Catalogue description Lord Chamberlain's Department: Miscellaneous Records

This series contains disparate material relating to the royal household. Many of the records are original or copy warrants, or entry books of warrants (some indexed), for appointments or payments; unless otherwise stated at piece level, warrants are from the Lord Chamberlain.

The records consist of Master of the Ceremonies papers, Treasurer of the Chamber warrant books, Comptroller of the Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber warrant books, Great Wardrobe records (mainly copies of warrants, warrant books and receipt books), Jewel Office warrant books, original warrants, warrant books, general and various, petitions, extracts from newspapers, household appointments, tradesmen's appointments, garter and bath ceremony papers, programmes, forms, notes and memoranda.

Among the remaining miscellany there are household regulations, precedent books, a variety of orders, and records pertaining to the Lord Chamberlain's jurisdiction over theatres.

Great Wardrobe, 1782

Lord Chamberlain

Lord Chamberlain's Department, 1782-

A register of English Theatrical Documents, 1660-1737, compiled and edited by J Milhous and R D Hume, (Southern Illinois University Press, 1991), details some of this material.

There is an index, in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew , to persons for LC 5/39-48, 52-54, 56-59, 61-77, 79-83, 86, 88-89, 104-106, 168 and 194; this is known as the Glencross Index. For an index to some of the theatrical material in this series, see 'Lord Chamberlain Theatrical References' available in the in the reading rooms.