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Notes on the Histories of Recordkeeping
In 1385 Geoffrey Chaucer, who held the office of controller of wool customs at London, requested permission from the king to appoint a sufficient deputy for as long as he held the office. The following is the text of his petition to Richard II preserved in the UK National Archives [C81/1394/87], published in Life-Records of
I will be adding new categories: Classification, Registration and Manuals.
I am finishing up an essay which I will post about when I am done: “A Prospetto of 1803: Records Classification by Materie from Habsburg Lombardy to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.”
What is a Petition? 