SP 14/81 f.120 Thomas Wilson to Ambrose Randolph, 24 Aug 1615.

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‘…to serve the King truly and faithfully as Clerk, Keeper, and Registrar of His Majesty’s Papers and Records for matters of State established at Whitehall, to preserve said papers said Papers and Records from harm and damage, not to suffer any to be purloined, embezzled or defaced; to keep secret such things therein contained as shall be fit for his Majesty’s service to be concealed, and to do his best to recover such papers as may have been detained or embezzled by private persons’

SP 45/20 f.27

SP 14/94 f.192

3

‘Bagges of Bokes, Lettres and other Writenges remayninge in the study at Westminster, and in several tilles within the same’

SP 45/20 f.1

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5

[the office was] in the custody and possession of Dr Wilson when he was but master of requests before he was secretary of state my selfe being then in his house att st katherine’s ^before my going to Cambridge^ a boy of 16 yeares old whom he imployed in writing and handeling of such papers as were then and now are here in this office when he was made secretary …Dr James gat the office and a fee of 40 li ^by my lord leicester’s meanes^…

SP 45/20 f.107

6Wilson’s history of SPO – SP 45/20, f.109

7

Warrant, SP 45/20, f.26

8

Papers of Sir Edward Coke, SP 45/20 ff 93-4.

9

Bill of services done – SP 45/20, f.51

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… ‘and not bee buried amongst dead papers whereof there is not soe much use made as the treasure therein hidden deserves’

SP 14/88 f.83