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Adams, Drama	Adams, A dictionary of the drama
AFM	Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the four masters
Allibone, Dict.	Allibone, A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors
ANB	American National Biography
Anderson, Scot.nat.	Anderson, The Scottish nation
Ann.mon.	Annales monastici
Ann.Ulster	Annals of Ulster
APC	Acts of the privy council of England
APS	The acts of the parliaments of Scotland
Arber, Regs.Stationers	Arber, ed., A transcript of the registers of the Company of Stationers of London
ArchR	Architectural Review
AS chart.	Anglo-Saxon charters
ASC	The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
AusDB	Australian dictionary of biography
b.cert.	birth certificate
Baker, Serjeants	Baker, The order of serjeants at law
Bale, Cat.	Bale, Scriptorum illustrium Maioris Brytanniae, quam nunc Angliam et Scotiam vocant: catalogus
Bale, Index	Bale, Index Britanniae scriptorum
bap.reg.Scot.	General Register Office for ScotlandEdinburghold parish records, births and baptisms
BBCS	Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies
BDMBR	Biographical dictionary of modern British radicals
Bede, Hist.eccl.	Bede's Ecclesiastical history of the English people
BIHR	Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
Birch, Seals	Birch, Catalogue of seals in the department of manuscripts in the British Museum
BL cat.	The British Library general catalogue of printed books
Blackwood	Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
BMJ	British Medical Journal
Boase, Mod.Eng.biog.	Boase, Modern English biography
Boswell, Life	Boswell's Life of Johnson
Brown & Stratton, Brit.mus.	Brown and Stratton, British musical biography
Bryan, Painters	Bryan, A biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers
bur.reg.Scot.	General Register Office for ScotlandEdinburghold parish records
Burke, Gen.GB	Burke, A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland
Burke, Gen.Ire.	Burke, A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland
Burke, Peerage	Burke, A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom
Burney, Hist.mus.	Burney, A general history of music
Bénézit, Dict.	Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs
Calamy rev.	Matthews, Calamy revised
CCI	Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories
CClR	Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office
CDS	Calendar of documents relating to Scotland, 4 vols
CEPR letters	Calendar of entries in the papal registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland
CIPM	Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem
Cobbett, Parl.hist.	Cobbett's parliamentary history of England
Colvin, Archs.	Colvin, A biographical dictionary of British architects
Cooper, Ath.Cantab.	Cooper and Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses
CPR	Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office
Crockford	Crockford's Clerical Directory
cs	Camden Society
CSP	Calendar of State Papers

CSP col.	Calendar of state papers, colonial series
CSP dom.	Calendar of state papers: domestic series
CSP dom.: Commonwealth	Calendar of state papers, domestic series of the Commonwealth
CSP for.	Calendar of state papers, foreign series
CSP Ire.	Calendar of the state papers relating to Ireland
CSP Milan	Calendar of state papers and manuscripts existing in the archives and collections of Milan
CSP Rome	Calendar of state papers, relating to English affairs, preserved principally at Rome in the Vatican archives and library: Elizabeth
CSP Scot.	Calendar of the state papers relating to Scotland and Mary, queen of Scots
CSP Scot.ser.	Calendar of the state papers, relating to Scotland, preserved in the state paper department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office
CSP Spain	Calendar of letters, despatches, and state papers, relating to the negotiations between England and Spain
CSP Venice	Calendar of state papers and manuscripts relating to English affairs, existing in the archives and collections of Venice and in other libraries of northern Italy
CYS	Canterbury and York Society
d.cert.	death certificate
DAB	Dictionary of American Biography
DBB	Dictionary of business biography
DCB	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
DIB	Dictionary of Irish biography
Dir.Brit.archs.	Directory of British architects
DLB	Dictionary of Labour Biography
DLitB	Dictionary of Literary Biography
DNB	Dictionary of National Biography
DNZB	Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
DSAB	Dictionary of South African Biography
DSB	Dictionary of Scientific Biography
DSBB	Dictionary of Scottish business biography
DSCHT	Dictionary of Scottish church history and theology
dwb	Dictionary of Welsh Biography
EdinR	Edinburgh Review
EETS	Early English Text Society
EHS	English Historical Society
Emden, Cam.	Emden, A biographical register of the University of Cambridge
Emden, Oxf.	Emden, A biographical register of the University of Oxford to AD 1500
EngHR	English Historical Review
ER	English Reports
ESTC	English Short Title Catalogue
Evelyn, Diary	The diary of John Evelyn
Farington, Diary	The diary of Joseph Farington
Fasti Angl.	Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae
Fasti Scot.	Fasti ecclesiae Scoticanae
FO List	Foreign Office List
Fortescue, Brit.army	Fortescue, A history of the British army
Foss, Judges	Foss, The judges of England
Foster, Alum.Oxon.	Foster, ed., Alumni Oxonienses
Fuller, Worthies	Fuller, The history of the worthies of England
GEC, Baronetage	GCokayne, Complete baronetage
GEC, Peerage	Cokayne, The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom
Genest, Eng.stage	Genest, Some account of the English stage from the Restoration
Gillow, Lit.biog.hist.	Gillow, ed., A literary and biographical history
Gir.Camb.opera	Giraldi Cambrensis opera
gj	Geographical Journal

Gladstone, Diaries	The Gladstone diaries
GM	Gentleman's Magazine
Hansard	Hansard's Parliamentary debates
HBS	Henry Bradshaw Society
Hist.U.Oxf.	The history of the University of Oxford
hj	Historical Journal
HMC	Historical Manuscripts Commission
Holdsworth, Eng.law	Holdsworth, A history of English law
HoP, Commons	The history of parliament: the House of Commons
IGI	International Genealogical Index
ILN	Illustrated London News
IMC	Irish Manuscripts Commission
ITS	Irish Texts Society
JCS	Journal of the Chemical Society
JHC	Journals of the House of Commons
JHL	Journals of the House of Lords
LondG	London Gazette
LP Henry VIII	Letters and papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII
m.cert.	marriage certificate
m.reg.Scot.	General Register Office for ScotlandEdinburghold parish records
Mallalieu, Watercolour artists	Mallalieu, The dictionary of British watercolour artists up to 1920
Memoirs FRS	Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
MGH	Monumenta Germaniae Historica
mt	Musical Times
Munk, Roll	Munk, The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London
N&Q	Notes and Queries
New Grove	The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
Obits.FRS	Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society
OHS	Oxford Historical Society
OMT	Oxford Medieval Texts
PBA	Proceedings of the British Academy
PICE	Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Pipe rolls	The great roll of the pipe
PRO	Public Record Office
PRS	Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
PRSoc.	Pipe Roll Society
PTRS	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (journal)
QR	Quarterly Review
RC	Record Commission
Reg.Oxf.	Register of the University of Oxford
Reg.PCS	register of the privy council of Scotland
Reg.RAN	Regesta regum Anglo-Normannorum
RIBA	Royal Institute of British Architects
RotP	Rotuli parliamentorum ut et petitiones
RotS	Rotuli Scotiae in Turri Londinensi et in domo capitulari Westmonasteriensi asservati
SCH	Studies in Church History
SeldS	Selden Society
SHR	Scottish Historical Review
STC	Short-title catalog
STS	Scottish Text Society

SurtS	Surtees Society
TLS	Times Literary Supplement
TRHS	Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
VCH	The Victoria history of the counties of England
VF	Vanity Fair
Wisden	John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack
Wood, Ath.Oxon.	Wood, Athenae Oxonienses
ww	Who's Who
WWBMP	Who's who of British members of parliament
www	Who Was Who