IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 442
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Court Baron Roll, [1719]
Date(s): [c 1719]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: Single sheet
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Court Baron was the principal type of manorial court, and was the court of the chief tenants of the manor. It was responsible for the internal regulation of local affairs within the manor, and was attended by all those free tenants whose attendance at court was a condition of their tenure, and by customary tenants. Customary tenants held land by an agreement made at the manor court which was entered on its roll, a 'copy' of which was his regarded as proof of title.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Copy of a Court Baron roll, containing a surrender by William Draper of all his messuages, lands, tenements, etc., to the uses of his will. Signed by Edmund Littler, deputy steward of the manor, and dated before 17 August 1719.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Latin
System of arrangement:
Single item
Conditions governing access:
Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
Physical characteristics:
4¾" x 14"
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
On permanent loan from the British Records Association (B.R.A.833).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2001