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Privy Council: Registers (Papers and Digital Files)
Catalogue reference: PC 2
What's it about?
PC 2
This series contains the register of the Privy Council, comprising the minutes of its proceedings, its orders, certain proclamations and the reports of committees with the papers accompanying them, sometimes entered at length, sometimes in...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PC 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Privy Council: Registers (Papers and Digital Files)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1540-2022
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the register of the Privy Council, comprising the minutes of its proceedings, its orders, certain proclamations and the reports of committees with the papers accompanying them, sometimes entered at length, sometimes in abstract only. Pieces 1-873 are fully indexed. There are several gaps in the series of registers, the chief being that between 1 January 1602 and 1 May 1613.
From the late sixteenth century the registers generally contain lists of privy councillors and, occasionally, lists of committees and committee members, transcripts of official oaths, etc. From the mid 1890s, maps and plans frequently appear in the registers. They relate mainly to local authority areas and ward boundaries arising from the issue of orders in council in connection with the grant of charters, etc. Other maps relate to the boundaries of ecclesiastical parishes, chapelries, benefices and the extent of military manoeuvres.
Also included are a number of volumes containing copies of revised king's regulations and Admiralty instructions, issued under orders in council.
Digital images of some of the records in this series are available through the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website. Please note that The National Archives is not responsible for this website or its content.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The registers are arranged by sovereign, in date order.
References for born-digital records are automatically generated and display a 'Z' after a forward slash, which distinguish them from traditional references allocated to paper and digitised records.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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No Privy Council registers earlier than 1540 and in precisely the same form are known to have survived, but there are some Elizabethan transcripts from early Tudor Council registers among the Ellesmere manuscripts in the Huntington library in California.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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The volumes for 1 January 1602 and 1 May 1613 are known to have been destroyed by fire in 1619, and the same fate may have attended other volumes now missing, but one of them, extending from 10 May 1545 to 28 January 1547, is in the British Library (Add. MS 5476).
For Privy Council minutes and memoranda for the first half of the eighteenth century see
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Privy Council, 1300-1300
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1737 volumes, bundles, papers and digital records
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1972 Privy Council Office
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- The registers were subject indexed for the years 1627/8 to 1645 and 1660 to 1714, in the 1840s by Robert Lemon. Available in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Transfer started from 1540 from the Privy Council Office
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Colonial affairs between 1613 and 1783 have been calendared in Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial (6 vols HMSO 1908-1912). The registers have been calendared from 1542 to 1631 in Acts of the Privy Council of England, New Series, (46 vols, HMSO 1890-1964) 1540 to 1542 Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council, vol VII
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11475/
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Privy Council: Registers (Papers and Digital Files)
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