Lists of documents used

A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1973.

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'Lists of documents used', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6, (London, 1973) pp. xvii-xviii. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol6/xvii-xviii [accessed 25 April 2024]

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LIST OF CLASSES OF DOCUMENTS IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

USED IN THIS VOLUME WITH THEIR CLASS NUMBERS

Clerks of Assize
Assizes 35 Indictments
Chancery
C 1 Proceedings, Early
C 47 Miscellanea
C 60 Fine Rolls
C 66 Patent Rolls
C 78 Decree Rolls
Inquisitions post mortem
C 132 Series I, Henry III
C 134 Edward II
C 135 Edward III
C 136 Richard II
C 137 Henry IV
C 138 Henry V
C 139 Henry VI
C 140 Edward IV and V
C 141 Richard III
C 142 Series II
C 145 Miscellaneous Inquisitions
Court of Common Pleas
Feet of Fines
C.P. 25 (1) Series I
C.P. 25 (2) Series II
C.P. 40 Plea Rolls
C.P. 43 Recovery Rolls
Duchy of Lancaster
D.L. 25 Deeds, Series L
Exchequer, Treasury of the Receipt
E 40 Ancient Deeds, Series A
Exchequer, King's Remembrancer
E 150 Inquisitions post mortem, Series II
E 179 Subsidy Rolls etc.
E 210 Ancient Deeds, Series D
Exchequer, Augmentation Office
E 315 Miscellaneous Books
E 318 Particulars for Grants of Crown Lands
Home Office
H.O. 67 Acreage Returns Various, Census
H.O. 107 Population Returns
H.O. 129 Ecclesiastical Returns
Justices Itinerant, Assize and Gaol Delivery Justices, etc.
J.I. 1 Eyre Rolls, Assize Rolls, etc.
J.I. 3 Gaol Delivery Rolls
Court of King's Bench (Crown Side)
K.B. 27 Coram Rege Rolls
Exchequer, Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue
L.R. 2 Miscellaneous Books
Special Collections
S.C. 2 Court Rolls
S.C. 6 Ministers' and Receivers' Accounts
S.C. 12 Rentals and Surveys
State Paper Office
S.P. 12 State Papers Domestic, Eliz. I
Court of Wards and Liveries
Wards 7 Inquisitions post mortem

LIST OF CLASSES OF DOCUMENTS IN THE ESSEX RECORD OFFICE

USED IN THIS VOLUME WITH THEIR CLASS NUMBERS

Court of Quarter Sessions
Q/AB County Bridges
Q/AG County Gaols
Q/CP Clerk of the Peac: Precedents
Q/CR Clerk of the Peace: Parliamentary Returns
Q/RDc Inclosure Awards
Q/RHi Highways: Diversion, Closure, Widening
Q/RLv Alehouse Recognizances
Q/PRI Land Tax Assessments
Q/RRp Registers of Papists' Estate
Q/RRw Registers of Nonconformist and Roman Catholic Meeting Places
Q/RSg Deputations to Camekeepers
Q/RTh Hearth Tax Assessments
Q/RRp Registers of Papists' Estates
Q/RRw Registers of Nonconformist and Roman Catholic Meeting places
Q/RSg Deputations toGamekeepers
Q/RTh Hearth Tax Assessments
Q/RUm Public Undertakings: Plans of Schemes
Q/SR Quarter sessions Rolls
Q/SB Quarter Sessions Bundles
Q/SO Sessions Order Books
Court of Petty Sessions
P/B Becontree Division
County Counil of Essex
C/M Minutes
C/ME Education Committee Minutes
Education Records
E/P Schools Records: Plans
E/Z Schools(Miscellaneous)
Depostied Records
D/AE Court of Archdeacon of Essex Diocesan Records
D/CE New Parishes, etc.
D/CF Faculty Papers
D/CP Deeds
D/CT Tithe Apportionments and Maps
D/D Estate and Family Archives (many sub-classes, D/DA to D/DZ)
D/F Business Archives
D/P Parish Records
D/SH Court of Commissioners of Sewers: Havering
D/Z Miscellancouse Archives
Transcripts
T/A Originals in public repositories
T/B Originals in private custody
T/G Genealogical collections and pedi-grees
T/M Maps
T/P Parish collections
T/Z Miscellaneous

Some of the foregoing classes contain sub-classes which are denoted by additional letters, not shown here, but fully cited in footnotes in this volume. The group called 'Transripts' includes all forms of copies or catalogues of documents of which the originals are elsewhere, or notes and extracts taken from them.