Identity area
Reference code
SJLM/7/4/3
Unique identifier
GB 1859 SJLM/7/4/3
Title
Mandate: Keeper of the Hanaper
Date(s)
- 1512 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
2 items, paper
Context area
Name of creator
(1491-1547)
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Scope and content
Contemporary copies of the mandate of King Henry VIII to Roger Lupton "Keeper of our Haniper [Hanaper] in our Chauncery [Chancery]", to deliver letters patent in favour of the executors of the Lady Margaret, for the foundation of a chantry at Wimborne, for the licence to buy land for Christ's College, [Cambridge] and for the foundation of St John's College.
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Note
Keeper of the Hanaper or Clerk of the Hanaper: was an office in the department of the chancery, now abolished. The clerk, also known as warden of the hanaper, was paid fees and other moneys for the sealing of charters, patents, writs, etc., and from which issued certain writs under the great seal. The British office was abolished in 1852.
Alternative identifier(s)
Former ref.
D6.28-29
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Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Henry VIII, King of England (Subject)
- Lupton, Roger (Subject)