Chancery: Surrender Rolls

Description and record details

Reference	C 75
Title	Chancery: Surrender Rolls
Date	1660-1687
Description	These rolls contain principally surrenders of offices by individuals to the Crown, and surrenders back to the Crown of fee-farm rents previously sold to individuals. The entries on the rolls cite the details of the office to be surrendered, usually a government or royal household position, together with the date of its granting, or the details of the original sale of the fee-farm rent and its surrender. Most of the surrenders enrolled in this series were of rents sold during the Commonwealth. There are also some surrenders of pensions, annuities and licences, and some bargains and sales, and other deeds.
Related material	Other specification and surrender rolls are in C 210 Chancery surrenders of office are also enrolled in C 73
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English Latin
Physical description	7 roll(s)
Custodial history	The records in this series were formerly housed in the Rolls Chapel.
Publication note	For details of the sale and surrender of fee-farm rents, see S J Madge, Domesday of Crown Lands (London, 1938); C D Chandaman, English Public Revenue, 1660-1688 (Oxford, 1975); Estates of the English Crown, 1558-1640, ed R W Hoyle (Cambridge, 1992).

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