Excerpt from The Records of the City of Norwich, Vol. 1: Containing Documents Relating to the Government and Administration of the City, With an Introductory Sketch of Its Municipal Development
IN 1894, the Corporation of Norwich, having acquired the Old Castle with its annexed buildings for the purpose of forming a Museum, took the opportunity of providing at the same time excellently arranged accommodation for the valuable collection Of Muniments hitherto kept in the Guildhall. In this new Muniment Room the documents were rearranged in classified order by the compilers of this present publication. They after wards made a Revised Catalogue, corresponding with this arrangement, which was published by the Corporation in 1898.
In 1901, the Town Council passed a resolution authorising the publication Of selected documents, Mr. Hudson and Mr. Tingey having undertaken to carry out the work.
The Compilers, taking into consideration the systematic arrangement and cataloguing of the Records, suggested that a similarly classified (rather than a purely chronological) present ment of them should be adopted. They advised that this might be sufficiently done in two Volumes, one dealing with the Municipal, the other with the Economic, History of the City.
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