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Catalogue description Court of Common Pleas: Entry Books of the Dates of Proclamations of Fines
| Reference: | CP 27 |
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| Title: | Court of Common Pleas: Entry Books of the Dates of Proclamations of Fines |
| Description: |
Notebooks listing the dates of the days set aside for the proclamations of final concords in court, for the years 1601-1602 and 1621-1841, when they were read out to provide publicity for the transaction. |
| Date: | 1600-1841 |
| Related material: |
The dates of the proclamations of individual fines are noted on the dorses of the feet of fines in CP 25/2 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English and Latin |
| Physical description: | 3 volume(s) |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The chirographer, the official responsible for making the feet of the fines for filing by the court, or his deputy, made the proclamation in court on the specified days and then noted the fact on the back of each foot of fine, held in the office of the custos brevium, who kept the files. The procedure was first prescribed by statute in 1299. From 1588 (31 Eliz I c 2) it was ordered that there was to be only one such day each term, and that each fine was to be read out in four successive terms. |
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