DEL 11609-1834Registrar of the High Court of Delegates: Processes
Copies of proceedings in civilian courts in connection with the hearing by the High Court of Delegates of appeals from their sentences. The majority of the appeals relate to testamentary and matrimonial causes from the ecclesiastical courts, and to maritime causes from the High Court of Admiralty.
The appeals from ecclesiastical courts include processes relating to such matters as clerical discipline, income, rights, and disputes over tithes, church rates, defamation and pews. Appeals from the Court of Chivalry and from the courts of the chancellors of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge are rare.
The series contains all the surviving processes but does not cover every cause which came before the court. Only nine processes survive for the period before 1650. Survival is patchy for the rest of the seventeenth century but the eighteenth century is well covered and the period from about 1800 is almost complete.