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Catalogue description Chancery: Master Horne's Exhibits
| Reference: | C 110 |
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| Title: | Chancery: Master Horne's Exhibits |
| Description: |
The documents in this series consist of private papers of all kinds, delivered into the court of Chancery by plaintiffs and defendants as evidence in their suits. Most of the papers were delivered back to their owners, but those that remain form a major source for social, economic and business history. Some of the collections contain intimate correspondence, and family papers, including diaries and wills; others include estate papers and accounts covering several centuries. Business, professional and trade papers are very well represented. There are important holdings relating to the army, individual artists, the book and newspaper trades, the building trades, charities, chemists, churchwardens accounts, the cloth trades, coachmakers, collieries and the coal trade, the diamond, gold and silver trades, hospitals, mining, naval officers and seamen, prize agents, privateers, schools, shipping, the slave trade, street lighting, undertakers, waterworks, and the wine trade. There is also a considerable amount of material relating to the East India Company, India, the West Indies (Caribbean) and North America, and foreign trade. |
| Date: | 1306-1853 |
| Arrangement: |
Where possible, the catalogue identifies the Chancery cause that relates to each set of exhibits. There are two distinct sequences within this series:
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| Related material: |
Additional finding aid ZBOX 1/69/4 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English, French and Latin |
| Physical description: | 190 box(es) |
| Restrictions on use: | These documents can only be seen under supervision |
| Custodial history: | The documents were handed on by each master to his successor, until reclaimed. The exhibits in this series ended up in the care of Master Horne, the last Seventh Master, 1839-1853. |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
An index to the Chancery Masters over time is filed with the paper catalogued in the reading rooms at The National Archives |
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