Documents relating to Catholics comprise both material issuing from the administrative side of the Chancery and reports, certificates, etc., received by it, as well as information registered in it for record-purposes. The first group, embracing grants of recusants’ forfeitures, pardons and various commissions concerning papists and priests, stems chiefly from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; the second runs from the mid-seventeenth century into the eighteenth and the third (Chancery-enrolments of Catholics’ deeds and, especially, wills) is predominantly Hanoverian.