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Keeper of the great seal

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a high officer of state, who has custody of the great seal. The office is now united with that of lord chancellor.

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* He was born in a fine house and was the child of great people, his father being Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
] Francis Bacon, intellectually one of the most eminent Englishmen of all times, and chief formulator of the methods of modern science, was born in 1561 (three years before Shakspere), the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth and one of her most trusted earlier advisers.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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