Foreign Department; previous to 1782 styled the Southern Department.

1812, June 11, 1822, Sept. 16,

1827, May 1,

1828, May 30, 1830, Nov. 22, 1834, Nov. 21, 1835, April 18, 1841, Sept. 2, 1846, July 6, 1851, Dec. 26, 1852, Feb. 27,

Dec. 28,

1853, Feb. 21, 1858, Feb. 26, 1859, June 18, 1865, Nov. 3, 1866, July 6, 1868, Dec. 10, 1870, July 1874, Feb.

7,

Lord Hawkesbury.

Lord Harrowby.

Earl of Mulgrave.

Right Hon. Charles-James Fox.
Viscount Howick.

Right Hon. George Canning.
Earl Bathurst.

Marquess Wellesley.
Viscount Castlereagh.
Right Hon. George Canning.
Viscount Dudley.
Earl of Aberdeen.
Viscount Palmerston.
Duke of Wellington.
Viscount Palmerston.
Earl of Aberdeen.
Viscount Palmerston.
Earl Granville.
Earl of Malmesbury.
Lord John Russell.
Earl of Clarendon.
Earl of Malmesbury.
Lord John Russell.
Earl of Clarendon.
Lord Stanley.
Earl of Clarendon.
Earl Granville.

Earl of Derby.

1841, Sept. 3,

1845, Dec. 23, 1846, July 6, 1852, Feb. 27, Dec. 28,

Viscount Goderich.

Right Hon. William Huskisson.
Sir George Murray.
Viscount Goderich.

Right Hon. Edward G. Stanley.
Right Hon. Thomas-Spring Rice.
Earl of Aberdeen.

Right Hon. Charles Grant.
Marquess of Normanby..
Lord John Russell.

Lord Stanley.

Right Hon. William- Ewart Gladstone.
Earl Grey.

Right Hon. Sir John S. Pakington, bart.
Duke of Newcastle.

[1854. June 10.-The Departments were divided.]

The Board of Control, now Styled

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA.

Right Hon. Charles Grant.
Lord Ellenborough.

Right Hon. Sir John-Cam Hobhouse, bart.
Lord Ellenborough.
Earl of Ripon.

Lord Broughton.
Right Hon. Fox Maule.
Right Hon. John-Charles Herries.
Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, bart.
Right Hon. Robert-Vernon Smith.
Right Hon. Earl of Ellenborough.
Right Hon. Lord Stanley.

[By Act of Parliament, Session 1858.]

Right Hon. Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for India.
Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, bart.

The Earl De Grey and Ripon.

Right Hon. Lord Cranborne.

Right Hon. Sir Stafford-H. Northcote, bt. -
Duke of Argyll.

Marquis of Salisbury.

1874,

Under-Secretaries.

Lord George Hamilton.

Sir Louis Mallet, C. B. (Permanent.)

THE COMMISSIONERS OF ROYAL PARKS, PALACES,

1850, Mar. 22,

1852, Feb. 27, Dec. 28,

1855, July 21,

1858, Feb. 26,

1859, June 18,

1860, Feb. 9,

1866, July 6,

1868, Dec. 9,

1869, Nov. 12,

1873, Aug. 11, 1874,

WORKS, AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

Right Hon. Lord Seymour.

Lord John Manners.

Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, bart.
Sir Benjamin Hall, bart.

Right Hon. Lord John-James-Robert Manners.
Right Hon. Henry Fitzroy.

Right Hon. Francis- William Cowper.
Right Hon. Lord John-James-R. Manners.
Right Hon. Austen- Henry Layard.
Right Hon. Acton-Smee Ayrton.
Right Hon. William-Patrick Adam.
Right Hon. Lord Henry Lennox.

THE COMMISSIONERS of woods, FORESTS, AND LAND

REVENUES.

1850, Aug. 10, Hon. Charles-Alexander Gore. 1855, Mar. 16, Hon. James-Kenneth Howard.

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 20l. 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.

dence.

[The Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper are the same in power and preceBoth 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.]