NORWAY  .—The records of Norway are preserved at

Christiania, and include a collection of papers of Christian II., king of Denmark . For the contents of the collection, see Diplomatarium Norvegicum, by Lange and Unger (1849–1891); and Norske Rigsregistranter tildeels i uddrag, dealing with the 16th and 17th centuries . PoRTuGAL.—Portuguese royal records are in the monastery of Sao Bento at Lisbon . The collection suffered much during the earthquake of 1755 . It includes the registers of the Chancery since the 13th century, and a large number of documents subsidiary to them . In addition to this repository there are collections at the various ministries; from the records of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Borges de Castro, and afterwards Judice Biker, published their Collec4ao dos Tratados . entre a Corona de Portugal e as mais potentias . There are three volumes of transcripts from Portuguese records in the English Public Record Office . RusslA.—The records of the Russian government are distributed in various repositories in Moscow and St Petersburg . At the former are preserved the records of the foreign relations of Russia down to 18ot ; permission to use them can be obtained from the Minister for Foreign Affairs: there are no printed lists, but many in manuscript . At Moscow are also preserved the records of the Ministry of Justice . In vol. xliv. of the Revue historique (189o) there is an article by J.-J . Chemko and L.-M .

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Les Archives de l'empire russe a Moscow . The records of government offices at St Petersburg are not open to students . There are minor repositories at various provincial capitals, and the records of the Grand Duchy of Finland are at Helsingfors . There are three volumes of transcripts from Russian records at the English Public Record Office .