Focus on
The corsair state of Rabat-Salé
On the Atlantic coast of Morocco are two cities that became one of the most substantial Islamic ports of the 17th Century.
Series
Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Clerk of the Presentations and successors:...
Catalogue reference: C 247
What's it about?
C 247
These docket books are registers briefly recording the content of letters patent granting ecclesiastical benefices and offices below the rank of bishop.The letters patent were made out by the clerk of presentations on the fiat of the lord...
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
-
C 247
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Clerk of the Presentations and successors: Docket Books
-
Date (When the record was created)
-
1829-1950
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
These docket books are registers briefly recording the content of letters patent granting ecclesiastical benefices and offices below the rank of bishop.
The letters patent were made out by the clerk of presentations on the fiat of the lord chancellor. Until 1842 livings valued at under £20 were in the gift of the chancellor, others being in the gift of the Crown, a distinction noted in the dockets.
Thereafter a contemporary valuation was substituted broadly in the £200-£1000 range. This was done to compute the ad valorem duty, which was abolished in 1877. Subsequently there is no reference in the docket books to church valuations.
Most of the volumes have location indexes by benefice.
-
Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
-
Returns of Crown livings in the chancellor's gift are in LCO 5
Petitions and fiats for presentations to benefices in the chancellor's gift are in C 196
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
-
Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
-
English
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
-
6 volume(s)
-
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))
-
- Topics
- Religions
-
Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
-
By an act of 1833 the clerkship of presentations was to be merged with the secretaryship of presentations, the office through which the chancellor's fiat was conveyed to the clerk. This combined office was itself abolished in 1890 and its duties transferred to the Crown Office where patents for livings both in the chancellor's and the Crown's gift were prepared by one of the chancellor's private secretaries.
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3779/
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...
You are currently looking at the series: C 247
Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Clerk of the Presentations and successors: Docket Books
You may be interested in
-
-
The story of
Thomas Cromwell
Through intrigue and ambition Thomas Cromwell rose to become one of Henry VIII's key advisors. What can records at The National Archives tell us about his life?
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.