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
Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Turkey
Catalogue reference: SP 97
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SP 97
Mainly in-letters to the Secretary of State from the English (later British) Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at Constantinople (now Istanbul in Turkey). Many papers (particularly petitions) are from the Levant Company, which financed diplomatic...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SP 97
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Title (The name of the record)
- Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Turkey
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1579-1779
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Description (What the record is about)
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Mainly in-letters to the Secretary of State from the English (later British) Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at Constantinople (now Istanbul in Turkey). Many papers (particularly petitions) are from the Levant Company, which financed diplomatic representation in the Levant until 1804 (see also SP 105). Some despatches from the consulates at Smyrna (now Izmir in Turkey) and Aleppo (now Haleb in Syria) are also included. Many draft replies (and in some cases the despatches themselves) by the Secretary of State are also in the series, though they are less frequently found in the earlier volumes. Amongst other miscellaneous papers are letters from the Patriarch of Constantinople and certain British naval officers.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For letter books compiled during the embassy of Sir Robert Ainslie to the Ottoman Empire see: FO 261
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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)
- 60 bundles and volumes
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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
- International
- Navy
- Middle East
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Selected documents dated before August 1589 are described in theCalendar of State Papers Foreign Series of the Reign of Elizabeth I ed A J Butler S C Lomas and R B Wernham (London 1901-1950). For references to the more important papers for the period August 1589 to December 1595 see theList and Analysis of State Papers Foreign Series Elizabeth I I-VI ed by Richard Bruce Wernham (London 1964-1993). 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/C13636/
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