These are records created by, or inherited and acquired by, the clerks of the Petty Bag; in many cases they are closely related to the functions of other Chancery officers, particularly those of the clerk of the Crown in Chancery, who initiated much of the work which the clerks then prosecuted.
Proceedings on statute staple are in C 228, with certificates of statute merchant and statute staple in C 241. Writs in other debt proceedings are in C 243
The main body of Chancery's administrative and common law writs, with their returns, is in C 202
Writs of certiorari for acts of Parliament are in C 204. Parliamentary writs and related records are in C 218 and C 219
Special commissions on various matters, chiefly Crown property rights, are in C 205
Common law pleadings, memoranda, and orders from the Petty Bag Office are in C 206, C 221 and C 222
Treasury warrants for the appointment of customs officers are in C 208; warrants for bishops' patents are in C 201. Enrolments of bishops' patents and customs officers' patents are in C 209
Rolls relating to the appointment of sheriffs are in C 227. Writs and returns relating to appointments and oaths are in C 254; certificates of election are in C 267. Records of oaths of allegiance are in C 213, C 214 and C 215, with sacrament certificates in C 224
Specifications for inventions are in C 210
Admission rolls of solicitors and Chancery officers are in C 216
Some patent roll indexes compiled for the Petty Bag Office are in C 274
Records of successive commissioners of sewers are in C 225 and C 226, with decrees in connection with the Bedford Level Commissioners in C 229
Commissions and inquisitions in lunacy are in C 211
Miscellaneous records arising from the Petty Bag Office's inheritance of the duties of the cursitors are in C 207 and C 220
Enrolments and other records reflecting a wide variety of miscellaneous functions are in C 212 and C 217; precedent books and registers of writs are in C 230. Writ files on various common law matters are in C 244, C 249, C 250, C 251, C 257, C 258 and C 261
Various certificates retained in the Petty Bag Office are in C 203. A collection of reports, 1740 to 1864, on legal and judicial matters, deposited in the Petty Bag Office in 1864, is in C 223
Miscellaneous Petty Bag Office records (Pot Bundle) are in C 236
Wine licences are in C 238
Scire facias writs are in C 245 and C 246