Series
Privy Seal Office: Docquet Books
Catalogue reference: PSO 5
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PSO 5
Docquet books, or registers, giving abstracts of all documents issued under the privy seal, or passing unsealed through the Privy Seal Office, with consequent payment of fees. The warrants as recorded in the docquet books were sent on to the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PSO 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- Privy Seal Office: Docquet Books
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Date (When the record was created)
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1571-1884
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Description (What the record is about)
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Docquet books, or registers, giving abstracts of all documents issued under the privy seal, or passing unsealed through the Privy Seal Office, with consequent payment of fees. The warrants as recorded in the docquet books were sent on to the Chancery to act as authority for passing an instrument under the great seal, or to the Treasurer and Chamberlains of the Exchequer, to authorise the issue of money from the Receipt of the Exchequer; a few were sent to the deputed great seals (e.g. of the common law courts). Immediate warrants from the crown to the great seal, which were not passed under the privy seal, were also included in these docquet books, as fees remained payable to the privy seal clerks. The docquet books have a fuller coverage than the series of warrants.
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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 and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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40 volume(s)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12173/
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: Docquet Books