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. Right Hon. Lord Cairns, (now Earl Cairns.) THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS. Lord Gifford. Sir John-Sidgleton Copley. Sir Charles-Christopher Pepys. 1799, 1800, 1801, 1805, 1806, Feb. 12, 1819, July 20, 1824, January, 1826, October, 1829, June 4, 1830, Nov. 23, 1832, Nov. 1834, Feb. 26, Dec. 19, 1835, April 18, 1839, Nov. 25, 1841, Sept. 6, 1844, April 15, 1845, July 4, 1846, July 4, July 10, 1848, Mar. 25, 1850, July 12, 1851, Mar. 25, 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, Sept. 16, 1871, Nov. 10, 1873, Sept. 1873, Nov. 20, 1874, 1875, Nov. 25, 1880, April THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL. Sir William Grant, knt. Sir Thomas-Manners Sutton, knt. Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, knt. Sir Charles-Christopher Pepys. Sir William-Webb Follett, knt. Sir Alexander-James-Edmund Cockburn, bart. Sir Henry James. Sir W.-G.-G.-V.-Vernon Harcourt. Sir Hardinge Giffard. Sir Farrer Herschell. Right Hon. R. S. Dundas. Earl of Clancarty. Right Hon. Frederick-John Robinson. Right Hon. William-Fitzgerald-Vesey Fitzgerald. Right Hon. Charles-Poulett Thomson. Right Hon. Henry Labouchere. Right Hon. William-Ewart Gladstone. Earl of Clarendon. Right Hon. Henry Labouchere. Right Hon. Lord Stanley, of Alderley. Right Hon. Sir Stafford-H. Northcote, bart. Right Hon. John Bright. Right Hon. Chichester-S. Fortescue. Right Hon. Viscount Sandon. Right Hon. J. Chamberlain. Secretaries. 1880, May Hon. Evelyn Ashley. Mr. T.-H. Farrer. (Permanent.) |