Calendars of Lancashire Evidences

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 Eng MS 664
  • Dates of Creation
      [c 1628-c 1636]
  • Physical Description
      143 x 94 mm. 1 volume (103 folios);

Scope and Content

A small notebook containing:

  • (folio 1, original numbering 9) a calendar of various recognisances;
  • (folio 5, original numbering 13) A Breefe or Kalender of Recognisances, Indytmtes, examinations, committmtes, defaultes and other thinges certified and delivered over by the Clarke of the peace into the Crowne office att the assyses att Lancaster upon Munday being the xxiiith of Marche, Anno R.R. domini Caroli Anglie, etc., [1628/9].

The manuscript then includes other calendars for the same business delivered:

  • (folio 10, original numbering 18) 3 August 1629;
  • (folio 15, original numbering 23) 15 March 1629/30;
  • (folio 22, original numbering 30) 9 August 1630;
  • (folio 28) 28 March 1631;
  • (folio 35) 22 August 1631;
  • (folio 43) 19 March 1631/2;
  • (folio 49) 20 August 1632;
  • (folio 57) 8 April 1633;
  • (folio 64) 19 August 1633;
  • (folio 71) 24 March 1633/4;
  • (folio 76) 18 August 1634;
  • (folio 82) 16 March 1634/5;
  • (folio 90) 3 August 1635;
  • (folio 96) 4 April 1636;
  • (folio 103) 22 August 1636.