Devon: sheriff

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Date:	1397-2000
Places:	Devon Devon
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (local) > Sheriff and assize
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C43860 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O39818 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1397: tourn roll	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	L 1258, T 1258, W 1258	NRA 9813 Russell See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [90d]
2	1609: quietus	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	1148M	NRA 14687 Acland
3	1633-1634: quietus (John Willoughby)	Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)	DD\WO/38/6/1	NRA 40633
4	1664: quietus (John Willoughby)	Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)	DD/WO/38/7/1	NRA 40633
5	1696: quietus	Plymouth Archives, The Box	407	NRA 8134 Radcliffe
6	17th cent-20th cent: misc shrievalty papers (Pole family), incl ship money papers c1636-37	Collection held privately: enquiries to Archives & Cornish Studies Service (formerly Cornwall RO)		NRA 5960 Carew Pole See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [86a]
7	1762-63: quietus (Benedict M Tucker)	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	p015	NRA 6709 Tucker
8	1768, 1778-79: accounts (William Ilbert)	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	316M	NRA 12584
9	1778-79: writ book and papers (Christopher Hall)	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	178B 531M 1583B 2483B 2569B 178B	NRA 9922 Peter
10	1786, 1798: registers of inquisitions and writs	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	158M 1268M 1499M 1499/add2 410Z 1499M/3	NRA 5623 Tremayne
11	1818: undersheriff's account book (Ralph Barnes)	Collection held privately: enquiries to Archives & Cornish Studies Service (formerly Cornwall RO)	PO/33/28	NRA 5960 Carew Pole See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [86a]
12	1822-23: quietus (Sir Thomas Elliott Drake)	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	p028	NRA 6713 Drake
13	1835-1841: shrievalty papers (WR Ilbert)	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	316M add 3	NRA 12584
14	1866-68: undersheriff's books	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	74B 74B/191-1195C	NRA 5821 Burrow
15	18th-19th cent: records incl letters of attorney issued by sheriffs and under-sheriffs to receive sums of money from the Treasury, 1759-1775; file of receipts (written in Latin), 18th cent; papers rel to a land tax case, Fremington Hundred, incl Great Torrington parish, 18th cent, incl transcript copies of 17th cent land tax lists; copy petition, Court of Chancery, Hoblyn's Devised Estates, 1868	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	ZBEO	See Annual Return 2022