Docquets of Lord Keeper Coventry, 1625-1640

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The aim of the project was to provide a calendar of all items in the Birmingham Reference Library's collection of the official papers of the Lord Keeper Thomas Coventry for use alongside Public Record Office sources for Chancery activities, and as a finding aid for individuals and grants within the Patent Rolls.

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The data catalogue 18900 documents representing the office copy of grants, patents, licences and commissions issued under the Great Seal by the Lord Keeper, Thomas Coventry, 1625-1640. There are 60 classes of docquet, of which the most numerous are Licences of Alienation (3960), Presentations of Benefices (1404), Commissions of Bankruptcy (1085), Commissions of Rebellion (1008) and Exemplifications (982). Also included are appointments to court offices, monopolies, leases of lands and appointments of justices of the peace, sheriffs, escheators, etc.

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Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-4042-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=8f13965b86914397f3545aef74ecdcd3696aa2750141a1b49178254ca37fe080
Provenance
Creator Roberts, S., History of Parliament Trust; Cust, R., University of Birmingham; Broadway, J., University of Birmingham
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2000
Funding Reference British Academy
Rights Copyright University of Birmingham; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.</p>
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Representation
Language English
Resource Type Text; Numeric
Discipline History; Humanities
Spatial Coverage England and Wales