Catalogue description Chancery and Supreme Court: Chancery Division: Purchase Receipts

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Details of J 339
Reference: J 339
Title: Chancery and Supreme Court: Chancery Division: Purchase Receipts
Description:

These records comprise receipts of purchases of government consols and payments out of the settlement fund by the Masters of Chancery under the authority of the Court of Chancery Accountant General. This would be carried out under direction from the Court of Chancery once a settlement had been agreed for the infant or sick person.

The receipts are consistent in text and similar to the following: 'Received then of Thomas Walker Esquire Accountant General of the Court of Chancery a cheque note number[Cheque number] drawn on the Governor and Comptroller of the Bank of England for the sum of £....... which note is dated [date] and made payable to [name of subject] pursuant to an order dated [date] and a report dated [date] last made in thte cause [title of cause]'.
Date: 1841-1846
Arrangement:

Records are arranged chronologically.
Related material:

See also C 279
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Accountant General in the Court of Chancery, 1726-1872
Physical description: 9 volume(s)
Restrictions on use: 3 days notice to produce.
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 2010 Ministry of Justice
Custodial history: These records can be traced back with certainty to 1972 when they were known to be in the custody of the Supreme Court Pay Office to 1975 and the Court Funds Office, thereafter, both sited at the Royal Courts of Justice London WC2A 2LL. During the 1980s the records were moved to the Public Record Office repository at Hayes Middlesex UB3 1RF. In 2003, the records were temporarily held in the basement of the Court Funds Office in 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6LE before being moved in the same year into private storage at Bishops Furniture Storage in Battersea London acting on behalf of the Department for Constitutional Affairs. In 2008 the records were moved to Bishops Storage in Chessington, Surrey before being moved in 2009 to Harwell Laboratories in Oxfordshire for preparation for transfer to the National Archives. The remaining records that were not selected for transfer continue to be held by Bishops on behalf of the Ministry of Justice in Chessington Surrey.
Selection and destruction information: All purchase receipts selected (where extant).
Accruals: Series is not accruing.

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