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The Short Guides to Records Series Edited by L M Munby and K M Thompson

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Short Guide 1

Rate Books,

A rate is a levy for local purposes based on an assessment of the yearly value...

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Short Guide 2

Poll Books

Immediately after the General Election of 1695, a bill was introduced to...

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Short Guide 3

Probate Inventories

At the time of probate or administration being granted, executors of...

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Short Guide 4

Estate Maps and Surveys

Large numbers of estate maps and surveys have been ‘discovered' and...

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Short Guide 5

Guardians' Minute Books

Until the passing of the 1834 Act, which brought about the formation of the...

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Short Guide 6

Chantry Certificates

The dissolution of the monasteries in 1536-9 and the confiscation of their...

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Short Guide 7

Hearth Tax Returns

At the Restoration, the Convention Parliament calculated that Charles II would...

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Short Guide 8

Episcopal Visitation Books

Visitation of his diocese by a bishop became customary in the thirteenth...

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Short Guide 9

Estate Acts of Parliament

History is written today not only from chronicles and other literary sources,...

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Short Guide 10

Wills

Originally a Will dealt with real estate and a Testament with personalty, but...

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Short Guide 11

Recusant Rolls

The Recusant Rolls of the Exchequer are annual rolls of sheriffs' accounts...

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Short Guide 12

Deeds of Title

The Feoffment was the most ancient form of conveyance. It was not the actual...

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Short Guide 13

Glebe Terriers

Glebe terriers are surveys of the endowments of benefices compiled by...

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Short Guide 14

Enclosure Awards and Acts

After this preamble we come to the point. The Commissioners recount how they...

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Short Guide 15

Records of Commissions of Sewers

Commissions of Sewers dealt with the drainage of low-lying land and its...

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Short Guide 16

Land Tax Assessments

The Land Tax Assessments are one of the chief documentary sources from which...

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Short Guide 17

Parliamentary Surveys

A Parliamentary Survey is any inquiry into the nature and value of estates and...

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Short Guide 18

Turnpike Records

The turnpiking of stretches of highway from 1663 until about the fourth decade...

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Short Guide 19

Fire Insurance Policy Registers

Prior to the eighteenth century the insurance of property against fire had been...

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Short Guide 20

Tithe Apportionment and Maps

The obligation to pay tithe, one tenth of all produce, to the Rector and Vicar,...

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