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Quarter Sessions Order for apprentice's discharge, 1792. PA26/2 fols.30,31.
Bishop Street Leet Book, 1787 - 1808. PA38.
Itinerant justices' presence at conveyance of Baginton, Warwickshire land, c.1240-41. PA39/1.
Appearance at Baginton manorial court under terms of conveyance, c.1258-85. PA39/4.
Berkswell, Warwickshire manorial court records, 1550 - 1767. PA47/1/11; PA47/15; PA47/17/6 et passin; PA47/18; PA47/21; PA47/23; PA47/42/6-7 passim; PA47/44/9,10,14.
Warwickshire Quarter Sessions' stopping up of footpath at Poddycroft, Coventry, 1891. PA67/29-31.
Warwickshire Quarter Sessions' stopping up of footpath behind Gosford Street, 1905. PA67/42.
Court Leet's potential use by informers about transgression of Drapers' Company ordinance, early seventeenth century. PA99/1 fols. 12 recto - 14 recto.
Assize justices' oversight for Weavers' Company ordinances, 1639. PA100/4 fols. 3 recto - 15 recto.
Assize justices' involvement in Weavers' Company dispute with Drapers' Company, 1631. PA100/12/34,41.
Star Chamber notice about Weavers'/Drapers' Companies dispute, 1631. PA100/12/37.
Act of Leet concerning Weavers' Company, 1654. PA100/14.
Writ for Quarter Sessions appearance on felony-charge, 1823. PA101/1/2.
Assizes accounts, c.1810. PA101/1/36-40.
Witnesses' receipts, 1806-12. PA101/1/202,211,214,221.
Chancery decree about Skeffington property, 1720s. PA101/1/260,261: PA309/61,62.
Assignment of baker's goods, 1811. PA101/1/308.
Halesowen Court Baron[, Worcestershire], 1747. PA101/2/102-103.
Premises near Cross Cheaping formerly used by magistrates, 1814. PA101/8/654-655.
Reference to provision for assize-house, 1846. PA101/9/45.
Defeasance for Henry Weeks' appearance at Court of Exchequer for Debt, 1842. PA101/11/202.
Solicitor's Court of Exchequer admission-certificate, 1824. PA101/11/229.
Solicitor's Court of King's Bench admission-certificate, 1824. PA101/11/230.
Solicitor's Court of Common Pleas admission-certificate, 1824. PA101/11/231.
Solicitor's commission for taking affidavits for Court of Exchequer, 1824. PA101/11/232.
Solicitor's commission for taking affidavits for Court of King's Bench, 1824. PA101/11/233.
Solicitor's commission for taking affidavits for Court of Common Pleas, 1824. PA101/11/234.
Solicitor's commission for taking affidavits for Chancery, 1824. PA101/11/235.
Copy of solicitor's oath for admission as attorney, 1824. PA101/11/236,237.
Writs of summons to appear at Warwick Assizes, 1830. PA101/11/246-248
Distraint of hayrick to secure rent, 1895-96. PA101/11/363,366.
Draft will of William Ashwell of Myton, Warwickshire, 1860. PA101/11/491.
Brief in Warwickshire County Court (Coventry) case about a car's age, 1927. PA101/125.
Bail bonds, 1812. PA101/131/1,2.
Skircoat Wesleyan Chapel, Halifax, foundation-deed enrolled, 1832. PA101/152.
Broad Street, Foleshill Wesleyan Chapel foundation-deed enrolled, 1838. PA101/152.
1850 Chancery Order vesting trusts in Holy Trinity, Coventry feoffees recited, 1860. PA202/7/3.
Extracts from Coundon Court Leet rolls, 1568 - 1606. PA208/2 fol.1.
Quarter Sessions material in Allesley civil parish collection, 1634-36. PA295/11; PA295/12/1,2.
Quarter Sessions order for militiaman's family's relief, 1782. PA295/53/11.
Bastardy recognizance for Quarter Sessions appearance, 1823. PA295/60/3.
Reverend George Burder at Coventry Assizes, 1784. PA300/1 fols.4,5.
Action between Daniel Davies and Coventry corporation in Court of Common Pleas, 1728. PA309/43.
Grand Inquest for Coventry, 1712. PA309/44.
Priory estate under Bishop Street Court Leet jurisdiction, 1685 - 1703. PA309/113,114,126.
View of frankpledge and Bishop Street Court Leet to be observed and delivered to corporation by John Hales' heirs, 1574. PA309/122.
Order in Chancery about Avon Street, Stoke abstracted, 1930. PA333/18,19.
Papers permitting Samuel Gibbons to solicit in Chancery, 1775-76. PA347.
Order by Court of Requests for Birmingham and Deritend, 1833. PA389/9/1.
Discharge from apprenticeship (at Special Sessions), 1817. PA382/23.
Quarter Sessions order books and Court of Record [Town Court] book received by Town Clerk between 1752 and 1765 [now amongst BA/E/B/24/1: BA/E/K/2/1-5, and others held at Warwickshire Record Office (QS64/1/1-5)].
Chancery decree regarding "Seven Stars" estate, Pinley, 1641. PA150/1.
Brief regarding assize debt-case, 1728. PA181/2.
Thomas Neale's letter asking to be excused jury-service at Warwick, 1753. PA192/1 fol.8.
"Introduction of the Mob-Cap at Court", article for "Old Cross" magazine, proofs, c.1878. PA919/14/13,14.
Transcription of translation of 1399 charter appointing city justices of the peace, late seventeenth century. PA2/1 fol.14 (fol. "10").
Warrant about Town Court case, 1501. PA10/1.
Coventry appeal in Warwickshire court against outlawry, 1246-47. PA14/2/4.
Reference to £2 Quarter Sessions fine, 1825. PA14/5/38.
Definition of mayor's Quarter Sessions role, 1836. PA14/5/83.
Unreformed corporation magistrates' attending new corporation's Quarter Sessions, 1836. PA14/5/84.
Quarter Sessions' needing a recorder before it can sit, 1836. PA14/6/8.
Quarter Sessions administration, 1835-37. PA14/6/22,24.
Municipal Commissioners' view, 1834. PA14/6/49.
Letter about precepts for assizes, 1833. PA14/6/52.
Letter about cognizance forfeited at Quarter Sessions, 1839. PA14/6/185.
Prior's right to punish malefactors,1249. PA21/1/2.
Translation of 1399 grant of commission of the peace, c.1840. PA21/1/18.
Translation of 1445 grant about inquisitions of assizes, etc., c.1840. PA21/1/19.
Translation of 1451 creation of county of city of Coventry, c.1840. PA21/2/20.
Copy and translation of 1621 governing charter, c.1840. PA21/1/21,22.
Translation of assize rolls extracts (1395/96 - 1422), c.1840. PA21/1/25.
Translation of 1376-77 commissions of the peace for Coventry, of 1377-80 for Warwickshire, and of 1377 for Worcestershire, Somerset, Hull, Cornwall, Beverley, Essex, Suffolk, Sussex, Surrey, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire (West Riding) and Gloucestershire, c.1840. PA21/1/26.
Translation of process (1336) between Prior of Coventry and Queen Mother, c.1840. PA21/1/28.
Translation of Tripartite Indenture (1355), c.1840. PA21/1/29.
Copy of 1381 sessions indictments, 1839. PA21/11/37.
List of justices of the peace (1422-94), c.1840. PA21/2/6.
Leet Book extract about sessions, fines and city liberties (1424 - 1552), c.1840. PA21/2/10.
Copy commissions of the peace (1836, 1837), c.1840. PA21/2/49,51.
Continuation of Quarter Sessions following Municipal Corporations Acts (1835), 1836. PA21/22/50.
Court Leet minute, 1410. PA22/1.
Quarter Sessions information and judgement regarding a duel, 1691. PA17/40.
County Court bail bond, 1757. PA17/41.
Mobbing following indictment of corporation for riot at assizes, late seventeenth century. PA17/42.
Spon Street Ward Court Leet suitors' list, mid eighteenth century. PA17/56.
Town Court plea book, 1691-94. PA17/58.
Return of writ of error in Town Court, c.1641. PA17/59.
Town Court bills of costs, 1660. PA17/60.
Bishop Street Leet rentgatherer's appointment, 1602. PA17/66/2.
Use of Court Leet constables during election, 1832. PA17/76/14.
Court Leet ordinances, 1421 (transcript). in PA17/99.
Historical notes, 1840. PA17/101.
Chancery decree regarding Stoke enclosure, 1655. PA16/2 fols.106 recto - 116 verso.
Appeal to Quarter Sessions for footpath-closure, Bishopgate Green, 1892-95: PA279/44/5369,5377,5414,5489,5493,5528,5622,5646,6130.
Swindling councillor condemned to hard labour at Warwick Assizes, 1893. PA279/44/5759.
Foleshill Rural District Council wanting justices' view of new building-estate deferred, 1897. PA279/44/6823.
Payment to be made at Royal Courts of Justice, 1911. PA279/44/10413.
Need to attend Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire magistrates' court, 1917. PA279/44/12250.
Sale of Allerton Estate, Lancashire after Chancery proceedings, 1868. PA279/88.
Chancery Order regarding Smithford Street house (1664) recited. PA214/1/72.
Writs, etc. of Courts of King's (Queen's) Bench and Exchequer, 1831-41. PAZ230/1-7.
Copies of Acts of Leet regarding apprenticeship and freemanship, 1628-72. PA235/1 p.58.
Writ in Court of Queen's Bench, Edmund Butel versus Pierre Chapoton, 1858. PA239/1 fol.4.
Copy (mid twentieth century) of copy (1605) of Act of Leet (1494) about selling hides. in PA241/1 fols.3-11.
Commission of the Peace, 1387. PA246.
Coventry election case tried in Court of King's Bench, 1736-37. PA248/6.
Sir Thomas White's Charity case heard in Chancery, 1703. PA244/32.
Reverend Edward Jackson et al versus Coventry corporation et al in Court of Exchequer, 1729-34. PA244/34,35.
Reverend Edward Jackson et al versus Coventry corporation et al in Chancery, 1738. PA244/336-51.
Licence following 10 Elizabeth I Court of Exchequer decree about Holy Trinity vicar's stipend and Bablake School master's salary, 1570: PA244/37/5.
Justices on assize were invited to share brace of bucks with Coventry corporation, 1738. PA244/18/10.
Deed sworn before Robert Forthe, master in Chancery, 1579. PA286/1.
Chancery able to order conveyance by infant trustee, 1791. PA288/3/16.
10 Edward IV judgement in Exchequer regarding Windsor, Berkshire fee farm recited, 1675. PA289/1/1.
Fee-farm deeds acknowledged in Chancery, 1675 - 1737. PA289/1/1-4.
Gregory family enjoyed Styvechale view of frankpledge, 1639. PA294/1.I.
Court Leet papers, c.1600. in BA/A/A/17/1.
Court Leet minutes, 1604-05. in BA/A/A/26/3.
Quitclaim from Court of Common Pleas for action in ejectment, 1735. BA/A/B/2/12.
Court of Augmentations had ex-Charterhouse property in Gosford Street, 1542. BA/A/B/20/1.
William Babyngton, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was a feoffee of an Earl Street messuage, 1424: BA/A/C/6/1.
Bill of complaint exhibited in "the court at Whitehall", 1637. BA/A/D/611/2.
Itinerant justices at Warwick, c.1336. BA/B/A/52/1.
Record of inquisitions held at Wolpitlidyate, 1413-22. BA/B/A/108/4.
Copy of assize-agreement dated 1568 regarding tithe. BA/B/F/28/1.
Reservation of Coventry corporation's liberty to hold court leet, Cook Street, 1650. BA/B/P/86/2.
Property revived upon executors by scire facias, 1767. BA/A/G/34/2.XIII.
Courts of Chancery, King's Bench and assize all involved in one case, 1765-68. BA/A/G/34/2.XIV.
£90 paid to Court of Augmentations for guilds and chantries land, 1552. BA/B/P/102/3.
30/8 paid to Court of Augmentations for ex-Trinity Guild land, 1552. BA/B/P/159/1.
Mayor's and bailiffs' court was the venue for dispute about a muniment box, 1449-50. BA/B/P/262/5.
Assize mentioned, 1272. BA/B/P/292/3.
Cappers' and Feltmakers' Company's petition to justices of assize, 1658. BA/C/E/2/1.
Coventry corporation enjoyed Old Fillongley court leet, Warwickshire, 1561, 1687. BA/D/D/50/26,39.
Borough archive assizes fonds, 1338 - 1826. BA/E/A.
Borough archive sessions fonds, 1376 - 1847. BA/E/B.
Borough archive Court of Statute Merchant fonds, 1346 - 1704. BA/E/C.
Borough archive coroner's fonds, 1746 - 1824. BA/E/D.
Borough archive sheriffs' fonds, 1378 - 1832. BA/E/E.
Writs from central government for appearanmce of Coventry men at central courts, 1737 - 1831. BA/E/E/3-7.
Administration for appearance at central courts, 1736 - 1829. BA/E/E/8-21.
Borough archive Court Leet fonds, 1413 - 1834. BA/E/F.
Borough archive Bishop Street Court Leet fonds, 1640 - 1805. BA/E/G.
Borough archive Clerk of the Market fonds, 1500 - 1758. BA/E/H.
Court Leet regulated food, seventeenth century. in BA/E/H/15/1.
Borough archive Court of Orphans fonds, 1576 - 1686. BA/E/I.
Borough archive County Court fonds, 1689 - 1821. BA/E/J.
Borough archive Town Court fonds, 1383 - 1835. BA/E/K.
Extracts from earlier court records (fourteenth century to nineteenth century) used in Lythall's Case, c.1839: BA/F/B/111-136.
Lythall's Case evidence was given in Court of the Exchequer, 1840-42. BA/F/B/148/1; BA/F/B/178/1.
Leet Book extract (made, c.1839). BA/F/B/219/1.
Beck riots case held at Warwick assizes, 1832. BA/F/P/20; BA/F/P/21; BA/F/P/37; BA/F/P/54; BA/F/P/55.
Receipt for Stoke and Coundon courts, 1660. BA/G/F/26/1.
Wolpitlidyate, 1370. BA/G/F/68/1.
Land-recovery, 1382. BA/G/F/73/1.
Court of Orphans defined, 1683. BA/H/A/1/9.
Quarter Sessions orders for apprenticeship-discharge, eighteenth century. in BA/H/C/4/1.
Charges for entertaining assize judges, 1595. BA/H/D/4/1.
Sometime Town Clerk's commissions to take affidavits, 1746. BA/H/G/1; BA/H/G/2.
Final concord levied in Town Court, 1752. BA/H/H/130/3.
Town Court's involvement with Smithford Street messuage, 1439. BA/H/H/147/2.
Plea roll extract for Bowdy family's Hill Street property, c.1450. BA/H/H/264/4.
Final concord in Town Court, 1476. BA/H/H/264/37.
Final concord in Town Court, 1455. BA/H/H/264/37.
Final concord in Town Court, 1419. BA/H/H/304/1.
Final concord in Town Court, 1439. BA/H/H/309/2.
Possession of Walsgrave messuage adjudged in king's court, c.1309. BA/H/H/346/1.
Court of the Exchequer oversaw Cheylesmore fee farm, early sixteenth century - 1832. BA/H/M/1-4.
Earl of Nottingham had credit in Town Court [,c.1390]. BA/H/Q/A79/52.
Court of Augmentations involved in repair of ex-guilds and chantries buildings, 1552. BA/H/Q/A79/61C.
Judges' fees due, 1658. BA/H/Q/A79/234.
Corporation petitioned Court of the Exchequer about tithe-claim, c.1806. BA/H/Q/F8/3/4.
In specimens of corporation business, 1588 - 1722. BA/H/Q/F8/1.
Other items in F8 collection: Quarter Sessions, 1615 - 1733. BA/H/Q/F8/6/1-9.
Other items in F8 collection: Clerk of the Market, 1721. BA/H/Q/F8/6/10.
Other items in F8 collection: Town Court, 1480. BA/H/Q/F8/6/11.
Town Court bills of costs, 1659-60. BA/H/Q/F20/6/1-16.
Attorney's expenses in Town Court and Court of Wards, 1600. BA/H/Q/F20/6/23.
Impressions of fourteenth-century Court of Statute Merchsnt seal. BA/H/R/1/6,7; BA/H/R/2/3.
Records of King's Bench proceedings, c.1703 - c.1721. BA/L/B/2/2; BA/L/B/3/1; BA/L/B/4/1.
Letter about trial at assizes, 1718. BA/L/M/13/1.
Certificates of attorney's admission to Courts of King's Bernch and Chancery, 1730-31. BA/L/O/4.
Statute Merchant seal, c.1483. BA/N/J/1,2.
Recognizance in Chancery, 1665. PA1516/15/1.
Recognizance in Chancery, 1648. PA1516/19/1.
Venire facias for Quarter Sessions, 1717. PA403/154/1.
Bill of complaint in Chancery by a man's father against his widow, 1790s. PA436/1/18.
J.W. Caldicott's suit in Chancery, 1844-45. PA436/1/22.XXIII,23-26,28.
Copy court orders for amendmentof descriptions of documents, 1820. PA436/5/46-49.
Fieri facias was addressed to an indebted printer's father-in-law, 1860. PA436/11/1.
Photocopies (1966) of Court of Exchequer records (tempore Richard II). PA401.
Copy rule in Court of Common Pleas authorising interlineation of Saint John Baptist's parish in deed-description, 1824. PA466/11/9.
Widow was ordered to appear at Lichfield consistory court, 1771. PA440/1/9.
Copy Chancery bill, Hales versus Hales, 1718. PA446.
Chancery litigation about Hill Cross property, 1833-40. PA454/1/13-20.
Possibility of court's deciding that an estate was inadequate to service a will, 1738. PA494/3/8.
Court of Exchequer writ that Coventry corporation pay Cheylesmore fee farm, 1803. PA498/4/1 fol.5.
Chancery decree about John Heys' estate, 1823. PA499/12.
Chancery case about Bond's Hospital, 1548-51. PA54/1/1 fols."1"[6], "4"-"22"[10-28].
Chancery order about Keresley tithes, 1744. PA54/1/1 fols."24"-"26" [30-32].
Copy of Bond's Hospital Chancery proceedings, 1549 - 1758. in PA54/5/1.
Bond's Hospital feoffees bought Beechwood estate, Berkswell, Warwickshire with money secured in Chancery, 1727. PA54/34/11.
Chancery suit affecting a Hampton, Middlesex school, 1838. PA54/151/51.
Release of suit at view of frankpledge, Temple Grafton, Warwickshire, 1651. PA54/271/1(ay).
Chancery suit about Lane's Charity recited, 1673. PA54/272/1.
Acknowledgement in Court of Exchequer recited, 1671. PA54/338/2.
Chancery Order about Sir Thomas White's Charity, 1858. PA500/1/1.
Chancery to be involved with institution of Bond's Hospital, 1508. PA500/3/1.
Chancery decree concerning Bond's Hospital, 1759. PA500/4/1.
Chancery proceedings about Hales Street district's development, 1847-48. PA500/19.
Covenant to apply to Quarter Sessions to stop footpath, 1878. PA500/104/1.
Lord Mayor of London's debt-court, 1881. PA526/111/4.
Reference to Chancery suit Browett and Clarke versus Royle et al, 1872. PA526/143/3.
Potential disputes about partition of inherited property to be referred to Court of King's Bench, 1821. PA529/3.
Day family Chancery lawsuit, 1886-87. PA540/2/1,3.
Derby Lane messuage recovered by action in Assize, 1771. PA563/3.
Return to clerk of the justices in accordance with Licensing Acts, c.1930. PA573/2.
Reform Club's Magistrates' Court receipts, 1955-61. PA575/327/2/1-5.
Chancery Order enabled laying of Wyken Junction colliery railway, 1854. PA575/46/1.
Coventry & County Club's dealings with Magistrates' Court, 1962-70. PA578/3/3; PA578/4; PA578/6/5.
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