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Treasury Solicitor, HM Procurator General and Law Officers' Department: Peerage Cases:...
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| Reference | TS 16 |
|---|---|
| Title | Treasury Solicitor, HM Procurator General and Law Officers' Department: Peerage Cases: Petitions and Papers |
| Date | 1795-1969 |
| Description | Papers (otherwise in LO) concerned with claims to peerages titles and their privileges, mainly heard by the House of Lords Committee for Privileges, which had accrued in the Law Officers' Department and the Treasury Solicitor's Office. The records include petitions, pedigrees, proofs of claims (e.g. certified copies of public records, etc), briefs for the law officers, correspondence, notes and observations, minutes of evidence put before the Committee for Privileges, and copies of the committee's reports. It also includes some papers concerning claims to the offices of Lord Great Chamberlain and Deputy Lord Great Chamberlain, and some documents involving Dr J H Round as historical adviser to the Crown 1912 to 1922, and Mr Henry Cooke, a solicitor, who acted as the Treasury Solicitor's agent. |
| Held by | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status | Public Record(s) |
| Language |
English |
| Creator |
HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, 1876 Law Officers' Department, 1944 Treasury Solicitor, 1655-1876 |
| Physical description | 171 files and volumes |
| Access conditions | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Custodial history | Some papers now in this series were among a large block of papers returned to the Treasury Solicitor in 1917. A few of them seem to have been with other documents of the same kind now in TS 11. Some accrued in the Law Officers' Department before transfer to the Treasury Solicitor's Office. |
| Administrative/ biographical background | In the investigation of claims to peerages and at the hearings of those cases which are submitted to the House of Lords Committee for Privileges, the Crown is represented by the Attorney General or the Lord Advocate in Scottish cases who are briefed by the Treasury Solicitor. |
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