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State Papers (SP) series 1509-1782Home Office (HO) series 1782-presentForeign Office (FO) series 1782-present

State Papers OnlineParts I-IV,1509-1714

State Papers Online:

18C Parts I-

III,1714-1782

The National Archives State and Government documents series

Date Range: 1714-17823 Parts: 1 [British] Domestic, Military, Naval and Privy Council

2 Foreign Part 13 Foreign Part 2

Size: c. 300,000-450,000 folios per part

Pub Date: Part 1: June 2013

• The final section of the State Papers series from the National Archives, Kew, UK plus the Privy Council registers and files

• In 1782, the State Papers series was closed and the Home Office and Foreign Office series begun

Academic AdviserProfessor Jeremy Black,University of Exeter, UKhttp://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/staff/black/http://www.jeremyblack.co.uk/

National Archives Adviser

Dr Katy MairEarly Modern Records SpecialistThe National Archives, Kew, UK

http://origin.nationalarchives.gov.uk/jobs/staff-profiles.htm

The Period of the Three Georges America as British colony until 1783

Age of change Liberty and commerce (ie political liberty and trade). Commerce was coming to be seen as the defining mark of modernity Establishment of the British Empire with Britain as dominant Colonial power Urban growth Development of agriculture, industrialisation, mechanisation Government by parliament with lesser role for the monarch – parliamentary monarchy Parliament as battleground/theatre of party politics. Whig v Tory Rise of professions European Enlightenment Developments in the ‘public spheres’ of Europe – development of press and political associations Foreign travel and economic migration, deportation of convicts

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Note: 17th-century documents are easier to read than sixteenth-century ones. This makes SPO III more accessible for undergraduate students with no palaeography skills.

Lord Justices to the KingWhitehall

South Sea Bubble

We think it our duty at this time to acquaint your Majesty with the very extraordinary case which hath happened within this fortnight. The South Sea stock which was risen to so great a height, and wherein such vast numbers of your subjects are concerned in interest, is fallen so low that it hath brought a general discredit upon everything … Several other reasons are assigned too various and doubtful for us to enumerate to your Majesty, but we think the situation so dangerous, that we most humbly beg leave to represent to your Majesty how this great fall of the stocks hath already undone great numbers of your people, that despair or despondency is to be observed in them all in general, for there are but few families which are not concerned in these funds. We apprehend that the exchange may turn against this country and deprive us of great part of our species, many bankers and goldsmiths having already shut up shop, and as there is a run begun upon them, we fear it will not stop before others are brought to the same condition. In so general a calamity as this would prove, we dread the consequences it might have to your Majesty’s government, and fear it may excite the hopes of your enemies both at home and abroad, to make some dangerous attempt during the troubles and disorders which must arise from so extended a misfortune. At the same time we beg leave to acquaint your Majesty that some of your servants have been finding out means to put a stop to this evil; several of them have with great diligence and industry used their efforts to bring about an union of interest between the great companies of the bank, the South Sea and the East Indies, and we have reason to hope this fruit from their endeavours, that such a concert will appear between them as will give a new life to the credit of this nation. But as the necessities of many of the adventures are such that they must be obliged to sell their stocks at any rates, the market may be so crowded as to make this expedient ineffectual, and if it should have the desired effect at present we cannot answer how long it may continue. …

September 21, 1720

SP 35/23 f. 54

Christopher Layer to Townshend

Tower of LondonAtterbury Plot

Praying that his life may be spared and complaining that, contrary to the promises of the Lords of the Committee, the evidence he gave at his examination was used against him at his trial and was the occasion of his conviction.

November 24, 1722

SP35/34 f.59

Walter Evans to -Walter Evans of Brailes to – renewing complaints against the Papists there who have attempted to intimidate the witnesses for the Crown in the trial of persons accused of treasonable activities to be heard at Warwick Assizes.

August 03, 1736

SP 36/39 f. 64

Scheme against the King’s Person

Copy of deposition made before Lord Stanhope, by Peter Childe, of Essex Street, in the parish of St. Clement Danes, Middlesex, staymaker, to the effect that having started on his way home from Hampstead, about a quarter five in the afternoon, he overheard between that place and Kentish Town a conversation between three persons relating to a scheme against the King’s person concerted by the brother of one Williams. They were to meet at the house of Williams on the next Friday evening. He heard them mention the name of “Kew” several times. When discovered he was fired at twice, the first ball going through his hat. He was followed into the fields on this side Pancras Church, but escaped.

December 17, 1760

SP 37/01 f. 9

Series title VolsSP 35: Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George I, 1714-1727 78SP 36: Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George II, 1728-1760 163SP 37: Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George III, 1760-1783 27SP 38: Signet Office: Docquets 12SP 41: Secretaries of State: State Papers Military 46SP 42: Secretaries of State: State Papers Naval 132SP 43: Secretaries of State: State Papers Regencies, George I and George II 128SP 44: Secretaries of State: State Papers: Entry Books 217SP 45: State Papers Office and other Bodies 25SP 46: State Papers Domestic: Supplementary 17SP 47: Secretaries of State: State Papers Channel Islands 8SP 48: Secretaries of State: State Papers Isle of Man 2SP 54: Secretaries of State: State Papers Scotland Series II, 1714-1783 43SP 55: Secretaries of State: State Papers Scotland: Letter Books 13SP 56: Secretaries of State: State Papers Scotland: Church Books 6SP 57: Secretaries of State: State Papers Scotland: Warrant Books 7SP 63: State Paper Office: State Papers Ireland, Elizabeth I to George III 111SP 67: Secretaries of State: State Papers Ireland, Entry Books 21PC 2: Privy Council: Registers [1714-1782] 44PC 4: Privy Council: Minutes and Associated Papers 5PC 5: Privy Council Office: Plantation Books 10PC 6: Privy Council Office: Miscellaneous Books and Correspondence Registers 4PC 13: Privy Council Office: Sheriffs' Lists 1Totals 1120

Part I: State Papers Domestic, Naval, Military and Registers of the Privy Council

Part II: Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Netherlands and GermanyManuscript series

Series Title VolsSP 75: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Denmark 104SP 77: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Flanders 49SP 80: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Holy Roman Empire 210SP 81: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, German States 98SP 82: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Hamburg and Hanse Towns 73SP 84: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Holland 340SP 87: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Military Expeditions 40SP 88: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Poland and Saxony 96SP 90: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Prussia 101SP 91: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Russia 103SP 95: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Sweden 116SP 97: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Turkey 38SP 105: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Archives of British Legations

118

SP 110: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Supplementary 65Total 1551

Part III: Foreign B: Western Europe Manuscript seriesSeries title Vols

SP 71: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Barbary States 16SP 76: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Dunkirk 9SP 78: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, France 178SP 79: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Genoa 19SP 85: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Italian States and Rome 3SP 86: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Malta 2SP 89: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal 69SP 92: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Savoy and Sardinia 62SP 93: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Sicily and Naples 29SP 94: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Spain 173SP 96: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Switzerland 36SP 98: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Tuscany 63SP 99: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Venice 22SP 100: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Foreign Ministers (in England)

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SP 101: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Newsletters 19SP 102: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Royal Letters 62SP 103: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Treaty Papers 49SP 104: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Entry Books 51SP 106: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Ciphers 58SP 107: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Confidential 110SP 108: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Treaties 532SP 109: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Various 88Totals 1720

State Papers Online 18th Century is fully cross-searchable with the earlier four modules covering the years 1609-1714.

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