Miscellaneous Public Record Office Collections

This series contains smaller collections of reproductions from the Public Record Office. Included are materials from the following classes of records: Cabinet Office, Commonwealth Relations Office, Court of Chancery, Court of King’s Bench, Customs Office, Exchequer, Maps and Plans, Prime Minister’s Office, Privy Council, Treasury Solicitor, and HM Procurator General. For additional assistance regarding any collections identified in the shelf list or on this page, contact the Manuscript Reading Room.

All holdings from the Customs Office are accessible digitally via The National Archives Website. Links to digital content are provided in the shelflist.

Cabinet Office

Great Britain. Cabinet Office records, 1941-1945.
Records of Cabinet Committees. Microfilm of originals in the Public Record Office (London). Excerpts from CAB 87 and 122 relating to Anglo-American relations during World War II.

Commonwealth Relations Office (now at British Library): India Office Records

These materials were microfilmed at the Commonwealth Relations Office; they were subsequently transferred to the British Library. The arrangement below reflects the order imposed by the British Library.

East India Company records, 1754-1775.
Microfilm of originals in the Public Record Office (London).

Court of Chancery

Reproductions of materials from the Chancery records in Great Britain the originals of which span the years 1623-1753. Chiefly communications between the vice-admiralty commission and various colonial governors in Virginia.

Great Britain. Court of Chancery records, 1623-1753.
Photostats and transcripts of originals in the Public Record Office (London).

Customs Office (Records of the Boards of Customs, Excise, and Customs and Excise, and HM Revenue and Customs)

These materials consist of photostats and microfilm of records of the Boards of Customs, Excise, and Customs and Excise, and HM Revenue and Customs. All materials listed here are also available digitally from The National Archives (formerly Public Record Office.) The collection relates to trade in North America during the colonial period, particularly in Virginia.

Great Britain. Customs Office records, 1696-1773.
Photocopies and transcripts of originals in the Public Record Office (London). Includes selections from series 1, 3, 4, 7, 16, and supplementary papers.

Court of King's Bench records

Great Britain. Court of King's Bench records.
Blueprints of originals in the Public Record Office (London).

Public Record Office maps and plans, 1722-1778.

Great Britain. Public Record Office maps and plans, 1722-1778.
Includes selections from series G and H. Photostats and transcripts or originals in the Public Record Office (London).

Records of the British Prime Minister, 1941-1944

Great Britain. Prime Minister.
Excerpts reproduced from the Premier 3 series relating to Anglo-American relations during World War II.

Privy Council Office

These records consist of two series: Privy Council I (Unbound papers) and Privy Council 2 (Registers).

Great Britain. Privy Council records, 1766-1774.
Photostats and transcripts of originals in the Public Record Office (London).

Treasury Solicitor and HM Procurator General

Records of the British Treasury Solicitor, 1675-1921.
Photocopies and transcripts of originals in the Public Record Office (London).

Collective Shelf List

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Descriptive Guides

The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.

Guide to the Materials for American History, to 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain by Charles McLean Andrews
Call Number: CD1048.U5 A6
Published/Created: 1912-14
Electronic copy from HathiTrust.External
A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to American History in British Depositories Reproduced for the Division of Manuscripts of the Library of Congress by Grace Gardner Griffin
Call Number: CD1048.U5 A35 1946
Published/Created: 1946
Electronic copy from HathiTrust.External
Guide to the Materials in London Archives for the History of the United States Since 1783 by Charles O. Paullin and Frederic L. Paxson
Call Number: CD1048.U5 P3
Published/Created: 1914
Electronic copy from HathiTrust.External
Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office by M.S. Giuseppi
Call Number: CD1043 .A553
v. 1. Legal records, etc.--v. 2. State papers and departmental records.--v. 3. Documents transferred 1960-1966. Electronic copy from HathiTrust.External

Foreign Copying Program: United Kingdom of Great Britain

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