The Crown and Its Records
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The Crown and Its Records

Archives, Access, and the Ancient Constitution in Seventeenth-Century England

  1. 490 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Crown and Its Records

Archives, Access, and the Ancient Constitution in Seventeenth-Century England

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Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9783110791266
eBook ISBN
9783110791464
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Foreword and Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction, focus, sources and method
  4. Part One: The Institutional Background
  5. 1 English archives: The beginnings
  6. 2 Records mismanagement
  7. 3 Preservation, misplacing, destruction, and embezzlement
  8. 4 Specific record-keeping situations: Provincial and legal records
  9. 5 Arrangement and description: Inventories, calendars, and records editions
  10. 6 Attempts at reforming government records before 1640
  11. 7 The records in the Revolutionary era
  12. 8 The Restoration and afterwards
  13. 9 An ironic counterpoint: Sir Robert Cotton’s ‘private library’
  14. Part Two: English Archives and the Seventeenth-Century Constitutional Controversies
  15. 10 Archives’ role in the constitutional debates, and the Whig theory of history
  16. 11 The English legal system in the seventeenth century and the permissions regime for the public records
  17. 12 The foundation of the seventeenth century: History, Reformation and the ‘Ancient Church’
  18. 13 History-writing, treason, and censorship
  19. 14 The Society of Antiquaries, primary source research, and the Ancient Constitution
  20. 15 Sir Edward Coke, Magna Carta, and records seizures
  21. 16 Parliamentary research orders
  22. 17 Sir Robert Cotton as archival research assistant to government and Parliament
  23. 18 John Selden: Archival research, legal history, and constitutional activism
  24. 19 William Prynne and the counter-revolution in the records editions
  25. 20 Epilogue to Part Two: The Civil War, the Tower records clerks, and espionage
  26. Part Three: Secrecy and Access at the State Paper Office
  27. 21 Thomas Wilson’s appointment as Keeper: The political background
  28. 22 The establishment of the State Paper Office
  29. 23 Francis Bacon, George Villiers, and records classification
  30. 24 Practical problems at the State Paper Office: Records storage, Jacobean court intrigues, and money matters
  31. 25 The political uses of history and the Crown’s records
  32. 26 Records accessioning and power politics during Wilson’s tenure
  33. 27 Archives and intrigue: Wilson and the judicial persecution of Sir Walter Ralegh
  34. 28 The State Paper Office after Wilson
  35. 29 The Civil War and Interregnum
  36. 30 The Restoration, records seizures from Revolutionaries, and cataloguing
  37. 31 Official secrecy and research permissions
  38. 32 Use requests under James I
  39. 33 Use requests after the Restoration
  40. Conclusion: English archives and the wider European context
  41. Bibliography
  42. Biographical note
  43. Index of Persons