SUBORDINATE AND

INDEPENDENT JURISDICTIONS  . Palatinate of Durham:—For the earlier records see G . T . Lapsley's County Pala-tine of Durham (Harvard Historical Series, vol. viii.), pp . 327-337 . The letters sent out from the bishops' chancery are enrolled on the Cursitors' Records, Nos . 29 to 184 . They are calendared in Reports 31 to 37 and 40 . One of the registers (Bishop Kellawe's) has been printed in full in the Rolls series (No . 62) with additions from the register of Bishop Bury . The Cursitors' Records also include seven bundles of Inquisitions Post Mortem (Nos . 164-18o), calendared in the 44th Report; and a volume (No .

2) contains transcripts of similar documents, calendared in the 45th Report . The records of the

Exchequer of Durham, though deposited in the Public Record Office, are treated as the private records of the Ecclesiastical Commission, and are only accessible with a special permit . To the judicial records the only printed means of reference is the list of Judgment Rolls (20 Henry VII. to 7-8 Victoria) in the Record Office list of Plea Rolls (No . IV.) Palatinate of Chester.—The letters sent out from the chancery are enrolled upon the Chester Recognizance Rolls (1 Edward II. to 34 Charles II. with a few rolls down to , William IV.) calendared in Reports 36-37 and 39 . The financial records of the Exchequer of Chester are listed among the Ministers' Accounts (List No . V.) of the county of Chester . The Inquisitions post Mortem and ad quod damnum (Edward III. to Charles I.) are indexed in the 25th report . The judicial records consist of Pleas in the Exchequer, a court of equity . Its records are Bills and Answers (Henry VIII. to George IV.), calendared in the 25th Report up to Philip and Mary; and Decrees and Orders . The court of the justices of Chester was at common law; its Plea Rolls (44 Henry III. to I William IV.), with a separate series for Flint (from 12 Edward I.) are listed among the Plea Rolls (List No . IV.) . The Deeds, Inquisitions and Writs of Dower upon these rolls for the period Henry III. to Henry VIII. are calendared in the 26th-3oth Reports without an index .

The

Assize Rolls for the counties of Chester and Flint and for thehonour of Macclesfield are listed among the other assize rolls (List No . IV.) . Wales.—The following are the principal records of the principality of Wales: Ministers' Accounts and Court Rolls, including those of the principality and of - the honours and manors of the Lords Marchers, listed in Lists Nos . V. and VI . Of the judicial records of the Great Sessions .of Wales, set up by the act 34 & 35 Henry VIII., c . 26, the Plea Rolls are listed in the list of Plea Rolls (No . IV) . For an account of the Court of the Marches in Wales, see C . A . Skeel's The Council in the Marches of Wales . The Duchy and Palatinate of Lancaster.—The duchy of Lancaster comprises all the estates of the duke of Lancaster; the palatinate is limited to the county of Lancaster . The records of the palatinate, transferred to the Public Record Office from Lancaster castle, related to the county and are either enrolments of writs or of a judicial nature .

The records of the duchy, transferred from the office of the duchy at

Westminster, include similar records and others dealing with the manorial and financial records of all the estates within and without the county . For the Duchy Records see the detailed list (No . XIV.), where the means of reference to this collection are fully described . Of the Palatinate Records the enrolments of writs are classified as Patent and Close Rolls . The former, a broken series from 5 John of Gaunt to 21 Henry VII., are calendared in the 40th Report; the latter (in 3 rolls, a broken series, II Henry IV. to 9 Edward IV.) in the 37th Report; but certain enrolments of the palatinate are among the duchy records . The judicial records of the chancery are not calendared ; but the proceedings by way of appeal from that court to the Duchy Chamber at Westminster are dealt with in the duchy list . Proceedings under common law include Plea Rolls (2 Henry IV. to 11 Victoria) listed in the list of Plea Rolls (No . IV.) ; and for criminal proceedings there are palatinate Assize Rolls (Henry VI. to 6 Victoria), of which there is a list in the same place . But certain rolls which were among the Duchy Records will be found apart at pages 139-14o of the same list . Bishopric of Ely.—The act I & 2 Victoria, c . 94, places the records of this palatinate under the charge of the Master of the Rolls . They have never been removed to the Record Office, but remain at Ely with the episcopal records, where they can be inspected .

A valuable descriptive list has been published by

Alfred Gibbons for private circulation .