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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)
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)
NRA 14687 Acland
3
1633-1634: quietus (John Willoughby)
Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)
NRA 40633
4
1664: quietus (John Willoughby)
Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)
NRA 40633
5
1696: quietus
Plymouth Archives, The Box
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)
NRA 6709 Tucker
8
1768, 1778-79: accounts (William Ilbert)
Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)
NRA 12584
9
1778-79: writ book and papers (Christopher Hall)
Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)
NRA 9922 Peter
10
1786, 1798: registers of inquisitions and writs
Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)
NRA 5623 Tremayne
11
1818: undersheriff's account book (Ralph Barnes)
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]
12
1822-23: quietus (Sir Thomas Elliott Drake)
Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)
NRA 6713 Drake
13
1835-1841: shrievalty papers (WR Ilbert)
Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)
NRA 12584
14
1866-68: undersheriff's books
Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)
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)
See Annual Return 2022