Catalogue description Chancery: Master Richards' Documents

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Reference: C 121
Title: Chancery: Master Richards' Documents
Description:

This series contains affidavits, examinations of witnesses, accounts and other documents on which the Chancery masters founded their reports, together with the drafts of the reports.

This series currently has no list. A manuscript index, by plaintiff, is available at the The National Archives in IND 1/6626-6627.

Date: c1600-c1900
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and Latin
Physical description: 457 bundle(s)
Access conditions: Unsorted
Custodial history: The records were handed on by each master to his successor. The documents in this series ended up in the care of Master Richards, the last Twelfth Master, 1841-1860.

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