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John Bickersteth & Robert W. Dunning.
Clerks of the Closet in the Royal Household: Five Hundred Years of Service to the Crown.
Published Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1991.
ISBN 0862998735;
ISBN-13: 9780862998738.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK.
Size: 160×240×14mm.
Page count: xii,136 plus 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: a previous owner has enclosed the dustjacket in librafoil, so that it is not too heavily worn; the pages are starting to yellow with age a little, otherwise the book looks good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £9.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 504g.

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Includes “biographies of all the 55 known Clerks since 1437; a study of the role of the Clerk today in his main responsibility as head of the College of Royal Chaplains; and describes the Clerk’s duties, past and present, including his former role in the ceremony of Touching for the King’s Evil”.

Contents: In the beginning; The Closet & the ‘Stuf’; Early clerks, 1437-1603; 1603-1688; 1689-1752; 1752-1837; 1837-1903; 1903-1963; 1963-1989; Prestes fynding — the clerks & the royal chaplains.
Appendices: Clerks of the Closet 1437-1989; Clerks to Queens Consort, princes & princesses; Deputy Clerks of the Closet; Clerk of the Closet & the King’s Evil; The Clerk’s badge of office; The Clerk’s salary.

Illustrations: frontispiece & 8 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp plus 2pp of sources
Index: yes

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