Catalogue description Chancery: Cursitors' and Petty Bag Offices: Precedent Books and Registers of Writs

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Title: Chancery: Cursitors' and Petty Bag Offices: Precedent Books and Registers of Writs
Description:

Precedent books of legal memoranda, cases, forms of writ and commission, and rules for transacting business within the Petty Bag Office.

There is also a register of the varieties of writ dealt with by the clerks of the Petty Bag, which contains details of the fees they charged.

There are, in addition, precedent books and a register of writs compiled by the cursitors, which were inherited by the Petty Bag Office on the abolition of the cursitors in 1835.
Date: 17th century-1888
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and Latin
Physical description: 11 volume(s)

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