Catalogue description Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues and predecessors: Court Rolls and other Manorial Documents from Crown Manors

Court rolls and books, estreats, rentals, presentments, etc, of Crown manors in England and Wales. In addition, there are a few records of the day-to-day working of some estates, which are not strictly manorial records.

Some apparently early records such as CRES 5/56 and CRES 5/57 are later copies.

Includes some records originally in E 40.

Court rolls of the Duchy of Lancaster are in DL 30

Court rolls deposited with the Auditors of Land Revenue are in LR 3

For estreats of court rolls see LR 11

Other court rolls will be found in SC 2

Crown Lands, 1925-1956

Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1810-1832

Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1851-1924

Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings, 1832-1851

Surveyor General of Crown Lands, 1625-1810

Surveyor General of Woods and Forests, 1715-1810

See alsoManor and other Local Court rolls, 13th Century-1922 Public Record Office Legal Records Information Leaflet 9.

For an index to Court Rolls in this and other series see 'Union Indexes to Court Rolls'. Please speak to staff at the enquiry desk for the precise location.