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Sources relating to national and local government (excluding Parliament), and the development of British law.
28 volumes.
24 volumes.
23 volumes.
46 volumes.
39 volumes.
13 volumes.
32 volumes.
15 volumes.
14 volumes.
Eleven volumes, for the reigns of William and Mary and William singly from 1696. 11 volumes.
8 volumes.
19 volumes.
Nine volumes, for the period 1547-88. 9 volumes.
Listings of holders of offices in central government (17th-19th centuries). 11 volumes.
Collections of Thurloe, Secretary of State 1652-8, ed. Thomas Birch (7 volumes). 7 volumes.
5 volumes.
6 volumes.
Calendars of documents held by The National Archives. 4 volumes.
4 volumes.
3 volumes.
The full text of Statutes passed into law by the two Houses of Parliament. 3 volumes.
2 volumes.
Records of the periodic courts of quarter sessions. 9 volumes.
Papers concerning the Anglo-Scottish border (1560-1603). 2 volumes.
Records of the government of medieval London (1275-1509). 11 volumes.
Three volumes, covering period from 1323 to 1412. 3 volumes.
The full text of legislation passed into law during the Interregnum. Contains over 900 pieces of legislation. ranging from that concerning the trial and execution of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury to the regulation of trade in currants, and from the propagation of the Gospel in the New World to the draining of the Great Fen. Originally published in three volumes, it is here given together, along with a table of acts passed and a substantial introduction.
Transcriptions from the manuscript rolls of all parliaments which survive for the period 1275 to 1504. The transcriptions - in Latin, Anglo-Norman or Middle English - are presented in parallel with a modern English translation. There is also a description of each parliament of the period, including for those of which no roll survives.
Covers the parishes in the hundreds of Hamfordshoe, Higham Ferrers, Orlingbury, Spelhoe and Wymersley, in the central part of the county. It includes an account of the parish of Wellingborough.
Assize records for London, 14th-16th centuries. 2 volumes.
Records of courts of itinerant justices (13th century). 2 volumes.
An edition of the legislation of the Church of Scotland, prepared by a committee of the Church Law Society, convened by Thomas Pitcairn.
These two sources cover between them the period 1730 to 1753. Edited from MSS in the Greater London Record Office, by permission of the London Record Society.
Covers the whole period 918 to 1206.
Covers the period 1385 to 1618.
Nine rolls, covering a formative period in the history of the City of London, and illustrative of ancient municipal law and legal custom.
The minutes of two committees of London Dissenters (ministers and laymen) for the repeal of these two Acts, the second of which was eventually successful. From MSS in the Guildhall Library, reproduced by permission of the London Record Society.