FROM HENRY VIII. TO ANNE. Henry VIII. have been mentioned in the General Outline.] 1547. Hertford (created Duke of Somerset 1551. Sir James Croft. the same year). 1550. Wiltshire (created Marquis of Win chester 1551). 1572. Burleigh. 1565. Sir Henry Sydney. 1575. Sir Henry Sydney. 1599. Buckhurst (created Earl of Dorset 1571. Sir William Fitzwilliam (Lord Justice). 1603). 1578. Sir William Drury (Lord Justice). 1579. Sir William Pelham. 1580. Lord Grey de Wilton. 1584. Sir John Perrot. 1588. Sir William Fitzwilliam. 1594. Sir William Russell. 1597. Lord Burgh (died the same year). 1599. Earl of Essex (Lord-Lieutenant). 1603. Sir George Cary. 1604. Sir Arthur Chichester. 1616. Sir Oliver St. John. 1622. Lord Falkland. LORD CHANCELLORS AND LORD KEEPERS. B.-LEADING MINISTERS OF STATE SECRETARIES OF STATE. Charles II., 1660. 1660. Hyde (created Earl of 1660. Nicholas and Sir William Morice. Clarendon 1661). 1667. (K.) Bridgman. 1673. (K.) 1662. Morice and Sir Henry Bennet (created Lord Arlington 1664). 1668. Arlington and Sir John Trevor. 1682. (K.) North (created 1683. Jenkins and Sunderland. James II., 1685. 1685. Jeffreys. 1688. Middleton and Preston. William and Mary, 1689. (In commission.) 1689. 1693. (K.) 1697. (C.) Somers. 1689. Shrewsbury and Nottingham. 1700. (K.) Sir Nathan Wright. 1694. Shrewsbury and Trenchard. 1695. Shrewsbury and Trumbull. 1700. Vernon and Hedges. 1701. Vernon and Manchester. OTHER OFFICIALS IN THE CHANCELLORS OF THE 1689. Lord Delamere. 1695. Montagu. 1699. Smith. 1701. Boyle. PRESIDENTS OF THE FIRST LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY. 1689. Carmarthen(made Duke 1689. Admiral Herbert (created Earl of Leeds 1694). 1699. Pembroke. 1702. Jan. Somerset. of Torrington). 1690. Pembroke. 1692. Cornwallis. 1693. Falkland. 1694. Admiral Russell. 1699. Bridgwater. 1701. Pembroke (Lord High Admiral). [From the reign of Anne the 1673. Latimer (created Earl of Danby 1674). 1670. Lord Berkeley of Stratton (Lord-Lieutenant). 1679. March. Essex (First Lord of the 1672. Earl of Essex 1677. Duke of Ormond 1685. Rochester (Lord High Treasurer). 1687. Belasyse (First Lord). 1685. Earl of Clarendon 1689. Monmouth (formerly Mordaunt, after- 1692-1693. Lord Sydney Nov. Godolphin 1697. Montagu 1699. Tankerville 1700. Godolphin 1701. Carlisle APPENDIX II. The HOUSE OF LORDS, its Members and their Numbers at different times from 1295 to the present day. APPENDIX III. The HOUSE OF COMMONS, its Members, their Numbers and Distribution at different times from the reign of Edward I. to the present day. In the reign of Edward I. thirty-seven counties returned two members each, the unrepresented counties being Durham, Cheshire, and Monmouthshire. The number of cities and boroughs that returned members is given as 166, so that the total number of members would be 406; but the towns varied, and the number of members elected in any particular Parliament would be considerably less than this. The names of 286 members are preserved for the Parliament of 1295, and the returns for the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk with their boroughs have been lost; the probable number of members in that year was 306. During succeeding reigns many boroughs ceased to return members, and the total number had fallen below 300 in Edward IV.'s reign. Every English city and borough previous to the Reform Bill of 1832 returned two members, except Monmouth (enfranchised by Henry VIII.), Abingdon, Banbury, and Higham Ferrers enfranchised by Mary), and Bewdley (enfranchised by James I.), which returned one member each; and London, which from the time of Edward II. has sent four members. Elizabeth united the boroughs of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, giving them a representation of four nembers conjointly instead of two each. The following is a table of the distribution of seats it various periods, beginning with the reign of Edward IV. : |