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Catalogue description Chancery: Copies of Private Acts of Parliament and Legal Records Brought into Chancery on Certiorari (Rolls Chapel Series)
| Reference: | C 89 |
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| Title: | Chancery: Copies of Private Acts of Parliament and Legal Records Brought into Chancery on Certiorari (Rolls Chapel Series) |
| Description: |
Mainly private acts of Parliament, enacted between the reigns of Henry VIII and George III, which were brought into Chancery upon writs of certiorari. The remainder of the series contains a miscellany of records certified into Chancery, including depositions, orders of Star Chamber, bills exhibited before the lord mayor of London, and fines; proceedings in Bankruptcy, Star Chamber, and the High Court of Delegates; and extracts from Domesday Book. |
| Date: | 1511-1822 |
| Related material: |
Other acts of Parliament transmitted to Chancery by writ of certiorari are in C 204 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 21 bundles and rolls |
| Publication note: |
The originals of many of the copies of the acts in this series appear in print in Statutes of the Realm (9 vols, Record Commission, 1810-1828); Public General Acts and Measures. The Chronological Table and Index of the Statutes, first issued in 1885; and Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, ed C H Firth and R S Rait (3 vols, HMSO, 1911). Many of the private acts appear, however, as titles only, and the titles in print do not exactly coincide with those listed for this series. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
These copies were made by the keepers of the statutes or legal records in response to writs of certiorari sent from Chancery requesting a copy of a specific statute or record. It is not as yet clear at whose specific behest these copies were ordered. The acts included are nearly all private acts; public acts were printed in the sessional statute, the approved list of parliamentary acts printed at the end of each session, and as the printed copy was produceable in a court of law as a legal record, recourse was not needed to a writ of certiorari to provide a copy acceptable to the court. |
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