This group consists of the early records of the Treasury down to the reorganisation of 1919. Reflecting the administrative nature of the Treasury during this period the records are of the type typically produced by a Board rather than a modern government department. As such they are most conveniently looked at by record type. Accounting and Establishment records from this period are described under those divsions.
The minutes of the Treasury Board from 1667 are mainly in T 29. These are supplemented by T 99 and T 197
The original correspondence of the Board with reports and draft minutes will be found in the main series of Treasury Papers, T 1, which is supplemented by T 98. Contemporary registers and indexes will be found in T 2-T 4 and T 108. Original commissions appointing the Lords Commissioners will also be found in T 40. There is a series of miscellaneous papers in T 64
Treasury entry books of incoming warrants and outgoing warrants and orders are in T 51-T 61
With few exceptions the volumes forming the series of Treasury Out-letters are entry books up to December 1885, after which date they are bound press-copies (and later carbons) of letters sent. They generally run to 1920, with a few series extending to an earlier or later date.
The earliest of the Treasury's outgoing letters will be found entered in the General and Various series of letter books in T 27 and T 28. From these the other series relating to specific departments or subjects were separated out. These series will be found in T 5-T 26, T 97, T 101, T 103. T 109-T 155 and T 157 are books of out-letters covering the period of the First World War and post-war period. In some cases where the number of letters sent no longer justified a separate book, either because of a contraction of business or a change of function, subjects reverted to the General series or were absorbed by another series.
Maps and plans extracted from Treasury papers dating from 1668 to 1882 will be found in T 62 and T 63