Download or read book The King's Secretary and the Signet Office in the XV Century written by J. Otway-Ruthven and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Otway-Ruthven examines the history of the office of the King's Secretary from 1377, the first appearance of a King's Secretary, to 1509, demonstrating its rise from the comparative unimportance of a confidential clerkship to a position worthy of the attention of a bishop and a fitting instrument of Tudor Government.