OUTLINE OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE STATE PAPERS, c. 1545

This is merely an inventory, but the following titles can be recognized:

1. Letters and writings, or letters and matters touching France, the Emperor (or Germany), Italy and Rome (or the Papacy), German States, Flanders, Denmark, Venice, Calais and Marches, Scotland and North Parts, Wales and Marches.

2. Instructions to ambassadors, Treaty Papers, Passports, Ambassadors' privileges.

3. Warrants, Commissions, Signed Bills, Signet Books, Drafts of Letters Patent, Licences, Pardons, Oaths, Letters of denization, Admiralty documents, Loans, State trials (? Baga de Secretis), Certificates of Musters, Lists of Justices of the Peace, Memorials, Household officers, Ecclesiastical matters, Indentures, Accounts.

4. Early Records, Precedents, Treatises.