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SUBORDINATE AND See also:

INDEPENDENT JURISDICTIONS . See also:Palatinate of See also:Durham:—For the earlier records see G. T. Lapsley's See also:County Pala-tine of Durham (Harvard See also:Historical See also:Series, vol. viii.), pp. 327-337. The letters sent out from the bishops' See also:chancery are enrolled on the Cursitors' Records, Nos. 29 to 184. They are calendared in Reports 31 to 37 and 40. One of the registers (See also:Bishop Kellawe's) has been printed in full in the Rolls series (No. 62) with additions from the See also:register of Bishop See also:Bury. The Cursitors' Records also include seven bundles of Inquisitions See also:Post Mortem (Nos. 164-18o), calendared in the 44th See also:Report; and a See also:volume (No.

2) contains transcripts of similar documents, calendared in the 45th Report. The records of the See also:

Exchequer of Durham, though deposited in the Public See also:Record See also:Office, are treated as the private records of the Ecclesiastical See also:Commission, and are only accessible with a See also:special permit. To the judicial records the only printed means of reference is the See also:list of See also:Judgment Rolls (20 See also:Henry VII. to 7-8 See also:Victoria) in the Record Office list of Plea Rolls (No. IV.) Palatinate of See also:Chester.—The letters sent out from the chancery are enrolled upon the Chester See also:Recognizance Rolls (1 See also:Edward II. to 34 See also:Charles II. with a few rolls down to , See also:William IV.) calendared in Reports 36-37 and 39. The See also:financial records of the Exchequer of Chester are listed among the Ministers' Accounts (List No. V.) of the county of Chester. The Inquisitions post Mortem and ad quod damnum (Edward III. to Charles I.) are indexed in the 25th report. The judicial records consist of Pleas in the Exchequer, a See also:court of See also:equity. Its records are Bills and Answers (Henry VIII. to See also:George IV.), calendared in the 25th Report up to See also:Philip and See also:Mary; and Decrees and Orders. The court of the justices of Chester was at See also:common See also:law; its Plea Rolls (44 Henry III. to I William IV.), with a See also:separate series for See also:Flint (from 12 Edward I.) are listed among the Plea Rolls (List No. IV.). The Deeds, Inquisitions and Writs of See also:Dower upon these rolls for the See also:period Henry III. to Henry VIII. are calendared in the 26th-3oth Reports without an See also:index.

The See also:

Assize Rolls for the counties of Chester and Flint and for thehonour of See also:Macclesfield are listed among the other assize rolls (List No. IV.). See also:Wales.—The following are the See also:principal records of the principality of Wales: Ministers' Accounts and Court Rolls, including those of the principality and of - the honours and manors of the Lords Marchers, listed in Lists Nos. V. and VI. Of the judicial records of the See also:Great Sessions .of Wales, set up by the See also:act 34 & 35 Henry VIII., c. 26, the Plea Rolls are listed in the list of Plea Rolls (No. IV). For an See also:account of the Court of the See also:Marches in Wales, see C. A. Skeel's The See also:Council in the Marches of Wales. The Duchy and Palatinate of See also:Lancaster.—The duchy of Lancaster comprises all the estates of the See also:duke of Lancaster; the palatinate is limited to the county of Lancaster. The records of the palatinate, transferred to the Public Record Office from Lancaster See also:castle, related to the county and are either enrolments of writs or of a judicial nature.

The records of the duchy, transferred from the office of the duchy at See also:

Westminster, include similar records and others dealing with the manorial and financial records of all the estates within and without the county. For the Duchy Records see the detailed list (No. XIV.), where the means of reference to this collection are fully described. Of the Palatinate Records the enrolments of writs are classified as Patent and See also:Close Rolls. The former, a broken series from 5 See also:John of Gaunt to 21 Henry VII., are calendared in the 40th Report; the latter (in 3 rolls, a broken series, II Henry IV. to 9 Edward IV.) in the 37th Report; but certain enrolments of the palatinate are among the duchy records. The judicial records of the chancery are not calendared ; but the proceedings by way of See also:appeal from that court to the Duchy Chamber at Westminster are dealt with in the duchy list. Proceedings under common law include Plea Rolls (2 Henry IV. to 11 Victoria) listed in the list of Plea Rolls (No. IV.) ; and for criminal proceedings there are palatinate Assize Rolls (Henry VI. to 6 Victoria), of which there is a list in the same See also:place. But certain rolls which were among the Duchy Records will be found apart at pages 139-14o of the same list. Bishopric of See also:Ely.—The act I & 2 Victoria, c. 94, places the records of this palatinate under the See also:charge of the See also:Master of the Rolls. They have never been removed to the Record Office, but remain at Ely with the episcopal records, where they can be inspected.

A valuable descriptive list has been published by See also:

Alfred See also:Gibbons for private circulation.

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