Wardrobe (government)
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The King's Wardrobe, together with the Chamber, made up the personal part of medieval English government known as the King's household. Originally the room where the king's clothes, armour, and treasu
Blue plaque showing the former site of the King's Wardrobe
The Will of King Eadred, AD 951–955, with bequests to hræglðene (robe-keepers) (15th-century copy, British Library Add MS 82931, ff. 22r–23r)
Wardrobe Place in the City of London, built on the site of the Great Wardrobe
The Jewel Tower housed a branch of the King's Privy Wardrobe at the Palace of Westminster
Lord Privy Seal
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The lord privy seal is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the lord president of the Council and above the lord great chamberlain. Originally, its holder wa
Wardrobe (government)
…made to reassert traditional rights of the Chancery and the Exchequer, and to limit the authority of the Wardrobe. For example, 1307 saw a separate Keeper of the Privy Seal appointed; over the next few decades the Privy Seal developed into a minor office of state, operating alongside the Office of Chancery, outside both…
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