KB 33c1600-1907Court of King's Bench: Crown Side: Precedents and Miscellanea
Principally records and copies of records of the Crown Side of the Court of King's Bench brought together, probably over a long period, to provide precedent material for the use of the chief official of the Crown Side, known by the early nineteenth century as the master of the Crown Office, and his subordinate officers.
The earliest original records are of the mid seventeenth century, but most belong to the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth; the items dated before 1650 are apparently all copies.
The precedents consist of records of various major cases involving serious offences, especially treason, felonies and libel, and material relating to the use and form of the prerogative writs. There are also some accounts of masters of the Crown Office for the first half of the nineteenth century.