Catalogue description Chancery Masters' Miscellaneous Books

This series consists of the following Chancery masters' miscellaneous books:

• depositions by witnesses in actions, 1722-1799;
• solicitors' admission books, 1729-1843;
• a volume of committals for contempt of court, 1827-1846;
• barristers' opinions etc, 1825-1827;
• twelve summons books, 1852-1858, containing correspondence relating to suits unfinished at the time of the abolition of the Chancery masters in 1852;
• three private letter books, 1802-1803 and 1830, two belonging to Ellis and Walmsley, solicitors;
• six minute books relating to the winding-up of companies under the Joint Stock Companies Acts of 1848 and 1849;
• sale books, describing lots, conditions of sale, bids made and names of bidders for property sold by order of the court, 1718-1834;
• original correspondence, orders, affidavits, etc, of various masters;
• papers and account books of the Report Office, relating to suitors' funds, 1725-1868;
• a volume of common law writs, 1654-1659.