Cumberland: sheriff

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Date:	1572-1964
Places:	Cumbria Cumberland
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (local) > Sheriff and assize
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C44008 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O39813 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1572-73: register of writs	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle	D LONS/L13/3	NRA 17777 Lowther
2	1660-62: registers of writs and precedent book (Daniel Fleming and Sir John Lowther)	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle	D LONS/L13/3	NRA 17777 Lowther
3	1711-12: quietus	Norfolk Record Office	89/4	NRA 5403
4	1783: deeds and papers rel to John Orfeur Yates' year as High Sheriff	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle	D/AY/6/5	NRA 36258
5	19th cent: sheriff and under sheriff's accounts, corresp, writs and papers	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle	C/BS boxes 49-59	NRA 36346
6	1840-1925: papers	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle	D BD	NRA 23708
7	1890-1964: record of writs issued	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle		See Report April 1985 (solicitor's deposit)
8	1894-1912: papers (Mounsey family)	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle		See Archivist's report June 1972
9	1818: sheriff's account	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle	DX 1752	See Annual Return 2004