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Guide to Users
How to Search
Search the Court Cases
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Guide to Users The Court of Chivalry’s records for the period 1634-1640 have been reconstructed on a case by case basis from the archives at the College of Arms and Arundel Castle. Details of 738 cases have been recovered, but in most instances what survives is only a fraction of the full run of case papers. Each case begins with an abstract summarising the main details, followed by a list of surviving documents for the case which are then calendared and arranged in blocks. These blocks cover initial proceedings, the plaintiff’s case, the defendant’s case, the sentence, or settlement of the case by arbitration, and the submission by the defendant. This material is then followed by a summary of surviving court proceedings, and finally notes giving further details of the parties involved. The content of each of these blocks is described more fully below. The calendar of documents summarises case papers or, where there are passages of particular interest, transcribes them in full. The aim is to provide a calendar which is sufficiently complete to satisfy the needs of most researchers. The search facilities make it possible to investigate case material by name, place or county and subject, and a full list of names, places and topics covered is provided in the three consolidated alphabetical indexes. A published collection of all the abstracts and lists of case papers, is available in R.P. Cust and A.J. Hopper, Cases in the High Court of Chivalry, 1634-1640 (Harleian Society, new series 18, 2006). The plaintiff’s/defendant’s cases
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