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Series
Exchequer: Treasury of the Receipt: Council and Privy Seal Records
Catalogue reference: E 28
What's it about?
E 28
This series includes petitions to the king and council, with notes of process and other documents serving as warrants for the Privy Seal Office, with drafts and memoranda of letters and other instruments prepared there.Many of them contain notes...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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E 28
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Title (The name of the record)
- Exchequer: Treasury of the Receipt: Council and Privy Seal Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1327-c1603
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series includes petitions to the king and council, with notes of process and other documents serving as warrants for the Privy Seal Office, with drafts and memoranda of letters and other instruments prepared there.
Many of them contain notes of attendance at sessions of the council, and some are bills signed by the councillors. There are also memoranda and agenda of the council; a record of proceedings compiled by the council's clerk in the reign of Richard II; and some pleadings and proofs in suits heard before the council in the last quarter of the fifteenth century (otherwise in STAC 1)
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also the records of the Privy Seal Office: PSO
Many related records were acquired by the antiquary Sir Robert Cotton and are now in the British Library.
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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, French and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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97 file(s)
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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
- Litigation
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Significant records are printed in English Medieval Diplomatic Practice, i, ed P Chaplais (2 vols, London, 1982). English documents from this series are given in Anthology of Chancery English, ed J H Fisher, M Richardson and J L Fisher (Knoxville, 1984). Items of Scottish interest are included in Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, AD 1108-1516, v (supplementary), ed G G Simpson and J D Galbraith (Edinburgh, 1986). The significant related records held in the British Library are published in N H Nicolas, Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England (7 vols, London, 1834-1837).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6527/
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