Official papers deriving from administrative procedures of central government, county officials and institutions. The government papers include speeches and other communications, Acts of Parliament, petitions, and various other parliamentary and political papers, 1581-1887. At county level the papers concern the functions of county officials, taxation and subsidies, town corporations, elections and the militia in North Wales, Shropshire and Ireland, 1518-1904. The last group of papers derives from the administration of churches, schools and charities, 1598-[1876x1904].