§ Sir THOMAS ESMONDEasked the Secretary to the Treasury what Irish historical manuscripts it is proposed to publish this year by both the Record and Historical Manuscripts Commissions?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEStatement of the Irish historical manuscripts which it is proposed to publish this year:—
(1) By the Public Record Office.—A Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1669–1671, is making good progress at press, and will probably be issued before the end of the present financial year. Entries relating to Ireland are also included in several other volumes of Calendars now in the press, and dealing with the British Dominions generally. One of these, a. "Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland," 1427–1447, which is mainly Irish, was published about two months ago.
(2) By the Historical MSS. Commission.—Vol. II. of the Report upon the Egmont Papers has been almost entirely passed for press, and should be published in the course of the next few weeks. Reports on the Eyre Macham MSS. and the Knox MSS., which contain a proportion of Irish matter, are well advanced at press. Owing to the lamented death by accident of the late Mr. C. Litton Falkiner progress with the Calendar of Ormonde MSS., Vol. VI., was necessarily stopped. A new editor has now, however, been appointed to complete the volume, and progress has been resumed, and the volume may possibly appear before the end of the year. Index to the two volumes of the Report by Sir John Gilbert on the Ormonde MSS. The volumes were issued unindexed, and the index, now on the eve of being published separately, will, it is thought, ber cordially welcomed.