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Chancery: Files, Tower and Rolls Chapel Series, Certificates of Elections

Description and record details

Reference C 267
Title Chancery: Files, Tower and Rolls Chapel Series, Certificates of Elections
Date 1303-1648
Description

Election certificates for sheriffs, mayors, constables of the staple, and clerks and other officials of statutes merchant.

Other certificates include keepers of the peace, subsidy collectors, customs officials and searchers of shipping. A few certificates include escheators, coroners and bailiffs.

Most of these records were formerly included in C 47

Arrangement

The certificates are arranged under towns and counties and bound in files, each of which is a single piece although the documents have been listed individually.

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

English

Latin

Physical description 11 file(s)