Add MS 48008

LISTS AND INVENTORIES OF PUBLIC RECORDS; mid 17th cent. Latin, English and French. Copies.

1. ff. 3-6. 'Sir Thomas Wilsons generall heads of things in the office of the Papers', a schedule of the arrangement of material in the State Paper Office; 29 July 1618. Wilson, who was Keeper of the Records at Whitehall, 1606-1629, was the first person to attempt a systematic arrangement of the records. A copy of this item by Thomas Astle (d.1803), with added documents, is Stowe MS. 548, ff. 2-7.

2. ff. 8-262b. List of enrolled items among the Public Records, chiefly concerning foreign affairs and trade, and English possessions and subjects in France, tempp. Hen. III - Edw. VI; mid 17th cent. The main sources are the Patent, Gascon, Norman, Scottish and Treaty rolls.

3. ff. 267-350b. List of treaties and related documents in the Treasury at Westminster, temp. Edward the Confessor - 1619 (see f. 274b). The text is similar to a section of Arthur Agard's 'Compendium Recordorum'; see Add. 25256, ff. 14b-112 (a copy of a PRO MS.), dated 31 Dec. 1610. In the edition of this work by Thomas Powell, printed under the title The Repertorie of Records . . . , 1631, the material is reduced to a table, pp. 97-120. Arranged under countries. Memoranda occur on the delivery of documents to the Treasury, 16 and 20 March 1621 (ff. 274b, 293b, 305b) and on storage, eg. f. 305. Included is a list of treaties in the 'drawinge tills', ff. 333b-350b.

4. ff. 376b-400. 'Ex Registro Bullarum in Custodia Cameriorum in Thesaurar: Westm:'. A contents list of the bulls, tempp. Innocent III - Nicholas IV, is at ff. 376b-381b. Followed by lists of other material apparently in the same volume: matrimonial treaties and related documents, including material relating to the earldom of Gloucester, temp. Edw. I, ff. 381b-386b; touching the rights of the Crown, temp. Edw. I, ff. 387-390; miscellaneous, Ireland and Norway, Hen. III - Edw. III, ff. 390-400.

5. ff. 401-408b. 'Records remayneing in ye Tower of London': a schedule drawn up by John Borough, Keeper of the Records in the Tower, 1623, and Augustine Vincent (d.1626); 1623-1626. Possibly composed before Borough was knighted in July 1624. Printed in The Repertorie of

Records . . . , 1631, pp. 145-217.

Paper; ff. 408. Contemporary foliation 1-398 throughout ff. 8-403. Folio. Mid XVII cent. Artt. 2-4 in the same hand. Vellum binding with remains of green silk ties, titled and numbered '8' on the spine.

Records, Public: Lists and inventories of: 17th cent: Lat., Engl. and Fr.

Elizabeth I of England: Papers of R. Beale, Clerk of the Council: 16th cent.

Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Correspondence and papers.

includes:

• ff. 3-6 Sir Thomas Wilson, Keeper of the Records at Whitehall: Schedule of material in the State Paper Office: 1618: Copy.
• ff. 267-350b Arthur Agard, Deputy Chamberlain of the Exchequer: List of treaties, etc., in the Treasury: c. 1610: Lat., Engl. and Fr: Copy.
• ff. 401-408b Augustine Vincent, Windsor Herald: Schedule of records at the Tower: 1623-1626: Copy.
• ff. 401-408b John Borough, Keeper of the Records at the Tower: Schedule of records at the Tower: 1623-1626: Copy.