Catalogue description Court of Common Pleas, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Common Pleas Division: Remembrance Books

Books of memoranda kept by the secondaries for the prothonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas until 1837, when both kinds of office were abolished; thereafter they were kept for the newly created masters of the court, and came to be called remembrance rolls of rules.

Their purpose was to record rules (orders) of court, which were not technically records of the court and so were not recorded on the plea rolls. Common rules, made without any motion in court, and special rules, which were moved in court, are recorded in separate sections until 1837.

The earlier remembrance rolls are in CP 45

As well as being entered in the remembrance books, rules are also recorded in special and common rule books of the court, in CP 47

Court of Common Pleas, 1194-1875

Supreme Court of Judicature, Common Pleas Division, 1875-1880