List of abbreviations and records used

Pages xviii-xxiv

A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 Part 2, the City of Chester: Culture, Buildings, Institutions. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2005.

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ABBREVIATIONS



A.-S.	Anglo-Saxon
Acct(s).	Account(s)
Acts of P.C.	Acts of the Privy Council of England (H.M.S.O.)
Add. Ch.	Additional Charter(s)
Add. MS.	Additional Manuscript(s)
Alum. Cantab. to 1751	Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part 1, to 1751, comp. J. Venn and J. A. Venn
Alum. Cantab. 1752–1900	Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part 2, 1752–1900, comp. J. Venn and J. A. Venn
Alum. Oxon. 1500–1714	Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714, ed. J. Foster
Ann. Cest.	Annales Cestrienses, ed. R. C. Christie (R.S.L.C. xiv)
Ann. Rep.	Annual Report
App.	Appendix
Arch.	Archaeology, -ical
Archit.	Architecture, -al
Archives and Records, ed. Kennett	Archives and Records of the City of Chester, ed. A. M. Kennett
B.L.	British Library
Bk(s).	Book(s)
Bldg(s).	Building(s)
Blk. Prince's Reg.	Register of Edward the Black Prince preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.)
Bodl.	Bodleian Library, Oxford
Boro.	Borough
Brit.	Britain, British
Burne, Chester Cath.	R. V. H. Burne, Chester Cathedral from its Founding by Henry VIII to the Accession of Queen Victoria
Burne, Monks	R. V. H. Burne, The Monks of Chester
C.A.S.	Chester Archaeological Society
C.C.A.L.S.	Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies (formerly Cheshire Record Office), Duke Street, Chester
C.H.H.	Chester History and Heritage (formerly part of Chester City Record Office), St. Michael's church, Bridge Street Row, Chester
C.J.	Journals of the House of Commons
Cal.	Calendar
Cal. Chart. R.	Calendar of the Charter Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.)
Cal. Ches. Ct. R.	Calendar of County Court, City Court, and Eyre Rolls of Chester, 1259–97, with an Inquest of Military Service, 1288, ed. R. Stewart-Brown (Chetham Soc. n.s. lxxxiv)
Cal. Chester City Cl. Mins. 1603–42.	Calendar of Chester City Council Minutes, 1603–42, ed. M. J. Groombridge (R.S.L.C. cvi)
Cal. Close	Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.)
Cal. Cttee. for Compounding	Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding, &c., 1643–1660, preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.)
Cal. Fine R.	Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.)
Cal. Inq. Misc.	Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.)
Cal. Inq. p.m.	Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem and other analagous documents preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.)
Cal. Lib.	Calendar of the Liberate Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.)
Cal. Papal Pets.	Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland: Petitions to the Pope (H.M.S.O.)
Cal. Papal Reg.	Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland: Papal Letters (H.M.S.O. and Irish MSS. Com.)
Cal. Pat.	Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.)
Cal. S.P. Dom.	Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.)
Cal. Treas. Bks.	Calendar of Treasury Books preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.)
Cal. Treas. Papers	Calendar of Treasury Papers preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, ed. J. Redington
Cart. Chester Abbey	The Chartulary or Register of St. Werburgh's Abbey, Chester, ed. J. Tait (2 vols., Chetham Soc. n.s. lxxix, lxxxii)
cat.	catalogue
Cat. Anct. D.	A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.)
Cath.	Cathedral
Census	printed reports of the decennial Census of Population
Cent.	Century, Centuries
Ch.	Charter(s) or Church
Charters of A.-N. Earls	The Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071–1237, ed. G. Barraclough (R.S.L.C. cxxvi)
Ches. Chamb. Accts.	Accounts of the Chamberlains and other Officers of the County of Chester, 1301–60, ed. R. Stewart-Brown (R.S.L.C. lix)
Ches. Hist.	Cheshire History
Ches. in Pipe R.	Cheshire in the Pipe Rolls, 1158–1301, ed. R. Stewart-Brown and M. H. Mills (R.S.L.C. xcii)
Chester Chron.	Chester Chronicle [newspaper]
Chester City Cl. Mins.	Chester City Council Minutes [printed and bound volumes from 1896]
Chester Customs Accts.	Chester Customs Accounts, 1301–1566, ed. K. P. Wilson (R.S.L.C. cxi)
Chrons.	Chronicles
Cl.	Council
Close R.	Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M.S.O.)
Colln.	Collection
Complete Peerage	G. E. C[okayne] and others, The Complete Peerage (2nd edn. 1910–98)
Ct. R.	Court Roll
Cttee.	Committee
D.K.R.	Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records
D.N.B.	Dictionary of National Biography
Diary of Henry Prescott	The Diary of Henry Prescott, LL.B., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese, ed. J. Addy and P. McNiven (3 vols., R.S.L.C. cxxvii, cxxxii, cxxxiii)
Dir.	Directory
Domesday Surv. Ches.	Domesday Survey of Cheshire, ed. J. Tait (Chetham Soc. n.s. lxxv)
E.E.T.S.	Early English Text Society
E.H.R.	English Historical Review
Eccl.	Ecclesiastical
Econ. H.R.	Economic History Review
Eg.	Egerton
Eng.	England, English
f./ff.	folio, -s
Fam.	Family
G.E.C. Baronetage	G. E. C[okayne], Complete Baronetage
Gastrell, Not. Cest.	Notitia Cestriensis, or Historical Notices of the Diocese of Chester, by [Francis] Gastrell [Bishop of Chester], ed. F. R. Raines, i (Chetham Soc. [1st ser.], viii)
Gent. Mag.	Gentleman's Magazine
H.C.	House of Commons
H.L.	House of Lords
Harl.	Harleian
Harris, Chester	B. E. Harris, Chester (Bartholomew City Guides, 1979)
Hemingway, Hist. Chester	J. Hemingway, History of the City of Chester (2 vols., 1831)
Hewitt, Med. Ches.	H. J. Hewitt, Medieval Cheshire: A Social and Economic History of Cheshire in the Reigns of the Three Edwards (Chetham Soc. n.s. lxxxviii)
Hist.	History, Historical
Hist. Soc.	Historical Society
Hughes, Stranger's Handbk. (1856) [1882]	T. Hughes, The Stranger's Handbook to Chester ([1st edn.] 1856) [1882 edn.]
Ind.	Industry, -ies, -ial
Irel.	Ireland
J.C.A.S.	Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society (formerly called Journal of the Chester and North Wales Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society, and variants)
Jnl.	Journal
Johnson, 'Aspects'	A. M. Johnson, 'Some Aspects of the Political, Constitutional, Social, and Economic History of the City of Chester, 1550–1662' (Oxf. Univ. D. Phil. thesis, 1971)
Jones, Ch. in Chester	D. Jones, The Church in Chester, 1300—1540 (Chetham Soc. 3rd ser. vii)
King's Vale Royal	The Vale-Royall of England, Or, the County Palatine of Chester Illustrated (publ. D. King, 1656; facsimile reprint 1972): [i]=[W. Smith], The Vale-Royall of England; [ii] = [W. Webb], A Description of the City and County Palatine of Chester, [iii] = [S. Lee], Chronicon Cestrense
King's Works	The History of the King's Works, ed. H. M. Colvin
L. & P. Hen. VIII	Letters & Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and elsewhere in England (H.M.S.O.)
L.J.	Journals of the House of Lords
Plan of Chester	A. de Lavaux, Plan of the City and Castle of Chester [1745]
List of Clergy, 1541–2	A List of Clergy for Eleven Deaneries of the Diocese of Chester, 1541–2, ed. W. F. Irvine (R.S.L.C. xxxiii)
Lond.	London
Lond. Gaz.	London Gazette
Lucian, De Laude Cestrie	Liber Luciani de Laude Cestrie, ed. M. V. Taylor (R.S.L.C. lxiv)
Lysons, Ches.	D. and S. Lysons, Magna Britannia: Cheshire
m./mm.	membrane, -s
Mins.	Minutes
Morris, Chester	R. H. Morris, Chester in the Plantagenet and Tudor Reigns
Morris, Siege of Chester	R. H. Morris, The Siege of Chester, 1643—6, ed. P. H. Lawson [also published in J.C.A.S. xxv]
MS.	Manuscript
n.s.	new series
O. E.D.	Oxford English Dictionary
O.S.	Ordnance Survey
o.s.	old series
orig. ser.	original series
Ormerod, Hist. Ches.	G. Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, revised and enlarged edn. by T. Helsby (1882)
Oxf.	Oxford
P. & G. Dir. Chester	Phillipson and Golder, Directory for Chester and its Immediate Neighbourhood [various edns.]
P.N. Ches.	The Place-Names of Cheshire, ed. J. McN. Dodgson (English Place-Name Society)
P.R.O.	Public Record Office, Kew
Par.	Parish
Parl.	Parliament, -ary
pers. comm.	personal comment
Pevsner, Ches.	N. Pevsner and E. Hubbard, The Buildings of England: Cheshire
Proc.	Proceedings
Q. Sess.	Quarter Sessions
R.O.	Record Office
R.S.L.C.	Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Rec. Ser.	Record Series
Red Bk. Exch.	The Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. H. Hall
REED: Chester	Records of Early English Drama: Chester, ed. L. M. Clopper
Reg.	Register(s)
Rep.	Report
31st Rep. Com. Char.	Thirty-first Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire Concerning Charities, H.C. 103 (1837–8), xxiv
Rep. Com. Mun. Corp.	Reports from Commission on Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, H.C. 116 (1835), xxvi
Rev.	Review
rot./rott.	rotulet, -s
s.n.	under the name
s.v./s.vv.	under the word/words
Sel. Cases in K.B.	Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, ed. G. O. Sayles (7 vols., Selden Soc.)
Sel. R. Chester City Cts.	Selected Rolls of the Chester City Courts, Late 13th and Early 14th Centuries, ed. A. Hopkins (Chetham Soc. 3rd ser. ii)
ser.	series
Sheaf	The Cheshire Sheaf [preceded by series number, followed by volume number within the series]
Soc.	Society
sqq.	and following pages
T.H.S.L.C.	Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
T.L.C.A.S.	Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
TS.	Typescript
Univ.	University
V.C.H.	Victoria County History
Valor Eccl.	Valor Ecclesiasticus, tempore Henr. VIII (Record Commission)

CLASSES OF ORIGINAL RECORDS

Public Record Office

(since 2003 The National Archives)



Chancery
C 53	Charter Rolls
C 54	Close Rolls
C 66	Patent Rolls
C 143	Inquisitions ad quod damnum
C 145	Miscellaneous Inquisitions
Palatinate of Chester
CHES 2	Exchequer of Chester: Enrolments
CHES 3	Exchequer of Chester: Various Inquisitions
CHES 11	Exchequer of Chester: Exhibits
CHES 16	Exchequer of Chester: Pleadings (Paper)
CHES 19	Sheriffs' Tourn Rolls and Files
CHES 25	Chester County Court: Indictment Rolls and Files
CHES 29	Chester County Court: Plea Rolls
CHES 31	Final Concords and Recoveries Files
CHES 38	Miscellanea
Exchequer, Treasury of the Receipt
E 36	Miscellaneous Books
Exchequer, King's Remembrancer
E 101	Accounts, Various
E 134	Depositions taken by Commission
E 210	Ancient Deeds, Series D
E 214	Modern Deeds, Series D
Exchequer, Court of Augmentations
E 301	Certificates of Colleges, Chantries, and Similar Foundations
E 315	Miscellaneous Books
E 326	Ancient Deeds, Series B
Exchequer, Trustees for Crown Lands and Fee Farm Rents
E 317	Parliamentary Surveys
Exchequer, Pipe Office
E 367	Particulars, Warrants, and Transcripts for Crown Leases
Home Office
HO 129	Ecclesiastical Census Returns, 1851
Court of Common Pleas and King's Bench
KB 26	Curia Regis Rolls (Early Plea Rolls)
Auditors of Land Revenue
LR 1	Enrolment Books
LR 3	Court Rolls and Other Manorial Documents from Crown Manors
Royal Mint
MINT 1	Record Book
Maps and Plans
MPH	Maps and Plans formerly among War Office Records
MR 1	Maps and Plans extracted from Various Series of Records
Privy Council
PC 2	Registers
Prerogative Court of Canterbury
PROB 11	Will Registers
Railway Companies
RAIL 110	Cheshire Lines Committee
RAIL 114	Chester Joint Station Committee
RAIL 404	London and North Western and Great Western Joint Committee
General Register Office
RG 4	Non-Parochial Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths
Special Collections
SC 6	Ministers' and Receivers' Accounts
SC 12	Rentals and Surveys, Portfolios
Secretaries of State
SP 12	State Papers Domestic, Elizabeth I
SP 29	State Papers Domestic, Charles II
SP 44	State Papers Domestic, Entry Books
Legal Records Relating to Wales
WALE 29	Palatinate of Chester: Ancient Deeds, Series F
War Office
WO 55	Ordnance Office: Miscellaneous Entry Books and Papers

Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies

County and Diocesan Records



Estate, Family, and Personal Papers
DBE	J. H. E. Bennett (antiquary)
DCC	Dr. William Cowper (antiquary)
DCH	Cholmondeley of Cholmondeley
DDX	Miscellaneous
DLB	Lee, Bygott, and Eccleston (solicitors)
DVE	Vernon of Kinderton
Diocesan Records
EDA	Administration
EDB	Bishop's Transcripts
EDC	Consistory Court
EDD	Dean and Chapter
EDE	Episcopal Estates
EDP	Parish Bundles
EDT	Tithe
EDV	Visitation
Church Commissioners
EEB	Bishopric of Chester
Public Records
NVA	Inland Revenue District Valuer
Parish Records
P 1	Chester Holy Trinity
P 15	Chester St. Bridget
P 16	Chester St. Martin
P 17	Chester Christ Church
P 20	Chester St. Mary
P 29	Chester St. Oswald
P 32	Backford
P 51	Chester St. John
P 63	Chester St. Peter
P 64	Chester St. Olave
P 65	Chester St. Michael
P 98	Lache cum Saltney
P 161	Hoole
P 162	Chester St. Paul
P 176	Upton by Chester
Quarter Sessions
QAB	Buildings and Gaols
QAM	Committee Minutes
QJB	Sessions Books
QJF	Sessions Files
Subject Files
SF	Subject Files
Wills and Probate Records
WS	Supra Series

Chester City Records



Assembly
ZAB	Assembly Books
ZAC	Assembly Committees
ZAF	Assembly Files
City Council
ZCA	Boundary Reports
ZCB	Council Minute Books
ZCCB	Committee Minute Books
ZCCF	Committee Files
ZCH	Charters
ZCHB	Cartularies
ZCHC	Charities
ZCHD	Corporation Deeds
ZCL	Corporation Lawsuits
ZCLA	Acts of Parliament
ZCX	Council Manuscripts
Private Records
ZCR 3	St. Michael's Parish: William Jones's Almshouses
ZCR 15	Chester Deeds
ZCR 16	Chester Waterworks Co.
ZCR 24	Lowe Family (silversmiths)
ZCR 36	Blue Coat School
ZCR 55	Chester Methodist Circuit
ZCR 56	Miscellaneous
ZCR 60	Thomas Hughes (antiquary)
ZCR 62	Dr. J. C. Bridge (papers about music festivals)
ZCR 63	J. P. Earwaker (antiquary)
ZCR 78	George Street Primitive Methodist Church
ZCR 94	Chester Primitive Methodist Circuits
ZCR 102	St. John's Parish (MS. map)
ZCR 111	George Street Primitive Methodist Church
ZCR 119	Frank Simpson (antiquary)
ZCR 131	Chester and District Skin Dispensary
ZCR 137	Chester United Gas Co.
ZCR 145	Chester Literary and Philosophical Society (ZCR 145/1–14) and Water Tower Museum (ZCR 145/15–43)
ZCR 151	Queen Street Congregational Church
ZCR 158	Great Boughton Congregational Church
ZCR 163	Chester Literary and Philosophical Society
ZCR 167	Blacon Congregational Church
ZCR 193	St. Michael's Parish: William Jones's Almshouses
ZCR 222	St. Andrew's United Reformed (formerly Presbyterian) Church
ZCR 225	Hoole Congregational Church
ZCR 234	Pipers Ash Methodist Church
ZCR 238	Hamilton Street Methodist Church
ZCR 241	Cheshire County Mental Hospital
ZCR 242	Chester Football Club Ltd.
ZCR 269	Chester Infirmary (printed correspondence of Dr. Cumming)
ZCR 270	Chester Methodist Circuit
ZCR 276	United Methodist Church (formerly Methodist New Connexion)
ZCR 286	Queen Street Welsh Methodist Church
ZCR 300	Chester Waterworks Co.
ZCR 366	J. H. Taylor and Sons (boat builders)
ZCR 372	Chester Race Course Committee (printed poster)
ZCR 419	Royal Chester Rowing Club
ZCR 466	Hurleston Family
ZCR 469	Aldersey Family
ZCR 498	Deeds (house in Stanley Place)
ZCR 517	Chester Ladies Hockey Club
ZCR 536	Chester Municipal Charities
ZCR 542	Chester Mechanics' Institution
ZCR 546	Jack Douglas (personal papers)
ZCR 572	Chester Evangelical Free Church Council
ZCR 575	Blacon Townswomen's Guild History Project
ZCR 599	Owen Jones Charity
ZCR 600	Chester Municipal Charities (printed report)
ZCR 662	Hoole Baptist Church
ZCR 712	Chester Municipal Charities
ZCR 745	William Vernon and Sons Ltd. (builders and contractors)
ZCR 750	Drawers of Dee (craft guild)
ZCR 758	R. L. Astrella (photographs, 1944)
ZCR 842	Chester Sports and Leisure Association
ZCR 856	Upton Mental Hospital
Accumulations of Deeds and Papers
ZD/BC	Snow Family
ZD/DNA	Chester District Nursing Association
ZD/HT	Henry Taylor (antiquary)
ZD/JWW	Jolliffe, Wickham, and Wood (solicitors)
ZG/HS	W. R. Hornby Steer (papers of Harrison family of Chester)
ZG/Mc	Various
Council Departments
ZDE	Education
ZDES	Education: School Records
ZDF	Fire Service
ZDH	Health
ZDPO	Police
ZDPU	Publicity
ZDS	Surveyor
ZDT	Town Clerk
Guilds
ZG	Guild Records
Hospitals
ZHC	Chester City Hospital
ZHI	Chester Royal Infirmary
ZHW	Countess of Chester Hospital and predecessors
Mayor
ZMB	Mayors' Books
ZMCP	Mayors' Company Papers
ZMF	Mayors' Files
ZMFR	Freemen's Rolls and Registers
ZMIP	Inner Pentice Files
ZML	Mayors' Letters
ZMMP	Mayors' Military Papers
ZMP	Proclamations
ZMPM	Portmote Court Minute Book
ZMR	Portmote Court Rolls
ZMSR	General Court Rolls (Portmote and Pentice)
Murengers
ZMUB	Account Books
ZMUR	Account Roll
Coroners
ZQCI	Inquests
Crownmote
ZQCR	Court Rolls
Quarter Sessions
ZQAG	Gaol and House of Correction
ZQAR	River Dee
ZQJC	Commissions of the Peace
ZQRL	Licensed Victuallers
ZQRP	Deposited Plans
ZQSE	Examinations and Depositions
Petty Sessions
ZQPA	Minute Books
ZQSF	Quarter Sessions Files
Sheriffs
ZSB	Sheriffs' Books
ZSBC	Sheriffs' Court Books (Pentice Court)
ZSBO	Sheriffs' Bonds: Officers
ZSBT	Toll Books
ZSFE	Execution Orders
ZSIG	Gaol Indentures
ZSPR	Passage Court Rolls
ZSR	Pentice Court Rolls
Treasurers
ZCAS	Assessments: Subsidies, Aids, and Taxes
ZTAB	Account Books
ZTAR	Account Rolls and Rentals
ZTAV	Vouchers
Town Clerk
ZTCC	Papers Relating to Corporation Business
Statutory and Local Authorities
ZTRB	Dee Bridge Commissioners
ZTRH	Hoole Urban District Council
ZTRI	Police (Improvement) Commissioners
ZTRU	Chester Poor Law Union
Other Records
Cowper	Collectanea Devana of Dr. William
MSS.	Cowper