Survey
This section of the Survey provides a list of the abbreviations used in the volumes for this period, in addition to standard and self-explanatory abbreviations, Please note that there are separate lists for the preliminary paragraphs (the family and education and career elements) and for the notes.
In the preliminary paragraphs:
| abp. | archbishop |
| adv. | advocate |
| bp. | bishop |
| called | called to the bar |
| ch. | children |
| c.j. | chief justice |
| commr. | commissioner |
| c.p. | common pleas |
| contr. | contract |
| da. | daughter, daughters |
| dep. | deputy |
| e. | elder, eldest |
| E.I. | East Indies, East India |
| Ft. | regiment of Foot |
| [GB] | Great Britain, British |
| g.s. | grammar school |
| gd.-s., | etc. grandson, etc. |
| h.s. | high school |
| [I] | Ireland, Irish |
| jt. | joint |
| l.c.j. | lord chief justice |
| m. | married |
| M.P. | a Member of the House of Commons whose entire term of membership lies outside the period 1715-54 |
| Mq. | Marquess |
| ret. | retired |
| s. | son, sons |
| [S] | Scotland, Scottish |
| S.C.J. | Senator of the College of Justice |
| suc. | succeeded |
| w. | wife |
| wid. | widow |
In the footnotes:
| Add. | Additional MSS, British Museum |
| AECP Angl. | Archives étrangères, correspondence politique, Angleterre, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris |
| AEM & D Angl. | Archives étrangères, mémoires et documents, Angleterre, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris |
| APC Col. | series |
| Bodl. | Bodleian Library, Oxford |
| LG | Burke’s Landed Gentry |
| Burke PB | Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage |
| Burnet | Gilbert Burnet, his own Time (1823) |
| Cal. Treas. Bks. | Treasury Books |
| Cal. Treas. Pprs. | Papers |
| CB | Complete Baronetage |
| Chandler | Richard Chandler, Commons (1742-4) |
| Chesterfield, Letters | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1932) |
| CJ | Journals of the House of Commons |
| Coxe, Walpole | William Coxe, Walpole (1798) |
| Coxe, Pelham | William Coxe, the Administration of the Rt. Hon. Henry Pelham (1829) |
| CP | Complete Peerage |
| Dom. | Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series |
| DNB | Dictionary of National Biography |
| Dodington Diary | The Diary of the late George Bubb Dodington (1784) |
| DWB | Dictionary of Welsh Biography |
| EHR | English Historical Review |
| Mag. | The Gentleman’s Magazine |
| Harley Diary | Edward Harley’s diary, 1734-41, Cambridge University Library |
| Hatsell | J. Hatsell, Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons (1818, unless an earlier ed. is indicated) |
| Hervey, Mems. | King George II (1931) |
| Hist. Reg. | Register |
| HMC | used to introduce the short title of a publication of the Historical Manuscripts Commission |
| Bull. | Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research |
| Jnl. | Journal |
| Diary | The Parliamentary Diary of Sir Edward Knatchbull (Royal Historical Society, Camden 3rd series, vol. xciv) |
| Lib. | Library |
| LJ | Journals of the House of Lords |
| Luttrell | Narcissus Luttrell, Affairs |
| Mahon | Lord Mahon, Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles (1858) |
| N. & Q. | Notes and Queries |
| Northumb. | Northumberland County History Committee, Northumberland (1893-1940) |
| NLS | National Library of Scotland |
| NLW | National Library of Wales |
| n.s. | new series |
| N.S. | new style |
| Parl. Hist. | W. Cobbett, Parliamentary History of England from the earliest time to the year 1803 |
| PCC | Prerogative Court of Canterbury |
| State | A. Boyer, The Political State of Great Britain |
| PRO | Public Record Office |
| Ramsay of Ochtertyre | Ramsay of Ochtertyre |
| RO | Record Office |
| SHR | Scottish Historical Review |
| SRO | Public Record Office of Scotland |
| UCNW | University College of North Wales |
| VCH | History |
| Vis. | Visitation |
| Walpole, Mems. Geo. II |
Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George II (1847) |
| Walpole, Mems. Geo. III | Horace Walpole, the Reign of King George III (1894) |
| WO | War Office |
| Yorke, Hardwicke | Philip C. Yorke, Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke (1913) |
| Yorke’s parl. jnl. | Philip Yorke’s parliamentary journal (Add. 35337), printed in Parl. Hist. xii. 102-1272 |
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