Significance of The Collection
According to Thomas Carlyle, the Thomasson Tracts were;
the most valuable set of documents connected with English history; greatly preferable to all the sheepskins in the Tower and other places, for informing the English what the English were in former times; I believe the whole secret of the seventeenth century is involved in that hideous mass of rubbish there (Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the constitution and government of the British Museum, (London, 1850), p. 274.)
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