Series
Privy Council: Registers (Papers and Digital Files)
Catalogue reference: PC 2
Date: 1540-2022
This series contains the register of the Privy Council, comprising the minutes of its proceedings, its orders, certain proclamations and the...
Series
Signet Office and Home Office: Sign Manual Letter Books Largely Relating to Ireland
Catalogue reference: SO 1
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SO 1
Entries in full of letters sent under the royal sign manual to the lord lieutenant and other authorities in Ireland. Some entries relating to other matters, such as letters recommendatory for elections to bishoprics in England and Wales and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SO 1
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Title (The name of the record)
- Signet Office and Home Office: Sign Manual Letter Books Largely Relating to Ireland
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1627-1876
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Description (What the record is about)
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Entries in full of letters sent under the royal sign manual to the lord lieutenant and other authorities in Ireland. Some entries relating to other matters, such as letters recommendatory for elections to bishoprics in England and Wales and letters to lords lieutenant of counties, judges of assize and various commissioners, etc, will also be found in the volumes.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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From 1776 onwards the entries are largely duplicated in the Irish series of king's letter books in HO 101
Indexes to SO 1/4-38 are in SO 2
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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)
- 38 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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- SO 2 contains indexes to SO 1/4-38
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Down to the end of the year 1670 the volumes have been calendared in the Calendar of State Papers, Ireland and subsequent to that year in the volumes of the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series .
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13535/
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