Catalogue description Exchequer: Office of First Fruits and Tenths: Returns with Orders of Court thereon in Cases for Exemption from Payment of First Fruits and Tenths

This series contains records of the Office of First Fruits and Tenths, documenting successful claims made in the Court of Exchequer in 1561 and between 1660 and 1694 for exemption from liability to pay first fruits and tenths in particular cases.

The records consist of returns by bishops and others to writs of certiorari issued from the Exchequer (usually with the returned writ still attached) and orders of the Court of Exchequer thereon. They were held for future reference by the Office of First Fruits, which was responsible at this date for the collection of first fruits and of arrrears of tenths.