Catalogue description Assizes: Western Circuit: Miscellaneous Books
Reference: | ASSI 24 |
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Title: | Assizes: Western Circuit: Miscellaneous Books |
Description: |
This series includes a recognizance or bail book, 1654 to 1677; certificate books, 1876 to 1887; costs books, 1869 to 1890; an estreat book, 1740 to 1800; note books 1766 to 1932, including one covering the special commission of assize at Princetown in 1932 following the riots at Dartmoor prison; order books (transportation, etc), 1629 to 1819; postea books, 1611 to 1679; and process books, 1717 to 1820. These records include both series of different types of documents, and individual documents, which are either the only extant examples of a particular type of record, or which were compiled for special purposes. |
Date: | 1610-1932 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Physical description: | 44 volume(s) |
Publication note: |
For published entries from the order books see Somerset Assize Orders, 1629-1659 (Somerset Record Society, LXV and LXXI). |
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