Subseries within LR 2InterregnumCOPIES OF PARLIAMENTARY SURVEYS
Trustees for the sale of the Crown lands: Parliamentary surveys. This sub-series holds surveys produced under the two acts of 1649 and 1650 for the sale of Crown lands and fee-farm rents in England and Wales.
The surveys fall into two main categories, those of single tenurial units such as honors and manors, and those of whole hundreds or wapentakes. This reflects their statutory origin. as, while the Act of 1649 authorized the sale of honours and manors, the Act of 1650, dated 11 March, authorized the sale of fee-farm rents, which were ascertained by surveying whole hundreds or wapentakes.
The surveys are mainly concerned with value, details of tenurial arrangements and rents, etc, rather than topography, although detail of buildings is sometimes given.