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Z C - Chester City Council - 1835-2009

1 - Council

2 - Boards

3 - Committees

6 - Panels

7 - Working Parties

AB - Civic Miscellanea

C - Chester City boundaries - 1820-1972

CC - Chester City leases,agreements and related papers (D series)

E - Chester City title deeds and related papers - 17th - 20th centuries

F - Declaration Books - 1835-1961

G - Elections

LC - Local Acts of Parliament - 1700-1944

LD - Local Bills - 1762-1951

LE - Commissions of Inquiry - 1850-1952

LU - Corporation Lawsuits - 1558-1929

N - Byelaws

U - Tape recordings

Z - Council manuscripts

1 - Fragments of Medieval Manuscripts - 12th century-16th century

2 - Illuminated Pedigree of the Earls of Chester and related families - late 16th century

3 - A Brevary or Some Fewe Collectiones of the Cittie of Chester - 1609

4 - Census of Holy Trinity Parish, Chester - 1801

5 - Account of the Antiquities of the City of Chester - 1804

6 - Counterpart of an indenture of agreement between the mayor and citizens of Chester and John de Helpeston for the building of the New Tower, commonly called the Water Tower for £100 - 1322-1323

7 - Memorandum of a claim by Robert de Eton to the serjeancy of the water of the river Dee from the stream of Eton to the place called 'Arnaldesheir' [Arnold's Eye]. No seal - 14th century

8 - Grant and confirmation by the Friars Minor of Chester to the merchants and sailors of Chester of the nave and three aisles of their church for place in which to store and repair their sails. Seal of the convent - 13 Jul 1528

9 - Copy letters patent given at Westminster by King Henry VIII granting pardon to certain merchants for exporting leather from Chester contrary to a statute of 27 Henry VIII regulating the export of leather - 24 Feb 1538/39

10 - Articles and orders for archery outside the Eastgate, signed by John Cowper, mayor - 3 Apr 1562

11 - Testimonial and passport given at 'Felleex' Felixstowe by Sir Owen Hopton and other justices of the peace in Suffolk - 10 Jan 1565/27 Dec 1564

12 - Warrant given at London by Edward, earl of Lincoln, baron of Clinton and Say K.G., Lord high admiral, ordering the immediate release of the ship 'Greyhound' of London, under arrest in Chester in spite of the warrant for such arrest dated 6 Sept - 11 Oct 1578

13 - Bond by John Robinson, James Wilkinson, officers of Sir Francis Walsingham, Kt., farmer of the Queen's customs of Chester, and Robert Thornton - 13 Oct 1586

14 - Warrant given at London by Charles, Lord Howard, baron of Effingham, Lord high admiral, for the execution of a decree of Julius Cesar, judge of the admiralty court - 11 Nov 1588

15 - Commission given at Canterbury by John Whitgift, archbishop of Canterbury - 30 May 1590

16 - Counterpart indenture of receipt out of the Exchequer - 4 May 1602

17 - Counterpart indenture of receipt out of the Exchequer - 25 May 1614

18 - Letters patent - 14 March 1617/18

19 - Conveyance by Hugh Lewis Gwyn of Bodeye, Anglesey to John Powell of Kelsterton of two seats, benches and kneeling places in the parish church of Northop, Flintshire - 4 July 1623

20 - Letters patent - 19 Sep 1632

21 - Letters patent - 20 Dec 1633

22 - Copy of a writ addressed to the bailiffs, aldermen and other chief magistrates of various boroughs in several counties of Wales and in Chester, Lancaster and other places to assess and take up ship money - 1634-1635

23 - Warrant - 1 Oct 1635

24 - Letters patent - Jan 1641/42

25 - Conveyance - 27 Jan 1650/51

26 - Letters patent - 21 Dec 1660

27 - Indenture of receipt out of the Exchequer - 26 Nov 1670

28 - Letters patent - 5 Sep 1689

29 - Letters patent - 12 Feb 1695/96

30 - Commission of gaol delivery - 15 March 1699/1700

31 - Commission - 24 July 1704

32 - Letters patent - 20 Oct 1743

33 - 19th century copy of map showing the "...boundarys of the Lordship [of Hawarden]..in particular to so much thereof as lies on the North side of the New River or Cutt on Saltney Marsh call'd the Navigation..." - [1740]

34 - Interrogatories and depositions of witnesses on behalf of Thomas Shipton and Katherine his wife, complainants, v Robert Wood, def., re will of Robert Wood senior and property in Shropshire, in the Exchequer at Chester - 1634

35 - Joint and several answers of Thomas Davenport and Ellis Yonge re complaint of Elizabeth Mostyn and others - nd, post 1775

36 - Exchequer Court of Chester: record of pleas re suit over estate of Matthew Ellis in Overleigh and Handbridge, formerly belonging to Basingwerk Abbey - Jan 1557

37 - Writ to sheriffs, bailiffs, justices etc in Lancashire re enforcement of statute re cappers - c1576

38 - Receipt to Mr Thomas Lloyd for rent due to his Royal Majesty for lands in the Manor of Burton - 1729

40 - Papers re suit Davies v Hassall - 1837

41 - Copy indenture re estates of Sir Piers Dutton, kt., deceased. - 1 Jan 1574

42 - Petition re fishery of the River Dee - nd, mid 18th century

43 - Discharged bonds - 1715 - 1745

44 - Manuscript coats of arms - nd, 19th century

45 - Notes extracted from City records - nd, 17th century

46 - Record of proceedings re appeals against assessments - 8 Jun 1694

47 - Cinema licence - 1921