The plural of chancery; multiple offices, departments, or residences of chancellors; the administrative or judicial departments of government or universities.
Plural of chancery from Old French chancellerie (the place where the chancellor worked), from Latin cancellarius; the -ies plural indicates multiple offices or departments.
During medieval times, every major institution had its own chancellery—kingdoms, universities, even the Church—making chancelleries the ultimate symbol of bureaucratic power and record-keeping!
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