Catalogue description Chancery: Petty Bag Office: Various Certificates

Miscellaneous returns and certificates in the custody of the Petty Bag Office, including

• inquisitions and presentments by jurors concerning the killing, sale or eating of meat in Lent;
• records of the appointment of collectors of subsidies, possibly connected with their own tax liabilities;
• documents relating to the sequestration of estates of delinquents;
• certificates confirming the surrender of offices;
• certificates recording the oath of allegiance, supremacy and abjuration sworn by attorneys;
• certificates naming those who failed to swear the oaths required by the Security of the Sovereign Act 1714;
• certificates concerning concealed deaths under the Cestui que Vie Act 1707;
• certificates attesting that members of Parliament met the property qualification required by the Parliament Act 1710.