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Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Crown Office: Speaker's Warrants
Catalogue reference: C 186
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C 186
Whenever a vacancy occurs in the House of Commons for any legal cause after the original issue of writs for a new parliament, a writ for a bye-election is issued out of Chancery by a warrant from the speaker, directed to the clerk of the Crown in...
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C 186
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Crown Office: Speaker's Warrants
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Date (When the record was created)
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1694-1899
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Description (What the record is about)
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Whenever a vacancy occurs in the House of Commons for any legal cause after the original issue of writs for a new parliament, a writ for a bye-election is issued out of Chancery by a warrant from the speaker, directed to the clerk of the Crown in Chancery, certifying that a vacancy has occurred.
These volumes of warrants, which begin in 1694, are indexed according to the constituency to which the warrants refer. In addition a second index is usually provided, arranged on the basis of the circumstance under which a vacancy arose.
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Later warrants are in: LCO 6
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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English
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20 volume(s)
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- Topics
- Democracy
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3721/
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