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Lord Chancellor

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highest-ranking regularly-appointed Great Officer of State of the United Kingdom

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The following year, however, after long and humiliating solicitation, he attained the office to which he had so long aspired, and was appointed Solicitor-General to the Crown. Official advancement was now the object nearest his heart, and he longed to be Attorney-General.[13] In 1613, by a master stroke of policy, he created a vacancy for himself as Attorney-General, and managed at the same time to disserve his old…
Francis Bacon, Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients
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The chancellor, in that age, besides the custody of the great seal, had possession of all vacant prelacies and abbeys; he was the guardian of all such minors and pupils as were the king’s tenants; all baronies which escheated to the crown were under his administration; he was entitled to a place in council, even though he were not particularly summoned; and as he exercised also the office of secretary of state, and…
David Hume, The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part A.
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CROMWELL. The heaviest and the worst Is your displeasure with the King. WOLSEY. God bless him. CROMWELL. The next is that Sir Thomas More is chosen Lord Chancellor in your place. WOLSEY. That’s somewhat sudden. But he’s a learned man.
William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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