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Catalogue description Chancery: Certificates of Election of Coroners and Verderers (Tower and Rolls Chapel Series)
| Reference: | C 242 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Chancery: Certificates of Election of Coroners and Verderers (Tower and Rolls Chapel Series) |
| Description: |
Writs de coronatore eligendo and de viridario eligendo, for the election of coroners and verderers in county courts, returned into Chancery endorsed with the names of the officers elected or nominated. Many of these records were formerly included in C 47 and C 202 |
| Date: | 1283-1633 |
| Arrangement: |
The writs were originally on files which broke up when the thongs snapped, so are very incomplete. |
| Related material: |
For coroners' elections after 1889, see KB 16 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English and Latin |
| Physical description: | 22 file(s) |
| Publication note: |
Specimen writs for the election of coroners and verderers appear in Registrum Brevium (4th ed, London, 1687), pp 177-178. The returns are examined in R F Hunnisett, 'English Chancery records: rolls and files', Journal of the Society of Archivists, v (1975), pp 158-168. |
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