Classes of documents in the Public Record Office used

A History of the County of Essex: Volume 10, Lexden Hundred (Part) Including Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2001.

'Classes of documents in the Public Record Office used', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 10, Lexden Hundred (Part) Including Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe, (London, 2001) pp. xv-xvi. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol10/xv-xvi [accessed 11 April 2024]

LIST OF CLASSES OF DOCUMENTS IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

USED IN THIS VOLUME WITH THEIR CLASS NUMBERS



Clerks of Assize
ASSI 35	Indictments
Chancery
	Proceedings
C 1	Early
C 2	Series I
C 3	Series II
C 5	Six Clerks Series Bridges
C 11	1714-58
C 22	Country Depositions
C 66	Patent Rolls
C 78	Decree Rolls
C 93	Commissioners for Charitable Uses, Inquisitions and Decrees
C 131	Chancery Files, Extents for Debt Inquisitions post mortem
C 132	Series I, Henry III
C 133	Edward I
C 134	Edward II
C 135	Edward III
C 136	Richard II
C 138	Henry V
C 139	Henry VI
C 140	Edward IV
C 141	Richard III
C 142	Series II
C 143	Inquisitions ad quod damnum
C 146	Ancient Deeds, Series C
C 258	Writs of Certiorari
Court of Common Pleas
CP 25/2	Feet of Fines, Series II
CP 40	Plea Rolls
CP 43	Recovery Rolls
Records of the Crown Estate and its predecessors
CRES 2	Office of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues: unfiled correspondence and papers
Duchy of Lancaster
DL 25	Deeds, Series L
DL 30	Court Rolls
DL 43	Rentals and Surveys
Exchequer, Treasury of Receipt
E 32	Forest Proceedings
E 36	Miscellaneous Books
E 40	Ancient Deeds, Series A
Exchequer, King's Remembrancer
E 134	Depositions taken by Commission
E 179	Subsidy Rolls, etc.
Exchequer, Augmentation Office
E 301	Certificates of Colleges and Chantries
E 303	Conventual Leases
E 305	Deeds of Purchase and Exchange
E 310	Particulars for Leases
E 315	Miscellaneous Books
E 318	Particulars for Grants
E 321	Proceedings of the Court of Augmentations
E 326	Ancient Deeds, Series B
Exchequer, Exchequer of Receipt
E 403	Issue Rolls and Registers
Exchequer, First Fruits and Tenths Office
E 337	Plea Rolls
Department of Education
ED 2	Elementary Education, Parish Files
ED 21	Elementary Education, School Files
ED 35	Secondary Education, Institution Files
ED 49	Elementary Education, Endowment Files
Home Office
HO 107	Population Returns
HO 129	Ecclesiastical Returns
Justices Itinerant
JUST 1	Eyre Rolls, Assize Rolls, etc.
Kings Bench
KB 9	Ancient Indictments Plea Rolls
KB 26	Curia Regis Rolls
KB 145	Recorda
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food
MAF 68	Livestock and Crop Returns
Prerogative Court of Canterbury
PROB 2	Inventories compiled before 1661
PROB 11	Registers of Wills
Court of Requests
REQ 2	Proceedings
Registrar General
RG 9	Census Returns, 1861
RG 10	Census Returns, 1871
RG 11	Census Returns, 1881
RG 12	Census Returns, 1891
Special Collections
SC 1	Ancient Correspondence
SC 2	Court Rolls
SC 6	Ministers' and Receivers' Accounts
SC 12	Rentals and Surveys
Court of Star Chamber
STAC 2	Proceedings, Henry VIII
STAC 3	Edward VI
STAC 5	Elizabeth I
STAC 8	James I
Court of Wards and Liveries
WARD 7	Inquisitions Post Mortem