Focus on
Smuggling gangs and coastal policing in 19th-century England
Following the Napoleonic Wars, smuggling became a major concern for the British government.
Series
Home Office: Warrant Books, General Series
Catalogue reference: HO 38
What's it about?
HO 38
The series begins with volume no. 40, dated 1782, and contains entries of warrants from the Home Office for changes of name and arms, denizations, licences to King's counsel to plead, appointments to offices, licences to accept and wear foreign...
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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HO 38
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Warrant Books, General Series
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Date (When the record was created)
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1782-1969
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series begins with volume no. 40, dated 1782, and contains entries of warrants from the Home Office for changes of name and arms, denizations, licences to King's counsel to plead, appointments to offices, licences to accept and wear foreign orders, and for a variety of miscellaneous matters, such as commissions of enquiry, free pardons, licences to enter foreign service, the Sovereign's assent to royal marriages, admission of Poor Brothers of the Charterhouse, appointments of Naval and Military Knights of Windsor, engraving the Great Seal, etc.
There is a classified index in each of the numbered volumes in this series, ie HO 38/1-77, covering warrants issued until December 1953. Thereafter the only index is the separate one for 1962-1963: HO 38/81
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Foreign order warrants issued between 1926 and 1967 are entered discretely in HO 38/84-93, arranged in order of the initial letter of the recipient's surname.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Volumes 1-39 will be found interspersed with other volumes 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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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93 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
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Open Document, Open Description
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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
- Population
- Navy
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8902/
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