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] Footnotes: '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 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. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com