PRO 30/231611-1883Serjeants' Inn, Chancery Lane: Records
These were presented and consist of correspondence, account books, deeds, minutes of the Board of Green Cloth (records otherwise in LS) and miscellaneous documents relating to the affairs of Serjeants' Inn, Chancery Lane.
The records are wholly concerned with its institutional existence as a professional society. They do not include any records from the use of chambers for out of court hearings, or from the use of the hall for meetings of the judges sitting as Exchequer Chamber. Minutes of the Board of Green Cloth (the governing body of the inn) and treasurer's accounts make up a large proportion of the surviving records; there is also a considerable amount of material relating to the various proposals for action during the last decades of Serjeants' Inn.
Serjeant William Payne's account of the inn, written in 1861, includes a list of its records (in PRO 30/23/4): this indicates that many more records were in existence then, including treasurer's accounts going back to 1604. No earlier records were mentioned.
The earliest surviving records are those of the daily diets of the judges and serjeants during term time, and payment of servants' wages, from 1611.