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HANAPER OFFICE – THE DUKE OF CHANDOS AND CORONATION OF GEORGE II Abstract of accounts and record of warrants issued during the years 1728 to 1733, Hanaper Office, 1727-1734 [compiled c.1734/5]: 'FOR INGROSSING THE DECLARATION & THE KING'S CORONATION OATH... FOR HIS MAJESTY TO SIGN' – ACCOUNTS KEPT FOR HANDEL'S PATRON, WILLIAM BRYDGES, DUKE OF CHANDOS, in his capacity as Clerk of the Hanaper
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HANAPER OFFICE – THE DUKE OF CHANDOS AND CORONATION OF GEORGE II
Abstract of accounts and record of warrants issued during the years 1728 to 1733, comprising Lord Chancellor King's allowances, warrants signed by him for the Hanaper Office, Clerk of the Crowns and of Parliament warrants, Usher of the Rolls warrants, Messenger warrants, warrants for parchment, "The Embroiders Warrant for a New Purse for the Right Honorable the Lord Chancellor", stationers' warrants for the House of Peers, stationers' warrants for almanacs supplied to the Privy Council, allowance craved from the Senior Clerk of the Petty Bag for making out writs for the new parliament, Pronotary's arrant for money owning to Matthew Snow "for his Expences & Pains in Writing, Inrolling & Expediting" nearly sixty specified treaties and the like with foreign powers, Lord Chancellor's warrant in settlement of the account submitted by Jacob Tonson (£287-7s "to be paid unto Jacob Tonson Stationer for paper Books papers penns Ink & diverse other Necessaries"), with Tonson's itemised account (opening: "To the Right Honorable Peter Lord King Baron of Ockham Lord High Chancellor of Great Brittain Goods deliverd for the Use of the Great Seal by Jacob Tonson from the 1st of June 1731 to the 1st of June 1732/ One Quart of Shining Ink & Bottle, One Hundred Superfine Dutch penns, One Penknife with a folding Stick Handle, One Box large Wafers..."), further itemised accounts submitted by the stationers Henry Weston, Thomas Woodford, Vigerus Edwards, Thomas Martin, Samuel Hetherington, Henry Bendish, the Rev Dr Henry Gally, Walter Edwards, William Freeman, John Hickes, Francis Jephson, William Shaw, Benjamin Whiten, J. Goodwin and William Cook, Usher of the Halls' warrant for cleaner's the lord Chancellor's house (including £8-2s to the "Herbe Woman" and 2/10½d "For Mending two Lanthornes"), riding warrants for sundry messengers, warrants for the chafe wax and for the sealer of the Great Seal, and for the sweeper of Westminster Hall, etc.; with contents list and indices, 116 numbered pages, on paper bearing a fleur-de-lis watermark, ruled in red throughout, gilt edges, contemporary black morocco, tooled in gilt, red morocco label on upper cover stamped in gilt 'Hanaper', some usual dust-staining, etc., folio, Hanaper Office, 1727-1734 [compiled c.1734/5]
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'FOR INGROSSING THE DECLARATION & THE KING'S CORONATION OATH... FOR HIS MAJESTY TO SIGN' – ACCOUNTS KEPT FOR HANDEL'S PATRON, WILLIAM BRYDGES, DUKE OF CHANDOS, in his capacity as Clerk of the Hanaper (he is named on p.39 under a warrant of 14 June 1733: "His Grace the Duke of Chandos Clerk or Keeper of His Majesty's Hanaper in Chancery Craves the Usual Allowance of Parchment"). Chandos had bought the reversion of the office in 1715 for his life and those of his two sons, the grant maturing on 30 July 1728. His Deputy is named, in a claim for stationery made at Michaelmas 1732, as Thomas More.
The Hanaper Officer (the word deriving from the wicker hamper in which writs and the like were originally stored) was the department, under the Clerk of the Hanaper, of the Chancery into which were paid fees for the sealing of charters, patents, etc., and which was responsible for issuing certain writs under the Great Seal; the office of Clerk being abolished in 1832.
The entries in this volume do not run in chronological order, and it appears to have been compiled in late 1734, or soon thereafter. We have spotted one only that pre-dates the summer of 1728 and Chandos's assumption of office; this being the warrant issued on 22 December 1727 paying for the writs issued for the new parliament that followed the death of George I that summer. (The book also contains a number of warrants covering later sessions of that parliament.) The new king's coronation – for which the Duke's erstwhile employee, George Frideric Handel, wrote four coronation anthems, 'Zadok the Priest' included – was held in October 1727, our volume recording warrants issued in November 1728 for, among other things, "Ingrossing the Declaration & the King's Coronation Oath upon two Skinns of Vellum in a Large Fair hand for his Majesty to sign & for painting, Flourishing & Gilding a Rich Border containing the Royal Badges about each of the said Skins" at five guineas, and "Ten Books with Morocco & finely Gilt of the preceedings of the said Coronation" at £71-10s. With a new reign came a new Great Seal; and here we also find recorded £58 "paid unto Mary Hayes Widow & Frances Green Partners Embroiderers for a Rich Embroidered Purse for the Great Seal of Great Britain a Velvett Bag to Carry the said Purse in upon Occasion of Travelling into the Country and a Box to Keep the said Purse". Quotidian business must still of course be attended to; and our volume includes payments such as the £1-6s-8d made to Edward Stubbs "for looking after & sweeping Westminster Hall".
The conduct of the business of the Hanaper Office, as the present set of accounts bears witness, fuelled a gargantuan appetite for stationery; and during this period, of course, stationers often acted as both booksellers and publishers. By far the largest account here is the set of accounts submitted to Lord Chancellor King by Jacob Tonson, covering seven pages (pp.55-61): at this period Tonson himself, publisher and promoter of Shakespeare, Milton and Dryden, and founder of the Kit Cat Club, was living in retirement, but his business was being continued by his almost equally enterprising nephew, Jacob Tonson the Younger.
Inserted in the volume are two leaves of fees submitted by Lord Chancellor Thurlow in 1778, and a further leaf dated 1816 stating "This Book was found by Mr Forster Junior amongst Lord Thurlows Papers". The records of the Hanaper from 1752 to 1830 are held by the National Archives, Kew; while Chandos's own papers migrated to Stowe and are now held at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.