Catalogue description Court of Wards and Liveries: Feodaries' Surveys

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Reference: WARD 5
Title: Court of Wards and Liveries: Feodaries' Surveys
Description:

Surveys prepared by the feodaries of the Court of Wards and Liveries.

They include paper extents or schedules of wards' lands showing terms of sales and also certificates of improved value, indented extents and other documents relating to the administration of wardship.

Date: Elizabeth I - Charles I
Arrangement:

By county

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and Latin
Physical description: 53 bundle(s)
Unpublished finding aids:

Some 1 400 surveys in the series have been calendered in detail in a manuscript list which can be found on open access and organised alphabetically by the name of the tenant. Please speak to staff at the Map and Large Document Room enquiry desk for the precise location.

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