Catalogue description Board of Inland Revenue: Tithe Redemption Office and predecessors: Certificates of Redemption of Tithe Rentcharge by Annuities

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Reference: IR 102
Title: Board of Inland Revenue: Tithe Redemption Office and predecessors: Certificates of Redemption of Tithe Rentcharge by Annuities
Description:

The series consists of certificates of redemption by annuities from the Tithe Redemption Office. They contain details of the consideration money required for redemption and of annuity payments.

Date: 1918-1969
Arrangement:

The certificates were transferred to the Public Record Office in two batches (pieces 1 to 3800 and 3801 to 4181) and within each batch are arranged in certificate number order.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, Land Commission, 1903-1919

Board of Inland Revenue, Tithe Redemption Office, 1960-1976

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Land Commission, 1919-1936

Tithe Redemption Commission, 1936-1960

Physical description: 4183 boxes and rolls
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

Certificates of redemption record the tithe rentcharge under the various Tithe Acts. Until 1918 redemption could only be made by payment of a lump sum. The Tithe Act 1918 made provision for the redemption of tithe rentcharge by means of terminable annuity payments, initially for a period up to fifty years, but later extended by the Tithe Act 1925 to sixty years.

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