C 217c1509-1910Chancery: Petty Bag Office: Miscellaneous Papers, Exhibits etc
Working documents, office copies and a little correspondence of successive clerks of the Petty Bag, plus exhibits in bankruptcy suits, patent specifications, lunacy proceedings, printed statutes, writs and returns, and appointments of escheators and other officers.
Also found are three groups of draft commissions of escheat, of the land and property of those dying without known heir, of aliens, and of convicted felons. The series also includes a merchant adventurer's entry book from 1547-1553, a 'History of the Troubles and Tryall of Arch[bishop] Laud', and some eighteenth-century cloth samples. The bankruptcy exhibits include business papers relating to soapmakers, builders, outfitters, general merchants and brewers.