Report On the Records of the City of Exeter. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1916.
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'The city of Exeter: Minute books of the Chamber', in Report On the Records of the City of Exeter, (London, 1916) pp. 339-340. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/hist-mss-comm/vol73/pp339-340 [accessed 24 April 2024]
Minute Books.
These volumes contain the Minutes of the meetings, which are afterwards copied into the Act Books.
Book 18 to 30. Chamber Minute Books from 5 February, 1688, to 23 April, 1831. (See Act Books 13 to 17.)
Book 18 is called on the cover "Act Book from February 5, 1688, unto Sept. 12, 1698," with a note, "of no use being fair copied in No. XI," i.e. Act Book XIII.
Book 19. Chamber Act Book from 14 August, 1722, to June 27, 1727. Copied in No. XI, i.e. Act Book XIII.
Book 20. Do, do, from July 18, 1727, to Oct. 4, 1731. Copied in No. XI, i.e. Act Book XIII.
Book 21. No. XII. Minute Book of the Chamber from Oct, 1731, to February, 1735. Adding (in later hand of Oliver's time) Nos. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. All copied in No. XII., i.e. Act Book XIV.
Book 22. No. XIII. Minute Book of the Chamber, 1735 (i.e. from Feb. 21, 1735, to July 5, 1743).
Book 23. No. XIV. Do, do, 1743 (i.e. from Aug. 27, 1743, to Dec. 17, 1751).
Book 24. No. XV. Do, do, 1752 (i.e. from Jan. 28, 1752, to May 28, 1763).
Book 25. No. XVI. Do, do, 1763 (i.e. from July 26, 1763, to April 16, 1776).
Book 25. No. XVI. Do, do, 1763 (i.e. from July 26, 1763, to April 16, 1776).
The remainder of these Minute Books are kept at the Town Clerk's office in a separate building, and time did not allow of my inspecting them, but I ascertained that a volume which was missing, which Mr. Stuart Moore reported, has recently been recovered (1909), and is now marked Book 30A. Other volumes still missing are from Sept. 12, 1698, where No. 18 ends, and Aug. 14, 1722, where No. 19 begins. Also between 1831 and Dec. 31, 1835.
Books 31 to 37 contain Minutes of the Council from Dec. 31, 1835, to Sept. 10, 1873. Books 38 to 48 are blank.
Book 49. Wynard's Minute Book, 1864. See Deeds 573 &c.
Book 50. Northernhay Minute Book, 1844, to [blank ].