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British Public Record Office

History, Description, Record Groups,

Finding Aids, and Materials for American History

with Special Reference to Virginia

SPECIAL REPORTS 25, 26, 27, AND 28 OF THE VIRGINIA COLONIAL RECORDS PROJECT

i960 THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY RICHMOND, VIRGINIA VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY PUBLICATIONS, No. 12

Published under authority of the

Library Board of Virginia

J. MAYNARD MAGRUDER, Chairman

EDWARD A. WYATT, IV

WILLIAM A. STUART

DAVID J. MAYS

LEWIS F. POWELL, JR. EDWIN COX

DAVIS Y. PASCHALL

And under the direction of

RANDOLPH W. CHURCH, State Librarian

PRINTED IN U.S.A. TIUwms H»sWh furv/eM

PREFATORY NOTE

The preparation of guides and finding lists and the micro- filming of Virginia records in English and continental reposi-

tories are the main purposes of the Virginia Colonial Records

Project. With this publication of Special Reports 25, 26, 27

and 28 of the Project, the Virginia State Library is able to

bring to partial completion a program which it has advo-

cated over the last twenty years. It is anticipated that other Special Reports will be published in the not too distant

future.

The success of this undertaking is due to the fine coopera-

tive work of many hands, but most especially to the Virginia Committee on Colonial Records, the group now in charge

of the project's activities. This Committee descends from an advisory committee of Consultants on Archives and History

appointed to assist the U. S. Jamestown-Williamsburg-York- town Commission and the Virginia 350th Anniversary Com-

mission. Its Chairman, William J. Van Schreeven, State Archivist, early advocated the program and has directed continuously the preparation of instructions, reports and forms. He spent several weeks in England and Europe in 1956 directing personally the survey work. Francis L. Berke-

ley, Jr., Curator of Manuscripts, Alderman Library, Uni- versity of Virginia, did pioneer survey work in England and Scotland under a Fulbright grant in 1952 and 1953 and returned briefly in 1955 in an advisory capacity. Edward M. Riley, Director of Research, Colonial Williamsburg, Inc.,

able. George H. Reese, the Committee's Agent in London since the beginning of the project, has carried out his assign- ments with energy, enthusiasm and care. This project has been financed from numerous sources.

It is particularly indebted to Samuel M. Bemiss, Vice-

Chairman of the U. S. Commission, for his interest in urging the Commission to underwrite the program from 1955 to

1957 when it was an official part of the Jamestown enter-

prises. Since December 1, 1957, the administration of the

fiscal affairs of the Committee has been in the hands of the Virginia Historical Society. The Association for Preservation of Virginia Antiquities has given generously to the project;

the University of Virginia, Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., and the Virginia Historical Society have also contributed funds, and the Virginia State Library, through special allotments

and through direct appropriations to it by the General

Assembly for this particular purpose, has been a major source of support. Such funds insure the continuation of the project

through June 30, 1962.

Randolph W. Church State Librarian

June 15, i960 INTRODUCTION

Seasoned researchers in England will read with nostalgia the accounts of the British Public Record Office and the description of the groups and classes of the manuscripts relating to American colonial history with special reference to Virginia. Those fortunate scholars who for the first time are to do research in British records will find the accounts a most useful introduction to the Public Record Office. The four papers have been prepared as Special Reports for the Virginia Colonial Records Project. It is fitting that the oldest colony of the old British Empire should now make available to scholars everywhere these interesting and comprehensive papers. Although the emphasis is on Virginia material, the same groups and classes discussed should contain records of the other original colonies. The material was prepared by competent English scholars under the direction of Dr. George H. Reese, the agent for the Virginia Colonial Records Committee. Dr. Neville Wil- liams of the Public Record Office is the author of Special

Reports No. 25 and No. 28. It is believed that the four reports will assist those American scholars who intend to do research in the British Public Record Office.

Special Report No. 25 presents a brief historical sketch and description of the Public Record Office. The author presents a number of valuable suggestions which should assist the scholar in beginning his research. The changes in the administration under the Public Records Act of 1958 are noted, and matters such as copyright and photographic services are discussed. Special Report No. 26 presents a list of the record groups in the Public Record Office, briefly describes the classification of the records, and mentions the proper method of citation of group, class, and volume or piece.

Special Report No. 27, as it were, takes the reader by the hand, and leads him to the Search Room Catalogues and other Finding Aids as arranged in certain presses in the Round (Literary Search) Room. The selected examples amply indicate the many manuscript, typed, and printed finding aids available to the researcher. Special Report No. 27 was previously issued in processed form, but the present publication is a complete revision, and certain sections of processed Special Report No. 27 have now been combined with Special Report No. 28. Special Report No. 28 discusses the Record Groups that contain materials for American History. Here class by class the author calls attention to the records which should be consulted by historians of Colonial America. Particular em-

phasis is given to groups and classes omitted by Andrews or inadequately described by him. Materials that have come

to light since the publication of Andrews' Guide are discussed

in detail.

It is expected that a future publication of the Virginia

State Library will present Special Reports 1-24 as a unit.

Special Report No. 1 will be devoted to a general discussion

of the Virginia Colonial Records Project. Special Reports

2-24 will present detailed surveys of those groups in the Public Record Office containing Virginia materials. These surveys are in much greater detail than the more general analysis in Special Report No. 28. Each class of records

under the appropriate group is examined in detail in the

8 surveys as to content, date range, and amount of material to be surveyed for the project. Although the surveys were prepared as an aid for the

Virginia Committee on Colonial Records, it is apparent that the same groups and classes will contain material for all of the colonies. It has therefore been decided to make these surveys generally available. Special Reports in preparation will discuss the British Museum and other depositories in the London area, county and local record offices, probate records, materials in Oxford and Cambridge, and other institutions or collections of interest to the American researcher.

William J. Van Schreeven Virginia State Archivist and Chairman, Virginia Committee on Colonial Records

CONTENTS pag: Prefatory Note 5

Introduction 7

The British Public Record Office: History and Description 13

The British Public Record Office: List of Record Groups 47

The British Public Record Office: Search Room Catalogues and Other Finding Aids 57

The British Public Record Office: Survey of Materials for American History 131

11 THE VIRGINIA COMMITTEE ON COLONIAL RECORDS

WILLIAM J. VAN SCHREEVEN, Chairman State Archivist of Virginia

FRANCIS L. BERKELEY, JR. Curator of Manuscripts, Alderman Library, University of Virginia

JOHN M. JENNINGS Director, Virginia Historical Society

EDWARD M. RILEY Director of Research, Colonial Williamsburg, Inc.

EARL G. SWEM Librarian Emeritus, College of William and Mary

Agent in London

GEORGE H. REESE

12 The Virginia Colonial Records Project Special Report No. 25

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The British Public Record Office: History and Description

By NEVILLE WILLIAMS

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SPECIAL REPORT NO. 25 PAGE

1 Introductory 15

2. Historical Survey 17

3. The Public Records Act, 1958 21

4. The Work of the Department 22

5. Readers' Tickets 23

6. The Public and the Search Rooms 24

7. The System of References 32

8. Public Access to the Records 35

9. Records Not in the Public Record Office 36

10. Ministers' Papers 37

11. Photographic Services 40

1 2. Crown Copyright 40

13. Postal Inquiries 41

14. Publications 42

15. The Museum 44 Select Bibliography 45

14 THE VIRGINIA COLONIAL RECORDS PROJECT SPECIAL REPORT NO. 25

The British Public Record Office: History and Description

1. INTRODUCTORY

The Public Record Office, which contains the vast bulk of the national archives, is on the east side of Chancery Lane in London, about a hundred yards north of Fleet Street. If it is no longer the largest building in Chancery Lane, it is still the only building there with a policeman on duty at the main gate. Though most of the building is devoted to strong rooms for housing the records of the central courts of law and central departments of state, there are search rooms where documents may be inspected and a small museum which contains a permanent exhibition. The Public Record Office is a government department staffed by civil servants, headed by the

Keeper of Public Records who is appointed by the Lord Chancellor, the minister responsible to Parliament for the administration of the Department.

Its postal address is: Chancery Lane, London, W.C.2. Communications should, in general, be addressed impartially to the Secretary. The nearest underground stations are: Chancery Lane

(Central Line) ; Temple (District and Circle Lines) ; Hol-

15 born (Central and Piccadilly Lines) ; and Farringdon (Met- ropolitan and Circle Lines). The Office may be reached by

'bus: routes 6, 6a, 9, 11, 13, 15, 60 and 96 to Fleet Street; or routes 7, 8, 17, 22, 23 and 25 to High Holborn, which is to the north of Chancery Lane. 'Bus 171 passes along Chan- cery Lane itself. Private cars may be parked in the forecourt of the Office only with the prior permission of the Establish- ment Officer. The Public Records are not a haphazard collection of documents assembled by chance through the astuteness of successive custodians, with tastes of their own, or the luck of unexpected benefactions, like the manuscript collections in so many libraries and museums. They are the regular prod- ucts of public administration—'the secretions of an organ- ism,' as they have aptly been termed; and the transfer to the

Public Record Office of a file of correspondence from a department of state is, in fact, the final stage in its administrative process. These documents have always remained in official custody and, as such, are admitted as evidence in the law courts without further proof as to their genuineness; they do not, like other evidences, have to be 'proved' by the testimony of expert witnesses. The Public Records have survived simply because they have been preserved for administrative convenience, not because officials of a past age thought they might one day be of historical value. Today, however, the 'historical criterion' is applied in the selection of documents worthy of permanent preservation from the hundreds of tons of paper produced annually by government departments. Although documents have been added to the

Public Records through gift, deposit, and even purchase, such additions have been limited to 'ministers' papers, 5 where these amplify the records of the department in which the minister served, and to documents which fill gaps in regular series of records (see below section 10).

16 2. HISTORICAL SURVEY

The Public Record Office was called into being by an Act of Parliament in 1838 (1 & 2 Vict., cap. 94). Until then there was no central repository for the national archives, for each court of law and each department of state, as they developed from the royal curia of the medieval kings, kept their own records. By the beginning of the nineteenth century there were nearly sixty such record offices, of which the most important were the Chapter House at Westminster (until the Reformation the place where the House of Com- mons had met), various buildings in the Tower of London, the Rolls Chapel in Chancery Lane, and the State Paper Office in Duke Street. Records were kept higgledy-piggledy in such places as the King's Mews at Charing Cross and what had been the stables of the Prince Regent's residence at Carlton House ; they were housed high in the Stone Tower at Westminster Hall and below high-water mark in the cellars of Somerset House. With scant regard for dangers from fire, water, vermin and falling masonry, any building and any vacant room in the possession of the crown which was unsuitable for any other purpose became used as repository space—rooms over gateways and over enginerooms, crypts of disused chapels, derelict wharfs—each in the charge of a separate official. Never had so grand a heritage been in danger of dissolution. 1

1. The early history of the Public Records has yet to be written. Certain chapters are summarised in Guide to the Public Records: Part I Introductory (1949), a survey of great interest for the last century. Detailed studies of certain sections of the national archives at different dates are: V. H. Galbraith, "The Tower as an Exchequer Record Office in the reign of Edward II" in Studies in Medieval History Presented to T. F. Tout (ed. A. G. Little & F. M. Powicke, Manchester, 1925) and

N. J. Williams, "The Work of Peter Le Neve at Chapter House, West- minster" in Journal of the Society of Archivists, Vol. I (London, 1957).

A mass of valuable material for the later period is contained in the annual Reports of the Deputy Keeper (1840- 1959) and in the First Report of the Royal Commission on Public Records (191 2). 17 A full-scale report had been made by a Parliamentary

Committee in 1 800 which led to the appointment of a Rec- ord Commission, but this body and its successors chose to concern themselves with publications, not custody, and in- curred much odium for reckless extravagance in preparing and issuing a grandiose series of volumes printed in 'record type 5 while neglecting to take any practical steps for the

5 well-being of the records. By the middle of the i830 s reform was in the air and the system of caring for the nation's records on a decentralised basis seemed out of tune with the times. A select Committee of the House of Commons, which was appointed in 1836 to inquire into the affairs of the now discredited Record Commission, recommended the provision of a general record office 'into which all the records

5 of the country might be collected. On the basis of this report a bill was drafted which eventually passed through Parlia- ment as the Public Record Office Act, 1838. The Department thus created was a department without

5 a 'minister, for it had at its head a judge, the Master of the Rolls. The name proclaims the origin of his office. Since the thirteenth century successive Masters of the Rolls had had custody of the main records of the Chancery, and the Master in 1838, Lord Langdale, had already taken over the affairs of the Record Commission when it lapsed. Under the direction of the Master of the Rolls the new department was administered by a Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. The site chosen for the Public Record Office was the 'Rolls Estate 5 in Chancery Lane, where, through the pious charity of King Henry III, a house had been founded for converted Jews; a statue of Henry III holding the chapel of his foundation appears over the gateway of the present building. After the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290, the Domus Conversorum fell into decline until in 1377 it came into the possession of the Master of the Rolls. Here the rolls of Chancery were kept and, in the course of time,

18 with greater pressure on space, records were even placed under the pews of the Chapel. The building, designed by Sir James Pennethorne, was begun in 1851 and four years later the first records were

transferred to it. Very gradually the older repositories were vacated: in 1857, for instance, the contents of the State Paper Office were finally amalgamated with the Public Records, while in 1903 the Land Revenue Record Office, which had undertaken the enrolment of leases of crown property, at last ceased to exist. 'Legal' records had come in from as far afield as Durham, Chester and Wales between

1854-68, and in 191 1 the records of the clerks of the eight Assize Circuits were transferred to Chancery Lane. This gathering-in was a triumph of centralization. The Public

Record Office as we know it today in its outward appearance and the range of its contents, in the varied services the Department provides for administration and scholarship, and in the series of its authoritative publications is more a child of Sir Henry Maxwell-Lyte, Deputy Keeper during a most formative period (1886- 1926), than the product of legislation. The Office has also extended its influence throughout the whole field of archives at home and abroad, especially during the Deputy Keepership of Sir Hilary Jenkinson (1948-53). Its advice has become sought by custodians of private, local and ecclesiastical records ; officials from repositories all over the world come to Chancery Lane to study problems of records administration and techniques for re- pairing documents; and it is fair to say that the Public Record Office today has acquired the same kind of influence in archive administration as the M.C.C. exercises over the game of cricket wherever it is played. Facilities for public inspection of documents existed in the earliest days of the Office when two rooms in the central block were set aside for searchers—one was insufficient and the literary searchers soon acquired a room of their own after they had complained that they were distracted by 'the bustle

19 and conversation of business searchers' i.e. those working on current legal business. It was in these premises that J. L. Motley first worked. Improved accommodation was provided through the building of the east block, and in 1866 the Round Room was opened to the public. As the statutory Keeper of the Records was not a minister, difficulties arose before long with regard to 'Depart- mental' records in his charge and superintendence as opposed to 'Legal' records in his custody—difficulties which were not to be entirely resolved until 1958. The Act of 1838 had been designed to deal with legal records and, in practice, it was found difficult to apply its provisions in full to the records of departments of state. Hence various anomalies existed with regard to the transfer of and access to departmental records, and later statutes and orders in council did little to remedy the situation. The term 'Public Records' in the Act of 1838 meant in fact the access of members of the public to legal evidences, a right that had been codified long, long ago. By the mid-twentieth century it was clear that fresh legislation would be necessary in order to deal with the position of departmental records, which were 'Public Records' in the sense that they were records of public departments. The growth of government activity in the modern state, with the multiplication of administrative units and, above all, the proliferation of paper made a solution to this problem a matter of urgency. Accordingly in 1952 a Committee was appointed jointly by the Master of the Rolls and the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer to review the entire position. The

Grigg Committee on Departmental Records which made its report in 19542 recommended that the head of the Public Record Office should be a minister of the crown and that a Records Administration Officer should be appointed with the oversight of departmental records before their transfer to Chancery Lane; it outlined a new procedure for the

2. Cmd. 9163; Committee on Departmental Records, Report (1954).

20 3 destruction of ephemeral documents and suggested that there should be a policy common to all departments with regard to public access.

3. THE PUBLIC RECORDS ACT, 1958

In due course legislation was prepared on the basis of these recommendations of the Grigg Committee. The Public Rec- ords Act, 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2, cap. 51) which came into force on 1 January 1959 transferred the direction of the Public Record Office from the Master of the Rolls to the

Lord Chancellor, whom it empowered to appoint a Keeper 4 of Public Records. It established an Advisory Council on

Public Records, of which the Master of the Rolls is the permanent Chairman, to advise the Lord Chancellor on all matters concerning Public Records and, in particular, on those aspects of the work of the Public Record Office which affect members of the public. Other clauses of this measure are concerned with the selection of records for permanent preservation and their transfer to the Public Record Office within thirty years of their creation, and the establishment of a common date for public access: records will normally be open to inspection when they are fifty years old. The Lord

Chancellor is required to lay before Parliament in every year a report on the work of the Office and, with it, any report which his Advisory Council shall have made to him. (The first such Report, comprising the separate reports to the Lord Chancellor of the Keeper of Public Records and of the Advisory Council, is for the year 1959.) Such reports, though in a different form, will in fact continue the series of 120 Deputy Keeper's Reports made annually to the sovereign under the Act of 1838. The term 'Public Records' is

3. Hitherto Schedules authorising the destruction of records of very minor significance had been prepared by a Committee of Inspecting Officers from the Public Record Office with representatives from the department concerned. Completed Schedules then lay for a specified period on the Table of the House, during which time Members of Parliament could ask relevant questions. 4. Sir David L. Evans, the last Deputy Keeper, became the first Keeper of Public Records.

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5 defined in detail in the first schedule to the 1958 Act. It is worth noting that the Act gives the Lord Chancellor the oversight of public records preserved locally, such as the records of Quarter Sessions, Magistrates' Courts and Coro- ners' Courts.

4. THE WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT

The Public Record Office is organised in three main divisions under the Keeper of Public Records

(a) Records services and publications; (b) Records administration; and (c) Establishment and Accounts.

Immediately beneath the Keeper is the Deputy Keeper and Secretary.

(a) Records services and publications comprise:

(i) The Repository and Technical Services Section, including repairs and photography;

(ii) The Search Department;

(iii) The Editorial and Publications Section; and (iv) The Modern Records Section, which deals with the review of records later in date than 1800 and

is also responsible for revising means of reference to them.

(b) The Records Administration Officer and his staff of Inspecting Officers are concerned with records before they are transferred from the courts and departments of state to the Public Record Office and co-ordinate arrangements for selecting records for permanent preservation.

5. Under this schedule the classes of Chancery Masters' Exhibits are declared to be Public Records. The former procedure for obtaining special permission to view these exhibits has, in consequence, been abolished.

22 5. READERS' TICKETS

The Search Rooms are open to the holders of Reader's Tickets. Applicants for Tickets should complete as much of the form of application for a Reader's Ticket as is relevant and return it to the Secretary. All applicants should complete the first page of this form. British subjects should have the recommendation on page 2 made and signed by a person of recognised position (such as a clerk in holy orders, a solicitor or director of studies). Applicants not of British nationality who hold Council of Europe Cultural Identity Cards should bring or send the form to the Public Record Office together with their Cultural Identity Card. All other applicants should return the form to the Public Record Office and then ask their Embassies or Legations in London to apply to the Foreign Office for a letter of introduction on their behalf. (The cultural attache at the Ameri- can Embassy, for example, normally writes on behalf of United States subjects.) It should be noted that officials of Embassies and Legations in London do not write direct to the Public Record Office, but must communicate through the Foreign Office. When his letter of introduction is for- warded by the Foreign Office, the Public Record Office issues a Reader's Ticket. To save delay in the issue of Tickets, applicants are advised to contact their Embassies or Lega- tions in plenty of time.

Reader's Tickets are valid for three years, reckoned from the beginning of the year in which application is made; for example a ticket issued on 18 March i960 will expire on 31 December 1962. Tickets can be renewed on application without need of further recommendations or letters of introduction.

No search fees are payable on documents inspected by holders of Reader's Tickets. Some few classes of records may be inspected by persons not holding Reader's Tickets on payment of fees.

23 6. THE PUBLIC AND THE SEARCH ROOMS

There are three search rooms : the Round Room, for literary searches; the Long Room, for legal searches; and the South Room, or Government Search Room. The Long Room was primarily devised for the use of persons inspecting documents (including fee-paying documents) for current legal business, but today it also provides 'overflow' accommodation for literary readers when the Round Room is full. The South

Room is used by readers inspecting documents on special permits, working at records on microfilm (the German For- eign Ministry records) and looking at faded documents, when duly authorised, under the ultra violet lamp. The Regulations of the Keeper of Public Records respecting the Public Use of the Records (1959) are set out in a printed brochure. Some of these regulations are referred to in other parts of this essay, but two may be mentioned here. With the exception of Public Holidays (listed in Rule 1) and the week including the last Saturday in September, the Search Rooms are open on Mondays to Fridays from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pencil only—that is to say lead or graphite pencils 'containing no pigment or dye'—has been the rule from the beginning of the Office; ink pencils, ball-point pens and similar instruments are thus not permitted. There are at present no facilities for readers wishing to use typewriters. The presses lining the Round Room form a unique6 reference library. On a stand near the doors is kept a copy of

A. the Summary of Re cords, a large, duplicated 'loose-leaf volume in which each class of each group of records is entered in strict archival order with its class number, together with the dates over which the class extends and the number of separate items in the class. The Summary is kept under constant revision, and thus at any time summarises the contents of the repository. In Press 42, between the two

6. Positive microfilms of many of these typescript and manuscript lists, however, can now be supplied by the Department. 24 entrance doors, will be found interleaved copies of B. The Guide to Manuscripts Preserved in The Public Record Of- fice, edited by M. S. Giuseppi (2 vols., 1923, 1924). These, too, are amended as additions and corrections become necessary. The Guide is at present out of print, but a revised edition will probably be published in 1961. The presses are arranged according to the main divisions of Public Records. Presses 1 and 2 are devoted to means of reference to State Papers; Press 3 to Departmental Records; Presses 9 and 10 to Legal Records and so forth. Other presses contain works of reference on chronology, languages, law, palaeography and topography, and there is also a section for local record publications. Further presses are in the Long Room (dealing with Chancery Proceedings, Press L; 7 and with modern Legal Records, Presses A to K ) and in the South Room (for naval and military records, Presses 37, 38, and 50; and also the publications of the Historical Manu- scripts Commission, Press 19). The South Room contains a number of card indexes, including the Map Catalogue. Books not in frequent demand are kept in the corridor behind the Round Room (e.g. Press 14, the Rolls Series; Press 25,

Scotland) . These can be produced by a search room assistant when required. Readers are asked to replace volumes in the open presses when they have finished with them. Several thousand other indexes, largely contemporary in date with the records to which they relate, would, if space allowed, be in the presses in the Round Room; these are kept in special Index Rooms and bear an TND' reference (see below p. 19) ; they are sent for, like documents, on Tickets. In Press 42, C. a Card Catalogue of Lists and Indexes, arranged by classes, directs the reader to the relevant means of reference (printed, typescript and manuscript) available in each Search Room. In Press 3 is a card index summary

7. Duplicate Departmental lists are now also being provided for the Long Room, for the convenience of 'overflow' literary readers.

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of the contents of the Round Room arranged press by press,

and an alphabetical index to this is also available.

Each class of records has a class list. This may be no more than a single page, as in the case of Exchequer, Queen's Remembrancer's Department, Private Collections (E. 192) or it may run to several volumes, as with the Admiralty, Accountant General's Department, Ship's Logs (Adm. 53). Each class list is prefaced with a specimen reference. It will, perhaps, be helpful to follow through the use of these major means of reference with a concrete example, and we will take the Amherst Papers, a private collection among the records of the War Office. The entry in A. the Summary of Records is:

Class Number Date Description Last Number W.O. 34 1712-1784 Amherst Papers 260

The entry in B. the Guide, under the private collections

section of the War Office group in Volume 2, begins by repeating this basic information and then describes the class more fully

Amherst Papers (W.O. 34), 1712-1784, 260 volumes etc. The collection consists for the most part of official correspondence, monthly and weekly returns, marching orders, applications for commissions, order books, reports and plans, collected by Sir Jeffrey Amherst, K.B., in the course of his duties as Commander-in-Chief, America, 1758 to 1763, and afterwards as Governor of Virginia, Governor of Guernsey, and Commander-in- Chief at home. They were presented to the War Office in 1923 by Earl Amherst.

The appropriate card in C. the Card Catalogue of Lists and Indexes directs attention to:

D. a typescript List in Round Room press 3 No. 55A (with duplicates in the Long Room and South Room)

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E. a typescript Calendar in 6 volumes in Round Room press 3 Nos. 65A to 65F F. a partial Index, printed, in Round Room press 3 No. 52A (with duplicates in Long Room and South Room)

We will now examine each of these

The Class List (press 3 No. 55A) is the War Office Sup- plementary List Volume L The table of contents at the beginning informs the reader that the Amherst Papers are listed between pages 86 and 97. The entry on p. 86 for the first of the 260 volumes is: W.O.34

1 1 760 Jul. - Letters from the Governor of Quebec to

1 763 Nov. the Commander-in-Chief, New York.

In the first volume of the Calendar (press 3 No. 65A) this information is further elaborated. Six pages of typescript describe the sixty letters, with their enclosures, found in

Volume 1 of the Amherst Papers. The first letter of all is described thus

Murray to Amherst, 2 Jul. 1 760, Quebec, enclosing

(i) Copy of Memorial from Commissary Wier to Mur- ray re provisions; and

(ii) Copy of inventory of stores, Wier to Murray.

The partial Index (press 3 No. 52A) is the Alphabetical Guide to War Office and Other Military Records (printed,

1 931) which contains references to various of the papers, chiefly under the entry 'Amherst. 5

A card index to Documents in Print is maintained in the Round Room. This shows each item, under its short reference, that is known to have appeared in print, whether in the form of a complete transcript, an abstract, or a brief summary. For instance:

27 C.0.5/i3 I 5 Transcript printed in Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia (ed. H. R. Mc- Ilwaine) Vol. 3 Appendix pp. 557-65.

To take another example:

P.C.1/52 Abstract printed in L. H. Gipson, The British Empire Before the American Revolution Vol. 9 (1956) p. 194.

To order a document the reader completes a ticket by writing the short reference to it in the oblong space towards the top and signing it clearly at the foot (the system of references is described below in section 7). Green tickets are used for the Round and South Rooms, buff tickets for the Long Room. A carbon backing carries the reference to page 2 of the ticket. Readers are asked to be careful not to place one ticket upon another when they write their references as the carbons will carry their writing through several layers of tickets, and cause some confusion when these are subsequently written upon. A separate ticket is required for each document. The completed ticket is placed in a box marked 'Tickets for Documents.' In due course (dependant on the pressure of productions and the distance of the strong room in which the document is kept from the search rooms) the document is produced to the reader by a search room assistant. With the exception of the centre table, which is kept for readers using rolls or other large documents, a reader may sit wherever he likes, though seats may not be reserved. Seats are not numbered. In a very short time the assistants are able to identify readers, but on his first day's work a newcomer should ask an assistant if his document has arrived

('My name is Green. Has C.O.5/37 come yet please?') . The procedure for returning and for keeping out documents for future use at the end of the day is set out in the Keeper's Rules (Nos. 12 and 13).

28 A reader is normally allowed to have out three documents at a time. On returning each document he is at liberty to order a fresh one. The ticket boxes in the search rooms are emptied for the last time at 3.30 p.m. and tickets handed in after that time cannot be dealt with that day. Delays in the production of documents may be avoided by postal applications; the letter or postcard should be mailed to arrive at the Public Record Office not later than mid-day of the previous day. Applications should not be made by telephone as it has been found by experience that references given verbally tend to be distorted. Various classes of records are kept at the Department's provincial repository at Ashridge, and two clear days' notice is 8 needed to secure their production at Chancery Lane. The reader will soon discover which, if any, of the classes of records he intends to consult are preserved at Ashridge.

Since only a small staff is on duty on a Saturday, fresh productions of documents cannot be made during that morning. Applications for documents required on a Saturday morning should be made by mid-day on the Friday preced- ing (or, in the case of 'Ashridge' documents, by mid-day on the Wednesday).

On beginning work in the search rooms a new reader is advised to make himself known to the officer in charge of the room. The invigilating assistant keepers are always prepared to share their specialist knowledge of the records with readers, suggesting suitable sources for a particular study, recommending the use of appropriate indexes, reading a doubtful word or translating a difficult passage. They cannot, however, do a reader's work for him and there are many calls on their time. There is a memorable tale about G. G. Crump, an assistant keeper of the public records who was almost as well known in America, where he lectured after his retirement, as in London. Crump was a scholar of monu-

8. On occasion members of the public have worked at Ashridge; but Ash- ridge (near Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire) is not readily accessible, except by road, and the search room there is of limited size.

29 mental patience, but one young reader who day by day bombarded him with elementary questions at length over- stepped the mark. 'Young man,' Crump reproved him, 'I should very much like to continue to write your book for you, but as my time is limited, I shall have to content myself with reviewing it.' He did, and a masterly piece of reviewing it was too. In the very early days of the Round Room the

c then Master of the Rolls pointed out: It will not be possible for the officers to assist any literary enquirers beyond the production of the documents, and giving a general explana- tion, if needed, of their character and nature. No applicant ought to present himself who is not sufficiently acquainted with the handwriting, abbreviations, and language of ancient documents.' A standard of courteous service is given in the Search Department today which would probably have shocked Lord Langdale. Inevitably, however, a few readers still present themselves for research in the records inadequately equipped for their chosen work ; and some even begin to look at records before they have consulted some of the major printed sources. The Department's Library is a reference library for the use of officers and editors. In certain circumstances printed books can be produced for a reader where they are closely related to the documents on which he is working—for instance, where they contain transcripts of records which he is checking. But persons working on printed books should carry out their investigations in a library, such as the Reading Room of the British Museum, instead of taking up space in the already crowded search rooms. A little specific advice may be helpful. Readers should make a point of seeing whether there are any Addenda at the end of the class list incorporating additions to the class since the list was made. Items in a class list may sometimes be arranged for convenience by countries, colonies or counties, but it quite often happens that various items do not fit into such a framework and in such cases there will be

30 a 'general' or 'miscellaneous' section at the end. A unique document providing a wealth of detail about the early tobacco trade between Virginia and several English ports lay neglected for half a century simply because it had, quite correctly, been placed in the 'Divers Ports' section of the list of Port Books, Though time may be so precious that a reader feels he must devote every minute he is in the Round Room to original documents, he would be advised against being too exclusively narrow in his conning of lists and indexes. There was once a young American scholar, working on a medieval topic, who was so determined to miss nothing that he pa- tiently worked his work through every volume in every press; this self-imposed task was clearly going to rather fantastic extremes, but it certainly should have helped him to achieve his goal of missing nothing relevant to his purpose. At any rate a reader should try to examine class lists of any class of Miscellanea and any class with a 'General' or 'Various' flavour in its title containing documents for the period in which he is interested. Chancery Miscellanea (C.47) re- mains a happy hunting-ground for medievalists ; much new material for the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries lies hidden in State Papers Supplementary (S.P.46) ; and no-one working on the diplomacy of the nineteenth century should omit to look through the Foreign Office lists of the class of Great Britain and General (F.O. 83). The Treasury Mis- cellanea (T.64) contains such items relating to America (selected at random) as shipping returns, 1733; lists of provincial officers, 1 782 ; the journal of the auditor general of American revenues, 1680-17 17, and a series of commissariat letter books, 1776-83. The Miscellanea of the Queen's

Remembrancer's Department of the Exchequer is by no means an out-of-the-way home for a memorandum on Lon- don's tobacco imports, 1619 (E.163/17/16), but to find a volume of custom house accounts, 1698-1710 lurking among the Miscellanea of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries

3i (M.A.F.7/1) is something of a surprise. Again, it is not so very remarkable that the class of Treasury Registers, Various (T.47) includes a series of returns of persons emigrating from Britain to America in 1773-6, but it does seem strange that the Miscellanea of the Exchequer of Receipt (E.407) should include a small bundle of petitions from the Bishop of London relating to the payment of bounties to clerks in holy orders who were proceeding to America. In short, the terms 'Miscellanea, 5 'Various,' 'Supplementary' and 'General' should make the reader ask himself 'Is there something there for me?' Since the Public Records are the product of administration, the reader who has made it his business to study the main trends of the administrative history of the period will be far better placed for interpreting his documents than the reader who has not, and who as a result accepts everything at its face value. Furthermore, knowledge of the workings of the administrative machine invariably reduces the labour of a search. A student once wanted to know the exact date on which Britain entered the Seven Years' War in 1756, a date not given in any standard works of reference or his- tories of the period. He searched in vain through volume after volume of correspondence among the State Papers, Domestic and Foreign. But if he had known his way around the Whitehall of the 1750's he would have gone at once to the records of the Privy Council, the body which framed the various proclamations concerning national security and pro- hibiting trade with the enemy. These proclamations were accordingly entered in the Privy Council Register (P.C.2) under the appropriate date and provided the very information required.

7. THE SYSTEM OF REFERENCES

The system of references in use follows the natural struc- ture of the archives. Forty years ago, before an abbreviated system had been devised, it was necessary to describe, or

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rather name, the document when ordering it in the search rooms or citing it in a published work. The reader who wanted to see the Chancery enrolment of the charter granted to the Virginia Company in 1612 would have been required to write on his ticket

'Chancery, Patent Rolls, 9 James I part 14' and in citing it in —a book would have added the membrane number of the roll 'ra.i.' Today all documents are ordered by a short reference combining a series of letters and figures. The letter (or letters) stands for the group: in this case

'C for Chancery. The number which follows is the number of the class within that group ; and the Patent Rolls, stretch- ing in majestic series from the reign of King John to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, are all Chancery class '66.' After an oblique stroke comes the item number in the class in this example the class list shows part 14 of the rolls for the ninth year of James I to be No. 191 1. The reader of today thus writes on his ticket 'C. 66/19 11.' In referring to Public Records in footnotes, authors are advised, unless their book contains a Table of Abbreviations, to give the class name in full on its first appearance e.g. 'Chancery, Patent Rolls (C.66)/i9ii ra.i.' For subsequent citations a short

5 reference, 'C. 66/1 940 m.25 would suffice. Other examples of short references may be helpful. The reference to the letter from Captain John RatclifTe to Robert Cecil reporting the election of George Percy as President of the resident Council in Virginia in 1609, which forms item 21 of the first volume of the Colonial Office (CO.) class of

) is Colonial Papers, General Series ( 1 C.O.1/1/21. The letter from Richard Frethorne to Mr. Bateman on the state of the colony after the Indian Massacre is paper number 3 1 7 among the Manchester Papers. This collection is in the series of Gifts & Deposits which, together, form class 30 of the records of the Public Record Office itself. (The Manchester Papers are P.R.O.30/15; another collection, the

33 Chatham Papers, are P.R.O.30/8, and so on. ) The reader re- quiring this particular item would write T.R.O.30/15/317.' The reader wishing to inspect the file among the King's Bench records containing the Quo Warranto proceedings against the Virginia Company in 1623 writes on his ticket

'K.B.9/769,' for K.B.9 is the class of Ancient Indictments among the Crown Side records of the Court of King's Bench, and item 769 the file for the 21st year of James I's reign. Original Indexes, Docket Books and Registers of Corre- spondence, which are classified as Tndex' volumes, bear IND. references. The items in the Colonial Office Class of Registers, Colonies General (CO. 326) are all Index volumes ; and the reader wishing to send for the volume dealing with Virginia, 1704-52 writes on his ticket TND.8331.' Maps and Plans which, because of their size, shape or condition, cannot, without being folded, be kept as enclosures to despatches, have been removed from the original volumes or files to form a special series. For instance, Captain John

Smith's Map of Virginia, 1 608, forming item 1 7 of Colonial

Office, Colonial Papers, General Series Volume 1 (CO. 1/1/17), now bears the reference MPG.284. Its change of reference has, of course, been fully noted in the volume from which it was removed and in all relevant means of reference. Only in very special circumstances are references altered. Changes within a class result from re-uniting the parts of a single document that had become separated; changes from one class to another occur when a misplaced document is transferred to its correct class. All such changes are fully noted in 'Keys,' while the former reference for a transferred document would never again be used. A reader may from time to time wish to identify a document from an obsolete reference, given in a book published before the assembling of the Public Records in the last century, or before their final sortation and arrangement (when, for instance, the Board of Trade Colonial Correspondence was amalgamated with the parallel correspondence of the Secretary of State).

34 The assistant keepers in the Search Department are generally able to bring the obsolete reference up to date with little difficulty through consulting Keys and Obsolete Indexes.

8. PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE RECORDS

Public Records are normally open to public inspection fifty years after their creation ; for example, the despatches of the British Ambassador at Washington, for 1908, among the Foreign Office records, became open to public inspection on

1 January 1959, and a year later all his despatches for the year 1909 became available. There are, however, certain exceptions to this general rule. of The Lord Chancellor is empowered under section 5 ( 1 ) the 1958 Act to sign Schedules varying the 'open date' for whole classes or particular items in classes of departmental records when he is satisfied that the circumstances warrant it. He has, for instance, signed a Schedule withholding public inspection to certain criminal records of the Home Office and Prison Commission until 100 years after their creation in order to avoid causing distress to individuals whose names feature in these documents, and to their relatives. The Lord Chancellor has also signed a Schedule varying the rule in another direction by making records available before they are fifty years old: for example, most of the Ministry of Works Festival of Britain records (Works 25) were made available five years after their creation. Boards in the Search Department summarize changes in the '50 year rule' made under these Schedules. Under exceptional circumstances individuals may be permitted to see documents not generally open to view. Such has been the case with the Diaries of the late Roger Case- ment among the Home Office records (H.O.161), which

£ feature in a schedule postponing the open date' until they are 100 years old. Under this they would not be open until the early years of the twenty-first century, but the Home

35 Secretary has been prepared to allow historians and others who make good their claims to be specialists in the period to see them under individual permits, notwithstanding the Schedule. Consideration would always be given by the department concerned to applications from serious students who wished to see 'closed' documents among their records. Foreign students should apply for permission to the department concerned through their Embassies or Legations.

9. RECORDS NOT IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Not all Public Records in the broadest sense have, in fact, been transferred to Chancery Lane; and, indeed, the Lord Chancellor may, under the 1958 Act, approve a place of deposit other than the Public Record Office for particular Public Records, though such approval will probably be limited to the deposit of Quarter Sessions and other Local Public Records in local record offices. The records of the royal household after its re-organization in the nineteenth century remain, with letters, journals and other personal documents of successive generations of the royal family, in the Royal Archives at Windsor. Parliament, too, has custody of its own records, which are preserved in the Record Office at the House of Lords. Records of the Secretaries of State concerned exclusively with the administration of Scotland are, in general, in the Register House, Edinburgh, which also contains the records of the Scottish courts of law. A few departments at present retain their own records and provide search rooms where they may be consulted. The most notable are the India Office Library in the Commonwealth Relations Office in Westminster, which contains the records relating to the administration of British India from the earliest days of the East India Company, in addition to a rich collection of oriental manuscripts and

36 printed books; and the General Post Office at Mount Pleas- ant. With the exceptions of the Census Returns of 1841 and

1 85 1 (which are in the Public Record Office) the Registrar General retains the records of his department at Somerset

House ; and apart from the records of the Inspector General's Office and of the statistical department which supplanted it, the records of the Board of Customs which survived successive fires at the London Customs House have not been transferred to Chancery Lane but are kept in the Customs House Library in King's Beam House, together with Excise records.

9 10. MINISTERS' PAPERS

With the rise of the office of Secretary of State in the sixteenth century, the practice grew up of individual secretaries retaining 'state papers' in their hands after their resignation. The State Paper Office was established under Queen Eliza- beth I in order to prevent the embezzlement of papers and from the first its clerks insisted that State Papers were public documents, and they tried their hardest, both to prevent officials from removing papers when they retired and to bring into their custody such documents as had come into private hands. The earliest and perhaps the greatest of all collections to remain in private custody are the papers of

William Cecil, first Lord Burghley, and his son Robert Cecil, successive secretaries of state, which are among the Salisbury muniments at Hatfield House. Many other ministerial archives which one might have expected to be among the Public Records either remain in private hands or have been given or loaned to institutions. The Clarendon Papers, for instance, are in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the Grey Papers are in the Prior's Kitchen, the College, Durham;

9. I use this term to describe any separate collection of official or semi-official papers of any officer of the Crown. Such ministers' papers among the Public Records include those of cabinet ministers (the Russell Papers), of diplomatists (the Granville Papers), of colonial governors (the Aylmer Papers), of civil servants (the Lowndes Papers), of admirals (the Rodney Papers), and of gen- erals (the Amherst Papers).

37 while the Newcastle Papers are one of the several great collections of ministers' papers in the British Museum. Others have passed through the sale room to American libraries, such as the Shelburne Manuscripts ; and one notable collection, the Carleton Papers, has now recrossed the At- lantic. Many of these collections have been reported on by the Historical Manuscripts Commission, and both the Secre- tary of the Commission and the Registrar of the National Register of Archives ( Quality House, Quality Court, Chan- cery Lane, London, W.C.2) are able to provide information about their present whereabouts. The Lists of 'Migrations of Manuscripts' which are a regular feature of the Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research are also useful. Various collections of ministers' papers that were once in private hands are now among the Public Records. These are of two categories: those presented to or deposited with the

Public Record Office itself, which are preserved in the series of Gifts and Deposits among the Public Record Office group of records (P.R.O.30) ; and secondly those presented to the department in which the minister served and subsequently transferred by it to the Record Office where they are kept among that department's records.

The Chatham Papers (P.R.O.30/8) , being the correspondence of the first Earl of Chatham and of his son, the Younger Pitt, which were deposited by Captain Pringle in 1888; the

Cornwallis Papers (P.R.0.30/11 ), being the official papers of the first Marquess of Cornwallis, deposited by Lord Bray- brooke in 1880; the Manchester Papers (P.R.O.30/15), presented in the same year by the Duke of Manchester; the Rodney Papers (P.R.O.30/20) presented by Harley Rodney in 1906; the Shaftesbury Papers (P.R.0. 30/24), presented by the Earl of Shaftesbury in 1871 ; and the Carle- ton Papers (P.R.O.30/55), a gift to Queen Elizabeth II made on behalf of Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., by President Eisenhower in October 1957 and presented by Her Majesty to the Public Record Office in the following month. The

38 Public Records Act, 1958 empowers the Keeper to acquire records and accept gifts and loans, and since the Act came into force the Kitchener Papers (P.R.O.30/57) have been presented by Earl Kitchener. Of ministers' papers in the second category, preserved among departmental records, we may particularly notice the series of Private Collections in both the Foreign Office and the War Office groups. The former include the Jackson Papers (F.O.353), being the correspondence of a diplomat, presented to the Foreign Office by his descendants ; the latter include the American Rebellion Entry Books (W.O.36), containing orders and returns for the British forces in North America, 1773-83; these volumes had come into the possession of the Royal Military College, which subsequently delivered them to the War Office Library, by whom they were transferred to the Public Record Office in 1927. Among the Colonial Office records are to be found the Aylmer Papers (C.O.387), being the correspondence of the Gov- ernor of Lower Canada, 1830-7; and among the Treasury records are the Lowndes Papers (T.48) which are principally the papers of William Lowndes, Secretary of the Treas-

1 ury, 695- 1 724; these were acquired in part by the Treasury at the end of the nineteenth century and augmented by gifts from the Lowndes and related families.

There is in the Search Rooms an Alphabetical Index to Named Classes among the Public Records (Round Room Press 42/14A). Attention should, perhaps, be drawn to the class Gifts and Deposits Miscellaneous (P.R.O.30/26) to which there is an index. Quite apart from ministers' papers the Public Records contain various documents which at some time strayed from official custody. These have been reunited with the series to which they once belonged but are stamped 'Sometime in Private Custody.' Such strays have been restored by gift (as in the case of large numbers of Tellers' Bills among the Original Receipts (E.402) of the Exchequer of Receipt,

39 which had come into the hands of that great collector Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt.). Other documents have been restored by warrant of recovery, as with certain Assizes records of the old Norfolk Circuit (Assizes 16) ; and occasionally by purchase, as with the volume of accounts relating to works at Westminster and the Tower of London, which had strayed from the Exchequer in the early nineteenth century and was bought in 1958 largely with the help of a grant from the Pilgrim Trust, for restoring to the series of Ex- chequer, Queen's Remembrancer, Various Accounts (E.101/ 468/21).

11. PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES

Photography is now undertaken exclusively by the Depart- ment's own Photographic Section. The Order Form for Photographic Copies should contain the short reference to the document and details of the portion to be copied, e.g. 'C.O.5/20 fos. 19-22^., 37 (lower half only), & 45^. -46.' In signing the form the person ordering the reproduction acknowledges that he will observe the regulations governing Crown Copyright; these regulations are set out on the back of the form. The scale of fees at present charged for different types of photographic work is given in a separate leaflet. Estimates for the cost of a particular piece of photographic work can be made on request. Orders may be handed in and reproductions collected in person in the Long Room.

12. CROWN COPYRIGHT

'Crown Copyright in the Public Records is reserved. Per- sons wishing to include in any published work verbatim transcripts or literal translations from unpublished Crown- Copyright material in the Public Record Office must obtain written permission from the Keeper of Public Records and print formal acknowledgements in the work itself.' (Keeper's Rules No. 26.)

40 Since by the Copyright Act, 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2 cap. 74) Her Majesty has vested Crown Copyright in the Controller of Her Stationery Office, an acknowledgement would generally take the form :

'Unpublished Crown-Copyright material in the Public Record Office has been used with the permission of the Controller, Her Majesty's Stationery Office.'

The Department invites all authors and editors to present copies of their books and articles based on Public Records to its Library, so that it may contain as complete a survey as possible of documents printed in full, partially quoted, or briefly summarised, and that appropriate entries may be made in the Card Index of Documents in Print in the Round Room.

The Keeper is authorised to levy a fee (on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office) in respect of photographs of Public Records which are reproduced in any publication. He has discretion to reduce or to waive this when it can be shown that the reproduction is intended to illustrate a work of instruction or scholarship. Whether a fee is levied or not, the published photograph must be accompanied by a printed acknowledgement of permission. Authors are required to submit the caption they intend to print, to ensure that it accurately describes the reproduction and that the reference (which should either be included in the caption or appear in a Table of Illustrations) is correct; for it has not been unknown in the past for captions, references and photographs to become unaccountably shuffled even in the offices of distinguished publishers.

13. POSTAL INQUIRIES

The Department's postbag is a heavy one, ranging from limited inquiries about specific documents to matters covering a very wide field. The ideal would be to give each inquiry

41 a detailed reply, but in practice this is impossible, and it would still be impossible with ten times the present staff available for such work. The Department undertakes closely- defined searches as a matter of courtesy and does not charge fees for doing so. In other cases its reply indicates the various sources which may provide the required information and suggests that the enquirer either carry out the search in person in the Search Rooms where he will receive every facility, or alternately that he place the matter in the hands of a professional Record Agent. Even in i960 there are many people who still imagine the Public Records to be 'methodized' for exclusively genealogical purposes and that some master index exists which, at the push of a button, will provide all the references to a particular family or person!

For those who do not have the opportunity or the ability to make a search in person, the Department can, on request, suggest the names and addresses of one or more Record Agents who might be prepared to undertake the investigation for a professional fee. The Public Record Office suggests appropriate names from its List of Record Agents; it does not recommend that a particular Agent be employed, though the names suggested are given on the understanding that, to the best of the Department's knowledge, those persons seem qualified to do a particular piece of research. Having introduced Agent and client, it leaves them to make their own arrangements; it does not, of course, accept responsi- bility for the standard of an Agent's work.

14. PUBLICATIONS

As a government department, the publications of the Public Record Office appear under the imprint of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. A List of Record Publications; Sectional List No. 24 (which includes sections for the publications of the Register House, Scotland, and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland ) can be obtained free from the Station-

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ery Office, York House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2. The last edition of this List appeared in 1958; a revised issue is generally printed every second year. The publishing policy of the Department is briefly stated in the preface; this policy is discussed from time to time with a Committee of specialist historians from British Universities, appointed by the Ad- visory Council on Public Records.

Over the years, official publications have taken six different forms, ranging from a full transcript at one end of the scale to a bare list at the other:

(i) the Transcript, in which the document is printed in its entirety, with all abbreviations of the original extended whenever this can be done with certainty; an index is provided (e.g. the Privy Council Registers appearing in the series Acts of the Privy Council).

(ii) the Calendar, in which documents are summarised, though certain sentences or phrases appearing between

5 'quote marks will be direct quotations from the original ; an index is provided (e.g. the Calendars of State Papers Colo- nial, American and West Indies)

(iii) the Descriptive List, less detailed than (ii) , comprising brief abstracts of each document in a series (e.g. the List of

Diplomatic Documents) . A novel type of Descriptive List of the State Papers Foreign, Elizabeth I, continuing the full- scale Calendar after 1589, is in the press. This includes an analysis of the papers and the index to it is a full index to the original papers, not to the short entries in the List.

(iv) the List, which indicates the units of a particular class or of classes in a group. Where (iii) would briefly describe each paper, the List proper will merely describe each volume (e.g. the List of Chancery Rolls; the List of Colonial Office Records). (v) the Index; alphabetically arranged references (most usually to persons) for a class of records (e.g. Index to Chan- cery Proceedings)

43 (vi) the Catalogue, which brings together references to records of similar form or content from different classes of records [e.g. an Exhibition Catalogue).

The over-riding bulk of the Public Records means that only a very tiny fraction can ever be printed in full. Gone are the days of low printing costs and the days when a Brewer or a Gairdner might easily spread himself over 200 pages for an historical introduction to the documents he was edit- ing; yet indexes to Transcripts and to Calendars remain extremely detailed, often amounting to a third of the volume.

Although a few series of complete Transcripts are still being published, the editorial resources of the Department are being directed more and more towards the preparation of Lists and Descriptive Lists, which in this age of relatively cheap photography provide the scholar working at a distance with sufficient information to decide whether or not to order a microfilm or a photostat of a particular record.

15. THE MUSEUM

A collection of Public Records is on permanent display in the Museum, a building on the site of the demolished Rolls Chapel which incorporates certain monuments and heraldic glass from the chapel. To place every important document on view would be rather like trying to cram the

Crown Jewels into a match-box, but there is something here to meet everybody's taste and sufficient items to indicate the enormous range of the national archives. One case (Wall

Case XII) is devoted to exhibits of American interest.

The Museum is open to the public from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays; arrangements can be made for or-

ganised parties to visit it at certain other times when they will usually be met by an Assistant Keeper. A Short Cata-

logue (1956) is on sale, together with picture postcards of some of the most interesting exhibits, such as Domesday

44 Book. From time to time specialised exhibitions are staged in a Special Exhibition Room nearby. Past exhibitions have included Treaties,' 'Naval Records, 5 'Virginia, 5 'The Jews

5 in England, 5 and the 'Office of Master of the Rolls.

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Report from the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the State

of the Public Records of the Kingdom (London, 1800.)

First Report of the Royal Commission on Public Records, 1912 (Lon- don, 1912.)

Report of Committee on Departmental Records (Cmd. 9163, 1954.)

Public Record Office, Annual Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London, 1840- 1959.)

Andrews, C. M., Guide to the Materials for American History to 1783 in the Public Record Office of Great Britain (Washington, 2 Vols., 1912, 1914.)

Crump, C. G., The Logic of History (Helps for Students of History, No.

6, (London, 1919) ; and History & Historical Research (London, 1928.)

Evans, F. M. P., The Principal Secretary of State (Manchester, 1923.)

Flower, C. T., 'Manuscripts and the War' in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 4th series, Vol. 25 (London, 1943) pp. 15-33.

Galbraith, V. H., An Introduction to the Use of the Public Records (corrected edition, Oxford, 1952.)

Giuseppi, M. S., Guide to the Manuscripts Preserved in the Public Record Office (London, 2 vols., 1923, 1924.)

Hall, Hubert, Studies in English Official Historical Documents (Cam- bridge, 1908.)

[Jenkinson, Hilary], Guide to the Public Records, Part 1: Introduc-

tory (London, 1949) ; and Guide to Seals in the Public Record Office (London, 1953.)

Johnson, Charles, 'Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte, 1848-1940' in Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. 26 (London, 1941);

and The Public Record Office (Helps to Students of History, No. 4, London, 19 18.)

45 Lyte, Sir H. G. Maxwell, Historical Notes on the Use of the Great Seal of England (London, 1926.)

Mullins, E. L. C, Texts and Calendars: an Analytical Guide to Serial Publications (Royal Historical Society, London, 1958.)

Paullin, Charles O. and Paxson, Frederic C, Guide to the Ma- terials in London Archives for the History of the United States

Since 1783 (Washington, 19 14.)

Plucknett, T. F. T., Concise History of the Common Law (4th edition, London, 1948.)

Powell, Thomas, Directions for Search of Records Remaining in the Chancerie, Tower, Exchequer etc. (London, 1622.)

"Public Record Office, Statutes, Rules and Schedules Governing the Disposal of Public Records, 1877-1913 (reprinted collection, Lon- don, 1914.)

Somerville, R., 'Duchy of Lancaster Records' in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 4th Series, Vol. 29 (London, 1947) pp. 1-17.

Stamp, A. E., 'The Historical Student and the Public Record Office: A Retrospect' in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 4th Series, Vol. 11 (London, 1928) pp. 17-37.

Thomas, F. S., History of the State Paper Office with a View of the Documents therein Deposited (London, 1849) and Handbook to the Public Records (London, 1853.)

Thomson, M. A., The Secretaries of State, 1681-1782 (Oxford, 1932.)

46 The Virginia Colonial Records Project Special Report No. 26

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The British Public Record Office:

List of Record Groups

A NOTE ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF MATERIAL IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE THE GROUPS, WITH COMMENT ON THE SUBDIVISIONS AND THE MANNER OF CITATION

THE VIRGINIA COLONIAL RECORDS PROJECT SPECIAL REPORT NO. 26

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The British Public Record Office:

List of Record Groups

The most convenient means of getting a bird's eye view of the material in the Public Record Office is the Summary of Records, which is revised at intervals, and brought up to date between revisions by occasional manuscript annota- tions, and by typewritten insertions which are issued quarterly. The current revision is that of 1950, with manuscript corrections of several dates, the latest being 31 March 1958. This Summary of Records consists of pp. i-iii, Introductory Notes; pp. iv-v, Index to Class Numbers; and pp. 1-366, Summary, by Groups.

All material in the Record Office is divided into a number of major divisions called Groups; the number of Groups is now 77. With few exceptions, the material of a given Group is that originating with a Ministry, a Court, some Govern- ment Board, Commission, Office or other entity of the Brit- ish government. The Group ' German Foreign Ministry' is an obvious exception, and another exception is the Group Tublic Record Office,' which includes various gifts and deposits and transcripts. A third exception is the Group 'Special Collections,' an artificial Group of materials drawn from other Groups and other sources.

The list below gives the full name of each of the Groups, and the letter or letters, abbreviations, or word by which

49 the Group is commonly referred to. Groups are listed in the order in which they occur in the Index (pp. iv-v) and in the Summary (pp. 1-366), the order being the same. It will be seen that some entries in the Index are not in fact

Groups, but subdivisions of Groups ; these anomalous entries are discussed in the Notes following the list. In a few instances, the name of Groups have been expanded to the form given in the Summary proper, but the inversions of the Index have been retained (e.g. the Index has 'Admiralty, High Court of; 5 while the Summary proper has 'High Court of Admi- ralty' ) . It should be mentioned that names of Groups may be found in slightly differing versions in certain other lists of equal authority with the Summary, but the variations are generally inconsequential ones like the difference of singular or plural number in a noun or different word order, and in any case can hardly cause misunderstanding.

Full Title Reference Title Admiralty Adm. Admiralty, High Court of H.C.A. Agriculture and Fisheries, Ministry of M.A.F. Alienation Office A. Assistance Board Assist. Assize, Clerks of Assizes Bankruptcy, Court of B. Central Criminal Court Crim. Chancery C. Charity Commission Charity Chester, Palatinate of Chester Civil Service Commission c.s.c. Colonial Office CO. Common Pleas C.P. Copyright Office Copyright Customs and Excise Customs Delegates, Court of Del. Dominions Office D.O.

50 Full Title Reference 1

Durham, Palatinate of Durham Ecclesiastical Commission Eccl. Education, Ministry of Ed. E. Exchequer : Augmentation Office Exchequer: Controller General E. Exchequer: First Fruits and Tenths E.

Exchequer : King's Remembrancer E.

Exchequer : Land Revenue L.R.

Exchequer : Lord Treasurer's E. Remembrancer

Exchequer : Exchequer of Pleas E.

Exchequer : Exchequer of Receipts E.

Exchequer : Treasury of the Receipt E. Exchequer and Audit Department A.O. Foreign Office F.O. Forestry Commission F. Forfeited Estates Commission F.E.C. German Foreign Ministry G.F.M. Health, Ministry of M.H. Home Office H.O. India Office I.O. Inland Revenue Office I.R.

Judicature, Supreme Court of J. Justices Itinerant Just. Itin. King's Bench (Crown Side) K.B. King's Bench (Plea Side) K.B. King's Bench Prison, Fleet Prison, and Marshalsea Prison Pris. Labour and National Service, Ministry of Lab. Lancaster, Duchy of D.L. Lancaster, Palatinate of P.L. Land Revenue Record Office L.R.R.O. Lands Tribunal L.T. Law Officers' Department L.O. Lord Chamberlain's Department L.C.

51 Full Title Reference Title Lord Steward's Department L.S. Munitions, Ministry of Mun. National Coal Board Coal National Debt Office N.D.O. National Insurance Audit Department N.I.A. National Service, Ministry of Nat. Serv. Ordnance Survey Department O.S. Palace Court Palace Court Parliament P. Paymaster General's Office P.M.G. Peveril, Honour of Pev. Privy Council, Judicial Committee of the P. C. Appeals Privy Council Office P.C. Privy Purse Office P.P. Privy Seal Office P.S.O. Public Record Office P.R.O.

Public Record Office : Gifts and Deposits P.R.O.

Public Record Office : Transcripts P.R.O. Public Works Loan Board P.W.L.B. Queen Anne's Bounty Office QA.B. Reconstruction, Ministry of Recon. Registrar General's Office R.G. Requests, Court of Req. Signet Office S.O. Special Collections S.C. Star Chamber, Court of Sta. Cha. State Paper Office S.P. Supply, Ministry of Supply Trade, Board of B.T. Transport, Ministry of M.T. Treasury T. Treasury Solicitor T.S. Wales, Principality of Wales War Office W.O. Wards and Liveries, Court of Wards

52 .

Full Title Reference Title

Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, Office of W.F. Works, Ministry of Works NOTES i. The listing of material under 'Exchequer' in the Index is unusual and may cause some confusion. The list above

is as it stands in the Index, but there are only three Groups involved: Exchequer: Land Revenue (L.R.); Exchequer

and Audit Department (A.O.) ; then all the other subdivisions under 'Exchequer' in one single group (E.). In the E. Group, the order in the Index differs from that in the Summary proper, where the order is as follows:

Exchequer of Pleas (Classes 1-20) Treasury of the Receipt (Classes 21-100) King's Remembrancer (Classes 101-300) Augmentation Office (Classes 301-330) First Fruits and Tenths (Classes 331-350) Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer (Classes 351-400) Exchequer of Receipt (Classes 401-407) Controller General (Class 408)

After these 8 subdivisions of the E. Group comes the separate Group L.R. (Exchequer: Land Revenue), and then follows the third separate Group, A.O. (Exchequer and

Audit Department) . It should be noted that the designation King's Remembrancer may appear also as Queen's

Remembrancer, if the sovereign is a woman.

2. Despite the appearance in the Index of the two divisions

of King's Bench records, they form a single Group (K.B. ) King's Bench (Crown Side) includes Classes 1-100, and

King's Bench (Plea Side) includes Classes 1 01 -144. The

proper designation for now current records is Queen's

Bench. Cf. end of Note 1.

53 3- A manuscript note in the Summary indicates that the

Group P. has been returned to Parliament. The Group is consequently to be deleted from the Index and Summary.

4. The Group Public Record Office (P.R.O.) has absorbed two Groups previously known as Gifts and Deposits, and Transcripts; these are now the Classes designated as P.R.O.30 and P.R.O.31, respectively.

The Groups listed above are divided into Classes, which vary in number from 1 to 861, according to the Group concerned. Under some Groups will be found Classes which in fact exist only as numbers, no records having yet been assigned to the Class numbers. It follows that the highest Class number in a Group does not necessarily indicate the number of actual Classes. The manner of division into

Classes varies from Group to Group, and it seems impossible, at least within a reasonable compass, to trace any principle of division which will be applicable to the Classes of all

Groups. Note 1 above lists the Classes in the Group E., which are arranged in conformity with the several functions of the Exchequer. Note 2 above shows that the records of the King's Bench are grouped in Classes for the Crown Side and the Plea Side. Within a series of Classes there will probably be further subdivisions, with Classes arranged together according to administrative organization, categories of papers, and date. For example, in the Admiralty Group (Adm.), Classes 1-13 make up the papers of the Secretary's Depart- ment; Class 1 (Adm.i) is In-Letters 1660-1902, and Class 2

(Adm.2) is Out-Letters 1656-1859. So far as possible, Classes within a Group are arranged and numbered with regard to the nature of the material and chronological sequence. The Classes are, in turn, divided into Pieces; a Piece may be a volume, or a roll, or a bundle. The number of Pieces in a Class is variable : there are about 7,643 Pieces in Adm.i, for instance, and about 1,756 Pieces in Adm.2. The Sum-

54 : :

mary does not pretend to give the exact number of Pieces in

c a Class, but gives the Last Number,' that is, the highest number assigned to a Piece in a Class. There may be more Pieces, then, than the 'Last Number' suggests, since in addition to a Piece numbered 75, for instance, there may also be one numbered 75A, and one numbered 75B. The information contained in the Summary, pp. 1-366 (The Summary, by Groups) can be described in a few words. The Groups are arranged in alphabetical order, as shown in the list above. Under each Group are given the

Classes, in numerical order, and by each Class is usually an indication of the special nature of the Class, the dates which limit the material in the Class, and the 'Last Number' for

Pieces in the Class. After certain Classes there is additional information under the heading 'Remarks,' but this seems to consist only of an indication that the Classes concerned are known not only by the usual Group-Class-Piece designation, but also as components of a series of Indexes. For example, the Class C.O.326, which is made up of CO.326/ 1-76, consists of 76 volumes of indexes to the Board of Trade papers, known also as Indexes 8301-8376.

The entry for Adm. 1 1 is given as an illustration

Adm. 11 1 74 1 - 1 869 Indexes and Compilations Series II 72 iW.9189-9260

This means that, in the Admiralty Papers (Adm.), Class 11 covers the years 1 741-1869, and consists of a series of indexes and compilations; the last of these Pieces is numbered 72; these Pieces are known also as Indexes 9189-9260.

In normal usage the reference to a specific Piece is abbreviated in the following way :

( 1 ) The Group is cited in the abbreviated form shown in the list of Groups above, as CO. (Colonial Office).

( 2 ) The Class number immediately follows the abbreviation showing the Group, as C.O.5.

55 (3) The Piece number, preceded by a diagonal bar, follows the Glass number, as C.O.5/1343.

In some instances, a more complicated form of citation may be found. For example, in the Group P.R.O. (Public

5 Record Office), the Glass of 'Gifts and Deposits is designated as P.R.O.30. Within this Class, the Manchester Papers

are designated as 15, so that a general reference to the Man- chester Papers takes the form P.R.O.30/15, with the whole

collection taken as a Piece. Reference to the collection is refined by an additional number, preceded by a diagonal bar, to designate the unit within the Piece. Thus, P.R.O.30/

1 5/ 1 refers to the first unit in the Manchester Papers. As a rule, however, the citation of any material in the Public Record Office takes the form of Group/Class/Piece.

56 The Virginia Colonial Records Project Special Report No. 27

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The British Public Record Office: Search Room Catalogues and Other Finding Aids

CARD INDEXES LISTS, CATALOGUES, CALENDARS PRINTED GUIDE BOOKS, AND THE SUMMARY OF RECORDS A DETAILED ANALYSIS GIVING THEIR ORDER AND LOCATIONS IN THE PRESSES

57 .

SPECIAL REPORT NO. 27 PAGE

1 Introductory 59

2. Contents of Presses 1-12 63

3. Some Groups and Classes that Contain

Virginia Items 1 26

58 ) : )

THE VIRGINIA COLONIAL RECORDS PROJECT

SPECIAL REPORT NO. 27

The British Public Record Office: Search Room Catalogues and Other Finding Aids

1. INTRODUCTORY

Finding Aids in the Public Record Office are of the following kinds (as detailed in the pages that follow)

i. CARD INDEXES

A. Index to all the volumes (arranged according to their

position number) in Presses i to 12: 14 to 18: 23: 24: 26

to 36: 39: 40: 42 : 43. The name of the relevant Group is given on each card, and in some cases the relevant Class number also.

(This Index is on the lower shelves of Press 3 in the Round Room.

B. Index to each Class of Records showing outside dates

and number of pieces, and indicating lists, Calendars

etc. in which the Class (or a portion of it) is dealt with. This Index supersedes the eight volume Catalogue of Lists

and Indexes in Press 42 . (It is in the Round Room.

C. Index to Documents in Print (in progress) . Each card shows whether a full transcript or a brief extract or precis of the Document is to be found—whether in official or non-official publications. The Department relies on having

59 ) .

its attention called (by the authors) to the publication of

Documents in the less obvious periodicals. This is arranged

by Classes in alphabetical order. ( It is to be found in the Round Room.

D. Index to Catalogue of Maps and Plans found among

Public Records—arranged topographically . . . e.g. Virginia is under United States of America.

(This Index is in Room C.26.)

E. Index to Catalogue of Seals. There are, for instance, cards relating to seals of Virginian officials in the section Official Seals—Colonial; a great many Personal Seals will be found arranged by names. [See Guide to Seals in

the Public Record Office— 1954 (Press 42) ; Great Seals of Virginia—James I & George II 162 1.] F. There are also various Card Indexes relating to the services of Naval and Military Officers from the 17th Century. (These are in the South Room)

G. Another Card Index of some importance for Virginian

history is that to the Registers of Emigrants 1 774-1 776 among the Treasury Records (T.47/9-12). e.g. John Barton (age 22) —bricklayer—born in Ire- land—left for Virginia in The Planter on Feb.

13th 1774. One son aged 4.

(This is in the South Room.)

2. INDEXES are alphabetical lists of Names or Subjects, with references to the pages of a compilation (or to original Document) where they will be found. An Index may be printed (Pr.), typed (Ty.) or in manuscript (Ms.).

3. LISTS usually provide a bare enumeration of the individual Pieces or Documents in a class or classes—with simple identification of each by its date or otherwise. In

some lists a little more detail is provided.

60 Descriptive Lists (& Catalogues) add—in the case of each Document—a description of its contents sufficient, as a rule to enable the student to determine whether it will be

worth his while to search it for his own purpose. A List may be printed (Pr.), typed (Ty.) or in manuscript (Ms.).

4. CALENDARS give (normally but not necessarily—in English), a precis sufficient in many cases to absolve the student from the need to consult the original. A Calendar may be printed (Pr.), typed (Ty.) or in manuscript (Ms.).

5. PRINTED GUIDE BOOKS A. Guide to the Public Records: M. S. Giuseppi [Press 42 No. 66A]. This valuable Guide gives detailed information about all the material preserved in the Public Record Office.

Vol. I (pub. 1923) deals with the Legal Records found in the Exchequer, Chancery, King's Bench, High Court of Admiralty, Privy Council and Star Chamber Groups. Vol. II (pub. 1924) deals with the State Papers and Records of Public Departments found in the State Papers, Admiralty, Colonial Office, Foreign Office, Home Office, War Office, Privy Council and Treasury Groups. The contents of the volumes include a general introduction, a descriptive introduction to each Group, and descriptive notes on the Classes within the Groups.

B. Guide to Materials from American History to 17S3 in the Public Record Office of Great Britain: C. M. Andrews [Press 16, Nos. 52A and 52B]. This very useful Guide provides the names of the Groups which contain material bearing on American Colonial history in the Public Record Office, and a description of the contents of the relevant Classes and Pieces within the Groups.

61 Vol. I (pub. 1912) State Papers, contains:

( 1 ) Introductory history of the Public Record Office. (2) Relevant material in the State Papers (Foreign and Domestic), Foreign Office Papers, Home Office Papers and Colonial Office Papers.

(3 ) Appendix A—which refers to the Privy Seal Office and to Index and Patent Rolls in the Legal Search Room. Appendix B—which gives a useful key to the Colonial Office Papers.

Vol. II (pub. 19 14) Departmental and Miscellaneous Papers—deals with relevant material found in the following: Admiralty Papers, Audit Office Records, Lord Chamberlain's Papers, Customs House Papers, Treasury, War Office, High Court of Admiralty and Special Col- lections.

C. Guide to the Materials for American History since 1783: C. O. Paullin & F. L. Paxson (published 1914). [Press 16, No. 54.]

This book provides:

( 1 ) A general introduction. (2) Special introductions to separate groups that contain relevant material. (3) Relevant Classes (which are numbered) and notes on the relevant (numbered) Pieces within the Classes: e.g. A.O./3. Pieces 54-56. American Loyalist Claims.

Virginia evidence 1 783-1 787.

D. Guide to Manuscripts relating to America in British Depositions: G. G. Griffin (pub. 1946). [Press 16, No. 52C] The first part of this book deals very clearly with American material to be found in the Public Record Office. It provides less detail than the Andrews and the Paullin & Paxson guides, but gives useful cross references to these books and several items bearing upon Virginia.

62 E. Virginia Sources in A.O.I3 and J. 79. [Press 16, No. 55E.] This slim typescript volume gives descriptive notes on relevant bundles dealing with American Loyalist Claims in the Audit Office and Treasury Groups.

F. Original Lists of Emigrants to American Plantations

Press l6 - 1600-1700: T. Hotten (pub. 1874). [ > No 7oA -l

G. American Colonists in English Records. [Press 16, Nos. 70B and 70G.] 1st & 2nd Series: G. Sherwood.

H. List of English Ministers to America, 1690-1811: G. Eothergill. [Press 16, No. 71.]

6. SUMMARY OF RECORDS

This volume is to be found on a stand just inside the Round

Room. Copies of it have been presented to certain Insti-

tutions. It is believed that the Library of Congress has received such a copy.

2. CONTENTS OF PRESSES 1-12

PRESS 1 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. S.P. 70 State Papers: 6 vols of Key to Ref- 47 to 52 erences of Letters & Papers Henry VIII (Calendar 11B-45B) (Ty.)

S.P. 70 State Papers: Key to Suppression 53 Papers (Ms.)

S.P. State Papers : Supplementary List of 54A State Papers Foreign (Ms. & Ty.)

S.P. 9 State Papers: Descriptive List of 54B Details of State Papers—Miscella- neous (Ty.)

S.P. State Papers: P.R.O. Printed Lists 55 & 56A & Indexes, Vol. XIX

List of State Papers—Foreign 1577- 1781 (Pr.)

63 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No.

Catalogues (Descriptive Lists) of State Papers Foreign:

S.P. Genoa, 1584- 1669: Italian States & 56B

Rome, 1 544- 1 664: Sicily & Naples, 1584-1675: Tuscany 1582-1664 (Ty.)

S.P. Savoy & Sardinia (Ty.) 56c

S.P. Venice: 1559- 1686 (Ty.) 56D

S.P. Bombay States 1577-1682 (Ty.) 56E

S.P. Turkey 1579- 1662 (Ty.) 56F

S.P. Flanders 1589- 1659 (Ty.) 560

S.P. Germany: Empire, 159 1- 1659 56H-561 (Ty.)

Hamburg & Hanse Towns, 1588- 1659: States 1589-1661 (Ty.) 56j

S.P. Spain 1 578- 1 659: Portugal 1577- 56K & 56L 1660 (Ty.)

S.P. Denmark 1585?- 1659 (Ty.) 56M

S.P. Poland, 1 586- 1 661: Russia, 1589- 56N 1655: Sweden, 1572- 1660: Switzer-

land, 1 582- 1 660 (Ty.)

S.P. Italian States & Rome 1690- 1773 560 (Ty.)

S.P. Holland, 1590- 1603 & Addenda 56Q 1560-1590 (Ty.)

S.P. Holland, 1603- 1625: Holland 1625- 56R, 56s 1659 (Ty.)

S.P. France, 1589- 1625 & Addenda 56T 1559-1577 (Ty.)

S.P. France, 1625- 1659 (Ty.) 56U

S.P. 105/109 Levant Company 1590- 1804 (Ty.) 56V

S.P. 70 List: Elizabeth (Ty.) 56W

64 Calendars Group Class Position No.

Calendar of Letters & Papers, For- eign & Domestic, Henry VIII (21

vols) :

S.P. Vol. I, Part I, 1509-1514 (Pr.) iib

5 Nos. 1- I2A S.P. Vol. I, Part I, 1 509- 1 14 1805 (New edition by R. H. Brodie) (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. I, Part II, 1509-15 14 Nos. I2B 1806-361 7 & Appendix 1-27 (New edition R. H. Brodie) (Pr.)

III, 5 12c S.P. Vol. I, Part 1 509- 1 14 Index & Key (New edition R. H. Brodie) (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. II, Part I, 1515-1516: Part II 13 & 14 1517-1518 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. Ill, Part I 1519-1521 June: 15&16 Part II 1521 July-1523 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. IV Introduction & Appendix 17 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. IV, Part I, 1524-1526 July: 18&19 II 526- (Pr.) Part 1 1 528 S.P. Vol. IV, Part III, 1529-1530 Ap- 20 pendix & Index (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. V I53I-I532 (Pr-) 21

S.P. Vol. VI 1533 (Pr.) 22

S.P. Vol. VII 1534, Part I & Part II 23A & 23B (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. VIII, IX, X, XI Jan. 1535- 24, 25. Dec. 1536 (Pr.) 26, 27

S.P. Vol. XII, Part I 1537, Jan.-May 28,29 Part II 1537, June-Dec. (Pr.) S.P. Vol. XIII Part I 1538, Jan.-July 30,31 Part II 1538 Aug.-Dec. (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XIV Part I 1539, Jan.-July 32,33 Part II 1539, Aug.-Dec. (Pr.)

65 Calendars Group Class Position No. S.P. Vols. XV, XVI, XVII 1540 Jan.- 34,35,36 Aug. 1540, Sept. 1541, Dec. 1542 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XVIII, Part I 1543, Jan.-July 37, 38 Part II 1543, Aug.-Dec. (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XIX, Part I 1544, Jan.-July 39,40 Part II 1544, Aug.-Dec. (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XX Part I 1545, Jan.-July 41,42 Part II 1545, Aug.-Dec. (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XXI Part I 1546, Jan.-Aug. 43,44 Part II Sept.- (Pr.) 1546, 1 547 Jan. S.P. Addenda Vol. I, Part I 1509- 1537 45A and undated (Pr.)

S.P. I, II, un- Vol. Part 1 538- 1 547 & 45B dated (Pr.) (This Calendar includes abstracts of the Patent Rolls of Henry VIII and of many other Documents not classified as State Papers, in both the Record Office and the British Mu- seum, and in Foreign Countries)

Calendar of State Papers, Foreign (25 vols):

S.P. (Pr.) Edward VI 1 547- 1 553 57

S.P. 8 Pr Mary ^ss-^s ( 58

Elizabeth (23 vols) :

S.P. Vols. I II 60 & 1 558- 1 559: 1 559- 1 560 59, (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. Ill May 1560-Feb. 1561 (Pr.) 61

S.P. Vol. IV March 1 561 -April 1562 62 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. V May-Dec. 1562. With Sup- 63 (Pr.) plement 1 559- 1 562

S.P. Vols. VI, VII & VIII 1563: 1564- 64, 65, 66 566- * 1565: 1 1 568 (Pr.)

66 Calendars Group Class Position No.

1 with Appendix S.P. Vol. IX 1 569- 1 57 67 1568 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. X, XI 1572-1574: i575- x 577 68,69 (Pr.)

569- 1 with Appendix S.P. Vol. IX 1 1 57 67 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. X-XI 1572-1574: 1575-1577 68,69 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XII July 1577-1578 (Pr.) 70

S.P. Vol. XIII June 1578-June 1579 7i (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XIV July 1579-1580 (Pr.) 72

S.P. Vols. XV-XVI Jan. 1 581 -April 73.74 1582: May-Dec. 1582 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XVII Jan.-June 1583, with 75 (?) Pr Addenda 1553 -1583 (

S.P. Vol. XVIII: July 1583-July 1584: 76 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XIX Aug. 1 584-Aug. 1585 77 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XX Sept. 1585-May 1586 78 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XXI, Part I, General: June 79 1585-June 1588 (excluding Holland & Flanders) (Pr.)

S.P Vol. XXI, Part II, June 1586-Mar. 80 1587 (Holland & Flanders) (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XXI, Part III, April-Dec. 1587 81 (Holland & Flanders) (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XXI, Part IV Jan.-June 1588 82 (Holland & Flanders) (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XXII July-Dec. 1588 General 83 (Pr.)

67 Calendars Group Class Position No. S.P. Vol. XXIII Jan.-July 1589 General 84 (Pr.)

PRESS 2

Lists & Indexes S.P. State Papers: Index of Names: 52 Committee for Sequestration of De- linquents' Estates Vols 1-8 (Ms.)

S.P. State Papers: Index Nominum to 58 Royalist Composition Papers Vol. I A-F (Pr.)

S.P. 35 State Papers: Descriptive Lists of 59A,b,c,d State Papers—Domestic: George I 1714-1727 (Ty.)

S.P. State Papers: Indexes to State Pa- 91A&91B pers—Domestic: George II 1727- & 92 1759 (Ms.)

S.P. State Papers: P.R.O.: Printed Lists 94A&94B

& Indexes Vol. XLIII : List of State Papers, Domestic 1547- 1792 and Home Office Records 1782- 1837 (Pr.)

Calendars

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic

1 547- 1 660: Edward VI, Mary,

Elizabeth and James I (Vol. 1-12) :

S.P. Vol. I 1 547- 1 580 Edward VI, Mary 1 & Elizabeth (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. II to V 158 1- 1 60 1 Elizabeth 2,3,4,5 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. VI 1 60 1 -March 1603 Eliza- 6 beth: with Addenda 1547- 1565 (Pr.)

68 Calendars Group Class Position No.

S.P. Vol. VII Addenda 1566- 1579 Eliza- 7 beth (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. VIII, IX, X. March 1603- 8,9,10 1623. James I (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XI July 1623-March 1625 11 James I: with Addenda, 1603- 1625 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XII Addenda 1580- 1625 Eliza" 12 beth & James I (Pr.)

Charles I: (Vols. 1-23):

S.P. Vols. I, II, III: March 1625-June 13, 14, 15 1629 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. IV, V, VI: July 1629-April 16,17,18 1634 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. VII, VIII: May 1634-Dec. 19,20 1635 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. IX: 1635 (undated—various 21 dates) -June 1636 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. X, XI, XII June 1636-Aug. 22,23,24 1638 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. XIII, XIV, XV Sept. 1638- 25,26,27 March 1640 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. XVI, XVII, XVIII April 28,29,30

1 640-June 1643 (Pr.) S.P. Vols. XIX, XX, XXI, XXII Jan. 31,32, 1644-Jan. 1649 (Pr.) 33,34

S.P. Vol. XXIII : Addenda March 1625- 35

Jan. 1649 ( pr-)

The Commonwealth (Vols. 1-13) :

S.P. Vols. I, II, III Feb. 1649-Oct. 1 65 1 36, 37, 38 (Pr.) '

S.P. Vols. IV, V, VI. Nov. 1651-Feb. 39,40,41 1654 (Pr.)

69 Calendars Group Class Position No. S.P. Vols. VII, VIII, IX March 1654- 42,43,44 June 1656 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. X, XI, XII, XIII July 1656- 45,46, May 1660 (Pr.) 47,48

Proceedings of the Committee for the Advance of Money:

S.P. Part I : Preface, List of the Records, 49 General Proceedings Cases (Pr.)

S.P. Part II: Cases, continued (Pr.) 50

S.P. Part III: Cases, continued. Ad- 51 denda, Errata, Warrants, Index (Pr.)

Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents etc. 1643-1660:

S.P. Part I General Proceedings (Pr.) 53

S.P. Parts II, III, IV. Cases 1643-Dec. 54,55,56 1653 (Pr.)

S.P. Part V. Cases, Jan. 1654-Dec. 1659. 57 With Introduction, Addenda & In- dex (Pr.)

Charles II (Vols. 1-28) :

S.P. Vols. I, II, III. 1660-Aug. 1664 59,60,61 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. IV, V, VI. Sept. 1664-March 62, 63, 64 1667 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. VII, VIII, IX. April 1667- 65,66,67 Dec. 1669 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. X. 1670. With Addenda, 1660- 68 1670 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. XI, XII, XIII. Jan. 1670- 69,70,71 Sept. 1672 (Pr.)

70 Calendars Group Class Position No.

S.P. Vols. XIV, XV, XVI. Oct. 1672- 72,73.74 Feb. 1675 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. XVII, XVIII, XIX. March 75, 76, 77 1675-Feb. 1678 (Pr.)

S.P. Vol. XX. March-Dec. 1678 with 78 Addenda, 1674- 1679 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. XXI, XXII, XXIII: Jan. 1 79A, 79B 1679-Dec. 31 1682 (Pr.) 79c

S.P. Vols. XXIV, XXV, XXVI, 79D, 79E,

XXVII. Jan. 1 -Feb. 5 1685 (Pr.) 79F, 79G

S.P. Vols. XXVIII. Addenda 1660- 1685 79H (Pr.) (This Calendar includes Navy Board Papers up to June 15 1673 an<^ tne Levant Company Papers up to 1670.

From 1 67 1 this Calendar also includes the Papers relating to Ire- land.)

William III (Vols. 1-11):

S.P. Vols. I, II, III. William & Mary: 80,81,82 Feb. 13 1689-March of 1692 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. IV, V. William & Mary: 1693- 83, 84

June 1695 ( Pr -)

S.P. Vol. VI. William & Mary: July- 85 Dec. 1695 and Addenda, 1689- 1695 (Pr.)

S.P. Vols. VII, VIII, IX. William: Jan. 86a, 86b,

1 1696-Dec. 31 1698 (Pr.) 86c

S.P. Vols. X, XI. William: Jan. 1 1699- 86d, 86e March 8 1702 (Pr.)

S.P. Anne: Vols. I & II: 1 702-1 704 (Pr.) 87^873

S.P. George II. Part I, 1727-29—letters 90 and papers only and giving volumes and folio numbers (Ty.)

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Home Office Papers, George HI (Vols. 1-4)

I II, 760- S.P. Vols. & Oct. 25 1 1 769 (Pr.) 95, 96 S.P. Vols. Ill & IV. 1770-1775 (Pr.) 97,98

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Lists & Indexes

Adm, 36-38 Admiralty : Lists of Ships Muster 1 to 4 Books: Series 1.2.3 (Ty.)

1 5- List of Adm. 1 1 7 Admiralty: Record Estab- 4A lishment Books & Ships Ledgers (Ty.)

Adm. 39 Admiralty: List of Ships Muster 5 Books and their armed vessels (Ms.)

Adm. 42 Admiralty: List of Admiralty Yard 6 Books (Ty.)

Adm. 31 Admiralty: List of Ships Pay Books 7 Controller (Ty.)

Adm. 33-35 Admiralty: Lists of Ships Pay 8-15 Books, Treasure Series 1.2.3 (Ms.)

Adm. 51 Admiralty: Lists of Captain's Mas- 16-23 to ters & Ship Logs (Ty.)

Adm. 54 Admiralty : Supplementary Logs Se- ries I & II (Master's Logs & Ex- plorations) (Ty.)

Adm. 50 Admiralty : Lists of Admirals' Jour- 24A&24B nals & of Ships Lost (Ty.)

Adm. 1 01 Admiralty : List of Medical Journals 25a (Ms.)

Adm. Admiralty : List of Hospital Masters 25B (Ty.)

Adm. Admiralty: List of Ships employed 25c in Mission of Discovery 1669- 1860 (Ty.)

72 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No.

Adm. Admiralty: Descriptive List: Table 25D of the Heads & Sections of the Di- gest of the Navy Boards Correspond- ence (Pr.)

Adm. Admiralty: Index to Navy Board 27A Papers Nos. 21-34 (Bounty) (Ty.)

Adm. Admiralty: Descriptive List: Table 27B of the Heads & Sections of the Di- gest of Correspondence of Secre- tary's Dept. (Pr.)

Adm. Admiralty: Descriptive List: In- 27c dexes & Lists I: General notes in Adm. Records (Ty.)

Adm. Admiralty: Index & Lists II: Ac- 27D countant General's Navy Board etc. (Ms. & Ty.)

Adm. Admiralty : Chatham's Chest. Index 27E & List III: Chaplains (Ms.)

Adm. Admiralty: Index & Lists IV. Chap- 27F lains (Ms.)

Adm. Admiralty: Index & Lists V Chat- 27G ham's Chest (Ms.)

Adm. Admiralty: Index & List VI Medi- 27H cal Department (Ms.)

Adm. Admiralty: Index & List VII Navy 271 Board Records 1304- 1442 (Ms.)

Adm. 107 Admiralty: Index & List VIII Navy 27J Board Passing Certificate & Index of Baptismal Certificates (Ms.)

Adm. Admiralty: Index 1 789-1818 Navy 27K Board Passing Certificates (Ty.)

Adm. Admiralty: List of Admiralty Ships 27L in Commission 1832- 1838 (Ty.)

Adm. Admiralty: Index Lists: British 27M & n Museum etc.: Index of Officers

73 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No.

1 660- 1 668 & Seniority List & Index

1 688- 1 806 (Ty.)

Adm. Admiralty: Descriptive List: Digest 270 Heads & Sections (Ty.)

Adm. Admiralty : List of Names of Candi- 27Q dates (& Parents) Entrants to Royal Navy College—Portsmouth 1808- 1836 (Ty.)

Adm. Descriptive List: P.R.O. Printed 28 Lists & Indexes Vol XVIII: List of Admiralty Records Vol I (Pr.)

Adm. Admiralty: Supplementary List of 29B Admiralty Records (Ty.)

Adm. 6 Admiralty: Indexes to Commis- 30A & b

sioned Warrant Books 1 741-1760 (Ms.)

M.A.F. Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries: 30Q List of Records (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 31B& American Loyalist Claims: Index of 31BB Names (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 3 id List of Records 1838- 1850 (Ty.)

L.C. Lord Chamberlain's Dept: List of 32A Records to 1885 (Ty.)

L.C. 5 Lord Chamberlain's Dept : Index to 32B Miscellaneous (Ty.)

L.C. Lord Chamberlain's Dept: Index: 32c & 32D

Theatrical References I & II (Ty. & Ms.)

L.C. Lord Chamberlain's Dept: Indexes 32E & g to Accounts. Charity Commission Boxes 1-5305 (Ty.)

N.C.B. National Coal Board: List of Rec- 32K ords (Ty.)

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Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. C.O. Colonial Office: List of Records 33A&B with Key to References (Super-

seded) Vols. I, II, III (Ms.)

C.O. Colonial Office: Index to Corre- 34A spondence 1815-1870 (Ty.)

C.O. 201 Colonial Office: Index to New S. 34c Wales (original) Correspondence 1823-1833 (Ty.)

C.O. Colonial Office: Descriptive List: 34F Catalogue of Maps, Plans, Charts in the Library of the C.O. Virginia Map Section on N. American Colo- nies, Carolina N. & S.—Maps of Virginia 2-6 (Pr.)

C.O. Colonial Office : Comprehensive De- 35A to scriptive Lists of Records to 1902 35 N & 2 Supplementary Lists of C.O. Records Vols. I & II (Ty.) [35A (C.O.5/1305-1450) Virginia pages 95-100A] [35L (C.O.4 12/22-43) Virginia

pages 4, 5]

C.O. P.R.O. Printed Lists & Indexes Vol. 36A XXXVI: List of Colonial Office Records (Pr.)

C.O. 441 Colonial Office: Descriptive List of 36c Records in West India Encumbered Estate Commission (Ty.)

C.O. 806-812 Colonial Office : List of Confidential 36D Prints (Ty.)

C.O. Colonial Office: Lists of Records 37A&D 1838-1860 & 1861-1885 (Ty.)

C.O. Colonial Office: Supplementary 37B & Lists of Sessional Papers (Ty.) 37M

C.O. & 309 Colonial Office : Index to Victorian 37c

W.O. 6 Despatches 1 851- 1860 (Ty.)

75 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. CO. Colonial Office: Lists of Records 37G & h

transferred in i933"3 6 J > 937 ( Tv-)

CO. Colonial Office : List of Correspond- 37 j ence 1886- 1902 (Ty.)

CO. Colonial Office: List of Registers: 37K

1 886- 1 902 (Ty.)

CO. Colonial Office: List of Records: 37s Commonwealth Relations Officer (Ty.)

Customs Customs & Excise : Lists of Records 38A, b, c to 1837 & after (Ty.) [Vol. 38A. Customs 8/6. American p. 47 Ledgers of Exports of Brit-

ish 1 8 : 1 1 1 Merchandise 1 7 6/ p. 71 Ledgers of Imports & Exports 1768-73]

E.D. Board of Education : List of Records 38D (Ty.)

P.C 1/1-135 Bouillon Papers. Descriptive List 39A Vol. I (Ty.)

H.O. 69/20-39 Bouillon Papers. Descriptive List 39B Vol. II (Ty.)

F.O. 95/604-12 Bouillon Papers. Descriptive List 39c Vol. Ill (Ty.)

P.C Calonne Papers—Official Descriptive 39D List (Ty.)

F.O. P.R.O. Printed Lists & Indexes. 40A, b, c Vol. LII: List of Foreign Office Records to 1878 (Pr.)

F.O. Catalogue of Class Lists of Foreign 41 Officers Records (Ty.)

F.O. Foreign Office: Register of Corre- 42A spondence (Ty.)

F.O. Foreign Office: Lists of Records 42Bto42G 1879-1902 (Ty.)

76 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. F.O. Foreign Office: List of Embassy & 42H Consulate Activities (Ty.)

F.O. Foreign Office: List of Addenda 421 various (Ty.)

F.E.C. Forfeited Estates Commission: List 42Q of Records (Ty. & Pr.)

F. Forestry Commission: List of Rec- 42R ords (Ty.)

M.H. Ministry of Health : List of Records 43 (Ty.) '

M.H. 12 Ministry of Health: Poor Law 43B & c Union Papers. 2 Vols 1-16741 (Ty.)

H.O. 45 Home Office: Subject Index of 43A-43D Registered Papers. O Series 1841- 1845 (Ty.)

H.O. Home Office: Index of Registered 44E Papers 187-8 (Ty.)

H.O. 1/17-176 Home Office: Index of Names to 44F Certificates of Naturalisation 1844- 1900 (Ty.)

H.O. Home Office: List of Records of 44G H.O. & S.O. 1838 (Pr.)

I.O. India Office: List of Records (Ty.) 441

I.R. Board of Inland Revenue: List of 44M Records (Ty.)

L.R.R.O. Land Revenue Record Office: Class 44R List (Ty.)

L.R.R.O. Land Revenue Record Office: Sup- 44s plementary Class List (Ty.)

L.O. Law Officers Department: List of 45A Records (Ty.)

N.D.O. 6 National Debt Office: List of Rec- 45AA ords (Ty.)

P.M.G. Paymaster General's Office: List of 44B

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Records i to 1837: ii 1838-1878 (Ty.)

P.S.O. Privy Seal Office: List of Records 45B (Ty.)

P.R.O. 11 Public Record Office: Memorial 45F Records Deposited (Ty.)

P.W.L.B. L Public Words Loan Board: List of 45G Records (Ty.)

Q.A.B. Queen Anne's Bounty: List of 45H Records (Ty.)

S.O. Signet Office : Indexes to Docquet 451 to u Books (Ms. & Pr.)

L.S. Lord Steward's Department : List of 46 Records to 1885 (Ms.)

Supply Ministry of Supply: List of Records 46B to 1902 (Ty.)

: ( B.T. Board of Trade Class Lists Ty. ) 461c & 46R

B.T. Board of Trade : Lists of Records 46L to 46Q 1846-1915 (Ty.)

B.T. Board of Trade : Lists of Records 46s & 46T 1918-1931 (Ty.)

B.T. 3 Board of Trade : Alphabetical Index 46U to (Ty.) 46UU

B.T. 34 Board of Trade : List of Records 46V & 46W 1890-1932. Nos. 142657 to 260139 & 46X (Ty.)

T. Treasury: P.R.O. : Printed Lists & 46Z & 47A Indexes Vol. XLVI List of Records of Treasury, Paymaster General's Office, Exchequer & Audit Dept., & Board of Trade prior to 1837 (Pr.) T. Treasury: Treasury Board Papers 47 b

T. Treasury: Index to Treasury "Long 47c Papers" (Ms.)

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Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No.

T. i Treasury: Lists of Treasury Board 47Dto47F Papers 155 7- 1902 (Ms. & Ty.)

T. Treasury: List of Treasury Out- 47G Letters 1838- 1902 (Ms. & Ty. & reproduced)

T. Treasury: List of Records 1838- 48 1880 (Ty.)

T. 64 Treasury: Descriptive List: Cata- 49 logue of Trade Returns: England (Ty.)

T.S. 12 Treasury Solicitor: List of Records 50 of West New Jersey Society (Ty.)

W.O. War Office: P.R.O. Printed Lists & 52A&52B

Indexes Vol. LIII : Alphabetical & 52c Guide to War Office & other Mili- tary Records preserved in the Public Record Office (Pr.)

W.O. War Office: P.R.O. Printed Lists 53 & 54 & Indexes Vol. XXVIII: List of War Office Records Vol. I (Pr.)

W.O. War Office: Supplementary List of 55A Records (Pr. & Ty.)

W.O. 32 War Office: Descriptive List Regis- 55B & 55c

tered Papers : General Series & Mis- cellaneous Papers (Pr.)

W.O. 42 War Office: Indexes: Very Old & 56 & 57 Old Series Papers. Certificates of Birth. Vol. I: British Vol. II: For- eign & American Corps (Ms. & Ty.)

W.O. 43 War Office: Vol. Ill Miscellaneous 58

W.O. 1 War Office : Lists of Muster Rolls 59 & 60 & Pay Lists: General Series Cavalry Guards I & II (Ty.)

W.O. 25 & 54 War Office : Indexes of Officers 60c Marriages and of Barracks Masters (Ms.)

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Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. W.O. 10 War Office: List of Muster Rolls 6ia & Pay Lists Artillery (Ms.)

W.O. War Office: List of Muster Rolls & 6ib Pay Lists: Artillery Battery Records of Royal Artillery 17 16-1859 (Pr.)

W.O. 1 War Office: Lists of Muster Rolls & 62 & 63

13 Pay Lists: Royal Engineers & Mili- tia & Volunteers (Ty.)

W.O. 16 War Office: Supplementary List of 64A Muster Rolls (Ms.)

W.O. War Office: List of Army Purchase 64B Papers (Ty.)

W.O. 97 War Office: List of Soldiers Docu- 65 ments (Ty.)

W.O. 25/749 & War Office : Indexes to Returns of 66a & 66b 805 Officers Services 1828- 1829 (Ms.)

W.O. War Office: Complete List of Re- 66n turns of Officers Services (Ty.)

W.O. 34 War Office : Catalogues of Amherst 66.0 to Papers Parts I, II, III (Ty.) 66q

W.O. 78 War Office: Catalogue of Maps 66r-66s 1-790 (Ty.)

W.O. 78 War Office: Card Index to War 66t Office Maps (Ty.)

W.O. 78 War Office : Catalogue of Maps 66v & 66w 1087-3786 (Ty.)

W.O. 44 War Office : Index to In-Letters of 67A, 67B,

Board of Ordnance i, ii, iii, Vols. I 67c & II (Ty.)

Works 12 Ministry of Works: List of Office 67D 2/28 of Works: Public Buildings England

etc. (Ty.)

80 Calendars Group Class Position No. Calendar of State Papers, Colonial:

CO. Vol. II East Indies, China & Japan : 68 1513-1616 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. Ill East Indies, China & Ja- 69 pan: 1617-1621 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. IV East Indies, China & Ja- 70 pan: 1622- 1624 (Pr.) CO. Vol. VI East Indies, China & Per- 71

sia: 1 625- 1 629 (Pr.) CO. Vol. VIII East Indies & Persia: 72

1 630- 1 634 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. I America & West Indies: 75

1 574- 1 660 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. V America & West Indies: 76 1661-1668 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. VII America & West Indies: 77 1669-1674 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. IX America & West Indies: 78

1 675- 1 676 with Addenda 1574 to 1674 (Pr.) CO. Vol. X America & West Indies: 79 1677-1680 (Pr.)

CO. Vols. XI to XIV America & West 80 to 83A Indies: 1681-1696 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. XV America & West Indies: 84 May 1696-Oct. 1697 (Pr.) CO. Vol. XVI America & West Indies: 85 Oct. 1697-Dec. 1698 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. XVII America & West Indies: 86 1699; with Addenda, 1621-1698 (Pr.)

CO. Vols. XVIII & XIX America & 87 & 88 West Indies: 1700 & 1701 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. XX America & West Indies: 89

Jan.-Dec. 1 1702 (Pr.)

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Calendars Group Class Position No. CO. Vol. XXI America & West Indies: 90

Dec. 1 1 702-1 703 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. XXII America & West Indies: 91

1 704- 1 705 (Pr.) CO. Vol. XXIII America & West In- 92A dies: 1706-June 1708 (Pr.) CO. Vol. XXIV America & West In- 92B dies: June 1708- 1709 (Pr.) CO. Vol. XXV America & West Indies: 92c

1710-June 171 1 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. XXVI America & West In- 92D dies: July 1711-June 17 12 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. XXVII America & West In- 92E dies: July 1712-July 17 14 (Pr.) CO. Vol. XXVIII America & West In- 92F

dies: Aug. 1714-Dec. 17 15 (Pr.) CO. Vol. XXIX America & West In- 920

dies: Jan. 17 16-July 1717 (Pr.) CO. Vol. XXX America & West Indies: 92H

Aug. 1717-Dec. 1 7 18 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. XXXI America & West In- 921 dies: Jan. 1719-Feb. 1720 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. XXXII America & West In- 92 dies: March 1720-Dec. 1721 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. XXXIII America & West In- 92K dies: 1722-1723 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. XXXIV America & West In- 92L dies: 1724- 1725 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. XXXV America & West In- 92M dies: 1726- 1727 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. XXXVI America & West In- 92N dies: 1728-1729 (Pr.)

CO. Vols. XXXVII to XL America & 920 to 92R West Indies: 1730- 1733 (Pr.)

82 Calendars Group Class Position No, CO. Vol. XLI America & West Indies: 92s Pr 1 734- 1 735 ( CO. Vol. XLII America & West Indies: 92T

1 1 735" 736 ( Pr CO. America & West Indies: Addenda 83B

1 688- 1 696 (Ty.)

Journals of the Board of Trade & Plantations

CO. Vol. I: 1 704- 1 709 (Pr.) 93*

CO. Vol. II: 1708-1715 (Pr.) 93B CO. Vol. Ill: 1714-1718 (Pr.) 93C

CO. Vol. IV: Nov. 1718-Dec. 1722 93d (Pr.)

CO. Vol. V: Jan. 1722-3 to Dec. 1728 93E (Pr.)

CO. Vol. VI: Jan. 1728-9 to Dec. 1734 93* (Pr.)

CO. Vol. VII: Jan. 1734-5 to Dec. 93° 1741 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. VIII: Jan. 174 1-2 to Dec. 93 H 1749 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. IX: Jan. 1749-50 to Dec. 1753 93 1 (Pr.)

CO. Vol. X: Jan. 1754-Dec. 1758 (Pr.) 93J CO. Vol. XI: Jan. 1759-Dec. 1763 (Pr.) 93*

CO. Vol. XII: Jan. 1764-Dec. 1767 93L (Pr.)

CO. Vol. XIII: Jan. 1768-Dec. 1775 93 M (Pr.)

CO. Vol. XIV: Jan. 1776-May 1782 93N (Pr.)

Calendar of Treasury Papers

Vol. I: 1557-1696 (Pr.) 94

83 Calendars Group Class Position No.

T. Vol. II: 1 702 (Pr.) 697- 1 95 T. Ill: 702- Vol. 1 1 707 (Pr.) 96

T. Vol. IV: 1708-1714 (Pr.) 97 T. Vol. V: 1714-1719 (Pr.) 98

T. Vol. VI: 1720-1728 (Pr.) 99

Calendar of Treasury Books & Papers

T. I: Vol. 1 729- 1 730 (Pr.) 100

T. Vol. II: I73I-I734 (Pr.) 101

T. Vol. Ill: 1735-1737 (Pr-) 102

T. (Pr.) Vol. IV: 1 739- 1 74 1 103

T. Vol. 742- (Pr.) V: 1 1 745 104

Calendar of Treasury Books

T. Vol. I: 1 660- 1 667 (Pr.) 105

T. Vol. II: 1 667- 1 668 (Pr.) 106

T. Vol. Ill: 1669-1672 Parts I & II 107 & 108 (Pr.)

T. Vol. IV: 1672-1675 (Pr.) 109

T. Vol. V: 1676-1679 Parts I & II no&iii (Pr.)

T. Vol. VI: 1679-1680 (Pr.) 112

T. Vol. VII: 1681-1685 Parts I & II 113, 114 & III (Pr.) &115

T. Vol. VIII: 1 685- 1 689 Parts I & II 116, 117,

&III&IV(Pr.) 1 18 & 1 19

T. Vol. IX: 1689-1692 Parts I & II 120,121, & III & IV & V (Pr.) 122, 123, & 124

T. Vol. X: Part I: 1693- 1694 (Pr.) 125

T. Vol. X: Part II: 1694-1695 (Pr.) 126

T. Vol. X: Part III: 1695-1696 (Pr.) 127

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Calendars Group Class Position No. T. Vol. X: Part IV: Indexes of Per- 128 sons. Places & Subjects (Pr.)

T. Vol. XI: April 1696-March 1697 129 (Pr.)

T. Vol. XII: April-Sept. 1697 (Pr.) 130

T. Vol. XIII: Oct. 1697-Aug. 1698 131 (Pr.)

T. Vol. XIV: Sept. 1698-July 1699 132 (Pr.)

T. Vol. XV: Aug. 1699-Sept. 1700 133 (Pr.)

T. Vol. XVI: Oct. 1700-Dec. 1 70 134 (Pr.)

T. Vol. XVII : 1 702 Parts I & II 1 35A & (Pr.) 135B

T. Vol. XI-XVII: Introduction 1695- 136 1702 (Pr.)

T. Vol. XVIII: 1703 (Pr.) 137

T. Vol. XIX: Jan. 1704-March 1705 138 (Pr.)

I II I39a,b&c T. Vol. XX: 1 705- 1 706 Parts & & III (Pr.)

706- II T. Vol. XXI: 1 1 707 Parts I & 140A& (Pr.) 140B

T. Vol. XXII: 1708 Parts I & II 141 a & (Pr.) 141B

T. Vol. XXIII : 1 709 Parts I & II 142A & (Pr.) 142B

T. Vol. XXIV: 1710 Parts I & II 143A & (Pr.) 143B

T. Vol. XXV: 171 1 (Pr.) 144A& 144B

T. Vol. XXVI: 1712 (Pr.) 145A& 145B

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Calendars Group Class Position No, T. Vol. XXVII: 1713 (Pr.) 146

T. Vol. XXVIII: 1714 (Pr.) 147

T. Vol. XXIX: 1714-1715 (Pr.) 148

T. Vol. XXX: 1716 (Pr.) 149

T. Vol. XXXI: 1717 (Pr.) 150

T. Vol. XXXII: 1 7 18 (Pr.) J 5i

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Lists & Indexes s.c. Special Collections: P.R.O. Printed ia Lists & Indexes, Vol. XV. List of Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery & the Exchequer (Pr.)

S.G. Special Collections: P.R.O. Printed 2 Lists & Indexes: Vol. VI. List & Index of Court Rolls, Part I (Pr.)

S.C. Special Collections: List of Court 3 Rolls (Bundles 252-350) (Ty.)

S.G. Special Collections: List of Hun- 17 dred Rolls (Ty.)

S.G. Special Collections: P.R.O. Printed 18, 19, 20 Lists & Indexes: Vols. V, XIII, XXXIV. List of Ministers' Accounts Henry VII & VIII (Pr.)

S.C. Special Collections: List of Minis-

ters' Accounts: Ed. VI, Philip & Mary (Ms.) 21, 22 Elizabeth (Ms.) 23, 24 James I (Ms.) 25 Charles I & later (Ms.) 26A

S.G. & Ex- 6 Special Collections: List of Minis- 26b chequer 1 ters & Receivers Account: Addenda

(Land (S.C.6) and analogous Documents Revenue) (LRA) Ed. I— 1691 (Ty.)

86 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No.

S.G. 6 Special Collections: List of the 26c, 26D, Lands of Dissolved Religious Houses. 26E, 26F Part I (Beds-Hants), Part II (Kent & Mdx.), Part III (Mons-Suffolk, Surrey & Isle of Man) (Ty.)

S.G. Special Collections: Index to Lands 26G, 26H,

of Dissolved Religious Houses : A-G. 261 H-Q. R-Z. (Ty.)

S.C. Special Collections: P.R.O. Printed 27A Lists & Indexes, Vol. I: Index of Ancient Petitions of the Chancery of the Exchequer (Pr.)

S.G. Special Collections: List of Ancient 27B Petitions (Exchequer Petitions: Files 344-6) (Ty.)

S.C. Special Collections: List of Ancient 27c Petitions in English (Ty.)

S.G. Special Collections: P.R.O. Printed 29 Lists & Indexes. Vol. XXV: List of Rentals & Surveys & other Analo- gous Documents (Pr.)

S.C. Special Collections: Supplementary 30B List of Rentals & Surveys (Pr.)

P.R.O. 30 Public Record Office: Class List of 33A Gifts (Ty.)

P.R.O. 30/6 Public Record Office: List of Car- 33B narvon Papers (Ty.)

P.R.O. 30/8 Public Record Office: List of Chat- 34 ham Papers (Ty.)

P.R.O. 31 Class List of Transcripts (Ty. & 36 Ms.)

P.R.O. Public Record Office: List of Tran- 39A, 39B

scripts sent from Rome by Mr. Bliss. 1877-1906 (Ms.)

P.R.O. Public Record Office: List of Bas- 39c

87 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No.

chet's Transcripts from Paris (Pr. with Ms. and Ty. additions)

Calendars

Researches in Foreign Archives: Rome: Entries in the Papal Regis- ter relating to Great Britain & Ire-

land (Vols. 1-14) :

Trans. Vol. I 1 198-1304: Vol. II 1305- 40,41,42 1342: Vol. Ill 1342-1362 (Pr.)

Trans. Vol. 362- Vol. IV 1 1 404: V 1396- 43. 44, 45 1404: Vol. VI 1404-1415 (Pr.)

Trans. Vol. VII 1417-1431: Vol. VIII 46, 47, 48 1427-1447: Vol. IX 1431-1447 (Pr.)

Trans. Vol. X 1 447- Vol. XI B 1 455: 1455- 49, 49 , 1464: Vol. XII 1458-1471 (Pr.) 49C

Trans. Vol. XIII 1473-1484 Part I & Part 49D, 49E II (Pr.)

Trans. Vol. XIV 1484-1492 (Pr.) 49*

Trans. Petitions to the Pope. Vol. I 1342- 50 1419 (Pr.)

Rome: State Papers, relating to Eng- lish affairs in the Vatican Archives & Library:

Trans. Vols. I & II Elizabeth 1558-1571 : 51A, 51B 1572-1578 (Pr.)

Spain: Letters, Despatches & State Papers relating to the negotiations between England & Spain preserved in the Archives at Vienna, Brussels, Simanca and elsewhere (Vols. 1- •3):

Trans. Vol. I Henry VII 1485- 1509 (Pr.) 52 88 Calendars Group Class Position No. Trans. Vol. II Henry VIII 1509- 1525 53 (Pr.)

Trans. Supplement to Vols 1 & 2 1498- 15 13 54* (Pr.)

Trans. Further Supplement to Vols. 1 & 2 54B 1513-1542 (Pr.)

Trans. Vol. Ill Henry VIII: Part I 1525- 55.56 1526: Part II 1527-1529 (Pr.)

Trans. Vol. IV Henry VIII: Part I 1529- 57, 58, 59 1530: Part II 153 1- 1533. Part H (continued) (Pr.)

Trans. Vol. V: Henry VIII: Part I 1534- 6o, 61 II (Pr.) 1555: Part 1 536- 1 538

Trans. Vol. VI Henry VIII: Part I 1538- 62,63 1542: Part II 1542-1543 (Pr.)

Trans. Vols. VII & VIII Henry VIII: 64,65

1544: 1 545- 1546 (Pr.)

Trans. Vols. IX & X Edward VI: 1547- 66,67

1549: i55°" I 552 (Pr.)

Trans. Vol. XI Edward VI-Mary: 1553 68a (Pr.)

Trans. Vol. XII Mary: Jan.-July 1554 68b (Pr.)

Trans. Vol. XIII Mary: July 1554-Nov. 68c 1558 (Pr.)

(This Calendar is compiled mainly from the originals or from transcripts at the Public Record Office)

Letters & State Papers relating to English affairs preserved principally in the Archives of Simanca (Vols. 1-4):

Trans. Vols. I & II Elizabeth: 1558- 1567: 69,70 568- (Pr.) 1 1 569

89 Calendars Group Class Position No. Trans. Vols. Ill & IV Elizabeth 1580- 71,72 1586: 1587-1603 (Pr.)

(This Calendar is compiled mainly from transcripts at the British Mu- seum and from printed books)

Venice: State Papers & Manu- scripts relating to English affairs existing in the Archives and Collec- tions of Venice and in other libraries

of Northern Italy (vols. 1-38) :

Trans. Vol. I: 1202-May 1509 (Pr.) 73

Trans. Vols. II, III, IV, V. May 1509- 74, 75, 76 1519: 1520-1526: 1527-1533: 1534- 77 J 554 (Pr-) Trans. Vol. VI Part I: Oct. 1555- 1556: 78,79,80 Part II Oct. 1556-Oct. 1557: Part III Nov. 1557-Dec. 1558 with Ap- pendix 363- (Pr.) 1 1 55 7

Trans. Vol. VII Dec. 1558-Dec. 1580 (Pr.) 81

Trans. Vols. VIII & IX 1581-1591: 1592- 82,83 April 1603 (Pr.)

Trans. Vol. X May 1603-May 1607. With 84 Appendix 1588- 1607 (Pr.) Trans. Vols. XI & XII June 1607-June 85,86 1610: July 1610-June 1613 (Pr.)

Trans. Vols. XIII, XIV July 1613-Aug. 87,88 1615: Sept. 1615-Aug. 1617 (Pr.)

Trans. Vols. XV, XVI Sept. 1 61 7-Aug. 89,90

1619: Sept. 1619-March 162 1 (Pr.)

Trans. Vols. XVII, XVIII April 1621- 91,92 April 1623: May 1623-April 1625 (Pr.)

Trans. Vols. XIX, XX April 1625-Oct. 93,94 1626: Nov. 1626-Feb. 1628 (Pr.)

90 : ,

Calendars Group Class Position No. Trans. Vols. XXI, XXII March 1628- 95,96 March 1629: April 1629-Aug. 1632 (Pr.)

Trans. Vols. XXIII, XXIV Sept. 1632- 97,98 May 1636: June 1636- 1639 (Pr.)

Trans. Vols. XXV, XXVI 1640-Feb. 1642: 99, 100 March 1642-July 1643 (Pr.)

Trans. Vols. XXVII, XXVIII. Aug. 1643- 1 01, 102 June 1647: July 1647- 1652 (Pr.)

Trans. Vols. XXIX, XXX, XXXI 1653- 103, 104,

1654: 1 655- 1 656: 1657-March 1659 105 (Pr.)

Trans. Vols. XXXII, XXXIII. April 1659- 106, 107

June 1 661: July 1 661 -March 1664 (Pr.)

Trans. Vols. XXXIV, XXXV. April 1664- 108, 109 May 1666: June 1666- 1668 (Pr.)

1 1 o, 1 1 Trans. Vols. XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII 1 1669-1670: 1671-1672: 1673-1674 112 (Pr.)

PRESS 5 Lists & Indexes E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: ia List of Surrenders of the Monas- teries (Pr.)

Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 5 Catalogue and Index of Particulars for Sale of Estates: Charles I: Com- monwealth (Ms.)

Exchequer: Augmentation Office: Particulars for Grants of Crown Lands

E. Henry VIII : Index Locorum A-Z 6, 7, 8, 9 (Ms.)

91 j

Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. E. Edward VI: Index Locorum A-Z 10 (Ms.)

E. Philip & Mary: Index Locorum iia A-Z (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: iib Index Leases of Crown Lands (Pr.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 22 Class List (Ms., Ty., Pr.)

Exchequer: Augmentation Office: Catalogues (Descriptive Lists) of Ancient Deeds:

E. I A1819-B1798: C1780 (Pr.) 43c

E. II 1 A 820-3836: B 1 799-3870: 43D C1781-2915 (Pr.)

E. Ill A3837-6122: B3871-4232: 43E C2916-3764: Di-1330 (Pr.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 43F Ancient Deeds B4233-4837 (Calen- dar) (Ty.)

E. Ancient Deeds B4838-7000 (Ty.) 43G

E. Ancient Deeds B700 1 -9000 (Ty.) 43H

E. Ancient Deeds B9001- 1 1460 (Ty.) 431

E. Ancient Deeds B 1 1461-1 2656 (Ty.) 43 E. Ancient Deeds BX (Madox) (Ty.) 43K

E. Ancient Deeds B.S. (Calendar) 43L (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: First Fruits & Tithes 44 Office: Class List (Ms. & Ty.)

E. Exchequer: First Fruits & Tithes 50 Office: Valor Ecclesiasticus VI Ap- pendix & Indexes (Pr.)

Exchequer: First Fruits & Tithes Office: Institution Books:

E. Series A. 1556- 1660. Vols. I, II, III, 54, 55, 56, IV,V(Ms.) 57,58

92 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No.

E. Series B. 1 660-1 721. Vols. I, II, III, 59, 60, 61, IV, V, VI, VII (Ms.) 62, 63, 64, 65

E. Series C. 1770-1838. Vol. I, Vol. I 66,67,68, (pt. 2), Vol. II, III (Ms.) 69

Exchequer: First Fruits & Tithes Office: Composition Books: Index (Ms.) E. 1 554- 1 594. Locorum 70

E. Series I 1656- 1676 Index Nominum 71 (Ms.)

E. Series I 1 676- 1 684 Index Nominum 72 (Ms.)

E. Series II 1658- 1704 Index Nomi- 73 num (Ms.)

E. Series II 1666- 1679, 1679- 1684. In- 74, 75 dex Nominum (Ms.)

1 1 706- 1. In- E. Series II 684- 69 1, 1 1 72 76,77 dex Nominum (Ms.)

E. Series II 1721-1737, 1737-1768. In- 78, 79 dex Nominum (Ms.)

E. Series II 1769- 1798 (Ms.) 80

E. Series III Vols. I & II Index Loco- 81, 82 rum (Ms.)

E. Plea Rolls: 1 May-27 George II 85 (Ms.)

Calendars

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: Certificates of Colleges & Chambers (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: Particulars for sale of Colleges & Chambers (Ms.)

93 Calendars Group Class Position No.

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 3 Deeds of Purchase & Exchange H. VIII (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 4 Deeds of Purchase & Exchange Ed. VI (Ms.)

Exchequer: Augmentation Office: Particulars for Grants of Crown Lands:

E. Inventory—with Addenda (Ms.) 12

E. Ed. VI A-K. L-Z (Ms.) 13, 14

E. Philip & Mary: Elizabeth I: 15 James I: Miscellaneous (Ms.)

E. Charles I (Ms.) 16

Exchequer: Augmentation Office: Particulars for Leases: Elizabeth I & James I:

E. Vol. 1 Beds. & Lanes. (Ms.) 17

E. Vol. II Mdx.-Worcs. (Ms.) 18

E. Vol. Ill Yorks (Ms.) 19

E. Vol. IV Wales: Mixed Counties 20 (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 21 Particulars for Leases in Reversion 1564-1592 (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 23 Decrees & Leases Enrolled in Court of General Surveyors (Pr.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 24 Enrolment of Leases 3-31 Elizabeth I (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 25 Index to Enrolment of Leases & Pensions (Pr.)

94 Calendars Group Class Position No. E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 26

Counterpart of Leases Eliz. I : James I (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 27 Conventual Leases (Ms.)

Exchequer: Augmentation Office: Particulars for Sale of Fee Farm Rents:

E. Vol. I A-M: Vol. II N-Z: Vol. 28,29,30 III Duchy of Lancaster (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 3I332 Counterparts of Deeds of Sale of Fee Farm Rents: Interregnum A-L: M-Z (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 34 Select Index to Miscellaneous Book (Ms.)

Exchequer: Augmentation Office: Miscellaneous Books:

E. Part I Vols. 31-50. Index Loco- 35 rum (Ms.)

E. Part III Vols. 51-54 (Ms.) 36 E. 91-100. Decrees & Orders 28-31 37 H. VIII (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 38 [Index] Miscellaneous Books 91-100. Decrees & Orders 28-31 H. VIII (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 39A Miscellaneous Books 100-105 H. VIII & Ed. VI (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Augmentation Office: 39B [Index] to Miscellaneous Book 100- 105. 31 H. VIII-7 Ed. VI (Ms.)

95 Calendars Group Class Position No.

Exchequer: Augmentation Office: Proceedings of the Court of Aug- mentation:

E. Bundles 1-20: 21-39 (Ms.) 41&42 E. Miscellaneous Books (Ms.) 43A

E. [Descriptive Catalogue]: Index 43B Locorum to Press 5 (Ty.)

PRESS 6

Lists & Indexes

E. Exchequer: Treasury of the Re- i^a, 13B ceipt: Antient Kalendars & Inven-

tions I, II, III (Pr.)

Exchequer: Treasury of the Re- ceipt: Register of Edward the Black Prince:

I E. Part 1 346- 1 348 (Pr.) 13D

E. Part II (Duchy of Cornwall) 1351- 13E 1365 (Pr.)

E. Part III (Palatinate of Chester) 13F 1351-1365 (Pr-)

1- E. Part IV (England) 1 35 1365 (Pr.) 13G

Exchequer: Treasury of the Re- ceipt: Catalogue of Ancient Deeds:

E. Series A 61 23-10426 (Pr.) 19D

E. Series A 10427- 13672 (Pr.) 19E

Exchequer: Treasury of the Re- ceipt: Descriptive Lists Ancient Deeds:

E. Series (Ty.) 19F A 1 3673- 1 5068

E. Series A 15069- 159 10 (Ty.) 19G

E. A. S. & W. S. (Ty.) 19H

96 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. E. Exchequer: Treasury of the Re- 2iA ceipt: Class List (Pr. & Ty. & Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Treasury of the Re- 22 a ceipt: Class List 1800E (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Treasury of the Re- 22K ceipt: Inventory: Acknowledgment of Supremacy (Pr.)

E. Exchequer: Treasury of the Re- 22L ceipt: P.R.O. Lists & Indexes Vol.

XLIX : List of Diplomatic & Scottish Documents & Papal Bills (also Press 4 No. 3 Press 26 No. 31) (Pr.)

E. Exchequer: Land Revenue: An- 20 cient Deeds. Series E (Descriptive List) (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Land Revenue: Class 2ib List (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Re- 191

membrancer : Ancient Deeds P ( De- scriptive List) (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Re- 22B membrancer: Class List (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Re- 23, 24A membrancer: P.R.O. Lists & In- dexes Vol. II: List & Index of Declared Accounts from the Pipe Office and the Audit Office H.

VIII- 1 829 (Pr.)

E. Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Re- 24B membrancer: Descriptive List of Enrolled Accounts of Customs & Subsidies with the accounts of the Chamberlains of London H. III- Ric. Ill (Compiled from the Pipe, Chancellor & Foreign Rolls and the Enrolled Accounts) (Ms.)

97 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No.

E. Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Re- 24c membrancer: List of Accounts for Farm Profits of Country 12 26-1 651 (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Re- 24D membrancer: List of Enrolled Lay

Subsidies 1 275-1377 (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Re- 24E membrancer: List of Enrolled Cus- toms Accounts. Part I 1294- 1327 (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Re- 25A membrancer: List of Chancellor's Memoranda Originalia & Pipe Rolls 1940 (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Re- 24A membrancer: P.R.O. Lists & In- dexes. Vol. XI: List of Foreign Accounts enrolled in the Great Rolls of the Exchequer. Henry III to Richard III (Ty.)

Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Re-

membrancer: Lists of Particulars & Warrants etc. for Leases:

E. Vol. I Bedford: Lanes. (Ty.) 25c

E. Vol. II Leicester: Rutland (Ty.) 26A

E. Vol. Ill Salop: Yorks: Wales: Isle 26B of Man: Mixed Counties (Ty.)

Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Re- membrancer: Jones' Indexes to Records:

E. Vol. I Originalia Rolls 1793 (Pr.) 62a

E. Vol. II Originalia Rolls 1795 (Pr.) 62B

98 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Re- membrancer: Memoranda Rolls Abstract with Index:

E. Rolls 13-16 (24-29 H. Ill) (Ty.) 63

E. Rolls 17-22 (30-33 H. Ill) (Ty.) 64A

E. Rolls 23-28 (33-37 H. Ill) (Ty.) 64B E. Exchequer: King's Remembrancer 64c & Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer:

Key to Modern References K.R. & L.T.R. Memoranda Rolls (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Receipt: Class List 22c (Ms. & Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Receipt: Supplemen- 22D tary Class List (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Receipt: Controller 22F General: Class List to 1842 (Ms. & Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Receipt: List of Re- 81 ceipt & Issac Rolls (Photostat) (Ms. &Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Receipt: Index Audi- 85 tors' Patent Books 1538- 1553 (Printed with Ms. additions)

E. Exchequer: Receipt: descriptive 86

list. Inventory of Pell Office (Pr.)

Books. Patents for Fees & Annuities

1 643- 1 646:

Patents 1654- 1660 Privy Seals 1672- 1673 Patents and Privy Seals 1603- 1620 Privy Seals 1655- 1660

Exchequer: Receipt: Auditors Of- fice: Index to Appointments & Of- fices:

E. Vol. I Names (Index 10726) (Ms.) 87

99 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. E. Vol. II Offices (Index 10727) 88 (Ms.)

PRESS 7 Lists & Indexes Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Indexes to Decrees & Orders. Series IV: E. James I: 1-6: 7-11: 12-16: 17-22 4,5,6,7 (Ms.)

E. Charles I: 1-6: 7-10: 11-14: 15-24 8,9,10,11

Exchequer: King's (or Queen's) Remembrancer: Indexes to Miscel- laneous Bills & Answers: E. Elizabeth: Uncertain date (Ms.) 21,22

E. Elizabeth: Bedford-Kent (Ms.) 23 E. Miscellaneous: James I-Victoria 24A (Ms.) E. Miscellaneous: Papers & Ordnance 24B Decrees (Ms.)

Exchequer: King's Remembrancer:

E. Lay Subsidy, Elizabeth (Ty.) 25 E. Subsidy Rolls. Clerical Series (Ty.) 26

E. Subsidy Rolls. Clerical Series Vol. II 27 (Ty.)

Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Subsidy Rolls: Lay Series:

E. Vol. I Beds, to Cumberland (Ty.) 28 E. Vol. II Derby-Essex (Ty.) 29 E. Vol. Ill Glos. & Hunts. (Ty.) 30

E. Vol. IV Kent & Lines. (Ty.) 31 E. Vol. V London to Northampton 32 (Ty.)

E. Vol. VI Northumberland to Somer- 33 set (Ty.)

IOO Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. E. Vol. VII Stafford to Sussex (Ty.) 34 E. Vol. VIII Warwick to York (Ty.) 35 E. Vol. IX Wales, Cinque Ports, Royal 36A Households etc., Diverse Counties & Miscellaneous, Unknown Counties, Addenda (Ty.) Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: 36B

Temporary List of Addenda & Cor- rigenda (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: 36c Addenda List—Continued (Ty.)

Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Certification of Residence:

E. Vol. I Introduction & Key (Ty.) 37 E. Vol. II & III: A-Be: B-By. Index 38,39 Nominum (Ty.)

E. Vol. IV & V: C : D-F. Index Nomi- 40, 41 num (Ty.) E. Vol. VI & VII: G-Hi: Ho-L. In- 42,43 dex Nominum (Ty.) E. Vol. VIII & IX: M-Pa: Pe-Sh. In- 44,45 dex Nominum (Ty.) E. Vol. X & XI: St-Tr: To-Z. Index 46,47 Nominum (Ty.)

E. Supplementary Index (Ty.) 48

E. Exchequer : King's Remembrancer : 98 Descriptive List of Conventual Leases (Ms.) E. Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: 99A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds Vol. Ill (Pr.)

Exchequer: King's Remembrancer:

Deeds Series D (Descriptive Lists) :

Nos. 1 33 1 -4000: 4001-6000 (Ty.) 99B, 99c

IOI 1

Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No.

E. Nos. 6001-8000: 8001-11324 (Ty.) 990, 99E E. D.S.: R.S. (Ty.) 99F

E. Exchequer, King's Remembrancer: 10 Escheators' Accounts H. Ill to end. (Descriptive List) (Ms.)

Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Inquisitions Post Mortem:

E. Series II (DKR 10) Appendix II 102 (Pr. with Ms. Additions)

E. Series I: A-C: D-L Index Nomi- 103A, 103B num (Ms.)

E. Series I: M-R: S-Z Index Nomi- 103c, 103D num (Ms.) E. Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: 104 Memoranda Rolls (Ty.)

E. Exchequer, King's Remembrancer: 105

Memoranda Rolls 14. Henry III (Pipe Roll Series 49. New Series ») (Ty.) E. Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: 107 Sheriffs' Accounts (Ty.) E. Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: 108 List of Estreats (Ms.)

Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Customs Accounts:

E. 122 Vol. I A-K. Vol. II L-R (Ty.) 109, no E. Vol. Ill S-Y. Parts & Misc. (Di- in verse) (Ty.) E. 112 Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: 112

Key to Bundle Nos., Bills, Answers

etc. (Ty.)

Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer:

Port Books (Descriptive Lists) :

I 190 Part 1 565- 1 700 (Ty.) 113A

102 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No.

Part II (Ty.) E. 1 565- 1 700 113B

E. Part III 1701-1798 (Ty.) 113c

See also Press 15.87c. An Analysis of Certain Port Books. Part I contains detailed information about Imports from Virginia

E. Exchequer : Queen's Remembrancer : 114 List of Ecclesiastical Documents Bundles 1-25 (Ty.)

Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: Church Goods:

E. Vol. I Bed.-Mdx. (Ms.) 115

E. Vol. II Norfolk-York-Wales-Calais- 11 6a Uncertain (Ms.)

E. Vol. Ill Supplementary (E317/ ii6b B14) & Key to Land Revenue (Church Goods) (Ms.)

E. : : 1 7A, 1 Exchequer Queen's Remembrancer 1 1 7B P.R.O. Printed Lists & Indexes Vol. XXXV—List of Exchequer Ac- counts—various. Henry Ill-George III (Pr.)

E. Exchequer : Queen's Remembrancer : 117c Supplementary List: Various accounts (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: 117c Supplementary List: Various Ac- counts (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: 117D Descriptive List of Wardrobe Books

Ed. I-Ed. VI (with Appendix list of Wardrobe & Household Accounts in British Museum) (Ty.)

E. Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: 11 8a P.R.O. Printed Lists & Indexes Vol.

103 )

Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. XXXVII. List of Special Commis- sions & Returns in the Exchequer (Pr.)

Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: Special Commissions & Depositions:

E. Anglesey to Carnarvon ( Pr. 1 1 8g

E. Chester to Devon (Pr.) ii8h

E. Dorset to Gloucester (Pr.) 1181

E. Hereford to Lincoln (Pr.) ii8j

E. London to Northampton (Pr.) 11 8k

E. Northumberland to Somerset (Pr.) ii8l

E. Southampton to Westmoreland 11 8m (Pr.)

E. Mixed Counties i. ii. iii (Pr.) 1180, ii8p } h8q

Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: Depositions by Commission:

E. Indexes A-K: D.C. Eliz.-Victoria 11 8s (Ms.)

E. Index L-Z (Ms.) ii8t

E. Index 1-33 Elizabeth I (Ms.) n8u

E. Indexes Jas. I 1-11: A-K: L-Z: u8v, n8w, 12-22 (Ms.) u8x

Exchequer: Queen s Remembrancer: Barons Depositions:

E. Index. Eliz. 1 -Victoria A-M (Ms.) 119c

E. Index. Eliz. I-Victoria N-Z (Ty.) 119D

E. Calendar Bundles 1-10 (Ms.) 119E

E. Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: 1 19F & G Particulars for Grants & Leases Index Nominum (Ms.)

104 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No.

E. Exchequer : Queen's Remembrancer : 1 20A Class List. Vols. A-C (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: 120B Class List. Vols. D-W (Ty.)

E. Exchequer : Queen's Remembrancer : 1 2 oc Temporary List of Writs (Ty.)

E. Exchequer : Queen's Remembrancer : 1 20D List of Original Petitions (Ms.)

E. Exchequer : Queen's Remembrancer : 120E List of Exhibits (Ms.)

Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: Book of Fees:

E. Index i A-Be (duplicate) (Ty.) 12 IE

E. Index ii Bi-By (duplicate) (Ty.) 12 EF

E. Index iii C (duplicate) (Ty.) I2IG

E. Index iv D-F (duplicate) (Ty.) I2IH

E. Index v G-Hi (duplicate) (Ty.) 12]II

E. Index vi Hi-K (duplicate) (Ty.) 12:IJ

E. Index vii L-Ma (duplicate) (Ty.) I2IK

E. Index viii Me-O (Ty.) 12][L

E. Index ix P-R (duplicate) (Ty.) 12:[M

E. Index x Sa-Sto (duplicate) (Ty.) 12 IN

E. Index xi Str-Y (duplicate) (Ty.) 121 .O

E. Index xii W-Z (duplicate) (Ty.) 121[P

E. Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: 134B Returns of Papists' Estates Index Nominum (Ms.)

E. Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: 136 Index to Exchequer Records (A. Martin) (Pr.)

E. Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: 137 Index to Exchequer Records (H. Wood) (Ms.)

105 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. E. Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: 138 Miscellaneous List (Ty.)

Calendars

Exchequer: King's {or Queen's)

Remembrancer: Calendar of De- crees & Orders:

1,2 E. 1-30: 30-40: Elizabeth I (Ms.)

E. 39E. Elizabeth I—3 James I (Ms.) 3 E. 1-5 James I Series II (Ms.) 12

E. 3-6: 5-7: 7-8 (Ms.) 13,14,15

E. 2 James I— 15 Charles I Series IV 16 (Ms.)

E. 15 Charles I— 16 Charles II Series 17 IV (Ms.)

E. 16-29 Charles II. Series IV (Ms.) 18 E. 2 of Charles II—5 William & Mary 19 Series IV (Ms.)

E. Miscellaneous Bills & Answers Eliza- 20 beth I (Ms.)

Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission:

E. Vol. I Elizabeth I-James I (Pr.) 1 i8b

E. Vol. II Charles I (Pr.) 11 8c

E. Vol. Ill 24 Charles I-James II ii8d (Pr.)

E. Vol. IV William & Mary-George I ii8e (Pr.)

E. Vol. V George II (Pr.) 1 i8f

Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: Depositions by Commission:

E. (Misc. Calendars) Elizabeth I-Vic- ii8r toria (Ms.)

106 . )

Calendars

Group Class Position No.

E. i-ai: 22-41. George III (Ms.) ii8y.ii8z

E. 42-60 George III (Ms.) 119A

E. George IV-Victoria (Ms.) 119B

Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: Book of Fees:

E. Vol. I 1 198-1242 (Pr.) 121B

E. Vol. II 1 262- 1 293 & Appendix 121c (Pr.)

E. Vol. Ill Index (Pr.) 12 id

Exchequer: Queen s Remembrancer: Red Book of the Exchequer Regis- ters: Roll Series:

E. Vol. I (Pr.) 1 25a

E. Vol. II (Pr.) 125B

E. Vol. Ill (Pr.) 125c

Exchequer: Queen's Remembrancer: Feudal Aids: Inquisitions & Assess- ments relating to Feudal Aids—with other Analogous Documents 1284- 1431:

E. Vol. I Bedford to Devon (Pr.) 128

E. Vol. II Dorset to Huntingdon (Pr.) 129

E. Vol. Ill Kent to Norfolk (Pr.) 130

E. Vol. IV Northampton to Somerset 131 (Pr.)

E. Vol. V Stafford to Worcester (Pr.) 132

E. Vol. VI York & Additions (Pr.) 133

E Exchequer : Queen's Remembrancer : 1 34A

Memoranda Rolls: Ed. I Calendar of Deeds & Writings enrolled & edi-

ted by H. Sweetman ( Ms.

107 PRESS 8

Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No,

Exchequer of Pleas: Alphabetical Catalogues (Descriptive Lists) of Emoluments 1293-1820:

E. Vol. I A (Ms.) 31

E. Vol. II Ba-Bli (Ms.) 32

E. Vol. Ill Bli-By (Ms.) 33 E. Vol. IV G( Ms.) 34

E. Vol. V D & E (Ms.) 35 E. Vol. VI F & G (Ms.) 36

E. Vol. VII H (Ms.) 37 E. Vol. VIII I-K (Ms.) 38

E. Vol. IXLa-Lla(Ms.) 39 E. Vol. X Lla-Ly (Ms.) 40

E. Vol. XI M (Ms.) 41

E. Vol. XII N & O (Ms.) 42

E. Vol. XIII P (Ms.) 43

E. Vol. XIVQ&R (Ms.) 44

E. Vol. XVS-Sig (Ms.) 45 E. Vol. XVI Sil-Swy (Ms.) 46

E. Vol. XVII T-V (Ms.) 47 E. Vol. XVIII W-Z (Ms.) 48

PRESS 9

Lists & Indexes

P.R.O. Printed Lists & Indexes. Vol. 1 &2 IV: List of Plea Rolls of Various Courts

C.P. 21 Common Pleas: List of Pleas & Es- 2A soin Rolls. Hy. Ill (Ty.)

108 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No, K.B. 26 Curia Regis Roll Classes KB26 & CP 21 (Photoprints)

H.C.A. High Court of Admiralty : Class List 3* to 1800 (Ms.)

H.G.A. 30 & 49 High Court of Admiralty : Class List 3B (Ty.)

H.C.A. High Court of Admiralty: Crimi- 4 nal: Oyer & Terminer Records (Ms.)

H.G.A. Index & Description of Indictments 1537-1782

H.C.A. High Court of Admiralty: Index to 5* Prize Papers (Instances & Prize

Courts) 1 793- 1 800 (Ms.)

H.G.A. High Court of Admiralty: Index to 5D Prize Papers. 1739-48 (Ms.)

H.C.A. High Court of Admiralty: Index to 5E Prize Papers 1756-63 (Ty.)

H.C.A. 3 High Court of Admiralty: Index to 5C

Act Books Vol. I 13 & 14. 1525- 1529: i^l-ibl* (Ms.)

A. Alienation Office: Class List (Ty.) 10

Assizes Clerks of Assize: Class List to 1842 IIA (Ms.)

Assizes Clerks of Assize: List of Records of IIB Northern Circuit 1653- 1695 (Ty.)

B. Court of Bankruptcy: Class List to 1842 (Ty.) IIG

Crim. Central Criminal Court: List (Ty.) I ID

C.P. Court of Common Pleas: Class List 12 to 1800 (Ms.)

C.P. Court of Common Pleas: List of !3

Concords of Fines: 1. Geo. III-

2. Victoria (Ms.)

109 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No, C.P. P.R.O. Printed Lists & Indexes: 14A

Vol. XXII : List of Inquisitions Ad Quod Damnum. Pt. I 9 14A Bed- ford to York (Pr.)

C.P. Pt. II 19 Ed. III-2 Ric. Ill and 14B

Index of Places to Parts I and II (Pr.)

Del. High Court of Delegates : Class List 15* (Ms.)

Del. High Court of Delegates: Descrip- 15B tive List of Return of Appeal Ses- sional Papers. House of Commons.

1 867- 1 868 (Pr.)

E. Exchequer of Pleas: Class List to 1 6a 1842 (Ty.)

E. Exchequer of Pleas: Index to Title i6g Suits Enrolled (being Appendix II to DK's 2nd Report) (Ty.)

E. Exchequer of Pleas: List of Index, 22A Agarde, Le Neve, Palmer (Ty.)

Q.B. Court of Queen's Bench: Class List 17 to 1842 (Ms.)

Q.B. Court of Queen's Bench: Index to 23B Deeds Enrolled— 1656- 1760: 1760- 1805 (Ms.)

Palace Court Palace Court: Class List (Ty.) 24

Pris: Queen's Bench Prison : Fleet & Mar- 25 shalsea Prisons: Class List to 1800 (Ms.)

Req. Court of Requests: Class List (Pr. 26 & Ms.)

Req. Court of Requests: P.R.O. Printed 27A

Lists & Indexes Vol. XXI : List of no Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. Proceedings in the Court of Re- quests. Vol. I (Pr.)

Req. Court of Requests: List of Proceed- 27B ings belonging to the Reign of H. VIII (Ty.)

Court of Requests: Descriptive List of Proceedings:

Req. Bdle. 157-166 (Ms.) 40B

Req. Bdle. 167-184 (Ms.) 40c

Req. Bdle. 185-203 (Ms.) 40D

Req. Bdle. 205-225 (Ms.) 40E

Req. Bdle. 226-244 (Ms.) 40F

Req. Bdle. 245-275 (Ms.) 40G Req. Bdle. 276 (Ms.) 40H

Req. James I (Ms.) 40Q

Wards Court of Wards & Liveries: Class 56 List (Ty.)

Calendars

Court of Common Pleas: Calendar of Deeds Enrolled:

C.P. In Curia Regis & De Banco Rolls. 14c H. Ill & Ed. I (Ty.)

C.P. In De Banco Rolls. Ed. II (Ty.) 14D

C.P. In Coram Rege Rolls. Ed. I & II 14E (Ty.)

C.P. In De Banco Rolls. 1-18. Ed. Ill 14F (Ty.)

C.P. In Placita de Banco 1539- 1547 14G (Ms.)

C.P. In Placita de Banco 1547- 1555 14H (Ms.)

Ill Calendars Group Class Position No.

C.P. Indexes to Calendar of Deeds En- 141 rolled (Ms.)

C.P. 1555-1629 A-K: L-Z (Ms.) 14J

Exchequer of Pleas: Calendar of Pleas Rolls of Exchequer of the Jews

(Jewish Historical Society) :

E. Vol. I 1 2 18- 1 272: Vol. II 1273- 1 6b. 1 6c. 1275 (Pr.)

E. Vol. Ill 1275-1277 (Pr.) i6d

Q.B. Court of Queens Bench: Inventory 18 & Calendar of Baga de Secretis (Pr.)

E. Exchequer Records: Curia Regis 19

Rolls Ric. I 1 3 & 4 1 94-5 (Pipe Roll Soc.) (Pr.)

Exchequer Records: Rotuli Curiae Regis:

Vol. I 6 Ric. 1 — 1 John: Vol. II 1 20&21A John (Pr.)

Exchequer Records: Curia Regis Rolls:

E. Vol. I. Ric. 1—2 John (Pr.) 21B

E. Vol. II. 3-5 John: Vol. Ill 5-7 John 2 id (Pr.) E. Vol. IV. 7-8 John 1205-1206 (Pr.) 21E

E. Vol. V 8-10 John 1207-1209 (Pr.) 21F

E. Vol. VI 11-14 John 1210-1212 2ig (Pr.)

E. Vol. VII 15-16 John 1213-1215 2ih

with Appendix, 7 Ric. I to 1 John

1 190-"99 ( Pr

E. Vol. VIII 3-4 Henry III 12 19-1220 211

E. Vol. IX 4-5 Henry III 1 220-1 221 21 j (Pr.)

112 Calendars Group Class Position No.

E. Vol. X 5-6 Henry III 1 221-1222 21K (Pr.)

E. Vol. XI 7-8 Henry III (Unbound) 21L (Pr.)

E. Vol. XII 9 Henry III (Unbound) 21M (Pr.)

E. Exchequer Records: Abbreviato 22B Placitorum Ric. I-Ed. Ill (Pr.)

Just. Itin. Justices Itinerant : Placita de Quo 23A Warrants Ed. I-Ed. Ill (Pr.)

Court of Requests: Proceedings: Hunts Calendar: Req. Bdle. 6-10: n-15: 16-22 (Ms.) 29,30,31

Req. Bdle. 23-27: 28-34: 35-40 (Ms.) 32,33,34

Court of Requests: Proceedings: Devon Calendar:

Req. I H. VIII—Ch. I Bdles. 1 & 2 35

Eliz. I Bdle. 1 (Ms.)

Req. II Eliz. I Bdle. 2-4 (Ms.) 36

Req. Ill Eliz. I Bdle. 5-7 (Ms.) 37 Req. IV Eliz. I Bdle. 8-9 (Ms.) 38

Court of Requests: Proceedings: Atkins Calendar:

Req. Vol. I A-G (Ms.) 39

Req. Vol. II H.Y.Eliz. I Bdles. 137-156 40A (Ms.)

Sta. Cha. Court of Star Chamber: P.R.O. 41 a Printed Lists & Indexes Vol. XIII. List of Star Chamber Proceedings Vol. I 1 485- 1 558 (Pr.)

Court of Star Chamber: Calendar of Proceedings: Sta. Cha. Henry VIII (Ms.) 42

113 Calendars Group Class Position No.

Sta. Cha. Eliz. I. Vols. I: II: III (Ms.) 43, 44, 45 Sta. Cha. Eliz. I. Vol. IV: Addenda (Ms.) 4^47

Sta. Cha. Eliz. I. Supplementary (Ms.) 48

Sta. Cha. Jas. I. A Bdles: 1-46: B-C 47-113 49,50 (Ty.)

Sta. Cha. Jas. I. D-H Bdles: 11 4- 183: I-M 51,52 184-219 (Ty.)

Sta. Cha. Jas. I. N-R Bdles: 220-254: S-V 53,54 255-289 (Ty.)

Sta. Cha. Jas. I. W-Z Bdles: 290-31 1 : Charles 55 I & Miscellaneous (Ty.)

Wards Court of Wards & Liveries: Inqui- 57 sition P. Martin 37 H. VIII-3 Eliz. I (Ms.)

Wards Court of Wards & Liveries: Misc. 58 Books: Books of Survey & Valua- tions: 5-30 H. VIII Index Locorum (Ms.)

Wards Court of Wards & Liveries : Feodaris Survey (Partial Calendar)

Wards Court of Wards & Liveries: Deeds 6oa & Evidences (Partial) Inventory & Index (Pr.)

Wards Court of Wards & Liveries: Miscel- 6ob lanea: H. E. Bell's Guide & Analyti- cal List (Ty.)

PRESS 1 1

Lists & Indexes

Common Pleas: Feet of Fines. In- dexes:

C.P. Richard I-Henry VII (Ty.) 1

C.P. Henry VHI-Philip & Mary (Ty.) 2

114 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No.

C.P. Elizabeth I (Ty.) 3

C.P. Jas. I-Charles I (Ty.) 4

C.P. Interregnum-Anne (Ty.) 5

C.P. Geo. I-Geo. II (Ty.) 6

C.P. Geo. Ill (Ty.) 7

Common Pleas: Notes of Fines. In- dexes:

C.P. (i) i H. VII-TRIN. 25 H. VIII. 5B (Ms.)

C.P. (2) MICH. 25-EAS. 27 H. VIII (Ms.)

C.P. (3) MICH. 37 H. VIII-TRIN. 23 17 Philip & Mary (Ms.) C.P. (4) MICH. 34 Philip & Mary- 18 TRIN. 5 Eliz. I (Ms.)

C.P. (5) EAS. 5 Eliz. I (Ms.)

C.P. (6) 11-16 & 17 (Ms, 20, 2 22 C.P. (7) 17-24 (Ms.) }

C.P. (8) 20-40 25-29 Eliz. I (Ms.)

C.P. (9) 29-30 Eliz. I-EAS. 34 Eliz. I 23 (Ms.)

C.P. TRIN. Eliz. I (Ms.) (10) 34-39 I 24 ' 25 C.P. (11) 39-40 EAS.-43 Eliz. I (Ms.)/

C.P. (12) TRIN. 43. Eliz. I-EAS. 4 Jas. 26 I (Ms.)

C.P. (13) TRIN. 4-EAS. 9 (Ms.) ) C.P. (14) TRIN. 9-EAS. 14. Jas. I 27,28 (Ms.)

C.P. (15) MICH. 14-EAS. 20. Jas. I 29 (Ms.) (Now Index 17232) 30 C.P. (17) TRIN. 20. Jas. I-TRIN. 3 31 Chas. I (Ms.)

115 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No,

C.P. (18) MICH. 3-MICH. 7 (Ms.) ) G.P. (19) HIL. 7-MICH. 12. Chas. 1} 32, 33

(Ms.) )

(Now Index 17236) 34 G.P. (21) HIL. 12-MICH. 18 (Ms.) ) C.P. (22) HIL. 18-HIL. 1649/50 Chas. ' 35> 36 J I (Ms.) )

C.P. (23) EAS. 1650-HIL. 1655-6 Chas. 37 I (Ms.)

C.P. (24) EAS. 1656-EAS. 15 Chas. II 38 (Ms.)

G.P. TRIN. 15-MICH. 201 (Ms.) (25) ) " 39, 40 G.P. (26) 20.21-25.26 Chas. II (Ms.) J

G.P. (27) TRIN. 26-31 Chas. II (Ms.) 4i

G.P. (28) MICH. 31 Chas. II-TRIN. 2 42 Jas. II (Ms.)

C.P. (29) MICH. 2 Jas. II-4 William & 43 Mary (Ms.)

C.P. (30) 5 William & Mary-TRIN. 9 44 William III (Ms.)

C.P. (31) MICH. 9 William III-MICH. 45 2 Anne (Ms.)

C.P. (32) HIL. 2 Anne-MICH. 8 Anne 46 (Ms.)

G.P. (33) HIL. 8 Anne-EAS. 1 Geo. I 47 (Ms.)

C.P. (34) TRIN. 1 Geo. I-MICH. 7 48

Geo. 1 (Ms.)

C.P. (35) HIL. 7 Geo. I-HIL. 13 Geo. 49 I (Ms.) (Now Index 17252) 50

C.P. EAS. 13 Geo. I-MICH. 5 Geo. II 5i (Ms.) (Now Index 17254) 52

Il6 Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No, C.P. HIL. 5 Geo. II-HIL. 10 Geo. II 53 (Ms.) (Now Index 17256) 54

C.P. EAS. 10-TRIN. 16 Geo. II: MICH. 55,56 16-MICH. 22 Geo. II (Ms.) (Now Index 17259) 57 C.P. HIL. 22-26 & 27 Geo. II: EAS. 58,59 27-32 Geo. II (Ms.) (Now Index 17262) 60

C.P. HIL. 1-5 Geo. Ill: MICH. 6-10 61,62 Geo. Ill (Ms.)

C.P. HIL. 10-14 Geo. Ill: HIL. 15-20 63, 64 Geo. Ill (Ms.) C.P. HIL. 20-26 Geo. Ill: TRIN. 26- 65,66 MICH. 33 Geo. Ill (Ms.)

C.P. HIL. 33-EAS. 39 Geo. Ill (Ms.) 67

Calendars

C.P. Common Pleas: Feet of Fines: List 8 of printed Feet of Fines (Pr.)

Common Pleas: Fines Sine Pedes

Finium 1195-1214. 7 Ric. I-V . 16 John:

C.P. Vol. I Bedford & Cornwall (Pr.) 9

C.P. Vol. II Cumberland & Dorset (Pr.) 10

Common Pleas: Feet of Fines:

H. II & 1-7 Ric. I (Pr.) 11 (Pipe Roll Society 1st Series 17)

C.P. 7-8 Ric. I (Pipe Roll Society Series 12 20) (Pr.)

C.P. 9 Ric. I (Pr.) 13

C.P. 10 Ric. I & Curia Regis Roll 5 14 (Pipe Roll Society 1st Series 24) (Pr.)

117 Calendars

Group Class Position No.

C.P. Common Pleas: Feet of Fines: Cal- 15A endar of Diverse Counties. H. II- Ed. II (Le Neve. Index 12b) (Ms.)

PRESS 1 2

Lists & Indexes

P.C. Parliament & Council: Returns of 1 Members of Parliament (Pr.)

P.C. Part I: Parliaments of England

1 2 3- ; Parliament sessional pa- 1 1 702 pers, House of Commons 1878 etc.

—with Ms. list of members extracted from Fine Roll 18. HVI (C 60/247)

P.C. Parliament & Council: Index to 2 Returns of Members of Parliament (Ty.)

P.C. Part I—with Appendix and Corri- genda

P.C. Parliament & Council: Returns of Members of Parliament:

P.C. Part II : Parliament of Great Britain 3 — 705- Parliament of United 1 1 796: Kingdom— 1801-1874: Parliament and Convention of the Estate of Scotland— 1357-1707- Parliament of Ireland— 1559- 1800 (Pr.)

P.C. Part II: 2: Parliament of United 4A Kingdom— 1880- 1885. Index to Parliaments of Great Britain 1705- 1796. United Kingdom 1800- 1885. Scotland 1357- 1707. Ireland 1559- 1800. Appendix and Corrigenda (Pr.)

P.C. Parliament & Council: History of 4c n8 — 1

Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. Parliament: Biographies of Mem- bers— 1439- 1509 (Pr.)

P.C. Parliament & Council: History of 4D

Parliament : Register of Ministers & the Members of both Houses, 1439- 1509—issued by the Committee of both Houses Charged with the production of the history (Pr.)

P.C. Parliament & Council: Reports on 6 the Dignity of a Peer. Vol. II—with Digest & Indexes (Pr.)

P.C. Parliament & Council: List of Rec- ioa ords (Pr., Ty. & Ms.)

P.C. Parliament & Council: List of Par- iob liamentary & Council Proceedings Chancery & E.K.R. (Ms.)

Parliament & Council: Lists of Privy Council Office:

P.C. Pt. I Unbound Papers. Bundles 1-13 10c (Ty.)

P.C. Pt. II Unbound Papers. Bundles 14- iod 66 (Ms.)

P.C. Pt. Ill Unbound Papers. Bundles ioe 67-141 (Ty.)

P.C. Pt. IV Unbound Papers. Bundles iof 142-3473. A.D. 1810-1902 (Ty.) iof

P.C. Parliament & Council : Index to Pe- 1 titions to King in Council (D.K. 34th Report Appx. 1-162) (Ty.)

P.C. Parliament & Council: Index to 6im Privy Council Registers 1628- 1633 (Ty.)

P.C. Index to Privy Council Registers 61 n 1633-1637 (Ty.)

P.C. Index to Privy Council Registers 61 o 1637-1645 (Ty.)

119 :: 1

Lists & Indexes Group Class Position No. Parliament & Council: Subject In- dexes to Privy Council:

P.C. Registers 1660-April 1666 (Ms.) 62A

RC. Registers May 1666-April 1 67 62B (Ms.)

P.C. Registers May 1671-1678 (Ms.) 62c

RC. Registers 1 679- 1 688 (Ms.) 62D

RC. Registers 1 689- 1 694 (Ms.) 62E RC. Registers Dec. 1694-Feb. 1702 62F (Ms.)

P.C. Registers March 1702-Feb. 1708 62G (Ms.)

P.C. Registers March 1708-Aug. 17 14 62H (Ms.)

Parliament & Council: Acts of the Privy Council {Colonial Series)

Chronological Table & Index of the Statutes:

I. 1 P.C. Vol. A. 235- 1 908 (Ty.) 69A

P.C. Vol. II. B. 1235-1908 (Ty.) 69B

P.C. Index to Local, Personal & Private 69c Acts 1801-1899 (Ty.)

Calendars

P.C. Parliament & Council : Memoranda de Parliamento 1305 (Rolls Series) (Pr.)

Parliament & Council: Proceedings & Ordinances of the Privy Council:

P.C. Vol. i. 10 RIC. II- 1 1 H. IV. 1386- 23 1410 (Pr.)

120 Calendars Group Class Position No.

P.C. Vol. ii. 12 H. IV- 10 H. V 1 410- 24 1422 (Pr.)

P.G. Vol. iii. 1 H. VI-7 H. VI 1422- 25 1429 (Pr.)

P.G. Vol. iv. 8 H. VI-14 H. VI 1429- 26 1436 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. v. 15 H. VI-21 H. VI 1436- 27

1443 ( Pr

P.C. Vol. vi. 22 H. VI-39 H. VI 1443- 28 1461 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. vii. 32 H. VIII-33 H. VIII 29 (Pr.) 1 540- 1 542 Acts of the Privy Council (from the Register)

Parliament & Council: Acts of Privy Council of England—New Series:

P.C. Vol. I ( Pr. 1 542- 1 546 & Jan. 1 547 ) 30 P.C. Vol. II 13 Jan. 1547-19 April 1550 31 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. Ill 19 April 1550-24 March 32 1552 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. IV 25 Mar. 1552-22 Mar. 33 1554 (Pr-) P.C. Vol. V 26 Mar. 1554-20 Sept. 1556 34 (Pr.)

P.G. Vol. VI 3 Oct. 1556-15 Nov. 1558 35 (Pr.)

P.G. Vol. VII 20 Nov. 1558-30 Dec. 36 1570 (Pr.)

P.G. Vol. VIII 2 Jan. 1571-29 Jan. 1575 37 (Pr.)

P.G. Vol. IX 1 July 1575-4 Aug. 1577 38 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. X 26 July 1577-31 Dec. 1578 39 (Pr.)

121 1

Calendars Group Class Position No,

P.C. Vol. XI 2 Jan. 1578- 29 April 1580 40 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XII 2 May 1580 -24 Mar. 1 58 4i (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XIII 29 Mar. 1581-26 June 42 1582 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XIV 19 Feb. 1586-22 Mar. 43 1587 (Pr.)

P.C. XV 26 Mar. 1587-24 Mar. 1588 44 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XVI 25 Mar. 1588-3 Dec. 45 1588 (Pr.)

P.C. 588- Vol. XVII 1 1 589: 5 Jan.-29 46 July (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XVIII 1 Aug. 1589-14 Mar. 47 1590 (Pr-)

P.C. Vol. XIX 25 Mar. 1590-30 Sept. 48 !590 (Pr-)

P.C. Vol. XX 2 Oct. 1590-24 Mar. 1591 49 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XXI 25 Mar. 1591-30 Sept. 50 i59i (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XXII 1 Oct. I 59 I "3° June 5i 1592 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XXIII 1 July 1592-28 Dec. 52 1592 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XXIV 3 Jan. 1592-26 Aug. 53 1593 (Pr-)

P.C. Vol. XXV 1 Oct. !595-27 June 54 1596 (Pr)

P.C. Vol. XXVI 4 July 1596-24 Mar. 55 1597 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XXVII 25 Mar • I597- 18 Sept. 56 1597 (Pr-)

122 1

Calendars

Group Class Position No, P.C. Vol. XXVIII 20 Sept. 1597-30 July 57 1598 (Pr.)

P.G. Vol. XXIX 30 July 1598-21 April 58 1599 (Pr-)

P.G. Vol. XXX 20 June 1599-10 Dec. 59 1600 (Pr.)

P.G. Vol. XXXI 7 Dec. 1600-26 June 60 1601 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XXXII 1 July 1 60 1 -3 1 Sept. 6ia 1604 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XXXIII 1613-1614 (Pr.) 6ib

P.G. Vol. XXXIV 161 5-July 1616 6ic (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XXXV Aug. 1616-1617 (Pr.) 6id

P.C. Vol. XXXVI 1 6 18-June 16 19 6ie (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XXXVII July 1619-June 1 62 6if (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XXXVIII July 1621-May 1623 6ig (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XXXIX June 1623-March 6ih 1625 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XL 27 Mar. 1625-May 1626 611 (Pr.)

P.G. Vol. XLI June 1626-Dec. 1626 6ij (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XLII Jan. 1627-Aug. 1627 6ik (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XLIII Sept. 1627-1628 (Pr.) 6il (Pr.)

Parliament & Council: Acts of Privy Council of England: Colonial Se- ries:

P.C. Vol. I 1613-May 1680 (Pr.) 63

123 Calendars Group Class Position No.

P.C. Vol. II June 1680-Nov. 1720 (Pr.) 64

P.C. Vol. Ill Oct. 1720-Feb. 1745 (Pr.) 65

P.C. Vol. IV Mar. 1745-Sept. 1766 (Pr.) 66

P.C. Vol. V Aug. 1 766- (Pr.) 67 1 783

1 P.C. Vol. VI 676- 1 783 (Pr.) 68

Parliament & Council: Parliamen- tary Writs:

P.C. Vol. I Ed. I (Pr.) 70

P.C. Vol. II Ed. II: Division 1. Chrono- 71 logical Abstract & Calendar (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. II Ed. II: Division 2. Parlia- 72 mentary & Military Writs with Ap- pendix (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. II Ed. II: Division 3. Alpha- 73 betical Digest & Index A-J (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. II Ed. II: Division 3. Alpha- 74 betical Digests & Index K-Z (Pr.)

P.C. Ed. Ill, Vol. I : Beds., Bucks., Cam- 75A bridge, Cornwall, Cumberland, De- von, Essex, Herts., Hants., Yorks. (Ms.)

P.C. Ed. III. Vol. II: Berks., Derby, 75B Gloucester, Hereford, Kent, Lan- cashire, Lincoln, London, Mdx., Norfolk, Northants, Northumber- land, Notts, Oxon, Suffolk (Ms.)

P.C. Ed. III. Vol. Ill: Dorset, Hants, 75c Rutland, Salop, Somerset, Staffs, Surrey, Sussex (Ms.)

P.C. Ed. III. Vol. IV: Cinque Ports, 75D Leicester, Warwick, Westmoreland, Wilts, Worcs., Diverse Boroughs (Ms.)

124 Calendars Group Class Position No.

P.C. Ric. II. Vol. I. Bedford to Rutland 75E with Suffolk & York (Ms.)

P.C. Ric. II. Vol. II. Salop to Worces- 75F ter, with Cinque Ports, Dorset & Leicester (Ms.)

Parliament & Council: Rotuli Par- liamentorum:

P.C. Vol. I Edward I & Edward II (Pr.) 76A

P.C. Vol. II Edward III (Pr.) 76B

P.C. Vol. Ill Richard II-Henry IV 77 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. IV Henry V & 1-15 Henry VI 78 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. V 18-39 Henry VI & 1-7 & 8 79 Edward IV (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. VI 12 Edward IV- 19 Henry 80 VII (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. VII Henry VIII- 1 Mary (Pr.) 81 Printed Index to Rotuli Parliamen- torum.

P.C. Parliament & Council: Rotuli Par-

liamentorum : 1 279-1 373 (Pr.) 82

Parliament & Council: Statutes of the Realm:

P.C. Vol. I Introductory Charters (1101- 84

Statutes 1 (Pr.) 1 301) 235/6- 1 376/7 P.C. Vol. II Statutes 1377- 1503/4 (Pr.) 85 P.C. Vol. Ill Statutes 1509/ 10- 1546/7 86 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. IV Part 1. Statutes 1547- 87 1584/5 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. IV Part 2. Statutes 1586/7- 88 1623/4 (Pr.)

125 ) :

Calendars Group Class Position No.

P.C. Vol. V Statutes 1625- 1680 (Pr.)I 89

P.C. Vol. VI Statutes 1685- 1694 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. VII Statutes 1 695/6-1 701 9i (Pr.)

P.G. Vol. VIII Statutes 1702- 1707 (Pr.) 92

P.C. Vol. IX Statutes 1708-17 13 (Pr.) 93 P.C. Vol. X General Chronological Index 94 (Pr.)

P.C. Vol. XI Alphabetical Index (Pr.) 95

Parliament & Council: Acts & Ordinances of the Interregnum:

P.C. Vol. I March 1642-Jan. 1649 (Pr.) 96

P.C. Vol. II Feb. 1649-Mar. 1660 (Pr.) 97 P.C. Vol. Ill Acts & Ordinances (Pr.) 98 Introduction Chronological Tables & Index.

3. SOME GROUPS AND CLASSES THAT CONTAIN VIRGINIA ITEMS

Class

Admiralty Secretary's Department: In-letters 1660- 1902.

. . . Respecting returns from Dec. 1792 to June 1793 of British shipping that has entered the

ports of Virginia ( 384 1

Admiralty 1795. T. Hamilton buying flour in Virginia (3842)

Admiralty Orders in Council: Letters of General Cockburn respecting opera- tions on Virginia Coast and in the Chesapeake March 1813 (4359) Paper relating to a break of British blockade

of the Virginia Coast: Apr.-May 18 13 (5216)

Admiralty 2. Secretary's Department : Out-letters 1656- 1859.

126 .

Class

Letters of Secretary of Admiralty to Com- mander-in-Chief of the Halifax Station 1795- 1808. Disapproval of Captain Douglas' Action in refusing to discharge American seamen de- tained on board his Majesty's ships on the Coast of Virginia, 1807

Audit Office I. Declared Accounts.

Audit Office 3. American Loyalist Claims: Virginia evidence

1 783-1787 (C54.56). Virginia decisions 1786- 1788 (70).

Audit Office Clothing purchased in Virginia for Negroes 1777-1782

Audit Office 1 775-1 777. Virginia. Earl of Dunmore's account for the expenses in raising regiments etc.

Audit Office 13. American Loyalist Claims : Series 1 1 : Virginia 780- 1 1 835 (Bundles 30B-D: 31H-M: 32M-W)

Colonial Office 1 Original lists connected with Virginia's early history (3/2, 3/55, 3/44 etc.)

Colonial Office 5. Address from Loyal American refugees—including Virginia—to King. June 1779 (7)

Colonial Office 5. Virginia—Minutes of Assembly Mar. 31 -April 18 1768 (353)

Colonial Office 5. Original Correspondence—Secretary of State 1774-1783. Virginia-Massachusetts etc. (175)

Colonial Office 326. Board of Trade Registers (31 & 32)

Colonial Office 390. Board of Trade

Chancery 66. Order to investigate the Virginia Company 1623 (Bde 2313)

Chancery 66. Commissions to Governors of Virginia, 1624, 1636, 1641 (2340, 2745, 2895)

Chancery 66. Charles IPs Grant of Northern Virginia May 9 1669 (3109)

Chancery 83. Crown Office: Docquet Books 1-7 (Many Vir- ginia items)

Customs 2. Custom House: Inspector General's Accounts. Imports & Exports 1696-1702. Virginia (16)

127 Class

Customs 3- Exportations of English manufacturers to Vir- ginia and Maryland. 1697-1698. 1703. (Bundles

h 3, 4, 7)

Customs 1 6. Accounts—Ledgers of Imports & Exports

Exchequer 157. Licenses to pass beyond the Seas. Passengers from the Port of London (20)

Exchequer 190. Trade between Virginia and London (23, 24, 2D\ 31, 34-38, 43) and Virginia and Bristol ("54)

Foreign Office 4. Correspondence of Foreign Office with British Agents in United States 1780- 1792: British

Ministers in United States 1793- 1905 ( 1-16)

Foreign Office 5. America: II Series—Copy of a letter of Thomas Jefferson on the University of Virginia, 1825 (207)

Foreign Office 5. Slave insurrection in Virginia, 1831 (266)

Foreign Office 5. Yellow fever epidemic in Virginia. [Despatches from Mr. Crampton. 1885] (623)

//xg/i Court o Instance and Price Courts, 1628- 1889 Admiralty

High Court of 3. Acts 1 524- 1 786 Admiralty

High Court oj Appraisements 1 626- 4. 1 745 Admiralty

High Court of 24. Admiralty Court: Libel Files 1620 Admiralty

High Court o Virginia Company c Wye (Bundle 80) Admiralty Virginia tobacco (Bundle 112), etc.

High Court of 30. Intercepted Letters from Maryland and Vir- Admiralty ginia (258)

High Court of 32. Prize Papers. (Bundles 484-7) Admiralty

High Court of 49. Admiralty Court Proceedings 1723- 1739. Vir- Admiralty ginia. Aug. 14 1729. Trial for Piracy at Wil- liamsburg

128 Class

Privy Council i. Petition of Thomas Walpole etc. praying for grant of a tract of land at the back of the settlement in Virginia. August 1769

Privy Council 2. Register—Trade. George III (38, 44-49). Oct. 1 -Dec. 31 1800. Order laying quarantine of 14 days upon ships from Virginia and Maryland

P.R.O. 30. Chatham Papers: Address of the Burgesses of Gifts & Deposits Virginia to the King: Representation to the King from the Virginia House of Burgesses re-

citing their hardships (8)

P.R.O. 30 Cornwallis Papers: America Papers 1 780-1 781. Gifts & Deposits Papers relating to movements in Virginia (11)

Treasury 1 Treasury Board Papers, 1557- 1920

Treasury 4 Treasury: In-Letters Treasury 28 Letters relating to America, 1763- 1778: 1778- 1797

Treasury 38 Treasury Papers: Auditor's Statement of Ac-

counts. English Customs 1 558-1 881

1 reasury 39 Treasury Chest: Accounts 1838- 1878

Treasury 47 Emigrants Lists: Virginia items (5)

Treasury 52 Kings' Warrants, 1667- 1783. Letter regarding

seizure of Virginian tobacco by the Dutch (5)

Treasury 53 Warrants relating to Money: 1676- 1783. Cer- tificate giving names of 66 convicts to be transferred to Carolina or Virginia (1-56)

Treasury 54- Warrants not relating to money. 1667- 1849

Treasury 64. Treasury Papers. Entry Books of W. Blathwayt —Auditor General and Surveyor of the King's Revenue in the Plantations 1680-17 18. Papers regarding suicide in Virginia—Quit Rents in Virginia—Boundaries between Virginia and Carolina—Letters to General Nicholson regarding Ordnance and Ammunition sent to Virginia —Letter to Governor of Virginia to send £500 to New York (88, 90)

129 —

Class

Treasury 79. America: Loyalist Claims Commission. Inquisi- tion of Virginia against British subjects:

escheated estates, etc.

State Papers—Domestic

S.P.D. 14. Jas. I. Concerning a contract for tobacco July l6 1624 ( 9)

S.P.D. 32. William & Mary: Draft of a letter to 2 Arch- 33. bishops concerning Virginia (702)

S.P.D. 41. Military. 1702- 1782 Ordnance (34, 37)

S.P.D. 42. Miscellaneous Correspondence 1689- 1698. Na- val. Letters from Admiralty 1700- 1782.

State Papers—Domestic & Foreign

1 S.P.D. & F. 8. 670- 1 702. King William's Chest.

S.P.D.&F. 9- Miscellaneous

State Papers-—Foreign S.P.F. America. 1780- 1795: 1782- 1784

War Office 1. In-Letters. 1732-1868. (1-164)

War Office 4- Secretary at War. Out-Letters 1 684-1 861. American Letter Books. 1775- 1784 (273-5), 1763-1774 (987, 988)

War Office 28. Head Quarters Records, 1 746-1 901

War Office 34- Amherst Papers, 1712-1784. Letters from Of- ficers serving in South Carolina and Virginia

to the Commander-in-Chief, 1 757-1 763 (37 and 47)

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Special Report No. 28

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The British Public Record Office:

Survey of Materials for American History

by NEVILLE WILLIAMS

131 SPECIAL REPORT NO. 28 i. Introductory 133 Finding Aids—A General Statement 133 Finding Aids—Card Indexes 134 Finding Aids—Examples 135 2. Survey of Materials for American History 138 Records of the Chancery 139 Signet Office 142 Privy Seal Office 143 Records of the Exchequer 143 Records of the Court of King's (or Queen's) Bench 147 Records of the Court of Common Pleas 148 Records of the Clerks of Assize 148 Records of the Court of Requests 148 Records of the High Court of Admiralty 149 High Court of Delegates 151 Records of the Copyright Office, Stationers Hall 152 Gifts and Deposits 152 Transcripts 153 The State Paper Office 155 The Admiralty 158 The Colonial Office 160 The Board of Customs and Excise 163 The Exchequer and Audit Office 165 The Foreign Office 166 The Home Office 169 The Lord Chamberlain's Department 170 The Paymaster General's Department 170 The Privy Council 171 The Board of Trade 171

The Treasury 1 72 The Treasury Solicitor 174 The War Office 174

132 THE VIRGINIA COLONIAL RECORDS PROJECT SPECIAL REPORT NO. 28

The British Public Record Office:

Survey of Materials for American History

1. INTRODUCTORY

Finding Aids—A General Statement

The basis of the work of the Public Record Office is the Summary of Records. Last issued (in duplicated form) in 1950, it is kept constantly up-to-date as fresh records are transferred from the Law Courts and the Departments of State. This Summary shows the entire contents of the Office, whether the classes are open to public inspection or not; under each group of records every class with its class-number and name, the terminal dates and the number of pieces

(volumes, bundles, boxes or items) which comprise it is given. Various libraries and institutions have been presented with a copy of the Summary; it is believed that the Library of Congress has such a copy: copies outside the Office are not, of course, kept under revision. Boards in the Public Search Rooms announce which classes of records (or por- tions of classes) are closed to inspection. Complementary to the Summary and also issued in duplicated form, is the List of Class-Names and Numbers. The official Guide is M. S. Giuseppi, A Guide to the

Manuscripts Preserved in the Public Record Office: Vol. 1

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Legal Records (1923) ; Vol. 2 State Paper Office & Public Departments (1924). A new edition of this work is in preparation. A guide arranged on different principles was planned in 1948, of which only the first number Guide to the Public Records: Introductory (ed. Hilary Jenkinson, 1949) has appeared. It is understood that this series of pamphlets to particular sections of the records (e.g. one devoted to the Colonial Office Records) may continue. The Annual Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, issued pursuant to the Act of 1838 are a mine of information. Report No. 1 (1840) to Report No. 82 (1921) and the Reports since 1948 are in print; those for the years 1922-47 were issued in duplicated form. The 19th century

Reports contain bulky appendixes of lists and calendars of various records. Important features of the modern series are the lists of records transferred to the Office during the year and the statement of editorial work in progress, from the preparation of printed texts to the compilation of typescript search room lists. Sectional List 24 (formerly known as List Q) is issued gratis by the Stationery Office and lists all publications of the Office, with the prices of those still in print. Two other official publications deserve notice : the Report of the Royal Commission on the Public Records, 1912-1919 (3 Vols.), and the reprinted collection (1913) of Statutes, Rules & Schedules Governing the Disposal of the Public Records, 1877-1913: later schedules are available as

White Papers—a collection of them is kept in the search room.

Finding Aids—Card Indexes

A. Index of Lists and Indexes, superseding the 8 vol. Catalogue of Lists & Indexes (issued in duplicated form) B. Index of Documents in print: arranged by classes to show which portion of any record has been printed, whether in extenso or in abstract;

134 C. Index of Maps & Plans among the Public Records, arranged topographically; D. Index to Seals (official and personal) among the Pub-

lic Records. A and B are in the Round Room; C is in the room of the officer in charge of the Search Department and D may

be consulted in the room of the officer compiling it : the last was used as the basis for the Guide to Seals in The Public Record Office (1954) in which a number of Ameri- can seals are mentioned and the most prolific seal-bearing classes indicated. A full-scale bibliography of books and articles about

the records is out of place here, but a few works may be mentioned. G. S. Higham, The Colonial Entry Books vol. (S.P.G.K., 192 1 ) supplements G. M. Andrews 2 Guide to American Materials (1912, 1914). H. C. Max- well Lyte, Historical Notes on the Use of the Great Seal of England (1926) is vitally important for an understanding of the Chancery records, notably in this connexion for the issue and enrolment of letters patent. V. H. Galbraith, An Introduction to the Use of the Public Records (Oxford University Press, corrected edition, 1952) though of espe-

cial importance to the medievalist is also illuminating for all users of the Public Records irrespective of their periods

or subjects; its bibliography is full and helpful.

Finding Aids—Examples

As an example of the bulk and range of means of reference we may take the relevant classes of the Exchequer:

Exchequer, King's (or Queen's) Remembrancer

E.i 12: Bills & Answers: Giuseppi Vol. 1 p. 87: from

1 603- 1 783 there are five vols, of Calendar and Index in ms.

E.i 22: Customs Accounts: Giuseppi Vol. 1 p. 89: List in three vols, typescript, arranged topographi-

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cally under English ports, with a large 'Miscel- laneous' section in the last volume.

E.i 24: Entry Books of Decrees & Orders: Series II:

Giuseppi Vol. 1 pp. 89-90: List in typescript. Index in four vols. ms. for 1603-25. Calendar in four vols. ms. for 1603-12.

E.i 25: Entry Books of Decrees & Orders: Series HI:

Giuseppi Vol. 1 p. 90 : List in typescript. Index from 1631-59 in ms. (IND. 6854-60.)

E.i 26: Entry Books of Decrees: Series IV: Giuseppi

Vol. 1 p. 90: List in typescript. Indexes 14 vol. ms. (including IND. 16897, 16862-66). Calen- dar in ms. 4 vols.

E.i 27: Entry Books of Orders: Series V: Giuseppi Vol.

1 p. 90: List in typescript. Indexes 1 671-184 32 vol. ms. (IND. 16860-16891).

E.i 28: Decrees & Orders: Giuseppi Vol. 1 p. 90. List in typescript. For Indexes see the Entry Books

to Decrees & Orders (classes E. 1 23-E. 127). E.129: Decrees & Orders, Supplementary: Giuseppi

Vol. 1 p. 90: List in typescript.

E.i 30: Decrees: Giuseppi Vol. 1 p. 90: List in typescript. Indexes 14 vol. ms. as for class E.i 26.

E.131 : Orders: Giuseppi Vol. 1 p. 90: List in typescript.

Indexes 32 vol. ms. as for class E.i 2 7.

3 E.i 33: Barons Depositions: Giuseppi Vol. 1 p. 91. Index in 2 vol. ms.

E.i 34: Depositions taken by Commission: Giuseppi Vol.

1 p. 91 : Calendar Eliz. to George II printed in Appendixes to Deputy Keeper's Reports Nos. 38-42, and for George III 3 vol. ms. Index 14 vol. ms.

136 E.i 48: Informations: Giuseppi Vol. 1 p. 94. Provisional ms. List.

E.157 : Licences to Pass Beyond the Seas: Giuseppi Vol.

1 p. 96 : List in ms. Most documents have been

printed in J. C. Hotten, Original Lists of Persons Emigrating to America (1874).

E.159: Memoranda Rolls: Giuseppi Vol. 1 pp. 96-8: List typed. The Agenda Books (IND. 17051-79) form an Index to the 'Communia > section of the roll. The series of Repertory Rolls (existing to the end of Charles II's reign) duplicate the information in the Agenda Books and are less easy to use.

E.i 61: Minute Books (Common): Giuseppi Vol. 1 p.

98. Typed list.

: : 1 1 1 1 - 1 4. E. 1 79 Subsidy Rolls Etc. Giuseppi Vol. pp. 1

Typed lists, for Lay Taxation 1 1 vol., for Cleri- cal Taxation 2 vol.

E.190: Port Books: Giuseppi Vol. 1 p. 109: Descriptive List in typescript, 1565- 1700, 2 vol. List in typescript, 1700- 1798.

E.i 92: Private Collections: Giuseppi Vol. 1 p. 109. Provisional List in typescript.

E.i 94: Reports & Certificates: Giuseppi Vol. 1 p. 109:

List in typescript. Index, 1 677-1 841, 5 vol. ms. (IND. 16892-16896).

E.214: Deeds, Modern; Series D: Giuseppi Vol. 1 p. 90. Unlisted.

Exchequer, Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer

E.351: Declared Accounts (Pipe Office Series): Giu-

seppi Vol. 1 pp. 118-20. List printed in List & Index Vol. II (1893).

137 E.368: Memoranda Rolls: Giuseppi Vol. 1 pp. 127-8. List in typescript. The only Indexes for the period in question are the Agenda Books (IND. 17034-41). Jones's Index to the Memoranda Rolls (printed, 1795) though very selective should not be disregarded.

E.371: Originalia Rolls: Giuseppi Vol. 1 pp. 131-2. List in typescript. Ms. Indexes from 1603 in IND. 6964-78. Jones's Index (printed, 1793) deals with selected entries Hen. VIII to Anne.

Exchequer of Receipt

E.407: Miscellanea: Giuseppi Vol. 1 pp. 195-7. Ms. List.

2. SURVEY OF MATERIALS for AMERICAN HISTORY

PART I Part I surveys the records of the Courts of Law and the other groups which are described in M. S. Giuseppi, Guide to Manuscripts in the Public Record Office (1923) Vol. 1 and also the records of the Signet Office and the Privy Seal Office. Those groups or classes of records omitted by C. M. Andrews or inadequately described in his Guide to the Materials for American History in the Public Record Office, London (191 2, 1914) have been treated here in greater detail. Under each group are listed the relevant classes, with the class-number, the number of volumes or bundles for the period 1603 to 1783 if the class is continuous, or the numbers within given terminal dates. Further comments are made as necessary. ABBREVIATIONS USED HERE Am America, or American Am. Col American Colonies

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bd bundles Eng England, or English misc miscellaneous rec records ser series vol volumes

RECORDS OF THE CHANCERY

A. Judicial Proceedings (Equity Side) :

These rec. during the 17th and 18th centuries contain various references to the Am. Col. Since the chief rec, the various ser. of Proceedings, are listed under plaintiffs' names, perhaps the best means of tackling this group for

the purpose of extracting Am. material is through the Masters' Exhibits. It was the practice of the Court of Chancery to refer various matters to one of the masters in ordinary, who duly reported to the Court. The classes of Exhibits are evidences and other private documents produced by the parties in suits which, as they were unclaimed at the end of the hearing, remained in the custody of the

Court. As they are still 'private documents' special per-

mission is required before these documents can be seen.

The lists of the Exhibits are now open to inspection, and application (on a special form which requires the signa- tures of the Master of the Rolls and of a Treasury of-

ficial) is normally granted to bona fide searchers (See The Chancery Masters' Documents (Exhibits) Rules, 1951).

The following is a sample from the lists

C.i 04/ 126-9: Letter Books etc. re merchants trading

1 to Am. Col., 699- 1 700.

C.i 05/ 19: Commercial correspondence and price lists, Philadelphia, 1784-8. C.105/ 44: Grants of land in East Florida, 1765-83.

C.i 07/ 169 : Estate rec, New Jersey and wills of persons in Philadelphia, 1775.

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G.i i o/ 1 68: Letters re Holman family, Am., 1 785-1806.

G.i 13/ 89 : Leases of Property in N. Carolina.

There are 12 relevant classes of Masters' Exhibits:

C. 1 03 Master Blunt, 205 bd. C.i 04: Master Tinney, 269 bd.

C. 1 05 Master Lynch, 58 bd.

C. 1 06 Master Richards, 239 bd. C.i 07: Master Senior, 224 bd.

C. 1 08 Master Farrar, 424 bd.

C. 1 09 Master Humphrey, 44 1 bd.

C. 1 1 o Master Home, 1 89 bd.

C.i 1 1 Master Brougham, 230 bd.

C. 1 1 2 Master Rose, 2 1 6 bd.

1 C. 1 3 Master Kindersley, 260 bd.

1 1 C. 1 4 Exhibits of Unknown Masters, 1 9 bd.

These Exhibits are of intrinsic interest, but they should all link up with cases in the Chancery Court. The lists include in most cases the names of plaintiffs and defend- ants, thus providing the necessary clue for searching the voluminous records proper of the Court, from which the connexion of the Am. Col. with the suit should be clear. The main records are

Proceedings (the plaintiff's bill which initiated the suit etc.) C.2: Eliz. I to Chas. I, 2,240 bd.; C.3: Eliz. 1 to Commonwealth, 480 bd.; C.5 to C.io: Proceedings before 1714, 3,615 bd.; C.11: 1714-1758, 2,793 bd.; and

C.12: 1 758-1800, 2,434 bd.

Entry Books of Decrees & Orders (C.33) : vol. 105-462 for period 1603- 1783.

Reports & Certificates (C.38) : vol. 5-712 for period 1603-

1783; and Reports etc., Supplementary (C.39) : 1703- 1793, 8 vol.

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There are also Decree Rolls (C.78) : 2,241 rolls, 1603-

1783; Affidavits (C.31) : and various ser. of Depositions (C.21 to G.24).

B. Enrolments

Close Rolls (C.54) : in the 1 7th and 18th centuries these are solely concerned with the enrolment of private deeds, and some may be relevant; 1603- 1783, 4,884 rolls. Until the Patent Office was set up in 1848 the Close Rolls contain entries of specifications of patents; these specifications could alternately be enrolled on the

Specification & Surrender Rolls (C.210) : 1709- 1848, 287 rolls.

Parliament Rolls (C.65) : the enrolment of all public and private acts of Parliament; 1,037 ro^s f°r period 1603-1783.

Patent Rolls (C.66) : The enrolment of letters patent under the great seal, including grants to 'discover colonies,' charters of trading companies, the incorporation of colonies, appointments of the chief officials there, instructions to governors, commissions for settling boundary dis-

: 606- rolls. putes 1 1 783, 2,092 These are the most important of the Chancery rec. for Am. history. Andrews Vol. I, Appendix A, has described the stages of a patent passing the seals and indicated some of the related classes of rec.

Not every patent became enrolled ; e.g. from the later 1 7th century few commissions are on the rolls. The various ser. of Warrants and Docquet Books among the Chancery, Privy Seal Office and Signet Office rec. are, therefore, of some importance in supplementing information. The Patent Rolls also include letters patent for inventions until 1853.

Patent Rolls, Supplementary (C.67) : rolls 86-92 contain passes for ships, 1 748-5 1 Down to 1648 the appointments to those offices in Eng. in the gift of the Lord Treasurer are enrolled on the Fine

Rolls (C.60) , instead of on the Patent Rolls. From a cur-

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sory inspection of the ms. calendars it does not seem that appointments for instance of collectors of customs in the Am. Col. were enrolled here, nor has any similar enrolment been noted on the Bishops Patent Rolls (C.209) for

the early 1 8th century, which contain such Eng. appointments.

G. Other Records

Association Oath Rolls (C.213) (Petty Bag Office). Rolls 468-70 are subscribed by persons in the Am. Col. who undertook to defend the person and government of William III against all conspiracies, 1696.

Deeds, Modern (C.149) from James I, possibly contain materials; 61 bd.

Warrants for the Great Seal, Ser. II (C.82) : bd. 1712-

2976 cover period 1 606-1 714.

Warrants for the Great Seal, Ser. Ill (C.83) : bd. 1-86

cover period 1 714-1783.

Crown Office Docquet Books: IND* 4209-4219 cover period 1603- 1787. Important for commissions etc. which were not enrolled on the Patent Rolls. See also: rec. of Signet Office and of Privy Seal Office and the Entry Books of Warrants etc. among Colonial Office classes.

Foreign Office Warrants (Crown Office) (C.187) warrants for affixing the great seal to treaties etc., 1859- 1910, 4 bd.

SIGNET OFFICE

Docquet Books: IND. 6801-6828 for period 1603- 1789; and

King's Bills (S.O.7) : 264 bd., 1661-1783, are valuable for the issue of letters patent.

*This and certain other classes of records mentioned below do not have 'class numbers' but belong to the general series of Indexes and bear an 'IND' reference.

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Docquet Books: IND. 6744-6767 for period 1600-1785.

Warrants for Privy Seal, Ser. II (P.S.O.2) : 1603-70, 120 bd.

Warrants for Privy Seal, Ser. Ill (P.S.O.3) : 1766-8, 2 bd. are all valuable for the issue of letters patent. RECORDS OF THE EXCHEQUER

A. King's (or Queen's) Remembrancer's Department

The rec. of the equity jurisdiction of the Court of Ex-

chequer during the 1 7th and 18th centuries contain certain references to the Am. Col., principally in suits between

Eng. merchants trading there: e.g. in Hilary Term 1

George I, Cunningham v Booth and others re chartering

a vessel to New York etc. There is also relevant material in disputes concerning payments to individuals by the Exchequer: e.g. in Michaelmas Term 3 Charles I, Bind- lose v Lady Cecily De La Warr, in which the plaintiff claimed that Lady Cecily's royal grant of £500 a year out of the customs duties imposed on Virginian goods imported into England had been made over to him on his marriage with her eldest daughter. The rec. of this equitable juris-

diction are voluminous. Perhaps the best approach is through the Depositions by Commission (E.134) for which

there is a full-scale printed calendar. Between 1603 and 1783, approx. 750 bd. Other ser. are:

Bills & Answers (E.112): 2076 bd., James I-George III.

Entry Books of Decrees & Orders, 4 ser. E. 1 24 : James I & Charles I, 37 vol. E.125, Charles I-Charles II, 39 vol. E.i 26 James II- 1783 (Decrees), 32 vol. E.127, Charles

II- 1 783 (Orders) 47 vol. Decrees & Orders, Original: 4 ser. E.128, 1603- 1662,

112 bd. E.i 1 29, 603- 1 726, Supplementary, 21 bd. E.130,

143 1673-1783 (Decrees), 45 bd. E.131, 1664-1783 (Orders), 49 bd.

3 Barons Depositions (E.133) : 1603-1783, approx. no bd.; these are depositions before the barons (or judges) of the Exchequer Court.

Minute Books (E.161) : 161 6-1 783, 109 vol.

Reports & Certificates (E.194) : 1648- 1783, 35 vol.

Exhibits (E.140) : 252 bd.

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Revenue Records: The relevant classes amongst the King's remembrancer's rec. are:

Port Books (E.i 90) : Entry books kept in the various Eng. ports (a) of sums received as payment of customs duties on goods coming from or being sent overseas, and (b) goods sent by coast from one Eng. port to another. (a) are a prime source for the history of trade between Eng. and the Am. Col. The ser. begins in 1565, but gradually peters out from the mid- 1 8th century. 1,551 bd. The

London books between 1607 and 1697 tota l *46 bd.; the later London books were destroyed under schedule. Bris- tol 1 has 106 bd., 607- 1 788; Southampton, 44 bd., 1607- 1758; Plymouth, 58 bd., 1 607-1 758, and Liverpool, 103

1 bd., 607- 1 789. All are valuable for full descriptions of shipments, merchants' names etc. Total receipts for customs due on certain colonial produce can be found in the Declared Accounts (q.v.). From 1697 the Ledgers of the Board of Customs give totals of imports and exports (a) for London, (b) for the remaining Eng. ports considered as a whole.

Customs Accounts (E.122) : Various of the papers sub- sidiary to the collection of customs in the 17th century preserved in this misc. class, relate to Am. Col. The main portion of the class, however, is medieval.

144 Subsidy Rolls (E.179) : The detailed lists of taxpayers preserved in this class, arranged by Eng. counties, is a happy hunting-ground for the genealogist in the 1 6th and

1 7th centuries. For a New Eng. genealogist knowing that his ancestors lived in a certain county before emigrating in the 17th century, the subsidy rolls for that county would be the obvious starting-point for detailed research.

Other Records among the King's Remembrancer's

Department :

Licences to Pass Beyond the Seas (E.157) : Include registers of passengers to New England etc., 1634-9 (printed in J. C. Hotten, Original Lists of Persons Emigrating to America). 31 items. A recent addition to the class is

No. 3 1 , a long list of passengers from Gravesend to Virginia and Maryland in 1677.

Memoranda Rolls (E.159) : The principal record of the Exchequer as a Court of Revenue. Contain, e.g. cases before the barons re the smuggling of Am. tobacco into Eng. Here also are enrolled commissions, other letters patent, writs and administrative documents connected with the passing of public accounts, the treatment of crown debtors and their property etc. The text of Infor- mations on penal statutes are enrolled here with the rela- tive proceedings on them (e.g. cases concerning the evasion of customs duties, the original Information (E. 148) can therefore be disregarded. ) From 1 603 there are generally two rolls for each year, some containing as many as 800 membranes.

Deeds, Modern, Ser. D (E.214) : from James I, may contain materials and it is just possible that the ser. of Private Collections (E.192) has relevant papers.

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B. Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Department

Declared Accounts (Pipe Office Series) (E.351) : The final accounts of various officials made in the Upper Ex- chequer, with summaries of receipts, expenditure and allowances. Though these were rendered in duplicate (the E.351 ser. being written on parchment, the Audit Office

ser. (A.O.i,q.v.) on paper) , in many cases only one of the copies survives. Andrews, Vol. 2 pp. 80, 81, noted 16 rolls, the accounts of the managers of the customs in Am. & West Indies etc., 1670- 1770. Other relevant accounts are rolls 609-666 (customs farmers, 1604-71); 686-722, 795- 826, 911-17 (collectors of new impositions, notably on tobacco, imported into England, 1607-41); 741-63, 779- 94 (praetermitted customs, 161 9-41, containing details of colonial produce exempted from Eng. duties) and 827- 987 (Controller-General of Customs, 1688-1715). Much more material relevant to Am. survives in A.O.i series.

Memoranda Rolls (E.368) : Apart from that section of the roll containing the enrolment of commissions, other letters patent and writs relating to Exchequer business, which may contain references to col. matters (e.g. charters granting col. monopolies or exemptions from Eng. customs duties) the most important section for our pur-

pose is among the States & Views of Account, towards the Sheriffs of Eng. counties and cities for allowance of their official expenses; and amongst these 'cravings' are details

about colonies ( See also Records of Clerks of Assize ) . As an example, the 'cravings' of Richard Baskerville, Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1735-6 on E. 368/723, give details about the transportation of seven named convicts. These facts are most valuable for counties in the assize circuits for which records have not survived (notably the counties forming

the Midland circuit )

Other Records: There is a certain amount of material on the Originalia Rolls (E.371), among which drafts of

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certain letters patent will be found, not all of which became enrolled on the Patent Rolls of Chancery e.g. the incorporation of the Adventurers and Governors of the Society for Trade on the Coasts of Am. (E.371/845 rot.

, Charles I not to led to a Chancery en- 72 ) 11 seems have rolment. Other grants relating to Am. Col. noted are on E. 371/819 rot. 119, and E. 371/956 part 2 rot. 21. The indexes of this class for the 17th and 18th centuries are worth thorough examination.

C. Exchequer of Receipt

The Miscellanea (E.407) contains two relevant items:

No. 15 (2) Contract for victualling the garrisons of Pla- centia and Annapolis Royal, 1720; and No. 82 Certificates under the hand of the Bishop of London for the payment to individual clerks in holy orders of the £25 bounty on taking up appointments in Am. Col., etc. 1747-91. Simi- lar Certificates will be found in the C.O.5 series.

RECORDS OF THE COURT OF KING'S (OR QUEEN'S) BENCH

Plea Rolls: It seems likely that the 'Rex' portion of the Coram Rege Rolls (K.B.27), 755 ro^s for period 1607- 1702, and the Crown Rolls (K.B.28), 326 rolls, 1702-1783, which are the main record for quo warranto proceedings in Eng., also contain cases in which the charters of Am. Col. were held in question.

Of the various Crown Side K. B. Classes, the most im-

portant for using in conjunction with these two ser. of Plea Rolls are the Rule Books (K.B.21 vol. ) 41 for 1603- 1785.

The Plea Side and Crown Side rec. of the Bench will contain cases concerning Colonists involved in litigation during visits to England.

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RECORDS OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

It is unlikely that there is strictly relevant material here but the Feet of Fines (C.P.25) throughout the 16th and 17th centuries are a prime source for Am. genealogists who wish to trace their ancestry in Eng. The special jurisdictions, such as the Palatinates of Chester, Durham and Lancaster, and the Welsh Counties, have their own ser. of Fines [e.g. Durham 12).

RECORDS OF THE CLERKS OF ASSIZE

During the 1 7th and 1 8th centuries felons convicted at the assizes for manslaughter, horse-stealing and house- breaking etc. were, after sentence of death, commonly re- prieved for transportation to the Am. Col. The details of such transportations and of the cases leading to them are scattered among the rec. of the Clerks of the six assize circuits in which Eng. was then divided. The Palatinates of Chester, Durham and Lancaster and the Welsh Coun- ties as special jurisdictions had their own sessions. A ser. of Order Books solely concerned with Transportations,

1 629-1 819, survives for the Western Assize Circuit [As-

sizes 24/20-28) . The various Crown Books, Agenda Books, and Gaol Books for other circuits contain marginal notes among the record of the case whenever an order for transportation was made {e.g. for South-Eastern Circuit, 1735-52, Assizes 31 vol. 1; for Oxford Circuit, 1736-8, Assizes 2 vol. 11, and for Palatinate of Chester, 1705, Chester 21 vol. 5). RECORDS OF THE COURT OF REQUESTS

Proceedings (Req. 2) : A case has been noted concerning an individual who was engaged by Sir Thomas Dale as overseer of his tobacco plantation in Virginia, 1621.

(Req. 2/297/33). I* 1S possible that a careful search of the lists will reveal similar cases of early emigrants, who

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returned to England, during the first half of the 17th century. RECORDS OF THE HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY

Andrews reported in some detail in Vol. 2 on the importance of these records for Am. history. They include

A. Oyer and Terminer Records

Oyer and Terminer Proceedings (H.C.A.i) : trials for piracy and crime at sea (Andrews, pp. 344-5). Bd. 85, post 1700, includes examinations of pirates in New Eng- land.

B. Instance & Prize Courts

Acts (H.C.A.3) : 1 601 -1 749, vol. 24-74, with calendar for vol. 33-51, Minute Books of Acts and Prize Act Books,

1 646-1 786 (vol. 230-289).

Appraisements (H.G.A. 4) : 1626-1745, 24 vol.

Assignation Books, Ser. I (H.C.A.5) : vol. 1 13-142, covering period 1746-67, survive; but vol. 1-112, mentioned by Andrews p. 214 (items 1-141) were destroyed under schedule as duplicates in 19 15 and 1922.

Assignation Books, Ser. II (H.C.A.6) : 18 vol., 1767- 1783.

Assignation Books, Ser. Ill (H.C.A.8) : 6 vol. for American prizes, 1776-89. Calendars: IND. 8996-9027 covers 1633-1744.

Court Minute Books {Prize) (H.C.A.28) : 8 vol. 1777- 1783.

Examinations (H.C.A.13) : containing depositions of witnesses and answers to libels etc., bd. 38-222 cover 1605- 1770. Vol. 53 has been printed for the Anglo-American Records Foundation (ed. Shilton & Holworthy, 1932) and contains many references to Virginia, Massachusetts etc.

149 for the year 1637-8, indicating that there is a wealth of material for Am. history in these rec.

Exemplifications (H.C.A.14) : 1603-1762, vol. 35-79.

Instance Papers, Early (H.C.A.15) : 1650-1778, bd. 5-58.

Interrogatories (H.C.A.23) : 1603-1733, bd. 5-30.

Letters of Marque, Declarations (H.C.A. 26) : 1689- 1782, 70 vol., of which vol. 60-70 are Declarations against Am., 1777-82.

Letters of Marque, Bonds etc. (H.C.A.25) : 1625-1783, 119 bd., of which bd. 56-75 are American Bails, 1777-83, and bd. 204-6 are American Bonds, 181 2-15.

Libels, Allegations, Decrees, Sentences etc. (H.C.A.24) : Bd. 72-149 cover 1607- 1782. An important class. A selection of cases noted by Andrews pp. 308-31 1. Monitions {Prize) (H.C.A.31): 1664- 1787, 56 vol.

Prize Papers (H.C.A.32) : 1661-1783, bd. 1-493 and

1 82 1 -1 842. Andrews pp. 333-340 noted some of the items in bd. 260-493, being the main Prize Papers for the Am. War of Independence. Much new material available through lists of Prize Papers of War of 1739-48 bd. 145 the papers of the Prosperous, a Virginian merchant ship, retaken from the French in 1 744 ; and from the Papers of the Seven Years' War, bd. 205 the case of the Jamaica, a Boston frigate, 1 758. A class very rich in materials for commercial and maritime history of Am.

Sentences [Prize) (H.C.A.34) : Nos. 1-42, 1643-1767, general; Nos. 43-44, 1 776-1 788, Am. prizes.

Warrants, Decrees & Summonses (H.G.A.39) : for ar-

ships, 1 rest of 624- 1 760, 40 vol. Incomplete ser.

Warrant Books (H.C.A.39) : Vol. 12-77, J 6o5-i772, forming an index to the Warrants, and important for fill- ing lacunae in that ser.

Miscellanea (H.C.A.30) : 1531-1880, 897 bd. Andrews noted many relevant vols. Since his day further items have been listed and the class re-arranged. His enumeration of

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the items on pp. 316-28 no longer stands and needs to be keyed to the modern references. New material noted includes Intercepted Mails & Papers, America, 1756 (bd.

25 8 )> 1777-90 ( bd - 2 72, 277, 282).

C. Prize Appeal Records

Prize Appeal Acts (H.C.A41) : 18 vol., 1689-1813.

Prize Appeal, Appeals Papers (H.C.A.42) : items 1-165, 1689-1783.

Prize Appeal, Assignation Books (H.C.A.43) : 1689- 1801, 38 vol., of which 36-8 concern Am. prizes, 1779-96.

Prize Appeal, Case Books (H.C.A.45) : 1750- 1800, 30 vol.

Prize Appeal, Sentences (H.C.A.48) : 1672-1772, 7 vol.

Prize Appeal, Miscellanea (H.C.A.47) : 1689- 1783, 29 vol.

D. Vice Admiralty Courts

Proceedings (H.C.A.49) : Vol. 104, 91, 92 concern Am.

Courts, 1 723-1 783.

HIGH COURT OF DELEGATES

Since appeals heard here included those from the In-

stance Court of the High Court of Admiralty, there is probably relevant material. The records comprise

Acts (Del.4) : 1538-1756, 26 vol.

Assignation Books (Del.6) : 1650- 1829, 5 6 voh

Case Books (Del.7) : 1796- 1834, 13 vol.

Cause Papers (Del. 2) : c. 1600- 1834, 119 bd. 7- Examinations (Del. 3) : 155 1735, 23 items.

Processes (Del.i) : 1609-1834, 736 vol.

Sentences (Del. 5) : 1585- 1802, 35 bd.

Miscellanea (Del.8) : 1536- 1866, 87 bd.

151 RECORDS OF THE COPYRIGHT OFFICE, STATIONERS3 HALL

Registers: IND. 5944-6041, 1842-19 12. Including 27

vol. of Foreign Registers, 1 854-191 2, for entries of books, music, painting and sculpture. Between 1842 and 1854 foreign entries were made in the General Registers.

1 : Entry Forms ( Copyright ) being applications for

Label Books [Copyright 2) : commercial labels, in many cases duplicates of those attached to the Entry Forms; 1873-1912, 23 vol.

GIFTS AND DEPOSITS

note: Deposits which may be seen on restricted terms, as opposed to Gifts, are marked T).'

Allan Papers (PRO 30/2) : ms. materials for ecclesiastical history. Item 7 Nos. 14-20 relate to Am. in 18th century.

Chatham Papers (PRO 30/8) : the correspondence of the first Earl of Chatham and of his son, the Younger Pitt. 372 bd. Cornwallis Papers (PRO 30/11): official papers of

Charles, first Marquess of Cornwallis; 1 741 -1 819. Many concern Am. A prime source for the Am. War of Inde- pendence. 283 bd.

Egremont Papers (PRO 30/47) : D. Bd. 14, 24, 25 include papers on affairs in Virginia, S. Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana, military forces and postal com-

munications in North Am., 1 761-3.

Granville Papers (PRO 30/29) : D. Among the papers of the 2nd Earl Granville are despatches from the British

legation in Washington, 1870-4 (bd. 80, 81 ) ; correspondence on Am. affairs, 1871 and 1880-5 (bd. 154, 221, 222, 227, 228, 272) and papers relating to North Am. fisheries, 1803-84 (bd. 237, 271).

152 Leeds Papers (PRO 30/32): include the papers of Earl of Danby as Lord Treasurer in later 17th century,

supplementing the Treasury Rec. } with some Am. material (56 vol.).

Manchester Papers (PRO 30/15) : include important correspondence and reports relating to Virginia and the Bermudas, 1605-47 (Bd. 2).

Miscellaneous (PRO 30/26) : Item 58 No. 3 concerns the payment of a Loyalist claim.

Nicholl Papers (PRO 30/42 ) : Of importance for maritime and international disputes, 1798- 1809, supplementing the High Court of Admiralty Rec. Bd. 22-34 relate to Am.

Neville & Aldworth Papers (PRO 30/50) : D. Bd. 39

contains colonial correspondence, 1 748-5 1 ; and bd. 43 concerns depredations of Spaniards in Am., 1735-9.

Rodney Papers (PRO 30/20) : Correspondence etc. of Admiral Rodney, 1747-82. 18 vol. relate to naval and military affairs in North Am.

Russell Papers (PRO 30/22) : Mainly the papers of Lord John Russell in mid- 19th century. 118 vol., of which 34-9, 96 and 97 concern relations with Am.

Shaftesbury Papers (PRO 30/24) : 50 bd. No. 47 includes John Locke's Constitutions for the Government of

Carolina ; No. 48 the first Earl Shaftesbury's papers relating to Carolina, and No. 49 papers (to 1720) concerning foreign plantations.

Stuart Papers (PRO 30/36) : entry books of diplomatic correspondence of Sir William Stuart, 1858-88, of which

vol. 1, 2 and 10 concern Am. Gifts & Deposits of Unknown Ownership (PRO

30/39) : Bd. 1 includes 16 letters from Richard Hope, a military surgeon in Am. to relatives in Eng., 1770-82.

TRANSCRIPTS

The only relevant items from these collections principally from foreign archives are 2 vol. among the Venetian

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Transcripts (PRO 31/14) Vol. 157 and 158 in that ser.

concern Am. and Benjamin Franklin, to 1 784. NOTE

The remaining classes of the groups surveyed here and all the records in the groups listed below may be disregarded Justices Itinerant (J.I.i Alienation Office (A)

Supreme Court of Judicature (J) Court of Star Chamber (St. Ch.) Court of Wards & Liveries (Wards) Palace Court (Pal. Court) King's Bench Prison, Fleet Prison & Marshalsea Prison (Pris.) Court of Bankruptcy (B) Duchy of Lancaster (D.L.) Honour of Peveril (Pev.) Office of Queen Anne's Bounty (Q.A.B.) Special Collections (S.C.)

PART II

Part II completes the survey of American materials in the Public Record Office for the State Paper Office and the Departmental Records described in M. S. Giuseppi, Guide to Manuscripts in the Public Record Office (1924) v. 2. Once more the emphasis is laid on materials which have come to light since C. M. Andrews' classic Guide to Materials for American History in the Public Record Office, London

( 19 1 2, 1914) , or which were inadequately described by him. While examining these classes of records with especial reference to Virginia, the compiler has at the same time tried to relate the survey to the wider questions of American history. Although the description of many classes here ceases

for obvious reasons in 1783, in others it has been carried down to a later date. It seemed natural, for instance, to

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include the period of the War of 1812-1815 when dealing with naval and military records. Again, with records of the Foreign Office directly concerned with the United States,

the compiler thought it would be helpful to bring the survey down to the date at which those documents are open to inspection, thus amplifying the account given in C. O. Paul- lin & F. L. Paxson, Guide to Materials in London Archives for the History of the United States since 17S3 (1914). THE STATE PAPER OFFICE

The papers of the two Principal Secretaries of State—the key figures of the executive in England from the 16th century—became 'methodised' into series of Domestic, Scot- land, Ireland and Foreign State Papers. Because by 191 the publication of calendars of the Domestic series had reached almost the end of the 17th century, Andrews did not lay much emphasis on these State Papers of earlier date

than the reign of William and Mary : he assumed his readers would see from the printed calendars how important a source they were for American history. They are of especial interest for the reign of James I; apart from direct references to colonial affairs there are several papers relating to the Virginia Company. Most of these calendars include entries from the classes of Entry Books, Docquets, Warrants etc., supplementing the Original Correspondence, but unless mentioned in the calendar the entries are from the Original Correspondence. The indexing of some of these early calendars is by modern standards inadequate. Since Andrews' day the calendars have reached the year 1 704, with the exception of the reign of James II, 1 685-1 688, which is now in the press. There is a typescript calendar for the reign of George I and a manuscript one for that of George II. The Domestic papers for the early part of George Ill's reign have been calendared in Calendar of Home Office Papers, 1760-1775 (but see Andrews' well-founded caution in Guide vol. 1 p. 47).

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The main classes of State Papers Domestic are

S.P.14: James I.

S.P.15: Addenda, 1547-1625.

S.P. 1 6 and S.P. 1 7 : Charles I.

S.P.18: Interregnum.

S.P.25: Interregnum, Council of State etc. (Colonial entries in the Council of State Order and Letter Books in this class have been printed in the Cal. S.P. Colonial, Am. & W.I.)

S.P.29 and S.P.30: Charles II.

S.P.31: James II.

S.P.32 and S.P.33 : William & Mary. S.P.34: Anne.

S.P.35: George I.

S.P.36: George II.

S.P.37: George III.

Other classes in the Domestic ser. which contain relevant materials are:

S.P.41 : Military.

S.P.42 : Naval.

S.P.43: Regencies (being the correspondence between the secretaries during the periodic absences in Hanover of George I & II, 17 16- 1760).

S.P.44: Entry Books (containing drafts, copies and min-

utes of out-letters )

S.P.38: Docquets (abstracts of warrants for grants).

S.P.39: Warrants (for grants passed under the Signet: after 1661 these are contained in the class of King's Bills (S.O.7) among the rec. of the Signet Office).

S.P.45 : Various. 156 There is a separate ser. for the Channel Islands from 1671

(S.P.48) ; these contain interesting details of war materials ordered from Europe by America during the War of Inde- pendence, from papers of ships taken into Guernsey. The range of business transacted by the Secretaries of State is enormous. At the end of the papers of Original Corres- pondence for each reign are found miscellaneous, undated papers. Discoveries and re-discoveries are constantly being made in a field which appears deceptively familiar. In 1 782 a Secretary of State exclusively responsible for Home Affairs was first appointed. Henceforward these State Papers Do- mestic are to be found amongst the rec. of the Home Office. Some American material will be found among the S.P. Scotland, Ser. II (S.P.54) from 1688 and the S.P. Ireland (S.P.63). The S.P. Supplementary (S.P.46), which includes various family papers, and the S.P. Miscellaneous (S.P.9), which contains printed pamphlets and maps, should also be consulted. State Papers Foreign: The General Foreign Correspond- ence from British representatives abroad until the last quarter of the 1 8th century is arranged by countries, alphabetically from Barbary States ( S.P.9 1) to Venice (S.P.99). The other side of this correspondence, the out-letters of the Secre- taries of State, is in the Entry Books (S.P. 104) . Correspond- ing letter books etc. of British embassies and legations abroad are found in the Archives of British Legations (S.P. 105) and Supplementary (S.P. no). There are also letters from For- eign Ministers in England (S.P. 100), News Letters (S.P. 101), Royal Letters (S.P. 102), Treaty Papers (S.P. 103), Treaties (S.P. 108), Ciphers (S.P. 106) and Confidential

(S.P. 1 07) containing intercepted dispatches. A number of casual references to America during the colonial period are scattered through these series, especially among the S.P.

France (S.P. 78) ; Germany, States (S.P.81) —vols. 154-157, 1 81 -1 96 of which relate to German troops hired for service in America; Holland (S.P.84) ; and Spain (S.P.94) . During

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the wars of the 18th century such references become fre-

quent. There is a printed List & Index of S.P. Foreign (1904). The Calendar of S.P. Foreign has reached 1589. THE ADMIRALTY

The rec. of the Admiralty are more voluminous than any other modern department. By the later 17th century the work of the Admiralty was sub-divided under the following main sections:

Secretary's Department; Navy Board Accountant General; Victualling Department Medical Department; Greenwich Hospital and Marine Pay Office

The chief classes are listed in List & Index No. 18 (1904). Secretary's Department: In-Letters (Adm.i) comprising Admirals' Despatches, arranged under stations; Admirals' Letters, under ports; Captains' Letters, arranged alphabetically; letters relating to Colonies; Departmental letters etc. from 1660 e.g. Adm. Arbuthnot's despatches from Virginia,

1 778-1 784, in vol. 486; while the letters from Navy Board in vol. 3547, cast light on Bacon's Rebellion. The Digests form the principal index to this mass of material. Out- Letters (Adm. 2) from 1665 are entry books which disclose the other side of this correspondence. The main items in the Miscellanea (Adm. 7) were noted by Andrews (Vol. 2 pp.

; Instructions, 47-5 1 ) additions to this class include Naval 1772 (vols. 642-3). For the disposition of ships the List Books (Adm.8) from 1673, made up monthly, are more accu- rate than the printed Navy Lists, that survive as a ser. from 1781. Naval rec. are often used by genealogists on both sides of the Atlantic. For officers and warrant officers, such as

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boatswains and gunners, the Commission and Warrant Books among the Registers (Adm.6) are important; there is an elaborate card index of these for the period before the printed Navy Lists begin, piecing together each officer's career. The Lieutenants' Passing Certificates in the same class (Adm.6), to which there is a parallel ser. from 1691 among the Navy Board rec. (Adm.107), often contain details of parentage and baptism. For a rating it is necessary to know the name of a ship on which he served before a search could profitably be made. Once this is known his naval career can be pieced together from the Ships' Musters (Adm.36-Adm.39) or Ships' Pay Books (Adm.31-Adm.35) among the Accountant General's rec.

The Navy Board Rec. (Adm.106) relate to the civil administration of the Navy. They include letters relating to Am. transports, 1741-59. In addition to the Musters and

Pay Books mentioned above, the Treasurer's Accounts ( Adm. 16), Treasurer's Ledgers (Adm.20), Miscellanea, Various (Adm.49) and Registers, Various (Adm.30) of the Account- ant General contain Am. materials, especially during the wars of the 18th century. Log Books for ships employed in Am. waters contain a great deal of important information nautical, topographical and meteorological. The main ser. are: Admirals' Journals (Adm.50) ; Captains' Logs (Adm.

51) ; Masters' Logs (Adm.52) ; Ships' Logs (Adm.53) and Supplementary: Logs of Ships Employed on Exploration (Adm.55). The Victualling Department's Out-Letters (Adm. no), Minutes (Adm.in), Accounts (Adm.112) and Registers

(Adm. 1 13) all provide details for provisioning fleets in Am., and are valuable for prices and for contractors' names. Rele- vant materials among the Medical Department's rec. (Adm. 97-Adm.i05) and the Greenwich Hospital rec. (Adm.65- Adm.8o) have been noted by Andrews (Vol. 2 pp. 58-64). Accessions since 19 12 have been almost entirely of 19th century material. A few items in the Marine Pay Office

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Rec. (Adm.96) give references to marines serving in Am. in the 18th century.

THE COLONIAL OFFICE

The State Papers Colonial derive from two sources: the papers of the Secretaries of State, who were concerned with the political and military government of the colonies, and the records of the Board of Trade and Plantations, concerned with the colonies' economic development. These two series have been amalgamated into one group. Considerable progress with the Calendar of S.P. Colonial, America and West Indies, had been made before this amalgamation was made.

There is a 3 vol. ms. key to the re-arrangement in the Search Room, of which Andrews printed the exclusively Am. por- tions in Guide Vol. 1 as appendix B. E.g. the obsolete reference to the first paper in the Calendar S.P. Col., 1693-96, given as 'America & West Indies Vol. 638' can be readily keyed to the modern references CO.5/1 307. The Calendar extends from 1574 to 1736; further vols, are in progress. In addition to the List & Index of Col. Office Records to

lists all 1837 (191 1 ), there are new typed of material, arranged alphabetically by colonies. C. S. S. Higham's survey of the Entry Books is valuable. The main ser. of S.P. Colonial are:

C.O.i Colonial Papers, General Ser., 1574-1688 (with addenda to 1697), 68 vols. C.O.5: America & West Indies, 1689-1807 (a few entry books survive from an earlier date: e.g. Vol. 1354, an entry book of commissions etc. for Virginia, 1606- 1662). This class is

subdivided into America & W. I., General, vols. 1-285 (1-2: Board of Trade, Original Correspondence; 3-187: Sec. of State, Origi- nal Correspondence; 188-272: Entry Books; 273-285: Miscellaneous) and Individual col., 160 :

vols. 286-1450, arranged alphabetically by col. from 'Carolina 5 to 'Virginia,' with sections on 'New England' & 'Proprieties.' The Virginia section comprises Vols. 1305-7: B. of Trade & Sec. of State, Original Correspondence, 1689-98. Vols. 1308-36: B. of Trade, Original Corre-

spondence, 1 69 1 -1 774. Vols. 1337-53: Sec. of State, Original Corre-

spondence, 1 694- 1 777. Vols. 1354-75: Entry Books of Letters, Com- missions, Instructions & Grants, 1606- 1776. Vols. 1376-1404: Acts, 1660-1772. Vols. 1405-40: Sessional Papers, 1660-1774. Vols. 1441-50: Shipping Returns, 1699-1770.

CO. 6: British North America, Original Correspond- ence, 1816-68, 43 vols., concerned with the boundary between the United States and Canada, emigration etc. CO. 323: Colonies General, Original Correspondence,

1 689- 1 909, 562 vols. Vols. 1-33 consist of the correspondence of the old Board of Trade, formerly known as 'Plantations General,'

1 689- 1 780. The remaining vols, concern law officers' reports on col. acts, applications for passports etc. during 19th century.

CO. 324: Colonies General; Entry Books of Commis- sions, Instructions etc., Ser. I, vols. 1-44, 48-60 cover years 1662-1783.

CO. 325: Colonies General, Miscellanea, of which vols. 1-4 are tracts and historical sketches of col. 1753-77, and vol. 5 returns of fees charged in col. 1764.

CO. 326: Colonies General, Registers, classed as IND.

1 8301-8396, 635- 1 787, includes lists of papers

161 and indexes to original correspondence, Board of Trade. Of these IND. 8331-2 concern Virginia, 1704-59-

C.O.412: Duplicates, 1605-1863. These are 'duplicates'

of correspondence in the general ser. Fre- quently such papers as Acts & Sessional Papers were sent from the col. in duplicate or tripli- cate. Some were presented to col. governments

concerned after 1909. It is, of course, just possible that some of the Acts etc. which these papers duplicate are defective in parts. Vol. 2

includes Misc. Papers, Am. & W. I., 1661- 1794. Vols. 22-6 are Virginia Acts 1710-1771, Vols. 27-43 Virginia Sessional Papers, 1704- 49. Vols. 3-21 are Acts, Despatches and Ses- sional Papers for other Am. Col.

CO. 700: Maps. A Catalogue of the Maps, Plans & Charts in the Library of the Col. Office was issued in 19 10. Most of the maps listed there down to 1885 are now in the Public Record

Office. The class is arranged topographically, with sections on 'Am., North & South, 5 72 items, and 'North Am. Colonies and U.S.A.' The latter begins with 36 general maps; and continues under the separate col. 20 maps are for Virginia, 1698- 1775.

C. O.391: Minutes of the Board of Trade, 1675-1782, 120 vols. Entries down to March 1704 are printed in the Cal. S. P. Colonial; thereafter they are printed in full in Journals of the Commissioners for Trade & Plantations, 14 vols.

C. O.388 : Board of Trade Commercial, Correspondence,

1 654- 1 792, 95 vols., corresponding Entry Books (C.O.389), 1 660- 1 803, 59 vols., and

162 C.O.390 Miscellanea, 1654- 1799, 15 vols, all contain relevant items.

CO. Rec. relating to Emigration to Am. Class G.O.6 has correspondence on emigration for the early 19th century. C.O.327 includes two registers of correspondence, 1850-63. Some important

material is among 0.0.384, Sec. of State, Correspondence, Emigration from 181 7; the corresponding Entry Books, Emigration (CO.

, in 385 ) and the Land & Emigration Commis- sion Rec. (C.O.386) from 1833. (See also under Treasury, Registers, class T.47).

The only items in C.O.807 Confidential Print, N. America, before the 19th century concern the Newfoundland fisheries.

THE BOARD OF CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

Until 1 67 1 the customs revenue was administered at the Exchequer. A series of fires in the London Customs House caused the destruction of many records : there is, for instance, no series of In-Letters, Out-Letter Books etc., as in other departments. Most of the rec. to have survived are the compilations of the Inspector- General of Imports & Exports for

England and Wales. Certain rec. are still in the Customs House Library at King's Beam House, Mark Lane, London,

E.G. 3, including vols, concerning Am. Customs Establish- ment, 1767-76. Some outport letter-books from 1660 are still preserved in local customs houses; one of these, for the port of Liverpool, 1711-1813, was edited for the Chetham Society in 1954 and contains refs. to Virginia.

The Ledgers of Imports & Exports (Customs 3), 1697- 1780, show the total quantities of goods passing in and out of English ports, differentiating between London on the one hand, and the outports taken together on the other. The extent of the trade between the Am. Col. and England can

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readily be obtained from these annual vols. In the mid- 1 8th century these ledgers are in 4 main sections

Imports to London Exports from London Imports to English outports Exports from English outports

In each section separate figures are given for Carolina, Georgia, New England, New Providence, New York, Penn- sylvania, and Virginia-with-Maryland. The summaries of 3 trade in Inspector-General s Accounts of Imports & Exports (Customs 2) need only be consulted for the year 1696-7, before the fuller ser. in Customs 3 begins. Similar compilations of statistics provided by the Inspector- General's office are in the Board of Trade Miscellanea (B.T.6) and one vol. covering 1698-1710 has found its way into the Miscellanea of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (M.A.F.7 no. 1). Similar compilations of the trade of Ireland from 1698 are in Customs 15 and for Scotland from 1755 in Customs 14. One important vol. lists the imports and exports of the

Col., ; Am. 1768-73 (Customs 16 No. 1 ) it also contains details on the tonnage of ships using Am. ports and on the coastal trade between the maritime col. Among the Miscel- laneous Books (Customs 21) may be noted the Entry Book of Out-Letters from Boston, Mass., the centre of the entire customs organization for the Am. Col., 1768-75; the Regis- ters of Seizures, 1715-86 and Registers of Informations, 1715-27, throw light on smuggling, in which Virginian tobacco played a notable part.

The ser. of States of Navigation, Commerce & Revenue

(Customs 17) 1 772-1808, 30 vols., provide yearly statistical tables of trade and shipping. Registers, Ser. I (Customs 18)

1 675- 1 81 3, provide details of the Am. establishments in the

1 8th century, with the names of officials and the salaries paid them.

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Further ser. of Ledgers of Imports & Exports, arranged by countries and also by articles, cover the 19th century: e.g. the Ledgers of Imports: Countries (Customs 4) extends from 1792 to 1899. From these the trade of the U.S. with Britain can be found. These Ledgers include goods entered duty-free. The main trade statistics, compiled from these documents were printed as Parliamentary Papers. It should be noted that no ser. of customs rec. described here contains details of merchants' names, or individual cargoes. For the outports of England and Wales such information can be gleaned from the Port Books among the Exchequer rec, which in some cases survive to the end of the 18th century; none have survived for London.

THE EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT OFFICE

The Declared Accounts in Rolls of the Audit Office ser.

(A.O.i ) have been described in discussing the Exchequer, Pipe Office ser. of Declared Accounts (E.351) which they often duplicate. Lists of both ser. are printed in List & Index

No. 2 ( 1893 ) • Certain Declared Accounts are printed in the Calendar of Treasury Books from 1695. The remaining records of the Audit Office are listed down to 1837 in List & Index No. 46, pp. 135-206. Accounts Various (A.O.3) from 1539, not noted by An- drews, include

38 Army in N. America, 1784-5. 55 Hessian Troops, 1776-94.

1 18-9 Divers accounts & vouchers, Am., 1 738-1816.

123 Works in Am., 1 767-74. 140-1 Col. Accounts & Papers, 1763-89. 305 Am. Customs Receipts, 1677-87.

The Miscellanea (A.O.16) No. 44 is an exemplification of the account of Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, 1775-7. Other materials are in the ser. of Comptrollers of Army Accounts in Absorbed Departments (A.O.17).

165 3 American Loyalists Claims, Ser. I ( A.0. 12), 146 vols, and

Ser. II (A.O.13) , 141 bdles, are described in Andrews, Vol.

2, pp. 259-63. There are nominal indexes to both classes in the Search Room. Items in both ser. are listed in Paullin & Paxson pp. 438-9, but there is a misprint for each class number there: for A.O.3 read A.O.12, and for A.O.4 read A.O.i 3. (It should also be noted that the class referred to in Paullin & Paxson p. 437 as A.O.2 is in fact class A.O.3.) Additional information about these rec. is given in a report made in 1955 by J. M. Hemphill. (See also Treasury Rec- ords, Class T.79). THE FOREIGN OFFICE

The Foreign Office begins as an independent department with the appointment of a Secretary of State exclusively concerned with foreign affairs in 1782. The F.O. rec, comprising mainly the despatches of ambassadors and consuls abroad and the archives of the various embassies and legations, follow on the ser. of State Papers Foreign in the State Paper Office rec. Inevitably, however, there has been some overlapping: e.g. certain papers prior to 1782 are in the F.O. ser. The rec. are open to inspection down to 1902. Despatches from British representatives in Am. are contained in General Correspondence, United States of America, Ser. I (F.O.4) 1782-92, 16 vols.; and&?r. II (F.O.5), 1793- 1902, 2,625 vols. Materials will also be found among the Supplement to the General Correspondence (F.O.97) from 1780; Great Britain & General (F.O.83) from 1745; Slave Trade (F.O.84), 1816-92; Miscellanea, Ser. I (F.O.95) which includes letter books, registers, royal letters and treaty

papers, especially vols. 1, 11 -17, 24-39, 51 1-5 15; Protocols of Treaties (F.O.93) an<^ Ratifications of Treaties (F.O. 94)- The ser. of Embassy and Consular Archives for Am. consist in most cases of original letters from the Foreign Office and from other diplomatic representatives, British and

166 foreign; Entry books of out-letters and registers of correspondence. (These entry books and registers can be used as working indexes to the General Correspondence in F.O.5. A ser. of Registers of Correspondence (F.O.566) recently transferred from the F.O. are also of great value for this purpose. )

F.O.i 15 Emb. & Cons. America, Correspondence, 1791- 1929, 3>392 vols. F.O.i 16 Emb. & Cons. America, Letter Books, 1791- 1823, 10 vols.

F.O.i 17 Emb. & Cons. America, Registers, 1823-1929, 40 vols. F.O.333 Emb. & Cons. America, Miscellanea, 1852- I9i3> 9 vols. F.O.281 New York, Consulate General, Correspondence, 1816-1911, 42 vols.

F.O. 282 do. Letter Books, 1842-1894, 36 vols.

F.O.283 do. Registers, 1 847-191 1, 14 vols.

F.O.284 do. Shipping, 1858-1907, 12 vols.

F.O.285 do. Miscellanea, 1 834-1 901, 4 vols.

F.O.275 Manila, Correspondence, 1898, 1 vol.

F.O.331 Honolulu, Correspondence etc., 1824- 1903, 59 vols.

F.O.581 New Orleans, Registers, 1916-38, 13 vols.

F.O.550 Savannah, Registers, 1880- 1926, 7 vols. F.O.598 Washington Vice-Consulate, Correspondence, 1922-9, 19 vols.

F.O.599 do. Registers, 192 1-6, 1 vol.

F.O.600 San Francisco Consulate General, Correspond-

ence, 1 906-1 941, 37 vols.

167 F.0.620 Boston Consulate General, Correspondence, l 9*4r*5> 3 vols. F.O.621 do. Registers, 1903-31, 21 vols.

Sidelights on Anglo-American relations are thrown by the

Jackson Papers (F.O.353), I 772-i829, and by the Stratford Canning Papers (F.O.352), 1808-33. (See also comments above under Chatham Papers; Granville Papers; Russell Papers and Stuart Papers, being in the group of Gifts & Deposits.) The Chief Clerk's Dept., Archives (F.O.366) includes an item relating to the Washington Embassy, vol. 725. Archives of Commissions: F.O.301 America, Fisheries, 1873-88, 9 vols.; F.O.302 America, North West Boundary, 29 vols.; F.O.303 America, Treaty of Ghent, 1796- 1828, 37 vols.; F.O.304 American Claims, 1794, 1 790-1 806, 35 vols., being the commission to decide on claims for losses suffered

by Am. ships during war (see also F.O.95, vo^ s - II_I 7)j Miscellaneous Commissions (F.O.317) vol. 2, a register of correspondence of the commission at Washington, 1871. Passport Office Records: These have recently been transferred. They comprise: F.O.610: Passport Registers from

1 795 ; the first page includes an entry for a Miss Duncanson being granted a passport for the U.S. in June 1795. Pass- ports seem to have been issued for single journies abroad from Britain at that time and appear to have been issued by the F.O. to certain foreigners, as well as to British subjects. Correspondence (F.O.612) survives from 1815, and there are Indexes of Names for Passports issued (F.O.611) for the years 1851-62 and 1874-98. Registers of Correspond- ence (F.O.613) date from 1868, and a ser. of Correspond- ence with Embassies etc. (F.O. 614) from 1886. The ser. of Confidential Prints include F.O.414, America North; F.O.461 America and F.O.462 America U.S.A. None of these classes, which contain 20th century materials, are open to public inspection.

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Microfilms and Paper Prints of the captured German Foreign Ministry Archives, with material dating from 1849, were formerly placed among the F.O. rec. They now form a special group of German Foreign Ministry rec. (G.F.M.i toG.F.M.23). THE HOME OFFICE

The Home Office rec, as we have noticed, continue the Domestic ser. of the State Paper Office; and lists of the classes of H.O. rec. to 1837 are contained in the same printed List & Index that deals with State Papers Domestic. Do- mestic Correspondence, George HI from 1782 (H.O.42)

is the principal series of In-Letters; Out-Letters are found

in the Domestic Entry Books (H.O.43 ) . The correspondence of the H.O. with other departments of state also contains Am. references: e.g. the Treasury Entry Books (H.O.36), containing entries of letters sent to the Treasury, consist largely of papers relating to col. affairs, 1776-90, and they are easier to consult in this ser. than are the actual letters

in the Treasury Papers (T.i). There is also the Foreign Office Correspondence (H.O.32); the Admiralty Corre- spondence (H.O.28) ; Admiralty Entry Books (H.O.29) and the Military Correspondence (H.O.50), and Military Entry Books (H.O.51), all of which provide materials relating to the final stages of the War of Independence. The Law Officers' Letter Books (H.O.49), from 1762, include correspondence about cases involving the Am. Col. A great number of petitions and addresses to The Home Secretary on the War of Independence—including some from Am. Loyalists—are in Addresses Miscellaneous (H.O.55). Home Office rec. relating to aliens are Aliens' Denizations & Naturalisations (H.O.i), 1789-1871, 176 bdls.; Aliens' Certificates (H.O.2), 1836-1852, 236 bdls., arranged by ports of entry; Lists of Immigrants (H.O.3) 1836-1867, 102 vols.; Patents of Denization (H.O.4), 1804- 1843, 51 bdls., and Entry Books (H.O.5), 1794- 1878, being 44 vols, of in-

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dexes, registers etc. An Index to Names: Certificates of Naturalisation, 1844-1900 was issued by H. M. Stationery Office in 1908; this provides an index to Class H.O.i e.g. the certificate of Julius Adler of U.S.A., residing in London,

dated 8 March 1844 is shown by the index to have its relevant papers in H.O.i No. 109. The following indexes should

also be noted : Letters of Denization & Acts of Naturalisation for Aliens in England & Ireland, 1701-1800, ed. W. A. Shaw for the Huguenot Society of London, vol. 27 (1923); the typed Index to Denizations & Naturalisation, 1801-1900; and the indexes to Certificates of Naturalisation, printed for 1 1 90 -14, and typed for 1915-24.

The Registered Papers (H.O.45), 1 841 -1900, 9,990 items, contain various papers relating to Am. From the index we find e.g. a paper on the status of Am. women who marry foreigners, 1896, with the old reference B.22457: from the key this document will be found to be in H.O.45/9917.

THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S DEPARTMENT

The only rec. we need notice are those relating to the delivery of communion plate for use in churches and chapels in the Am. Col. by the Master of the Jewel Office on a Lord Chamberlain's warrant, and of the table silver delivered to col. officials. These details will be found in the Warrant Books among the Miscellanea (L.C.5 vols. 107- 113, 1618- 1793. Receipt Books and Delivery Books are among the Accounts (L.C.9) (see Andrews vol. 2 pp. 107-8).

THE PAYMASTER GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT

The rec. down to 1837 are listed in the printed List & Index No. 46 (1921) pp. 123-33. The chief class containing Am. materials is the Army Miscellaneous Books (P.M.G.14) Of these, vols. 1-5 are the accounts of the Deputy Paymaster for Am., 1755-72; vols. 70-2, accounts of extraordinary expenses in North Am., 1753-82, while vols. 104-125 are Entry

170 Books of Letters and Powers of Attorney from 1 759 which include entries of deeds made in Am. by officers to enable agents to receive pay on their behalf in England, and also letters from persons leaving for the Am. Col. appointing persons to manage their affairs. Among the remaining classes may be noted the War Of-

fice Letter Books in the ser. of Letters (P.M.G.i ) vols. 46-79, 1784-1815; the Army Ledgers (P.M.G.2) from 1757; and the Half Pay & Retired Pay Ledgers (P.M.G.4) from 1737. THE PRIVY COUNCIL The Council Registers (P.C.2) contain the minutes of the council's proceedings, reports and orders, including royal proclamations (it is far easier to consult the Registers for the text of proclamations than to track down their enrolment on the Patent Rolls of Chancery, class C.66). The Registers have been printed in full down to 1628; the ser. is being continued. Selected items of Col. interest down to 1 783 are calendared in the Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series vols. 1-5, which also print additional matter from the Plan- tations Books (P.C.5) from 1678. The chief items of Am. interest in the Unbound Papers (P.C.i) have been printed in vol. 6 of the Acts of P. C.9 Col. Ser. One source not used by the compilers of that calendar is the Minutes (P.C.4), which supplement the Registers from 1670. These consist of rough notes by the clerks of the Council taken during sessions, and of agenda for council meetings. Since not every topic discussed in council led to an order, it would probably be worthwhile examining the Minutes for additional Am. references for the period before 1 750. THE BOARD OF TRADE

The 'Plantations Records' of the Board of Trade, arising from the activities of the old Board of Trade and Planta- tions, are now, as we have noticed, amalgamated with the rec. of the Colonial Office. The rec. of the modern Board

171 of Trade include In-Letters & Files, General (B.T.i ), 1791- 1863; In-Letters, Foreign Office (B.T.2) 1824-45; entry books of Out-Letters, General (B.T.3) 1 786-1863; Registers & Indexes (B.T.4) 1808-64; Minutes (B.T.5), 1784- 1850, and Miscellanea (B.T.6), 1697-1876. Various compilations of customs house statistics, 1701-89, are in bdls. 240-1 ; other commercial and consular returns are in bdls. 20-9, 80-1, 83-8, and 187-8. Passenger Lists of vessels carrying travellers to and from Great Britain are arranged under the ports of arrival and departure. Lists Inwards (B.T.26) survive from 1878; Lists Outwards (B.T.2 7) from 1890. THE TREASURY

The financial department of the modern state reached its key position in the administrative system by the later 17th century. Its rec. down to 1837 are listed in printed List & Index No. 46 (1921). The principal rec. are the In-Letters, known as Treasury Papers (T.i ) and Treasury Papers, Sup- plementary (T.98). These have been calendared down to 1745; Gal, of Treasury Papers, 1557-1728 (6 vols.) and Gal, of Treasury Books & Papers, 1729-1745 (5 vols.). The indexes to these printed calendars show the considerable amount of col. business handled by the Treasury. There are also Registers of Papers, arranged alphabetically (IND. 8536-8607 for the period 1777-1815); Skeleton Registers (IND. 8697-8701 for period 1783-1815), which assist in tracing transferred papers; and the Reference Books (IND. 4615-4657), noting papers referred to other departments of state. Among the many post- 1745 uncalendared papers we may note the memorial of Virginia planters on the tobacco trade in 1750 (T. 1/342). Treasury Out-Letters are entered in ser. of Out-Letter Books: General (T.27), 1668-1815, 74 vols.; Various (T.28), of which vols. 1-3 relate to Am., 1763- 1823; Council (T.9), from 1793; Customs (T.n) from 1667, and Law, General

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(T.15) from 1807. Minute Books (T.29 and T.99) contain Treasury Minutes from 1667, recording the chief matters coming before the Board. King's Warrants (T.52) from 1667; Warrants relating to Money (T.53) from 1676; War- rants not relating to Money (T.54) from 1667, and the Order Books (T.60) from 1667 all contain references to Am. Col. These, together with the relevant Out-Letter Books have been calendared in the ser. Ca. Treasury Books down to 1712 (further vols, in progress) and for 1729-45 in the Cal. of Treasury Books & Papers. Among the ser. of Accounts, the most important for Am. history are contained among the Quarterly Accounts (T.31 from 1701; the Declarations (Auditors) (T.33) from 1660; Departmental (T.38), which contain col. customs accounts and accounts of German auxiliaries in America, 1776-84. Of the ser. of Registers the Establishments, Customs, Eng- land (T.42) provide names of Am. customs officials; while vols. 9-1 1 of Registers, Various (T.47) give details of emigrants from England to Am., 1773-6. There is a card index to this important material, e.g. William Carter, age 25, car- penter, left London with a son on the ship Carolina for Virginia on Christmas Day 1773. T.47/12 gives similar information about emigrants leaving Scottish ports for Am. this vol. has not been indexed. Documents relating to Refugees (T.50) vols. 1-28, 31-56, contain accounts for the col. militia and compensation and pension lists for Loyalists, 1780- 1836. The rec. of American Loyalists' Claims Commission (T.79) consist largely of the minute books of the commissioners, with reports on individual claims ; claimants' names are printed in List & Index No. 46 pp. 105-110 (see also under Exchequer & Audit Office, classes A.O.12 & A.O.13). Similar claims for compensation to loyalists in East Florida, ceded to Spain in 1783, are contained in East Florida Claims Commission (T.77).

American Prizes Commission (T.88) consists of 1 bd. of accounts and papers subsequent to the War of 181 2-15.

173 Maps & Plans, Ser. I (T.62) include 3 Am. maps before

1 783. Treasury Miscellanea, Various (T.64) contains a number of important items, including Plantations Letter Books and commercial returns, most of which have been noted by Andrews, vol. 2.

THE TREASURY SOLICITOR

The only rec. open to inspection are the Records of the

West New Jersey Society (T.S.12), 1 675-1 921. This Society was formed about 1691 as a company for the development of the 'hereditary government of West Jersey in America.' Tracts of land in West and East New Jersey, in Pennsyl- vania, New England and elsewhere were divided into 1600 parcels, forming the adventurers' shares, which were inheri- table. By 19 14 only 28 1/3 shares remained unclaimed. After an action (Howell v. Attorney General) the remaining funds were transferred to the Crown ; the rec. were subsequently placed among the Public Records and are in part open to inspection. They consist of in-letters, entry books, minute books of the court and committee, ledgers, accounts, share registers and a history of the Society. THE WAR OFFICE

List & Index No. 28 (1908) lists the earliest rec. to be transferred by the W.O. ; there are typed lists of more recent material. An Alphabetical Guide to W.O. & Other Military Records was issued as List & Index No. 53 in 193 1; it includes references under 'America, North' to military papers in S.P.41 and C.O.5, as well as to strictly W.O. rec.

In-Letters, Secretary at War (W.O.i ) includes vols. 1-13, letters from officers in Am., 1 756-83 ; vol. 49 from W. Florida, 1764; vol. 404, entry book of business considered by the Plantations Committee of the Privy Council, 1763-7; vol. 616 letters from General Amherst, 1778-80; vol. 683 letters the from Sec. of State for Colonies relating to Am., 1776-81 ; vol. 890 army statistics for the War of Am. Independence.

174 Indexes to this ser. are in W.O.2. Out-Letter Books, Secre- tary at War (W.O.4), from 1684, contain many instructions to officers serving in Am., as well as special groups of Am. entry books, 1763-84 (vols. 987-8, 273-5). The Out-Letter Books, Commander in Chief (W.O.3) from 1765 and the Out-Letters, Sec. of State (W.O.6) —esp. for period 1794- 1814—provide much material. Vol. 125 of Out-Letters, De- partmental (W.O.7) has letters from the Col., and orders for the embarkation of troops to Am. Further details about troops leaving England for Am. and returning are to be found in the Marching Orders (W.O.5) from 1683. The Monthly Returns (W.O.17), from 1759, show the distri- bution of each regiment in the army. For tracing the per- sonnel of regiments serving in Am. the general ser. of Muster Books & Pay Lists (W.O.12) is important. Registers of Military Establishments (W.O.24) include royal warrants authorising establishments of regular and militia regiments in Am. from 1661 ; Andrews, Vol. 2, pp. 287-9, has noted the vols, of particular importance. Head Quarters Records: Vols. 1-10 of Head Quarters Rec. (W.O.28) contain muster rolls, letters etc. for Am., 1746- 83. Supplementing these rec, which have always remained in official custody, are the Amherst Papers (W.O.34) presented to the W.O. by Earl Amherst in 1923 and transferred to the Public Record Office, and the Carleton Papers (P.R.O.30/55), the gift of Colonial Williamsburg to H. M. The Queen, presented to her by President Eisenhower in 1957 and now among the ser. of Gifts & Deposits in the Public Record Office. The latter are described in Guide to Manuscript Collections of Colonial Williamsburg (1954) pp. 9-13. The Amherst Papers (W.O.34), 1712-84, comprise 260 vols. They relate largely to Amherst's posts as Com- mander-in-Chief of British forces in Am., 1758-63, and later as Governor of Virginia. They include order books, reports, monthly returns and commissions; there is a full-scale typed Catalogue. To these may be added the American Rebellion

175 Entry Books (W.O.36), 4 vols., 1773-83, 1798-99; Andrews

& Davenport in Guide to ms. Materials . . . in Minor London Archives (1908) p. 188 noted these vols, when they were still in the War Office Library, from which they were transferred in 1927. As with the Admiralty rec, the rec. of the W.O. are often searched for genealogical purposes. An officer can be traced through the Army Lists (manuscript ser. in W.O. 64 from 1702; printed lists in W.O.65 from 1740) and from the various returns of officers' services in the class of Registers,

Various (W.O.25). For an enlisted man it is necessary to know the regiment in which he served before a start can profitably be undertaken. The only feasible way of doing this is by searching the Regular Army Soldiers' Documents (W.O.97) from 1760; though only if the man was pensioned will there be a discharge paper for him. Once the regiment has been discovered the man's army career can be traced through the Muster Books (W.O. 12). Other useful compilations among the Registers have been noted by Andrews, vol.

2, pp. 289-90; to these may be added the Regimental De- scription & Succession Books in the same ser., 423 vols., from 1756, which list the names of every man in each regiment, with personal details. Among the class of Certificates of Births, Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths (W.O.42) vols. 59-63 concern Loyal American and Canadian Corps, 1776-83. From remaining classes we may note the Selected Unnum- bered Papers (W.O.40) from 1753; e.g. there is a paper concerned with the non-payment of prize money to troops under Amherst. The Vouchers for Disbursements, Artillery (W.O. 18) from 1770 include receipts for pay from nurses at hos- pitals in Am. The Paymaster General, Miscellaneous (W.O.

1 09 ) contains accounts for garrisons in the Plantations, 1 720-4 (vol. 11 ). A little Am. material will be found in the Ord- nance Office Out-Letters (W.O.46), from 1699; Accounts

(W.O.49) ; Ledgers (W.O.48) ; Bill Books, Ser. II (W.O.51) and Minutes (W.O.47). Vols. 283, 1537 and 1820 of the

176 Ordnance Office Miscellanea (W.O.55) relate to Am. The Commissariat In-Letters (W.O.57) vol. 10 concerns Am., 1814-15; while vols, n-33 of the Commissariat Accounts (W.O.60) cover the War of Independence, and concern the victualling of the Navy and Army. Rec. of Courts Martial held in Am. will be found among the ser. of the Judge Advocate General, from 1692. Court Martial Proceedings (W.O.71) vol. 46 concerns the Colo- nies. Related materials will be found in the Letter Books

(W.O.81); Deposition Books (W.O.85) ; General Courts Martial (W.O.89), and Miscellaneous Records (W.O.93) of the Judge Advocate General.

NOTE

Records of the following Departments may be disregarded

Alienation Office (A) Assistance Board (Assist.) Charity Commission (Charity) Civil Service Commission (C.S.C.) Dominions Office (D.O.) Ecclesiastical Commission (Eccl.) Ministry of Education (Ed.) Forestry Commission (F.) Forfeited Estates Commission (F.E.C.) Ministry of Health (M.H.) India Office (I.O.) Board of Inland Revenue (I.R.) Ministry of Labour & National Service (Lab.) Duchy of Lancaster (D.L.) Land Revenue Record Office (L.R.R.O.) Lands Tribunal (L.T.) Law Officers' Department (L.O.) Lord Steward's Department (L.S.) Ministry of Munitions (Mun.)

177 National Coal Board (Coal) National Debt Office (N.D.O.) National Insurance Audit Department (N.I.A.) Ministry of National Service (Nat. Serv.) Ordnance Survey Department (O.S.) Privy Purse Office (P.P.) Public Works Loan Board (P.W.L.B.) Queen Anne's Bounty (Q.A.B.) Ministry of Reconstruction (Recon.) Registrar General (R.G.) Ministry of Supply (Supply) Ministry of Transport (M.T.) Office of Woods, Forests & Land Revenue (W.F.) Ministry of Works (Works)

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