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1. SP 14/81 f.120
Thomas Wilson to
Ambrose Randolph,
24 Aug 1615.

2. ‘…to serve the King truly and
faithfully as Clerk, Keeper, and
Registrar of His Majesty’s
Papers and Records for
matters of State established at
Whitehall, to preserve said
papers said Papers and
Records from harm and
damage, not to suffer any to
be purloined, embezzled or
defaced; to keep secret such
things therein contained as
shall be fit for his Majesty’s
service to be concealed, and
to do his best to recover such
papers as may have been
detained or embezzled by
private persons’
SP 14/94 f.192
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SP 45/20 f.27

3. ‘Bagges of Bokes,
Lettres and other
Writenges
remayninge in the
study at
Westminster, and in
several tilles within
the same’
SP 45/20 f.1
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4. 4

5. [the office was] in the custody
and possession of Dr Wilson
when he was but master of
requests before he was
secretary of state my selfe being
then in his house att st
katherine’s ^before my going to
Cambridge^ a boy of 16 yeares
old whom he imployed in writing
and handeling of such papers
as were then and now are here
in this office when he was made
secretary …Dr James gat the
office and a fee of 40 li ^by my
lord leicester’s meanes^…
SP 45/20 f.107
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Wilson’s history of SPO – SP 45/20, f.109

7. Warrant, SP 45/20,
f.26
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8. Papers of Sir Edward Coke,
SP 45/20 ff 93-4.
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9. Bill of services done –
SP 45/20, f.51
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10. … ‘and not bee buried amongst
dead papers whereof there is not
soe much use made as the
treasure therein hidden deserves’
SP 14/88 f.83
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