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The Public Record Office and the Historical Student—A Retrospect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

A. E. Stamp
A. E. Stamp
Affiliation:
Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records
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It is a curious coincidence that to-day should have been fixed for me to read a paper on my memories of the Public Record Office, for I entered as a junior clerk on 9 March, 1893, so that when I left the office this afternoon I had completed exactly thirty-five years' service.

At that time Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte had been Deputy-Keeper for just over seven years; one volume of the Calendar of Patent Rolls (1327–30)had been published, and the late Mr. W. H. Stevenson had just finished the first volume of the Calendar of Close Rolls (1307–13). The Patent Rolls have now been completely calendared from the reign of Henry III to the end of the reign of Edward VI, and the Close Rolls to the end of the reign of Henry V, although the whole of the latter calendar has not yet been published.

Type
Research Article
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 11 , December 1928 , pp. 17 - 37
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1928

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References

page 35 note 1 See the inscription under his portrait in the History of Gilling West the only volume of his History of Yorkshire that was published.