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Catalogue description Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Crown Office: Rough Docket Books and Indexes of Warrants for the Great Seal
| Reference: | C 232 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Crown Office: Rough Docket Books and Indexes of Warrants for the Great Seal |
| Description: |
Six rough docket books for the years 1878 to 1944, accompanied by four index books covering 1895 to 1949. The dockets are summaries of intended instruments under the great seal: letters patent, commissions, proclamations and writs. The dockets drafted all have lines drawn through them to indicate that fair versions have been made. |
| Date: | 1878-1949 |
| Arrangement: |
Mainly chronological |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in The National Archives: | IND 1/30672-30681 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 10 volume(s) |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
In 1969 Lord Chancellor's Office, Clerk of the Crown |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
These rough docket books seem to take their origin from the introduction of the wafer seal and the need to differentiate it from great seal applications. The wafer seal was introduced in February 1878, and its use subsequently extended. Since 1916 only patents for peerages and baronetcies, judges and the law officers of the Crown, as well as royal assents to episcopal elections, remain on parchment with the great seal affixed. |
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