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NRS reference
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Description
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Dates
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Notes
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PS1
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Register of the Privy Seal, old series
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1488-1651
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PS2
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Latin Register, new series
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1661-1788, 1795-1810
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A few of the volumes have indexes. See also PS7/2-3.
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PS3
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English Register, new series
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1661-1898
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Some of the volumes have indexes. A gap in the register between 1789 and 1795 partly filled by surviving warrants. See also PS7/3.
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PS4
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Register of Precepts of Remissions under the Great Seal
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1611-22
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PS5
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Register of Precepts for Charters under the Great Seal to Baronets of Nova Scotia
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1625-38
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PS6
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Minute Books
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1499-1745
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See also PS7/3.The earlier minute books list the contents of the registers, though the entries are undated. After 1661 the minute books are in chronological order of sealing which does not distinguish between Latin and English writs and bears no direct relation to the contents of the two registers.
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PS7
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Indexes
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1499-1811
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Index to apprisings and offices, 1499-1651.
Latin Register, index of persons, 1661-1705.
'Index' (minute book) to Latin Register, 1744-73, and to English Register, 1745-1811.
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PS8
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Responde Books
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1752-1791, 1795-1847
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Fees due for writs passing the privy seal.
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PS9
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Account Books of Privy Seal fees
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1763-97, 1808-98
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PS10-13
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Warrants
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1571-1898
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Including warrants for the English and Latin registers
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PS14
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Not allocated
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PS15
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Registers of Precepts for Charters to Baronets of Nova Scotia
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1627-37
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Typescript list of patents of baronetcies of Nova Scotia, 1625-1707. The institution of baronetcies in England by King James VI dates from 1611. In 1625 King Charles I instituted Scottish baronetcies of Nova Scotia in an attempt to encourage settlement in that colony. Since the Union of 1707, all baronetcies are of the United Kingdom.
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PS16
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Miscellaneous papers
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pre-1600 - 1898
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These are mostly 19th century papers and relate to the business and procedures of the Privy Seal Office
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