Administrative Records of the The Crown Estate and predecessorsCRES 21513-1913Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues and predecessors: Unfiled Correspondence and Papers
This series comprises the papers which accumulated in the Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues before the introduction of a filing system in the late 19th century, and which were not then or subsequently incorporated into that system, as a number of similar papers were. They consist largely of in-letters and minutes, the corresponding out-letters appearing in the entry books and report books in CRES 6-20, 22 and 24. The series includes a series of papers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which had been placed in blue pasteboard covers by Zachary Chambers, Deputy Surveyor General in the middle of the eighteenth century.
The papers in this series are miscellaneous: several have plans attached. Among the subjects covered are: the building of the Savoy Hospital in 1513; the establishment of the Millbank Penitentiary (including negotiations with Jeremy Bentham); the policing of Delamere Forest against arsonists, 1847-1863; Regent's Park; and the Thames Navigation. General subjects include enclosures, works and repairs to public and other buildings, royal forests, mines, fortifications, lighthouses, foreshores, etc.