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50:. The duty of the Clerks of the Signet was to compare the signed bills with a transcript prepared by the Clerk of the Patents, and then to rewrite the transcript as a bill of
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was given the authority to reduce the number of clerkships in 1832, abolishing one in 1833 and another in 1846. The two remaining posts were done away with in 1851.
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By the end of the seventeenth centuries, many of the Clerks of the Signet performed their work through deputies, with the office itself becoming a
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Nicholas Harris Nicolas (ed.), Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England (7 vols, 1834-37)
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until 1655 as the republic did not recognise hereditary house of Lords, so peerages were not created.
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Britain: Volume 2: Officials of the Secretaries of State 1660-1782 (1973)
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The history of these earlier
Signets in the medieval period is not recorded by the table below.
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750:
571:
529:
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862:
232:
434:
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35:. For most of the history of the position, four clerks were in office simultaneously.
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J L Kirby (ed), Calendar of Signet
Letters of Henry IV and Henry V (London 1978)
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149:
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in 1660, including two of the former officeholders, Warwick and
Windebanke.
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24:
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The King's
Secretary and the Signet Office in the XV Century
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The King's
Secretary and the Signet Office in the XV Century
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officials who played an intermediate role in the passage of
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Guide to the
Materials for American History, to 1783 v. 1
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were engrossed at the Patent Office and then sent by the
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139:Early Modern to Later Modern Clerks of the Signet
858:Civil service positions in the United Kingdom
8:
16:Civil service position in the United Kingdom
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116:
803:
801:
799:
797:
717:
383:Appointments were not made under the
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781:
779:
777:
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773:
771:
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834:"Clerks of the Signet c.1539-1660"
440:Sir Thomas Windebanke, 1st Baronet
376:Sir Thomas Windebanke, 1st Baronet
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725:Andrews, Charles McLean (1912).
38:Letters patent prepared by the
633:William Harry Edward Bentinck
552:Sir Joseph Copley, 1st Baronet
404:Appointments resumed upon the
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400:20 March 1656: Samuel Morland
110:Edmund Gregory c.1479–c.1483
666:Augustus Granville Stapleton
101:William Robyns c.1470–c.1482
69:List of Clerks of the Signet
89:Nicholas Harpesfield c.1445
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749:"Lists of appointments".
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98:Richard Bell 1463–1474
649:Thomas Norton Powlett
95:John Bowden 1452–1459
513:Hon. Peter Alexander
356:Sir Abraham Williams
269:Sir Thomas Windebank
86:Robert Osbern c.1440
695:Charles Samuel Grey
476:Sir William Trumbull
92:Edmund Blake c.1450
83:George Ashby c.1440
77:Thomas Andrew c.1422
74:John Depeden c.1420
40:Clerk of the Patents
21:Clerks of the Signet
657:Alexander Cockburn
142:
104:Oliver King c.1473
808:Otway-Ruthven, J.
786:Otway-Ruthven, J.
589:Montagu Wilkinson
435:Sir Philip Warwick
280:Charles Yetsweirt
250:Nicasius Yetsweirt
179:Thomas Wriothesley
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44:Secretary of State
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597:John Tirel Morin
448:Sir John Nicholas
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572:Charles Delafaye
538:13 November 1729
533:Thomas Delafaye
530:Charles Delafaye
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295:23 December 1595
242:William Railton
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466:Nicholas Morice
367:Philip Warwick
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298:Nicholas Faunt
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406:Restoration
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337:27 May 1623
261:John Somer
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641:John Gage
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391:1655–1705:
348:John More
150:Brian Tuke
686:abolished
676:abolished
612:June 1797
239:bef. 1545
229:bef. 1544
195:bef. 1537
170:Unknown
63:Treasury
59:sinecure
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247:1547/55
167:Unknown
164:Unknown
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