List of Classes of Documents in the National Archives

A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12. Originally published by Boydell & Brewer for Victoria County History, Woodbridge, 2010.

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'List of Classes of Documents in the National Archives', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12, (Woodbridge, 2010) pp. xiii-xiv. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol12/xiii-xiv [accessed 25 March 2024]

LIST OF CLASSES OF DOCUMENTS IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES (FORMERLY THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE)

CHANCERY
Proceedings
C 1 Early
C 2 Series I
C 3 Series II
C 44 Common Law Pleadings, Tower Series
C 54 Close Rolls
C 66 Patent Rolls
C 78 Decree Rolls
C 93 Commissioners for Charitable Uses: Inquisitions and Decrees
Masters' Exhibits
C 108 Farrar
C 115 Duchess of Norfolk Deeds (including Llanthony cartularies and registers)
Inquisitions post mortem
C 138 Series I, Hen. V
C 139 Hen. VI
C 140 Edw. IV and V
C 141 Ric. III
C 142 Series II
C 143 Inquisitions ad quod damnum
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
Feet of Fines
CP 25/1 Series I
CP 25/2 Series II
CP 40 De Banco Rolls
CROWN ESTATE COMMISSIONERS
CRES 36 Office of Woods, Forest, and Land Revenues, General Department, Registered Files
CRES 38 Title Deeds, etc.
DUCHY OF LANCASTER
DL 7 Inquisitions post mortem
DL 13 Drafts and Particulars for Patents
EXCHEQUER, TREASURY OF THE RECEIPT
E 32 Forest Proceedings
EXCHEQUER, KING'S REMEMBRANCER
E 101 Accounts, Various
E 134 Depositions taken by Commission
E 142 Extents, Inquisitions and Valors of Forfeited Lands
E 159 Memoranda Rolls
E 164 Miscellaneous Books, Series I
E 178 Special Commissions of Inquiry
E 179 Subsidy Rolls, etc.
EXCHEQUER, AUGMENTATION OFFICE
E 301 Certificates of Colleges and Chantries
E 309 Enrolment of Leases
E 310 Particulars of Leases
E 315 Miscellaneous Books
E 321 Legal Proceedings
EXCHEQUER, FIRST FRUITS AND TENTHS OFFICE
E 331 Bishops' Certificates of Institutions to Benefices
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
ED 7 Public Elementary Schools, Preliminary Statements
FORESTRY COMMISSION
F 9 Director of Forestry for England, Correspondence and Papers, Dymock Forest
REGISTRY OF FRIENDLY SOCIETIES
Indexes to Rules and Amendments
FS 2 Series I
FS 4 Series II
HOME OFFICE
HO 107 Census Returns 1841 and 1851
HO 129 Ecclesiastical Returns
BOARD OF INLAND REVENUE
IR 18 Tithe Files
IR 29 Tithe Apportionments
IR 30 Tithe Maps
JUSTICES ITINERANT
JUST 1 Eyre Rolls, Assize Rolls, etc.
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES, AND FOOD
MAF 68 Agricultural Returns: Parish Summaries
PROBATE
PROB 11 Registered copies of wills proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
BRITISH TRANSPORT HISTORICAL RECORDS
RAIL 836 Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Navigation Company
COURT OF REQUESTS
REQ 2 Proceedings
GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE
RG 9 Census Returns 1861
RG 10 1871
RG 11 1881
RG 12 1891
RG 13 1901
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
SC 2 Court Rolls
SC 6 Ministers' and Receivers' Accounts
SC 12 Rentals and Surveys: Portfolios
COURT OF STAR CHAMBER
STAC 2 Proceedings, Hen. VIII
COURT OF WARDS AND LIVERIES
WARD 7 Inquisitions post mortem