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Ordnance Office (general)

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Date: 1400-1855
Functions, occupations and activities: Government (central) > Ordnance Office
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C32588 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O48725 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1533-36: accounts
Surrey History Centre
1086
NRA 9475 More-Molyneux
2
15th cent -1855: records
Royal Armouries Library, Tower of London
ARMOURIES
3
1578-1581: accounts of Sir William Pelham as Lieutenant of the Ordnance
Lincolnshire Archives
YARB, WORSLEY
NRA 5950 Pelham

See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [1a]
4
1599, 1643-80: accounts, inventories, surveys etc
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 34808, 34315, 25585, 35332, 25485, 38158, 32426
5
1599: accounts and papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng hist c 191
6
1627-1745: records
The National Archives
PRO 30/37
7
1642-49: register of munitions, receipts
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng hist c 64-65; c 244
8
1643-44: accounts
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng hist b 149
9
1646-96: orders for payment, receipts etc
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS St Edmund Hall
NRA 7418 SEH, Oxford
10
1648-50: register of stores
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 32466
11
1682-84: instructions and authorised payments
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: William Salt Library
S.MS
NRA 8254 Salt's
12
1683-87: saltpetre accounts
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
D3074
NRA 5197 Legge