The Crown and Its Records (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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The earlier history of the English central archival system has been surprisingly underresearched.
This book-length examination remedies this gap.

Part One investigates the genesis of English archives, the background conditions of
storage and retrieval which shaped archival work and access, and the various governmental
attempts at reforming the archival system and their political significance. Part Two examines
the direct use of archives in the constitutional debates via the career of the judge Sir Edward
Coke ('the father of the common law') and the biographies of three individuals who were, at
various points, charged with the keeping of archives: Sir Robert Cotton, John Selden, and
William Prynne. Finally, Part Three analyses a very different archival world, the King's own
private State Paper Office, investigating its restrictive access regime as a point of contrast
with that of the 'public records, ' its probable uses as a centre for intelligence gathering, and
the intimate involvement of its most prominent Keeper Sir Thomas Wilson in high political
and judicial intrigue on behalf of the Crown.