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2 Records mismanagement

  • Isabel B. Taylor
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The Crown and Its Records
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  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Foreword and Acknowledgements V
  3. Contents IX
  4. Introduction, focus, sources and method 1
  5. Part One: The Institutional Background
  6. 1 English archives: The beginnings 11
  7. 2 Records mismanagement 20
  8. 3 Preservation, misplacing, destruction, and embezzlement 26
  9. 4 Specific record-keeping situations: Provincial and legal records 44
  10. 5 Arrangement and description: Inventories, calendars, and records editions 55
  11. 6 Attempts at reforming government records before 1640 66
  12. 7 The records in the Revolutionary era 85
  13. 8 The Restoration and afterwards 105
  14. 9 An ironic counterpoint: Sir Robert Cotton’s ‘private library’ 118
  15. Part Two: English Archives and the Seventeenth-Century Constitutional Controversies
  16. 10 Archives’ role in the constitutional debates, and the Whig theory of history 131
  17. 11 The English legal system in the seventeenth century and the permissions regime for the public records 140
  18. 12 The foundation of the seventeenth century: History, Reformation and the ‘Ancient Church’ 158
  19. 13 History-writing, treason, and censorship 169
  20. 14 The Society of Antiquaries, primary source research, and the Ancient Constitution 180
  21. 15 Sir Edward Coke, Magna Carta, and records seizures 194
  22. 16 Parliamentary research orders 208
  23. 17 Sir Robert Cotton as archival research assistant to government and Parliament 211
  24. 18 John Selden: Archival research, legal history, and constitutional activism 239
  25. 19 William Prynne and the counter-revolution in the records editions 287
  26. 20 Epilogue to Part Two: The Civil War, the Tower records clerks, and espionage 317
  27. Part Three: Secrecy and Access at the State Paper Office
  28. 21 Thomas Wilson’s appointment as Keeper: The political background 327
  29. 22 The establishment of the State Paper Office 338
  30. 23 Francis Bacon, George Villiers, and records classification 348
  31. 24 Practical problems at the State Paper Office: Records storage, Jacobean court intrigues, and money matters 351
  32. 25 The political uses of history and the Crown’s records 368
  33. 26 Records accessioning and power politics during Wilson’s tenure 377
  34. 27 Archives and intrigue: Wilson and the judicial persecution of Sir Walter Ralegh 388
  35. 28 The State Paper Office after Wilson 399
  36. 29 The Civil War and Interregnum 405
  37. 30 The Restoration, records seizures from Revolutionaries, and cataloguing 409
  38. 31 Official secrecy and research permissions 418
  39. 32 Use requests under James I 424
  40. 33 Use requests after the Restoration 432
  41. Conclusion: English archives and the wider European context 438
  42. Bibliography 452
  43. Biographical note 472
  44. Index of Persons 473
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