Files containing the drafts of the chirographer, the court official responsible for engrossing final concords, from which he drew up the copies of the agreement, including the foot of the fine that was filed by the court; afterwards he filed these notes. Notes may have existed from 1195, the date at which the feet of fines began, and the earliest example dates from 1200. The earliest notes may, however, be what were later called concords. The earliest in this series are thought to date from the reign of Henry III, although they only become numerous under Edward I; they do not include the dating clause found on the feet of fines. They do include the full text of the agreement, including the consideration, which did not appear in the concord but was added by the chirographer, and various annotations at the foot at different periods. There are very few notes for the period between 1377 and 1509, but thereafter the series is fairly complete, achieving a settled format by the seventeenth century, and by the nineteenth they were being drawn up on printed forms.
A major series of repertories of the notes of fines, or rather two different series which briefly overlapped, are in IND 1/7233 - IND 1/7244 and IND 1/17217 - IND 1/17268. These are in practice mainly used as means of reference to the feet of fines CP 25/2
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