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List of immigrant Londoners from 1483
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Series
Special Collections: Seals
Catalogue reference: SC 13
What's it about?
SC 13
Seals, many of them possessing special heraldic or other interest, and detached from the documents to which they were formerly appended. They include some Scottish and German seals.Much of the series was constituted from miscellanea of the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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SC 13
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Title (The name of the record)
- Special Collections: Seals
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1100-1988; many undated
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Description (What the record is about)
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Seals, many of them possessing special heraldic or other interest, and detached from the documents to which they were formerly appended. They include some Scottish and German seals.
Much of the series was constituted from miscellanea of the Treasury of the Receipt, but the seals are of very varied origin, with some emanating from diplomatic and Scottish documents, papal bullae, and the records of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Augmentation Office, the courts of Common Law and from the prerogative courts of Star Chamber, Wards, and Requests.
Some of these seals became detached from pieces in E 30.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Size was the main determinant in the arrangement. Seals are graded in alphabetical order from 'A' (at one and a half inches) upwards.
In most cases entries in the date column represent either the floreat of the named owner, between which dates she or he might have used the particular seal, or, in the case of official seals of a single ruler or institution, the known or assumed dates within which that particular seal was applied.
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Court of Requests, 1483-1642
- Court of Star Chamber, 1400-1641
- Court of Wards and Liveries, 1541-1660
- Duchy of Lancaster, 1399-1399
- Exchequer, Augmentation Office, 1554-1833
- Exchequer, Treasury of the Receipt, 1109-1833
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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9 box(es)
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
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The seals are mostly of wax, but there are also seals of other materials and lead bulla.Some pieces include the skippets within which the seals were formed, or which were added after sealing as protection.
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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The seals were housed from 1641 in the Treasury of the Exchequer and subsequently, in the Chapter House Record Office. Further seals were added from the Chapel of the Pyx, their custody having passed from the Board of Trade to the Office of Works.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- The main finding aid to this series is the card catalogue of seals which is arranged alphabetically within several parallel subject or geographical groupings. The cards give the name of the owner the date of the document or use and the colour shape size device ('subject') and legend of each seal sometimes with additional information including condition and with cross references to publications and to the printed Catalogue of Seals in the British Museum if the seal was also to be found there. The catalogue is in the course of being reworked in electronic form. For Key to Scots Seals Nos.1-149 please consult the Standard List set. Both the above are in the public areas. Please speak to staff at the Map and Large Document Room enquiry desk for the precise location. See also Special Collections: Seals (formerly introductory note to SC 13)
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Publications referred to in the list are as follows: Catalogue of Seals in the Public Record Office: Personal Seals, i, ed R H Ellis (London, 1978) Catalogue of Seals in the Public Record Office: Personal Seals, ii, ed R H Ellis (London, 1981) Catalogue of Seals in the Public Record Office: Monastic Seals, i, ed R H Ellis (London, 1986) Scots seals are described inCalendar of Documents relating to Scotland, ed J Bain (Edinburgh, 1881-1888) Other relevant publications are: R C Fowler, 'Seals in the Public Record office', Archaeologia, lxxiv (1925) H Jenkinson: The Great Seal of England: deputed or departmental Archaeologia lxxxv (1935) A Guide to Seals in the Public Record Office, ed H Jenkinson (Public Record Office Handbooks No 1, 2nd edn, ed P M Barnes and L C Hector, 1968) A B and Allan Wyon, The Great Seals of England (London, 1887).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13531/
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