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Catalogue description Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Clerk of the Presentations and successors: Docket Books
| Reference: | C 247 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Clerk of the Presentations and successors: Docket Books |
| Description: |
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. |
| Date: | 1829-1950 |
| Related material: |
Petitions and fiats for presentations to benefices in the chancellor's gift are in C 196 Returns of Crown livings in the chancellor's gift are in LCO 5 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 6 volume(s) |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
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. |
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