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Series
Board of Trade: Miscellanea
Catalogue reference: BT 6
What's it about?
BT 6
Reports, accounts and returns made to the Board of Trade, plus registers kept by it and various other papers.Includes papers referred to as 'Trade Miscellanies'. The series contains some papers of Pitt's original board of 1784, known as first...
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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BT 6
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Miscellanea
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Date (When the record was created)
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1697-1921
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports, accounts and returns made to the Board of Trade, plus registers kept by it and various other papers.
Includes papers referred to as 'Trade Miscellanies'. The series contains some papers of Pitt's original board of 1784, known as first committee papers.
The following are some of the other principal records in the series:
- African questions and accounts, 1770 to 1805
- American trade with Great Britain, the West Indies, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, 1783 to 1807
- Papers on coinage, 1787 to 1836
- Papers on corn, 1789 to 1802
- Consular reports, 1786 to 1835
- Consular returns, 1816 to 1821
- Customs and Excise accounts, accounts of imports and exports and of foreign tariffs, etc., 1780 to 1843
- Papers on negotiations for a commercial treaty with France, 1784 to 1786
- Correspondence on Anthony Hove's travels in India to collect plants for Kew Gardens, 1787 to 1790
- Papers on a House of Commons Inquiry into the Mersey Conservancy, 1838
- Dr. Charles Maclean's papers on the plague, 1816 to 1820
- Petitions (agricultural, silk, timber, shoemakers', tanners', paper stainers', distillers' etc.), 1803 to 1829
- Railway papers, 1835 to 1846
- Shipping and trade returns from consuls and naval officers, 1697 to 1850
- Reports on the export trade to the East Indies, 1791 to 1821
- Orders in council referring to colonial laws, 1802 to 1843
- Registers of licenses to neutral vessels, 1809 to 1822, 1802 to 1843
- Trade statistics, 1722 to 1841
- In-letters, 1779 to 1846
- Papers on trials of the Pyx, 1791 to 1915
- Appendix to Sir Emerson Tennent's report on the Board of Trade, 1862
- Proposed amendments to the Companies Acts, 1895 to 1900
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
BT 6/253-278 are in-letters and are referred to in the minutes, but are not always easy to trace from them, except that BT 6/253-261 form a numbered series of 'Trade Miscellanies' which are noted as such in the minute books.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Royal Mint records on the Trial of the Pyx are in MINT 7
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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)
- Board of Trade, 1786-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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298 bundles, files 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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- The papers in this series are recorded in the registers in BT 4
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3049/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
2,674,133 records
Within the department: BT
Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies
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Board of Trade: Miscellanea
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