CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION ,The papers here dealt with cover thc ycms 1724 and 1725 and were abstracted l y th e latc Mr. Cccil Headlni lt u Corm the eighteenth . oluine of the Colonial Calendar upon which had been engaged as cditor from 1905 to 19.74. Unfortunately he was fi rricd off comparatively edy death before hc was able to write the Pr... more »eface to the volume, and that task has faIlen to a new hand. The publication the Ca1a da. r of Slak Papers, Color ial Series, Apnerica and West Indies began two gcncratiotls ago, atid though it has becii pursued uninterruptedly for thrccquarters of R century, it hiis dcrrlanded thc labours of hilt three etlilors in srlccession dur ng th at long period. The first volume was prepared by W. Noel Sainsbury, and publishrd under the direction of the Master of thc Rolls Sir John Romilly in 1360. it covered the pcriod frorrl 7574 rlown to the Restoration of Irjrjo, wherein thc colonial papers in the ublic archives mere comparatively scanty s icceedii gv ulumcs, llowerer, have each dealt with a nucli shorter pcriod. Between 1860 arld 1893 four voli mes appcared in the Amaicu and West Indies Series under Sainsburys cditorship, the secorld, third and fuurth corerirlg thc period do vtl to rGfB togcther with a coilfidcrxblc mess of Addcndn for the early period. Ou Sainshilrys death in I895 the work was taken up by tl cla te Sir John Portcscue, and 11e brought out seven volui les uf the Calctldar iiicIudirlg thc papcrs of tile ycars I677 to 1G98. 7Vhcrl he resigned I 1 I 0 05, Mr. Cceil H c a d l bcnc ainc cditor. In the scventee o luincsp ublisher1 bet veei 1 908 and I 134 he covered the period from 160 3 to 1723, cacIi of the later olumch in cludiiig thc papers beloriging to two successive ycars. Helore his last illness 11e had abstracted the papers or soinc h k r ycnrs, but had riot prcpxrcd the Trcfi cest o the volun csin which they werc to bc publishcd. Thc provcnantc of the papcrs here dcalt wit11 Iias 1 ccn lmyouance tlentiuncd in thc Prefaces to early voIumes uf thc Calendars. of tho ShtE Papers. of ,9tate Pnper, b uIt it is coilve iicrh etr e to rccapituIatc somc of that swttcrcd infurmatiol in order to recall certain points ill regard to the sources of t, hc rlaterialsin cluderl. After the appui ltnicrlt of Sir Thomas IVilsoi as Keeper rlf tlie Stat, e Papers in l iI, it was ordercd that the papers of the Scerctaries of State shuuld be depusitcd, whcrl they, ecascd to t c in tncdiatcly ccdcidn , I lis custody ill the State Paper Ofice. faet, however, this regulation was very imperfectly obeyed, a id m any Sccrctnrics of State carried away their papcrs rvtlcn t11ey lcft ofiee. The collection uf papers iuw1 reservcd under the custody of the Master of thc llolls is therefore im, crrect, and there are many gaps...

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