Catalogue description Court of Common Pleas: Prothonotaries' Docket Rolls

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Reference: CP 60
Title: Court of Common Pleas: Prothonotaries' Docket Rolls
Description:

Rolls kept for the three prothonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas, and after 1838 by their successors the masters, initially probably to enable the calculation of their fees for the making of entries in the plea rolls.

Until 1770 each prothonotary had his own set of rolls, although there are many gaps; thereafter there was a single set made up for the three of them in common, although none survives from 1770 to 1791.

Date: 1509-1859
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: IND 1/1-1183
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Court of Common Pleas, 1194-1875

Physical description: 1183 roll(s)

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