Series
G H de M Plantagenet Harrison: Notes on the Public Records
Catalogue reference: PRO 66/3
What's it about?
PRO 66/3
This series contains thirty large volumes of notes on various public records compiled by General G H de M Plantagenet-Harrison (the pseudonym of James Phillippe, a genealogist), and contains abstracts of entries mainly in the de banco rolls and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PRO 66/3
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Title (The name of the record)
- G H de M Plantagenet Harrison: Notes on the Public Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1830-1888
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains thirty large volumes of notes on various public records compiled by General G H de M Plantagenet-Harrison (the pseudonym of James Phillippe, a genealogist), and contains abstracts of entries mainly in the de banco rolls and the coram rege rolls.
It appears, from a study of the title pages of successive volumes, that around 1830 Plantagenet-Harrison began to research the families of Richmondshire with a view to producing a history of that area. The first volume is a retrospective collection of notes, including some Harrison family history, produced between the years 1830 and 1865, and the following twenty-nine volumes were written between 1865 and 1888.
By 1867 the remit of his research began to expand beyond Richmondshire, and he became involved in a wide-ranging study of the pedigrees and histories of families throughout England.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The former reference numbers in the piece descriptions refer to the old press-marks of volumes once shelved in the Round Room at Chancery Lane.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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This series can be viewed as a series of informal, selective, manuscript calendars to: CP 40
The plea rolls described here can be found in KB 27
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Plantagenet-Harrison, G H de M, 1830-1888
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 30 volume(s)
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- On Plantagenet-Harrison's death, sometime between 1888 and 1890, his daughter Blanche offered the volumes to the Public Record Office, for £600. The office decided that it required only twelve of the volumes, namely 3-9 and 13-17, and paid £240 for the books. By 1944 the volumes were in the possession of an Arthur Campling of Bexley, and around 1949 the PRO bought a further five volumes, numbers 24-28. The remaining volumes subsequently passed to Philip Blake Esq, who died in June 1994. In August 1994 the remaining volumes, 1-2, 10-12, 18-23, and 29-30 were offered to the PRO by Mr Blake's executors.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Each volume is prefaced by a full index.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Only one volume of Plantagenet-Harrison's history was published, The History of Yorkshire: Volume I, Wapentake of Gilling West (1879).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12107/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: PRO
Domestic Records of the Public Record Office, Gifts, Deposits, Notes and Transcripts
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G H de M Plantagenet Harrison: Notes on the Public Records