IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 83
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Parliamentary grants for public services, 1702-1705
Date(s): 1702-1705
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 26 leaves
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The English Parliament is the main legislative body of the country.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume containing an account of the respective grants in Parliament for public services in the years 1702-1705, and the money raised from those grants up to Nov 1704. The account was made due to orders by the House of Commons dated 7 Nov 1704 and 8 Nov 1705.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single item.
Conditions governing access:
Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. 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:
Elephant folio, comprising 4 facsicules bound into one volume. The original wrappers of the 4 parts have been retained within the volume.
Finding aids:
Collection level description.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
This manuscript was in the collection of Humphrey Edwin, and was sold in 1763. By 1765 it was in the collection of Charles Lowndes, Secretary of the Treasury. It was later part of the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet (1792-1872) as MS 2759.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Bought by Herbert Somerton Foxwell from Sidney Dobell in 1908 as an addition to the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
University of London MS 82 also contains information about parliamentary grants during this period.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2000