Classes of documents in the Public Record Office used

A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 10, Munslow Hundred (Part), the Liberty and Borough of Wenlock. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1998.

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A P Baggs, G C Baugh, D C Cox, Jessie McFall, P A Stamper, 'Classes of documents in the Public Record Office used', in A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 10, Munslow Hundred (Part), the Liberty and Borough of Wenlock, ed. G C Baugh (London, 1998), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol10/xvii-xviii [accessed 31 January 2025].

A P Baggs, G C Baugh, D C Cox, Jessie McFall, P A Stamper, 'Classes of documents in the Public Record Office used', in A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 10, Munslow Hundred (Part), the Liberty and Borough of Wenlock. Edited by G C Baugh (London, 1998), British History Online, accessed January 31, 2025, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol10/xvii-xviii.

A P Baggs, G C Baugh, D C Cox, Jessie McFall, P A Stamper. "Classes of documents in the Public Record Office used". A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 10, Munslow Hundred (Part), the Liberty and Borough of Wenlock. Ed. G C Baugh (London, 1998), British History Online. Web. 31 January 2025. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol10/xvii-xviii.

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LIST OF CLASSES OF DOCUMENTS IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

USED IN THIS VOLUME WITH THEIR CLASS NUMBERS

Board of Trade, Companies Registration Office
BT 31 Files of Dissolved Companies
Chancery
Proceedings
C 1 Early
C 2 Series I
C 3 Series II
C 54 Close Rolls
C 60 Fine Rolls
C 66 Patent Rolls
C 78 Decree Rolls
C 93 Proceedings of Commissioners for Charitable Uses, Inquisitions and Decrees
Masters' Exhibits
C 103 Blunt
C 104 Tinney
C 107 Senior
C 116 Court Rolls
Inquisitions post mortem
C 132 Series I, Hen. III
C 133              Edw. I
C 134              Edw. II
C 135              Edw. III
C 136              Ric. II
C 138              Hen. V
C 139              Hen. VI
C 140              Edw. IV and V
C 141              Ric. III
C 142 Series II
C 143 Inquisitions ad quod damnum
C 145 Miscellaneous Inquisitions
C 148 Ancient Deeds, Series CS
Court of Common Pleas
CP 25 Feet of Fines
CP 40 Plea Rolls
CP 43 Recovery Rolls
Duchy of Lancaster
DL 7 Inquisitions post mortem
Exchequer, Treasury of the Receipt
E 32 Forest Proceedings
E 36 Miscellaneous Books
Exchequer, King's Remembrancer
E 142 Ancient Extents
E 150 Inquisitions post mortem, Series I
E 178 Special Commissions of Inquiry
E 179 Subsidy Rolls, etc.
Exchequer, Augmentation Office
E 302 Particulars of Concealments
E 303 Conventual Leases
E 315 Miscellaneous Books
E 326 Ancient Deeds, Series B
Exchequer, First Fruits and Tenths Office
E 339 Returns of Benefices
Exchequer, Pipe Office
E 358 Miscellaneous Accounts
Ministry of Education
ED 7 Public Elementary Schools, Preliminary Statements
Home Office
HO 67 Acreage Returns Various, Census Papers
HO 107 Population Returns
HO 129 Ecclesiastical Returns
HO 144 Correspondence and Papers, Domestic and General, Registered Papers, Supplementary
HO 334 Immigration and Nationality Department, Duplicate Certificates of Naturalization
Tithe Redemption Commission
IR 18 Tithe Files
IR 29 Tithe Apportionments
IR 30 Tithe Maps
Justices Itinerant, Assize and Gaol Delivery Justices, etc.
JUST 1 Eyre Rolls, Assize Rolls, etc.
Exchequer, Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue
LR 2 Miscellaneous Books
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
MAF 68 Various, Agricultural Returns, Parish Summaries
Maps and Plans
MPA Maps and Plans from Chancery classes
Prerogative Court of Canterbury
PROB 4 Inventories post-1660, parchment
British Transport Historical Records
RAIL 502 Much Wenlock & Severn Junction Railway Co.
Court of Requests
REQ 2 Proceedings
Registrar General
RG 6 Society of Friends Registers and Certificates of Births, Marriages, and Deaths
Census Records
RG 9 1861 Census Returns
RG 10 1871 Census Returns
RG 11 1881 Census Returns
RG 12 1891 Census Returns
Special Collections
SC 2 Court Rolls
SC 6 Ministers' and Receivers' Accounts
SC 12 Rentals and Surveys, Portfolios
State Paper Office
SP 1 State Papers, Hen. VIII, General Series
State Papers Domestic
SP 16 Chas. I
SP 23 Interregnum
SP 44 Entry Books
Court of Star Chamber
Proceedings
STAC 2 Hen. VIII
STAC 8 Jas. I
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