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Court of Common Pleas: Concords of Fines Files, Elizabeth I

Description and record details

Reference CP 24/1
Title Court of Common Pleas: Concords of Fines Files, Elizabeth I
Date 1559-1602
Description

Files of concords, texts of agreements to convey property which were drawn up as a preliminary to levying a final concord to bring about the conveyance itself, for Elizabeth's reign.

Separated material

In the early 1990s some complete and original term files of concords were found among unsorted writ miscellanea. They are now in

CP 61

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

Latin

Physical description 38 file(s)
Unpublished finding aids

There are no indexes to the concords, but the indexes to the notes of fines, described under CP 25/2, serve as a rough guide if it is appreciated that the concord may well have been filed in a different term from the note.