Mode of sitting in the house of Lord High Treasurer............ 274 Chancellor of the Exchequer... 275 The Budget........................... ib. Secretaries of State for the Lord High Admiral .............. 287 Board of Admiralty ............... 288 Earl Marshal of England......... 291 The Heralds' College, or Col- ...... ib. lege of Arms ...................... 295 The Heralds of Scotland......... 298 The Office of Arms in Ireland.. 300 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland...... 306 List of officers who are changed Judge ................................. 312 Lord High Chancellor ............ 316 Lord High Steward............. 319 Bench........................................................................... 323 PREFACE. FAMILY histories and personal memoirs of the titled orders have at all times been so favourably received by the public, that a volume describing and illustrating the nature, characteristics, and extent of the honours which those classes possess, cannot fail to be readily appreciated, and generally acceptable. Peerages and similar works contain frequent references to the peculiar privileges and functions of the high officers of state, as well as to numerous incidents immediately affecting those dignities which the personages noticed in such works enjoy. Much of the honour also which attaches to the living objects of our esteem is to be traced to the influence of official station, as well as to the hereditary or other distinctions which such persons possess; and it has, therefore, long been considered that a com |