Classes of documents in the Essex Record Office used

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A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4, Ongar Hundred. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1956.

Citation:

LIST OF CLASSES OF DOCUMENTS IN THE ESSEX RECORD OFFICE USED IN THIS VOLUME, WITH THEIR CLASS NUMBERS



Court of Quarter Sessions
Q/SR	Sessions Rolls
Q/SB	Sessions Bundles
Q/SO	Sessions Order Books
Q/AB	County Bridges
Q/AC	Committees
Q/RDc	Inclosure Awards
Q/RRp	Returns of Papists' Estates
Q/RRw	Returns of Nonconformists' and Roman Catholics' places of worship
Q/RTh	Hearth Tax Assessments
Q/RPl	Land Tax Assessments
Q/RPr	Registers of Parliamentary Electors
Q/RUm	Public Undertakings: plans of schemes
Q/RSg	Deputations to Gamekeepers
Q/RSw	Workhouse Agreements
Q/RLv	Recognizances of Licensed Victuallers and Alehouse-keepers
Q/CP	Clerk of the Peace: Precedents
Q/CR	Clerk of the Peace: Parliamentary Returns
County Council Transferred Records
G/EM	Poor Law Guardians, Epping Union: Minute Books
G/OnM	Poor Law Guardians, Ongar Union: Minute Books
Deposited Records
D/D	Estate and Family Archives (many subclasses)
D/AE	Archdeaconry of Essex Records
D/CT	Diocesan Records: Tithe Apportionments and Maps
D/P	Parish Records
D/Q	Charity Records
D/T	Turnpike Records
Transcripts
T/	(Document or collection indicated by addition of another letter)

Some of the foregoing classes contain sub-classes which are denoted by additional letters, not shown here but fully cited in footnotes in this volume. The group called 'Transcripts' includes all forms of copies or catalogues of documents of which the originals are elsewhere. The wills proved in the court of the Archdeacon of Essex (D/AE), cited in this volume as 'Archd. Essex', were transferred from Somerset House, London, to the Essex Record Office while this volume was being printed.