PRO 31/8c1800-1837Public Record Office: Record Commission Transcripts, Series II
This series consists principally of transcripts of documents from various foreign archives, including the 'Cartulaire de la Basse Normandie' a collection of transcripts of charters, etc, of various early dates, granted in England to the religious houses of Normandy.
Also included in it are a collection of transcripts of papers of the Earls of Bristol, extending from 1605 to 1695, in the possession of the Digby family, and transcripts of Carew Mss, made under the supervision of J S Brewer, and of certain Irish state papers, the originals of which were presented by the Philadelphia Library Company, but which were lost during the disturbances in Ireland in 1921.
The series also includes some transcripts from the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Office and some of ancient correspondence and other records then in the Tower Record Office, which were made under the direction of Joseph Stevenson.