The Sessional Papers Printed by Royal Command, in the Session 1851, Arranged in Volumes. Vol. XXVIII. Reports from Commissioners, &C. baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...collection supposed to consist only of those proceedings. " These Documents (as Mr. Devon continues) constitute a large proportion of the mass transmitted and removed by the authority of an Order in Council, under the Sign Manual, dated 1st September, 1732; into the Chapter-House, then the Treasury of the Excliequer; and it seems from the very confused character which the mass exhibits, that the persons employed swept up all the old papers which they found, treating them almost as rubbish, and sent them away. The Court of Wards and Liveries, and the Court of Requests, had, up to the time of their abolition in the seventeenth century as after stated, been held in certain halls of the Royal Palace of Westminster. After the abolition of these Courts, their Records, then practically useless and neglected, underwent various changes of locality, which may be traced in the Journals and Reports-of various Committees of the Houses of Lords and Commons whieh were appointed between the years 1645 and 1731 to consider how those documents could be better preserved and rendered accessible to the public. The termination of those deliberations, brought to a definite result by the ravages and proximity of the unfortunate fire at the Cottonian Library on the 23rd October, 1731, was the Older above referred to. It is most probable that, during the course of the various changes of locality to which these documents were subjected previous to their deposit in the Chapter House, they received additions from the documents of an entirely distinct character which are now found among them." " The Official Calendar of the contents of the Chapter House, made in 1807-8, describes the documents packed on the sides of the Grand Entrance from the Cloisters' as being 'covered...