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Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue and predecessors: Receivers' Accounts, Series...

Description and record details

Reference LR 6
Title Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue and predecessors: Receivers' Accounts, Series I
Date 1536-1756
Description

The core of this series consists of receivers' accounts of crown lands in England and Wales prepared by the auditors of the Court of Augmentations before 1554, and by the auditors of land revenue thereafter.

Also found, however, are miscellaneous accounts of the receivers general of the household, of taxes and of all arrears of the land revenues, which were also audited by the auditors of land revenue.

There are also receivers' accounts relating to the jointures of the seventeenth century queens consort: Anne of Denmark, Henrietta Maria and Catherine of Braganza.

Related material

Other major series of receivers' accounts are: LR 7

Vouchers subsidiary to them are in LR 5

Views of these accounts are in LR 8 LR 12 SC 6 DL 29

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language

Latin

Physical description 1550 roll(s)
Immediate source of acquisition

From 1900 Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments