Catalogue description State Paper Office: State Papers Ireland, Cases

Large documents relating to Ireland including indentures and deeds relating to grants and allotments of land, copies of certain acts of the Parliament, lists of the establishment of the army in Ireland in 1655 and 1666, and oaths taken by Protestants before a Commission of Array in 1756. Most records are parchment documents of the seventeenth century. The documents were omitted from the main series of State Papers for Ireland (SP 60, SP 61, SP 62 and SP 63) mainly owing to their physical form.

Most records are calendared in the following volumes: Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland of the reigns of Henry VIII. Edward VI. Mary and Elizabeth. 1509-1573 preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office ed Hans Claude Hamilton (London 1860) Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland preserved in the Public Record Office: Adventurers for Land. 1642-1659 ed Robert Pentland Mahaffy (London 1903) Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland preserved in the Public Record Office. 1647-1660 ed Robert Pentland Mahaffy (London 1903) Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland preserved in the Public Record Office. 1666-1669 ed Robert Pentland Mahaffy (London 1908) Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland preserved in the Public Record Office. 1666-1669 ed Robert Pentland Mahaffy (London 1908). Please speak to staff at the Map and Large Document Room enquiry desk for the