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Trustees for Crown Lands and Fee Farm Rents: Parliamentary Surveys

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Reference	E 317
Title	Trustees for Crown Lands and Fee Farm Rents: Parliamentary Surveys
Date	1625-1659
Description	In 1649 trustees were appointed by Parliament to sell the estates previously belonging to Charles I, Queen Henrietta Maria and Prince Charles. The trustees commissioned local surveyors to carry out surveys of the Crown lands prior to sale. Two copies of each local survey were made, and returned to the surveyor general, who retained one copy and forwarded the other to the trustees and registrar. The former constitute the records in this series. The surveys are of four main types: surveys of manors and other properties to be sold under the 1649 act; surveys of hundreds to identify fee-farm rents to be sold; surveys of forest land; and certificates relating to title and other matters. Some of the surveys give information about buildings.
Related material	Copies of some of these surveys may be found in DL 32 The registrar's books of particulars are in CRES 39 For certain other records of Parliamentary sales of Crown lands see SP 26 Further copies are in
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Creator	Trustees for Crown Lands and Fee Farm Rents, 1649-1660
Physical description	1307 file(s)
Unpublished finding aids	An eleven volume typescript calendar by S J Madge, 'Parliamentary surveys of Crown lands during the Commonwealth' (1927), is available.
Publication note	Brief entries for the surveys are given at the end of the county sections in the List of Rentals and Surveys, PRO Lists & Indexes, XXV

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