A collection of English, Scottish and Irish proclamations, comprising around 2,450 documents dated between 1603 and 1714, and around 400 between 1714 and 1910. There are eight items dated before 1603 and 131 facsimiles of documents of 16th-century proclamations.

Organisation

Proclamations up to the mid-17th century have been catalogued, the rest of the collection is not catalogued. Items have the shelfmark 'Crawford.RP.'. The proclamations are arranged chronologically in boxes according to the monarch.

Acquisition

Deposited in 1988.

References

The documents up to and including the reign of Queen Anne are recorded in 'Bibliotheca Lindesiana volumes 5-6: A Bibliography of Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns 1485-1714' by Robert Steele, Oxford, 1910. The catalogue is chronologically arranged, with indexes (vol. 5 covers England and Wales, vol. 6 Scotland and Ireland).

The documents for the reigns of George I to Edward VII are recorded in 'Bibliotheca Lindesiana vol. 8: Handlist of Proclamations 1714-1910', Wigan, 1913.