Library Research Guide for British Colonial and Foreign Relations Sources

UK Cabinet Papers The State Papers are, largely, the records accumulated by Secretaries of State

State Papers Online (1509-1714) combines State Papers Domestic and Foreign with the Registers of the Privy Council and State Papers in the British Library, reproducing the original historical manuscripts in facsimile and linking each manuscript to its corresponding fully-searchable Calendar entry.
--Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic
--Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council
--Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic
--Part IV: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council. Not as yet available

This resource includes page images of the original manuscripts linked to searchable calendars. Calendars are lists of the papers with brief item-level descriptions.

The calendars are also available via British History Online (Browse by Subject: Administrative and legal history)

Unpublished state papers of the English Civil War and Interregnum. 5 parts in 114 reels
Microforms (Lamont) Film A 166 [Vol. 1 lacks number.]
Microforms (Lamont) INDEX Film A 166.1 (Printed guide)

1a: Papers of the Committee for the Sequestration of Delinquents' Estate
1b: Papers of the Committee for Plundered Ministers
1c: Papers of the Committee and Commissioners for Indemnity
1d: Papers of Various Committees, etc.
2: Parliamentary Surveys
3a: Certificates as to the Sale of Crown Lands.
3b: Particulars for the Sale of the Estates of Charles I
4: Particulars for the sale of Fee-Farm Rents etc.
5: Documents relating to various Parliamentary Accounts and to Eccelesiastical Affairs

Sixteenth and seventeenth century newsletters and related papers. 18 reels.
Location : Microforms (Lamont) Film A 1183
Location : Microforms (Lamont) INDEX Film A 1183 = guide
--Incomplete contents : pt. 1. Newsletters, c.1564-1667, and related papers c.1607-1794, from the Public Record Office.
--Collection of newsletters from the State Papers Foreign and Chancery collections at the PRO. They provide an English perspective of events in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. The majority of the material consists of letters either from or to the first Viscount Scudamore who was Charles I’s ambassador in Paris from 1635 to 1639.
HOLLIS Number : 009057925