Rerum Britannicarum Medii [AE]vi Scriptores

Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britian and Ireland during the Middle Ages

Year Books of Edward III

• Year XVII - 1905 - PIMS

Collections

• Calanders of State Papers
  

  As far back as the year 1800, a Committee of the House of Commons recommended that Indexes and Calendars should be made to the Public Record*, and thirty-six years afterwards another Committee of the House of Commons reiterated that recommendation in more forcible words ; but it was not until the incorporation of the State Paper Office with the Public Record Office that the present Master of the Rolls found himself in a position to take the necessary steps for carrying out the wishes of the House of Commons.

  On 7 December 1805, he stated to the Lords of the Treasury that although the Records, State Papers, and Documents in his charge constitute the most complete and perfect series of their kind in the civilized world, and although they are of the greatest value in a historical and constitutional point of view, yet they are comparatively useless to the public, from the M want of proper Calendars and Indexes.

  Acting upon the recommendations of the Committees of the House of Commons above referred to, he suggested to the Lords of the Treasury that to effect the object ho had in view it would be necessary for him to employ a few persons fully qualified to perform the work which he contemplated.

  Their Lordships assented to the necessity of having Calendars prepared and printed, and empowered the Master of the Rolls to take such steps as might be necessary for this purpose.

  • Calendarium Genealogicum
    for the Reigns of Henry III. and Edward I. Edited by Charles Roberts, Esq., Secretary of the Public Record Office. 2 Vols. 1865.
    This is a work of great value for elucidating the early history of our nobility and landed gentry.
  • Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, or the Reigns of Edward VI, Mart, Elizabeth, and James I., preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office. Edited by Robert Lemon, Esq., F.S.A., (Vols. I. and II.), and Mary Anne Everett Green, (Vols. III.-XI1.). 1856-1872.
    
    Vol. I - 1547-1580.
    Vol. II - 1581-1590.
    Vol. III - 1591-1594.
    Vol. IV - 1595-1597.
    Vol. V - 1598-1601.
    Vol. V1 1601-1603, with Addenda, 1547-1565.
    Vol. VII - Addenda, 1566-1579.
    Vol. VIII - 1603-1610.
    Vol. IX - 1611-1618.
    Vol. X - 1619-1623.
    Vol. XI - 1623-1625, with Adenda, 1603-1625.
    Vol. XII - Addenda, 1580-1625.
    

  These Calendars render accessible to investigation a large and important mass of historical materials. The Northern Rebellion of 1566-67; the plots of the Catholic fugitives in the Low Countries; the numerous designs against Queen Elizabeth and in favour of a Catholic succession; the Gunpowder-plot; the rise and fall of Somerset; the Overbury murder; the disgrace of Sir Edward Coke; the rise of the Duke of Buckingham, etc. Numerous other subjects are illustrated by Papers, few of which had been previously known.

• Rymer's F[oe]dora 1066-1654
  Documents of the early Britian.