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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS .—For the See also:classification of the records hitherto described the knowledge preserved of their origin and purpose has been used. There exist, however, masses of records where this path is now inaccessible; these have been formed by putting together records of a similar nature either in See also:ignorance of their See also:history or without regarding it; the See also:justification of this course of See also:action must be found in the special circumstances of each See also:case. These collections are as follows: Ministers' Accounts are the accounts of bailiffs, receivers, and other See also:officers managing estates, including, first, those of the duchy of See also:Lancaster; second, accounts of See also:crown lands filed as vouchers in the See also:King's See also:Remembrancer's See also:Office; third, accounts of monastic and other lands seized by the crown, or acquired by it by See also:purchase, See also:inheritance or See also:marriage. A See also:list of these accounts has been published by the See also:Record Office (Nos. V. and VIII.) covering the See also:period down to 1485. For the accounts of the duchy of Lancaster a list will be found in the 45th See also:Report, extending to the reign of See also:George III. See also:Court Rolls are records of the proceedings and profits of manorial and other private courts coming from the same See also:sources as the Ministers' Accounts, and closely connected with them. For a list see Record Office, Lists and Indexes, No. VI.; and for specimens Select Pleas in Manorial Courts, edited for the See also:Selden Society by F. W. See also:Maitland. See also:Ancient Deeds.—In this collection are placed all documents which appear to have formed See also:part of a See also:title to See also:land, some See also:original royal charters and other analogous records.

There are five See also:

series, A, B, C, D, and E, distinguished by their former See also:place of custody. Documents too large for the See also:ordinary method of packing have a See also:double See also:letter, e.g. A.A., and to those bearing See also:fine See also:seals the letter S is added, e.g. AS or AAS. There are thus in all fifteen classes. The A classes are derived from the See also:Treasury of See also:Receipt, or See also:Chapter See also:House at See also:Westminster, and are largely monastic; the B classes are from the court of Augmentations; the C classes are See also:chancery deeds, probably deposited as exhibits in suits or for enrolments; the D classes are from the King's Remembrancer's office; and the E classes are from the Land See also:Revenue office. In 1907 five volumes of a descriptive See also:catalogue had been published by the Record Office. Ancient See also:Correspondence consists of documents which in See also:form are rather of the nature of a letter than a See also:writ or See also:petition. Most of them were found detacHed in the chancery records, but similar documents from other sources have been added. The introduction to the Record Office List (No. XV.) contains some See also:account of the formation of the class, and the list gives references to printed collections based upon these documents. Vol.

53 contains letters of the Cely See also:

Family and is published (See also:Camden Society, 3rd series, vol. i.). Ancient Petitions.--The history of the formation of this class is obscure; an account of it is in the Record Office See also:Index to the class (No. I.); but see also the Introduction to F. W. Maitland's Memoranda de Parliamento (Rolls Series, vol. 98), in which See also:volume a number of these petitions are printed in full. See also:Diplomatic Documents.—In the Chapter House at Westminster was a collection of See also:treaties and other documents connected with See also:foreign affairs, and to these have been added other similar documents found there. Of these there is a descriptive list in the 45th and 49th Reports. A collection of so-called Diplomatic Documents from the chancery forms part of the Chancery Miscellanea. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of See also:Henry VIII.—T his See also:great collection of materials for the reign of Henry VIII. (See also:Calendar of 20 volumes in 30) at See also:present extends to the See also:year 1547, and is intended to contain abstracts of all documents bearing upon that reign in the Record Office, the See also:British Museum and other collections. Record Office documents dealt with in this Calendar have sometimes been See also:left in their original place of custody and sometimes transferred to a series of See also:bound volumes known as Letters and Papers, Henry VIII.

References will be found in the Calendar to a previous series of See also:

State Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII., printed by a Royal See also:Commission for See also:printing State Papers. See also:Miscellaneous Books.—The many books and registers preserved in the Record Office will be found described in the Handbook.

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