Record-Commission, Papers Relative to the Project of Building a General Record Office; With Plans - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835. Excerpt: ... That an application has lately been made to your Memorialist on the part of the Judges of England, now fifteen in number, to know how far he would object to the giving up a part of the Rolls Garden, which adjoins to the wall of Serjeants' Inn, for the purpose of building Chambers for their use; and to that application your Memorialist answered, that, so long as the Rolls House was to be considered as a residence, he could not consent to part with any portion of the Garden, but that it was his intention to submit to your Lordships a Plan for converting the House into a Repository for Records--and that in such case there could be no objection on his part to devoting a part of the Garden to their use. That the Judges suggest, that, when they were twelve only in number, the Chambers in Serjeants' Inn, which were allotted to them, were mean and highly inconvenient, and are now, from the increased number of judges, wholly inadequate for the despatch of the business which they are obliged to transact in them. That the Public Records of the Kingdom are not only divided between the Rolls Chapel and the Tower of London, but many valuable Records are in the Chapter House at Westminster and in the Augmentation Office, under the care of Mr. Caley, and other valuable Records are in the Pipe Office and the Treasurer's Remembrancer's Office at Somerset House, and are most inconveniently placed in vaults, which have been rendered dark by the new building erecting for the use of the King's College, and the removal of the Records has therefore become absolutely necessary. That it might be a great public convenience if all the Records of the Kingdom were deposited in one situation, and the part of the Garden, not applied to the use of the Judges, would afford ample space for...
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