After the appointment of Sir Thomas Wilson as Keeper of the State Papers in 1612, it was ordered that the papers of the Secretaries of State should be deposited, when they ceased to be immediately needed, in his custody in the State Paper Office. In fact, however, this regulation was very imperfectly obeyed, and many Secretaries of State carried away their papers when they left office. The collection of papers now preserved under the custody of the Master of the Rolls is therefore imperfect, and there are many gaps.

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