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Henry Savage Sweetman: the man who uncovered Ireland’s medieval history
Henry Savage Sweetman published the Calendar which translated over 8,000 Irish medieval records. But who was Sweetman and why did he complete this project?
Series
Public Record Office: Government Searches
Catalogue reference: PRO 3
What's it about?
PRO 3
Letters from government departments to the Public Record Office requesting and authorising searches to be made in the public records, with some drafts of replies, requisitions for documents, etc.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PRO 3
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Title (The name of the record)
- Public Record Office: Government Searches
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1860-1899
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Description (What the record is about)
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Letters from government departments to the Public Record Office requesting and authorising searches to be made in the public records, with some drafts of replies, requisitions for documents, etc.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
For the period 1862-1883 the papers have been bound up indiscriminately in the two series of volumes 15 to 18 and 43 to 49.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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After 1899 the correspondence similar to that preserved in this series has mostly been destroyed.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 80 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
- Archives and libraries
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11921/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
96,787 records
Within the department: PRO
Domestic Records of the Public Record Office, Gifts, Deposits, Notes and Transcripts
You are currently looking at the series: PRO 3
Public Record Office: Government Searches
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