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While the in the
rapid. With the of the privy
to ! the
the etc,), in the
the Chamber to a with its
sources of revenue. Indeed for this it
be hard to treasuries, for Exchequer, Ward-
robe, and Chamber respectively; four
«. g. secretarial departments, with its
seal, for Exchequer, Chancery, Wardrobe, and
But this duplication of the "Wardrobe by a revived Cham-
ber was superfluous; it but
fusion. Duplication could be to as
to be absurd. By 1322, the anti-royal
well nipped the Chamber in the bud* In the of
the fourteenth century out
of court and of state, while of
the Wardrobe organisation slipped
domestic phases of the royal household.1 In the Lan-
castrian period the little to the
game of personal government, but later in the
century there was a renewal of activity,
much administrative work the Chan-
cellor to the king's Secretary.
became a title of office; it meant at any of
the king. The Secretary, or one of the
been keeping the king's which the of
the king's personal seals and the develop-
ing; the future lay with the Secretary—the future of
personal government'—but that future the Tudor
period.
In France the king had been to one
royal chancery, which, it the for
with the great seal was the source of all the min-
istries, and was an important basis of the Hug's
power. There had been no charter history in France
2 Chancery's growth as a court (see above, pp. 216-218) it
regaining any household control at this time.