546 HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF LEICESTERSHIRE,

CHANCELLORS of the DUTCHY of LANCASTER, from the first Creation of the DUKEDOM '. Temp. »59° Sir Thomas Heneage, Knt. Vice-chamberlain Edw. I. Ralph de Ergham, clerk, bishop of Sarum. of the Houfhohl. Ric. II. Thomas de Thelwall, clefk. 15-97 Sir Robert Cecil, Knt. Chancellor of the Hen. IV. John Wateringe, clerk. Dutchy, and Keeper of the Privy Seal ; Thomas Harby, cleirk. resigned 1599, on becoming Masler of tbe John Springthorpe, clerk. Court of Wards. He was created Baron Sir William Burgoyne, Knt, Cecil May 13, 1603"; Viscount Cranbourn, Hen. V. John Woodhouse, Esq. August ao, that year; Earl of Salisbury, Hen* VI. William Troutbecke, Esq. May 4, 1605 ; and died May 24, 1614. Walter Sherington, clerk. 1599 Sir John Fortescuc, Knt. He was also Master Edw. IV. William Threlham. of the Wardrobe to Queen Elizabeth, and Richard Fowler, Serviens 8: Consillarrus Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but, on the Scaccarii. accession of King James, retained only the John Gay, Esq. Chancesloiship of the Dutchy. He died Thomas Thevingron, Esq. dilectus Ser- Dec, 23, 1607. viens Se Consiliarius Scaccarii. 1607 Sir Thomas Parry, Km. died 1616. Ric. III. Thomas Mctcalfe, dilectus Serviens & Con- 1616 John Dackombe, Esq.; knighted 1616. siliarius. Sir Humphrey May, Knt. 5 occurs us Chan- Hen. VII. Sir Reginald Bray, Miles pro corpore. cellor in 1625. He obtained in 1629 the Sir John Mordant, Knt. reversioa of the office of Master of the Rolls; Sir Richard Emplbn, Knt. but died, before it became vacanrj 11^9,1630. Hen. VIII. Sir Henry Marney, Knt. Serviens & Con- 1627 Sir Edvyard Barret; created Lord New burgh filiarnts. 1627. Dying s. p. the title became extinct. Sir Richard Wingfield, Miles pro corpore. 1647 William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of 6 Sir Thomas More, dilectus & fidelia Con- Commons, was made Chancellor of the siliarius. Dutchy, then worth about 4000/. a-year. Sir William Fitzurban, Knt. 1660 Francis7 Lord Seymour (third son of Edward William Earl of Southampton, Treasurer Lord Beauchamp, son and heir to Edward of the Houfhoid. earl of Hertford). He had been advanced Sir John Gage, Comptroller of the to the dignity of Baron Seymour of Trou- Houfhold. bridge, 19 Feb. 1640-1 ; was appointed Edw. VI. Sir William Paget, Knight of the Garter, Chancellor of the Dutchy June 1, 1660; afterwards Baron Beaudesert; was buried and died July 12, 1664. in Lichfield cathedral, where his monu- 1672 Sir Robert Carr, Knt. and Bart. Feb. 14. raent was destroyed in the civil wars. 1680 Sir Thomas Ingram, Knt. Feb. 14. He was, as may be collected from his 1688 Robert Lord Willoughby of Erefby. epitaph, Secretary and Privy Counsellor 1697 Thomas Earl of Stamford8. to Henry VIII. and constituted by his 1702Sir John Leveson Gower, Bart. (afterward will Counsellor and Adjutant to Ed- Lord Gower.) ward VI. during his mieority; to whom 1706 James Earl of Derby, June 10. he was also Comptroller of the Houf- 1710 William Lord Berkeley of Stratton. hold, and by hirn created Baron, and 1714Heneage Earl of Aylesford, Oct. 12; Knight of the Garter, and by Queen 1716 Richard Earl of Scarborough, March 6. Har Mary lord privy seal. resigned May 8, 1717. Sir John Gage, Knight, Vice-chamberlain 1717 Nicholas Lechmere, Esq. (afterward Lord of the Houlhold, and Captain of the Lechmere) for life, June 12. * Guard. 1717 John Duke of Rutland, July 17. 1553 Sir Robert Rochester, Knt. Comptroller of the 1736 George Earl of Cholmondeley, May. Houfhold, died 1557; and was succeeded 1743 Richard Lord Edgecumbe, Dec. 22,. by his nephew, l75& Thomas Hay VjscouDt Dupplin (afterward Earl 1557 Sir Edward de Waldegrave, Knt. Master of the of Kinnoul), Jan. 24. Great Wardrobe. On the accession of Queen James Smith Lord Strange, Dec. 15. Elizabeth, he was committed to the Tower, Thomas Lord Hyde (afterward Earl of Claren- where he died Sept. 4, 1561. don), June 14. 1563 Sir Ambrose Cave, Knt. 1563; died 1568 *. John Lord Ashburton, March 27. 1568 Sir Ralph Sadleir, " eques notæ virtutis." In Edward Earl of Derby, Aug. 29. right of his situation as Chancellor of the Thomas Earl of Clarendon, Dec. 31. Dutchy, Sir Ralph Sadleir, Nov. 11, 1584., Charles Lord Hawkelbury (now Earl of Liver- claimed the privilege of nominating the two pool), Sept. 9. burgesses in parliament for the Town of Lei- 1803 Thomas Lord Pelham (now Earl of Chichef- cester ; and was allowed to name one of ter), Nov. 9. 3 rhem . He died March 24, 1587, in his' 1804 Henry Lord Mulgrave, Oct. 6. 80th year, after having been a privy coun- 1805 Robert Earl of Buckinghamshire. sellor 41 years; and possessed, at the time 1805 Dudley Lord Harrowby, July 10. of his death, 22 manors, with several ad- 1806Edward Earl of Derby, Feb. 22. vowsons, and other large grants of land. 1807 The Right Hon. Spencer Perceval appointed 1588 Sir Francis Walsingham, Knt. died April 6, Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster 1590; and was buried in St. Paul's ca- March 30. He is also Chancellor of the thedral *. Exchequer.

• There is a Court at Westminster, called Tie Dutchy Court of Lancaster, where all causes any way relating to tbe revenue of the Dutchy of Lancaster are tried. Another branch of the fame Court is established at Preston in Lancashire, called Tbe Court of the Ceunty Palatine of Lancaster, for the fame purposes in that county as the other is in Westminster. ' These Courts were erected by King Henry IV. after his having deposed King Richard II. ; when, possessing the Dutchy of Lancaster in right of his mother, he imagined his claim to it better than that to the Throne, and therefore separated it from the Crown, and erected these Courts for to use. The Chief Judge of these Courts is the Chancellor, under whom are a set of inferior officers in each Court for the conducting of business.—See Prynne's 4th Institute, for distinction between Dutchy of Lancaster and Gvaxt. 1 See an aeccunt of his family, vol. IV. p. 351 ; and his epitaph, p. 357. 3 See before, p. 404. At this election the members elected promised to bear their own charges. 4 " Triennium Caucellarius Ducatus Lancastriæ." Popham, Elogia Sqnikhralia, p. 311. 5 See someaccoun t of him in vol. III. p. 169 ; and hereafter under Sutton Cheynell. * Sir Thomas Bedingfield, knight, sometime Attorney-general to the Dutchy of Lancaster, and afteiwaMs one of the Justices of the Court of Common Fleas (which offices he laid down after thi murder of his Royal Master), died March 24, 1660, ast, 68 ; and Thomas Bedingfield, esq. died Steward of the Dutchy in 1665. 7 In a former page miscalled CbarUs. 8 Of whom see vol. III. p. 683.

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