Catalogue description Chancery: Certificates of Election of Coroners and Verderers (Tower and Rolls Chapel Series)

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Details of C 242
Reference: C 242
Title: Chancery: Certificates of Election of Coroners and Verderers (Tower and Rolls Chapel Series)
Description:

Writs de coronatore eligendo and de viridario eligendo, for the election of coroners and verderers in county courts, returned into Chancery endorsed with the names of the officers elected or nominated.

Many of these records were formerly included in C 47 and C 202
Date: 1283-1633
Arrangement:

The writs were originally on files which broke up when the thongs snapped, so are very incomplete.
Related material:

For coroners' elections after 1889, see KB 16
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and Latin
Physical description: 22 file(s)
Publication note:

Specimen writs for the election of coroners and verderers appear in Registrum Brevium (4th ed, London, 1687), pp 177-178. The returns are examined in R F Hunnisett, 'English Chancery records: rolls and files', Journal of the Society of Archivists, v (1975), pp 158-168.

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