Catalogue description Trustees for Crown Lands and Fee-Farm Rents: Counterparts of Deeds
Reference: | E 307 |
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Title: | Trustees for Crown Lands and Fee-Farm Rents: Counterparts of Deeds |
Description: |
The counterparts, retained by the Trustees, of the sale of the fee farm and manorial rents of the Crown, authorised by Act of Parliament in 1650. Each document, except for a few defective ones, carries a date on which the 25 trustees, listed individually, agree to sell to a purchaser, named and addressed, for a stated price, the Crown rent, itemised and located, and the original grant of it particularised (most of them were made in Tudor times). The purchasers range from leading parliamentary politicians, generals, civil servants and gentry, to merchants, craftsmen and spinsters, many resident in the metropolitan area. |
Date: | 1649-1660 |
Related material: |
A manuscript 'Calendar to the Counter-parts of the Deeds of Sale of Fee Farms reserved upon grants from the Crown and remaining in the Augmentation Office is available. It occupies two volumes and has a strictly alphabetical index by location, counties being supplied, at the end of each volume. This index leads to calendar entries which list the place, its premises, the county, the grantees of the premises, the fee farm rent, and the grantees of the rent. It is in For certain other records of Parliamentary sales of Crown lands see SP 26 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Trustees for Crown Lands and Fee Farm Rents, 1649-1660 |
Physical description: | 49 bundle(s) |
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