Lord Keeper of the Great Seal is in Miscellaneous.
On 6th July 1310 Archbishop Walter Reynolds was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Lord Chancellor.
In 1320 Robert de Baldock was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
In 1344 Bishop Thomas of Hatfield was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal which office he held until July 1345.
In 1381 Hugh Segrave was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
On 4th May 1389 Bishop Edmund Stafford was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
From 1396 to 1397 Bishop Guy Mone Aka Mohun was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
In September 1399 John Scarle was appointed Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, which offices he held until 9th March 1401.
In 1443 Bishop Thomas Beckington was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
Around 1456 Archbishop Lawrence Booth was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal which position he held until 1460.
On 28th July 1461 Bishop Robert Stillington was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
On 1st November 1461 Bishop Robert Stillington was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
In 1470 Bishop John Hales was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal by King Henry VI of England and II of France during his re-adeption but lost it again when King Edward IV of England was restored in 1471.
In May 1474 Bishop John Russell was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
On 25th May 1523 Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
On 26th January 1533 Thomas Audley 1st Baron Audley Walden was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. and Lord Chancellor as well.
In 1558 Nicholas Bacon was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal following Elizabeth I's accession. He was supported in the appointment by his brother-in-law William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley.
Around 1590 Unknown Painter. Portrait of Mary Egerton Baroness Leigh as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
Mary Egerton Baroness Leigh: Around 1595 she was born to Thomas Egerton and Isabella Venables. On 11th November 1610 Thomas Leigh 1st Baron Leigh and she were married. On 1st July 1643 Thomas Leigh 1st Baron Leigh was created 1st Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire. She by marriage Baroness Leigh of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire. In 1669 she died.
In 1592 John Puckering was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
In 1621 Archbishop John Williams was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal by King James I.
Around 1626 Cornelius Janssens aka Johnson. Portrait of Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. Charlecote Park.
In 1641 Edward Littleton 1st Baron Lyttelton was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
On 13th April 1641 Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Strafford was attainted by 204 votes to 59 ostensibly for his authoritarian rule as Lord Deputy of Ireland. Despite his promise not to King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland signed the death warrant on the 10th May 1641 in the light of increasing pressure from Parliament and the commons.
Wenceslaus Hollar. Engraving of the Trial of Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Strafford with the following marked:
A. King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland.
C. Henrietta Maria Bourbon Queen Consort England.
D. King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
E. Thomas Howard 14th or 21st Earl of Arundel 4th Earl of Surrey 1st Earl Norfolk, Lord High Steward.
F. Henry Montagu 1st Earl Manchester, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
G. John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester.
H. Robert Bertie 1st Earl Lindsey, Lord Chamberlain.
I. Philip Herbert 4th Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Montgomery, Lord Chamberlain of the Household.
John Evelyn's Diary. 26th May 1671. The Earl of Bristol's house in Queen's Street was taken for the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, and furnished with rich hangings of the King's. It consisted of seven rooms on a floor, with a long gallery, gardens, etc. This day we met the Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Lauderdale, Lord Culpeper, Sir George Carteret, Vice-Chamberlain, and myself, had the oaths given us by the Earl of Sandwich, our President. It was to advise and counsel his Majesty, to the best of our abilities, for the well-governing of his Foreign Plantations, etc., the form very little differing from that given to the Privy Council. We then took our places at the Board in the Council-Chamber, a very large room furnished with atlases, maps, charts, globes, etc. Then came the Lord Keeper, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Earl of Arlington, Secretary of State, Lord Ashley, Mr. Treasurer, Sir John Trevor, the other Secretary, Sir John Duncomb, Lord Allington, Mr. Grey, son to the Lord Grey, Mr. Henry Broncher, Sir Humphrey Winch, Sir John Finch, Mr. Waller, and Colonel Titus, of the bedchamber, with Mr. Slingsby, Secretary to the Council, and two Clerks of the Council, who had all been sworn some days before. Being all set, our Patent was read, and then the additional Patent, in which was recited this new establishment; then, was delivered to each a copy of the Patent, and of instructions: after which, we proceeded to business.
On 15th March 1672. The Royal Declaration of Indulgence was Charles II's attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists and Roman Catholics. It was highly controversial. Sir Orlando Bridgeman resigned as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal because he refused to apply the Great Seal to it.
John Evelyn's Diary. 23rd January 1683. Sir Francis North, son to the Lord North, and Lord Chief Justice, being made Lord Keeper on the death of the Earl of Nottingham, the Lord Chancellor, I went to congratulate him. He is a most knowing, learned, and ingenious man, and, besides being an excellent person, of an ingenious and sweet disposition, very skillful in music, painting, the new philosophy, and politer studies.
John Evelyn's Diary. 22nd December 1685. Our patent for executing the office of Privy Seal during the absence of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, being this day seal'd by the Lord Chancellor, we went afterwards to St James's, where the Court then was on occasion of building at Whitehall; his Ma* deliver'd the seale to my Lord Tiviot and myselfe, the other Commissioners not being come, and then gave us his hand to kisse. There were the two Venetian Ambassadors, and a world of company; amongst the rest the first Popish Nuncio that had ben in England since the Reformation, so wonderfully were things chang'd, to the universal jealousy.
John Evelyn's Diary. 10th May 1700. The great trial between Sir Walter Clarges and Mr. Sherwin concerning the legitimacy of the late Duke of Albemarle, on which depended an estate of £1,500 a year; the verdict was given for Sir Walter, 19th. Serjeant Wright at last accepted the Great Seal.
John Evelyn's Diary. 1st October 1705. Mr. Cowper made Lord Keeper. Observing how uncertain great officers are of continuing long in their places, he would not accept it, unless £2,000 a year were given him in reversion when he was put out, in consideration of his loss of practice. His predecessors, how little time soever they had the Seal, usually got £100,000 and made themselves Barons. A new Secretary of State. Lord Abington, Lieutenant of the Tower, displaced, and General Churchill, brother to the Duke of Marlborough, put in. An indication of great unsteadiness somewhere, but thus the crafty Whig party (as called) begin to change the face of the Court, in opposition to the High Churchmen, which was another distinction of a party from the Low Churchmen. The Parliament chose one Mr. Smith, Speaker. There had never been so great an assembly of members on the first day of sitting, being more than 450. The votes both of the old, as well as the new, fell to those called Low Churchmen, contrary to all expectation.
1763. William Hoare. Portrait of Philip Yorke 1st Earl of Hardwicke wearing the Robes of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and holding the Great Seal.
On 17th January 1770 Charles Yorke was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
The London Gazette 26496. Crown Office, March 19, 1894.
The Queen has been pleased by Letters Patent to appoint the Right Honourable Edward, Lord Tweedmouth, to be Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
Bulstrode Whitelocke was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
