Volume 1
Guide to the materials for American history, to 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain / by Charles M. Andrews.
- Charles McLean Andrews
- Date:
- 1912-1914
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Guide to the materials for American history, to 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain / by Charles M. Andrews. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PHOTOGRAPHS. Documents may be photographed on making special application in writing to the Secretary of the Public Record Office. Should the requisite permission be accorded a special attendant will be provided by the official in charge of the room in which the searcher is working, who will take charge of the docu¬ ment and accompany the photographer, whom the searcher will provide, to the best spot for taking the photograph. LISTS, INDEXES, AND CALENDARS. The following general groups contain practically all the material bearing on American colonial history in the Public Record Office: i, Admiralty; 2, Audit Office; 3, Colonial Office; 4, Board of Customs; 5, Chancery, King’s Bench, and Exchequer; 6, Foreign Office; 7, Home Office; 8, Paymaster General’s Office; 9, Commissariat; 10, Treasury, includ¬ ing abolished offices and expired commissions; 11, Treasury Solicitor; 12, War Office; 13, Miscellaneous Collections, such as the Records of the High Court of Admiralty, and the Manchester, Shaftesbury, Rodney, Jackson, Chatham, and Cornwallis papers. No attempt has been made to examine for description here the great mass of papers of the Chancery, King’s Bench, and Exchequer. Until those parch¬ ments and papers have been officially listed it will be impossible for any one to gain an adequate idea of their contents. The following calendars and lists have been printed among the appendixes to the Deputy Keeper’s Reports: Calendar of Letters Patent, passed under the Great Seals of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, 1654-1660. Rep. 4, app. 2, pp. 189-200. Id. of Letters of Privy Seal, 1655-1660. Rep. 5, app. 2, pp. 246-277. Calendars of Specification [of inventions] and Surrender [of office] Rolls, 1712 et seq. First Part, Rep. 6, app. 2, pp. 116-154; Second Part, Rep. 7, app. 1, pp. 101-187. (Various surrenders of colonial offices, etc.; assignments of same; and disclaimers of interests in colonial offices granted by patent.) Chronological List of Lords High Treasurer, 1486-1862. Rep. 25, app., pp. 61-70. (A convenient and useful list.) Table of dates of Law Terms, Hilary, Easter, Trinity, and Michaelmas. From the Norman Conquest to William IV. Rep. 28, app. 12, pp. 114-139. (A helpful table.) Calendar of Dockets of, and Warrants for, Privy Seals and other Docu¬ ments relating thereunto, from 1634 to 1711, formerly belonging to the Duke of Newcastle as Lord Privy Seal in the reign of Queen Anne, and now con¬ tained in the Harleian MSS., British Museum. Rep. 30, app. 10, pp. 360-503. (Many entries of commissions for colonial offices. See Appendix A.)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31359759_0001_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
