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Isabel B. Taylor
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Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Foreword and Acknowledgements V
- Contents IX
- Introduction, focus, sources and method 1
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Part One: The Institutional Background
- 1 English archives: The beginnings 11
- 2 Records mismanagement 20
- 3 Preservation, misplacing, destruction, and embezzlement 26
- 4 Specific record-keeping situations: Provincial and legal records 44
- 5 Arrangement and description: Inventories, calendars, and records editions 55
- 6 Attempts at reforming government records before 1640 66
- 7 The records in the Revolutionary era 85
- 8 The Restoration and afterwards 105
- 9 An ironic counterpoint: Sir Robert Cotton’s ‘private library’ 118
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Part Two: English Archives and the Seventeenth-Century Constitutional Controversies
- 10 Archives’ role in the constitutional debates, and the Whig theory of history 131
- 11 The English legal system in the seventeenth century and the permissions regime for the public records 140
- 12 The foundation of the seventeenth century: History, Reformation and the ‘Ancient Church’ 158
- 13 History-writing, treason, and censorship 169
- 14 The Society of Antiquaries, primary source research, and the Ancient Constitution 180
- 15 Sir Edward Coke, Magna Carta, and records seizures 194
- 16 Parliamentary research orders 208
- 17 Sir Robert Cotton as archival research assistant to government and Parliament 211
- 18 John Selden: Archival research, legal history, and constitutional activism 239
- 19 William Prynne and the counter-revolution in the records editions 287
- 20 Epilogue to Part Two: The Civil War, the Tower records clerks, and espionage 317
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Part Three: Secrecy and Access at the State Paper Office
- 21 Thomas Wilson’s appointment as Keeper: The political background 327
- 22 The establishment of the State Paper Office 338
- 23 Francis Bacon, George Villiers, and records classification 348
- 24 Practical problems at the State Paper Office: Records storage, Jacobean court intrigues, and money matters 351
- 25 The political uses of history and the Crown’s records 368
- 26 Records accessioning and power politics during Wilson’s tenure 377
- 27 Archives and intrigue: Wilson and the judicial persecution of Sir Walter Ralegh 388
- 28 The State Paper Office after Wilson 399
- 29 The Civil War and Interregnum 405
- 30 The Restoration, records seizures from Revolutionaries, and cataloguing 409
- 31 Official secrecy and research permissions 418
- 32 Use requests under James I 424
- 33 Use requests after the Restoration 432
- Conclusion: English archives and the wider European context 438
- Bibliography 452
- Biographical note 472
- Index of Persons 473
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Foreword and Acknowledgements V
- Contents IX
- Introduction, focus, sources and method 1
-
Part One: The Institutional Background
- 1 English archives: The beginnings 11
- 2 Records mismanagement 20
- 3 Preservation, misplacing, destruction, and embezzlement 26
- 4 Specific record-keeping situations: Provincial and legal records 44
- 5 Arrangement and description: Inventories, calendars, and records editions 55
- 6 Attempts at reforming government records before 1640 66
- 7 The records in the Revolutionary era 85
- 8 The Restoration and afterwards 105
- 9 An ironic counterpoint: Sir Robert Cotton’s ‘private library’ 118
-
Part Two: English Archives and the Seventeenth-Century Constitutional Controversies
- 10 Archives’ role in the constitutional debates, and the Whig theory of history 131
- 11 The English legal system in the seventeenth century and the permissions regime for the public records 140
- 12 The foundation of the seventeenth century: History, Reformation and the ‘Ancient Church’ 158
- 13 History-writing, treason, and censorship 169
- 14 The Society of Antiquaries, primary source research, and the Ancient Constitution 180
- 15 Sir Edward Coke, Magna Carta, and records seizures 194
- 16 Parliamentary research orders 208
- 17 Sir Robert Cotton as archival research assistant to government and Parliament 211
- 18 John Selden: Archival research, legal history, and constitutional activism 239
- 19 William Prynne and the counter-revolution in the records editions 287
- 20 Epilogue to Part Two: The Civil War, the Tower records clerks, and espionage 317
-
Part Three: Secrecy and Access at the State Paper Office
- 21 Thomas Wilson’s appointment as Keeper: The political background 327
- 22 The establishment of the State Paper Office 338
- 23 Francis Bacon, George Villiers, and records classification 348
- 24 Practical problems at the State Paper Office: Records storage, Jacobean court intrigues, and money matters 351
- 25 The political uses of history and the Crown’s records 368
- 26 Records accessioning and power politics during Wilson’s tenure 377
- 27 Archives and intrigue: Wilson and the judicial persecution of Sir Walter Ralegh 388
- 28 The State Paper Office after Wilson 399
- 29 The Civil War and Interregnum 405
- 30 The Restoration, records seizures from Revolutionaries, and cataloguing 409
- 31 Official secrecy and research permissions 418
- 32 Use requests under James I 424
- 33 Use requests after the Restoration 432
- Conclusion: English archives and the wider European context 438
- Bibliography 452
- Biographical note 472
- Index of Persons 473