Documents Collection (page 6)

The Domesday Book, Leicestershire
The Domesday Book, a record of the resources and taxable values of the boroughs and manors of Leicestershire, extract from the Great Domesday Book Date: c. 1085

Royal Warrant
Original Royal Warrant, signed by Queen Victoria, instituting the award for meritorious distinction, 1856 Date: 1856

16th century codes
Anthony Babingtons acknowledgement of ciphers used with Mary Queen of Scots, September 1586 Date: 1586

Sir Philip Sidney
Last letter of English poet Sir Philip Sidney, fatally wounded at Arnhem, 22 September 1586 Date: 22nd September 1586

Trial of Charles I
Account of the trial of King Charles I Date: 1649

Home Office Petition
Home Office Criminal Petitions, 1839-1854 Date: 1839-1854

Census 1901, Whitechapel, London Date: 1901

Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth I in 1572

Letter from Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots to Elizabeth I, requesting to visit her in England, January 1554 Date: 1554

1851 Census
Somerset Staple Fitzpaine Census 1851 description of district Date: 1851

Barry Railway staff register
Barry Railway Company Clerical Staff Register for George Love Bastian Date: c. 1894

The Domesday Book, Yorkshire
The Domesday Book, a record of the resources and taxable values of the boroughs and manors of Yorkshire, extract from the Great Domesday Book Date: c. 1085

Fleet notebooks, Floud and Cuthberts notebooks, 1728 Date: 1718

The Great Seal
Richard IIIs request for the Great Seal with postscript on treachery of Duke of Buckingham 12th October 1483 Date: 12th October 1483

Henry VIII and Katharine Parr
Notarial attestation of the marriage of Henry VIII and Katharine Latymer, alias Parr, 12 July 1543 Date: 12th July 1543

Oscar Wilde, death certificate
Oscar Wildes Death Certificate, December 1900 Date: 1900

Queen Victorias letter to the nation, 14 April 1884 Date: 14th April 1884

Andes Aircrash
Investigation into the crash of G-AGWH, a BSa Avro 691 Lancastrian 3 plane in the Andes on Tupungato Mountain, Argentina, killing 11 people in 1947 Date: 2nd August 1947

Book of Aids
Illuminated initial from the Book of Aids, temp Hen VI, a book recording feudal aid to knights Date: 15th century

The Domesday Book, Norfolk
The Domesday Book, a record of the resources and taxable values of the boroughs and manors of Norfolk, extract from the Little Domesday Book Date: c. 1085

Statute of Wales, which brought Wales under the English legal framework Date: 1284

Letter to Marquis of Tweeddale
Letter to the Marquis of Tweeddale from Sir John Cope, 3 Aug 1745 Date: 3rd August 1745

George Bernard Shaw copyright
George Bernard Shaw declaration of copyright on photograph, 1905

Cambrian Railways Staff
Cambrian Railways Company Staff Register Date: 19th century

Will of John Combe
Will register entry for John Combe, 1615 Date: 1615

Biggleswade parliamentary return
Chancery, Petty Bag Office and Crown Office Parliamentary Election Writs and Returns. Parliamentary Return for Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, 1275 Date: 1275

British North Borneo Company
Original grant by the College Of Arms, of arms and crest for British North Borneo Company, 1882 Date: 1882

Cession of Fiji to Great Britain
Colonial Office Fiji. Instrument of cession to the Crown, 10 October 1874 Date: 10th October 1874

Old Sarum electoral return
Chancery, Petty Bag Office and Crown Office Parliamentary Election Writs and Returns. Parliamentary Return for Old Sarum returning Thomas Pitt, 1734 Date: 1734

Margaret Thatcher return notice
Chancery, Petty Bag Office and Crown Office Parliamentary Election Writs and Returns. Parliamentary Return for Margaret Thatcher, 1979 Date: 7th April 1979

Proclamation of Governor Bourke
New South Wales, proclamation of Governor Bourke against settlers stealing crown lands, page 2 of 2, 1835 Date: 1835

General Assembly 1619
Page 1 of the proceeding in the General assembly at James City, Virginia, 30 July 1619 Date: 1619

Fair charter
Confirmation of a charter for a fair at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1200 Date: 1200

Act of Supremacy
The Act Of Supremacy, 1534 Date: 1534

Court Martial document
Court Martial of four HMS Hampshire sailors, 8 June 1680 (earliest RN document) Date: 1860

Medical Journal
Frigate Success 1840 medical journal, diving operations by Col Pasley, RE on the wreck of HMS Royal George Date: 1840

Exposition du 1er au 30 octobre 1917... organisee par la Ligue Souvenez-Vous... documents, photographies, affiches, ... aux crimes allemands

Public Records Office
The Public Records Office, Chancery Lane, London, where many records and documents used to be kept. Date: 19th century

The Heathen and the Christian - Play
The Heathen and the Christian - promotional postcard for this play - performed at The Grand Theatre Southampton between 1908-1909

Archive service at Paris Peace Conference
Gendarme officers in the archive service of the Paris Peace Conference which followed the end of the First World War. It was their job to classify three tons of documents. Date: circa 1919

Esperanto Club Members
ESPERANTO : members of the Hamburg Esperanto Club pose for their group portrait, holding an Esperanto newspaper and other documents Date: circa 1900

Items belonging to George Moore, Titanic seaman
Assorted items belonging to George Alfred Moore, seaman on the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship which sank on 15 April 1912 -- a pocket watch with ornate fob, a cigarette lighter

RMS Carpathia medal and paperwork
Various paperwork, including a Certificate of Discharge, together with the silver RMS Carpathia medal (image side) presented to Thomas Alfred Holmes

SS Patrol searching Civilians, Warsaw, 1944
Illustration showing a German SS Patrol searching Polish civilians, for weapons and documents, in a Warsaw street, 1944. This drawing was made during the Second World War by Captain Bryan de Grineau

Poor Richard - 3
POOR RICHARDs ALMANAC Franklins Lessons in Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c, a typical item : If you would know the value of money, try to borrow some

Poor Richard - 1
POOR RICHARDs ALMANAC Franklins Lessons in Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c, a typical item : He that hath a trade, hath an estate

Poor Richard - 2
POOR RICHARDs ALMANAC Franklins Lessons in Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c, a typical item : Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee

Stamp Office 1809
Housed in Somerset House : at this time the government derived substantial duty from the stamping of documents of all kinds, including newspapers

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