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Catalogue description Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Miscellanea of the Exchequer
| Reference: | E 163 |
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| Title: | Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Miscellanea of the Exchequer |
| Description: |
A series of documents of considerable importance but little coherence. It includes fragments of early Exchequer enrolments; writs, returns, and recorda, not only of the several departments of the Exchequer, but also of the common law; documents subsidiary to accounts and the accounting process, and file strays; an early 'census' for Ealing, Middx; documents relating to taxation, debt, and enquiries into fees; registers, inventories, precedents and formularies of the Exchequer and other courts; strays from deposited archives, such as those of religious houses after dissolution; petitions, warrants, agenda and other documents of the King's and minor royal councils, and occasionally of parliament; and also a collection of manuscript and printed fragments recovered from book bindings and covers. |
| Date: | c 1154-c 1901 |
| Related material: |
See also LR 2 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English and Latin |
| Physical description: | 29 files, rolls and volumes |
| Custodial history: | The records in this series are drawn from the miscellanea of all parts of the Exchequer, including the offices of the King's Remembrancer and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer; the Pipe Office; the Exchequer of Pleas; the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer; the General Surveyors; the Augmentation Office (including records of the queens' councils, of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the councils of princes of Wales); the Auditors of the Land Revenue; the King's council; the Court of Star Chamber; and the courts of common law. |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
A card index to the series, arranged by name and subject but including a selective index of place names and covering only part of the series, is available as an orderable document E 163/29/16 |
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