THE LORD CHANCELLOR

Keeps the Great Seal, not to judge according to the common law, as other courts do, but to dispense with such parts as seem in some cases to oppress the subject; and to judge according to equity, conscience, and reason. Wherefore he is said to have two powers; one absolute, the other ordinary; the meaning of which is, he must observe the form of proceeding in other courts; yet, in his absolute power, he is not limited by the written law, but in conscience and equity. He may issue writs of habeas corpus at all times. He has power to collate to all ecclesiastical benefices in the Queen's gift, rated under 201. per annum in the Queen's Books. His oath :-To do justice to all persons, poor and rich; the Queen truly to counsel, and to keep the Queen's counsel, and not to suffer the rights of the Crown to be any ways diminished.

[The Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper are the same in power and precedence. Both are appointed by the Queen's delivery of the Great Seal; they differ only in this:-the Lord Chancellor has also letters patent, the Lord Keeper has none.]

1793, Jan. 28, Earl of Rosslyn.

1801, Mar. 14, 1806, Feb. 7, 1807, April 1, 1827, May 1, 1830, Nov. 22, 1834, Nov. 21, 1836, Jan. 19, 1841, Sept. 2,

1846, July 3, 1850, July 13, 1852, Feb. 27, Dec. 28,

1857, Feb. 27, 1859, June 18, 1861, June 26,

1865, July 7, 1866, July 6, 1868,

Dec. 11, 1872, Oct. 15. 1874, 1830, April

1826, Sept. 15,

1827, April 30,

1834, Sept. 29,

1836, Jan. 19, 1851, Mar. 25, 1873, Sept. 3,

Earl of Eldon.
Lord Erskine.
Earl of Eldon.
Lord Lyndhurst.
Lord Brougham.
Lord Lyndhurst.
Earl of Cottenham.
Lord Lyndhurst
Earl of Cottenham.
Lord Truro.
Lord St. Leonard's.
Right Hon. Lord Cranworth.
Right Hon. Lord Chelmsford.
Right Hon. Lord Campbell.
Right Hon. Lord Westbury.
Right Hon. Lord Cranworth.
Right Hon. Lord Chelmsford.
Right Hon. Lord Cairns.
Right Hon. Lord Hatherley.
Right Hon. Lord Selborne.

Right Hon. Lord Cairns, (now Earl Cairns.)
Right Hon. Lord Selborne.

THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS.
Right Hon. Sir William Grant.

Lord Gifford.

Sir John-Sidgleton Copley.
Sir John Leach.

Sir Charles-Christopher Pepys.
Right Hon. Henry Bickersteth.
Right Hon. Sir John Romilly.
Right Hon. Sir George Jessel.

1799,

1801,

1802,

1806, Feb. 12, 1807,

1812, Sept. 8, 1813, May 4, 1817,

1819, July 20,
1824, January,
1828, Feb.

1829,
1830, Nov. 23,
1832, Nov.
1834, Dec. 17,
1835, April 18,
1841, Sept. 6,
1844, April 15,

1845, July 1,
1846, July 7,

1850, July 12,

1851, Mar. 25, 1852, Feb. 27,

Dec. 28,

1856, Nov. 15, 1858, Feb. 27, 1859, June 18, 1861, July 1, 1863, Oct. 1866, July 6,

2,

Oct. 29,

1867, July 22, 1868, Dec. 11,

1871, Nov. 10,

1873, Nov. 20, 1874,

1875, Nov. 25, 1880, April

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

Sir John Mitford, knt.
Sir Edward Law, knt.
Hon. Spencer Perceval.
Sir Arthur Pigott, knt.
Sir Vicary Gibbs, knt..
Sir Thomas Plumer, knt.
Sir William Garrow, knt.
Sir Samuel Shepherd, knt.
Sir Robert Gifford, knt.
Sir John-Singleton Copley, knt.
Sir Charles Wetherell, knt.
Sir James Scarlett, knt.
Sir Thomas Denman, knt.
Sir William Horne, knt.
Sir Frederick Pollock, knt.
Sir John. Campbell, knt.
Sir Frederick Poliock, bart.
Sir William-Webb Follett.
Sir Frederick Thesiger.
Sir John Jervis.
Sir John Romilly.

Sir Alexander-James-Edmund Cockburn.
Sir Frederick Thesiger.

Sir Alexander-James-Edmund Cockburn.
Sir Richard Bethell.
Sir F. Kelly.

Sir Richard Bethell.

Sir William Atherton.
Sir Roundell Palmer.
Sir Hugh M Calmont Cairns.
Sir John Rolt.

Sir John Burgess Karslake.
Sir Robert P. Collier,

Sir J.-D. Coleridge.
Sir Henry James.
Sir Richard Baggallay.
Sir John Holker.

Sir Henry James.

1799,

1800,

1801,

1805,

THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL.

Sir William Grant, knt.

Hon. Spencer Perceval.

Sir Thomas-Manners Sutton, knt.
Sir Vicary Gibbs, knt.

1806, Feb. 12, Sir Samuel Romilly, knt.

1852, Feb. 27, Dec. 28,

1856, Nov. 22,

1857, May 28, 1858, Feb. 27,

1859, June 18, Dec. 16,

1861, July 3,

1863, Oct. 2,

1866, July 6, Nov. 28, 1867, July 22, 1868, Feb.

Sept. 16,

Dec. 10,

1871, Nov. 10, 1873, Sept.

1873, Nov. 20, 1874,

1875, Nov. 25, 1880, April

Sir Thomas Plumer, knt.

Sir William Garrow, knt.
Sir Robert Dallas, knt.
Sir Robert Gifford, knt.
Sir John-Singleton Copley, knt.
Sir Charles Wetherell, knt.

Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, knt.
Sir Edward-B. Sugden, knt.
Sir William Horne, knt.
John Campbell, esq.

Sir Charles-Christopher Pepys.
Sir William Webb Follett, knt.
Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe, knt.
Sir Thomas Wilde.

Sir William-Webb Follett, knt.
Sir Frederick Thesiger.
Sir Fitzroy Kelly.
Sir John Jervis.
Sir David Dundas.
Sir John Romilly.

Sir Alexander-James-Edmund Cockburn, bart.
Sir William-Page Wood.
Sir Fitzroy Kelly.
Sir Richard Bethell.
Hon. James-Stuart Wortley.
Sir Henry-Singer Keating.
Sir Hugh Mac-Calmont Cairns.
Sir Henry-Singer Keating.
Sir William Atherton.
Sir Roundell Palmer.
Sir Robert-Porrett Collier.
Sir William Bovill.
Sir John Burgess Karslake.
Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn.
Sir William- Baliol Brett.
Sir Richard Baggallay.
Sir John-Duke Coleridge.
Sir George Jessel.

Sir Henry James.

Sir W.-G.-G.-V.-Vernon Harcourt.
Sir John Holker.

Sir Hardinge Giffard.

Sir Farrer Herschell.

Right Hon. R. S. Dundas.
Earl Bathurst.

Earl of Clancarty.

Right Hon. Frederick-John Robinson.
Right Hon. William Huskisson.
Right Hon. Charles Grant.

Right Hon. William-Fitzgerald-Vesey Fitzgerald.
Right Hon. John-Charles Herries.
Lord Auckland.

Right Hon. Charles-Poulett Thomson.
Right Hon. Alexander Baring.
Lord Sydenham.

Right Hon. Henry Labouchere.
Earl of Ripon.

Right Hon. William- Ewart Gladstone.
Earl of Dalhousie.

Earl of Clarendon.

Right Hon. Henry Labouchere.
Right Hon. Joseph- Warner Henley.
Right Hon. Edward Cardwell.

Right Hon. Lord Stanley, of Alderley.
Right Hon. Joseph-Warner Henley.
Right Hon. Earl of Donoughmore.
Right Hon. Thomas- Milner Gibson.
Right Hon. Sir Stafford-H. Northcote, bart.
Duke of Richmond.

Right Hon. John Bright.

Right Hon. Chichester-S. Fortescue.
Right Hon. Sir C.-B. Adderley.

Right Hon. Viscount Sandon.

1870, Jan.

2,

1874,

1878,

1880, April

Right Hon. J. Chamberlain.

Secretaries.

1880, May

Hon. Evelyn Ashley.

Mr. T.-H. Farrer. (Permanent.)