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Signet Office: Warrants for King's Bills, Series I
Catalogue reference: SO 8
What's it about?
SO 8
These warrants for king's bills consist mainly of brief directions, usually under the royal sign manual, countersigned by a secretary of state or, if the business was financial, the Treasury commissioners.The series contains examples of warrants...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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SO 8
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Title (The name of the record)
- Signet Office: Warrants for King's Bills, Series I
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Date (When the record was created)
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1661-1800
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Description (What the record is about)
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These warrants for king's bills consist mainly of brief directions, usually under the royal sign manual, countersigned by a secretary of state or, if the business was financial, the Treasury commissioners.
The series contains examples of warrants which went directly from the secretary of state to the clerks of the signet without the intervention of the law officers. These include:
- ecclesiastical presentations in the gift of the crown
- translations to English archbishoprics and bishoprics
- authorisations to prepare bills for the congé d'élire
- the royal assent to an election
- the restitution of temporalities
- the appointment of almsmen in royal foundations.
The remaining documents mostly comprise warrants for expenditure by such arms of government as the Navy and the Ordnance, warrants for pensions and warrants for allowances, such as were paid to representatives on diplomatic missions.
There are also a few warrants from the seventeenth century for denizations and appointments to minor office and a number of notifications of caveat from the same period.
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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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62 bundle(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1852 Signet Office
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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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- Topics
- Religions
- Democracy
- Pay and pensions
- Navy
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13542/
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Signet Office: Warrants for King's Bills, Series I
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