Classes of documents in the Public Record Office used

A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5, Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, the Forest of Dean. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1996.

Citation:

A P Baggs, A R J Jurica, 'Classes of documents in the Public Record Office used', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5, Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, the Forest of Dean, ed. C R J Currie, N M Herbert( London, 1996), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol5/xiv-xv [accessed 16 November 2024].

LIST OF CLASSES OF DOCUMENTS IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

USED IN THIS VOLUME WITH THEIR CLASS NUMBERS



Chancery
	Proceedings
C 1	Early
C 3	Series II
C 53	Charter Rolls
C 54	Close Rolls
C 60	Fine Rolls
C 66	Patent Rolls
C 78	Decree Rolls
C 99	Forest Proceedings Masters' Exhibits
C 108	Farrar
C 115	Duchess of Norfolk Deeds (including Llanthony cartularies and registers)
	Inquisitions post mortem
C 133	Series I, Edw. I
C 134	Edw. II
C 135	Edw. III
C 138	Hen. V
C 139	Hen. VI
C 140	Edw. IV and V
C 142	Series II
C 143	Inquisitions ad quod damnun
C 145	Miscellaneous Inquisitions
Court of Common Pleas
	Feet of Fines
CP 25/1	Series I
CP 25/2	Series II
CP 40	De Banco Rolls
Crown Estate Commissioners
CRES 5	Court Rolls and Other Manorial Documents
CRES 38	Title Deeds, etc.
Duchy of Lancaster
DL 7	Inquisitions post mortem
DL 29	Ministers' Accounts
Exchequer, Treasury of the Receipt
E 32	Forest Proceedings
Exchequer, King's Remembrancer
E 101	Accounts, Various
E 112	Bills, Answers, etc.
E 122	Customs Accounts Decrees and Orders
E 123	Series I
E 125	Series III
E 126	Series IV
E 134	Depositions taken by Commission
E 137	Estreats
E 142	Ancient Extents
E 146	Forest Proceedings
E 149	Inquisitions post mortem, Series I
E 178	Special Commissions of Inquiry
E 179	Subsidy Rolls, etc.
E 190	Port Books
Exchequer, Augmentation Office
E 301	Certificates of Colleges and Chantries
E 309	Enrolment of Leases
E 310	Particulars of Leases
E 315	Miscellaneous Books
E 317	Parliamentary Surveys, Commonwealth
Exchequer, Exchequer of Receipt
E 401	Enrolments and Registers of Receipts
E 407	Miscellanea
Ministry of Education
ED 7	Public Elementary Schools, Preliminary Statements
Forestry Commission
F 3	Correspondence and Papers, Dean Forest
F 14	Manorial Documents
F 16	Dean Forest, Deputy Surveyor's Office
F 17	Maps, Plans, and Drawings
Registry of Friendly Societies
FS 2	Indexes to Rules and Amendments, Series I
Home Office
HO 107	Census Returns 1841 and 1851
HO 129	Ecclesiastical Returns
Board of Inland Revenue
IR 29	Tithe Apportionments
Justices Itinerant
JUST 1	Eyre Rolls, Assize Rolls, etc.
Exchequer, Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue
LR 2	Miscellaneous Books
LR 4	Accounts (Woods)
Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments
LRRO 1	Maps and Plans
LRRO 5	Deeds and Evidences
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food
MAF 68	Agricultural Returns: Parish Summaries
Maps and Plans
MR	Maps, plans, or pictures taken from various classes
Probate
PROB 11	Registered copies of wills proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Court of Requests
REQ 1	Miscellaneous Books
REQ 2	Proceedings
General Register Office
RG 4	Authenticated Registers, Main Series
RG 9	Census Returns 1861
RG 10	1871
RG 11	1881
RG 12	1891
Special Collections
SC 2	Court Rolls
SC 6	Ministers' and Receivers' Accounts
SC 12	Rentals and Surveys, Portfolios
State Paper Office
	State Papers Domestic
SP 14	Jas. I
SP 16	Chas. I
SP 18	Interregnum
Court of Star Chamber
STAC 2	Proceedings, Hen. VIII
Court of Wards and Liveries
WARD 7	Inquisitions post mortem