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Cheshire: sheriff

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Date: 1422-1816
Places:
  • Cheshire
  • Cheshire
Functions, occupations and activities: Government (local) > Sheriff and assize
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C44074 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O39811 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1559-60: account (Sir John Savage)
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
NRA 16683 Chester Arch Soc
2
1422-1624: sheriff's books inc customs entries and ships entering port of Chester
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
See Rita V Bryon & Terence N Bryon, Maritime Information 1993
3
c1445-50: account roll (Sir Robert Booth - copy)
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
NRA 34737 Grey
4
1595-c1816: sheriffs and other papers, mainly early 19th cent
The National Archives
5
1604-57: papers (Mainwaring family)
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
NRA 10465
6
1634-1724: papers
University of Liverpool: Special Collections and Archives
NRA 9869 Aston
7
1640-41: quietus (William Leigh)
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
NRA 10465
8
1650-51, 1670-71, 1715-16: papers (Jodrell family)
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
NRA 10465
9
1666: papers (Richard Brooke)
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
NRA 5294 Brooke
10
1665-66: quietus (Sir John Arderne)
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
NRA 16207 Arden
11
17th cent-18th cent: misc shrievalty papers
Collection held privately: enquiries to Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
NRA 13470 Grosvenor

See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [46a]