Catalogue description Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue and predecessors: Receivers' Accounts, Series I

The core of this series consists of receivers' accounts of crown lands in England and Wales prepared by the auditors of the Court of Augmentations before 1554, and by the auditors of land revenue thereafter.

Also found, however, are miscellaneous accounts of the receivers general of the household, of taxes and of all arrears of the land revenues, which were also audited by the auditors of land revenue.

There are also receivers' accounts relating to the jointures of the seventeenth century queens consort: Anne of Denmark, Henrietta Maria and Catherine of Braganza.

Other major series of receivers' accounts are:

LR 7

Views of these accounts are in LR 8

LR 12

SC 6

DL 29

Vouchers subsidiary to them are in LR 5

From 1900 Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments