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Signet Office: King's Bills
Catalogue reference: SO 7
What's it about?
SO 7
This series of king's bills preserved in the Signet Office contains bills which were either prepared in the Signet Office itself, or which were sent there by order of one of the law officers of the crown.Of the king's bills prepared under the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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SO 7
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Title (The name of the record)
- Signet Office: King's Bills
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Date (When the record was created)
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1661-1851
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series of king's bills preserved in the Signet Office contains bills which were either prepared in the Signet Office itself, or which were sent there by order of one of the law officers of the crown.
Of the king's bills prepared under the auspices of either the attorney general or the solicitor general, most are for patents for inventions. There are also bills for licences of mortmain, letters of denization, grants of lighthouse tolls, markets, and charters of incorporation; bills for commissions and appointments to office; and bills for the creation of peerages and the bestowal of temporal dignities (which were prepared exclusively by the attorney general).
Among the king's bills which were prepared by the clerks of the signet are grants of places of almsmen in royal foundations and the authorisation of expenditure by various branches of government. There are also bills for ecclesiastical presentations in the royal gift, and bills relating to episcopal translations, including those for congé d' élire, assent, and the restitution of temporalities.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The bills are arranged in monthly files or parcels.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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This series is in continuation of the warrants in SP 39
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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)
- Signet Office, 1444-1851
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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388 bundle(s)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13541/
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Signet Office: King's Bills
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