Legal Records Information 41 1. They now form the PROS' lucky dip - a major collection of sources for social, economic and business history, as well as family papers, diaries, etc. They were handed on from each of the twelve masters to his successor, and the collections are named after the last master to hold them before the abolition of the office. The serieses also include major collections relating to the Royal African Company, the Million Bank and the religious houses of Llanthony by Gloucester, Reading, Repton and Sudbury. The lists are patchy.
Some descriptions are good, others ludicrously brief.
Chancery exhibits are in C103-C114 . This can be useful as an indication of whether to bother looking for exhibits in a particular case - most litigants reclaimed their exhibits. There is also an index to business, trades and professions filed before the C 103 list. C 116 includes manor court rolls extracted from C 103 - C 114 . Six Clerks' Exhibits includes the same type of documents, but kept in the custody of a different officer of Chancery.