A brief discourse touching the office of Lord Chancellor of England written by the learned John Selden of the Inner Temple, Esq., and dedicated by him to Sir Francis Bacon ... ; transcribed from a true copy thereof, found amongst the collections of ... St. Lo. Kniveton ... ; together with A true catalogue of lord chancellors and keepers of the great seal of England, from the Norman conquest untill this present year, 1671, by William Dugdale, Esquire ...
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- A brief discourse touching the office of Lord Chancellor of England written by the learned John Selden of the Inner Temple, Esq., and dedicated by him to Sir Francis Bacon ... ; transcribed from a true copy thereof, found amongst the collections of ... St. Lo. Kniveton ... ; together with A true catalogue of lord chancellors and keepers of the great seal of England, from the Norman conquest untill this present year, 1671, by William Dugdale, Esquire ...
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- Selden, John, 1584-1654.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for William Lee ...,
- 1671.
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"A brief discourse touching the office of Lord Chancellor of England written by the learned John Selden of the Inner Temple, Esq., and dedicated by him to Sir Francis Bacon ... ; transcribed from a true copy thereof, found amongst the collections of ... St. Lo. Kniveton ... ; together with A true catalogue of lord chancellors and keepers of the great seal of England, from the Norman conquest untill this present year, 1671, by William Dugdale, Esquire ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59075.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.
Contents
- frontispiece
- title page
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TO THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE
Sir FRANCIS BACON Knight,
Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of
England. -
A
BRIEF DISCOURSE
TOUCHING THE
OFFICE
OF
Lord Chancellor of England, &c.
- The Name and Office of Lord Chancellor of England under the Saxons.
- II. Whether the Keeping of a Seal, were in the Chancellorship under the Saxons.
- III. Testimonies of the Chancellorship and Keepership joyned, in times neer after the Norman Invasion.
- IV. Of the Division and Conjunction of Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper, till an Old Act made that they should be One.
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A true CATALOGUE of the
Lord Chancellors andKeepers of the Great Seal of England, from theNorman Conquest, untill this present Year 1671.