Catalogue description Chancery: Files, Tower and Rolls Chapel Series, Certificates of Elections

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Details of C 267
Reference: C 267
Title: Chancery: Files, Tower and Rolls Chapel Series, Certificates of Elections
Description:

Election certificates for sheriffs, mayors, constables of the staple, and clerks and other officials of statutes merchant.

Other certificates include keepers of the peace, subsidy collectors, customs officials and searchers of shipping. A few certificates include escheators, coroners and bailiffs.

Most of these records were formerly included in C 47

Date: 1303-1648
Arrangement:

The certificates are arranged under towns and counties and bound in files, each of which is a single piece although the documents have been listed individually.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and Latin
Physical description: 11 file(s)

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