词条 | Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper |
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The Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper was a civil servant within the Irish Chancery in the Dublin Castle administration. His duties corresponded to the offices of Clerk of the Crown and Clerk of the Hanaper in the English Chancery.[1] Latterly, the office's most important functions were to issue writs of election to the Westminster Parliament, both for the Commons and for Irish representative peers in the Lords. FunctionsIn 1859 commissioners investigating the Irish Chancery described duties of the office thus:[2] {{quote|The office of the Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper in Chancery is regulated by the Act of 6 and 7 Wm. IV., cap. 74, which provides that the office shall consist of the Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper, and two clerks to be appointed by him. The duties of the office are threefold :—first, those connected with the petty-bag or law side of the Court; secondly, preparing and issuing certain writs specified in the schedule to the Act of 4 Geo. IV., cap. 61; and thirdly, swearing gentlemen into office before the Lord Chancellor. The business of the petty-bag or law-side of the Court, is confined to proceedings to enforce the performance of a recognizance entered into in the Court, and to proceedings in cases of debt against officers of the Court, there being an antiquated privilege appertaining to officers of the Court of Chancery, that they are not amenable in cases of debt to the ordinary tribunals of the country, but must be sued in their own Court. }} Prior to the acts, enumerated thus in 1817 by commissioners into legal costs:[3]
Until 1836, the Clerk was appointed by letters patent, and could himself appoint a deputy.[4] There were no statutory qualifications required for the post.[3] In 1868 the Public Record Office of Ireland catalogued the older records it archived from the Hanaper office thus:[4]
A mandate from Edward IV enumerates "that the Clerc of the Hanapier continuelly receive the fees of the sele of writts, comisssions, and patents, and also all suche fynes as shall be made in the Chaunsery, and thereupon pay the Chaunsellor his fees, wages and rewardes accustomed, and deliver the remnant unto the Kyng's Ex[checquer]. upon his accomptes, which he shall make yerly therof".[7] It also mandates the clerk to appoint deputies in the King's Bench and Common Pleas to collect the fees and fines from those courts.[5] History{{see also|Hanaper}}James Roderick O'Flanagan states:[6] The office of Clerk of the Hanaper is of old date in Ireland. In this office the writs relating to the suits of the subject, and the return thereon, were anciently kept in hanaperio, a hamper; while those relating to the crown were placed in parva baga, a little bag; whereon arose the names Hanaper and Petty Bag Offices. The offices of clerk of the hanaper and clerk of the crown in Chancery were originally separate but came to be held by the same person in the seventeenth century and were later formally merged.[7] From 1888 the holder was ex officio secretary to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland.[7] AbusesIn 1789, the Attorney-General for Ireland told the Irish House of Commons that it had "been a matter of necessity to purchase home the office of Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper to the court of Chancery; the person who had held that employment had been for twenty years an absentee, during which time the business had been done in such an irregular and slovenly manner, that a reform was indispensable".[8] The 1817 commissioners noted disapprovingly that the appointed Clerk was paid £1800 annually by a deputy who in return kept all the fees chargeable by the office.[9] They recommended that the Clerk should be paid a fixed salary and required to execute the office in person rather than by deputy;[9] this was mandated by the Court of Chancery (Ireland) Acts of 1823 and 1836.[10] The 1836 act formally abolished the existing patented office (compensating the holder) and established a replacement office on a statutory basis so that it could be subject to regulation.[11] The 1859 commissioners recommended that the office be abolished, its few functions transferred elsewhere in Chancery, and the prolix form of its documents be simplified to reduce the cost of scriveners.[2] AbolitionThe last Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper was Gerald Horan (1880–1949),[12] who issued the writs for the June 1921 Stormont election[13] and June 1922 Free State provisional parliament election,[14] and a royal charter in September 1922 to the Law Society of Northern Ireland.[15] His office was one of the parts of the Dublin Castle administration which had not been transferred to the Provisional Government by 27 September 1922.[16][17] In the Irish Free State, the offices of Chancery and Hanaper were presumed not to have survived the coming into force of the Free State Constitution on 6 December 1922.[1] Writs for the 1923 Free State election were issued by the clerk of the Dáil.[18][19] The office's residual statutory election functions were formally transferred to the Department of Local Government and Public Health when that was established under the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924.[20] The office was implicitly abolished by the Court Officers Act 1926.[7][21] In Northern Ireland, The Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland in March 1923 refused to allow the moving of a by-election writ because there was no official appointed to do so.[22] An order in council of 12 August 1924 transferred the Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper's election functions in Northern Ireland to the Clerk of the Crown for Northern Ireland.[23] List{{expand list|date=September 2016}}Clerks of the hanaper
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Citations1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1966/feb/03/petition-representation-of-irish-peers#column_573|title=PETITION: REPRESENTATION OF IRISH PEERS|last=Gardiner, Baron Gardiner|first=Gerald|authorlink=Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner|date=3 February 1966|work=HL Deb|publisher=Hansard|nopp=Y |page=vol 272 col.573|accessdate=10 September 2016}} 2. ^1 Chancery Commission 1859, pp.6–7 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1907/apr/17/irish-chancery-court-appointments|title=Irish Chancery Court Appointments—Professional Qualifications.|last=Corbett|first=Thomas Lorimer |authorlink=Thomas Lorimer Corbett|date=17 April 1907|work=Hansard|nopp=Y |page=HC Deb vol 172 cc946–7|accessdate=19 September 2016}} 4. ^{{cite book|title=First Report |author=Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kVYRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA63|date=12 February 1869|pages=63–64}} 5. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://chancery.tcd.ie/document/close/19-edward-iv/8|title=Close Roll 19 Edward IV ; No.8|date=1479–80|work=CIRCLE|accessdate=22 September 2016}} 6. ^{{cite book|last=O'Flanagan|first=James Roderick|title=The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland: From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TissAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA135|accessdate=19 September 2016|year=1870|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company|page=135}} 7. ^1 2 {{cite journal |volume=7 |first=G. 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Porter|location=Dublin|page=259}} 9. ^1 2 {{cite book |author=Commissioners of Inquiry into Courts of Justice in Ireland |title=First report (Chancery) with appendix |date=1817 |chapter=Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper |pages=89–96 |chapterurl=http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/9054/page/203735 |series=Sessional papers |volume=Vol.10 9 |accessdate=10 September 2016 }}; {{cite book |author=Commissioners of Inquiry into Courts of Justice in Ireland |title=Fourth report (Offices) |date=1818 |chapterurl=http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/9087/page/204496 |chapter=Clerk of Crown and Hanaper |series=Sessional papers |volume=Vol.10 140 |accessdate=10 September 2016 }} 10. ^Court of Chancery (Ireland) Act 1823, §§ 1, 4, 5, and 53, and Schedule Table 10; Court of Chancery (Ireland) Act 1836, §§ 1–3 11. ^1 Court of Chancery (Ireland) Act 1836, §§ 1–3 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://letters1916.maynoothuniversity.ie/explore/letters/1129|title=Letter from Gerald Horan to James O'Shea, 11 February 1916|work=Explore: Letters of 1916|publisher=Maynooth University|accessdate=10 September 2016}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk/stormontpapers/pageview.html|title=Tuesday, 7th June, 1921|date=7 June 1921|work=The Stormont Papers|publisher=Arts and Humanities Data Service|nopp=Y |page=House of Commons debates Vol.1 col.1 |quote=the Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper (Gerald Horan, Esq., K.C.) delivered to the said Arthur Irwin Dasent, Esq., a book containing a list of the names of the Members returned to serve in this Parliament|accessdate=10 September 2016}} 14. ^{{cite book|last=Augusteijn|first=Joost|title=The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8BAnBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT97|accessdate=10 September 2016|date=2002-08-09|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9781137239839|page=97}} 15. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.lawsoc-ni.org/DatabaseDocs/royal-charter.pdf |format=PDF|title=Charter of The Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland|date=12 September 1922|publisher=Law Society of Northern Ireland|accessdate=10 September 2016}} 16. ^{{cite journal|title=Provisional Government (Transfer of Functions) Order, 1922. Agreement as to Day of Transfer.|journal=London Gazette|issue=32661|page=2732|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32661/supplement/2732 |date=4 April 1922 |accessdate=16 September 2016}} 17. ^{{cite web|url=http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail1922092700005?opendocument|title=Transferred and Lent Officers|date=27 September 1922|work=Dáil Éireann debates|accessdate=10 September 2016}} 18. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1923/act/12/section/54/enacted/en/html|title=Electoral Act, 1923, Section 54|work=Irish Statute Book|accessdate=10 September 2016}} 19. ^{{cite web|url=http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail1923091900003 |title=Cur Amach Riteacha [Issuing of writs]|author=Clerk of Dáil Eireann|date=19 September 1923|work=Dáil Éireann Debate|quote=In compliance with Standing Order No. 3 of the Standing Orders of Dáil Eireann, I have to report that on the 9th August, 1923, immediately upon the issue of the Proclamation of that date summoning the Oireachtas to meet at Dublin on the 19th September, 1923, I issued my writs, pursuant to the relative provisions of the Electoral Act, 1923, to the following Returning Officers for the Constituencies named hereunder|accessdate=10 September 2016}} 20. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1924/act/16/schedule/1/enacted/en/html#sched1|title=Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924, Schedule 1|work=Irish Statute Book|pages=Third Part |nopp=Y|accessdate=10 September 2016}} 21. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1926/act/27/section/31/enacted/en/html#sec31|title=Court Officers Act, 1926|work=Irish Statute Book|nopp=Y |page=section 31(3)–(4)|accessdate=19 September 2016}} 22. ^{{cite web|url=http://stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk/stormontpapers/pageview.html?volumeno=3&pageno=114|title=Writ for Vacant Seat.|date=14 March 1923|work=House of Commons debates, Vol. 3 col.113|publisher=The Stormont Papers|accessdate=10 September 2016|quote=I think I could hardly accept such a motion now, for the very good reason that, so far as I know, there is nobody to whom I could issue my warrant for the writ. From inquiries I have made, and information I have received, I am given to understand that there is no person at present in the North of Ireland representing the Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper, to whom my warrant would be issued, and therefore until such a person is appointed—no doubt it will be very soon—I do not see that I could accept a motion to issue my warrant when there is nobody of whom I have official cognizance to whom to issue it.}} 23. ^{{cite journal|last=Smith|first=Colin|date=12 August 1924|title=Election Laws (Northern Ireland) Order, 1924|journal=London Gazette|issue=32964|page=6032|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32964/page/6032 |accessdate=16 September 2016}} 24. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Otway-Ruthven 2008, pp.119–120 25. ^Matthew 1994, p.59 fn.15 26. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Matthew 1994, pp.500–502 27. ^{{cite journal |jstor=25506129 |title=Richard, Duke of York, and the Development of an Irish Faction|last=Gorman|first=Vincent|year=1985|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C|volume=85C |pages=169–179: 176 }} 28. ^Matthew 1994, p.76 29. ^1 {{cite book|last=Morrin|first=James|title=Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland, of the Reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NopCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA5|accessdate=22 September 2016|volume=Vol.I: 1514–1575|year=1861|publisher=A. 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