Series
Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, William and Mary
Catalogue reference: SP 32
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SP 32
An assortment of documents relating to domestic matters, including in-letters, petitions, business papers and memoranda, left in the State Paper Office by retiring Secretaries of State during the reign of William and Mary (from December 1694 that...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SP 32
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Title (The name of the record)
- Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, William and Mary
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1689-1702
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Description (What the record is about)
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An assortment of documents relating to domestic matters, including in-letters, petitions, business papers and memoranda, left in the State Paper Office by retiring Secretaries of State during the reign of William and Mary (from December 1694 that of William III). The material covers a wide range of individual applications regarding patronage, passports, trials, evidence of censorship and intelligence gathering, newsletters and printed royal speeches to Parliament and votes of the Commons.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The arrangement is generally chronological, though usually undated papers, believed to belong to a particular year, are added after the dated papers for December of the same year.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Important papers, regarded as private papers, were removed by the secretaries according to the practice of the day.
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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)
- 17 box(es)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Available in digital format
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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 Secretaries of State during this period were the Earls of Shrewsbury and Nottingham, Viscount Sydney, Sir John Trenchard, Sir William Trumball, James Vernon, the Earls of Jersey and Manchester, and Sir Charles Hedges.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Nearly all are calendared in Calendar of State Papers Domestic series of the reign of William and Mary ed W J Hardy and E Bateson (London 1895-1937). Please speak to staff at the Map and Large Document Room enquiry desk for the precise location.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13574/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: SP
Records assembled by the State Paper Office, including papers of the Secretaries...
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Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, William and Mary