REASONS for Preservation of the RECORDS IN THE Tower.  
THe Records of the Tower contain the Leagues of foreign Princes, and the Treaties with them.  
And all the abridgement of this Nation, in France, and other foreign parts. The Originals of all the laws that have been Enacted or Recorded until the reign of Richard the 3d.  
The Homage and Dependency of Scotland upon England.  
The establishment of Ireland in laws and Dominions.  
The Dominion of the british Seas, totally excluding both the French and Holander to fish therein without Licence from England, proved by Records before the Conquest.  
The Interest of the Isle of Man, and the Isles of Jernsey and Gersey, being the remaining part of the Norman possession.  
The Title of the realm of France, and how obtained.  
And all that the Kings or Princes of this Land, have until that time done abroad, or granted and confirmed unto their Subjects at home or abroad.  
tenors of all the Lands in England, Extents or surveys of Manors' and Lands and Inquisitions post mortem, being of infinite advantage upon trials of Interest or Discent.  
Liberties and privileges granted to Cities and towns Corporate, or to private men, as Court-Leets, Wayfs, Estrayes, Free-warren, Felons goods, or what else could come to the crown, or pass out of it.  
several Writs, Pleadings and Proceedings, as well in Chancery as in all the Courts of Common-Law and Exchequer.  
Inspeximus and Inrollments of Charters and Deeds made and done before the Conquest; Deeds and Contracts between Party and Party, and the just Establishment of all Offices in the Nation.  
And are therfore in Parliament Anno 46. Ed. 3d. said to be the particular Evidence of every mans right, and the Records of this Nation, without which no Story of the Nation can be written or proved.