Catalogue description Court of Common Pleas: Notes of Fines Files, Charles I

Files containing the drafts of the chirographer, the court official responsible for engrossing final concords, from which he drew up the copies of the agreement, including the foot of the fine that was filed by the court; afterwards he filed these notes. They do include the full text of the agreement, including the consideration, which did not appear in the concord but was added by the chirographer, and various annotations at the foot at different periods. The series is fairly complete, achieving a settled format by the seventeenth century.

A major series of repertories of the notes of fines, or rather two different series which briefly overlapped, are in IND 1/7233 - IND 1/7244 and IND 1/17217 - IND 1/17268. These are in practice mainly used as means of reference to the feet of fines CP 25/2

Fragments and detached file covers are in CP 26/14