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Catalogue description Thomas Carew: Papers
| Reference: | PRO 30/5 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Thomas Carew: Papers |
| Description: |
These papers consist of a volume in a late sixteenth century hand, setting out certain negotiations of Cardinal Wolsey, a MS Chronicle of Ireland, 1589 to 1616, proceedings of the Irish Parliament, 1613 to 1615, entry book of Sir Francis Walsingham's letters to Ireland, 1578 to 1579, and his diary, 1570 to 1583, and an entry book of Petitions to Charles I, 1639 to 1645. |
| Date: | 1570-1646 |
| Separated material: |
The residue of the volumes still at Crowcombe Court were listed by the Historical Manuscripts Commission in 1874. Several were connected with Robert Cotton or Henry Elsynge: many related to parliaments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Most of the manuscripts were sold at Sotheby's in 1903: many were acquired, then or subsequently, by the British Library, the National Library of Wales and Trinity College Dublin. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Not Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Thomas Carew, 1702-1766 |
| Physical description: | 6 volume(s) |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
in 1868. Thomas Carew, 1702-1766 in 1868. |
| Custodial history: | The Carew Papers in the Public Record Office do not have any connection with the more famous Carew Papers at Lambeth Palace Library. The papers which form this series came from the collection of about two hundred manuscript volumes, mostly relating to English history, bought piecemeal by Thomas Carew of Crowcombe Court, Somerset (1702-1766), MP for Minehead. The origin of many of the items is unknown, but some are known to have been bought at the sale of the duke of Chandos's library in 1746. In the spring of 1868, Lieutenant-Colonel GHW Carew invited John Bruce, the director of the Camden Society, to inspect the collection 'which had not been looked at by any competent person within living memory'. |
| Publication note: |
Colonel Carew, wishing that the manuscripts be used in any way in which they might be serviceable to historical literature, made some of the volumes available to the master of the rolls in 1868, for use in the preparation of calendars of state papers. However, as far as can now be ascertained, they do not appear to have been used by the editors of the relevant calendars, and were not included in the published works. For information on John Bruce's findings see Camden Society, vol c, pp xxxviii-xxxix. The thirtieth report of the deputy keeper of public records, pp xvii-xviii, contains information on the use made of these volumes by the master of the rolls. |
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