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Searching the wiki

Editorial history

11/12/11, CSG: Created page

Overview

This page provides a guide to searching this wiki

Suggested links

See Contributing to the wiki
See Expertise needed
See Testing the wiki

Using the wiki search box

Single words

Place single word in wiki search box
- e.g. "Calicoe"
- e.g. "Goa"

Text strings

Place multiple words within speech marks in wiki search box
- e.g. "Thomas Kendall"
- e.g. "Sir George Smith"
- e.g. "C10/155/38 f. 1"

Example: search term "Thomas Kendall"

Example: search term "C10/155/38 f. 1"

Wild cards

Wild cards are not possible

Using primary source finding tools

Chancery records

Accessing Chancery records on the wiki is possible in multiple ways:

• Use Chancery Cases to access annotated full text transcriptions of cases related to the Oxenden family, together with contextual notes and supplementary resources

• Use Possible new primary sources to identify possible, probable and definite Chancery cases involving the ca. forty merchant subscribers to the Smirna Venture Joint Stock and to the King Fernandez Joint Stock

• Use the Wiki's top right hand search box together with a specified National Archives Chancery Case catalogue code to find specific transcriptions and/or other primary and secondary documents which have been cross-referenced to this catalogue code

HCA records

Hypertexted index of HCA records held on wiki provides access to HCA records

- See Admiralty court cases

Inventories

Index page provides access to inventories

See Inventories

Letters: Sir George Oxenden correspondence

Index page provides access to correspondence. Letters are arranged chronologically.

See Correspondence of Sir George Oxenden, 1663-1669 (British Library, Add. MSS. 40708-40713)

See also Letters

Visual images

Index page provides access to over one hundred visual images contained in this wiki. Images include maps, engravings of places and people, and reproductions of images from a range of media

See Visual images

Digital images of primary documents

The National Archives

Digital images have been made of documents held at the National Archives in Kew. These images are for private academic study to support the process of transcription. They are held offline, and are not accessible on this wiki.

They include images of documents from:

- Chancery Court (court cases, charter parties, exhibits, business papers, bills of lading, invoices)

- High Court of Admiralty (court cases, depositions, exhibits)

- Prerogative Court of Canterbury (wills, probate papers, inventories)

- State Papers (Levant company minute books, some letters)

British Library

Current British Library policy does not permit cost free imaging of documents for private academic study. Consequently no images have been made of the private correspondence of Sir George Oxenden. Transcriptions of the correspondence have been made directly from the physical manuscripts

Tips

First and second names

Place names

Lateral vs. vertical searching

Time periods

Building interim search tools