Records of the Mayoralty Visits Committee, Court of Common Council, including minute book, 1969-1989; minutes and correspondence received by the Town Clerk, 1958-1965 and 1976-1979; resolutions of greetings, 1969-1979; reciprocal hospitality (state visits by the mayor), 1961-1975; mayor's overseas visits, 1952-1979 and 1982-1983. Please note that some of these records are closed.

Records of the Union Club including administrative records such as minutes, reports, and correspondence; financial records; membership records and a history of the Club.

Personal papers of Reverend Charles John Todd, navy chaplain, comprising certificates of ordination as a deacon and priest, 1878-79; commission as a Navy chaplain, 1881; letters written home from Navy ships from Zanzibar, Suez, Sudan, India, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], and Japan; diaries and notebooks describing hunting expeditions in Ceylon and East Africa; diary of a diplomatic mission to King John of Abyssinia [Ethiopia], 1884; newspaper cuttings; photographs of Todd; and a description of Todd's Navy service, 1976.

Volumes created or collected by Officers of Arms, mostly armorials and heraldic treatises, but also including ceremonials, College of Arms office books, pedigrees, and extracts from records.

L. 1 - Armorial: Alphabet of Arms, early 16th century. 714 pages. Apparently in the hand of Thomas Wall (d 1536 as Garter). Surnames followed by blazon, with skilfully painted arms in the margins. With a few 16th- and 17th-century additions

L. 2 - Armorial: Alphabet of Arms, early 16th century. c 370 folios. On folios 1-289, painted alphabet of arms, early to mid-16th century, probably temp Hen 8, with a few arms assigned to kings' reigns, Ed 1 - Hen 8. Painted arms end on f 289 in letter M. Names written above blank spaces continue to end of alphabet. Some arms in trick as far as letter R - these are all or mostly later additions

L. 3 - Armorial, late 16th century. 375 folios. Each folio engraved with 4 outline shields with helmet and mantling, tricked arms and crests filled in. Many quarterly coats. Each coat named

L. 4 - Indexes, late 16th - early 17th-centuries. 54 folios. On 30 folios, interspersed with blanks, an index of names to L. 3, in hand of Richard Lee (d 1597 as Clarenceux). On 22 folios, interspersed with blanks, another index, probably early 17th century, identified on flyleaf and cover as being an index to L. 4, but that L. 4 is no longer extant. The first two leaves of this second index contains a list of bishoprics, abbeys, and colleges, followed by an index of names

L. 5 - Armorial, late 16th century. Spine marked 'L4 and 5'. 73 folios. On ff 2-53, coats of arms in trick, arranged according to charges, in woodblock printed outlines. On 15 folios, arms in blazon, arranged roughly in alphabetical order, in a probably late 16th-century hand, followed by 3 folios of arms of Gloucestershire families in blazon in the same hand, then 2 folios of arms in blazon for letters A and B, belonging with the 15 folios but bound out of sequence

L. 5bis - Precedents, Ceremonial and Historical Miscellany, 16th century. Bound with vols L. 6 and L. 8. 142 folios. Copies, in more than one hand, of materials relating to knighthood, heraldry, combats, tournaments, and other ceremonies, the officers of arms, the origins of heralds, etc:

ff 6-15 - treatise in French on heraldry and chivalry, especially the origins of the institution of knighthood and of heralds, beginning with a section on the first heroes, with 'herald' derived from 'hero'

ff 18-19v - letters patent of Edward 6, confirming to the officers of arms exemption from taxation

ff 21-22 - inspeximus by Richard 2 of judgement in the cause of arms between Sir Richard le Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor, 1390

ff 24-26 - translation into English of narrative in form of letter of Aeneas, Bishop of Sienna (Pope Pius 2 from 1458), containing account of the origins of heralds. Contains items in common with story on ff 6-15, including derivation of heralds from heroes, tale of their establishment by Dionysius and continuance under Alexander and Julius Caesar

ff 28-30 - description in French of the manner of making Knights of the Bath

ff 30v-34v - treatise in French, beginning 'Comment on fait lemperour', adapted from Larbre des batailles, by Honore Bonet or Bonnor, Paris, 1493

f 35 - 'Of the Significacion of tharmer of a knight'

ff 36-38 - 'Les noms des premiere fondeurs de la Jarretierre et assy de ceulx qui les ont suyuis en leurs estalles et lieux'

ff 42-62 - documents relating to English claim to sovereignty over Scotland, mostly temp. Edward 1, and beginning with an English translation of the letter of the barons of England in Parliament to the Pope, 1301

pp 65-67 [there are here a small number of leaves which are paginated rather than foliated] - names of 136 noblemen and knights who accompanied Edward 3 at the siege of Berwick, 1333. Probably a compilation of Robert Cooke (d 1593 as Clarenceux)

ff 66bis-72v [folio numbers 66-68 have been duplicated] - order of the Coronation of Richard 2

ff 73-80v - order of the Coronation of Henry 7

ff 81-84 - 'The Ordynance and forme of fitinges within Lystes', purporting to have been made by Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, Constable of England (d 1397). English version, assigning points and armour left on the ground to the heralds

ff 85-87 - examples of challenges to jousts

ff 87-102 - account of the tournament between Lord Scales and the Bastard of Burgundy, held in Smithfield, June 1467. Including copies of the challenges and a description of the present Lord Scales' challenge to the Bastard in Brussels by John Water, Chester Herald (dismissed 1471)

ff 102v-107 - ordinances of war made by Henry 5 at the Council of Mantes (1419)

ff 108v-109 - rules relating to domestic government of the royal household. Undated

ff 114-121 - appointment for the king and queen to Canterbury, Kent, on to Calais and Guisnes to meet the French king, 1520. Continuing with an account of the meeting with the Emperor at Canterbury and the King of France at Guisnes for the Field of the Cloth of Gold

ff 121v-122 - Unattributed copy of the ordinances of John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, Constable of England, for regulation of jousts of peace royal, 1466, with slight differences in the text

ff 122v-124 - ordinances relating to the high marshal in time of war, according to the custom of France, Spain, Portugal, Naples, Sicily and the Levant

ff 124-125 - the authorities and power of the provost marshal in the jurisdiction of the artillery

f 126 - mourning apparel for ladies according to their degree

f 127v - succession of the kingdom of Portugal (this probably an addition)

f 128 - memorandum of a chapter of the kings of arms and heralds in the chapter house at Westminster, 19 Nov 1487, at which it was resolved that all officers of arms should attend at court at every principal feast or great council or other great business, and that at other times one king of arms, one herald and one pursuivant should always be in attendance, with a system of rotation of attendance laid down which represents the basis of the modern system of waiting

ff 129-130 - precedence of the nobility

ff 131-137v - names of archbishops, bishops, dukes and other noblemen of Spain and Portugal, together with a note of their annual revenues; names of Spanish ambassadors and a note of their annual allowances; miscellaneous information on Spain and Portugal

ff 137v-139v - note of the musters in Spain, 1571

ff 140 and 142 - names of English ships which fought against the French, 1513, with names of their captains, number of crew, and tonnage

L. 6 - Heraldic Treatises, before 1527. Bound with vols L. 5bis and L. 8. Possibly in the hand of Sir Thomas Wriothesley (d 1534 as Garter), but owned by William Jenyns (d 1527 as Lancaster Herald):

ff 1-2 - notes on the three most elevated personages of the church and on the three orders given in the world for its regulation, i.e. marriage, priesthood, and chivalry

ff 4-9 - ordinances of Philip 4 of France, regulating trial by combat (Paris, 1306), including order for the ceremonial

ff 11-18v - romance giving account of legendary origins of France and Britain, probably c 1475-1500. Central figure is Brutus. Two episodes: one concerning Dardanus, a rival of Brutus, becoming reconciled to him through the influence of a miraculous banner of the Virgin Mary; the other concerning the 30 sisters of Brutus and the origins of Albion. These episodes followed by a chronicle of pseudo-historical events concerning the origins of kingdom of France. Ends with creation of kings of arms and heralds by Julius Caesar

ff 20-28 - treatise on the foundation of the office of herald, supposedly by Julius Caesar, 'Les dis des philosophes'. Stressing role of heralds as ambassadors and freedom to travel unhampered in times of war as well as peace

ff 32-73 - version of the 'Tractatus de armis' by John de Bado Aureo, late 12th-cent composition, completed c 1394-1395, this version apparently a free adaptation rather than strict translation, and possibly incomplete

ff 74-84 - translation into French of treatise 'De insigniis et armis' of Bartolo di Sasso Ferrato, written c 1354

ff 86-88 - short treatise in French on duties of heralds and certain military officers, containing summary of ideal qualities of a herald

ff 89-98v - treatise in French, beginning 'Comment on doit faire empereur', containing headings substantially as described for L.10 bis ff 8-15

ff 100-104v - manner of making a Knight of the Bath, with later marginal glosses in English

ff 106-129v - series of questions posed and debated on various points of chivalric and martial etiquette, beginning with question of whether a woman as regent can judge a trial by combat

f 130 - letters of Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence, confirming to the kings of arms and heralds certain fees due to them on the display of banners (Caen, 13 Sept 1417)

ff 131-135 - resolutions of the Chapter of the kings of arms and heralds of England, held at Rouen, 5 Jan 1420, the first recorded Chapter of the English heralds

ff 135v-150v - collection of formal petitions or requests to hold jousts, challenges to potential combatants, etc. Including challenge of Jean de Bourbon, Count of Clermont, to Thomas of Lancaster, Steward of England, to meet him in a tournament before a neutral judge (6 July 1406), and a series of challenges cast in terms of high chivalric romance

L. 6bis - Armorial, mid to late 16th cent. 132 folios. Assembled from various sources, containing arms mostly in trick, predominantly recording grants of arms, whether as contemporary memoranda or historical compilations

L. 7 - Armorial, 16th cent. 73 folios. 1224 shields of arms in trick, mostly of Norfolk and Suffolk families, the arms of the city of Norwich on f 6v, names over the arms added mostly in a late 17th- or early 18th-cent hand

L. 7bis - Lists of Barons, late 16th cent. c 235 folios. Barons in reigns of William 1 - Edward 4, arranged by reign. In the hand of Robert Cooke (d 1593 as Clarenceux)

L. 8a - heraldic and historical miscellany, late 15th - 16th cent. Bound with L. 5bis and L. 6. A collection of miscellaneous compilations, mostly heraldic in character, including precedents, material relating to the heralds, rolls of arms, and some burials and descents. Nearly all, with the exception of the rolls of arms, in the handwriting of John Wrythe (d 1504 as Garter) and of his son, Sir Thomas Wriothesley (d 1534 as Garter). Including:

f 5 - arrangement of seating at a tournament at Westminster (no date)

f 16v - indenture between William, Lord Berkeley, and Edward 4, in which Lord Berkeley relinquishes to the King's second son, Richard, Duke of York, his title to lands reverting to him on the death of John, late Duke of Norfolk. Possibly incomplete at the end

ff 17v-19 - order of proceeding for ceremonies over 3 days on creation of Prince Arthur as Prince of Wales (1489)

ff 33v-38 - memoranda on the office of constable and marshal, and ordinances to be kept in time of war

ff 38v-[39bis] - the first Calais Roll. Apparently a 16th-cent. compilation based on contemporary accounts of wages paid to soldiers present before Calais in 1346 and 1347. This a shorter version containing only the names, arms in trick, and retinues of bannerets.

ff 40-50v - account of the Battle of Harfleur, 1415, written by John Wrythe

ff 52v-54 - ordinances for the reformation of the College of Arms, stated to be issued by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, but the text, after the preamble, is in fact an English version of the text of the ordinances of Thomas, Duke of Clarence, for the government of the Office of Arms

ff 54v-57 - list of equipment to be provided for a lord and his retinue in war

f 57v - a Christmas prayer for the king, in hand of Sir Thomas Wriothesley

ff 58-70 - the Parliamentary Roll, c 1312, version II, incomplete 16th-cent copy in blazon. With Wriothesley's mark 'Ihc' in upper margin of f 62

ff 85v-87 - apparel for the field for a baron in his sovereign's company, or for a banneret

ff 87v-88v - apparel for the field for a knight or esquire with 'faire land' and a retinue

f 88v - description of the entry of the Count of Vallantinois, with his retinue, at Chinon, 19 Dec 1498, written by Wrythe

ff 89-95, 96 - memoranda relating to religious houses, with valuations added probably 17th cent; on f 96v a note on the Charterhouses of London, Sheen (co Surrey), and Kingston-upon-Hull (co Yorks), by Wriothesley

L. 8b - Arms of Bishops, 1675. Arms painted, but many unfinished. 39 folios. A few with biographical notes. Bound into front, notes of consecrations and translations of bishops, 1660-1675

L. 8c - 16th cent copy of roll of arms by Randle Holme, temp Henry 6. 69 folios. Possibly by Robert Cooke (d 1593 as Clarenceux). Also includes notes on functions of officers of arms, pedigree of King Philip and Queen Mary from Edward 3, rough pedigree showing descent of Norreys and Weyman families from Edward 3, 1571, and two staves of music with the words 'Lord healpe the poore that crye', in hand of Richard Lee

L. 9 - Armorial, early 16th cent. 126 folios. Letters I to P from the armory section of the great armory and ordinary of English arms compiled by Sir Thomas Wriothesley (d 1534 as Garter). Very finely painted arms on vellum, arranged on the page in three rows of four shields. Indexes and some part of the names written over the arms are in Wriothesley's hand. Also includes:

f 1bis - two shields of royal arms as Sovereign of the Garter and two shields showing arms of Sir Thomas Wriothesley impaling those of his first and second wives

ff 24-29 - arms and crests, temp Eliz 1, probably a collection of recent grants though not necessarily of Elizabeth's reign

f 81 - letters exemplifying an order in the court of chivalry concerning adoption of the arms of John Warbleton by a nephew, Tibaud [Theobald] Russell, with blazon of the arms, 1346

ff 110-118 - account in French of the coronation and entry into Paris of Claude, daughter of Louis 12 and wife of Francis 1, King of France

f 119 - account of siege of Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, held by Sir Ralph Grey against the King (1464), and the judgement on Grey

L. 9bis - Baronage, temp Eliz 1. 100 folios. On 68 folios, narrative descents of peers, in alphabetical order from Albemarle to Shrewsbury, in a late 16th cent. hand, with a few continuations in a different hand. Also includes 21 ff of descents of other peers, including Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick; Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; Ralph Nevill, 1st Earl of Westmoreland; Edward Grey, son of Lord Grey of Ruthin; Sir John Berkeley; Hugh, Lord Spencer; Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick; John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk

L. 10 - Armorial, early 16th cent. 112 folios. Very finely painted arms, including several sections from the armory and ordinary of English arms compiled under the direction of Sir Thomas Wriothesley. Includes:

f 1 - shields of arms of legendary and Anglo-Saxon kings

ff 1v-45v, 50v-57v, 60v-62, 72v-86 - section for letters A-D from Wriothesley's armory

f 67 - arms of Thomas Wolsey as a cardinal and with his personal arms impaled by those of his various ecclesiastical offices

f 68 - six painted shields of arms of bishops of Winchester as prelates of the Order of the Garter

ff 68v-72 and 96v-97 - arms of bishops, abbots, and priors, with some clerics and jurists and a small number of institutions, mostly temp. Hen 7 - Hen 8, with a few Elizabeth additions

ff 94v and 95v - arms of knights, temp Henry 7, finely painted

L. 10bis - Heraldic Treatises, mid 16th cent. Bound with L. 12a, L. 13 and M. 15. All but the first treatise in French. Includes:

ff 2-4v - fragment of treatise for instruction of pursuivants, translated from French into English by Martin Marroffe, York Herald (d 1564)

ff 5-7v - preliminaries of a combat between Hote de [Grantson], Seigneur d'Aubonne, and Raoul de Grive, 20 Sept 1391

ff 15-20v - ordinances for regulating combats within lists or trials by battle, purporting to have been made by Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, Constable of England (d 1397)

ff 22v-24 - instructions for officers of arms on the conduct of funerals

ff 24-26 - oath to be sworn by a new herald

ff 26-32 - treatise entitled 'Les ditz de[s] philosophes'

ff 32v-33 - specimen proclamation of a tournament, including summary of entry requirements, rules of combats, and prizes

ff 33-36 - the manner of holding a tournament

ff 45-46 - an opening paragraph, perhaps the beginning of an heraldic treatise, citing the authority of Hungary King of Arms, introducing a list of the heraldic tinctures with their equivalent stones and 'vertus' or human qualities.

Also includes, on f 51v, a copy of a royal warrant to Sir Edward Waldegrave, Master of the Great Wardrobe, to deliver 8 yds of blue damask and 2 yds of red velvet to Chester Herald (William Flower, d 1588 as Norroy) and 8 yds of blue chamblet and 2 yds of red velvet to Portcullis (John Cocke, d 1586 as Lancaster) for their livery attending on William, Earl of Pembroke, dated 13 July 1557, in English and in different handwriting from rest of manuscript

L. 11 - Armorial and Catalogue of Manuscripts, 16th cent and 1618. Comprises two distinct parts with separate numeration, originally separate manuscripts:

Part 1 - armorial, early to mid 16th cent, probably temp Hen 8

Part 2 - catalogue of the books in the College of Arms, 1 Feb 1618 (1619), thought to be in the hand of Samson Lennard (d 1633 as Bluemantle). The oldest extant catalogue of the College of Arms library

L. 12a - First Calais Roll, probably mid 16th cent. Bound with L. 10bis, L. 13 and M. 15:

ff 1-11 - a copy of the First Calais Roll, a 'spurious' 16th cent roll of arms based on accounts of Walter de Wetewang, Treasurer of the Household, of wages paid to soldiers present before Calais in 1346 and 1347. In the handwriting of Richard Lee (d 1597 as Clarenceux), this copy without the arms of the bannerets

ff 12-14 - a shortened version of the First Calais Roll, with some aberrant features, also without arms and in the hand of Richard Lee

ff 14-16 - copy of the charter of Richard 3 to the kings, heralds and pursuivants of arms, making them a corporation and giving them a house called Coldharbour in the parish of All Saints, 2 March 1 Ric 3 (1484). In the hand of Richard Lee

ff 16-17v - copy of the charter of Philip and Mary to the kings, heralds and pursuivants of arms, restoring them to corporate status and giving them Derby House, on the site of the present College of Arms, 18 July 1 and 3 Philip and Mary (1555). In the hand of Richard Lee

L. 12b - Precedents and historical miscellany, 16th cent. Predominantly relating to ceremonial and military events in the reign of Henry 8, nearly all written by Sir Thomas Wriothesley. The core relates to the Siege of Thérouanne, 1513, on which Wriothesley accompanied King Henry. With some additional material on the later Tudors. Includes:

p 5, f 6 - letters patent creating Charles Brandon, Viscount Lisle (afterwards Duke of Suffolk), Marshal of the King's Army in France, followed by a Latin summary of the contents, 28 May 1513

f 8v - order of Thomas, Earl of Derby, Constable of England, regulating fees due to the officers of arms for the first displaying of banners, 8 Nov 1487

ff 10-11 - names of the Challengers and Answerers at jousts held at Greenwich, 23 May - 3 June 1510, the King being the leading Challenger

ff 14v-15 - publication of the peace between Henry 7 and the Emperor Maximilian [1502]

ff 36v-37v - account of the arrival of Henry 8 in Calais, June-July 1513

ff 39v-40v - certificate of Francis 1, King of France, that he had received the Order of the Garter, 10 Nov 1527

f 41v - list of French prisoners sent from the field to Aire, in the keeping of Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms, no date [but 1513]

ff 42v-43 - presentation of the keys of the city of Tournai, Flanders, to Henry 8, after its surrender [Sept 1513]

ff 44-45 - patent of creation of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, as Duke of Norfolk, 1 Feb 1514

ff 46v-47v - account of the delivery of the sword and cap of maintenance sent to Henry 8 by Pope Leo 10, received 19 May and presented at St Paul's Cathedral, 21 May 1514

ff 49v-70v, 79-83, 90-92v, 95v-96 - 'Le Romant de Prudence', a commentary on the virtues and vices, as described by various classical and biblical authorities, in French, with a verse prologue. In hand of Sir Thomas Wriothesley

ff 72-75 - treatise on battle array, etc

ff 83v-85 - order of receiving the Cardinal Legate, Aug 1518

ff 88v-89 - letters patent of Henry 4 granting the lordship of the Isle of Man to Henry de Percy, Earl of Northumberland, 19 Oct 1399

f 108v - fees payable to officers of arms and others by the Chamber of London at any solemn proclamation and at the entry of a king or queen into the City of London

f 110 - publication of peace between Henry 8 and Louis 12 of France, 1514

ff 114v-121v - reception of Catherine, daughter of Ferdinand, King of Aragon, and Isabella, Queen of Castile, on her marriage with Arthur, Prince of Wales, 1501

ff 126-135v - patents of creation of: Sir John Dudley as Viscount Lisle (12 Mar 1542), Anthony Browne as Viscount Montagu (2 Sept 1554), Thomas Percy as Baron Percy (30 Apr 1557), Thomas Percy as Earl of Northumberland (1 May 1557), Edward Hastings as Baron Hastings of Loughborough (19 Jan 1558), John Brydges as Baron Chandos of Sudeley (8 Apr 1554), Edward Courtenay as Earl of Devon (3 Sept 1553)

ff 136v-138 - orders relating to the duties of an admiral, undated, probably in the hand of Sir Thomas Wriothesley

f 141v - proclamation for a herald, in French, demanding the surrender within 10 days of 'sa ville de N', undated, but probably one of the declarations used by Sir Thomas Wriothesley, who attended Henry 8 on the campaign of 1513; following this, a poem or song in French, relating to the siege of Thérouanne, 1513

f 142 - order of the king and queen's riding from York Place in London to Greenwich, on the Friday before Christmas, 1536

L.12c - Medieval Roll of Arms and Treatise on animals, late 14th - 15th cent. Called 'Mowbray's Book' after the Mowbray inferred to have been an early owner of the ms from the painting of his arms on f 65v. Contains two elements: the late 14th century roll of arms of French provenance, and the 15th century treatise in French written on the blank and partially blank pages scattered throughout the roll. The two elements are known as 'Mowbray's Roll' and 'Mowbray's French Treatise':

'Mowbray's Roll' - a general roll of 2'098 painted arms, displayed on banners shown in continuous strips of six banners to a line. The arms boldly and rather crudely painted, many without names, those names there are having been added later. [Note - the banners on f 66, which are Scottish, are described in A R Wagner's A Catalogue of English Medieval Rolls of Arms (Oxford, 1950), and called by him the 'Bruce Roll']

'Mowbray's French Treatise' - treatise in French, in a mid to late 15th century hand, contents of the treatise falling into three major divisions: discussions of the properties of beasts; French translation of a moralising tract on the institution of knighthood known as the 'Book of the Order of Chivalry', written by the Spaniard Ramón Lull, c 1280; the rights, dues and largess belonging by ancient customs to the officers of arms, according to the English usage. Note - the published catalogue of 1988 describes the treatise and beasts discussed in it as 'heraldic', following its description as such in Rodney Dennys' The Heraldic Imagination, but Dr Lisa Barber notes (April 2015) that this is not the case

Also some short additions to the Treatise

L. 13 - Draft Baronage, late 16th cent. Bound with L. 10bis, L. 12, and M. 15. Rough notes for a baronage of England, including notes of holders of earldoms and dukedoms under kings from Harold to Edward 1, lists of noblemen extending to temp. Elizabeth 1, lists of witnesses to charters, etc. All in hand of Robert Cooke (d 1593 as Clarenceux)

L.14 - Armorial and Heraldic Miscellany, end 16th-17th cent. 2 vols, labelled on spines 'Miscellanea Curiosa' parts 1 and 2

Painted and tricked arms, including copies of several medieval rolls of arms, pedigrees and genealogical notes, a few precedents relating to the heralds, some historical notes, etc. Including a substantial portion written by Sir William Segar (d 1633 as Garter) and the MS as a whole perhaps collected together by him. Including:

Vol 1 ff 26-31 and 52v-61 - copies of 'Segar's Roll' (c 1282), painted and in trick

Vol 1 ff 38-42 - copy of 'Glover's Roll' (c 1255) in blazon

Vol 1 ff 62-70 - copy of the 'Camden Roll' (c 1280) in trick and blazon

Vol 1 ff 71-78v - incomplete copy in trick by Richard Scarlett of 'Cooke's Ordinary' (c 1340)

Vol 2 f 215 - resolution of chapter of the Order of the Garter, establishing an annuity for Garter King of Arms

Vol 2 f 226 - the gammon of bacon custom at Little Dunmow Priory, co Essex

Vol 2 ff 229-254v - copy in trick of 'Fenwick's Roll' (temp Henry 5 and 6)

Vol 2 ff 307-342 - funeral arms in trick, early 17th cent, some with date of death, place of burial, and names of officers of arms who attended

Vol 2 ff 362-384 - series of painted arms attributed to Brutus and other British and Welsh kings, to Saxon kings, and to William the Conqueror, Stephen and Henry 2, followed by arms and badges of sovereigns from Edw 3 to James 1 and on f 378, badges of Edward, the Black Prince

L. 14bis - List of barons, late 16th cent. c 230 folios. Almost all in hand of Robert Cooke. Mainly list of peers, temp. William 1 - Edward 4, with some more extensive notes interspersed, rough and possibly in part preliminary drafts for the similar lists in L. 7bis

L. 15 - Pedigrees and heraldic and historical miscellany, late 16th cent. 160 folios. A significant amount of material in hand of Robert Cooke, but with some 17th cent additions. Comprising pedigrees, historical and genealogical notes, some arms, precedents, a few lists of names of medieval knights and others. Including:

ff 1v-6v - narrative descent of Elizabeth 1 from Rollo, first Duke of Normandy, f 1v being an address of dedication to the Queen

ff 9-12 - names of noblemen, knights and other gentlemen who came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066, as mentioned in the chronicles of Normandy

f 18 - apparel to be worn on the heads of gentlewomen

ff 33bis-34 - account of the degradation of Sir Andrew de Harcla, Earl of Carlisle, 31 October 1322, in the handwriting of Robert Glover

ff 36-38v - rules for the quartering of arms

ff 40-41 - decree of the Earl Marshal for ending the controversy between Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy relating to the burials of noblemen and others, 12 June 1563. A draft with amendments

ff 42-43 - description of a hearse for an earl, the painter's work, fees due to the officers of arms, persons entitled to mourning

ff 44-51 - homage and oath of the kings of Scotland to those of England (f 51), with precedents for the same (ff 44-50). In hand of Robert Cooke

ff 55-57 - account of the coronation of Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry 3, 1236, in the handwriting of Robert Glover (d 1588 as Somerset)

ff 61-62 - genealogical notes and pedigree of the descendants of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, d 1439

ff 66-79 - narrative pedigrees, with painted arms in the margins, late 16th or early 17th cent: Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick; John Payne of Dudley (described as Earl of Somery); David, Baron Malpas; Sir Edward Grey, Viscount Lisle; John, Lord Hastings and Earl of Pembroke; David, King of Scotland and Earl of Huntingdon; descendants of Siward, Earl of Northumberland temp King Harold; Hugh Boham, Earl of Chester; Alanus, Duke of Brittany; Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester; William de Valence, Earl of Pembroke; Warin de Munchensy, Earl of Pembroke; William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke

ff 80-90 - tabular pedigrees with painted arms, mostly descents of Ambrose and Robert Dudley, but with collateral lines. Descents shown from: Reginald, Lord Grey of Ruthin, and Edward Grey, his second son; John, Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury; Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick; Lord Verdon; Robert Blanchemains, Earl of Leicester; Richard Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke; John Sutton, Baron of Dudley; Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester

ff 91-105 - painted arms, with genealogical notes compiled in 1571, relating to Candor, Earl of Cornwall, Elvicia his daughter and heir, and the sons of sovereigns from Henry 2 to Henry 6 who were created Dukes of Earls of Cornwall, Earls of Chester or Dukes or Earls of Lancaster; Dukes or Earls of Somerset from William de Mohun in 1067 to Edward Seymour, Lord Protector under Edward 6; Dukes or Earls of Chester from Hugh Lupus in 1066 to John Scott in 1232l Earls of Leicester from Symonde, a Norman, in 1066 to Robert Dudley in 1564

ff 109-128v - pedigrees in the hand of Robert Cooke: Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (d 1314) and his grandchildren, from temp. King Ethelred; Anselm Marshal, Earl of Pembroke (d 1245) and his grandchildren, from John the King's Marshal; descendants of Robert, Lord de Quincy and Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester (d 1564), from Robert 1, Lord Quyncy of Groby, Leics., temp Henry 1 and Stephen; Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke (d 1324) from Isabel, daughter and heir of the Earl of Angouleme (she d 1246); children of William Hastings of Hastings, temp Henry 2, from 1066; Aumarie de Montfort, Count of Evreux and Earl of Gloucester (d 1213), from Richard, Duke of Normandy; John Scott, Earl of Chester (d 1237); Margaret, daughter and heir of William Longashe; three generations pedigree of descendants of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent (d 1243); descendants of William, Earl of Gloucester (d 1183); descendants of Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland (d 1076); descendants of Simon de Montfort, Earl of Montfort (d 1182), and Robert, Earl of Leicester (1190); descendants of William d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel (d 1221); descendants of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (d 1295), and Ralph, Lord Monthermer (d 1325); descendants of William le Grosse, Earl of Aubemarle (d 1181); descendants of Waleran, Earl of Warwick (d 1203); descendants of William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey (d 1148); descendants of Miles, Earl of Herford (d 1143); descendants of Thomas Montagu, Earl of Salisbury (d 1428); descendants of Henry, Earl of Lancaster and Derby (d 1361); descendants of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex (d 1322); descendants of Gilbert Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke (d 1448 or 9); descendants of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent (d 1330); descendants of Aubrey de Vere (d 1141); descendants of Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex (d 1144); descendants of William, Lord Bourchier, Earl of Eu (d 1420)

f 130 - memoranda relating to some Parliaments held between 3 Nov 1529 and 1 Mar 1553, in hand of Robert Glover

ff 144-145r - names of nobles of household and retinue, in fees, wages and pensions under John, Duke of Bedford, Regent of France, c 1422. Copy in hand of Robert Glover

f 145v - names of knights and men at arms in the time of John, Duke of Bedford, Regent of France, in the Duchy of Guienne, 1-15 Hen 6 (1422-1436), in hand of Robert Glover

L. 16 - Burial Fees and Waiting Book, 1565-1610:

ff 15-28v - list of funerals attended by officers of arms, 1565-post 1576

f 31 - original signed minutes of a chapter of the Office of Arms, 15 Jan 1581 (1582), confirming sums to be paid into the common chest by officers for their turns at funerals

ff 46v-76r and 77-80v - Waiting Book, Nov 1597 - June 1602, Feb-July 1610 and May 1612

f 76v - original signed minutes of a chapter of the Office of Arms, 14 Feb 1609 (1610), regulating monthly waiting by two officers together in rotation

ff 132v-133 - list of fines, forfeits and 'restes' or balances in the common chest, c 14 Eliz (1566-67)

ff 140v-143 - sums paid out of the burial money for repairs, dinners, and miscellaneous expenses, 1566-75

L. 17 - Genealogical, Heraldic and Historical Miscellany, 16th cent. A collection of materials, including schedules of fees due to heralds, genealogical notes, arms in trick, lists of names from the medieval period, etc, some material relating to religious houses. In several mostly late 16th cent hands but a substantial portion written by Robert Cooke (d 1593 as Clarenceux). Including:

ff 12-17v - armed men in the rape of Hastings, Sussex, 13 Edw 3 (1339), taken out of the 'Booke of the Abbey of Battell'

ff 18-21v - abstracts of charters relating to Battle Abbey

f 22 and continuation on ff 176-182v - list of documents relating to Scottish affairs temp Edw 1 - Edw 3

f 36 - charge given by Lorraine Herald to Prince Charles, Duke of Burgundy [Charles 1, Duke of Burgundy, ruled 1467-77], with the Duke's reply, undated

f 38 - renewal of peace between Henry 2 and his sons Richard [later Richard 2] and Geoffrey, undated but before 1186

ff 45v, 51-57, 68-73v, 113-114v, 138-39 - extracts from charters and / or notes relating to abbeys including: Evesham, Battle, Quarr, Dore, Waltham, Kenilworth, and Peterborough

ff 82-85 - evidences from a book of Lord Stafford, re his claim to be heir to Lord Grey of Powys, 1584

ff 86-90 - evidences from Sir James Harington for the compilation of his pedigree, 1582

ff 106-109v - rough extracts from Mr Harris' book, who had 'the kypyng of the Records of the tower', by Robert Cooke, 1580

ff 129-133v, 135 - transcript of charter, 1172, of William Humes of Stamford, co Lincs; grant relating to the parishes of Fiskerton, co Lincs, Fletton, co Hunts, and Burghley, co Northants, temp Edward the Confessor; notes about holders of lands: all taken from the records of Peterborough Abbey

ff 141-156v - benefactions to the Knights Templar in England

ff 159-161 - names of benefactors to the church of Clerkenwell

ff 170bis-175 - chronicle of precedents for English claims that Scottish kings owed homage to the King of England, extending from Brutus of Troy to 1424. [Dr Campbell, author of the Catalogue of which this is an abridged version, notes that they: 'are evidently drawn in part from a source similar to the returns made by monasteries to writs of Edw 1 ordering them to search their records for information bearing on his claim to receive homage of the King of Scotland']

ff 197-208 - arms in trick, including arms found in churches or houses at Lingfield, co Surrey; Nether Thorpe, county unknown; Martley, county unknown; Inkberrow, Kidderminster, and Dodderhill, co Worcs; Tewkesbury, Elmore and Berkeley, co Glos; Bristol and Gloucester cathedrals, and Shrewsbury, co Salop; also the arms of Thomas Becket's murderers

ff 213-214 - treatise on the origins of the office of herald, beginning with the institution of heralds by Dionysius and referring also to Hercules, Kings Saul, David and Solomon of Judah, Julius Caesar etc. Claims the origins of the tournament are in 'the play of Olympias' held at Mount Olympus

ff 215-216v - account of the droits belonging to officers of arms in tournaments, and their fees and privileges on various occasions including the making of a squire and of a knight, for the display of banners, at coronations, marriages, Christenings, funerals, etc.

ff 217-219 - fees, largesse, rights and dues belonging by custom to the officers of arms

ff 220-221 - account of the birth and baptism of Edmund, third son of Henry 7, 1499

L. 18 - Ceremonial, 17th cent. Bound with M. 4 and M. 17. Contains:

ff 1-10 - provisions to be made against the queen's delivery and for the Christening of the prince, gathered out of former precedents, 24 May - 27 June 1630

f 11 - copy of an order in council concerning the nobility of Scotland and Ireland above the degree of baron, having no possessions or livelihood in those kingdoms, not being nominated as commissioners without special directions from the king, 28 June 1629

ff 15-21v - brief notes concerning the usual form of the coronations of kings and queens of England, and of such necessaries as were to be provided for that solemnity

ff 22-24v - proceeding of King James 1 through London, 15 Mar 1603 (1604), with a note of those in the procession

ff 32-34v - account of his embassy given by Sir William Segar (d 1633 as Garter), joined in commission with Lord Carleton, Ambassador to Henry, Prince of Orange, for presenting that prince with the Order of the Garter, 1626

L. 19 - Coronations and Royal Marriages, end 17th-18th cent. Contains:

pp 1-48 - provisions for and proceeding to the Coronation of King James 2 and Queen Mary, 23 April 1685, in the hand of Gregory King (d 1712 as Lancaster)

pp 53-117 - Coronation of King William 3 and Queen Mary 2, 11 April 1689, with proclamation, etc, in hand of Gregory King

pp 119-138 - Coronation of Queen Anne, 23 April 1702

pp 141-145 - Coronation of King George 1, 20 Oct 1714

pp 167-188 - Coronation of King George 2 and Queen Caroline, 11 Oct 1727

pp 189-195 - marriage of William, Prince of Orange and Anne, daughter of George 2, 14 Mar 1734

pp 196-199 - the espousals between Prince Frederick of Hesse-Cassel and Mary, daughter of George 2, 8 May 1740

pp 200-205 - marriage of George 3 and Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 8 Sept 1761

pp 206-226 - Coronation of King George 3 and Queen Charlotte, 22 Sept 1761

pp 227-230 - marriage of George, Prince of Wales, and Princess Caroline of Brunswick, 8 Apr 1795

pp 231-235 - marriage of Frederick Charles William, Prince of Württemberg, and Charlotte Augusta Matilda, daughter of George 3, 18 May 1797.

Morrison and Hobson family papers, 1807-1963. The papers are the product of a period of considerable spiritual, cultural and political change in China. They are a significant source for study of the development of Protestant missions in China (in particular the role of the medical mission and the introduction of Western medicine), and also provide evidence of the involvement of the missionaries with issues of British trade and diplomacy.

MSS. 5827-5852: correspondence and papers, especially of the Revd Robert Morrison (1782-1834), missionary in China, 1807-1834; John Robert Morrison (1814-1843), Chinese interpreter, Colonial Secretary of the Hong Kong government; and Dr Benjamin Hobson (1816-1873), medical missionary in China, 1839-1859. The majority comprise personal and domestic correspondence of the Morrison and Hobson families and their friends, with less emphasis on official papers, although the collection includes letters on the Peacock expedition to Siam and Cochin China led by Edmund Roberts (1784-1836), United States merchant and diplomat, 1832 (MS.5830), and letters to Benjamin Hobson from leading missionaries. 1843-1862 (MS.5839). Insight into missionary work in China can be gained in particular from the letters of the Revd. Robert Morrison. MS. 7127: 'Domestic Memoir of Mrs Morrison', by the Revd. Robert Morrison, addressed to his children Mary Rebecca and John Robert Morrison (1814-1843), 5-7 January 1824. Mary Morrison, Robert's first wife, died of cholera at Macao on 10 June 1821. This memoir was compiled by Robert Morrison during the voyage home from China aboard H.E.I.C.S. Waterloo.

Papers, 1942-1945, 1953 relating to Woodhouse's service with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), as Second in Command, and later Commander, of the British (later Allied) Military Mission to the Greek guerrillas in German occupied Greece(BMM/AMM) and the Iranian military coup, 1953. Includes correspondence between BMM and Middle East Command in Cairo comprising telegrams, operation orders, notes, minutes, reports and memoranda, Sep 1942-Jan 1945; other papers relating to BMM/AMM including Woodhouse's diaries with typescript transcript; nominal roll of Force 133 personnel, Aug 1944, articles and reports; papers on New Zealanders in BMM/AMM; maps; post-war papers on Greece including BBC Monitoring Service records, 1948-1952; publications, lectures, articles and broadcasts on Greece and the BMM/AMM by Woodhouse and others including Andreas Tzimas, EAM Central Committee member during Greek occupation and US Maj Gerald (Jerry) K Wines, Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and correspondence related to research on BMM/AMM; papers concerning funerals, memorials and decorations relating to the BMM/AMM; artefacts from the BMM/AMM. Papers on the SIS/CIA plot to overthrow Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mussadeq (Operations BOOT and AJAX), 1953. Draft translation of Panagiōtēs Kanellopoulos's History of the European Spirit from Greek to English and volumes of History of the European Spirit in the original Greek.

Papers of Sir William Sidney Smith, consisting of loose letters and notes written between 1790 and 1840 by many of the important naval figures of the day. There are notes on his experiences as a prisoner of the French, a number of letters relating to the Mediterranean, 1799 and some to his brother John Spencer Smith, who was Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople, 1798 to 1801. Finally there are many letters received by Smith during his retirement abroad.

Correspondence relating to Collier's work as Air Attaché in Moscow, 1934-1937, and as Head of the Air Section of the British Military Mission to Moscow, 1941, with particular reference to the role of Brig Gen Philip R Faymonville, United States Army, Military Attaché and later Lend-Lease Administrator in Moscow, 1934-1943, in relations between the USA and the USSR during the period 1918-1943, consisting of photocopies of letters to Collier from Lt Col Thomas A Julian, Associate Professor of History at the USAF Academy and carbon copies of Collier's replies, dated 1968-1969.

Copy of diary covering his service as ADC to Winston Churchill at the Cairo Peace Conference and including details of meetings with Col Thomas Edward Lawrence (later known as Thomas Edward Shaw), Mar 1921; photocopy of photograph of Coote, 1917; brief account of his life and career, 1893-1946, written by his godson, Air Cdre B H Newton in 1981.

Papers relating to Crick's service in the Western Desert, 1941-1943, as Instructor, War Intelligence Course, School of Military Intelligence, Matlock, Derbyshire, 1943-1944, and with Operational Intelligence, G2 Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF), 1944-1945, including copy of War Diary, General Staff Intelligence Branch, Headquarters 8 Army, 25 Sep-31 Oct 1941; typescript memorandum by Crick 'The possible effect of CROSSBOW on OVERLORD', on how Operation CROSSBOW, (Allied countermeasures against German V-weapons), could influence Operation OVERLORD, (the Allied invasion of occupied Europe), Mar 1944; typescript memorandum by Crick 'The heart of Germany', on the importance of the Ruhr industrial region to Allied strategy, Mar 1944; typescript report by Crick on visit to OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the German Armed Forces High Command), Flensburg, Germany, 11 May 1945. Papers relating to Crick's service with the British Joint Services Mission, Washington DC, USA, 1953-1956, including typescript text of lecture by Maj Gen Sir Kenneth William Dobson Strong, Director of Joint Intelligence Bureau, on UK and US Intelligence collaboration and spheres of influence [1953]; typescript memorandum 'Probable Bloc preoccupations in Asia, including Middle East, until mid 1955' [1953]; papers relating to the reorganisation of the Economic and General Division of the Joint Intelligence Bureau, 1956. Papers relating to the Imperial Defence College tour of Pakistan, India, East Pakistan, Ceylon and Aden, Aug-Sep 1960, including itineraries, travel arrangements, three photographs, invitations and a printed map of the Middle East showing oil wells, refineries and pipelines, 1960. Manuscript and typescript notes for a lecture by Crick entitled 'A career in Intelligence', given at Intelligence Corps course, with one audio tape of 20 minute lecture by Crick on interrogation techniques, Ashford College, Kent, Oct 1984. Edition of In the caves of the mind. Poems by Alan Crick (Privately published, Rye, Sussex, 1992). Newspaper cuttings, photographs and publications, 1938-1959, including German newspaper cuttings relating to the visit to Danzig by Rt Hon Alfred Duff Cooper, First Lord of the Admiralty, Aug 1938; three editions of Battledress. The Cadet magazine, Feb-Jun 1940; nine editions of The Crusader Eighth Army Weekly, Oct 1942-Apr 1943; sixteen editions of 'Interim. British Army of the Rhine Intelligence Review', Jun 1945-Apr 1946; three editions of 'Occupation. British Army of the Rhine Intelligence Review', May-Jul 1946. Edition of '21st (British) Army Group in the campaign in North West Europe 1944-1945. Lecture by Field Marshal Sir Bernard L Montgomery to the Royal United Service Institution, London, October 1945'; six photographs and five copies of photographs of Crick, Western Desert and Germany, 1941-1945, and two group photographs, Staff and Students, Joint Services Staff College, 1948, and Military Attachés Conference, Episkopi, Cyprus, 1959.

Papers and photographs relating to Ebbutt's career, 1944-1946, including Senior Bombardment Liaison Officer's notebook containing manuscript accounts and technical notes on shore bombardment and targets engaged by ships lying off southernFrance, 1944-1945; Senior Bombardment Liaison Officer's diary, 1944-1945; notebook with manuscript notes by British Naval LiaisonOfficer [1944], with three photographs of a RN destroyer (Pennant number, G86). Printed booklet in French entitled 'La Première DivisionFrançaise Libre' [1945]. Citation of the award of the French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star to Ebbutt, and related papers, 1945. Photograph of Ebbutt receiving the US Legion of Merit from US Col Claude M Thiele, Commanding Officer, US Army London Area Office, 1946, with related papers 1945. Copy of published booklet Soldier, sailor, compiled by Geoffrey Sanders (The Bombardment Units Association, Gloucester, 1946).

Papers relating to his life and career, [1914]-1971, principally comprising flying log book, 1928-1940; papers relating to his work as Assistant Secretary to Committee of Imperial Defence and War Cabinet, 1939-1941, notably including memoranda to Maj Gen Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1939-1940; papers relating to his service as Air Officer Commanding Balkan Air Force, 1944-1945,dated 1946, 1963, 1966, 1970-1971, notably including an account of the work of the British Military Mission to Yugoslav partisans by Sir Fitzroy Hew Maclean of Dunconnel, 1st Bt, 1971; correspondence and other papers relating to NATO, 1950, 1955, 1967, Army League,1955-1957, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1957, 1958, 1960-1970, English Speaking Union, 1961, 1963, Atlantic Round Table Conference, 1957, and the Brighton Conference Association, 1957. Printed and typescript book reviews and texts of lectures and speeches given by Elliot, mainly concerning international relations, 1924, 1939, 1946, 1950-1966; correspondence and related papers,1937-1940, 1950-1953, 1957-1971, notably including correspondence with Dean Acheson, 1961-1970, Gen (Walter) Bedell Smith, 1959-1961, Lady (Helen) Violet Bonham-Carter, 1962-1968, Ismay, 1959-1970, Gen Sir Henry Cholmondeley Jackson, 1961-1971, Gen Karel Janousek, 1968, and Capt Stephen Wentworth Roskill, 1966-1970; photographs, [1914-1960], notably relating to service in South Russia,1919, as Air Officer Commanding RAF Gibraltar, 1944, with Balkan Air Force, 1944-1945 and as Commander-in-Chief, Fighter Command, 1948-1949, including aerial photographs of RAF actions over Yugoslavia, 1944-1945.

Copies of two typescript texts of lectures by Furse both entitled 'Assistant Naval Attaché, Europe and the Americas' [1945]; copy of typescript narrative by Furse entitled 'British Naval agent in Scandinavia, Mar-Apr 1940'. Manuscript note by Furse on a reported rumour of a German invasion of the UK, 16-17 Sep 1940.

Papers relating to his life and career, 1924-1971, principally comprising papers relating to his work as British Ambassador to Jordan, 1956-1959, including newspaper cuttings concerning the termination of the Anglo-Jordan treaty of 1948, 1956-1959, and correspondence relating to the stationing of British troops in Jordan, 1958; papers relating to his work as Governor, Commander-in-Chief and High Commissioner, Aden, 1960-1963, dated 1960-1970, including his official reports to the Foreign Office on his visits to the Protectorate states, 1960-1962, his correspondence with King Hussein of Jordan, 1960-1962, newspaper cuttings relating to the merging of Aden with the South Arabian Federation of Arab Emirates, 1960-1963; correspondence concerning British policy towards the South Arabian Federation, particularly the withdrawal of British troops from Aden, 1964-1970; his official report to the Foreign Office concerning the trials in Madrid of opponents of the Franco regime, 1950; notes, cuttings and correspondence concerning Britain's policy towards Japan, 1931-1941, and the signing of the Japanese Peace Treaty, 1951, dated 1971-1975; notes on Australian personalities and contacts written for Sir Morrice James, Johnston's successor as High Commissioner of Australia, 1971; drafts,typescripts, correspondence and reviews of published memoirs The view from Steamer Point (Collins, London, 1964), Mo and other originals (Hamilton, London, 1971) and The brink of Jordan (Hamilton, London, 1972); notes and fragments of unpublished memoirs, dated 1936-1985, mainly relating to his service in the Foreign Office, 1936-1939, Japan, 1939-1942, and Australia, 1965-1971. Photographs,[1938]-1971, principally comprising official photographs relating to his service in Jordan, Aden and Australia. Papers relating to published and unpublished poetry and translations, principally comprising drafts of For Leagros and other poems (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1940), Towards Mozambique and other poems (Cresset Press, London, 1947), Estuary in Scotland (privately published, 1974), Poems and Journeys (Bodley Head, London, 1979), Rivers and fireworks (Bodley Head, London, 1980), Talk about the last poet (Bodley Head, London, 1981), Choiseul and Talleyrand (Bodley Head, London, 1982), The Irish lights (Bodley Head, London, 1983) and translations of Turgenev, Pushkin and Lermontov.

Papers relating to service as Quartermaster General of the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) in France and Belgium during World War Two, including narratives, war diaries, reports and memoranda, 1939-1941; papers relating to service as Lt Gen in charge of Administration in the Middle East, including narratives, a volume compiled by the Q Staff entitled Maintenance of the Eighth Army...from El Alamein to Tunisia, 1943, and memoranda and newscuttings on the Middle East Base in Egypt, 1943-1948; papers relating to service as Principal Administrative Officer to the Indian Command, comprising texts of speeches and articles on Indian economy and the India Base, 1943-1945; papers relating to post-war life and career, mainly texts of lectures and articles and newspaper cuttings on international relations in the Middle East, especially the Suez Crisis of 1956.

Papers, photographs and maps, relating to operations in Greece and Italy, 1943-1945. Papers relating to the Allied Military Mission to Greek guerrillas (andartes) in German occupied Greece include: military instructions; financial papers; correspondence; Maj Ronald R Prentice's accounts book and account of Lingen's return to Grevena after the war. Papers relating to the political and military liaison mission to Italian partisans in Vittorio Veneto, including the Nino Nannetti Garibaldini Division, led by Col Francesco Pesce 'Milo', (Operation GELA BLUE), 1944-1945 and papers relating to establishing Allied Military Government in North East Italy following German withdrawal, 1945-1946, including correspondence, radio messages, notes, instructions, and papers relating to the Nino Nannetti Garibaldini Division. The collection also includes papers relating to Lingen's military training; Lingen's official and personal documents; photographs, chiefly from Allied Military Mission to Greece and Italy; maps of Palestine, Greece and Italy and testimonials and notes for Lingen's curriculum vitae.

Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, part 2: 1946-53 is a themed microfilm collection containing copies of official documents of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 1946-1953. Documents include meeting minutes and memoranda and reports relating to strategic issues; Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); the Far East; the Middle East; the Soviet Union; and the United States. Meeting minutes include those of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1948-1954, and its committees, the US Joint Logistics Committee, 1946-1947; the US Joint Logistics Plans Committee, 1946-1947; the US Joint Staff Planners, 1946-1947; and the US Joint Strategic Plans Committee, 1947-1953. Documents relating to strategic issues include Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting memoranda and official reports concerning the effect of the atomic bomb on warfare and military organisation; scientific representation from British Admiralty and Air Ministry at the atomic bomb trials, 1945; projected Soviet atomic capabilities; armed forces participation in proof-testing operations for atomic weapons; the control and direction of strategic atomic operations; requirements for the stockpile of atomic weapons in North America and Western Europe; atomic requirements from NATO member states; US psychological and unconventional warfare; US industrial mobilisation planning; US Joint Chiefs of Staff plans for global demarcation into areas of strategic control; and post-war US military requirements, 1945-1954. Documents relating to Europe and NATO include Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting minutes concerning the political stability of post-war Austria, Hungary, Finland, the Balkans, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Italy, the Trieste Free Territory, and Spain; the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty; NATO command arrangements; the state of the armed forces in European NATO member states; the defensive capabilities of Western Europe; the establishment of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers in Europe (SHAPE); and the establishment and function of the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR). Documents relating to the Far East include meeting minutes and memoranda concerning the demilitarisation of China, 1945; reform of the Japanese government, 1945; British and Canadian requests for information on the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945-1948; US military assistance to the Netherlands Indies Forces, Netherland East Indies, 1946; US military assistance to the Philippines; US policy in reference to the adoption of the Japanese Constitution, 3 Nov 1946; the post-war disposition of combatant vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy; the implications of possible Chinese Communist attack on foreign colonies in South China, 1949; the defence of Formosa, 1949-1953; the withdrawal of US occupation forces from Japan; the planning and conduct of the Korean War, 1950-1953; talks with French and British military representatives regarding the defence of Indochina, 1950; possible US military involvement in Indochina, 1950-1953; the Treaty of Peace with Japan, Aug 1951; US military assistance to Japan, 1951-1954. Documents relating to the Middle East include US Joint Chiefs of Staff reports on political and military relations with Iran, Palestine and Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, 1946-1954. Documents relating to the Soviet Union include US Joint Chiefs of Staff political estimates of Soviet policy; intelligence estimates assuming war developed between the Soviet Union and the Non-Soviet Powers, 1946-1953; Soviet objectives in relation to the strength of its armed forces; Soviet capabilities in the Far East, Central and South America, and the Middle East; estimates of the scale and nature of Soviet attacks on the United Kingdom and Western Europe; plans for military aid to US allies and NATO member states. Documents relating to the United States include US Joint Chiefs of Staff memoranda and reports concerning the strategic defence of US territory; US programmes for national security; and civil defence capabilities, 1946-1953.

Documents on Disarmament, 1945- 1982, is a themed microfilm collection including documents on arms control and disarmament developments, 1945-1982. Subjects include relations with the US Atomic Energy Commission; proposed prohibition requirements for the production of biological and chemical weapons; bilateral talks between the Soviet Union and the United States, including the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (START); US negotiations with aligned and non-aligned states; Commission on Security and Co- operation in Europe (CSCE) arms control talks; negotiations with UN organisations including the Ad Hoc Group on Disarmament and Development, the Commission for Conventional Armaments, the Disarmament Commission, international Atomic Energy Agency, and the Security Council, 1945-1982.

Minutes and Documents of the Cabinet Meetings of President Eisenhower, 1953-1961 is a themed microfilm collection which includes copies of the minutes, memoranda, and supporting documents of the Cabinet meetings during the Presidential administration of Dwight David Eisenhower, 12 Dec 1952-13 Jan 1961. The meetings included discussions relating to all aspects of the domestic and foreign policy affairs of the United States. Meeting minutes relate to the addition to the Cabinet of the post of US Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1953; the armistice talks which ended the Korean War, 1953; the US Supreme Court decision declaring racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, 1954; US military and financial commitment to Indo-China, 1954; American entry into the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), 1954; Eisenhower's re-election strategy, campaign, and victory, 1956; the Suez Crisis, 1956; the adoption of the 'Eisenhower Doctrine', which stated that the United States would provide military and economic aid to any nation in the Middle East threatened by communism, 1957-1959; the launch of US satellites in response to the Soviet launch of the 'Sputnik' satellite, 1958; American intervention into Lebanon, 1958; the adoption of Alaska and Hawaii as US states, 1959; and the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy as President of the United States, 1960.

War Cabinet Minutes (HMSO), 1939-1945 is a themed microfiche collection containing copies of the minutes of the War Cabinet Meetings, Sep 1939-Jul 1945, and Cabinet Conclusions and Confidential Annexes, 1941-1945. Meeting minutes include British plans to create discord amongst the German High Command, Nov 1939; criticism of the military campaign in Norway, May 1940; First Lord of the Admiralty Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill's criticism of the Allied propaganda campaign in France, May 1940; speculation on the ability of the German population to sustain prolonged war, May 1940; reaction to the Allied withdrawals in France and Belgium, May 1940; the debate over the possible compromise peace with Germany, 26-28 May 1940; the decision to intern all enemy aliens in the United Kingdom; May 1940; Churchill's reaction to American isolationism, May 1940; the seizing of French warships in British and Egyptian harbours and the sinking of French warships at Mers-el-Kebir, Egypt, 23 Jun 1940; straining Anglo-French relations, Jul 1940; the Anglo-American 'destroyers for bases' agreement, Aug 1940; Churchill's attempt to take to court the Sunday Pictorial and the Daily Mirror over the newspapers' alleged anti-Government editorials, Oct 1940; preparations for the possible German invasion of the Britain, 1940; civil defence precautions in Britain, 1940; the British intervention in Greece, 1941; speculation on Soviet military collapses following the invasion of the Soviet Union by German armed forces, Jun 1941; Churchill's appeals to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for American intervention in the war, 1941; reaction over the fall of Singapore and Malaya to Japanese armed forces, Feb 1942; Anglo-American preparations for the invasion of North Africa, 1942; naval and air operations against France, 1943; the 'Beveridge Report' on social security in Britain, 1943; reports on Allied conferences at Casablanca, Jan 1943, and Washington, May 1943; the Allied decision to invade France made at the QUADRANT Conference, Quebec, Canada, Aug 1943; the planning and conduct of Operation OVERLORD, the Allied invasion of France, Jun 1944; the effect of the bombardment of London by German V1 pilotless aircraft and possible RAF reprisals against German civilian targets, Jun 1944; post-war reconstruction and rehabilitation in Europe, Jul 1944; plans for the Allied occupation of Germany and Austria, Nov 1944; British intervention in Greece in order to prevent a Communist take-over of the peninsula, Nov 1944; the establishment of the United Nations, 1945; arrangements for celebrating the end of the war in Europe, May 1945; the British General Election, Jul 1945.

The collection presents an integrated record of US decision making during the 1958-1962 confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over the situation of Berlin specifically, and Germany generally. The collection includes primarily records of Eisenhower's telephone conversations with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Under Secretary of State Christian Archibald Herter and minutes of Eisenhower's discussions with Gen Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, Defense Liaison Officer and Staff Secretary to the President and, for the Kennedy administration, records mainly prepared by McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and Laurence J Legere, Assistant to the Military Representative of the President, 1961-1962 and Senior National Security Council Staff Member, 1962-1963. The collection also includes records of East-West negotiations over Berlin and Germany, including US-Soviet 'exploratory discussions', 1958-1962; material relating to Allied efforts to develop a co-ordinated negotiating position during the first months of 1959 and the subsequent protracted talks in Geneva, Switzerland, May-Aug 1959; material relating to LIVE OAK, the tripartite American-British-French Berlin military contingency planning group under the direction of Gen Lauris Norstad, Commander- in-Chief US European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Apr 1959; papers relating to US and Soviet nuclear capabilities, 1959-1962; Berlin checkpoint crises, 1959-1961; a complete record of the summit meeting in Sep 1959 between Eisenhower and Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev at Camp David, Maryland, USA; papers relating to Western preparations for discussions on Berlin at the aborted summit of May 1960; papers relating to the 'Wall Crisis', including material relating to the refugee problem in the German Democratic Republic and US and Allied reactions to the construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961; US and Soviet confrontations at US zone checkpoint, 'Checkpoint Charlie', Oct 1961; minutes of conversations between Soviet and US policy makers during the Kennedy administration, including a compete record of the talks between (David) Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State, and Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister, Gromyko and Llewellyn E Thompson, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Rusk and Anatoly Federovich Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the US, 1962. It should be noted that papers of major Kennedy administration officials remain closed due to security processing delays at the John F Kennedy Library. Thus, files after Sep 1961 in the National Security Files remain largely sealed. Moreover, documents from files that have been reviewed continue to be withheld or heavily excised. Also, many of the Central Intelligence Agency and US Department of Defense files from 1961-1962 continue to be withheld or heavily excised.

Publications, 1939-1956 relating to World War Two, comprising: 'Final report by the Rt Hon Sir Neville Henderson, GCMG, on the circumstances leading to the termination of his mission to Berlin, September 20 1939' (HMSO, 1939); 'The outbreak of war, 22 August-3 September 1939' (Ministry of Information, 1939); 'Documents concerning German-Polish relations and the outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939' (HMSO, 1939); 'The battle of Egypt' (Ministry of Information, 1943); 'The Army at war: Tunisia' (Ministry of Information, 1944); 'Nations at war' (Ministry of Information, 1945); 'German, Italian and Japanese U-Boat casualties during the war' (HMSO, 1946); 'Report by the Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the operations in Southern France, August 1944' (HMSO, 1946); 'Strength and casualties of the Armed Forces and Auxiliary Services of the United Kingdom, 1939-1945' (HMSO, 1946); 'Ships of the Royal Navy statement of losses during the Second World War' (HMSO, 1947); 'British merchant vessels lost or damaged by enemy action during Second World War' (HMSO, 1947); 'Report by the Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the Italian Campaign: Part 2, 10 May 1944 to 12 August 1944: Part 3, 13 August 1944 to 12 December 1944' (HMSO, 1948); 'The Second World War, 1939-1945: a list of British naval anniversaries' (produced by Department of Naval Information [1949]); 'Report to the combined chiefs of staff by the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, 1943-1945' (HMSO, 1951); 'The Italian campaign, 12 December 1944 to 2 May 1945: a report to the Combined Chiefs of Staff by the Supreme Commander Mediterranean Field Marshal The Viscount Alexander of Tunis' (HMSO, 1951); and 'The official names of the battles, actions and engagements fought by the Land Forces of the Commonwealth during the Second World War, 1939-1945' (HMSO, 1956).

Papers of Edmund Myers, 1942-1981, relating to his service as Commander, of the British Military Mission to the Greek partisans in German occupied Greece, 1942-1943, Special Operations Executive (SOE). Notably on Operation HARLING and the destruction of the Gorgopotamos Viaduct, Greece, Nov 1942 and Operation WASHING, the destruction of the Asopos Viaduct, Greece, Jun 1943. Also including reports, lectures and radio broadcasts on Greece and the British Military Mission; papers relating to the National Band of Rebels formed under Allied command; papers relating to a delegation of six Greek partisans (andartes) sent to Cairo to consult with the Greek government in attempt to avoid political crisis and civil war, Aug 1943; papers on British support of Greek monarch, King George II; correspondence on Myers' attempts to return to Greece; maps related to British Military Mission; photographs of the British Military Mission including individuals, landscapes and the British Military cemetery in Athens, 1971; post-war papers on Greece including correspondence with Myers, draft copy of Greek Entanglement by Myers with scrapbook of reviews and papers relating to the funeral of Gen Napoleon Zervas.

The collection covers Pyman's career from 1937 until 1963 when he suffered a severe stroke which forced his retirement in 1964. The earliest papers date from Pyman's work with the Royal Tank Cadre in converting the 17/21 Lancers from a cavalry to an armoured regiment. There are also papers from Pyman's period as an instructor at the Staff College in Quetta, India, 1939-1941. Pyman was involved in the World War Two campaigns by the 8 Army in the Western Desert, in 1941 as General Staff Officer with 7 Armoured Div, 30 Corps and in 1942-1943 as Commander of the 3 Royal Tank Regiment, 10 Armoured Div, 30 Corps. The papers consist mostly of Pyman's assessments of lessons learned from the ongoing campaigns particularly with regard to tanks and armoured units. In 1944-1945 Pyman was Brigidier General Staff, 30 Corps, 2 Army in the Normandy landings and the invasion of Northern Europe, with particular responsibility for organisation and planning of the Rhine crossing and advance to the Baltic. This is reflected in the papers which largely consist of planning studies and reports for the operations involved, this section also contains maps used in the campaign. Pyman's next appointment was as Chief of General Staff, Allied Land Forces, South East Asia, 1945-1946 which is documented by a series of diaries which reflect the tasks faced by Pyman in this command including dealing with the build up of tension between newly liberated former colonies keen to assert their right for independence and the former colonial powers such as France and Netherlands. Pyman spent 1946-1949 as Chief of Staff, Middle East Land Forces and kept monthly diaries which form the bulk of this section of the collection. The diary entries and additional papers reflect the debate over policy in the Middle East in the British Government and Military command, they include detail on the British withdrawal from Greece, the problem of illegal Jewish immigrants and their internment in Cyprus, the end of the British mandate in Palestine and the the effect of this on relations between Britain with Egypt and the other Arab states and the subsequent Arab Israeli conflict. This section of the collection also contains correspondence between Pyman and Maj Gen Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey on personal matters and on the Middle East. There are also papers from Pyman's work at the Ministry of Supply as Director General of Fighting Vehicles, 1951-1953, Director of Weapons Development, War Office, 1955-1956 mostly brief diary entries and lecture texts. Pyman was also General Officer Commanding, British Army on the Rhine, 1953-1955 and General Officer Commanding, 1 British Corps, 1956-1958 and the papers relating to these commands consist mostly of lectures, reports and directives reflecting his interest in armoured divisions and training. There are some papers, mostly personal correspondence and press cuttings, from Pyman's final command as Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe in North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). The collection also contains correspondence relating to Pyman's role as Colonel Commandant of the Royal Tank Regiment and The Royal Armoured Corps and a series of letters covering the reorganisation of the Berks and Westminster Dragoons, of which he was Honorary Colonel. The rest of the collection consists of diaries, correspondence, speeches, writings including the draft copy and papers relating to his autobiography, some preparatory work on a history of the 2 Army and reference works. The collection also includes the Boer War diaries and other papers of Col James Redmond Patrick Gordon who commanded the 1 Cavalry Bde of the South African Field Force 1900-1901 which were given to Pyman by a friend.

Papers of of Hugh Elliot consisting of diplomatic correspondence, 1803 to 1806, and contain sixty-two letters from Nelson (q.v.), together with drafts and copies of Elliot's replies and correspondence with Admiral Collingwood (q.v.). There are also intelligence reports and other material which throw light on the diplomacy of the Neapolitan Court.

Papers of Sir Charles Boyles comprising an out-letterbook, 1810 to 1811, and copies of letters to the Sicilian court, 1811.

Papers of Adml Edward Hawker. They consist of logs covering Hawker's service afloat, two order books for the BELLEROPHON and BRITANNIA and a notebook of vessels captured 1805 to 1806. There is also a letterbook of his father, Captain James Hawker, kept during his command of the IRIS, 1779 to 1781, on the North America and West Indies Station.

Sacramental registers including Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, Burial and Death registers and Marriage Bans for parishes and churches and priest's registers, including:

Archbishops' Private Chapel: Confirmation registers, 1854-1901.

Bavarian Chapel, Warwick Street: Baptism registers, 1748 -1909 and

Marriage registers, 1747-1840 and 1856-1922.

Westminster Cathedral: Baptism registers, 1809-1906; Confirmation registers, 1856-1909 and Marriage registers, 1856-1914.

Clerkenwell, SS Peter and Paul: Marriage registers, 1979-1985.

Commercial Rd, SS Mary and Michael (including Virginia St Mission): Baptism registers, 1832-1893 and Marriage registers, 1856-1899.

Ealing, Mission of St Joseph and St Peter: Baptism registers, 1772-1855.

Saffron Hill mission (Holy Family): Baptism registers, 1842-1852 and 1855-1876.

Baldwin Gardens mission (St Bridget's): Baptism registers, 1851-1872; Confirmation registers, 1857-1875 and Marriage registers, 1854-1876.

Ely Place mission (St Etheldreda): Baptism registers, 1877-1947; Confirmation registers, 1856-1948; Marriage registers, 1855-1975 and Death registers, 1857-1923.

French Chapel (Little George St, nr Portman Sq): Baptism registers, 1909-1911 and Marriage registers: 1846-1910.

Gower Street, Catholic Chaplaincy: Marriage registers, 1988-1990.

Imperial Chapel: Baptism registers, 1765-1816; Marriage registers, 1766-1805 and Death registers, 1794-1806.

Isleworth, Our Lady of Sorrows and St Bridget of Sweden: Baptism registers, 1746-1809 and Confirmation registers: 1747-1777.

Islington, St John: Index to Baptisms, 1841-1819; Baptism registers, 1840-1844, 1851-1871, 1890-1902; Confirmation registers, 1851-1862 and Marriage registers, 1844-1880.

Kensington, Our Lady of Victories: Baptism registers, 1823-1850, 1852-1922 and Marriage Registers: 1852-1927.

Kentish Town, Our Lady Help of Christians: Baptism registers, 1849-1854.

Lincoln's Inn Fields, SS Anselm and Caecilia (inc. Sardinian Chapel): Baptism registers, 1731-1920; Marriage registers, 1729-1838, 1850-1856 and Death registers: 1858-1861.

Mile End, Guardian Angels: Baptism registers, 1869-1890 and Marriage registers, 1904-1962.

Moorfields, St Mary: Index to Baptisms: 1840, 1845-1854, 1856-1861; Baptism registers, 1763-1907; Marriage registers, 1777-1821; Burial registers, 1819-1853 and Death registers, 1857-1860.

Neapolitan Chapel: Baptism registers, 1772-1855.

Old Hall Green: Baptisms, 1811-1830, 1855-1925; Marriage registers, 1812-1848; Confirmation registers, 1812-1848 and Death registers, 1856-1913.

Palace St, SS Peter and Edward: Index to Baptisms, 1864-1940; Baptism registers, 1857-1963; Confirmation registers, 1863-1886, 1905-1942 and Marriage registers, 1859-1973.

Priests Registers including of: Rev James Barnard, 1764-1788; Rev Joseph Bolton, 1766-1781; Rev George Howe, 1796-1798; Fr Richard Dillon, 1750-1753; Fr James Barnard, 1763-1796; Rev James Barnard, 1791-1800; Rev Elston Lacy, 1715-1743; Rev Thomas Varley, 1767-1786; Bishop Poynter confirmation register, 1826-1843; Bishop Bramston confirmation register, 1826-1843; Bishop Gradwell confirmation register, 1826-1843; Bishop Griffiths confirmation register, 1826-1843; Rev Joseph Hodgson, 1802-1818; Fr John Lindow, 1765-1793; Fr John Lindow, 1793-1798; Fr Peter Brown, 1757-1767; Fr Patrick Moore, 1830-1835; Fr Benedict Short, 1763-1787; Fr Emanuel Dias Santos, 1802-1815; Fr Emanuel Dias Santos, 1815-1828; Fr Joseph Anson, 1803-1812; Fr Thomas Horrabim, 1778-1806 and Fr Thomas Cottrell, 1776-1778.

Romford, St Edward the Confessor: Death register, 1858-1877.

Soho, St Patrick's: Index to Baptisms, 1780-1938; Baptism registers, 1790-1899; Confirmation registers, 1818-1854; Marriage registers, 1838-1856; Marriage Bans, 1858-1886 and Death registers, 1882-1902.

Southwark, St George's Fields: Baptism registers, 1801-1826.

Tottenham, St Francis de Sales: Baptism registers, 1794-1823, 1827-1868, 1890-1929; Confirmation registers, 1856-1905, 1908-1968 and Marriage registers, 1827-1856, 1859-1949 .

Underwood Rd, St Anne (Spitalfields): Index to Baptisms, 1848-1909; Baptism registers, 1848-1920; Confirmation, 1856-1891; Index to Marriages, 1851-1934 and Marriages, 1851-1890.

Venetian Embassy: Baptism registers, 1744-1796 and Marriage registers, 1744-1754, 1772-1788.

Walthamstow, St George: Death registers, 1851-1882.

Created during Ramphal's time in office, the collection comprises of papers arranged under the following sections: Committees 1975-1976, includes agendas, supporting papers and minutes for committees such as the Meeting of Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation and of the Secretariat Finance Sub Committee. Ministerial Meetings 1975-1977, holds minutes and papers from meetings of Law Ministers, Health Ministers, Senior Officials but especially Finance Ministers Meetings. Conference 1976, has documents from the Non-Aligned Conference. Correspondence 1975-1977, contains letters to and from the Secretary-General and other senior Secretariat officials. Country Files 1975-1977, mainly contain briefs prepared by each area of responsibility within the Secretariat; legal, health, youth, education, food production and rural development, science, applied studies, Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation, international affairs, trade and finance.

Specific issues covered relate to The New International Economic Order, Lome Convention and the North South Dialogue as well as the situation in Southern Africa including Commonwealth Aid to Mozambique and sporting links with apartheid South Africa. Divisions 1975-1976 relates to the Youth Affairs Programme and Meetings of the Youth Affairs Council. Economic 1975-1977, contains the Report by a Commonwealth Expert Group: McIntyre Report Towards a New International Economic Order and papers of the Commonwealth Technical Group on the Common Fund. Internal 1975-1977, covers Commonwealth Day, including the first simultaneously observed Commonwealth Day. Organisation 1975-1977, covers Ramphal's appointment to the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation Board of Trustees as well as papers from the Anglo-French Colloquium 1976. Reviews 1975-1976, includes the Internal Review of Secretariat Activities, 1975.

Papers of Alexander Graham Dunlop, 1877, comprise copy of a letter to H M Freeland, asking his opinion of foreign affairs.

Records, 1935-1992, of the League for Democracy in Greece and associated bodies. Pre-1945 material includes a set of the Balkan Herald, 1935-1940, and surviving papers, 1943-1945, of the League's predecessor, the Greek United Committee, and one of its supporters, E Athanassoglou. Notably there are proofs of Sir Compton Mackenzie's The Wind of Freedom (published in London, 1944) and a photocopy of a telegram from Winston Churchill prohibiting favourable mention of EAM-ELAS by the BBC, 1944. The papers of the League itself date from 1945 to 1975 and include a large collection of press cuttings covering all British and some foreign press references to Greece during the period of the League's activity, with some later cuttings concerning Greece to 1992; material produced by the Greek News Agency including the Weekly Survey of Greek News and later monthly surveys, covering Greek and foreign press output and the Free Greek Radio Broadcasts, complete from November 1946 to September 1953 and January 1969 to January 1974 but otherwise incomplete, the contents of particular value for the period of the Civil War, 1947-1949, as they form a rare source for the broadcasts of Radio Free Greece; and eight volumes of the League's own duplicated information and organizational circulars. There are copies of all official British reports on Greece: TUC (Citrine), Legal Mission, March 1946 Election Observers, All-Party Parliamentary Delegation (1946); a fairly complete collection of Hansard for parliamentary references to Greece; reports of the UN Commission for observing the Balkans (1947-1950); daily broadcasts of the Greek refugee radio at Bucharest, 1970-1974; a large collection of pamphlets, leaflets and news bulletins, British and foreign; a large collection of material from similar organisations in other countries and from Greek refugee committees; and specialist journals. Over 280 files of the League's correspondence and information material cover its various campaigns. Over 23 files represent other organisations which donated material to the League's archives: British Branch of the Patriotic Anti-Dictatorial Front (PAM), Campaign for the Release of All Political Prisoners in Greece, European-Atlantic Action Committee on Greece, Greek Committee against Dictatorship. The papers include an important collection of archive material, arising from the League's work to stimulate British parliamentary action, particularly regarding persecution, on Greek government repression, Law 375/1936, the Emergency Measures Act of June 1946, Law 509/1947 on 'subversion', the operation of the special courts-material and the security committee, and the conditions in prisons and concentration camps, including dossiers on the cases of individual prisoners, supplemented by thesis material on Greek political legislation since 1921. There is a card index of junta detainees; material from the prisons and concentration camps, including two volumes of smuggled appeals (some in microscopic writing); and personal files on individual political prisoners and concentration camps detainees, 1945-1964, 1967-1974. A small library contains unusual publications of the Greek left. Other material comprises a photographic collection, in 18 albums, on occupation, resistance, liberation, civil war, prisons, prisoners, concentration camps, Greek refugee children, and activities abroad; loose photographic items; four reels of film including a Czech film of evacuated Greek children, c1949; and a collection of organisational stamps. Post-1975 material relates to the League's successor, the Friends of Democracy in Greece. Subjects covered by the Archive include the day-to-day evolution of the Civil War, 1947-1949; Greek political legislative and administrative measures; conditions in the prisons and concentration camps; the Greek trade unions; the 'kidnapped' or 'evacuated' children; the Greek political refugees in Eastern Europe; the operations of Greek anti-junta groups in Western Europe and the United States, 1967-1974; attitudes and action of the British Labour movement (Labour Party and trade unions) in regard to Greece, 1945-1974; individual political prisoners and concentration camp detainees; action regarding Greece in Western European countries, Australia, Canada, and the United States; and the operation of pressure groups (from the League's organisational material and correspondence with Members of Parliament and trade unionists).

'A discourse of the estate of Spaine' written by Sir Charles Cornwallis, 1607.

Secret Hungarian papers regarding British involvement in the history of Hungary, [1959] comprise copied reports by Hungarian Foreign Office officials regarding the role of Britain in the history of Hungary, 1937-1945.

Manuscript volume, c1527, containing translations into English of a collection of treatises and diplomatic documents, mostly of the fourteenth century, comprising a list of coronation claims of Richard II, [1377]; a treatise on the form and manner of holding the English Parliament; a treatise on the office of Earl Marshal, described in the table of contents as 'The Erle Marshal's Boke', with details of Henry VIII's reform of the office and its duties in time of war; a collection of documents relating to ordinances for war, [1350-1514], notably the Scottish campaigns of 1350 and 1385, the statutes of the Order of the Garter as renewed by Henry VIII in 1522, and the creation of dukes and earls, including the creation of Charles Brandon, Viscount Lisle, as Duke of Suffolk (1514); an incomplete history of the kings of England, ending with the coronation of Richard II in 1378; a collection of treaties concerning diplomatic events during the reign of Edward III, notably documents relating to the Treaty of Brétigny (October 1360), documents relating to treatises between Edward and John II, King of France (1360-1366), letters of Alfonso X, King of Castile (1254), letters of Edward concerning a treaty with Peter the Cruel, King of Castile (1369), and an indenture recording the terms of the treaty of Berwick between Edward and David II, King of Scotland (1357). A table of contents shows that the manuscript is unfinished, and that it lacks several folios.

Manuscript volume containing tracts on coinage by Leon Lee, [1628-1633], namely proposals on the coinage addressed to Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland and Treasurer of England, a paper outlining methods of preventing abuse of the coinage, and an explanation of the exchange. The volume also contains a [presumably unrelated] account of the reception of Princess Elizabeth of England, at Frankenthal, for her marriage to the Elector Palatine Frederick V, later King of Bohemia, Jun 1613.

Manuscript volume containing 'Observations upon the Amendments made by the Parliament of Scotland in the Articles of Union', [1706], mainly relating to the 6th to 8th articles concerning duties.

Manuscript volume containing [transcripts of] papers relating to the union of England and Scotland, 1707, including the proceedings of the Commissioners of both kingdoms concerning freedom and intercourse of trade between England and Scotland in 1667 and 1668; a copy of the articles of the intended union between England and Scotland in 1604.

Knight Frank and Rutley Sales Catalogue of the sale of the contents of the late German Embassy at 9 Carlton House Terrace in November and December 1945, with some annotations of prices fetched.

Records of the League of Nations Union, 1918-1971, including minutes of the General Council, 1919-1945, with some background papers; minutes of the Executive Committee, 1918-1946, including some minutes of its predecessor, the League of Free Nations Association; minutes of the Organisation Committee of the League of Free Nations Association and the LNU, 1918-1919; minutes of the LNU Administration Committee, 1936-1939 and 1944; minutes of the LNU Management Committee, 1918-1929; financial material, namely minutes of the Finance Committee, 1922-1938, and accounts, 1945-1975; material relating to specialist committees and sub-committees of the LNU, 1918-1957, notably the Advisory International Committee, 1940-1941, the Appeals Committee, 1930-1936, the Branches Committee, 1930-1939, the National Youth Committee, 1933-1936, the Christian Organisations Committee, 1921-1939, the Council for Education in World Citizenship, 1940-1944, the Economics Committee, 1928-1939, the Editorial Committee and the Publicity Committee, 1925-1938, the Education Committee, 1919-1939, the Industrial Advisory Committee, 1930-1944, the International Policy Committee, 1919-1925, the Overseas Committee, 1931-1939, the Refugees Committee, 1935-1939, the Regions Committee, 1930-1937, the Religious Ethics Committee, 1921-1930, the Research Committee, 1918-1919, the Services Committee, 1931-1932, the Women's Advisory Committee (later Council), 1937-1957, and the Standing Committee of National Youth, 1935-1939; material relating to branches of the LNU, namely the British Universities League of Nations Society, 1926-1936, the Geneva Institute of International Relations, 1925-1938, the Hampshire Federation of the LNU, 1932-1938, and the London International Assembly, 1941-1945; pamphlets, reports and leaflets produced by the LNU, [1918]-1962; miscellaneous material removed from the volumes of minutes and retrieved from the United Nations Association collection, [1919]-1971, including papers relating to the LNU Peace Ballot, [1934-1935], the transfer of the LNU membership to the UNA, [1945-1946], and the LNU Youth Groups.

Papers of Sir Charles Kingsley Webster, 1901-1962, including diaries, 1918-1949, including details of work at the Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations, the United Nations, the Foreign Office and the British Academy; correspondence, 1906-1961, with family, friends, students and colleagues, notably relating to his historical research and writings, academic employment and engagements, European politics, work for the Foreign Office during World War Two, and his work for the British Academy, and the United Nations; material concerning his early career, 1901-1914, including examination papers and conference programmes; papers relating to his work at Liverpool University, 1914-1928, including teaching materials; papers concerning Webster's service during World War One, mainly comprising material relating to the Paris Peace Conference and the League of Nations Union; papers concerning the League of Nations, 1920-1931, comprising reports and memoranda presented to various sessions of the Assembly; papers relating to Webster's work at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1924-1932, notably administrative and teaching material, newspaper cuttings and other papers concerning Webster's trips to Germany, Canada and the USA, and copies of articles on reparations and the League of Nations; material concerning his work at the London School of Economics, 1932-1953, including teaching materials such as reading lists, examination papers, lists of students and correspondence relating to funding, and minutes and papers of LSE committees, notably the Editorial Board of Politica; material relating to committees, meetings and visits, 1933-1940, including the International Committee of Historical Sciences, the League of Nations Union, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Bloomsbury Society and the British Council; material concerning Webster's work at the Foreign Research and Press Service, Royal Institute of International Affairs (later the Foreign Office Research Department), 1939-1944, on subjects related to international organisation and post-war settlement, including correspondence, memoranda, and minutes of the Minister of State's Committee on Future World Organisation; papers relating to work at the British Library of Information, New York, 1941-1942; papers on the Dumbarton Oaks Discussions on the organisational structure and form of the United Nations, 1944, mainly comprising memoranda and printed material, with personal notes and official conference papers; papers on the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, San Francisco, 1945, including UK Delegation papers, records of meetings, and conference documents; background papers to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, 1945-1946, comprising conference documents and committee papers; papers on the United Nations General Assembly First Session and the League of Nations Final Assembly, 1946, including memoranda, minutes, committee papers and records of meetings; material concerning other committees and societies, 1946-1958, including UNESCO; lectures and speeches, [1906]-1960, mainly concerning nineteenth century history and European alliance; papers concerning published works, 1911-1962, including research material, manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and correspondence; newspaper cuttings relating to Webster's career and general political interest, 1909-1961; photographs, 1919-1961, including official pictures relating to Webster's work regarding the United Nations.

Papers, 1889-1969, of the China Association, including minutes and committee papers of the General Committee and Executive Committee; correspondence with the Foreign Office, Board of Trade, Sino-British Trade Council, Tientsin and Hong Kong Chambers of Commerce, Hong Kong Association and the British Consulate in Shanghai; annual reports (1889-1962); and separate items including the minutes and papers of the China Association's School of Practical Chinese Endowment Fund (1908-1955). Also includes committee papers and minutes of the British Chambers of Commerce in Hankow and Tientsin, the Hong Kong Association, the Sino-British Trade Council, and the British Residents' Association in Shanghai. Also includes photographs of banquets (1896-1906), and albums of newspaper cuttings on China (1940-1947) and Japan (1942-1949).

Volume of typescript copies of Sir Robert Hart's letters to Sir Francis Arthur Aglen, 1888-1911.

Manuscript letterbooks, 1898-1906, containing copies of letters from James Duncan Campbell in London to Sir Robert Hart.

News summaries, press releases, press cuttings and publications, 1958-1971, from the period leading up to and including the Nigerian Civil War. The collection was the source material used by Suzanne Cronje for her book The world and Nigeria: the diplomatic history of the Biafran War 1967-1970 (London, 1972).

Copies of documents presented at and concerning the Zimbabwe-Rhodesia Constitutional Conference held in 1979.

Papers, 1835-c1975, of and relating to the Rev Thomas Pyne, comprising correspondence and accounts, 1839-1845 and undated, documenting Pyne's guardianship of (John) Ossoo Ansah and (William) Quanti Massah in England (1840), associated expenses, and aspects of their trip including invitations to dinner, entrance permits to London Zoo and to George Heriot's Hospital [School], Edinburgh, undated plan of a breakwater, Falmouth(?), undated print of Brighton Pavilion and other ephemera relating to places visited, photographs of paintings of the princes, and various visiting cards; other correspondence and papers of Pyne, 1835-1873 and undated, including printed Thanksgiving sermon preached at St Peter's Church, New York, including anti-slavery sentiments, 1835, pamphlets by Pyne on peace, 1844 and undated, and astronomy, 1852, a letter from L'Institut d'Afrique to Pyne concerning honorary membership, 1843, miscellaneous pamphlets relating to African affairs, and a photograph of Pyne, 1870; correspondence, notes, transcripts from original documents, and other papers, 1950-1953, c1975 and undated, concerning Pyne and his papers, and the two princes, including their portraits.

Papers, 1780s-1790s, largely of Captain Francis Light, including several hundred Malay letters, primarily letters received by Light and his business partner, Captain James Scott, from rulers and dignitaries of the Malay Sultanates.

The letters cover the history of relations, negotiations and conflicts between Light, the rulers of Kedah and the Governor General in Bengal leading up to and including the settlement of Penang in 1786 and the armed conflict of 1791. There are also letters dealing with business affairs between Light and Malay nobles such as the purchase, shipment and sale of commodities, ammunition, slaves and opium, and the maintenance of good political and economic neighbourly relations; letters from the Sultanate of Selangor; letters from royal merchants at the Malay courts; and letters concerning trade from various rulers and nobles in the Peninsula and Sumatra, especially from Aceh, Asahan and other North-Sumatran states.

In addition, the collection contains several dozen letters and documents from the same period relating to Bencoolen (Benkulen) and the West Sumatran Presidency, which are unrelated to Light.

Correspondence and research papers, 1889-1979, of Daniel George Edward Hall. Correspondence includes that between Hall and his publishers; friends and colleagues in Burma and Britain (1926-1970); the School of Oriental and African Studies and University of London (1934-1968); the British Broadcasting Corporation, including notes for broadcasts on the subject of Burma (1960-1961); and Professor Gordon Luce (1924-1978). Hall's research work includes material relating to Major Henry Burney, for his work Henry Burney: A Political Biography (1974), and material relating to Burma's relations with Britain. Also included are a number of photographs.

Correspondence and papers, c1684-c1709, of William, sixth Lord Paget, concerning his public appointments in England, Vienna and Turkey. Letters to Paget include those from English ministers of state, consuls and merchants in Turkey, Swiss Cantons and Ambassadors. Papers include royal letters, state papers and treaty drafts.

Papers, 1888-1981, chiefly comprising the correspondence and personal papers of Sir Alwyne Ogden, also including his diaries (c1920-1970), photographs, notes and drafts for his autobiography. The collection also adds detail to the life of his wife Jessie Ogden and her father, Albert Henry Bridge.

Papers, 1892-1960, of Sir John Thomas Pratt, largely dating from after 1941, including correspondence concerning his various publications, files on his campaign against British involvement in the Korean War, articles, lecture notes and press cuttings. Also includes correspondence with his brother William (Billy) Pratt (1949-1957), whose stage name was Boris Karloff.