Research

Scope and Content Note

These records are the working files of the Council of Appointment and almost entirely concern themselves with the appointment of local offices and rarely with military appointments (save for the commissions). Most of the records are petitions to the council from residents requesting to be appointed to minor local offices (e.g. cod inspector, leather inspector etc.). The files contain proceedings of court materials, petitions for appointment to non-selective offices, indices, military commissions, lists of appointed county officials, letters of recommendation and a small number of fiscal related records. The bulk of the series suffered extensive damage (from the 1911 fire and some of the records are completely unusable.