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A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume 1, the City of Kingston Upon Hull. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1969.

Citation:

'Classes of records used', in A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume 1, the City of Kingston Upon Hull, ed. K J Allison( London, 1969), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/east/vol1/xvii-xix [accessed 26 November 2024].

LIST OF CLASSES OF DOCUMENTS IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE USED IN THIS VOLUME WITH THEIR CLASS NUMBERS



Clerks of Assize
	North-eastern Circuit
Assizes 41	Minute Books
Assizes 42	Gaol Books
Chancery
C 1	Proceedings, Early
C 60	Fine Rolls
C 66	Patent Rolls
	Inquisitions post mortem
C 139	Series I, Hen. VI
C 140	Edw. IV
C 142	Series II
C 143	Inquisitions ad quod damnum
C 145	Miscellaneous Inquisitions
C 219	Writs and Returns of Members to Parliament
Colonial Office
C.O. 388	Original Correspondence
Court of Common Pleas
	Feet of Fines
C.P. 25(1)	Series I
C.P. 25(2)	Series II
C.P. 43	Recovery Rolls
Board of Customs and Excise
Customs 17	States of Navigation, Commerce, and Revenue
Exchequer, Treasury of the Receipt
E 36	Miscellaneous Books
Exchequer, King's Remembrancer
E 101	Accounts, Various
E 122	Customs Accounts
E 134	Depositions taken by Commission
E 150	Inquisitions post mortem, Series II
E 178	Special Commissions of Enquiry
E 179	Subsidy Rolls, &c.
E 190	Port Books
Exchequer, Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's and Pipe Offices
E 358	Miscellaneous Accounts
E 365	Enrolments of Leases, &c.
E 372	Pipe Rolls
High Court of Admiralty
H.C.A. 1	Oyer and Terminer Records
H.C.A. 13	Instance and Prize Courts, Examinations, &c.
Home Office
	Census Papers
H.O. 107	Population Returns
H.O. 129	Ecclesiastical Returns
Justices Itinerant, &c.
J.I. 2	Coroners' Rolls
J.I. 3	Gaol Delivery Rolls
Ministry of Health
M.H. 12	Poor Law Union Papers
M.H. 13	Correspondence
Maps and Plans
M.P.	Maps and Plans [flat]
Privy Council Office
P.C. 2	Registers
Special Collections
S.C. 1	Ancient Correspondence
S.C. 8	Petitions, Ancient
	Rentals and Surveys
S.C. 11	Rolls
S.C. 12	Portfolios
State Paper Office
	State Papers Domestic
S.P. 12	Eliz. I
S.P. 16	Chas. I
S.P. 31	Jas. II
S.P. 44	Entry Books
S.P. 46	Supplementary
Court of Star Chamber
	Proceedings
Sta. Cha. 5	Eliz. I
Sta. Cha. 8	Jas. I
Court of Wards
Wards 7	Inquisitions post mortem

RECORDS OF THE CORPORATION OF KINGSTON UPON HULL PRESERVED IN THE TOWN CLERKS DEPARTMENT

In 1969 the records were in the process of being rearranged. The method by which the records are cited in the present volume, reflecting their arrangement during the preparation of the volume, is here briefly outlined.

The four main classes cited are:



1. Bench Books, or corporation memoranda and minute books, of which vols. 1, 3, 3A, and 4 are foliated and vols. 2 and 5–12 are paginated.	Cited as e.g. B.B. 7, p. 123
2. Deeds	" " D.123
3. Letters	" " L.123
4. Miscellaneous documents	" " M.123

deeds, letters, and miscellaneous documents are listed in Stanewell's Calendar.

Other records, many of them books, that were kept on numbered shelves are cited by shelf-number and description of record, e.g. Shelf 61 (Cases and opinions, 1831–6).

Most of the remaining records, which were kept in steel cupboards but retained the numbers of the boxes in which they had formerly lain, are cited by the box-number and by either the number or the descriptive title of the bundle within the box; for a document not included in a bundle the box-number is followed by a description of the document in parentheses: e.g. Box 113, Bdle. 61a; Box 13, Hull Electric Lighting Order, 1890; Box 114 (Contract to Sculcoates Union, 1874).

Documents of title and a few others, previously kept in the aforementioned boxes but later placed with the modern run of numbered documents, are cited by the letter A followed by the number, e.g. A. 81.

The abbreviation 'Hull Corp. Rec.' precedes all the above references.