{"id":4112,"date":"2025-10-05T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/?page_id=4112"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:38:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:38:34","slug":"proclamations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/collections\/british-and-irish\/proclamations\/","title":{"rendered":"Proclamations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The canonical bibliography of Royal proclamations is that of the Earl of Lindsey<\/a>‘s commission, the two volumes of ‘Tudor and Stuart Proclamations 1485-1714’:<\/p>\n

Volume 1: England and Wales. Google<\/a>. Internet Archive<\/a>.\u00a0National Library of Scotland<\/a>. Wellcome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Volume 2: Ireland and Scotland. Google<\/a>. Internet Archive<\/a>. National Library of Scotland<\/a>. Wellcome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For proclamations after 1714, Lindsey bequeathed a less developed list, that includes orders in council and proclamations by other authorities, going up to 1910:<\/p>\n

Handlist of proclamations issued by royal and other constitutional authorities, 1714-1910, George I to Edward VI. Google<\/a>. Internet Archive<\/a>. National Library of Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finding the actual text of proclamations varies according to the period one is looking at, and one’s access to paywalled databases. For the Tudors and Stuarts, a full set has been compiled, in 5 volumes, all of which are available online, albeit paywalled or borrowable rather than downloadable.<\/p>\n

Tudor Royal Proclamations, vol. 1: The early Tudors, 1485 – 1553: Borrowable from Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tudor Royal Proclamations, vol. 2: The later Tudors, 1553 – 1587: Borrowable from Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tudor Royal Proclamations, vol. 3: The later Tudors, 1588 – 1603: Borrowable from Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stuart Royal Proclamations, vol. 1: James I, 1603 – 1625: Full text paywalled<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stuart Royal Proclamations, vol. 2: Charles I, 1625 – 1646: Full text paywalled<\/a>. Borrowable from Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After 1665, all Royal proclamations relating to Britain and Ireland are published in the London, Edinburgh<\/a> or Dublin<\/a> Gazettes. Those relating to colonial territories appear to be published in a more ad hoc fashion.<\/p>\n

This site has a small collection of transcriptions of\u00a0 long eighteenth century proclamations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, there is the collection ‘British Royal Proclamations relating to North America, 1603 – 1783’, available from Internet Archive<\/a> and, in fully transcribed text, Project Gutenberg<\/a>. And there is also a small collection of mobilization proclamations from 1914 at The Long Long Trail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The canonical bibliography of Royal proclamations is that of the Earl of Lindsey‘s commission, the two volumes of ‘Tudor and Stuart Proclamations 1485-1714’: Volume 1: England and Wales. Google. Internet Archive.\u00a0National Library of Scotland. Wellcome. Volume 2: Ireland and Scotland. Google. Internet Archive. National Library of Scotland. Wellcome. For proclamations after 1714, Lindsey bequeathed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":420,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4112","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4112\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}