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Hi Emily
can you remember the format of the depositions? Might a-k have been used to record the separate packets as delivered into court? We have many unopened depositions in Chancery and Court of Wards which are still as tied up and sealed by the commissioners, and I can see that labelling them somehow on receipt would have been helpful.
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Yes, there it is – all searchable within STAC 8. Of course, you can search across this and across other courts as well. Worth restricting searches in Discovery by National Archives and by date, and then selecting the lettercodes you want in the filter bar. You can pick up a lot of related cases in Chancery (C2 for James I) which are only dated by 1603-1625, so a mutual benefit there as well.
STAC 8 also has the gender coding SFP (sole female plaintiff) and JFP (joint female plaintiff, which you can add as search terms in conjunction with any other search terms – including Tom Barnes’ categories of offence. These are given in brief in the series level description of STAC 8.
We have not yet done the creation of modernised short titles and a unique identifier, or a real description of what document to expect.
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