Catalogue description Palatinate of Chester: Court of Exchequer, and Court of Great Sessions, Prothonotary's Office: Admission and Oath Rolls of Attorneys and Solicitors and Articles of Clerkship, etc.

This series contains admission and oath rolls of attorneys and solicitors, 1697 to 1830, and articles of clerkship, etc, 1728 to 1830, together with an entry book, 1749 to 1792, recording the filing in the Prothonotary's Office of affidavits of due execution of such articles, under the Continuance of laws, etc Act 1748. The courts to which they were admitted were the Exchequer of Chester and the Court of Great Sessions. Some of the records in the series relate to Flint.

For roll of Welsh attorneys admitted to the King's Bench on the abolition of the Courts of Great Sessions in Wales see KB 172/18

Palatinate of Chester, Courts of Great Sessions of Chester and Flint, 1540-1830

Palatinate of Chester, Exchequer of Chester, 1297-1830

For more information concerning records of attorneys and solicitors generally see Public Record Office Domestic Records Information Leaflet 36.