Obs. [One of the forms of CHANCELLERY, of partially specific use.]
1. An office in the general register office in Edinburgh, also called Chancery, managed by a director and his deputies, in which are recorded all charters, patents of dignities, and writs appointed to pass the great or the quarter seal.
1676. W. Row, Supp. Blair’s Autobiog., xi (1848), 355. The Earl of Lothian’s son, Director of the Chancellary.
1687. Royal Proclam., in Lond. Gaz., No. 2221/5. In Order whereunto, this shall be to the Directors of Our Chancellary, and their Deputs for Writing the same … a sufficient Warrand.
2. An occasional form of CHANCELLERY 2 b.
