Series
Board of Longitude: Papers
Catalogue reference: RGO 14
Date: 1605-1830
Records of the Board of Longitude.These include papers about the discovery of methods of measuring longitude at sea, notably the work of John...
Series
Special Collections: Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery and the Exchequer
Catalogue reference: SC 1
What's it about?
SC 1
Correspondence, memoranda, petitions and other documents in a series created artificially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the assembly of material from a variety of sources among the records of English royal government. The original...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 1
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Title (The name of the record)
- Special Collections: Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery and the Exchequer
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Date (When the record was created)
- Henry II - Henry VIII
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence, memoranda, petitions and other documents in a series created artificially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the assembly of material from a variety of sources among the records of English royal government. The original archival provenance of many of the items in the series cannot now be determined.
The records are enormously diverse in format, purpose and content, covering the wide range of secular and ecclesiastical subjects which were of direct or indirect interest to the royal government. A few are of a private, rather than a public, nature.
The series includes eyre records which would otherwise be found in JUST 4.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The series is arranged in roughly chronological order, based on the reigns in which the items were, or were thought to have been, written. A number of items subsequently added to the series are in SC 1/64 and in SC 1/65.
Please Note: the item numbers of the documents are found on the reverse of the documents and are not the folio numbers in the volumes.
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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, French and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 65 volumes and papers
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Many are badly damaged or faded.
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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
- Religions
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Copies of the List of Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery and the Exchequer and the Index to Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery and the Exchequer together with a similar calendar and index for SC 1/64 are available in the public areas. Please speak to staff at the Map and Large Document Room enquiry desk for the precise location.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- The references to be found in the finding aids are identifiable in the volumes by the numbers on the reverse of the documents and not the folio numbers. Most of the history of the creation and sorting of the series is given in the introduction to the detailed calendar for SC 1/1-63, published asList of Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery and the Exchequer (Public Record Office Lists and Indexes, XV, revised reprint, 1968). An index of persons and places in the same documents is inIndex to Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery and the Exchequer (Public Record Office Supplementary Lists and Indexes XV, 1 and 2, 1969).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13519/
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