Catalogue description Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Crown Office: Extinct Hereditary Peerages and Deceased Life Peers Case Files

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Reference: LCO 57
Title: Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Office: Crown Office: Extinct Hereditary Peerages and Deceased Life Peers Case Files
Description:

Contains case files produced by the Chancery's Clerk of the Crown and its successor, the Lord Chancellor's Department's Crown Office. There are two kind of case file: those relating to life peerages and those relating to extinct hereditary peerages. Both types contain formal documentation consisting of a record card which gives the peer's title, date of creation of the peerage, date the writ of summons was issued, date the peer took the oath and date he took his seat, the minutes of proceedings in the House of Lords when he took his seat, the London Gazette notice, the Crown Office procedure form and the draft warrant to cause Letters Patent to be issued.

Some files contain index cards, seals and copy birth and death certificates

Date: 1716-2010
Arrangement:

Alphabetical

Related material:

Warrant books containing entries for the creation of peers, baronets and knights for 1783-1851 are in HO 116

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 708 files and volumes
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1999 Lord Chancellor's Department

Selection and destruction information: The files of life peers are closed on the death of the peer and those of hereditary peers are closed when the peerage becomes extinct. Files were selected of life peers of particular interest or renown.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Crown Office attends to those functions relating to the issue of Letters Patent under the Great Seal in issuing writs of attendance and summons and Letters Patent of appointment to peers.

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