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the Restoration of the Monarchy

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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-

IV,1714-1782

The National Archives State and Government documents series

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

2 Low Countries and Germany3 Western Europe4 Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Russia and Turkey

Size: around 300,000 folios per partPub Date: Part 1: June 2013

Part 2: June 2015 (TBC) Part 3: June 2016 (TBC) Part 4: June 2017 (TBC)

• 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

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

South Sea Bubble

Lord Justices to the King

Whitehall

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 …

September 21, 1720

SP 35/23 f. 54

Atterbury Plot

Christopher Layer to Townshend

Tower of London

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

James III: The Pretender

Proclamation of James III, the only rightful and lawful king…

Proclamation of James III, the only rightful and lawful king; found fixed on the market cross at Hexham.

(undated)

SP 54/9 f. 204

War of Jenkins’ Ear

Admiral Vernon to Newcastle…

Admiral Vernon to Newcastle (Intelligence report from Carolina regarding prisoners of the Spanish). Concerns the inhuman captivity of Captain Wyllis and Mr Duary (his mate) at Merro Castle, Havana

April 6 1744

SP 42/27 f. 170

American Colony

[Earl of Egremont] to the Lords of Trade

Directing that a public thanks giving for the peace be observed in the American Colonies.

April 20 1763

SP 44/138 f. 68

Scheme against the King’s Person

…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…

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: Low Countries and Germany

Series Title VolsSP 77: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Flanders 50SP 80: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Holy Roman Empire 211SP 81: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, German States 102SP 82: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Hamburg and Hanse Towns 72SP 84: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Holland 340SP 87: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Military Expeditions 41SP 96: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Switzerland 37SP 101: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Newsletters 19SP 105: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Archives of British Legations

170

Total 1042

SP80/127

SP81/131

SP81/178

Part III: Western Europe

Series title VolsSP 76: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Dunkirk 10SP 78: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, France 180SP 79: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Genoa 22SP 85: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Italian States and Rome 3SP 86: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Malta 4SP 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 28SP 94: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Spain 171SP 98: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Tuscany 64SP 99: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Venice 21SP 102: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Royal Letters 66SP 108: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Treaties 429SP 109: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Various 88SP 110: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Supplementary 68Totals 1285

Part IV: Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Russia and Turkey

Series title VolsSP 71: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Barbary States 19SP 75: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Denmark 105SP 88: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Poland and Saxony 98SP 90: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Prussia 102SP 91: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Russia 104SP 95: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Sweden 118SP 97: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Turkey 38SP 100: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Foreign Ministers (in England)

65

SP 103: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Treaty Papers 51SP 104: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Entry Books 132SP 106: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Ciphers 60SP 107: Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Confidential 113Totals 1005

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

National Archives AdviserDr Katy MairEarly Modern Records SpecialistThe National Archives, Kew, UKhttp://origin.nationalarchives.gov.uk/jobs/staff-profiles.htm

Part 1: Essays with links to the documents

Professor Jeremy Black, University of ExeterIntroduction to State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, Part I

Professor William Gibson, , Oxford Brookes UniversityThe Reigns of George I (1714-27) and George II (1727-60)

Professor Richard Harding, University of WestminsterState Papers Military (1714-1782) and State Papers Naval (1714-1782)

Dr Andrew C. Thompson, University of CambridgeState Papers Regencies, George I and George II (1716-1755)

Professor Daniel Szechi, University of ManchesterScotland and Ireland in the Eighteenth Century

Dr Nigel Aston, University of LeicesterThe Hanoverian State and the Jacobite Threat

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

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