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Intro -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction, focus, sources and method -- Part One: The Institutional Background -- 1 English archives: The beginnings -- 2 Records mismanagement -- 3 Preservation, misplacing, destruction, and embezzlement -- 4 Specific record-keeping situations: Provincial and legal records -- 5 Arrangement and description: Inventories, calendars, and records editions -- 6 Attempts at reforming government records before 1640 -- 7 The records in the Revolutionary era -- 8 The Restoration and afterwards -- 9 An ironic counterpoint: Sir Robert Cotton's 'private library' -- Part Two: English Archives and the Seventeenth-Century Constitutional Controversies -- 10 Archives' role in the constitutional debates, and the Whig theory of history -- 11 The English legal system in the seventeenth century and the permissions regime for the public records -- 12 The foundation of the seventeenth century: History, Reformation and the 'Ancient Church' -- 13 History-writing, treason, and censorship -- 14 The Society of Antiquaries, primary source research, and the Ancient Constitution -- 15 Sir Edward Coke, Magna Carta, and records seizures -- 16 Parliamentary research orders -- 17 Sir Robert Cotton as archival research assistant to government and Parliament -- 18 John Selden: Archival research, legal history, and constitutional activism -- 19 William Prynne and the counter-revolution in the records editions -- 20 Epilogue to Part Two: The Civil War, the Tower records clerks, and espionage -- Part Three: Secrecy and Access at the State Paper Office -- 21 Thomas Wilson's appointment as Keeper: The political background -- 22 The establishment of the State Paper Office -- 23 Francis Bacon, George Villiers, and records classification. 24 Practical problems at the State Paper Office: Records storage, Jacobean court intrigues, and money matters -- 25 The political uses of history and the Crown's records -- 26 Records accessioning and power politics during Wilson's tenure -- 27 Archives and intrigue: Wilson and the judicial persecution of Sir Walter Ralegh -- 28 The State Paper Office after Wilson -- 29 The Civil War and Interregnum -- 30 The Restoration, records seizures from Revolutionaries, and cataloguing -- 31 Official secrecy and research permissions -- 32 Use requests under James I -- 33 Use requests after the Restoration -- Conclusion: English archives and the wider European context -- Bibliography -- Biographical note -- Index of Persons.