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R - READING BOROUGH RECORDS
A - Administration (Town Clerk's Records)
D - Deposited Collections
E - Education Records
F - Finance (Borough Treasurer's Records)
IC - Incorporation
J - Judicial Records
R - Records of Registration and Deposit
U - Utilities
Z - Miscellaneous
1 - Miscellaneous documents formerly listed by the Historical Manuscripts Commission
2 - Miscellaneous documents formerly listed by the Historical Manuscripts Commission as HMC/L
3 - Miscellaneous documents formerly listed by the Historical Manuscripts Commission as HMC/LI
4 - Miscellaneous documents formerly listed by the Historical Manuscripts Commission as HMC/LII
5 - Miscellaneous documents formerly listed by the Historical Manuscripts Commission as HMC/LIII
1 - Order of Charles I to the mayor and burgesses for the removal of fixed market stalls from the shambles at Browne's Hill, Broad Street.
2 - Correspondence relating to the levy of £50 per week towards the maintenance of Wallingford Garrison.
3 - Order signed by Jo[hn] Harriso[n] and Thomas Maynewaringe on behalf of the king, for the mayor to summon six of the most substantial men of each parish in the borough to appear at the town hall on Saturday 1 October to receive instructions for the taxing and assessment of the final moiety of money charged on the borough.
4 - Draft order to [the constables of] St Laurence's parish to collect a levy for the supply of horsemeat, hay, oats and straw for the king's army.
5 - Return from the constable of Caversham of those persons charged to be at Caversham Bridge with carts and teams of horses, 3 March 1644/5.
6 - Draft letter from the mayor to William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons, requesting a delay in hearing a suit in the Court of Common Pleas relating to 'a supposed promise which some of us should make by his Ma[jes]t[ie]s Com[m]and', 9 May 1645.
7 - Papers relating to the quartering of Parliamentary soldiers in the town.
8 - [Copy] letter from William Clarke at Windsor to Captain Spencer, concerning a complaint made by Mr Saunders of Reading against the behaviour of soldiers, 9 May 1648.
9 - Miscellaneous correspondence.
10 - Original label of parcel containing R/Z5/1-9 (R/HMC/LIII).
6 - Miscellaneous documents formerly listed by the Historical Manuscripts Commission as HMC/LIV
7 - Miscellaneous documents formerly listed by the Historical Manuscripts Commission as HMC/LV
8 - Papers relating to the house of correction (formerly listed by the Historical Manuscripts Commission as LVIII)
9 - Papers relating to Reading School (formerly listed by the Historical Manuscripts Commission as LXI)
10 - Miscellaneous papers relating to Reading during the Civil War
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