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  1. Government office containing the English
  2. national records since the Norman Conquest,
  3. brought together from courts of law and
  4. government departments, including the
  5. Domesday Book, the Gunpowder Plot papers, and
  6. the log of HMS Victory at Trafalgar. It was
  7. established 1838 in Chancery Lane, London;
  8. records from the 18th century onwards have
  9. been housed at Kew, London, since 1976.
  10.