Transcripts: Plundered Ministers 1643-1659

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 Eng MS 448
  • Dates of Creation
      1893
  • Physical Description
      205 x 160 mm. 1 volume (614 folios);

Scope and Content

Extracts transcribed by and for W.A. Shaw from various seventeenth-century manuscripts relating to plundered ministers, i.e. those still loyal to the King. Predominantly relating to the Plundered Ministers Committee.

Other Finding Aids

Indexed in English MS 449.

Location of Originals

The extracts are taken from original manuscripts in the Public Record Office (now The National Archives), the British Museum (now the British Library), the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Cambridge University Library (Baker MSS), Sion College Library and Lambeth Palace Library.

Bibliography

Parts only of MSS 446-449 were published in W.A. Shaw (ed.), Minutes of the Committee for the Relief of Plundered Ministers: relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, 1643-60: and of the Trustees for the Maintenance of Ministers, parts 1 and 2, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vols 28 (1893) and 34 (1897).