Indian Historical Records Commission. Proceedings of The Meeting of the Silver Jubilee Session. Twenty-Fifth Meeting Held at Delhi. December 1948

(a) The most notable of these is the Assize of Victuals 1604 which was reproduced in the Journal of the Historical Society for 1898: it is the most complete list of prices for all kinds of victuals of that day known in England. [...] The Corporation and Test Acts of Charles IT compelled every member of a Borough Corporation to take the sacrament according to Church of England.4 These Acts prostituted Religion to Politics—'!which made the symbols of Atoning Grace the key to Office picklock to a Place; so wrote the poet Cowper in his burning denunciation of the evil. [...] In addition the staff of the National Archives is compiling as rapidly as possible preliminary inventories of the records in each of the groups. [...] It soon became apparent to the staff of the National Archives that the appraising of records to determine whether they should be transferred to the Archives retained somewhat longer by the offices or disposed of as worthless papers was made difficult by the unsatisfactory methods of filing and of managment of current records in most of the offices. [...] About the time of the beginning of the war some of the major departments of the Government such as the Army and Navy Departments made provision for the administration of their records by competent officials who understand24 the archival point of view.