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Excerpt from Syllabus (in English) Of the Documents Relating to England and Other Kingdoms, Vol. 1: Contained in the Collection Known as "Rymer's Foedera"; 1066-1377
Mr. Thomas Rymer, and not have made thehonest man such a tool as to pick out the instruments that made for the present Civil Government to be published, while he suppressed the most material relating to the interest of the church and clergy. Your Lordship has had great opportunities to know the truth of that matter, and I think you can better relate it to this e¿'ect, that in the happy and victorious part of the Queen's reign some of the prime ministers, especially the Lords Somers and Halifax, assisted by the Bishops of Canterbury, Serum, and Norwich, (nor was your Lordship wanting,) did consult of a better way to preserve the records in the Tower, did move it in the House of Peers, and had a standing committee appointed for it, who from time to time came to several resolutions for searching out and digest ing the original rolls and papers, for providing and framing a better repository for them, for committing than to a safer custody, and for securing an easier access to them. It was under the in¿uence of this public spirit that it was thought it would be a benefit and credit to the nation to print and publish a collection in order of time) of authentic copies of the original instrunmnts more espe cially relating to peace and war treaties, articles and other intercourse with foreign states and princes. Mr. Rymer, as Historiographer Royal, was appointed to collect them, and Mr. Churchill to print them, upon the public account, and (which was pity) in too small a number of cepies, for presents only and public respect, not for common sale. Mr. Rymer was obliged to trust to other bands, not only in the transcribing, but in the selecting of materials for them. When he came to review them in the single sheets he threw by several of them.
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