England Court Records: Difference between revisions

A more detailed discussion of these records is in:  

A list of available records is in:  

The original records are in the respective county or council archives. Copies of some quarter session records are in the Family History Library. Use the Place Search of the [https://familysearch.org/catalog-search FamilySearch Catalog] under:  

*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=385 “The Manorial Documents Register and Manorial Lordships”]. London: The National Archives, 2004. Legal Records Information no. 25.  

*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=139 “Manorial Records in The National Archives”]. London: The National Archives, 2008. Legal Records Information no. 1.<br>  

*Cheyney, E.P, translator. [http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Manor.html "English Manorial Documents,"] ''Translations and Reprints from the original Sources of European History''. Vol. 3 no. 5, pp. 3-32. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1907. <br>

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==== Court of Common Pleas  ====

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The exchequer was a financial institution, its name taken from the chequered cloth (like a chess board) laid on the table to assist in counting money and calculating the amount of tax due to the crown. The ''lower exchequer'' dealt with accounts payable and receivable. The ''upper exchequer'' managed the royal revenue, audited the accounts and dealt with disputes, thus having a judicial role as well as a financial one. The exchequer administered the king’s finances throughout the Middle Ages, but from the 16^th century the ''treasury'' began to take over this role. By 1883 the exchequer had no financial functions left but did continue its judicial ones until the 1870s.<ref>Christensen, Penelope. "England Chancery Office Records and Revenue Courts (National Institute)," ''The National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/England_Chancery_Office_Records_and_Revenue_Courts_%28National_Institute%29.</ref>  

===== Pipe Rolls  =====

''The Pipe Roll Society'' is devoted to publishing the pipe rolls and has been active since 1883 with about 100 volumes.  

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===== Indexes  =====

There are some local indexes, for example those for Surrey by Webb (1994). Newspaper indexes can be helpful in finding law suits, thus I found three reports of one exchequer court action for infringement of a patent in The Times (courtesy of Thomson Gale index) in 1836-1837. They were headed ''Jupp v Pratt, Jupes v Pratt, and Jupe v Pratt'' respectively—a lesson to us all about spelling variants.  

For a list of admissions to the Middle Temple, London, see:  

Source: [http://www.middletemple.org.uk/ Middle Temple]

[[Image:Lincoln's Inn. London.jpg|thumb|right|298x190px|<center>Lincoln's Inn, London<center>]]The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is said to take its name from Henry de Lacy, third Earl of Lincoln, who died in 1311. His own great house was adjacent and he is credited with being the Society's patron. Although the other three Inns of Court are of comparable antiquity, having evolved from uncertain origins in the fourteenth century, Lincoln's Inn can claim the oldest extant records, the Black Books, which record its principal activities from 1422 to this day.<br>  

===== Gray’s Inn, London =====

For a list of admissions to Gray’s Inn, see:  

Source: [http://www.graysinn.info/ Gray’s Inn]  

Associated with Lincoln’s Inn were Thavy’s Inn and Furnivall’s Inn; Inner Temple were Clifford’s Inn, Clement’s Inn, and Lyon’s Inn; Middle Temple were New Inn and Strand Inn; and Gray’s Inn were Staple Inn and Barnard’s Inn.  

=== Court of Hustings  ===