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Catalogue description Privy Council Office: Sheriffs' Rolls
| Reference: | PC 3 |
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| Title: | Privy Council Office: Sheriffs' Rolls |
| Description: |
This series consists of sheriffs' rolls and record the names of those nominated at the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice and its predecessors for the office of sheriff in England (except for Cornwall and Lancaster) and Wales. Appointment was made by the crown in council and each roll, besides being pricked by the sovereign to denote the names of those appointed, bears the royal sign manual. |
| Date: | 1844-2013 |
| Arrangement: |
Date order |
| Related material: |
Enquiries regarding Cornish sheriffs' rolls should be directed to the Duchy of Cornwall Office. For earlier sheriffs' rolls from the Six Clerks' Office of Chancery, see: For records relating to the appointment of sheriffs in the Duchy of Lancaster, see DL 21 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 170 roll(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Publication note: |
For a list of sheriffs for England and Wales see List of Sheriffs to 1831, List and Indexes, Volume IX, 1898. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
In Cornwall appointments are made by the Prince of Wales as Duke of Cornwall, and in Lancaster by the sovereign in right of the Duchy. |
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