Elizabeth I amalgamated the offices of the Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord High Chancellor into the office of the Secretary of State . It is known that it was the duty of the Secretary of State to authenticate , with the Great Seal , those documents of import that were issued in the name of the sovereign . And moreover , the Secretary of State soon came to be known , metonymically , as the "Greate Seale " himself . And so proceeding from this short...











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