A brief discourse touching the office of Lord Chancellor of England / written by ... John Selden ... and dedicated by him to Sir Francis Bacon ... ; transcribed from a true copy there of, found amongst the collections of that judicious antiquary St. Lo Kniveton ... Together with A true catalogue of Lord Chancellors ... from the Norman conquest, untill this present year, 1671 / by William Dugdale.

  • John Selden
Date:
1672
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Credit: A brief discourse touching the office of Lord Chancellor of England / written by ... John Selden ... and dedicated by him to Sir Francis Bacon ... ; transcribed from a true copy there of, found amongst the collections of that judicious antiquary St. Lo Kniveton ... Together with A true catalogue of Lord Chancellors ... from the Norman conquest, untill this present year, 1671 / by William Dugdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mm .f. ,!l 5‘ ^ .J//; i,: > •? '-r; • V a ■r:.0 Catui^fl.X 28>n« ^ o in : i'A ir'y : : I An. 13 H,3* The King granted to R. Bilhop of Chichejter nai> T the Cl cdlorfhip , , -'TMJ,, ) Nwi Andtikemfc cotheiiihe R, the facpe oi^cc,Ah.id And By at^io-' ther Ctiiflte^ of the fame date the'C6-^ ftodyoffhe Seal for life . alfo, t(j| ct- erdfethar^ Kecperfhip'. inpetron^p^ by an liee. ‘ ■ ' Videiitiam CartJy H, 3.pro eOdchi Epifcopo de cifdcfp Of- fidis prO^ tcrnaino vitae fuxc . V.-. [/.'in.'} A Brief Difcourje touching fheO^ce for ocher ufes as belonging to the Office of Chancellor- fhip ; as the delivery of the Cohntefbricfs to him and Fines&c. mitten^ in Scaccarmm^ according to the ufc of that age^ Bht aJthoagh- both Records and StoTy thus make de Ne<r'f//ILord Keeper from King John unto H, 5* yet had not he any P^ent of either Chancellor- (hip or Keeperflifp^tilt i where both a Patent of the Keeping of the i Seal for Rfe , either by hirtifelf or Deputy and another of the'^ Chancellorlhip of Finland mo tempore *uit<ft frae ^ were made to him, both bearing the fame Date. ‘ ‘ r'* a vr. j Yet after this alfo , through divers oppofitions in State agaihft'thc goodhefs ^nd Noble Carriag^^^ this^K^// ck 'Nezfill.^ the Seal was after un)uftly taken from him, and re- ftored again as his former right. And in 20 H. 3. the King would have had it from him. Sed idem Cancellarim ( faith the Monk) hoc facere' renuit widens impetnm Ke^ gis modefti^e fnes^ ’ ^xcedentem dixitqne fe nultd ratiofie hoc facere poffe^ cum illud commnni, confdio r^ Regni fnfceptffeU Quapropter nec Hind Jimiliter fine comi^ini' affenfu Kdgtti alicni reftgnaret : Yet in 22 iH, 3. the, King Violently took it from him',^ and cDmmitted it to one Godfrey a Templar, and John of LexintpnEmoltCmentis tamjen ^ fo Tay es the Story ) ad CancelUrinm ffeBantihus Fpifeepo quafi Cancellario.^ redditis ^ aJffignatisv Afterward one Si- mon Norman a Lawyer had. it a.: and,from him ft was ta¬ ken , and committed to Richard Abbot ot Ff^eJbamy who kept it three years, and then re%ned it in H* 9. The Chancellor and Keeper' ( of Tight ) was afterward reconciled to the King, and dyed 28 In the Afis of Parliament of which year, one is^ That the Keeper of the Seal Ihould be alwayes the Chancclr lor, and that all things fealed otherwife fijould be voyd/ The words are, Si aliqua inter^eniente occaftone Vominns Rex abHulerit Sigillum fuum a Cancejlario^ quicquid fnerit interim figillatum^ irritunt habeatur & inane^ F)einde Can^ ceUario fat reBitutio, And it appears > otherwife that they alwayes took it un^uftly done , if the Chancellorfliip and Keeperfhip were not in one By Reafoh whereof, before that, in a Charter of King . 7<7Ws yet.extant. in feme hands, of the Moderation of the Fees of the Seal, no perfon is fpoken of but the Chance]lor and his under Officers I [