Ordnance Office (general)

This page summarises records created by this Organisation

The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

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