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(g) First Fruits and Tenths Office. 

 The King^s Books, Liber Decimarum. 

 4. Records of Palatinates. 



(a) Palatinate of Chester and Flint and Welsh 

 Records. 



Eyre Rolls, Forest Rolls, Quo Warranto 

 Rolls, Ruthin Records, Miscellaneous Rolls and 

 Books. 



(b) Palatinate of Durham. 

 Halmote Court Books. 



(c) Palatinate of Ely. (Not yet transferred to 

 offical custody.) 



(d) County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. 

 Royal Charters, Miscellaneous Books {e.g. Nos. 



13 to 64), Forest Proceedings, Rentals and Surveys, 



Ministers^ Accounts, Special Commissions, Leases, 



Plans, and Maps. 



Of the " Special Collections" above referred to, the 

 most important are Ministers^ Accounts, Rentals and 

 Surveys, Court Rolls and Ancient Deeds. Printed 

 official lists exist for the first three of these, and for 

 several of the series previously mentioned, and official 

 Calendars exist for the Charter Rolls and Ancient 

 Deeds. A limited number of Record texts have been 

 published by the Old Record Commission, and many 

 more in modern times, as well as Calendars, or 

 Abstracts, by the Local Historical Societies {see 

 Appendix). For the whole of these Archives special 

 reference should be made to Mr. Scargill-Bird's well- 

 known "Guide to the Public Records" (1908). 



{h) Unofficial Manuscripts. 



A large number of unpublished Manorial documents 

 such as Surveys, Extents, Rentals, Custumals, Court 

 Rolls, Accounts, etc., are to be found amongst the 

 Muniments of corporations and private individuals as 

 we]l as in Libraries and other collections. A " Guide " 

 to these sources is still a desideratum, but useful lists 



