Studies in English Official Historical Documents

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 10
Contents......Page 12
ERRATA......Page 21
PART I - THE SOURCES OF OFFICIAL HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS......Page 22
INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF OFFICIAL SOURCES......Page 24
(a) Records......Page 36
(b) State Papers......Page 53
(c) Departmental Records......Page 66
(a) Records......Page 76
(b) State Papers......Page 83
(c) Departmental Records......Page 93
(a) Records......Page 98
(b) State Papers......Page 105
(c) Departmental Records......Page 112
THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH OFFICIAL HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS......Page 124
A. Table showing the Evolution of the Public Record Office......Page 134
B. Metropolitan Record Repositories (showing the distribution of the Records before the Public Record Office Act of 1838)......Page 135
D. Existing Repositories of legal Records......Page 138
E. List of existing Repositories of legal Records, additional to the Public Record Office......Page 140
F. Chronology of the Custody of Official Records......Page 141
APPENDIX II - Chronology of the custody of the State Papers......Page 144
A. List of Public Departments whose historical Records (including those of abolished Offices under their jurisdiction) have been mainly transferred to the Public Record Office......Page 146
B. List of Public Departments whose historical Records have not yet been transferred to the Public Record Office or only partially transferred......Page 150
A. Outline of the existing or proprietary Classification of the Records in the custody of the Master of the Rolls......Page 152
B. A structural Classification of Records......Page 153
B. Outline of Sir Thomas Wilson\'s Classification of the State Papers, 1619--1629......Page 155
C. Outline of Sir Joseph Williamson\'s Classification of the State Papers [1682]......Page 156
D. Outline of the Classification of the State Papers by the Methodizers, 1764--1800......Page 157
E. Outline of the State Paper Office Classification, 1848--1862......Page 158
F. Outline of the Departmental Classification of the State Papers, 1873--1889......Page 159
H. Heads of a Proprietary Classification of the State Papers......Page 161
APPENDIX VI - The Classification of Departmental Records......Page 164
APPENDIX VII - Specimen Research Form for a Historical Subject in various Official Sources......Page 167
APPENDIX VIII - The several references to the State Papers of a single year (1697) remaining in official custody......Page 170
APPENDIX IX - Outline of the principal sources from which the Departmental Records in official custody might be supplemented......Page 172
APPENDIX X - Outline of the Bibliography of Official Historical Documents......Page 173
PART II - THE DIPLOMATIC OF OFFICIAL HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS......Page 178
INTRODUCTION TO THE DIPLOMATIC STUDY OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS......Page 180
(a) The Old English Chancery......Page 186
(b) Old English Diplomata......Page 200
(c) Old English Formulas......Page 212
(a) Anglo-Saxon survivals......Page 231
(b) The Anglo-Norman Charter and Writ......Page 234
(c) The Anglo-Norman Diplomatic Apparatus......Page 238
(d) Anglo-Norman Diplomatic Formulas......Page 242
(e) Special Charter Forms......Page 245
(f) Private Charters and Deeds......Page 248
(a) The English Chancery from the 13th to the 16th century......Page 250
(b) Charters and Confirmations......Page 258
(c) Writs under the Great Seal......Page 272
(d) Instruments under the Smaller Seals (Missives)......Page 281
(e) Warrants for Issue......Page 286
(a) Mediaeval and Modern Official Letters......Page 293
(b) Secretarial Instruments......Page 298
(c) Departmental Instruments......Page 299
(a) Agrarian Surveys......Page 304
(b) Fiscal Inquisitions......Page 307
(c) Feudal Inquisitions......Page 318
(d) Statutory or Political Inquisitions......Page 320
ROYAL ACCOUNTS......Page 330
(a) Judicial Records......Page 334
(b) Judicial Inquisitions......Page 338
(c) Pleadings on Inquisitions......Page 345
APPENDIX I - A Classified Table of Diplomatic Instruments......Page 350
APPENDIX II - Early Diplomatic Criticism......Page 362
APPENDIX III - The Charters of King Athelstan (Concordance of Formulas)......Page 364
APPENDIX IV - Table showing the Relationship of the Pre-Conquest and Post-Conquest Diplomata......Page 370
APPENDIX V - Documents connected with the Issue of the Great Seal (1662)......Page 371
APPENDIX VI - Fees of the Seal......Page 372
APPENDIX VII - Note on the Bibliography of English Diplomatic......Page 373
PART III - THE PALAEOGRAPHY OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS......Page 376
INTRODUCTION TO THE PALAEOGRAPHY OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS......Page 378
(a) Old English Writing......Page 383
(b) Mediaeval Writing in Latin......Page 388
(c) Mediaeval Writing in Old French......Page 391
(d) Later Official Writing......Page 392
(e) The Royal Scriptorium......Page 397
(f) Palaeographical Terms......Page 402
(g) Palaeographical Tests......Page 405
(h) Contractions......Page 409
(i) Extensions......Page 413
APPENDIX I - Table showing the Evolution of English Writing......Page 418
APPENDIX II - Classification of the Bibliography of Palaeography......Page 419
TABLE OF MATTERS......Page 422