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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59075	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 ...	Selden, John, 1584-1654.; Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686. True catalogue of lord chancellors and keepers of the great seal of England.	1671 (1671)	Wing S2420; ESTC R9986	13,783	34

Tumulus Praenob FRANCISCI Baronis VERVLAM Vicecomitisque S. ALBAN In Cancello Ecclesiae S. Mich apud S. ALBANVM FRANCISCVS BACON BARO DE VERVLAMS ALBANI VIC SEV NOTIORIBVS TITVLIS SCIENTIARVM LVMEN FACVNDIAE LEX SIC SEDEBAT QVI POSTQVAM OMNIA NATVRALIS SAPIENTIAE ET CIVILIS ARCANA EVOLVISSET NATVRAE DECRETVM EXPLEVIT COMPOSITA SOLVANTVR AN DNI M.DC.XXVI AETAT LXVI TANTI VIRI MEM THOMAS MEAVTVS SVPERSTITIS CVLTOR DEFVNCTI ADMIRATOR H. P. 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 Knight then Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of ENGLAND Transcribed from a true Copy thereof found amongst the Collections of that Judicious Antiquary S t. Lo Kniveton late of Grayes Inne Esq 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 DVGDALE Esquire NORROY King of Arms. LONDON Printed for William Lee at the Turks Head in Fleet street over against fetter-Fetter-lane end 1671. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir FRANCIS BACON Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England MY LORD THE Times obvious discourse whereby that All which truly loves Nobless or Learning congratulates your highly deserved Honor caused me collect these taken out of no obvious Monuments touching the auncientest mention conjunction and division of those two Great Offices of State which your Lordship really bears though stiled but by the name of one they are short yet give large testimony of the former times They conclude with an Act made about 320. years since of like tenor in substance with that later under Queen Eliz. which was as proper to your name whence these also were the fitter to offer you Enough other particulars touching both these Great Offices might have been added but these were chosen for the usual Question of the present and thus are given not yet seen by any other eye as a taste of my humble Observance My Lord they are only yours as their Author would be J. Selden A BRIEF DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE OFFICE OF Lord Chancellor of England c. The Name and Office of Lord Chancellor of England under the Saxons THE eldest mention in good authority of the name of Chancellor of this Kingdom is in Edward the elders time about the year DCCCCXX he made Turketill Abbot of Croyland his Chancellor Cancellarium suum eum constituit ut quaecunque negotia temporalia vel spiritualia Regis Judicium expectabant illius consilio decreto nam tantae fidei et tam profundi ingenij tenebatur omnia tractarentur tractata irrefragabilem sententiam sortirentur This Abbot held the Office under Athelstan Edmund and Edred succeeding Kings King Ethelred afterwards divided the Chancellorship between the Abbots of Ely and St. Augustine in Canterbury and of Glastenbury who were to exercise it by turn The words of an Old Monk of Ely are Statuit atque concessit quatenus Ecclesia de Ely extunc semper in Regis Curiâ Cancellarii ageret dignitatem quod aliis Sancti viz. Augustini Glasconiae Ecclesiis constituit ut Abbates istorum Coenobiorum vicissim assignatis succedendo temporibus annum trifariè dividerint cum Sanctuarii caeteris ornatibus Altaris ministrando So as the Abbot of Ely or some Monk by him appointed exercised the Office from Candlemas four moneths yearly and the other two of Glastenbury and S t. Augustines made up the twelve But there occurres not any subscription in Charters by that name till the Confessor in his Patent to the Church of Westminster after the King Bishops Abbots and others comes Ego Rembaldus Cancellarius subscripsi Yet in the ancientest Monument of a Grant by any King extant here I doubt not but the Chancellor subscribed though under another name The first Christian King of the Saxons founded and endowed Canterbury Church and in his Charter amongst the Earls occurrs Ego Augemandus Referendarius subscripsi where Referendarius may well stand for Cancellarius the Office of both as the words applyed to the Court are used in the Code Novells and Story of the declining Empire fignifying an Officer that received Petitions and Supplications to the King and made out his Writs and Mandates as a Custos Legis And though there were divers Referendarii as 14. then 8. then more again and so divers Chancellors in the Empire Yet one especially here exercising an Office of the nature of these many might well be stiled by either of the names These are testimonies of that time without exception though Polydore begin the Name and Office at the Norman Conquest II. Whether the Keeping of a Seal were in the Chancellorship under the Saxons FOR that Principal part of the Office or that other Office joyned with the Chancellorship the Keeping of the Seal If the common Opinion were cleer that under the Saxon State no Seals were here used then were it vain to think of it as of that time But there is yet remaining an Old Saxon Charter of King Edgar beginning A Orthodoxorum vigoris Ecclesiastici monitu creberrime instruimur c. to the Abbey of Persore wherein divers Lands are given and there remains in the Parchment plain signes of three Labells by the places cut for their being hanged on and of the self-same Charter a testimony also as ancient that the Seals were one of King Edgar the second of S t. Dunstan and the third of Alfer Ducis Merciorum That testimony is in a Letter from Godfrie Archdeacon of Worcester to Pope Alexander III. writing of that Charter and the Authority of it Noverit saith he Sanctitas vestra verum esse quod conscripti hujus scriptum originale in virtute Sanctae Trinitatis sigilla tria trium personarum autenticarum ad veritatem triplici confirmatione commendat Est autem Sigillum primum illustris Regis Edgari secundum Sancti Dunstani Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi tertium Alferi Ducis Merciorum sicut ex diligenti literarum impressarum inspectione evidenter accepi And it 's reported by those which have searched the Records of S t. Denys Church in France there remain two Charters the one of one Offa the other of one Edgar with Seals annext the one of which I have seen cast off in Lead and is about the breadth of a Shilling thick and having a face on the one side Likewise amongst the Chartae Antiquae divers being reckoned cum Sigillo others sine Sigillo one is cum Sigillo of King Cnout neither is there any colour of doubt but that the Confessor had his Seal for the Print yet remains in part to be seen But notwithstanding these singular examples of Kings Sealing in the Saxons times it 's most certain it was not a thing common then neither could any in the Chancellorship be denominated from Keeping the Seal nor in any