Board of Trade: Miscellanea

Reports, accounts and returns made to the Board of Trade, plus registers kept by it and various other papers.

Includes papers referred to as 'Trade Miscellanies'. The series contains some papers of Pitt's original board of 1784, known as first committee papers.

The following are some of the other principal records in the series:

African questions and accounts, 1770 to 1805American trade with Great Britain, the West Indies, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, 1783 to 1807Papers on coinage, 1787 to 1836Papers on corn, 1789 to 1802Consular reports, 1786 to 1835Consular returns, 1816 to 1821Customs and Excise accounts, accounts of imports and exports and of foreign tariffs, etc., 1780 to 1843Papers on negotiations for a commercial treaty with France, 1784 to 1786Correspondence on Anthony Hove's travels in India to collect plants for Kew Gardens, 1787 to 1790Papers on a House of Commons Inquiry into the Mersey Conservancy, 1838Dr. Charles Maclean's papers on the plague, 1816 to 1820Petitions (agricultural, silk, timber, shoemakers', tanners', paper stainers', distillers' etc.), 1803 to 1829Railway papers, 1835 to 1846Shipping and trade returns from consuls and naval officers, 1697 to 1850Reports on the export trade to the East Indies, 1791 to 1821Orders in council referring to colonial laws, 1802 to 1843Registers of licenses to neutral vessels, 1809 to 1822, 1802 to 1843Trade statistics, 1722 to 1841In-letters, 1779 to 1846Papers on trials of the Pyx, 1791 to 1915Appendix to Sir Emerson Tennent's report on the Board of Trade, 1862Proposed amendments to the Companies Acts, 1895 to 1900