The Public Record Office Museum

Date:
1908
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/49
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Public Record Office Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Public Record Office now contains— The records, judicial, administrative, and financial, of the Chancery and the Exchequer. The records of the Courts of King’s Bench, Common Pleas, Admiralty, Star Chamber, Requests, Wards and Liveries, Delegates, High Commission, and Marshalsea. The records of the Principality of Wales, of the Palatinates of Chester, Durham, and Lancaster, and of the Duchy of Lancaster. The records of various Departments of State, such as the Treasury, the Home Office, the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, the War Office, the Admiralty, the Audit Office, the Customs, the Lord Chamberlain’s Office, the Charity Commission, the Patent Office, and the Ecclesiastical Commission. The distinctive feature of this vast collection of documents is that they are of a more or less official character. The great majority of them have remained in official custody ever since they were written; others are addressed to officers of state; others relate to property with which the Crown or a court of law has at some time been concerned. Search rooms are provided for the use of persons who have oceasion to consult the Public Records. The documents selected on account of their historical or ‘artistic interest for exhibition in the Museum, range in date from Domesday Book to the Coronation Roll of Queen Victoria.
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