Memoranda of Richard Pepys concerning the Seal Office [manuscript], ca. 1654.

Docket title: Memorands of Mr. Pepys conserning the Seale office

Accompt of the writts that are sealed with the Seales of Kings Bench and Common Pleas shewing which offices they passe before they be sealed and where the fault must be if they be not duely sealed

1 item ; 30 x 19 cm (bifolium)

Document reviewing current practice concerning the sealing of writs and then posing three queries for future practice.

References to "the severall Counties" and to practices in the north and west of England suggest that this document was written sometime after January 1654, when Pepys was appointed sergeant-at-law and a member of the commission for the spring circuit through the midland counties.

Acquired from Ken Spelman, January 2011.

X.d.700

Adopted by Reid Zulager, Acquisitions Night 2012.

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