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

Description and record details

Reference LR 7
Title Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue and predecessors: Receivers' Accounts, Series 2
Date 1546-1832
Description

The core of this series consists of declarations of receivers' accounts of crown lands in England and Wales prepared by the auditors of land revenue. Also found, however, are brief declarations of receivers' accounts, both loose and in entry books, as well as entry books of arrears on receivers' accounts.

There are also the accounts of the receivers general, particular receivers and ministers of the jointures of the seventeenth century queens consort: Anne of Denmark, Henrietta Maria and Catherine of Braganza.

The series also includes receivers' accounts of the lands of recusants and delinquents for the 1630s and the interregnum period.

Related material

Other major series of receivers' accounts are: DL 29

Vouchers subsidiary to them are in LR 5 LR 6

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

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

Latin

Physical description 2600 files, rolls and volumes
Immediate source of acquisition

From 1900 Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments

Administrative/ biographical background

Each queen consort had a council and appointed a Receiver General and Auditor General. Under Henrietta Maria and Cathereine of Braganza the former officer also held the post of Treasurer. The accounts of their lands and households passed through these officers rather than the Exchequer. In this series will be found the accounts of these central officers as well as of the particular receivers responsible for specific areas or holdings and of other ministers.