HISTORY IN A PIGSTYE
LONDON. Historic documents, found in a pigstye are being studied by archivists here. The papers, dating from 1600, were collected as rubbish from lawyers’ offices and dumped in a stye near Doncaster, Yorkshire. It was not until this year that they were found. Colonel C. E. G. Malet, Registrar of the National Register of Archives, told a conference of archivists. They include Royal grants, manorial court rolls, wills, plans and maps. Professor G.-R. Potter, of Sheffield University, told the conference of the “dollar attractiveness” of another group of historical documents, the “Wentworth Woodhouse” papers owned by Earl Fitzwilliam. A number of Americans had come here to study them, he said. Many of the papers deal with the loss of the American colonies to Britain. There are many about' the Stamp Act.—Reuter. - ?■
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 107, 18 February 1950, Page 8
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135HISTORY IN A PIGSTYE Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 107, 18 February 1950, Page 8
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