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350 th Anniversary of the Restoration of the Monarchy

350 th Anniversary of the Restoration of the Monarchy. Coming soon: a new series. The National Archives State and Government documents series. 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th Century 20th century. Home Office (HO) series 1782-present.

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350 th Anniversary of the Restoration of the Monarchy

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  1. 350th Anniversary of the Restoration of the Monarchy

  2. Coming soon: a new series The National Archives State and Government documents series 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th Century 20th century Home Office (HO) series 1782-present State Papers (SP) series 1509-1782 Foreign Office (FO) series 1782-present State Papers Online Parts I-IV, 1509-1714 State Papers Online: 18C Parts I-III, 1714-1782

  3. Date Range: 1714-1782 3 Parts: 1 [British] Domestic, Military, Naval and Privy Council 2 Foreign Part 1 3 Foreign Part 2 Size: c. 300,000-450,000 folios per part Pub Date: Part 1: June 2013 • The final section of the State Papers series from the National Archives, Kew, UK plus the Privy Council registers and files • In 1782, the State Papers series was closed and the Home Office and Foreign Office series begun

  4. Academic Adviser Professor Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, UK http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/staff/black/ http://www.jeremyblack.co.uk/ National Archives Adviser Dr Katy Mair Early Modern Records Specialist The National Archives, Kew, UK http://origin.nationalarchives.gov.uk/jobs/staff-profiles.htm

  5. The Period of the Three Georges • America as British colony until 1783 • Age of change • Liberty and commerce (ie political liberty and trade). Commerce was coming • to be seen as the defining mark of modernity • Establishment of the British Empire with Britain as dominant Colonial power • Urban growth • Development of agriculture, industrialisation, mechanisation • Government by parliament with lesser role for the monarch – parliamentary • monarchy • Parliament as battleground/theatre of party politics. Whig v Tory • Rise of professions • European Enlightenment • Developments in the ‘public spheres’ of Europe – development of press and • political associations • Foreign travel and economic migration, deportation of convicts

  6. Unique Features of the Product State Papers Online is a unique resource bringing unsearchable manuscript documents to the user in a searchable form. Each manuscript document is linked directly to its Calendar entry. This is a huge advance for faculty and students, saving them the difficulty and time, time which can now be spent examining the documents themselves Users can also browse through manuscript volumes, folio by folio, volume by volume or jump to a particular folio. interlinked Manuscripts Calendars

  7. Unique Features of the Product • Tools for researching and studying within the product • Notepad for making notes or transcriptions • Full screen view to enable close examination of the documents • Wide zoom range to view small handwriting and annotations • Links to online palaeography (handwriting) courses to improve skills in reading these documents • Note: 17th-century documents are easier to read than sixteenth-century ones. This makes SPO III more accessible for undergraduate students with no palaeography skills.

  8. Lord Justices to the King Whitehall South Sea Bubble We think it our duty at this time to acquaint your Majesty with the very extraordinary case which hath happened within this fortnight. The South Sea stock which was risen to so great a height, and wherein such vast numbers of your subjects are concerned in interest, is fallen so low that it hath brought a general discredit upon everything … Several other reasons are assigned too various and doubtful for us to enumerate to your Majesty, but we think the situation so dangerous, that we most humbly beg leave to represent to your Majesty how this great fall of the stocks hath already undone great numbers of your people, that despair or despondency is to be observed in them all in general, for there are but few families which are not concerned in these funds. We apprehend that the exchange may turn against this country and deprive us of great part of our species, many bankers and goldsmiths having already shut up shop, and as there is a run begun upon them, we fear it will not stop before others are brought to the same condition. In so general a calamity as this would prove, we dread the consequences it might have to your Majesty’s government, and fear it may excite the hopes of your enemies both at home and abroad, to make some dangerous attempt during the troubles and disorders which must arise from so extended a misfortune. At the same time we beg leave to acquaint your Majesty that some of your servants have been finding out means to put a stop to this evil; several of them have with great diligence and industry used their efforts to bring about an union of interest between the great companies of the bank, the South Sea and the East Indies, and we have reason to hope this fruit from their endeavours, that such a concert will appear between them as will give a new life to the credit of this nation. But as the necessities of many of the adventures are such that they must be obliged to sell their stocks at any rates, the market may be so crowded as to make this expedient ineffectual, and if it should have the desired effect at present we cannot answer how long it may continue. … September 21, 1720 SP 35/23 f. 54

  9. Christopher Layer to Townshend Tower of London Atterbury Plot Praying that his life may be spared and complaining that, contrary to the promises of the Lords of the Committee, the evidence he gave at his examination was used against him at his trial and was the occasion of his conviction. November 24, 1722 SP35/34 f.59

  10. Walter Evans to - Walter Evans of Brailes to – renewing complaints against the Papists there who have attempted to intimidate the witnesses for the Crown in the trial of persons accused of treasonable activities to be heard at Warwick Assizes. August 03, 1736 SP 36/39 f. 64

  11. Scheme against the King’s Person Copy of deposition made before Lord Stanhope, by Peter Childe, of Essex Street, in the parish of St. Clement Danes, Middlesex, staymaker, to the effect that having started on his way home from Hampstead, about a quarter five in the afternoon, he overheard between that place and Kentish Town a conversation between three persons relating to a scheme against the King’s person concerted by the brother of one Williams. They were to meet at the house of Williams on the next Friday evening. He heard them mention the name of “Kew” several times. When discovered he was fired at twice, the first ball going through his hat. He was followed into the fields on this side Pancras Church, but escaped. December 17, 1760 SP 37/01 f. 9

  12. Part I: State Papers Domestic, Naval, Military and Registers of the Privy Council

  13. Part II: Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Netherlands and Germany Manuscript series

  14. Part III: Foreign B: Western Europe Manuscript series

  15. State Papers Online 18th Century is fully cross-searchable with the earlier four modules covering the years 1609-1714. For further information contact: julia.demowbray@cengage.com

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