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Series
Paymaster General's Office: Allowances to Polish Refugees and Distressed Spaniards
Catalogue reference: PMG 53
What's it about?
PMG 53
Pay lists relating to Distressed Spaniards and Polish Refugees.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PMG 53
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Title (The name of the record)
- Paymaster General's Office: Allowances to Polish Refugees and Distressed Spaniards
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Date (When the record was created)
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1855-1909
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Description (What the record is about)
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Pay lists relating to Distressed Spaniards and Polish Refugees.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Some earlier pay lists relating to these refugees are preserved among the records of the Treasury in T 50
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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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9 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
- Refugees
- Government finances
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11709/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: PMG
Records of the Paymaster General's Office and predecessors
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Paymaster General's Office: Allowances to Polish Refugees and Distressed Spaniards
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