Catalogue description Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Exhibits

These exhibits are private papers which came into the custody of the court of Chancery as 'evidence' in a case.

Many of the exhibits are deeds, often single or in small collections. However, there is a notable collection of deeds, rentals, court rolls, hundred rolls and bailiff's accounts relating to Acle, Threxton and other places in Norfolk (13th to 17th centuries), as well as a large amount of material relating to Alrewas in Staffordshire (1341-1795).

Business records are represented by a large collection of bankers' papers, 1788-1819; charity papers include accounts of the Sarah Cowley and William Clayton Charity for school children in Lancashire, 1758-1775; and there are some oddments, such as a collection of decrees of the provisional Junta in Mexico in 1829.

Many of these papers have lost any link with the case to which they were originally related.

An index to parties, a subject index to business, trade and professional papers, and a card index of wills are available.