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Z M - Mayor of Chester

A - Account book - 1757-1759

AB - Apprenticeship Registers - 1556-1982

AI - Apprenticeship Indentures - 1604-1915

B - Mayors' Books - 1392-1874

BB - Assize of Bread - 1767-1768

C - Civic duties - 1909-2000

CP - Mayors' Company Papers - 1514-1627

F - Mayors' Files - 1497-1837

FR - Freemen's Rolls and Registers - 1538-

IP - Inner Pentice Files - 1696-1816

L - Mayors' Letters - 1546-1716

MP - Mayors' Military Papers - 1550-1679

OB - Mayors' Order Books - 1607-1627

P - Proclamations - 1604-1779

PE - Mayors' Petitions - 1581-1621

PF - Portmote Court: Fine Files - 1520-1833

PI - Mayors' Plate Indentures - 1670-1826

PM - Portmote Court Minute Book - 1836-1874

PR - Portmote Court: Recovery Files - 1601-1833

R - Portmote Court Rolls - 1295-1563

RM - Portmote Court: miscellaneous papers

1 - Complaint of William de Hawardyn re debt owed by William de Lauton - nd, c1396

2 - Fragment of plea Thomas [--] v John [--] re armed assault. - 1398

3 - Plaint by John, Abbot of Whalley, re dispossesion of messuage in Chester - nd, ?13th century

4 - Presentment by William Webunbury and Richard de Merston(?), coroners re drawing in the River Dee - nd, 14th century

5 - Petition to the Mayor asking for removal of case from Pentice to Portmote court - 1387-88

6 - Draft letter re house in Chester in which Isabel Doble lived - nd, 15th centruy

7 - Plaints, responses, pleadings, memoranda, accounts etc; many are incomplete, fragmentary, and/or damaged - c1526 - 1579

8 - Plaints, responses, pleadings, memoranda, accounts etc; many are incomplete, fragmentary, and/or damaged - c1580 -1657

9 - File of accounts of costs in cases of debt brought before the Pentice court and then removed to the Portmote court ; and writ re plea of debt 1606-7 - 1602 -1612

10 - File of draft concords etc re cases in Portmote court relating mainly to property in the city of Chester, but including Buerton Heathe etc; includes some relating to debt. - c1655 - 1664

11 - Plaints, responses, pleadings, memoranda, accounts etc; many are incomplete, fragmentary, and/or damaged - c1650 - 1710

12 - Plaints, responses, pleadings, memoranda, accounts etc; many are incomplete, fragmentary, and/or damaged - 1707 - 1805

13 - Documents re cases in Exchequer referred to Portmote for jury hearing - 1778 - 1841

14 - Papers re recoveries etc - 1808-1848

SAF - Affidavit files - 1726-1799

SR - General Court Rolls - 1561-1867

V - Mayors' Holiday Fund for Children - 1926-1935

W - War Relief Fund - 1944-1973

X - Lord Mayor of Chester Charity Fund