Cataloging British and Irish government documents
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3.1 Lists of Acts of the Parliaments of England and of Great Britain
3.2 Uniform titles
3.5 Genre terms
3.6 Subject headings
Interregnum: 1642-1660
The English short title catalogue and Wing refer to this bibliography as "Steele."
Add the Crawford notation from the bibliography, reformulated into understandable prose. For example, the entry in Crawford has this: Arms 23 consideration and so
500 The last word of the first line of text is "consideration"; the first word in the last line indented by the initial is "and"; the last word of the last full line of text is "so". Crawford Arms 23.
Any document formatted like proclamations (woodcut coat of arms at head, an initial with a woodcut factotum beginning the text) can be described with Crawford-style notation. It is a good idea to add it as a matter of course, given the growing number of previously-unrecorded editions of this type of material.
This section is currently a draft.
Use the name valid for the government at the time the document was issued. Enacted laws are entered under the name of the political jurisdiction, not of Parliament. There are three types of acts: public general acts, local acts, and personal (private) acts.
Public General Acts are the result of bills that have successfully passed through Parliament and received Royal Assent. Most legislation falls into this category.
Acts of Parliament during the Interregnum did not receive Royal Assent, and therefore cannot be considered Public General Acts. They were styled Ordinances until 1649, when Parliament reverted to use of Act. Consider all Interregnum legislation to be ordinances in formulating uniform titles, regardless of whether the source is styled ordinance or act.
Local and Personal Acts are binding on a locality or specific situation, respectively.
Example of a local act: An act to continue two former acts touching elections in the city of London
Example of a personal act: An act for George Manby to prohibit any to make use of his invention for the boiling all sort of liquors
Lists of Acts of the Parliaments of England and of Great Britain
List of Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain 1707-1800
Use the appropriate collective uniform title (Public General Acts, Local Acts, Private Acts, or Ordinances) followed by a short citation, formulated by a combination of the modern calendar year(s) of the session of Parliament enacting it, the reigning monarch's regnal year.
Use the year of enactment according to the modern calendar rather than the contemporary legal calendar, which began on March 25. Between January 1 and March 24, the year on the resource will always correspond to the following calendar year. Example: Source says "ninth day of January 1715"; it is the modern year 1716.
List of regnal abbreviations for uniform titles
Stuarts
Hanoverians
Hen.VIII Jac.I Geo.I
Edw.VI Car.I Geo.II
Mar. Car.II Geo.III
Ph. & M. Jac.II
Eliz.I Gul. & Mar.
Gul.III
For collections of acts and other enacted laws corresponding to a particular session of Parliament,
Add example array
Use the collective uniform title with the short citation and the chapter number.
Use the List of British sessions of Parliament, 1510–1800 for the authorized forms. Some sessions of Parliament require the session number ("stat.") as part of the citation. Be sure to include the phrase as given.
For acts with title pages beginning Anno regni, prefer the more specific title as the title proper, usually appearing as a caption preceding the text of the act.
Make an added title access point for the short title or conventional title as found in the lists of acts of Parliament. Note: the list for ordinances and acts during the Interregnum do not have short or conventional titles.
110 1 England and Wales.
240 10 Public General Acts. 1689. 1 Gul.&Mar.stat.1.c.6 245 13 An act for removing and preventing all questions and disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this present Parliament. 246 1 ǂi Title page reads: ǂa Anno regni Gulielmi et Mariae Regis et Reginae Angliae, Franciae & Hiberniae, primo. On the twenty third day of February, Anno Dom. 1688. In the first year of Their Majesties reign, this act passed the royal assent
246 13 Coronation Oath Act 1688
240 10 Ordinances. 1651-02-04. 245 13 An act to make void all titles of honor, dignities or precedencies given by the late King, since the fourth of January, one thousand six hundred forty and one. 260 London : ǂb Printed by John Field, printer to the Parliament of England, ǂc 1651 [i.e. 1652]
500 Page 1544 dated and signed: VVednesday the 4th of February, 1651 [i.e. 1652].
655 7Laws. ǂ2 rbgenr
If containing texts of oaths, also add
655 7Oaths. ǂ2 aat
Make as rich an array of topical subject headings as is practicable. Researchers who are looking for a particular law will find it, but we want to assist those researching a topic who might find legislation useful but didn't know to seek it out.
Delete LCSH form subject headings in favor of genre terms from RBMS, AAT, &c.
Regnal years of English monarchs
UK legislation (UK official; incomplete)
Citation of United Kingdom legislation
British Sessions of Parliament (PDF; source unknown)
British and Irish Government Documents (PDF; ESTC cataloging rules)