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Catalogue description Charles Purton Cooper: Collection
| Reference: | PRO 30/41 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Charles Purton Cooper: Collection |
| Description: |
Most of this collection (PRO 30/41/4, and 6-29) is composed of volumes of French diplomatic papers. Many of them are originals, and others may be entry books made for contemporary administrative purposes. The papers are mainly from embassies by the following diplomats:
The other items in the collection are mostly nineteenth century transcripts of medieval documents in Flanders and France, although PRO 30/41/1 does include five original printed ordinances from the Low Countries, between 1564 and 1626. |
| Date: | 1527-1720 |
| Arrangement: |
This bequest was listed by the Librarian of Lincoln's Inn as 234 pieces, some consisting of several volumes. |
| Related material: |
See also the Cooper papers in PRO 30/10 |
| Separated material: |
Further material from the original bequest is with various recipients, notably Lincoln's Inn Library. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Not Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 29 volume(s) |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
in 1938 Royal Historical Society in 1938 |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Charles Purton Cooper (1793-1873), lawyer and antiquary, was an avid collector of books and manuscripts. As Secretary to the Record Commission (1831-1837), he bought and printed so many books that the commission overspent its parliamentary vote by £24,000. By 1843 he had presented over two thousand volumes of civil and foreign legal works to Lincoln's Inn. Failing to achieve public office, or to gain support for a project to digest all the extant law reports, he retired to Boulogne, where he died. On his death he left a voluminous collection of correspondence books and papers to Lincoln's Inn. |
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