PUBLIC A.D. 1849. for it would not be too much to value the annual loss thus entailed by keeping the ground useless, at some £1,200 a-year. The surveyor of the Office of Woods has reported that "The Rolls Estate is indisputably the cheapest site in London, for in no other part could so large an area be acquired except at a cost far exceeding the value of this estate." And we apprehend the argument of greatest cheapness is likely to have most weight at the present time. The Rolls Estate is by far the cheapest site, and one which, if the Record Office be disconnected from metropolitan improvements, requires no outlay at all in the purchase of ground. The ground may be used to-morrow; there is nothing whatever wanting to commence the foundations of the building instantly, but the order and the funds to pay the labour of digging. Without pulling down a single house, there are these 200 square feet of ground, which, with the houses in the hands of the Crown, would suffice to erect a repository large enough to hold the Records in Carlton Ride and the Tower of London, which are stated by Mr. Braidwood to be in the greatest jeopardy. The cost of erecting all the buildings of the complete office, with all its adjuncts, has been estimated at £206,500; but we apprehend a grant of £50,000 made in the next two years, would be ample to place most of the Public Records in actual safety. We contend that the Government is bound to find £25,000 for doing this in the present session and if Sir Robert Peel really meant what he said lately at the dinner of the Geological Society, when he candidly avowed that Government had too much preferred expenditure for war over outlays for objects of peace and science, he would be found a supporter of the proposal. In any case, whether it receive the countenance of either the present or the last Prime Minister, we advise some merchant at least "of ordinary prudence"-Mr. T. Baring or Mr. Cobden-to divide the House of Commons on the question, that the nation ought not any longer to subject its Records to perils, to which "no merchant of ordinary prudence would subject his books of account." 1 This was the last article I wrote connected with the Public Records. LIST OF VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS CONNECTED PUBLIC RECORDS, &c., WRITTEN BY HENRY COLE. E* I. RECORDS. A.D. Part II. XCERPTA HISTORICA: or, Illustrations of English His- PUBLIC tory. Printed by and for Samuel Bentley, MDCCCXXXI. Articles contributed by Henry Cole-1. Monsters which appeared 1831-1849. in the time of Henry III. 2. Conflagration of Norwich Cathedral, Selections. 11 August, 1272. 3. Convention between Prince Edward, afterwards King Edward I., and Louis IX. (St. Louis), relative to Edward's Crusade to the Holy Land, 53-4 Hen. III. 1269. 4. Attempted Assassination of Edward I. at Acre. 5. Preparations for the Coronation of Edward I. (pp. 251-277). 2. Amplification, by Henry Cole, of Mr. Palgrave's explanatory note, in pages 66 and 67 of his reply. 1832. Pamphlet. 8vo. 3. PUBLIC RECORDS.-The public advantages of entrusting the Records of the Exchequer belonging to the offices of the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer and Clerk of the Pipe, to the Irresponsible custody of the King's Remembrancer, determined by the present condition of that officer's own Records. In a letter addressed to the Secretary of the Record Commission, by a Member of the Temple. "Thine own mouth condemneth thee; and not I."-JOB. London: Henry Butterworth, 7, Fleet Street. 1834. Pamphlet. 8vo. 4. RECORD COMMISSION.-A letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Speaker of the House of Commons, as chairman of PUBLIC A.D. 1831-1849. Part II. the Commission on Public Records, on the conduct of C. Purton Cooper, Esq., Sec. Com. Pub. Rec., and the general management of the Commission. By Henry Cole, one of the Sub-Commissioners. London. 1836. Pamphlet. 8vo. 5. RECORD COMMISSION.-Conduct of C. Purton Cooper, Esq. 1836. Pamphlet, by H. C. 8vo. 6. REPORT, RESOLUTIONS, and PROCEEDINGS of the SELECT COMMITTEE of the HOUSE OF COMMONS, appointed to inquire into the management and affairs of the Record Commission, and the present State of the Records of the United Kingdom; with illustrative notes, selected from the evidence taken before the Committee, and documents printed by the Record Commission. Edited by H. C. London: James Ridgway & Son, Piccadilly. 1837. 8vo. Price 2s. 6d. 7. Remarks on Certain Evils to which the PRINTED EVIDENCE taken by the Committees of the House of Commons is at present subject, by H. C. Privately printed. 1836. 8. LORD BROUGHAM'S RECORD COMMISSION. ་ 'Things, sire, base." -CYMBELINE. An article written by H. C. and published in "Fraser's Magazine," Feb., 1837, Vol. XV., No. LXXXVI. Written with much personal feeling. 9. THE RECORD COMMISSION. An article written by H. C. and printed in the "Law Magazine," Vol. XVII., Art. V., p. 80. [Attributed by some to Mr. Charles Buller, but written by H. C.] 10. Mr. Cole's Report to Lord Langdale, explaining the Plan of his CALENDAR to the Records at the EXCHEQUER OF PLEAS. Published in Deputy-Keeper's Report. II. 1837. HENRY the VIII.'s Scheme of Bishopricks. 8vo. Knight & Co. 1838. Only 250 copies printed. 12. Reports and Particulars of the Decayed Rolls of the Common Pleas in the Carlton Ride, furnished by the Assistant-Keeper (Mr. Cole). 1840. 13. THE NEW RECORD SYSTEM. From "Law Magazine," No. L. 1840. PUBLIC Part II. 1831-1847. Art. VI., "Law Magazine," Vol. 14. THE ANGLO-SAXON LAWS. XXVIII., No. LVIII. 1841. 15. Extracts from General Reports of the Assistant-Keeper at the Carlton Ride (Mr. Cole). Jan., 1841; also April and Sept., 1841. 16. History of the Public Records, being an article printed in the "Penny Cyclopædia." 1841. 17. Mr. Cole's observations upon "Coast Bonds" in Carlton Ride. 1842. 18. PROGRESS OF THE NEW RECORD SYSTEM.-Consolidation of Records and Offices. A Review of the Second, Third, and Fourth Reports of the Deputy-Keeper, 1841, 1842, 1843. Art. VII. in "Law Magazine." 19. Extracts and Statements from the Reports of Proceedings of the Assistant-Keeper at the Carlton Ride. 1843 20. LEGAL RETROSPECTIONS. Art. III. in Vol. XXXI., No. LXIII., of "Law Magazine;" another article in Vol. XXXI., No. LXIV., Art. V., p. 337, 1843. Article III. gave an inventory of " Bookes of William Rastall, late one of the Justices of the Queens Benche, remaynyng in his late lodginge within Sergeants Inne in London;" and Article V. gave extracts from John Manningham's Diary (No. 5,353 in Harleian MSS.). PUBLIC RECORDS. Part II. A.D. 1831-1847. 21. Officers of the Court of CHANCERY, from "Law Magazine," Vol. XXIX., No. LIX., p. 22. 1843. 22. Documents illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer; and edited by Henry Cole, of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, an Assistant-Keeper of the Public Records. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. Foolscap folio. 1844. 23. Report on the Measurements of certain of the Public Records, addressed to the Master of the Rolls. By Henry Cole. 1844. 24. Extracts from the Reports of Mr. 25. Henry Cole, one of the 1845 and 1846. Report of Mr. Henry Cole, Assistant-Keeper at the Carlton. Ride, of damage to that Repository and the Records therein, by the Hailstorm of 1st August, 1846. 26. On the Perilous State and Neglect of the Public Records. Article VII. in the "Westminster Review," No. C. 27. 1849. Extracts from the Reports of the Assistant-Keeper (Mr. Cole), 1846, on the arrangement of the Records of Queen's Bench, Exchequer, Common Pleas, and Augmentation Court; also an inventory of the Seals of the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface on Dominion of Scotland, 29 Ed. I. 28. Report of Work at Carlton Ride for the year ending 31st Dec., 1847, noticing removals from the Stone Tower, Westminster Hall, and Inventories made of Seals at the Chapter House. |