Catalog of Chancery Writs
This is a collection of writs praecipe issued in Chancery, with other related documents, including some writs capias issued during the reigns of the later Stuart monarchs. These are not the charters issued to and returned by the county sheriffs, but rather the unsealed copies kept in Chancery.
Edward
IV Hen VIII Philip
& Mary Eliz I Charles
I Charles II
James II Misc George
III George IV Victoria
William IV
22 Edward IV, 1482/83
June 7 Sussex
September 5 Essex
September 12 Sussex
September 20 Devon, Somerset, Somerset
October 6 Suffolk
October 10 City of York, Wiltshire
October 12 Wiltshire, Kent
October 14 Northamptonshire, Essex
October 15 Kent
November 1 Cambridgeshire
November 4 Middlesex
1 Hen VIII, 1509/10
September 5 Sussex
September 20 Kent
8 Hen VIII, 1516/17
September 1 Kent, Kent
September 10 Devon
September 12 Huntingdonshire, Suffolk, Bedfordshire
September 16 Kent, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire
September 17 Berkshire, Somerset, Wiltshire
September 18 Buckinghamshire
October 1 Yorkshire, City of Coventry
October 12 Hampshire
October 20 Suffolk
March 2 Buckinghamshire, ?, Northamptonshire
17 Hen VIII, 1525/26
October 10 Dorset
January 1 Worcestershire
January 5 Middlesex
January 20 Gloucestershire
March 12 Oxfordshire
March 18 Gloucestershire, Kent
March 22 Warwickshire
March 24 Kent
April 1 Kent
April 3 Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex
18 Hen VIII, 1526/27
May 3 & 6
Three items attached relating to the plea of one Margaret Talyard: (1) issued to the
Clerk of H.M. Court Baron; (2) issued to H.M. Justices of the Bench; (3) a copy of
part of a record of a case held in Court Baron, 7 Hen VII [1492], Easter.
20 Hen VIII, 1528/29
September 16 Dorset, Norfolk
23 Hen VIII, 1531/32
September 12 Cornwall
26 Hen VIII, 1534/35
June 12 Norfolk attached to September 6 Middlesex
June 20 Buckinghamshire
June 20 Middlesex attached to October 12 Lincolnshire
September 7 Suffolk
September 8 Norfolk
September 8 Norfolk attached to September 18 Norfolk
September 12 Norfolk
September 16 Kent, Norfolk
September 16 Norfolk attached to September 16 Suffolk
October 12 Lincolnshire attached to September 17 Bedfordshire
September 17 Norfolk attached to September 18 Norfolk
September 17 Somerset attached to September 18 Norfolk
September 18 Somerset, Somerset, Staffordshire, Devon, Suffolk, City of Coventry, Norfolk, Norfolk, Suffolk,
September 18 Westminster attached to September 18 Cornwall
September 18 Middlesex attached to September 23 Middlesex
September 26 Buckinghamshire
October 10 Somerset attached to October 10 Somerset
October 12 Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire
October 15 Warwickshire
October 16 Lincolnshire
October 18 Huntingdonshire
October 24 Devon
November 6 Norfolk
30 x 38 Hen VIII, 1538/39 x 1546/47
September 20 Buckinghamshire
October 12 ?
35 Hen VIII, 1543/44
? ?
? ?
? Lincolnshire
October ? Lincolnshire
October 6 ?
October 12 ?, ?, ?, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire
October 12 ? attached to October 16 Sussex
October 20 ?
October 22 Essex
October 23 ? attached to October 22
October 23 Essex
October 24 ?
October 26 ?, ?, Surrey
37 Hen VIII, 1545/4
? Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire, Essex
September 12 Warwickshire
September 28 ?
September 29 Cornwall
October 1 Yorkshire
October 12 Buckinghamshire
Hen VIII, undatable (9 pieces)
1 & 2 Philip and Mary, 1554/55
April 10 Shropshire
3 Eliz I, 1560/61
January 2 Middlesex
4 Eliz I, 1561/62
April 8 Somerset
7 Eliz I, 1564/65
June 1 Surrey
September 17 Suffolk
September 18 Buckinghamshire, Essex, Kent, Nottinghamshire, Devon,Yorkshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Kent, Herefordshire, Yorkshire
September 18 Worcestershire, Worcestershire, Lincolnshire, Dorset, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Herefordshire
October 9 Kent, Berkshire
October 10 Sussex
October 25 Derbyshire
8 Eliz I, 1565/66
September 16 Yorkshire,Yorkshire ,Northamptonshire, Hampshire, Herefordshire
September 17 Worcestershire, Northamptonshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Kent, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire,
September 18 Middlesex, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Suffolk, Norfolk
10 Eliz I, 15667/68
January 2 Westminster, Westminster, City of Exeter, Essex, Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Yorkshire
April 13 Surrey
April 14 Suffolk, Gloucestershire, Devon, Wiltshire
April 15 Kent
April 16 Norfolk, Dorset
14 Eliz I, 1571/72
September 16 Somerset
October 6 Sussex
15 Eliz I, 1572/73
March 16 Herefordshire, Herefordshire, Herefordshire, Devon, Somerset, Sussex
March 17 Suffolk
March 18 Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire
March 19 Norfolk
March 27 Essex, Essex
17 Eliz I, 1574/75
May 13 Sussex, Sussex, Suffolk, Suffolk
May 18 Suffolk
May 23 Suffolk
22 Eliz I, 1579/80
May 6 Kent
June 17 Kent
September 13 Essex
30 x 39 Eliz I, 1587/88 x 1596/97
October 16 Cornwall
30 Eliz I, 1587/88
May 21 Buckinghamshire
September 17 Nottinghamshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire
37 Eliz I, 1594/95
May 27 Suffolk, Suffolk, Suffolk, Sussex, Hampshire, Hampshire, Hampshire
May 27 Hampshire attached to June 18 Suffolk
38 Eliz I, 1595/96
February 3 Somerset
March 23 Somerset
April 12 Hampshire
May 6 Wiltshire, Wiltshire
May 11 Warwickshire, Warwickshire
May 12 Worcestershire, Somerset
May 13 Wiltshire, Surrey
May 17 Shropshire, Town of Poole, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Devon
May 18 Surrey, Surrey, Surrey, Surrey, Somerset, Somerset, Somerset, Somerset, Devon, Devon, Worcestershire, Shropshire
May 19 Worcestershire
May 21 Wiltshire, Wiltshire, Wiltshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Hampshire, Hampshire, Hampshire, Suffolk, Suffolk, Suffolk
May 21 Suffolk, Suffolk, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Warwickshire, Warwickshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Derbyshire
May 27 Worcestershire
May 28 Wiltshire, Yorkshire
June 1 Warwickshire, City of London, Worcestershire
June 3 Surrey, Surrey, Somerset, Somerset
June 4 Wiltshire
June 11 Somerset, Bedfordshire
43 Eliz I, 1600/01
October 16 Kent
Eliz I, undated (2 pieces)
12 Charles I, 1636/37 and 24 Charles I, 1648/49
Two gatherings of writs capias and other documents attached
36 Charles II, 1684/85
November 28 Monmouth, Monmouth, Monmouth, Monmouth
37 Charles II, 1685/86
February 12 ?, Monmouth
James II, undated
Four writs capias in poor condition.
Miscellaneous
Eighteen seventeenth-century fragments
47 George III, 1807
June 17 Carmarthenshire
July 8 Carmarthenshire
51 George III, 1810
November 28 Carmarthenshire
10 George IV, 1829
November 1 Carmarthenshire
2 William IV, 1832
May 9 unaddressed
5 William IV, 1834
January 12 Staffordshire
3 Victoria, 1839
June 21 ?
4 Victoria, 1841
June 12 ?
5 Victoria, 1841
September 20 ?
6 Victoria, 1843
March 1 ?
Edward
IV Hen VIII Philip
& Mary Eliz I Charles
I Charles II
James II Misc
George III George
IV Victoria William
IV