Catalogue description Court of Common Pleas: Docket Books of Posteas and Inquiries, Series II

Volumes of dockets of posteas and inquiries for cases settled at Assizes. They were originally kept for the Clerk of the judgments of the Court of Common Pleas.

They are arranged internally by regnal year and term, and give information about the county, parties, date, plea roll rotuli, amount of damages and the name of the attorney.

The docket books of final judgments contain cross-references to plea rolls and the terms in which posteas were filed. They were evidently compiled for the clerk of the judgments, who worked in the office of the third prothonotary, and also record the transfer of posteas to the custos brevium.

These documents usually refer to the larger bundles of original posteas in CP 41

Court of Common Pleas, 1194-1875