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    1. [HWE] PRO Pamphlett on Foreigners in Archived Records
    2. Carol J. Markillie
    3. Hello All: To paraphrase the PRO article on 'domestic records' of foreigners during the past 600 years,"there is no composite index of the surnames but the Huguenot Society publications of Huguenot and Walloon surnames are indexed in the back of each volume [You can look at the PRO webpage and see the leaflets available and the information on the site.] Descriptions of all classes of records are in the Guide to the Contents of the PRO, annually updated. The Chancery and Exchequer (C 47 and E 106) hold the earliest references to aliens living in England. In Chancery Miscellanea (C 47) documents in bundles 15 to 21 relate to alien clergy, bundle 13 to foreign merchants in the period Henry III to Henry VIII. Some of these records include rolls of foreigners' names living around London (can be also found in Huguenot Society vol. 10 - Returns of Aliens in London 1523-1625). Huguenot Society, Vol. VIII, 1893 Naturalizations of Aliens in England 1509-1603, W. A. Shaw; Letters of Denization and Acts of Naturalization for Aliens in England 1603-1800 in Huguenot Society Vols XVIII, XXVII, XXXV. The State Papers, Domestic, Edward VI (SP 10), Mary (SP 11) and Elizabeth (SP 12 and 13) include returns of Strangers in London and other places and from 1560 give the surnames of many Huguenots from France and Walloons from the Low Countries - by R.E.G. Kirk [Some Calendar of State Papers Domestic can be found on the Internet - I go to www.google.com and put in State_Papers_Domestic and then look from there] Returns of Aliens in London 1523-1603 can be found in Huguenot Society Vol. X which lists names from the Alien Rolls and others such as the Lansdowne MSS in the British Museum (now the British Library). Some lists of these people also appear in Calendar of State Papers Domestic, Edw VI to James I, Vols 1 to V - which have indexes. Aliens in London and other places are also to be found in State Papers, Domestic, James I (SP 14), Addenda (SP 15), Charles I (SP 16), Interregnum (SP 18) and Chas II (SP 29 and 30). Also look at Huguenot Soc. Vol. XVIII for lists of denizations 1681-1688. The History of the French, Walloon, Dutch and other Foreign Protestant Refugees in England from Henry VIII to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by J.S. Burn has many short lists. The Non-Parochial Registers (RG 4) from the Registrar General's Office include records formerly kept in churches of refugees in London and other places - these are described in a published list of Non-Parochial Registers and Records, reprinted in Vol 42 in series of "publications of the List and Index Society" (?). RG 4 can be looked at on microfilm at the Family Records Centre (not LDS) and the PRO, Kew. The names of Protestants in the Oath Rolls are in the Hug. Soc. Vol. XXVII, and names of persons taking the Oath in Vol. XXX, sec. II. A look in the Calendar of Treasury Papers 1557-1728 may turn up names of foreigners who received payments. Also of interest - Embarkation Lists in bundle (T 1/119) of Palatine subjects who travelled from Holland to England in 1709 - they are also referenced in State Papers Foreign (SP 84) In this leaflet there are many more references to later emigrants, i.e. The French Refugees Relief Committee (T 93) 1792-1828, also found in PRO Lists and Indexes, No. XLVI (1922). As noted in leaflet, many other records of foreigners are to be found in the Guildhall Library, London; at Cambridge University Library, Lambeth Palace Library, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Huguenot Society Library (Huguenot collection also kept at the Society of Genealogists in London) - see the Genealogists' Magazine, Vol. XII (1956) for details." You can see these article in full by going to the PRO (Public Record Office) webpage and clicking on Leaflets (if I remember correctly). Carol

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