HC Deb 17 March 1865 vol 177 cc1829-30
MR. LONGFIELD

said, he wished to ask the Secretary of the Treasury, If Mr. Morrin has been empowered, in accordance with the recommendations of the Report of Messrs. Brewer and Hardy, to continue the publication of the Patent and Close Rolls of Ireland up to and including those of the reign of James the First?

MR. PEEL

said, in reply, that Mr. Hardy and Mr. Brewer, after making a full inquiry, had recommended that Mr. Morrin should be allowed to continue his publications down to the reign of Charles the First, and that as regarded the volumes he had already published, he should prepare a table of errors and also an index. Both these recommendations were adopted by the Treasury, and Mr. Morrin was at present engaged in preparing the table of errors and the index. But he requested that he should not be required to bring these records down to a lower period than the reign of Charles the First.