Add MS 78258-78262

EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. XCI-XCV. Committee for Examinations: Records, comprising informations, petitions, letters, and orders of the Council of State, with bonds for good behaviour, etc.; June 1649-Jan. 1653, n.d. (with four items only for 1649 and one major gap from April to June 1652). Partly printed. These papers were abstracted from the official transactions of the Council of State, 1649-1660, the bulk of which are to be found in The National Archives (formerly Public Record Office and State Paper Office). They came into the custody of Sir Richard Browne at the Restoration in his capacity as Clerk of the Privy Council, as described above. Many of the documents are directed to the president of the Council, John Bradshaw, whose dockets they bear, along with those of the secretary to the Committee,Captain George Bridges. Further Council of State documents are amongst the papers removed from the Evelyn archive by William Upcott; for example, petitions in Add. MSS 15857, ff. 230 (Fawconer, 1650), and 15858, ff. 97 (Noel, 1659), 116 (Sir G. Pratt, 1656). The undated papers in Add. 78262 chiefly consist of petitions and informations arranged in separate alphabetical sequences. Formerly (in part) Evelyn MS 303.

Five volumes.