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Senate House Library, University of London

Directives relating to English customs duties


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 44

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Directives relating to English customs duties

Date(s): 1671-1678

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 109 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The term 'customs' applied to customary payments or dues of any kind, regal, episcopal or ecclesiastical until it became restricted to duties payable to the King upon export or import of certain articles of commerce. By ordinance of 21 January 1643, the regulation of the collection of customs was entrusted to a parliamentary committee whose members were appointed commissioners and collectors of customs forming a Board of Customs. This and succeeding committees appointed by Parliament until 1660 and thereafter by the Crown, functioned until 1662, when those who had been serving as commissioners became lessees of a new form of customs. This continued until 1671 when negotiations for a new farm broke down and a Board of Customs for England and Wales was created by Letter Patent.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume containing transcripts of directives issued by the Treasury Board and the Board of Customs, 1671-1678, including warrants petitions and legal documents relating to the customs. The documents are signed by statesmen including Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury; Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh; Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds; Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington; Sir John Coventry; and Charles Bertie.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript folio. Bound in vellum.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

University of London manuscripts relating to customs and excise include MS 39, 40, 41, 44, 90, 134, 140, 202, 203, and 204.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) 2nd edition, and NCA rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names (1997).

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Customs policy | Finance

Personal names
Bennet | Henry | 1618-1685 | 1st Earl of Arlington | statesman x Arlington | 1st Earl of
Bertie | Charles | 1642-1711 | politician and diplomat
Clifford | Thomas | 1630-1673 | 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh | statesman x Clifford of Chudleigh | 1st Baron
Cooper | Anthony Ashley | 1621-1683 | 1st Earl of Shaftesbury | statesman x Shaftesbury | 1st Earl of
Coventry | Sir | John | d 1682 | Knight | politician
Osborne | Thomas | 1631-1712 | 1st Duke of Leeds | statesman x Danby | 1st Earl of x Leeds | 1st Duke of

Corporate names
Board of Customs
Treasury Board

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe