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  LORD KEEPER OF THE GRE... - Online Information article about LORD KEEPER OF THE GRE...
vice-chancellor or keeper; this, too, was the practice followed during a temporary vacancy in the chancellorship.
lord keeper acquired the right of discharging all the duties connected with the great seal.
In subsequent reigns the lord keeper was generally raised to the chancellorship, and retained the custody of the seal.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /LOB_LUP/LORD_KEEPER_OF_THE_GREAT_SEAL.html   (492 words)

  
 Luminarium Encyclopedia: Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Chancellor Ellesmere (c. 1540-1617)
On the 3rd of March 1589 the Commons desired that he should return to their house, the Lords refusing on the ground that he was called by the Queen's writ to attend in the Lords before his election by the House of Commons.
In 1597, in consequence of his unlawful marriage with his second wife, in a private house without banns, the Lord Keeper incurred a sentence of excommunication, and was obliged to obtain absolution from the Bishop of London.
On the accession of James I, Sir Thomas Egerton was reappointed Lord Keeper, resigning the Mastership of the Rolls in May 1603, and the Chamberlainship of Chester in August.
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 Definition of Lord from dictionary.net
Lord justice general, or Lord president, the highest in rank of the judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland.
Lord keeper, an ancient officer of the English crown, who had the custody of the king's great seal, with authority to affix it to public documents.
Lord lieutenant, a representative of British royalty: the lord lieutenant of Ireland being the representative of royalty there, and exercising supreme administrative authority; the lord lieutenant of a county being a deputy to manage its military concerns, and also to nominate to the chancellor the justices of the peace for that county.
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 Lord - definition from Biology-Online.org
a titled nobleman, whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the house of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
lord keeper, an ancient officer of the english crown, who had the custody of the kings great seal, with authority to affix it to public documents.
lord lieutenant, a representative of British royalty: the lord lieutenant of Ireland being the representative of royalty there, and exercising supreme administrative authority; the lord lieutenant of a county being a deputy to manage its military concerns, and also to nominate to the chancellor the justices of the peace for that county.
www.biology-online.org /dictionary/Lord   (550 words)

  
 Lord Chancellor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor and in former times the Chancellor of England and the Lord Chancellor of Scotland, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom, and its predecessor states.
The office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland was abolished, and its duties transferred to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
The Lord Chancellor is entitled to an annual emolument of £227,736 and to an annual pension of £106,868.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Chancellor   (3506 words)

  
 lord definition from the Dictionary of Words Online
a titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the house of lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a baron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
lord high chancellor, lord high constable, etc. see chancellor, constable, etc. lord justice clerk, the second in rank of the two highest judges of the supreme court of scotland.
lord cadde i don't hesitate to declare unworthy the father-in-legal care of that elderly sport, notwithstanding the truth that cadde had renounced all the follies of youth; for, sad to relate, he'd arrived at the stage of existence that's marked by the vices of age.
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 Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and later of Great Britain was formerly an officer of the English Crown charged with physical custody of the Great Seal of England.
Consequently, it became not unusual to place the personal custody of the great seal in the hands of a vice-chancellor or keeper; this, too, was the practice followed during a temporary vacancy in the chancellorship.
His status was definitely fixed (in the case of lord keeper Sir Nicholas Bacon) by an act of Elizabeth, which declared him entitled to "like place, pre-eminence, jurisdiction, execution of laws, and all other customs, commodities, and advantages" as the Lord Chancellor.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Documents/lord_keeper_of_the_great_seal.htm   (245 words)

  
 LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR - Online Information article about LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR
attainder of a peer in parliament; and later, to preside over a court, called the court of the lord high steward, for the trial of peers when parliament was not sitting.
But, as such an appointment was obviously convenient, the lords petitioned for a steward; and a fresh commission was accordingly issued in an amended form, which recited the petition, and omitted words implying that the appointment was necessary.
Lord Delamere was tried in 1685 in the steward's court; since then all trials of peers have taken place before the lords 'in parliament.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /LOB_LUP/LORD_HIGH_CHANCELLOR.html   (2699 words)

  
 Television Point | Dictionary | Meaning of lord
A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
Thou worthy lord Of that unworthy wife that greeteth thee.
Note: When Lord, in the Old Testament, is printed in small capitals, it is usually equivalent to Jehovah, and might, with more propriety, be so rendered.
www.televisionpoint.com /dictionary/?define=lord   (808 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for keeper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He was lord high steward and lord keeper of the privy seal under Henry VIII and Edward VI, was created 1st earl of Bedford...
Called to the bar in 1533, he was made attorney of the court of wards and liveries in 1546 and, although a staunch Protestant, held this office through the reign of Mary I. On the accession (1558) of Elizabeth I, he was appointed lord keeper of the privy seal, possibly...
Keeper crushed to death by elephants; Children watch in horror as 'screaming' animals trample man after he trips and falls.
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 Glossary | Birth of the Constitution of Japan
The Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, also known simply as the Lord Keeper, was an official of the Imperial Court who acted as an advisor to the Emperor.
The Lord Keeper kept the "Privy Seal" (the Emperor's seal) and the "Seal of State" (the national seal).
The Office of the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal was abolished on November 24, 1945.
www.ndl.go.jp /constitution/e/etc/glossary.html   (1854 words)

  
 Meditation in the Word - IN HIS STEPS
I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me. I girded thee, though thou hast not known me. That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
Lord, I give You praise right now for the privilelge and opportunity to offer You the sacrifice of praise; that is the fruit of my lips, with thanks, honor and adoration.
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
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 House Prosley
Duke Siegfried Prosley of the Swath, Lord Keeper of the Crown Seal, Royal Trademaster, Lord of Donyarra and the Donyar of Kronnelheidt's Swath, Lord Mayor of Donyarra, Squire of Kalgrove and Lord of Prosley Keep.
Lord Sigfreid Prosley has a reputation for being a very shrewd and some say merciless man. His house is not of the old high nobility...
As Royal Trademaster and Keeper of the Crown Seal, Lord Prosley has been vested, by the King, with the right to intercept and read any correspondence that he comes across, in the interests of "national security".
www.angelfire.com /rpg2/amartain/prosley.html   (596 words)

  
 Bacon, Francis, English philosopher. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
He was the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper to Queen Elizabeth I. Francis Bacon was a member of Parliament in 1584 and his opposition to Elizabeth’s tax program retarded his political advancement; only the efforts of the earl of Essex led Elizabeth to accept him as an unofficial member of her Learned Council.
He was knighted in 1603, became attorney general in 1613, lord keeper in 1617, and lord chancellor in 1618; he was created Baron Verulam in 1618 and Viscount St. Albans in 1621.
In 1621, accused of accepting bribes as lord chancellor, he pleaded guilty and was fined £40,000, banished from the court, disqualified from holding office, and sentenced to the Tower of London.
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 Modern History Sourcebook: Voltaire: On Francis Bacon, from Letters on The English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778
Lord Bacon, as is the fate of man, was more esteemed after his death than in his lifetime.
You know that he was sentenced by the House of Lords to pay a fine of about four hundred thousand French livres, to lose his peerage and his dignity of Chancellor; but in the present age the English revere his memory to such a degree, that they will scarce allow him to have been guilty.
In another place he says, either heavy bodies must be carried towards the centre of the earth, or must be reciprocally attracted by it; and in the latter case it is evident that the nearer bodies, in their falling, draw towards the earth, the stronger they will attract one another.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1778voltaire-bacon.html   (1445 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Baconian System of Philosophy
He was the second son of Lord Keeper Bacon and Anne, his second wife, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke and sister-in-law of Lord Burghley.
A week later he died in the house of the Earl of Arundel; and was buried, according to his wish, at St. Alban's in the church or St. Michael.
The philosophy of Lord Bacon is too fragmentary to lend itself to criticism other than discursive, too largely conceived to be brushed aside with a mere line of comment, too full of symbolic expression to be exactly and briefly set down.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02192a.htm   (1614 words)

  
 Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam, And Viscount St. Alban's 1561, 1626
Here he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to call him "the young Lord Keeper." Here also he became dissatisfied with the Aristotelian philosophy as being unfruitful and leading only to resultless disputation.
The year 1618 saw him Lord Keeper, and the next Lord Chancellor and Baron Verulam, a title which, in 1621, he exchanged for that of Viscount St. Albans.
Wisdom of the Ancients 1609, Attorney-Gen. 1613, prosecuted Somerset 1616, Lord Keeper 1618, Lord Chancellor with title of Verulam 1619, Visc.
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 Francis Bacon [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sir Francis Bacon (later Lord Verulam and the Viscount St. Albans) was an English lawyer, statesman, essayist, historian, intellectual reformer, philosopher, and champion of modern science.
Sir Francis Bacon (later Lord Verulam, the Viscount St. Albans, and Lord Chancellor of England) was born in London in 1561 to a prominent and well-connected family.
His parents were Sir Nicholas Bacon, the Lord Keeper of the Seal, and Lady Anne Cooke, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, a knight and one-time tutor to the royal family.
www.utm.edu /research/iep/b/bacon.htm   (6065 words)

  
 Jesus The Keeper - Christian Classics - Praize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Lord has not only received you, but He will also keep you.1 For young disciples of Christ who are still weak, there is no lesson that is more necessary than this.
Paul had surrendered himself, body and soul, to the Lord Jesus--that was his pledge which he had deposited with the Lord.
You have also surrendered yourselves to the Lord, but perhaps not with the clear understanding that it is in order to be kept every day.
www.praize.com /classics/article.php?id=284   (679 words)

  
 Daily Radio Broadcast::God Is Our Keeper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
When she prayed of the Lord, "He will keep the feet of the saints" (1 Samuel 2:9), she understood that God, her Friend, could keep the saints.
It says, "The Lord is thy shade." Literally, the word is "shadow." It's the same word that is used in Psalm 91:1.
Neither life nor death shall ever from the Lord His children sever; unto them His grace He showeth and their sorrows all He knoweth.
www.backtothebible.org /broadcasts/radio/print.php/20856   (3603 words)

  
 Article 3, Section 2, Clause 1: Lord Sackville's Case
Note: A similar consultation took place a few years prior to it in the case of Admiral Byng, and another in the reign of George 1st, as to the right of the sovereign to the education and marriage of the children of the Prince of Wales.
So in the case of Francis Francia, in 1717, a conference was held among the judges, three of whom who were to try the prisoner, at which the Attorney and Solicitor-General, who were to conduct the prosecution next day, lent their assistance, Foster, 241; Fortescue, 390.
Lord Bacon, in a letter to James 1st, gives a curious account of his management in endeavouring, according to the king's direction, to obtain the opinion of the Judges of the King's Bench separately and privately, previous to the trial of Mr.
press-pubs.uchicago.edu /founders/documents/a3_2_1s2.html   (626 words)

  
 Department for Constitutional Affairs - Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers: past and present
In addition, it should be noted that the nature of the historical office of Lord Chancellor is very different from that of today, and it would be misleading to suggest the roles are the same.
The titles given are those held by both Lord Chancellors and Lord Keeper at the time they held the Great Seal.
Thomas Goodrich (Goodrick), bishop of Ely keeper of the seal from 1551
www.dca.gov.uk /lcfr.htm   (489 words)

  
 The New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples - XIX. JESUS THE KEEPER
Paul had surrendered himself, body and soul, to the Lord Jesus: that was His pledge which he had deposited with the Lord.
Young disciples of Christ, pray, receive this word: `The Lord is thy keeper.' For every weakness, every temptation, learn to deposit your soul with Him as a pledge.
When you surrender anything to the Lord for keeping, take heed to two things: that you give it wholly into His hands; and that you have it there.
www.ccel.org /m/murray/new_life/life22.htm   (898 words)

  
 The Bride of Lammermoor - CHAPTER V.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Lord Keeper, who observed the animal's demeanour, was aware that he was about to become mischievous, and, drawing his daughter's arm under his own, began to walk fast along the avenue, in hopes to get out of his sight and his reach.
In the course of his confession, the Baron of Ravenswood entrusted the hermit with the secret of this singular amour, and Father Zachary drew the necessary and obvious consequence that his patron was enveloped in the toils of Satan, and in danger of destruction, both to body and soul.
The Lord Keeper's first task, when he returned home, was to ascertain by medical advice that his daughter had sustained no injury from the dangerous and alarming situation in which she had been placed.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/romance/TheBrideofLammermoor/chap5.html   (4026 words)

  
 Lord Mayor's Day - LoveToKnow 1911
LORD MAYOR'S DAY, in England, the 9th of November, the date of the inauguration of the lord mayor of London (see Vol.
966), marked by a pageant known as the Lord Mayor's Show.
The first of these pageants was held in 1 21 5.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lord_Mayor's_Day   (253 words)

  
 Psalm 121 - My help cometh from the LORD
In verse three the Lord is spoken of as the personal keeper of one individual, and here of all those who are in his chosen nation, described as Israel.
Our soul is kept from the dominion of sin, the infection of error, the crush of despondency, the puffing up of pride; kept from the world, the flesh, and the devil; kept for holier and greater things; kept in the love of God; kept unto the eternal kingdom and glory.
The psalms are a definite part of the Catholic ritual - both Roman and Eastern - and continue to hold a substantial place in the worship of both Anglican and evangelical branches of the Christian church.
www.bibleinsong.com /Song_Pages/Psalms/Psalm121/Psalm121.htm   (1085 words)

  
 Toward The Mark Issue #13 - The Lord Thy Keeper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The last words of the Lord to Peter were, “Follow me.” He has marked out the path  for the Christian, and if, with our eye upon Christ as our unfailing help, we follow Him, it will lead far into the depths of glory where He has gone.
So David can say, “I have set the LORD always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.” The wicked man, trusting in himself, “said in his heart I shall not be moved,” only to come under the judgment of the LORD (Psalm 10:6, 16).
In the gospel day, the Lord could say to His disciples, “Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest awhile: for there were many coming and going, and they had not leisure so much as to eat” (Mark 6:31).
www.inthebeloved.org /ttm/ttm_013_rest.htm   (1444 words)

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