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Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Crown Office: Oath Rolls and Entry Books
Catalogue reference: C 184
What's it about?
C 184
The clerk of the Crown historically claimed the right to administer oaths to a number of the great officers of state.Included in this series are oaths taken by the lord chancellor, vice chancellor, master of the rolls, lords justice, lords high...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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C 184
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Crown Office: Oath Rolls and Entry Books
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Date (When the record was created)
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1701-1985
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Description (What the record is about)
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The clerk of the Crown historically claimed the right to administer oaths to a number of the great officers of state.
Included in this series are oaths taken by the lord chancellor, vice chancellor, master of the rolls, lords justice, lords high treasurer, judges and commissioners of a range of courts, commissioners for the custody of the great seal, clerks of the Crown, masters in Chancery, officers of Parliament, Chancery officials, king's and queen's counsellors, king's serjeants and serjeants-at-law, lunacy commissioners and others.
Also entered in the books are the oaths of allegiance and supremacy that were taken by HRH Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in 1816 and by HRH Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1840. The princes were required to take the oaths following their naturalisation by act of Parliament.
In 1985, following a lapse of sixteen years caused by pressure of work and staff shortages, the oath record book was re-introduced by order of the lord chancellor, Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone.
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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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8 bundles and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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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
- Mental illness
- Nationality
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3719/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
1,513,580 records
Within the department: C
Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal...
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Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Crown Office: Oath Rolls and Entry Books
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