The Record office london Fetter-lane Fleet-street Doomsday Book
Record Office, Fetter-lane, Fleet-street.—Collection of Manuscripts, &c., including Doomsday Book. With the exception of the search-rooms the building is not generally open to inspection. The search-rooms are approached from the entrance in Fetter-lane. The visitor, on entering the building, faces a bust of Lord Langdale, “first statutory keeper of the Rolls,” and, taking the passage to the right, will find a book in which it is necessary to inscribe name and address. Just beyond this, to the left, is the entrance to the search. rooms. These are open every day except Sunday, Christmas Day to New Year’s Day inclusive, Good Friday and the Saturday following, Easter Monday and Tuesday, Whit Monday and Tuesday, Her Majesty’s Birthday and Coronation Day, and days appointed for public fasts or thanksgivings. Open from 10 till 4, except on Saturdays; then from 10 till 2. Each searcher is to write his name and address daily in the attendance-book. Searchers are not allowed to inspect any documents upon which restrictions are placed, without obtaining permission of the department to which they appertain. The designation of each record required is to be written by the searcher on a separate ticket, unless it extends to more than one part of a roll or volume, in which case the several parts or volumes may be asked for on a single ticket. Each searcher is allowed to have three documents, books, rolls, or parts of rolls at a time. The officer has power to increase, at his discretion, the number. Documents are not to be taken into the search-rooms unless stamped. A searcher may take notes or a full copy of any record, and examine the same with the record; but no officer shall examine, correct, or certify such copy or extracts. No officer is allowed to act as a record agent, or to make a search or copy for his own profit. Tracings are not allowed without permission. Office copies are to be made and delivered according to priority of application, except in special cases. Fees are t
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