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Series
Public Record Office: Miscellaneous Transcripts, etc.
Catalogue reference: PRO 31/17
What's it about?
PRO 31/17
This series consists mainly of transcripts and photocopies of records from a variety of sources, which it was not convenient to classify separately.These include: copies of photographs taken for the French Government of the Gascon Rolls, 39 Henry...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PRO 31/17
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Title (The name of the record)
- Public Record Office: Miscellaneous Transcripts, etc.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 19th century-20th century
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists mainly of transcripts and photocopies of records from a variety of sources, which it was not convenient to classify separately.
These include:
- copies of photographs taken for the French Government of the Gascon Rolls, 39 Henry III to 18 Edward II
- some keys to 16th century Venetian ciphers received from Signor Luigi Pasini in 1875
- a translation of an Extent of the Island of Jersey in 5 Edward III
- a volume containing excerpts of records relating to Windsor Castle from the earliest period to 9 Edward III, etc
- a catalogue of the Carte MSS in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
- copies of a report of the Duke of Wellington to the King of the Netherlands following Waterloo
- working papers, etc, of Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy and others relating to materials for British history and printed proofs, etc in connection with W H Black's uncompleted work on the 'Iter Britanniarum', which had been intended for publication in the Rolls Series.
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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)
- 44 bundles and files
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12062/
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: Miscellaneous Transcripts, etc.
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