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Series
Public Record Office: Petrie Transcripts
Catalogue reference: PRO 31/5
What's it about?
PRO 31/5
This series contains transcripts of medieval chronicles, lives of saints, registers, etc, for the most part printed in the series of Chronicles and Memorials issued under the direction of the Master of the Rolls and elsewhere.These transcripts...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PRO 31/5
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Title (The name of the record)
- Public Record Office: Petrie Transcripts
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Date (When the record was created)
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c600-1393
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains transcripts of medieval chronicles, lives of saints, registers, etc, for the most part printed in the series of Chronicles and Memorials issued under the direction of the Master of the Rolls and elsewhere.
These transcripts were assembled by Henry Petrie, keeper of the records at the Tower of London, from 1819 until his retirement in 1840. In 1843 they were transferred to the Master of the Rolls by his executors.
Annual reports by Petrie on the progress of his work are in PRO 36/47
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The abbreviation C.B.H. is used in piece descriptions to refer to T D Hardy's history of Great Britain and Ireland (see publication details below). The abbreviation R.S. refers to the Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland("Rolls Series").
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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There is also some correspondence and papers relating to a plan for continuing the publication of 'Materials for the History of Britain' in the 1840s in PRO 1/124
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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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Not 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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15 bundle(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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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After Petrie's death in 1842 the transcripts were transferred to the master of the rolls by his executors and deposited in the Public Record Office in March of the following year.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- An alphabetical index to the series is available on open access. Please speak to staff at the enquiry desk for the precise location.
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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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In 1823 Henry Petrie was appointed by the Record Commission to undertake work, with the assistance of the Rev J Sharpe, his brother-in-law, upon the early sources of national history. Partly on account of the deterioration in Petrie's health the work was put in suspense in 1834, except for sections concerning the Anglo-Saxon laws and the Welsh laws which were published separately under the respective editorships of Benjamin Thorpe in 1840 and Aneurin Owen in 1841.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Some of these transcripts were used in T D Hardy's Descriptive Catalogue of Materials relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the End of the Reign of Henry VII, published in three volumes between 1862 and 1871
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12050/
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
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Public Record Office: Petrie Transcripts
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