Series
Privy Seal Office: Miscellaneous Records
Catalogue reference: PSO 4
What's it about?
PSO 4
Most of the documents in this series relate to aspects of the Privy Seal Office's work in passing instruments under the privy seal - translating a warrant under the signet or sign-manual into a writ of privy seal, which would authorise the use of...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PSO 4
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Title (The name of the record)
- Privy Seal Office: Miscellaneous Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1674-1884
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Description (What the record is about)
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Most of the documents in this series relate to aspects of the Privy Seal Office's work in passing instruments under the privy seal - translating a warrant under the signet or sign-manual into a writ of privy seal, which would authorise the use of the great seal by Chancery, or the issue of money by the Exchequer. Most of these records are concerned with the fees due to the clerks, and the costs of applying the seal. Included in this series are various account and fee books, journals, letters and odd items of office paperwork, circulars, etc.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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64 bundle(s)
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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By the seventeenth century the clerks of the privy seal received fees and the post was a sinecure.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12172/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: PSO
Records of the Keeper of the Privy Seal
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Privy Seal Office: Miscellaneous Records