Excerpt from Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I: 1641-43 The Domestic State Papers calendared in the present volume continue the history of the reign of Charles I. During the last half of 1641 and the two following years to the close of 1643, and conclude with a volume of. Mis cellaneous documents connected with the trial of Arch bishop Laud. It will be noticed, at a rough glance, that the papers are much less numerous than during the preceding years. The reason of this has been explained in the Preface to the preceding volume; but it should be here stated that they are also more miscellaneous. They do not consist of a complete series of the correspondence of the Secretaries of State, but are collected from various sources. After the first half of 1642 their character is con siderably altered, comprising only a small modicum Of Official correspondence, supplemented by papers of the Royalists intercepted by the Parliamentarians, and also Of some Parliamentarian papers which were either brought together by the Poet Milton,1 or have been recently collected from other series in the Record Office. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.