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The corsair state of Rabat-Salé
On the Atlantic coast of Morocco are two cities that became one of the most substantial Islamic ports of the 17th Century.
Series
Privy Council Office: Plantation Books
Catalogue reference: PC 5
What's it about?
PC 5
This series contains volumes, sometimes called 'Plantation Registers' which comprise copies (apparently made more or less contemporaneously with the originals) of colonial acts, and forms of confirmation; charters; commissions; instructions,...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PC 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- Privy Council Office: Plantation Books
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Date (When the record was created)
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1678-1806
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains volumes, sometimes called 'Plantation Registers' which comprise copies (apparently made more or less contemporaneously with the originals) of colonial acts, and forms of confirmation; charters; commissions; instructions, orders and letters issued to governors and others administering colonial governments; orders in Council; warrants for the appointment of colonial councillors, for letters patent under the Great Seal, for letters of marque, and for grants and surrenders of offices.
The entries of colonial acts show in some detail the stages followed in the Council or its committees in the preparation of colonial legislation.
All but one of the volumes are indexed.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Date order
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For records of the early Privy Council committees concerned with trade and the colonies, see Colonial Office,
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Volumes for the period 14 May 1755 to 17 November 1767 are missing.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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16 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Piracy and privateering
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- These volumes were among the sources used by the editor of the Acts of the Privy Council of England, Colonial Series (HMSO, 1908-1912).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11478/
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