Catalogue description Court of Common Pleas: Concords of Fines Files, Additional Edward II - Charles I

The earliest concords, texts of agreements to convey property which were drawn up as a preliminary to levying a final concord to bring about the conveyance itself. The earliest concord example dates from 1320, and is in the form of endorsement on a writ of dedimus potestatem which gave power to commissioners to record the agreement by the parties involved. Thereafter there are a gradually increasing proportion of separate concords. No substantial number of files survive from before the reign of Elizabeth I, and the only one in its original format is one for a term in 1508. There is one item which consists of additional concords for the period from 1581 to 1637.

There are no indexes to the concords, but the indexes to the notes of fines, described under CP 25/2, serve as a rough guide if it is appreciated that the concord may well have been filed in a different term from the note.