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The Great Seal of Scotland under Elizabeth II in red beeswax.


The Great Seal of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Seala Mòr na h-Alba) allows the monarch to authorise official documents without having to sign each document individually. Wax is melted in a metal mould or matrix and impressed into a wax figure that is attached by cord or ribbon to documents that the monarch wishes to make official. The earliest seal impression, in the Treasury of Durham Cathedral, is believed to be the Great Seal of Duncan II and dates to 1094.




Contents





  • 1 History


  • 2 List of Keepers of the Great Seal of Scotland prior to the Union


  • 3 List of Keepers of the Great Seal of Scotland since the Union


  • 4 Register


  • 5 See also


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links




History


The Chancellor had the custody of the King's Seal. [1]


Strictly, the continuation of the Great Seal of Scotland was guaranteed by the Treaty of Union which provided that "a Seal in Scotland after the Union be alwayes kept and made use of in all things relating to private Rights or Grants, which have usually passed the Great Seal of Scotland, and which only concern Offices, Grants, Commissions, and private Rights within that Kingdom". Hence, the Scotland Act 1998 refers to the current seal as "the seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and made use of in place of the Great Seal of Scotland". Nevertheless, the seal is still commonly referred to as the Great Seal of Scotland.


Section 12 of the Treason Act 1708, still in force today, makes it treason in Scotland to counterfeit the seal.[2]


The design of the Great Seal is a responsibility of the Lord Lyon King of Arms. The reverse of the seal shows the monarch on horseback, but is not changed from reign to reign—the current version is that engraved in 1911 for the accession of King George V.[citation needed] The obverse is inscribed "ELIZABETH II D G BRITT REGNORVMQVE SVORVM CETER REGINA CONSORTIONIS POPULORUM PRINCEPS F D" and the figure on it is the same as on the Great Seal of the United Kingdom.[3]


The Great Seal is administered by the Keeper of the Great Seal, one of the Great Officers of State. From 1885 this office was held by the Secretary for Scotland,[4] later the Secretary of State for Scotland. It transferred in 1999 to the First Minister of Scotland,[5] whose place in the order of precedence in Scotland is determined by his or her office as Keeper of the Great Seal. In practice the Seal is in the custody of the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland, who has been appointed as Deputy Keeper.



List of Keepers of the Great Seal of Scotland prior to the Union


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  • 1389–96: Sir Alexander de Cockburn[6]

  • Date unknown (c. 1473): Alexander de Cockburn

  • 1474–1483 John Laing Bishop of Glasgow

  • 1514: Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld

  • 1525: Gavin Dunbar, Bishop of Aberdeen[7]

  • Date unknown: James Beaton (1473–1539)

  • Date Unknown: John Lyon, 7th Lord Glamis (c. 1521–1558)

  • 1558: John Lyon, 8th Lord Glamis

  • 1562–1567:[8] Sir Richard Maitland

...


  • 1635–1638: John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St. Andrews[9]

  • 1638–1641: James, Marquis of Hamilton[10]

  • 1641–1660: John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun[10]

  • 1657–1660: Samuel Disbrowe (for the Commonwealth)

  • Date unknown: Sir Adam Forrester

  • Date unknown: Sir John Forrester


List of Keepers of the Great Seal of Scotland since the Union


  • 1708: Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun

  • 1713: James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater, 1st Earl of Seafield

  • 1714: William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale

  • 1716: James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose

  • 1733: Archibald Campbell, 1st Earl of Islay

  • 1761: Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, 2nd Duke of Dover

  • 1763: James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl

  • 1764: Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont

  • 1794: Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon

  • 1806: James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale

  • 1807: Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon

  • 1827: George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll

  • 1828: George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon

  • 1830: George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll

  • 1840: John Hamilton Dalrymple, 8th Earl of Stair

  • 1841: John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll

  • 1846: John Hamilton Dalrymple, 8th Earl of Stair

  • 1852: Dunbar James Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk

  • 1853: Cospatrick Alexander Home, 11th Earl of Home

  • 1858: Dunbar James Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk

The following are Keepers of the Great Seal, who served as Secretary for Scotland (1885–1926).


  • 1885: Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond

  • 1886: George Otto Trevelyan

  • 1886: John William Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie

  • 1886: Arthur Balfour

  • 1887: Schomberg Henry Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian

  • 1892: George Otto Trevelyan

  • 1895: Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh

  • 1903: Andrew Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin

  • 1905: John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow

  • 1905: John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland

  • 1912: Thomas McKinnon Wood

  • 1916: Harold Tennant

  • 1916: Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness

  • 1922: Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar

  • 1924: William Adamson

  • 1926: Sir John Gilmour

The following are Keepers of the Great Seal, who served as Secretary of State for Scotland (1926–1999).


  • 1926: Sir John Gilmour

  • 1929: William Adamson

  • 1931: Sir Archibald Sinclair

  • 1932: Sir Godfrey Collins

  • 1936: Walter Elliot

  • 1938: John Colville

  • 1940: Ernest Brown

  • 1941: Thomas Johnston

  • 1945: Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery

  • 1945: Joseph Westwood

  • 1947: Arthur Woodburn

  • 1950: Hector McNeil

  • 1951: James Stuart

  • 1957: John Maclay

  • 1962: Michael Noble

  • 1964: William Ross

  • 1970: Gordon Campbell

  • 1974: William Ross

  • 1976: Bruce Millan

  • 1979: George Younger

  • 1986: Malcolm Rifkind

  • 1990: Ian Lang

  • 1995: Michael Forsyth

  • 1997: Donald Dewar

The office of the Keeper of the Great Seal was transferred on 6 May 1999, to the First Minister, in accordance to the terms of section 45(7) of the Scotland Act 1998.


  • 1999: Donald Dewar

  • 2000: Henry McLeish

  • 2001: Jack McConnell

  • 2007: Alex Salmond

  • 2014: Nicola Sturgeon


Register


Records of charters under the Great Seal of Scotland from 1306 to 1668 are published in the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland (Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum).[11]



See also


  • Director of Chancery


References




  1. ^ See list for years AD1057-1794, pp. 78–82 in "A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland" by Robert Beatson: https://archive.org/stream/apoliticalindex02beatgoog#page/n88/mode/2up


  2. ^ "Treason Act 1708". www.legislation.gov.uk..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  3. ^ The inscription is abbreviated Latin for "Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God of the Britains and of Her Other Kingdoms Queen, Head of the Commonwealth of Nations, Defender of the Faith". See Great Seal of the Realm.


  4. ^ "Secretary for Scotland Act 1885". www.legislation.gov.uk.


  5. ^ Scotland Act 1998, section 45(7)


  6. ^ Article on the Cockburn family, retrieved 17 April 2012


  7. ^ "Records of the Parliaments of Scotland". www.rps.ac.uk.


  8. ^ "Sir Richard Maitland, Lord Lethington - Scottish poet".


  9. ^ Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Spottiswoode, John" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.


  10. ^ ab Barker, George Fisher Russell (1886). "Campbell, John (1598-1663)" . In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 365.


  11. ^ Foundation, Internet Memory. "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] NRS Web Archive - Internet Memory Research". www.nas.gov.uk.




External links


  • https://archive.org/stream/registrummagnisi07scot#page/n5/mode/2up

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