Stories From the State Papers, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Stories From the State Papers, Vol. 1 of 2

For many years these three places of deposit - the Chapter house, the Tower of London, and the Rolls - constituted the chief repositories for our public records; but as the aecom modation that these buildings offered was limited, rooms in private houses, vacant vaults, and even stables had to be taken by the Ministers of the day for the storing of our ever-increasing archives. Little care was, however, paid 'to the preservation of the n...