Series
Committee for Plundered Ministers: Orders and Papers
Catalogue reference: SP 22
What's it about?
SP 22
Records of the Committee for Plundered Ministers, comprising an order book, original orders and working papers.The series was formerly known as 'Interregnum F'.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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SP 22
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Title (The name of the record)
- Committee for Plundered Ministers: Orders and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1642-1653
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Committee for Plundered Ministers, comprising an order book, original orders and working papers.
The series was formerly known as 'Interregnum F'.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The Trustees for the Maintenance of Ministers ordered copies of minutes and orders of the committee. These copies, which sometimes supplement those preserved in SP 22, survive in BL Add. mss 15669-15671. They do not go beyond 1647, but another source (Bodleian library Ms. 322-329) covers 1645 to 1653. A manuscript calendar in tabular form and arranged alphabetically by location, compiled by Mrs M A E Green, is held by the Public Record Office in ZBOX 1/71 and 77.
additional finding aid ZBOX 1/77
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Other papers of the committee can be found in:
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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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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Committee for Plundered Ministers, 1642-1653
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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4 bundles and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Available in digital format
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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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The archive most probably belonged to John Phelps, registrar of the Trustees for the Maintenance of Ministers, who in 1653 took over from the Committee for Plundered Ministers its sustentation funding for the clergy.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- See also Committee for Plundered Ministers: Orders and Papers (formerly introductory note to SP 22)
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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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The Committee for Plundered Ministers was set up by Parliament on 31 December 1642 to relieve ministers of the Church plundered by the royalists, many of whom had found refuge in London. A successor to the Committee for Scandalous Ministers, it was gradually delegated by Parliament to find vacancies for deserving ministers, particularly from sequestrated impropriations and later by investigation of malignant ministers. It was ordered to eject unsuitable incumbents, and in 1643 county committees were ordered to send the committee information to promote this.The committee also became involved in the business of augmenting the value of poor livings.
In 1650 it suffered a reduction of its powers when the Committee for reforming the Universities was required to guide the 13 trustees appointed by Parliament to see to the maintenance of ministers, but the rival committee was dissolved in 1652 and its powers transferred to this one in February 1653. In April 1653, however, the committee lapsed, leaving the Trustees supreme till 1659. The committee was briefly revived in June 1659.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- A transcript of material relating to Lancashire and Cheshire has been printed inMinutes of the Committee for the Relief of Plundered Ministers and of the Trustees for the Maintenance of Ministers relating to Lancashire and Cheshire ed W A Shaw (Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, XXVIII and XXXIV, 1894-1896).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13564/
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Committee for Plundered Ministers: Orders and Papers