our faithful Commons " have, in the above-mentioned report of their proceedings, represented " as fitting to be provided for by Our royal authority. " And furthermore We do by these presents give and grant to you " Our said Commissioners, and any three or more of you, full power " and authority to cause all and singular the officers, clerks, and minis- " ters of the said offices and repositories respectively to bring and " produce upon oath before you, or any three or more of you, all and " singular rolls, records, books, and papers, or other writings, belong- " ing to the said offices or repositories, or any of them, or any officers " within the same, and which shall be in the custody of them or any of " them respectively. " And Our further will and pleasure is, that ye, or any three or more " of you, upon due examination of the premises, shall cause such " matters to be duly and speedily executed as ye shall judge fitting and " proper to be done for the more effectual execution of the several mea- " sures recommended by Our faithful Commons in the said report of " their proceedings relative thereto. " And to the end that Our royal will and pleasure in the premises " may be executed with the greater regularity and expedition. We " farther by these presents will and command, and do hereby give full «ii INTRODUCTION. " power and authority to you, or any three or more of you, to nominate " and appoint from time to time such person of ability, care, and dili- " gence as ye shall think fit to be and act as your clerk or secretary, " for the purpose of aiding you in the execution of these presents ; and " also to nominate and appoint in like manner such several persons of " ability, care, and diligence as ye may think fit to be sub-commis- " sioners, to be employed under your direction and control in the " premises, and more especially to methodize, regulate, and digest the " records, rolls, instruments, books, and papers in any. of Our public " ofiices and repositories, and to cause such of the said records, rolls, " instruments, books, and papers as are decayed and in danger of being " destroyed, to be bound and secured, and to make exact calendars " and indexes thereof, and to superintend the printing of such ca- " lendars and indexes and original records and papers as ye shall " cause to be printed ; which said clerk or secretary, and sub-commis- " sioners, and every of them, shall and may be removed by you or any " three of you from time to time at your will and pleasure, full power " and authority being hereby given to you to appoint others in their " places respectively. " And We further will and command, and by these presents ordain, " that ye, or any three or more of you, shall from time to time certify " under your hands and seals unto Our Lord High Treasurer, or unto " the Commissioners of Our Treasury for the time being, what shall be " a fit and suitable recompense to the above-mentioned clerk or secre- " tary and sub-commissioners respectively for their pains and services " in the execution of the duties hereby required to be by them per- " formed ; which said recompense it is Our will and pleasure shall " thereupon be paid to them respectively and accordingly. " And Our further will and pleasure is, that ye, or any three or more " of you, do and shall, on or before the 25th day of March in the year " of Our Lord 1801, and so from year to year on or before the 2Sth day " of March in each year respectively, so long as this Commission shall " continue in force, certify unto Us in Our Privy Council, under your " hands and seals respectively, all and every of the several proceedings " of yourselves and of the said sub-commissioners had by virtue of " these presents, together with such other matters (if any) as may be " deserving of Our royal consideration touching or concerning the " premises, and what further measures (if any) ye shall think fit to " propose thereupon. " And lastly, We do by these presents ordain, that this Our Com- " mission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that ye Our said " Commissioners, or any three or more of you, shall and may from time " to time, and at any place or places, proceed in the execution thereof, " and of every matter and thing therein contained, although the same " be not continued from time to time by adjournment. " Given at Our Court, &c., the 19th day of July, in the year of Our " Lord 1800. " PORTLAND." On the 23d of May 1806, in continuation of the above, another Commission was issued under the Royal Sign Manual, ia which it is stated ," that considerable progress had been made, but that " some of the Commissioners are since deceased, or have become " less able to attend to the duties required of them, and it is INTRODUCTION. xxiii " expedient to appoint others in their place, and to increase " their number, &c. ;" and they were required, as in the preceding Commission, to report annually to the King in CouncU. Certain of the sub-commissioners employed to search for charters and statutes in England extended their researches to Ireland, and, after inspecting most of the Eecord Offices there, de- livered to the Lord Lieutenant a written report on their contents, condition, arrangement, and future preservation: their report wlII be found printed in the Commissioners' First General Keport to Parliament, 1800-1819, vol. i. (Appendix Y. 2. p. 302); and on the 30th of August 1810 a separate Commission was issued for Ireland, to report annually to the King in Council. (First Gen. Record Rep. to Pari., 1800-1819 : Commission printed, vol. i., App. Z. 1. p. 311.) On the 2.5th of June 1817 a third Commission in continuation of the former one for Great Britain was issued under the Sign Manual of the Prince Regent, whereby the powers granted to certain of the public officers named in the former Commissions were extended to all such persons as filled the like offices in England and Scotland ; and the Commissioners presented annual reports of their proceedings to the Prince Regent in Council. (Printed in App. A. to Second Gen. Rep. of the Record Com. to Pari., vol. i., 1800-1819.) Abstracts of the Record Commissioners' pro- ceedings from 1800 to 1819 are printed in two folio volumes, the latter volume, being an Appendix to their reports, containing fac-similes of Magna Chartaand other ancient charters, seals, and records, — a very expensive and valuable volume. On the 18th of June 1821 and 7th of April 1825 the Commission was renewed. (Gen. Record Rep. 1837, p. vii.) From 1819 to 1831 the proceedings of the Commissioners are not printed. On the 12th of March 1831, His Majesty William the Fom-th issued another Commission, which expired on 20th December 1837, and was not renewed by Her present Majesty. The pro- ceedings are printed in a folio volume in 1837, being a report to the King ia Council. The Commissioners, during the thirty-seven years of their ma- nagement of the aifairs of the records, directed their attention more particularly to printing the records, and very little was done for their care and future preservation. And it appears that their expenses exceeded the Parliamentary votes. In 1836 Parliament voted 24,000^. to pay their debts. It is difficult to ascertain the precise amount of the expen- diture of those Commissions, as the early Commissioners kept xxiv INTRODUCTION. no regular account books, and the secretary of the last Com- mission, after his services had been dispensed with, kept and still keeps the account books of the last commission ; but, as near as can be made out from their certificates and printed returns, the annual average appears to have been a little more than 12,000?. The administration of the affairs of the Commission falling into disorder, and charges of mismanagement having been made, a Select Committee of the House of Commons vs^as appointed on the 18th February 1836 "to inquire into the management and " affairs of the Eecord Commission, and the present state of the " records of the United Kingdom ;" and the report of the Com- mittee was printed the same year in a very bulky foolscap folio volume, containing also minutes of evidence, with Appendices. (Sess. Paper, H. C, 18-36, No. 565 ; Sess. Paper, H. of Lords, 1836, No. 326.) The Committee, after having remarked upon the proceedings of the Commissioners of Records, proposed certain remedial mea- sures, among which are the foEowing observations : — " Your Committee, in remarking on the defective management of " past Commissions, has attributed their errors, not to any peculiar " incapacity or negligence of the individuals who composed those Com- " missions, but to the defective principle -which has pervaded the " constitution of all those different bodies. Our experience of them " furnishes but one additional and almost superfluous proof of the folly " of expecting eflicient labour and systematic care at the hands of a " numerous body, unpaid for the discharge of its duties, and occupied " by other avocations of a more important, a more imperative, and a " wholly foreign nature. The defect being in the system, it is the " system which must be altered ; and your Committee can expect no " substantial or permanent improvement of the present state of things, " until it sees the present Commission replaced by one constituted on an " entirely different principle." With reference to the above inquiry, and the recommendations of the Committee, the Commission was allowed to expire in 1837, which led to the establishment of the present Record Department, the circumstances attending which are as follow : — Establishment of the present Puhlic Record Offi.ce. Previous to the expiration of the Commission in 1837 it appears to have been the wish of the Government to place the direction of the record affairs in the hands of Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls, who was also one of the Record Commissioners ; and, after some correspondence, the Secretary of State intimated to his lordship in December 1837 that the Record Commission having INTRODUCTION. XXV expired it would be attended with much convenience to the public if he would take temporary charge of the record business, and of the public property lately in the charge of the Commis- sioners; which being assented to, certaia officers formerly in the service of the Record Commission having been retained, and a secretary specially appointed to assist his lordship, the business was provisionally carried on, and, after much corre- spondence with the Government, thePubhc Records Act, 1 & 2 Vict. c. 94., passed on the 14th August 1838, which placed the records therein named, with power to add other records and documents thereto, in the custody and under the superintendence of the Master of the Rolls for the time being. Pursuant to the Act a deputy keeper was appointed under the Royal Sign Manual, dated 14th December 1838, and an office was fitted up at the Rolls House for the deputy keeper and secretary for the management of the Record Office. On the 7th and 8th January 1839 Lord Langdale submitted to the Secretary of State and to the Treasury his views of a plan of management of the public records, (a) Lord John Russell, then Home Secretary, in reply to the above, transmitted on the 6th May 1839 the copy of a Treasury minute relative thereto. (6) In reply to which minute, Lord Langdale, on the 18th of June following, transmitted to the Treasury a letter on the subject from the deputy keeper, signifying what number of officers would be necessary to form the estabhshment (c), and the Treasury rephed thereto on the 1 7th January 1840, fixing the salaries, and directed Lord Langdale to recommend the necessary officers, (d) Lord Langdale replied to the above on the 27th of February following, and named such officers as were then employed in the Record Service and in the Record Offices to such offices as he thought them fit for, pursuant to the stat. ] & 2 Vict. c. 94., and left the remainder of the clerks to be appointed by the Treasury. The Treasury, on the 2d of April following, replied to Lord Lang- dale's of the 27th February, and agreed to the estabhshment named by his Lordship, which thus became permanent. The offices, however, of the Tower, Rolls Chapel, and Chapter House, which were appointed to form part of the new establish- ment, were not united with it until the 1st of July 1840, when the whole became one establishment, the officers and records of the above offices partially remaining in their old locations as branches of one management, waiting for a general record reposi- (a) Printed in the Deputy Keeper of Becords' First Report, p. 67. (6) Id., p. 71. (c) Id., p. 73. (d) Id., p. 75. b xxvi INTRODUCTION. tory to be erected to receive tbe -whole. Thus was formed the ptesent establishment for the entire care, superintendence, and preservation of the Public Records, uniting the whole in one system of management under the direction of the Master of the EoUs, and intended eventually to be brought into one general repository, and where will be found all the records above twenty years old of the several courts, and other records named in the act, and such others as the Government shall from time to time direct. Observations on the State of the Records. It seems extraordinary that for so many centuries, notwith- standing all the sohcitude of the Sovereign and of Parliament, no well-considered plan was formed for the proper care of the records. Although keepers of records were formerly appointed, the chief point to them was the fees, together with agency business connected therewith. If the records fell into confusion, or became mutilated, so they might remain. They gradually became inacces- sible to the public, and, finally, entirely neglected. When one repository became overcharged, portions of the records (and, pro- bably, such as were in the greatest disorder) were got rid of and sent to another repository, the keeper of which, considering that they were merely warehoused with him, took no interest in them, or they were sometimes placed in rooms adjacent to the court to which they respectively belonged, unsuited for inspection, the searches were hurriedly made, the records misplaced ; this gra- dually increasing, they eventually became useless to the public and neglected, and in the course of time it was hardly, indeed posi- tively not, known to what courts they belonged ; they became, in fact, miscellaneous. In the time of Car. II. W. Prynne, in his dedication to the fourth volume of Parliamentary "Writs, thus describes the records at the Tower : — " No sooner received I your Royal Patent for the custody of your " antient records in your Tower of London even in the middest of my " parliamentary and disbanding services, then monopolizing all my " time, but I designed, endeavoured the rescue of the greatest part of " them from that desolation, corruption, confusion, in which (through " the negligence, nescience, or slothfullnesse of their former keepers) " they had for many years by past layen buried together in one con- " fused chaos under corroding, putrifying cobwebs, dust, filth, in the " dark corner of Caesar's Chapel in the White Tower, as mere useless " reliques not worthy to be calendared, or brought down thence into " the office amongst other records of use. In order thereunto I im- " ployed some souldiers and women to remove and cleanse them from " their filthynesse, who soon growing weary of this noysome work " left them almost as foul, dusty, nasty, as they found them. Where- INTRODUCTION. xxvH " upon, immediately after the Parliament's adjournment, I and my clerk " (in August and September last) spent many whole dayes in cleansing " and sorting tliem into distinct confused heaps, in order to their " future reducements into method, the old clerks of the office being " unwilling to touch them for fear of fouling their fingers, spoyling " their cloathes, endangering their eyesight and healths, by their " cankerous dust and evil scent. " In raking up this dung-heap (according to my expectations) I found " many rare antieht precious pearls and golden records, &c." And, after describing certain records, lie proceeds : — " All which will require Briarius his hundred hands, Argus his " hundred eyes, and Nestor's centuries of years to marshal them into " distinct files, and make exact alphabetical tables of the several things, " names, places, comprised in them, wherein most Treasuries of Re- " cords are very defective ; which oft causeth your subjects to make " long fruitlesse searches, and to depart with a non est inventus of what " they sought for, and might speedily find, had the late Keepers of the " Records been so industrious to make tables to them, as some of their " predecessors, or their clerks allowed competent stipends to encourage " them thereunto." The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Record Commission, 1836, speaks of the Miscellaneous Records of the Queens Remembrancer being in 600 sacks. They were all in a most filthy state, and for that reason scarcely legible ; and if a document required as important evidence was known to exist somewhere in that miscellaneous collection, the labotir and disgusting nature of the search can be better conceived than described. In the same report, p. xiv., speaking of the sheds in the King's Mews containing these same records, it is thus stated : — "In these sheds 4,136 cubic feet of national records were deposited in " the most neglected condition. Besides the accumulated dust of cen- " turies, all, when these operations commenced, were found to be very " damp. Some were in a state of inseparable adhesion to the stone " walls. There were numerous fragments which had only just escaped " entire consumption by. vermin, and many were in the last stage of " putrefaction. Decay and damp had rendered a large quantity so " fragile as hardly to admit of being touched ; others, particularly those " in the form of roUs, were so coagulated together that they could not " be uncoiled. Six or seven perfect skeletons of rats were found " imbedded, and bones of these vermin were generally distributed " throughout the mass ; and, besides furnishing a charnel house for the " dead, during the first removal of these national records, a dog was " employed in hunting the live rats which were thus disturbed from " their nests." The shocldng state in which large masses of the records have been transferred, under stat. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 94., to the custody of the Master of the Rolls is inconceivable ; and the public might with great reason complain that they had been virtually excluded b2 x^^"i INTRODUCTION. from the Public Records by reason of their inaccessible state ; but what has already been said will serve as equally applicable to other records. In 1843 eight waggon loads of documents of all kinds from the Plea Side of the Queen's Bench alone, mixed and in great dis- order, were transferred to the custody of the Master of the Rolls. Thirty-five sacks of records of the Court of Queen's Bench were- recovered from a cellar under chambers at No. 4, Symond's Inn, where they had at some time been placed by the Clerk of the Papers ; these were removed from their hiding place on 28th November 1848. We find that in 1849 the proceedings of the Court of Wards and Liveries and Court of Requests, or at least a part of those proceedings, confusedly mixed together, and many other records with them, — in fact it is a miscellaneous mass, — were in ninety large sacks ; this alone, without enumerating other examples,, will convey some vague notion (notwithstanding all that has been done since the formation of the Record Department) what still remains to be done to place the records in a state fit for the public service. • On the 6th of May 1852 one of the assistant keepers of records reported that one of the record workmen had some article which he had purchased at a cheesemonger's shop wi'apped up in two leaves of a docket book of the Common Pleas, which dockets serve as indexes. Upon inquiry at the shop a considerable frag- ment of the volume was purchased for one shilling and sixpence. This fact will account for the many deficiencies to be found in the records as transferred to the Public Record Ofiice, and the neces- sity for such an establishment as the latter for the future care and preservation of the Public Records. This docket book, or index, or portion thereof, which was thus obtained, commences in Trinity Term 1807, and comes down to 1814, whereas the latest date of that series of books transferred to the Public Record Office at the time the above ought to have been delivered up is 1800 ; it is therefore possible that the above volume, when perfect, com- menced in 1801. It would have been of advantage had there been in this country centuries ago a similar direction to that contained in a recent Act of Parliament relating to Ireland, viz., stat. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 107. s. 30. (1844), "An Act to regulate and reduce the Expences " of the Offices attached to the Superior Courts of Law in Ireland," &c., which directs the Judge in each of the courts, on opening the courts on the first day of Term, to examine the state of the Stnif rfmf offheJldLsc/'thc /'ri/ii/irv P/i/(.'^ Rrarfl^-. INTRODUCTION. XXIX records, that they are duly and regularly kept and preserved, so as to be safe, dry, sound, and legible, and in such order and arrangement, and with such means of reference to the same, that all persons having occasion to inspect the same shall have easy access thereto. It will be a work of time to put the records in a proper state, but the work is steadily progressing and gradually assuming shape ; heaps are being reduced and assigned to their proper courts, thence into classes, and finally to chronological order in each class, and a printed report to the Queen annually sets forth the progress made. The plate here introduced of the state of one of the rolls of the Common Pleas Records, as dehvered to the Public Record Office, will enable the public to judge of the necessity of placing the Public Records under better care. This record in its proper state would be in the form of an enormous Cheshire cheese. It was quite impossible to consult it in the state in which it was found, and great doubt existed whether it would be possible to restore it sufficiently for any practical use. Then again the question arose whether, if it could be at least partially restored, it would be worth the ex- pense, and in order to settle these points, it was determined to make an 'attempt to restore it, which was most satisfactorily accomplishec"., but certainly at a considerable expense ; and a few days aQierwards it was examined by a record agent for professional purposes, who took an extract from it sufficient to enable ham to bring a cause then pending to a satisfactory issue. By this experience we have evidence of what is possible to be done in restoring records, the expense thereof, and what may be their use or value as evidence or otherwise when so operated, on. Notwithstanding the favourable result attending this experiment, no similar course will be taken with records in such a state at present. Care will be taken that no records be- come worse, but we must proceed with the general arrangement first before these doubtful cases can be grappled with. Sorting and arranging ought to be the primary object. No ..time ought to be spent in inventorying, calendaring, or in- dexing, until the whole arrangement be complete. We have miscellaneous masses which have been lying in the same state for centuries, and they will still so remain unless this principle be adopted, so as to get the whole into classes in chronological order. The principle is this, — that should a record of a particular date be required, the officer might go at once to the class of records x^^ INTRODUCTION. where it ouglit to be in chronological order, and if not so found he may be able at once to say, " We, have no such record ;" but this can never be said until we have reduced the whole to order. It has, however, been said, that we lose time in not calendaring a doctiment as we take it up to examine to what class it belongs. This, is a complete fallacy; for example, we take up a document of one class and calendar it at once, the next may be of a totally different class, and so the. next, &c. "We have to consider in each case the form, of words to be used in describing the document ; whereas if we calendar a whole class at once we have such a command of the nature of the documents before us that by habit we can adopt the same or similar words for each instrument with the alteration of names, places, and dates ; in fact there are many classes that we might adopt a printed form for, leaving blanks to fill up names, places, &c. But quite independent of, all this, it would seem to be exceedingly proper that we should know as soon as possible what we possess ; sorting and arranging is the shortest way to ascertain this. Making up of the Records. The proper making up records will eventually have to be re- considered. An important point was gained when the proceed^ ings (which were formerly written in abbreviated Latin or French) were directed to be written in English. In 1650, 22d November, (See Scobell's Acts, cap. 37,) all pro- ceedings at law were directed to be in English. (See also Scobell's Acts, 1651, ch. 4.) After the Restoration the practice of writing them in Latin was restored. By stat. 4 G. II. c. 26., Latin, French, court-hand, and abbreviations in writing records, also pleadings in those languages, were abolished. It was enacted that from and after the 25th of March 1733 all writs, process, and returns thereof, and proceedings thereon, and all pleadings, rules, orders, indictments, informations, inquisitions, presentments, verdicts, prohibitions, certificates, and all patents, charters, pardons, commissions, re- cords, judgments, statutes, recognizances, bonds, rolls, entries, fines and recoveries, and all proceedings relating thereunto, and all proceedings of Courts Leet, Courts Baron, and Customary Courts, and all copies thereof, and all proceedings whatsoever in any courts of justice within that part of Great Britain called England, and in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, and which concern the law and administration of justice, should be in the English tongue and language only, and not in Latin or French ; and should be written in such a common legible hand and character INTRODUCTION. xxx , as the Acts of Parliament -were usually engrossed in, and not in any hand commonly called court-hand, and in words at length, and not abbreviated. It does not exactly appear how early the custom of inrolling on rolls of parchment was introduced into England, but it has been suggested that it was subsequent to the Conquest. This subject is discussed in the General Introduction to the First Volume of Close EoUs, and in Sir Jos. Ayloffe's Introduction to his Calendars of the Ancient Charters, &c. Kecords, however, in the form of rolls are of extreme antiquity. The papyri found in Herculaneum are in rolls, the Holy Scrip- tures were in the form of roUs, and the Jews to this day read in their synagogues from rolls. We find in the Holy Scriptures (Ezra vi. 1,2,) the following : — " Then Darius the King made a decree, and search was made i " the House of the Rolls, where the treasures were laid up in " Babylon. And there was found at Achmetha, in the Palace " that is in the province of the Medes, a Roll, and therein was a " record thus written." We further find in Ezekiel (ch. ii. 9), " And when I looked, " behold, an hand was sent unto me ; and, lo, a Roll of a Book '' was therein." See also Ezekiel iii. 1, 2, 3. It is still a question yet to be determined whether the roll or book form is the most suitable for the records, but unquestion- ably they are searched with much greater facility in the book form, and the Book of Domesday has been justly mentioned as evidence that that form is good for preservation. This subject was entered into by a Committee of the House of Commons on the state of the Records in 1800, as well as the general subject of making up records, proper materials, ink, parchment, &c. ; also the proper kind of buildings for their preservation, and the fitting up thereof, whether racks, presses, bags, &c. See Record Rep. 1800, pp. 496-502. See also Vol. I. of the Reports of the Irish Record Commissioners, p. 26, and the note. It is of the highest importance that the making up of the records should be better attended to. The Plea or Judgment Rolls (the RECORDS par excellence of a court) are extremely defective by reason of the neglect of attorneys to bring the records in ; failing to do so, the record of a court is (to the extent of such neglect) incomplete. The Records of Fines, for want of being properly made up, are in a very incomplete state ; the fact is noticed in the Summary to the Sixth Report of the Deputy Keeper of Records, App. I. ^^^" INTRODUCTION. p. 20, under the head " Chapter House." A great number are missing, and some of those of G. III. are entered upon printed forms of W. IV., so that the Fines of G. III. appear to have been levied in the reign of W. IV. The Eecords of Fines in Wales were in so incomplete a state that an Act, of Parliament was passed to protect the rights of the parties. See stat. 5 Vict. c. 32., " An Act for better recordiag Fines and Recoveries in "Wales and " Cheshire." Notwithstanding many defects, the Public Records of this country- are said to excel all others in age, beauty, correctness, and autho- rity. From them is to be obtained the history of the laws, con- stitution, and polity of the kingdom. They contain the title deeds to the chief landed estates of the kingdom ; the history of the nobility, courts, revenue, trade, and commerce ; negociations and treaties ; materials for county liistories ; for the rise and pro- gress of the public departments ; and for the army and navy ; in a word, information on every subject is to be obtained from the Public Records. Fees. — Transfers. By the formation of the present establishment and manage- ment the Record Officers have been freed from charges of acting improperly or partially, by not being allowed to act as Record Agents ; nor are they allowed to take any fees on any pretence whatever, except according to a list which is put up in every office, and all such fees are duly accounted for to the Govern- ment. Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls, did not consider the Public Record Office to be an office of revenue ; and in forming rules and regulations, and a scale of the fees to be taken for con- sulting, &c. the records, his Lordship stated to the Treasury, on the 6th July 1840, that in considering the fees regard had been had to the accommodation of the public, the safety of the records, and the time of the officers ; — that the object had not been to settle fees for the purpose of raising an income, and that the relief to persons having occasion to consult the records would be very great. On the 9th of July 1840 the Treasury assented to the above-mentioned proposition, and to the very low scale of fees which his Lordship had submitted ; and the same was laid before Parliament, and ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on the 20th July 1840. {See Sess. Paper, H.C., 1840, No. 523. See also the Second printed Report of the Deputy Keeper of Records, App. I. p. 14.) The low scale of fees is a great boon to the public, who can now search the indexes to the INTRODUCTION. ^xxiii records for a week for one shilling ; and further, the Lords Com- missioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by their letter of the I7th of November 1851, approved of certain regulations proposed by the Master of the Rolls for admitting literary inquirers to search the records, indexes, and calendars gratis. And the public will not only have the advantage of searching the records men- tioned ia the Act, but also those brought and to be brought into the custody of the Master of the Rolls under the power given in the Record Act, 1 & 2 Vict. e. 94., by which the Master of the Rolls can take possession of any other public records, and already the following have been transferred : — Admiralty : — Books and correspondence, pursuant to Admiralty letters, 22d and 26th February and 1st March 1841, 8th August 1848, and 5th July 1849. Exchequer of Receipt : — The Records were transferred pursuant to Treasury letters of 26th May and 1st June 1841, and also the letter of the Comptroller of the Receipt of 27th May 1841. Commission for Inquiry into Charities : — Books and papers, pursuant to Treasury letter of the 3d of August, and the letter of the Home Department of the 5th of August 1841. Commission for examining and liquidating Claims on France. Commission for Claims of British Subjects for Losses from, Seizures by the Danish Government. Commission for Claims of British Subjects for Losses from Seizures by Spain : — Papers, &c. transferred pursuant to Treasury letters of 27th October 1843 and 29th March 1851. Comm,ission for Slave Compensation: — Books, papers, &c. transferred pursuant to Treasury letters of 18th March and 14th April 1846. Treasury : — Books, papers, &c. transferred at various times, pursuant to Treasury letters of 18th June and 8th July 1846 ; also of 8th June 1847 ; also of 22d December 1851 ; also of 24th February and 29th December 1852, &ic. National Debt Office : — Books, &c., transferred from the National Debt Office, Old Jewry (Exchequer Annuity Records), pursuant to Treasury letterof 14th July 1847. '^^^y INTRODUCTION. .Commission for iTtquiry ii/fito Mumicipal Corporatims^ Boundaries:— ..v. PocTiments, maps, &c. belonging to the above expired Qoin- jnission, transferred pursuant to Treasury letters of 9tli November and 7tli December 1848. . . Gommission for Inquiry into Parliamentary Boundaries : — Maps, papers, &c., transferred pursuant to Treasury letters of 9th November and 7th December 1848. Forts Oarry, Hudson's Bay Company's Territory : — Books, papers, &c. belonging to the abandoned position of Forts Garry, in the Hudson's Bay Territory, transferred from the Treasury, pursuant to Treasury letter of 16th December 1848. Potato Crop Returns .'-^ Transferred by Dr. John Lindley's letter of 25th May 1849. Slave Registration Depariment : — Records transferred pursuant to Treasury letter dated 2 2d January 1851. Privy Signet Records : — Transferred pursuant to Treasury letter of 30th January 1852. State Paper OJice Documents. Various propositions have been made at different times for connecting these documents with the other records, and many difficulties interposed to prevent it. In 1848, the Select Com- mittee of the House of Commons on Miscellaneous Expen- diture, p. xvii., recommended a fusion of the State Paper Office with the Public Record Office ; and the same year the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, by their Minute dated the 8th of August, carried that recommendation into execution, and directed that after the retirement of the Keeper of State Papers, the State Paper Office should become a branch of the Public Record Office. And the assent of the Secretaries of State thereto was communicated to the Master of the Rolls by Trea- sury letter dated 14th September 1848 ; and the Master of the Rolls, by his letter of the 24th of October, consented to the iirrangement. The whole was confirmed by another Treasury Minute dated 18th June 1852. By an order of Privy Council, dated 5th March 1852, all the records belonging to Her Majesty deposited in any office, court, place, or custody, other than those named in stat. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 94., are to be henceforth under the charge and INTRODUCTION. xxxy superintendence of the Master of tlie Bolls, subject and ac- cording to the provisions of the said Act. The advantages to be derived by the Government and the public generally by having one department to refer to for legal and historical information must be obvious. Other records have been proposed to be transferred, but the proposition has not yet been able to be carried into execution. It will be seen from these constant additions how large a repository will eventually be required to contain the Public Records. Should the Government allow the Charter of the East India Company to expire, and take the management into their own hands, the records of the Company most probably will be placed in the charge of the Master of the Rolls. So the Records of the Diichy Courts of Lancaster and Cornwall may be transferred, and the County Records of the Kingdom also may eventually be placed under the same custody. General Record Office. For the completion of the system of management there has hitherto been one great drawback, — 'the want of a general reposi- tory. The expense of providing temporary expedients for lodging the records must have been enormous. The fitting up a few years ago of a portion of the vaults alone at Somerset House for the reception of part of the Exchequer Records cost 16,000Z. {a) ; and these vaults are now comparatively useless, the records having been removed to render them accessible to the public, and to save them from destruction. Besides which, it is stated in the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Record Commission, 1836, p. xxxix., that the different migrations of the Exchequer Records alone, until they were lodged in Carlton Ride, cost 10,000?. In 1822, on the erection of the new law courts at Westminster, the Records of the Queen's Remembrancer were removed to a temporary shed at the end of Westminster Hall. This shed was removed previous to the coronation of Wilham IV., and the records were removed to the King's Mews, Charing Cross, in 1830 ; from thence, when it became necessary to take down the Mews to erect the National Gallery, part of the records were removed to the Augmentation Office, Westminster, and part to Carlton Ride. Surely this was not the way to deal with the (a) Inglis and I'allani's Iteport to liecord Commissioners, 1833. xxxvi INTRODUCTION. PubKc Kecords. A detailed account of the deposits of records will be found in the Appendix A, showing to what vicissitudes they have been exposed. The records are at present lodged in the Kolis House, in the Rolls Chapel, in the Stone Tower, Westminster, in the Chapter House at Westminster, in the Carlton Eide, and in the Tower of London ; the two latter repositories containing the greatest bulk of the records. In vaults under the latter is a powder magazine, which, if it exploded, it is said, would destroy half of London, and the danger of such a calamity may possibly be rendered greater by the fact, that immediately above the magazine are warehouses containing ordnance stores, tarpaulings, and such like stores, where lights are used. The Carlton Eide, the Eolls House, and Eolls Chapel are also imminently exposed to risks from fire, notwithstanding great precautions have been taken by the Board of Works, under the direction of the Government, at a great expense, and at an annual cost of upwards of 6001. for watchmen, &c. This is the expense incurred by the Board of Works, and appears to be entirely independent of the annual expense of the police, 270^., which is paid by the Public Eecord Department. See the Sixth Eeport of the Deputy Keeper of Eecords, p. 20 ; also Sess. Pap., H.C., 1847, No. 398. Many records were lodged in private houses or chambers. The records or entries known under the title of the King's Silver Books, containing entries of the amount of the prse and post fines taken on each fine levied, were greatly damaged by fire at the Kings Silver Office in the Temple in March 1838. The Court Eolls of 22 manors are said to have perished in the fire which happened in the New Square, Lincoln's Inn, on Sunday the 14ith of January 1849. The numerous other cases need not be detailed here ; what has been said will sufficiently show the danger to which the records have been exposed. It has already been stated (pp. xvi. xvii.) that Edw. I. first established a repository for records ;. this was probably at the Tower of London, which might then have been sufficient for the purposes intended. An idea of a general repository also appears to have been suggested in 1647, 2d November, when a Committee of Parlia- ment was appointed to make a collection of all the papers, writings, letters, or commissions which concern the public that are in the hands of the Clerks of Parliament, Secretaries of both Kingdoms, committees, or any sequestrator, or other person, and to reduce them into one place to be safely preserved, and [to INTRODUCTION. xxxvii inventory and catalogue them, and to put them into such a way that they may be made use of by the Parliament as occasion shall require, and to bring a catalogue of them to the House to be preserved among the records, and to have power to send for parties, papers, and records. In 1732 a similar idea resulted from the inspection of the Cottonian Library (after the ^re at Ashburnham House in 1731) by the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to view the same, who, in their Eeport, after reciting stat. 5 Anne, " An " Act for the better securing Her Majesty's purchase of Cotton " House," go on to state, — " Your Committee thought fit to view the ground vested in the " Crown by the last-mentioned Act, and having surveyed and measured " the same, are of opinion that a convenient room may and ought to be " built on or near part of the said ground for the reception of the Cottonian " Library, pursuant to the directions of the said Act ; and that the said " room may be part of an edifice to be erected for other uses, and par- " ticularly for the preservation of such public records as shall be thought, " proper to be deposited therein." In 1832 a proposal was printed under the sanction of the Record Commissioners for the erection of a General Record OflBce, Judges' Hall and Chambers, and other buildings, on the site of the Rolls Estate ; and after some time a bill was prepared to be brought into Parliament, empowering the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to erect a General Record Office, and was approved and said to have been settled by Sir John Leach, Master of the Rolls, in communication with the Treasury and the Woods and Forests. Notice of motion for leave to bring in the bill was given by Lord Duncannon in July 1834, but the motion was not made. The proposal was objected to by the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery by reason of its being con- nected with a proposal to provide for the expenses out of the Suitors' Fund. The Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Record Commission, 1836, recommended the erection of a general re- pository in the following words : — " The most important business which falls within the province of " those who are intrusted with the management of records is that of " their proper custody. The first and most obvious defect in the present " system is that the records are deposited in different and widely- " scattered buildings, and intrusted to a multitude of imperfectly respon- " sible keepers. The advantages of having all the records of a country " placed under one custody, in one central building, are seen in the " present state of the Scotch Records." &c. In February 1837 the Commissioners of Public Records, in their printed Observations made on the Report of the above- ixxviii INTRODUCTION. mentioned Select Cbmmittee, state as follows, p. 3 : — " The " opinion of the Commissioners has long been that the present " buildings ought to give way to a general repository for records ;" and the same Commissioners, in their General Report on the Records to the late King in 1837, pp- ix-xi., stated their reasons for the opinion they held of the propriety of erecting a general repository for the records. On the 2.4th February 1837 a bill to provide for the safe custody, &c. of the Public Records was introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. Charles BuUer, Mr. Hawes, and Sir. C. Lemon, in which it was proposed that a general repository for the records should be provided in London or Westminster. It was understood that the Government notified their intention of tiaking steps in the matter ; therefore the Bill was not proceeded with. On the 14th of August 1838 the Public Records Act, "An Act for " keeping safely the Public Records," was passed, and section 7 empowers the Treasury to provide a suitable and proper building. On the 7th of January 1839 Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls, as head of the Record Department, submitted to the Secre- tary of State his views of the management of the records, and the necessity of providing a Public Record Office, and suggested the Rolls Estate as a proper site ; and in the Treasury Minute of 8th April 1839, with reference to the above, their Lordships entirely concurred that one General Record Office, under efficient manage- ment and responsibility, was essential to the introduction of a perfect system, but signified — " That it had been determined by Parliament that the Victoria Tower " should be erected, and if that building could be adapted for the " safe custody of the records, the expense to the public of a second " building would be altogether avoided; and on those grounds their " Lordships were unwilling, without a more accurate knowledge of the " facts, and more precise information before them, to determine in " favour of building a new Record Office on the Rolls Estate." (a) Under these circumstances the Commissioners of Woods and Forests were directed by the Lords of the Treasury, on the 13th and I7th of April 1839, to make the necessary surveys, in com- munication with Mr. Barry, as to the space the Victoria Tower would afford ; and the Commissioners of Woods and Forests transmitted the surveys of Mr. Chawner and Mr. .Barry to the Deputy Keeper of Records on the 23d of July 1840, and the Deputy Keeper replied thereto on the 31st of July 1840, by (a) Printed in the Dep. Keeper Of Records' Krst Rep., pp. 67-73. INTRODUCTION. xxxix direction of the Master of the Rolls, from ■which it appears that Lord Langdale adhered to his former opinion that the Rolls Estate would be the proper place for erecting the general repository, and requested further surveys of the EoUs Estate to be made in order to institute a comparison between the two sites. The above reports and reply thereto are printed in the Second Report of the Deputy Keeper of Records, Appendix I., pp. 18-23. On the 24th of March 184<2 the Treasury transmitted to Lord Langdale a further report on the subject from the Woods aiud Forests, dated 2d November 18-10 ; and Lord Langdale, on the 4th October 1842, referring to the above, stated that new courts of justice and new offices for the several courts of law and equity were wanted, and expressed his opinion that it was in- expedient to consider the buildings which might be required for the courts, for the offices, and for the records, as independent buildings, and without reference to each other, and that it would be convenient, and ultimately a great saving of expense, to establish the Record Office in connexion vdth, or in the close vicinity of, the law offices and of the courts, (a) The reply of the Treasury to the above is dated 28th November 1842, agreeing in the principles laid down by Lord Langdale, but objecting to the expense ; and, adverting to the great anntial expense for the erection of the buildings at Westminster, their Lord- ships did not think it proper to undertake any new legal buildings of great extent and cost until the buildings had further advanced, so that they might be able to judge of the precise extent of fur- ther accommodation which might be required for the combined objects referred to by Lord Langdale. The above two letters are printed in the Fourth Report of the Deputy Keeper of Records, Appendix I., pp. 37-39. Soon after this Lord Langdale was repeatedly alarmed by the danger of fire in the Record Offices, and in December 1843 his Lordship was unexpectedly informed, upon an examination of the Record Office at Carlton Ride by Mr. Braidwood, superin- tendent of the London Fire estabhshment, that the records there were exposed to very great and extraordinary risk from fire. And his Lordship, on the 21st of December 1843, transmitted to the Treasury a copy of Mr. Braidwood's report to the Woods and Forests on the subject, and expressed himself to the efiect that he would prefer having the records safely packed up, and difficult of access, rather than run the risk of having them destroyed by (o) Printed in the Dep. Keeper of Records' Fourth Eep., App. I., pp. 37-39. xl INTRODUCTION. fire, and earnestly requested to know wlien he might reason- ably hope that a general record repository would be provided. The matter was by the Treasury referred to the Woods and Forests ; and the Treasury, on 23d February 1844, informed Lord Langdale that certain parts of the new Houses of Parliament could be prepared for the records within the current year, and transmitted a report from the Woods and Forests stating that Mr. Barry bad, on the 27th of January 1844, reported that the Vic- toria Tower could not be satisfactorily completed under five years, but that permanent and fire-proof accommodation for the Public Records could be provided to a very considerable extent in other portions of the new Houses of Parliament during the current year. In the meantime Lord Langdale communicated personally with Mr. Barry, who accompanied him to inspect the records at Carlton Ride ; and pursuant to his request his Lordship directed an entirely new measurement of the records to be made by one of the record officers, who made his report on the 24th February 1844,, which his Lordship communicated to Mr. Barry ; and on the 18th of April following his Lordship commimieated to Mr. Barry the particular accommodation of offices, &c. which would be re- quired. The accommodation referred to by Mr. Barry was the roofe of the new Houses of Parliament, and on the I7th of February 1845 Mr. Barry, having fitted up a few yards of the roof as he proposed for the records, requested Lord Langdale to state whether the roofe were likely to be satisfactory for the reception of a portion of the records ; and his Lordship soon after, accom- panied by Mr. Barry, inspected the roofs, and then directed the chief officers of the Record Department to inspect them, and to report their opinion. Their report to his Lordship is dated ] 4th May 1845, in which they state their decided and unanimous opinion that the roofs were unfit places for the Public Records. Instead of capacious fioors which they expected to find, they ascertained that the central passage through them was to be only four feet wide and six feet ten inches high, on each side of which were to be fitted up 140 little cells or closets enclosed by open ironwork doors, and lighted by a small window, which was to serve also to light the passage. Around the whole of that por- tion of the roofs intended for the reception of the records were chambers or ducts for the vitiated air of the buildings below, and it was deemed probable that, should a fire take place in the buildings beneath them, these ducts would serve as conductors of the fire to the records above, which must be destroyed in the event of such a calamity, as there would not be sufficient means INTRODUCTION'. xli of removing them on any sudden emergency. The great expense for -workmen to fetch and carry back the records — the difficult access for the public — the delay of time in procuring the records for record agents and the pubhc generally, were among the reasons set forth as the unfitness of the roofs for the Public Records. Lord Langdale entirely concurred that the roofs were unfit, and this project having failed, his Lordship, on the 20th of May 1845, addressed Sir Robert Peel, then First Lord of the Treasury, on the subject, and, after enumerating all that had been done at difierent times as to providing a general repository, urged the necessity of providing a suitable repository for the records. The Treasury reply to the above letter addressed to Sir Robert Peel is dated 9th August 1845, and Lord Langdale replied thereto on the 1 6th August ; to which the Treasury replied on the 27th August. With reference to the above, copies of the correspondence was moved for in the House of Commons. See Sess. Pap., H. C, 1846, No. 676. On the 25th August 1846 Mr. Protheroe moved in the House of Commons that there should be no farther delay in the erection of a suitable record repository, pursuant to stat. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 94. (1838). The Chancellor of the Exchequer promised attention to the subject before the next session. On the 9th of November 1846 Lord Langdale called the attention of the Secretary of State to the necessity of a record repository. The matter was then referred to the Commissioners for the Metropolitan Improve- ments, who submitted a plan prepared by Mr. Pennethorne for a Record Office, as part of the improvements, on and adjoining to the Rolls Estate, Chancery Lane ; this plan seemed to meet with approval. In December 1847 the Westminster Improvement Commis- sioners offered the Government a site at Westminster, and repeated the same in March 1848. At length in November 1849 an application was made to the Board of Works to re- consider the matter, whether some kind of building sufficient to answer the purpose could not be erected entirely on the Rolls Estate ; and a plan was prepared by the Surveyor of the Board, and submitted to Lord Langdale by the Deputy Keeper of Records on the 14th of December 1849. This letter was transmitted to the Treasury on the 8th of January 1850, and from thence referred to the Board of Woods and Forests, who immediately directed their architect, Mr. Permethorne, to procure the necessary information, and to report thereon. c xlii INTRODUCTION. Mr. Pennethome having made a satisfactory report, stating that the KoUs Estate would be suflBciently large for the purpose, an estimate was laid before Parliament in July 1850 (Sess. Pap., H. C, 1850, No. 571, viii.) showing that the first portion of the buUding would cost 45,320?., including fittings ; thereupon a vote was taken for 30,000Z. on account. 7,000?. was voted in 1851, and 8,320?. in 1852. Operations were commenced, and the excavations for the foimdation were completed in January 1851, and this first portion of the building is now proceeding rapidly to completion. Lord Langdale (who died in the following April) was not destined to see fully carried out what he so anxiously desired, — the records systematically arranged in one general repository ; however he lived to see the building commenced, and a suggestion clearly laid down for a systematic arrangement. It is not difficult to understand the labour and cost of managing one establishment, consisting of six repositories, between some of which a distance of three miles is interposed. Hitherto no regular division of the business could take place ; every officer is employed on everything ; whereas when the whole establishment is brought together a proper distribution of the business can be made. Public Record Office, January 1853. SYNOPTICAL TABLES SUGGESTING A GENERAL PLAN fOE THE AERANGEMENT OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS UNDEE THE BUPEEIHTEKDEITCE OF THE MASTEK OP THE BOLLS ; GIVING A GENERAL TIBW OF THE CLASSES OF SUCH RECORDS. THE OBSOLETE OB DISCONTINUED COURTS AKE PLACED FIRST, BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT RSaUIBE A SPACE TO BE LEFT AFTER THEIR SEVERAL CLASSES FOR INCREASE. c 2 xliv WELSH RECORDS (ancient Jurisdiction abolished.) 1. Chester Circctit. Cheshire, Flint, Denbigh, and Montgomery, EXCHEQUER. Accounts : Chamberlains'. Ministers'. Cheshire Rolls. Macclesfield Rolls. Denbigh Rolls. Flintshire Rolls. Note.— Some at the Chapter House, Record Rep. 1837, pp. 66, C7. Assignments of Dower. Court Rolls. Extents. CHANCERY. Law. Awards of Coinraissioners, &c. Inquisitions (Escheators') post mortem, Ad quod damnum. Patent or Remembrance Rolls. Calendars to ditto. Probations of Age of Heirs. Equity. Eills, Answers, &c. Deeds, Vouchers, &c., lodged in Court, Minute Books {Registi'ars'). Orders and Decrees. Reports, Orders, and Decrees. aiul 2. KoRTU "Wales Circuit. Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. EXCHEQUER. Accounts : Ministers'. Note.— Many at the Chapter House. Record Rep. 1837, pp. 66, 67. CHANCERY. Law. None yet found. Equity. Bill Books. Bills, Answers, &c. Cause Books, f Decree Books. (.Order Books. Minutes. Precedents. Process, Eorms of. Rules and Standing Orders Registrars' Books, Titlings, Chamberlain's. Registrars'. CiTiL AND Ceoww Sides. Civil and CitowN Sides. Inrolmenta, Piles and Bundles. Books. Inrolments. Piles and Bundles. Books. Admissions and Oaths. Assize Rolls. BailorMainprizc Rolls. Docket PmoUs. Indictments. Patents. Placita Porestse. Plea Rolls. Quo "Warranto. "Vvan-ants of At- torney Rolls. Affidavits. Bail or Main- prize Piles. Bails (Special). Brevia. Cause Papers. Certiorari. Declarations. Piats. Pines. Inquisitions. Papers. Pardons. Pleas, &c. Precedents. Recognizances. Recoveries. Significavita. Appearances. Attorneys' Re- gister of Cer- tificates. Cause Books. Docket Books. Estreats. Imparlance. Indictments, &c. Miiiutes, PrO' thonotaries*. Precedents. Rido Books. "Writs. Indexes. Admissions, &c. Bail or Main- prize Rolls. Docket Rolls, Gaol Delivery Rolls. Plea Rolls. Bail or Main- pinze Piles. Circuit Papers. Piles of Papers. Pines. Minutes. Rules and Orders in Sessional Piles. Accounts, Pro- thonotary. Attorneys' Re- gister of Cer- tificates. Cause Books. Continuations of Actions. Docket Books. Imparlance. Rule Books. Indexes. xlv WELSH 'KECOn'Oa— continued. 3. Brbcki." :ck; Ciecott. Brecknock, Radnor, and Glamorgan. 4. C-U3R5I.VKTIIEN CIRCUIT. Caermarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan including Haverfordwest. EXCHEQUER. EXCHEQUER. None yet found. Note. — May be found at the Chapter House. Record Rep. 1837, pp. 66, 67. None yet found. Note. — Some at the Chapter House. Record Rep. 1837, pp. 66, 67. CHANCERY. CHANCERY. Law. None yet found. Equity. Bill Books. Bills, Answers, &c. Piles of Chancery. Cursitors. EilinRS, Books of. Decrees and Orders. Docket Books of Cursitors' AVrits. Paupers' Petitions. Rules. Law. None yot found. Equity. Bill Books. Bills, Answers, &e. Piles of Chancery. , Cursitors'. Civil and Cbowh Sides. Civil aitd CHOwif Sides. Inrolmcnts. Files and Bundles. Books. Inrolments. Files and Bundles. Books. Admission, &c. Bail or Main- prize Rolls. Docket Rolls. Estreats. Plea Rolls. Brevia. Certificates of Clerks (loose). Deeds. Files. Pines. Gaol Files. Writs. , Articles of Clerks. Attorneys' Re- gister of Cer- tificates. Black Book. Docket Books. Imparlance. Notices. Precedents. Rulesand Orders Writ Books. Indexes. Admissions, &c. Certificate Roll of Attorneys. Docket Rolls. Estreat Rolls. Fines and Reco- veries. Gaol Delivery Rolls. Indictments. Pardons. Patents. Plea Rolls. Remembrance Rolls. Rule Rolls. Brevia. Certiorari. Exemplifica- tions. Fiats or Titlings of the Secon- daries. Piles of Papers. Fines. Gaol Files. Treason Bun- dles. Affidavits of Clerkship. Appearances. Attorneys' Cer- tificates. Bills of Costs. Circuit Books. Docket Books. Fines andWrits. Imparlance. Minutes. Great Sessions. ■ Secon- daries. Indexes, xlvi DUKHAM PAIiATINE BECOKDS. Palatine Jurisdiction atolished by Stat. 6 W. IV. c. 19. Inrolments. Awards, Original. Inrolments of. Decrees and Orders, Original. Entries. Close EoUs. Files and Bundles. CHANCBRT. EBeiSTEAE'S BECOEDS. Cdesitoes' Reooeds. Affidavits. 'Writs, Entries. Inquisitions. Prsecipes (Files). Writs (Piles). Writs and Returns of Members to serve in Parliament. RECORDS OF THE CLERK OP THE CROWN. Soolcs. Indictments and Presentments. Informations and Recognizances. Prisoners — Bundles of Calendars. Traverses. Writs and Returns. Justices, Names of. Minutes and Orders, RECORDS OF THE DEPUTY PROTHONOTARY OF THE COURT OF PLEAS. Judgments, Common Recoveries, &c.. Rolls of. Affidavits. Bail Pieces. BUls of Costs. Declarations. Fines. Writs, &o. Recoveries, Files of, &c. Writs. Remembrance. ELY EECORDS. The Secular Jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York and Bishop of Ely abolished by Stat. 6 & 7 W. IV. 0. 87. These Records probably remain at the Registry of the Bishop, of Ely at Cambridge. They have not yet been examined. ASSIZES AND QUO WABRANTO. Inrolments. Files and Bundles. Entry Books. Indices. Placita de Juratis et Assizis, Hen. III. to Hen. VI. Placita Coronse, John to Edw. IV. Dehberationes Gtaole, Hen.III. to Edw.IV. Rotuli Coronatoris, Edw. I. to Hen. VI. Quo Warranto RoUs, Edw. I., II., III. PLACITA EOKEST^. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE JUSTICES IN EYRE, OR COURT OF JUSTICE SEAT. Claims. Pleas. Presentment Rolls. Pleaa. Presentments, &a. Claims in bundles (which were also inrolled). Certifioates.") Deeds. > Indentures. J Grants. Inquisitions, Licences. Names of Bailiffs, Foresters, &0.&C. COURT OP ATTACHMENT OR WOODMOTE. (Query, if any Proceedings?) SWAINMOTE COURT. Forest Proceedings. Note,— We shall have to consider in arranging the Forest Proceedings what properly belongs to the above Courts, and what Inquisitions, &c. belong to Chancery. xlvii MAESHALSEA COURT— (aJofc/ierf). Inrolments. Files and Bundles. Entry Books. Indices. A Bae of Proceedings, temp.Edw.I.II.in., caHei" FlacitaAulce." PALACE COirRT— (abolished). Judgment HoUs. Oaths of Office.— Ap- pointments and Sur- renders of the several Officers of the Court, including— The Lord Steward of the Household. TheKnightMarshal. The Stewards. TheDeputy-Steward. The Crier, and the other Officers of the Court. Affidavits of Service. See Service. of Sei'vice of Summons. See Sum- - Special. -toholdtoBail. Appointments and Sur- renders. See Oaths of Office. Bails, Common. Special. Bills of Costs. in Execution See See Cause Papers, Commitments, Orders for Payments and Dis- charges. ConunonBails. See'BaMs. Consents to Pay by In- stalments. See Instal- ments. Court Memorandum Papers. Crier. .SeeOathsofOffice. Custody Papers. Declarations. Deputy Steward. See Oaths of Office. Execution, "Writs of. Instalments, Consents to Pay by. Judgments, Office Copies of. Jury Panels. Knight Marshal, Oaths of Office. Memorandums. Summons. Narfs, or Declarations in aCause. ^ee Declarations Patents.— 2. Constituting the Palace Court. Pleas and Replications, Prgecipes. Proceedings on Writs of Error. Requests for Summonses. See Summonses. Rule Papers. Service of Summons, Affi- davits of. (See Affidavits. Stewards. See Oaths of Office. Summons, Requests for. See Requests. Summons and Memoran- dums, "Weekly Lists of. "Venires. Tenire Papers. "Warrants to Prosecute and Defend. "Writs of Capias ad Re- spondendum. "Writs of Execution. Affidavits. Appearance (Common) , to Process served. Appraisements. Attorneys — Bills of Costs. Pines for non-attendance at the Office. ■ Transcript. Bail. Entries of Com- mon, also of Pleas filed by Defendant in person. Bond. Custodies. Day (Accounts for Plaints, Oaths, &c.) Accounts of Sbamps delivered to the At- torneys. Declarations. Doggett or Judgment. Execution. Fees (Court). J. C. Hewlitt. received for coun- sel on Narfs. Guard and Orderly (St. Andrew and St. James' Volunteers). Habeas Corpus. Issues (General). Judges' Notes. Long. Narfs (Buckleys) or Declarations. SeeDe- clarations. Notes (Judges'). See Judges. Obass. Paupers. Plaint. Private Bill. — Memorandum. Disbursement. "Weekly Office Accounts. ■ Daily Account Bail. of Stock of "Writs, "Warrants, Stamps, and Bails. Profit. Receipts andPayments, marked A and B. Receipts and Payments. Returns. Rule. Transcripts. "Writs of Error. "Writs Renewed. COUET OF CHIVALRY, COURT OE THE CONSTABLE AND MARSHAL, OR COURT MILITARY— (o6so?efe). Placita Exercittls Regis Edwardi I. — among the Chapter House Records. Various Rolls among the Tower Records. Note.— There are matters relating to this Com-t at the State Paper Office and the Heralds' College. xlviii STAR CHAMBER— (aJoMerf). Inrolments. Files and Bundles. Entry Books. Indices. Lost. The Decrees arelost, some copies are at British Museum. Bills, Answers, &c. [Some at Chapter House and at the Tower, some prmted in Rushworth's Col- lections.] Lost. Decrees lost, some copies are at British Museum. Index to Proceed- ings. COURT OF nEQlTESTS— (abolished). Bills, Answers, &c. Affidavit Boolcs. Apijcarance Books. Decrees and Orders. Notice Books. Orders (separate). Process Books. Replication Book. " Returns of Commissions. Witness Books. Docket Books. WAEDS AND LIV:£^BIES —(abolished). Patent and Decree Books. Bills, Answers, &c. Deeds. Inquisitions post mor- tem. (These are the Peo- daries' Certificates.) Accounts: — Arrears of Payments. Peodaries' Books. Receivers-General and Col- lectors'. Shei*ifFs' Retm-ns of Arrears. Views. Affidavits Books. Ari'ears of Payments. Attachments, Extents, &c. Bill Books. Bonds for payment of Debts. Debts due upon. ■ for performance of Cove- nants, &c. for payment of Money and Phies for Liveries, &c. Cause Books. Certificates of I'rocess issued. of Peodaries. See Inquisitions. Commissions (separate) Books. and Injunctions. Memoranda of Commissions relating to In- quisitions. Contracts for Leases and jilar- riap;es. Declarations of Debts. Decree Books. Deed Books. Indenture Books. Discharges to Sheriffs for pay- ments. Evidences, Books of. Pines and obligations for sale of "Wards. and Rates for Liveries. and payments for "Wards' Lands. for Leases. for Liveries, names of Deeds. Heirs, &c. Injunctions (separate). See Commissions. Leases. Liveries. Minutes. Notices. Orders. Particulars for Leases. Patent Books. Patents and Decrees. and Livery. Indentures, &c. Petitions and Compositions. Process Books. Rates. Sales of "Wards. Seal Books. Seizures. Surveys. "Writs. Evidences (Calen- dar), Index to Proceed- ings. xlix EXCHEQUER OF EECEIPT^(ancien« system abolished). Inrolments. Files and Bundles. Entry Boolcs. Indices. Court KoUs. Receipt EoUs, 1220- 1782; then the Entry Books take their place to 1834 Jews' EoUs, Hen. III., Edw. I. PELL SIDE— KECEIPTS. Accounts (various se- ries). PELL SIDE-ISSUES. Issue Eolls, 1226-1797; then Entry Books to 1834. Liberate EoUs. Patents, Ac., Inrol- ments. They are in Entry Books, except during a part of Jac. 1. Household Rolls, Hen. III.-Edw.II. Innovate Rolls. Jornalia et Bilto Eolls. Accounts (various se- ries). Assignment Books, 1677-1704. Certificates of Amount in the hands of the Tellers. oflmprests. Declarations, or half- yearly Statements to Treasury. Letters and Eoyal "Warrants for Ad- vances. Orders. Patents, &c. Privy Seals, &c. Warrants (various se- ries). Tellers' Eolls of Ee- ceipts and Issues, 3 Hen. IV. to 1 Car. I. These are in the na- ture of Rendered Ac- counts. AUDITOR'S SIDE-RECEIPTS. Debentures. Tellers' BiUs. Vouchors. Accounts (various se- ries). AUDITOR'S SIDE-ISSUES. Assignation Rolls, Eliz. -Car. I. Gentlemen Pensioners' Eolls,P.&M.-G.m. Patents andPrivy Seals, 1609 to 1619-20, be- fore and after which they are in books. Accounts of Lieute- nants of the Tower ofLondon, and Keep- ers of the Gatehouse, "Westminster. State Papers 7 Papal Briefs S These should be ar- ranged with State Papers. Accounts (various se- ries). Assignment Books. Cash Books, Auditor's. Tellers'. Certificates, Issues. Imprests. of Re- ceipts, Issues, Re- mains. Charge or"Waste Books of Tellers. Declarations, Under- Treasurer's, Hen. VIII. Drafts. Declarations') Views S Household. Imprest. Letters. Orders, Patents. Privy Seals, &c. "Warrants. EXCHEQUER OP RECEIPT— conh'nwe^. TREASURY OF THE HECEIPT (CHAPTER HOUSE). lurolments. Assay Eolts. -Court Rolls. Mortmain — Rolls of Lands given in. Muster RoUs, some in Books. Pis Rolls. ■Testa de Nevill Roll. "Wales: Rolls of Ex- tracts from Close Rolls as to "Wales. Writ Rolls— Registers, or forms of "Writs. I^OTE. — It is impossible to say at present what will be done with the very miscellaneous matter of the Trea- sury of Receipt, or Chapter House-much will faU under the head State Papees, when finally arranged. Files and Bundles. Acknowledgments of Supremacy. Cardinal College^ Certificates of Surren- ders. Grants. Rentals. Statutes. Certificates. Commissions. Court Rolls. g?dttures}v»ious. Extents. Inventories or Efiturns of Goods of Monaste- ries. various. Monasteries — Instructions to Com- missioners. Ordinances devised by Commissioners. Proceedings of Com- missioners for Sur- vey of Monasteries, 28 Hen. VIII. Two Certificates re- specting Leicester and Warwick. Papal Bull. State Papers. Statutes. Taxation of Pope Ni- cholas^— Transcripts. Tracts, Treatises, &c., various. Treaties. Valors. Visitations. Wills. Entry Books. Accounts : — Army, Navy, Ord- nance, Calais and its dependencies, House- hold, Wardrobe, Jewel House, &c. &c. Armstrong's Declara- tions on Popish Su- premacy. Black Book. of the Eorest. Indices. Cardinal College, va- riousBooksrelatingto. Household Books. Indentures. Inventories of Goods, &c. Kirby's Quest or In- , quest. Knights' Pees. Leases of Mines. Letters. Liber A. B. Liber Memorandum Scaccarii. Liber Subsidii. Liber de Tenuris, Co. Glouc. Muster Rolls, now in Books. Particulars for Grants. Perambulations. Privy Seals. Rentals. State Papers. Statutes. Surveys. Tenures. Valors. Tracts. Wardrobe, Liber Gar- derobe, Bdw. III. Wards, matters before the Court was erected. Westminster Abbey — Poimdation Deeds, Hen. VII. Acknowledgments of Supremacy (print- ed). Deeds. Domesday (printed). Domestic Documents or Miscellaneous. Musters. Treaties, &c. Treaties, Letters, &o., relating to Scotland. Particulars forGrants. EXCHEQUER OF ACCOVST-iancient stjstem aHpUs/iecT). PIPE— (a6o;is7jed). Accounts : — Annual or Pipe RoUs. Chancellor's Rolls. Escheat Rolls. Exannual Rolls. Poreign Rolls. Ministers' Rolls, Nichill Rolls. Particulars. Declared Accounts — inDepartmeuts.and Alphabetical. Cravings, Bills of. Foreign Accounts. Leases, Records of. States of Accounts. Accounts : — Anglia. Board's End Books. Pee Books. OfflceAccount Books, States of Accounts. Tax Books. Tott Books. Views of Accounts. Certificates. Charters. Liber Curiae Geueralis Supervisoris, &c. Minutes. Particular:; of Sales. Warrants, Treasury. Estreats :— House of Commons, 8;ueen's Bench, ommon Pleas. Clerks of Assize. Peace. Sewers. Town Clerks. Post Fine EoUs. CLERK OF FOREIGN BSTREATS-(ado?wi«d) Afiidavits. Escroes. Accounts : — See Entry Books. Customers' and Se- cretaries* Names. Leases, Abstracts. Alphabetical. EXCHEQUEE OE ACCOV^ST— continued. rOEEIGN APPOSBE^(o6oZisftcd). Inrolmenta. Files and Bundles. Entry Books. Indices. Estreats: — Duplicates of the Es- treats issued into Process by tlie Clerk of Estreats. Duplicatesof Estreats returned into the OfBce of the Clerk of Estreats. Escroes. Accounts, Statements of. Claims of Lords of Li- berties, or Nomina Villarum. ATJGMENTATIONS-(o6oiMi«(i). Accounts, Ministers'. Receivers'. ■Court Rolls. Escheat RoUs. Grants of Bailiwicks and Stewardships. Jointures. Recusants' RoU, persons againstwhomExtents issued. Rent Rolls. Acknowledgments of Supremacy. Bills, Answers, &c. Certificates of Colleges, &c. Deeds, Cartte Antiquse. of Sale. of Surrenders. Pines. Leases, Augmentation. Court of Sur- veyor-General. Particulars for Grants. Rentals. Surrenders. Surveys. Taxation of Pope Ni- cholas. Cambridge, Oxford, Revenue of the , Colleges. Chartularies. Decrees. Leases, Augmentation, and Decrees of Surveyor-General's Court. Particulars for Grants. of Leases. of Sales. Pensions of Abbots, &c. Port Books. Proceedings on Sales, &c. by Trustees for Sale of CrownEstates, Interregnum. Charters. Certiflcatesof Colleges, &c. Court Rolls. Decrees (Calendar). Deeds of Purchase, &c. Fee-farms. Leases (Calendar). Ministers' Accounts. Particulars for Grants. Particulars of Leases. Particulars of Sales. Surveys (Parliamen- tary). FIRST V'&VITS— {abolished). Pleas and Proceedings, or Memoranda Rolls. Certificates of Bishops of Inductions to Livings. Certificates of Livings not exceeding 501. per Note.— OfSce abolished by stat. 1 Viet. c. 20— the revenue placed under the management of the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, where some of the Records continue to be made up and transferred from time to time. Accounts. Arrears of Tenths. Collectors' Books. Comptrollers' Books. —States, &c. -Pay- ments. Day Books. Receivers' Payments. Remembrancers' do. Bond Books, Quarterly Payments of Compo- sition. Bonds in Arrear. Certificates, or Liber Decimarum. Commission Books. Compositions Hjibri Compositionum) , Constats. King's Book, Liber R^is, or Valor Eccle- siasticus ; in Books and Rolls. Liber Valorum, compi- lation from the above. Precedents. Process Books. Certificates of Bishops, or Liber Instituti- onum. Abstracts. Decrees. Institutions. See Cer- tificates. lii EXCHEQUER OF ACCOVT^JT— continued. LOED TEEASUEER'S EEJIEMBEANCEKr-(o5o?es7i«d). Inrolments. Files and Bundles. Entry Books. Indices. Memoi'anda Rolls. Miscellanies, Files of. Accounts, States and Leases (Absti'acts). Nomina Villarum; seve- Proffers. Views of. Memoranda-Abstracts ral ori^nal Eolls. Eentals. Agenda. of Entries. Originalia, to the aboli- Awards. Names of Accountants. tion of the Office, con- Castle Guard Eents, 1 Originalia. tinued at the Queen's vol. Precepta. Eemembrancer's Charters and Grants, 2 Views of Accounts. Office. vols, of references to. Proffers, 2 Eolls. Feodarieof Kent, 1 vol. Seijeanties, 2 Eolls, sup- Fines, a volume of. posed of the time of Hen. III. and Edw. I. Inquisitions, Abstracts, 1vol. Knights' Fees for Essex from Hen. III. Minute Books. Order Books. Particulars for Grants. Note.— Office abohshed, but the Originalia are continued at the Queen's Eemembrancer's Office. Accounts (obsolete) :— Escheat Eolls. Imprest Eolls. Ministers' Accounts. States of Accounts of Public Accountants. States of Accounts of Eeceivers of the Quarterly Poll. Subsidies. Taxations. Memoranda Eolls. Memoranda Eolls of the Jews (obsolete). Originalia, in continua- tion of the Lord Trea- surer's Eemembran- cer's. QUEEN'S EEMEMBEANCER— (Me Department remodelled) EQtiiTT Side (obsolete). Bills, Answers, &c. Depositions. Examinations. Common Prayer Book. Court Eolls. Hanaper Eolls. Nonie Eolls. Taxation of Pope Nicho- las, the original EoUs. Exhibits, Informations. Certificates (various). Certificates of Sale and "Transfer. Certificates and Ex- ports of the Deputy- Eemembrancer. Decrees (Original). Accounts (various). Aids, Scutages, 'Ward- robe, &o. Affidavits. Bails, and Eecognizau- ces. Cause Papers. Claims of Debt, Ac, to be satisfied out of the Earl of Cleveland's lands— 1 bundle— 1661. Commissions (Special). Decrees (Original). of Commission- ers as to purchased Lands for Dockyards. Deeds, Indentures, &c. Extents. Informations. Inquisitions. Inventories. Ipswich— Schedules of Duties for Customs, "Wharfage, &c. Outlawries. Petitions, Pleas (Special). Surveys. Taxes. "Warrants. "Writs. Accounts, Household, &c,. Imprests. Appearances. Appraisements. Army Book — General and Division Orders. Bail, Bill Books. Bonds, Cause Books, Certificates of Sale, &c. Stock. Chantries, Claims for Seizures. Commission Books. Deeds of Appraisement. of Bargain and Salo,Hen.VIII.,2vols. of Indenture. Imprests. See Ac- counts. Insupers. Interest and Dividend. Issue Books. Leases. Licence Books. Minute Bonks. Notice of Trial Books. Orders. Outlawries. Port Books. Process Books, Eecognizances. Reports & Certificates. Eetums of Commissions. Subpcena Books. Super Books. Tax Books. "Writs. Agenda or Eepertories. Appearances. MiSOELLAIfEOtTS. Account Books of Ee- ceipts of Hen. VII. Black Book. Charters and Grants. Chartularies and Leid- ger Books. Domesday Abstract. Inquisitions of Church Lands. Knights' Fees. Kirby's Quest. Liber Dierum pro Col- lectoribus. Eed Books. Eentals. Sirrveys. Statutes, Books of. Taxation of Pope Ni- cholas. Testa de Nevill. Decrees (Calendars). Decrees and Orders (Index). Inquisitions (Eschea- tors'). Leases (Calendars). Orders (Calendar). Reports and Certifi- cates (Calendars). liii EXCHEQUER OF ACCOUNT— cowimuccf. LAND EiEVENUE — {anci&nt system aholislied, and the Department remodelled). Inrolments. Files and Bundles, Entry Books. Indices. Accounts : — Ministers'. Receivers'. Declared Accoimta, alphabetical and. in Departments. Coiu-t Eolls. Leases. Subsidy and Tax Rolls. Accounts (various). Accounts, and Vouchers from M'hich the Ac- counts were made up and ingrossed. Accounts, Alphabetical. Ireland. States. Views. Acq.uittances (Quietuses). Bills and Petitions. Certificates {see under Entry Books). Cravings. Debentures. Deeds. Delinquents' Estates, Pa- pers relating to (Inter- regnum) . Extents. Pines and Estreats. Inquisitions post mortem (various). Inventories or Returns. (various). Maps and Plans of Es- tates. Monasteries, Papers re- lating to. Particulars of Leases. Patents (original). Rentals, Sales. Seizures. Surveys (in rolls, bundles, and volumes). Terriers. Valors. Writs. Accounts. Views. Assignments. 'Certificates and Answers, or Returns from City of London. Ditto, from Parishes, some , in books, others in covers. Debet Books. Extents. Household and Wardi'obe. Jointures. Judgments and Decrees, Lands granted, &c. Leases, Entries. Minute Books of the Coun- cil of the Queen of Car. II. Monasteries, Books rela- ting to. Particulars, Crown Lands. Leases. Surveys. Patents. Pensions. Port Books. Process Book. Reports, States, Letters, &c. of Auditors. Sales or Purchases. Valors. S UltTETOK-GENER Al'S Depaetment, Certificates of Auditors. Collections and Compila- tions. Deeds relating to "Windsor. Forfeited Estates, granted, settled on Queen Dowager. - imclis- posed of. Leases, Entries. Maps and Plans. Petitions (original). Proceedings of Commis- sioners under 26 Gr. III., &c. Proceedings of Surveyor- General. References from Treasury. Reports (original) of Sur- veyor-General. Savoj^ Hospital (Charters, onginal). Surveys, originals and co- pies. Parliamentary. "Warrants. Surveys. AUDITORS OP IMPREST— (flSoZJsAecZ). Note. — The Records are at the Audit Office. Certificates. Constats. Imprests. Instructions. Letters, &c. Lists of Accounts declared, received. Observations and Queries. Patents, Warrants, Ap- pointments. Powers of Attorney. Receipts for Accounts and Vouchers. . Reports and States of .Ac- counts. Titles of Declared Ac- counts. Uv EXCHEQUER OF PLEAS. Inrolments. Plea Eolls. niemembran- cer's Uollsof Writs, Eliz. Files and Bundles. Affidavits, Bail (Bail Files). Debt. Motions. ■ — Sei-vices. (Various). Appearances. Bills and Writs. Bills of Costs. Declarations. Interrogatories and Depo- sitions. Judgments, Posteas, and Inquiries. Jiiry Lists. Marshal's Dockets. Marshal's Hules. Motions, Ejectments, &c. Petitions for Day Rules. . Praecipes. Rules. Warrants of Attorney. Warrants of Retainer. Writs. Entry Books. Accounts. Affidavits or Attach- ments. Appearances. Attachments. Bails. Bonds. Certificates of Attor- neys. Declarations. Errors. Judgments, Issues, i&c. Minutes. Orders. Rules. Subpoenas. Titles of Rolls. Writs or Remembran- ces. Indices. Accounts. Amerciaments and Issues. forfeited. Appearances. Attachments. Bails. Declarations. Errors. Judgments : — Day Books. Dockets. Orders (Minute Books). Quo Minus. Record Books. Rules. Subpoanas. Tithes (Calendar). Writs. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. Transcripts of Records and Judgmehts. Causes, Names of. Court Book containing Entries of every Cause and of Proceedings. Day Book of Proceed- ings in Error. Rules and Orders. Plaintiffs and Defendants in every Cause. CURIA REGIS -(ofoo?cte). Plea Rolls. KING'S BENCH. Bag, Control- raent, and SpecialWrit Rolls, all bound toge- ther. Crown Rolls. Errors from Ireland. Oaths. Plea Rolls. Writs. CROWN SIDE. Affidavits. Articles of the Peace. Baga de Secretis. Convicts, Returns of. Estreats. Piats. Grand Jury Panels. Indictments, &o. InquisitionsuponPrisoners, Interrogatories. Orders of Sewers' Commis- sioners. Outlawries. Posteas. Recognizances. Venires. Writs, Writs, "Record of Orders." Amerciaments and Re- cognizances forfeited. Appearances ()ttinis- ters'). Certificates. Indictments. Interrogatories. Notice of Trial Books. Rules and Orders, Mi- nutes. Affidavits. - and Writs. Appearances. Dockets of Crown Proceed- ings. Indictments (called Pye Books). Notices of Trial Books. Rules. Iv KING'S BENCH— continued. Inrolments. Kles and Bundles. Entry Books. Indices. PLEA SIDE. Docket Eolls. Accounts. Affidavits. Affidavits. Latitats. Affidavits. Appearances (or Bail Books). Appearances, Short. Oaths. Appearances or Bail Pieces. Articles, Clerks'. Plea Eolls. Bankers' Eeceipts. Article Books. Bails (Abstracts of Remembrance Bills against Attorneys. Attorneys who have Recognizances) . -. Indexes. Eolls. Bills against Prisoners. Bills of Costs. . subscribed the Oaths. Bail. Bills. Bills of Middlesex. Bond (SubmissionBond Bonds. Cause Lists. Books). Cause Books. Cognovits. Cause Books (q. Index). Declarations. Commissions. Certificates. Docket. Committiturs. Declarations of Pleas, Judgments, Issues, Declarations. or Paper Books. &c. or Day Books. Depositions. Docket Entries. Dockets. Dockets. Judgment— Day") „ -,„ or Judgment ^M^- Books. ) °-''^- in Eject- Ejectments. ments. Srrors. , Posteas, Exhibits. Jury Books. i and Inquiries. Fiats. Prsecipes. Pleas Entries (Index). Latitats. Inquisitions upon "Writs of Pleas or General Capias. Rules and Orders. , Issues. Judges' Orders. Writs. ■^ Special. Judgments, or Riders. Rules. Jury Lists. Surrenders and Com- Outlawry I^ocess. mittiturs (or Mar- Posteas and Inquiries. shal's Books). Praecipes. "Warrants. Prisoners' Papers. Prisoners' Rules. "Writs. Recognizances. Riders. See Judgments. Rules. Satisfaction Pieces. "Warrants of Attorney. "Writs. COMMON PLEAS. Common Prayer Affidavits. Account Books of Pro- Affidavits. Book. Answers to Bills of Com- thouotaries. Appearances. Essoin Rolls. ~| . plaint. Admissions of Attor- Attorneys' Certifi- Extract Rolls. S Appearance. neys. cates. Fines and \S Articles, Clerks*. Appearances. Bails. Recoveries. [ g Bail Pieces. Bails. Continuances. Remembrance S Rolls. J ^ Bills or Inquiries. Day Books. Declarations. Certificates. Fines and Recoveries: Deeds and Pleas of Oath Rolls. Consents. 1. Alienation Of- T » T;and. Plea Rolls. Continuances. flee. g Dockets to Plea Rolls. Declarations. 2. CustosBrevium. J-rs Dockets to Remem- Deeds. 3. King's Silver. « 4. Return Office. J « brance Rolls. Ejectments. Fines (various). Errors. Nisi Prius Entries. Outlawries. Pines— the various parts. Prsecipes. Pleas. Indentures. Recoveries. Posteas and Inqui- Infants' Admissions. Remembrances. ries. Judgments — Lists and Copies of Final Judgments, signed Rules and Orders. Recoveries (Writs of Special Pleas. Entry). on Posteas and Inquiries. Remembrances. Jury Lists. Outlawries. Writs. Posteas. Prsecipes. Prisoners' Papers. Riders. Satisfactions. "Warrants. "Warrants of Attorney. Writs. Ivi COURT Oi* ADMIRALTY. Inrolments. Files and Bundles. Entry Books. Indices. PRIZE COTJET. Allegations. Attestations. Bails, &c. for Marque. Claims. Commissions. Depositions. Examinations. Monitions. Ships' Papers. Letters of Assignations or Act Books, containing Mi- nutes in each Cause. Letters of Attorney, Letters of Marque. Letters taken in Prizes. Sentences. Letters of Marque. INSTANCE COURT. Pi'oceedinpjs in Suits for Sea- men's Wages, Damage to Ships, Salvage, and Droits, &c.. Piracy. Files of Allegations, Calen- dars of Prisoners, Commis- sions, Decrees, Indictments, Interrogatories, Monitions, Panels, "Warrants, Writs, and Precepts. Answers. Appraisements. Assignations. Commissions. Examinations, Patents of Vice-Admi- rals of Counties, Vice- Admirals and Gover- nors of Islands and Plantations, Judges and other Officers of Vice-AdmiraltyCourts, from 1660. Processes. Warrants. HIGH COURT OF APPEAL FOR PRIZES. Acts. Patents. Proceedings. Assignations, contain- ing Minutes respect- ing each Appeal. Commissions of Appeal. Receipt Books for ori- ginal Papers. Acts. Allegations, Citations, Inhibitions, and Monitions, Claims and Attestations, Examinations. Exemplifications. Libels of Appeals. Prize and Appeal Bail Re- ports. Processes, orAuthenticCopies of the Proceedings under Seal of the Vice-Admiralty Court from whence the Appeal is prosecuted. ' HIGH COURT OF DELEGATES, Sentences, Allegations, Appeals, and Libels, Citations, and Inhi- bitions, Commissions of Appeal, Monitions to transmit Pro- cess, or Copies of the Pro- ceedings in the Court ap- pealed from. Proxies under Hand and Seal of the Parties, Sentences signed by the Judges, NoTE.-Part of the Admiralty Records are placed among the Tower Records. "-an- piocea Assignation or Act Books, containing Mi- nutes of each Cause; Interlocutory De- crees. Muniment Books, con- taining Probates of Wills, Letters of Ad- ministration, &c.,ft'om 1660. Assignations. Muniments. Ivii CHANCERY. EQUITY SIDE. Clerks of Records and Writs by stat. 6 & 6 Vict. c. 103, formerly Six Clerks' Office. Accountant-General's Office. Inrolments. Files and Bundles. Entry Books. Indices. Files and Bundles. Entry Books. Indices. Decrees, Sheriffs. Affidavits. Bills, Answers, &c. Commissions. Depositions, Town. Depositions, Country. Bill Books. Decrees and Orders. Piling Books. Minutes. Eule Books. Affidavits. Bills, An- swers, &c. Dockets of Decrees. Brokers' Notes of Sale and Purchase, and Keceipts. Life Certifi- cates. Powers of At- torney. Solicitors' Be- quests for In- vestments. AccountBooks, Journals, &c. Direction Books. Exchequer Bill Books. Powers of At- torney. Report Books. SoheduleBooks. To Ledgers, &c. Separate Jurisdiction.— Secretary of Lunatics. Inrolments. Files and Bundles. Entry Books. Indices. Report Office— Branch of Registrars' Office. Repokt Side. Account Side. Files and Bundles. Entry Books. Indices. Files and Bundles. Entry Books. Indices. Certificates. Certificates of the Acoount- ant-Greneral. Reports of the Masters. Decrees and Orders. Decrees. Reports. Papers of the Masters, prior to the establish- ment of Ac- countant-Gene- ral's Office in 1726. Books of the Mas- ters containing Ac- counts of Suitors, before those of the Accountant - Gene- ral. Accounts, &c., in con- tinuation. Certificates of Ac- countant-Gencval. Dividend Books. To Journals, Ledgers, &c. Note.— There are three separate accounts kept of all moneys, funds, and effects of Suitors ;— one at the Bank of England, one at the Report Office, one at the Accountant-General's Office. Iviii CUAJSCERY— continued. lAW SIDE. Inrolments. Obsolete. Cartie Antiquse. Charter. Common Prayer Book. Confirmation. Court. Dispensation. llxohange. Extract. Fine. Homage. Housenold, Hundred. Liberate. Mint and Coinage. Misse. Norman. Oaths. Oblata. Ordinances. Pardon. Parliament. Perambulation. Prestita. Protection. Bedisseisin. Specification and Surrender. Staple. Subsidy. Taxation. Jews'. Eoyal, Voyages, Hen. IT. "Wardrobe. Irish. Scotch. Welsh. Foreign or Treaty- Almain. French. French and Roman. Roman. Accruing. Admissions. Close. Coronation. Decree. Patent. - Bishops', Sheriffs. Files and Bundles. Brevia^ Certiorari. Commissions. Inquisitions ad quod dam- num. de Lunatico. • post mortem. Memorials of Annuities. Papal Bulls. Perambulations. Petitions. Petitions and Fiats of Commissioners of Sewers. Privy Seal, &c., Bundles. Reports of Commissioners of Inquiry. Scotch Homage Bills. Significavits from Eccle- siastical Courts. Surveys. Warrants of Attorney for suffering Common Re- coveries taken by Dedi- mus. Writs and Returns. Judicial. Bedford Level— Decrees and Awards of Commissioners for Drainage. Charitable TJses-Pi'OCcedings, Note. — The business is done at the Petty Bag Office, because the Commission is there returned j it is not a proceeding at Com- mon Law, but IS treated as an original Cause in the Court of Equity. (Blackstone, III. 392.) Lunacy or Idiotcy. Proceedings ' en Commis- sions to inquire whether the party be Idiot or Lu- natic are on the Law Side. (Blackstone, III. 392.) Petitions of Bight — Plead- ings and Judgments. Scire facias — Pleadings and Judgments. Sewers — Laws and Adjudica- tions. StatuteStaple — Proceedings. Note. — The above might be arranged under the general head of " Files and Bundles." Indices, Note.— It wdl have to be considered whether the Entry Books^ &o. of different Offices connected with Chancery should be brought into the general arrangement- such as Clerk of the Custodies, Clerk of Dispensations, Clerk of Presentations, Clerk of Letters Patent, Crown Office, Ac. Note.— There is a great mass of Miscellaneous still to be classed ; until that be done the arrangement cannot be perfect. Attainders in Parlia- ment. Brevia. Cartse Antiquse. Certiorari. Charters. Charters, Close, and Patent. Charters and Inquisi- tions. Close Rolls. Confirmations. Decrees. Forest Claims. French Rolls. French, Welsh, and Roman. Gascon, French, and Norman. Hundred Rolls. Inquisitions or Es- cheats. Norman Rolls. Parliament Rolls. Parliament Returns. Patent. Patent and Close. Patent, Charter, and Close. Pi'esentations to Bene- fices. Privy Seals. Scotch Rolls. Signed Bills. Surrenders and Speci- fications. Taxation of Pope Ni- cholas. Miscellaneous. lix STATE PAPERS. 1. STATE PAPER OFFICE DOCUMENTS. Domestic. Colonies. Foreign Possessions. Trade and Plantation. Foreign. 2. STATE DOCUMENTS IN THE PUBLIC BECORD OFFICE. Domestic among Chapter House Records to be incorporated with those among the State Paper Office Records. DEPARTMENTS. Admiralty. Secretary of State. Privy Signet. Treasury. Slave Registration. Expired Commissions- Boundaries. Charities. Danish Claims. Forfeited Estates. French Claims. Spanish Claims. Slave Compensation, Potato Crop Returns. Treaties among Chap- ter House Records to toe incorporated with those among the State Paper Office Records. Papal Bulls and other State Papers of the Receipt of the Ex- chequer, now in the Rolls House, to bo incorporated with those among the State Paper Office Records. d2 ADDENDA. After some of the following sheets were worked oflf" at press further alterations were made by the statutes of the 15 & 16 Vict., which must be read in connexion with the heads to which they belong. C. 73. — ss. 1., 2. The offices of marshal and clerk at Nisi Prius in the Queen's Bench, and of marshal in the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer, are abolished from 24th October 1852, the records to be transferred to the associates in those courts respectively. By ss. 22., 23. the Hereditary Chief Proclamator in the Common Pleas and the Hereditary Chief Usher in the Exchequer, and all officers appointed by them, are abolished, the duties of the Hereditary Chief Usher and the messengers of the Court of Exchequer being (s. 32.) transferred to the Queen's Remembrancer and to the Treasurer of Queen Anne's Bounty, so far as regards the process issued from those offices. C. 76. — On 24th October 1852 various alterations are to be made in the manner of making and indorsing appearances, declarations, &c. By ss. 104-1 16. the several writs of " Venire facias juratores " and " Distringas juratores " or " Habeas Corpora juratorum," and the entry " Jurata ponitur in respectu,!' are to be abolished, and other forms substituted. Sects. 146-167. alter the forms of proceedings in error, and ss. 168-221 those in ejectment. C. 77. abolishes the offices of the Secretary of Bankrupts and Clerk of Inrolments in the Court of Bankruptcy from 1st June 1852, and transfers the duties to the Chief Registrar of the Court of Bank- ruptcy. C. 80. abolishes, on the first day of Michaelmas term 1852, the office of Master in Chancery, providing for the winding-up of the business then before the Masters, and for the future performance of the duties. Sect. 2. provides that no future Accountant-General shall be one of the Masters. All the powers exercised by the Masters are transferred (s. 36.) to the Master of the Bolls and Vice Chancellors. Sect. 52. au- thorizes the appointment of a Vice Chancellor in succession to the Vice Chancellor appointed by 14 & 15 Vict. c. 4. C. 83. appoints Commissioners of Patents for Inventions, and makes rules for the future deposit of specifications. By s. 27. specifications are to be filed in Chancery, instead of being inroUed, no inrolment being requisite. Specifications are to be open to inspection at the office of the Commissioners, &c., and to be printed, published, and sold. The inrolments of specifications at the Bolls Chapel Office, the Petty Bag Office, and the Inrolment Office, or the Public Beeord Office, may be transferred to and kept in the office to be appointed for filing specifications in Chancery, and the indexes may be inspected, printed, published, and sold. C. 86. abolishes, from 1st November 1852, the writs of subpoena and summons ; bills, &c. may be printed instead of being engrossed upon parchment. Witnesses are to be examined orally, and the original depositions are to be transmitted from the Examiners' Office to the Office of Clerks of Records and Writs. C. 87. abolishes (s. 23.), from 28th October 1852, the Keeper or Clerk of the Hanaper, Deputy Clerk of the Hanaper, Secretary of ixii ADDENDA. Decrees and Injunctions, one of the two gentlemen of the chamber attending the Great Seal, the Chaff Wax, the Deputy Chaff Wax, the Sealer, and the Deputy Sealer ; transferring the duties of the Hanaper, Chaff Wax, and Sealer, to the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery and the Pursebearer to the Lord Chancellor, and the duties of the Secre- tary of Decrees and Injunctions to the Clerks of Records and Writs. Sects. 27, 28, and 29. likewise abolish the offices of the Patentee of the Subpoena Office and his Deputy, the Clerk of Affidavits, and the two Assistant Clerks of Affidavits, the Clerk of Reports, the Door- keeper of the Court of Chancery, the Crier of the Court of Chan- cery, and the Usher of the Court of Chancery ; transferring the duties of the Subpoena Office and Affidavit Office to the Clerks of Records and Writs, and the duties of the Clerk of Reports to some person to be appointed. CHANCERY. Notes of some of the Pacts connected with the Rise and Progress of the Chancery. The ofSce of Chancellor existed in the courts of tlie Roman emperors, and was preserved in the different kingdoms established after the ruin of the empire. The Chancellor was the chief scribe or secretary, aftei'- wards invested with several judicial powers, and a general superin- tendency over the rest of the officers of the prince. Anciently ecclesiastical persons filled the offices of state, and the officers were paid partly by salary and partly by preferment, hence the origin of the Chancellor's ecclesiastical patronage, as will briefly be seen from the following: In the fourth year of the reign of Edward III. (1330) there was a petition presented to Parliament, praying "that the " Chancellor may in future bestow crown benefices of t^venty marks " value upon the clerks in Chancery as had been before accustomed." The answer was, " Let this bill be delivered to the King, and it appears " to the Council that he ought to direct the Chancellor, that henceforward " he should give such benefices to the King's clerks in the Chancery, " Exchequer, and the. two Benches, and not to any others." — Rot. Pari, vol. ii. p. 41, No. 31. (4 Edward III.) In early times the officers of the Chancery lived or lodged together in an inn or hospitium, which when the King resided at Westminster, was near the palace, or perhaps a part of it. As a part of the King's household, they received their robes and fees from him. When the King travelled he was followed by the Chancellor and officers. On those occasions it .was usual to require a strong horse (able to carry the rolls) from some religious house bound to furnish the animal ; and at the towns where the King rested during his progress, an hospitium was assigned to the Chancery. The Chancellor had the supervision of all charters, letters, and such other public instruments as were authenticated in the most solemn manner, and therefore, when seals came into use, the Chancellor always had the custody of the great seal. Spence, in his Equitable Jurisdiction, states that Edward the Confessor, in imitation of the Fransic sovereigns, introduced the use of a seal to authenticate his acts. The office of Chancery for making out the royal charters and precepts existed in the time of Edward the Elder ; and we find tliat as the Chancery expanded, it became the duty of the Prothonotary to v^Tite, pass under the great seal, and inrol, commissions, treaties, leagues, B 2 CHANCERY. and other instruments which passed between the King and foreign sovereigns and states, commissions, powers, and orders to ambassadors, envoys, or residents, patents to consuls, diplomas, declarations and grants of honour, and additions of coats of arms to all foreigners, pardons of outlawry, homicides, with certiorari, and all writs of supplicavit for the peace and good behaviour, and supersedeas thereof, &c. The Prothonotary's office, from the altered-circumstances of Chan- cery, became a sinecure for many years before it was abolished. Among the rolls of Chancery we have treaty roUs from the time of Edward I. to the twenty-second year of the reign of James I. ; after which time the Prothonotary ceased to bring them in. The office of prothonotary, after long remaining a sinecure, was abolished by stat. 2 & 3 Will. IV. 0.111.(1832.) In process of time the private clerk of the King was styled Secretary, and afterwards Secretary of State, and, as such, gradually relieved the Chancellor of his secretarial functions ; but it must be understood that the King had a private secretary besides the secretary or secretary of state, who succeeded to duties probably formerly executed by the officer who afterwards became secretary of state. The earliest mention of the King's secretary is that of John Maunsell, 37 Henry III. (1253.) By reference to Eymer's Foedera, vol. i. p. 490, it wiU be seen that he is there described as secretarius noster, and we find that Francis Accnrsii was the King's secretary, 6 Edward I. (1278.) Under Edward I. the Chancery, then a public board or public office, and not a court of justice, consisted of a Chancellor, and of certain honest and discreet clerks, whose duty, according to Fleta, consisted in hearing and examining the petitions of complainants, and in aflfording them due remedy by the King's writ. The Chancery was anciently kept and executed in the Curia Regis (or King's Court), but the Chancellor executed part of his duties at the Exchequer, and acted with the Chief Justiciar in matters of revenue, and sat with the Justiciers and Barons there. There was a roll (a duplicate of the Pipe Roll, that is to say, the chief revenue roll) made up for the King's Chancellor as a check upon the Lord Treasurer, and the great seal was kept at the Exchequer. Madox, in big History of the Exchequer, suggests that the Chancery was separated from the Exchequer about the latter end of the reign of King John, because about that time they began to make distinct rolls of the Chancery, to wit, the Charter, Patent, Fine, and Close Rolls, and to estreat or certify them into the Exchequer, there being no necessity for these estreats whilst the Chancellor with the great seal was usually resident at the Exchequer. After the King's Chancellor left the Exchequer, a Chan- cellor of the Exchequer was appointed, and then the Exchequer seal Buperseded the great seal at the Exchequer for certain purposes, and the duplicate Pipe Roll, which was formerly made up for the King's Chancellor, became the roll of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The separate and independent jurisdiction of the Chancellor gradually grew out of the Select Council of the King. His ordinary jurisdiction CHANCERY. 8 is much more ancient than the Court of Equity. It appears that in the reign of Edward I. the King's Chancellor began to be styled Chancellor of England, and in the reign of Edward II. the Court of Chancery was in full operation, and in the reign of Edward III. as a Court of ordi- nary jurisdiction it became of great importance. In this ordinary or legal Court is also kept the officina justitiss, out of which all original writs that pass under the great seal, all com- missions of charitable uses, sewers, bankruptcy, idiotcy, lunacy, and the like, issue. The writs relating to the business of the subject, and the returns to them, were, according to the simplicity of ancient times, kept in a hamper {in hanaperio), and the others, relating to such matters wherein the Crown is immediately or mediately concerned, were preserved in a little sack or bag (in parva baga), and thence arose the distinction of the Hanaper Office and Petty Bag Office, both be- longing to the Common Law Court in Chancery. The officers of the Petty Bag were abolished, and a new arrangement of the office was made by stat. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 94, amended by 12 & 13 Vict. c. 109. After the proceeding by writ was established, for the purpose of pre- serving regularity in the form and in the mode of issuing writs, and for the ease of the Chancellor, there were associated with him a certain number of clerks called Prteceptores (afterwards Masters). MASTERS. Their duties as regards the issuing of writs were to hear and examine the complaints of those who sought redress in the King's Court, and to furnish them with the appropriate writs. The Masters in early times were universally ecclesiastics and doctors of the civil law. Like other officers of Chancery their functions varied with the progress of affairs. In general now there is no question of law or equity, or disputed fact, which a Master may not have occasion to decide. They ceased to attend in the public office by virtue of 10 8e 1 1 Vict. c. 97, and the business of the public office was transferred to the Affidavit Office. SIX CLERKS. It was anciently the duty of the Six Clerks to engross writs not strictly of course 5 and there were junior clerks to write out from the register of Chancery in which the forms of writs were iuroUed, those writs which were de cursu. These officers were abolished by stat. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103, and a new office was erected, called the office of the Clerks of Records and Writs. CURSITORS. The clerks who issued the writs de cursu had acquired the name of Cursitors in the reign of Edward III. The duties of the Cursitors were transferred to the Petty Bag, by stat. 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 82. s. 10. B 2 CHANCERY. EQUITY, OR EXTRAOEDINARY JURISDICTION. In the reign of Edward I., unequivocal marks of an extraordinary- jurisdiction began to be exercised in the Chancery in civil cases. It was the custom of that King to send certain of tlie petitions addressed to him, praying extraordinary remedies, to the Chancellor and Master of the Rolls jointly or separately, by writ under tlie privy seal (which was the usual mode by which the King delegated the exercise of his preroga- tive to the Council), directing them to give such remedy as should appear to be consonant to honesty. When the Chancellor administered relief independently of the Council it was by express delegation from the King, and given, as it would seem, by the advice of the Council. In the reign of Edward IIL, the Court of Chancery appears as a distinct court for giving relief in cases which required extraordinary remedies. The King, unable to attend to the numerous petitions which were presented to him, by a writ or ordinance in the twenty-second yenr of his reign, referred all such matters as were of grace, to be despatched by the Chancellor or by the Keeper of the Privy Seal. But it would seem that the Great Council and the Privy Council, from which the Court of Chancery wa3 now branching off, still entertained questions of this nature by delegation from the sovereign. Some cases were still sent to the Chancellor, or Chancellor and Treasurer, sometimes with a requisition that they should assemble the justices and serj cants and others of the Council to assist in their determination. From this time, however, suits by petition or bill without any preliminary writ be- came a common course of procedure before the Chancellor as it had been in the Council. See Parliamentary Roll, 14 Edward III., — after taking notice of a certain matter, it adds that if anything should be done, con- trary to that ordinance the Chancellor of £jigland should have pov/er to hear the complaint bi/ bill; " and upon this to proceed in the same " manner as is usually accustomed to be done daily on a vrrit of subpoena " in Chancery." Such in brief are some of the circumstances connected with the origin of Chancery. This is not the place to attempt to describe the various changes that have from time to time taken place in the Chancery ; but as great changes have been made in the last and present reign, it may be convenient to preserve a note of them here. By Stat. 2 & 3 Will. IV. c. Ill, the following offices were abolished : the Keeper or Clerk of Hanaper (duties to be performed by the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery) — Patentee of Subpoena Office — Registrar of Affidavits — Clerk of the Crown in Chancery (but see also stat. 3 & 4 Will. IV. c.84.)— Clerk of Patents— Clerk of the Custodies ofLunatics and Idiots— Prothonotary— Chaff Wax— Sealer— Clerk of Presentations — Clerk of Inrolments in Bankruptcy (re-appointed by stat. 3 & 4 Will, IV, c. 84.)— Clerk of Dispensations and Faculties- Patentee for executing Laws and Statutes concerning Bankrupts. CHANCERY. 5 By Stat. 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 84, after the deatli or removal of the Clerk of the Custodies of Idiots and Lunatics, the duties were directed to be performed bj the Secretary of Lunatics, and the duties of the Clerk of Presentations and Clerk of Dispensations and Faculties as vacancies occur, to be performed by the Secretary of Presentations ; also, a Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, and Clerk of the Patents to be appointed by the Crown as vacancies occur ; and the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery to perform the duties of the Keeper or Clerk of the Hanaper upon a vacancy; and by sect. 9, a Clerk of Inrolments in Bankruptcy (which had been abolished by stat. 2 85 3 Will. IV. c. 111.) was to be re- appointed. By Stat. 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 94. s. I, Master of the Reports— Entering Clerks or Entering Registrars — Clerk of the Exceptions -Agent to the Senior Deputy Registrar— abolished. By Stat. 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 82. s. 10 & 11, Cursitors' duties and records transferred to Petty Bag Office. By Stat. 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 83, -' An Act to amend the law relating to " Letters Patent for Inventions," — disclaimers and memorandums of alterations of inventions, are allowed to be entered, and enrolled with the specifications. By stat. 5 Vict. c. 5, Equity side of Exchequer transferred to Chancery, and two Vice-Chancellors to be appointed, and their officers— a Master and his Clerks to be appointed — and the Registrars increased from six to ten, and Clerks to Registrars to be appointed. By stat. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103, the Clerks of Enrolments and their depu- ties — Comptrollers of Hanaper — Six Clerks — Sworn Clerks —Waiting Clerks — were abolished, and the following officers were appointed — Clerk of Enrolments, and clerks — Clerks of Records and Writs, and clerks — Taxing Masters, and clerks. By stat. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 94, the Petty Bag was regulated (amended by 12 & 13 Vict. c. 109), by which the three clerks were abolished, and one appointed to execute their duties ; and specifications, and also disclaimers and memorandums of alterations of inventions, enrolled under 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 83, are directed for the future to be enrolled at the Enrolment Office of Chancery. By stat. 14 & 15 Vict. e. 4, a new Vice-Chancellor was directed to be appointed in place of the one deceased. By stat. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 83, two new Judges of Appeal were appointed. CHANCERY. ABBEY LANDS: Grants of charters, lands, liberties, &c. entered on the Patent and Charter Rolls. Surrenders of religious houses, entered on the back of the Close Rolls. See SURRENDERS OF OFFICES, &c. There are bundles of inquisitions touching alien priories, Edw. TTT , and Ric. II., among the Tower records. The Inquisitions post mortem contain extents, surveys, and valuations of manors, lands, and possessions of vacant abbeys and priories of Royal foundation. Search the Inquisitions ad quod damnum as to lands being conveyed in mortmain. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. The suppression of the religious houses not exceeding 200Z. per annum was by stat. 27 Hen. VIII. c. 28. The suppression of the abbeys was by stat. 31 Hen. VIII. c. 13. ACCOUNTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE : Established by an order of 29th June 1726 {See Sanders' Orders in Chancery, p. 521,) made pursuant to stat. 12 G. I. c. 32, The Accountant General was appointed in the place of the Masters, who it appears had been great defaulters. See the First Report of the Select Committee, H. C, on Fees, 1848. Sess. Pap., H.C., 1848, No. 158. The account books and papers of the Masters in Chancery previous to the establishment of this office in 1726, are in six chests at the Report Office, Chancery Lane. There is a list of Accountants General from 1726 in the index to Sanders' Orders in Chancery. See REPORT OFFICE. The account books and papers of the Accountant General to present time are as follow : Books : Journals, ledgers, balance books, direction books. Exchequer bill books, powers of attorney books, receipt books, report books, schedule books. Papers : Brokers' notes of sale and purchase, and receipts, life certificates, powers of attorney, solicitors' requests for investments. The Accountant General's certificates touching the property of suitors from 1726 to the present time are at the Report Office, report side. See REPORT OFFICE. There are three accounts kept of aU monies, funds, and effects of suitors, viz., one at the Bank of Eng- land, one by the Accountant General, and one at the Report Office, which three accounts are, in the months of September and October in each year, compared and balanced. t, CHANCERY. ACCOUNTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE— continued. The Equity JtrrasDiCTiON of the Coitrt of Excheqtjek — "Was abolished by 5 Vict. c. 5., and the Accountant General's books of the Court of Exchequer transmitted to the Chancery Report Office, Chancery Lane^ by order of the Master of the Rolls of 4th November 1841. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. See PARLIAMENT. ADJUDICATIONS OF SEWERS. See SEWERS. ADMIRALS, LORD HIGH: Their appointments on the Patent Rolls. Also on the Vascon Rolls. ADMIRALTY: Admiralty affiiirs will be found entered on the Close Rolls. ADMISSIONS: Admissions of officers of the Court of Chancery, &c. will be found on the Close Rolls. Inrolments of admissions of officers of the Court of Chancery, Serjeants-at-law, Keeper of the Records in the Tower, &c. &c., from 40 Eliz. to present time, to which there is a calendar. (Petty Bag Office.) As to the regulations for re-examination, admission, &c. of soli- citors to 1844, see the Index to Sanders' Orders in Chancery- under the head — Admission. See LAW OFFICERS. OFFICERS. OATHS. AD QUOD DAMNUM. See INQUISITIONS. ADULTERY. See CLOSE ROLLS. ADVOWSONS : Matters relating to, entered on the Close and Patent Rolls. See INQUISITIONS. CLERK OF THE PRESENTA- TIONS. AFFIDAVITS : Affidavits in Chancery were arranged in terms at the Registrar's Office for Affidavits, No. 10, Symonds Inn, Chancery Lane. There are indexes from 1632 to 1770 (1770 to 1780 are lost), from 1 780 to present time they are perfect. The office of registrar of affidavits was abolished by 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111. ; and by 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 94. the duties are to be performed by an officer to be appointed, called the clerk of the affidavits ; this latter officer is also to execute the duties of the abolished office of the patentee of the Subpoena Office. The above statute was partly repealed b}' stat. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 105., which transfers the duties of the Subpcena Office to the clerks of records and writs. By stat. 10 & 1 1 Vict. c. 97. the attendance of Masters in Chancery at the Public Office was dispensed with, and the duties were to be performed at the Affidavit Office by the clerk of affidavits. The Affidavit Office was recommended to be abolished in the Second Report from the Select Committee on Fees, H.C., 184§, and the business to be transferred to the office of the clerks of records and writs. (Sess. Pap., H.C., 1848, No. 307.) CHANCERY. 9 AIDS: Matters relating to aids entered on the Close and Fine Rolls, Aids of clergy entered on the Patent Rolls. ALCHYMY : Licences to practice Alcliymy entered on the Patent Rolls. In the Introduction to a Treatise on the Law relating to Patent Privileges by Mr. Hindmarch, he cites the case of Darcy v. Allen, from Sir Francis Moore's reports, at the end of which report it is stated, "that in the time of " Edw. in. some alchymists persuaded the King that a " Philosopher's Stone might be made ; that the King " granted a commission to two friars and two aldermen " to inquire if it was feasible, who certified that it was, " and that the King granted to the two aldermen a patent " of privilege, that they and their assigns should have the " sole making of the Philosopher's Stone." This grant is believed to be the first, or at least the first patent privilege granted for any invention, of which mention is made, either in law books or chronicles. ALIENATION OF LANDS: Fines for licence entered on the Fine Rolls. Fines for alienation of lands abolished by stat. 12 Car. II. c. 24. Fines pro licentia concordandi entered on the Fine Rolls. To obtain the King's licence to agree, a fine was due to the crown, which was assessed in the Alienation Office, and paid at the King's Silver Office. The books in which they are entered, and the King's Silver or Recovery Rolls on which they are also entered of record, were trans- ferred to the Registrar of the Common Pleas by stat. 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 82. Licences for alienation of lands entered on the Patent Rolls. The proceedings, before granting these licences, will be found in the Inquisitions ad quod damnum. Pardons for alienation of lands entered on the Patent Rolls. ALIEN PRIORIES: Matters touching alien priories entered on the Close and Patent Rolls. There are bundles of inquisitions among the Tower records, temp. Edw. III. and Ric. II., respecting alien priories. See also ALIENS. ALIENS : Special commissioners to enquire of estates forfeited or escheated, at the Petty Bag Office. ALIMONY. See CLOSE ROLLS. ALLEGIANCE AND SUPREMACY OATH.— (Petty Bag Office.) ALMAIN ROLLS : Almain Rolls 22 Edw. I. to 15 Edw. III. They relate to negociations, alliances, treaties, &c. in Germany and in Flanders, and may be considered as a branch of the Close Rolls. 10 CHANCERY. AMBASSADOES : Appointments, powers and instructions of ambassadors, correspon- dence and negotiations, entered on the Patent Rolls. Commissions to ambassadors and envoys entered on the Treaty and Patent Rolls. Credentials, &c. entered on the Close Rolls. From the time commencing Hen. VIII. most of the above matters are to be found among the State Papers, ANNUITIES : Memorials of deeds and other securities for annuities. The memorials of deeds and other securities for annuities vrere entered on the Close Rolls by authority of stat. 17 G-. III. c. 26. " An Act for registering the grants for life annuities." But by stat. 53 G. III. c. 141. the above Act w&s repealed, and new provisions made, whereby the memorials of annuities are entered in books kept for the purpose in the Inrolment Office, Chancery Lane, in brief tabular form, stating the nature of the securities. The above Act of 52 G. III. explained by 3 G. IV. c. 92. Ditto 7G. IV. c. 75. The original bundles of memorials of deeds, &c. containing the deeds at length, 17 to 53 G. III. (from which the entries on the Close Rolls were taken), remain at the Inrolment Office, Chancery Lane, not having been sent with the Close Rolls to the Rolls Chapel, as well as the entry books in brief tabular form (merely stating the nature of the securities for annuities) under autho- rity of stat. 53 G. III. ; but the Close Rolls and the bundles of memorials (corresponding to the books kept at the Inrolment Office) have been transferred, excepting those for about the last fifteen years, it being the custom to retain the records at the Inrolment Office for that period. APPEALS : Proceedings upon appeals from the decrees of the commissioners of charitable uses. See CHARITABLE USES. APPOINTMENTS. See ADMISSIONS. ARCHDEACONRIES. See CLERK OF THE PRESENTATIONS. ARMS: Grants of, blazons, &c. entered on Patent and Charter Rolls. ARMY: Matters relating to fitting out of armies entered on the Close Rolls. ARRAY : Commissioners of, entered on the Patent Rolls. About the reign of Hen. VIII. or his children, lieutenants began to be introduced as standing representatives of the Crown to keep the counties in military order, for we find them men- tioned in stat. 4 8s 5 Ph. & M. c. 3. The introduction of commissions of lieutenancy which contained in substance the same powers as the old commissions of array caused the latter to fall into disuse. CHANCERY. u ARROW BUNDLE: There was a bundle among the Rolls Chapel records, anciently so called, wherein were filed letters patent surrendered ; indentures of deeds cancelled ; Acts of Parliament certified by certiorari j writs of dedimus potestatem to take acknowledgments of any deed or recognizance to be enrolled or cancelled ; writs of dedimus potestatem for acknowledging of any warrant of attorney upon writs of entry, as also for the taking of the sheriffs' oaths ; writs de cofonatore and viridiario eligendo ; writs of dower, and such like as are for the prince. The above records are among the miscellaneous. ART, WORKS OF : The Close Rolls, particularly temp. Hen. III., contain a variety of instructions relative to paintings, sculptures, and other works of art, and the repairing and ornamenting palaces, royal chapels, &c. ARTICLES OF CLERKSHIP : Of solicitors, a volume containing the registration of (Petty Bag Office). ASSIZES : Attendance at, with records. See ATTENDANCE. ASSOCIATION ROLLS : These are the rolls signed by the Commons, 1696, with reference to the assassination plot. ATTACHMENTS. See REBELLION. ATTAINDERS : Matters relating to attainders are entered on the Close Rolls and Parliament Rolls. There is among the Tower records a volume containing a collec- tion out of all the Parliament Rolls of attainders, restitutions, and resumptions from 29 Edw. IIL to the end of Edw. IV. (1483). See INQUISITIONS. ATTENDANCE AT ASSIZES, &c. WITH RECORDS : Order in Chancery under stat. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103. — That any clerk of records and writs, being required to attend at any assizes or at any court out of the Court of Chancery, or the offices thereof, shall be entitled to require the solicitor, &c. to deposit a sufficient sum of money to answer his just fees, charges, and expenses, and an undertaking to pay such further just fees, charges, and expenses which may not be fully answered by such deposit. See Sanders' Orders (1845), p. 918. ATTORNEY, LETTERS OF: Letters of attorney entered on the Patent Rolls. AUDITA QUERELA: Writs of, among the miscellaneous of the Rolls Chapel. AUDITORS : Matters relating to auditors entered on the Close Rolls. 12 CHANCERY. AURUM REGINJE (The Queen's Gold) : Matters relating thereto entered on the Close Rolls. When persons made fine for certain purposes, they paid to the Queen a duty or fee, called Aurum Reginas. Further particulars may be obtained from Madox's History of the Exchequer, folio, pages 210, 241. AWARDS : Awards or decrees respecting inclosures, &c. were frequently entered on the Decree Rolls. Awards are entered on the plea or judgment rolls of the different courts. BAGIMONT : With reference to the Scottish Roll, called Ragman or Ragimund's Roll, after the name of the Legate who took a valuation of the Scottish benefices, Sir David Dalrymple called it Ragimont's Roll, and says the name of the Legate was Benemundus de Vica, vulgarly called Bagimont. See RAGMAN ROLL. BAILS: Bails upon special pardons among miscellaneous at Rolls Chapel. See HORNE BUNDLE. Bails upon corpus cum causa. See CORPUS CUM CAUSA. BANISHMENT : Matters relating to, entered on the Close and Patent Rolls. BANKRUPTCY, BANKRUPTS : Conveyances of their estates, and other proceedings in bankruptcy, are entered on the Close Rolls. By Stat. 1 &2W. IV. c.56. a Court of Bankruptcy and also a Court of Review were established. By Stat. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 102. the Court of Review in bankruptcy was abolished, and the jurisdiction transferred to one of the Vice Chancellors, and the jurisdiction of the Court of Bankruptcy under 5 & 6 Vict. c. 116. and 7 & 8 Vict. c. 96. and 8 & 9 Vict. c. 127. was transferred to the Insolvent Debtors' Court and to the County Courts. The Bankrupt Law Consolidation Act passed in 1849, 12 & 13 Vict c. 106. The jurisdiction given to the Vice-Chancellor under the above stat. (12 & 13 Vict. c. 106.) was transferred to the Court of Appeal established by stat. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 83. Secretakt of the Commissioxs of Bankruptcy : (Office in Quality Court, Chancery Lane.) It appears by the report of the Lords Commissioners, 1740, appointed to make a survey of the different courts in England, &c., that they could not determine whether the secretary of commissions of bankrupts was an officer that ought of right to belong to the Court of Chancery, but the jury found that he was appointed by the Lord Chancellor by parole, and that he was an ancient officer, and that his duties were to lay before the Lord Chancellor the affidavits, petitions, and bonds upon which commissions of bankrupts CHANCERY. 13 B A.NKRUPTC Y— coMftMMct?. were to be founded, and to write his Lordship's orders on sucli petitions, to enter thera in books kept for the purpose, and to attend his Lordship in court on hearing all petitions relating to bankrupts, and to draw up and enter the oi-ders thereon, and to attend his Lordship in court in turn with his other secretaries. The duties of the secretary of the commissions of bankrupts are thus described in the report of the commissioners for examining into the duties, salaries, &c. of the several Courts of Justice, 1816. To strike dockets for commissions, to receive, iile, and keep the bond entered into by the peti- tioning creditor to the Lord Chancellor previously to the issuing any commission ; to examine the same, and see that it be properly executed and attested ; to write on the petition the fiat for the Lord Chancellor's signature, and to lay the same before him ; to enter in a book, alphabetically, the name of the bankrupt, his description and residence, tho name of the solicitor suing out the commission, the date of the docket and of the commission ; to receive, examine, file, and keep the affidavits necessary for the issuing writs of supersedeas, or for renewing or resealing commissions ; to draw up and prepare orders thereon for the Lord Chancellor's signature, and to enter the same in a book ; to receive and examine all certificates of conformity, and the necessary affidavits and powers of attorney relating thereto ; to sign warrants authorizing the advertising of certificates in the gazette, to state the same for allowance and conformation by the Lord Chancellor at the proper time after such adver- tisement, and to write the proper allocatur, and to lay the same before his Lordship for signing, and, when allowed, to make an entry thereof in an alphabetical list for reference ; to receive all petitions to the Lord Chancellor in matters of bankruptcy ; to write and lay before his Lordship for signature all orders for hearing, or answers respecting such petitions ; to arrange the petitions for reference, and to make lists thereof for hearing, to attend in court at the hearing of such petitions, and to take minutes of proceedings and orders made by the Lord Chancellor thereon ; to make copies of the minutes of such orders when desired by the parties, and ultimately to draw up, settle, and engross the orders upon the proper stamps, and to lay the same before the Lord Chancellor for signature, and to enter them in books, with alphabetical refei-ences ; to keep and file all bonds, affidavits, reports, powers of attorney, and other things proper to be retained in the office, witli the means of reference thereto, and to make copies when applied for, and to attend the Lord Chancellor in turn with the other secretaries. The records, &c. of the above office are : — Books containing tho names of bankrupts, description and residence, name, &c. of the solicitor suing out the com- mission, the date of the docket and of the commission. Affidavits necessary for issuing writs of supersedeas, or for renewing and resealing commissions. Books of orders. Files of bonds, affidavits, reports, powers of attorney. 14 CPIANCERY. B ANKEUPTC Y— continued. Bankrupts' Patentee Office, or Office for the Execution OF THE Law and Statutes concerning Bankrupts: This office (which was abolished by stat. 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111. but not to be determined until the death of the then patentee,) was entirely executed by deputy ; the duties were to write, engross, and procure to be passed by and under the Great Seal all commissions, writs of supersedeas, procedendos, and all other writs and things incident or necessary to the due execution of the laws against bank- rupts. See Eeport of Lords Commissioners, 1740, pp. 64, 65. The records of the above office are docket books of com- missions, procedendos, and supersedeas. Also petitions and orders of the Court of Chancery for re- newing commissions and supersedeas, tied up in yearly bundles, to which the above dockets refer. Clerk of the Inrolments in Bankruptcy : Office in Basinghall Street, where the court sits. This office was created by stat. 5 G. IL c. 30. It recites the mischief which occasionally happened by the loss of pro- ceedings in bankruptcy, and enacts, that upon the petition of any person to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Commissioners of Great Seal, praying that any commission, and the depositions taken thereon, or any part of such depo- sitions, or the certificates to be allowed as therein mentioned, or any other matter or thing relating to the said commissions, or the proceedings thereupon, may be entered of record, the Lord Chancellor, &c. shall and may order and direct such commissions and other proceedings to be entered of record. See Report of the Commissioners on the Duties, Salaries, and Emoluments in Courts of Justice, 1816, p. 130. The office was abolished by 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111., but re- appointed by 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 84. s. 9. BARGAIN AND SALE. See DEEDS. DELINQUENTS' ESTATES. Deeds of, entered on the Close Rolls, to which there are indices See stat. 27 Hen. VIIL c. 16. BARONETS: Creation of Baronets entered on the Patent Rolls. There is a bundle of original creations among the Tower records. Sir Thomas Playters was created a baronet by warrant under sign manual. See the Docket, llth August 1623, State Paper Office, which states " that it was the last of that nature His Majesty " resolveth to grant, as by his express pleasure is signified and " entered in the Book of Caveats at the Signet Office." BEDFORD LEVEL : The decrees or awards of the commissioners for settling and drain- ing (in bundles, to which there is a calendar). (Petty Bag Office.) BEGHAM PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES, BENEFICES: Presentations to, entered on the Patent Rolls. See PRESEN- TATIONS. TAXATION ROLL. CHANCERY. 15 BILLS -ANSWERS -DEPOSITIONS IN CHANCERY: The above records, from Eic. 11. to 1758, were sent to the Record Office at the Tower, and are in the custody of the Master of the Rolls. From the above period they are at the records and writs' clerks' office, or at the examiners' office ; but the town depositions were not sent to the Tower for a later period than 1724, from which period they are in the examiners' office. The country depositions are kept by the clerks of records and writs, and the town depositions by the examiners. The town depositions are on paper, the country on parch- ment. BISHOPRICS. See BISHOPS' PATENTS. The Inquisitions post mortem contain extents, surveys, and valua- tions of the manors, lands, and possessions of vacant bishoprics. See TAXATION ROLL. BISHOPS' PATENTS, 1725 to present time. Both the inrolments and the Privy Seal bills and warrants, from ■which the inrolments are made, are at the Petty Bag Office, where the writs of Privy Seal are delivered by the agents of the parties promoted, and there the patents are made out and inrolled. These inrolments include also the conges d'elire and Royal assents, patents of assistance, and writs of restitution of tem- poralities. Also on the same rolls are the patents, &c. of searchers and customers, which in ancient times were entered on the Fine Rolls. The bishops' patents, like other patents, anciently were entered on the Patent Rolls, as also the conges d'elire and Royal assents, &c. Entries of them will be found in the Church Books in office of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. The Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, in his Second Report, pp. 31. 44., gives the whole form which has to be passed through before an archbishop's or bishop's patent can be entered on the Bishops' Patent Rolls. BLACK BOOK, OR VETUS CODEX, OR PLACITA PAR- LIAMENTARIA: This is the only ancient copy of a roll of Parliament, and is de- posited among the Tower Records. BLACKMORE PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. BONDS. See STATUTE STAPLE. BOUNDARIES : Many boundaries of manors, &c. may be found on the rolls of decrees, which contain also decrees as to inclosures. Scobell's Acts, 1641, ch. 16. directs the appointment of commissioners to settle the meets and boundaries of forests. BOROUGHBRIDGE ROLL. See CONTRARIENSIUM. BRADWELL PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. BRANGWIN ROLL : Mentioned in the proem to Coke's 4th Inst, p. 2. Not known to what it refers. 16 CHANCERY. BREVIA EEGIA (OR PLACITA) : Those titles or bundles at the Tower bearing the abote title consist of writs of various descriptions with their returns, commencing about the time of King John to about Charles the Second. In- ventory printed in the Third Report of the Deputy Keeper of Records, App. II. pp. 113-130. Those files bearing the same title at the Petty Bag Office con- sist of writs of ad quod damnum, dedimuses to swear masters extraordinary in Chancery, justices of the peace, and sheriffs, certioraris to remove records, writs for calling serjeants-at-law, and returns of writs for electing coroners and verderers and regarders of forests (9 Car. I. to present time). BRIDGES. See CLOSE ROLLS. INQUISITIONS. BROOMHILL PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. BULLS. 5'ee PAPAL BULLS. BURROUGHBRIDGE ROLL. BOROUGHBRIDGE. See CON- TRARIENSIUM. CALAIS : Patents of officers at Calais and elsewhere beyond seas are enrolled on the Treaty or Foreign Rolls. CALCETO PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. CANCELLATIONS : In the time of Elizabeth cancellations were made by the clerks of inrolments. See Sanders' Orders (1845), p. 51. Deeds cancelled among the miscellaneous of the Rolls Chapel. See ARROW BUNDLE. CANONRIES. See CLERK OF THE PRESENTATIONS. CANWELL PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. CARDINAL'S BUNDLES, OR INQUISITIONS : Bundles so called, among the miscellaneous of the Rolls Chapel, consisting of, — 1. Inquisitions taken of the several monasteries, &c. surrendered to Cardinal Wolsey ; 2. Inquisitions taken after "Wolsey's death. The following list of monasteries, &c. surrendered is taken from Powell :- Calceto Priory Sussex. Daventree Priory Northamp. Dodnash ^ Begham Priory {g"„J^,^p, C Essex. Blackmore Priory < London. L Hereford. Bradwell Priory { |" ^^ ""* Broomhill Priory | g °^^- rWarw. Canwell Priory J Staff. LLeicest. Dodneis > Priory Suffolke. Dodnes J St.FriswidinOx-fS^°°- ford Priory j^aj. Felixstow Priory Suffolk. Horkesley Priory Essex. Litlemore Priory {§^°^" CHANCERY. 17 CARDINAL'S BUNDLES— cowiti«Mc«?. /•Kane. Lisnes Abbey Pray Priory St. Peter's in Ipswich Poghley Priory iSuiTolke. Essex. Surrey. London. r Hartford. I Buck. } Suffolk. Bark. Suffolke. Eumburgb Priory {|"JgJfj Eaueston Priory Buck. Sandwell Priory {|";^J^.^_ Stansgate Priory Snape Priory Titre Priory Tunbridge Priory Thoby Priory Tuckford Priory Wallingford Priory Wikes Priory Essex. Suffolke. Essex. {Kane. Cant. Suffolk. Norfolke. Surrey. Essex. r Bark. 1 Wa.rw. /-Bark. < Oxon. I Buck. Essex. CARTJE ANTIQUiE : These are miscellaneous exemplifications, and are the earliest records of Chancery, being grants and charters from about the time of Ethelbert, at the close of the sixth century, to Hen. III. inclusive. There are records among those of the Augmentation, which also bear the above title. See CHARTEES. CERTIFICATES : Certificates of solicitors, entries of (Petty Bag Office). Certificates of statutes of the staple, extents returned thereon, and liberates (among the miscellaneous of the Eolls Chapel records). Information concerning these will be found in the statute of merchants, 13 Edw. I. and the stat. staple 27 Edw. III., Stat. 2, the latter determining where the staple of wools, leather, woolfels, and lead shall be held in England, Wales, and Ireland, and regulating the manner of conducting the trade, recovery of debts, &c., whereby debtors not found within the staple, nor their goods, the same to be certified in the Chancery, upon which a writ issues to take the body, goods, lands, &c., and the writ to be returned into Chancery virith certificate of value, &c., and thereupon execution to be made. Certificates from the Ecclesiastical Courts of Excommunication, among the miscellaneous of the EoUs Chapel records. As to these, see c. 23. Stat. 5 Eliz. See GALLOWS BUNDLE. Certificates of persons concealed. „ of qualification of Mem- bers of Parliament. „ of Popish convicts. ■ Queen Anne to present time at the Petty Bag Office. They are put up in bundles and entered in the calen- dars referring to them. Certificates of the accountant general touching the property of the suitors, from 1726 to present time, tied up in bundles (at the Eeport Office, (Eeport Side,) Chancery Lane, on the account side of which office they are entered in books). Certificates or reports of Masters in Chancery, See EEPOETS. c 18 CHANCERY. CERTIORARI: The certiorari bundles of the Rolls Chapel records consist of Acts of Parliament removed by certiorari, commencing 6Hen. VIII. to 40 G. III., and a few judgments and other proceedings removed in the same manner from the Star Chamber and other jurisdic- tions at different periods for the purpose of being exemplified under the Great Seal, and thus made evidence. There are indexes to them. See ARROW BUNDLE. Writs of certiorari. See WRITS. CHANCERY AND CHANCELLORS : Matters concerning, entered on the Close Rolls. CHANCERY JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS : Affidavits are arranged in terms at the Register Office for Affidavits, 10, Symond's Inn, Chancery Lane. There are indexes from 1632 to 1770(1770 to 1780 are lost), from 1780 to present time they are perfect. The office of registrar of affidavits was abolished by 2 & 3 W. rV. c. 111.; and by 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 94. provision is made for the duties to be performed by an officer called the clerk of the affidavits. The biUs, answers, depositions, and other proceedings in Chancery from Ric. II. to 1758 are among the Tower records, except the town depositions, which were not sent to the Tower for a later period than 1724, after which they are at the Examiners' Office. The bills, answers, country depositions, and other proceedings in Chancery subsequent to those sent to the Tower are at the Records and Writs' Clerks' Office (formerly the Six Clerks' Office), Chan- cery Lane (except Town Depositions, which from 1724, as stated above, are at the Examiners' Office, Rolls Yard, Chancery Lane). The decree rolls, as well as the dockets from which the inrolments are made, from 25 Hen. VIII., are from time to time brought from the Records and Writs' Clerks' Office, Chancery Lane, to the Public Record Office. Entry books of decrees from Hen. VIII. to present time at the Report Office, report side. Minute books in the Office of the Registrars. Reports of Masters in Chancery from 1590 at the Report Office, report side. By 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 94. s. 2. six registrars were appointed, and by 5 Vict. c. 5. s. 38. they were increased to ten. The six clerks of Chancery were abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103., and provision made for their duties ; in their stead a clerk of enrolments, clerks of records and writs, and taxing, masters were appointed. Exchequer Equity. — The jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer as a court of equity was abolished by 5 Vict. c. 5., and transferred to the Court of Chancery, and the records transferred to the cus- tody of the Master of the Rolls, and to be deemed records of the Court of Chancery ; but the original Orders and Decrees for the last ten years, and thu Accountant General's books, ■were sent to the Report Office, Chancery Lane; and the Minutes of Decrees {Exchequer Chamber Minute Books) from Michaelmas Term 1820 were delivered to the Registrars' Office, Chancery Lane. CHANCERY. 19 CHANCEKY JUDICIAL FROCEEBINGS— continued. The following, although dispersed at present, will eventually be amalgamated in the new repository. Common Law Proceedings, or Proceedings in Filaciis. — The earliest are to be found among the Tower records, others among the Eolls Chapel and Petty Bag records. Pleadings on Petitions of Eight and on writs of Scire Facias, and Judgments thereon. Hen. VII. and some subsequent reigns, are among the Rolls Chapel records. Proceedings and Judgments by Default, on Scire Facias, to revoke letters patent, to put recognizances taken by order of the Court of Chancery in suit, and also in actions by and against officers of the Court of Chancery, &c., Eliz. to present time. They are put up in bundles, and entered in calendars of the term in which such judgments are signed, with references to such bundles. — Petty Bag Office. Writs, &c., &c. at Petty Bag Office. Mr. Hardy (in the Seventh Report of the Deputy Keeper of Records, App. II. p. 277, where a specimen of a calendar is printed,) makes the following observations on the Proceedings in Filaciis : — These proceedings consist of pleas on matters of record, viz. by " Scire Facias" (See note 1), for the repeal of the King's Letters Patent ; for partition of land in coparcenary and for dower ; upon recognizances acknowledged pursuant to statute merchant and statute staple ; in traverses of offices found for the Crown by inquisition ; and in matters of lunacy and idiotcy, &c. ; and also of pleas in matters not of record, viz., proceedings by or against officers of the court. (See note 2.) These documents also consist of tenors or certificates of the proceedings in the King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer, in Gaol Delivery, &c., and of records and other documents in the custody of the treasurer and chamberlains of the Exchequer, such as Domesday Book, Statutes and Ordinances made in Parlia- ment, Feet of Fines, Testa de Neville, brought into Chancery by writ of " Certiorari," at the suit of parties, either for the purpose of being transmitted to other courts by " Mittimus," or of being exemplified under the Great Seal, and enrolled on the Chancery Rolls. Note 1. — When any fact was disputed on a " Scire Facias" to revoke grants by the Crown, traverses of office, or the like, and issue was joined thereon, it was transmitted to the Court of King's Bench for trial, and final judgment was entered up, and execution issued in that court, and not afterwards returned into Chancery; but when the Court of Chancery wished to know the result, or the parties desired to have the whole proceedings exemplified under the Great Seal, or transmitted to other courts, then a tenor of the proceedings was certified into Chancery by "Certiorari." But none of the records which were delivered by the Chancellor to the Chief Justice of the King's Bench appear to have been remanded into Chancery, and apparently for the reason that "so supreme " is the jurisdiction of the Court of King's Bench, that if " any record be removed into this court, it cannot be re- " manded back, unless it be by Act of Parliament ; the " transcript of the record is sent, and not the record itself." (But as to the course now, see stat. 11 & 12 Vict, c.94.) 2 20 CHANCERY. CHANCERY JUDICIAL FROCE^DlNGrS— continued. There are still extant several pleas in Chancery where issue was not joined, and several where issue was joined ; but these last-mentioned pleas appear to be either the rough drafts of those records which were dehvered by the Chancellor to the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, or else pleas that did not go to issue, although so directed, as no portion whatever of the proceedings in the King s Bench is set out, but the document is wholly confined to the proceedings in the Chancery. It may be here stated, as being not irrelevant to the preceding remarks, that it would seem from a petition to the King in Parliament in the second year of the reign of Hen. 1 V., that when an issue of fact was joined on the common law side of the Court of Chancery, the Chancellor, instead of sending the issue to be tried in the Court of King's Bench, was in the habit of calling the Common Law Judges into Chancery to assist him in the discussion of such issues, to the great delay of the law, and the damage of the people. TheKing was therefore besought to ordain that traverses of office, and writs of Scire Facias should be returned to the King's Bench or Common Pleas, to be there discussed, and terminated according to law. To this petition the King answered: — the Chancellor has power to do so by virtue of his office, and let it be, as it has hitherto been, at the discretion of the Chancellor for the time being. Not many of the pleas which were tried before the Chancellor and the Common Law Judges in Chancery appear to be now extant among the records of the Tower. Note 2. —When an officer of the court is plaintiff, the suit commences by attachment of privilege ; but when he is defendant, by a bill filed against him in the nature of a complaint, and concludes with praying relief. CHAPELS. See CLERK OF THE PRESENTATIONS. CHARITABLE USES : Commissions of, to be found among the miscellaneous of the Rolls Chapel Records. Inquisitions and decrees of commissioners of charitable uses, pur- suant to stat. 43 Eliz. c. 4., with proceedings on such decrees from the commencement of tlie statute to the present time. These are contained in parts or bundles, and entered in a calendar, with the name of the county and place to which the charity belongs, and in many instances the donor's name, and the names of the persons against whom the decree was made. The exceptions to the above .decrees, and answers thereto, are con- tained in parts or bundles^ and entered in a calendar with like references. The inrolments of the confirmation or dismission of the decrees of the commissioners of charitable uses, made on appeals from the commissioners' decrees : to these there is a calendar. All the above inquisitions, decrees, and inrolments are at the Petty Bag Office. Conveyances for charitable uses are entered on the Close Rolls. See CLOSE ROLLS (Modern). CHANCERY. 21 CHARTERS: CARTiE ANTIQUiE : AND CHARTER ROLLS: The " Cartas Antiqure" are exemplifications of grants and charters from about the close of the sixth century to Hen. HI. inclusive. These are the earliest Chancery records ; and there are records among those of the Augmentation, bearing the title of " Cartse .Antiquaj." These latter are grants, charters, deeds, &c. of the dissolved monasteries, &c. The Charter Rolls commence 1 John to 8 Hen. VIH., after which grants from the Crown were made in the form of letters patent, and are entered on the Patent Rolls. A very imperfect calendar was printed of the Charter Rolls in 1803. The rolls themselves of the reign of king John were published also by the Record Commissioners. The confirmation of charters prior to Ric. IH., are entered on the Patent and Charter Rolls, and from 1 Ric. III. to 12 Jac. L, they are entered on the Confirmation Rolls, and from 12 Jac. L they are entered on the Patent Rolls. Fines for passing and renewal of charters are entered on the Patent Rolls. Charters, like letters patent, passed under the Great Seal; and the principal distinction between a charter and a patent is, that the charter was witnessed by such persons as were present when it was executed, whose testimony to its execution was necessary to its validity; and the patent was executed by the King himself. There is also a alight variation in the address. A charter usually commences in these words : " The King to all his " archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, jus- " tices, sheriff's, reeves, ministers, and all his faithful " subjects, greeting." A patent commences thus : " The " King to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting." Charters are sometimes confirmed by letters patent. Every particular as to the nature, &c. of charters will be found in the Latroduction to the printed volume " Rotuli Chartarum." Magna Carta, 17 John, at the British Museum ; also at the cathedral of Lincoln, &c. ; fac-siraile printed in the second volume of Reports of the Commissioners of Records, 1800—1819. See CONSTAT. INNOTESCIMUS. INSPEXIMUS. VIDIMUS. CHATHAM : Commissions for better fortifying Chatham, dated 1st September I7I4 and 27th July 1758. See COMMISSIONS. CHIVALRY : Matters touching chivalry entered on the Close and Patent Rolls. There are among the Tower records what are called the Scrope and Grosvenor Rolls, being the controversy between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor in the Court of Chivalry, 1385, 1390. They are partly printed. Edited by Sir H. Nicolas. There are also several other rolls among the miscellaneous of the Tower, notes of which may be found printed in the Inventory of the miscellaneous of the Tower in the Deputy Keeper's Third Report. App. H. pp. 191, 192. 22 CHANCERY. CHURCHES : Valuation of, &c. See TAXATION ROLL. CHURCH LIVINGS: Surveys of church livings for several counties, temp. Common- wealth, to be found among the miscellaneous of the Rolls Chapel. See TAXATION ROLL. BENEFICES. CLERK OF THE PRESENTATIONS. CINQUE PORTS : Matters concerning cinque ports entered on the Close Rolls. CIRCUIT COMMISSIONS : The above are issued by the clerk of the Crown. The general warrant for inserting the names of the Judges is under the Royal Sign Manual ; and the several circuit fiats are signed by the Lord Chancellor ; the fiats and such Sign Manuals as have been left in the Crown Office are from time to time bound up in volumes. CLAIMS. See CORONATION ROLLS. FORESTS. CLERGY : Aids of, matters pertaining to, on the Patent Rolls. CLERK OF THE CROWN. See CROWN OFFICE. CLERK OF THE CUSTODIES : It was the duty of this officer to make out commissions of idiotcy and lunacy, and to do other acts in relation to such commissions. Report of Commissioners on Duties, &c., Sess. Pap., H.C., 1816, No. 428. Office abolished by 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111., but not to be determined during the life of the then clerk. By 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 84. the duties to be performed by the secretary of lunatics, whose office is No. 3, Quality Court, Chancery Lane. The clerk of presentations, at the time of the abolition of the office above mentioned, was also clerk of the custodies. The records of the clerk of the custodies are : — Committees' accounts. Masters' reports. Orders respecting lunatics and idiots made by the Lord Chan- cellor. Grants and revocations of grants of the persons and estates of lunatics, &c. (books of inrolments of). Supersedeas of commissions of lunacy from 1689 to present time. The patents granting persons and estates of idiots and lunatics are made out upon the fiat of the Lord Chancellor. They are now enrolled in paper books. The inrolments were formerly on rolls, the earliest of which is in the time of the Protectorate. The practice of using books began 2 W. and Mary. But anciently these matters were entered on the Patent Rolls. See LUNACY. CHANCERY. 23 CLEEK OF THE DISPENSATIONS AND FACULTIES : The office of the above is called the Dispensation Office in Chancery, and the duties are thus described in the Report of the Commissioners on the Duties, &c. in Courts of Justice, 1816, p. 141 : — To make out and register confir- mations to pass the Great Seal of bishops' commendams, of dispensations and doctors' degrees granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury ; also to register masters of arts' degrees and notarial faculties granted by Archbishop of Canterbury. The office was abolished by 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111., but not to be determined during tlie life, &c. of the then clerk ; after which, by 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 84., the duties to be per- formed by the secretary of presentations. The following are the records of the clerk of dispensations, &c. : — Register books, in which are entered commendams, decrees, dispensations, notarial faculties, granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1692 to present time. The Dispensation Rolls, beginning 37 Eliz. to 20 G. 11. (though not continued regularly), were brought to the Rolls Chapel by the clerk of the dispensations and faculties, by whom the inrolments were made. These rolls contain the faculties and dispensations which passed the Great Seal. The fiat of the Archbishop of Canterbury to grant a com- mendam is acldressed to the Master of the Faculties (Faculty Office, Doctors Commons), which fiat is all that is required at the Faculty Office to proceed with the instrument, and forward it to the Dispensation Office in Chancery, where it is confirmed and sealed. CLERK OF THE LETTERS PATENT: The office was created by letters patent 7th April, 16 Jac. I., and abolished by 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111.; and by 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 84. the Crown to appoint the clerk. In this office are kept docket books, containing the date, party's name, and general heads of each of the letters patent passed through this office. There is an index to each book. The duty of the clerk of the letters patent is to write and dispatch all grants, confirmations, charters, and letters patent under the Great Seal, sealed with green wax, commonly called perpetuities (except letters patent for creation of peers and baronets) ; also all grants, confirmations, charters, and letters patent of, for, or concerning offices, pensions, or annuities for lives or years (except letters patent for or concerning the offices of the Justices of either Bench, the Barons of the Exchequer, or King's Counsel) ; also all grants, licences, charters and letters patent, called grants of rewards or special licences ; also all licences, tolerations, grants, charters, and letters patent for making or granting any matter or thing done or to be done against the form of any statute, ordi- nance, proclamation, or provision (except licences for alienating lands to be held of the sovereign in capite, and all confirmations, licences, and dispensations, the writing whereof is granted to the clerk of the dispensations and faculties) ; also all pardons (except pardons for treason, murder, homicide, felony, death se defendendo or chance medley, and for outlawries or alienations without licence, and except general pardons by authority of Par- liament, at coronations, or of common grace) ; also all Royal 24 CHANCERY. CLERK OF THE LETTERS TATEl^T- contitiued. grants and letters patent of or concerning any goods, chattels, debts, or suras of money ; all indentures under the Cxreat beal, Royal protections, writs or letters patent of pensions, allowances and fees, called liveries dormant, and all other grants, confarma- tions, licences, charters, and letters patent sealed under the l^reat Seal by virtue of any warrant from the sovereign, the writing whereof did not belong or had not been granted before the crea- tion of this office (viz., 7th April, 16 Jac. I.) to any other officer of the Court of Chancery ; also to write and dispatch all dupli- cates of the letters patent and other premises aforesaid, and to make and deliver to the Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal dockets containing briefly the purport of the instruments to be sealed. CLERK OF THE PRESENTATIONS : The office was abolished by 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111., but not to be determined during the life of the then clerk ; after which, by 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 84., the duties are directed to be performed by the secretary of presentations. The records are docket books of grants of ecclesiastical benefices and dignities (except bishopricks) in the gift of the Crown. The above grants are enrolled on the Patent Rolls. The duties of the clerk of presentations are stated in the Report of the Commissioners (1816) on the Duties, &c. of Officers of Courts of Justice, p. 118, and are as follow: — To write letters patent to pass the Great Seal of presen- tations, advowsons, donations, grants and collations to rectories, parochial churches, vicarages, chapels, prebends, canonries, deaneries, archdeaconries, subdeaneries, hos- pitals, and all other promotions and dignities, ecclesiastical and spiritual, whatever (archbishopricks and bishopricks only excepted), and to write dockets of the several patents prepared by him, and to pass them under the Great Seal. CLERKS, ARTICLES -OF. 5ee ARTICLES OF CLERKSHIP. CLERKS OF RECORDS AND WRITS' OFFICE : This office was erected pursuant to stat. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103. sect. 3. (1842), and the records, writs, and rules formerly under the ma- nagement of the six clerks, and sworn clerks or waiting clerks, were placed under the management of the clerks of records and writs. CLOSE ROLLS: The Close Rolls commence 6 John. They are printed from 6 John to 1 1 Hen. III., in two vols. The Ancient Rolls contain matters relating to the following among other subjects:— Admiralty ; Adultery; Advowsons; Aids; Alien Priories ; Alimony ; Ambassadors ; Armies ; Arts ; At- tainders ; Auditors ; Aurum Regin» ; Banishment ; Bridges ; Chancery and Chancellor; Chivalry; Cinque Ports; Coinage; Coronations ; Coroners ; Costume; Credentials; Crusades; Cus- toms; Gustos Reghi; Demesnes; Deodands ; Divorces, Royal; Dowers ; Duels ; Ecclesiastical Affairs ; Error ; Escheats and Escheators ; Exchequer, Jurisdiction of, &c. ; Exemptions ; Fines ; _ Fisheries ; Fleets ; Forests ; Forfeitures ; Gascony ; Gavelkind; Grain; Great Seal; Habeas Corpus; Heralds; Heretics ; Homage ; Horses, Royal ; Household, Royal ; Idiots ; CHANCERY. io CLOSE -^QIAJS)— continued. Imposts; Inquisitions; Invasions ; Ireland ; Jewels, Crown; Jews- King's Bench; Knights Hospitallers and Templars; Knight Service; Laws; Letters, Eoyal ; Livery of Lands ; London ; Lunatics ; Manufactures ; Marriages, Royal ; Marshal ; Masses ; Military ; Mines; Mortmain; Navy ; Nobility; Oaths; Ordinances; Ordnance; Outlawries; Paintings; Palaces; Par- dons; Parks, Royal; ParUament ; Peace, Justices of; Pictures ; Piracy; Plague ; Poll-tax; Poor; Popes' Bulls ; Prayers ; Pre- emption • Prerogative of the Crown ; Presents, Royal ; Privileges of Peers and Commons ; Privy Council ; Privy Seal ; Proclama- tions • Prohibitions ; Protections ; Public Buildings ; Purveyance ; Reprisals ; Revenue ; Riots ; Royal Letters ; Scotland ; Scutage ; Serieants-at-Law; Stannaries ; State Letters ; Subsidies; lallage; Tallies • Taxes ; Thames ; Tournaments ; Treasure Trove ; Treaties ; Truces ; Tumults ; Tythes ; Verderers ; Universities ; Voyages, Royal; Wales; Wardrobe; Wardships; Warrens; Weights and Measures ; Wills ; Wool; Works, Royal ; Writs and Mandates for regulating every branch of the Royal Household ; Writs Ne exeant regni ; Writs of Habeas, &c. The Modern Close Rolls consist partly of documents enrolled accord- ing to the course of Chancery, such as recognizances and deeds enrolled for safe custody, and partly of deeds and instruments enrolled pursuant to statute, such as — Bargains and Sales; Specifications of Patent Inventions ; Conveyances for Charitable Uses ; Dispositions by Tenants in Tail ; Dispositions by Commis- sioners of Bankruptcy and other Bankruptcy Proceedings ; Con- veyances under Queen Anne's Bounty ; the Mortmain Act ; many purposes connected with Church Endowments ; Consents under Private Bills ; Registration of Partners of Joint Stock Companies, and duly constituting such Joint Stock Companies, and other analogous documents ; and are enrolled according to the counties to which they respectively belong. They are made up at the Inrolment Otfice in Chancery, Chancery Lane, by the clerks (now clerk) of inrolments, as granted by charter of Eliz., 18th Nov., in the 16th year of her reign, and subsequently by Stat. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103. When the deeds and other instruments are brought to the Inrolment Office to be enrolled by the agents or solicitors, they are marked according to the division to which they belong, the counties being divided into four divisions, and are entered in a day-book. The entry contains a short note of the parties and of the date. This book is signed by the party who leaves the instrument, and who also signs the same when he takes the instrument away. Indexes are made at the Inrolment Office, but are not passed on to the Public Record Office with the rolls. These Indexes, from Eliz. to present time, remain, therefore, at the Inrolment Office, and these are frequently searched for reference to the rolls at the Public Record Office. It would seem to be proper to pass them on with the rolls. The memorials of deeds and other securities for annuities were entered on the Close Rolls by authority of stat. 17 G. III., which was repealed by stat. 53 G. Ill , and new provisions made whereby the memorials of annuities are entered on books in the Inrolment Office in Chancery Lane in brief tabular form, stating the nature of the securities. 26 CHANCER!:. * CLOSE nOLLS— continued. The original bundles of memorials of deeds, &c. containing the deeds at length, 17 to 53 G. III. (from which the entries on the Close Rolls were taken) remain at the Inrol- ment Office, Chancery Lane (or in the custody of the Clerk of Inrolments), as also the entry books pursuant to 53 G. III. ; but the bundles of memorials from which the entries were made, pursuant to 53 G. III., are passed on with the Close Rolls from time to time to the Public Record Office, the Inrolment Office retaining generally the last fifteen years. Recognizances form separate parts of the Close Rolls. The difference between documents entered on the Close Rolls and those on the Patent Rolls, viz. : — The King's Letters Patent were delivered open, having the Great Seal attached to the bottom. They are presumed to be of a public nature, addressed to all the King's subjects, and carry with them whatever extent of privilege, or power, or rank, or property the Crown may think proper to bestow. The Close Rolls are records of such instruments as were despatched closed or sealed up, and were of a more private nature, being addressed to one or two individuals only. To these documents the King's Privy Seal was attached; they were folded up and tied round with a piece of silk. Many of the original instruments of which entries are on the Close Rolls will be found among the bundles known under the term Brevia among the Tower records. The Deputy Keeper of Records in his Second Report, pp. 37-40, de- scribes the nature, making up, &c. of the Close Rolls, from which the following is extracted : — The Close Rolls in the earlier periods contained the documents under the Great Seal, which came under the denomination of writs or letters closed, and which were of so miscellaneous a nature that they can only be described as those documents which did not come under the classes (not always very definite) of patents or charters, or the classes appropriated to the rolls bearing specific names from the character of the documents enrolled thereon (e. g. the Fine or the Liberate Rolls), or to particular counties (e. g. the Gascon or the Roman Rolls) ; the documents enrolled according to the course of the Chancery in relation to the legal functions of the Great Seal or otherwise referring to matters under the cognizance of the Chancellor, such as the memoranda relating to the delivery of the Great Seal ; the swearing of officers and legal functionaries ; Parliamentary writs of summons and election, and for Parliamentary wages ; and special writs issued out of Chancery. Such entries are now wholly discontinued,— these documents or the matters included therein (so far as they are retained in modern practice) being now preserved, filed, recorded, or docketed in the Crown and Petty Bag Offices. In practice no documents from the Great Seal come now upon the Close Roll. COINAGE : Matters concerning coinage entered on the early Close Rolls ; also on the Patent Rolls. There are, ho\vever, rolls relating to mint and coinage, 6 Ric. II., 2 H. rv., and 1 and 3 H. VI., among the records of the Tower. CHANCERY. 27 COLLECTOES OF CUSTOMS : Customers' appointments were formerly entered on the Fine Rolls. From 1725 they are entered on the Bishops' Patent EoUs at the Petty Bag Office, where also the original warrants, &c. from which they were enrolled are kept. COLLEGES : ^ Statutes of Oriel College, Oxford (1326), Eot. Pat. 4 Edw. IH. part ii. m. 35. „ „ ^ tt ^ i/^ Statutes of University College, Oxford, Eot. Pat. 9 G. U. p. 1. m 10. Much information as to the universities, colleges, &c. vnll be found on the Patent EoUs, &c. Most of the information contained in the records as to the colleges and universities will probably be published imme- diately (by the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the universities and colleges), i.e. in 1852. COMMENDAMS. See CLEEK OF THE DISPENSATIONS AND FACULTIES. COMMISSIONEES: Commissioners of inquiry respecting different courts of justice, &c., 1740, to present time. Their reports are at the Petty Bag Offi.ce. These have been printed by order of House of Commons. for settling the drainage of Bedford Level. Their awards or decrees, to which there is a calendar, are at the Petty Bag Office. for better fortifying and securing Milford Haven ; nominated by stat. 31 G. II. c. 38. Their return is at the Crown Office. for purchasing lands belonging to the see of Winchester at Gosport, by virtue of a commission dated 29th September 1806. Their decree and judgment, dated 10th No- vember 1830, is at the Crown Office. See COMMISSIONS. COMMISSIONS : Commissions of Eebellion. ^^ee REBELLION. Such Commissions as pass the Great Seal will be found in the Privy Seal and Signed Bill bundles, and are entered on the Patent Eolls. It appears by Sanders' Orders in Chancery, p. 12, that the six clerks in 1554 made out the commissions of subsidy, reliefs, dismes, &c., but that they were enrpUed at the Petty Bag Office. Commissions to Ambassadors will also be found on the Treaty Eolls. . of charitable uses are to be found among the mis- cellaneous of the Eolls Chapel, of Sewers. Ditto. Special Commissions to inquire oi Estates forfeited or escheated to the Crown, with the inquisitions and traverses thereon, from Jac. I. to the present time. They are put up in bundles or parts, and entered in a calendar under the several heads of Aliens; Concealed Lands; Depopulations; Derelict Lands; Forfeitures of Offices ; Lands Escheated ; Lands given to Superstitious Uses ; Murder ; Treason ; Miscellaneous ; at the Petty Bag Office. Commissions and Inquisitions of Lunacy and Idiotey, and tra- verses thereon, from the last year of Car. I. to present time, at the Petty Bag Office. 28 CHANCERY. COMMISSIONS-cowftm/erf. Commissions for holding the Court of Claims at the coronations of G. IV., W. IV., and Queen Victoria, and the original petitions and claims, at the Crown Office. See CORONATION ROLLS. appointing Judges and Masters in Chancery to hear causes, &c., 1807 to 1823 ; (Crown Office.) dated 1st September 1714, for putting into execution an Act for better fortifying and securing the harbours and docks at Portsmouth, Chatham, and Harwich, and the return thereto ; (Crown Office.) dated 27th July 1758, for the docks, &c. at Ports- mouth, Chatham, and Plymouth, and the return thereto ; (Crown Office.) dated I7th Sept. 1760, for removing the gunpowder magazine from Greenwich to Purfleet, and return thereto (Crown Office.) dated 19th July 1762, pursuant to an Act for vesting lands on which forts had been erected for the defence of the coasts in trustees, and return ; (Crown Office.) dated 26th August 1780, for putting in execution an Act for better securing the docks, &c. at Plymouth and Sheerness, and return ; (Crown Office.) Same date for same purposes at Chatham, and return ; (Crown Office.) dated 26th August 1784, for putting in execution an Act for better securing the docks, &c. at Portsmouth, and the gunpowder magazine at Faversham, and return ; (Crown Office.) dated 30th September 1784, same purpose at Portsmouth and Plymouth, and return ; (Crown Office.) ' for opening and proroguing Parliament, ■j for giving the Royal assent to Bills. \ /r\ c^u -a ((Crown of the Peace. (OS^c^.) 01 Sewers. I ^ • of Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery. J • of Bankruptcy. See Bankrupts' Patentee Office, and also Clerk of the Inkolments in Bankeuptct, under the head BANKRUPTCY. COMMON PRAYER BOOK : There are copies among the Tower and Rolls Chapel records, with the Great Seal appendant pursuant to the Act of Uniformity, 14 Car. IL c. 4. s. 24. COMMON RECOVERIES : "Warrants of attorney for suffisring common recoveries taken by dedimus potestatem. These were formerly the Cursitors' Records ; but now, by stat. 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 82., are at the Petty Bag Office. COMPTROLLERS OF CUSTOMS : Appointments of. These were formerly entered on the Fine Rolls, which begin 6 John, and end 17 Car. I. Probably they were then entered on the Patent Rolls. From 1725 they are entered on the Bishops' Patent Rolls at the Petty Bag Office, where are also the original Warrants or Privy Seals from which they are entered. See their warrants in the Treasurer's Bundle, under the head ROLLS CHAPEL OFFICE. CHANCERY. 29 CONCEALED LANDS : Special Commissions to inquire, and. inquisitions thereon, at the Petty Bag Office. See COMMISSIONS. LANDS. CONCEALED PERSONS : Certificates of persons concealed, Queen Anne to present time, at the Petty Bag Office. CONFIRMATION ROLLS. CONFIRMATION OF CHARTERS, &c. : Prior to Richard III. confirmations were entered on the Patent Rolls and also on the Charter Rolls. The Confirmation Rolls begin with Ric. III. and end 12 Jac. I. These rolls contain confirmations of charters to cities, boroughs, or other corporate or politic bodies, and also to private persons. All confirmations since 12 Jac. I. have been enrolled again pro- miscuously with other patents on the Patent Rolls. CONGE D'ELIRE : These were anciently entered on the Patent Rolls, as well as Royal assents. The original warrants, and also the inrolments on the Bishops Patent Rolls, are at the Petty Bag Office, from 1725. CONSTAT: A constat is of the same nature as an exemplification, and is so called from that word being the first that occurs after the regal style, thus — " Henricus Dei Gratia Rex Angliee, &c., ad quos, &c., salutem. Constat nobis per inspectionem cancellariaj, &c." Constat is also the name of a certificate made by the Barons or Auditor of the Exchequer, or by the Clerk of the Pipe, at the desire of parties intending to plead on the subject to which it relates in that Court, and it certifies the matter in question constare upon record. The exact difference between a Constat and an Exemplification (for the general character of both are alike) seems to be this, — that an exemplification may be made of any deed. Act of Parlia- ment, or other muniment, or of an enrolment of Royal Acts, and may be obtained without affidavit. Whereas a constat is limited to the exemplification of matter of record, such as a certificate from Domesday Book, the inrolments of lost letters patent, or charters ; and of which loss the petitioner is bound to make oath. See the Introduction to the printed work " Rotuli Chartarum." CONTRARIENSIUM. CONTRARIENTS : Coke, in the proem to his 4th Institute, mentions a roll under the above name, and he states that the reason of the meaning of this roll was, that Thomas Earl of Lancaster, taking part with the Barons against Edw. 11. in hatred of the Spencers, it was not thought safe for the King, in respect of their power, &c., to name them rebels or traitors, but contrarients. There is no roll known now by the above title, but there are among the Tower records three or four rolls relating to the insurrection of the Earl of Lancaster and his adherents. These rolls have no title at their commencement, but have a contemporaneous indorse- 30 CHANCERY. CONTRARIENSIUM. COlrfTUABIENTS— continued. ment of these words, — " De terris forisfactis de anno Eegni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Edwardi xv. xvj. xvij." In several of the documents they are called Contrarientes, but mostly Rebelles et Inimici. In a roll belonging to Mr. "W. W. Wynne, printed in the Parlia- mentary Writs, vol. ii. division ii. App. p. 194, and known as the Boroughbridge Roll, there are writs recited in which sheriffs are commanded to attach omnes contrarientes. CONTUMACE CAPIENDO, WRITS OF. See SIGNIFICAVITS. CONVENTION PARLIAMENT : There is a book at the Crown OflBce containing the names of the Convention Parliament, 1688. CONVEYANCES. See BARGAIN AND SALE. Conveyances of bankrupts' estates are entered on the Close Rolls since Hen. VIII. CONVICTS, POPISH. See CERTIFICATES. COPIES. See EXEMPLIFICATIONS. TRANSCRIPTS BY WRIT. CORN: Matters relating to grain entered on the Close Rolls. Licences to import and export corn entered on the Patent Rolls. CORONATION ROLLS. CORONATIONS: Coronation matters will be found entered on the early Close Rolls. The Coronation Rolls commence Edw. II., but there are chasms. They contain the commissions and proceedings of the Commis- sioners appointed to hear and determine claims of service to be performed at coronations, and the oath taken and declaration made and signed by the King or Queen when crowned. The coronation oath of Gr. III., and the certificate of the Arch- bishop of Canterbury attached, and the Commissions for holding the Court of Claims at the coronations of G. IV., W. IV., and Queen Victoria, and the original petitions and claims, are at the Crown Office. CORONERS : Matters concerning coroners are entered on the Close Rolls. Returns of writs for electing coroners will be found among the miscellaneous ; also at the Petty Bag Office. See WRITS. ARROW BUNDLE. CORPUS CUM CAUSA: This is a writ to remove both body and record. There are files of the above with the bails. See ROLLS CHAPEL OFFICE. COSTUME : Matters relating to, are entered on the Close Rolls. COUNTY PLACITA. See CHANCERY JUDICIAL PRO- CEEDINGS. CHANCERY. 3i COUET CHRISTIAN : Matters relating to, on Patent Rolls. COURT ROLLS : These are various, from 17 Edw. I. to 1687. COURTS OF JUSTICE: Reports of Commissioners upon Inquiries respecting Courts of Justice from 1724, to wHch there is a calendar. (Petty Bag Office.) See REPORTS. CREATIONS OF NOBILITY: Entered on the Patent Rolls. From 11 Edw. II. to the end of Edw. IV.. they are entered on the Charter Rolls. All the roUs of Chancery among the Tower records have been examined, and all creations of nobility copied out and printed in the Appendix to the Report on the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm. CREDENTIALS : Of Ambassadors, &c. entered on the Close Rolls. CRIMINAL AFFAIRS. See ATTAINDERS. CROWN LANDS : Grants and leases of Crown lands are entered on the Patent Rolls. Sales of Crown lands, the deeds conveying them by bargain and sale are entered on the Close Rolls, to which there are indexes. All conveyances and leases of Crown lands are now made under the hands and seals of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, &c., and enrolled in books at the Office of Land Revenue Records and Inrolments. This series of books begins 28 Hen. VIII. CROWN OFFICE : Office of Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. The duties of this officer, as set forth in the Report of the Commissioners on the Duties, &c. in the Courts of Justice, &c., 1816, were as follows : — To attend the Great Seal for expediting the service of the Crown and State, and to maintain clerks under him. He makes out and writes the several commissions for the King's service ; all patents for the great officers of the Crown (except such as are made out by the clerk of the letters patent), and also for the Judges, Master of the Rolls, King's Serjeants, and other officers in England and Wales ; certain pardons and proclamations, and various writs ; patents of honour on creation of any Peer, and on the creation of Baronets and Knights Bachelor when created by patent ; writs for summoning Peers to Parliament on their creation or succession ; also the same writs to the Bishops, and writs of attendance to the Judges, Attorney and Solicitor General, and King's Serjeants. He is to receive and file the returns of the sixteen Peers elected to represent Scotland, and to certify the same to Parliament. He is to make out the writ to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, commanding him to issue writs to the Peers of Ireland to elect one of their body to fill a vacancy happening in that representation in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He is to make out His Majesty's Commission for giving the Royal assent to such bills as have passed both 32 CHANCERY. CEOWN OFFICE- continued. Houses of Parliament; and also His Majesty's Commission for proroguing or dissolving Parliament. He is to read the titles of all bills that have passed both Houses of Parliament when the Royal assent is given ; and conceiving himself to be bound to be in continual attendance on the Great Seal, he claims a seat at the table in the Upper House, &c. He is to receive and file the returns from the Sheriffs, of the several members of the House of Commons on their election, and certify all the said returns to the House. He is to attend on the first day of every Parliament, in the Outer Chamber, with the return book of members of the new Parliament. He is, on the death of any member, &c., on receiving the Speaker's warrant, to make out a new writ for electing another member to supply such vacancy, so far as respects Great Britain. At the coronation he is to hold the Lord High Steward's Court when he sits to hear and determine claims of services of honour about the Sovereign, and he claims to sit on that day at the Lord High Steward's foot, and to record his judgments, &c. He claims to administer the oaths to the Lord Chancellor, Master of the Rolls, &c. He prepares all commissions for the six English circuits, together with the Durham and Bristol Commissions. He prepares all commissions of the peace for England, Wales, and Scotland, and issues the dedimus potestatem for administering the oaths to the Justices. He also issues the dedimus potestatem for swearing all Masters Extraordinary in Chancery. See the Report of the Commis- sioners on the Duties, &c. in Courts of Justice, 1816, (Chancery, p. 96.) The Crown, by virtue of stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 84., appoints the Clerk of the Crown, and his salary was thereby fixed at 800/., to include the expenses of his office, and to perform the duties of the Clerk or Keeper of the Hanaper. But by Stat. 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 47. the Clerk of the Crown was allowed a salary of 500/. per annum, clear from all deductions for expences, &c. Repealed by 7 & 8 Vict. c. 77., which fixes his salary at 1,000/. per annum, and regulates his office. The Municipal Corporations Act passed in 1835, 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 76., by which 140 additional Commissions of the Peace are made out at the Crown Office. Stat. 6&7Vict. c. 18. ss. 93-95. directs the poll books taken at elections to be transmitted to the Crown Office. In an election committee each party must have a copy. Stat. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 82. has also increased the business of the Crown Office. The following are the records of this office : — Commissions and returns. See COMMISSIONS. Coronations. The coronation oath of G. III., and the certificate of the Archbishop of Canterbury attached; and the commissions for holding the Court of Claims of the coronations of G. IV., W. IV, and Queen Victoria; and the original petitions and claims. Docket books of all instruments passed in the Crown Office. Fiats for issuing writs, commissions, &c. Oaths to various officers, chiefly of the law. See OATHS. Petitions and Fiats. Various instruments of the current year, which are annually delivered to the office of the Clerks of Records and Writs, ia CHANCERY. 33 CROWN OFFICE— continued. order to be enrolled on the Patent Eolls, tliat is to say, Privy Seal and signed bills and warrants for grants of patents, commissions, proclamations, &c. "^ Writs of election and returns ; for summoning Peers to Parliament ; writs of Extent ; writs of Supersedeas. CRUSADES : Matters relating to, entered on the Close Eolls. CURSITORS : Abolished, and their duties transferred to the Petty Bag Office, by Stat. 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 82. s. 10. Their duties were to make out all original writs and processes, and all writs of the nature of original writs issuing out of the Court of Chancery. Certain counties were assigned to certain cursitors. See Report of the Commissioners on duties, &c. in Courts of Justice, 1816, p. 81. CUSTODIES, CLERK OF THE. See CLERK OF THE CUS- TODIES. CUSTOMEES, CUSTOMS: Appointments of Customers were formerly entered on the Fine Molls; probably afterwards on the Patent Rolls. From 1725 they are entered on the Bishops' Patent Rolls at the Petty Bag Office, where are also the original warrants, &c., from which they were enrolled. Matters relating to the customs in early times will be found on the Close Rolls. See the Treasurer's Bundle, wherein are filed Customers', &c. warrants, under the head ROLLS CHAPEL OFFICE. CUSTOMS OF MANORS : Decrees respecting the customs of manors were formerly often made by the Court of Chancery, and entered on the Decree EoUs. See DECEEE EOLLS. MANORS. GUSTOS REONI: Matters relating to, entered on the Patent and Close Rolls. DAVENTREE PEIOEY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. DEANERIES. See PRESENTATIONS. DEANS AND CHAPTERS : Inrolments of deeds of bargain and sale of their lands entered on the Close Eolls, to which there are indices. DECLAEATIONS : Of the Sovereigns when crowned, entered on the Coronation Eolls. DE CONTUMACE CAPIENDO : Writs of. See SIGNIFICAVITS. "■'^•'•^"•^TTm^ 34 CHANCERY. DECREE ROLLS. DECREES. The Decree Rolls contain the decrees and dismissions of the Court of Chancery. There are original dockets, from which the inrolments are made, from 25 Hen. VIIL, together with the Decree Rolls for the same period, among the Rolls Chapel records. The modern decrees are from time to time brought from the Records and Writs' Clerks' Office, Chancery Lane, formerly the Six Clerks' Office, to the Public Record Office. There are entries of decrees and indexes at the Report Office. See REPORT OFFICE. See also under the head SIX CLERKS, p. 86. There are calendars or indexes, under the names of plaintiffs, re- ferring to each decree; and an index of places (particularly those for inclosures of manors, which were formerly often made by decrees of the Court of Chancery, to settle the customs of manors in cases of tithes, and in others of a local nature). This index refers to the calendar of parties above mentioned. DECREES OF COMMISSIONERS OF CHARITABLE USES. See INQUISITIONS. DECREES OR AWARDS : Of the Commissioners for settling the draining of Bedford Level, at the Petty Bag Office. DE DIEM CLAUSIT EXTREMUM : Writs of, entered on the Fine Rolls. See WRITS. DEDIMUS : Writs of. See WRITS. ARROW BUNDLE. DEEDS : The following are entered on the Close Rolls : — Bargains and sales of lands, pursuant to stat. 27 Hen. VIIL and 16 Eliz. Ditto Ditto by Commissioners of Forfeited Es- tates, 4 G. I. Ditto Ditto by Trustees of South Sea Directors, / 7 G-. 1. / Conveyances and wills of Papists. f Conveyances of bankrupts' estates, he. Conveyances to charitable uses, 9 Gr. II. Deeds of exchange of lands, &c. for charitable purposes, 1 & 2 G. IV. c. 92. Deeds under 10 Anne for building churches. Ditto 43 G. IIL c. 108. Churches. Ditto 1 6. I. Augmentation of livings (called Queen Anne's Bounty). Ditto the Land Tax Redemption Acts. Ditto constituting joint stock companies, and memorials of names, &c. from time to time, pursuant to the different Acts of Parliament constituting such companies. Ditto the Act relating to Fines and Recoveries, 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 74. Memorials of deeds and other securities for annuities, by autho- rity of Stat. 17 G. m. « An Act for registering the grants for lite annuities;" but by stat. 53 G. III. the above Act was re- CHANCERY. 35 DEEDS — continued. pealed, and new provisions made, whereby the memorials of annuities, instead of being entered on the Close Etdls, are entered in books at the Inrolment Office in brief tabular form, stating the nature of the securities. The original bundles of memorials of deeds, &c., containing the deeds ar length, 17 to 53 G. m. (from which the entries on the Close Roll? were taken), remain at the Inrolment Office, Chancery Lane, not having been sent with the Close EoUs to the Eolls Chapel. Deeds of any description may be enrolled at the Inrolment Otiice, Chancery Lane, upon the Close Rolls, for sate custody, by fiat from the Master of the Rolls. Deeds cancelled will be found among the miscellaneous of the Rolls Chapel records. See AEROW BUXDLE. By Stat. 5 Ric. EL stat. 1. c. 8. those who had lost their deeds in the then late troubles might petition the King and his Council for remedy. DEGREES : Granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. See CLERK OF THE DISPENSATIONS. DE EXCOMMUNICATO CAPIENDO : Writs of. See SIGNIFICAVITS. DELINQUENTS' ESTATES : Bargains and sales of delinquents' estates sequestered dnring the Commonwealth, entered on the Close Rolls. DEMESNES, ANCIENT : Entered on the Close RoUs. DENIZATIONS, GRANTS OF: Entered on the Patent Rolls. DEODANDS : Matters concerning, entered on the Close Rolls. depoplt:.ation : Commissions to inquire into. See COMMISSIONS. DEPOSITIONS IN CHANCERY. See BILLS. DE PROBATIONE ^TATIS. See PROOFS OF AGE. DERELICT LANDS : Commissions to inquire into. See COMMISSIONS. DESCENT. See GENEALOGY. ^olS™^"^ SUPERONERATIONE. See SUPERONERA- DIEM CLAUSIT EXTREMUM: Writs of, entered on Fine RoUs. See WRITS. DISCLAIMERS : By Stat. 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 83. disclaimers and memorandums of altera- tions of specificattons of inventions are allowed to be entered and enrolled with the specifications. emerea ana d2 36 CHANCERY. DISMES, COMMISSIONS OF. See COMMISSIONS. DISPENSATION ROLLS : The Dispensation EoUs begin 37 Eliz., and are continued, but not regularly, to 20 G. II. The chasms are supposed to have arisen from their not having been duly brought in by the clerk of the dispensations and faculties, by whom the inrolments were made. The rolls contain the dispensations and faculties which passed the Great Seal. There are no calendars or indices. DISPENSATIONS AND FACULTIES. See CLERK OF THE DISPENSATIONS AND FACULTIES. DIVORCES, ROYAI.: Entered on the Close Rolls. DOCKETS. See PATENT ROLLS (under the sub-head Chancery OFFICES, AND OFFICES CONNECTED WITH THE ChANCERT, affording similar information to that found on the Patent Rolls.) DOCKYARDS : Commissions for fortifying and securing. See COMMISSIONS. DODNASH, DODNEIS, DODNES, PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. DOWERS : Matters touching, entered on the Close Rolls. Writs of dower among the miscellaneous. See ARROW BUNDLE. DUELS : Matters touching, entered on the Close Rolls. ECCLESIASTICAL MATTERS: Ecclesiastical matters entered on the Close Rolls. Advowsons entered on the Close and Patent Rolls. Commendams, degrees, dispensations, faculties, entered on the Dis- pensation Rolls, 37 Eliz. to 20 G. 11. Also register books, in which they are entered, are kept by the clerk of the dispensations, 1692 to present time. See CLERK OF THE DISPENSATIONS AND FACULTIES. Bishops' patents, conges d'elire, and writs of restitution of tempo- ralities. The inrolments are at the Petty Bag Office, as well as the original warrants, &c. from which they were enrolled. Certificates from ecclesiastical courts of excommunication will be found among the miscellaneous of the Rolls Chapel records. Surveys of church livings for several counties, temp. Common- wealth, among the miscellaneous of the Rolls Chapel records. Presentations, advowsons, donations, grants, and collations to rec- tories, parochial churches, vicarages, chapels, prebends, canonries, deaneries, archdeaconries, sub-deaneries, hospitals, and other pro- motions, entered on the Patent Rolls. See CLERK OF THE PRESENTATIONS. ELEGIT : Writ of elegit belongs to the Petty Bag to make- CHANCERY. 37 ENVOYS. See AMBASSADOES. EQUITY PROCEEDINGS. See CHANCERY JUDICIAL PRO- CEEDINGS. ERROR, WRITS OF: Entered on the Close Rolls. ESCHEATORS : Appointments of, entered on tlie Fine Rolls. Escheators' patents in 1554 were made out by tlie Six Clerks, See Sanders' Oi-ders, 1845, p. 12. ^ffi TREASURER'S BUNDLES as to Warrants of Escheators, &c. Escheators' Bundles. See INQUISITIONS. ESCHEATS : Entered on the Close Rolls. Inquisitions post mortem, sometimes called escheat bundles. See INQUISITIONS. Special commissions to enquire of estates forfeited or escheated to the Crown, with inquisitions thereon (at the Petty Bag Office). See COMMISSIONS. ESTATES : Bargains and sales of estates, (pursuant to stat. 27 Hen. VIII. and 16 Eliz.,) by Commissioners of Forfeited Estates. By trustees of South Sea Directors. Conveyances and wills of Papists, of bankrupts' estates, to charitable uses. Deeds (exchange) for charitable purposes. Deeds under the Land Tax Redemption Acts. Deeds under the Act relating to fines and recoveries, 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 74. The above are entered on the Close Rolls. See DEEDS. LANDS. FORFEITED ESTATES. EVIDENCE : Copies of Records in the custody of the Master of the Rolls, certified and sealed, or stamped, with the seal of the Record Office, to be received as evidence. See stat. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 94. s. 12, 13. See also stat. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 113. EXAMINERS' OFFICE: The duties of the examiners in Chancery are to receive all inter- rogatories for the examination and cross-examination of witnesses in any cause in the Court of Chancery, and to examine and cross- examine such witnesses, to prepare the depositions of such witnesses in writing, and to read over such depositions to the witnesses previously to their signing the same, to certify in writing the different documents deposed to, to sign notices for attendance of witnesses to be served with subpoenas, to grant certificates that interrogatories are or are not filed, and that witnesses have or have not attended for examination, and such other certificates as occasion may require. It is their duty also 38 CHANCERY. EXAMINERS' OFFICE— continued. to preserve the- records of the office. See Report of Commis- sioners on Duties, &c., 1816, p. 42. The records are, Interrogatories and Town Depositions from 1724. EXCHANGE ROLLS (Rot. Cambii) : The Exchange Rolls are of the following years : 6 to 17 Ric. II., 2 to 14 Hen. IV., 1 to 12 Hen. VL EXCHEQUER : Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. EXCOMMUNICATO CAPIENDO. See SICNTFICAVITS. EXEMPLIFICATIONS : Copies sent out of Chancery tinder the King's Seal, either to Sheriffs of counties and cities in England, or to the Chancellor or Chief Justice in Ireland, or to other courts or places, for safe custody, and for the proclaiming or confirming of a statute, or in other cases for affording authentic evidence of a statute. An exemplification differs from an original grant under the Great Seal, or an original Act of Parliament, in this, that an exemplification is a copy, and can be made only from the Record. At the present day every exemplification being made out in form by the proper officer is examined with the Record' by two Masters in Chancery, who not only subscribe a certi- ficate on the exemplification of their having examined it with the Record, but also sign a certificate to that effect, addressed to the Lord Chancellor, on a paper called the docket, which is left with him before the exemplification is allowed to pass the Great Seal. Transcripts by writ are copies sent into Chancery in answer to the King's writ or mandate calling for a copy from the officer in whose custody the Record is preserved. EXEMPTIONS, PRIVILEGES, &c.: Matters touching, entered on the Close Rolls. EX GRAVI QUERELA : Writs of Ex gravi Querela among the miscellaneous of the Rolls Chapel records. See WRITS. EXTENTS : The Brevia Regia contain writs to Sheriffs to cause inquisitions to be made for taking extents of manors, lands, &c. Enlries of writs of Extent, 1601 to 1775. No writs issued since. (Crown Office.) Extents, re-extents, and other proceedings on the statute staple, from the beginning of Car. I. to present time. There are a few temp. Jac. I. These are put up in bundles, and entered under the title " Writs of Execution,^' in calendars of the term in which the proceedings were had, and which refer to such bundles. But no proceedings have been had upon this statute since 15 G. III. (Petty Bag Office.) EXTRACT ROLLS : The Extract Rolls among the Tower records contain abstracts from the Charter, Patent, and other Rolls, of grants from the Crown, 45 Hen. III. to 6 Ric. IL CHANCERY. 39 FACULTIES : Inrolment of faculties, &c. on the Dispensation Rolls, 37 Eliz to 20 G. II., with chasms. There are register books in which faculties, &c. granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury are entered. An index to each volume. These were the records of the clerk of dispensations and taculties, which office was abolished by 2 &3 W. IV. c. 111. but not to be determined during the life of the then clerk. " The office afterwards to be performed by the secretary of presenta- tions. See3&i W. IV. c. 84. See CLERK OF THE DISPENSATIONS AND FACUL- TIES. FAIRS, GRANTS OF: Entered on the Charter and Patent Rolls. Before granting any fair, it was customary to issue a writ of ad quod damnum, to inquire whether the grant would be prejudicial to any, &c. See INQUISITIONS. Inquisitions as to the right, 8ec. of holding fairs. See HUNDRED ROLLS. FAVERSHAM, FEVERSHAM : Commission for better securing the gunpowder magazine, 26th August 1784. See COMMISSIONS. FELIXSTOW PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES- FELONY: Special commissions to inquire of estates forfeited on account of. (Petty Bag Ofl&ce.) FIATS : Books containing fiats for issuing writs appointing Masters Extraordinary in Chancery, 1683 to present time. Books containing original petitions and fiats for Commissioners of Sewers, 1685 to present time. Entry books of fiats of the Lord Chancellor for the several circuit commission's, 1705 to present time, containing warrants appoint- ing Serjeants, &c. to the several circuits, &c. All the above at the Crown Office. FINE ROLLS: 6 John to 17 Car. I. The Fine Rolls of King John, and extracts from the Fine Rolls of Hen. III., were printed by the Record Commissioners. The Fine Rolls contain accounts of fines paid to the King for licences to alienate lands ; for passing and renewal of charters and grants for livery of lands ; pro exoneratione militum ; pro licentia concordandi ; for exoneration of knighthood ; for ward- ships ; for safe conduct ; for pardons ; patents to escheators, customers, comptrollers, searchers, and other officers in the gift of the Lord Treasurer ; writs de diem clausit extremum, &c. It appears that complaints were made that lands, &c. holden of the King, and alienated without licence, were forfeited ; to remedy which, provision was made by stat. 1 Edw. lEL, stat. 2. c. 12., that instead of being forfeited in such cases, reasonable fines should be taken in the Chancery by due process. 40 CHANCERY. FINE ROLLS— continued. Writs of inquiry on amortising lands. Writs ad quod damnum. By Stat. 27 Edw. I. s. 2. it is directed that those who would purchase a new park, and men of religion that would amortise lands or tenements, should have writs out of Chancery to inquire upon the points accustomed in all things ;_ and that inquests of lands, &c. worth more than 20s. by extent should be returned into the Exchequer, and there to make, fine. for the anibrtise- ments, or for the park having, if the inquest pass for him that purchased, and afterwards to be certified to the Chancellor or his Deputy to take a reasonable fine for it, and to make delivery. And inquests made to amortise lands, &c. which shall not amount by the year beyond 20*. by extent, the return to be made to the Chancellor. In like manner they shall do that would purchase lands, &c. holden of the King in chief. In like manner they shall do who would purchase any fair, market, warren, or any other liberty. FINES: Are entered on the Close Rolls ; but see FINE ROLLS. FISHERIES : Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. See INQUISITIONS. FLEETS: Matters relating to the fitting out of Fleets, entered on the Close RoUs. FOREIGN ROLLS. See ALMAIN, FRENCH, GASCON, NORMAN, RAGMAN, and ROMAN ROLLS. SCOTLAND. TREATIES. FORESTS : The perambulations are generally entered on the Patent Rolls, and sometimes on the Close Rolls. But there are distinct rolls, &c. among the Tower Records from John to Car. II., an inventory of which is printed in the Fifth Report of the Deputy Keeper of Records ; App. II. pp. 46-59. There are also among the Tower records, forest claims, or claims of liberties in the Royal forests before the Justices in Eyre, temp. Car. I., to which there are indices nominum and locorum. There is a bundle of perambulations 17 Car. I, (Petty Bag Office.) Returns of writs for electing verderers and regarders (Petty Bag Office). See WRITS. For pleas of the forest, search the Judicial Rolls among the Chapter House records. Ch. 16 of Scobell's Acts, 1641, directs the appointment of commissioners to settle the meets and boundaries of forests. FORTRESSES. FORTS. See COMMISSIONS. FOUNDATIONS : Of abbeys, &c. See INQUISITIONS. CHANCERY, 41 FREE WARRENS: Grants of, entered on the Charter Rolls. FRENCH ROLLS : Among the Tower Records, are as follow :— French, 1 to 4 Edw. IL French and Roman, 4 to 10, and 15 to 18, Edw. IL French, 14 Edw. IIL to 22 Edw. IV, Roman and French, 1 to 18 Edw. II. See ROMAN ROLLS. TREATIES. FRISWID (SAINT). See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. GALLOWS BUNDLE: A bundle anciently so called, containing certificates of bishops for the writ called excommunicato capiendo, and the supersedeas upon the same, among the miscellaneous of the Rolls Chapel records. GAOL DELIVERY: Commissions of, at the Crown Office. Commissions entered on the Patent Rolls or the dorse thereof. GASCONY : Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. GASCON ROLLS : The Gascon or Vascon Rolls begin with 26 Hen. HI., and end 7 Edw. IV. They relate to Gascony while" under the dominion of England. /S-ee VASCON ROLLS. ._. . \ GAVELKIND : Matters relating to the custom of gavelkind entered on the Close RoUs. GENEALOGY : The Inquisitions post mortem are pre-eminently valuable for genealogical purposes. The Fine Rolls relate principally to genealogical and financial matters. All documents on the Fine Rolls relating to genealogical matters have been printed by the late Record Commissioners in a work called " Excerpta e Rotulis Finium." The Chancery proceedings, bills, answers, &c. may be searched with great advantage for genealogical matters. A writer in the " Gentleman's Magazine" for April 1846, pp. 365, 366, gives his opinion on this subject as follows:—" There can be no " question that the most valuable of all unpublished records are " the indentures of fines prior to the Reformation, and the " Chancery proceedings subsequent thereto ; for from these two " series a complete history of every estate in the kingdom,, and " every family of any real property, might be compiled, ex- " tending from the reign of King John down to the present " century." A 42 CHANCERY. GENEKAL LIVERIES. See LIVERIES. GERMANY : The Almain Rolls at the Tower are of the following reigns : — 22 to 31 Edw. L, 18 & 19 Edw. II., 11 to 15 Edw. HL The Rolls of Edw. I. relate to negotiations between Edw. I. and Adolph King of the Romans, John Duke of Brabant, Guy Earl of Flanders, John Earl of Holland, &c. Those of Edw. HI. relate to the great confederacy formed by Edward against Philip de Valois for the Crown of France. GOSPORT : Decree and judgment of the commissioners for purchasing lands belonging to the see of Winchester at Gosport, 10th November 1830, by virtue of a commission dated 29th September 1806 (at the Crown Office). See COMMISSIONERS. GRAIN: Matters relating thereto entered on the Close Rolls. Licences to import and export corn entered on the Patent Rolls. GRANTS: Carta Antiquce. — Grants from temp. Ethelbert King of Kent at the close of the sixth century to Hen. III. inclusive, entered on ' the rolls called " Cartas Antiquse." Charter Rolls. — Grants in the form of charters are on the Charter Rolls, 1 John to 8 Hen. VIII., of privileges to cities, towns, bodies corporate, and private trading companies belonging to those cities and towns ; of privileges to religious houses, &c. ; of markets, fairs, and free warrens. The grants of creation of nobility on the Charter Rolls are from 1 1 Edw. II. All grants which before had passed in the form of charters were at the commencement of Hen. VIH. made by letters patent. Patent Rolls. — Grants of honor, lands, licences, liveries, &c. on the Patent Rolls. All conveyances and leases of Crown lands are now made under the hands and seals of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, &c., and enrolled in books at the office of Land Revenue Records and Inrolments. This series of books begins 28 Hen. VIII. Bishops^ Patent Rolls. — Bishops' Patents, formerly on the Patent Rolls, and appointments of customers, collectors, &c. ; King's waiters, searchers, &c., formerly on the Fine Rolls; are now entered on rolls at the Petty Bag Office, called Bishops' Patent Rolls. GREAT SEAL: Matters touching the delivery of the Great Seal were anciently entered on the Close and Patent Rolls. There are rolls and books kept at the Crown Office, containing memoranda of the delivery of the Great Seal, 1601 to present time. Most matters which pass the Great Seal are entered on the Patent, Close, and Charter Rolls. GREAT WARDROBE. See WARDROBE. CHANCERY. 43 GREENWICH : Commission and return for removing the gunpowder magazine from Greenwich to Purfleet, 17th September 1760. (Crown Office.) Survey of East Greenwich manor ; a survey containing the names of the tenants, quantity of land and other descriptions, rents and other particulars, taken by commission of 7 W. HI. This survey is put up with the Perambulations of the Forests, 17 Car. I. (Petty Bag Office.) GUNPOWDER MAGAZINES. See FAVERSHAM. GREEN- WICH. PURFLEET. HABEAS CORPUS: Writs entered on the Close Rolls. HANAPER OFFICE: Abolished by 2 & 3 W. TV. c. 111., but not to be determined until the death of the present clerk, the duties then to be performed at the Crown Office. 5'ee 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 84. Duties of the Clerk of the Hanaper : — To get in the several ancient revenues of the Crown made payable to the Clerk of the Hanaper for the time being, and to pay thereout certain ancient salaries, allowances, and disbursements of divers officers of the Court of Chancery. Some of these salaries and allowances were paid by virtue of patents, and others under the authority of Acts of Parliament, and the disbursements chiefly by virtue of warrants made out under the authority of the Lord Chancellor, and di- rected to the Clerk of the Hanaper for the time being for pay- ment. Accounts of these receipts and payments were made up and passed annually before the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts. It was also the duty of this officer to take an account of all patents, commissions, and grants that pass the Great Seal, and to register the same in his office ; to collect the ancient fees thereon, and to account for certain proportions to the King, and to divers officers of the Court of Chancery. After paying thereout the particular fees to which each was respectively entitled, the remainder be- longed to the Clerk of the Hanaper. Records. — Entry books of the several instruments which pass the Great Seal, paying fees to the King, and to the Six Clerk Comp- troller of the Hanaper, &c., annually made up the 10th of October, and complete and regular from 1600. There are Hanaper accounts at the Audit Office (where the accounts were audited), also among the miscellaneous re- cords of the Queen's Remembrancer. HARBOURS : Commissions respecting. See COMMISSIONS. HARWICH : Commission for better fortifying Harwich, 1st September 1714. See COMMISSIONS. • 44 CHANCERY. HEIRS. See INQUISITIONS. FINE ROLLS. There are two vols. 8vo., printed by the Commissioners of Re- cords, under the title of Excerpta e Rotulis Finium, Hen. IH., 1216-1272. These are selections from the Fine Rolls for the purposes of genealogy, relating to deaths, succession of heirs, descent, division, and alienation of property, custody of lands, and of heirs, liveries, marriage of heiresses, &c. There is also a calendar of heirs in MS. There is also a calendar, and index at the end, containing the names of persons who had offices, who were their heirs, sometimes men- tioning their wives, their lands, &c. Hen. III. to Ric. H. one vol. This belongs to the Inquisitions. HERALDS : Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. HERETICS : Matters touching heretics entered on the Close Rolls. HOMAGE : Matters touching homage entered on the Close Rolls. HOMAGE ROLLS : Of the Nobility, &c. of Scotland to Edw. I. Duplicates among the Tower and Chapter House records. The Homage Roll is called the Ragman Roll, on which are recorded the instruments of homage and fealty to Edw. I. sworn by the clergy and barons of Scotland. There are also, both among the Tower and Chapter House records, homage bills, being the separate instruments from which probably the above inrolment was made. Those of the Chapter House, 24 & 25 Edw. I., are printed by the Record Commissioners in the volume called " Documents and Records illustrating the History of Scotland, &c." See SCOTLAND. HONOUR : Grants of honour entered on the Charter and Patent Rolls. HORKESLEY PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. HORNE BUNDLE : Anciently so called, containing bails upon special pardons. Among the miscellaneous of the Rolls Chapel Records. HORSES, ROYAL : Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. HOSPITALS. See CLERK OF THE PRESENTATIONS. HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL: Writs and mandates for regulating every branch of the royal household, entered on the Close Rolls. Rolls of household expenses, temp. John, &c., among the Tower records. CHANCERY. 45 HULL : Eegistration of lands, &c. See REGISTRATION OF LANDS, &c. HUNDRED ROLLS: Commissioners, 2 Edw. I., were instructed to summon juries to inquire into the King's rights, royalties, and prerogatives, and into frauds and abuses, and the Hundred Rolls contain the re- sults of those inquiries. Some of these rolls are among the Tower, and some among the Chapter House records. The rolls of extracts are among the Chapter House records. Taken by commission 2 Edw. I., Oct. 11. For a few counties no Hundred Rolls have been discovered. To supply this deficiency there are rolls of extracts of the inqui- sitions for all counties on three rolls, in a handwriting coeval with the inquisitions on the Hundred Rolls. These extract rolls were drawn up after the Commissioners had, 3 Edw. I., returned their rolls of inquisitions, it being necessary for the Court of Exchequer to have in one view such parts of the returns as affected the rights of the Crown and the abuses of its officers. It appears that the original Hundred Rolls of 2 Edw. I. ( ■S'ee Rot. Claus. 7 Edw. I. m. 8 d.) were delivered to the Justices in Eyre on their departure for their circuit for the purpose of holding Pleas ; and the verdict in Eyre, where there was one, and in like manner the judgment of the Justices, or at least the effect thereof, were generally entered on the Hundred Rolls. The entries thereof are numerous in the counties of Gloucester and Lincoln, and afford evidence of the connection between the Hundred Rolls and the Quo Warranto Rolls, the latter being the proceedings had in respect of the Hundred Rolls, 85c. The above Hundred Rolls of 2 Edw. I. afford evidence, upon the oath of a jury of each hundred and town in every county, of all the demesne lands of the Crown, whether ancient or newly acquired by escheat or purchase ; manors, &c. formerly in the hands of the Crown, the persons holding the same, the authority and how alienated ; tenants in capite and tenants in ancient demesne ; the losses sustained by the Crown in military services, and otherwise, by sub-infeudations made by such tenants ; aliena- tions to the church under pretext of gifts in frankalmoigne ; wardships, marriages, escheats, suits and services withholden and subtracted ; fee-farms of the Crown ; hundreds, wapentakes, and tythings ; courts ; wreck of the sea ; free chase; free warren ; fish- eries ; and other jura regalia ; oppressions of the nobility, clergy, &c. claiming to have such rights ; exactions by excessive and illegal tolls in fairs, for murage, pontage, &c. ; exactions of sheriffs, escheators, &c. ; unlawful exportations of wool, &c. Taken by commission 7 Edw. I. These are among the Tower records. There are also Hundred Rolls taken by virtue of a special commis- sion, dated 12 March, 7 Edw. I., but only those for Bedford, Buckingham, Cambridge, Huntingdon, and Oxford are known to be extant. They differ from those of 2 Edw. I., being in the nature of a general survey. The principal object of the King in this latter survey seems to have been to obtain a correct knowledge of vrhat lands were holden of the Crown by knight service and other tenures, and whether immediately of the Crown or of 46 CHANCERY. HUNDRED nOLliS-continued. mesne lords, in order that the Crown might be informed how to collect, and the subject how to pay, escuage for one species of tenure, and hidage or tallage for the other. The Commissioners were commanded to survey, by the oath of knights and other lawful men, all cities, boroughs, and market towns ; to inquire of all demesnes, fees, honors, escheats, liber- ties, and things touching fees and tenements belonging to the King or to others ; that is, to distinguish tenants holding in demesne or as villeins, bondmen, cottagers, and freeholders, and such as held woods, parks, chases, warrens, waters, rivers, liber- ties, fairs, markets, and other tenures, how and of whom, and out of what fees escuage was wont and ought to be paid, with the amount of fees of all honors, who held them, and by what means, so that every town, hamlet, and other tenure, by whatsoever name distinguished, might be distinctly assessed and clearly en- tered on rolls, and no man to be favoured. {See Patent Koll, 7 Edw. I. m. 21 d.) The whole of the Hundred Rolls and extracts are printed in two folio volumes. See INQUISITIONS. IDIOTS AND LUNATICS: Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. Commissions and inquisitions of idiotcy and lunacy, from the last year of Car. I. to present time, put up in bundles, and entered in calendars referring to such bundles. (Petty Bag Office.) Orders made by the Lord Chancellor respecting lunatics and idiots, masters' reports, and committees' accounts. (Office of Secretary of Lunatics.) Books of inrolments of grants and revocations of grants of persons and estates of lunatics, &c., and supersedeases of commissions of lunacy, from 1689 to present time. (Office of Secretary of Lunatics.) See CLERK OF THE CUSTODIES. IMPOSTS : Matter relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. INCLOSURES : Decrees respecting inclosures of manors were formerly frequently entered on the Decree Rolls. -See DECREE ROLLS. INDENTURES : entered on the Close Rolls. INHERITANCE : Grants of inheritance entered on the Patent Rolls. INNOTESCIMUS : The innotescimus is a species of certificate. It will be seen in the example contained in page xi of the Introduction to the printed volume "Rotuli Chartarum," that the King certified or made known the good conduct, &c. of a party while in England. It is used also sometimes in exemplifying letters patent, but gene- rally in exemplifying charters of feoffment, or any other instru- ments not matters of record, &c. See Introduction to " Rotuli Chartarum." CHANCERY. 47 INQUISITIONS : The inquisitions post mortem and ad quod damnum were originally all filed together, but some of the latter have been separated from the former in an attempt to make a new arrangement or separa- tion. Post Mortem. — These are in bundles arranged chronologically, and were taken by virtue of writs directed to the escheators of each county or district, to summon a jury on oath, who were to inquire on oath what lands any particular person died seised of, and by what rents or services the same were held, and who was the next heir {see PEOOFS OF AG-E), and of what age the heir was, that the King might be informed of his right of escheat or wardship. They also show whether the tenant was attainted of treason, or was an alien, in either of which cases they were seised into the King's hands. They likewise show the quantity, quality, and value of the lands of which each tenant died seised of, &c. They are the best evidences of the descent of families and of property. They begin 1 Hen. III. There are calendars which have been printed by the Record Commissioners in four folio volumes, 1 Hen. III. to Eic. III. The inquisitions come down to 20 Car. I., when there was an inter- mission of the business of the Court of Wards and Liveries, which Court was abolished soon after the Restoration (12 Car. II.) Transcripts or Duplicates. — There are authentic transcripts or duplicates of the above in the Exchequer, Queen's Eemembran- cer's Department. There are also authentic transcripts from the time of the erection of the Court of Wards and Liveries, 1540, to its abolition, 12 Car. II. There is in the British Museum (Harleian Collection, No. 624,) a copy of some rolls belonging to a period more than thirty years prior to the earliest inquisition post mortem, and affording similar information. These rolls relate to twelve counties, and contain abstracts of inqui- sitions taken in the year 1185 (31 Hen. II.) for the purpose of ascertaining the wardships, reliefs, and other profits due to the King from widows and orphans of his tenants in capite, minutely describing their ages and heir- ship, their lands, the value of them, the beasts upon them, and the additional quantity necessary to complete the stock. This document has been published by Mr. Stacey Grimaldi, entitled "Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de Donatione Eegis in XII. Comitatibus," viz., Lincoln, Northampton, Bedford, Buckingham, Eutland, Huntingdon, Norfolk, Suffolk, Hertford, Essex, Cam- bridge, Middlesex. Ad quod damnum. — Taken by virtue of writs directed to the escheator of each county when any grant of a market, fair, or other privilege or licence of alienation of land was solicited, to inquire by a jury whether such grant or alienation would be prejudicial to the King or others, in case the same should be granted. Those before Edw. II. are among the inquisi- tions post mortem. Those beginning 1 Edw. II. and ending 38 Hen. VI. are among the Tower Eecords, to which there is a printed calendar. 48 CHANCERY. INQUISITIONS— confewwerf. The writs of ad quod damnum from 9 Car. I. to present time are at the Petty Bag Office. By Stat. 27 Edw. I. s. 2. inquests made for amortising lands or inclosing, if worth more than 205., by extent, to he returned into the Exchequer ; if of the value of 20s. and under, to be returned into Chancery. See FINE ROLLS. Inquisitions on the Hundred Rolls. See HUNDRED ROLLS. De lunatieo inquirendo. — Some inquisitions will be found among the inquisitions post mortem of the Rolls Chapel Records. Inquisitions and commissions of lunacy and idiotcy from the last year of Car. I. to present time at the Petty Bag OflBce. Inquisitions and Decrees of the Commissioners of Charitable Uses, pursuant to stat. 43 Eliz., with proceedings on such decrees to the present time, contained in parts or bundles, and entered in a calendar with the name of the county and place to which the charity belongs, and in many instances the donor's name and name of the party against whom the decree is made. (Petty Bag Office.) Inquisitions taken by special commissions to inquire of estates for- feited or escheated to the Crown, and traverses thereon, Jac. I. to present time. (Petty Bag Office.) See COMMISSIONS. Inquisitions of the several monasteries, SfC. surrendered to Cardinal IVolsey — Inquisitions taken after Wolsei/s death — To be found in bundles called the Cardinal's Bundles among the miscellaneous. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. Domesday Book is the result of inquisitions of lands, and bears the same relation to the kingdom in general that the inquisitions post mortem do to each estate. Testa de Nevill is the result of inquisitions. Hen. III. and Edw. I., and contains nomina villarum, serjeanties, and knights' fees in several counties. Inquisitions are entered on the Close Rolls. INROLMENT OFFICE : Constituted by Letters Patent, 16 Eliz., for inrolment of recog- nizances, deeds, &c. in Chancery. The constitution of the office was altered by the abolition of the Six Clerks of Chancery by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103. The following are the Records : — 1. Close Rolls subsequent to those at the Public Record Office. There are indexes to the Close Rolls from the establishment of the office, 16 Eliz., to present time, remaining in the Inrolment Office. They do not pass on the indexes with the records to the Public Record Office. 2. Memorials of deeds and other securities for annuities. They were entered on the Close RoUs by authority of 17 G-. Ill-, which was repealed by 53 C III., by which latter statute they are entered or enrolled in books kept at the Inrolment Office. The memorials from 53 G. III. (from which the entries are made in books in the Inrolment Office) are passed on with the Close Rolls to the Public Record Office. Thus as many years of the Close Rolls as are retained at the Inrolment Office, so many years also of the memorials remain with them; the books in which they are entered or enrolled are always kept at the Inrol- ment Office. CHANCERY. 49 INROLMENT OFFICE IN BANKRUPTCY : The office of clerk of the inrolments in bankruptcy- was abolished bj 2 & 3 W. IV. c. Ill, but not to be determined during the life of the then clerk. Power was given by 3 & 4 W". IV. c. 84. s. 9. to re-appoint with all the powers given by 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 114. Such proceedings in bankruptcy as are required to be inroUed are entered or inserted in folio books in the custody of the secretary of bankruptcy, 1758 to present time. See BANKRUPTCY, sub-head — Clerk op the Inkolments in Bankeuptcy. INSPEXIMUS: Inspexiraus Charter, is so called from the word "inspeximus" which occurs in those charters and letters patent wherein the King informs those to whom his diploma is addressed, that he has seen some particular charter or letters patent which he recites verbatim, and then confirms, &c. An inspeximus should be inrolled on the Charter or Patent Rolls. An instance has been found of an inspeximus being enrolled on the County Placita and omitted on the proper roll. INTERROGATORIES AND DEPOSITIONS. See EXAMINERS' OFFICE. INVASIONS : Matters touching, entered on the Patent and Close Rolls. INVENTIONS : Patents of inventions ; the original patents are to be found among the Privy Seal bundles, and are entered on the Patent Rolls. Specifications of new inventions ; these were entered at the option of the party, — either : 1. on the Close Rolls ; 2. on the Specifi- cation and Surrender Rolls at the Rolls Chapel (enrolling at the Rolls Chapel was discontinued by stat. II & 12 Vict. c. 94. from 1 January 1849); or, 3. on the Specification and Surrender Rolls at the Petty Bag Office. The Specification and Surrender Rolls among the Rolls Chapel Records commence at the restoration of Car. II. Those at the Petty Bag Office begin from 8 Anne. A calendar of the Specification and Surrender Rolls among the Rolls Chapel Records is printed from 1 1 Anne to 1 Vict., in the 6th and 7th Reports of the Deputy Keeper of Records ; and a calendar of the Specifications enrolled upon the Close Rolls is printed from 11 Anne to 1 Geo. IV., in the Deputy Keeper's 6th, 7th, and 8th Reports. See SPECIFICATIONS OF IN- VENTIONS AND SURRENDERS. The law touching letters patent for inventions was amended by 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 83, and this was again amended by 2 & 3 Vict. c. 67. In the Introduction to a Treatise on the Law relating to Patent Privileges, by Mr. Hindmarch, he cites the case of Darcy v. Allen, from Sir Francis Moore's Reports ; at the end of which report it is stated, "that in the time of " Edw. III. some alchymists persuaded the King that a " Philosopher's Stone might be made ; that the King " granted a commission to two friars and two aldermen " to inquire if it were feasible, who certified that it was ; " and that the King granted to the two aldermen a patent E 50 CHANCERY. INVENTIONS— cow T 1 1 Roman Rolls, 19 Edw. 11. to 31 Edw. IH. J -K^coias. These may be considered as a branch of the Close Rolls relating to Rome and France. ROME: Papal bulls and letters begin in the reign of John (Pontificate of Innocent HI.), and end temp. Hen. VI. (Pontificate of Nicholas V.) ROUGH COAT BOOKS : These are selections from the inquisitions at the Tower, alphabeti- cally arranged. ROYAL ASSENTS: Royal assents to the election of bishops were formerly entered on the Patent Rolls. From 1725 they are entered on the Bishops' Patent Rolls at the Petty Bag Office. ROYAL LETTERS : Entered on the Close and Patent Rolls. Separate documents of Royal letters and state papers, Ric. I. to Ric. in., among the Tower Records. CHANCERY. 81 RULES: Entries of rules in causes. (Petty Bag Office.) RUMBURGH PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. SAFE CONDUCT : Fines for, entered on Fine Rolls. Letters of, entered on Patent Rolls. Writs of, entered on the Treaty or Foreign RoUs. SAINT FRISWID PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. SAINT PETER'S (IPSWICH). See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. SALARIES : Letters and orders for payment of, entered on the Liberate Rolls, also on the Close Rolls. SALE OF CROWN AND OTHER LANDS : Deeds of bargain are entered on the Close RoUs, to which there are indices. SANDWELL PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. SCntE-FACIAS : Pleadings on the law side of the Court of Chancery on writs of scire facias, among the miscellaneous. Proceedings and judgments by default, on scire facias, to revoke letters patent, to put recognizances taken by order of the Court of Chancery in suit, and also in actions by and against officers of the Court of Chancery, Eliz. to present time (Petty Bag Office). Writs of scire facias, among the miscellaneous. SCOTCH NOBILITY, ^ee HOMAGE ROLLS. SCOTCH ROLLS. See SCOTLAND. SCOTLAND : Matters relating to Scotland will be found entered on the Close Rolls. Among the miscellaneous of the Tower and Chapter House Records are numerous documents or state papers relating to Scotland, including the separate submissions, or, as they are called, "Homage Bills," being the submissions of the nobility, &c. &c. of Scotland to Edw. I. These have partly been printed, under the authority of the Record Commissioners, in a volume bearing the title, " Documents and Records illustrating the History of Scotland, &c. &c. ; " that is to say, those found among the Chapter House Records were printed in the above work. The Homage Roll, or, as it is called, the "Ragman RoU," of which duplicates exist among the Tower and Chapter House Records, contains the entries of the above-mentioned Homage Bills. There are among the Tower and Chapter House Records duplicates of what is called the " Great Roll of Scotland," on which are recorded the chief steps of the process among the competitors o 82 CHANCERY. SCOTLANB— continued. for the crown of Scotland. It is inaccurately printed in Rymer, vol. ii. pp. 542^600. ' The Scotch Bolls {Rotuli Scotia) are among the Tower and Rolls Chapel Records (except two rolls of 13 & 34 Edw. III., which are among the Chapter House Records). These are printed by the Record Commissioners in 2 vols., to which there are indexes chronological, and of names and places, and are described in the preface as follows : The materials of which this collection of historical documents is composed may be divided into political transactions ; naval and military transactions ; proceedings relative to prisoners of war ; rewards to partisans ; orders for attainders, and grants of pardon to persons attainted ; revenue ; trade ; ecclesiastical documents ; and various miscellaneous matters not referable to any of the preceding heads. 1. Political Transactions of Edw. I. — This class of documents relates to the disputed succession to the crown of Scotland on the death of Margaret of Norway ; to the claims of King Edward as superior lord of Scotland, and to the contest between Baliol, Bruce, and other competitors for the Scottish throne ; the attempts of the King and many of his successors to conquer Scotland ; safe conducts to ambassadors ; negociations and treaties of peace ; truces ; precepts to the lords marchers respecting the keeping of them, and orders to other persons for the same purpose. 2. Naval and Military Transactions, — ^The records in this depart- ment comprise preparations for wars with Scotland ; precepts to f<. the lord marchers, and to the sheriffs of counties for levying men ; orders concerning their pay and provision ; instructions to officers ; orders for garrisoning, fortifying, and victualling cas- tles ; exemptions in favour of particular persons from serving in the wars or in garrisons ; impressment of ships and seamen for various expeditions; together with notices of the particular classes of soldiers employed, and as to their arms and other equipments. 3. The Proceedings relative to Prisoners of War include negotia- tions for ransoming them ; licences and safe conducts to the families and agents of prisoners of war to pass and repass; especial negotiations for the ransom of David (Bruce), King of Scotland, and acquittances for the same. 4. Rewards to Partisans. — This class of instruments comprehends grants of estates, &c., generally to persons of Scotland who had rendered essential aid to the Kings of England in their claims to the crown of Scotland. 5. Attainders of Persons having acted against Edw. I. or his suc- cessors, and grants of pardon to them. 6. Revenue. — ^Under this head are contained orders for raising money by various means, particularly by customs to be levied on merchandize, especially at Berwick ; the grants and orders con- cerning which are exceedingly numerous. 7. Trade. — In this class are comprised licences to Scottish mer- chants to trade in certain English ports, and to English and Scottish merchants to trade with foreign ports. 8. Ecclesiastical Doctiments. — These include grants of benefices, licences, and safe conducts to persons going on pilgrimages to reputed holy places in Palestine and elsewhere. CHANCERY. 83 SCOTLAND— continued. 9. Miscellaneous, whicli cannot with propriety be referred to any of the preceding classes, consisting of materials for forming lists of state officers ; licences to particular persons to fight duels in Scotland; licences to students in Scotland to prosecute their studies in England, particularly at Oxford and Cambridge; grants of wardships, &c. &c. See HOMAGE ROLLS. SCULPTURE : ~ On the Close Rolls are various instructions as to sculptures, paint- ings, &c., particularly temp. Hen. HI. SCUTAGE : Matters relating to scutage entered on the Close Rolls. There are also rolls of aids, scutages, subsidies, &c., among the Tower Records. SEALS : By Stat. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 94. a seal is directed to be provided for the Public Record Office to stamp certified copies of records. By Stat. 1 1 & 12 Vict. c. 94. a seal is directed to be provided for the Petty Bag Office, and to be received in evidence, the same as the Great Seal. Also another seal or stamp is directed to be provided for the Inrolment Office, and to be received in evidence. SEARCHERS OP CUSTOMS : Their appointments entered on the Fine RoUs. But from 1725 they are on inrolments at the Petty Bag Office, called the Bishops' Patent Rolls. The warrants also from which they were enrolled are at the Petty Bag Office. SECRETARY OF LUNATICS. See LUNACY- CLERK- OF THE CUSTODIES. SEIZINS : Livery and seizin of lands entered on the Close RoUs. SEQUESTRATIONS : Bargains and sales of sequestrations temp. Commonwealth entered on the Close Rolls. SERJEANTS-AT-LAW : Matters relating to serjeants-at-law entered on the Close RoUs. Admissions of serjeants-at-law ; inrolments of, temp. Eliz. to present time (Petty Bag Office). Writs for calling Serjeants (Petty Bag Office). There are no entries at the Petty Bag Office from 1714 to 1741. These will be obtained from the dockets at the Crown Office. SETTLEMENTS AND WILLS : Of Roman Catholics, entered on the Close RoUs. SEWERS : The commissioners of sewers are a court of record, formerly created by virtue of a commission under the Great Seal, which formerly used to be granted pro re nata at the pleasure of the Crown, but at the discretion and nomination of the Lord Chan- ceUor, Lord Treasurer, and Chief Justices, pursuant to stat. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 5. Their jurisdiction is, to overlook the repairs of sea-banks and sea-waUs, and the cleansing of rivers, public streams, ditches, &c., whereby any waters are carried oflf, q2 84 CHANCERY. SEWERS —continued. and is confined to such county or particular district as the commission shall express. Before the stat. 13 Eliz. c. 9., no commission of sewers" could continue longer than five years ; by which stat. it was continued to ten years, unless superseded. The commissioners were relieved from making for the future any certificate or return of their commission, or of any their ordinances, laws, or doings. By stat. 3 Jac. I. c. 14. watercourses, &c. falling into the Thames within two miles of London were made subject to the commission of sewers under the stat. of sewers, 23 Hen. VIII. c. 5. London Seweks regulated, and commissioners appointed by the Corporation of London, by 18 & 19 Car. II. and 22 & 23 Car. 11. c. 17. By 7 Anne, c. 32. the commissioners of sewers of London to have the same powers as the commissioners for counties. Laws relating to sewers amended by 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 22. See also 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 96. and 11 & 12 Vict. c. 1 12. Records. — Commissions and adjudications of sewers to be found among the Miscellaneous. Laws and adjudications of sewers, Jac. I., Car. I. & II., G. III., W. IV., in bundles ; to which there is a calendar ; Petty Bag Office. Six books of original petitions and flats for commissions of sewers, from 1685 (Crown Office). Commissions for sewers, on the Patent Rolls. SHEERNESS : Commission for better securing, &c., 26th August 1780, and return (Crown Office). SHERIFFS : Anciently there was a bundle among the Rolls Chapel Records, called the Pot Bundle, containing bills from the Exchequer of the names of all sheriffs who had there put in sureties, and all warrants of attorney for all sheriffs of counties and cities which have sheriffs. These will be found among the Miscellaneous. See ROLLS CHAPEL OFFICE. POT BUNDLE. Sheriffs and other appointments for revenue purposes are entered on the Fine RoUs. Writs of dedimus for taking sheriffs' oaths. See ARROW BUNDLE. Rolls signed by the Sovereign from about 1720 to present time, containing the names of those who have been nominated yearly for sheriffs for England and Wales by the Privy Council, which rolls contain the names of the sheriffs appointed (Office of Clerks of Records and Writs, formerly the office of the Six Clerks, it being the duty of the Six Clerks to make out from thence the sheriffs' patents). As the keeper of the King's peace, both by common law and special commission, the sheriff is the flrst man in the county, and superior in rank to any nobleman therein during his office. SIGNED BILLS. SIGNET BILLS. See PATENT ROLLS. PRIVY SEAL AND SIGNED BILL, &c. BUNDLES. SIGN-MANUALS : In the Privy Seal Bundles. -See PATENT ROLLS. CHANCERY. 85 SIGNIFICAVITS : Significavits _ from the Ecclesiastical Courts, whereon writs de excommunicato capiendo and contumace capiendo were issued, formerly the Cursitors' Records (Petty Bag Office). The common writ ot significavit (so called from an emphatic word in the writ) is the same as the writ excommunicato capiendo. It is issued out of Chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for imprisoning him until he submit himself to the authority of the Church. SIX CLERKS : Of the Court of Chancery abolished, and a Clerk of Inrolment, Clerks of Records and Writs, &c., appointed to do their duties by Stat. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103. The Six Clerks are called the Prothonotaries of the Court in Bladen's Six Clerks Office, pp. 12, 18, 291, MS.; and Fleta, who wrote in time of Edw. II. lib. ii. ch. 13, describing the Court of Chancery, saith, " Habet etiam Rex sex clericos suos prsenotarios " in Cancellaria sua," &c. The duties of the Six Clerks were : — To receive and file all bills, answers, replications, and other records in all causes on the equity side of the Court of Chancery, and to enter memoranda of them in books, from which they were to certify to the Court, as occasion may require, the state of proceedings in causes. They signed all copies of pleadings made by the sworn clerks and waiting clerks, after seeing that the originals were regularly filed ; after each term they presented to be set down the causes ready for hearing in the ensuing term. They attended in term time to read the documents required to be read in causes. They examined and signed dockets of decrees and dismissions prepared for inrolment, and saw that the records and orders were duly filed and entered, which they certified previously to the presentation of the dockets to the Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, or the Vice- Chancellors, for signature. They had the care of all records in their office, which remained in their studies for the space of six terms, for the sworn clerks and waiting clerks to resort to without fee. They afterwards sorted them, and laid them up in their record room in bundles, making indexes or calendars to them. The remaining business in their office on the equity side of the Court was transacted by the sworn and wait- ing clerks. Instead of each Six Clerk employing a deputy under him (as was formerly the practice) to transact his business during the vacation, and to take care of the records in his particular division, the Six Clerks afterwards em- ployed one clerk under them all, for the care of the records in every division, whereby the disturbance of the records, which was stated to have taken place under the more ancient practice, was prevented : one or more of the Six Clerks attended in person during vacations. -12 M-5 en ir| O P* m (D ■^ J* ." tn 'd o 9 -s e2 $ i^ rtf OJ O CO <0 r^ -^^ O o « S u S t^'^ la n 00 86 CHANCERY. 6 S SIX CLERKS— continued. ' In addition to their duties on tte equity aide, they had other duties : viz., they were comptrollers of the Hanaper, and enrolled the warrants for grants which % M c .■§ "( passed the Great Seal. The Six Clerks also wrote and engrossed Letters Patent for Sheriffs, with the writs incident thereto, and they had the custody of the Sheriffs Eolls. o I >» iS -I a -H ^ . S «I- ■" Si m lA ^ ^ .2 "3 S to The Six Clerks were the nominal attorneys in all causes depending in the Petty Bag, and it was their >duty to enter in a book all rules in causes given by the Clerks of the Petty Bag. See PETTY BAG OFFICE. 3 rt 3 cl The Records of the Six Clerks, and their successors, are as follow, and are kept at the office of the Clerks of Records and "Writs, Chancery Lane. Bills, Answers, Replications, Depositions of "Witnesses taken by Commission in the Country, with the Interrogatories thereto annexed ; Commissions of Partitions for dividing Lands, ascer- taining Boundaries, and assigning Dowers, with the Returns ; Answers and Examinations of parties taken by Commission in matters of Bankruptcy and Lunacy.; all the above from 1714 to present time. The early proceedings are among the Tower Records. There are also certain unpublished depositions taken by Com- missions issued out of the Six Clerks Office from about 1600 to present time. There were also Inrolments of Decrees of Court, with the Dockets or Warrants from which they have been ' enrolled, from about Eliz. ; but by an order of the Master of the Eolls, dated 18th January 1838, these have been or ought to have been deposited among the Rolls Chapel Records. Also, Filing Books, Rule Books, Bill Books. Also, Sheriffs Rolls signed by the Sovereign, containing the names of those nominated yearly as Sheriffs for England and "Wales from about 1720 to present time. It being the duty of the proper officer to make out from them the Patents of the Sheriffs. Also, Patent Rolls and Privy Seal and Signed Bill Bundles subsequent to those at the Petty Bag Office. The Rolls for the last four or five years are retained before they are passed on to the Petty Bag Office, and from thence to the Public Record Office. SNAPE PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. SPECIAL COMMISSIONS. See COMMISSIONS. SPECIFICATIONS OF INVENTIONS AND SURRENDERS : By Stat. 5 & 6 "W. TV. c. 83. Disclaimers and Memorandums of alterations of Inventions are allowed to be entered, and enrolled, with the Specifications. This Act was amended by 2 & 3 Vict, c. 67. There were three distinct Inrolments of Specifications of Inventions, viz. : — 1. on the Close Rolls; 2. on Specification and Surrender Rolls at the Rolls Chapel Office ; or, 3. on Specification Rolls at CHANCERY. 87 SPECIFICATIONS, he— continued. the Petty Bag Office. It was at the option of the party suing out the Patent to enrol his Specification on any of the above rolls, Therefore any person requiring to search for a particular Speci- fication may have to apply at three ofiices before he obtains the object of his search. But stat. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 94. directs the Inrolment of Specifications to be made at the Inrolment Office from and after 1st January 1849. The Specification RoUs among the Rolls Chapel Records commence at the Restoration of Car. 11. They also contain Surrenders to the Sovereign by any corporate body, or by any subject of any office, &c. Those at the Petty Bag Office commence 8 Anne. A Calendar is printed of those of the Rolls Chapel in the Deputy Keeper's 6th Report, App. 11. pp. 116-203 ; continued in the 7th Report, App. 11. pp. 101-210 ; and continued in the 8th Report, App. II. pp. 82-134. STANNARIES : Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. STANSGATE PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. STAPLE ROLLS AND BUNDLES : The Staple Rolls among the Tower Records are from 27 Edw. III. to 23 Ric. II. and 1 to 39 Hen. VI. For Staple Bundles,— see STATUTE STAPLE. STATE PAPERS OR DOCUMENTS : There are entries of state documents on the Close, Patent, Treaty, and Foreign Rolls. Domestic and foreign from the time of Richard I., among the Tower Records. Printed in the Deputy Keeper's 3d Report, App. 11. p. 199 i 4.th Report, App. IL p. 140; 5th Report, App. 11. p. 36 and 60 ; 6th Report, App. II. p. 88 ; 7th Report, App. 11. p. 239. There are similar letters to the above and part of the same series among the Chapter House Records ; a calendar of them is printed in the Deputy Keeper's 8th Report, App. 11. p. 180. Papal Bulls ; inventory of those among the Tower Records is printed in the Deputy Keeper's 5th Report, App. II. p. 45. Ireland. — Bundles concerning Ireland, among the miscellaneous of the Tower Records. Petitions concerning Ireland, among the miscellaneous of the Tower Records. STATUTA WALLI^ : (Statutes of Wales, 12 Edw. L), both among the Tower and the Chapter House Records. See the printed statutes of the realm, 12 Edw. I. STATUTE ROLLS. See PARLIAMENT. STATUTE STAPLE: Certificates of statutes staple, extents returned thereon, and liber- ates, will be found among the miscellaneous of the Rolls Chapel, An inventory of them is printed in the Deputy Keeper's 4th Re- port. App. II. pp. 110-112. See CERTIFICATES. 88 CHANCERY. STATUTE STAPLE- continued. Extents, re-extents, and other proceedings on the statute staple from the beginning of Jac. I. to present time. These are put up in bundles, and are entered in calendars under the title " IVriis of Executioti," in terms in which the proceedings were had (Petty Bag Office). These were formerly made out by the Cursitors, but in the time of Queen Mary were annexed to the Crown Office. (Gilbert's Chancery, p. 9.) For particulars touching the statute staple, see stat. 27 Edw. III. Stat. 2. c. 9. See the statute of merchants, 11 & 13 Edw. I. See stat. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 6. See Stat. 8 Gr. I. c. 26. No proceedings have been had upon statutes staple since 15 G. III. STATUTES : Confirmation of the statutes of Oriel College, Oxford, 1326. (Rot. Pat. 4 Edw. III., part 2, membrane 35.) Confirmation of statutes of University College, Oxford. (Rot. Pat. 9 G. II., p. 1, m. 10.) Royal commissions were appointed in 1850 to inquire into the Oxford and Cambridge Universities, for which commissions an immense number of statutes and docu- ments were copied from the public records, which will be printed in the Commissioners' Reports. STOOLE BUNDLES : Bundles anciently so called containing transcripts of supersedeas for peace and good behaviour. (Among the miscellaneous.) SUBDEANERIES. See CLERK OF THE PRESENTATIONS. SUBPOENA OFFICE : Office of Patentee suppressed by 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111., and by 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 94., the duties to be performed by the Clerk of the Affidavits, who by the said last-mentioned statute was to be appointed in lieu of the Registrar of Affidavits ; but 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 94. was in part repealed by 8 & 9 Vict. c. 105. s. 3., which transfers the duties to the Clerks of Records and Writs after the death or resignation of the Patentee. A subpoena is the leading process in the Court of Chancery. See AFFIDAVITS. The duty of the office was to make out, write, and engross all writs of subpoena sued out of the Court of Chancery, sealed with the Great Seal. In order to obtain the seal to a subpoena of which the blank form was filled up by the solicitor, a prsecipe was made out upon paper and left at the office. These praecipes were alphabetically arranged according to the names of the solicitors by whom they were sued out, the searches having been usually made in the names of such solicitors. The subpoenas were formerly entered in a book, but discontinued by order of the patentee, the Earl of Devon. The prsecipes are frequently searched in order to ascertain whether the subpoena charged in the bill of costs of the solicitor was really issued. The records of the office are prascipes for subpoenas. CHANCERY. 89 SUBSIDY COMMISSIONS: In certain orders of Chancery it is stated that in 1554 the Six Clerks made out the commissions for subsidy, &c., but that they ■were enrolled at the Petty Bag Office. (Sanders' Orders in Chancery, p. 12.) SUITORS : For their accounts, &c. see ACCOUNTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. REPORT OFFICE. SUMMONS : Writs of summons to Parliament. /See PARLIAMENT. WRITS. SUPERONERATIONE : By Stat. 13 Edw. I. sect. 8. ■writs de secunda superoneratione ■were to be enrolled in Chancery, and at the year's end the transcripts to be sent into the Exchequer, under the seal of the Chancellor. They ■will be found on the Originalia. SUPERSEDEAS. See BANKRUPTCY. Writs of supersedeas are issued from the Cro^wn Office by authority of the Lord Chancellor. The Masters only used to make writs of supersedeas (1654). Sanders' Orders in Chancery, p. 11, SUPERSTITIOUS USES : Commissions to inquire of lands given for superstitious uses. (Petty Bag Office.) These Commissions are under stat. 1 Edw. VI. c. 14. s. 8. See Stat. 23 Hen. VIEE. c. 10., making void all grants of lands for superstitious uses for a longer time than twenty years. SURRENDERS OF OFFICES, &c. See SPECIFICATIONS OF INVENTIONS AND SURRENDERS. Surrenders of religious houses entered on the back of the Close Bolls. Patents surrendered ■will be found among the miscellaneous. See ARROW BUNDLE. There are some original surrenders of offices in the la^w, returned after having been enrolled ; one of 5 Gr. 11., some of G. III., but no complete series. (Crown Office.) SURVEYS. See HUNDRED ROLLS. INQUISITIONS. Of the manor of East Green-wich (Kent). This is put up with the Bundle of Perambulations temp. Car. I. (Petty Bag Office.) Of church livings (or parochial surveys) for several counties, temp. interregnum, among the miscellaneous. SWAINMOTE. See FORESTS. SWEARING ROLLS. See OATHS. TALLAGE : Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. TALLIES : Matters relating to tallies entered on the Close Rolls. 90' CHANCERY. TAXATION ROLL : The taxation of ecclesiastical benefices made in the pontificate of Pope Nicholas IV., 1292, (20 Edw. I.) by which all taxes to the King and Pope were regulated, and the statutes of colleges founded before the Reformation are interpreted, and according to which, benefices under a certain value are exempted from the restriction in the stat. 21 Hen. VIII. concerning pluralities. The above Taxation Roll was returned into Chancery by virtue of the King's writ, being a transcript from the original in the Exchequer. Taxation RoU for Scotland. See RAGMAN ROLL. TAXATION OF THE JEWS : RoU of, 19 Edw. I. among the Tower Records. , TAXES: Matters relating to, will be found entered on the Close Rolls. TEMPORALTIES : Restitutions of temporalties to ecclesiastical persons were formerly entered on the Patent Rolls. But the writs of restitution of temporalties to Archbishops, Bishops, &c. are entered now on the Bishops' Rolls at the Petty Bag Ofiice, from 1725 ; where are, also^ the original warrants for issuing writs of restitution, &c. See RESTITUTIONS OF TEMPORALTIES TO BISHOPS, &c. BISHOPS' PATENTS. TENTHS OR DISMES : Commissions of. See COMMISSIONS. TENURES. See HUNDRED ROLLS. THAMES RIVER : Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. THOBY PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. tiTRE PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. TOPOGRAPHY : Search the Chancery Proceedings ; the Patent Rolls ; the Fine RoUs. TOURNAMENTS : Matters relating to, entered on the Patent and Close Rolls. TOWER : The earliest transmission.of Chancery Records to the Tower took place 14 Edw. HI. At this time also the office of Keeper of the Tower Records was instituted ; and the same King soon after, for the better preservation of the Chancery and Parliamentary Records, until such time as they should be removed to the Tower, annexed the House of Converted Jews (Domus Conversorum, now called the Rolls House) to the office of the Master of the Rolls. There was a precept (Rot. Pat. 9 Eliz., part 6) to the Clerk of the Parliaments to remove all rolls of Parliament, petitions, judgments, attainders, and other records of CHANCERY. 91 TOWER— continued. Parliament to tlie Tower, from 22 Edw. IV. to 1 Mary. Also to Sir W. Cordell, Master of the Rolls, for removal of Parliament, Patent, Charter, Close, and all other Rolls for the same period. [This order does not appear to have been fully acted on, as those from Ric. HI. remained in the Rolls Chapel.] For the times of transmission of various Equity Records, .tee the ■2d Report of the Deputy Keeper of Records, page 43. Heads of reference Tower : — Almain. Cartae Antique. Charter. Close. Coronation. Court. Exchange. Extract. Fine. French. Gascon. Homage (Ragman). Hundred. to the Chancery and other Records of the 1. Chancery Rolls. Liberate. Mint and Coinage. Misas. Norman. Oblata. Ordinances. Pardon. Parliament. Patent. Perambulation. Praestita. Protection. Redisseisin. Roman. Scotch. Staple. Subsidy. Taxation. Do. Jews. Treaty. Vascon. jSfee Gascon. Voyages, Royal, Hen. IV. Wardrobe. Welsh. 2. Chancery Files or Bundles, &c. Petitions to Parliament and to King and Council. Placita, or Common Law Pro- ceedings. Privy Seal and Signed Bill Bundles. Writs. Brevia Regia, being Writs to Sheriffs to cause Inquisitions to be taken of Lands, &c. Chancery Judicial Proceedings. Homage Bills, 25, 26 Edw. I. Inquisitions. Papal Bulls and State Papers. Miscellaneous. Prayer Book deposited pursuant to Act of Uniformity, 14 Car. II. c. 4. For printed inventories of the Tower Records, see Appendix II. of the Deputy Keeper's 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th Reports. TRADE : Grants of privileges to trading companies entered on the Charter and Patent Rolls. TRANSCRIPTS BY WRIT : Are copies sent into Chancery in answer to the King's writ or mandate, calling for a copy from the officer in whose custody the record is preserved. See TAXATION ROLL. TREASON : ■ Special Commissions of Inquiry and Inquisitions, &c. thereon, Jac. L *o present time (Petty Bag Office). See COMMIS- SIONS. 92 CHANCERY. TREASURER'S BUNDLE, OR PURSP BUNDLE : A bundle anciently called the Treasurer's or Purse Bundle, con- taining warrants of escheators, customers, controllers, searchers, ulnagers, and the like. Among the miscellaneous. TREASURE TROVE: Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. TREATIES : It was the duty of the prothonotary of Chancery to write, pass under the Great Seal, and enrol commissions, powers, and orders to ambassadors, &c., treaties, leagues, ratifications, and other instruments which passed between the sovereign of this country and foreign sovereigns and states. The prothonotary ceased to perform any duties long before the office was abolished, which took place by stat. 2 & 3 W. 4. c. 111. The above matters are entered on the Treaty Rolls. The Treaty RoUs ceased to be brought into Chancery after 22 Jac. I. The following exhibit the dates of the respective Treaty Rolls : — French Rolls commence 1 Edw. II. to 26 Car. II. Roman Rolls, some of which contain entries relating to France, commence 34 Edw. I. to 31 Edw. III. Almain or German, 22 Edw. I. to 15 Edw. III. Scotch, 19 Edw. L ta7 Hen. VIH. These were printed in two folio volumes by the Commission- ers of Records, with chronological indexes at the begin- ning, and indices nominum et locorum at the end. See SCOTLAND. Welsh, 5 to 23 Edw. L Irish, 1 to 50 Edw. III. Treaties and truces are also entered on the early Close Rolls. Negociations and ratifications, &c. are also entered on the Patent RoUs. There are also original treaties among the Tower, Rolls Chapel, and Chapter House Records. The original treaties at the State Paper Office are from 1528 to G. in. The first attempt that was made to form a collection of treaties was in the compilation of the smaller Black Book of the Exchequer, at the beginning of which are entered five charters of convention and four papal bulls. Similar instruments will be found in the two muniment books of the Exchequer (Chapter House), liber A. and liber B. TRUCES. See TREATIES. TUCKFORD PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. TUMULTS: Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. TUNBRIDGE PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. TYTHES: Matters relating to tythes entered on the Close Rolls. Decrees were formerly often made in the Court of Chancery to settle the customs of manors in cases of tythes, and entered on the Decree Rolls. CHANCERY. 93 UNIVERSITIES: Matters relating to the Universities entered on the Close EoUs. Confirmation of Statutes of Oriel College, Oxford (1326), Rot. Pat. 4 Edw. in. part 2. m. 35. Ditto University College, Oxford, Rot. Pat. 9 Gr. II. p. 1. m. 10. See STATUTES. VASCON ROLLS : The Vascon Rolls are thus divided : — Charters and Patents, 26 Hen. III. Contrabrevia^ Fine V27Hen. HL Liberate J Vascon generally, 39 Hen. III. to 22 Edw. 1. Protections, 22 Edw. I. Vascon generally, 23 Edw. I. to 7 Edw. IV. VERDERERS : Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. Return of writs for electing verderers. (Petty Bag Office.) See WRITS. VETUS CODEX, or BLACK BOOK OP THE TOWER : Is said to be the only ancient copy of a roll of Parliament. It does not appear by what person or on what occasion this tran- script was made, but it is mentioned in the Rot. Pari. 6 Ric. II. p. 2. m. 26. as being then in the Tower of London. It was from this MS. that Riley printed the Placita Parliamentaria. VICARAGES. See CLERK OF THE PRESENTATIONS. VIDIMUS : A Vidimus is similar to a Notarial Certificate, in which the tenor of Royal charters, papal bulls, donations, and other writings is copied and attested for the purpose of perpetuation when the originals happen to be in a state of decay, or in danger by removal from place to place. There is another species of Vidimus. Previous to and in the early part of Hen. VI. it was the practice for the King to grant letters of protection or safe-conduct to persons specifically named and numbered in such letters, and to every of them conjointly or separately, as also to a specific number of persons (not named) who travelled in their company. It appears that each of those persons was supplied with a vidimus copy of such letters, pro- perly sealed and authenticated. The word Vidimus was used in France in the same sense, and applied to the same purposes, as the word Inspeximus in England. {See Hardy's Introduction to the printed volume, "RotuU Chartarum.") VOYAGES, ROYAL : Matters relating to Royal voyages entered on the Close Rolls. There is among the Tower Records a roll of Royal voyages, 1 Hen. IV. 94 .CHANCERY. WAITERS, KING'S, (OR SEARCHERS): Their appointments, commencing 1 725, are entered on the Bishops Patent Rolls at the Petty Bag Office, where are also the ori- ginals from whence the inrolments were made. WALES: Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. There is among the Chapter House Records a roll of extracts from the Close Rolls touching Wales. There are Revenue Rolls of the Prince of Wales, 47, 48, 49 Edvr. m. among the Tower Records. Statuta Wallise, statutes of Wales, 12 Edw. I., among the Tower Records, also among the Chapter House Records. Printed in vol.1. p. 55, of the Statutes of the Realm. See WELSH ROLLS. WALLINGFORD PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. WARDROBE : Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. There is a roll called Warderobae Recepta, 10 Hen. III., among the Tower Records. There are rolls of the Great Wardrobe, 10 Edw. I. and 17 Edw. II., among the Tower Records; and also various Wardrobe account books, Edw. I. There are Ordinances of the Privy Council, temp. Hen. VI., for the governance of the King's Wardrobe, among the Tower Records. WARDS. WARDSHIPS: Entered on the Close Rolls. Pines for i gj^^g^.^^ ^^ ^^^ Patent Rolls. Grants or, ! See PROOFS OF AGE. HEIRS. WARRANTS : In the Privy Seal and Signed Bill Bundles. Entry Books of warrants appointing Serjeants, &c. to the several circuits, and fiats from the Lord Chancellor for the several circuit commissions, 1705 to present time. (Crown Office.) Warrants of attorney for suffering common recoveries taken by dedimus potestatem, formerly the Cursitors' Records. (Petty Bag Office.) Warrants for enrolling bishops' patents, customers, &c. (Petty Bag Office.) Warrants of attorney for sheriffs of counties and cities, sent into Chancery from the Exchequer. Among the miscellaneous of the RoUs Chapel. See SHERIFFS. WARRENS : Matters relating to free warrens entered on the Close Rolls. WATSON'S ROLL : A Patent Roll of divers years of the reign of Elizabeth, containing grants, special commissions, &c. Powell, in his book printed 1622, called "Directions for Search," &c.," p. 4, describes a roll in the Rolls Chapel as follows : — " The roll called Watson's Roll, containing divers grants and other things confusedly and promiscuously laid together, which one Watson (some time clerk of the Great Seal between the 30th and 40th years of Queen Eliz.) did for six or seven years together keep in his chest, and upon his death they were found, and brought into the Chapel of the Rolls." CHANCERY. 95 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES : Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. "WELSH ROLLS. See WALES. 5 to 23 Edw. I., among the Tower Records. See TREATIES. WIKES PRIORY. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. WILLS: The wills of James and George Viscounts Lanesborough were en- rolled in Chancery pursuant to Act of Parliament 24 G. H., and remain with the Act in the Certiorari Bundle among the Rolls Chapel Records. Of Roman Catholics, entered on the Close Rolls. Extracts of wills from every register from the different counties, divisions, &c. are now under stat. 42 G. IH. c. 99. (1802) sent to the Legacy Duty Office. See sect. 3 of the above Act. By stat. 7 Anne, c. 20. memorials of wills affecting lands, tene- ments, or hereditaments, co. Middlesex, were directed to be registered in an office directed to be established by the said Act; in which also were to be registered all deeds, conveyances, &c. in the said counties. A similar Act for the West Riding of Yorkshire was passed, 2 & 3 Anne, c. 4. ; and for the East Riding and Hull, 6 Anne, c. 62. And another for the North Riding, 8 G. H. c. 6. Sess. Paper H.C. 1845, No. 249, exhibits the extraordinary number ofjurisdictions where wills are to be found, showing that they are , deposited in parish churches, private houses of registrars, with lords of manors, &c. &c. This return supersedes in part Sess. Paper 1828, No. 372; Sess. Paper 1829, No. 177; Sess. Paper 1830, No. 205; Sess. Paper 1843, No. 510. Sess. Paper 1830, No. 205, is a very extensive and valuable return. At page 374 of the printed proceedings of the Record Commissioners (otherwise called Agenda) is a suggestion for printing a calendar or index to wills. WINCHESTER, SEE OF: Decree and judgment of the Commissioners for purchasing lands belonging to the see of Winchester at Gosport, 10 Nov. 1830, by virtue of a commission dated 29th Sept. 1806. (Crown Office.) WOLSEY, CARDINAL. See CARDINAL'S BUNDLES. WOOL : Matters relating to, entered on the Close Rolls. WORKS, ROYAL: Matters relating to Royal Works entered on the Close RoUs. WRITS : Eqtjity Weits.— It was the duty of the Sworn Clerks of the Court of Chancery to make out all writs, special and common, on the equity side of the Court of Cliancery in the causes wherein they were respectively employed. This duty is now by stat. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103. transferred to certain new officers, called Clerks of Records and Writs. Their office is what was formerly that of the Six Clerks. 96 CHANCERY. Among the EoUs Chapel Records. See ARROW BUNDLE. Petty J>Bag Office. WRTI^—conUnued. Common Law Weixs. — The Cursitors made out all original writs issuing out of Chancery. The duties of the Cursitors were trans- ferred to the Petty Bag Office by stat. 5 & 6 W. 4. c. 82. s. 10. Original Writs in the Brevia Regia among the Tower Records. Writs of summons and returns to Parliament are among the Tower, Rolls Chapel, Petty Bag Office, and Crown Office Records. See PAELLAMENT. Writs : — Audita querela. Ex gravi querela, Scire facias, De coronatore 1 ,. , Deviridiario ) ^ligendo, Of dower, Dedimus, Ad quod damnum, Dedimuses to swear Masters Extraordinary in Chancery, Justices of Peace, and Sheriffs, Certioraris to remove records, Calling serjeants-at-law. And returns for electing verderers and re- garders of forests, from 9 Car. L Entries of Writs : — Habeas Corpus, For regulating Royal household, Ne exeant regni. For expenses of knights, citizens, and burgesses, ^Rolls Of summons to Parliament, I Of dower, J Safe Conduct - - - Treaty Rolls, To Sheriffs for restoring lands to") „ ,. . . ., ,, those unlawfully dispossessed - ) «edisseism RoUs, To Sheriffs for delivery of lands which had been extended - Of restitution of temporalties, before 1725 - {Bishops' Patent RoUs at Petty Bag Office. De diem clausit extremum - - Fine Rolls. Of extent, 1601 to 1775 - - Crown Office. WRITS (CLERKS OF RECORDS AND WRITS). See CLERKS OF RECORDS AND WRITS' OFFICE. WRITS OF SUMMONS, ^-ee PARLIAMENT. Close I Liberate Rolls. ; j Patent Rolls. YORKSHIRE : Registration of Lands. See REGISTRATION OF LANDS, &o. QUEEN'S BENCH. This, like the other Courts, had its origin in the Curia Eegis (or King's Court). It does not appear at what precise time the latter Court merged its title into that of King's Bench ; it is, however, clear from the statutes, that in the 52d year of the reign of Henry III. it was called the King's Court, and in the 3d year of the reign of Edward I. (stat. Westm. c. 46.) it was called the Court of King's Bench. And in the old calendars we find that the Records are called Curia Regis Rolls to^ the end of Henry HI., and from that time they are called King's Bench Rolls. Following the principle adopted in the Chancery arrangement, a note is preserved of the recent changes in the offices of this Court, as follow : — By stat. 1 Vict. c. 30. the following offices were abolished on tlie Plea Side of the Court of Queen's Bench, and the duties were directed to be performed by Five Masters : Chief Clerk— Secondary or Master of Queen's Bench Office — Clerk of the Rules — Clerk of the Papers — Clerk of the Dockets and Judgments — Signer of the Writs — Clerk of the Declarations — Clerk of the Common Bails or Appearances, Estreats and Posteas — Gustos Brevium et Recordorum — Clerk of the Inner and Upper Treasuries — Clerk of the Outer Treasury — Clerks of the Nisi Prius for London, Middlesex, and the several Circuits in England and Wales — Bagbearer to the Gustos Brevium — Clerk of the Errors — Filacer, Exi- genter, and Clerk of the Outlawries — Signer of the Bills of Middlesex. By stat. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 34. the separate Seal Office was entirely abolished, and the Writs and Processes were directed to be sealed, &c. by the Masters of the Court. QUEEN'S BENCH. ACCOUNTS : Plea Side ; ■ Court or Chamber Keeper's Accounts. of monies received in and paid out of Court. of the Signer of the Writs. ADMISSIONS : Oath Rolls required to be subscribed by attorneys on their admis- sions, &c. AFFIDAVITS : Plea Side : upon which defendants in suit have been arrested. sworn in town, formerly filed at the Rule Office. sworn in the country. made by attorneys on being articled and admitted. of service of writs. general. of debt. of increased costs, called " Masters' Affidavits." of duty paid on articles of clerkship, &c. There are Alphabetical Indices. Crown Side : general. in support of motions. Sec. A chronological catalogue has been kept since Michaelmas 1768 of all affidavits filed, &c. ALLEGIANCE : Oath or Allegiance Rolls. See OATHS. AMERCIAMENTS AND RECOGNIZANCES FORFEITED : Entry books. APPEALS : Crown Side : Appeals are entered on the Special Writ Rolls, which are bound up with the Bag Rolls. APPEARANCES. See BAIL. Plea Side: Appearance books. Appearances in ejectments. Appearances are now recorded by entering the particulars upon an appearance-piece, that is to say, a blank form printed upon parchment, filled up by the attorney. These h2 100 aUEEN'S EENCH. APPEARANCES— cow^wMfirf. appearances are daily entered in a book which is kept alphabetically in the following form : — Date. Defendant. PlaintiSf. Attorney. 1st July, J. Allen. C. Smith. Tatham. The appearance-pieces are placed on files. Crown Side : Books containing minutes of appearances and picas. See BAIL. ARTICLES OF CLERKS. See CLERKS' ARTICLES. See ATTORNEYS. ARTICLES OF THE PEACE : Crown Side : Articles of the peace in bundles or files. ATTACHMENTS OF CONTEMPT. See INTERROGATORIES. Crown Side : Writs of attachment, &c. will be found on the files called " Record of Orders." ATTAINDERS : The Baga de Secretis contains Recoi-ds of Attainders. CROWN ROLLS. See INDICTMENTS. See ATTORNEYS : Aflidavits made by attorneys on being articled. Ditto on being admitted. ■ Judges' fiats, being the authority for admitting attorneys. • Oath Rolls required to be subscribed by attorneys upon admission, together with the subscriptions of those admitted. ■ Parchment books, containing the names of all attorneys who have subscribed the Oath Rolls— entered alpha- betically. These are in fact indexes. ■ Article books, containing the substance of the articles. ■ Annual certificate books, being alphabetical lists of attorneys who have taken out their certificates for the current year. ■ Warrants of Attorney executed by parties, and filed for safe custody. ■ Bills against. BAG ROLLS. See CONTROLMENT, SPECIAL WRIT, AND BAG ROLLS. BAGA DE SECRETIS: Crown Side: Containing proceedings on attainders, &c. A Calendar thereof is printed in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Reports of the Deputy Keeper of Records. aUEEN'S BENCH. 101 BAIL: Common Bail.— When the defendant appears upon notice of action his appearance is entered, and he puts in sureties for his future appearance, &c., which sureties are called Common Bail, being two imaginary persons (J. Doe and R. Roe). Special Bail. — Where the plaintiff makes affidavit that the cause of action amounts to such a sum that he may arrest the defendant, and malce him put in substantial sureties for his appearance, this is called Special Bail. Justifying Bail. — That is, the sureties appearing and swearing themselves housekeepers, and each of them to be worth the full sum for which they are bound. Plea Side- Common bail pieces on slips of parchment. There are also entry books of common bail or common appearances. Bail certificates. Bails. — London and Middlesex. Country entries in books. Country files in bags. Original in books. Inrolments of entries of. Inrolments of entries of, for recognizances. AVarrants on filing common bail. . Warrants on filing special bail. Warrants on filing common bail for defendants. Warrants on filing common bail against attorneys and privileged persons. Warrants on filing common bail on warrants of attorney. Special bail-pieces, or recognizances of bail, being slips of parch- ment, by which parties have become bail in suits. When actions are not proceeded with, these bail-pieces remain at the Judges Chambers; but where the bail justifies, they are taken away from the chambers and filed. Bail entries. Appearances are now recorded by entering the particulars upon an appearance-piece, that is to say, a blank form printed upon parchment, which is procured from a law stationer, and filled up by the attorney. These appear- ances are daily entered in a book, which is kept alpha- betically in the following form : — Date. Defendant. Plaintiflf. Attorney. 1st July. J. Allen. C. Smith. Tatham. Crown Side: Books containing minutes of appearances and pleas. Bails, Records of, taken in Court. on Certiorari. BANKERS' RECEIPTS : There are on the Plea Side certain bankers' receipts for money paid into Court. 102. aUEEN'S BENCH. BARGAIN AND SALE : Deeds of bargain and sale entered on the Plea or Judgment Rolls. BILLS: of costs — taxed bills. against attorneys (in bundles). against prisoners (in bundles). books of first bills of Middlesex. alphabet books of first bills, alias, and pluries, Middlesex. Prsecipes for the issue of bills of Middlesex. See PRE- CIPES. BONDS : Submission Bond books from 1793. CAPIAS, WRIT OF : Plea Side : Capias and other Writs are preserved in bundles, also entered in books as they come in. Inquisitions upon Writs of Capias Utlagatum are transcribed upon rolls, and returned into the Exchequer ; the process, when there was a Filacer, was filed with him. Crown Side : Capias entered on the Special Writ Rolls. CAUSES : Books. Lists. CERTIFICATES : Plea Side : Annual certificate books, being alphabetical lists of attorneys who have taken out their certificates, from 1784. Certificates of surrender of bail. See BAIL. Crown Side : Certificate books of persons having received the Sacrament, who having been appointed to offices of trust have taken the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, and Abjuration, and subscribed the declaration against transubstantiation, from about 1676 to the passing of 9 G. IV. c. 17. CERTIORARI : Crown Side: All Writs of Certiorari to remove orders and other proceedings of inferior courts, and all other writs issued on the Crown Side of the Court, with their returns ; and writs issued out of the Court of Chancery and returned into the Court of Queen's Bench, put up in Files indorsed " Record of Orders," for the respective years to which they belong, from 5 W. & M. All recognizances taken upon Writs of Certiorari issued out of the Court, put up in Files and indorsed " Recognizances upon Certioraris." See RECOGNIZANCES. UTJEEN'S BENCH. los CHANCERY: Crown Side: Transcripts of Records in Chancery. CLERK . Chief. of the Common Bails. of the Declarations. of the Dockets and Judgments. of the Errors. of the Inner and Upper Treasuries. of the Nisi Prius for London, Mid- dlesex, and the English Circuits. of the Outer Treasury. of the Outlawries. of the Papers. of the Rules. Abolished by stat. 1 Vict. c. 30. CLERKS' ARTICLES: Article books. See ATTORNEYS. COGNOVITS : Instruments whereby a defendant acknowledges the plaintiff's cause against him to be true, and after issue joined suffers judgment to be entered against him without trial. There are Cognovits executed by parties and filed for safe custody. COMMITTITURS : Bundles of. See SURRENDERS AND COMMITTITURS. CONSENTS. See RULES AND ORDERS. CONTEMPT OF COURT. See INTERROGATORIES. CONTROLMENT, SPECIAL; WRIT, AND BAG ROLLS: All bound together. Crown Side: Controlment Rolls. — These contain minutes of all the principal proceedings in Crown causes, with numerical references to the Rolls of the Queen's Bench Treasury (Crown Rolls), where the proceedings are entered at length— these Controlment Rolls serving as indices to them ;— they begin in the year 1329. Special Writ Rolls. — Containing entries of such writs as are by the practice of the court inroUed, denominated Special Writs, and the Returns to Writs of Mandamus. Bag Rolls, — Each indictment, information, &c. is numbered according to the order in which it is on the file, and a minute of each, bearing a corresponding number, is entered on rolls called Bag Rolls. See INDICTMENTS. 104 aUEEN'S BENCH. CONVICTIONS. See INDICTMENTS. CONVICTS : Crown Side: Returns of convicts, made pursuant to stat. 16 G. III. c. 43., from 25 G. Ill, to the passing of stat. 3 G. IV. c. 84. CORONER : The Clerk of the Crown Office is also Her Majesty's Coroner. Crown Side: There are inquisitions taken on view of the bodies of prisoners who have died in the King's Bench prison. Anciently all inquisitions taken by the Coroners throughout the kingdom were returned into the Crown Office, and filed with the indictments and informations. The ancient Coroners' Rolls of divers counties are now among the Chapter House Records, from Edw. I. to Hen. VI. inclusive. COSTS : Bills of. See BILLS. CROWN ROLLS : Containing the proceedings in Crown causes, indictments, informa- tions, &c. ; they are fastened up with the Plea or Judgment Rolls until , after which they form separate rolls. See INDICT- MENTS. DAY BOOKS ; ■ Day books of judgments, being an index to the entry books of judgments. Day books of pleas. As soon as a judgment is signed it is entered in the day book in the following form : — Yorkshire Rd. Cooper a. Wm. Rachham, in all 201. 10s. 6d. I. Ca. 1146 Tatham. London Ralph Barnes & others a. John Gay, 30^. and 6/. 10s. 6d. P. De. 1147 Sharpe. The abbreviations above designate the manner in ^kich the judgment is obtained ; for examples, I. Ca. Writ of Inquiry — Case. P. De. Postea— Debt. DECLARATIONS: brought by plaintiffs to be filed, and to be delivered upon application to defendants. Many are never aUEEN'S BENCH. 105 BECLATIATIO^S— continued. called for. They are entered in a book in the following manner : — No. 54. Plaintiff. Defendant. By whom taken out. Allen. Brown. Pyke. Books, being declarations remaining in the office. in ejectments (in parcels). in town ejectments. — — in country ejectments. in ejectments, town and country. DE CONTUMACE CAPIENDO : AVrits entered on the Crown Rolls. All special writs are also entered on the Special Writ Rolls. DEEDS : Deeds inroUed are stitched up with the Judgnjent Rolls. Deeds of Middlesex. — By stat. 7 Anne, c. 20. a Public Register Office was established for registering memorials of all deeds and conveyances made and executed, and of all wills and devises in writing concerning, and whereby any honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments in the county of Middlesex may be any way affected in law or equity ; and any deed or conveyance not so regis- tered after 29 September, 7 Anne (1708), to be adjudged fraudulent and void against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for valuable consideration. See REGISTRA- TION OF LANDS, &c., p. 76. DEPOSITIONS AND EXHIBITS : Depositions unpublished — a bundle. DE PROBATIONE JETATIS. See PROOFS OF AGE. DOCKETS— DOGGETS : ■ of the Judgment Rolls, are on parchment rolls until 1665, from which time they are in paper books. There are also docket papers for entering judgment on the rolls, in bundles. Docket indexes. EJECTMENTS. In bundles. ERRORS : Duties of the Clerk of the Errors. (Office abolished by 1 "Vict, c. 30.) His duties were to receive and allow all writs of error from the King's Bench returnable in Parliament and in the Exchequer Chamber, and to enter them and all the further proceedings thereon in books; to issue the proper rules to parties to pro- 106 QUEEN'S BENCH. ERRORS— continued. ceed in their causes, and to sign Non pros, when they neglect to comply therewith ; to make a fair transcript of the eJudg- ment Kolls, for the purpose of being carried to the proper officers of the courts of appeal ; to receive and record all re- cognizances of bail in error ; to take the acknowledgment of bail before a Judge ; to add bail; and to attend the justifica- tion of bail before a Judge. — Eeport of Commissioners on the Duties, &c. in Courts of Justice, p. 114. 1818. Crown Side: Writs of error entered on the Special Writ Rolls. Writs of error from Ireland, from 10 G. II. Plea Side: Transcripts of records in error, in rolls. Writs and transcripts, in parcels. Exceptions, in parcels. Books. ESTREATS : Crown Side : Estreats of fines and recognizances forfeited in Court, from 1677. (See Stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 99. s. 27.) Estreats of forfeited recognizances, from 1603 ; files packed in bags. Estreats of fines and expenses of prosecutions, from 1758. EVIDENCE : Authentic copies of records to be evidence. See stat. 1 & 2 Vict, c. 94. s. 1 2 & 13. See also stats. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 1 13. and 14 & 15 Vict. c. 99. EXECUTION, WRITS OF: Crown Side: Writs of execution for treason, &c. entered on the Special Writ RoUs. EXHIBITS AND DEPOSITIONS : A bundle of, unpublished. EXTENTS : Plea Side: Extents and inquisitions upon outlawry, in files. See OUT- LAWRY. FIATS : Plea Side : Judges' Fiats — being the authority to the officer to admit attor- neys after having been approved by such Judges — in parcels packed in bags, from 1780. Crown Side: Fiats from 1732, in parcels packed in bags. FINAL JUDGMENTS, POSTEAS, AND INQUIRIES : Entry books of. See JUDGMENT ROLLS, &c. QUEEN'S BENCH. 107 GRAND JURY : Crown Side : Grand Jury Lists. — All panels of Grand Juries returned by the Sheriff of county of Middlesex to serve in Court of Queen's Bench, from 1747. Original indictments and presentments found by Grand Jury See INDICTMENTS. HABEAS CORPUS : Crown Side : Writs entered on the Special Writ Rolls ; also in bundles, called " Record of Orders." Inrolments of the issues of Scire facias, Habeas corpus, &c. INDICTMENTS, PRESENTMENTS, INFORMATIONS, CON- VICTIONS, &c. Crown Side: 1. Indictments — London and Middlesex. Original indictments and presentments found by the grand jury in the Court of Queen's Bench ; informations exhibited on the Crown Side of the Court ; and indictments, presentments, and convictions re- moved by Certiorari or Writ of Error in London or Middlesex ; each term put up in bundles called Files, indorsed "London and Middlesex Indictments." 2. Indictments — Out Counties. All indictments, writs of error, presentments, and convictions removed from other counties than London or Middlesex, and informations exhibited in Court for offences committed in those counties, put up in Files of the respective terms to which they belong, and in- dorsed "Indictments, Out Counties." Bag Soils. — These contain a minute of each indictment, infor- mation, &c., and bear corresponding numbers to those which are on each indictment, &c. above mentioned. This applies to Nos. 1 & 2. Entry Books, called Pye Books. — The names of each defendant in every indictment, &c. are entered alphabetically in a book kept for that purpose, and which refers to the number of the indictment. This applies to both classes of Files above men- tioned, Nos. 1 & 2. See PYE BOOKS. The Crown Judgment Rolls contain all indictments, informa- tions, and all other similar proceedings to which the parties have pleaded. The Crown Rolls are attached to the other Judgment Rolls till , after which they form separate rolls. Controlment Rolls. — These contain minutes of all principal pro- ceedings in Crown causes, with numerical references to the rolls where the proceedings are entered at length. These rolls serve as indices to the Crown Rolls. INFORMATIONS: Crown Side. See INDICTMENTS. 108 aUEEN'S BENCH. INQUIRIES : Plea Side : There are Day or Judgment Books, being the daily entries of all judgments signed on Posteas and Inquiries. Books of Masters' Rules, Posteas, and Inquiries, &c. ^^ee RULES AND ORDERS. POSTEAS. INQUISITIONS : Plea Side: Inquisitions upon Writs of Capias Utlagatum (formerly iiled with the Filacer). These are entered upon rolls, and returned into the Exchequer. See OUTLAWRY. Crown Side: Inquisitions taken on prisoners who have died 'in the King's Bench prison, or within the rules thereof, from 1747. Sec PRISONERS. INTERROGATORIES : Crown Side : Interrogatories iiled on attachments of contempt charged to have been committed against the court, and the answers thereto, from W. & M. ; to which there is a chronological index. JUDGES' FIATS. See FIATS. JUDGMENT ROLLS, &c. (or PLEA ROLLS) : Plea Side : Judgment Rolls. — Containing the general proceedings in causes. Also deeds inrolled are stitched up with them. Sometimes (but very rarely) General Rules of Court are entered upon the rolls. The rolls are exceedingly defective by reason of the neglect of attorneys to bring the records in. The Crown Rolls were formerly bound up with these, but which are now since , quite distinct. There are also bundles of judgments. Dockets, Sfc. are on parchment rolls until 1665, from which time they are in paper books. Docket Papers, in bundles. Judgment Books, being entries of judgments, issues, &c. Day or Judgment Books, being the daily entries of all judg- ments signed on Posteas and Inquiries. Posteas and Inquiries (bundles). Posteas. — A Postea is the record of the proceedings in a cause after a trial and verdict by Writ of Nisi Prius, which is then returned by the Judge before whom the cause was tried into the Court where the suit was commenced, in order te have judgment there given upon the verdict. Satisfaction.— EniQTedi upon the roll. See SATISFACTION. Crown Side: Crown Rolls. — These contain all indictments, informations, and other similar proceedings to which the parties have pleaded. These were formerly bound together with the Judgment Rolls ; but since , they form distinct rolls. There are also bundles of judgments, from 1734. ■3^ V bo M H aUEEN'S BENCH. log JUDGMENT R011,S— continued. Controlment Rolls — These contain minutes of all the prin- cipajl proceedings in Crown causes, with numerical references to the Crown Judgment Eolls, where the proceedings are entered at length, serving as indices to those rolls. Anciently the Crown proceedings were ^ J entered at length on these rolls. Special Writ Rolls. — Containing entries of Special Writs, and the Returns to Writs of Mandamus. Bag Rolls. — These contain a minute of each indictment, information, &c., and hear corresponding numbers to those on the original indictments. Entry Boohs. — The name of each defendant in every indictment, &c. is entered alphabetically in a book referring to the number of the indictment, &c. Docket Book. — Made up by the Secondaiy, containing minutes of the several proceedings in Crown prosecutions, from 26 Car. II. Posteas, from 1737. JURY LISTS OR PANELS : Plea Side : Special Jury Lists. Crown Side : G-rand Jury Lists. All panels of Grand Juries returned by the Sheriff of the county of Middlesex, from 1747, in parcels. LANDS : Plea Side : Deeds of Bargain and Sale are entered on parchment, and sewed up with the Judgment Rolls. I;ATITATS : Inrolments of the issue of latitats, in bundles. See WRITS. Books of entries. MANDAMUS : Writs of, are entered on the Crown Eolls, and the writs and returns are entered on the Special Writ Rolls. MAPS, PLANS, &c. : Many to be found entered on the Plea Rolls, with descriptions of property, &c. MARSHAL'S BOOKS. See SURRENDERS AND COMMIT- TITURS. Marshal's Dockets, in bundles. MASTERS' RULES : Posteas and Inquiries and rules on Sci. fa., books from 1785. See RULES AND ORDERS. •no aUEEN'S BENCH. MEMORANDA : Of proceedings commenced each term, on the Bag Rolls. MIDDLESEX, DEEDS OF. See note under the head DEEDS. MINUTES : Plea Side: Minute books of rules and orders. See RULES AND ORDERS. Crown Side : A minute of each indictment, information, &c. is entered on the Bag Rolls. Minutes of all principal proceedings in Crown causes are entered on the Controlment Rolls. A docket book, containing minutes of all proceedings in Crown prosecutions, made up by the Secondary, from 26 Car. II. NOCTANTERS : Writs of Noctanter are entered on the Special Writ Rolls. NOTICE OF TRIAL BOOKS : Crown Side : From 1698. OATHS: Plea Side : Original Rolls subscribed by attorneys, from 1729. Crown Side : Rolls containing the names of all persons who have taken the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration. ORDERS : Plea Side : Judges' orders for entering satisfaction. See SATISFACTION. Judges' orders for issuing writs. Some will be found among the Praecipes. Crown Side : Record of Orders : — Writs of Certiorari to remove orders. See WRITS, Crown Side. Rules and Orders. See RULES AND ORDERS. RECORD OF ORDERS. OUTLAWRY : Plea Side: Proceedings in outlawry ; the process was formerly filed by the Filacer, and entered upon the Judgment Rolls, and the inquisi- tions upon Writs of Capias Utlagatum are entered upon rolls and returned into the Exchequer. The writs are entered in an entry book as they come in. Crown Side: Capiases are entered on the Special Writ Rolls. Outlawry proceedings, from 1739. Outlawries, extents, and inquisitions, from G. HI. aUEEN'S BENCH. lu OVTL AWRY— continued. Proceedings on the Pled and Crown Sides in Outlawry explained. — Where a defendant absconds and the plaintiff proceeds to an outlawry against him, an original writ must then be sued out regularly, and after that a capias ; and if the Sheriff upon this returns a nan est inventus, there issues out an Alias Writ, and after that a pluries ; and if a nan est inventus is returned upon all of them, then a writ of exigent or exigi facias may be sued out, which requires the Sheriff to cause the defendant to be proclaimed, required, or exacted, in five county courts successively, to render himself, and if he does, then to take him as in a capias ; but if he does not appear, and is returned quinto exactus, he shall then be outlawed by the Coroners of the county. If, after outlawry, the defendant appears publicly, he may be arrested by a Writ of Capias Ullagatum, and committed until the outlawry be reversed, which reversal may be had by the defendant's appearing per- sonally in court or by attorney. PANELS : Crown Side : Panels of Grand Juries returned by the Sheriff of Middlesex to serve for the said county in Court of Queen's Bench. See GRAND JURY. JURY LISTS OR PANELS. PAPER BOOKS: The bundles of Declarations of Pleas have sometimes been called " Paper Books." PAPERS : Peremptory papers and rules, in bundles. PARDONS : Crown Side: On the Controlment Rolls. PEACE, ARTICLES OF : Crown Side: In bundles. PEREMPTORY PAPERS AND RULES. See RULES AND ORDERS. PIE BOOKS. See PYE BOOKS. PLANS, MAPS, &c.: Many entered on the Plea Rolls, with descriptions of property, &c. PLEA ROLLS, &c. 1 > See JUDGMENT ROLLS, &c. PLEAS. J POSTEAS : A Postea is the record of the proceedings in a cause after a trial and verdict by Writ of Wisi Prius, which is then returned by the Judge before whom the cause was tried into the court where the suit was commenced, in order to have judgment there given upon the verdict. 112 aUEEN'S BENCH. FOSTEAS— continued. Plea Side: Posteas, in bundles. Posteas, writs, and jury panels, in files. Day or Judgment Books, being the daily entries of judgments signed upon Posteas and Inquiries. Crown Side: Posteas, in bundles. PRAECIPES : Precipes, or instructions as authority for issuing writs, and in some cases Judges' Orders, as further authority, in bundles. Prsecipes for issue of bills of Middlesex. The party who issues a writ leaves a Prajcipe written on paper, which contains a description of the writ, names of parties, and name and residence of attorney. The Prsecipes are daily entered in a book under counties in the following form : — Surrey. Date. Nature ofWrit. Defendant. Attorney. PRESENTMENTS. See INDICTMENTS. PRISONERS : Fiea Side: Prisoners' papers, country petitions, and schedules. Prisoners' day rules. Prisoners' remands. Prisoners' rules of discharge. Bills against prisoners. Prisoners' notices of petitions for allowance of groats. Prisoners' notices of petitions. Crown Side: Inquisitions on those who have died in King's Bench prison or the rules thereof. See INQUISITIONS. PROCESS : Crown Side : The King's process, in bundles, called '- Files." PROOFS OF AGE (DE PROBATIONE ^TATIS) : The proceedings de probatione astatis, being the examinations by which the heir proved his full age previously to obtaining livery of his lands, will be found entered on the early King's Bench Rolls. The original proofs of age are among the inquisitions post mortem. See PROOFS OF AGE in the Chancery arrangement. PYE BOOKS : Croien Side: They are books of reference to indictments alphabetically and numerically entered. See Entry Books, under the head INDICTMENTS, QUEEN'S BENCH. ns RECOGNIZANCES : Plea Side: E«cognizances of Bail, being slips of parcliment, by which parties have become bail in suits. Crown Side: All recognizances taken upon Writs of Certiorari issued out of the Court, put up in Files, and indorsed " Recognizances upon Certioraris," numerically indexed since 1834. All other recognizances either taken in Court, or conditioned for the appearance of parties in Court, put up in Files, and indorsed " Recognizances taken in Court," numerically indexed since 1834. Estreats of all recognizances forfeited in Court (duplicates of which are sent into the Exchequer, to the Lords Commis- sioners of the Treasury, and to the Commissioners for auditing Public Accounts, four times in every year, pursuant to stat. 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 99.) from the restoration. They are indexed since 1834. Amerciaments and recognizances forfeited, entries of. See AMERCIAMENTS AND RECOGNIZANCES FOR- FEITED. RECORD OF ORDERS : Crown Side : All Writs of Certiorari to remove orders and other proceedings of inferior courts, and all other writs issued on the Crown Side, with their returns ; and writs issued out of the Court of ■ Chancery and returned into the Court of Queen's Bench, put up in Files, and indorsed " Record of Orders." RECORDS FROM CHANCERY : There are various records. See RECORD OF ORDERS. REPLEVIN : Writs in motions of Replevin (formerly records of the Filacer). RESCUES : Returns of Rescues are entered on the Special Writ Rolls. RETURNS : Crown Side : Returns of Rescues, Writs of Mandamus, &c., entered on the Special Writ Rolls. Returns of Convicts. See CONVICTS. RULES AND ORDERS : Plea Side : ' Judges' Orders for entering satisfaction are filed (formerly kept in the Warrant of Attorney OfBce). Judges' Orders for issuing writs ; some will be found in the bundles of Praecipes. Original minutes of rules and orders pronounced by the Court, taken down at the time. Peremptory papers and rules. Rules, Costs, &c. Entry books of — Consents, rules, and orders, and consent rules in ejectment (country). I 114 aUEEN'S BENCH. RULES AND ORDERS— cowiwraerf. Entry books of — continued. Rules of course obtained on motion. Rules on town ejectments. Rules to plead. Rules to-plead several matters. Rules to show cause. Side bar rules. Special rules absolute. Masters' rules, posteas, and inquiries, and rules on Sci. fa. Determined rules. Prisoners' rules. Prisoners' rules of discharge (in parcels). Indexes. Crown Side: Minutes are taken by the Clerk of the Crown, and are considered by him as his private property. Rules are entered from the minutes taken by the Clerk of the Crown. , , Record of Orders.— All "Writs of Certiorari to remove orders and other proceedings of inferior courts, and all other writs issued on the Crown Side, with their returns ; and writs issued out of the Court of Chancery and returned into the Court of Queen's Bench, put up in Files, and : indorsed " Record of Ordei's." Rule Books. SACRAMENT CERTIFICATES. See CERTIFICATES. SATISFACTION : Satisfaction in a legal sense is taken for the payment of money due on bond, judgment, &c. in which case such Satisfaction must be entered on record. A Judgment is satisfied by an attorney acting on the part of the plaintiff, who fills up a Satisfaction-piece upon parchment, which is kept and filed. This Satisfaction is marked upon the roll, if it can be found, but if not found, " no roll " is written in the corner. A memorandum of Satisfaction is in all cases made in the day book or judgment books. There are Satisfaction-pieces in bundles. Judges' orders for entering Satisfaction are filed ; and pursuant to such order the Satisfaction is indorsed upon the Warrant of Attorney. SCIRE FACIAS : Inrolments of the issue of Scire facias. Habeas corpus, &c. See WRITS. SEWERS : Crown Side : Orders of Sewers' Commissioners of Tower Hamlets, SPECIAL BAIL. See BAIL. QUEEN'S BENCH. }15 SPECIAL WRIT ROLLS : (Bound up with the Bag and Controlmcnt Rolls.) Crown Side : The Special Writ Rolls contain entries of such writs as are by the practice of the Court inroUed, denominated Special Writs, and the returns to Writs of Mandamus. SUBMISSION BOND BOOKS. See BONDS. SURRENDERS AND COMMITTITURS, OR MARSHAL'S BOOKS : There are also bundles of Committiturs. SWEARING ROLLS : Plea Side: Rolls containing the oaths required to be subscribed by attorneys upon admission. Crown Side: Allegiance or Oath Rolls. Rolls containing the names of all persons who have taken the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, and Abjuration in Court. See OATHS. TRANSCRIPTS OF RECORDS IN ERROR. See ERRORS. TREASON: Crown Side : Proceedings in matters of Treason, &c. in Baga. de Secretis, and on the Crown Rolls. TRIAL NOTICE BOOKS. See NOTICE OF TRIAL BOOKS. VENIRES : Croion Side : Venires, in bundles. VENIRES FAC, JURATS, AND RETURNS: Crown Side : Various, in bundles. WARRANTS, AND WARRANTS OF ATTORNEY : Plea Side: Warrants of Attorney executed by parties, and filed for safe custody (or copies). WaiTants of Attorney and Cognovits. The stat. 3 G. TV. c. 39. empowers persons holding Warrants of Attorney for confessing Judgments, or in whose favour a Cognovit shall have been given, to file the originals of such documents, if given for the purpose of confessing a judgment or acknowledging an action, in the Court of Queen's Bench, or copies thereof, if given for the same purposes, in any other Court. The Warrants of Attorney and Cognovits, or the copies thereof, brought in, pursuant to the above statute, are of two classes : — 1. Warrants of Attorney in all the three Courts of Queen's Bench, I 2 lis aUEEN'S BENCH. WARRANTS, AND WARRANTS OP ATTORNEY— cowi!mKerf. CommonPleas, and Exchequer, wliich are filed under the statute, in order to give notice without signing judgment; 2. Warrants of Attorney in the Queen's Bench, which are filed under Rule of Court within twenty-one days after date, upon signing judgment. The first are entered in books containing alpha- betical lists thereof, as directed by the schedule annexed to the said Act ; the others are not indexed, the day book kept in the Judgment Office being considered as a sufficient index. Warrants of Attorney for confessing Judgment, if they relate to granting Annuities, are enrolled on the Memorials of Annui- ties in Chancery. Warrants on filing Common Bail. Warrants on filing Special Bail. Warrants on filing Common Bail for defendants. Warrants on filing Common Bail against attorneys )■ See BAIL. and privileged persons. Warrants on filing Common Bail on Warrants of Attorney. WRITS: Plea Side ; Writs various, as Cognovits, Latitats, Outlawry, Replevin, &c. See PRECIPES. There are Latitats in separate bundles. There are writ indices called Alphabet Books. Inrolments of the Issue of Scire facias and Habeas corpus, in bundles. Special Writs, in bundles. Special, and Original, and Class Anglia. Indexes. Crown Side : Special Writs are entered on the Special Writ Rolls, which are bound up with the Bag and Controlment Rolls. All Writs of Certiorari to remove orders and other proceedings of inferior courts, and all other writs issued on the Crown Side, with their returns ; and writs issued out of the Court of Chancery and returned into the Court of Queen's Bench, put up in Files, and indorsed " Record of Orders." COMMON PLEAS. The establishment of the Court of Common Pleas as distinct from the Curia Eegis was by one of the Articles granted by King John in Magna Carta (17 Jolm), and it now forms the eleventh chapter of the Charter, as confirmed by 25 Edw. I., viz. : " Common Pleas shall not follow our Court," but shall " be holden in some place certain." And that certain place was established at Westminster Hall, the place where the Aula Eegis originally sat, when the King resided there. Notes of alterations with reference to this Court in the last and present reigns : — By Stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 74. Fines and Recoveries were abolished, and more simple modes of Assurance substituted. Sect. 81. directs Commissioners to be appointed to take Acknowledgments by Married Women ; and sect. 89. directs an officer of the Common Pleas to be appointed to take charge of the Certificates of Acknowledgments ; this officer is called the Registrar, and the Acknowledgment Office was at first in Serjeants Inn, Chancery Lane, (afterwards the Eule Office,) — it is now in Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street. By Stat. ^ hQ W. IV. c. 82. the several offices connected with Fines and Recoveries were abolished, and the business and records transferred to the Registrar of Common Pleas appointed under stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 74. Offices abolished by the above act : — Chirographer, and the Secondary Register, and Clerks of Counties in the office of the Chirographer. Clerk of the King's Silver. Clerk of the Return Office. Clerk of the Inrolment of Writs for Fines and Recoveries. The several offices in the Alienation Office. By stat. 1 Vict. c. 30. the following Common Pleas offices were abolished, and the duties were directed to be performed by Five Masters to be appointed : — i Custos Brevium. Prothonotaries. Secondaries. Clerk of the Judgments. Clerk of the Reversals of Outlawries. Clerk of the Dockets. Clerk of the Warrants, Enrolments, and Estreats. Clerk of the Essoigns. 118 COMMON PLEAS. Clerk of the Treasury. Clerk of the Jurata. Treasury Keeper. Clerk of the Juries. Clerk of the Errors. Filacers for the several Counties, Cities, and Towns in England and Wales. Exigenter and Clerk of the Supersedeas. Clerk of the Outlawries. By Stat. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 34. the separate Seal Office was entirely abolished, and the writs, &c. directed to be sealed and re-sealed by the Masters of the Court. COMMON PLEAS. ALIENATION OFFICE. See Chief Second Third Prothonotary. Prothonotary. Prothonotary. 3 Car. I. 30 Car. II. Hil. 1651, Mich. Mich. Hil. 35 Car. II. 23 Car. II. 14, 15 Car. II. Easter Mich. Trin. 35 Car. 11. 23 Car. II. 20 Car. I. Mich. Hil. Hil. 13 Anne. 12 Anne. 12 Anne. ACCOUNT BOOKS OF THE ALIENATION OFFICE. ACCOUNT BOOKS OF THE PROTHONOTARIES : COMMENCING Entry books of — 1. Common Judgments 2. Special Judgments j 3. Nisi Prius Records | 4. Entries on the Roll | They do not come down lower than 1779, when the Prothonotaries' Offices were united ; after which the Prothonotaries kept them at their chambers. The above contain the names of each party, but were formerly not considered to be records, being only books of account kept by the Prothonotaries' clerks as accounts with their principals for fees received, but are nevertheless books of great moment, and are referred to in cases where the entries on the rolls are not completed, in order to ascertain what proceedings were had. They may in some cases supply the defects of the Docket Rolls and Books, by affording the means of a more easy search for a Judgment. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OFFICE : This office was lirst in Serjeants Inn, Chancery Lane, (which was afterwards the Rule Office.) It is now at 9, Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street. Pursuant to stat. 3 85 4 W. IV. c. 74., " An Act for the Abolition " of Fines and Recoveries, and for the Substitution of more " simple Modes of Assurance," an officer of the Court of Common Pleas, under the name of Registrar, has been appointed. This officer has the custody of the Certificates of the Acknowledg- meilts of Deeds by Married Women, taken before Commissioners appointed under the said statute. There are now in 1852 two, or rather joint. Registrars of Cer- tificates of Acknowledgments. ADMISSIONS OF ATTORNEYS, AFFIDAVITS OF. ^ee AFFIDAVITS. Parchment books of inrolments of admissions, formerly kept in the office of the Clerk of the Warrants, &c. See ATTORNE YS. Some few bundles of the affidavits are entitled " Attorneys' Admissions," but the greater part are entitled " Clerks' Articles." 120 COMMON TLEAS. APFIDAVITS of debt to warrant arrests under stat. 12 G. I. c. 29. and subsequent acts. (From the Filacers' Office.) There are Entry Books for London and Middlesex only from ] 745. i of service of process to compel appearances. (From the Filacers' Office.) Inventory printed. See Dep. Keep. 4th Rep. App. II. p. 55. of justification of bail in country causes.. (From the Filacers' Office.) i of the due delivery of Declarations against prisoner?; with the Declarations annexed. (From the Secon- daries Offices.) These are in boxes, entitled " Declarations." • of the service of Declarations in ejectments, with the Declarations annexed. (From the Secondaries Offices.) Inventory printed in 4th Eep. of Dep. Keep. App. II. p. 65. These are in boxes with the Declarations, — the boxes entitled " Ejectments." . to verify the statements of parties, used on motions before the Court. (From the Secondaries' Offices.) These are in boxes entitled " Affidavits." ■ of attorneys relative to their admissions. (From the Secondaries' Offices.) Some of them are entitled "Attorneys' Admissions," and some "Clerks' Articles." - of the due execution of articles of clerkship of attorneys. (From the office of the Clerk of the Warrants, Inrolments, and Estreats.) Entitled " Clerks' Articles." There are Entry Books of these. ■ of taking warrants of attorney for suffering recoveries (from the Miscellaneous Records of the Treasur}' of Common Pleas). These are assurances or proofs laid before the Judges, that the parties vouchers have duly signed their acknowledgments, before the Commis- sioners therein named, of the warrant of attorney for suffering the recovery. The Judge, if his Lordship approve of the regularity, signs his allocatur of the affidavit of the acknowledgment being proved, and on this document the recovery proceeds to perfection. These are inrolled on the Placita Terras or Re- covery Rolls. Inventory printed in Dep. Keep. 4th Rep. App. II. p. 69. - to verify the acknowledgment of Conusors of Fines from the Gustos Brevium Office. These are kept • with the Concords of Fines. ■ of the due execution of Writs of Dedimus Potestatem. From the Custos Brevium Office. These are kept with the Concords of Fines., - to moderate Fines, Alienation Office Records from- 1810. Since 1838, these affidavits are indexed. • of service of writs and entries of appearances. See APPEARANCES. - of motion. - of increase, from Rule Office 1819. Before this date they are with the affidavits of motion, • COMMON PLEAS. 121 ALIENATION OFFICE: Established temp. Eliz., and then called " My Lord of Leicester's OiSce," because he had the first grant. OiRco abolished by 5 & 6 "VV. IV. c. 82., and the duties and records transferred to an officer of the Common Pleas, called the Eegistrar of Achnow- ledgments by Married "Women. Transferred to the Public Eecord Office as part of the Common Picas Records under stat. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 94. Draft Ledgers ..... Draft Journals - .... Accounts. — Pre and Post Fines - ... Post Fines, bound ... unbound - - Entries of accounts of Ecceivers Deputy Receiver's accounts with his principals .... Eeceipts and Payments in each term and vacation . . - . Entries of accounts of the 6d. deductions Entries of accounts of incidental expenses Affidavits to moderate lines - .... Licences and pardons (Entry Books), and index Warrants of Commissioners for payment of charges of management . . . . . Writs of Covenant (Extracts of) . - - Nil Books ■ Index - - - • Writs of Entry (Extracts of) - - ■ Index - - - - ALIENATION OF LANDS. See FINES OF LANDS. TEER^. Search the Books of the Alienation Office. ALLEGIANCE, OR OATH EOLLS. See OATHS. ANSWERS : To Bills of Complaint. APPEARANCES : from 1795 „■ 1795 „ 1759 „ 1751 „ 1780 „ 1747 „ 1733 1755 1721 1700 1810 1571 1718 1576 1668 1661 33 1609 5) 1674 PLACITA See BILLS. - Prtecipes, i. e. short notes of every writ to compel an appearance, filed by the Filacers, containing the description of the writ, names of parties, and the return. They were formerly entered on the Filacers' Remembrance Rolls, which exist from. 1749 to about 1827 or 1828 ; from this time they are on paper.. There were three Filacers, each had his own Remem- brance Rolls, on which these Prascipes were entered for the counties for which they were respectively Filacers. See PR^^CIPES. -Prascipes for Attachments of Privilege, and Appear- ances thereto. The entities of Precipes for 122 COMMON PLEAS. APPEAEANCES-cowftwwerf. Attachments of Privilege and Appearances thereto are on the Secondaries' Eemembrance Rule Rolls, which are bound up with the Recovery Remem- brance Rolls till 1779, after which they are en- tered in books. See REMEMBRANCE ROLLS AND BOOKS. PRECIPES. - Pra3cipes, Outlawries, Books of Entry of Prcecipes for Outlawries to compel Appearances, and Reversals. ■ Appearances to Attachments, filed 1740 to 1770, being paper entries, entitled Appearances to Attachments. -Appearances to Attachments of Privilege are entered on Remembrance Rolls of the Prothonotaries, which are bound up with the Recovery Remem- brance Rolls till 1779, from which time they are entered in Entry Books. There were three Prothonotaries. See ATTACHMENTS. ■ Appearances are now recorded by entering the particulars upon an Appearance-piece, that is to say, a blank form printed upon parchment, which is procured from a law stationer, and filled up by the attorney. These Appearances are daily entered in a book, which is kept alphabetically, in the following form : — Date. Defendant. Plaintiff. Attorney. 1st July. _ J. Allen. C. Smith. Tatham. The Appearance-pieces are placed upon files. Affidavits of service of process to compel an Ap- pearance. See AFFIDAVITS. ' There are Entry Books of the three Filacers, con- taining Entries of Common Appearances from 1735. See Inventory printed in 3d Rep. of Dep. Keep. App. IL p. 131. ARRESTS: Affidavits of debt to warrant arrests. See AFFIDAVITS, ARTICLES OF CLERKS. See ATTORNEYS. ATTACHMENTS : The Writ of Attachment does not issue out of Chancery, but out of the Common Pleas, being grounded on the non-appearance of the defendant at the return of ■ ' the Original Writ, and thereby the Sheriff is com- manded to attach him by taking gage, that is, certain of his goods, which he shall forfeit if he does not appear; or by making him find safe pledges or sureties. COMMON PLEAS. 123 ATTACHMENTS— contimted. Prsecipes for Attachments of Privilege, and Appear- ances thereto. These are entered on Remembrance Rolls of the Prothonotavies, which are bound up with the Recovery Remembrance Rolls till 1779, from which time they are entered in Entry Books. See APPEARANCES. —^ — r— There are paper entries, entitled Appearances to At- tachments, 1740 to 1770. .See APPEARANCES. ATTORNEYS : Affidavits of attorneys relative to their admissions. These affidavits were formerly in the Secondaries' Office. Some few bundles are entitled " Attorneys' Admissions," but the greater part are entitled « Clerks' Articles." See AFFIDAVITS. Affidavits of the due execution of articles of clerkship, of the service under them, of the payment of the stamp duty upon such articles, (formerly in the office of the Clerk of the Warrants, &c.) entitled " Clerks' Articles." See AFFIDAVITS. There are Entry Books of the above. Original Articles and Judges' Fiats for admission of all persons not being attorneys of other Courts than the Conimon Pleas. Clerks' Articles to attorneys (from 1730) are entered or registered in books, formerly in the office of the Clerk of the Warrants, &c. Parchment books of inrolment of admissions were kept formerly in the office of the Clerk of the Warrants, &c. Oath Rolls subscribed by attorneys. ■J- ' ^. . {- (but generally entitled Inquiries) against attorneys. Certificates — paper books, containing the names of such attorneys as took out their annual certificates. Termages — Books of Entry of the Termages ; i.e. a fee of id. a term paid by all attorneys in practice. Warrants of Attorney on strips of parchment, filed formerly with the Clerk of the Warrants at the time of signing every judgment. These are inrolled on the Common Plea Rolls, " Communia Placita." Warrants of Attorney to confess Judgment ; authorities to certain attorneys named to confess judgment against the parties executing them, from 1722. Inventory printed, 4th Rep. Dep. Keeper, App. II. p. 71. Warrants of Attorney to. enter Satisfaction. Roman Catholic Attorneys' Rolls. BAIL: Common Bail. — When the defendant appears upon notice of action, his appearance is entered, and he puts in sureties for his future appearance, &c., which sureties are called Common Bail, being two imaginary persons, J. Doe and R. Roe. Special Bail. — Where the plaintiff makes affidavit that the cause of action amounts to such a sum that he may arrest the defendant, and make him put in substantial sureties for his appearance, this is called Special Bail. 124 COMMON PLEAS. BAIL — continued. Justifying 5cj7.~~That is, tlie sureties appearing and swearing themselves housekeepers, and each of them to be worth the full sum for which they are hail. Affidavits of debt to hold to bail. See AFFIDAVITS." , Affidavits of justiiication of bail in country causes. See AFFIDAVITS. * Bail-pieces for the several counties. Formerly Books in which are entered the particulars of bail put ^ the in and justified. f Filacers' Special Bail Books for London and Middlesex, con- Eecords. taining indices in alphabetical order by the defendants* surnames. Writs, Special Bail. J * Eecognizanccs — Bail-pieces. — The Bail must enter into a recognizanceia. Court, or before a Judge or Commissioner, in a sum, &c. ; this recognizance is transmitted to the Court on a slip of parchment, entitled a " Bail-piece." BARGAINS AND SALES : These are entered on the Eolls " Placita Terras," which are fastened up with the Judgment Eolls till 25 Eliss., after which they form distinct rolls. BILLS : Bills against attorneys. See ATTOENEYS. Of complaint ; answers to. CAPIAS: Prascipes — Writs. Inventory of these in counties, printed in Dep. Keep. 4th Eep. App. II. p. 78. CATHOLIC ATTORNEYS' ROLLS. See ATTORNEYS. CERTIFICATES. See OATHS. Certificates of Acknowledgments of Deeds by Married Women under 3 & 4 Yf. IV. c. 74. at the Acknowledgment Office. See ACKNOWLEDGMENT OFFICE. Entries of names of attorneys on taking out their annual Certificates on admission. Ministers' Certificates. CLERGYMEN'S ROLLS. See OATHS. CLERKS' ARTICLES. See ATTOENEYS. CLERK of the Judgments. Reversals of Outlawries. . Dockets. Warrants, Enrolments, and Estreats. Essoins. Treasury. Jurata. Juries. Errors. ■ Supersedeas. Outlawries. ) Abolished by stat. 1 Vict. c. 30. COMMON PLEAS. 125 CLERK — continued. "\ of the King's Silver. I ^^.Hg^ed by stat. Inrolment of Writs for Fines and J Recoveries. COMMON APPEARANCES. See APPEARANCES. COMMON RECOVERIES. -See RECOVERIES. SoSSSli'^SiciTA. j-^- JUDGMENT ROLLS. COMPLAINT : Answers to Bills of Complaint. CONCORDS. See FINES OP LANDS. CONSENTS : These are Consents of Plaintiffs' Attorneys to the admittance of Defendants in ejectment, from 1727, in bundles. CONTINUANCES : Continuances of writs or actions from one term to another. In files or bundles. CONVEYANCES : Are entered on the Rolls " Placita Terrs." COURT HAND : • Altered by stat. 4 G. II. c. 26. See PLEADINGS. COVENANT, WRITS OF. ^ee FINES OF LA.NDS. ALIENA- TION OFFICE. CUSTOS BREVIUM : Office of, abolislied by 1 Vict. c. 30. DAY BOOKS : From 1712. Inventory printed in the 3d Rep. of the Dep. Keeper of Records, App. 11. p. 133. DECLAHATIONS : ■ In ejectments filed with the affidavit of the service of a copy thereof on the several tenants to ground the rule for judgment, from 1721. These are in boxes, entitled " Ejectments." Inventory printed in 4th Rep. of Dep. Keep. App. II. p. 65. ^. Against prisoners, and affidavits annexed. A copy of every declaration against a defendant in actual custody was filed with the Secondaries, with an affi.davit annexed to verify the delivery of another copy to the gaoler for the use of the defendant, on which former copy the rule to plead was given in pursuance of the stat. 8 & 9 "W. III. 0.27., from 1706. These are in boxes, entitled " Declarations." Inventory printed in 4th Rep. of Deputy Keeper, App. U. p. 61. 126 COMMON PLEAS. DECLARATIONS— coMfeMwerf. Declarations filed with the Prothonotaries. These have alphabetical indices for searching under the name of the plaintiiF. DEEDS : — are inroUed on the Placita Terrse, which are fastened up with the Common Rolls till 25 Eliz., when they form distinct rolls. There are various separate deeds which were indexed by Mr. Hewlett, and will be found at pp. 142-145, Appendi.x to Report of the Commissioners on Records, 1837. Indexes or entry books of the Clerk of Warrants, Inrolments, and Estreats, containing the entries of inrolments of deeds, &c. Printed Inventory, 3d Rep. of Dep. Keep. App. II. p. 130. Acknowledgment of Deeds by Married Women. — ^Pursuant to Stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c 74., "An Act for the Abolition " of Fines and Recoveries, and for the Substitution of " more simple Modes of Assurance," an officer of the Common Pleas, under the name of Registrar, has been appointed, who has the custody of the Certificates of the Acknowledgments of Deeds by Married Women, taken before the Commissioners appointed under the said statute. See ACKNOWLEDGMENT OFFICE. DESCENT : The Placita Terrse Rolls may be consulted with great advantage in tracing family pedigrees, &c. Search also FINES, OF LANDS. DOCKETS : Docket Rolls. . . Books. The office of the Clerk of the Dockets was abolished by 1 Vict-, c. 30. The Prothonotaries^ Dockets. — These are brief entries of the nature of the action, the names of the parties, and the number of the roll. There were three Prothonotaries. The dockets com- mence 1 Hen. Vni. Inventories printed in 2d Rep. of Dep. Keep. App. II. p. 67., and 4th Rep. App. II. p. 53. , ^ Dockets of the Clerk of Essoins, pursuant to stat. 4^5 PF. Sf M. c. 20. — The Clerk of Essoins by the above stat.' was difected to make an index or dogget alphabetically by the names of the defendants, of all judgments signed in the Court of Common Pleas, from the Docket Roll, to be fairly entered in books of parchment. This was discontinued by virtue of the stat. 2 Vict, c. 11. s. 1. An Inventory of the Dogget Books so made is printed in 2d Rep. of Dep. Keep. App. II. p. 89. See JUDG- MENT ROLLS. DOWER: Proceedings on. ^ee PLACITA TERR^. COMMON PLEAS. 127 EJECTMENTS ; These are declarations in ejectments filed with the affidavit of the service of' a copy thereof on the several tenants to ground the rule for judgment. In boxes, entitled « Ejectments." See AFFIDAVITS. DECLAEATIONS. Inventory printed in 4th Kep. of Dep. Keep. App. 11. p. 65. ELEGIT, WEIT OF : This is a judicial writ given by the stat. Westm. 13 Edw. I. c. 18., by which, after a plaintiff has obtained judgment for his debt at law, the Sheriff gives him possession of one half of the defendant's lands and tenements, to be occupied and enjoyed until his debt and damages are fully paid, and during the time he so holds them he is called Tenant by Elegit. See WRITS. ENTRY, WRIT OF: This writ is the groundwork for suffering a common recovery, and is entered on the rolls " Placita Terrse," or " Recovery Rolls." ERRORS, CLERK OF THE : Abohshed by 1 Vict. c. 30. Duties of the Clerk of the Errors His duty was to allow writs of error brought upon proceedings in Common Pleas returnable in the King's Bench, and to enter in a book the name of the cause in which each writ of error was brought, and the names of the attorneys for the parties ; to take the acknowledgment of bail in error, and to make an entry of such bail in a book kept for that purpose ; to grant and enter rules for better bail ; to attend on the justification of bail, and to engross the recognizances of bail on the roll ; to grant and enter rules requiring the plaintiff in error to certify the record into the Court of King's Bench ; to enter on the roll and sign Non pros, for want of such proceeding ; to make the transcript of the Judgment Roll, when required ; to examine and carry the transcript to the proper officer of the King's Bench ; to attend the Judge on aU the above proceedings. (Rep. on Duties, &c. in Courts of Justice, 1819, p. 112.) There are some proceedings in error, ESSOINS : Or excuses for such as do not. appear in Court according to the summons of the writ. The Essoin Rolls exist from 10 Hen. III. to 13 W. III. ; and are now discontinued. They are useful in the absence of indices to the Judgment Rolls as references to the number of the roll containing the proceedings in any given case, inasmuch as it is much easier to run down a list of little else than the names of parties than to search through a series of long rolls. They may be considered as partial indices to the actions entered on the Issue or Judgment Rolls. The office of the Clerk of the Essoins was abolished by stat. 1 Vict. c. 30. ESTATES. See GENEALOGY. 128 COMMON PLEAS. EVIDENCE : Authentic copies of records to be evidence. See stat. 1 & 2 Vict, c. 94. ss. 12 and 13, and stats. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 113.— 14 & 15 Vict, c. 99. EXIGENTER AND CLERK OF THE SUPERSEDEAS : Office abolished by 1 Vict. c. 30. It was the duty of the Exigenter to make out, engross, and issue i "Writs of Exigent, Allocatur Exigent, and Proclamation, on Proceedings to Outlawry. It was also his duty as Clerk of the Supersedeas to make out and engross and issue Writs of Super- sedeas to the Writs of Exigent or Allocatur Exigent. The Writs of Pluries Capias, and Capias ad satisfaciendum, and also the Writs of Exigent, were usually filed or deposited with this officer previously to the issue of further process, with a view to outlawry. It was also his duty to enter Caveats of persons desiring notice that Writs of Exigent were issued against them ; also to draw and engross Bail-pieces in case of bail being required to Writs of Exigent, and to make entries of those several proceedings. The records are in the Public Record Office. EXTRACT ROLLS : These are original rolls of extracts from the Common Pleas Rolls from Edw. III. FILACERS : Office abolished by 1 Vict. c. 30. Filacers' Rolls, 1815, 1816. See REMEMBRANCE ROLLS AND BOOKS. FINAL CONCORDS. Sec FINES OF LANDS. FINES OF LANDS : Fines and Recoveries were abolished by stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 74., " An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and for the " Substitution of more simple Modes of Assurance." See ACKNOWLEDGMENT OFFICE. It will be seen by the following what numerous sources of information of the levying a Fine are to be found in the Public Record Office. The Original Pakts of the Fines, so far as they have been preserved, are in the Public Record Office, viz. : — 1. Writ of Covenant, with the Dedimus attached. 2. The Licence to agree.* 3. The Concord. 4. The Note or Abstract. 5. The Foot. The Affidavits to verify the Acknowledgment of Conusors of Fines, and the Affidavits of the due execution of the Writs of Dedimus Potestatem, are kept with the Concords. There are various indices, abstracts, &c. to the original Notes and Feet of Fines. * Estreats. — To obtain the King's Licence to agree, a fine was due to the Crown, which was assessed in the Alienation Office, and paid at the King's Silver Office, and the par- ticulars, i.e. Parties, Parcels, and Fines, were entered in the books of the King's Silver Office, rolls of which entries were every term sent to the Clerk of the Warrants, Enrol- ments, and Estreats of the Common Pleas, and then estreated into the Exchequer. COMMON PLEAS. 129 FINES OF LAIfBS— continued. By Stat. 31 Car. 1[. c. 3. it wa3 provided that certain Fines then recently burnt by fire at the Chirographer's Office, Temple, might be re-engrossed, &c. The Assistant Keeper at the Chapter House has frequently called attention to the imperfect state of the Fines when passed into the custody of the Master of the Kolls, tho great numbers missing, &c. His letter, addressed to the Deputy Keeper on 13th April 1849, recapitulates the various occasions on which he has called attention to the disgraceful state of the Fines. See the Summaries to the 5th and 6th Reports of the Deputy Keeper of Records, at the end of Appendix I., under the head Chapter House. Ineolments of Fines : Fines are entered and bound up with the Common Plea Rolls until 25 Eliz., when the Pleas of Land and Deeds inrolled form separate rolls, called " Placita Terrae," which contain the whole proceedings, including the Final Judgment, in all real actions. Plea Rolls, or Ijirolments of course : By Stat. 5 Hen. IV. c. 14., in consequence of certain Feet and Notes of Fines having been stolen, and counterfeits put in their places, it was provided that all Writs of Covenant, and all other writs whereupon Fines should be levied in time to come, with the Writs of Dedimus (if any), with all acknow- ledgments and notes of the same, before being taken from the Common Bench by the Chirographer, should be inrolled, to be of record for ever, — to remain in custody of the Chief Clerk of the Common Bench for the old fee of 12c?. accustomed to be paid for entering the Concord of Fine, without paying any more, — to the intent that if the Notes in the custody of the Chirographer, or the Fines, should be embezzled, recourse may be had to the said inrolment, to have execution thereof; and all Writs of Covenant, and all other writs whereupon Fines had been levied in times past, should be also of record ; and all Fines lately embezzled, if the Notes and the Writs of Covenant of such Fines should remain with the Chirographer, that then the party showing part of the Fine embezzled, such Notes and Writs of Covenant should remain of record. Inrolments at the option of the Parties interested : 3-7t ..By Stat. 23 Eliz. c. 3. every Writ of Covenant and other writ whereupon any fine hath heretofore or shall hereafter be levied, the Return, and the Dedimus and Return, the Concord, the Note and Foot, the Pro- clamation, and the King's Silver, might, upon the request and at the election of any person, be inrolled, and the Inrolment, or any part thereof, should be of as good force and validity in law as the same being extant were ; and the same as to Recoveries. And an office was appointed to be established to continue for ever, to be called " The Ofiice for the Inrolment of Writs for •-Fines and Recoveries." The Clerk of the Return Office was also Clerk of the above Inrolments. .2 o £ £ 0.a <( S '^ 60 |.S § ° US S S S s^ S P 130 COMMON PLEAS. FINES OF JjANDS— continued. a C By Stat. 27 Eliz. c. 9. the above statute was applied ^ S j to the Welsh counties, and to the counties palatine of "c g j Chester, Lancaster, and Durham ; and an office was " 'i » appointed for Inrolments in every shire, &c., and each "^ Justice within his respective limits was to have charge of such Inrolments. Entet Books : King^s Silver Office Books : These have suffered greatly from the fire at the King's Silver Office in the Temple in March 1838. The books contain entries of all Fines passed through the office in alphabetical order of counties, and containing the names of the parties, the description of the property, and where situated, the return day of the Writ of Covenant, the names of the Commissioners before whom taken, and the date of such caption, with the amount of the pre and post fines which had been paid thereon. 'Return Office Books : These Entry Books will be understood by stating the duties of the Clerk of the Return Office. It was his duty to return in the names of the Sheriffs all Writs of Covenant for levying Fines, and all Writs of Entry, Writs of Summons, and Writs of Seisin for suffering Common Recoveries, and to make regular entries in, books, of the counties, the names of the parties, the places where the tenements comprised in the writs were situated, the returns of the writs (excepting Writs of Covenant), and the names of the attorneys. Alienation Office Books : In these are entered Extracts from Writs of Covenant, chrono- logically arranged in alphabetical order of counties, and they contain the names of parties, description of property, and where situate, with the teste and return day of the writ. There is an index to the above. See ALIENATION OFFICE. Custos Brevium Books : Entries of Writs of Covenant, In respect of these Entry Books, it was the duty of the Custos Brevium to examine all Fines brought to be passed, and, if the proceedings were found to be regular, to enter the Fines in a book of the Term in which the Writs of Covenant were returnable. Proclamations : It appears to have been the duty of the Custos Brevium (among other duties) in respect of Fines to endorse the Proclamations on the Concords of Fines. See Report of the Commissioners on Duties, &c. in Courts of Justice (1819), page 9. A Docket of the Proclamation is attached to each bundle of the Nptes of Fines. The Proclamations are attached to the Feet of Fines. The evidence of Proclamations of Fines is now dispensed with by Stat. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 70. Paiatinates : The Fines of the Palatinates have not been entered at the King's Silver Office since 8 Jac. 1. (1610) ; they have been entered in their respective counties. COMMON PLEAS. 131 FINES OF JjAKDH-continued. The Fines pro Licentia Concordandi are entered on the Chancery Fine Rolls. Some Concords of Fines will be found entered in Liber A and Liber B, books belonging to the Receipt of the Exchequer. The original Fines are printed in 2 vols. 8vo. from 7 Ric. L to 16 John for the counties of Bedford, Berks, Buckingham, Cambridge, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derby, Devon, Dorset. GENEALOGY: The Placita Terrse Rolls may be searched with advantage in genealogical matters. Search also Fines of Lands. A writer in the Gentleman's Magazine for April 1846, p. 365, thus observes with reference to Genealogy : — " There can be no " question that the most valuable of all unpublished Records are " the Indentures of Fines prior to the Reformation, and the " Chancery Proceedings subsequent thereto ; for from these two " series a complete history of every estate in the kingdom, and " of every family of any real property, might be compiled, " extending from the reign of King John down to the present " century." INDENTURES, (INTERROGATORY WRITS, &c.) : Bundles of. INFANTS' ADMISSIONS : G. II. IIL, one Bundle. INQUIRIES, OR BELLS AGAINST ATTORNEYS : Inquisitions, "Writs of Inquiry, and Bills against Attorneys, Files of. See ATTORNEYS. INQUISITIONS. INQUISITIONS : Lists and copies of Final Judgments signed on Posteas and Inqui- sitions from an early period to modern date. Inquisitions, Writs of Inquiry, and Bills against Attorneys, Files of. See ATTORNEYS. INQUIRIES. Outlawries. — Inquisitions upon. See Riders under the head JUDGMENT ROLLS. INVENTORIES : Printed in the Appendices to the 2d, 3d, 4th, and 7th Reports of the Dep. Keeper of Records. ISSUE ROLLS. See JUDGMENT ROLLS. ISSUES : Goods, &c. distrained by Writ of Distringas from the defendant for neglect to appear after attachment. K 2 132 COMMON PLEAS. JUDGMENT REGISTRATION OFFICE : Memoranda of Judgments and Indexes, S^c. — Dockets. — Stat. 1 &2 Vict. c. lib. s. 19. enacts that no judgment, decree, or order in a Court of Equity, nor rule of Court of Common Law, nor order in bankruptcy or lunacy, shall affect real estates as to pur- chasers, &c., unless and until a memorandum containing the name, abode, title, trade, or profession, &c. of party affected thereby be left with the senior master of the Common Pleas. The senior master is Registrar under the above Act, and under 2Vict. c. 11. Stat. 2 Vict. c. 11. 8. 1. directs that the Dockets made under Stat. 4 & 5 W. &.M. are to cease. Pursuant to the above statutes, the memoranda are filed by the officer as they are lodged in the office, and alphabetical indexes are made of the particulars contained in the memoranda. The following is the form of the index so made out : — Sumame. Christian Name. Residence. Occu- pation. When left. Judgment, Oi'der, or Decree. Court. Date of Judg- ment, Title of Cause. Amount of Debt. ObseTvationa. Smith Richard ■ Eichmond, Surrey, Brewer 17 July Judgment toeen's Bench, 11 July 1S40, W. Richards B^inst E. Smith. £400. Costs, £3 10s. JUDGMENT ROLLS (and other Records connected therewith) : First, they are Plea Rolls, brought in on the parties joining issue, and then called Issue Rolls, which, when the Judgments are entered, become Judgment Rolls. The entering of the Judgments has been very much neglected, and the Judgments have become aiders, viz., aiders. — It was the duty of the Clerk of the Judgments, when the cause was decided, to have entered the Final Judgment at the bottom of the Issue Roll, or on an additional piece of parchment, which was or ought to have been annexed to the said Issue Roll, thus converting it into a Judgment Roll ; but for a long series of years they have been tied up in distinct bundles, entitled aiders, which also contain the proceedings under inquisitions, writs of partition, &c., with the concluding Judgments thereon, from the time of Eliz. to 22 G. III. Posteas. — The Judgments, instead of being entered on the Plea or Issue Rolls, were frequently entered on separate pieces of parch- ment, called Posteas or Judgments, and when not entered on the rolls or annexed, have been tied up in distinct bundles and called " Riders." The Judgment Rolls, containing two parts, — 1. Personal Plea Rolls, or Communia Placita ; 2. Pleas of Land and Deeds inrolled, called Placita Terras, — were fastened up together until 25 Eliz., when the latter became distinct rolls, containing the King's Silver and Fines, Assizes, Formedons, all real Actions, Deeds inrolled. Protections. An Inventory of the Judgment or Plea Rolls is printed in the 3d COMMON PLEAS. 133 JUDGMENT ROLLS, he—continued. Rep. of the Deputy Keeper of Records, App. II. pp. 105-116, and continued in the 4th Rep. App. II. pp. 73-77. Also an Inventory of the Placita Terrae or Pleas of Land and Deed InroUed, in the 3d Rep. App. II. pp. 117-126., continued in the 7th Rep. App. IL pp. 219-223. Judgment Paper Books, Jac. L, Car. I, Car. IL, W. & M., G. II. Essoin Rolls. — These are useful in the absence of indices to the Judgment Rolls, inasmuch as it is much easier to run down a list of little else than the names of parties, than to search through a series of long rolls ; indeed, the Essoin Rolls may be considered as partial indices. Dockets of the Prothonofaries. — These are brief entries of the nature of the action, the names of the parties, and the number of the roll. There were three Prothonotaries ; the Dockets com- mence 1 Hen.VIIL See DOCKETS. Dockets of the Clerk of Essoins, pursuant to stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. c. 20. The Clerk of Essoins hy the above stat. was directed to make an index or dogget alphabetically by the names of the defendants, of all Judgments signed in the Court of Common picas, from the Docket Roll, to be fairly entered in books of parchment. The docketing under the above stat. ceased pursuant to2 Vict. c. 11. s. 1. /See DOCKETS. Account Books of tke Prothonotaries. Chief Prothonotary. Second Prothonotary. Third Prothonotary. Enti-y Books of— COMMENCINa 1. Common Judgments 2. Special Judgments - 3. Nisi Prius Records - 4. Entries on the Roll - 3 Car. L 35 Car.IL 35 Car. II. 13 Anne. 30 Car. n. 23 Car. n. 23 Car. 11. 12 Anne. Hil. 1651. 14, 15 Car. IL 20 Car. 1. 12 Anne. They do not come down lower than 1779, when the Protho- notaries' Offices were united, after which the Prothonotaries kept them at their chambers. They contain the names of each party, but were formerly not con- sidered to be records, being only books of account kept by the Prothonotaries' clerks as accounts with their principals for fees received, but are nevertheless books of great moment, and are referred to in cases where the entries on the rolls are not completed, in order to ascertain what proceedings were had. They may in some cases supply the defects of the Docket Rolls and Books, by affording the means of a more easy search for a Judgment. JURY LISTS : In bundles. 134 COMMON PLEAS. KING'S SILVER: Clerk of King's Silver abolished by stat. 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 82., and duties transferred to Common Pleas. Eolls and books. See FINES OF LANDS. LANDED ESTATES. See GENEALOGY. LANDS. 5ee FINES OF LANDS. RECOVEEIES. PLACITA TERR^. GENEALOGY. LICENCES : Alienation Office Entry Books of Licences and Pardons, from 1571. See ALIENATION OFFICE. MAPS, PLANS, &c, : Many to be found on tbe Rolls of Pleas of Land, or Recovery Rolls. MINISTERS' CERTIFICATES. See CERTIFICATES. MINUTE BOOKS : Containing rules and orders. See RULES AND ORDERS. NIL BOOKS. See ALIENATION OFFICE. NISIPRIUS: This term arose from the statute of Nisi prius, 13 Edw. I. c. 30., directing that the writs for summoning juries to the Superior Courts should have the clause Nisi, &c. (i.e. unless the Justices appointed to take the Assizes should first come into the county). The records are the Prothonotaries' entry books of all Nisi prius Records passed. OATHS: Rolls of the oath of allegiance and supremacy subscribed by indi- viduals who took oath viva voce in the Court previously to their admission to offices in the Church or under the Crown. Eolls of oaths subscribed by attorneys, and certificates of corporate officers and other official persons having taken the Sacrament. Rolls of Catholic Attorneys. Clergymens' Eolls. Prisoners' oaths under 32 G. II. ORDERS. See RULES AND ORDERS. OUTLAWEY, OFFICE OF: Clerk of the Outlawries, and Clerk of the Reversal of Outlawries, abolished by stat. 1 Vict. c. 30. Pracipes, the Exigenter's entry books of. Reversals. — Remembrance Rolls of the Clerk of the Reversals, containing an account of the reversals of outlawries (formerly the Records of the Clerk of Reversals of Outlawries). Inquisitions upon outlawries. COMMON PLEAS. 135 PANELS. See JURY LISTS. PARDONS : Alienation Office Entry Books of Licences and Pardons, from 1571. See ALIENATION OFFICE. PARTITION, WRITS OF : The bundles called Riders contain also writs of partition. See Riders under the head JUDGMENT ROLLS. PLACITA TERR^. WRITS. PEDES FINIUM. See FINES OF LANDS. PLACITA DE BANCO. See JUDGMENT ROLLS. PLACITA TERR^: Pleas of land and deeds inrolled. These rolls, which were tied up with the Common Plea Rolls until 25 Eliz. and then became separate rolls, contain the whole pro- ceedings, including the Final Judgment in all real actions, the bulk of which consists of common recoveries, together with inrolments of bargains and sales and other conveyances, deeds to make tenants to prsecipes, and to lead to the uses of fines, appointments of officers, and the like. They contain the proceedings on levy- ing a fine of lands, also proceedings in quare impedit, dower, and frequently in partitions. They are sometimes called "Recovery Rolls," as containing the proceedings relating thereto. They are also called " King's Silver Rolls," as containing the entries of King's Silver on levying fines of lands. There are indexes to the above. An inventory is printed from 25 Eliz. (when these rolls commence as a distinct ^ei'ies from the other Plea Rolls) to Car. I., in the 3d and 7th Reports of the Deputy Keeper of Records. PLANS, MAPS, &c.: Many on the Plea Rolls (Placita Terras or Recovery Rolls). PLEADINGS. IlIa rSlLS. } ^" JUDGMENT ROLLS. Pleadings were formerly written in Norman Law French intro- duced by the Conqueror ; this continued until Edw. III. By Stat. 36 Edw. III. it was enacted, that for the future all pleas should be pleaded, shown, defended, answered, debated, and adjudged in the English tongue, but be entered and inroUed in Latin. The technical Latin continued in use till the Common- wealth, when the language of the records was turned into English; but at the Restoration Latin was again used, and continued till 1730, when the proceedings in law were put in English under Stat. 4 G. II. c. 26., and court hand was altered by the same statute. POSTEAS : The Judgments, instead of being entered on the Plea Rolls, were frequently entered on separate pieces of parchment, and called Posteaa or Judgments, and when not fastened to the Plea Rolls were called Riders. These are useless when entered on the rolls. 136. COMMON PLEAS. POSTEAS — continued. There are Posteas with the Prothonotaries' allocaturs of costs marked thereon. There are Indexes to Posteas and Inquiries. JicQ Eiders under the head JUDGMENT POLLS. POST FINES of the ALIENATION OFFICE. See FINES OF JjANDS— Sub-head Entky Books— King's Silver Office Books. PEJE AND POST FINES of the ALIENATION OFFICE. See FINES OF LANDS— Sub-head Entet Books— King's Silver Office Books. PEiECIPES : Appearances. — There are brief notes of writs to compel appearances filed by the Filacers at the time of signing the writs. The notes contain the description of the writs, names of parties, and the returns. They were formerly entered on the Filacers' Kemem- brance Polls, which exist from about 1749 till about 1827 or 1828, from which time they are on paper. Attachments of Privilege. — Prsecipes, and rules and orders for attachments of privilege, and appearances thereto, are on the Secondaries' Remembrance Rule Rolls, which are bound up with the Recovery Remembrance Rolls till 1779, after which they are carried on in books. Common Recoveries. — Praecipes for suffering common recoveries are on the Recovery Remembrance Rolls of the Prothonotaries. Outlawries. — Books of entry of Prascipes for outlawries to compel appearances. Exigenter's entries. PRAYER BOOK: Deposited pursuant to the Act of Uniformity. PRISONERS : Affidavits of the due delivery of declarations against prisoners, with the declarations annexed. These are in boxes, entitled " Decla- rations." Inventory printed in Fourth Report of Dep. Keep, of Records, App. II. p. 61. Prisoners' papers from 1722. Prisoners' oaths under 32 G. 11., " An Act for Relief of Debtors," &c. PRIVILEGE : Attachments of privilege and appearances thereto are entered on the Remembrance Rule Rolls, which are bound up with the Recovery Remembrance Rolls till 1779, after which they are carried on in books. PROCLAMATIONS: It appears to have been the duty of the Custos Brevium, in respect of Fines, to indorse the Proclamations on the Concords of Fines. (See Report on Duties, &c. in Courts of Justice (1819), page 9.) A docket of the Proclamation is attached to each bundle of the Notes of Fines. The Proclamations of Fines are attached to the Feet of Fines. The evidence of Proclamations of Fines is now dispensed with by Stat. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 70. COMMON PLEAS. isr PEOTHONOTAREES : Abolished by stat. 1 Vict. c. 30. See ACCOUNT BOOKS OF THE PROTHONOTARIES. QUALIFICATION ROLLS. See OATHS. RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS. See ACCOUNTS. ALIENA- TION OFFICE. RECOGNIZANCES : Recognizance, Bail-piece. — The bail must enter into a recognizance in Court or before a Judge or Commissioner in a sum, &c. ; this recognizance is transmitted' to the court on a slip of parchment, entitled a "Bail-piece." See BAIL. RECOVERIES : Fines and recoveries abolished bj stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 74. Recoveries are entered on the same rolls and books as Fines. See FINES OF LANDS. Affidavits of taking "Warrants of Attorney for suflfering recoveries. See AFFIDAVITS. The Recovery Remembrance Rolls of the Prothonotaries con- tain the entries and prsecipes for suffering common recoveries, v/ith the record of the tenants' appearances in court, names of demandants, tenants, and vouchees, and description and parti- culars of lands to be passed. These rolls are bound up together with the Secondaries' Remembrance Rolls. There are dockets to the above. Also the original Writs of Entry, &c. Also the recovery entry book of the clerk of the warrants, inrol- ments, and estreats. The inventory of the " recovery indexes" is printed in the 3d Rep. of Dep. Keep. App. II. p. 127. RE-FA-LO (REFALOES) : The abbreviation of recordari facias loquelam. A writ directed t» the Sheriff to remove a cause depending in an Inferior Court to the King's Bench or Common Pleas. Files or bundles of them among the Common Pleas Records. REGISTRAR OF ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BY MARRIED WOMEN: Appointed pursuant to stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 74., " An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries," &c. See ACKNO WLED G- MENT OFFICE. REGISTRATION OFFICE. See JUDGMENT REGISTRA- TION OFFICE. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OFFICE.; REGISTRY OF ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OFFICE (9, Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street) : Registrar appointed pursuant to stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 74., " An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries," &c. See ACKNOW- LEDGMENT OFFICE. 138 COMMON PLEAS. REMEMBRANCE ROLLS AND BOOKS : 1. The Prothonotaries' Recovery Remembrance Rolls contain the entries and prsecipes for suffering common recoveries, with the records of the tenants' appearances in court, names of demandants, tenants, and vouchees, and description of lands to be passed. These are bound up vrith the following. Inventory of the above printed in the 4th Rep. of the Dep. Keeper of Records, App. II. p. 30-52. 2. The Secondaries' Remembrance Rule Rolls are bound up with the above, and contain the entries of all rules and orders of court, praecipes for attachments of privilege, and appearances thereto, and rules for judgment on scire facias, to 1779, after which the entries are in books. Also books. Inventory of these books is printed in 4th Rep. of the Dep. Keeper of Records, App. II. p. 52. 3. The Filacers' Remembrance Rolls, on which are entered prsecipes, or short notes of writs to compel appearances ; these rolls exist from about 1749 till about 1827 or 1828, from which time the prsecipes are on paper. See PR-ffiCIPES. There were three filacers, each had his separate roll, certain counties being allotted to each. Inventory printed in 4th Rep. of the Dep. Keeper of Records, App. II. p. 53. Remembrance books. RETURN OFFICE, CLERK OF: Abolished by 5 & 6 "W. IV. c. 82., and duties transferred to Common Pleas. Records. — Entry books of Writs of Covenant for levying Fines, Writs of Entry, Writs of Summons, and Writs of Seisin for suffering common recoveries. See Return Office Books, under the head FINES OF LANDS. RIDERS. See JUDGMENT ROLLS. ROMAN CATHOLIC ATTORNEYS' ROLLS. See ATTORNEYS. RULES AND ORDERS : 1. Minute books of the Secondaries, containing entries of all rules and orders, and indeed of all the transactions of the Court while sitting in bench, from about 1730 ; but several of the oldest lost. 2. Draft rule books, in which the several rules of Court are first drawn and entered, and from which the fair copies of such rules for the parties are taken, and the record of such rules finally made up. They are divided into special and common rule books, the former including those rules actually pronounced by the Court itself, and the latter such as were obtained by the parties as a matter of course from the office, without discussion before the Court, from about 1774. 3. The Remembrance Rule Rolls of the Secondaries contain entries of all rules and orders of Court, praecipes for attachments of privilege, and appearances thereto, and rules for judgment on scire facias ; they are bound up with the Recovery Remembrance Rolls of the Prothonotaries until 1779, from which time they are carried on in books. COMMON PLEAS. 139 SATISFACTIONS : Satisfaction ia now entered on the Judgment Eoll only, formerly it was also entered on the docket. There is a bundle of loose Satisfactions. See SATISFACTIONS, p. 114. SCIRE FACIAS: Rules for judgment on scire facias are entered on the Secondaries' Remembrance Rule Rolls. See REMEMBRANCE ROLLS AND BOOKS. RULES AND ORDERS. SECONDARIES : Abolished by stat. 1 Vict. c. 30. SECONDARIES' REMEMBRANCES. See REMEMBRANCE ROLLS AND BOOKS. ; SEIZIN, WRIT OF: The whole proceedings in common recoveries, &c. are entered on the Placita Terr^ RoUs. See PLACITA TERR.a). RECO- VERIES. SIXPENNY DUTY (under stat. 7 G. I.) : Alienation Recoeds : Entries of accounts of the Qd. deductions. SPECIAL BAILS. See BAIL. SPECIAL PLEAS : Books of entry of. SUPERSEDEAS : Office of clerk of, abolished by 1 Vict. c. 30. SWEARING ROLLS. See OATHS. TITLE, DESCENT, &c. : The Placita Terras Rolls may be searched with advantage ; also the Fines. TOPOGRAPHY : Consult the Placita Terrse Rolls, also the Pedes Finium. See GENEALOGY. TREASURY: Office of Clerk of, abolished by 1 Vict. c. 30. WARRANTS : Office of Clerk of Warrants, Inrolments, and Estreats, abolished by 1 Vict. c. 30. of Attorney, on strips of parchment, filed pursuant to stat. 3 G. IV. c. 39. at the time of signing every judgment ; some destroyed, but inrolled on the Common Judgment Rolls, " Communia Placita." 140 COMMON TLEAS. WARRANTS— continued. ■ Stamped warrants to sue and defend, which were filed with the Filacers on signing process to compel appearance. These were filed in pursuance of 25 G. III. (Stamp Act) ; some destroyed, but inrolled on the Common Judgment Eolls, " Com- munia Placita." > of Attorney to confess a judgment. Authorities to certain attorneys named to confess a judgment against the party executing them. of Attorney to enter satisfaction. Afiidavits of Warrants of Attorney for sufiering recoveries. See AFFIDAVITS. Books of Alienation Ofiice Commissioners : Warrants for payments. WKITS : Original Writs are under the Great Seal settled or witnessed in the King's own name. Formerly the Cursitors of the Court of Chancery made out these, but by stat 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 82. s. 10. their duties were transferred to the Petty Bag Office. Judicial Writs are under the private seal of the Court from whence they issue ; settled or witnessed in the name of the Chief Justice or senior Justice. The writs are preserved in bundles at present. There are writ entry books. Writs of Covenant. See ALIENATION OFFICE. Writs of Custos Brevium, including Capias, Distringas, Venire fac, Recovery, Entry, Summons, Seizin, Transcript, and Mitti- mus, &c EXCHEQUER. The ancient Court of Exchequer was introduced into England by William the Conqueror, and was not finally abolished until the reign of Queen "Victoria. Stat. 23 G. III. c. 82., 1782, abolished the Chamber- lains after the death or resignation of the then possessors of the ofBce, but it was not until 1826 that their office devolved on the Auditor of the Eeceipt. By stat. 25 G. III. c. 52. the Auditors of Imprest merged in the office of the Commissioners for auditing Public Accounts, by authority of which Act the latter department was erected. So also by stats. 39 G. ni. c. 83. and 2 W. IV. c. 1. the Auditors of Land Revenue were abolished, and the accounts formerly audited by them were directed to be transferred to the said office of the Commissioners for auditing Public Accounts. By stat. 3 &4 W. IV. c.99. (1833) most of the ancient departments on the Account Side were abolished, and such of the ancient duties as remained were transferred to the Queen's Eemem- brancer. Stat. 4 W. IV. c. 15. abolished the ancient constitution of the Eeceipt Side. By stat. 5 Vict. c. 5. the equity jurisdiction of this Court was transferred to Chancery ; and by stat. 5 8e 6 Vict. c. 86. several other offices in the Queen's Eemembrancer's Office were abolished, and his office remodelled, which completed the abolition of the ancient Exchequer. The ancient Court of Exchequer is now represented as follows : — The Account Side by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the office of the Queen's Eemembrancer, in which latter office the Great Seal of the Exchequer is now kept. The ancient Auditors are repre- sented by the Commissioners for auditing Public Accounts, — the judicial part by the Barons of the Exchequer. The Seal Office was abolished in 1849, and the writs are now sealed at the Exchequer of Pleas Office. The Lords of the Treasury represent the office of the Lord High Trea- surer since the year 1714, that is to say, since the accession of the House of Hanover. The ancient Receipt Side is represented by the office of the Comptroller-General, or rather by that office and the Bank of England, to which may be added the office of the Paymaster-General, for the salaries and other payments which were formerly paid at the Exchequer, and more recently by the Paymaster of Civil Services, are now paid by the Paymaster-General. Thus after about 800 years con- tinuance, has passed away the ancient Court of the Exchequer. Most of the records thereof remain, which will be described under their proper heads in the following pages. EXCHEQUER. ABBEYS, &c. See ACCOUNTS (Ministers', Receivers', &c.). CHARTULARIES and LEIDGER BOOKS. GRANTS. INQUISITIONS. MONASTERIES. PARTICULARS OF ACCOUNTS. SURVEYS. VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS. Pensions granted to the abbots, upon tbe dissolution of the abbeys, &c., are enrolled in books among the Records of the Augmentation Office. The register, rentals, and treasurer's accounts of the abbey of St. Augustine are at Canterbury Cathedral. The register of Fountains Abbey is in the Earl of Denbigh's library. There are eridences of the lands of the Abbey of Lewes in the Chapter House. ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Account) : It is important to all persons desirous of searching the Revenue Records to understand that one original (or duplicate) of all declared accounts was deposited in the Pipe Office, and therefore (if they have been preserved) accounts of almost every descrip- tion should be in that department down to the abolition of that office by stat. 3 & 4 "W". IV. c. 99. (1833) ; from that time, and before in some cases, we must go to the Audit Office. This latter office was established by stat. 25 G. HI. c. 52., into which depart- ment the office of the Auditors of Imprest then merged. It was formerly the practice to enter the accounts (besides at the depart- ment from whence they emanated) at the offices of the King's Remembrancer and the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer ; but by stats. 1 & 2 G. IV. c. 121. s. 7. and 3 G. IV. c. 88. s. 9. they are inrolled only at the King's Remembrancer's Office, and the originals are returned to the Audit Office. Although the stat. 39 G. ni. c. 83. (1799) directed the abolition of the Three Auditors of Land Revenue after the termination of the then existing interests, the intention did not come into operation until 1832, when stat. 2 W. IV. c. 1. abolished the remaining auditor and acting auditors, and transferred their audit to the Com- missioners of Audit (or Commissioners for auditing Public Accounts). 144 EXCHEaUER. ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Account)— continued. Pipe Depaetment : Abolished hy 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 99., and provision made for the re- maining duties. The Great Roll of the Exchequer, or Rotulus Annalis, called the Pipe because it was the channel or pipe for conveying the revenues into the Treasury, was the record of account of the Court of Exchequer, formerly containing the accounts of the whole revenues of the Crown, digested under the heads of the several counties, and annually written out in order to the charging and discharging of the Sheriffs and other accountants. The ancient revenues were either certain or casual. The certain revenues consisted of farms, fee-farms, castle-guard rents, &c. The casual part was composed of fines, issues, amerciaments, recognizances, profits of lands and tenements, goods and chattels seized into the hands of the Crown on process of extents, out- lawry, diem clausit extremum, and other writs and process, wards, marriages, reliefs, suits, seignories, felons' goods, deo- dands, and other profits casually arising to the Crown by its prerogative. The rolls also contain the accounts of Lords of liberties granted from the Crown, of the green w^ax within their respective liberties, and many debts due to the Crown and put in process for levying the same. The earliest Pipe Roll preserved is that of 31 Hen. I. (1130), the most ancient record of the Court of Exchequer (if we except Domesday). Duplicates or Chancellor's rolls of the above. This series is far from being so complete as that of the Great Rolls themselves. The earliest roll that has been found is of the 11th Henry II. From that year to the I7th James I. 293 rolls of this series have been discovered, all of which were sent, by direction of the late Commissioners on the Public Records, to the British Museum, with the exception of the roll for 7 Henry IV., which was retained, to supply the chasm occasioned by the loss of the Great Roll of that year. There was a settled charge against each Sheriff or other accountant for the farms, rents, debts, &c. due to the Crown in each county, which they were bound to answer. The King, however, made from time to time certain grants, and also alms, &c., and directed them to be paid by the Sheriff or other accountant ; these charges were allowed in discharge upon show- ing sufiicient warrant. EXCHEaUER. 145 ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Account) — continued. The following Account of one Lordship (extracted from the Pipe Rolls), and its Translation or Explanation, will show the nature of the Charge and Discharge on the Pipe Roll :— Extract &om a Pipe Koll, 1 Bic. I. Explanation. Charge. Discharge. Honor WiHi deVesci. Nichols deMorewicfe redd comp de ccc 7 q*? .xx. 7 vn li. 7 vni s. 7 n d de firma Honoris Willi de Vesci. CHARGE. Honor of William de Vesci. Nicholas de Morewich renders^ his Account of 300 and 4 score and 7 pounds 8 shillings and 2 pence for the farm of the Honor of William de Vesci. DISCHAEGE. In thro cc 7XLnli 7 vs. 7Via. Et in Eleiii Const 7 Decimal p maneria in denar x li r 7 vn s. mi a. J Et g blado Prebendario^ ■) apptiateliannoviti 7n s. J Et Monialib° de Gisnes 11 s. 7 VI a in redditu salisq, hnt p annii. Et p pannis xx frm Preben- \ dar 7 n Inclusar lxxivs. ) Et in Quiet ?re Eic falconaf q" ht anno q° servit de minis?io suo vi s . 7 viii 3. q'a ft anno seruiuit. Et in manio de Maltoii li li 7 xvn s. 7x3. de q'b}, I Galfr Haget deb} re- [ sponde. -' Et in defalta reddit° militin p Warda de Alnewiok [ xxxvm s. 7 XI a. J Et in defalta reddit" ^rede"! Burden q« ma? Alani I Groher disfonau i curia ee dote sua xxx s. Et in lib at 1 CapHiresidntis in cast de Alnewick -xtctc s, 7 V a. Et inlibai Eustacftde Vesci-, H'edis ei'a Willi de anno 1 integro Liinti 7 xv s. scl | qolibj die in s. p br. 1^. ^ Et deb xn li 7 xvni s. Id redd comp de eod debito. In thro IX LXXVIII s. li. Et debl Id redd comp de eod debito 1 In thro libavit Et quie? est - Paid into the treasury, 242Z. 5s. 6d. Also paid the settled Alms and~| Tythes on Account of the [ manors ; in money, 101. 7s. 4d. J Also for the Corn of the Prebends ") appraised at 6/. 2s. ) Also for the Nuns of Guisnes for 1 their annual rent of salt, 2s. 6d. J Also for Clothes for 20 Friars and \ 2 recluses, 74 shillings. .) Also for Quittance of the land of Richard the Falconer, who served his own office, 6s. 8d., which he is allowed when he so serves. Also for the manor of Malton, "1 51Z. 1 7s. lOd. which Geffery \ Haget ought to answer. J Also in default of the rents of the"] Knights of the Ward of Aln- r wick, 38 shillings and 1 1 pence. -' Also in default of the land of"^ Burden, which the mother of I Alan Goher proved in Court [ to be her Dower 30 shillings. Also in Livery of 1 Chaplain resident in Alnwick Castle, 30 shillings and 5 pence. Also in Livery of Eustace, the-, heir of the said William, for I one year 541. 15s., at the rate of | 3s. per day, by the King's Writ. J And heoweth 121. 18s., and after- ward rendered account of the same. Paid into the Treasury, 91. ; and ") then owed 78 shillings. j And afterwards rendered account of said debt. Paid into the Treasury, 78*. And he is quit - - - £ s. d. 387 8 2 £ s. d. 242 5 6 10 7 4 6 2 2 6 3 14 6 8 51 17 10 1 18 11 1 10 1 10 5 54 15 9 3 18 - ^ 387 8 2 146 EXCHEaUER. ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Account)— continued. The Nichill Bolls, which contain all the nichilled debts, tran- scribed from the roUs of the Clerk of the Estreats. The rolls were annually made up by the Clerk of the Mchills, and immediately transmitted to the Pipe Office, and there remained on record. The Nichills or Nihils are what the Sheriff says are nothing worth, and not to be levied through the insufficiency of the parties from whom the same are due. RoUs of Escheats. EoUs of foreign accounts ; also bundles of the same. There are foreign accounts among the Pipe Records as early as Edw. I. They then contained such matter as was foreign to the Pipe RoU ; and in more modem times they contain the supplies and such parts of the revenue as have been granted by Parliament. The business of recording these accounts was taken from the Pipe Office (with the exception of the Excise accounts) by the Acts of 1 & 2 O. IV. c. 121. and 3 G, IV. c. 88., and transferred to the Audit and Tax Offices ; but the records and the audi- tor's accounts as vouchers down to the above respective periods still remain with the records of the Pipe. The greater part of the foreign accounts are since 1688. Some of them are made up in large rolls, and others are tied up in bundles. RoUs of particulars of Sheriffs' accounts. States of accompts in bundles. Ditto in entry books. Tax books. Tott books. Accounts of the payments and receipts of the Clerk of the Pipe, Comptroller, and Secondary. Casual fee books. Wardrobe accounts. Master of the Posts. Anglia, Books of. These are accounts of the duties of excise, customs, and of public accountants at home and abroad. There are some few ministers' accounts, from Edw. TIT , to Philip and Mary. Queen's Rememgbeancee's Depaetmbnt : Ministers' accounts, of manors, the demesne of the Crown, of manors purchased and exchanged, of manors acquired by escheat, &c. of honours. of the possessions of vacant bishopricks, abbeys, and priories, whether seized on account of death, or attainder of the bishop, abbot, or friar, of the possessions of persons attainted, of the possessions of alien priories, of the possessions of knights templars, of possessions in North and South Wales. Inrolments of the states of the public accounts of the kingdom. The state or abstract of every public account, after it is passed, is inrolled. This inrolment is the record of the account in the Queen's Remembrancer's Office, and warrants the process that issues against the accountant for recovering a debt due to the Crown. EXCHEQTJER. 147 ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Accoxmt)— continued. It appears to have been the practice of the Auditors of the Imprest to transmit the declared accounts to the Queen's Remembrancer, and this practice is continued by the Audit Office, which was established in 1785, upon the abolition of the office of Auditors of Imprest ; and the original accounts were finally deposited in the Pipe Office, but now in the Audit Office. Inrolments of the states of imprest and tax accounts are every second year arranged in separate bundles, with proper indorse- ments thereon, containing the dates of the declarations of the accounts. It was the duty of the Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer to make out, sign, and enter the general im- prest rolls of accountants, and transmit them twice in the year to the King's Remembrancer for the public security. For authority for the above transmission, see 8 & 9 W. in. c. 28. ; 1 & 2 G. rV. c. 121. which was repealed by 4 W. IV. c. 15. s. 36. Inrolments of the states of accounts of the Receivers of the Quarterly Poll in various counties, 9 & 10 W. m. Inrohnent of a subsidy of 1,484,015Z., 10 & 11 W. III. Inrolment of the tax of 3s. in the pound on land, &c., 12 & 13 w. ni. Inrolment of the taxation of the tenths of the clergy in the Diocese of Canterbury. Documents relating to tallages, carucages, scutages, aids, sub- sidies, &c. &c. r Carriages. Tax Books, ^H--- vProperty. Miscellaneous, viz. : — Alnagers. Army. Bailiffs. Household : Cofferers. Comptroller. King's butler. King's horses. Jewels, plate, &c. Paymaster. Ireland : Accounts of the treasurer in Ireland, and chamberlain of the Exchequer in Dub- lin, Edward I. and subse- quent reigns, which were passed in Exchequer of England. Duplicates of land tax and assessed taxes, kept in bags, called Bags of the Particulars of each Receiver's Account. These were delivered into court by the auditors. They are also entered in books L 2 Marshalsea Court, profits of. Mines in Devon and Cornwall ; and of gold and silver there. Mint and coinage. Navy. Repairs, &c., building palaces, castles, houses, manors, parks, &c. Highways and sewers, London and Westminster. Sequestered estates in several counties, temp. Common- wealth. Accounts of lands and rents, &c. Sheriffs. Wardrobe, &c. 148 EXCHEQUER. ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Account) — continued. Wardrobe accounts. Escheat KoUs, from 47 Hen. JH. See ESCHEATORS : ES- CHEATS. Proffers (which were the particular sums of money paid half-yearly into the Exchequer by the Sheriffs of the several counties, cities, and towns, &c.) are entered on the Queen's Kemembrancer's Memoranda Rolls. Lord Treasueek's Remembrancer's Department : Rolls. The states and views of the accounts of the greater and lesser accountants of the kingdom down to James II. are entered on parchment rolls, and bound up with the memoranda. Entry Books. — From James II. the states and views of the accounts of the greater and lesser accountants are entered in entry books. These entries were abolished by 1 & 2 G. IV. c. 121, and 3 G. IV. c. 88. There are indices to the views of accounts and names of accountants. Proceedings of the Court of Exchequer concerning the accounts of sheriffs, escheators, and bailiffs, and a variety of matters con- cerning the charge and discharge of the King's debtors and accountants, are entered on the memoranda rolls of the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer. Also orders of the Court of Exche- quer respecting the land and casual revenue of the Crown. See MEMORANDA. Castle Guard Rents, 1 vol., 31 Car. II. — 3 Jac. U. Clerk of Foreign Estreats' Department : Estreats returned by clerks of assize, by clerks of sewers. by clerks of the peace, by town clerks. The House of Commons' Returns of Recognizances. The King's Bench Rolls of Fines and Recognizances. The Post Fine Rolls of the Common Pleas. The Clerk of the Estreats kept a book, in which was entered the name of the estreat, and the day on which the same was brought into his office. Foreign Apposer's Department : Estreats. — Duplicates of estreats issued into process annually from the office of the Clerk of the Estreats ; and also, Duplicates of estreats returned by the several clerks of the peace of counties, and town clerks of cities and towns. Sheriffs' Accounts. — Books with annual statements of accounts of Sheriffs, from 1752. Land Revenue Department : Ministers' accounts, England and Wales, Hen. VIH. to Car. I., exhibiting particular accounts of the rents, profits, and revenues arising from the several honours, lands, &c., which came to the Crown by the dissolution of the monasteries, priories, abbeys, and other religious houses, as also by attainder, escheat, or other forfeitures, or by purchase and exchange, as the accounts were annually rendered to the Auditors of Land Revenue by the reeves, bailiffs, and other ministers, and paid over to the Receivers-General of the several counties and divisions. The above were ordered to be removed to the Augmentation Office by the Commissioners of Records on 22d July 1800, but those of the following counties were omitted to EXCHEQUER. ^ 149 ACCOUNTS (Exchequer o{ AccouTit)— continued. be removed — Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucester, So- merset, Southampton, and Wilts, -which a°Ten counties remain at the Land Revenue Office. Drafts of the above. — There is nearly a complete series of drafts, many of which have been bound, and the rest are in good pre* servation. Receivers' Accounts, England and Wales : Hen. Vin. to Car. I. — These accounts are on rolls, and are arranged in counties. Tbo several accounts in their order of date are recited in the api^endix to the office catalogue. Car. II. to present time. — These are arranged in districts and divisions, and enumerated in the appendix to the catalogue. Copies of these formerly remained with the Secretary of the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer. — The states of these accounts, as far as the year 1797, are bound in vols., as are also the declared accounts for four districts, comprising seventeen counties. The remainder are preserved in bundles. There are no declared accounts of receivers since 1831 ; from that time they are merged in the general accounts of Commissioners of Woods, &c. Miscellaneous Accounts, among which will be found the follow- ing (Record Rep. 1800):— Alienation Office account books ; also accounts, Eliz. to Car. 11., both inclusive. Calais and its dependencies, Guisnes, Boulogne, &c. Ecclesiastical : — Bishopricks, temporalities of, &c. Impropriations, a large bundle of accounts of monies received from impropriations. Livings, sums paid to the King for livings. Escheators' views, files of. Estreats. See ESTREATS. Forfeited estates. Accounts, vouchers, and other particulars, chiefly temp. Hen. VIH. and Eliz., bound in vols. See MINIS- TERS' ACCOUNTS. Household accounts, states and drafts of, from 1728 to 1816, when these accounts ceased to be passed in the Auditor's Office of Land Revenue, partly bound in vols. The books and Imprest Rolls, from which these accounts are made up for declaration, are in bags among the Records of the Queen's Remembrancer. Wardrobe books. Land Tax and Assessed Taxes. The states and drafts only (partly bound) of these accounts remain at the Land Revenue, the duplicates from which the charge is made on the Receiver General are (with the certificates of paupers, schedules of defaulters, orders for payment on account of the militia, and other vouchers) transmitted in bags for each county to the Queen's Remembrancer. See ACCOUNTS— Queen's Re- membkanceb's Department. Mint books and bundles. New River. Ordnance. Queens of England. Repairs, &c., St. Paul's, palaces, castles, houses, &c. 150 ' EXCHEaUER. ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Account) — continued. Stannaries. Surveyors-General of Woods and Forests' accounts. Treasurer's accounts, 1654 to 1655. Victualling. Woodwards accounts. Woods and Forests, declared accounts. ^^Ksurers lt%r*^'' ^'''°''''*'' "I ^^^ ^°^ ^"^^ ^^•^■' "^^ Victualling. J Imprests to several persons as to artillery, 1649, 1650. Augmentation Department : Ministers. — The ministers' accounts, Hen. VTII. to Car. I., in coun- ties were sent from the Land Revenue to the Augmentation Office, by order of the Commissioners of Records, 22d July 1800 ; but those for the following counties still remain at the Land Revenue Office, viz. : — Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucester, Somerset, Southampton, and Wilts. But there are ministers' accounts among the Augmentation Records as early as Ric. II., but only in particular counties. Wales. — There are ministers' accounts of abbeys, &c., also accounts of the revenues of the principality as early as Edw. III. to Philip and Mary. Cornwall. — Ministers' accounts. Receivers' accounts. — There are a few before Hen. Vlll., and many after until the reign of Eliz. These are not much valued where ministers' accounts of the same property can be obtained, as the description is much shorter and less satisfactory. Escheators' accounts. Forfeited estates. — Ministers' accounts of persons attainted in the reigns of Hen. VI., VIL, VIH., and Edw. VL Vacant sees, ministers' accounts of, Hen. VHI. to Car. I. Wood sales, ministers' accounts of. Hen. VIII. Wardrobe accounts, chiefly temp. Hen. VHI. Accounts of the revenues of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, 37 Hen. VHL FiKST Fbuits' Depaetment: Compositions of payments of first fruits, i. e. Liber compositionum, and index. Remembrancers' account books, payment books. Comptrollers' state books, payment books. Receivers' payment books. Collectors' account book. Miscellaneous payment books : — Ledgers of payments of first fruits. Arrears of tenths. Entries of payment of tenths. Bond books. — Entries of the quarterly payments of composition. Obligations or bonds in arrear. Auditors of the Imprest Department — merged in the office of the Commissioners for auditing Public Accounts, which was established 5th July 1785, by authority of stat. 25 G. DI. c, 52. : States of Accounts, viz. — Entries of reports and states of accounts to the Treasury, with the authority of that Board for preparing the same for declaration, &c., from 1662. EXCHEUUER. I5i ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of AccovLot)— continued. Entries of short states of accounts, presented for declaration, from 1702. Imprests. — Entries of General Imprest Rolls of money imprested out of the Exchequer to the persons therein named, from 1700. Guard books, containing annual certificates transmitted by Pay- master General of the Forces, of money imprested by him to sub-accountants, from April 1782. Names of persons inserted in the above certificates. Declared Accounts. — Entries of the titles of declared accounts transmitted to the Queen's Remembrancer, from 1701. Entries of lists of accounts declared, from 1702. Accounts received into the office, entries of, from 1781. Journals of accounts received into the office, from 1785. Registers of ordinary accounts received into the office, from July 1785. Registers of extraordinary accounts received into the office, from July 1785. Tables of ordinary accounts depending in the office, from July 1785. Tables of extraordinary accounts depending in the office, from July 1785. Entry of the titles of accounts audited by the Board. Entries of observations and queries to accountants, and their answers, from 1713. Entry of the state of the reduction of the National Debt, showing the stock purchased and the money paid for such stock, from 1786. Entry of general certificates, containing the names of the ordinary and extraordinary accountants, whose accounts have been depend- ing from 1732, sent half-yearly to the Queen's Remembrancer. Entries of lists of persons standing insuper in army and extraor- dinary accounts who have been cleared by being debited in extraordinary accounts declared, from January 1786. Entries of navy and ordnance insupers, cleared by order of the Board, from 1786. ExCHEQUEE OF PleAS : Accounts of moneys paid into and out of court, in volumes, from 1690. ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Receipt) : — Inventories printed in the various Reports of the Deputy Keeper of Records. Pell Dbpabtment : Receipt Rolls, 1220-1782. — These were engrossed anciently from the tellers' biUs, or perhaps from the tallies, before tellers' bills were invented, and subsequently from entry books, and contain copies of all the tellers' bills, as thrown down by them upon the table of the Tally Court, on the payment of the revenues into the Exchequer, stating the county or place from which the revenue arose, the name of the accountant rendering the same, the amount, and the name of the teller to whose hands the money was paid. The oldest roll now extant is that of the 4th Hen. m. (1220). These rolls continue in an almost perfect series from the beginning of Edw. I. to 1782 ; since which time the inrolling of the receipts has been discontinued, and the entry books from Easter 1782 to 10 Oct. 1834 are the only records of the income of the Exchequer. Receipt Books, 1559-1834. — The books containing the entries of all receipts stand in the place of the rolls from 1782^ at which 152 EXCHEaUER. ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Receipt)— continued. time rolls ceased to be made up. The earliest volume is 1559, and they come down to October ISS*, when the Pell Office, with all the ancient course of the Receipt of the Exchequer, was abolished, and the duties of the Clerk of the Pells and of the Auditor were transferred to the Comptroller General of the Receipt of the Exchequer, established by 4 & 5 W. IV. -c. 15. They are mostly furnished with indexes at the end of the volumes, from 1641. Several volumes lost {see the inventory), the defects may generally be supplied from the Rolls or the following Breviates. Receipt Books, 1665-6 — 1705. — Separate. Receipt Books, 1562-1643. — Separate books called Breviates of the Receipts, or Abbreviationes Pellis Receptorum. These books contain abridged entries of all payments into the Exchequer, very briefly extracted out of the receipt books, stating the county or place, the nature of the payment, the accountant's name, the date, the sum, and the initial of the teller's name who received it. The breviates from Michaelmas 1562-3 to Michaelmas 1572-3 are bound up with their respective receipt books, Nos. 7 to 27. Receipt Books, 1678 — 1688-9. — CaWeA Assignation Boohs. For the payment of interest on bankers' loans. These books, though technically a branch of the Pell of Receipt, really contain the records of payments of interest upon loans. Great loans were advanced to the Government by the gold- smiths or bankers of London in 1677 on the credit of the hereditary revenue of the excise ; to pay the interest of which, terminable annuities were secured, and charged upon that revenue by letters patent granted to the several contractors or principal creditors, who in their turn made assignments of divers portions of those annuities to the persons who had contributed toward their loans. Those patents are recorded in one of the auditor's patent books, second series, and in one of the smaller series of patent books of the Pell Office. The interest on these loans being pay- able at the Excise Office, and not at the Exchequer, it became needful to strike numerous tallies for that purpose, and these- books contain entries made in the Pell Office as the tallies were applied for and struck, in the same manner as the common entries of tallies for ordinary purposes were made in the receipt books of the same period. Issue Rolls, 1226-1797. — These contain inrolments of all payments made at the receipt of the Exchequer. The engrossing of the rolls ceased for a long time, viz., 19 Edw. IV. (1479) is the latest roll extant ; it was then, or in the time of Hen. VII., suppressed. At length, by virtue of a privy seal of 24th March 1596-7 (39 Eliz.), the Pell of Issue was re-established. After 1797 the entries are in books only. Issue Books, 1597-8 — 1834. — They contain entries of all pay- ments made at the receipt of the Exchequer, and serve as dupli- cates, or rather as the drafts, of the Issue Rolls since the final re-establishment of the Record of Expenditure, called the Pell of Issue. They are furnished with indexes from the time of the Commonwealth. In 1797 the Issue Rolls ceased, and from that time, that is, from and after Easter 1797, these books are the only Records of the Expenditure of the Exchequer. EXCHEaUER. 153 ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Eeceipt) — continued. Additional Aid and Poll Money : Issue Books, 1665 — 1687-8. — Separate series, being issues charged on the additional aid, 1665, and poll money, 1667. Eleven Months' Tax: Issue Books, 1667-1679. — Issues charged upon the eleven months' tax, 1667. Exchequer Bills: Issue Books, 1697-1773. — Issues out of bills authorized to be issued by Parliament, called Exchequer Bills. There is one roll containing issues by Exchequer Bills, dated 24th October 1777 to 16th September 1780, but no corresponding book, nor is there any Pell Record of this class subsequent to that period. Bankers' Annuities : Issue Books, 1706-1737. — Issues for the payment of bankers' annuities, or quarterly payments of interest at the rate of three per cent., beginning 26th Doc. 1705, and charged upon 3,700^. per week out of the Excise. Annuities Jbr Ninety-nine Years : Issue Books, 1742-1746-7. — Issues for payment of annuities for ninety-nine years, from 25th March 1708, granted by Parlia- ment 7 Anne, and paid out of surplus one-third tonnage. Plate Annuities : Issue Books, 1721-1738-9. — Annuities charged on the duties of wrought silver, commonly called Plate Annuities. There are tv^o rolls that seem to correspond vrith the above book. Dormant Privy Seals : Issue Posting Boohs, 1597-1628, or Dormant Privy Seals (first series), or breviates of issues upon Letters of Privy Seal, digested under heads, indorsed Dormant Privy Seals. At the time of restoring the Pell of Issue (1597) a large proportion of the payments were made by virtue of Privy Seals, which were not satisfied by a single payment, but ope- rated as the authority for successive payments at intervals, as the Lord Treasurer or the Privy Council might direct. The Clerk of the Pells posted into a book, under heads either of individuals, or of offices, departments, and services, the dates of all the Privy Seals then in force, with references to the places of their inrolment in his Privy Seal Book, in the margin. In the body of the page he set down an abstract of the grant, and on the right hand or below he set down the payments from time to time made thereupon, specifying the sum and the date. By this plan he was enabled to ascertain how far every Privy Seal was satisfied. Such Letters of Privy Seal as did not expire in a single issue were, in the technical language of the receipt, said to be dormant; they were not dead, but sleeping, until put in operation by the Treasurer's order j hence those books are lettered Dormant Privy Seals. Debentures : Issue Posting Boohs, 1718-1834 (second series), or Debenture Boohs, containing brief entries of all issues by debentures, arranged under the names of the several grantees. They are 154 EXCHEaUER. ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Receipt) — continued. in the nature of modern cash accounts, wherein, under the names of the several persons and corporations to which sala- ries, pensions, or perpetuities were payable by virtue of Letters Patent, Sign Manual warrants, or other appointments recorded in the Patent Books, every payment thereof was briefly entered from time to time in columns, thus : — Record', or when paid. For what time. To what time. Snmme p"". Each page (which is thus divided) is superscribed with the name of a grantee, the date of the patent, or other authority for payment, and the amount of the yearly allowance. The original use of these books was to ascertain whether the debentures were correct, when brought from the Auditor's Office to the PeU Office to be recorded, before they could be presented to the tellers for payment. Every payment being posted into these volumes at the same time that the debenture was recorded at full length in the Pell of Issue, a double pay- ment was prevented by perceiving how late the last payment had been brought down ; and these books gave that informa- tion immediately, without the trouble of searching the Pells ; hence the four earliest volumes are entitled " Debenture Books," and the latest, " Posting Books," which latter term is now applied to the whole series, because there is a voluminous series of debenture books of the auditor, which contain full copies of aU debentures as they were made out and delivered by him to the parties applying for payment, and which contain the proper evidence of the making out of debentures, though not of the issues of money to pay the same. These books were formerly not considered as records, but serve as a guide both to the Patent Books and to the Pell of Issue, — ^to the former they refer by means of the dates of the grants at the top of the pages, and to the latter by the dates in the first column, which point out the day of the recordatur or inrolment of every issue. They help to show the death of the party, or other determination of his office or grant ; they show who succeeded in every office, and when ; and they have been found useful in ascertaining whether any and what arrears of pensions remained unpaid. Imprest Certificates of Issues' Books from 1685. See IMPRESTS. Household Rolls, Hen. HI., Edw. I. H. Atiditoe's Depaetment : Receipt Rolls — Tellers' Rolls of Accounts, of Receipts, and Issues, 3 Hen. IV. to Car. I. Receipt Books, 1570-1709, containing an account of all payments into the Exchequer under the names of the several tellers re- ceiving the same, and subdivided under the several species of revenue, from Easter 1570 to Easter 1642 ; together with three books of the time of the Commonwealth, five of Car. H., and one of Queen Anne. Issue Rolls. EXCHEaUER. 155 ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Receipt)— cow^mwed Payments upon Warrants, Privy Seals, &c. : Issue Books, 1559-1586. — Solutiones per Warranta, ^c, or the Auditor's accounts of payments upon warrants and orders, being abstracts of all payments out of the Exchequer by virtue of writs of Privy Seal, warrants of the Lord Treasurer and Under Trea- surer, and letters of the Privy Council, reduced under distinct heads, according to the several kinds of warrants. Payments upon Debentures : Issue Books, 1569-1608. — Visus Solutionum et Eontuum, or yearly views of the payments of fees or salaries, annuities, and pensions, by the four tellers of the receipt, being the Auditor's accounts of payments upon debentures, arranged under the fol- lowing heads : — Payments of annuities, heralds and pursuivants, serjeants-at- arms, yeomen of the Crown, officers and gunners of ordnance, barons and officers of Exchequer, judges, law officers, serjeants- at-law, &c. &c. American Payments and Tontine Annuities : Issue Books, &c. These were partly destroyed. Annuities. — ^By stat. 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 59. the management of all Exchequer annuities was transferred from the Auditor of the E,eceipt of the Exchequer to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt ; and divers volumes, &c. were removed to their office in the Old Jewry in July 1832.- Some of them were afterwards returned. Imprest Certificate Books of sums issued. See IMPRESTS. Views, or Declarations, 1559-1611. — Visus Computorum Nume- ratorum, or Views (otherwise called Brief Declarations) of the Receipts and Issues of the Four Tellers, as certified to the Lord Treasurer. Brief Declarations, 1625-1699. — Another series. Certificates of receipts, issues, and remains or balances of the tellers, as entered in the office of the Auditor of Receipt, 1610-1665. Cash books of Auditor's receipt and expenditure. Cash book of Examiner of Tellers' Vouchers' Office — brief entries of receipt and expenditure (daily charge and discharge). Charge or waste books of the Tellers. Declarations by the Under-Treasurer, Hen. VII. and Vm. Drafts of ditto. Wardrobe and household books : 1. Account of the King's great wardrobe, Mich. 18 to Mich. 19, Hen. 8. o 1/jAo icno /Account book of privy purse and robes of 2. 1608, 1609. 1 pj.j^^g -a^urj. 3. 1616, 1617. 4. 1617, 1618. 5. 1618, 1619. 6. 1619, 1620. 7. 1621, 1622. 8. 1622, 1623. 9. 1623, 1624. 10. 1624, 1625, r Household Accounts of cofferer and keeper of J books, &c. great wardrobe. j of Prince V. Charles. 156 EXCHEaUER. ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Receipt)— coMiinwed. 11. 1616, 1617.- 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Accounts of comptroller of house- hold. ■ Accounts of master of wardrobe. Another series. Particulars of First account. Second „ Third „ First „ Second ,, Household books, &c. of Prince Charles. 1617, 1618. 1618, 1619. 1619, 1620. 1620, 1621. 1621, 1622. 1623, 1624. 1624, 1625.. 1617. 1617, 1618. 1618, 1619. 1619, 1620. 1619, 1620.- 1622. 1622, 1623. 1623, 1624. 1621, 1622. 1623. 1622. 1622-1624. 31a.l618, 1619. ~1 31b.l619, 1620. I Accounts of treasurers or re- 32. 1620, 1621. I ceivers-general. 33. 1621, 1622. J 34a. 1633, 1634. ~| Accounts of the receiver-general of the re- 34b. 1633, 1634. | venues which belonged to Charles I. when 35. 1639, 1640 J Prince of Wales. Teeasuet or Receipt Depaetment : Accounts of the Royal army, -j navy, [Hen. VH., VHI. ordnance,) r (Another series) Extraordinaries. Calais and its dependencies, Boulogne, &c. of the jewel-house, 24 Hen. VIH. Household books. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF SUPREMACY: Teeasury of Receipt Department : The original Acknowledgments of the Royal Supremacy, made by religious houses ; an inventory thereof is printed in the Deputy Keeper's Seventh Report, Appendix II. pp. 279-306. Among the above is a surrender of the priory of Westacre, Norfolk. See p. 304 of the Appendix above referred to. ACQUITTANCES : The quietus or acquittance of an accountant was formerly an engrossed copy of the whole of his account for which he was acquitted, signed by the Deputy Clerk of the Pipe ; a few in the form of rolls remain in the Receipt Side of the Exchequer. By Stat. 5 Ric. II. stat 1. c. 14. the Clerk of the Pipe and the King's Remembrancer were to execute the writs sent for the discharge of any person of any demand in the Exchequer, and every of them to whom it pertained was to make due execution. Receivers' acquittances will be found among the Miscellaneous of the Land Revenue. EXCHEaUER. 157 ADmSSIONS : Admissions of officers of the Exchequer and other officers will be found entered on the Memoranda Rolls both of the Queen's Remembrancer and the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer. There are bonds entered into on admissions to employments under the Crown, among the Queen's Remembrancer's Records. See BONDS. Admissions of officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer. See BLACK BOOK. Appointments of officers (various). See the Patent Books both of the Auditor and Pells on the Receipt Side of the Exchequer. See APPOINTMENTS. ADVANCES : EXCHEQTIEK OF RECEIPT — ^PeLL DePAETMENT : The Book of Advances, containing entries of Treasury letters, and of some Royal and Treasury warrants for making of issues by way of advance, with the discharges thereof, recorded in the Pell Office, from 1685 to 1696. Nature and use of the book. — The necessities of the Govern- ment at the accession of King James II. were such that when the office of Lord Treasurer was granted to Laurence, Earl of Rochester, ten days afterward (by Letters Patent dated 16th Fe- bruary, 1 Jac. n. 1684-5,) he adopted a new method of making rapid issues out of the Exchequer. Before this time the practice of writing a " Letter of Direction " to the Auditor of the Receipt, authorizing him to complete an order after it was signed, by sub- scribing a direction to some teller to pay the same out of the funds named, had come into use. Such letters were now framed in anticipation of the necessary [Orders, Warrants, and even Privy Seals, and the first of them which stands on record in this volume, shows that the practice of making such anticipation was not usual. The Secretary of the Treasury acquaints the Auditor " that there is a present occasion for the payment to me of the " sum of eight hundred pounds for His Majesty's especial secret " service ; and that in regard a Privy Seal for the regular issuing " C°0 *^^ same to me at the Exchequer, and the warrants to be " grounded thereon, cannot be so speedily passed as the service " requireth. His Lordship, therefore — doth require you to send to " the teller," &c. " to advance and pay to me the said sum, taking " my acquittance for the same," &c., and " that care is taken for " passing the Privy Seal and other warrants necessary for issuing " the same in due course, which will be remitted to you." Dated " Treasury Chambers, 20th February 1684." Following letters are not so explicit, but commonly direct that there " may be " advanced " so much, or " to issue by advance." The book contains no fewer than 164 entries of the time of that Lord Treasurer, and 64 of the Commissioners who suc- ceeded in the same reign. Then follow some Royal Sign Manual warrants after the accession of William and Mary. AFFIDAVITS : Queen's Remembkancer's Depaetment : Files of affidavits. Files of affidavits and commissions. 158 EXCHEaUER.. AFFIDAVITS— coMfeMMerf. Affidavits for goods for which customs have been paid, and which have either been lost at sea or taken by enemies, are entered on the Memoranda EoUs. There is a bundle of affidavits labelled " Affidavits for Capiases against divers persons for agreeing to repay money, &c." touching the Lottery. Lord TBEAsmiER's Remembrancee's Department : Affidavits on the files of miscellanies. Clerk of Foreign Estreats' Department : Copies of affidavits of claims of fines by bailiffs of liberties. Exchequer of Pleas : Affidavits on motions in Court, &c., from 1778. Affidavits of this description are also filed with the bills. Affidavits of debt, from 1781. Affidavits of bail, caUed " The Bail Files." See BAIL. Affidavits of service of writs of Subpoena, called the Attachment Files. Affidavits of service of Quo minus. AGENDA BOOKS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Agenda or Repertories. The Repertories commence 1 Edw. II. in rolls, and are continued to 32 Car. 11., but from 25 Hen. "VTII. a different form of entering the heads of the memoranda was adopted in books, called Agenda Books. Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Department : The Agenda Books contain short entries of awards, judgments, and other business signed by the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer, commencing 2 Jac. I. AIDS, SCUTAGES, TAXES, &c. See ACCOUNTS in the several departments. SCUTAGES. TESTA DE NEVILLE. An inventory of the aids, scutages, tallages, &c. is printed in the Deputy Keeper's Second Report, App. II. pp. 132-189, and con- tinued in App. n. of the 3d, 4th, and 5th Reports. ALIENATION OFFICE: Books of account, and also accounts, of the Alienation Office, about Eliz. to Car. 11., in Land Revenue Department. See AC- COUNTS, Land Revenue Department. ALIEN PRIORIES : Information respecting alien priories will be found under the head ACCOUNTS, Ministers', in the different departments. Extents of the manors, lands, and possessions of alien priories. See EXTENTS. ALLOWANCES : Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Department : Allowances in suits on the files or bundles of miscellanies. EXCHEaTJER, 159 ALNAGERS' ACCOUNTS. See ACCOUNTS, Queen's Eemem- bkanceb's Department. AMBASSADORS : For monies paid or imprested to ambassadors, &c., search the accounts on the Issue Side of the Receipt of the Exchequer, of which search also the posting books. By Stat. 5 Ric. II. stat. I.e. 10. imprest accounts in the Receipt of the Exchequer, of persons retained to serve the King in his wars or embassies, were better regulated as to admitting them to account. And it was enacted " that of all people which from " henceforth shaU. be netained or assigned to serve the King, their " covenants shall be put in writing and sent to the Exchequer, " there to remain of record so that at what time that any " person so retained, his heirs, &c., come to accompt thereof at " the Exchequer, they shall be thereto received and have due " allowance in their accompt, according to the content of their " covenant." As all monies were issued under some authority, those autho- rities should be examined for particulars. The writ generally in use in ancient times was the Liberate (deliver ye). See LIBE- RATE ROLLS. PATENT AND PRIVY SEALS. WAR- RANTS. In the Queen's Remembrancer's Department, among what are termed Miscellaneous, axe various accounts of expenses of ambas- sadors, &c. AMERCIAMENTS : Exchequer of Pleas : Entries of amerciaments and issues forfeited. See FINES. AMERICAN PAYMENTS AND TONTINE ANNUITIES : Exchequer op Receipt — Auditor's Department : Issue books, assignments, letters of attorney, &c. of the American payments and tontine. See ACCOUNTS, p. 155. Some of these, as it has been said, were destroyed at the above office as of no use, others were transferred to the National Debt Office, from whence some were transferred to the Public Record Office by order of Treasury Letter, 14th July 1847. See ANNUITIES. PENN. ANGLIA: Pipe Department : Books of Anglia. — These are accounts of the duties of excise, customs, and of public accountants at home and abroad. ANNE OF DENMARK. See QUEENS OF ENGLAND. ANNUITIES. -S-ee ACCOUNTS. Pells Issue Books, Receipt Side of the Exchequer. Orders for annuities in rolls. By Stat. 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 59. the management of all Exchequer Annuities was transferred from the Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer to the Commissioners for the Reduc- tion of the National Debt, and divers volumes, &c. were removed to their office, Old Jewry, in July 1832. Some, 160 EXCHEQrER. ANNUITIES— coMfowwerf. however, were transferred from the National Debt Office to the Rolls House by order of Treasury Letter, 14th July 1847. APPEAEANCES : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Entry books of appearances, from 1594. Exchequer of Pleas : Entry books of appearances, from 1576. Appearances, in parcels. ^ Indexes. APPOINTMENTS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : There are bonds entered into on admissions to employments under the Crown. Admissions of officers entered on the Memoranda Rolls. Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Department : Admissions of officers entered on the Memoranda Rolls. Land Revenue Department : In what are termed Common Entry Books were entered such documents as the Auditors of the Land Revenue did not consider to be proper for inrolment, — appointments to offices entitled to fees, inductions to livings, &c. They extend from 1701 to 1831, and are now discontinued, and the instruments inrolled in the general inrolment books. Exchequer of Receipt : — Pell Department : Patent Books, in these are inrolled all grants of offices, dignities, pensions, &c., by virtue whereof periodical payments were required to be made out of the Exchequer. Patent and Privy Seal Rolls. There are six rolls, 2 Jac. I. to 18 Jac. I. Auditor's Department : Patent Books, being inrolments or books of entry, of Letters Patent granting offices, pensions, and honours, with pecuniary emoluments, payable out of the Exchequer, &c. Patent Rolls. Nine rolls, from 1609 to 1620. Admissions to offices. See BLACK BOOK, p. 169. APPRAISEMENTS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Indentures of appraisement books, from 1649. Writs and indentures of appraisements. APPROPRIATIONS : Augmentation Department : Appropriations of churches, chapels, &c. to religious lioufiw will be found among the Ancient Charters. ARCHBISHOPRICKS : First Fruits Department : Surveys of all Ecclesiastical Benefices, &c. (taken by virtue of certain commissions of 26 Hen. VIII.), known as the Liber Regis, or Valor Ecclesiasticus. See VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS. EXCHEaUER. 161 ARCHDEACONRIES : First Fetjits Department : Surveys of all Ecclesiastical Benefices, &c., (taken by virtue of certain commissions of 26 Hen. VHI.,) known as the Liber Regis, or Valor Ecclesiasticus. See VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS. ARMSTRONG'S DECLARATIONS ON POPISH SUPREMACY: In the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer. ARMY: Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Army accounts. See ACCOUNTS. Army Book. — General and division orders relating to the army in Portugal, 1811, 1812. Audit Department : Army accounts are audited by the Commissioners of Audit. Land Revenue Department : Army Accounts : — Accounts for disbursements in mustering divers foreigners serving in the wars against France and Scotland, and suppressing rebels in the county of Norfolk; also of payments to said foreigners, &c., 3 & 4 Edw. VT. Accounts of Treasurer at War ; expedition against Scotland, temp. Hen. VHI. Ordnance accounts of deliveries of ordnance and stores, EHz. Calais, Guisnes, Boulogne, &c., victualling accounts. Hen. VHI. and Edw. VL Ireland — Accounts of the Lord Deputy — of the Treasurer at War — victualling accounts, &c., Philip & Mary, Eliz., Jac. I. Treasury op Receipt Department : Accounts of royal army and of the ordnance, Hen. VH., VIII. ARUNDEL, EARL OF: Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Surveys of his lands, 31 Eliz. ASSAY. See MINT. ASSESSED TAXES. See LAND TAX. ASSESSMENTS : Exchequer of Receipt : Assessment Rolls for loans, benevolences, &c. ASSIGNATIONS OR ASSIGNMENTS : Exchequer op Receipt — Pell Department : Assignation or assignment books for the payment of interest on bankers' loans. See ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Receipt) — Pell Department. Although the above books are technically a branch of the PeU of Receipt, they really contain the records of payments of interest upon loans, which loans were advanced to the Government by the goldsmiths or bankers of London in 1677 on the credit of the hereditary revenue of the excise ; to pay the interest of which, terminable annuities were secured and charged upon that revenue by Letters Patent granted to the several contractors or principal creditors, who in their turn made assignments of divers portions of M 162 EXCHEUUER. ASSIGNATIONS OR ASSIGNMENTS— cowfewwerf. those annuities to those persons who had contributed towards their loans, and those patents are recorded in one of the Auditor's Patent Books, second series, and in one of the smaller series of Patent Books of the Pell Office. The interest on those loans being payable at the Excise Office, and not at the Exchequer, it became necessary to strike numerous tallies for that purpose ; and the above Assignation books contain entries made in the Pell Office as the tallies were applied for and struck ; in the same manner as the common entries of tallies for ordinary purposes were made in the Receipt books of the same period. Exchequer of Receipt — Auditor's Department : Assignment Books, containing entries of deeds of assignment, whereby pensions, annuities, and other payments out of the Exchequer were alienated in whole or in part, also letters of attorney, letters of administration, and probates of wUls, with other like documents, from 1622. These books contain documents, some of which (as assignments) were, before Easter 1622, entered among the patents and privy seals, and such, in the PeU Office, are to be found in the warrant books ; but a great proportion of them was never recorded by the Clerk of the Pells at all. Their contents are of very various description, and are of inestimable use for genealogical and biographical purposes. Assignation RoUs, Eliz. to Car. I. Land Revenue Department : Assignments of Crown lands are entered in inrolment books. ASSIZE ESTREATS. See ACCOUNTS, under the sub-head Cleek OF Foreign Estreats. ATTACHMENTS : Exchequer of Pleas : Affidavits of service of Writs of Subpoena, called Attachment Files. See AFFIDAVITS, under the suh-head Exchequer op Fleas. Attachment books. ATTAINDERS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Surveys of lands acquired by the Crown by forfeiture upon attain- ders, &c. See COMMISSIONS — Queen's Remembrancer's Depaetment. accounts (Ministers') of the possessions of persons attainted — Queen's Remembrancer's and Land Revenue Departments. Augmentation Department : See ACCOUNTS (Ministers') of the possessions of persons attainted. Land Revenue Depaetment : Inventories of the property of persons attainted. ATTORNEYS: Exchequer of Pleas : Entry books of certificates of attorneys. Warrants of Attorney, Judgments upon, entered on the Judgment Rolls. EXCHEaUER. 163 ATTORNEYS— cowfewwed. Exchequer op Receipt — Auditoe's Depaetment : , Letters of Attorney entered in the auditor's assignment books. See ASSIGNATIONS OR ASSIGNMENTS. AUDITOR OF THE RECEIPT OF THE EXCHEQUER: Office abolished and Exchequer of Receipt re-modelled by stat. 4 W. IV. c. 15. (1834.) The Records, &c. transferred to the custody of the Master of the Rolls by the authority of the Treasury, dated 26th May 1841. Records of the Axtditor : Accounts : — Receipt Rolls, Receipt Books. Issue Books. Imprest Certificate Books. Declarations and Views of Accounts. Certificates of Receipts, Issues, and Remains of the Tellers. Cash Books, Receipt and Expenditure. Cash Books of Examiner of Tellers' Vouchers' Office, brief en- tries of receipt and expenditure. Charge or Waste Books of the Tellers. Letter Books. Order Books. Patent Books. Privy Seal Books. Warrant Books. Warrant and Order Books. RoUs of Patents and Privy Seals. Debentures, in bundles. TeUers' Bills. Vouchers. AUDITORS OF IMPREST : The duties and records of the Auditors of Imprest were transferred to an office directed to be established by stat. 25 G. m. e. 52., the present Audit Office, or Office of Commissioners for auditing the public Accounts. AUDITORS OF LAND REVENUE : Finally abolished by stat. 2 W. TV. c. 1., the accounts hitherto audited by them to be audited by the Commissioners for audit- ing the public Accounts, and the Records transferred to an office directed to be established by the said Act, called the Office of Land Revenue Records and Inrolments. See LAND RE- VENUE. AUDITORS OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS : Commissioners for auditing public accounts, established 5th July 1785, by authority of stat. 25 G. lU. c. 52. See ACCOUNTS. AUDITORS OF THE REVENUE OF RECUSANTS : Vernon (in his Exchequer opened — and Sheriffs' accounts, p. 62,) states that then, in 1642, there had been of late introduced two new auditors of the Revenue of Recusants. u 2 164 EXCHEaUER. AUGMENTATION, COURT OF: Established 27 Hen. VIII. c. 27. dissolved and re-established by Letters Patent of 38 Hen. VIH., confirmed by stat. 7 Edw. VI. c. 2., abolished by stat. 1 Mary, sess. 2. c. 10, and annexed to Exchequer by two Letters Patent, 1 Mary, 23d and 24th January 1553-4. Eecoeds of the Cotjkt : Accounts — ministers', receivers', wardrobe. BiUs, answers, replications, rejoinders, &c. Cartse antiquse, charters, deeds, &c. See CHARTERS. DEEDS. Charters, deeds, &c., various. Chartularies, leidger books, &c. Colleges, chantries, free chapels, &c. — 1. Certificates of them, Hen. VIH. Edw. VI. 2. Particulars for sales entered in two folio volumes, Edw. VI. Concealed lands, particulars of grants of, temp. Eliz. See GRANTS. Court RoUs. Decrees. Deeds of exchange and purchase. Hen. VHI., Edw. VI. Deeds of sale of fee-farm rents. See FEE-FARM RENTS. CARTiE ANTIQUE. Escheat Rolls, several, particularly one large roll. Hen. IV. Fee -farm rents : — 1. Rolls for each county, being an account of all such rents as were reserved upon grants from the Crown, made out temp. usurpation, with the view of being sold. 2. Particulars of sale. 3. Actual deeds of sale. Fines, various. By stat. 32 Hen. VHI. c. 20. s. 6. authority was given to . the Chancellor of Augmentation, &c. to take concords of fines on lands, &c. under the survey of the Court, to be certified and allowed in the Common Pleas. Grants : — 1. Particulars of grants from the Crown, Hen. VHI. — Eliz. 2. Particulars of concealed lands, Eliz. 3. Particulars of stewardships, inrolments of, Jac. I., Car. I. 4. Particulars of bailiwicks, inrolments of, Jac. I., Car. I. Hospitals, Surrenders of. Hen. VIH., Edw. VI. See SURREN- DERS. Inventories of the goods, ornaments, &c. of churches, Edw. VI. Jointures, inrolments of. See JOINTURES. Leases : — 1. Conventual, in bundles, Edw. IV. — Hen. VHI. 2. Court of Augmentations, inroUed in books. 3. Of the Crown, Eliz., Jac. I. 4. Particulars for leases, Eliz., Jac. I. Leidger Books. See CHARTLT^ARIES and LEIDGER BOOKS. Pensions granted to abbots, &c., upon the dissolution of the abbeys, Hen. VIH., &c., inroUed in books. Annuities formerly paid out of the Court of Augmentations will be found entered in the " Issue Books, payments upon debentures," on the Auditor's Side of the Exchequer. See stat. 1 Mary, sess. 2. c. 10. s. 5. See ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Kepeipt)— Auditor's Depabtmbnt. EXCHEaTJER. 165 AUGMENTATION,. COURT OF— continued. Queens of England. See JOINTURES. ACCOUNTS, Minis- ters'. Recusants, a roll of persons so called (temp. Eliz.) for contumacy, whereupon extents issued against part of their property. Rentals (various). Sales. — Journals, &c. of proceedings of trustees for the sale of the estates of the Crown, temp, interregnum. Particulars of sales of Crown lands of Car. I. and family. See SURVEYS, PARLIA- MENTARY. COLLEGES. FEE-FARM RENTS. Surveys of honors, manors, &c. some previous and some subse- quent to dissolution of monasteries. Surveys of vacant bishopricks. Hen. VIII. — Car. I. Surveys, Parliamentary, temp, interregnum. Surrenders of hospitals. Hen. VIII., Edw. VI. Surrenders of monasteries. Hen. VIH. See SURRENDERS. Taxation Rolls, Pope Nicholas (1291). Several ancient transcripts for various dioceses. Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, accounts of the revenues of the colleges in each, 37 Hen. VIII., entered in two large folio volumes. Court of Surveyors-General, established by 33 Hen. VIII. c. 39. s. 3. Dissolved by Letters Patent, 38 Hen. VIII. Annexed to Ex- chequer, by Letters Patent, 1 Mary, by authority of stat. 1 Mary, sess. 2. c. 10. The records of the above Court of Surveyors-General now among the Augmentation Records, are Leases and Decrees, 33-38 Hen. VHL AURUM REGINiE (QUEEN'S GOLD) : Pipe Department : When persons made fine with the King for several purposes, they paid to the Queen a duty or sum called Aurum Reginaj, over and above their fine to the King, but the whole was counted one fine. The Queen's gold was specially payable by the King's tenants in capite. The fines are entered on the Pipe Rolls. AWARDS : Awards as to Inclosures, Tithes, &c. are generally entered on the Plea or Judgment Rolls, among the deeds. See TITHES. BAIL: Queen's Remembeancee's Depaetment : Bail Entry Books from 1725. Bail and Recognizances, in bundles, from 1760. Exchequee of Pleas : Affidavits of Bail, called "Bail Files." See AFFIDAVITS- Exchequee of Pleas. Bail Books. BAILIFFS' ACCOUNTS. See ACCOUNTS. BAILIWICKS : Augmentation Depaetment : Inrolments of Grants of Bailiwicks, Jac. I. and Car. I. 166 EXCHEaUER. BARGAIN AND SALE : Queen's Eemembeancee's Depaetment : Two Entry Books, temp. Hen. VIII., of Indentures of Bargain and Sale. See INDENTURES. BARKING. See MONASTERIES. BARONS' DEPOSITIONS. See DEPOSITIONS. BARONS OF EXCHEQUER : Exchequer op Receipt : Payments or salaries to Barons of Exchequer, &c. See AC- COUNTS (Exchequer of Receipt)— Auditor's Department, "Payments upon Debentures." BENEFICES : Queen's Remembkancee's Department : Valuation of Benefices. See TAXATION ROLL, First Fruits Department : The survey called " Valor Ecclesiasticus " gives the value of all Benefices, temp. Hen. VIH. This superseded Pope Nicholas' taxation. The Valor Ecclesiasticus is printed in six folio volumes. See VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS. SURVEYS. BENEVOLENCES. See ASSESSMENTS. BILLS: Queen's Remembrancer's Department : English bills, answers, informations, depositions. Sec, in bundles ; also books of entries of all bills, called " Bill Books ; " entered in counties containing the number as marked on each informa- tion and bill, together with the names of the parties, plainti£fs and defendants; from Eliz. to 1841, when by stat. 5 Vict. c. 5. the jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer as a Court of Equity was transferred to the Court of Chancery ; and the records of the said Equity Side of Court of Exchequer were directed to be delivered to the custody of the Master of the RoUs, and to be deemed records of the Court of Chancery. The English informations are in the name of the Attorney General, on behalf of the Sovereign, relating to revenue, and sometimes at the relation of private persons on account of charities and other public trusts and uses. The English bills are other proceedings in equity between subject and subject. Answers, depositions, and examinations are the further pro- ceedings thereon. Commissions to examine witnesses and depositions taken thereupon, when returned into Court, were entered in a book, entitled " The Book of the Returns of Commissions," containing the county and the names of the plaintiffs and defendants, and the num- ber of schedules annexed to each commission ; and when publication had passed, the commission and depositions were delivered out to be copied, and afterwards were filed. EXCHEQUER. 167 BILLS — continued. Examinations of parties and witnesses taken under a Decree or Order of the Court were, when returned, entered and filed in the same manner as the depositions above mentioned. Bills against accountants, in parcels. Augmentation Depaetment : Bills, answers, replications, rejoinders, &c., from 27 Hen. VILL. to 1 Mary. EXGHEQUBK OP PlEAS : Bills, affidavits, and writs, in flies, from 2 Ric. IL Bills of costs, in parcels. Land Revenue Department : Bills and petitions, Hen. VI Eliz. EXCHEQUEK OF RECEIPT : The tellers of the Exchequer kept a waste or charge book, in which all persons paying moneys into the Exchequer made their entries ; the respective tellers then transcribed these entries on slips of parchment, called " Bills," and transmitted them through a pipe into the Tally Court, a branch of the Auditor's Side of the Exchequer of Receipt. BILLS OP COSTS : Exchequer op Pleas : Bills of costs, in parcels. BIOGRAPHY : Exchequer op Receipt : The Auditor's Assignment Books are of great use for genealogical and biographical purposes. BISHOPRICKS: Queen's Remembeancee's Department : Vacant Bishopricks : — The Inquisitions Post Mortem contain ex- tents, surveys, and valuations of possessions of vacant bishop.- ricks. See INQUISITIONS. Ministers' accounts of possessions of vacant bishopricks. See ACCOUNTS. Survey of aU Ecclesiastical Benefices. See TAXATION ROLL. Augmentation Department : Vacant Bishopricks, Surveys of. See SURVEYS. Ministers' accounts of See ACCOUNTS. Survey of all Ecclesiastical Benefices. See TAXATION ROLL. Land Revenue Department : Vacant Bishopricks : — Accounts of receivers and others. See ACCOUNTS. FiBST Fruits' Department : Surveys of all Ecclesiastical Benefices and Valuations. See VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS. ' SURVEYS. BISHOPS' CERTIFICATES. See CERTIFICATES — First Fbuits' Department. 168 EXCHEaUER. BLACK BOOK : Queen's Eemembeancee's Depabtment : The Liber Niger Seaccarii, or Liber Niger Parvus, as it is some- times called, was compiled about the same time as the original part of the Liber Eubeus (temp. Hen. III.), and contains many of the like entries. The following is a brief view of its contents : — 1. The Will of Hen. IL 2. Carta Conventionis factas inter Henricum [L] Regem Angliae et Rob. Comitem Flandriae, dated at Dover, 6 Id. Martii. 3. Ditto, dated at Dover, 16 KaL Junii. Both the above treaties are printed in the Foedera, vol. L pp. 6 and 7, from the original instruments in the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer. 4. Conventiones factje inter Henricum [IL] Regem Anglise et Comitem Theodorum [vel Theodoricum], et Philippum Comitem Flandrise. Dated at Dover, 14 Kal. Apr. Printed in Fcedera, vol. I. p. 22. 5. Carta Eecognitionis Servicii quod Barones et ceteri Homines Comitis Flandrife debent Henrico [IL] Eegi Angliae. Printed in Foedera, vol. I., p. 23, from the original in the Treasury of the Receipt. 6. Carta Conventionis et Finis facti inter Henricum [II. ] Regem AngliaB filium Matildis Imperatricis, et Willielmiim Regem Scotorum. Dated " Apud Valon'." This document is printed in Foedera, vol. I. p. 30, from a roll in the Treasury of the Receipt. 7. Four Bulls of Pope Alexander (reign of Hen. II.) These are printed in the new edition of Foedera, vol. I. pp. 44, 45. s is •a ^ iil. 8. Knights' fees, viz. :— Cartte of the several tenants in cliief > certifying what knights' fees they held and were held of them, as exhibited in the 12th or 13th of Hen. 11. on occasion of the aid on the marriage of the King's daughter. '2^i 19- The Royal Household, as it stood temp. Hen. IL, or one of ||m J his sons, viz. : Cqnstitutio Domus Regis de procurationibus. 10. Carta Stannarii Domini Regis. 11. Carta Hamelini Comitis Warren'. 12. Carta Walteri Croc. 13. Carta Henrici de Clinton. 14. Carta Aelicise de Bella Aqua. 15. Carta Domini Coventrensis. 16. Confirmatio Decani et Capituli Lichfeldensis. 17. Charter of Hen. II. relating to William de Braosa and monies owing by him to the King. 18. Carta Scabinorum et Proborum Hominum de Sancto Audo- maro. 19. The manucaptores for the sons of Wm. de Breosa or Braosa. 20. Honor Bolonise, 6 Hen. IH. The above are the whole contents of the book, and are printed by Hearne in his 1st vol., 2d edition, London, EXCHEaUER. 169 BLACK BOOK— continued. 1774, Liber Niger Scaccarii, vol. I. pp. 1-396 ; the other part of the publication has iio connexion with the Liber Niger. The whole work is in two vols. Treastirt op Receipt Department : The following is a summary of the contents of the Black Book of the Receipt Side of the Exchequer, 1 vol. forming 2 separate parts or vols. : — 1. A table or perpetual calendar for finding the Dominical Letters, &c. from the year 1184 to 1688; memoranda for lunar calcula- tions, &c. (p. 1.) 2. A calendar or almanac for the twelve months of the year, in ■ which, at various periods, memoranda have been introduced of remarkable occurrences, sucli as births and deaths of kings, battles, appointments of treasurers, chamberlains, and other officers of the Exchequer, &c. (pp. 2-8.) 3. Drawings in outline, viz., the eagle, the emblem of St. John ; the bull, the emblem of St. Luke ; an angel, the emblem of St. Matthew ; and a winged lion, the emblem of St. Mark, ac- companied by verses from the several gospels. It is possible that these representations and verses were used for the purpose of administering an oath as upon the gospels, (pp. 8, 9.) 4. Drawings in outline of the crucifixion, the virgin and child, St. Michael, &c., with miscellaneous entries of writs and other documents relating to the Exchequer ; Latin and English verses and proverbial or rhythmical lines, generally very idle. (pp. 10-17.) 5. The tract commonly known as the " Dialogus de Scaccario." A treatise on the ancient constitution and practice of the Exchequer, (pp. 18-45.) There is another copy in the Red Book. 6. Oath of the teller of the Exchequer. "i ^ .^ ^ 7. Oath of the messenger of the Exchequer, j ^"' ''' 8. Survey of the manor of Isleworth, Edw. III. (p. 46 b.) 9. Deed of sale, 16 July, 50 Edw. III., made by Adam de Burscombe to the treasurer and chamberlains, on behalf of the King, of timber at Bodyhara, to be employed at Calais, (p. 47.) 10. Admissions of chamberlains, tellers, and clerks of the pells, in the reigns of Hen. VI. and Edw. IV. (pp. 47, 48.) 11. Rhymes and idle verses, (p. 49.) 12. Tables for the calculation of salaries by the half year, quarter, week, and day, apparently of the reign of Edw. 11. (pp. 49 b-56.) 13. Numerous miscellaneous entries relating to the Receipt of Ex- chequer, admissions of chamberlains, tellers, clerks or writers of the pells, searchers, messengers, and of deputies in the various offices, orders of court, writs, deliveries of cocket and other seals, and other memoranda of a similar description, extending from 19 Edw. II. to 1715. Some original instruments are also inserted, or annexed to the leaves, (pp. 56 b-103.) 14. The second part of the Liber Niger is a modern volume, con- taining entries of appointments of treasurers and chamberlains and other officers, orders of court concerning tallies, and othei? notices relating to the receipt of the Treasury, from 1698. There is also the Black Book of the Forests, relating to Sherwood, Haytefield, and others in the north of England, temp. Hen. VHI. 17Q EXCHEQUER. BOAED'S END BOOKS: Pipe Depahtment : There are 14 volumes called "Board's End Books " from 1681. BONDS : QiraiEN's Remembeancee's Department : Entry books of bonds, recognizances, and debts. — ^— coast bonds, and in bundles. — ■^— — — i bonds of receivers-general of rates and assessments. Special bonds. — These are bonds entered into by persons on their admissions to employment under the Crown. Writs and schedules of bonds for issuing letters of marque or reprisal, in bundles. Augmentation Depaetment : Bonds and other writings obligatory will be found among the Cartse Antiquae. FmsT Feuits' Depaetment : Bond books. — Entries of quarterly payments of composition. Obligations or bonds in arrear. See ACCOUNTS. BOULOGNE. See CALAIS. BOUNDARIES : Queen's Remembeancbr's Department : Special commissions and inquisitions, containing, among other matters, surveys in consequence of disputes respecting boun- daries of manors, parks, places, &c. See COMMISSIONERS. BUILDINGS. See PUBLIC BUILDINGS. PALACES. BULLS. See PAPAL BULLS. BUTLER, THE KING'S : Accounts of King's Butler. See ACCOUNTS. CAERMARTHEN, SURVEY OF : Among the Records of the Land Revenue. CAERNARVON, RECORD OF: Noticed under the head DOMESDAY BOOK, p. 188. CALAIS: Land Revenue Depaetment : Accounts for victualling, &c. Calais and its dependencies, Bou- logne, Guisnes, &c. See ACCOUNTS. CAMBRIDGE : Augmentation Department: Accounts of the revenues of Cambridge and Oxford Universities, -. 37Hen. Vni. /See ACCOUNTS — ^Augmentation Department. EXCHEQUER. 171 CARDINAL COLLEGE, OXFORD : Tkeasuet of Receipt Depabtmbnt : Collections relating to Cardinal College, Oxford, Transcripts of evidences belonging to Cardinal College, Oxford. Certificates of surrenders and suppression of sundry monasteries annexed to Cardinal College. Rentale Terrarum CoUegii CardinaUs, Oxon. Statutes of Cardinal College. ") g,^^ ct^ atttt-cg Fragments of the Statutes. / *^^ STATUTES. Grants, &c. &c. for foundation of Cardinal College, Oxford and Ipswich. Books relating to Cardinal College, viz. : — Charges of the building. The Cardinal's instructions to his chaplains and others as to things to be done to the College. The yearly charge of the College when the number therein shall be fully accomplished according to the statutes. How the Deans ought to be chosen. Expenses of the College. Commission (original) of Hen. VIH., appointing Thomas Cromwell Receiver-General of all the manors, lordships, &c. belonging to the College. Account of arrears due. CART^ ANTIQUE : Augmentation Depaetment : Under the title of Cartse Antiquae there is a variety of deeds, some nearly as ancient as the Norman Conquest, consisting of appro- priations of churches, endowments of vicarages, feoffments and grants of various kinds, compositions real, letters of attorney and proxy, releases and quit claims, grants and manumissions of vUlains, &c. &c. &c., of all dates from the date above men- tioned to Hen. YUL. See CHARTERS. CASH BOOKS : Pipe Department. See ACCOUNTS, p. 146. ExcHEQUEK OF RECEIPT. See ACCOUNTS, p. 155. CASTLE GUARD RENTS : Pipe Department : Castle Guard Rents are entered on the Pipe Rolls. See AC- COUNTS — ^PiPE Department. Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Department : A volume of Castle Guard Rents, 31 Car. H. — 3 Jac. H. See ACCOUNTS — Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Depart- ment. CASTLES : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Expenses of repairing, building, &c. castles, palaces, &c. See ACCOUNTS. Land Revenue Department : Expenses of repairing, building, &c. castles, pali ACCOUNTS. laces, &c. See I7S EXCHEaUER. CASTLES— continued. Tkeasuet of Eeceipt Department : Considerable light is thrown upon the history of our ancient castles in Domesday Book. See printed Introduction to Domesday, vol. I. p. 211. CAUSES : Queen's Eemembrancee's Defabtment : Cause Books from 1805. Cause Papers from 1691. CERTIFICATES : Queen's Remembeancek's Department : Certificates under the Act for the sale of the lands of Car. I., his Queen, and the Prince. Clerk of Eeports' certificates of sales, from 1820. ^ Eeports and certificates of the Deputy Eemembrancer from 1640 to 1821, and from that period by the Masters. Calendars of reports and certificates returned from Chancery from 1666. Certificates of the clergy, &c. of persons exempt, or not exempt, from paying subsidies, aids, &c.,— an inventory printed in Ap- pendix II. of the Deputy Keeper's Annual Eeports, 11., III., IV., and V. ; they are printed among the accounts of assessments, &c. For example, see Eeport V., App. II. p. 2. Ministers' certificates of Queen's counsel having taken the Sacrament. First Fruits' Department : Bishops' certificates, being the certificates of the Bishop addressed to the Barons of the Exchequer, certifying the induction of clerks to livings, made up according to dioceses, from about 1586 to present time. The certificate generally states the name of the last incumbent and the name of the patron. Abstracts of the above, called " Libri Institutionum," giving the same information in columnar arrangement, and serving as an index to the same. Certificates of all ecclesiastical livings, not exceeding the yearly value of 50^., returned into the First Fruits by virtue of stat. 6 Anne. Augmentation Department : Certificates of colleges, chantries, free chapels, &c., Hen. VIII., Edw. VI. Land Eevenue Department : Certificates and answers from ministers and churchwardens of parishes in England and Wales as to the foundations, endow- ments, &c. of chantries, hospitals, colleges, free chapels, frater- nities, guilds, and the value of the lands and possessions and effects thereto belonging. Also, like Certificates from the wardens, keepers, and commonalty of the dif- ferent crafts or companies in the City of London, of their endow- ments, lands, and possessions, &c., taken in reigns of Hen. VIII., Edw. VI., and Philip and Mary. Some bound in books, others preserved in covers, indorsed and labelled. Certificates of lands belonging to the Eoyal Family, temp. Commonwealth. Miscellaneous certificates. HXCHEUUER. J73 CERTIFICATES- cow»^«^d. Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Escheat Rolls, containing the Escheators' accounts of lands, &c. escheated to the Crown from 47 Hen. IH. Escheators' inquisitions. A calendar formed of the Escheators' accounts and inquisitions, from 1 Hen. VH., and printed in the 10th Rep. of the Dep. Keeper of Records, App. II., pp. 1-222. In the Testa de Neville are entries of Escheats as ■weU of the lands of the Normans* as others. See TESTA DE NEVILLE. * Upon the separation of Normandy from England, the King of France seized the lands which, the English held in Normandy, and the King of England in like manner seized the lands which the Normans held in England. By this means the lands in England holden by Normans became vested in the King of England as Escheats under the name of Terrce Normannorum, which were granted out as the King thought fit. (Madox, p. 206, folio.) Ministers' accounts of manors, &c. acquired by Escheat. Pipe Department : There are Escheat Rolls among the Pipe Miscellaneous Records from about 33 Edw. I. to about 7 Eliz. These should probably be incorporated with those of the Queen's Remembrancer. Escheats are also entered on the Pipe Rolls. Augmentation Department: There are several Escheat Rolls, particularly one large roll, temp. Hen. IV., containing most of the counties. ESCROE : ESCROW : An Escrow is a deed delivered to a third person to be the deed of the party making it upon a future condition. The Deputy Foreign Apposer in the Exchequer states, in his evi- dence before the select committee on finance, 23d Rep. App. (0. 4 c), 1798, that he makes up annually an account called an Escrow, being a state of the sum total of the returns of fines from the Houses of Lords and Commons, from the Crown Ofiice, the Clerk of the Peace, and Town Clerk, &c., which are returned to the Clerk of the Estreats, and a duplicate is delivered to the Deputy Foreign Apposer also, though they have not been in process ; and by one of these two modes there comes or ought to come to the Foreign Apposer an account of all the fines, penalties, and forfeited recognizances imposed, except those belonging to the principality of Wales or counties palatine, which do not pass through his office. The Escrow distinguishes also the amount of the sum total set over to each claimant. ESTABLISHMENTS (IRELAND): Exchequer op Receipt : BiUs of Irish establishments, Jac. I. ESTATES : Pipe Department Search the Pipe Rolls and other accounts of the Pipe. 192 EXCHEQUER. 'ESTATES— continued. Queen's EEiiEMBKAjfCEK's Depaktment : Accounts of sales of estates forfeited. Many deeds and conveyances of estates are entered on the Memo- randa Rolls. ,^ee INQUISITIONS. BED BOOK LANDS. ACCOUNTS. DOMESDAY BOOK. TESTA DE NEVILLE. BLACK BOOK. FORFEITED ESTATES, LANDS, &c. AUGSIENTATION DePAETMENT : S-ee ACCOUNTS. CART^ ANTIQUE. DEEDS. CON- CEALED LANDS. COURT ROLLS. SCHOOLS. RECUSANTS, SURVEYS. UNIVERSITIES. Land Revenue Depaetment : Particulars of estates entered in the Inrolment Books. See AC- COUNTS. COURT ROLLS. FEE-FARMS. FOUN- DATIONS AND ENDOWMENTS. INQUISITIONS. INROLMENTS. RENTALS. ESTREATS: Stat. 16 Edw. II. defines the manner of sending in the Estreats to the Exchequer both from Chancery and the other courts, &c. See also the statute called Les Estatuz del Eschekere, vol. I., p. 198, last clause, of the Statutes of the Realm. By Stat. 7 Hen. IV. c. 3. the Rolls of Estreats of Issues, Fines, &c. were directed to contain particulars of the cause of forfeitures, &c. Cleek op Fokeign Esteeats' Depaetment : Abolished by 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 99. s. 41. Estreats returned by Clerks of Assize. Clerks of the Peace. Clerks of the Sewers. Town Clerks, &c. Recognizances returned from the House of Commons. King's Bench Rolls of Fines and Recognizances. Common Pleas Post Fine Rolls. The Clerk of the Estreats kept a book in which was entered the name of the Estreat, and the day on which the same was brought into his office. Stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 99., which abolishes the office of Clerks of Estreats, &c., directs the officers of Parliament and of the different courts to send one copy of all Estreats to the Treasury and another to the Commissioners of Audit, and to pay the issues, &c. as the Treasury may direct ; but s. 29. directs that all fines, issues, &c. at the Assizes, by the Clerk of the Market, or Commissioners of Sewers, and all Deodands, shall be paid to the Sheriff, and accounted for by him. FoEEiGN Apposee's DepaetmeNt : Abolished by 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 99. s. 41. Duplicates of Estreats issued into process annually from the office of the Clerk of the Estreats ; also. Duplicates of Estreats returned by clerks of the peace and town , clerks. Books with annual statements of accounts of Sheriffs, from 1752. EXCHEaUER. 193 . >TREATS— conftwMcd. Land Eeyenue Department : Summonses of the Green Wax and Returns as follows : — Fines of the Bench. — These are fines for license of concord, with the parties' names and descriptions of the premises. Estreats of fines, recognizances, &c. forfeited at the Assizes. These are fines, &c. returned by Clerks of Assize and estreated in the Exchequer. Fines, &c. forfeited at General Sessions of the Peace. These are fines returned by Clerks of Peace and estreated in the Exchequer. Fines, &c.. King's Bench. These are fines returned by the proper of&cer and estreated in the Exchequer. Fines, Clerk of the Market. Issues forfeited before the Barons of the Exchequer of Pleas, and the like before the Barons of the Court of Exchequer. Issues forfeited by jurors and returned by Clerks of Assize. See ACCOUNTS. Queen's Remembrancer's Department. ") See ORIGI- LoRD Treasurer's Remembrancer's Department. J NALIA. XAMINATIONS. See ENGLISH BILLS, &c. XANNALIS1t,^tt XANNUAL )^0^^ = This roll, the Corpus Comitatus or Exannalis Roll, was first formed by authority of stat. 12 Edw. I. The Corpus Comitatus or body of the shire consisted of several manors and lands, which being let to the Sherifi' made the fund out of which the annual farm to the Crown arose, the particulars of which were stated in the Pipe Rolls in order to charge the Sheriff" therewith ; and the Sheriff' accounted for the same from a Roll of Particulars of his own. In process of time the King charged the manors and lands which made up the Corpus Comitatus with certain payments ; the King also granted away part of the said lands, yet the full par- ticulars continued to be stated in the Pipe Rolls, and the Sheriif Continued to be charged for the full amount thereof; but when he came to account for the amount of the charges on his farm, the amount arising from the lands granted away were allowed him as part of his discharge. It was thought, however, useless to charge the Sheriff in the Pipe Rolls with the Terra datce, or such lands as had been granted away ; so instead of entering the whole of the Corpus Comitatus in the Great or Pipe Roll, a separate roll was made thereof, or of such part as had been granted away, to which were added the Desperate Debts. Thus was formed the Corpus Comitatus or Exannalis Roll, XCEPTIONS : A volume of exceptions, &c. from 1817. XCHANGE : Deeds of exchange and purchase. See DEEDS. XCHEQUER : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Dialogus de Scaccario, a treatise on the ancient constitution and practice of the Exchequer. See RED BOOK. o 194 EXCHEaUER. EXCHEQUER— co« 170 Jac. I. - .... -J Treasury op Receipt Depaktment : Inventories or returns of goods of divers monasteries. of goods of Sir W. Stanley, Bishop of Ely, Earl of Oxford, Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Lord Cromwell, Lord Monteagle, and Lady Hunger- ford, Hen. VII. and VHI. IPSWICH : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Appointment of Samuel Caley to the office of Water Bailiff, and Scheduler of Duties for Customs, Wharfage, and Housing in tlie port of Ipswich, 1705. EXCHEQUER. 209 JPSWICR— continued. Tkeasukt of Receipt Depaetment : Surrenders of Monasteries to Cardinal Wolsey for the endowment of his Colleges at Oxford and Ipswich. IRELAND: The Equity of the Exchequer of Ireland was transferred to the Chancery of Ireland by stat. 13 & 14 Vict. c. 51. Queen's Remembbancek's Department : Accounts of the Chamberlain of the Exchequer in Dublin passed in the English Exchequer, and of the Treasurer in Ireland, Edw. I. and subsequent reigns. See ACCOUNTS. Ecclesiastical Taxation of Ireland (Pope Nicholas'). — This has been noticed in the 1st volume of Reports of Record Commis- sioners for Ireland, pp. 414, 485. Also in 2d vol. p. 61, where extracts have been printed. See also Cooper on Records, vol. I. pp. 284, 285. See also Dep. Keep, of Records' 5th Rep. p. 5, and App. II. p. 301, where a portion is printed. See also Record Rep. of 1812, p. 10, and Appendix, p. 302. Land Revenue Depabtment : Accounts of Lord Deputy, of Treasurers at War, Victualling, and Imprests, Phil. & Mary to Commonwealth. See ACCOUNTS. Exchequer of Receipt : Rolls of Irish Establishments, Jac. I. Treasury op Receipt Depaetment : In Liber A. will be found grants of the Seignory of Ireland, of the Cities of Dublin and Limerick, &c., made by Hen. III. to Edward, then his eldest son. Letters and obligations from the Prelates of Ireland and others. King John's letter declaring the reasons for his proceedings against William de Breosa. (pp. 416-420 b.) Transcripts of all Letters Patents of grants by the Lords Lieu- tenants, &c. of Ireland, Hen. V. to 12 Hen. VI., four rolls stitched together ; these are printed in a volume, entitled, Rotuli Select! ad Res Anglicns et Hibernicas Spectantes, ex Archivis in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi deprompti, 1834, Svo. IRISH ESTABLISHMENTS : Exchequer op Receipt : Rolls of Irish Establishments, Jac. I. ISSUE BOOKS AND ROLLS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Issue Books of the Queen's Remembrancer. Issues forfeited upon the execution of Process. Exchequer of Receipt. See ACCOUNTS. JERSEY : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : There is an Extent of the Island of Jersey, a large roll of the 5th of Edw. IIL F 210 EXCHEQUER. JEWEL OFFICE : Principal officers abolished by 22 G. III. c. 82. JEWELS : Queen's Eemembeancee's Depaetment. See ACCOUNTS. Land Revenue Department : Inventory of the jewels of Queen Anne of Denmark, Consort of Jac. I. Inventory of jewels of Car. I. pawned in the Low Countries. See INVENTORIES. Exchequer op Receipt : Jewel Rolls, Eliz. Treasury op Receipt Department : Account of the jewels of Hen. VI. Accounts of the Jewel-House, 24 Hen. VIH. See ACCOUNTS. JEWS. JEWS' ROLLS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Memoranda Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews, on which are inroUed " Essonia, Placita, et Starra." Exchequer of Receh't — ^Pell Department : Jews' Rolls, Hen. HI. and Edw. I. Exchequer op Pleas r Pleadings before the Justices of the Jews, from 3 Hen. HI. JOINTURES. See QUEENS OF ENGLAND : Augmentation Department : Inrolments of Jointures of Queens of England. Ministers' Accounts of ditto, chiefly temp. Hen. VHI.. See ACCOUNTS. Land Revenue Department : Jointures, &c. of Queens of England. JORNALTA ET BILL^ : Exchequer of Receipt — Pell Department : Rolls, Edw. I. and II. These are accounts of the totals of receipt and expenditure, in the nature of cash accounts. JOURNALS : Of proceedings on sales of Crown lands. See SALES OF CROWN LANDS. JUDGES : Exchequer of Receipt : Payments of salaries of Judges, &c. See ACCOUNTS (Exchequer of Receipt), p. 155. JUDGMENTS : Lord Treasurer's Rejiembrancer's Department : Judgments on Suits commenced and prosecuted in the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Office ; also upon Claims of Fran- chises, Privileges, &c. within Cities, Boroughs, &c. ; are entered on the Memoranda Rolls. See MEMORANDA ROLLS. EXCHEQUER. 211 JUDGMENTS— coraftwMfid. Land Revenue Department : Judgments and Decrees entered in Inrolment Books. EXCHEQUEK OF PleAS : Judgment Rolls, containing the pleadings between parties, and the judgments of the Court thereon, Judgments upon Warrants of Attorney, Inrolments of Deeds, and other proceedings. Judgments signed by the Clerk of the Pleas are entered in the Books of Orders. See ORDERS. Docket Books, referring to the Judgment Rolls and the Books of Orders, from Jac. I. Judgments of Non Pros, are entered in books of Appearances, &c., from 28 Eliz. See APPEARANCES. JURY LISTS : Exchequer of Pleas : Bundle of Special Jury Lists. JUSTICES OF THE JEWS. See JEWS. KING'S BOOKS. See FIRST FRUITS AND TENTHS. KING'S BUTLER. See ACCOUNTS, p. 147. HOUSEHOLD. KING'S REMEMBRANCER. See QUEEN'S REMEMBRANCER. KIRBY OR KIRKBY'S QUEST OR INQUEST : Treasury op Receipt Department : In 35 Edw. I. Adam Kirkeby or Kirby, then Treasurer, and his fellows, made inquiry, according to the ancient custom, by inquests or verdicts of juries, concerning the tenures in capite throughout several of the shires of England ; and the result of these verdicts or inquests was a volume which in some respects is analogous to Domesday, inasmuch as it comprehends all the immediate military tenants of the Crown. It is not sufficiently known that this and numerous other documents of the same class and description, furnish the materials for a connected history of the land, and also of the occupiers of the land in their several classes, from the Conquest to the abolition of the Feudal Tenures, and although specially relating to England they nevertheless greatly elucidate the general history of the progress of society. Queen's Remembeancee's Department : There is in this department an Inquest denominated Kirkby's Inquest. For similar information, see TESTA DE NEVILL. KNIGHTS' FEES. KNIGHTS' FEES : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : For Knights' Fees held by the Tenants in Capite, Hen. II., see RED BOOK. BLACK BOOK. A book containing Nomina Villarum, Serjeanties, and Knights' Fees, in several counties, taken by inquisition, Hen. HI. and Edw. L p 2 212 EXCHEUUER. KNIGHTS' FEES— continued. A book in continuation of the preceding. See KIRBY'S QUEST. TESTA DE NEVILL. A book containing Subsidies and Knights' Fees in several counties, taken by inquisitions, Hen. VI. LoED Teeasueek's Remembeancee's Dbpabtment : A book commencing about Hen. III., and continued till about the time of the abolition of military tenures, for the county of Essex. EXCHEQUEE OF RECEIPT : Book called Feoda Militum, Com. Kane. Kirby's Quest. See KIRBY'S QUEST. KNIGHTS TEMPLARS: Queen's Remembeancee's Depaetment : Ministers' accounts of the possessions of the Knights Templars. 5ee ACCOUNTS. A book containing an account of part of their possessions in England, by Jeffery Fitz-Stephen, Master of their Order, 1185. The Order was instituted about 1123, and settled in England about 1180. Their lands were seized by Edw. II., and their possessions placed under the survey of the Court of Exchequer, and Extents of their possessions taken. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 159.) See EXTENTS. LACOCK MONASTERY (WILTS). LEIDGER BOOKS. See CHARTULARIES and LANCASTER, DUCHY OF : List of Parliamentary Surveys in the Duchy of Lancaster Office printed in the 8th Rep. of the Deputy Keeper of Records, App. II. No. 2. See PARLIAMENTARY SURVEYS. The accounts of the Sheriff of the County Palatine of Lancaster were made up by the Auditors of Land Revenue. See 22d Rep. Fin., 1797, App. B. 1. LAND REVENUE (SURVEYORS-GENERAI. AND AUDITORS): Recoeds : Accounts, — Ministers' — Receivers'. Accounts, — Miscellaneous. Alienation Office, Eliz. to Car. II. - Calais and its Dependencies, Boulogne, Guisnes, &c. ..... Ecclesiastical : Bishopricks, Temporalities, Stc. of Impropriations, bundles of accounts of moneys received from Impropriations Livings, — sums paid to the King from Livings (no date) - - - - Escheators' Views . . . - Estreats - - - - - Forfeited estates— accounts, vouchers, and chiefly Hen, VIII. and Eliz. these Monasteries, for which the priors paid Ipswich, I annual procurations and synodals. Hen. VIII. 179 "Wyngfeld, J Letheringham Priory. — Rewards given to servants of, 28 Hen. VHI. - - - - - 179 St. Andrew of Wyngfeld. — Account of the provost of the college, 33 Hen. VIII. - - - - 180 St. Edmund's Bury. — Accounts of prior, &c., Hen. VH. - 171 St. Edmund's Bury. — Accounts of prior, &c., Hen. VEIL - 179 St. Olave's, near Herringflete, Suffolk. — Rental of pos- sessions of the priory, temp. Hen. VIH. - - 180 Original book of the suppressed houses in Norfolk and Suffolk, signed by the Commissioners, Hen. VHI. - 180 Warwick : St. Mary.— Rental of coUege of, 1608 - - - 178 Book of sundry recognizances for wood, bells, and lead of various Monasteries, Churches, &c. reserved in the first book of recognizances taken by Sir Richard Ryche, then Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, 28-32 Hen. Ann. - - - - - - 183 Book containing the names of towns, &c. late belonging to several Monasteries attainted, and also of persons attainted 179 Book (fragment) of entries of bonds given by various per- sons to complete their purchase of monastic lands, &c., Hen. Vm., Edw. VI. - - - - - 180 Large bundles as to sales of bells and lead belonging to divers Monasteries, Hen. VIH. - - - 180 Several books of entries of grants, indentures, leases, &c., from various Monasteries, &c.. Hen. VIH. - - 181 ^-ee ACCOUNTS. RENTALS. SURVEYS. VALORS. FiBST Fruits' Department. See SURVEYS. VALOR ECCLE- SIASTICUS. EXCHEUTJER. 231 MONASTERIES— comimwed Theastjet of Receipt Department. See ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF SUPREMACY. CARDINAL COLLEGE, OXFORD. COMMISSIONERS. EXTENTS. SURVEYS. VALORS. MONTFORD, AYMERIC DE. See LIBER, pp. 220, 22L MORTMAIN : Trbasubt of Receipt Department : Rolls of lands given in mortmain in London, from 7 to 30 Edw. I. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 41.) MUSTERS : Exchequer op Receipt : Muster Rolls, on which payments were made. Treasuey op Receipt Department : Musters of men at arms, 85c., Hen.VIII. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 42.) Musters and matters connected therewith will also be found at the State Paper Office. NATIONAL DEBT OFFICE : By Stat. 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 59. the management of all Exchequer Annuities was transferred from the Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt on and from 5th July 1832, and for the better execution of that Act, on the 13th and 18th of that month, two removals or transfers were made from the Auditor's Office, whereby 29 volumes, besides papers and tabular lists, were lodged at the Commissioners' Office in the Old Jewry. NAVY: Queen's Remembrancer's Department. See ACCOUNTS. Treasury of Receipt Department : Accounts of the royal navy, &c. Accounts of the King's ships, ordnance, &c.. Hen. VH. Charges of the royal navy and army, 3-5 Hen. VHI. Payments of the navy, army, and ordnance, Hen. VIE., VIH. Expenses of the navy, Hen. VHI. Expenses of building the " Henry Grace Dieu " and other ships. (Record Rep. 1837, pp. 13, 14.) NEWSTEAD ABBEY. See CHARTULARIES and LEIDGER BOOKS. NEWTON, SIR ISAAC. See INDENTURES. NICHIL ROLLS : Pipe Department : The Nichil Rolls contain aU the Nichilled Debts transcribed from the Rolls "of the Clerk of the Estreats ; the rolls were made up annually by the Clerk of the Nichils, and immediately trans- mitted to the Pipe Office, where they remained on record, (see Stat. 27 Edw. L) 232 EXCHEQUER. NICHIL HOLLS— continued. The office of Clerk of the Nichils was abolished by stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 99. NICHOLAS IV. (POPE). See TAXATION ROLL, NOMINA VILLAEUM : Queen's Remembkancee's Depabtment. See TESTA DE NE- VILL. LoKD Teeasueee's Eemembeancee's Depaktment : Several original rolls, called Nomina Villarum, temp. Edw. 11. FoEEiGN Apposee's Depaetment : A book containing Nomina Villarum of the claims of Lords of Liberties, allowed by the Court of Exchequer, in pursuance of ancient charters. NON^ ROLLS : Queen's Remembeajicee's Depaetment : These are inquisitions, or the substance thereof, returned to a commission issued 26th January, 15 Edw. III., for assessing a ninth of the value of corn, wool, and lambs, granted to the King in aid of his wars. They specify the value of every bene- fice, distinguishing how far it exceeded or fell short of the valuation of Pope Nicholas, 1291, and stating the causes of such variation in glebe, tithe, endowment, appropriation, and other circumstances connected with it. The Nonas Rolls, or Inquisi- tiones Nonarum, have been printed by the Record Commissioners. The origin of the Inquisitiones Nonarum, and the manner of taking them, appear in the statutes of the 14th and 15th Edw. III., and in the commissions issued thereupon. Stat. 14 Edw. III. stat. 1. c. 20. grants to the King a subsidy of the ninth and fifteenth, viz., it grants the ninth lamb, the ninth fleece, and the ninth sheaf, to be taken by two years then next to come. And of cities and boroughs the very ninth part of all their goods and chattels, to be taken and levied by lawful and reason- able tax by the same two years, in aid of the good keeping of the realm, &c. And in right of merchants foreign which dwell not in the cities nor boroughs, and also of other people that dwell in forests and wastes, and all other that live not of their gain nor store, by the good advice of them which shall be deputed taxers, shall be set lawfully at the value to the fifteen without being unreasonably charged. The poor Boraile people, or other that live of their bodily travail, not to be comprised within the tax of the said fifteens, but shall be discharged by the advice of them which be deputed taxers, and of the great men which be deputed surveyors. By stat. 14 Edw. HI. stat. 2. the King granted that the above grant should not be had in example, nor fall to the prejudice of the nobles and commons, &c. in time to come, &c. By stat. 15 Edw. III. stat. 3. the conditions were recited on which the above subsidy, granted in the 14th of Edw. III., were given. Assessors and venditors were thereupon appointed for every county in England to assess and sell the ninth and fifteenth ; and three commissions were issued, directed to the assessors and venditors named under the Great Seal. EXCHEaUER. 233 NONiE nOLLS— continued. The execution of the first commission was confined to a few parishes only within a county, and within the assessment and sale the ninth of the religious was included. A second commission was also imperfectly executed, but it was done in a way very different from the first, by assessing and selling the ninth of the articles, to be levied according to the tax or valuation of churches completed in 1292, 20 Edw. I., called Pope Nicholas' Taxation. By which proceeding it seems that the assessors and venditors were to consider the ninth of corn, wool, and lambs, in 1340, worth as much in a parish as the tenth of corn, wool, and lambs, and all other tytheable com- modities, and the glebe lands, were, when the valuation was made of them in 1292, and within the assessment and sale by virtue of the second commission the ninth of the religious was included. The clergy, notwithstanding they granted in 14 Edw. III. a tenth for two years (besides the former triennial and annual grants) of all their property, were assessed and taxed to the ninth, and both were collected, which produced a remonstrance on the part of the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and the King afterwards (whenever the grievance was stated) issued a writ to the treasurer and barons, commanding redress to be given. From various writs of this kind it is evident that from the laity only the grant of the ninth and fifteenth was considered to pro- ceed, except the religious who held by barony, and were sum- moned to Parliament when the grant of the ninth was made ; and except upon possessions acquired by the religious after 20 Edw. I., which otherwise would have escaped taxation, not being included in Pope Nicholas' Valor, which then, and until the reign of Hen. VIII., was used as the guide for taxing the clergy, and was constantly resorted to by the treasurer and barons to correct the accounts of collectors of a tenth, and to determine the liability of persons and property, and to what amount. A third commission was afterwards issued, and directed to the assessors and venditors, on 26 January, 15 Edw. III., whereby they were instructed to levy the ninth of corn, wool, and lambs in every parish, according to the value upon which churches were taxed (i. e. Pope Nicholas' Valor), if the value of the ninth amounted to as much as the tax, and to levy more where the true value of the ninth should be found to exceed the tax ; but should the value of the ninth be less than the tax, they were directed to levy only the true value of the ninth, and to disre- gard the tax ; and to gain correct information of those facts they were directed to take inquisitions upon the oath of the parishioners in every parish. In these records it appears that the parishioners of every parish found upon their oath the true value (sometimes separately) of the ninth of corn, wool, and lambs ; then the amount of the ancient tax of the church was stated, and afterwards the causes of the ninth not amounting to the tax or value of the church were assigned ; and when the ninth did not exceed the tax it was assigned for cause thereof, that within the valuation or tax of the church there were other articles included besides corn, wool, and lambs, such as the dos or glebe of the church, tithe of hay, and other tithes ; and if any abbey, priory, or religious 234 EXCHEQUER. NON^ 'ROL'LS— continued. corporation had property "within any parish, the ninth arising from such property was found and returned. NORFOLK. See MONASTERIES. NORFOLK, DUKE OF : Inventory of his property (38 Hen. VIH). See INVENTORIES. NORMANS, LANDS OF. See TERR^ NORMANNORUM. NORTHAMPTON, MARQUIS OF (1533) : Inventory of his goods, &c. See INVENTORIES. NORTHUMBERLAND, DUKE OF (1533) : Inventory of his goods, &c. See INVENTORIES. NORTHUMBERLAND, EARL OF: Treasdkt of Receipt Depabtment : The Earl of Northumberland's book of payments and receipts, Hen. VIIL NORWAY : Teeastiry op Receipt Department : Treaties of Peace entered in Liber A. Powers relating to treaty for marriage of the Maid of Norway • entered in Liber A. See LIBER, p. 221. NOTES : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : A book of notes of old indentures, &c., Edw. VI., &c. See IN- DENTURES. NOTICE OF TRIAL BOOKS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Notice of trial books, from 1790. Exchequer or Pleas : Notices of trials and execution of writs of inquiry are entered in the Books of Orders. OATHS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Oaths of the officers of the Court of Exchequer in the Red Book of the Exchequer. See RED BOOK. Oaths of allegiance, from 1 G. I. Treasury of Receipt Department : Oaths of officers of the Exchequer, Justices, Mayors, and SheriflFs, in the Black Book. See BLACK BOOK. OBLIGATIONS : FmsT Fruits' Department : Obligations or bonds in arrear. HXCHEaUER. 235 OFFERINGS : Accounts of offerings and free gifts will be found in the ministers' and receivers' accounts. OFFICERS : Queen's Remembkajscee's Depaetment : Oaths of officers of the Exchequer. See RED BOOK. LoED Teeastjeee's Remembeancee's Depaetment : Presentations and admissions of officers entered on the Memoranda Rolls. See MEMORANDA ROLLS. Exchequee of Receipt — Pell Depaetment : Appointments inroUed in the Pells Patent Books. See PATENTS. Payments to Judges, Officers of the Court, &c., Commissioners of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Auditor, Clerk of the Pells, Tellers, and other officers. Examine Posting Books (second series), containing brief entries of all issues by deben- tures, under the head ACCOUNTS, p. 153. Exchequee of Receipt — Auditoe's Depaetment : Issue books, payments upon debentures to Barons and officers of the Exchequer, judges, law officers of the Crown, Serjeants at law, heralds, pursuivants, Serjeants at arms, yeomen of the Crown, officers, and gunners of ordnance, &c. Tbeasxiet of Receipt Depajrtmbnt : Oaths of officers of the Exchequer, Justices, Mayors, and Sheriffs, in the Black Book. See BLACK BOOK. OLERON," CHARTERS OF : Teeasuet of Receipt Depaetment : The Charters of Oleron were surrendered by the community on account of their trespasses. Liber B. See LIBER, p. 222. Richard the First, when abroad, composed a body of naval laws at the Isle of Oleron on the coast of France, then part of the possessions of the Crown of England, (4th Inst. p. 144.) O. NL or TOT. EXON: Pipe Depaetment : When a Sheriff came before the Treasurer and Barons upon his apposal, and charged himself with all such sums as were written to him upon the summons of the Pipe, which he had or lawfully might have levied, tot or o ni (which was as much as to say, oneratur nisi habeat sufficientem exonerationem) was marked against such sum that the Sheriff charged himself with, by the Clerk of the Pipe and Controller, on the Great Roll and Counter RoU, and was cast up with the whole charge of his foreign account and greenwax. (Vernon, pp. 12 and 13. Coke's 4th Inst. p. 116.) ORDERS, RULES AND ORDERS : Queen's Remembeancee's Depaetment : The original orders and decrees, from which the Order and Decree Books are compiled, commence 34 Eliz., 1592. 236 EXCHEaUER. ORDERS, RULES AND ORDERS— continued. Entry Books of orders and decrees made by the Court of Exche- quer in all causes and matters there depending. These entries are made by the Queen's Remembrancer as registrar. From Eliz. The calendars are as follow: — To the original orders and decrees they commence 1631 to 1679. There are also calendars to the original orders, commencing 1675 to 1832. To the original decrees there are three books of calendars, commencing 1676 to 1819. In the calendars from Hilary Term, 1816, the calendar contains the date of each decree or order, and the orders and decrees are indexed alphabetically in each Term, according to the initial letter of the plaintiflF's surname. Many orders, decrees, and proceedings in equity are entered on the Memoranda Rolls. See DECREES. Army book, general and division orders respecting the army in Portugal, 1811, 1812. Lord Teeasueer's Remembrancer's Department : Minute books of orders from time to time made by the Court of Exchequer on the Treasurer's Remembrancer's Side from 3 James II. Books of entries of the above from 35 Car. II. See MINUTE BOOKS. Orders of the Court of Exchequer on the Treasurer's Remem- brancer's Side concerning the land and casual revenue of the Crown are entered on the Memoranda Rolls. Ci.EHK or Foreign Estreats' Department : Copies of orders for discharging or respiting recognizances. Exchequer of Pleas : Minute books in which the rules of court are roughly entered pre- viously to their being entered in the books of orders ; one temp. Eliz., then commencing 1722. Rules to declare entered in Appearance Books. See APPEAR- ANCES. Books of orders containing the rules of Court, judgments signed by the Clerk of the Pleas, notices of trial, and of the execution of writs of inquiry, from 3 Edw. VI. Inventory printed in Dep. Keep, of Records' 2d Rep. App. II. p. 129. Exchequer Chamber : Books of rules and orders in writs of error were kept in the cham- bers of the Clerk of the Errors, 13, South-square, Gray's Inn. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 210.) Exchequer op Receipt : Auditor's Department — Order books, containing the substance of Treasury orders and warrants for payment of money from 1620. There are also original orden-s which ai-e the tellers' vouch- ers. 1806 to 1812 are bound in volumes. See WARRANTS. EXCHEaUER. 237 ORDERS, RULES, AND Om)EB,S— continued. Exchequer of Receipt— continued. Pell Depaktment. — ^Warrants, entry books for drawing orders, &c. for issues of money, &c., from 1617. Index to some volumes. See WARRANTS. ORDNANCE : Exchequer op Receipt : Auditor's Depaktment — Payments to officers and gunners of ordnance. See ACCOUNTS— Payments upon Debentures, p. 155. NAVY. ORIGINALIA : Stat. 16 Edw. n. defines the order in which these estreats from Chancery should be sent into the Exchequer. Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Department : These are the estreats transmitted from Chancery, i. e., Petty Bag Office, of all grants of the Crown inroUed on the Close, Patent, Fine, and Redisseisin Rolls, wherein any rents are reserved, any salary payable, or any service to be performed. They begin temp. Hen. III. There are Indices, Edw. L to G. IV. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 197.) There are two reference books to Originalia, Edw. I. to Elizabeth. These are, in fact, Indices or Calendars. There is also an Index, called Jones' Index, from Hen. VHI. to Queen Anne, printed. There are two volumes of abstracts of the Originalia, printed by the Record Commissioners, commencing 20 Hen. III., and ending Edw. III. These are printed from the Re- pertories. They are entitled "Rotulorum Originalium in Curia Scaccarii Abbreviatio." These may be used as Indices or Calendars of so much of the Close, Patent, Fine, and Redisseisin Rolls. Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Since the abolition of the office of the Lord Treasurer's Remem- brancer by Stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 99. the Originalia are transmitted from Chancery to the Queen's Remembrancer, OSENEY MONASTERY, OXFORDSHIRE. See CHARTU- LARIES and LEIDGER BOOKS. OUTLAWRIES : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Outlawries certified into the Court of Exchequer, and proceedings thereon, whereby seizures are made of lands and goods into the King's hands, are entered on the Memoranda Rolls. Outlawry books from 1639. Outlawries in bundles from Car. 1. OXFORD : Augmentation Department. See UNIVERSITIES. 238 EXCHEaTJER. PALACES : Queen's Eemembkancee's Depaktment. See ACCOUNTS. Land Revenue Depaetment : Inventories of the goods, &c. in Royal Palaces (Car. I.), taken under the Act passed in 1649, viz. : — Somerset or Denmark House. St. James's. Greenwich. The Tower Wardrobe. Whitehall Jewel House. Hampton Court. Richmond. Sion. Wimbledon. Bewdly. Royston. Newmarket. Holdenby. Woodstock. Carisbrooke Castle. KenUworth Castle. Ludlow Castle. PALMER, SIR THOMAS : Land Revenue Depaetment : Inventory of the goods, &c. of Sir T. Palmer, 1553. See INVENTORIES. PAPAL BRIEFS : Exchequer or Receipt : There are some original and other Papal Briefs of Leo X., Adrian VI., Clement VII., 1613-1527, found among the Records of the Receipt Side of tjie Exchequer, delivered to the Public Record Department by the Comptroller General of the Exche- quer. Lists are printed in the Deputy Keeper of Records' Reports : H. App. II. pp. 190-192 ; HI. App. H. p. 187 ; IV. App. n. p. 212. PAPAL BULLS : Queen's Remembeancee's Depaktment : In the Red Book are various entries of Bulls, &c., of Popes Inno- cent HI., f. 273 b. ; Gregory, f. 171. 122. 167-170 ; Boniface, John, f. 269. There is also a catalogue of 33 BuUs which were delivered into the Exchequer on the 20th of April, 8 Edw. II., and afterwards delivered to the Chamberlains to place in the Treasury, of the following Popes, Alexander III., Gregory VHI., InnocentllL, Innocent IV., Gregory X., John XXI., Nicholas III., Martin IV., Nicholas IV., Boniface VIII., and Clement V. Also of nine Bulls of Pope John XXII., which were delivered to the Chamberlain on 26 July, 12 Edw. 11. ; folio of Red Book, 267 b- 269. In the Black Book there are four Bulls of Pope Alexander (reign of Hen. II.) These are printed in the new edition of Foedera, vol. L pp. 44, 45. See BLACK BOOK, (No. 7.) Treasury op Receipt Department : Papal Bulls, entries in Liber A. pp. 33-89. 133-143, and in Liber B. pp. 89-159. -See LIBER, pp. 220-222. There is the (so called) Golden Bull, i. e., the BuU of Clement VII., confirming the title of Defender of the Faith to Hen. VHI., with a seal of solid gold. PAPISTS: Queen's Remembeancee's Department : Returns of the clerks of the peace relating to Papists. Certificates touching the dbuble tax on Papists. EXCHEaUER. 239 PAEISHES : FmsT Fruits' Depabtment. See VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS. Queen's Remembeaucek's Depaktment. See TAXATION ROLL. NON^ ROLLS. PARKS: Queen's Remembkancee's Depabtment. See ACCOUNTS. PARLIAMENTARY SURVEYS. See SURVEYS. Augmentation Depaetment : A calendar in counties, alphabetically arranged as far as Lan- caster, of those in the Augmentation Department is printed in the Deputy Keeper of Records' 7th Report, App. II. pp. 224r-238, the rest is printed in the 8th Report, App. 11. pp. 52-81 ; as also lists of those in the Duchy of Lancaster and Duchy of Corn- wall Offices. Queen's Remembeancee's Depaetment : Some few of the above surveys are among the Miscellaneous of the Queen's Remembrancer. Land Revenue Depaetment : The surveys formerly belonging to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands are bound up in volumes, and distinguished into — 1. Ancient Surveys prior to the death of Car. I. 2. Parliamentary Surveys taken in the time of the Common- wealth under the authority of the Acts, Ordinances, &c. of Parliament, for the sale of the lands, &c. belonging to the Crown. [Probably duplicates of those among the Augmen- tation Records.] The Ecclesiastical Parliamentary Surveys temp. Common- wealth are in the Lambeth Library. The following account of them is given in the Record Report of 1800, p. 388 :— The Surveys of the possessions of Bishops, Deans, and Chapters, and other Benefices, were made, in pursuance of various Ordinances of the Parliament during the Commonwealth, by surveyors appointed for that purpose, acting on oath, under instructions, with a view to the sale of those possessions. The form of the oath of the surveyors, and the instructions given to them, may be seen in Scobell's Acts and Ordinances A.D. 1649, p. 19, &c. The original surveys were returned to a registrar appointed by the Ordinances ; and duplicates or transcripts thereof were transmitted to the Trustees or Commissioners nominated for the sale, who held their meetings in a house in Broad Street in the City, where these documents remained until after the Restoration. On the 6th of August 1660 the House of Commons having received information (Commons' Journals, vol. VIII. p. 112,) "That William Ayloffe and Ayloffe had " come into the Public Office in Broad Street, where the " records, books, and surveys relating to Bishops and " Deans and Chapters' lands were kept for His Majesty's " service, and the public, putting the officers out of pos- " session, sealing up the doors, breaking open the locks " of several rooms where the records were, and pos- " sessing themselves of the key of the door belonging to 240 EXCHEaUER. PARLIAMENTAEY SVUYEYS— continued. " the treasury, and daily ransacking among them, to the " great prejudice of thousands of persons concerned " therein, and by transferring and misplacing thereof a " perfect account to His Majesty and this House touch- " ing the same will be disabled : It was ordered, that " the said "William Ayloffe and Ayloffe should forth- " with return back all books, writings, and evidences " found by them in the Public Office relating to the sale " of Bishops and Deans and Chapters' lands in Broad " Street, with the office itself, to the hands and custody " of the officers who formerly had the same in charge, " and that the Serjeant at Arms attending this House do " see the same done accordingly." It was ordered (13th May 1662), " That Mr. Michael Malleit and Mr. William " Ayloffe do deliver all such surveys and other records " and writings concerning the Archbishop ricks, Bishop- " ricks, and Deans and Chapters, which are in their " hands, unto the Most Eeverend Father in God the Lord ," Archbishop of Canterbury, who is desired to take care " for the preservation thereof, and to dispose of the same " to the respective Bishops, Deans and Chapters, who " are therein concerned, if he shall think flt." In pursuance of this order these valuable records were delivered to Archbishop Juxon, and were deposited in the MS. Library at Lambeth. Some of them were after- wards sent by his Grace to the Bishops, Deans and Chapters, to which they belonged, in pursuance of the power contained in the said order, whiuh hath rendered the collection in the Lambeth Library imperfect and in- complete. (For example, see the Record Report of 1800, p. 334, return of the Dean and Chapter of Ely.) What remain there are well preserved for the use of the public. They are bound up in 21 large folio volumes, in alpha- betical o 'der of the different counties. A complete index ' hath been made to the whole which remain there, ac- cording to the names of places therein mentioned. The returns here preserved are not the original papers signed by the surveyors, but are transcripts made at the time, and are probably the duplicates which were directed by the Ordinance of Parliament to be sent to the Trustees for the sale. They are now admitted to be produced as evidence in the courts of justice as original records. Besides the above, there are surveys of the possessions of the See of Canterbury, and of the Peculiars thereunto belonging, kept separate from the possessions of other Sees, Deans and Chapters, &e., with indexes thereto, in alphabetical order, which are bound up in 3 vols, 1646 to 1654. PARSONAGES : FiBST Fruits' Department. See VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS. PARTICULARS. -S'ee ACCOUNTS. Pipe Department : Particulars of Sheriffs' accounts. See stat. 34 & 35 Hen. VIH- c. 16. s. 1. EXCHEaUER. 241 PAETICULARS— cowftHwerf. Augmentation Depajbtjibnt : Particulars for grants, Hen. VIII. to Eliz. To these there is a calendar of persons and places, serving to a great extent as an index to the Patent Rolls respecting such matters. It is printed in the 9th and 10th Eep., App. II., of the Deputy Keeper of the Records ; the Particulars are described also in the 8th Rep. p. 8. Particulars for grants of concealed lands, temp. Eliz. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 207.) Particulars of sales of estates of Car. I., his Queen, and the Prince of Wales. -See PARLIAMENTARY SURVEYS. Part of these appear to be among the Queen's Remem- brancer's Records. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 145.) Particulars of sales of fee-farm rents. See FEE-FARMS. Particulars of the estates of such schools as were founded by Edw. VI. See SCHOOLS. Particulars for leases, Eliz. and Jac. I. Treasury of Receipt Department : Particulars for grants from the Crown, temp. Edw. VI., 2 vols. These grants are chiefly of chantries. PATENTS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Entries of grants and patents under the Great and Privy Seals for several purposes, are entered on the Memoranda Rolls. Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Department : The Originalia contain the entries of grants of the Crown inrolled on the Patent and other Rolls, wherein any rents are reserved, any salary payable, or any service to be performed. They begin temp. Hen. III. Land Revenue Department : Patents under the Great and Exchequer Seals of the landed pro- perty of the Crown, Hen. VIII. to present time, inrolled in books. There are some original patents, temp. Jac. I., Car. I. and II., Jac. II., of grants to Queens of England and Prince of Wales. Exchequer op Receipt : Auditor's Department. — Inrolments or books of entry of Letters Patent, granting offices, pensions, and honours, with pecuniary emoluments. These inrolments are in books from Hen. VIII. to 1611. The rolls begin 1609 to 1619-20, when the books begin again, and are continued to 1834,- that is to say, to the abolition of the ancient receipt of the exchequer. There is another series of Inrolment Books relative to the revenues of the Crown, containing Crown leases by indenture, grants by patent, letters of Privy Seal, and various other docu- ments, commencing 41 Eliz., 1599 to 1696. Index to most volumes. Pell Department. — Books of Inrolment of Letters Patent, Royal Sio-n Manual Warrants for Pensions, Treasury Constitutions, and Appointments to OfBces, 1597 to 1834 ; part of these of the time of Jac. I. are in rolls. The nature and use of the Books will be found in the Deputy Keeper of Records' 4th Rep. App. II. pp. 179-200, and of the Rolls at p. 210. 242 EXCHEaUER. PATENTS— cow^mwed There is another series, being books of Inrohnent of Letters Patent, Privy Seals, warrants, and other documents relative to the Pell of Receipt and the striking of Tallies, 1620-1701. Their nature and use will be found in the Deputy Keeper of Records' 5th Rep. App. 11. p. 278. Index to most of the volumes. PATRONAGES: FmsT Feuits' Depaktment : The Bishops' Certificates certifying to the Barons of the Exchequer the inductions of clerks to livings, generally state the name of the patron and the last incumbent. See CERTIFICATES. INSTITUTIONS— First Feuits' Depaetment. PAYMENTS. See ACCOUNTS. PEDIGREES. See DESCENTS. GENEALOGY. Search the Assignment Books of the Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer. Also the Inquisitions, and the Subsidy and Tax Rolls. PELLS (RECEIPT OF THE EXCHEQUER) : Abolished by stat. 4 W. IV. c. 15., 1834. The records transferred to the custody of the Master of the Rolls in June 1841, pursuant to Treasury Letters of 26th May and 1st June 1841. PENN: Exchequer of Receipt : His grant in consideration of the loss of Pennsylvania. Search the Auditor's Assignment Books. (No. 1, Assignments, August 1791 to February 1798.) PENRITH : Queen's Remembbaitcee's Depaetment : Survey of the honor of Penrith and forest of Inglewood, county Cumberland, 1619. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 140.) PENSIONS : Augmentation Depaetment : Pensions granted to abbots, &c. upon the dissolution of the monas- teries, inrolled in books. Exchequer op Receipt : Auditoe's Depaetment. — Inrolment Books of Letters Patent granting pensions, &c.. Hen. VIII. to 1834. See PATENTS. The receipts for Pensions will be found among the Tellers' Vouchers. Pell Depaetment. — Inrolments of Letters Patent, warrants, &c. for pensions, &c., 1597 to 1834. See PATENTS. Teeasuet op Receipt Department : Pensions for masses, &c. See "WESTMINSTER ABBEY. PERAMBULATIONS. .S-ee FORESTS. Queen's Remembeancee's Department : Perambulations of the forests of Derbyshire. In a book delivered into court, 1674, containing charters, grants, &c. by Hen. IH. and Prince Edward. EXCHEaUER. 243 PERAMBULATIONS- continued. Under the authority of stat. 26 G-. III. c. 87. commissioners were appointed to inquire into the state and condition of the woods, forests, &c. They made 17 Reports to the House of Commons, the first in 1787, and the last in 1793, where a great number of the ancient perambulations and inquisitions will be found printed. At the end there is an index by which their notices of any particular forest may be found immediately. Copies of the above Reports, bound in two large folio volumes, are preserved in the Public Record Office. PETITIONS i Queen's Remembeancek's Department : Petitions, affidavits, and other proceedings, on files or bundles. LoED Treasueee's Remembrancer's Department : Petitions touching proceedings on the Lord Treasurer's Remem- brancer's Side, in the bundles or files of Miscellaneous. Petitions of right, pleadings on, entered on the Memoranda Rolls. See MEMORANDA ROLLS. ExCEtEQUEE OF PlEAS : Petitions of prisoners for day rules. PETITIONS OF RIGHT : Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Department : Pleadings on petitions of right are entered on the Memoranda Rolls. See MEMORANDA ROLLS. There will be found much important matter relating to petitions of right, &c. in the abstracts printed by the Record Commissioners, under the title " Placitorum Ab- breviatio, Ric. I. — Edw. II.," collected from the Curia Regis and King's Bench Rolls. See p. ix. of that work. PHILIPPA, QUEEN: Treasury of Receipt Department : An account of the Revenue of Queen Philippa, 18 Edw. III. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 41.) PIPE: Office abolished by stat 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 99. The earliest Pipe Roll is that of the 31st of Hen. I. (1130) ; but the rolls are lost from that time until the 2d of Hen. II., from ' which time they are complete, with the exception of that of the first year of Hen. III., and that of the 7th of Hen. IV. ; but the Duplicate or Chancellor's Roll of this latter year exists, and is made to supply its place. The duplicates or Chancellor's Rolls, commencing 11 Hen. 11. to 17 James I. (except 7 Hen. IV.), 292 rolls in all, most ex- traordinary to say, were given to the British Museum by the Record Commissioners, by what authority does not appear, they certainly had no right in themselves to make the transfer. Records of the Pipe : The Great or Pipe Rolls. The Nichil Rolls. Particulars of Sheriffs' Accounts, Hen. VI., Eliz., Jac. I., Car. I. Rolls of Escheats. r2 244 EXCHEaUER. PIPE — continued. Rolls of Foreign Accounts. Declared Accounts. Ministers' Accounts. States of Accounts, in books ; some in bundles ; 1645-1831. Views of Accounts, 52 vols., 1671-1826. Treasury Warrants, in books, from 1 684. Eecords'of Leases, from Jac. I. to G. IV., when an Act (1 & 2 G. IV. c. 52.) passed to transfer the business of the Pipe, so far as such leases relate to the ordinary Land Revenue, to the Office of Woods and Forests. They are tied up in bundles of ten years. Original Declared Accounts of every description. Abstracts of Crown Leases. Alphabetical List of Crown Leases, Eliz. Entry Books of Crown Leases. Board's End Books. Books of Anglia. See ANGLIA. Fee Books. Cash Book, receipts and payments. Tax Books. Tott Books. Liber Curiae Generalis Supervisoris Terrarum Domini Regis, 1 vol., 33 Hen. VUL Records of Deputy Comptroller of the Pipe: Duplicates of the Pipe Rolls, or Chancellor's or Comptroller's Rolls, such as have not been placed in the British Museum. States of the Sheriffs' accounts for counties, as delivered into the office by the attorneys of the Pipe Office. Copies of the above states of accounts, entered in folio books. FIX. See MINT. PLANS : Land Revenue Depaetment : There are maps and plans of estates belonging to the Crown, from 1608. PLEADINGS : PLEA ROLLS : LoED Treasurer's Remembrancer's Department : The Memoranda Rolls contain pleadings in suits commenced in this department, with the judgments thereon. Land Revenue Department : Various pleadings, judgments, and decrees in the Inrolment Books of Letters Patent, &c. First Fruits' Department : Rolls of Pleas and Proceedings. Exchequer of Pleas : Plea Rolls. POLL TAX: Queen's Remembrancer's Department. See ACCOUNTS. Exchequer op Receipt — Pell Department, See ACCOUNTS. EXCHEQUER. 245 PONTHIEU : Treasuey of Eeceipt. See LIBER (B., p. 222). POOR KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR (now called MILITARY AND NAVAL KNIGHTS), STATUTES OF. See STATUTES. Memorandum. — In the State Paper Office tliere is a Docket, 13th August 1623, containing a declaration of the King that the appointments of the Poor Knights of Windsor shall henceforth pass under the Seal of the Order of the Garter, not under the Great Seal. {See Dom. Gal., State Paper Office, of the above date.) POPE NICHOLAS' TAXATION, ok VALOR, See TAX- ATION ROLL. PORT BONDS : Queen's Remembkancek's Department : Port or Coast Bonds forfeited for carr'ying goods coastwise. See BONDS. PORT BOOKS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : There are some Port Books among the Records of the Queen's Remembrancer. We find the following observations in the printed Privy Council Proceedings, vol. III., preface, p. Iv. : — "A regulation was " made by the Council in November 1428 for preventing " frauds on the part of collectors and customers of the various " ports ; and if the accounts which were then ordered to be " kept by them are extant, they must furnish valuable infor- " raation on the imports and exports of the kingdom. A book " sealed with the Exchequer seal, containing a certain number of " pages, which number was to be recorded in the Exchequer, " was to be annually sent to each port where there was a cus- " tomer or collector, wherein was to be entered the name of the " merchants, and the nature, quantity, and value of the mer- " chandizes which arrived in or were sent out of any of the said " ports, which entries were to be made before the goods were " shipped or unladen. No erasure was to be made in these " books on pain of fine and imprisonment. Ships were not to " be laden or unladen by night, but only in open day between " sunrise and sunset. The customers and collectors were to " send sealed bills to the searchers of the ports, containing the " quantity of the merchandize, and the name of the merchants, " immediately after entering the same in their books, without " taking a fee for so doing ; and no ship or vessel was to leave " any port until she had been searched by the King's searcher." The Port Books appear to have been established in November 1428, (7 Hen. VI.) See the Order inrolled on the Memoranda of the Exchequer, Hilary Term, 7 Eliz., roll 319, regulating the same. A full account of these books is given in the printed proceedings of the Record Commissioners, called "Agenda," p. 399, (1833.) A committee of the House of Lords was, on 25th June 1713, (Lords' Journals, vol. XIX. pp. 586, 606,) appointed to inquire into the state and condition of the Queen's Remembrancer's Books, and the Port Books belonging to the Commissioners of Customs, in relation to trade and commerce with France since 1660. On the 11th July 1713 the Committee reported, " That 246 EXCHEaUER. PORT BOOKS— continued. " they had spoken with some of the Commissioners of Cus- " toms, and Patent Officers in the Port of London, and from them " the committee find, that in Hilary and Trinity Term, every " year, there are sent from the office of the Queen's Remem- " brancer, blank parchment books under the seal of the Exche- " quer to the Patent Officers in the several Ports of England " and Wales, in which books the said Patent Officers are to " make entries of the goods and merchandizes imported and " exported, and of goods carried coastwise between port and " port ; which books are to be returned in Michaelmas and " Easter Terms, and delivered in upon oath by the said officers, " that they have made all true entries in the same, &c. " These books are very ancient, and were particularly regulated " by orders made by Queen Elizabeth under the Great Seal. " These records have been much neglected ; the Committee found " them laid together in two upper rooms behind the Court of " Exchequer in the greatest disorder and confusion, some in the " time of Hen. VHI., and in all succeeding reigns," &c. Pursuant to an order of the Treasury, dated 14th March 1799, no further issue of Port Books has been made by the King's Eemembrancer. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 137.) Augmentation Department : There are some Port Books among the Augmentation Records. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 208.) Land Retenue Department : There are some Port Books temp. Car. IL among the Land Revenue Records. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 201, last column, bottom.) PORTUGAL : Queen's Remembrancer's Department. Army Book, containing general and division orders relating to the army in Portugal, 1811, 1812. POST FINE ROLLS : Clerk of the Foreign Estreats' Department : The Post Fine Rolls, on which were recorded the fines on aliena- tion of lands, were the records of the Clerk of Estreats, which office was abolished by stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 99. s. 41, and the records were directed to be delivered to the Queen's Remem- brancer. For the course of entry of the above fines after the abolition of the office of Clerk of Foreign Estreats, see 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 99. s. IS., and 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 82. s. 5. See, under the Common Pleas arrangement, the head FINES OF LANDS, Sub-head or Note Estreats, page 128 of this work. Exchequer op Receipt : There are rolls of certificates of the totals of Post Fines accounted for into the Exchequer by the Sheriffs of the several counties. POSTING BOOKS (of Accounts of Issues of Money). See AC- COUNTS— (Exchequer of Receipt), p. 153. POSTS, MASTER OF THE : Pipe Department : Accounts of tho Masters of Posts, from Elizabeth, EXCHEQUER. 247 PR-ffiCIPES : EXCHEQXJEK OF PleAS : Praecipes for the issue of Writs of Quo Minus, Venire, Summons, &c. Appearances. Subpoenas. PREBENDS : First Fruits' Department, ^ee VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS. VALORS. PRECEDENTS, BOOK OF. See FIRST FRUITS AND TENTHS. PRECEPTA : Indices so called, in the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Depart- ment. PRESENTATIONS. See PATRONAGES. Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Department : Presentations and Admissions of various oiiicers of the Exche- quer are entered on the Memoranda Rolls. See MEMORANDA ROLLS. First Fruits' Department : Presentations in the diocese of Canterbury, 1703-1786. PRIORIES : Queen's Remembrancer's Department. See ACCOUNTS (Mi- nisters'.) EXTENTS. INQUISITIONS. Augmentation Department. See ACCOUNTS (Ministers'). Land Revenue Department. See ACCOUNTS (Ministers'). First Fruits' Department. See VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS. VALORS. PRISONERS : Exchequer of Pleas : Petitions of prisoners for day rules. See PETITIONS. RULES. PRISONERS (STATE). See STATE PRISONERS' BILLS. PRIVILEGES : Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Department : Privileges within cities, boroughs, towns, &c. — proceedings on claims of, are entered on the Memoranda Rolls of the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer. See MEMORANDA ROLLS. PRIVY PURSE ACCOUNTS : Land Revenue Department. -S'ee ACCOUNTS. HOUSEHOLD. Exchequer of Receipt. See ACCOUNTS HOUSEHOLD. WARDROBE. PRIVY SEALS: Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Grants under the Great and Privy Seals are entered on the Memo- randa RoUs. Land Revenue Depabtment : Privy Seals entered in Inrolment Books from the time of Hen. VIH. Exchequer op Receipt — ^Pell Department : Privy Seals entered in Rolls and Inrolment Books, being Inrol- ments of Letters of Privy Seal, &c. for the payment of money 248 EXCHEaUER. PRIVY &EAl,S-co7itinued. out of tlie Exchequer, recorded in the Pells Books, 1597-1834. Inventory printed in the Deputy Keeper of Records' 4th Rep. App. II. pp. 201-208. A calendar of the Privy Seals temp. Common'wealth is printed in the Deputy Keeper's 5th Rep. App. II. pp. 246-277. A calendar of the Privy Seals of 1672 and 1673 is printed in the Deputy Keeper's 4th Rep. App. II. pp. 208, 209. Privy Seal Rolls, 1603-1620 ; inventory printed in Deputy Keeper's 4th Rep. App. II. pp. 210-212. Also Patent and Privy Seal Books for Tallies, or Books of Inrol- ment of Letters Patent, Privy Seals, Warrants, &c. relative to the Pell of Receipt and the striking of tallies, 1620-1701. An inventory printed in the Deputy Keeper's 5th Rep. App. II. pp. 278-280. Dormant Privy Seals, or such Privy Seals as were not satisfied by a single payment, but operated upon from time to time by the wai-rants of the treasurer, &c., 1597-1628. These are entries in Posting books, described under the head ACCOUNTS, p. 153. An inventory printed in the Deputy Keeper's 4th Rep. App. II. pp. 168-175. Exchequer op Receipt — Auditor's Department : Inrolment Books of "Writs or Letters of Privy Seal for the payment of moneys at the Receipt of the Exchequer, 1570-1834 ; inventory of them printed in the Deputy Keeper's 2d Rep. App. II. pp. 211-219, and in the oth Rep. App. IL pp. 291, 292. Some of these books were transferred to the Treasury upon the abolition of the ancient Exchequer, 1834. Also Books of Inrolment or Entry of Letters of Privy Seal for the allowance of moneys at the Receipt of the Exchequer, or for the discharge of accountants and others, interspersed with sundry other documents, as assignments, letters of attorney, wills, ad- ministrations, &c., 1620-1734 ; inventory of them printed in Deputy Keeper's 2d Rep. App. IL pp. 219-221. Also Inrolment Books of Patents and Privy Seals, containing Crown Leases, Grants by Patent, Letters of Privy Seal, and other docu- ments, 1599-1696. An inventory printed in the Deputy Keeper's 2d Rep. App. IL pp. 209-211. There are also original Letters of Privy Seal from Hen. VIII. to W. IV. They are partly filed among the Brevia of the Receipt of the Exchequer ; partly arranged by reigns in bundles. Those of G. Ill,, G. IV., and W. IV. are in boxes. PROBATES : Land Revenue Department : Probates are entered in the Inrolment Books, which latter bear date from Hen. VHI. Exchequer of Receipt — Auditor's Department : In the Assignment Books are entered, among other matters, letters of administration, probates of wills, &c. from 1622. See AS- SIGNATIONS OR ASSIGNMENTS. Previous to 1622 the above were entered among the Patents and Privy Seals, and in the Pell Office they are to be found in the Warrant Books, but a great proportion were never recorded by the Clerk of the Pells. EXCHEQUER. 249 FliOBATES—contimced. In the Inrolment or Entiy Books of Letters of Privy Seal there are, among other matters, letters of attorney, wills, administrations, &c. PROCEEDINGS : Land Revenue Department : Proceedings on sales made by the Surveyor General of the fee-farm rents and lands belonging to the Crown under stat. 34 G. III. c. 75. for the better management of the land revenue, and 38 G. III. c. 60. for the redemption of the land tax. Augmentation Department : Journals and other books of proceedings of the trustees for the sale of the estates of the Crown, temp. Interregnum. PROCEEDINGS IN EQUITY: Qdeen's Remembkancer's Department : The equity proceedings consist of bills, answers, depositions, &c., commencing 1 Eliz. ; but the equity jurisdiction was transferred to the Court of Chancery by stat. 5 Vict. c. 5. Some equity proceedings are entered on the Memoranda Rolls. PROCESS BOOKS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Crown Process Books, and appearances thereto, from 1815. Land Revenue Department : Process Book of Court of Exchequer, 1557. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 200, 2d column.) Summonses of Green Wax to Sheriffs of counties to return to the Barons of the Court of Exchequer fines and estreats. First Fruits' Department : There are Process Books in this department, being brief entries of actions for nonpayment of First Fruits, PROFFERS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Proffers were the particular sums of money payable into the Ex- chequer by the Sheriffs of the several counties, &c., and Bailiffs of particular liberties. They are entered on the Memoranda Rolls. Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Department : There are some among the Miscellaneous Records. There are two rolls of the 37 G. III.,— one is printed in the 28d Report of the Select Committee on Finance. (A pp. P. 2.) They are intituled " The Coming of Sheriffs, Bailiffs, and others to the Exchequer," — and are roUs containing the settled amount to be paid for Proffers in each county, — one for Easter, and one for Michaelmas. The amount of the sums in each roll is the same. PROMOTIONS (ECCLESIASTICAL). See INSTITUTIONS. PROPERTY TAX : The Officers of Inland Revenue finally pass their accounts before the Commissioners of Audit. 250 EXCHEUUER. PROVIDENCE. See RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE. PROVOSTS : First Fbuits' Depaetment : The commissioners under 26 Hen. VIII. appointed to survey the ecclesiastical foundations, &c., and who produced as the result of their labours the work known under the name of Valor Ecclesi- asticus, were directed to inquire also as to the endowments of Provosts, &c. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. See PALACES. Queen's Remembkajscbe's Department : Accounts of repairs, &c. QUARE MANERIA : Lord Teeastteee's Remembeancee's Depaetment : Proceedings on Writs of Quare Maneria are entered on the Memoranda Rolls. QUEENS OF ENGLAND : Land Revenue Depaetment : In the office of Land Revenue Records and Inrolments there are 17 vols, relating to the jointures of the Queens of England. The following among the Miscellaneous appear to be the Records of the Auditors of Land Revenue : Accounts of the lands, &c. of the Queens of England. See ACCOUNTS. LAND REVENUE. Record Rep. 1800, p. 177 Katherine, Queen of Hen. VIII. : State of the revenue of fee-farms, &c., parcel of the dower or jointure of Katherine, relict of Hen. VHI. - - 177 Long list of fee-farms, parcel of the dower or jointure of Katherine, relict of Hen. Vin. — Rentals - - 197 Princess Elizabeth : A large roll containing an account of lands, &c. assigned to the Princess Elizabeth before her accession to the Crown - - - - - - 191 Anne of Denmark, Queen ofJac. I. : >Statement of Anne of Denmark's (consort of Jac. I.) revenue in divers counties. — Rents, &c. - - 177 Lists of several manors settled in jointure on Anne, con- sort of Jac. I. ... - . 177,192 The Council Chamber of Anne, Queen Consort of Jac. I., was at Somerset House, 1611, Nov. 13. (Dom. Cal. State Paper Office.) Henrietta Maria, Queen of Car. I. : Letters Patent. Grant of Oatlands to Henrietta Maria, 14th March, 2 Car. I. - - - . 202 Declarations and views of the state of the revenue of Henrietta Maria, 1628-1638 - . - 177 Bundles of accounts of particular receivers - - 177 EXCHEUTJER. 251 QUEENS OF BHiGrLA'NT)— continued. A book containing a certificate of the revenue of Hen- rietta Maria - - Record Eep. 1800, p. 177 A book of orders at Henrietta Maria's Council Chamber, 1661, &c. relative to purchases thentofore made by- divers persons of several fee-farm rents, &c. from the commissioners during the Interregnum - 177 Court Rolls of manors of Henrietta Maria - - 177 Rentals of Henrietta Maria, 1666-1675 - - 177,195 Short abstract of honors, manors, &c. granted by Car. I. in augmentation of the jointure and dower of Henrietta Maria - - . _ 177 Various receipts for payments on Henrietta Maria's account - - - 177 Grants to and from the trustees of Henrietta Maria 202, 203 Letters Patent. Grant to Henrietta Maria of a court to be called " The Queen's Court in her Council Chamber at Westminster," 15th June, 10 Car. I. - - 203 Letters Patent. Grant of Denmark House, otherwise Somerset House, to Henrietta Maria, 1st July, 6 Car. I. 203 Letters Patent. Grant to Henrietta Maria of the goods, chattels, debts, and credits of the tenants in capite, and other tenants of the honors, castles, &c. granted to Her Majesty by former Letters Patent, together with the fines of alienations, &c. &c., 9th March, 6 Car. L 203 And various other matters pertaining to the Queen, her lands, &c. - - - 203 Catherine, Queen of Car. II. : Rolls of Receiver's Accounts of Queen Catherine's re- venue rentals - - - - 177 Certificates, warrants, debentures, and other matters relating to receipt and payments of Queen Catherine's household - - - - 177 Various deeds, grants, leases, &c. of Queen Catherine 177 Court Rolls - - - 177 CouncU books and minutes, &c. of the Court of Cathe- rine, consort and relict of Car. II. - - - 200 Sueveyoe-Genebal's Depaetment : Grants of land settled on Queen Catherine, how since dis- posed of. These are among the miscellaneous volumes of collections of the Surveyors -General of Land Revenue 164 Augmentation Depaetment : Inrolments of jointures of the Queens of England, and Ministers' Accounts relating to. Teeasuky of Receipt Depaetment : Account of the revenue of Queen Philippa, 18 Edw. IH. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 41, 2d column.) QUEEN'S REMEMBRANCER: The Remembrancer was anciently called Memorator, and sometimes Rememorator. In 14 Edw. I. the Remembrancers were simply referred to as Remembrancers without other distinctive titles. Thus one was called unus Rememoratorum, the other alter Rememoratorum ; in process of time one was called the King's 252 EXCHEUUER. QUEEN'S REMEMBRANCER— cow^mwerf. Remembrancer, the other the Treasurer's Remembrancer. In 26 and 27 Edw. I. one was called Rememorator Regis, the other Rememorator Thesaurarii. — {Madox. ) The office of King's Remembrancer was held by Patent, to be exercised by himself or his sufficient Deputy, and it was in practice formerly executed entirely by Deputy. By the stat. 1 G. IV. c. 35. the duties of the King's Remem- brancer and his Deputy were considerably abi-idged. Before that Act the money and stocks belonging to the suitors directed to be brought into Court were ordered to be paid to the Deputy Remembrancer, or to be transferred to his name ; but that Act directed an accountant to be appointed. Before this Act the Deputy Remembrancer was the officer to whom references were made on the Equity side of the Court, and he executed in that respect duties analogous to the Masters in the Court of Chancery, but the Act directed two Masters to be appointed to perform, among other things, the duties on the Equity side of the Court. The duties of the officers appointed under the above Act will be found in the Report of the Commissioners on the Duties, &c. in Courts of Justice, 1822. -Sess. Pap. H.C., 1822, No. 125. By stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 99. s. 41. the several offices of the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer, Pipe, Clerk of Estreats, Surveyor of G-reenwax, Foreign Apposer, and Clerk of the Nichils, were abolished, and their Records directed to be delivered to the King's Remembrancer, who was directed to perform such duties as remained of the abolished offices. By stat. 5 Vict. c. 5. the Equity side of the Exchequer was trans- ferred to Chancery. By stat. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 86. several other offices in the Queen's Remembrancer's Department, belonging partly to the Equity side and partly to the Revenue side, were abolished, and the office of the Remembrancer was regulated, and other officers appointed by the Treasury, under the authority of the said Act. The Queen's Remembrancer is now the only Revenue officer left of the ancient Exchequer. The state of every public account is inrolled in the office of the Queen's Remembrancer. Recokds : Accounts (various) : Inrolments of the states of public accounts, of escheats, of imprests and taxes, of receivers of the quarterly poll, of subsidies, taxations, &c. {Carriages. Lar^- Property. Duplicates of land and assessed taxes — particulars of each Receiver's account in bags, also entered in books. Miscellaneous accounts : Alnagers. Army. Bailiffs, EXCHEUUER. 253 QUEEN'S REMEMBRANCER— coM^mwetZ. Accounts — continued. Household : Cofferers. Comptroller. King's Butler. King's Horses. Jewels, Plate, &c. Paymaster. Ireland : Accounts of the Treasurer and Chamberlain. Marshalsea Court. Mines. Ministers. Mint and Coinage. Navy. Repairs of Palaces, &c. Sequestered Estates. Sheriffs. "Wardrobe. Affidavits. Appearances. Appraisements. Army Book — General and Division Orders. Bails and Recognizances. Bill Books. Black Book. Bonds. Cause Books. Certificates of Sale. of Stock. Charters and Grants. Chartularies. Claims. Commissions. Court Rolls. Decrees. Deeds. Domesday Abstract, Extents. Inquisitions. Insupers. Issue Books. Inventories. Ipswich - Schedule of Duties, &c. Knights' Fees. Kirby's Quest. Liber Dierum pro CoUectoribus. Licence Books. Minute Books. Nonse Rolls. Notice of Trial Books. Orders. Outlawries. Pleas (special). Port Books. Process Books. 254 EXCHEQUER. QUEEN'S REMEMBRANCER— cowft-wMcrf. Red Book. Rentals. Reports and Certificates. Returns of Commissions. SubpcBna Books. Super Books. Statutes, Book of. Surveys. Taxation of Pope Nicholas. Testa de Nevill. Writs. QUIT RENTS : By Stat. 3 & 4 W. rV. c. 99. s. 12. (1833) these rents, formerly accounted for by Sheriffs, are placed under the Board of Woods and Forests. QUO MINUS : ExcHEQTiEB OF Pleas : Entry books of Quo minus and Venire facias. See WRITS. AFFIDAVITS. QUO TITULO CLAMAT : Lord Teeasubee's Remembrancer's Department : Proceedings on writs of Quo titulo clamat are entered on the Memo- randa of the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer. See MEMO- RANDA ROLLS. RAMSEY MONASTERY : Queen's Remembrancer's Department. See CHARTULARIES and LEIDGER BOOKS. RECEIPT BOOKS AND ROLLS. See ACCOUNTS— (Exchequer of Receipt). RECEIPTS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Two books of receipts of Hen. VII., dated between the 5th and 21st years of his reign, signed by the King. RECEIVERS : RECEIVERS' ACCOUNTS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Reports of Receivers General on their securities. See REPORTS. Land Revenue Department : The Auditors of the Land Revenue formerly audited the Receivers' Accounts of the land tax and assessed taxes. (22d Rep. Fin., 1797, App. B. 1.) See ACCOUNTS — Land Revenue— Augmentation — First Fruits' Departments. RECEPTA OR RECEIPTS. See ACCOUNTS — (Exchequer of Receipt). RECOGNIZANCES : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Entered in books ; and on the Memoranda Rolls. Recognizances on informations, commissions, and writs. 1 vol. EXCHEaUER. 255 RECOG-NIZANCES -continued. Original recognizances, in bundles, under the title of Bails and Recognizances. Clerk of the Foreign Estreats' Department : Recognizances returned from the House of Commons. King's Bench Rolls of fines and recognizances, &c. Orders for discharging or respiting recognizances. RECORD BOOKS : Exchequer of Pleas : Entry Books. RECORD OF CAERNARVON. See DOMESDAY BOOK, p. 188. RECTORIES : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Surveys of manors, rectories, &c. concealed from the Crown, among the special commissions. See COMMISSIONS. Land Revenue Department : Yearly value of rectories, Edw. VI. — Ph. & Mary, in hooks. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 171.) RECUSANTS ROLL : Augmentation Department : A roll of persons called recusants, temp. Eliz., for contumacy, whereupon extents issued against part of their property. There are Recusant Rolls among the Miscellaneous of the Pipe and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Records, as may be seen by referring to the miscellaneous matter printed in the 5th Report of the Deputy Keeper of Records, App. I. p. 19. It is not there distinguished to which department they belong. Vernon in his considerations for regulating the Exchequer, 1642, p. 95, states, " that many Sheriffs have been cast " out of court and suffered to depart before they paid in " their debts in the Great Roll and ' Recusants Roll.' " And the same author, at p. 62, mentions " that there had " been of late introduced two new receivers and two new " auditors for the revenue of Recusants, with sundry " directions for transferring the charge of the said revenue " from the Great Roll to the said new auditors." RED BOOK : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : The Red Book of the Exchequer contains the following matters : I. "De Libertate Ecclesiae et tocius Angliie observanda Leges " Henrici primi filii conquestoris," pp. 16-30. This begins with the Charter of Hen. I. II. " Constitutio Domus Regis," p. 30. This is an account of the royal household, temp. Hen. 11. or one of his sons. It is also in the Black Book. III. The "Dialogus de Scaccario," pp. 31-46. This is a trea- tise on the ancient constitution and practice of the Exche- quer. There is another ancient copy of it in the Black Book of the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer. It is printed by Madox at the end of his History of the Exchequer. 256 EXCHEUUER. EED BOOK— continued. IV. A large collection (made by Alexander de Swereford, an officer of the Court of Exchequer, and also Archdeacon of Shrewsbury) from the Pipe Rolls, of Scutages levied be- tween 2d Hen. II. and 13th of John, collected in order to ascertain the Knights' Fees granted by the conqueror, to serve as a guide in future levies. V. Another collection of Swereford, " Certificationes factse de " feodis militum, tempore Eegis Henrici secundi per Prelatos " et Barones pretextu mandati Regis ejusdem annotati alibi " in hoc libro, folio xlvii. precedente." The reference is to the collections respecting the aid ad maritandam of 13 or 14 Hen. II. pp. 83-122. There is another copy in the Black Book. VI. A collection of the serjeanties in the diffisrent counties, pp. 123—129. Most of this is in the Testa de Nevill. VII. Inquisitiones factee tempore Regis Johannis per totam Angliam, anno scilicet regni sui 12 & 13, in quolibet comi- tatu : de servitiis militum et aliorum qui de eo tenent in capite secundum rotulos liberates Thesaurario per manus vice-comitum Anglise, tempore predicto, pp. 132-149. VHI. Inquisitiones de honoribus exchsetis aliquo tempore factae anno 13 Regis Johannis de servitiis M. eorundem, pp. 150- 159. [Much of this is in the Testa de Nevill.] IX. " Normannia. Infeudationes militum qui debent servicia " militaria Duci Normanniaa, et in quot militibus quilibet " tenetur ei servire," jsp. 160-162. Matters of a later date than the above, viz. : I. Collections, documents, and memoranda relating to the con- stitution, privileges, or practice of the Exchequer. II. Diplomas, public charters, royal letters, papal bulls, treaties. III. Evidences of the King's title to various possessions. All these are fully described in the Record Report of 1837, pp. 166-177. REDISSEISIN : By Stat. 13 Edw. I. sect. 8. writs of Redisseisin were directed to be inroUed in Chancery, and transcripts thereof to be sent into the Exchequer at the year's end, which are entered on the Originalia. REGISTERS : Queen's Remembeancee's Department. See CHARTULARIES and LEIDGER BOOKS. Augmentation Depaetment. See CHARTULARIES and LEIDGER BOOKS. Teeasuby of Receipt Depaetment : Registers or Books of Remembrance. See Liber A. and B., under the head LIBER. Eegistrum Brevium. These are rolls or registers of the forms of writs. It is stated in Strachey's Index, under the head " Abbeys," that the register, rentals, &c. of the abbey of St. Augus- tine are at Canterbury Cathedral. Also that the register of Fountain's Abbey is in the Earl of Denbigh's library. See ABBEYS. EXCHEarER. 257 REGISTRUM (vulgariter nuncupatum "The Record of Ca3rnarvon"). Sec DOMESDAY BOOK, p. 188. REGISTRUM BREVIUM : Tbeasuet of Receipt Depaktsient : These are rolls or registers of the forms of writs. RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS. See ABBEYS. ACCOUNTS. CHARTULARIES and LEIDGER BOOKS. MONASTERIES. .SURVEYS. Land Revenue Department. See MONASTERIES. AC- COUNTS (Ministers'). AuGiiENTATioN Department. See ACCOUNTS (Ministers'). First Fruits' Department. See VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS- REMEMBRANCES : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Memoranda or Remembrance Rolls. See MEMORANDA ROLLS. Exchequer op Pleas : Remembrancer's Rolls of writs, temp. Eliz. Remembrance Books for the entries of writs, from 1690. RENTALS : RENTS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : There is a book containing rentals of lands in several counties, belonging to the priory of the Holy Trinity in London, 35 Edw. III. A book containing the rental of Radesford, belonging to the priory of Coventry, temp. Hen. IV. Augmentation Department : Rentals of lands of various dates. Particulars of sales of fee-farm rents, &c. See PARTICULARS. FEE-FARMS. Land Revenue Department : Rentals of lands in most counties among the Miscellaneous. Regular series from Car. II. of rentals transmitted annually frojai the Crown Receivers. Treasury of Receipt Depaetment • Rentale terrarum collegii Cardinalis (Oxon.) Rentale Domini Darcy. Hen. VIII. Rental of the Monastery of Christ Church, London. See CASTLE GUARD RENTS. REPERTORIES. See DOCKETS. REPORTS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Reports and certificates of the Deputy Remembrancers' from 1640 to 1821, and by the Masters after 1821, and exceptions filed -thereto in certain cases. 258 EXCHEQUER. JtEPOnTS— continued. Calendar or inventory of reports and certificates returned from Chancery, from 1648. Reports of Receivers General on their securities, from 1802. Land Revenue Depaetment : Auditor's reports entered in inrolment and entry books, from Hen. Vin. RETURNS : Queen's Remembeancee's Depaetment. See COMMISSIONS. INVENTORIES. Cleek op Foreign Esteeats' Depaetsient. See ESTREATS. Augmentation Depaetment. See INVENTORIES. LoED Teeasueee's Remembeancee's Department. See COMMIS- SIONS. Land Revenue Department. See CERTIFICATES. ES- TREATS. INVENTORIES. Exchequee op Pleas : Files of writs returned hj Sheriffs from Edw. III. Teeasuet op Receipt Depaetment : Inventories or returns of goods. See INVENTORIES. REVENUES. See ACCOUNTS. REVERSIONS : LoED Tebasuree's Remembeancee's Depaetment : Coke, in his 4th Inst., p. 106, states, " that the Lord Treasurer's " Remembrancer ought to keep a roll, commonly called a Roll of " Reversions, as of grants of lands and offices in tail, for life or " years, absque compoto, aut aHquid inde reddendo, to the end, as " often as need shafl. require, writs may be granted to inquire " whether the issue be spent, the lessee dead, &c.'' And Vernon, in 1642, p. 94, complains that such matters had not been removed from the Great Roll into a Roll of Reversions or Exannual RoU. RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE : Queen's Remembeancee's Depaetment : Copy of a grant or confirmation to tbe governor and company of the English colony of Rhode Island and Providence, IS Car. 11. RICHARD n. See WILLS. RIGHT, PETITIONS OF. See PETITIONS OF RIGHT. ROBES: Pipe Department : The Auditors of Imprest sent a duplicate of the accounts of the Master of the Robes to the Pipe Office. Queen's Remembeancee's Depaetment : Accounts of the Master of the Wardrobe were entered here. Lord Treasurer's Remembeancee's Depaetment : Accounts of the Master of the Wardrobe were entered here. Audit Department : Accounts of the Master of the Wardrobe were entered here. EXCHEaUER. 259 ROMAN CATHOLICS. See PAPISTS. ROME. See PAPAL BRIEFS. PAPAL BULLS. ROYAL LETTERS. See RED BOOK. RULES : Exchequer of Pleas : Rule books from 1811. Rule books to plead from 1819. Bundles of rules to return writs. Bundles of rules to reply. Bundles of rules for judgment. Petitions of prisoners for day rules. RULES AND ORDERS. See ORDERS, RULES AND ORDERS. RUTLAND : Lanb Reventje Dbpaetment : A book containing value of rectories in Rutland and other counties about Edw. VI. and Ph. & Mary. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 171.) SAINT: ^^- otW^eia. Suffer { *Lfr^gSS»r ^ ^ t" K t C Revenue Department. Peter's, Westminster. See MONASTERIES —Land Revenue Department. Swythin's Monastery. 5ce LIBER (A. No. 11.) Thomas the Martyr of Aeon, possessions in London, See MONAS TERIES — Land Revenue Department. SAINT MICHAEL: Orders and statutes of. See STATUTES. SAINT PAUL'S : Land Revenue Department : Accounts, reports, &c., for repairing, 1382-1642, (Record Eep. 1800, pp. 172. 182, 183.) /S?ee ACCOUNTS. s 2 See MONASTERIES- LAND Revenue De- partment. 260 EXCHEaUER. SALARIES. See OFFICERS. SALERNO, PRINCE OF: Teeasuet of Receipt Depaetment : Letters, Bulls, Proposals, &c. relating to the liberation of the Prince of Salerno, made captive by the King of Arragon. See LIBER (B. No. 10.) SALES OF CROWN LANDS. See CROWN LANDS. PAR- TICULARS. FEE-FARMS. Land Revenue Department : Proceedings on sales made by the Surveyor-General of Fee-farm Rents and (Crown Lands under stat. 34 G-. III. c. 75. for the better management of the Land Revenue, and 38 Gr. III. c. 60. for the Redemption of the Land Tax. Augmentation Depaetment : Journals and other books of proceedings of the trustees for the sale of the estates of the Crown, temp. Interregnum. Part of these are among the Records of the Queen's Remembrancer. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 145.) The deeds conveying these estates are inroUed on the Close Rolls, and an abstract of the deeds, comprising the parcels conveyed, is entered in a volume to which there is an index. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 93.) SAVOY, COUNT OF : Teeasuet op Receipt Depaetment : Letters from the Count of Savoy, &c. See LIBER (B. No. 3.) SAVOY HOSPITAL : Land Revenue Depaetment : Original Charters of Foundation of the Hospital of the Savoy in the Strand, and statutes for the government thereof ; accounts of the revenues, counterparts of the leases, and other matters , relative thereto, from the foundation temp. Hen. VIII. to the dissolution in 1702. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 163.) The rents of the Savoy Hospital came to the Crown on its disso- lution (1 Anne), and at that time produced the clear sum of 369/. 10s. Id. per annum. See 12th Rep. of Commissioners, under stat. 26 G. HL c. 87. (1786.) SCHOOLS : Augmentation Depaetment : Particulars of the estates of such as were founded by Edw. VI. SCIRE FACIAS. See MEMORANDA ROLLS. SCRY: (Probably same as Escroe.) See ESCROE. SCUTAGES, AIDS, TALLAGES, &c.: Queen's Remembeancee's Depaetment : Rolls of accounts of various taxes. /See ACCOUNTS. An inven- tory is printed in the Deputy Keeper of Records' 2d Rep. App. H. pp; 132-1^9, and continued in App. II. of the 3d, 4th, and 5th Reports. 6^ee TESTA DE NEVILL. EXCHEaUBR. 61 SEAL OFFICE : This office was held at 2, Middle Scotland Yard, but in 1849 it was abolished, and the writs are now sealed at the office of Exchequer of Pleas, 7, Stone Buildings, and the Great Seal of the Ex- chequer is kept at the office of the Queen's Remembrancer. SEIZURES: Queen's Remembrancer's Department : There are books called Seizure Books, being entries of writs of Appraisement from Jac. I. Entries of claims in respect of seizures from 1741. Informations on seizures are entered on the Memoranda Rolls. Land Revenue Department : Bundles relating to seizures, temp. Car. I. and the Commonwealth. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 201, 1st and 2d col.) SEQUESTERED ESTATES : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Accounts of the lands and rents of sequestered estates in several counties, temp. Commonwealth. See ACCOUNTS. Land Revenue Department : Particulars of several counterparts, leases, and contracts of seques- tered estates in Berks, 1654. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 197.) Particulars and surveys of all lands under sequestration in Berks, 1654. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 197.) Book containing a brief view of all farmers, tenants, and occupiers of the estates of delinquents, and two third parts of the estates of popish recusants in county of Lancaster, remaining under seques- tration, 1656 and 1658. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 190. See also p. 176.) Alphabetical particular of all of the estates in county of Lancaster under sequestration, cause of sequestration, to whom let, and for what terms, rents, &c. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 193.) Matters relating to sequestered estates. (Recoi-d Rep. 1800, p. 205.) A book containing a list of such papists and delinquents whose estates were under sequestration, county of Worcestei-, and the rental of the same. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 195.) The great body of papers relating to the composition and purchase of estates of delinquents during the Interregnum are among the State Paper Office Documents, and are called Composition Papers. SERJEANTIES : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : In the Red Book of the Exchequer, pp. 123-129, will be found a collection of the Serjeanties in the different counties. Most of the above is also in the Testa de Nevill. Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Department : There are two Rolls of Serjeanties, supposed to be of the time of Hen. III. and Edw. L SERJEANTS-AT-ARMS : Exchequer op Receipt — Auditor's Department : Accounts of payments made upon debentures to Serjeants-at-Arms and others. See DEBENTURES. 262 EXCHEQUER. SERJEANTS-AT-LAW: Exchequer of Receipt — Auditor's Department : Accounts of payments made upon debentures to Serjeants-at-Law and others. See DEBENTURES. SERJEANTY : Lands held in grand and petit serjeanty. See TESTA DE NEVILL. SEWERS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Accounts of expenses of repairing highways and sewers. See ACCOUNTS. SHERIFFS : Pipe Department ; Sheriffs' particulars. Sheriffs' foreign accounts of seizures, &c. Sheriffs' accounts are entered on the Pipe Rolls. See ACCOUNTS. There is a volume containing the names of the Sheriffs in England, 1765—1792. The most perfect lists of Sheriffs from the earliest times to the abolition of the office of the Pipe (1833) are to be obtained from the Pipe Rolls and the Sheriffs' Particulars of Accounts. Stat. 3& 4 W. IV. c. 99. (1833) directs the accounts of Sheriffs within England (except the counties palatine of Chester, Lancaster, and Durham) to be audited by the Commissioners of Audit. And the Sheriffs by the same Act were relieved from the collection of the quit and viscontiel rents, which were then placed under the direction of the Woods and Forests. And they were also re- lieved from making Proffers. A similar Act passed for Ireland in 1835, stat, 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 55. but the Sheriffs' Accounts were directed to be audited by the Chief Remembrancer in Ireland. See sect. 7. Queen's Remembrancer's Department ; Sheriffs' Accounts. Sheriffs' Particulars. Land Revenue Department : Bundles of Sheriffs' Cravings. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 200.) Sheriffs' views of accounts, being the Sheriffs' annual accounts. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 205.) Fuller's History of the Worthies of England, arranged in counties, 3 vols. 8vo., contains lists of Sheriffs in the several counties. ■SION, MONASTERY OF (Middlesex) : Land Revenue Department : Inventory of the plate, goods, &c., 31 Hen. VHI. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 179.) Accounts and surveys of lands ©f. (Record Rep. 1800, pp. 171, 180, 181.) EXCHEaTJER. 263 SIXPENNY DUTY (Under stat. 7 G. 1.) : Exchequer of Receipt : On the Auditor's Side are the original Treasury Letters of Direction respecting the above duty. SOMERSET, COUNTY OF: Land Revenue Department : Survey of church lands, rents, &c., Edw. VL (Record Rep. 1800, p. 171.) Lands in. See ACCOUNTS (Ministers'— Receivers'). SOMERSET, DUKE OF (Lord Protector) : Land Revenue Department : Liventory of his property, 1553. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 170.) SOUTH SEA COMPANY. See WARRANTS, p. 279. SPECIAL BONDS. See BONDS. SPECIAL COMMISSIONS. See COMMISSIONS. SPECIAL JURY LISTS. See JURY LISTS. SPECIAL PLEAS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Special Pleas in answer to informations, from Eliz. SPIRITUAL PROMOTIONS. See INSTITUTIONS. STAFFORD, COUNTY OF: Land Revenue Department : Yearly value of the rectories and other church possessions, 1553— 1557. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 171.) STAMPS. See TAXES. STANNARIES : Land Revenue Department. See ACCOUNTS, p. 150. STARRA. See JEWS. STATE PAPERS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : In the Red Book (in the modern part) will be found Royal Letters, Treaties, Papal BuUs, &c. See RED BOOK. Treasury of Receipt Department : State Papers, Papal Bulls, Treaties, &c. See Liber A. and B., under the head LEBER. STATE PRISONERS' BILLS. See TOWER OF LONDON. STATES OF ACCOUNTS. See ACCOUNTS. STATUTA WALLLS; (Statutes of Wales, 12 Edw. L) : There are copies of these among the Chapter House and the Tower Records. They are printed in the Statutes of the Realm. 264: EXCHEaUER. STATUTES : Queen's REjnsMBEANCEK's Department : A book containing various Statutes from King John to Eic. II., beginning with the Statutes of Runningmede and Marlbridge, also an entry entitled Prerogativa Regis, and also entries of Writs. A book of Statutes from 1 Edw. III. to 33 Hen. VI. A book of Statutes from 1 Edw. IV. to 7 Hen. VIII. Treasury of Receipt Department : The Stat, of Westminster pro Mercatoribus, and stat. of Gloucester. See Liber A., No. 14, under the head LIBER. The Actus Pari' de Murdro, 5 Hen.VII. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 14.) Statutes of Cardinal College, Oxford - - - (P- 14.) Statutes of Christ College, Cambridge - - " (p- 12.) Statutes of the Order of the Garter - - . (p. 13.) Statutes of the Order of St. Michael, sent by Francis I. to Hen. VIII. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 41.) Statutes of Poor Knights of Windsor; now called the Military and Naval Knights of Windsor. StatutaWallise (Statutes of Wales, 12 Edw. I.) (Record Rep. 1800, p. 43.) STEWARDSHIPS : Augmentation Depaetment : fnrolments of grants of, Jac. I., Car. I. SUBPCENA : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : There are various volumes of Subpoena Books, Equity Side, from 1654. Ditto, Crown Side, from 1802. Exchequer of Pleas : Books of entries of Writs of Subpoena, from 1785. SUBSIDY AND TAX ROLLS, &c. : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : ♦ There are various subsidy and tax rolls, of tenths, fifteenths, &c., both of the clergy and of the laity. See ACCOUNTS. TAXATION ROLL. An inventory of rolls of accounts, assessments, inquisitions, &c. relating to the assessing and collecting of the tallages, carucages, scutages, aids, subsidies, loans, benevolences, contributions, re- liefs, &c., is printed in the second, third, fourth, and fifth Reports of the Deputy Keeper of Records in App. II. of each Report. Augmentation Department : There are several accounts of subsidies or tenths as ancient as Edw. III. and Hen. IV. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 209.) There are also several ancient transcripts of Pope Nicholas' Valor or Tax- ation, for various dioceses and counties. Land Revenue Department : There are various subsidy and tax rolls, &c. among the Land' Revenue Records. There is a fifteenth of 16 Edw. III. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 205.) There is a fragment of a taxation roll of 22 Edw. HI. (Record. Rep. 1800, p. 176.) T]ica:e are various taxations, temp. Eliz. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 183.) EXCIIEaTJER. 263 SUFFOLK. See IPSWICH, MONASTERIES. SUMMONS : Land Revenue Department : Summons of the Green Wax. See ESTREATS. SUPER BOOKS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : There are several Super Books from 1709, being entries of process for collection of arrears of taxes, &c. SUPERONERATIONE : By Stat. 13 Edw. I. (stat. Westm.) sect. 8. writs De secunda super- oneratione were to be inrolled in Chancery, and at the year's end transcripts were to be sent into the Exchequer under the seals of the Chancellor. They are entered on the Originalia Rolls. SUPREMACY : Treasury of Receipt Department : Armstrong's Declarations on Popish Supremacy. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 12.) Acknowledgments of royal supremacy, temp. Hen. VIII. See ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF SUPREMACY. SURRENDERS : Augmentation Department : Deeds of surrender of monasteries, priories, colleges, free chapels, chantries, hospitals, or other religious foundations, temp. Hen. VIII., Edw. VI. A catalogue, &c. of these is printed in the Deputy Keeper's 8th Report, App. II. pp. 1-51. Treasury of Receipt Department : Certificates of surrenders and suppression of sundry monasteries annexed to Cardinal College. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 17.) See ■CARDINAL COLLEGE, OXFORD. The Surrender of Westacre Priory, co. Norfolk, is among the Acknowledgments of Supremacy. See ACKNOW- LEDGMENTS OF SUPREMACY. SURREY, EARL OF : Land Revenue Department : Inventory of the property of the Earl of Surrey, 38 Hen. VIII. See INVENTORIES. SURVEYOR-GENERAL, COURT OF: Augmentation Department : Leases and decrees of this Court from its institution to its dis- solution. The Court was established by stat. 33 Hen. VIII. c. 39, suppressed by letters patent 38 Hen. VIII., and incorporated in the new Court of Augmentations erected by the said letters patent, which latter Court was annexed to the Court of Exchequer by letters patent 1 Mary, pursuant to stat. 1 Mary, stat. 2. c. 10. Pipe Department : A book called " Liber Curiae Generalis Supervisoris Terra- rum Domini Regis." 266 EXCHEaUER. SIJEVEYOE-GENERAL OF CROWN LANDS, &c. Crown Lands (ok Land Revenue) : Woods and Foeests : WoKKS AND Buildings : Stat. 50 G-. m. c. 65. (1810) united the offices of Surveyor- General of tlie Land Revenue and of Surveyor-General of Woods and Forests, and gave their functions to a board of commissioners, called "the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues." Stat. 2 W. rV. c. 1. (1832) united the office of Surveyor- General of Works and Buildings with the offices of Commissioners of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues ; also entirely abolished the office of the remaining auditor and acting auditors (which offices were directed to be abolished by stat. 39 G. ni. c. 83. (1799) after the termination of the then existing interests). And the said Act of 2 W. IV. directed the Treasury to provide a repository for the records of the said auditors, and of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, &c., to be called "the office of Land Revenue Records and Inrolments.^' See also stat. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 42. Surteyoe-Geneeal op Ceown Lands' Department (now the .office of Land Revenues) : Certificates of several auditors of the Land Revenue and Clerks of the Pipe, 1660-1701. 2 vols. Collections, compilations, &c., viz. : Grants from the Crown in fee tail, 1 Edw. L to 26 Eliz. Grants for long terms of years, 1660-1702. Grants of land settled on Queen Catherine (consort of Car. II.), and how since disposed of. Grants and leases of Crown lands, — copies, extracts, schedules, and registers of. Surveys of forests, — copies and extracts of. Indexes of surveys, and of Records of forests and Crown lands preserved in other offices. Forfeited estates. Lands granted to Duke of Albemarle and Earl of Sand-") wich. I Lands settled on Queen Catherine (consort of Car. II.) ^2 vols. Lands belonging to the Crown remaining undisposed of | in 1701. J Leases. Entries of all leases from the Crown since the passing of stat. 34 G. III. c. 75. for the better management of the land revenue. Maps and plans of estates belonging to the Crown from 1608. Petitions, originals, from about 1730. Proceedings in the office of the Surveyor-General, containing copies of petitions and memorials referred from the Treasury to the Surveyors-General, and their reports thereon : warrants, particulars, and constats for Crown leases, and other matters generally relative to the demised estates of the Crown, from 1660, and 2 vols. temp. Car. I. Proceedings on sales made by the Surveyor- General of fee-farm rents and lands belonging to the Crown under 34 G. III. c. 75. for the better management of land revenue, and 38 G. III. c. 60. for the redemption of the land tax. EXCHEaTJER. 267 SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF CROWN LANDS, he— continued. Proceedings of Commissioners appointed by stats. 26 G-. III. c. 87. and 30 G. IIL c. 50. to inquire into the state and condition of the woods, forests, and land revenues. Copies of their reports to Parliament (since printed). Office copies of perambu- lations, of patents and grants of offices and Crown lands. Examinations of various officers, and returns of officers to pre- cepts issued by the said Commissioners. Inquiries into the state of the growing timber in England. Sales of fee-farm rents made by the said Commissioners. References from Treasury, original. Reports, original, of Surveyor-General, from about 1730. Savoy (Strand), original charters of foundation of the late Hos- pital. Statutes for its government, &c. Accounts of its revenue. Counterparts of leases from its foundation temp. Hen. VIII. to its dissolution, 1702. Surveys, original. of estates now or heretofore belonging to the Crown, bound up in volumes, and distinguished into 1. Ancient surveys, which comprise generally all surveys in the office of Surveyor-General of Crown lands, taken prior to the death of Car. I. 2. Parliamentary surveys taken in the time of the Common- wealth, under the authority of the Acts or Ordinances of Parlia- ment, for the sale of the lands, &c. belonging to the Crown. Warrants. Original Treasury warrants for leases, from about 1730, Windsor. Deeds, &c. relating to the lands purchased for the use of the Crown at Windsor, &c., in the reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and G. II. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 163.) SURVEYS. 5'ee PARLIAMENTARY SURVEYS. Queen's Remembeancbe's Depaetment : Cornwall. — There is a complete survey of the manors, boroughs, &c. of Cornwall, taken in the 11th of Edw. HI., immediately after Edward the Black Prince was created Duke of Cornwall. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 160.) Cumberland. — There is a book containing a survey of the honor of Penrith and the forest of Inglewood, taken by virtue of a Commission dated 16th June 1619 (17 Jac. I.), and delivered into Court by one of the Commissioners. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 158.) Gloucester. — -There is a book containing a survey of the manor of Winchcombe, and other manors in Gloucestershire, belonging to the monasteries of Winchcombe and Hales, taken by inquisition temp. Hen. VHI. Kent. — A book containing a survey of the manor of Eltham, 3d June 1605. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 158.) Lincoln. — A book containing a survey of the Queen's manor of Claxby, Priory Hill manor, and Fuller's lands in Lincolnshire, 24 Eliz. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 158.) Middlesex, -j ^°lf°l'^- I Earl of Arundel's lapds, 31 Eliz. Suffolk. f Sussex. J 268 EXCHEaUER. SUUYEYS— continued. The Special Commissions contain inquisitions and surveys, .viz. : — 1. Surveys of manors, the ancient demesne of the Crown. 2. Surveys of lordships, manors, lands, and other possessions w^hich the Crown acquired by forfeiture upon attainders, purchase, exchange, &c. 3. Surveys of forests and chaces. 4. Surveys in consequence of disputes respecting the boundaries of manors, parks, places, &c. 5. Surveys of manors, rectories, lands, and tythes concealed from the Crown. 6. Inquisitions respecting land gained by dereliction of the sea. Survey of the possessions of the Earls of N-orthumberland and Westmorland, 1 vol. Kirby or Kirkby's Inquest is in the nature of the Domesday Survey. See KIEBY'S QUEST. EXTENTS. NON^ ROLLS. TESTA DE NEVILL. TAXATION ROLL. Lord Theasuree's Remembhancee's Depaetmbnt : On the Memoranda Rolls there are a few commissions to survey lands, and the returns thereto. Augmentation Department : There are several surveys of vacant bishopricks. Surveys of honors, manors, &c. ; some previous and others subse- quent to the suppression of the monasteries. Parliamentary surveys, so called because they were taken in pur- suance of an ordinance of Parliament during the civil wars, previous to the sale of the lands, &c. of Car. I., his Queen, and the Prince of Wales. There is a complete series digested into counties. There are also particulars of the sales of the estates. A calendar is formed of them, and printed, as far as the county of Lancaster, in the 7th Rep. of the Deputy Keeper of Records, App. II. pp. 224-238. The rest appears in the 8th Rep. App. II. pp. 52-81 ; as also lists of those contained in the Duchy of Lancaster and Duchy of Cornwall Offices. The ecclesiastical surveys, time of the Commonwealth, are at the Lambeth Library. An account of them will be found at p. 239: of this Work, taken from the Record Report of 1800,' p. 388. First Fruits' Department : Surveys of all ecclesiastical possessions taken by commission, 26 Hen. VIII. ; the returns so far as preserved. Also a com- pilation from the originals, called Liber Regis. These surveys have been printed under the name of Valor Ecclesiasticus in six folio volumes. Land Revenue Department : Records of Surveyor- General of Crown Lands : Surveys of estates now or formerly belonging to the Crown, dis- tinguished into — 1. Ancient surveys prior to the death of Car. I. 2. Parliamentary surveys temp. Commonwealth. Records of the Auditors of Land Revenue in England and Wales : Surveys, some in volumes, some in rolls, and others in bundles, from Hen. VII., 1493 to 1715, were collected together in 1790, and they were arranged, and an indexed catalogue to the whole EXCHEaUER. 269 SURVEYS- conftwwerf. completed in 1793, with introductory observations prefixed to the schedule for each county ; wherein the manors and estates are classed alphabetically, the dates of the surveys when taken, and references to the particular roll, book, or parcel, are shown in distinct columns ; a brief account is also given of the nature and contents of each survey in the county schedule, exhibiting not only a general but a descriptive catalogue and index on the first view. There are other surveys among the Miscellaneous, part of which have from time to time been added to the above. An account of the Miscellaneous is given in the Record Report of 1800, pp. 170-208. Teeastjrt of Receipt Department : Domesday Survey in two volumes. Also an abridgment of Domes- day in one volume, apparently compiled early in the reign of Edw. I. See DOMESDAY BOOK. Kirby's Inquest. See KIRBY'S QUEST. Surveys of monasteries, &c. made by Commissioners, 28 Hen. VIII. Also the Commission. Surveys of lands, &c. which at diiFerent times have been in posses- sion of the Crown, Edw. VI. to Jac. I. Surveys of East Todenham (co. Norfolk). Surveys in Surrey, two vols. Survey of Rompney in Wales, Staffordlands in Cornwall, and Bulmer ; Hen. VIII. Survey of St. Nicholas de Malofonte (co. Glamorgan), 32 Hen.VIII. Surveys of manors, &c. in divers counties, part of the possessions of the Prince of Wales, temp. Jac. I. Surveys of Rees ap Griffith in South Wales. SWEARING ROLLS. See OATHS. TALLIES : When any money was to be paid into the Exchequer, the proper place was at the office of the Tellers, where it was duly entered in a book ; this entry was immediately transcribed upon a slip of parchment, called a Bill or Teller's Bill, and thrown down a pipe into the Tally Court, where a tally was struck or levied. A tally was a stick or rod of hazel or some other wood, on which were cut certain notches, which indicated the sum in the Teller's Bill ; in addition to which the tally writer wrote the sum on two sides of it, then it was cleft from the head to the shaft through the notches, one part thereof was called a Tally, and the other a Counter-Tally, or Tally and Foil ; one of the parts was retained by the Chamberlains, the other part was given to the party paying in the money, and was his discharge in the Exchequer of Accompt. But by authority of statute 23 G. III. c. 82. tallies were dispensed with, and indented checks were substituted as receipts, after the death or removal of the Chamberlains, but they did not resign until 1826. In attempting to get rid of the tallies by burning them, the flues of the Houses of Parliament were over-heated, and the two Houses burnt down thereby on the 16th October 1834. 270 EXCHEQUER. TALLIES — continued. There are two kinds of tallies explained hj Mr. Black in the 4th Report of the Deputy Keeper of Eecords, App. IL p. 166, as follows :— The first was the " Tally of Sol." given forth to a person making a payment into the Exchequer, as in the case of every ordinary entry made in the Pell of Receipt, whereon the word Sot was written, to show that the money denoted by the inscription and notches of the tally had been actually paid info the Exchequer, and to serve as a legal acquittance for the same in the Exchequer of Account. The second kind was " The Tally of Pro.," which at first operated as a modern cheque on a banker, being given forth in payment from the Exchequer as a charge upon some public accountant, for him to pay the sum expressed thereon, out of the revenues in his hands, before they should reach the Exchequer ; it afterward served as a voucher, for which he had credit upon his account in the Exchequer of Account, in like manner as if for money actually paid by him into the Exchequer of Receipt. TAXATION ROLL : Queen's Remembeancer's Depabtment : There are original Rolls for several dioceses, besides which there are two volumes containing the Taxation of Pope Nicholas IV. (1288.) Pope Nicholas IV., 1288, granted the tenths to Edw. I. for six years towards defraying an expedition to the Holy Land, and that they might be collected to their full value, a taxation or valuation by the King's precept was begun 1288, and finished as to the province of Canter- bury in 1291, and to that of York in 1292. This Tax- ation, called Taxatio Ecclesiastica, regulated the taxes as well to our Kings as to the Popes, until the survey of 26 Hen. VIIL, called Valor Ecclesiasticus. The Sta- tutes of Colleges which were founded before the Refor- mation are also interpreted by this criterion, according to which their benefices under a certain value are exempted from the restriction in stat. 21 Hen. VIII. concerning pluralities. This Taxation was printed by the Record Commissioners from the above-mentioned two volumes in one volume folio. The Irish Taxation is also among the Records of the Queen's Remembrancer. There is a copy certified into Chancery among the Tower Records. Augmentation Department : There are transcripts of various parts of Pope Nicholas' Taxation among the Augmentation Records. Teeasuet of Receipt Depabtment : There are transcripts of parts of the Taxation of Pope Nicholas in the Treasury of the Receipt. FmsT Fruits' Department : Taxation Survey of 26 Hen. VIH., called Valor Ecclesiasticus. See VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS. EXCHEaUER. 2ri TAXES: Queen's Remembbancee's Department : Tax Accounts from 1640. Pipe Department : Tax Books from 1689. Land Revenue Department. See LAND TAX AND AS- SESSED TAXES. TELLERS : Exchequer op Receipt : Tellers' Accounts. See ACCOUNTS— (Exchequer of Receipt). TeUers' BiUs : These are narrow slips of parchment, containing accounts of money paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer. Some of these Bills remain among the Records on the Receipt Side of the Exchequer. TENTHS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department. See SUBSIDY AND TAX ROLLS. Augmentation Department. See SUBSIDY AND TAX ROLLS. First Fruits' Department : The Liber Decimarum is an account of the yearly tenths charged on all benefices. Also of the true value of small livings not exceeding 501. per annum, discharged from First Fruits and Tenths by stat. of Queen Anne. There are also accounts of the payments of tenths, arrears, &c. See FIRST FRUITS AND TENTHS. TENURES. See MILITARY TENURES : Queen's Remembrancer's Department. See INQUISITIONS, KIRBY'S QUEST. KNIGHTS' FEES. TESTA DE NEVILL. Treasury of Receipt Department : Liber de Tenuris, co. Glouc, 18 Eliz. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 12.) Domesday. See DOMESDAY BOOK. Kirby's Inquest. See KIRBY'S QUEST. TERR-ffi NORMANNORUM : Upon the separation of Normandy from England, the King of France seized the lands which the English held in Normandy, and the King of England seized in like manner the lands which the Normans held in England. By this means the lands in England held by Normans became vested in the King as escheats under the name Terr» Normannorum, which were granted out as the King thought fit. In the Testa de Nevill we find entries of Escheats as well of the lands of the Normans as others. See TESTA DE NEVILL. Treasury of Receipt Department : The following notice of records of the lands of the Normans occurs in the Record Report of 1800,_p. 41 : Terr» Normannorum seisit in manu Domini Regis tempore Regis Henrici IH. vel ante, in divers comitatibus. 272 EXCHEUUER. TERRIERS, OK TERRARS. See SURVEYS. An Ecclesiastical Terrier, to which the term terrier is more par- ticularly applicable, is a list or description of glebe lands and tithes taken by an incumbent or churchwarden or sequestrator, or by a lessee of tithes by virtue of a clause in the lease. There are also Civil Terriers. A terrar is thus described in Tcmlins' Law Diet. : — A land roll, or survey of lands, either of a single person or of a town, containing the quantity of acres, tenants' names, and such like. In the same work mention is made of a terrar of all the glebe lands in England, made about 11 Edw. III. It is not known to what record this refers. Mention is made of terrars in stat. 18 Eliz. c. 17. s. 4. TESTA DE NEVILL, oe LIBER FEODORUM. Queen's Remembeancek's Depaktment : Two volumes described in the Record Report of 1800, p. 138, as containing Nomina Villarum, Serjeanties, and Knights' Fees, taken by inquisition temp. Hen. III. and Edw. I., known by the name of Testa de Nevill. These volumes contain an account of fees holden either imme- diately of the King, or of others in capite : of fees holden in Frankalmoigne, and the values thereof : and of Serjeanties holden of the King ; of widows and heiresses of tenants in capite, whose marriages were in the gift of the King, and the values of their lands : of churches in the gift of the King, and in whose hands : of escheats, as well of the lands of the Normans as others, in whose hands they were, and by what service held : of the amount paid for scutage and aid by- each tenant. The whole was printed in a folio volume under the directions of the Record Commissioners in 1807. It is not known how these books obtained the name of Testa de Nevill, but Ralph de Nevill was an Accountant in the Exche- quer and Collector of Aids in the reign of Hen. III. ; and fJoUan de Nevill was a Justice Itinerant of the same reign, who, as Dugdale in his Baronage, vol.1, p. 228, supposes, may have been the author. The chief use of the above work is to ascertain the principal landholders throughout the kingdom temp. Hen. HI. and Edw. I., and the tenures by which they held their estates. Teeasuky op Receipt Depaetment ; There is a part of a roll among the Chapter House Records bearing the name of Testa de Nevill, from which roll it is sup- posed some of the entries of the Testa de NeviU were copied, l^See preface to the printed work.) TIMBER : Land Revenue Depaetment : Examinations and inquiries into the growing timber, &c. "Reports of the Commissioners under 26 Gr. IIL c. 87. and 30 Gr. ni. c. 50. Also the reports of the Surveyors-General of Woods, &c. and of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, printed in large folio from 1787-1835 ; and from 1835 they are printed in foolscap folio. EXCHEUUER. 273 TITHES: Awards of inclosures, tithes, &c. are generally entered among the deeds on the Plea or Judgment Rolls of each Court. Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Tithes concealed from the Crown ; surveys of manors, rectories, lands, and tithes concealed. See COMMISSIONS, (No. 5.) Exchequer of Pleas : An alphabetical calendar of entries relating to tithes on the Plea Rolls of the Exchequer is printed in the 2d Report of the Deputy Keeper of Records, App. II. pp. 249-272. TITLES OF ROLLS : Exchequer of Pleas : From Hen. III., in vols. TONNAGE AND POUNDAGE : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Receivers' accounts of See ACCOUNTS. SUBSIDY AND TAX ROLLS. TONTINE. See AMERICAN PAYMENTS AND TONTINE ANNUITIES. TORR MONASTERY. See CHARTULARIES and LEIDGER BOOKS. TOTALIA PIPiE : TOTT BOOKS : PffE Department : The entries in the Tott books are the same as those in the States of Accounts, 1684-1811. We find the term " Totting " in stat. 3 G. I. c. 15. s. 11., where men- tion is made of Sheriffs giving discharges to persons for pay- ments, &c. made by them by totting and answering the same to His Majesty upon their accounts in tlie Exchequer. When a Sheriff came before the Treasurer and Barons in open Court, and charged himself with all such farms, rents, and other debts written to him upon the summons of the Pipe as he had or lawfully might have levied, tot or oni. was marked against such sums by the Clerk of the Pipe and Controller on the Great Roll and Counter Roll, and these sums were cast up in his charge, together with the whole charge of his Foreign Account and Green Wax. — (Vernon, pp. 12, 13.) See also under the head 0. NI. TOWER OF LONDON: Exchequer of Receh't — Auditor's Department : Bills or Accounts of Lieutenants of the Tower of London and of Keepers of the Gatehouse, Westminster, for persons in custody. TREASON : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Commissions and Inquisitions certified into the Court of Exchequer on attainder or forfeiture for treason, &c., are entered on the Memoranda Rolls. Exchequer of Receipt — Auditor's Department : Bills or Accounts of the Lieutenants of the Tower of London and of the Keepers of the Gatehouse, Westminster. T 274; EJCHEQUER. TREASUEY WARRANTS. Pipe Department : There are some volumes of Treasury Warrants from 1684, which were formerly in the office of the Clerk of the Pipe. See WARRANTS. Exchequer of Receipt. See WARRANTS. TREATIES : Queen's Remembranoeb's Department : There are various entries of Treaties in the Red Book of the Exchequer, which are described in the Record Report of 1837, p. 174. Treasury of Receipt Department : Original Treaties. Also divers entries in Liber A. and B. See LIBER. TRIAL, NOTICES OP: Queen's Remembrancer's Depaetment : Notice of Trial Books. Exchequer of Pleas : Notices of trial are entered in the books of orders, from 3 Edw. VI. TYTHES. See TITHES. UNIVERSITIES : Augmentation Department : p , ,., /■ Accounts of the revenues of the colleges in each am 11 g . J University, 37 Hen. VIH., entered in two large l folio vols. Statutes. See STATUTES. Colleges. See COLLEGES. USURPATION : Augmentation Department : 1. Surveys of Crown lands, 1649, 1650, digested in the order of counties. 2. Particulars for the sale of the above. Journals and other books of the proceedings of the trustees for the sale of the estates of the Crown, temp. Interregnum. The proceedings of various committees during the time of the Interregnum are among the State Paper Office docu- ments. VACANT SEES : Augmentation Department : Ministers' Accounts of vacant Sees, Hen. VIII. to Car. I. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 207.) VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS, or Liber Regis— (printed in six folio volumes). First Fruits' Department: The Valor Ecclesiasticus was formed to give effect to stat. 26 Hen. VIII. c. 3. which gave the first fruits and tenths to the King. And in order to a new assessment and valuation of ecclesiastical property, a survey was appointed to be made by Commissioners EXCHEaUER. 275 VALOR 'KCCLESlASTICVS—conHmced. to be sent to every part of the kingdom ; the fcommission is dated 30th January, 26 Hen. VIII. (1535). Part of the original records are lost. Some of the returns were made in the form of books ; some on rolls of paper and on parchment. Fortunately there is a book preserved, being a compilation made from these records for the use of the office of first fruits, when the record was entire. In this book are entered the names of the dignities and benefices, with the value of each, but without the particulars. From this book, called the Liber Valorum, the deficiencies were supplied in printing the Valor Ecclesiasticus, viz., the whole diocese of Ely, a great part of the diocese of London, the counties of Bei-ks, Rut- land, and Northumberland, much of the diocese of York, in- cluding the whole deaneries of Rydal and Craven. This assess- ment or survey superseded that known under the name of the Taxation of Pope Nicholas (temp. Edw. I.), which, however, is still of use in the interpretation of the statutes of some colleges founded before the Reformation, which are exempted from the restriction in stat. 21 Hen. VIII. concerning pluralities. It contains surveys of archbishopricks, bishopricks, abbeys, mo- nasteries, priories, colleges, hospitals, archdeaconries, deaneries, provostships, prelsends, parsonages, vicarages, chantries, free- chapels, or other dignities, benefices, offices, or promotions spiritual. See TAXATION ROLL. VALORS : VALUATIONS : Queen's Remembrancer's Department. See NON^ ROLLS. TAXATION ROLL. First Frdits' Department : Liber Valorum. — This is an abstract or compilation of the above- mentioned Valor Ecclesiasticus or Liber Regis, and from this the deficiencies in the former were supplied in printing the Valor Ecclesiasticus. See VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS. Land Revenue Department : Various valuations of estates, lands, manors, parsonages, rectories, tithes, church lands, &c. (Record Rep. 1800, pp. 181-198.) Treasukt of Receipt Department : Valor Subsidii Archidiaconatus Richmondie, 1525. Record Rep. 1837, p. 12 Valor of the Archdeaconry of Richmond, 1523 - - 13 Valor Monasterii S. Swithini Winton., 26 Hen. VIII. - - 13 Valuations of lands in divers counties. Hen. VHI. - - 13 Valor Terrarum W. Romesden - - - - 13 Valor of St. Augustine's, Canterbury ; Kingswood, Wilts ; and Sion Monastery, Middlesex ; Hen. VIII. - - - 12 VENIRE FACIAS. See WRITS. VICARAGES : Augmentation Department : Endowment of Vicarages, &c. See CART^ ANTIQUE. First Fruits' Department. See VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS. T 2 276- EXCHEaUER. VICECOMITAL on VISCONTIEL RENTS : By Stat. 3 & 4 "W". IV. c. 99. s. 12. (1833) these rents formerly accounted for by Sheriffs are placed under the care and manage- ment of the Board of Woods and Forests. VIEWS OF ACCOUNTS. See ACCOUNTS. VISITATIONS : Treasury of Eeceipt Department : Visitations of religious houses. Visitations of the Kings at Arms through all the counties of England will be found at the Heralds College. Several in the Earl of Oxford's library. VISUS OR VIEWS OF ACCOMPTS. See ACCOUNTS. VOUCHERS : Exchequer of Receipt : Tellers' Vouchers, or Vouchers of the Tellers of the Exchequer. WALES : Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Ministers' Accounts (North and South Wales). See ACCOUNTS. There is a book which was delivered into Court in 1674 by Ser- jeant Maynard, which contains entries of grants by Hen. III. and Prince Edward in Wales, &c. Augmentation Department : Ministers' Accounts. See ACCOUNTS. Exclusive of Ministers' Accounts, there are other accounts of the revenues of Wales, some as early as Ed vv. IH. down to Ph. 85 Mary. Land Revenue Department : Surveys of Counties, Towns, &c. Teeasurs: op Receipt Department : Liber A., No. 3. Papal Bulls concerning the Princes or Kings of Wales. No. 15. Letters concerning the war against the Welsh. No. 16. Documents relating to the transactions with the Welsh Princes, temp. Hen. III. and Edw. I. ; Welsh Wars, &c. Liber B., No. 15. Grants by Hen. III. to Prince Edward. Roll containing extracts out of the Close Rolls of matters touching Wales. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 43.) The Statuta Wallife, Statutes of Wales, 12 Edw. I., are here, and also among the Tower Records. (Printed in the Authentic Statutes.) WARDROBE. See HOUSEHOLD. Queen's Remembrancer's Department : Wardrobe Accounts, Edw. I. and IL See ACCOUNTS. Pipe Department : Wardrobe Accounts, Edw. II. to Jac. L See ACCOUNTS. Land Revenue Department : Wardrobe Accounts, such as have been selected from the miscel- laneous unarranged. ■ Receipts of the Wardrobe, 7 Edw. I. EXCHEQUER. 277 WARDROBE—cowifMjMerf. "Wardrobe Accounts of wardrobes, jewels, &c.j temp. Edw. VI., Eliz., &c. See ACCOUNTS. Exchequer of Eeceipt : Accounts of the keeper of the great wardrobe, Hen. VIII. There are also wardrobe and household accounts of Prince Henry and Prince Charles from 1608. See ACCOUNTS. Teeasuet of Receipt Department : Liber Garderobe, Edw. in. Accounts of the great wardrobe, Hen. VII., VIII. In a wardrobe book belonging to this Department, 16 to 18 Edw. III., marked A. 5. 10., will be found the following note written on the back of the second leaf: " Hunc " librum liberavit hie predictus Ricardus de Eccleshall " locum tenens contrarotulatorum predictorum xx""" die " Januar. anno xviij. et WiUielmus de Broklesby, Baro, " ilium recepit." It appears by a Treasury Minute Book, 6th December 1728, that Wm. Clayton was ordered by the King to report on the state, method, practice, and condition of the Office of Great Wardrobe. Clayton's Report is entered in a Treasury "Warrant book (not relating to money). No. 24, pp. 115-133, and entitled "Representation about the Great "Wardrobe, &c." See Dep. Keep, of Records' 7th Rep, App. II. p. 93. The Wardrobe was abolished by stat. 22 G. III. c. 82. (1782). Part of the duties having been given to the Lord Chamberlain, and part to the Surveyor of Buildings, duplicates of many of the Wardrobe documents exist in the Lord Chamberlain's Office. It appears that the Records of the Wardrobe in 1800 were as follow, and that they were then in a house in Scotland Yard : — 1. Comptroller's bills, 1730-1792. 2. Books of patents, warrants, and estimates, 1749-1775. 3. Books of salaries and liveries, 1750-1779. 4. Quarterly and yearly accounts and daybooks, 1752- 1777. 5. Expenses of coronation of Geo. III., 1761. The above records comprised more than 180 vols, of various sizes. (Record Rep. 1800, p. 79.) WARDS: TKEASTmY OF Receipt Department : Matters relating to Wards before the Court of "Wards was erected. by Stat. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 46. Two Books of Wards' Estates, 22 & 23 Hen. VH. and 19, 20, 21 Hen. VIIL Liber Declarationum de Terris Wardorum et etiam de Prisag' Vinorum, 21 Hen. VIL Sales of the King's "Wardships, 18-20 Hen. VHI. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 14.) WARRANTS : Pipe Department : Entries of States of Accounts and Treasury Warrants from 1684. (Record Rep. 1837, p. 198.) 278 EXCHEUTJER. WARRANTS— co?i other Warrants and Appointments, from 5th July Warrants. J 1785. POWERS OP ATTORNEY. See LETTERS OF ATTORNEY. PRECEPTS : Entries of precepts issued by the Board to accountants, &c., from August 1785. PROBATES OF WILLS. See LETTERS OF ATTORNEY. QUERIES AND ANSWERS. See ORDERS. OBSERVA- TIONS AND QUERIES. REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT. See NATIONAL DEBT. REGISTERS : Of accounts received. See ACCOUNTS. REPORTS AND REPRESENTATIONS : (Entries of), from the two Inspectors General of Accounts, from 5th July 1785. Solicitors' Reports, from 19th August 1785, (Entries of), to the Treasury, and States of Accounts. See AC- COUNTS. REPORTS OF MR. STEDMAN : On claims exhibited against Government for property taken or destroyed during the American war. RESOLUTIONS : Of the Commissioners of Audit on desperate debts. RETURNS. See PARLIAMENTARY RETURNS. SIGN MANUALS. See PATENTS. STATES OF ACCOUNTS. See ACCOUNTS. STEDMAN'S REPORTS. See REPORTS OF MR. STEDMAN. TITLES OF ACCOUNTS. See ACCOUNTS. TREASURY. 5'ee ACCOUNTS. LETTERS. REPORTS AND REPRESENTATIONS. VOUCHERS. WAR OFFICE. See LETTERS. WARRANTS : Entries of warrants under Sign Manual for repayment of bills of exchange accepted by the Treasury, and paid at the Bank of England, from 28th February 1792. See PATENTS. WILLS. See LETTERS OF ATTORNEY. ( 376 ) SLAVE REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT. Established pursuant to stat. 59 G. III. c. 120., " An Act for es- tablishing a Registry of Colonial Slaves in Great Britain, and for making further provision with respect to the removal of Slaves from British Colonies." The Records were transferred to the Public Record OflEice, pursuant to Treasury Letter dated 22d January 1851, from No. 13, James Street, Pimlico. Records (about 700 volumes, &c.) : Registers and Returns of Slaves in the several Colonies, 1817-1835, and Indexes. Order Books, Fee Books, Memorandum Books. Correspondence relating to the business of the ofiSce. Original Letters and Papers. Tables of Fees. Printed Parliamentary Papers. ( 377 ) POTATO CROP RETURNS. These were collected by Dr. John Lindley in 1848, and given by liim to the Public Record Office, as appears by his letter dated 25th May 1849. They relate to the failure of the potato crop in aU parts of the United Kingdom. They consist of 1 10 packets, arranged alphabetically by counties, &c., under the general di-visions of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the Islands. ( 378 ) Commi0Stons. COMMISSIONERS FOU INaUIRING INTO CHARITIES. The above commission was issued pursuant to stat. 58 G. HI. c. 91. i for the purpose of inquiring into the charities in England. The above statute was amended, and the commission continued, hj stat. 59 G-. HI. c. 81. Stat. 59 G. III. c. 91. facilitated applications to Courts of Equity regarding the management of estates or funds belonging to charities. The commission was continued hj stat. 5 G. IV> c. 58., 10 G. TV. c. 57., 1 & 2 W. rV. c. 34.; amended by 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 57.; continued by 5 & 6 W. rV. c. 71. ; and also continued until 1st July 1837 by 7 W. IV. 6 1 Vict. c. 4. The commission having expired, the Records were removed to the Public Record Department from the office of the Commissioners, No. 13, Great George Street, Westminster, pursuant to the Treasury Letter of the 3d August 1841, and by Letter of the Secretary of State for the Home Department of the 5th of August 1841. The Records relate to charities in the following counties : Bedford. Monmouth. , Berks. Norfolk. Bucks. Northampton. Cambridge. Northumberland Cheshire. . Nottingham. Cornwall. Oxford. Cumberland. Rutland. Derby. Salop. Devon. Somerset. Dorset. Bristol. Durham. Southampton. Essex. Staffisrd. Gloucester. Suffolk. Hereford. Surrey. Hertford. Southwark. Huntingdon. Sussex. Kent. Warwick. Lancaster. Westmoreland. Leicester. Wilts. Lincoln. Worcester. Middlesex. Yorkshire. London. Wales. Westminster. CHARITIES' COMMISSION. 379 Greneral and visited Charities. Sons of Clergy. Foundling Hospital. Gruy's Hospital. Christ's Hospital. Bethlehem and Bridewell. St. Thomas'. St. Bartholomew's. Bundle indorsed " Duplicate Eentcharge Powers." Bundle of Letters acknowledging the receipt of Rentcharge Powers. Bundle indorsed " Mr. M'Queens, Lincolnshire." Rentcharge Powers to be forwarded on renewal of commission. General Papers relating to commission, from August 1818 to July 1820. Papers, &c., Finance Committee, 1828. Mr. Carlisle's Papers and Correspondence on renewal of com- mission, 1829. Bundle indorsed " Papers and Correspondence relating to the return of Mr. Peel, March 1830." Miscellaneous Papers of N. Carlisle, Esq., taken out of Blue Box, March 1832. Bundle indorsed " Miscellaneous Papers to be returned to parties." Correspondence during the progress of various Reports. Mr. Hine's General Correspondence from November 1835 to December 1838. Mr. Hine's Correspondence with Poor Law Commissioners, December 1886 to July 1839. Mr. Macmahon's Notes. Bundle indorsed " Papers belonging to Mr. Marsham's Work to the Sixteenth Report inclusive." Mr. Ellison's Books and Papers. Bundle indorsed " Papers for Mr. Troward to return to the EUel School." Original Returns of number and amount of Charities to Nine- teenth Report inclusive. Answers to circulars from various institutions not coming under investigation. Bundle of answers to circulars received from the counties of Gloucester, Hants, and Stafford. Abstracts of the counties of Gloucester and Southampton. Bundle indorsed " Ancient Documents relating to Witney." Bundle of Vouchers. Bundle of various payments. Minute Books. Daily Remembrance Books. Office Memorandum Books. Small Memorandum Books. Office Letter Book. Clerks' Letter Book. Account Book. Thirty-two volumes of printed Reports, bound. Lidex to ditto. Index to the first 14 Reports. Returns of 1786. Returns of 1815. Stow's London. 380. CHARITIES' COMMISSION. Digest of Parochial Returns. Analytical Digests. Report of Committee on Education. Memorials of Charitable Donations. Charities investigated to Nineteenth Report inclusive. Carlisle's Topographical Dictionary. Carlisle's Grammar Schools. Municipal Corporation Reports. Bundle of single Acts of Parliament, bound. Eight boxes, with the several Commissions therein. ( 381 ) COMMISSIONERS FOR INQUIRING INTO FORFEITED ESTATES. By stat. 1 G. I. c. 50. the estates of the 'rebels of 1715 were forfeited and vested in the King for the use of the public. And by section 4 of the said Act Commissioners were appointed for inquiring into the said estates, and putting the Act in execution. By section 6 of the said Act a general meeting of the Commissioners was appointed to take place on or before 3d July 1716 in the Exchequer Chamber at Westminster to make rules and instructions for the guidance of themselves and their officers, and to subdivide themselves so as six or more should be spe- cially charged to reside in Scotland, to execute the trusts of the Act relating to that country, and seven or more in England. The above Commissioners having made the necessary inquiries, &c. under the said Act, another Act vsras passed, stat. 4 Gr. I. c. 8., which appointed the Commissioners trustees for the sale of the estates. The proceedings of the Commissioners in England had been lodged in the upper part of the old State Paper Office, Scotland Yard, West- minster ; and it appears from the Eecord Report 1800-1819, voL I. p. 371, that they were not in the custody of the Keeper of State Papers, and that the Keeper of the Eecords in the Tower reported to the Commissioners of Records in March 1819 that he had lately received an order from the Treasury to receive the above records, the State Paper Office being then about to be taken down. The Eecords of the Commissioners touching Forfeited Estates in England and Ireland are among the Tower Records. An inventory or alphabetical index of the books, papers, and pro- ceedings is printed in the 5th Report of the Deputy Keeper of Eecords, App. I. pp. 97-130. There are about 7471 vols, and bundles, including the decrees. The proceedings of the Commissioners in Scotland are in Scotland, and also those of the rebellion of 1745. With respect to the rebellion of 1745 see stat. 25 Gr. II. c. 41. and also 24 G. III. sess. 2. c. 57. (See the Record Report 1800, p. 428.) A Committee of the House of Commons was appointed respecting the sale of the estate of the Earl of Derwentwater, who reported 22d March 1731-2, which report is printed in vol. I., large folio, pp. 351-362, of the Eeports from Committees of the House of Commons. Some of the criminal proceedings against the traitors will be found in the Baga de Secretis, (King's Bench.) 382 FORFEITED ESTATES. There is a Warrant Book among the records of the Exchequer of Receipt relative to payments out of the sale of Forfeited Estates, containing Treasury warrants, decrees, and debentures for claims payable out of the estates of certain traitors, sold for the use of the pubUc, 1719-1724. (Dep. Keep. 5th Rep. App. n. p. 289.) The Papers among the Tower Records relate to the following heads:— Abercromby, Mr. Abingdon, the Earl of, and others. Addison, J. Aldcliffe estate. Aldcliffe hall and tythes, county Lane. Alder, G. Alexander, Thomas. Allanby Hall. See Fletcher. Allen, Mr. Allen, Viscount. AUgood, George. Alston Moor. Anderton, Sir Francis. Anderton, Sir Francis and Hugh. Anderton, Hugh. Anderton, John. Anderton, Sir Lawrence. Anderton, Catherine. Anderton, Dame Margaret, widow of Sir Charles Anderton, Bart. Anderton, Family of. Annington, B. Armiger, Mr., the Queen's Remembrancer. Armstrong, Thomas. Arran, Earl of. Arran, Dorothy, Countess Dowager. Ashburnham, Lady. Ashton, E. Ashton, John. Ashurst, T. Aspinall, J. Atterbury, Francis. Audley, Henry, of Bear Church, in the county of Essex. Aulnage Duties. Aydon, Mr. _ , Baisley, Diana (widow). Bankhoe House. Banks, Joseph. Barlow, Mary. Barnsbury, in Islington. See Grey. Barrow, Mr. Basset, Priscilla. Bates, Mr. Bell Living in Barton. Bendlows, John. Berington, J. Bilsborough, Richard. Blackburn, in county Lane. FORFEITED ESTATES. 383 Blankney, Lordship of. Blenkinson, J. BlundeU, WiUiam. Bolingbroke, Lord. Bold, John, of Preston, county of Lancaster. Bolton, William. Berwick, Henry, of Winder, in Lancashire. Breers, "i Briers, or > Robert. Bryers, J Thomas, of Wigan, county of Lancaster. Sir Thomas. Mrs. Brinhall. Bristol Almshouse. Browne, Sir Valentine, of the county of Kerry. Buckingham, Duke of (1628). Bucklery, Rental of. Bucklesbury, Manor of, in the county of Berks. Burscough HaU and Ormeskirk, in the county of Lancaster. Butler, Christopher. Butler, Francis. Butler, Henry. Butler, Peter. Butler, Piers. Butler, Richard. Butler, Richard, of Ranclifie. Cann, Thomas, of Dublin. Carleton, Mary. Carleton, Robert, of Carleton, county of Cumberland. Carr, Benomy. Carlisle, Dean and Chapter of. Certificates, Forms of, used by Commissioners of Forfeited Estates. Charles the 1st. Charles the 2d (19th year). Chorley, Richard, of Chorley, county of Lancaster. Claims upon Forfeited Estates. Clark, Sir Thomas, Bart., of Breckendonbury, Herts, Clavering, John. Clayton, Thomas, of Cuerdon, Lancashire. Clifton, George. Cochshutts Lands, in Winwicke, Lancashire. Collingwood, George, county of Northumberland. Commission of Iiquiry, 8th Sept., 4 W. HI. Commissioners of Forfeited Estates, Proceedings of. Cooper, Robert, of Cuerdew, county of Lancaster. Core, Edward. Cowper, Robert. Crawford, George. Crewe, Lord. Crompton, Abraham. Crook, John. Crooke, George. Crow, Thomas. Crow Hall, in parish of Goosener. Curwen, Henry. Dalston, Christopher. 384 FORFEITED ESTATES. Dalton, Estate in. Dalton, John. Dalton, John ; and Hodgson, Albert. Dalton, Robert. Daniell, Robert. Dashwood, Sir Samuel. Debentures upon forfeited estates. Derwentwater, Earl of. Derwentwater, Earl of; and Widdrington, Lord William. Derwentwater, Dowager Countess of. Dicconson, Edward. Dicconson, John. Dicconson, Richard. Dicconson, Roger. Dicconson, William. Diggles, John. Dogheda, James. Doyley, Sir John. Drummond estate. Dunn, Mr. Durham, county. Durham, Toby, Bishop of. Duckett, Jennett, of Winder, county of Lancaster. Eccles Church. Eccles Tithes. Eccleston Hall, Prescot, in the county of Lancaster. Edmundson, Richard. EUecker, John. Elstob, Lewis. Errington, Lancelot, of East Denston, in the county of Nor- thumberland. Errington, Thomas. Errington, Thomas ; and John Hall. Estates forfeited. See Commissioners of Forfeited Estates. Exeter College, Oxford. Fishwick Hall, in county of Lancaster. Fleet Street. Fletcher, Sir Henry, in the Forest in county of Cumberland. Fletcher, Thomas ; and Wyld, Sir William. Foot, Mr. Forster or Foster, Thomas. Forster's or Foster's Estate. Forster, Mr. Fox, Sir Stephen. Further House (lands so called). Gardiner, Thomas. Garforth, William. Gartside, James. Gee, Thomas. Gerard, Joseph. Gerrard, Lord, of Bromley. Gibson, George. Gomeldon, Elizabeth (widow of William Gomeldon). Gomeldon, Thomas, of Someriield Court, Kent. Granville, Colonel. Greenalgle, William. Gregson, John. Grey, Charles. FORFEITED ESTATES. 385 Hall, Jolin. Hawley, Lord Francis, and others. Haydock, William, of Cotton, in county of Lancaster. Henwick Tithes. Herds and Cravens, in manor of Twileston, Yorkshire. Hesketh, Gabriel. Hesketh, Gabriel, and Cuthbcrt. Higher Shuttlings Fields. High Treason, Lists of Persons attainted for. Hitchmough, Richard. Hodgson or Hodshon, Albert. Hodgson or Hodshon, Mr. Hodgson or Hodshon, Philip. Hodgson or Hodshon, William. Howard, Honourable Henry, brother to the Duke of Norfolk. Ireland. Jamaica Royal Mines. Jay and Eutt, Messrs. Jeffrey's Grove, Lead Mines in county of Durham. Jenkinson, E., of Evyresdale, in county of Lancaster. Jessemond Colliery. See Hodgson. Johnson, Jane, of Crosby Magna, in county of Lancaster. Jones, Ann, of Greenfield, in the parish of Holywell, in the county of Flint. Kellct, Eobert, in Preston, in county of Lancaster. Kendall Park. Kennett, Nicholas, of Coxhow, in Durham. Killingworth, in county of Durham. Lancashire. Lancashire and Yorkshire. Lanca,ster. Langdale, Dorothy, of Southcliffe. Langdale, Jordan. Langdale, Marmaduke. Latham, Peter. Launder, John. Lead Mines. Legburne, John, or Leyburn. Leigli, West, in county of Lancaster. Leyburne, John. Leyburne, John, of Naitby, in Lancashire. Leyburne, John, of Tranthwaite. Leyburne, George, of Cunswick, in Westmoreland. Leyburne, Mrs., and Mr; Taylor. Liddell, Sir Ilenry. Lincolnshire. London, List of Popish Recusants and Convicts in. Lostock. Lostock Demesne. Lostock Hall. LoTirhouse (Manor), in county of Cumberland. Lowhouse, in the parish of Wetherell, in county of Cumberland ; and Wragmire, in the parish of Heskett, in county of Cumberland. Lowther, Sir John. Mangle, Dudley, and Anno his wife, late wife of Thomas Crawford. Marr, the Earl of. Marr, Lord John. C C 386 FORFEITED ESTATES. Marriscliall, Earl of. Marshall, Ann. Martyn, Sir Henry. Mass, Informations against parties for celebration of. Massie, William, of Puddington, in Chester. Middlesex and Surrey, List of Persons attainted in. Minshull, Richard, of Burston, in Bucks. Molineux, Lord. Monmouthshire. Moore, William. Moore, Mr , a Popish Priest. Morpeth Free School. Morrison, George, of Eslington. Mossock, Ann, of West Leigh. Newhouse, in Ince, Blundell. Newport, John. Newton, Robert. Nicholson, Joseph, of Richardstowne, county Tipperary. Norfolk, County of. Norfolk, Duke of. Northumberland. Northumberland, Thomas, Earl of. Northumberland, Lincolnshire, and Ireland. Oaths taken by Papists. Ogle, Thomas, of Carham, in county of Northumberland. Oldfield, G. M. Ord, John. Ormeskirke. See Burscough Hall. Ormond, the Duke of. Ossory, James, Earl of. Oxburgh, Henry. Oxburgh, Colonel Henry, of Boovin, in King's County, Ireland. Packer, Hugh. Packer, Robert, and Mary his wife ; Winchcombe Howard Packer, their son, a minor ; Henrietta Winchcombe, and Thomas Sker- rett, Esq., and Dame Elizabeth Winchcombe his wife. Papists, Estates of. Parker, John, of Salisbury, in Lancashire. Parkinson, John. Paul, William. Peploe, The Rev. Mr. Peters, Mr. Petitions of various kinds. Petre, Robert, Lord. Petre, Thomas, Lord. Physick Hall. Pickering, Mr. Pictures, Appraisements of. Pigott, Ralph. Plate belonging to Lord Molineux and others. Plessington, John. Plessington, John, Edward Core, Robert Daniel!, and Edward Winckley. Plessy Colliery, in county of Northumberland. Popish Recusants, Lists of. Precepts, Returns of. Prescott, Jeffery. rORFEITED ESTATES. 387 Preston (town of), Lancashire. Preston, Elizabeth. Potter, Thomas. Pullen, Mr. Quakers, Form of AflSrmation of. Radcliffe, Charles. Eadcliffe, Lord. Radcliffe, Thomas. Eadcliffe, an infant, commonly called the Earl of Derwentwater. Radcliffe, Edward, Sir, Bart., Dilstone, county of Northumberland. Recusants, List of. Rentals. Riddell, Thomas, Dr. Ridding, Mary. Ridley, Mr. and Mrs. Ridley, Mrs. Mary. Ridsdale. Rochester, Bishop of, Thomas, Dean of St. Peter's, Westminster, and the Chapter of the same. Rochester, Earl of, and Sir Walter St. John, Bart. Ruddiard, Sir Benjamin. St. John, Sir Walter, Bart. Sanderson, William. Scarisbrick, Robert. Scot, William (attainted). Scotland. Seaforth, Lord. Shaftoe, Sir Edward, Knight. Shaftoe, William. Shirburne, Richard. Shirburne, Sir Nicholas, of Stonyhurst, in Lancashire. Showley Hall, Lancashire. Shuttleworth, John. Shuttleworth, Ralph. Shuttleworth, Ralph and Richard. Shuttleworth, Richard. Shuttleworth, Richard and John. Singleton, James, of Raggill or Raygill, county of York. Singleton, John. Skerret, Thomas. See Packer. Slaughter, Chambers, the Accountant General to the Forfeited Estates' Commission. Smith, Thomas. South Sea Company. Southworth Hall, in county of Lancaster. Standish, Edward. Standish, Ralph. Standish, Ralph and William. Standish, Ralph and William, and Gardiner, Thomas. Standish, William. Stanley. Stanley, John. Stanley, Thomas. Stanley, Thomas, of Eccleston. Stanley, Thomas, of Preston. Stanley, Mrs. Statutes Merchants, Extracts of. cc 2 388 FORFEITED ESTATES. SteUa Colliery. Stella Water Gins. Sturzaker, John. Superstitious Uses, Lands granted to. Surrey, List of Persons attainted in. Swale, Dorothy, of Richmond, Yorkshire. Swinburne, Edward, of Dearham. Swire, John. Tait, George. Talbot, George. Talbot, John, of Salisbury, county of Lancaster. Tempest, "William, of the Inner Temple, London. Tempest, Elizabeth. Thacker, William. Thornton, Henry. Thornton, John, of Wisherty, county of Cumberland. Thornton, Nicholas. Thornton, Mr. Thornton Estate. Tildesley, Edward. Townley, Henry. Townley, Richard. Townley, Thomas. Townley, Mr., and Mr. Tildesley. Trafford, John, of Croston, county of Lancaster. Trapps, Christopher. Trapps, Mr. Treasury Orders to the Commissioners. Tunstal, Marmaduke, of Wycliffe, county of York. Twickenham, Manor of. Ulveswalton. Vavasour, Sir Walter. Wadswortli, Joseph, of Bilsborough. Wadsworth and Dogheda, Messrs. Waddesworth, Nicholas, of Haighton, county of Lancaster. Walmsley, Richard, of Showley, in Lancashire. Walmslcy, Thomas, of Showley, in Lancashire. Walmsley, William, of Lower Hall, Samlesburg, in Lancashire. Walsted, John, of Woodinge, Withingford, Worcestershire. Walton, Thomas. Weddell, John, of Lincoln's Inn. Westminster, Dean and Chapter of. Westmoreland, Charles, Eavl of. Whenby and Scusby, Estate of. Whinfield, George, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Widdrington, Lord. Widdrington, Jane, late Lady. Widdrington, Elizabeth. Widdrington, Henry. Widdrington, Peregrine. Widdrington, Ralph. Williams, S. and P. Wilmot, Richard, of Stadham. Winchcombo, Sir Henry, Bart. See Packer. Winckley, Edward. Winckley, Richard. Winckley, Thomas. FORFEITED ESTATES. 389 Wincldey, William. Wingford, Catherine. Winlaton, Lands in. "VVinn, Robert. Withington, or Wythington, Jane. Withington, or Wythington, Mary. Withington, or Wythington, Richard. Wooding and Weare, Manors of. Woodplumpton, Tenements in. Worthington, Richard, of Blansco, in Lancashire. Wragmire, in Parish of Heskett, Cumberland. York Buildings Company. Yorkshire (West Riding). YTlas-yu-Dre, county of Flint. BOOKS AMONG THE TOWER RECORDS. Twelve volumes, folio, 121 inches by 8.^, written on paper, con- taining the main series of minutes, memoranda, and proceed- ings of the Commissioners of Forfeited Estates, from eJanuary 1716 to May 1725, in their meetings or sittings at Preston, Essex House, Strand, and the Temple. Eighteen books, folio, 21 inches by 15, written on paper, con- taining the register of claims of various parties upon estates forfeited, brought in 1716-18, and numbered consecutively 1—1696. Twenty-two books, 21 -I- inches by 151, ^vi-iiteu on pai-c'mient, containing the decrees of the Commissioners of Forfeited Estates upon the claims of various parties upon estates forfeited, from January 1716 to July 1721, in their meetings or sittings at Preston and Essex House. Index to the same. A stitched book containing memoranda relative to several estates forfeited. Minute book of the Commissioners. Register of appeals against the decrees of the Commissioners. Claims of parties who suffered losses during the rebellion. A book containing an alphabetical abstract of letters from and to the Commissioners. A fragment of a book containing an abstract of leases granted to various parties by persons whose estates have become for- feited to the Crown. Two volumes containing a list of names of claimants upon estates forfeited. A book containing contracts entered into between the Commis- sioners and various parties. A book containing copies of indentures between the Commis- sioners and the purchasers of estates forfeited. Thii-teen books containing printed forms, called Precepts. Four books containing copies of letters from and to the Com- missioners, from 21st February 1716 to 7th January 1723. A book containing a list of persons attainted of high treason between 24th January 1715 and 1st January 1716. A book containing the depositions of various parties as to estates given to superstitious uses. 390 FORPEITED ESTATES. Register of the various estates given to superstitious uses, de- scribing the contents and value thereof. Classed in the several counties. A book containing informations of estates given to superstitious uses, which informations have been referred to the Master of References. A book containing copies of the certificates of superstitious estates returned into the Court of Exchequer. Reports made by the Master of the References as to popish or superstitious estates, with the adjudication of the Commissioners thereon. Rough minute books of the Commissioners' proceedings at Essex House and Preston, 1716 to 1723. A book containing an alphabetical list of the names of the tenants upon the several forfeited estates. Three stitched books containing alphabetical list of names of persons whose estates have been forfeited. Bargains between parties whose estates have been confiscated, and decrees of the Commissioners. A hook containing copies of indentures between parties whose estates have been confiscated. A book containing the salaries of the various officers employed in the administration of the forfeited estates. Register of transcripts, with determinations of delegates. Decrees of the Commissioners on the claims of parties upon estates forfeited. An account of the produce of the forfeited estates paid into the Receipt of the Treasury, and how the same hath from thence been issued. Register of the appointments of the various officers employed in the administration of the forfeited estates. A book containing the rentals of the various forfeited estates, together with two rough indexes to the same. Book containing the rentals of all estates forfeited and given to superstitious uses. Bargain and sale of various estates forfeited. Report on decrees of Commissioners. Debentures or certificates relating to forfeited estates. Abstract of petitions and memorials of parties to the Commissioners. Reports made by the Master of the References upon various decrees of the Commissioners. A book containing copies of certificates from the Commissioners. A book containing the value of the estates forfeited, and the sums for which they were sold. A book containing the orders and instructions of the Commissioners of Forfeited Estates to their various officers. A book containing lists of the Peers and other persons who have been attainted by the House of Lords by impeachment of the House of Commons since the 24th December 1 715 and of per- sons, convicted at the sessions of gaol delivery held for the coun- ties of Middlesex and Surrey and the palatinate of Lancaster, September 1716. A book referring to the various causes brought against the Com- missioners. A book containing the names of 1,700 claimants upon the estates forfeited, and also the claims and amount of claims of 226 persons who suffered losses at Preston by the royalists and rebels. FORFEITED ESTATES. 391 A book, alphabetically arranged, for reference to the various claims of parties on the estates forfeited. Two volumes of docquets of claims numerically and alphabetically arranged. Two volumes containing the names of claimants upon the several estates forfeited. ( 392 ) COMMISSIONERS FOR INUUIRING INTO MUNICIPAL CORPOEATIOKS' BOUNDARIES. The Commission is dated 15th July 1835. For the Eeport, see Sess. Pap. H. C, 1837, No. 238. The Eecords, &c. were directed to be transferred to the Public Record Department by Treasury Letters of 9tli November and 7th December 1848. A portion has not yet been transferred. Records, &c. : Reports, Papers, Documents. Maps, Plans. Note. — We have also the Coj^pcr Plates. ( 393 ) COMMISSIONERS FOE INQUIRING INTO PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARIES. For their Eeports, see Sess. Pap. H. C, 1832, Nos. 36 and 141. The Records, &c. were directed to be transferred to the Public Record Department by Treasury Letters of 9th November and 7th December 1848. Records : Reports, Letters, and Documents. Maps, Plans, Tracings from Ordnance Maps. ( 394 ) COMMISSIONERS FOR LIQUIDATING CLAIMS OF BRITISH SUBJECTS AND OTHERS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE. The Records were transferred to the Public Record Department, pur- suant to Treasury Letter of 27th October 1843, and deposited in the Rolls House. The claims against France originated in the violation (by a decree of the National Assembly in 1793) of the 2d article of the Treaty of Commerce of 1786 between Great Britain and France. The 4th article of that decree directed the seizure of the persons and property of British subjects. After the conclusion of hostilities in 1814 it was stipulated by the 4th additional article of the Treaty concluded at Paris 30th May 1814, that the sequestration laid upon the property of the subjects of the high Contracting Parties should be taken off; and Commissioners, mentioned in the 2d additional article of the said Treaty, were to examine the claims of British subjects arising out of such sequestration and illegal confiscation, &c. Representations also having been made of the different claims arising out of the non-execution of the 19th and following articles of the Treaty of the 30th of May 1814, as well as of the additional articles of that Treaty, it was determined by the 9th article of the Treaty of Paris, 20th November 1815, under two separate Conventions (Nos. 7. and 13.) annexed to the said Treaty, what line should be pursued on each side. By the first of these Con- ventions (No. 7.) a capital producing an interest of 3,500,000 francs, to be vested in Commissioners as a guarantee fund, was provided for the liquidation of the claims of British subjects against the Government of France ; and by the 12th article of the said Convention definite periods were appointed for bringing forward their respective claims, after which time they were no longer to have the benefit of the liquidation pro- vided by the said Convention. Pursuant to the above, a Commission was issued by the Prince Regent, bearing date 27th December 1815, to carry into execution the said Convention (No. 7.) as to claims of British subjects ; and the Commissioners caused to be inscribed in a Register the names of all claimants who presented themselves within the time prescribed, and liquidated the claims out of the guarantee fund of France, leaving a surplus producing a yearly revenue of 554,105 francs. By the other of these Conventions (No. 13.) which related to the liquidation of the claims of subjects of the Allied Powers, and of all sums which France should be found to owe out of her then territory, a guarantee fund producing an interest of 3,500,000 francs was likewise to be vested in Commissioners, pursuant to which another Commission was issued by the Prince Regent, dated 13th December 1816, consisting of the same persons as were named in the former Commission, to carry into execution the above Convention on behalf of the subjects of the CLAIMS ON FRANCE. 395 Allied Powers. Subsequently a Convention was signed at Paris 25th April 1818 between His Britannic Majesty and the King of France for the final arrangement of the claims of the British subjects upon the Government of France, whereby a perpetual annuity of 3,000,000 francs, representing a capital of 60,000,000 francs, was to be paid by twelve inscriptions to British Commissioners, in order to effect the entire extinction of the capital and interest thereon due to British subjects. Also another Convention was entered into on the same day between His Britannic Majesty and the King of France, to which the Emperors of Austria and Russia and the King of Prussia were assenting parties, to effect the total discharge of debts contracted by France in countries which did not form part of her then territories, and a Rente of 12,040,000 francs, representing a capital of 240,800,000 francs, was to be inscribed in the Great Book of the Public Debt of France for that purpose — the sum payable out of which for the Ionian Isles and the Isle of France, and other countries under the dominion of Britain, amounting to 150,000 francs yearly revenue. Under an additional article to Convention (No. 7.) above noticed, 450,000 francs were provided by France for losses sustained by British merchants at Bordeaux. For the execution of the two Conventions of 25th April 1818 two separate Commissions dated 15th June 1818 were issued : one of these appointed three of the before-named Commissioners to be Commissioners of Liquidation, Arbitration, and Award on behalf of Great Britain ; the other appointed the remaining two Conaimissioners to be Commissioners of Deposit, to receive the Inscriptions of Rentes from the Government of France at Paris. To facilitate the completion of the whole, an Act was passed 59 G. III. c. 31. (1819) to enable the Commissioners more fully to carry out the examination and liquidation of the claims of such persons as caused their names to be entered in the registers. In which Act the whole matter is explained as far as it had then proceeded. Subsequently on the 23d of January 1833 a new Commission was appointed by a Treasury Warrant for the distribution of the surplus fund which remained at the disposal of the Lords of the Treasury ; and by a Treasury Minute of 6th December 1832 it was ordered that the decisions of this new Board should be final and conclusive. List of the Documents transmitted to the Public Record Office which have reference to the French Claims. Accounts : — Bills of expenses of French Claims' and Spanish Claims' commis- sions (from 1834). 1 small parcel. Cash weekly statements, being weekly returns of the cash in the hands of De Rothschild brothers at Paris, on account of the Commissioners of Deposit, from 7th March 1819 to 14th January 1827. 4 vols. Computations of payments and dividends to claimants. 2 vols. Also some unbound. Conversions of Rentes viageres. 1 vol. Deductions on Rentes perpetuelles. 2 vols. Deposit fund (Conv. 7 and 13, and 25th April 1818), accounts of. 1 vol. Appendix thereto. 1 vol. Deposit journal, from 6th July 1818 to 22d March 1821. 1 vol. Deposit ledger, cash. 2 vols. 396 CLAIMS ON PMNCE. Accounts — continued. Dividends paid in cash. 1 vol. Index to deposit registers. Con v. 25th April 1818. Registre des bordereaux et certificats de liquidation delivres par M. Morier et le Baron J. de Rothschild depuis le 5 Mars 1827, jusques et compris le 31 Mars 1828. Paris. Con v. 13. 1 vol. Register of certificates granted by the Commissioners of Deposit for the transfer of Rentes in virtue of awards of the Com- missioners of Liquidation, Arbitration, and Award. (Conv. 25th April 1818.) Class II. E. 1 vol. Ditto Ditto (Conv. 13.) Class II. G. 1vol. Register of certificates of liquidation, with the visa of the Com- missioners of Deposit, and the name of the party to whom delivered. Class I. A. 1 vol. Index to Class I. 1 vol. Register of certificates of Rentes granted to the creditors by the Commissioners of Deposit. Class I. B. 4 vols. The first vol. contains dividends of 22d vSeptember 1816 ; the second vol. dividends of 22d March 1817 ; the third vol. dividends of 22d September 1817 ; and the fourth vol. dividends of 22d March 1818. Register of certificates of Rentes granted by the Commissioners of Deposit for arrears of interest on awards of the Commis- sioners of Liquidation. Conv. 25th April 1818. Class II. E. 1 vol. Register of arrears of interest (Conv. 13.) 1818-26. Class IL IL 1 vol. Register of dividends paid in cash, and to whom paid. Class I. C. 1vol. Register of Rentes viageres converted into perpetuelles. 1 vol. Rentes inscribed on the Grand Livre (or Great Book of the public debt of France), certified by the director. Class I. A. 1 vol. Class II. E. 2 vols. Class IL G. 1 vol. Four French account books, two other account books, and three bankers' books. Appeal cases, lists and papers relating to. Appellants, Register of. See Registers. Award books : — Awards (in French). Coriv. 7. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6. 5 vols. Awards of liquidation. Conv. 7. (in English). 8 vols. Awards of rejection. Conv. 7. (in English). 2 vols. Awards of liquidation. Conv. 13. (in Eng-lish). 4 vols. Awards of rejection. Conv. 13. (in English). 1vol. Bordeaux Awards. Add. art. to Conv. 7. (in French). 1 vol. Bordeaux Awards of liquidation and rejection. Add. art. to Conv. 7. (in English). 1 vol. Awards of liquidation of Commissioners appointed 23d January 1833. (Final series.) 2 vols. Awards of rejection of last-named Commissioners. (Final series.) 1 vol. Awards, original, with vouchers and papers attached: — Mixed commission at Paris. (Series 1.) Liquidation. Conv. 7. (Series 2.) Rejection. Conv. 7. (Series 3.) CLAIMS ON FRANCE. 397 Awards, original — continued. Bordeaux Awards. Add. art. to Conv. 7. (Series 6.) Cours de la Place. (Series 7.) Supplemental Awards of liquidation, (Series 4.) Supplemental Awards of rejection. (Series 5.) Awards of liquidation. Conv. 13. (Series 8.) Awards of rejection. Conv. 13. (Series 9.) Final Awards of liquidation and rejection of Commissioners appointed 23d January 1833. (Series 10.) (^Not one series of the above is perfect.) Awards, Registers of. See Registers. Bordeaux Awards. See Awards. Cash book. See Accounts. Certilicates for payment of claims admitted under Treasury Minute of 15th March 1833 (the dividends being payable under Treasury Minutes 30th April 1839, 13th April 1840, and 27th May 1848). Unbound. Certificates for payment of 40 per cent, under Treasury Minute of 15th March 1833. Unbound. Certificates of liquidation. See Accounts. Certificates of Rentes granted (register of). See Accounts. Claimants, indexes of names of. See Index. Claims, Registers of. See Registers. Claims (un-numbcred), and therefore not included in any series of Awards. Computations of payments and dividends to claimants. See Accounts. Conversions of Rentes viageres. See Accounts. Correspondence : — Board's correspondence (mostly in French). 4 vols. from 15th June 1814 to 6th May 1816. 1 vol. from 24th October 1815 to 16th November 1826. 6 vols. . alphabetical index thereto. 1 vol. Correspondence from various claimants and their agents : bulky. Unbound. Alphabetical register of letters sent and received by the English Commissioners of French claims. 1 thin vol. Letter books, 2 vols., being register of letters sent and received. Index to Board's correspondence on Supplemental Claims. 1 voL Index (alphabetical) to correspondence of Board of Commis- sioners of 23d January 1833, for years 1833-4. 1 vol. Ditto, ditto, for years 1835-43. 1 vol. Cours de la Place. See Awards. Decrees, printed copies of French. See Laws. Deductions on Rentes. See Accounts. Deposit fund. See Accounts. Deposit ledger. See Accounts. Deposit registers, and deposit journal. See Accounts. Dividends paid in cash. See Accounts. Final Awards. See Awards. 398 CLAIMS ON FRANCE. Indexes :— Indexes to correspondence. See Correspondence. Index of names of claimants under Conventions 7. and 13. [Series 2-7.] 1 vol. Index of names of claimants, with their addresses, names of their agents, and remarks. [Final Awards, Series 10.] 1 vol. Laws, decrees, and letters patent (printed copies of various French) which had reference to matters brought before the Commissioners for adjudication. Letters patent (French), printed copies of. See Laws. Liquidations. See Awards. Lists of lives and deaths, Geneva. 2 thin folios, unbound. Minutes : — Board's minutes (in English). 1 vol. Proceedings from 19th July 1814 to 28th June 1815. 1 vol. Minutes of proceedings of commissioners appointed by the Treasury warrant, 23d January 1833. 2 vols. Miscellaneous papers. Parliament, Returns to : — Of various treaties, conventions, &c. with France and other powers. 1 vol. Various sessional papers relating to the proceedings of the French Claims' Commissioners. Return of the proceedings of the Commissioners of Claims on France, to June 1821. Continuation of the Returns made by the Commissioners in con- sequence of the orders of the House of Commons. Registers : — Register of appellants. 1 vol. Register of arrears of interest. See Accounts. Register of awards. Con v. 25th April 1818. Registers of certificates granted by Commissioners of Deposit. See Accounts. Registers of certificates of liquidation, and certificates of Rentes granted. See Accounts. Registers of certificates of Rentes granted by the Commissioners of Deposit. See Accounts. French lists of claims liquidated out of the 3,500,000 francs rente. 1 vol. Register of claims. [Series 1.] 1vol. Chronological registry book, 2 vols. ; the first finished October 1817, the second begun March 1818. Alphabetical register of claims. Conv. 7. [Series 1.] 1 vol. Register of claims. [Series 2 and 3.] 1 vol. Alphabetical register of supplemental claims. Conv. 7. [Series 4 and 5.] 1 vol. Register of liquidation of claims for confiscated property. Conv. 7. 1 vol. Lists of claims for difference of the Cours de la Place, or Taux, with the signatures and receipts of the recipients. 1 vol. Alphabetical register of claims under Conv. 13., 1 vol., divided into four heads : — I.Mauritius. 2. Ionian Islands. 3. British subjects for maintenance of French prisoners of war. 4. Per- CLAIMS ON FRANCE. 399 Registers — continued. sons professing to be British subjects by birth, and miscel- laneous cases. Register of liquidated claims. Con v. 13. Registry book of claims adjudicated on before and after passing the act 59 G. III. c. 31. 1 vol. Numerical register of claimants. 2 vols. [Final series.] Numerical register of claimants and their documents. 3 vols. [Final series.] Registers of dividends. See Accounts. rentes. See Accounts. Rejections. See Awards. Religious Houses, Claims of. 1 bundle. Rentes. See Accounts. Returns to Parliament. See Parliament. St. Martin's claimants, papers relating to. Unbound. Supplemental Awards. See Awards. Treasury minutes, copies of various. Treasury warrants on surplus fund under Conv. 7 by virtue of Stat. 59 G-. III. c. 31. s. 16. 1 vol. Treaty, copy of that of 30th May 1814. See Parliament, Returns to. Undertakings to abide by the decision of the commissioners appointed by the Treasury warrant of 23d January 1833. Unbound. ( 400 ) COMMISSIONERS FOR INQUIRING INTO CLAIMS OF BRITISH SUBJECTS FOR LOSSES SUSTAINED IN CONSEQUENCE OF SEIZURES BY THE DANISH GOVERNMENT IN 1807. The Records were transferred to the Public Record Department, pur- suant to Treasury letter of 29th March 1851, alluding to a former letter of 27th October 1843, and were deposited in the Rolls House. In retaliation on Great Britain for taking forcible possession of the Danish fleet in 1807, a Royal resolution of 16tli August 1807 ordered all British subjects, as well as their ships, merchandize, and other property, to be put under detention and arrest ; and a subsequent ordinance of Christian VII , dated 9th September 1807,* appointed what was to be done with the persons and property so put under arrest ; the latter was a short time afterwards sequestered and condemned. The claims of the sufferers by this condemnation were from time to time brought before Parliament, and at length, by a Treasury Minute dated 29th July 1834, a commission (which had been appointed by Treasury Warrant of 23d January 1833 to arljudicate finally upon French claims) was instructed to investigate the Danish claims for " Book debts" only, and three months were thereby allowed for sending in such claims, but another minute of 4th November 1834 authorized them to investigate other. classes of claims arising out of the said confis- cation, and allowed a further period of three months for that purpose. Accordingly, on 12th August 1834 the first public notice appeared, giving claimants a period of three months to send in their claims for confiscation of book debts ; and on 12th November following another notice appeared, extending the period for receiving claims another three months, and further extending the privilege to all classes of claims, whether book debts or otherwise; which extension of time expired on the 12th day of i^ebruary 1835, the final period fixed for receiving claims ; but by a Treasury Minute dated 19th December 1837 a further period still of three months was allowed. The Commissioners' reports to the Treasury were dated the 19th and 26th March 1835, and shortly afterwards they made a third report which embodied the other two. On 24th May 1838 the House of Commons addressed the Crown on the subject of the "seizure of ships and cargoes" of British subjects by Denmark in 1807 ; in consequence of which, pursuant to a Treasury Minute of 22d Junef 1838, a public noticia was issued, dated 10th July 1838, giving claimants of this class three months to prefer their claims, to enable the Commissioners to examine and report upon the same, to * Proclamation of war on the part of Denmark was dated IGth August 1807; the ■bombardment of Copenhagen commenced 2d September; the British embargo on Danish property was dated 2d September ; the Danish decree for the sequestration of British property was dated 9th September ; the English declaration recognizing hostUities between the two countries was dated 25th September; and the declaration of war hy Great Britain on Denmark was made 4th November 1807. t Or a Treasury Letter of 30th June. BRITISH CLAIMS FOR SEIZURES BY DENMARK. 40i the intent that such report, when made by them to the Lords of the Treasury, might be laid before the House of Commons ; and on the 9th of July 1839 (pursuant to a Treasury Minute of 5th July 1839) they were authorized to proceed with the adjudication of this class of claims. In 1835 Parliament voted 113,000/. for compensation for ^^ Book debts," (Act 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 80.) On 20th August 1836 it voted a further sum of 78,000/. for " Goods on shore," (Act 6 & 7 W. IV. c. 98.,) and on 27th August 1839 a further sum of 87,481/. (Act 2 & 3 Vict. c. 89.) The Danish Claims' Commission* was finally dissolved 9th March 1841. Reports of the Commissioners will be found printed in the Sessional Papers of H. C. for 1835, No. (121.), 1839, No. (75.), and 1840, No. (440.) List of Documents of the Danish Claims' Commission transmitted to the Public Eecord Office. Accounts of office disbursements (Fx-ench, Danish, and Spanish Claims' Commissions). Awards : Award Book of Liquidation. 1 vol. Original Awards, with documents in support of claims attached. Claimants, alphabetical list of, with addresses ; also the names and addresses of their agents. 1 vol. Claimants, numerical register of. 1 vol. only (there ought to be two). I , and their documents. 1 vol. Correspondence. Unbound. ■ Alphabetical index to. 1 vol. List of Claimants. See Claimants. Minutes of Proceedings of Commissioners. 2 vols. Miscellaneous Documents. Eegisters of Claimants. See Claimants. * The names of the different Commissioners from the commencement were Joseph Phillimore, Doctor of laws, A. Martin, William Empson, H. L. Wickham, and A. Helps, Esquires. ( 402 ) COMMISSIONERS FOR INQUIRING INTO CLAIMS OP BRITISH SUBJECTS ON SPAIN, AND OF SPANISH SUBJECTS ON BRITAIN. A CONVENTION was signed at Madrid, 12th March 1823, for the adjust- ment of claims preferred respectively by British subjects on Spain, and Spanish subjects on Britain, and a mixed commission was appointed to carry out the convention. But considerable difficulties having arisen, an amicable compromise of all just claims registered under the above convention was agreed upon, and another convention entered into to that effect at London, 28th October 1828. By this last convention Spain agreed to pay 900,000Z. in full satisfaction of all British claims on her, and Britain agreed to pay 200,000/. in full satisfaction of all Spanish claims on the United Kingdom. In order to carry out the provisions of the above conventions, a com- mission passed the Great Seal of Great Britain, 4th October 1823, appointing Edward James Dawkins and Robert Albion Cox, Esquires, Commissioners on the part of the British Crown, and by another commis- sion dated 24th July 1826 Robert Francis Jameson and Joseph Egan, Esquires, were nominated in the room of the former Commissioners ; and eventually an Act was passed 14th May 1829 (10 G. IV. c. 20.) inti- tuled " An Act to carry into execution the stipulations of a conven- tion between His Majesty and His Catholic Majesty, for the settlement of certain British claims upon Spain, and of certain Spanish claims upon the United Kingdom." There are no records yet found relating to the above. ( 403 ) COMMISSIONERS FOR INQUIRING INTO CLAIMS OF BRITISH SUBJECTS FOR LOSSES IN CON- SEQUENCE OF SEIZURES BT THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT IN 1804. The brief account in the preceding page of the commissions which are most generally and universally known as the Spanish Claims' Com- missions, had reference to property detained and captures made, but excluded all Claims on the Spanish Government prior to 1808. But there was another class of Spanish Claims (the class here intended to be noticed) for losses sustained by the confiscation or sequestration of book debts and goods on shore, the property of British subjects, by the act of the Government of Spain immediately prior to the declaration of war against this country in the year 1804 ; in which cases Spain having positively refused to make compensation, the claimants sought a liquidation of their Claims from the British Government on the same grounds as those put forward by the Danish claimants. On the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace at Amiens in 1802 various British merchants and manufacturers renewed their commercial inter- course with Spain ; but pursuant to Royal Deliberations of 14th and 23d November 1804 all British property in Spain was seized, and book debts due by the Spanish to the British were ordered to be paid over to the Spanish Government. This sequestration took place in retaliation for the seizure of four richly laden Spanish frigates by the British squadron towards the end of the year 1804, before war had been declared or letters of marque issued against Spain. These Claims were from time to time brought under the notice of the British Government, and eventually a commission (which had been appointed by Treasury Warrant of 23d January 1833 for the final adjudication of French Claims) was instructed to inquire into the Spanish Claims. Accordingly the following notice was published, dated 6th of March 1838 :— " Office of Spanish Claims. " Notice is hereby given to all parties who suffered losses from the sequestration in 1804 and 1805 of the property of British subjects, being book debts or goods on shore, by the Government of Spain, and who may be desirous of proving that such losses were sustained by them, that their Claims, supported by proofs of such losses, must be delivered within three months from the date of this notification at this office to the Commissioners appointed by the Lords of the Treasury to examine and report upon all such Claims." By another notice dated " Office of Danish Claims, 12th July 1838," the period limited for receiving the Spanish Claims was extended another three months. DD 2 404 BRITISH CLAIMS FOR SEIZURES BY SPAIN. On 13th February 1841 the Commissioners made their final Report to the Treasury of the result of their investigations in detail on Spanish Claims, setting forth, in three schedules, the sums awarded respec- tively to eighty-two claimants, which in the aggregate amounted to 56,855?. 16*. 8d. On 2d November 1841 another notice was published dated " Ofiice of Spanish Claims," informing " all parties who had established their Claims to indemnity for the sequestration of book debts and merchandize on shore by the Spanish Government in 1804, that certificates of identity would be furnished to them on application at the ofiice, in order to authorize the Paymaster of Civil Services at the Treasury to pay the amount of compensation which had been awarded to them by the Commissioners." The Commissioners were Joseph PhiUimore, Doctor of Laws, H. L. Wickham, William Empson, and A. Helps, Esquires. The Documents of this commission transmitted to the Public Record Office, pursuant to Treasury Letter of 27th October 1843, consist of, — Awards, with the documents in support of the claims attached. Correspondence. Unbound. Index to Board's Correspondence. 1 vol. Minutes of Proceedings of Commissioners. 1 vol. Miscellaneous Papers. ( 405 ) COMMISSIONERS FOR SLAVE COMPENSATION.* The books, papers, Stc. were transferred to the Rolls House, pursuant to Treasury Letters of 18th March and 14th April 1846. From the diiBculties which attended the equitable distribution of the 20,000,OOOZ. voted, by the British Parliament, for the compensation of the slave proprietors, these papers are necessarily divided into a great variety of classes. Had the sum granted been sufficient to compensate every claimant in full, the proceedings might have been more simple ; but as, in the first place, that sum was sufficient to pay only about 39/. 13s. 3|(f. per cent.,f — and as, in the next place, no fixed standard value could be placed, per head, on each slave, the value varying, not only in one and the same colony, in consequence of sex, age, in- firmity, or capabilities of the slave, but also between colony and colony, in consequence of amount of population, nature of employment, salu- brity of climate, the scarcity or abundance of certain handicraft qualifi- cations, the proportion that the sexes bore one to the other, and the facilities for increasing the slave population J — all these things had to be taken into consideration before the distribution of the compen- sation money could commence : — a laborious investigation by Assistant Commissioners appointed for each colony became necessary — a scru- tiny extending into numerous ramifications had to be carried out, and the returns of these Auxiliary Commissioners, embracing extracts from registers and records of sales, private memoranda, oral examinations reduced to writing, and affidavits (to avoid numerous attempted frauds), copies of census, and opinions of colonial counsel learned in the law peculiar to each colony, had to be transmitted to the mother country ; and these, together with the returns of the par of exchange between England and the colonies, § and the governing rate of exchange for antecedent years, formed the data upon which the first step was taken, * The commissions for slave compensation sprung out of the Act 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 73. which abolished slavery in the British dominions on and after 1st August 1834, and was entitled " An Act for the abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies; for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves, and for compensating the persons hitherto entitled to the services of such Slaves." The first corunission was dated 7th October, 4 W. IV., [Sot. Pat., 4 W. IV., p. 3, no. 18,] and was addressed to Charles Christopher Pepys, James Lewis, John Shaw Lefevre, Samuel Duckworth, Thomas Amyot, Hastings Elwin, and Frederick Stephenson, Esquires ; three of them only (marked above in italics) to be paid for their services. Other commissions issued [Hot. Pat, 4 W. rV., p. 12, no. 13, 12th April, and Eot. Pat., 5W. IV., p. 12.]'; and also other Acts were passed subsequently for the purpose of facilitating the compensation, &c., viz. : 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 45., 6 W. IV. c. 5., 6 & 7 W. IV. c. 82., and 4 Vict. c. 18. : this last act authorized the appointment of arbitrators to consider unsettled awards and claims pending at the termination of the proceedings of the Commissioners. t The total number of slaves registered at the last slave registration was 780,993. j Thus, in 1830, the value of a first-rate slave in Nevis was 54?., and in British Guiana 230/. ; while that of an inferior domestic in the Bahamas was only 25?., and in British Guiana 93/. 8». 0|rf. § The dollar was the medium of circulation in all the colonies ; its sterling value was 4*. id., yet in Barbadoes it passed for 6«. Zd., and in Tobago for 10*. 406 SLAVE COMPENSATION. viz., fixing the amount of the " Intercolonial Apportionment," pursuant to the 47th clause of the Slavery Abolition Act. The important papers thus transmitted to England form, with some few additions, the two series of documents hereafter noticed — " Returns of Sales of Slaves" from 1822 to 1830, and " Proceedings of the Assist- ant Commissioners " in the colonies. For the sake of expediting the process of compensation, the slaves were classed into three grand divisions : —A. Praedial Attached ; B. Prjedial Unattached ; and C. Non-Prasdial. The Praedial Attached were the property of the owner of the land on which they worked ; the Praedial Unattached were the property of persons who hired them out in gangs to till the land of other people ; the Non-Prsedial were such as could not be comprehended in the two previous divisions. The Praedial Attached and Praedial Unattached divisions were classed into head people, tradesmen, inferior tradesmen, field labourers, and inferior field labourers. The Non-Prsedial division was classed into head tradesmen, inferior tradesmen, head people employed in wharfs, shipping, or other avocations, inferior people of the same description, head domestic servants, and inferior domestics. In addition to the above, there were other inferior divisions, i. e., Children under six years of age on 1st August 1834 : Aged, Diseased, or otherwise non-efiec- tive : and Runaways. The slaves too, whether attached to the soil or not, like other pro- perty, were frequently mortgaged, and subject to liens ; this gave rise to that bulky series of documents hereafter noticed as " Counterclaims;" which counterclaims, accompanied by copies of sales, mortgages, settle- ments, judgments, &c., were forwarded for the guidance and instruction of the Commissioners in making their awards. The whole of the slave compensation papers have been arranged by cypher ; every colony has a number (in the whole 19), and to every claimant was originally assigned a number* : — the following is the key : — 1. Jamaica, which is divided into three counties, containing twenty-one parishes, as follow : — Middlesex: (1) St. Cathe- rine ; (2) St Dorothy ; (3) St. John ; (4) St. Thomas in the Vale ; (5) St. Mary ; (6) St. Ann ; (7) Vere ; (8) Clarendon ; (9.) Manchester. Surrey : (10) Kingston ; (1 1) Port Royal ; (12) St. Andrew; (13) St. David ; (14) St. Thomas in the East; (15) Portland; (16) St. George. Cornwall: (17) St. Elizabeth ; (18) Westmorland ; (19) Hanover ; (20) St. James ; (21) Trelawney. 2. Antigua. 3. Honduras. 4. St. Cheistophee's, or St. Kitts, having for its dependency AnguiUa. 5. Geenada. 6. Dominica, containing the town of Roseau, and the parishes of St. George, St. Paul, St. Joseph, St. Peter, St. John, St. Andrew, St. David, St. Patrick, St. Mark, and St. Luke. Its dependency is Martinico. 7. Nevis. 8. ViEGiN Islands ; the most important of the British possessions in these numerous islands are Virgin Gorda Island (whose • For instance 1 (16) 756 means Claim No. 756 in the parish of St. George in the colony of Jamaica. SLAVE COMPENSATION. 407 dependencies are Anegada Island, Nicker Island, Prickly Pear Island, and Mosquito Island), Caymanors or Qua- manos Island, Dog Island, The Fallen City Island, Round Rock Island, Ginger Island, Cooper's Island, Salt Island, Peter's Island, Dead Chest Island, Norman's Island, Tortola Island (whose dependencies are Beef Island, Jost Island, Van Dyke's Island, Little Van Dyke's Island, Guana Island, and Thatch Island), &c. &c. 9. St. Lucia. 10. British Guiana, containing Demerary, Essequibo, Surinam, and Berbice. 11. montseekat. 12. Beemuda. 13. Bahamas. 14. Tobago. 15. St. Vincent. 16. Trinidad contains eight districts : — District 1, Port of Spain ; district 2 contains the quarters of St. Ann, Maraval, Traga- rite, Mucurapo, Diego Martin, Carenage, Cbaguaramas, and Bocas ; district 3, the quarters of Laventille, Cimaronero, Aricagua, St. Juans, Santa Cruz, St. Josephs, Maracas, Caroni, and Las Cuevas ; district 4, Tacarigua and Arouca, Caura, Aripo and Arima, and Guanapo ; district 5, Eastern Coast, and Toco and Guayaguayara ; district 6, Chaguanas, Barancon, Carapichaima, Savanetta, and Point-a-Pierre ; district 7, North and South Napai'ima, Savana Grande, San Fernando, and Oropouche ; district 8, La Brea, Guapo, Irois, Cedros, Hicacos and Gallos, and Erin and Moruga. 17. Bakbadoes. 18. Mauritius, or Isle of Fbance, contains the following dis- tricts : — Port Louis, Pamplemousses, Riviere du Rempart, Flacq, Grand Port, Savane, Riviere Noire, Plaines Wil- hems, and Moha ; the Seychelles Islands, Rodrigues, and the Island of Agaliga are its dependencies. 19. Cape of Good Hope contains the following districts : — Albany, Beaufort, Cape, Clanwilliam, George, Graafreinet, Somerset, Stellenbosch, Swellendam, Uitenhage, and Worcester. The Commissioners do not seem to have observed any distinction between Leeward and Windward Islands, but class all the following under the name of Leeward Islands, viz. : — Honduras, Antigua, St. Kitts and Anguilla, Grenada, Dominica, St. Lucia, Bermuda, St. Vincent, Nevis, Bahamas, Montserrat, Tobago, Virgin Islands, and Barbadoes. The documents, therefore, have been thus arranged : — Abstracts (general) and District Returns. See Compensation Papers. Abstracts of Classified Compensation Papers. See Compensation Papers. Accountant General of Court of Chancery : — Account Books of. See Accounts. Adjudications and Awards on. See Awards for Payment of Claims. Certificate Book containing original certificates from the Na- tional Debt Ofiice to the Accountant-General. Document Book. 1 vol. 408 SLAVE COMPENSATION. Accounts : — Accountant General's Cash, Stock, and General Account Ledger. 1 vol. Accountant General's Claimants' Journal. 1 vol. Accountant General's Claimants' Ledger. 3 vols. Accountant General's General Journal. 2 vols. Accounts of Disbursements for Colonial Expenditure. 1 vol. Miscellaneous Accounts (various). Secretary's periodical Statements to the Treasury of sums disbursed for office salaries, expenses, &c. Periodical Statements of Accounts, and progress of business. Adjourned Adjudication Lists. See Adjudications. Adjudications : — Adjourned Adjudication Lists. 3 vols. Adjudication Lists. 57 vols. Adjudication Lists (contested cases). 16 vols. Adjudication Lists relating to cases deposited with the Ac- countant General of C. C. 7 vols. Adjudications and Avrards. See Awards for Payment of Claims. Affidavits. See Commissioners (Assistant), Proceedings of. Arbitrator. See Awards for Payment of Claims. Assistant Commissioners. See Commissioners (Assistant), Pro- ceedings of. Attorney, Powers of : — Instructions for Powers of Attorney. Powers of Attorney for Jamaica. See Jamaica. Register of Powers of Attorney, and Index thereto. 2 vols. Reports on Powers of Attoi-ney for recovery of compensation moneys (Cape of Good Hope). See Commissioners (As- sistant), Proceedings of. Auxiliary Commissioners. See Commissioners (Assistant), Pro- ceedings of. Awards for Payment of Claims, &c. : — Amended Awards. 19 vols. Certificates and Lists of Awards in uncontested cases. 83 vols. Certificates and Lists of Awards in contested cases. (Partly unbound.) Certificates and Lists of Arbitrator's Awards. (Unbound.) Certificates for transfer of money to Colonial number. Certificate to obtain an order of the Court of Chancery. Deposit Certificates and Lists of Arbitrator's Awards. Duplicates of the Awards on the Accountant General. (Un- bound.) 20 parcels. Journals of Certificates issued. 18 vols. Original Adjudications and Awards* on the Accountant General of the High Court of Chancery and Powers of Attorney. (Unbound.) 71 parcels. Requisitions and Receipts for Certificates. 91 vols. Special Awards in Trust. (Unbound.) British Guiana. See Guiana (British). * Under the Act 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 45. sums to meet litigated cases, ■were to te paid to the Accountants General of the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer respectively, to be by them invested. SLAVE COMPENSATION. 409 Census Returns from the Colonies. See Sales of Slaves, Returns of. Certificate Book of the Accountant General of Chancery. See Accountant General. Certificates and Lists. See Awards for Payment of Claims. Certificates that no counterclaims have been lodged (Antigua). Claims, &c. : — Original Claims. (Unbound.) 199 parcels. Original Returns from the Colonies. Claims still in litigation or undisposed of. Various documents in support of claims, principally British Guiana and Trinidad. 14 vols. Classified Compensation Papers. See Compensation Papers. Classified Valuations. See Compensation Papers. Commissioners (Assistant), Proceedings of. Divided into two series :— Series L 5 parcels. Lists, Returns, and Reports on claims and counterclaims. Series 11. 12 parcels. Affidavits of the true consideration received for slaves (Cape of Good Hope). 12 vols. Affidavits to verify amounts due on counterclaims (Cape of Good Hope). Evidence on cases under 46th clause* of the Slavery Aboli- tion Act (Grenada and Mauritius). Papers, Correspondence, and Reports which accompanied the Claims and Valuation Returns from the Colonies. Reports of proceedings of Assistant Commissioners. Reports relating to cases that have been disposed of (Jamaica). Reports on Powers of Attorney for recovery of Compensation Moneys (Cape of Good Hope). Commissioners of Slave Compensation, Minute Book of their pro- ceedings. 2 vols. Compensation Papers : — Classified Compensation Papers. 65 parcels. abstracts thereof. Digested Returns of Classified Valuations, 109 vols., and General Abstracts and District Returns. Computation Tables. Correspondence : — Government and Colonial Office Correspondence. (Unbound.) Letters from Assistant Commissioners in the Colonies. (Un- bound.) Letters from the Treasury. (Unbound.) Letters to the Assistant Commissioners in the Colonies. 2 vols. Letters to the Colonial Office. 1 vol. Letters to the Treasury. 2 vols. Letters to claimants and others in Great Britain and Ireland, 4 vols. ; one entitled " Domestic Letter Book," and the others "Home Correspondence." Miscellaneous Letters from Claimants and others. (Unbound.) * The 46th clause of stat 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 73. provides that no compensation shall be allcvred for persons illegally held in slavery. 410 SLAYE COMPENSATION. Correspondence — continued. Miscellaneous Official Correspondencei (Unbound.) Register of Letters received. 3 vols. Council, original copies of Orders in. Counterclaims (original). 117 parcels. Affidavits to verify Amounts due on (Cape of Good Hope). See Commissioners (Assistant), Proceedings of. Deposit Certificates and Lists. See Awards for Payment of Claims. Doggets of Judgments (Jamaica). See Jamaica. Evidence on Cases under 46th clause of the Slavery Abolition Act. See Commissioners (Assistant), Proceedings of. Exhibits. Forms of Documents. See Slave Compensation Commission. Guiana (British) : — Index of Appraisements and Classifications. 1 vol. Registry of Claims and Appraisements. 1 vol. Indexes to Names of Claimants. See Lists. Jamaica : — Doggets of Judgments. 1 parcel. Petitions, 1 parcel unbound ; also a Registry Book thereof among the Registry Books. Powers of Attorney which have never been acted on. (Un- bound.) Journals. 12 vols: — A. Certificates and Lists sent to the Colonial Secretary of Awards in uncontested cases. 3 vols. B. Certificates and Lists sent to the Colonial Secretary of moneys paid to the Accountant General by order of the Court of Chancery. 3 vols. C. Certificates and Lists sent to the Colonial Secretary of compensation moneys deposited with the Accountant General. 3 vols. D. Lists of claims adjudged out of moneys deposited with the Accountant General. 3 vols. Journals of certificates issued. See Awards for Payment of Claims. Judgments, Doggets of (Jamaica). See Jamaica. Lists and indexes of different kinds. 6 books and 2 parcels. Lists of claims and counterclaims from Assistant Commissioners in the Colonies. See Commissioners (Assistant), Proceedings of. Minute Book of Commissioners. See Commissioners of Slave Compensation. Miscellaneous documents. 4 small parcels. Orders in Council. See Council. Original Returns from the Colonieis. See Claims. Parliament, copies of the Acts 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 73., 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 45., and 6 W. IV. c. 5. Returns to, in MS. 21 vols, and 2 bundles. — Also a printed copy of the Sessional Paper, H.C., 1838, No. 215. Petitions (Jamaica). See Jamaica. Powers of Attorney. See Attorney, Powers of. Proceedings of the Assistant Commissioners. See Commissioners (Assistant), Proceedings of. SLAVE COMPENSATION. 411 Registry Books, 63 vols. These are the most useful books in the ■whole collection, for in them were entered the proceedings in each case as it progressed step by step. Reports of Assistant Commissioners. See Commissioners (Assis- tant), Proceedings of. Requisitions and Receipts for Certificates. See Awards for Pay- ment of Claims. Returns from the Colonies. See Commissioners (Assistant), Pro- ceedings of. Claims. Returns of Classified Valuations. See Compensation Papers. Returns of Sales of Slaves. See Sales of Slaves, Returns of. Returns to Parliament. See Parliament. Sales of Slaves, Returns of (including certain Census Returns). 14 parcels unbound, and 16 bound volumes. Slave Compensation Commission : — Forms of documents which emanated from that oflBce. Miscellaneous papers (in MS. and print) relating to the Slave Compensation generally, and not to any particular case. A return to an order of the House of Commons of 1837 was printed in 1838, being " An Account of all sums of money awarded by the Commissioners of Slavery Compensation, specifying the date of each order, the parties to whom the payment is awarded, and the colony or settlement in respect of which it is awarded, and the number of slaves for whom each such pajrment is awarded on uncontested claims." (Sess. Pap., H. C, 1838, No. 215.) It is thus arranged : — List A. Uncontested claims, in colonies, subdivided into parishes and counties where they exist, under the following heads (see errata at p. 333) : Date of award. No. of claim. Name of party to whom the payment is awarded. No. of slaves. Sum. B. No return. C. C Litigated claims D.< under like heads< E. I to the above. F. D. E. 'C. Comprises awards in respect of liti- gated claims. Awards for payment or transfer of compensation money into Court by order of Chancery. Transfers made by Accountant- General of Chancery, pursuant to orders of Colonial Courts. Claims on which no awards have been made, distinguishing the Colonies. Gr. General statement of amounts awarded, 8ec. Accounts of the expenses of the Commission, and statement of the average value of a slave, and the number of slaves for whom compen- sation has been claimed, and granted. APPENDIX. APPENDIX A. RECORD REPOSITORIES. The Localities at various times, and other matters connected with their History. When the Records began to branch out (as stated in the Introduction to this work) we find them to have been located in the following places, and it will also be noticed that Records, not strictly belonging to the Court or Department in whose Repository they have been placed, have been deposited therein for convenience. CHANCERY REPOSITORIES. Anciently the Chancery Records were removed from place to place with the Chancery, and the Chancery followed the Court. On occasions of the Chancery following the Court and Parliament to various places, though chiefly to York, it was usual for abbots of convents to provide horses for the conveyance of records. (Rot. Claus. 28 Edw. I., m. 6, d., and 7 Edw. III., p. 1, m. 12, d.) In 55 Hen. III. an allowance was made out of the issues of the Great Seal to J. de Portjoye (a), keeper of the Sumpter Horse, used for the conveying of the Rolls of Chancery. (Rot. Claus. 55 Hen. HI., m. 7.) The Chancellor, who was " Chef de la Chapele le Roy" (fi), sat frequently in Chancery, in chapels and cathedrals (c), and the records have been deposited either in chapels, cathedrals, or the King's Treasuries, {d) New Temple. Great Wardrobe, Tower. ■ ... While the Chancellor was with Edw. I. in Scotland, in 1291, the Chancery Records were deposited in the New Temple, where the Lord Treasurer broke open a chest by the King's command, and sent to Scot- land a Patent Roll of 39 Hen. IH. and a Charter Roll of 22 Hen. HI., which were returned the following year, (e) It is not certain in what year the records of Chancery were removed from the New Temple to the Tower of London, but before the end of the reign of Edw. I. the Wardrobe in the Tower of London was used as the chief repository of the records of Chancery. (/) Tower. Edward I., on 6 Nov. 1305, (33 Edw. I.,) issued a mandate to his Treasurer and Chamberlains to deliver the Papal Privileges then in the Treasury of the Exchequer to Robert de Cotingham, Clerk Comptroller (a) From this man's name the officer (i) Eyley's Plae. Par. p. 535. usually employed to convey the Eolls of (c)Rot.Claus.7Edw.III.,p.2,m.4,dors. Chancery to and from the Rolls House (d) Id. 19 Edw. 11., m. 26, and 11 Edw and Tower had the appellation of the Port- III., p. 1 , m. 23, dors, joye of Chancery. Foreign Rolls (Exche- (e) Feed., new edit., vol. i.,p. 757. Eot. quer), 7 Ric. JL, 18 Edw. IV., 28 Hen. VI., Claus. 20 Edw. L, m. 13, dors. 3 Hen. Vn. (/) Rot Claus. 33 Edw. I., m. 3. 416 APPENDIX. of the Wardrobe, in order to their being conveyed to the Tower, to be there kept under his seal and the seal of Adam de Osgodeby (Clerk Keeper of the Rolls of the King's Chancery) (a), and their respective successors in office, (b) The earliest mention yet found of a Keeper or Master of the Bolls of Chancery is that of John de Langton in 14 Edw. I. (c) The records of Scotland had, previously to the above period, been transmitted to the Tower, for it appears from Ryley's Placita Parlia- mentaria, 33 Edw. I., p. 284, that in the Prior of Goldingham's case respecting fealty and service alleged to be due from him to the Crown of Scotland, the King (in order to ascertain and be certified whether such fealty and service were due) directed divers records to be searched, and amongst others the rolls of Scotland then preserved in the Tower of London, {d) The place wherein the records of Chancery were deposited at the Tower was called the King's Treasury, (e) The Record Office of the Tower probably sprung from the Depart- ment of the Great "Wardrobe. But it is to be observed, that certain records came into the custody of the Custos of the Tower of London in the reign of Edw. IL, for we find that in 16 Edw. IT., 24 July, (Eot. Pat. 16 Edw. II. p. ]., m. 28,) the King authorized Robert de Hoton, &c. to search and arrange all his muniments in his castles of Ponte- fract, Tutbury, and Tunbridge, and such as lately came into the citstody of the Custos of the Tower of London, SfC. By entries on the Close Rolls, 11 and 14 Edw. 11. (1317, 1320) (/), it appears that the Masters of the Rolls were accustomed to deposit in the Tower the rolls, bundles, and remembrances which had accumulated in their dwelling house. This practice fell into disuse after Edw. TV., since which they have been placed with the Rolls Chapel Records. But the Judicial Records (except the decrees, which are placed with the Rolls Chapel Records,) are still placed from time to time with those of the Tower. The last transmission was in 1831. In 1 Edw. in. the Keeper of the Tower Records was commanded to bring to the Exchequer all the writings, muniments, &c. which belonged to Thomas Earl of Lancaster, deceased, (g) In 14 Edw. III. all the rolls, bundles, and memoranda of Chancery which were in the house of John St. Paul (i. e. Powel), then Keeper of the Rolls of Chancery, were sent by the King's command to the Tower, (h) 16 Edw. III. A bag containing the rolls of the Justices of Oyer and Terminer at Newcastle was delivered into Chancery, (i) 51 Edw. m. The Sheriff of Suffolk was commanded to return into Chancery all the indictments, records, processes, memoranda, &c. re- lating to the execution of a special commission for the trial of ofiences in the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, (k) In 10 Ric. II. John de Waltham, Keeper of the Privy Seal, was commanded to deliver all petitions, warrants, indentures, and other memorable things of the late King Edward III., pertaining to the office of the Privy Seal, to the Keeper of the Records of the Tower. (Z) (a) The ancient title of the Master of (/) Eot. Clans. 11 Edw. III., p. l,iii.23, the EoUs. d., 14 Edw. III., p.2, m. 10, d. Rcp.H. C, (6) Rot. Claus. 33 Edw. I., m. 3. vol. i., p. 532. (c) Hardy's Catalogue of Lords Chan- (g) Stow's Survey, vol. i., p. 117. cellors, &c. (1843), p. 13. (A) Id. (d) Proposal for a Record Office, p. 85. (i) Eot Claus. 1 6 Edw. III., p. 2, m. 7, d. (e)Rot.Claus.7Edw.III.,p.l,ni.l2,d., (k) Proposal for a Record Office, p. 91. and 12 Edw. III., m. 41. Proposal for a (/) Stow's Survey, vol. i., p. 117. Record Office, p. 81. APPENDIX. 417 ■ 39 Hen. VI. Divers great chests containing Common Pleas Records were ordered to be removed from the Priory of St. Bartholomew, West Smithfield, to the Tower, (a) In the 3d year of the reign of Edw. VI. many records were dis- covered in an old house in the Tower, unknown until search was made for a convenient place to deposit gunpowder, many of which had lain so long against the walls that they were eaten and perished by the lime ; they were then placed with the other records. (6) Queen Elizabeth, in 1 567, being informed of the confused and perilous state in which the records of the Parliament and Chancery then lay, gave orders for rooms to be prepared in the Tower to receive them, which was soon after done, and the Queen issued her warrant to Sir W. Cordel, Master of the Rolls, declaring that it was not meet that the records of her Chancery, which were accounted as a principal member of the treasure belonging to herself, and to her Crown and Realm, should remain in private houses and places, for doubt of such danger or spoil as theretofore had happened to the like records in the time of King Richard the Second and King Henry the Sixth, and directed him to deliver to Wm. Bowyer, Keeper of the Records within the Tower of London, all Parliament Rolls, Patent Rolls, Treasurers' Rolls, &c. &c. of the several reigns of Ric. III., Hen. VII., Hen. VIII., and Edw. VI. (c) This order was never executed, and the records remain with the Rolls Chapel Records. 1643. 27 October. The House of Commons ordered the office of Clerk and Keeper of the Records in the Tower to be sequestered into the hands of Mr. John Selden, a Member of the House ; and Mr. Collet and Mr. Ryley to be continued clerks there, (c?) And on the 31st Oc- tober 1643 a message was sent to the Lords from the Commons desiring their concurrence, and the records were accordingly sequestered into the hands of Mr. John Selden. (e) 1648. 17 August. Order of the Houses for an advance of money for the present subsistence of W. Ryley, Clerk of the Records in the Tower, to be paid out of such delinquents' estates as he should discover to the Committee at Haberdashers' Hall. (/) 1651. 6 August. Order by the Houses of Parliament for the Master of the Rolls for the time being to have the care and superintendence of the office of Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London, and Mr. Ryley to be clerk under the Master of the Rolls, and the house adjoining to the said office, called Bowyer's House, to be appointed as a dwelling house to the said office, as formerly it hath been used, &c. (g) Oliver Cromwell, after he had beaten the Scots in their own country, seized the public registers, records, and rolls of Scotland, and sent them to the Tower, where they lay till the Restoration. They were sent back to Scotland by sea ; the ship was wrecked and the records lost. (A) 1659. 16 May. Ordered that it be referred to the Council of State to examine what records were brought into the Tower out of Scotland, and how many since taken thence, and by what authority, and where the same now remain, and for what cause they were so removed, and what yet remain in the Tower, and to report to Parliament, (i) In 1671, Sir Harbottle Grimston, Master of the Rolls, by a warrant dated 24 July, required and authorized Sir Algernon May, Clerk of the (a) Stow's Survey, vol. i., p. 117. (/) Id., vol. x., p. 443. (6) Id., p. 118. ig) Com. Journ.,Tol. vi., p. 618. (c) AylofFe's Calendars, p. xxviii. (A) Stow, vol. i., p. 116. (^d) Com. Journ., vol. iii., p. 291. (z) Com. Journ., vol. vii., p. 655. \e) Lords' Journ., vol. vi., p. 285. E E 418 APPENDIX. Records of the Court of Chancery in the Tower of London, to receive into his custody 122 bundles, to the 1st of Car. 11., of bills, answers, depositions, and other pleadings from the Six Clerks' Office, and the same was accordingly received on 18 October, (a) 1689. 14, 18 November. An address of the House of Lords to Will. ni. for Wm. Petyt to be employed to methodize the records in the Tower with proper assistance, the records being in great disorder and confusion. His Majesty replied that he would consider of it. (6) In 1710, by special writ, 9 Will. IH., 10 August, the Association Rolls were deposited in the Tower. In 1712, the Master of the Rolls, on 6 August, signed warrants for the delivery of the proceedings in Chancery of the reign of Car. H. to the Tower, (c) This could not be executed for want of room to receive them. The cause of the delay is stated in the Report laid before the Committee on the Cottonian Library in 1732 to have been for want of room, (d) In 1738 a room in the White Tower was at length obtained, and by virtue of a warrant of the Master of the Rolls, dated 16 October 1738, 2200 bundles were, on the 11th June 1739, deposited there, (e) 1719. 16 April. The state of the Records, removals, &c. will be found in the Record Report of the Lords' Committees of l7l9. 1732. In the Report of 1732 there is a statement respecting the records in the Tower ; and that there was a gunpowder magazine under CaBsar's Chapel in the White Tower. (/) In 1779, 58 bundles of Chancery proceedings were transmitted to the Tower, completing the series to the end of Queen Anne ; this transfer was by reason of the Six Clerks clearing out from their old office in 1778, and was done by warrant of the Master of the Rolls, dated 30 July 1779, and the Records received at the Tower 23 October 1779. (g) In 1810, by the warrant of the Master of the Rolls, dated 4 August, divers bundles of interrogatories and depositions previous to 1727 were directed to be removed from the Examiners' Office to the Tower of London. (A) In 1811, 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1828, Records from the Admiralty Court were transferred to the Tower. The Forfeited Estates' Records were sent from the old State Paper Office to the Tower about 1819. (i) In 1831, under the powers of an Act of Parliament, a warrant was issued by Lord Brougham, Chancellor, for transmitting to the Tower the biUs, answers, depositions, &c., of 1714 to 1758. (k) The Population Returns, 1801 to 1831, were first sent to the State Paper Office, and from thence removed to the Tower. In 1832, 30 June, the gunpowder magazine under Caesar's Chapel was brought under the consideration of the Record Commissioners, and the matter was submitted to the Board of Ordnance, who replied thereto on 10 December 1832, recommending the Records to be removed. (I) (ff) Reports of H.C., vol. i.,App.F.,iv., (g) See the Warrant, Dep. Keep, of p. 534. Ayloffe's Calendars, p. xxxvii. Records' Second Kep., App. I., p. 45. (i) Lords' Joiirn., vol. xiv., pp. 342, (A) Id. 345. (Q Eecord Rep. 1800-1819, vol. i., (e) Record Rep. 1719, p. 6. p. 37). (d) Reports of H. C, vol. i., p. 521, (A) See the Warrant, Dep. Keep, of App. D., XT. Records' Second Rep., App. I., p. 45. (e) Record Report, 1800, p. 55. (I) Minute Book of Record Commis- (/) Reports of Committees of II. C, sioners, vol. xii., p. 117; Rep. Select Com., vol. 1., p. 446. H.C., onEecord Commission, 1836, p. 903. APPENDIX. 419 1841 to 1848. An immense mass of Records belonging to the Admi- ralty department were transferred to the Tower, pursuant to Admiralty Letters of 22 and 26 of February and 1 March. 1841, and 8 August 1848. 1842. December. One large chest, called the Six Clerks' Chest, being papers relating to the rights, &c. of the Six Clerks, was re- moved from the Six Clerks' Office, Chancery Lane, to the Tower, by warrant or order dated 8 December 1842. Rolls Chapel and Rolls Office. How early records were deposited in the RoUs Chapel does not appear. Powell's "Repertory of Records," printed in 1622, gives an account of the records in the chapel. Li the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons, 1732, the state of the records in the Rolls Chapel is mentioned. The Rolls Chapel was fitted up with presses, pursuant to the recom- mendation of a Committee of the House of Commons in 1772 ; and the Rolls Chapel Office was built on a piece of ground adjoining to the RoUs Chapel, pursuant to an Address of the House of Commons accord- ing to their resolution of 10 August 1784. (a) Two Commissioners of Records, Sir R. H. Inglis and Mr. Hallam, reported in March 1833 that the Rolls Chapel was fitted up by Sir Thomas Plumer, Master of the Rolls in 1812, and that it exhibited a most remarkable specimen of the extremest economy of space, the very seats being cases for records, (ft) Charities' Commission Papers. — The Master of the Rolls took charge of the papers by authority of Treasury and Home Office Letters of 3 and 5 August 1841, and caused them to be placed in the Rolls Chapel. Privy Signet Records. — After the abolition of the Privy Signet Office, and transfer of the business to the office of the Secretary of State, the Records were transferred pursuant to Treasury Letter of 30 January 1852, and deposited in the RoUs Chapel. Cuesitoe's Office. Stow, in his Survey, described the Cursitor's Office as being in Chancery Lane, (c) In the Record Report of 1800 {d) the office is represented as being immediately over a public coffee room in Chancery Lane. The office was abolished by stat. 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 82. s. 10. (1835), and the duties and records were transferred to the Clerks of the Petty Bag. At this time the Cursitor's Office was in the Rolls Yard, Chancery Lane. Rolls House. Domus Conversorum, or House for Converted Jews and Infidels. By entries on the Close Rolls, 1 1 and 14 Edw. IL, 13 17 and 1320 (e), it appears that the Masters of the Rolls were accustomed to deposit in the Tower the rolls, bundles, and remembrances which had accumulated in their dwelling house. Edward III. in the 51st of his reign annexed the Domus Conversorum Judaeorum, or House for Converted Jews and Infidels, to the office of the Master of the Rolls (/), which then became known as the Rolls House. This grant was confirmed by Richard II. in the 6th year of his reign. (a) KecordEep. 1800, pp. 9, 88 ; Com. (rf) Record Eep. 1800, pp. 99, 100. Journ., vol. xl., pp. 419, 427. (e) Rep. H. C, vol. i., p. 532. (h) Printed Proceedings of the Record (/) Rot. Pat. 51 Edw. III., m. 20, and Commissioners (Agenda), p. 283. 6 Ric. 11., p. 3, m. 12. (c) Stow, ii., 68. E E 2 420 APPENDIX. The re-building of the present Rolls House commenced in September 1717, the old House having been taken down in August 1717; it was built by Sir Joseph Jekyll, Master of the Rolls, towards which George L gave him 5,000Z. On pulling down the old House, there were found, in a room adjoining to the chapel, great numbers of bills, answers, and other proceedings in Chancery, together with other public papers, books, parchments, &c., temp. Eliz. and subsequent reigns to Charles II., lying in heaps and in great confusion, all which were, by the directions of the then Master of the Rolls, Sir Joseph Jekyll, cleaned and put into proper bundles, (a) The Master of the Rolls, by stat. 12 Car. 11., was empowered to grant leases of the houses on the Rolls Estate in order to rebuild the same (the Rolls House and Chapel excepted), but the above Act was repealed by 17 Geo. III. c. 59., by which he could only grant leases in certain cases. The Rolls Estate is now vested in the Crown by 1 Vict. c. 46. (1837) ; the income of the Master of the Rolls now arising entirely from a settled salary. Although it might have been expected that the Rolls House would have been purely a Chancery Repository, yet other records began to be deposited there after it ceased to be used as a residence for the Master of the Rolls. Sir John Copley (who afterwards became Lord Lynd- hurst) was the first Master of the Rolls who did not reside there, and by an arrangement with his successor. Sir John Leach, certain records which were deposited at Westminster were removed to the Rolls House, as will be seen by the following notes : — King's Bench Records The Records of the Treasury of the King's Bench at Westminster were removed to the Rolls House, by direction of a Treasury Letter dated 11 February 1832 (Jb), in order to fit up the King's Bench record rooms as a court for the Master of the Rolls, where he sat for the first time in Michaelmas Term 1832, and from whence they were removed to the Carlton Ride by warrant of the Master of the Rolls dated 30 June 1843. Receipt of the Exchequer Records. — The Pell and other Records of the ancient Receipt of the Exchequer in the custody of the Comptroller- General of the Exchequer from the earliest period to 1834 were, by authority of Treasury Letters of 26 May and 1 June 1841, removed to the Rolls House from the Comptroller-General's Office, No. 1 , in White- hall Yard. Chapter House Records. — Divers Pell and Miscellaneous Records, Papal Bulls, Black Book of the Receipt of the Exchequer, &c., were removed from the Chapter House to the Rolls House by warrant dated 10 December 1842 ; the removal, however, did not take place until January, February, and March 1843. French, ^c. Claims' Commissions Papers. — These were transferred to the Rolls House from Great George Street, Westminster, by authority of Treasury Letter, dated 27 October 1843. Welsh i2ecor&.— Transferred from Mr. Peter Stafford Carey, executor of the late Charles Warren, Chief Justice of Chester, from 15, Bedford Square, to the Rolls House, by warrant dated 1 July 1845. Chancery Records belonging to the Marshal and Registrar of the Chester Circuit transferred from Mr. John Cox, 62, Lincoln's Inn Fields, to the Rolls House, by warrant dated 16 July 1845. (a) Ayloffe's Calendars, p. xlii. posal for building a General Record Oflace, (6) Rep. Select Cora. H. C., on Record p. 8. Conmussion, 1836, pp. 861, 862. Pro- APPENDIX. 421 Chancery Records of the counties of Montgomery, Denbigh, and Flint, transferred from the Prothonotary's Office, Welsh Pool, to the Rolls House, by warrant 26 July 1845. The Slave Compensation Records were transferred from 45, Par- liament Street, &c. to the Rolls House by authority of Treasury Letters of 18 March and 14 April 1846. The Ti Msury Chambers Records were removed to the Rolls House by authority of Treasury Letters of 18 June, 8 July, and 19 December 1846, 8 June 1847, 15 December 1848, and 29 December 1852, enclosing a Treasury Minute of the 21st December 1852, &c. National Debt Office. — Divers Records were removed from the National Debt Office (belonging to the Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer) to the Rolls House by authority of Treasury Letter of 14 July 1847. Custom House. — 600 or 700 volumes were removed from the Custom House to the Rolls House by authority of Treasury Letter of 19 April 1848. Commissioners for inquiring into the Municipal and Parliamentary Boundaries. — The Records were removed from the Tithe Office, Somerset House, to the Rolls House by authority of Treasury Letters 9 November and 7 December 1848. Slave Registration Records — Transferred pursuant to Treasury Letter of 22 January 1851. Pettt Bag Office. About 1718 the Petty Bag Office in the Rolls Yard, Chancery Lane, was erected at the joint expense of the Clerks of the Petty Bag and the Examiners of the Court of Chancery, both of which offices were there located. It was rebuilt in 1812 out of the Suitors' Fund (o), and the office remained in 1853 in the Rolls Yard. Examinees' Office. About 1718 the building for the Examiners' and Petty Bag Offices was erected at the joint expense of the Examiners and Clerks of the Petty Bag. (&) It appears by a return of one of the Examiners in the Record Report of 1800, p. 106, that the site of ground on which the Examiners' Office was built in 1718 was obtained under a deed, by which the then Master of the Rolls made an exchange with the then Examiners for ground in the front of Chancery Lane, where the former office stood, by which means the Master of the Rolls was enabled to erect and complete a regular line of houses next to the Lane. The deed in the Examiners' Office is dated 25 June 1718. The office was rebuilt in 1812 (c), and the office was still kept in the Rolls Yard in 1853. Ceown Office. The office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, temp. G-. 11., was in Cliffisrd's Inn, Fleet Street, {d) From the Record Report of 1800 we find that this office was in the same building as the offices of the Examiners and Petty Bag in the Rolls Yard, Chancery Lane (e), from whence it was removed to West- minster in 1852. (a) KecordBep. 1800,p.l02; Kecord (c) Id.,p.l06; Eec.Eep.l837,p.ll9. Bep. 1837, p. 119. id) Strachey's Index to the Eecords. (6) Becord Bep. 1800, p. 102, (e) Record Bep. 1800, p. 97. 422 APPENDIX. Peothonotaeibs' Office. In the time of Gr. 11. the Prothonotaries' Office in Chancery was in the Middle Temple Lane, (a) SuBPffiNA Office. This office in 1853 had been many years in the RoUs Yard, Chancery Lane. It was suppressed by 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111., and by stat. 3 & 4 W. TV. c. 94. the duties were directed to be performed by the Clerk of Affida- vits. Stat. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 105. s. 3. in part repeals 3 & 4 "W. IV. c. 94., and directs the duties to be performed by the Clerks of Records and Writs after the death or surrender of the patentee. But stat. 15 & 16 Vict, c. 87. s. 27. abolishes, after 28 October 1852, the offices of the Patentee of the Subpoena Office and his Deputy, and s. 28. transfers the duties to the Clerks of Records and Writs. Six Clerks' Office. — Rbcoeds' and Weits' Cleeks' Office. This is now the Records' and Writs' Clerks' Office, the Six Clerks being abolished, and the above office established by stat. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103. The office of the Six Clerks formerly stood in a place in Chancery Lane, called Herefiete or Harftete Inn, over against the house called « The Rolls." (b) The present office is situated on part of the garden ground of Lin- coln's Inn, in Chancery Lane, near Holborn. It was built for the Six Clerks, about 1778, under stats. 14 & 15 G. III., out of the Suitors' Fund, (c) See 14 G. HI. c. 43. ; and 15 G. IIL c. 56. See also 17 G. HI. c. 59. It appears from a private Act of Parliament, 31 Hen. VIII. (1540), referred to in Bladen's Six Clerks' Office, p. 17, that Hen. VHI. granted to the Duke of Suffialk and his wife Katheryne certain manors, &c. belonging to the priory or monastery of Norton Park in the county of Lincoln, among which was a certain messuage, &c. of old time named Ilarflu Inne, then holden by the Six Clerks, which was then by the authority of the said Act entirely disposed of to the Six Clerks, who were incorporated by the said Act. And the said house or office was burnt down on the 20 December, 19 Jac. I. (1621). In a year's time it was substantially and commodiously (as Bladen states) new built by the Six Clerks from the ground, all of brick (which before was but of com- bustible timber), with several rooms and separate lodgings and con- veniences for each of the Six Clerks, and several rooms therein, vaulted over with brick, for the safe keeping of the King's and subjects' records in the Inrohnent Office. Bladen goes on to state that the building, notwithstanding all that had been done, was still (in 1701) crowded and environed with taverns and dwelling houses, subjecting it again to be destroyed by fire, and that it was no small reproach to the Government in so public and general a concern (for there is scarcely a family in England that may not be concerned in the safety of the records) by not causing the surrounding buildings to be taken down. By Charter dated 18 November, 16 Eliz., the Six Clerks and the Three Clerks of the Petty Bag were incorporated and made a body politic for the inrolment of deeds by the name of the Clerks of the Inrolments, in consequence of neglect of stat. 27 Hen. VTIL c. 16., an Act concerning Inrolments of Bargains and Contracts of Lands and Tenements. (a) Straohey's Index to the Records. (c) Record Rep. 1800, p. 107. (6) Stow's Survey, i., 738. APPENDIX. 423 The Six Clerks had another Charter of Incorporation granted to them 17 June 1635, 11 Car. I., which recites the other Grants of Incorporation. See Bladen, p. 58, where the Charter is set forth. Inkolment Office. This is part of or adjoining to the Six Clerks' Office, now the Office of the Clerks of Records and Writs, by stat. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103. Clerks of the Inrolments were instituted 16 Eliz., 1573, as stated under the preceding head. The records were kept at the Six Clerks' Office, Chancery Lane, until the present office was built for the Six Clerks about 1778, since which the Clerks of the Inrolment have executed their office in a part of the same building as the Six Clerks' Office, (a) Accountant General's Office. — ^Rbgisteaks' Office. — Eepobt Office. The Accountant General's Office was established in 1726. The present office in Chancery Lane was erected on part of the garden of Lincoln's Inn, pursuant to stats. 14 G. HI. c. 43. and 15 G. IH. c. 22., for the Accountant General and for the Registrars ; the Report Office is part of the Registrars' Office. See also stat. 17 G. III. c. 59. Masters in Chanceet Office. The office was in Symonds Inn, from whence it was removed to the new building erected for the Masters in Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, under stat. 32 G. III. e. 42. (b), where it remained on the passing of the Act 15 & 16 Vict. c. 80. which abolished the Office of Master in Chancery. Taxing Masters' Office. Taxing Masters were first appointed under stat. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103. (1842), previous to which the business was done by the Masters in Chancery. On being appointed 28 October 1842, they took posses- sion of temporary offices provided for them, Nos. 35 and 48, Bedford Row. And at Michaelmas 1843 took possession of the building erected for them in Staple's Inn. Registrar of Affidatits' Office. — Clerk of Affidavits. The office of Registrar was abolished by stat. 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111., and by stat. 3 &4 W. IV. c. 94. s. 11. a Clerk of Affidavits was appointed to do the duties of the Registrar. This office was at No. 10, Symonds Inn, in 1800(c), where it still remained in 1852, when the Offices of Clerk of the Affidavits, and his Assistants, were abolished by 15 & 16 Vict. c. 87. s. 27., and the duties transferred by s. 28. to the Clerks of Records and Writs. Clerk of the Letters Patent. The office was abolished by 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111., and by 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 84. the Crown appoints the Clerk. In 1800 this office was in George Street, Adelphi. (cf) It is now, in 1853, in Quality Court, Chancery Lane. Hanaper Office. The office was abolished by 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111., but was not to be determined until the death of the then Clerk ; the duties then to be performed at the Crown Office. See also 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 84. ; but by (a) Record Kep. 1800, p. 109. (c) Eecord Rep. 1800, p. 104. (6) Stow's Survey, iL, 69. (d) Id., p. 111. 424 APPENDIX. 15 & 16 Vict. c. 87. s. 23. the office was absolutely abolished after 28 October 1852, the duties to be performed by the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. In 1800 the records of this office were described as being kept in the office of the Secretary of Bankrupts in the newly erected buildings in Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane ; the records were deposited there by leave of the Secretary of Bankrupts, the Deputy Clerk of the Hanaper holding a situation in that office, (a) Bankrupts' Paxenxee Office. This office was abolished by 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111. (patentee for the execution of the laws and statutes respecting bankrupts). In 1800 this office was described as being at No. 5, Lincoln's Inn Great Square, (fi) Secretary of Commissions of Bankrupts. In 1800 this office was described as being in the newly erected buildings in Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane (c), and was at the time of its abolition in 1852 in Quality Court, Chancery Lane. Inrolmbnt Office in Bankruptcy. This office was created by stat. 5 G. II. c. 30. The office was abolished by 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111., and re-appointed by 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 84. s. 9., and again abolished by 15 & 16 Vict. c. 77. s. 11. In 1800 the records were described as being in the office of the Secretary of Bankrupts, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, {d) The office was in Basinghall Street on its abolition in 1852. Bankruptcy Court -Court of Eeview. By stat. 1 & 2 W. IV. c. 56. these Courts were erected. The office of the Eegistrar of the Court of Eeview was in Southampton Buildings, or, rather, in Quality Court. Tlie Court of Review was abolished by stat. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 102. Clerk of the Custodies of Idiots and Lunatics. — Secretary op Lunatics. The office of the Clerk of the Custodies in 1800 was in New Court, Middle Temple, (e) The office was abolished by stat. 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111., but not to be determined during the life, &e. of the then Clerk. By stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 84. the duties were directed to be performed by the Secretary of Lunatics, whose office is at No. 3, Quality Court, Chancery Lane. Dispensation Office in Chancery, or Office op the Clerk op the Dispensations and Faculties. The office, in 1800, was in New Court, Middle Temple. (J) By stat. 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111., and after the existing interest, the duties are to be performed by the Secretary of Presentations, pursuant to stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 84. Clerk of Presentations — Secretary of Presentations. The office of the Clerk of the Presentations was abolished by stat. 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111., and after the existing interest the duties are to be (a) Eecord Rep, 1800, p. 100. (d) Id., p. 110. (6) Id., p. 110. (e) Id., p. 111. (c)Id.,p.ioo, under the head "Hanaper (f) Id. Office." ^'' ' APPENDIX. 425 performed by the Secretary of Presentations, pursuant to stat. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 84. The office of Secretary of Presentations is in the Chancery Chambers, Quality Court. EXCHEQUER REPOSITORIES.— Account Side. In former times the Receipt Side of the Exchequer appears to have been on the left side of Westminster Hall, and the Account Side on the right of the Hall. Pipe Office. In the Report on the Cottonian Library, &c., in 1732, the records of the Pipe OfiBco are described as being thus located : — ^Part of the Great Rolls of the Pipe were kept in the Court at Westminster, and others in the Pipe Office, Grays Inn. The leases were kept in the Lease Office, Grays Inn. In 1793, 7 May, a Committee of the House of Commons was ap- pointed to inquire into a method of making a better approach to both Houses of Parliament, by removing a building extending into the street between New Palace Yard and St. Margaret Street, in part of which some of the records of the Pipe were, and which the Committee in their Report thought might be removed to Somerset Place. It appears, also, that at that time the Pipe Office had been removed from Grays Inn to Somerset Place, Somerset House. It was proposed also to remove the records of the Comptroller of the Pipe to Somerset Place from the Court of Exchequer, (a) And it appears from the Record Report of 1800 that the records were in 1793 removed to Somerset House into two rooms on the attic story on the east side of the quadrangle of Somerset Place ; but that part had been left at Westminster, especially some of the Duplicate Rolls of the Pipe, called '' The Chancellor's Rolls," being the records of the Comptroller of the Pipe. (6) In July 1800 the architect notified that he was about to carry into execution that part of his plan which related to the fitting up the vaults at Somerset House for the accommodation of the Pipe Office, the Treasurers Remem- brancer's Office, and the Auditor's Office, (c) The above records of the Pipe and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Offices were removed to Carlton Ride from the vaults at Somerset House by authority of the warrant of the Master of the Rolls dated 30 May 1843. Queen's Remembeancer's Office. In "Fowler's Exchequer Practice," p. 10, it is stated that the Queen's Remembrancer's Office was removed, for the greater convenience of the practisers, from Westminster Hall to the Temple. It is stated in " Strachey's Index to the Records" (about 1739) that the King's Remembrancer's Office was in the King's Bench Walks in the Temple, and had some rooms near Westminster Hall, {d) In 1793 it appears that the King's Remembrancer's Records occu- pied two rooms of the first floor of the building proposed to be taken down, or partly taken down, to make a better approach to the Houses (a) Report of Committee, 1793, to in- (6) Record Rep. 1800, pp. 161, 162. quire into a method of making a better (c) Id., p. 136. approach to the Houses of Parliament, ( or vol. 1. —Ph. and M. - - - -J Part III. Ditto, 1-13 Eliz., or vol. 2. Part IV. Ditto, 14-45 Eliz., or vol. 3. The Inquisitions post mortem of the Duchy of Lancaster, to which the first part of the above work is a calendar, are similar to the work before described as " Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem sive Escaetarum." The pleadings forming the 2d, 3d, and 4th parts, consist of bills, answers, depositions, and sur- veys in suits exhibited in the Duchy Court of Lancaster. CALENDARS OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, to which are prefixed examples of earlier proceedings in that Court from Rich. II. to Eliz., from the originals in the Tower. 3 vols, folio, 1827-1832. PARLIAMENTARY WRITS and Writs of Military Summons, to- gether with the records and muniments relating to the suit and service due and performed to the Kin<;'s High Court of Parliament and the Councils of the Realm, &c. Edw. I., II. 2 vols, in 4 parts, folio, 1827-1834. AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT RECORDS of Great Britain, and the publications of the Record Commissioners, together with other miscellaneous, historical, and antiquarian in- formation. 2 vols. 8vo. (by C. P. Cooper), 1832. A PROPOSAL for the erection of a General Record Office, Judges' Hall, and Chambers, and other buildings on the site of the Rolls estate, together with some particulars respecting the suitors' fund, with plan. 1 vol. 8vo., 1832. Note — The above was remodelled and printed for the con- venience of the Record Commissioners in April 1835, under the title of " Papers relative to the project of building a General Record Office." With plans. 456 APPENDIX. ROTIJLI LITTERAEUM CLAUSARUM in Turri Londinensi asservati. 2 yols. folio, 1833-1844. The first volume from A.D. 1204 to 1224. The second volume, 1224-1227. The Close Rolls contain mandates, letters, and writs addressed in the King's name to individuals for special and particular purposes, which were folded or closed up, and sealed on the outside with the Great Seal. It is chiefly in these particulars that they differ from Letters Patent, which are addressed to all the King's liege subjects, and not folded up, but have the Great Seal attached at the bottom. Information on almost every subject is to be obtained; from these important Rolls. For further particulars, see the Introduction to the work. ROTULUS CANCELLARII vel ANTIGRAPUUM MAGNI ROTULI PIP^, de tertio anno regni regis Johannis. 1 vol. Svo., 1833. The Chancellor's or Duplicate Roll of Annual Accounts of the Exchequer. MAGNUS ROTULUS SCACCARII vel Magnus Rotulus Pipa^, 31 Hen. I. 1 vol. Svo., 1833. Annual Accounts of the Exchequer. THE GREAT ROLLS OF THE PIPE of the 2d, 3d, and 4th years of the reign of King Henry the Second, 1155-1158. 1 vol. Svo., 1844. THE GREAT ROLL OF THE PIPE for the 1st year of the reign of King Richard the First, 1189-1190. 1 vol. 8vo., 1844. ROTUtI SELECTI ad Res Anglicas et Hibernieas spectantes ex Archivis in Domo Cap. Westmon. deprompti. 1 vol. 8vo,, 1834. This miscellaneous volume contains : — 1. A Patent Roll of 7 John (1205-1206). 2. Transcripts of all Letters Patent and Annuities which had been granted by any Lieutenant or Justice of Ireland, from the day of the coronation of Hen. V. to the 12th of Hen. VI. 3. Six Rolls, relating to the affairs of Hen. III. with his Barons, viz., " Placita de terris datis et occupatis oceasione turbacionis in regno Angliae," &c. AN -ESSAY UPON THE ORIGINAL. AUTHORITY OF THE KING'S COUNCIL. 1 vol. 8vo., 1834. PROCEEDINGS and ORDINANCES of the PRIVY COUNCIL of ENGLAND, from 10 Ric. II. to 33 Hen. VIII. 7 vols. 8vo., 1834-1837. ROTULI LITTERARUM PATENTIUM in Turri Londinensi asservati, a.d. 1201 to 1216. 1 vol. folio, 1835. During the reigns of the Plantagenets the Letters Patent are of a very diversified and interesting nature, relating principally to prerogatives of the Crown; revenue; judicature; treaties; truces ; correspondence and negociations with foreign princes and states ; letters of protection, of credence, and of safe conduct ; appointments and powers of ambassadors, &c. : indeed there is scarcely a subject connected with the history and government of the country which may not receive illustration from the Patent Rolls. In addition to the class of documents which may properly be denominated public, there is another relating more especially to the intei-nal policy, &c. of the king- dom, such as grants and confirmations of liberties, offices, pri- vileges, lands, wardships, letters of incorporation, licences for APPENDIX. 457 election of bishops and other ecclesiastical dignitaries, restitu- tions of temporalities, presentations to churches, vicarages, and chapels, creations of nobility, special and general pardons, special liveries, licences and pardons for alienations, proclama- tions, and all manner of commissions, &c. See the Introduction to the work, which for convenience has also been published separately in 8vo., under the title of " A Description of the Patent Rolls," &c. ROTULI CURI^ REGIS. Rolls and Records of the Court held before the King's Justiciars or Justices, 6 Ric. I.-l John. 2 vols. 8vo., 1835. ROTULI NORMANNIyE in Turri Londinensi asservati, a.d. 1200- 1205, also from 1417 to 1418. 1 vol. 8vo., 1835. These Rolls contain such letters and grants of the Kings of England as almdst exclusively relate to the Norman provinces over which, whilst annexed to the English Crown, our Monarchs exercised the same authority as in this kingdom. ROTULI DE OBLATIS ET FINIBUS in Turri Londinensi asservati tempore Regis Johannis. 1 vol. 8vo., 1835. These are oblations or fines paid to the King for the enjoy- ment of honours, offices, lands, liberties, and privileges, EXCERPTA E ROTULIS FINIUM in Turri Londinensi asser- vatis. Hen. HL 1216-1272. 2 vols. 8vo., 1835-1836. These are selections from the Fine Rolls for the purposes of genealogy. The Fine Rolls contain a great variety of matter relating to deaths ; succession of heirs ; descent, division, and alienation of property; custody of lands and of heirs ; liveries ; marriage of heiresses and widows ; assignments of dower ; for- feitures and pardons ; aids and tallages ; affairs of the Jews, &c. FINES, sive PEDES FINIUM, sive Finales Concordiae in Curia Domini Regis. 7 Ric. L-16 John (1195-1214). 2 vols. 8vo., (in counties), 1835-1844. These are Fines of Lands ; a full description of vvhich will be found in Blackstone's Commentaries, and at pp. 128-131 of this work. THE ANCIENT KALENDARS AND INVENTORIES of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer ; together with other docu- ments illustrating the history of that repository. 3 vols. 8vo., 1836. DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS illustrating the HISTORY OF SCOTLAND, and the transactions between the Crowns of Scot- land and England ; preserved in the Treasury of Her Majesty's Exchequer. 1 vol. 8vo., 1837- ROTULI CHARTARUMin Turri Londinensi asservati, a.d. 1199- 1216. 1 vol. folio, 1837. These are royal grants of lands, honours, dignities, hereditary offices, liberties, and other estates of inheritance to the nobility and commonalty ; and of lands, liberties, privileges, immunities, and other estates in mortmain to ecclesiastical, eleemosynary, and lay corporations, &c. REGISTRUM vulgariter nuncupatum « THE RECORD OF CAER- NARVON" e codice MS. Harleiano 696 descriptum. 1 vol. folio, 1838, The first portion of the above Record of Caernarvon contains a collection of Extents of Manors, taken chiefly in 26 Edw. III., in the counties of Caernarvon and Anglesey. A second portion 458 APPENDIX. contains other Extents of Commots and Manors, including the lands of the bishoprick of Bangor. A third portion contains Records under the title "Leges et Consuetudines Wallise." A fourth portion is a collection of Inquisitions and Pleadings in quo warranto, before the Justices Itinerant in North Wales, peti- tions, &c. The next portion contains particulars of the taxation of the spiritual and temporal possessions of the clergy of the diocese of Bangor, followed by an extent of the temporalities of the See, 22 Ric. 11. After which follows a collection of smaller records. ANCIENT LAWS AND INSTITUTES OF ENGLAND, com- prising laws enacted under the Anglo-Saxon Kings, from ^thel- birht to Cnut, with an English translation of the Saxon ; the laws called Edward the Confessor's ; the laws of William the Con- queror, and those ascribed to Henry the First ; also, Monumenta Ecclesiastica Anglicana, from the 7th to the 10th century ; and the ancient Latin version of the Anglo-Saxon laws : — with a compen- dious glossary, &c. 1 vol. folio, or 2 vols. 8vo., 1840. Note. — This is a portion of the works intended to be collected as Materials for the History of Britain, under the title of " Anglo- Saxon Laws." ANCIENT LAWS AND INSTITUTES OF WALES, comprising laws supposed to be enacted by Howel the Good, modified by subsequent regulations under the native princes prior to the Conquest by Edward the First ; and anomalous laws, consisting principally of institutions which, by the Statute of Euddlan, were admitted to continue in force ; with an English translation of the Welsh text. To which are added, a few Latin transcripts, con- taining digests of the Welsh laws, principally of the Dimetian Code. With indices and glossary. 1 vol. folio, or 2 vols. 8vo., 1841. Note. — This is a portion of the works intended to be collected as Materials for the History of Britain, under the title of " Welsh Laws." ROTULI DE LIBERATE AC DE MISIS ET PR^STITIS, REGNANTE JOHANNE. 1 vol. 8vo., 1844. This volume contains the Liberate Rolls of the second, third, and fifth years of King John ; the Misse Roll of the eleventh, and the Proestita Roll of the twelfth years of the same reign. The Liberate Rolls contain Writs issued out of Chancery, directed to the Treasurer and Chamberlains of the Exchequer, ordering them to deliver or pay money out of the Treasury. The Mism Roll contains an account of the daily expenses of the Court of King John. The Prastita Roll contains the entry of sums of money which issued out of any of the Royal Treasuries by way of imprest, advance, or accommodation. DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF ENGLISH HISTORY in the 13th and 14th centuries, selected from the Records in the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer. 1 vol. fcap. folio, 1844. MODUS TENENDI PARLIAMENTUM ; an ancient treatise on the mode of holding the Parliament in England. 1 vol. 8vo., 1846. MONUMENTA HISTORICA BRITANNICA, or Materials for the History of Britain, from the earliest period to the end of the reign of King Hen. VII. Vol. 1. extending to the Norman Con- quest, 1848, folio. APPENDIX. 459 REPORTS OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE RECORD COM- MISSIONERS, 1800 to 1819, have been printed in 2 vols, folio. From 1819 to 1831 their proceedings have not been printed. A third volume of Reports of their Proceedings, from 1831 to 1837, folio, has been printed. Records of Scotland. INQUISITIONUM AD CAPELLAM DOMINI REGIS RE- TORNATARUM, quag in Publicis Archivis Scotise adhuc asser- vantur, Abbreviatio. From about 1546 to the end of the 17th century. 4 vols, folio, of which the last is a supplement. 1811— 1816. The above is an abridgment of the Scottish Inquisitions, virhich originate in writs of Mortancestry, or writ of Succession. By the above writ the Judge to whom it is addressed is authorized and required to ascertain, by the verdict of a jury, the following points : — 1. In what lands and annual rents the ancestor of the claimant died vested and seised ? 2. If the claimant be the nearest lawful heir ? 3. If of lawful age ? 4. Annual value of the lands, &c., according to certain valuations, usually called Old and New Extent? 5. Of whom, as feudal superior, the lands are held ? 6. By what feudal service or species of tenure ? 7. In whose possession the lands now are, on what account, and how long so possessed ? The result of these inquiries was trans- mitted to Chancery, together with the original writ. With certain limitations, the above may be considered as ex- hibiting an authentic history of the transmission, by inheritance, of the far greater part of the landed property of Scotland, as well as that of the descent of the greater number of its considerable families. REGISTRUM MAGNI SIGILLI REGUM SCOTORUM in Archivis Publicis asservatum. a.d. 1306-1424. 1 vol. folio, 1814. The above is a collection of Royal Charters of Scotland. THE ACTS OF THE PARLIAMENTS OF SCOTLAND. 11 vols, folio, 1814-1845. The first volume of these Acts was not published till 1846. THE ACTS OF THE LORDS AUDITORS OF CAUSES AND COMPLAINTS, or, ActaDominorum Auditorum. a.d. 1466-1494. 1 vol. folio, 1839. This volume contains the judicial acts and proceedings of the Committees of the Three Estates of Scotland, chosen for hearing causes and complaints during the reigns of James III. and IV. of Scotland. THE ACTS OF THE LORDS OF COUNCIL in Civil Causes, or, Acta Dominorum Concilij. a.d. 1478-1495. 1 vol. folio, 1839. These are intimately connected with the above contempo- raneous and analogous proceedings of " The Acts of the Lords Auditors of Causes and Complaints." Publications of the Irish Record Commissioners. LIBER MUNERUM PUBLICORUM HIBERNI^, 1152-1827, or, THE ESTABLISHMENTS OF IRELAND; commenced under the authority of the Record Commissioners for Ireland, and proceeded with under the authority of the Secretary for Ireland ; 460 APPENDIX. and the Observations explanatory of the work following the title have been added by the authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. This work affords abundant information concerning the official history of Ireland. 1 vol. in 2 parts, folio, 1852. INQUISITIONUM IN OFFICIO ROTULOEUM CANCEL- LARI^ HIBERNI^ ASSERVATARUM, REPERTORIDM. vols. i. ii. folio, 1826-1829. These are Inquisitions preserved in the Rolls Office of the Court of Chancery of Ireland, consisting of Inquisitions post mortem and Inquisitions on Attainder. They are divided according to the four provinces and the several counties of Ireland into reigns, and generally commence in the time of Queen Elizabeth, a few being prior to that period. The former class ceases soon after the restoration of Car. II., when the feudal tenures were abolished. The latter extends to the reign of W. III. The Inquisitions post mortem are the best evidences of the descent of families, and of the transfer and possession of property during the period they embrace. The Inquisitions on Attainder show whether any person was attainted, in which case his lands and other property were seized into the King's hands. ROTULORUM PATENTIUM ET CLAUSORUM CANCEL- LARI^ HIBERNIiE CALENDARIUM. Hen. H.- Hen. VII., vol. 1., pars i., folio, 1828. The Patent and Close Rolls of the Chancery of I^peland are preserved in the Rolls Office, Dublin. Upon these rolls are found grants of lands in fee or otherwise, creations of honours, charters of incorporation, grants of offices, presentations, denizations, wardships, pardons, ancient statutes, Kings' letters, and other state documents, with several inquisitions, and many deeds, con- veyances, letters of attorney, and Chancery proceedings. REPORTS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE IRISH RECORD COMMISSIONERS. Three volumes were published, 1810-1825, embracing 15 annual reports and supplements. In 1828 their 16th and 17th Reports were published ; and in 1830 their 18th and 19th Reports were published: all as sessional papers. INDEX. Coui't or Department. Page. Court or Department. Page. Ablaey Lands Abbeys, Ac. Accountant Genei-ars") Office - - -i Accountants Accounts (Exohequer') of Account) - -i Pipe Queen's Kemem-") brancer - -J Lord Treasurer's X Remembrancer } Clerk of Poreigu) Estreats - -i Porelgn Apposer - Land ilevenue Augmentation First Prults Auditors of ImO prest Commissioners for > Auditing Public Accounts - -J (Exchequer of) Pleas) - -i , (Exchequer of) Ueceipt) -) Pell Department - Auditor's Depart-) ment - -S Cliancery Exchequer Chancery Audit Office Exchequer Alienation Office V Books - -S Prothonotaries Commissioners of) Public Accounts S of the Protho-l notary - - J (Declared) ; —various Receipts " and Issues See also Declared Accounts. Acknowledgment Office Acknowledgments off Supremacy - j^ Acombm-y. /SeeChar-^ tularies. Printed in I the 8th Rep. of the ' Dep. Keeper of Re- cords, App. II. p 135 - Acquittances See Discharges - Act Books. See Assig- ) nations or Act Books j Acts of Parliament - Address 1 looks - Adiudicatior.s of Sewers Admirals, Lord High - Admiralty 3 Treasuiy of^ Receipt, or I Chapter f House -J Queen's Bench Common Pleas Audit Office | Court of "Wards "Welsh Re- ") cordS; Ches- }• ter Circuit „ North "Wales Cir- cuit Treasury Common Pleas Exchequer - Treasury of ") Receipt -S Exchequer Court of "Wards Court of Ad-) miralty -S Chancery i'rcasury Chancery 7 143 7,8 373 144-151 144-146 146-148 148 148 148 148-150 150 150 150,151 370-372 164-166 156. 287- 297 99 119. 121 119 150, 151. 370-372 312 323 328 367 350-369 119 166 297 176 156 313 337 S37 8 852 Admiralty De;part-"^ ment, containing I also Records pertain- f ing to the Navy -J High Court of Admissions of Officers - Oath RoUs re-"^ quired to be sub- scribedbyAttor- ^ neys on their admissions, &c. -J — Affidavits of _. .{ Ad q^uod damniun In- ") quisitions - - J Adultery Advances - - - Advices of Remittances Advowsous Affidavits - of Clerkship - ( -{ } - of Service. See Articles of Clerks African Company, Re- \ cords, &c. of - -S Agenda Books Aids . . - Scutages, Taxes,"! &c. Alchymy Ahenation Office - of Lands - Licences of - ( Alien Priories Aliens - . - - Alimony Allegations - - 5 Allegiance . . - — ■ — and Supremacy ) Oaths - - -S or Oath Rolls - Alliances, Marriages, \ &c. - - -S Allowances Chancery Exchequer Queen's Bench Common Pleas "Welsh Re- ") cords,Breck- >■ nock Circuits ,, Carmar- ") then Circuit j ,, Chester ) Circuit -i NorthS Wales Cir- [ cuit -) Chancery Exchequer Treasury Chancery Exchequer Queen's Bench Common Pleas Palace Court - Court of "Wards Court of Re-") quests - i "Welsh Re- S cords,Breck- > nock Circuit.) „ Carmar- ) then Circuit S ,, Chester ) Circuit -) Durham Re-") cords -S Treasury Exchequer - Ohanceiy Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Common Pleas Chancery Common Pleas Durham Re-") cords -} Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Admiralty ) Court -S Queen's Bench Chancery Common Pleas Court of "Wards Exchequer 337 8 157 119 330 331 324 157 352 167, 15* 99 120 309 312 318 381 324 324 334, 835 362.367 158 9 158 9 158 121.158 9 121 334 9 1B8 9 9 337, 838 9 121 312 158 462 INDEX. Court or Department. Page. Court or Department. Page. Allowances Almain Eolls Alnagers' Accounts Ambassadors Amerciaments and EecognlO zances forfeited - } American Payments S and Tontine Annul- >- ties - - - -) See Reports of> Mr. Stedman - - J Books - -i liOyalist Claims \ Papers - f War -J Anglesey Anglia Anne of Denmark Annuities Answers Appeals - to Queries Commissions of j for Prizes Appearance Books - j Appearances Appointments See Admissions - See Patents of Vice-Admi-" rals of Counties, Is- lands, and Planta- tions, and also Go- vernors of Islands and Plantations. See Patent Books in the Admiralty Court of Peodaries, ;} Escheators, &c. See Patents Colonics. See'} American Books -J Appraisements Appropriations Archbisliopricks Archdeaconries Arms, Grants of Armstrong's Declara^ tions of Popisli SU' premacy Army Sundiy Books"^ relating to. See also ?• Military - •) Insupers. See\ Lists - -S Array, Commissioners of Arrears of Payment for"^ "Wards, Lands, &c. Sherifl's' Returns of > Arrears. See Sheriffs' lleturns - -J 9 Treasury Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Exchequer - Audit Office - Treasury Welsh Records Exchequer Chancery Exchequer - Common Pleas Court of Ad-1 miralty -J Audit Office - Chancery Queen's Bench Court of Ad- 1 miralty -J Court of Re-'( quests Welsh Re- cords, Ches- ter Circuit „ Carmar- ■) then Circuit j Exchequer - Queen's Bench Common Pleas Palace Court - Exchequer - Chancery Audit Office - Palace Court - Court of Ad- miralty Court of Wards Treasury Exchequer - Palace Court - Court of Ad-I miralty -i Exchequer - Chancei*y Exchequer - Cliaucery Exchequer Treasuiy of 7 Receipt -i Chancery Exchequer - Treasury Audit Office - Chancery Court of Wards 352 9 159 10 159 159 159 573 352. 867 327 159 169 10 159,160 121 337 373 10 99 338 337 318 331 160 99 121 309 160 10 373 309 337 312 352 160 309 337 160 160 10 161 10 161 297 10 101 352 373 10 Arrests ... Arrow Bundle Art, Works of - - Articles of Clerks of Clerks. See^ Clerks' Articles. See >- Attorneys • -) of Clerks of Clerks filed~i with Affidavits of Service" and Testi- J- monials or Certifi- cates - of Clerkship - ( of Certificates of 1 Clerks - -S Registers of - 1 of the Peace Arundel, Earl of Assay, ^ee Mint Rolls . ( Assessed Taxes Assessments Assignations or Assign- ) ments - - 3 Assignations, or Act Books, containing Minutes in each Cause Assignments of Dower -j Assize Estreats Assize Rolls— "1 Placita in Itinere f Placita Porestie -) Assizes, Iters, Quo ) WaiTantos - -J Attendanoewith ) Records at - -J Association Rolls Attachments. See'Re-l hellion - -S of Contem^it. 1 See Interrogatories S - and Extents Attainders Attendance with Re-" cords Attestations - - j Attorney, Letters of Attorneys See Powers of] Attorney - j Certificates, Re- J gisterof - -j Certificates - \ Common Pleas Chancery Queen's Bench Common Pleas Welsh Re- ") cords, Ches- f ter Circuit -) „ Breck-") nock Circuit/ ,, Chester 1 Circuit -J Queen's Bench Exchequer - Treasmy of ") Receipt -j Exchequer - :} See Certificates < Register of. See ) Oaths and Admissions i Rolls Testimonials or") Certificates. See Ax- >- tides of Clerks •) Audita Querela Audit Oifloe - -"J Records, &c. -j Admiralty Court Welsh Re- cords, CheS' ter Circuit Exchequer Welsh Re- cords, Ches- ter Circuit Chancery Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Common Pleas Court of Wards Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Chancery Admiralty "i Court -S Chanceiy Admiralty ") Court J Exchequer - Queen's Bench Common Pleas Palace Court Audit Office - Welsh Re- ") cords, Breck- > nock Circuit ) „ Carmar- \ then Circuit J North") Wales Cir- \ cult - -J ,, Chester ") Circuit -i 122 11 11 11.24 100 122 5U 330 324 100 161 161 297 161 161 161,162 337,338 323 162 324 Chancery 11 11 11 162 100 122,123 312 11 162 100 11 337 11 337 162, 168 100 123 309 371 380 331 328 324 324 32t 11 370-375 INDEX. 463 Court ov Department, Page. Court or Department. Page. Audit Office - -") Letters. &e. to. ■ nock Circuit ) ,, Chester ") Circuit -i North") "Wales Cir- > cuit - -) Durham Re-") cords -J Chancery Court of Ad- miralty Exchequer - Treasury Chancery Treasury Queen'sBench Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Common Pleas Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Treasury Exchequer - 11 1C3. 870 163. 370 163 163 163 352. 367 367 164, 16S 303 12 165 12 165 331 323 100 12 100 165 101 123 309 ':} "330 12 337 165 165 352 12 362 101 12-14 14 166 102 124 166 14 166 362 175 Beauchamp. See Char-~1 tularies. Printed in the 8th Rep. of the I Deputy Keeper of ( Records, App.II.pp. 147-151 - -J Bedford Level Begham Priory Benefices Benevolences. SeeAs-\ sessments - - J Bengal, Bast India^ Company's Advices ?■ from - - -) Bill Books Billie Plaeitorum. Rule Rolls Billet (Commissariat) ~ Bills (Bill Books) Money Bills and Answers Answei's, Depo- \ sitions, &c. - -i and Answers (if) found) -) Answers, &c. -f - Ditto, Chancery S L Ditto, Cliancery 7 Bill Books -i Books, Chan- 7 eery - - -S Books, and "^ Bills of Costs - - of Costs - of Exchange. ■{ See "Warrants - ) Biography Bishopricks Bishops' Certificates Patents - Black Book ■ (of the Forest) - or Calendar of '-{ Criminal Causes Blackmore Priory Board of Trade Board's End Books Bonaparte. See Long- 1 wood . -i Bonds - - ■ Borougihbridge Roll. > See Contrariensium S Boulogne. See Calais - Boundaries See Municipal") and Parliamentary ? Boundaries - •) Bradwell Priory Brangwin Roll Bread, Oats, Porage, &c. Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Treasury "Welsh Re- "1 cords, Car- ! marthen ( Circuit -J Treasuiy Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Common Pleas Court of "Wards Court of Re-") quests - i Court of Star") Chamber -j "Welsh Re- cords,North "Wales Cir- cuit - ,, Chester") Circuit - i „ Breck- > nock Circuit J „ North ") "Wales Circuit J „ Carmar- ") then Circuit i Durham Re- ") cords -i Exchequer - Palace Court • Audit Office - Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer Treasury of") Receipt -j "Welsh Re- S eords.Breck- r nock Circuit ) Chancery Exchequer - Treasury Chancery Exchequer Queen's Bench Court of Wards Palace Court - Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Treasury 175 14 14 14 166 352. 367 352 332, 338 363 16 166,167 102 124 312 318 319 328 323 329 828 331, 332 335 167 309 373 167 15 167 167 15 16 168,169 297 330 15 344 170 15 170 102 312 309 170 15 170 15 15 362 464 INDEX. Court or Department. Court or Department. Brecknock Circuit Brevia Eegia (Writs) [ Bridges Broomhill Priory Buildings. See Public ^ Buildings. Palaces > Bullion, Specie, &o. Bulls. ;S«e Papal Bulls "Welsh Records Chancery "Welsh Re- -) cords,Breck- >■ nock Circuits ,, Carmar- \ then Circuit J Chester I -i Butler, the King's Caermarthen, Survey \ of. /See Carmarthen i Caernarvon, Eecord of (North Wales') Circuit) Calais Calceto Priory Calendars Calendar E^Us of Prisoners. See Prisoners Cambridge Camp Supplies Cancellations - Canonries Canwell Priory Capias - - Book Cardigan Cardinal College, Oxford VariousBecords 1 relating to - -i Cardinal's Bundles Carmarthen, Survey of - Circuit .r Bill Books --! Bills, Answers, &o. I Cartse Antiquse Cash Books Balances - S Castle Guard Bents Castles - . - Casual Supphes. See\ Supplies - -i CatholicAttomeys'EoUs Causes - - -I Cause Books - J Ditto Ditto Cause List Cause Books -( Papers -|^ Ditto - - [ Cause Books Cause Papers - Caveat Books Certificates dl'ircuit Chancery. Exchequer Treasury Chancery Exchequer Welsh Records Chancery Exchequer Chancery Welsh Re- cords, Car- marthen Circuit „ North) WalesCirouiti Durham Re- cords Exchequer Treasury Chancery Queens Bench Common Pleas Welsh Re- cords, Car- marthen Circuit Exchequer Treasury of the Receipt Chancery Exchequer Welsh Re- cords, Car- marthen Circuit Chancery Exchequer Treasury containing ""j Names of Account- i ants of Paymaster- ( General -J 830 16 16 170 16.60 170.238 170 170 170 327 16 170 16 170 352 16 16 16 102 124 331 171 297 16 170 17.21 171 171 353 Certificates — of Process issued Auditor's Commissariat Pells' of Payments into the Exchequer - of Payments on Aids into the Ex- chequer Exchequer Bill Certificates Hawkers and Ped- lars Various See Articles of) Clerks — jSee Piles — — Register of Cer-") tificates of Clerks' > Articles - -) Attorneys' Cer- \ tiflcate Rolls - - ) of Attorneys, \ Registers of - -S Certiorari Chamberlain, Lord Chamberlains Accounts. See Accounts Chancellor of the Ex-I chequer - -i Chancellor's Bolls Duphcate of the Pipe Rolls Chancery Chancery and Chan-') cellors - -i Judicial Pro- \ t} Chapter House Re- cords Court of Wards Treasury Welsh Rfi- cords, Ches- ter Circuit „ Breck-') nock Circuit J „ Carmar-") then Circuit i „ North \ WalesCirculti Chancery Queen's Bench Welsh E«- ~ cords, Car- marthen Circuit ,, Chester 1 Circuit -J Exchequer - Welsh" Re- ") cords.Ches- >• ter Circuit J Exchequer - Queen's Bench Chancery 297' 312,318 3.53.367 324 329 330 IS loa 178 173 323 Exchequer - 171 „ 171,172 Treasury 363 Common Pleas 124 Exchequer - 172 Queen's Bench 102 Court of Wards 312 „ 312 Welsh Re- ■) cords, Ches- > 324 ter Circuit ) „ North') WalesCircuit S 328 328 Palace Court - 309 Treasuiy 363 Chancery 17 Queen's Bench 102 Common Pleas 124 Exchequer - 172,173 Audit Office - 373 ceedings Chantries Chapels Chapter House, or Treasury of the Re- ceipt Charge or Waste Book \ of tlie Tellers -i Charitable "Uses Charities' Commission") Records, Books, Pa- >■ pers, &c. - 'J Charlotte, the Princess Charter Rolls Charters Chartularies and ") Leidger Books - i Chatham Chertsey Cheshire. iSee Chester > Circuit - -i Chester Circuit Cheshire, Flint, Denbigh, Mont- gomery Chief Butler of England Chivalry Court of - Christ Chui'ch (London) Chui'ches - - j Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Exchequer Chancery Treasury Chancery Exchequer Chancery Exchequer - WelshRecords Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Chancery Exchequer 173 173 103 18 18-20 173,174 20' 174 174 20 378-380 353 21 174,175 175 21 175 176 21 305-307 175 22 175 INDEX. 465 Church Goods. See In- ) ventories - -j &o. Lands - ■ Livings - Preferments. \ ^ee Constats -i Cinque Ports Circuits, Commissions - r -^— Bcol^, Papers \ - Papers ■{ Citations Civil List - from 1090 Expenses Receipts and Pay- ments Quarterly Accounts of Revenue Establishment Book Disposition Books _ Claims. See Corona- 1 tions. Porests -j for Property ~) talvcn or destroyed I during the American f War - - -J of British Sub--) jects against the Go- vernment of France, I from 1792, Ionian f Islands, Mauritius, &c. - - - -J of British Sub-'^ jects for Losses sus- tained in conse- 1 quence of Seizures [ by the Danish Go- vernment - -J of British Sub-l jects on Spain, and ! of Spanish Subjects [ on Britain - -J of British Sub-T jects for Losses in 1 consequence of Sei- \ zures by the Spanish Government in 1804 J -for Slave Com- pensation Clergy - Clergymen's Rolls Clerk of the Crown Custodies Dispensations and Faculi;ies Letters Patent Presentations Records and Writs Estreats Faculties, Ac- counts of Hanaper, Ac- counts of Nichils Pipe Reports Chief Common Bails Declarations Dockets and Judgments Errors Court or Department. Exchequer Chancery Audit Office - Chancery Welsh" Re- cords, Car- marthen Circuit ,. North ■) Wales Cir- \ cuit - -) Court of Ad-) miralty -J Treasury Chancery Exchequer - Treasury Audit Office - AdmiraltyCourt Chancery Exchequer Common Pleas Chancery Exchequer t "i (■ Queen's \ ■gSlTBench; Page. 17.5 175,176 22 371.373 22 22 328 337 351. 353 22 176 353 373 337 39^399 400, 401 403, 404 22 176 124 22 22 23 23,24 24 24 176 177 177 177 177 177 103 Clerk, Inner and Up-" per Treasuries Nisi Prius Outer Treasury Outlawries Papers Rules - Judgments Reversals of Outlawries Dockets — ' — Essoins Treasury Jurata Juries Errors Supersedeas - Outlawries ■ "Warrants, En- rolments, and Es- treats King's Silver -' Return Office - - Alienation Office Inrolment of Writs for Pines and Eecoveries - -J Clerks' Articles - See Attorneys - of Eficords and ) Writs' Office - -) Cleveland, Earl of Close Bolls Coast Bonds Cofferers Cognovits Coinage Collectors of Customs - Colleges. See also^Jm-^ versities - -J Colonial Appoint- "1 ments. See Patents I under the Head, ( Court of AdmiraltyJ Colonies Commendaans - Commissariat Commissioners for Auditing "^ Public Accounts, or I Office for Auditing ( Public Accounts -J for Inquiring into Charities - J for InquiringS into Porfeited Es- j- tates - -J for Inquiring^ into Municipal Cor- ! porations' JBounda- ( ries - - -J for Inquiring'^ into Parliamentary > Boundaries - -) for Liquidating" Claims of British and other Subjects against the Govern- ment of France, from L792, British Ionian Islands, Mauritius. See Claims Court or Department. A w f Queen's") ■^^\ Bench i -^ 6 ■^,4^ Com. Pleas or-* O to Chancery Queen's Bench Common Pleas Welsh Re- ") cords, Ches- >■ ter Circuit ) Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Durham Re-') cords -S Exchequer - Queen's Bench Chancery Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Treasury Chancery Treasury - 1 Chancery Audit Office - Exchequer - Page. 125 100. 103 124 24 177 21-26 334 177 177 177 103 26 177 27 27 177,178 337 353. 383 27 353, 364 368 27 370-.375 178 378 381-391 392 393 394-399 H H 466 INDEX. Court or Department. Page. Court or Department. Page. Commissioners for In-" quiring into Claims of British Subjects for liosses sustained in consequence of Seizures by the Da- nish Government -, — — for Inquiring into Claims by Bri- tish Subjects on Spain, and by Spa- nish Subjects onEri- tain - - -. for Inquiring" into British Clatms for Losses in conse- ■ quence of Seizures by the Spanish Go- vernment in 1804 - ——for Slave Com- pensation - for taking Afft- :} davits " " "(. Commissions. Seealso\ Commissioners -} = "- -■ .{ of Oyer and Ter-"! miner of the Peace - > ofGaolDehvery of Assize -J ■{ ■ Efiturns of Commitments Committiturs Common Appearances ■ Bail Pleas. See Court of - Prayer Book - Eecoveries -{ — : — Eolls, or Com-') muniaPlacita - -i Commonwealth Companies of the City') of London - -S Compassionate Allow- ances. See Allow- ances Complaints - Compositions for 'Wardships, Leases, &c. See Pe titions Comptroller of Customs (Pirst Fruits) - General of the") Eeceipt and Issue of j- the Exchequer -J ofthe'Pipe. See\ Pipe - -J Concealed Lands w-> 4 - Persons Concords of Fines or'1 Chirographs. See > Fines - -J See Fines (Plea Side) -{ Confirmation Rolls •') of Charters, &a.S "Vfelsh He- ") cords^Ches- > ter Curouit ) Chancery Exchequer - Treasury of \ Eficeipt -i Court of 'Wards Court of Ad- miralty Durham Ee-') cords -i Court of Ee-') quests -J Palace Court - Queen's Bench Common Pleas Palace Court - Chancery Exchequer - Common Pleas Chancery Common Pleas Durham Re-') cords 'S Common Pleas Exchequer - Treasury Common Pleas Exchequer - Court of 'Wards Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Common Pleas Durham Re-') cords -J Chancery 400,401 402 8,404 405-411 27,28 178,179 297 313 337, 338 334 318 309 103 125 309 117-140 28 179 136 28 125 335 12B 179 179 353, 354 125 180 180 180 180 29 180 29 180 125 335 Confirmations Cong6 d'elire Consents Constable, Court of the Constat Constats containing 'S^a^' lue of Church Pre- ferments Constitutions Queen's Remem- brancer's De- partment Laud Revenue Exchequer of Ee- ceipt Contempt of Court Continuances Continuations - Books of Conti nuation of Actions Contract Prices - Contracts for Leases and Marriages Contrariensium Contrarients Controller of the Pipe- See Comptroller of^ the Pipe - -J Controhnent, Special') "Writ, andBagRoUsJ Contumace capiendo - Convention Parha- 1 ment - -i Conveyances Convictions Convicts, Popish. Certificates Copies. See ExempU-' ncations. Tran- scripts by 'Writ Corn Cornwall Duchy of ;] 3 Correspondence,&c, Tin Books - Coronation Rolls, &c. Coroner ' Coroners ■ Inquisitions •< I Corpus cum causa Costs Bills of - Costume Council Books Comity History Placita Court of Admiralty Chancery - - Queen's Bench - Common Pleas - Exchequer Exchequer \ Chamber - -S King's (or Curia') Eegis) - • -S Christian Exchequer Chancery Queen'sBenoh Common Pleas Palace Court Chancery Exchequer Audit Office Exchequer Queen'sBenoh Common Pleas ■Welsh Efi- 1 cords,North 1 "Wales Cir- f cuit - -J Treasury Exchequer - Court of Wards Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Chancery Exchequer - Common Pleas Queen's Bench Chancery Queen's Bench Chancery Exchequer Treasury Chancery Queen'sBenoh Chancery Welsh Re- ") cords, Ches- f ter Circuit ) Chancery Exchequer - Queen'sBenoh Palace Court - "Welsh Re- cords, Car- marthen Cu'cuit Chancery Exchequer Treasury Exchequer Chancery 180 29 103 125 309 305 29 180 371.373 180, 181 180 181 103 125 353,354 181 313 29,30 181 103 30 30 30 181 125 104 30 104 30 30 181 30 104 30 325 SO 181 104 309 332 30 181 355 181 30 337 1-96 97-116 117-140 141-283 286,236 Chancery 31 INDEX. 467 Coui't or Department. Court or Department, Page. -1 Court of Appeal of Delegates Attachments or' "Woodmote Justice Seat Swainmote. See Placita Forestie Chivalry, Mili- tary, Marshal, or of the Constable and Marshal General Sur- ■) veyors - -J Bequests. Some-") times has been called > Court of WhitehaU ) Star Chamber - "Wards WhitohaU. See\ Court of Eequests -i Hand Memorandum "? Papers RoUs Coiffts of Justice Covenant, Writs of Cravings, Sheriffs' Creations Credentials Crier Criminal Affairs Crown Eooks. Se dictments Crown Lands Jln-f ■ Lease Books, ft'om 1726 Office -EoUs Crusades Culliford, Mr. His Re-~) port of the Survey I and Inspection of f divers Ports - -J Curia Regis, Court of - Cursitors Piles - -•j Files. See Piles [ Custodies Custody Papers Customers Customs of Manors Customers Customs . . -■ Accounts of Frauds in the Imports and Exports Accounts of the Gross and Net Produce of Journals of theEe- oeipt of the Cus- toms Establishments - Informations Ships entered Seizures, " ters of "Wool Bonds Custo3Brevium,Olfioeof Court of Ad-") miralty -i Exchequer Common Pleas Palace Court - Chancery Exchequer - Treasury of "> lieceipt -i "Welsh Be- cords, Ches ter Circuit Chancery Common Pleas Exchequer - Chancery Palace Court - Chancery "Welsh Re cords, Ches- ter Circuit Chancery Exchequer Treasury :■} es- >■ it ; Chancery- Queen's Bench Chancery Treasury Chancery "Welsh Re- ") cords,Breck- > nock Circuits „ Carmar- \ then Circuity Chancery Palace Court - Cha.ncei'y Exchequer - Treasury 337 301 305 317 319 311 317 31 181, 182 297 325 31 126 182 31 31 309 31 31 182 31-33 10-1 33 »-855 303 33 329 33 309 83 33 182,183 351.'355- Common Pleas 125 Gustos Regni Danish and Dutch > Loan - -S Danish Claims Davontree Priory Day Accounts Books Deaneries Deans and Chapters - Debentures Debet Books Debts . - - Books of Arrears I of Payment for ( "Wards, &c. -J Desperate - - Decimarum Liber Declarations of the Clerk of "1 the Pells - 1 of the Auditor ( of the Receipt -J of Debts - _. . .( Declared Accounts &eAcooimts De Coutumace Capi-1 endo • - -S Decrees Decree Rolls of Comniis- "i :} sioners of Charitable 1 Uses. See Inquisi- 1 tions ■ - -J or Awards ofl the Commissioners for setthng the f- Drainage of Bedford Level - See Orders - and Orders - Decree Books ■ and Orders -| De Diem Clausit Bx-"^ tremiun - -5 Dedimus Deeds Chancery • Treasury Chancery Palace Com-t - Exchequer - Queens Bench Common Pleas Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Court of "Wards Audit Office - Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Coromon Pleas Palace Court - Treasury - \ Court of "Wards "Welsh Re- ") cords, Ches- >■ ter Circuit ) Dm-ham Re-") cords -i Exchequer - Audit Oiflce - Treasury •', Chancery Queen's Bench Cliancery 355 400, «1 33 309 183 104 125 33 183 33 183 183 183 313 37■ nock Circuit J „ North Wales Cir' cuit Durham Re-V cords -S Chancery Durham Re- cords Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Common Pleas Chapter "^ House Re- ?■ cords -J Court of Wards Welsh Re- ") cords3reck- [■ nock Circuit.) 'hh2 :} *:} 184, 185 313 318 319 328 334 34 34 335 34,35 185 105 126 297 313 330 468 INDEX. Deeds Beeds, Vouchers, &c." lodged in Coui-t Deeds entered on tlie Plea Rolls De Excommunicato "> Capiendo - -J Degrees ... Delinquents' Estates - See also Eor-") feited Estates -j Demesnes Denbigh. See Chester \ Circuit - -J Eolls. See h.a-\ counts . - •} Denizations Denmark. See Claims Deodands - - . Department Books Depopulation Depositions - and Exhibits De Probatione ^tatis • Depvitations Deputy Steward. S Oaths of Office Derby, Ferdinand, Earl of Derelict Lands ■'.} Desceuts De Sccunda Superoiie- ") ratione - - i Desperate Debts, Re-"] solutions of the I Commissioners of [ Audit on • - -J Dialogus de Scaccario - Diem Clausit ExtreO mum - - J Direction, Letters of Discharges by the Au-~J ditor to the Sheriffs, ?■ &c. - - •) Disclaimers Dismcs - - - Dispensations and Pa- \ culties - •} ——Rolls - - - Disposition Books District Accounts. See \ Accounts - -) Dividends and Into- ") rest. ^See Interest -J Divorces Dockets -■ ■ ■{ Court or Department. Durham Ee-'J cords -J "Welsh Re- ~) cords, Ches- > ter Circuit -) Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Welsh Records „ Chester') Circuit -i Chancery Chancery Treasury Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Admiralty ") Court -i Chancery Queen's Bench Welsh Re- ") cords, Ches- \ ter Circuit J Palace Court - Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer . Chancery Exchequer - Common Pleas Court of Wards Chancery Exchequer - Audit Office . Exchequer Chancery Exchequer . Treasury Court of Wards Chancery Treasvu'y Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Common Pleas Palace Court - Treasury Court of Re- 7 quests -i Welsh Re- ■) cords,Breck- > nock Circuits „ Carmar- \ then Circuit J ,, Chester \ Cu'cuit -S 323.325 35 35 35 185 35 322 35 400, 401 35 357 35 35 185 105 337 35 105 325 309 185 35 186 35 186 126 313 35 186 374 186 35 186 186 357 313 35 357 351.354 857 36 36 186 105 126 309 367 318 329, 330 325 Dockets Dockyards Dodnash, ■■ Dodneis, or j Dodnes Priory Doggett, or Judgment \ Books - - -5 Domesday . - -j Domestic Documents < Dowers - . - Assignment of."" See Indentures. ] Patents - Proceedings on - Court or Department. Duchy of Cornwall Lancaster -} Duels - - - Durham Palatine Re-) cords - -i Dutch Loan. See S Danish and Dutch \ Loan - -J Duty on Hides East India Company - > East Indies - -i Advices from Bengal Books and Papers. I See Bengal Pa- 1 pers Ecclesiastical matters Effects of deceased \ CommissariatOfficers i Ejectments Elections. &e Writs ( Elegit - Writ of . - Ely Records Endowments English Bills Entry, Writ of Envoys - Equity EiTor, Writs of - Proceedings on ■ EiTors, Clerk of Escheators, ■> Escheats J -Appointments of Escroe "^ Escrow i Essoins Establishments (Ireland) Customs. Sce'^ Customs. Military f Establishments -J Estates Sec Genealogy Estimates Estreat Books Estreats Welsh Re- ") cords. North f WalesCirouitJ Chancery Exchequer . Chancery Palace Court - •i Chapter House Re- cords Exchequer Chapter House Re- cords Chanceiy Court of Wards Common Pleas Exchequer - Chancei'y Ti'eafiury Exchequer - Treasury - \ Chancery Exchequer - Treasury Exchequer Queen's Bench Common Pleas Durham Re-) cords -S Chancery Common Pleas Exchequer - Common Pleas Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Chamber Queen's Bench Palace Court - Common Pleas Chancery Exchequer - Co\u-t of Wards Exchequer - Common Pleas Treasm'y Exchequer . Treasury Chancery Exchequer - Common Pleas Treasury Welsh Re- ") cords, Ches- \ ter Circuit •) Exchequer - Queen s Bench Page. ,328 36 186 36 309 297 187, 188 287-297 36 313-315 126 188 36 334,335 357 368 188 357. 367 36 188 354 189 105 127 334 36 127 336 189 189 127 37 37 189 37 189 285,280 106,106 309 127 37 189-191 313 191 127 351 191 357 37 191,192 127. 131 357. 363 325 192, 193 106 INDEX. 469 Court or Department. Page. Court or Department, Page. Estreat Rolls Evidence (Copies oft Eficords as Evidence) i Evidences, Books of - Examinations of Persons be- fore the Commis- sioners 3 Examiners' Office Exannalis I -p^n^ Exannual ) ™"^ Exceptions Exchange Exchange EoUs - Exchanges Exchequer — ~ See Court of Account Books'] relative to money I paid out of the Ex- [ chequer from 1721 -J Bills Certificates. ) ^ee Certificates -S Chamber, Court ") Equity of Pleas - Records of Excise, Books of State ) of the Revenue of - J Papers Excommunicato Capi-j endo • • -S Execution, "Writs of - Exemplifications of Recoveries Exemptions Ex gravi Querela Exhibits and Depositions Exigenter and Clerk of ") the Supersedeas -J Exon Expenditure, Public -^ Index to the Ge- neral Heads of > PublicExpenses from 1702 to inoj Extenta Manerii Walliffi - - Extents ... - • • •{ Extract Rolls - Eyre, Justices in Faculties Clerk of Eairs Famine. See Ireland, j Irish - - -J "Welsh Re- ■) oords,Breck- > nock Circuit^ „ Carmar- ^ then Circuit j Chancery Queen's Bench Common Pleas Court of "Wards Exchequer - Audit Office - Court of Ad-") miralty -J Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Treasury Chancery Exchequer Treasury Exchequer Treasury Exchequer "Welsh Records Treasury Chancery Queen's Bench Palace Court - Chancery Exchequer - Court of Ad-") miralty - J "Welsh Re- cords, Car- marthen Circuit -J Chancery Exchequer - Queen s Bench Common Pleas Exchequer - Treasury Exchequer - Chancery Chapter "J House E«- > cords -J Exchequer - Queen's Bench Court of "Wards "Welsh Re- cords, Ches- ter Circuit Chancery Common Pleas Chanc-ery Exchequer - Chancery Treasury le-") OS- f it ; 330 37 106 128 314, 193 374 337 37,38 193 193 193 38 358 38 193, 194, Ua-283 351.358 194 194 21-333 368 3S8 106 309 38 194 337 332 38 38 194 106 128 194 358 194 194 38 297 194, 195 106 314 38 128 398. 301 39 195 39 358 Faversham (Feversham) Fee-farms of Offices on the Exchequer, &c. 1 as found by Jury, f Anno 1638, 1 vol. -J Books Fees and Rewards Felixstow Priory Felony Feoda Militum Feodarie of Kent Feodars, Feodarers,"' Feodaries, Books of. See Accounts. I3onds. Patents. Certificates. Inqui- sitions - -> Feoffments Fiats "Writs for original ( Chancery - - 4 or Titlings. (Secondaries' Papers) Judges' } { filacers Files of Allegations - j of Chancery of Cursitors of Papers, Affi-~] davits, Declarations, I &c. /See also Gaol f Files - - -J of Chancery - ") of Cursitors - ) - of Papers, AfR- :{ davits. Declarations. Ac. - of Papers Affidavits of Papers Filings in Chancery Final Concords - Judgments, Posteas, and Inqui- ries Financial Statements - Fine Rolls Fines ':} of Lands - — — Sheriffs'. See Obligations and Rates for Liveries " for Leases and Payments for "Wards' Lands ■ for Liveries -J and Recoveries - and AVrits of] Entry, Sessional Files i Recoveries - \ (Plea Side) -{ Chancery Exchequer Treasury Palace Court Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Court of "Wards Exchequer Chancery Queen's Bench "Welsh Re- ") cords,Breck- > nock Circuits „ Carmar- ") tlien Circuit 3 ,, Chester ") Circuit - -S Common Pleas Court of ") Admiralty -i Welsh Re- S cords,Breck- >■ nock Circuit^ „ Carmar- ") then Circuit J ,, Chester ") Circuit - -i North 1 "WalesCircuiti „ Carmar- ") then Circuit S CommoiiPleas Queen'sBench Treasury Chancery Exchequer - CommonPleas Court ofWards "Welsh Re- ■) coras,Breck- f nock Circuits „ Carmar- "^ then Circuit J ,, Chester \ Circuit -j „ North ") "WalesCircuiti Durham Re-") cords -i 39 195 195 363 351. 358 309 195 39 39 105 195 195 314 195 39 106 329 331 325 128 329, 330 330 331 832 325 331 128 106 39,40 40 196 123-131 330 332 332 332 325 329 335 470 INDEX. Court or Department. Court or Department. Page. First Fruits and Tenths Fisheries Fleets - Flint. /See Chester CirO cuit - - -J Flintshire Eolls - 1 ForeignAocountBranch Foreign Accounts Foreign Apposer Foreign Bolls Forest Proceedings -" Claims, &c., Placita ForestEe, Court of Justice Seat, Court of Attach- ment or "Wood- mote, Court of Swainmote, &c. -, Forests Forfeited Estates, Lauds, &c. Forfeited hy stat. IG.I. c.50. - (Scotland) Fortresses (Ports) Forts Garry (Hudson's ") Bay Territory) -J Foundations Seel Fountains Ahbey Franchises Frankalmoigne - Fraternities Free Alms Chapels "Warrens - Freights French Claims. Claims of British I Subjects against the f- Government of France, from 1792 -J Rolls - Friswld, Saint. See"! Cardinal's Bundles -i Funds " for the AVar," ") from 1790 - -i Gallows Bundle - Gaol Delivery Commission,&c.of - Delivery Eolls ■ - PHes - Delivery Eolls - ( Piles Garry, Forts Gascon Rolls Gascony Gasoony Gatehouse, "Westmin-" ster. See Tower of London Gates, Sir John - Gavelkind Genealogy - General Liveries Surveyors, ") Court of - - j Gentlemen Pensioners Germany (Almain "> Rolls) - - -i Gibraltar - - - Glamorgan Gloucester - - - Godstowe Monastery - Golden Bid! Exchequer Chanceiy Welsh Records ,, Chester \ Circuit -i Treasury Exchequer - Chancery Chancei-y Exchequer Treasury Chancery Treasury Chancery Exchequer <'hancery Treasury Chancery Treasury Chancery "Welsh Re- cords, Car- marthen Circuit „ N."Wales") Circuit - i „ Breck- ") nock Circuit i Treasury Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Common Pleas Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Treasury Exchequer 196, 197 40 40 358 197 197 40 301,302 40 198 381-391 358 40 358 40 198, 199 199 199 199 199 199 199 41 358 394-399 41 41 358 41 41 332 330 358 41 199 199 199 41 41 199 131 42 200 200 42 368 200 200 200 200 Gosport Governors of Islands'^ and Plantations, Ap- pointments of. See > Patent Books of the Court of AdmiraltyJ Grain Grand Jury Grants - . - -Parliamentary - ^} Great Seal Great Sessions of "Wales. See Welsh Records Great "Wardrobe Green"Wax, Summons of Greenwich Hospital - Guai'd and Orderly") Books - - i Guard Books, contain-"" ing Certificates of the Paymaster-Ge- neral of the Forces of Money impressed by him to Sub- Account- ants. /See Certificates. Guernsey Guilds - - - Guisnes - - - Gunpowder Magazines- Habeas Corpus Hales Monastery Half Pay Hanaper - Accounts Harbours Harwich Haverford "West - Hawkers' and Pedlars' ") Certificates ■ -j Hearth Money Heirs - - . Names of, and") Fines for Liveries -i /See Probations-! Henrietta Maria Henry Heralds Heretics High Court of Admi-" ralty - -J of Appeal for"' Prizes. See High Court of Admiralty -. - of Delegates Highways and Sewers - Hifl. /SeeHullorHyll Holland, Lord - Holy Trinity, London - Homage - -") Homage RoUs - -J Homberston Honours, Grants of - Horkesley Priory Home Bundle Horses - -") Royal Horses -) Chanceiy Court of Ad-") miralty -i Chancery Queen's Bench Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Chanceiy Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Palace Court - Audit Office Exchequer Chanceiy Queen's Bench Palace Court - Exchequer - Treasury Chancery Exchequer - Audit Office - Chancery Welsii Re-"] cords, Car- 1 marthen f Circuit -J Treasury Exchequer Chancery Court of Wards Welsh Re- cords, Ches- ter Circuit Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Chancery ':} Hospitals House Duty Household, Royal Court of Ad-") miralty -S Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Chancery 42 337 42 107 42 200-201 361 42 321-333 42 201 43 201 309 374 201 201 201 48 43 107 309 201 358 43 201 374 43 331 368 201 14 314 323 201 201 44 202 4A 337 337 338 202 175 202 202 44 202 44 202 44 44 202 202 44 INDEX. 471 •{ HouselioH, Royal Accounts Books Hull, Registration of Lauds, &o. See Re- gistration of Lands &o. or Hyll - Chartulary of the family of, print- ed in 8th Rep. of Dep. Keeper of Records, App, II., pp.151-166 - Hundred Rolls - Hyll. /See Hull or Hyll Idiots Imparlance Books -{ Imports and Exports. 7 ^ee Customs - -I Scotland, Co- '^ pies of the Ledgers I of the Inspector Ge- ( neral Imposts Imprest. jSea Auditors ^ of Imprest - -J Rolls. See XC'\ counts - -S Imprests Inolosm-es Indentures Interrogatory I Writs, &c. - -5 Index to the General"^ Heads of Public Ex- 1 penses from 1702 to ( 1710 - - -J India, ^ee Bengal Pa-') pers - - -} Indictments, Present- ments, Informations, Convictions, &c. in the Instance ") Court - - -i 3 -Calendar and Present- 1 ments. Crown Side -i Infants' Admissions - Informations and Recogni- \ zances - S Inelewood Forest Inheritance Inhibitions - ] Injunctions Innotescimus Innovate Rolls Inquiries or Bills against \ Attorneys - -J Court or Department. Exchequer Chapter House Re- cords Chanceiy Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Chancery "Welsh E«- ■) cords,Breck- > nock Circuits „ Carmar- \ then Circuit J „ Chester \ Circuit '} ,, North 1 walcsCircuiti Treasury Chancery Exchequer - Audit Office - Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Common Pleas Chapter "^ House Re- > cords -) Court of Wards Treasury Queen's Bencli Admiralty ■) Court -J "Welsh Re- cords, Car- mart lien Circuit „ Chester \ Circuit -J Durham Re-) cords '} Common Pleas Exchequer - Queen s Bench Durham Re- 1 cords -) Exchequer - Chanceiy Court of Ad-I miralty -J Court of Wards Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Common Pleas 203,203 858 297 45 175 45,46 175 48 325 339 851. 368 358 46 203 371.374 303-206 46 206 46 297 314 359 359 107 337 325 181 206 107 334 208 46 337 314 46 206 108 131 Inquisitions - Post Mortem - Escheators' - Coroners' - - Post Mortem Inrohuent Office \ (Chancery) - -i (in Bankruptcy) Inspeximus Instalments, Consents ") to pay by - -J Instance Court, Pro-") ceedings in - -J Institutions - -\ Institutionum Libri -i Instructions - -"S Entriesoflnstruc- 1 tious to Public I Officers - -J toConunissioners^ of Monasteries. See Monasteries - -> Ordinances devised by CommissionersJ — ^forStorekeepers, " See Storekeepers • Insupers See Lists and") Interest and Dividends Interrogatories - \ InteiTO^atories Depositions Introitus Invasions Inventions Inventories - -< Inventories or Returns") of Goods of Monas- > teries, &c. - -J Invoice Books Ionian Islands' Claims") against France. See > Commissioners -j Ipswich Ireland See also Irish - Irish Books Establishments Famine Rolls Issue Books and RoUs RoUs Issues General Iters. See Assizes Jersey Jewel Office Jewels - - - Crown Jews Jointures Jomalia Journals of Accounts.") See Accounts -) (See Accounts - Judges - Fiats _ . .( - Notes Court or Department. les-f- it-J Chancery Exchequer Queen's Bench Common Pleas Court of "Wards "Welsh Re- cords, Ches- ter Circuit Durham Re-' cords -J Chancery Palace Court - Admiralty ") Court -i Exchequer - Audit Office :} Chapter House Re- cords Treasury Exchequer - Audit Office - Exchequer - Queen s Bench Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Cliancery Exchequer - Common Pleas Chapter ") House Ee- > cords •) Treasury Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Treasury Exchequer - Treasury Chancery Exchequer - Common Pleas Palace Court - Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Audit Office - Treasury Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench "Welsh Re- ~) cords, Ches- >• ter Circuit -J Palace Court - Page. 47,48 206, 207 108 131 314 32S 326 334 49 309 337 207 371.374 297 359 307 374 207 108 208 49,50 50 308 131 297 359 394-399 208, 209 60 209 359 369 209 369 60 209 131 131 309 298 209 310 310 50 50 310 210 210 210 374 359 BO 210 108 309 472 INDEX. Court or Department. Page. Court or Department. Judges of Admiralty^ Courts, their ajp- pointments in the > Patent Books of the Court. See PatentsJ Judgment Eegistra- ■) tion Office - -j Judgment Eolls, Sec. - Judgments Office Copies of ■ (Plea Side) -| Judicature Juries, Panels of, in I the Instance Court -i Jury Lists Crown Side - j Jury Panels Justices in Eyre. See'^ Assizes. Placita Po- > restse - -) — of Assize. See \ Assizes - -3 of Peace - of the Peace,") Names of (Crown f Side) - - -J of the Jews. Seel Jews - -} King's Bench Court of, I or Queen's Bench - J Books Butler Remembrancer - Silver See Rulej Books - - j . "Warrant Books. > See Warrant Books - ) Kirby or Kirkby's \ Quest or Inquest -S Kirby's Quest - Knighthood Knight Marshal Service Knights' Fees - ■{ Hospitallers and \ Templars - -) Templars - Lacock Monastery Lancaster, Duchy of - Landed Estates Land Ileveniie Lands Land Tax - - - Land Tax and Assessed "> Taxes - -S Lanesboronch, '\''iscount Langcdon Abbey Latitats - - - Law Ofiicers Law Opinions Laws Court of AdO miralty -j 337 Common Pleas 132 es-f it -J Queen's Bench Common Pleas Palace Court - Chancery Exchequer - AVelsh Re- cords, Ches- ter Circuit Durham He-l cords - J Chancery Court of Ado miralty - S Exchequer - Queen's Bench Common Pleas Durham Re- ■> cords - j" Palace Court - Chancery Durham Re-") cords -} Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - -} Common Pleas Welsh Re- cor(^, Ches' ter Circuit Treasury Exchequer Chapter House Re- cords Chancery Palace Court ■ Chancery Exchequer - Chapter ~j House Re- [ cords -J Chancery Exchequer - '} Common Pleas JExchequer Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Common Pleas Treasury Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Queen's Bench Chancery Exchequer Treasury Chancery 108, 109 132, 133 309 50 210, 211 309 335 51 337 211 109 133 331 298. 301 51 331 211 51 97-116 211 211 211 131 326 359 211 297 51 309 61 211, 212 297 51 212 212 212 134 212-211 51,62 214 109 131 368 215 62 215 100 62 215 359 62 62 Leases ;S«eCrownLease ) Books - -i Ledgers. /See Accounts Ledger or Liedger ^ Books ■ -J Legacies Letters - - - Books - of Marque or) Keprisal - -J of Marque - f taken in Prizes - of Administra-') tions - - -J of Attorney. See l Attorney - - 3 of Attorney. /Seel Powers of Attorney } - Entries of Lewes Abbey Libels of Appeals Liber Niger A.B. Memorandum Scaficarii Subsidii de Tenuris, Co. Glouc. - Garderobc. See Wardi-obe -J - Placitorum. See j Bulo Book Liberate liolls Liberties, Grants of Licences See Close Bolls, " Chancery - -j Lieutenants of Coun-S ties. See Array, > Commissioners of -) Lisnes Abbey Lists of Accounts of Persons standinginsupcr - of Persons en-S titled toPi'izeMoncy. > See Prize Money -J Littlemore Pi'iory Liveries 3 also Be-~; Church Livings, nefices. Livings See also Bene-) flees - - -i or Church Pre- ferments. See Con- stats Loans, ments Local Militia, 1811- . 1813. /SeeMiUtia -S Lollards - - . London . - . See Assess-") -) Chancery Exchequer - Chapter ") House Re- > cords •) Court of "Wards Treasury Exchequer Chancery Treasury Exchequer Admiralty ■) Court -j Audit Office - Chapter ") House Re- > cords -) Audit Office - Exchequer - Court of Ad-) miralty -} Exchequer - Chapter House Re- cords ".} Long Books Welsh Re- ") cords, Ches- > ter Circuit ) Chancery Exchequer Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Common Pleas Durham Re-) cords •) Chancery Audit Office - Treasury Chancery Coiu't of Wards Chancery Exchequer Audit Office Exchequer Treasury Chancery Exchequer - Palace Court 62 215-219 314 359 .359 219 219 63 359 219 219 337 337 338 337 372.37(1 297 372.374 220 337 220-222 297 326 63,64 222 64 222 64 223 134 .54 372. 374 374 359 .54 64 315 54 223. 371.373 223 359 64 .64 223 309 INDEX. 473 LongvFood, St. Helena,^ Buonaparte's Esta- 1 blisliment at, 1816- f 1818 - - -J Lord Chamberlain's 7 Books - -j Lord Treasurer's Re- 7 membrancer - -J Lords of Liberties Lottery Book -Papers Lunacy Macolesfleld Rolls •{ Ma«na Carta. See Charters - - J Malmesbuiy Monastery Mandamus Mandates and Returns \ ofWrits, Chancery - j Manors - - - Manufactures Manumissions Maps and Plans Plans, &c. Marine Forces - Rules and Regula- tions Instructions Markets - Marque Letters of - • Marriages, Royal Treaties of Books of Con-' tracts, &c. Marshal of England Court ot the Marshals' Records - — - — ■ Books -Records ■{ Court or Department. - Cause Books Marshalsea Court and Palace Court Masses Masters iu Chancery) in Ordinary - - ) Extraordinary - ■ in Lunacy - Rules Mauritius Claims •} against Prance. Commissioners Members of Parha- 7 ment - - J Memoranda of Fines f and Recoveries - ^^ See Files off Papers - - 1 . Rolls iers~| of I Memorandum Papers' of the Court - Weekly Lists oi ,- Summons and Memorandums -J Memorials of Accoun- 7 tants - - --J . of Deeds of Sick and) "Wounded - -J Merioneth ;■} Treasury Exchequer Treasury Chancery Welsh Re- cords.Ches. ter Circuit Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Durham Re- 7 cords -3 Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer Queen's Bench Common Pleas Ti'easury Chancery Exchequer - Admiralty 7 Court -j Chaneeiy Exchequer Court of Wards Chancery Exchequer Queen's Bench Welsh Re- ") cords,Ches- 1 ter Circuit j „ North 7 Wales Circuit j Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Queen's Bench Chancery Welsh Re- ") cords, Ches- > ter Circuit ) „ North 7 Wales Circuit J Exchequer Queen's Bench Palace Court ■ Audit Office ■ Chancery Treasuiy Welsh Re- cords, North Wales Cir- cuit Page. 369 360 22S-224, 223 360 368 54, 55 323 224 109 33.1 55 224 66 224 224 109 134 300 225 225 337 66 225 66 306 225 109 326 329 225 808 66 226 56,57 56 57 109 57 326 329 225, 226 110 374 57 327 Mi'a (contraction for"? Misericordia) -i Middlesex, Deeds of - Registration of'i Lands. See Regis- I tration of Lands, f &c. - - - -J MUford Haven. See'i Commissioners -j Mihtary Accounts Affairs Chest - Court. (See Court Establishments - Knights of 7 Windsor - -j Tenures Militia. See Array Mines Ministers' Accounts ■ See Accounts Certificates ■{ Mint and Coinage Books and Papers Minutes, Books See Rules and") Orders - } Court or Department. - Books - Papers - Great Sessions - Secondaries - Books Chancery - < Crown and Order ") Books (Crown Side) J Misse Iloll Miscellanies Misericordia. See Mi'a Monasteries Instructions to Commissioners. Ordinances de- vised by Com- missioners. Pro- ceedings of Com- missioners Money Books Monitions Monstrans de Droit Jlontford, Aymeric de - Montgomery Mortmain -Ilolls L Municipal and Parlia-~^ mentaryBoundaries' >■ Commissions - -) Muniment Books, con-^ tainintr Probates of I Wills, Letters of Ad- r ministration, &.c. -J Murage - - - Exchequer - Queen's Bcncli Chancery Exchequer Chancery Treasury Treasury Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Treasuiy Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Welsh Ile- cords, Ches- ter Circuit Exchequer - Common Pleas Chancery Exchequer Treasury Exchequer - Common Pleas Audit Office - Queen's Bench Treasury Court of Wards Welsh lie- '^ cords, Car- l martlicn [ Circuit -J ,, Chester > Circuit - i North") Wales Circuit S ■■] Durham Re- 7 cords -J Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Chapter "^ House Re- [• cords -) Treasury Court of Ad- 7 miralty -J Chancery Exchequer Welsh Re- ■) cords, Ches- >■ ter Circuit J Chancery Exchequer - Chapter ~^ House Re- > cords ■) Court of Ad- 7 miralty -) Chancery 226 110 67.76 220 57 360 305 360 226 226 57 226, 227 360 227 57 227 227 134 57 227 360 237, 228 134 374 110 360 368 315 332 323. 326 328 329 334 67 228 228 57 228-231 297 337, 338 68 231 322 68 231 297 393 338 53 474 INDEX. Murder and Felony Muster Rolls - -< Musters - - - Names of Persons (Ac-~) countants). See Ac- \ countants - -) Narfs or Declarar l tions - -j National Debt - O Entry of state of I Reduction of, [ showing the Ca- pital Stock pur- chased from 1786. Debt Office Naval Knights Navy ... and Ordnance') Insupers. See Lists S Accounts, &c. - /See Admiralty - Newstead Abbey - Newton, Sir Isaafi Nichil Rolls . - Nicholas IV., Pope Nil Books. SeeAHenUr \ tion Office - -J Nisi Prius Nobility Noctanters Nomina Ministrorum - Villarum Nonje Rolls Norfolk - Duke of Normandy, Noiman ■) Rolls . . -i Normans, Lands of North Britain Books."! /SeeaZsoRoyalLetter > Books . ') Distribution North "Wales Circuit ."1 Anglesea, Caernar- I von, and Me- [ rioneth Northampton, Mar- quis of Northumberland, \ Duke of - -i Earl of Norway . Notes Court or Department. ■-} Judges'. Seel Judges Notice Book - - 1 of Trial Books Notices to the Great ( Sessions - -'I Oaths of Officers ofl Audit of Officers of"^ Palace Court - -:> See Admissions-^ and Admissions ■) of Attorneys - i Oblata RoUs Chancery Chapter -"^ House Re- >■ cords -) Exchequer - Audit Office - Palace Court - Audit Office - Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Audit Office - Treasury Exchequer - Common Pleas Chancery Queen's Bench "fl'^elsh Re- "i cords.Ches- > ter Circuit ) Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer Trea-sury "Welsh Records Exchequer Palace Court - Court of Re-") quests - j Exchequer - Queen's Bench Court of Wards "Welsh Re- ") cords.Breck- > nock Circuits Chancery Exchequer - Audit Office - Queen's Bench Common Pleas Palace Court - "Welsh Re- cords, Car- marthen Circuit „ Chester 1 Circuit - } Palace Court - Oliancery 53 297 231 374 309 374 231 226 68 231 374 360 368 231 231 231, 232 232 134 134 58 110 326 282 58,69 234 361 327-329 234 234 234 234 309 318 234 110 315 330 59 234 374 110 134 809 309 69 Obligations Observations and Que- 1 ries - - -i Offeiings Office for Auditing ■) Public Accounts -i Officers - - > Offices - - -J Clerks' Allow-" ances. See Allow- ances Oleron, Charters of 0. Ni. Tot. Exon - ■ Order Books, and Or-" der and Decree Books Orders and Decrees — in Council of Council Rules and Orders S Entries of the I Orders of the ( Audit Board -J See Indict- See Decrees - < :} See Decrees Remem-") brance Books (Plea > Side) - ■ ' Order Books, Pee Books, Memoran- dum Books Ordinances Ordnance Insupers Oriel College. Statutes Originalia Original Letters Papers Oseney Monastery ol'^h} ^^^ Monasteries Ouster le Main Outlawries audi Outlawry Court or Department. Out-Pensioners Oxford - Oyer and Terminer Paintings Palace Court Palaces Palmer, Sir Thomas - Panels. See Grand ) Jury. Jury Lists -i See Jury of Juries in thel Instance Coui-t -i See Indictments X (Crown Side) -i Papal Briefs Bulls - Exchequer - Court of Wards Audit Office - Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer Treasury Exchequer Court of Re- :} Chancery Treasury Chancery Exchequer - Audit Office - Queen's Bench Common Pleas Treasury Court of Wards Welsh Re- "i cords, Ches- > ter Circuit J „ North") Wales Cir- > cult -J Durham Re-") cords -J Slave Regis-") tration -} Chancery Exchequer - Audit Office - Chancery Exchequer - Slave Regis-") tration -J Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer Queen s Bench Common Pleas Treasury Exchequer Chancery Chancery Chancery Exchequer Queen's Bench Common Pleas Palace Court - Caurtof Ad-") miralty -j Durham Re-') cords -S Exchequer - Chancei'y Exchequer - 234 315 372. 374 69 235 370-375 361 235 235 318 60 861 60 235-237 375 110 134 361 315 823.326 384 335 876 237 375 287 876 237 228 60 60 237 110,111 134 361 237 60 298 60 80S, 309 60 288 238 111 133.185 309 837 834 288 60 200. 238 INDEX. 473 Court or Department. Court or Department. Pago. Paper Books Papers, Peremptory Papists - Pardon Rolls ■ Pardons of Criminals of AlienationSj'i Chancery. See Close ?■ Rolls - -) Parishes - Parks, Royal Parliament - - - Parliamentary Boun-""! daries, Municipal and Parliamentary > Boundaries' Com- missions - - -J Grants Returns from~> Audit Office - -J — Siureys - — Writs. See un- \ der Parliament - j Parochial Surveys. See^ Surveys of Particulars for Grants Chantry Lauds - for Leases. See Leases -for Liveries. See Liveries Partition, Writs of Patent Office. See ") Clerk of the Letters f Pateflt - -) Rolls - - Patents - - - Sign Manuals,! "Warrants, &c., (En- tries) appointing >• Commissioners and Officers - -J constitutingthel Palace Court - -i ■} Books of Par- tents, Indentures, &c. - ofTice-Admiralsl of Counties, Vice- Admirals and Go- vernors of Islands and Plantations, and Judges of Vice-Ad- miralty Courts - of Justices, &c. ':} or Eemem- "" brance Rolls, con- taining Inrohnents of Grants and Con- firmations, Recogni- zances of Debt, &c. ; hence these Rolls are also called Re- cognizance Rolls, &o.. - ^ ■ 'l Queen's Bench Exchequer - Chancery Queen's Bench Common Pleas Welsh Re- cords, Car- marthen Circuit „ Chester ") Circuit -S Durham Re- cords Chancery Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Chancery Treasuiy Audit Office Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Chapter House Re- cords Court of Wards Common Pleas Chancery Exchequer - Audit Office - Palace Court - Treasury - 1 Court of Wards Coiu-t of Ad--^ miralty -i Welsh Re- cords, Car- marthen Circuit „ Chester) Circuit -i Durham Re- 7 cords -i 111 in 238 60,61 111 185 326 61 239 61 239 61-63 361 376 239, 240 62 63 240 240,241 297 135 63 63-67 241,242 372. 376 309 350. 361 36S 315 Paupers Pawns - - - Payments - - - Discharge Books Peace, Articles of Commissioners, > &o. of - -i Pedes Pinium - Pedigree. See Genea^) logy - -i Peers, Creation of Pells (Receipt of the| Exchequer) - -i Certificates Pembroke Penn Penrith - Pensions - and Annuities -") -and Bounties -S - to AVidows Perambulation Rolls Perambiilations. PlacitaPorestai :} Peremptoiy Papers and Rules Petitions - of Right - - of Paupers. See j Piles of Chancery Affidavits') (Plea Side) - Petty Bag - - - Peveril Court Records Philippa, Queen Pictm-es - Pie Books Pipe Office and Pipe") Rolls - - -S Piracy Pix - -Rolls Exchequer - Palace Court - Chancery Exchequer - Com't of "Wards Queen's Bench Chancery Common Pleas Chancery Exchequer - Court of Wards Chancery Exchequer - Treasiuy Welsh Re- cords, Car marthcn Circuit Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Treasury 337 334 Placita or Plea Rolls de Banco Terras PorestBe, Seel Porest Proceedings - i - or Plea Rolls ■ Plea Rolls or > Placita - -J Plague ■ Plaint - - - Plans - Maps, also Maps - • Maps, &c. Pleadings Pleadings, Plea Rolls,) and Pleas - •) '■} Chancery Exchequer Chapter House RC' cords Queen's Bench Chancery Exchequer - Court of Wards Welsh Re- ~) cords,Breck- >- nock Circuit J Durham Re-], cords - j Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Queen'sBench Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer Chapter House Re- cords Chancery Queen'sBench Common Pleas .} Welsh Re- ■) cords,Breck- > nock Circuits „ Cannar- \ then Circuit i „ Chester | Circuit -i „ North Wales Cir- cuit Chancery Palaee Court Chancery Exchequer - Queen'sBench Common Pleas Chancery Exchequer - 309 67 242 315 111 67 135 67 242 315 67 331 242 242 67 242 361 361 67 297 111 67 243 243 315 330 335 67-69 310 243 69 111 G9 244 297 69 111 135 135 330 332 321. 326 329 309 70 244 HI 135 70 476 INDEX. Court or Department. Court or Department. Pleadings, Hea EoUs ■ Plea ItoUs, &o. - Pleas andReplioations. ' See also Vlsata, Plymouth Porfiley Priory - • Police Accounts Poll Tax - Pontage - Pontlneu Poor Knights of "Windsor Pope Nicholas' Taxation .} Popes' Bulls See Papal Bulls - Popish Convicts Port Bonds - Books of London Ports, lleports of the] Survey of - -i Portsmouth Portugal - - - Posteas Post Fine EoUs Pines ■ Office. See lea.') Books - - -S Posting Books of Ac-' counts of Issues of Money - Posts, Master of Pot Bundle Potato Crop Hetimis, 1848 Powers of Attorney, Wills, &c. - ■) Trie and Post Pines - Praecipes. See Precipes Pray Priory Prayer Book Prayers - - - Prebends - 1 Precedents, Book of - - Prothonotaries ■{ Prccepta, Indices sol palled - - -i Precepts, entries of Precepts issued toy the Audit Board Precipes (Prascipcs) Common Pleas Queen's Bench Common Pleas Palace Court - Chancery Treasury Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchoctuer - Treasury 135 111 135 70 70 361 70 244 70 243 70 70 245 70 238 70 245 245,246 Pre-emption Preferments. See Sales Prerogative of the "^ Crown - -) Presentations Presentments -See Indictments < -(Sselndiotments, "i Crown Side Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Common Pleas Exchequer - Common Pleas Treasury Exchequer - Chancery Audit Office - Common Pleas Chancery Common Pleas Chancery Exchequer WelsS Ee- ■) cords,Breck- >■ nock Circuity ,, Chester ') Circuit ■) „ North 1 Wales Circuit j Exchequer - Audit Office- - Chancery Exchequer - Queen'sBenoh Common Pleas Welsh Ec' cords, Car- marthen Circuit Durham Ee-") cords - -3 Palace Coittt - Chancery CourtofWards Chancery Exchequer - Queens Bench Welsh Ee- ■) cordSjChes- >• ter Circuit ; Durham Ee-) cords -i 70 248 111, 112 135, 136 246 136 363. 369 246 246 70 377 372. 37B 135 70 136 70 70 247 247 326 247 375 70 247 112 136 334 309 70 315 71 71 247 112 326 335 Presents, Eoyal - Prestita Eoll - PrintedParUamentary I Papers - -J Priories - - - Prisoners ■ Tariff for the) Exchange of - -J Examination of 1 Prench, 1699 - - j - Calendars of, in ") the Instance Court - (Criminal) ■f (Crown Side) -"\ Bundles of Calen- dars sent to the > Secretary of State's Office -J (State) . /SeeState \ Prisoners' Bills - S Private Bill Rooks O Memorandum Books ■ Disbursement Books "Weekly Office Account Books Daily Account Books of Stock of "Writs, "Warrants, Stamps, and Bails -^ Privilege Privileges Privy Council - Purse Accounts - Seals -for Payments.') See under the head V "Warrants -) - Seals - Seals and Com- " ( Chancery Slave Eegis-') tration -i Exchequer - Queen'sBench Common Pleas Treasury Court of Ad-1 miralty -i Welsh Ee- cords, Ches- ter Circuit es-f- it-; Durham Ee-") cords - -J Exchequer Palace Court ■ Common Pleas Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Board of Trade Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - 71 71 376 247 247 112 136 337 327 335 ] missions Signet Depart- ment - - -J Prize Money Prizes, Accounts of and Appeal Bail > Eeports - - S Probates - - - of Wills - ■ See Muniment ■) Books - i Probations of Age of^ Heirs. See also > Proofs of Age -) Procedendos. See ") Bankruptcy - S Proceedings in Chan-^ eery. See Chancery I Judicial Proceed- 1 ings. Bills - -J - in Equity - on Writs of Error Treasury Chapter House Ee- cords CourtofWards Treasury Court of Ad-' miralty Exchequer ■ Audit Office • Court of Ad-' miralty Welsh Ee- ' cords, Ches- ter Circuit . Chancery - Admiralty - - 1 Wards. Answers, &c. Process - Books Court See Bills, ills, I 309 136 71 247 71 343 344 247 71 247.248 349. 365 297 347 362 362 337 243, 249 375 323 71 71 Exchequer - Palace Court - Court of Ad-') miralty -j CourtofWards Queen'sBenoh CourtofWards Exchequer - Court of Ee- 1 quests -i 249 309 337 316 112 316 249 318 INDEX. 477 Court or Department. Court or Department. Process Books. Pro- cesses :} See Files Chancery Chancery Proclamations - of Proffers - - Profit - - - Prohibitions Promotions, Ecclesi- 7 astical - -J Proofs of Age Property Tax Protection Rolls Protections Prothonotaries Prothonotary Court of Ad-| miralty -i Welsh He- S cords.Breck- > nock CirouitJ „ North-) Wales Cir-S cuit - -J Chanceiy Common Pleas Exchequer - Palace Court - Chancery Exchequer - Chancei'y Queen's Bench Exchequer - Treasury Chancei'y ■ ■ Precedents. See) Precedents - A Providence Provisions. See alsol Bread - - -i Provosts Proxies - Public Accounts, Com missioners of - Buildings ':} Accounts of He-"" pairs, &c. among the feecords of the Queen's He- membrancer. See also Pa- laces Departments Disposition ") Books, or Letters of V Direction - -J Moneys, Public \ Services Purfleet - - ' Piu'se Bundle - Purveyance Pye Books, or Pie \ Books - -S Qualification EoUs Qualifications Quare Maneria - Quarterly Revenue") Books. See B;evenue > Books ■} Quebec Queen's Bench. See\ Court of - -i of England . Remembrancer - Queries. See Answers") to Queries. Obser- > vations - -J See also Audi- ) tors' Queries -i Quit Rents Quo Minus - - - . titulo clamat . Warranto Rolls. 1 ^ee Assizes - -J Warranto RoUs < Ragman Roll Ramsey Monastery Rates, Books of Rates] and Fines, &c. -J Bauoston Prioiy - Rebellion - ■} Common Pleas Welsh Re- cords, Chcs ter Circuit Exchequer Treasury Exchequer Court of Ad- miralty Audit Office Chancery Exchequer Treasury Chancery Queen'sBench Common Pleas Chancery Exchequer Treasury Exchequer Audit Office Treasury Exchequer Welsh Re- ~) cords, Clies- >• ter Circuit -J Cliancery Exchequer - Court of Wards Chancery 337 330 65.71,72 138 249 309 72 249 72 112 2'19 362 72 72,73 137 327 230 362 250 338 370 73 250 339-376 362 73 73 73 112 137 73 250 Receipt Books - i Boots and Rolls Receipts -^ for Accounts and Payments Receivers - -\ Accounts - -S General - Recepta, or Receipts - Recognizances tents -Rolls. See Pa- Record Book of Num- ber of Writs issued Books of Caernarvon - Records and Writs' ^ Office - -i Certioraris, At-) tendance, &c. -j from Chancery - of Orders Recoveries J See .Tudgmentsl (Plea Side) - -j Rectories 250, 261 251-25-1 372. 375 254 264 264 327 73,74 264 Court of Ad-] mtralty - i Exchequer - Audit Office - Treasury Common Pleas Palace Com't - Exchequer - Court of Wards Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Queen'sBench Common Pleas Welsh Re- cords, Ches- ter Circuit 74 74 :} Recusants' Roll Red Book - Redemption of Land] Tax. ^ee Land Taxi Redisseisin - Redisseisin Rolls Reduction of National^ Debt - - -i Rc-fa-lo - ■) Refaloes - - i Reference Books Entries of Peti- tions, Memo- rials, State- ments, Orders in Council, Let- ters, &c. Regarders of Forests - Regimental Account ] liocks. iS'ee Accounts i Registered Papers Registers of Accounts, re--) ceived at the Audit > Office - -; -of Attorneys -j - Clerks' Articles I Durham Re-] cords - ) Welsh Ro- cords.Breck- nock Circuit.) E.xchequer Chancery Queen'sBench Chancery Common Pleas Welsh Re- cords, Car- marthen Circuit Durham Re- cords Chancery Exchequer Chancery Audit Office - Common Pleas 337 2.54 254 372 362 137 309 254 316 254 74 2M, 255 113 137 327 323 335 330 2.55 255 74 74 113 113 74 137 333 335 74 255 255 255, 266 215 266 74 375 137 • of Slaves Registrar of Acknow- ledgments by Mar ried Women Registrars' Minute ( Books - -I 3 Treasury Chancery Treasury Exchequer - Audit Office - Treasury Welsh Re- -) cords, dies- > ter Circuit ) „ North-) Wales Cir-[ cuit - -J Slave Regis- ] tration - i Common Pleas Welsh Re- cords, Ches- ter Circuit le- ■) les- (■ it J 75 363 369 256 375 363 327 329 376 137 323 478 INDEX. Court or Department. Court or Department. Page. E.egisti'ars' Office for Affidavits Books Registration Office of Lands, &e. of Slaves - 1 iRegistriim Brevium Hegistry of Acknow-") ledgments Office -j Reliefs, Commissions \ of. 5^ee Commissions j Religious Foundations Houses Remembrances See Rule Books j Rolls. ;See Patents — Books (Pica") Side) ■ -) Reminders Remittances Rentals. See Manors - :} Rents Repertories Replevin - - - Replications, Books - < entered in Rule ) Books - - -V Report Office Reports - - and References."? See Reference Books J -&c.,fromInspec-" tors General of Ac- counts and States of Ac- counts. ^eeAccounts ofMr.Stedman on Claims exhibited against Government for property taken or destroyed in the American "War ^ -. of the Survey "^ and Inspection of [ Ports - -; " Orders and De- ■{ Reprisals - Requests, Court of, sometimes has been called ' Court of "Whitehall — for Summonses. ) See Summons - - i Rescues - - - Resolutions of the" Commissioners of Audit on Desperate Debts - Restitutions Resumptions. See At-' tainders. Restitu- tions - Return Office, Clerk of Returns ;} Chancery "Welsh Ee- cordSj.North "Wales Cir- cuit - Common Pleas Chancery Slave Eegis- ) tration -) Exchequer - Common Pleas Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Common Pleas "Welsh Ee- oords, Car- marthen Circuit ,, Chester ") Circuit -S Durham Ee-") cords -} Treasui-y Chancery Chapter House Ee- cords '} Exchequer Queen's Bench Court of Re-] quests "Welsh Re- cords, CheS' ter Circuit Chancery Exchequer Treasury Audit Office '-} "Welsh Ee- cords, Ches- ter Circuit Chancery ':} Palace Court '- Qucen'sBonch Audit Office - Chancery Common Pleas Chancery 75,76 76 323 137 76 376 257 257 137 76 257 76,77 257 138 332 327 335 363 77 297 257 257 113 318 77 77 257, 258 362,363 372. 375 363 323 Eetums /SeeParliamen-") tary Eetums -i of Commis-") sions - - -S . See "WMts, Chancery -See "Writs and^ Eeturns (Crown > Side) - -J Eevenue Books Eevenues Eeversals. See Out-| lawries - -J Eeversions - Ehode Island and Pro- ) vidence - -J Eichard II. Eiders - - . Eight, Petitions and") Petitions of Eiots Robes Rolls Chapel Oface House Roman Catholics Attorney Rolls - Eoman EoUs - - "> Eome - -J Eough Coat Books Royal African ComO pany— CharterBooks, I Day Books, Jour- | nals, &c. - -J Royal Assents Letters - Letter Books -~i Register of Letters signed hy the King, and coun- tersigned by the Secretary of State for North Britain Rules - and Orders 77 317 113 375 78 78 138 78 Rule Papers -j Chancery, to be^ observed in the >■ Great Sessions -J and Orders Vacation Rules - Minutes of. See \ Minutes - - 1 Eolls {BillsePla-l citorum) - -j Books - - ( - and Orders i andOrders(Plea'^ Side). See Remem- >- brance Books - -j Rumtaurgh Priory Rutland Sa nock CircuitJ ,, Carmar-") then Circuit i „ Chester \ Circuit -i North-) "Wales Cir- [ cuit -) Durhajn Ee-") cords - -J Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Chancery Exchequer - 258 376 63. 369 lis 316 318 309 33i 78 363 258 78 258 258 258 138 78 258 78 258 78-80 80 80 238. 259] 138 259 80 363, 364. 80 80 361 81 259 259 113,114 138 330 831 331 333 327 328,329 335 114 81 Chancery INDEX. 479 Court or Department. Page. Court or Department. Pago. Saint Michael Paul's Peter's (Ips-'! wicb) Priory -i Salaries - - - and Allowances Salerno, Prince of Sales of Crown Lands - Crown andothor') Lands - - -i of "Wards andl Preferments - -S Salt Saudwell Priory. See \ Cardinal's Bundles -S Satisfaction Satisfactions Savoy, Count of Hospital - Schools - - Scire Paoias Scotch Nohility. Homage Eolls - Eolls. See Scotla,nd Scotland See North ") Britain Books. Let- ter Books. Pees -J Scry Sculpture - - - Scutage - - - Scutages, Aids, Tal-^ lages, &c. - -J Seal Office - - - Seals ExchecLuer Chancery Exchequer - Treasury Exchequer - Chancery Court of Wards Treasurj- Chancery Queen's Bench Common Pleas Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer Queen'sBench Common Pleas :} Seal Books Searchers of Customs Secondaries Remembrances - Secretaries of State Secretary of Lunatics.") See Lunacy. Clerk > of the Custodies ■) Secret Service Books - Seizins - - - "Writs of - Seizures - - - E«gister of ~ Transcripts Certificates of Sentences - 4 Sequestered Estates Sequestrations Serieanties Serjeants-at-Arms Seqeants-at-Law - Serjeanty - Servants' Tax - Service of Summons Settlements and "Wills ") of Eoman Catholics S Sewers Sheemess Sheriffs Returns - Ships' Papers - - | Sick and ."Wounded") Memorials. SeeMe-y moriaU - -J Chancery Treasury Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Court of "Wards Chancery Common Pleas Chancery Treasury Chancery Common Pleas Exchequer - ■Court of "Wards Treasury Court of Ad- miralty "Welsh Re- cords, Ches- ter Circuit - Exchequer - Chancery Excheqiier - Chancery Exchequer - Treasury Palace Court - Chancery Exchequer - Queens Bench Chancery Exchequer - Court of "Wards Admiralty ") Court -i Treasury 259 259 81 81 200 884 260 260 81 369 114 139 260 260 260 81 260 114 139 81 81 81-83 364.369 261 83 316 8S 189 139 345 83 364 83 • 139 261 316 364 337,336 327 261 83 261 261 83 262 262 364 309 83 >3,84 262 114 34 84 262 316 337 Sick and "Wounded") Seameus' Accounts. >■ See Accounts -) Signed Bills - -\ Signet BiUs ■} Office. See Privy Signet Office -J Significavits - Sign Manuals Sion Monastery of Six Clerks Sixpenny Duty ■ - Book, Distri- bution of the Reve- nue, &c. Slave Compensation Commission Re^ cords - Registration - Trade Snape Priory Somerset, County of Duke of South Sea Company Stock Spanish Claims. Commissioners Special Bail Bails - See Bails See-I -Bonds Claims. Claims Commissions Jury Lists. Seel Jury Lists - - S Pleas "Writ Rolls Specifications of In- ventions - -} Spu'itual Promotions - Staff Pay Register. See\ Register - -j Stafford, County of - Stamp office Stamps - - . - See Tax Books - Standing Orders. Rules Stannaries See Stansgate Priory - Staple Rolls Star Chamber, Coiu't of Starra State Paper Depart-") ment - - -J Papers or Docu- 1 ments - Papers Royal Letters le- ") ait J Treasray Chancery Privy Signet") Office -i Chancery "Welsh Re- cords, ChoS' ter Circuit Chancery Audit Office - Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Common Pleas Treasmy Slave Regis-" tration Treasury Chancery Exchequer ■ - " { - Prisoners' Bills States of Accounts See Accounts - Stationery. See Tax") Books - - -S Statuta "Walhffi - - Treasury Queen'sBench Common Pleas Welsh Re- cords, Ches- ter Ciixuit Exchequer Treasury Chancery Exchequer 364 84 347 327 84 372. 375 262 85,86 263 139 364 405-411 376 364 86 263 263 26S 364 402-404 114 139 327 263 364 263 Common Pleas Queen'sBench Chancery Exchequer - Treasury Exchequer - Treasury Exchequer - Treasury Welsh Re- "1 cords,North [ Wales Cir- cuit Chancery Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Chapter House cords Exchequer Auditbfflce Treasmy Chancery Exchequer Re- 263 139 115 86,87 263 364 263 87 263 87 87 319, 820 263 346 87 263 297 263 263 372. 375 365 87 263 480 INDEX. Court or Department. Page. Court or Department. Statute Eolls. See\ Parliament - -J Statutes (Oriel College) ■} Statute Staple Stedman's Reports as to American Claims. See Reports Stewards. See Oaths \ of Office - -J Stewardships Stoole Bundles - Stoppages for Pro-") perty Tax, 1809. SeeV Property Tax -) Storekeeper's Instruc- \ tions - • -S Subdeaneries - Submission IBond Books Subpoena Office Subsidy Commissions - and Tax Rolls,&c. Suffolk. See Ipswich. > Monasteries - ' -} Suitors - - - Summons Requests for.~^ "Weekly Lists of Summons and Me- moranda. Affidavits of Service of - -J Super Books Superannuation Superoneratioiie - Supersedeas Superstitious "Uses Supplies Supremacy - Surrenders Surrenders aud Com-"i mittiturs, or Mar- f shals' Books - -) Sun-ey, Earl of - - Surveyor General, ") Court of - -S ofCrownLands, "> &c. - - -S Surveys - - - ■ Report of the") Survey of divers > Ports - -) Swainmote. ^eePorests Swearing Rolls — See Oaths See Oaths Tables of Fees - - { Tallage - Tallies Taxatio Ecclesiastica - ") Taxation Roll - -S Pope Nicholas - - of the Jews Tax Books Taxes Chancery Exchequer ■ Chapter House Re- cords Chancery Audit Office ■ Palace Court • Exchequer ■ Chancery Treasury Chancery Queen's Bench Chancery ExcheOLuer - Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Palace Court - Exchequer - Treasury Chancery Exchequer - Chancery Common Pleas Chancery Treasury Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Queen's Bench Exchequer - -J Chancery Exchequer Court of Wards Chapter House KC' cords Treasury Chancery Common Pleas Exchequer - Queen's Bench Slave Regis- ") tration -J Cliaucery Exchequer - Chancery Chapter ~i House Ee- > cords - J Treasury Chancery Exchequer - 87 88 26-1 297 87,88 375 309 2M 88 365 115 83 284i 89 261 263 309 2C3 89 139 89 305 115 265 265 266, 267 89 267-269 316 297 139 269 115 376 89 89 59, 270 270 90 297 90 365 90 271 Taxes. See Servants' Tax - See Land Tax ■ Tellers Temporalties Tenths See Constats. " First Fruits - Tenths, or Dismes.S Commissioners of. >■ See Commissions -J Tenui-es. See Hun- ■) dred EoUs - -i Terras Normannorum - Terriers or Terrars. 1 See Surveys - - J Testa de Nevill - Rolls ■{ Thames, River Thoby Priory Timber Tin Books. See Corn- wall, Duchy of Tithes - Title, Descent, &c. Deeds. See Deeds Titles of Accounts. See Accounts of Rolls Titlings or Piats. See Piats - ':} Titre Priory Tonnage and Poundage Tontine - - - Topography Torr - Totalia Pipec - Tott Books Tournaments - Tower of London • Tracts, Various - -< Trade Trade aud Plantations, "^ a Committee of Privy > Council - -J Transcripts by "Writ - of Records in') Error - -) Traverses(CrownSide) < Treason - - Bundles Treasurer's Bundle, or') Purse Bundle -J Treasure Trove • Treasury Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Audit Office Chancery Exchequer Chapter House Re- cords Exchequer • Re-| Chapter House cords Chancery Exchequer - Treasury Exchequer - Common Pleas Welsh Re- ') cords,Breck- [■ nock Circuit J „ Chester ') Circuit -i Audit Office - Exchequer - Welsh Re- "i cords. Car- 1 martnen [ Circuit -J ,, North^i Wales Cir-' } cuit - -J Chancery Exchequer - Treasury Chancery Common Pleas Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer Chapter House Re- cords Chanceiy '.} -.} Chanceiy Queen's Bench Chapter House Re- cords Palace Court Durham Re-') cords -i Chanceiy Exchequer Queen's Bench ■Welsh Re- ' cords, Car- marthen Circuit Chancery 365 369 271 90 271 372 90 90 271 297 271 272 272 297 90 90 272 273 139 331 372.375 273 333 90 273 273 365 90 139 273 273 90,91 273 297 90 341 90 115 297 309 335 91 273 115 333 INDEX. 481 Court or Department. Page. Court or Department. Page. Treasury, Office otl Clerk of - -i or Treasury) Chambers - -S Accounts, LetO ters, &o. - -S Warrants of Receipt of £x-~) chequer Department, > or Chapter House * J Treaties Trial, Notices of Notice Books Truces Tuckford Priory Tumults Tunbridge Priory Tythes Universities - ■{ Common Pleas Treasury Audit Office - Exchequer - Chapter House Chancery Exchequer Chapter House Re- cords Exchequer Queen's Bench Chancery Usurpation Vacant Sees Vacation Rules. Rules - Valor Eccleslasticus Valors - Valuations :j •{ Value of Livings. See X Constats - -J Vascon Rolls Venire Pacias Venires - - - Venires fac. Jurats,and \ Retunas - -S Venire Papers Verderers Vetus Codex, or Black ") Book - -- -S Vicai-ages - - - Vice- Admirals, Ap-^ pointments of, m 1 Counties, Islands, t and Plantations, in [ the Entry Books of the Admiralty Court J Vicecomital, or Vis- 1 contiel Rents -S Vidimus - - Views of Accounts See Accounts - Visitations Visus, or Views of Ac-^ counts - -J Vouchers Voyages, Royal - Waiters, King's ^Valps " * See Welsh Eolls KoUs of Ex- Ex-f ' -l tracts as to Wales Welsh Ueoords Wallingford Priory Wardrobe -LiberGarderobe, ' Edw. III. t} Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Welsii Re- ~) cords,Breck- > nock CircuitJ Exchequer :} Chapter House Re- cords Audit Office Chancery Exchequer Queen's Bench Palace Court - Chancery Exchequer - Court of Ad-) miralty - } Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Court of "Wards Exchequer Chapter House Re- cords Exchequer ■J Audit Office Chancery ■J Exchequer Chapter House Re- cords Chancery Exchequer Chapter House Ee- cords 139 348-309 375 274 287-297 92 274 297 274 115 92 92 92 92 93 274 93 274 274 274 274, 275 275 297 372 275 115 309 309 93 275 337 276 276 816 276 297 276 276 S75 93 94 94,95 276 297 321-333 94 94 276, 277 297 :} Wards Wardships and Liveries, I Court of - -} and Wardships - ■ Matters before") the Court of Wards > was created - ■) War Office Warrants - See Patents and Warrants') of Attorney - -J to Prosecute") and Defend - -} - Commissariat - - Books, in Classes ■ ■ ■ -S of Attorney -J (Plea Side) [ See Files Chancery Warrens Warwick - Earl of Waste Book Books Watson's Eoll - Weights and Measures Welsh Records Eolls. See Wales West Indies Westminster Abbey Foundation Deeds, Hen. VII. Westmorland Earl of - -{ AVey River WhitehaU, Court of] (Court of Requests was formerly so > called.) See Court of Requests - -J Wikes Priory "Wills - See Powers of> Attorney - -> Seamens', &c. - 1 Wiltshire Winclicombe - - "Winchester, See of John Poulet, ') Marquis of - -J Window Duty Windsor - - Witness Books - -< Wolsey, Cardinal - Wood Books, or Crown ) Lease Book - - j Woodlands Wool - and Tarn car-) ried Coastwise - ) Worcester - .} Chancery Exchequer Court of Wards Chapter House Re- cords Audit Office Chancery Exchequer - Audit Office - Common Pleas Admiralty ") Court -j Queen's Bench Palace Court - Treasury -J Vrivy Signet") Of&r.e -) Welsh Re- S cords.Breck- >■ nock CircuitJ „ Chester) Circuit •} Durham Re-") cords 'S Chancery Exchequer - Treasury Chancery Chancery Treasiuy Exchequer Chapter House Re- cords Exchequer - •-} Chancery Exchequer - Chapter ") House Ee- f cords -J Audit Office - Court of Ad-") miralty -J Exchequer - Chancery Exchequer - Court of Ee-1 quests -J Chancei-y Exchequer - Treasury Exchequer - Chancery Treasury Exchequer - I I 94 277 311-318 316 297 375 94 277-280 372. 375 139, 140 337 309 349,350. 369 367 365-367 347 330 327 335 94 280 280 280 367 94 95 321-333 95 367 369 280 297 280 280 280 317 95 93 281 297 372.375 281 281 95 281 282 318 95 282 367 282 95 367 2S2 482 INDEX. Court or Department. Court or Department. Page. Works Writs - of Summons and Precepts in the Instance Court - - Writ Rolls, Ee- '} Bisters or Forms of Writs - - Writ Books ■ Cursitors* Piles Docket Books') of Cursitors - -i Books - - 1 Chancery Exchequer Chancery Exchequer Queens Bench Common Pleaa Palace Court - Court of Wards Court of Ado miralty -S Chapter "^ House Ee- ?■ cords -) Welsh Ee- ") cords,Bteck- ?■ nock Circuits ,, Chester "> Circuit -S 95,96 96 282, 28S 116 140 809 316 337 297 331 330 330 Writs, Entries of Files of, Chan. eery - :1 and Eetums^ (Chancery) of Mem- 1 hers to serve in Par- f liament - -J and Eetums") (Crown Side) of>- Haheas Corpus -) (Plea Side) Clerks of Ee- cords and Writs Wymondham or \ WyndhamAbbOT' -J Yearly EevenueBooks. 1 See Eevenue Books i Torkshire - - - Registration ofy Lands. See Eegis- > tratiou of Lands, &