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Signet Office: Docquets

Catalogue reference: SP 38

What's it about?

SP 38

Brief abstracts of the warrants for grants, etc., made by the Clerks of the Signet upon the completion of the King's (or Signet) Bills, mostly bound up in recent times into volumes.

Full description and record details

Reference

SP 38

Title
Signet Office: Docquets
Date

1549-1761

Description

Brief abstracts of the warrants for grants, etc., made by the Clerks of the Signet upon the completion of the King's (or Signet) Bills, mostly bound up in recent times into volumes.

Related material

Further docquet books of the Signet Office can be found in SO 3

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Signet Office, 1444-1851
Physical description

40 volume(s)

Administrative / biographical background

The Clerks of the Signet (a seal kept by the Secretaries of State) were also clerks of the secretaries.

Publication note(s)
The records are calendared in: Calendar of State Papers Domestic Mary I 1553-1558 ed. C S Knighton (Public Record Office 1998) Calendar of State Papers Domestic of the reign of Elizabeth I Addenda 1566-1579 ed M A E Green (London 1871) Calendar of State Papers Domestic of the reign of Elizabeth I 1591-1603 6 vols ed M A E Green (London 1867-1870) Calendar of State Papers Domestic Charles I (J Bruce W D Hamilton and S C Lomas eds; 23 volumes London 1858-1893) Calendar of State Papers Domestic Charles II ed M A E Green F H B Daniell and F Bickley 28 volumes (London 1860-1947) Please speak to staff at the Map and Large Document Room enquiry desk for the precise location.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13580/

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Signet Office: Docquets