hear causes in the event of the death or absence of the Chancellor,—patent, 3 March,—Inr. 25 March, 1769.—9 Geo. III. 1a p. m. 41 d. R. 23.
1780. A King's Letter appointing Commissioners of the Great Seal, 4 July,—patent, 6 Sept.,—20 Geo. III. 4a p. m. 27 f. R. 61.
1788. The Abp. of Dublin, Sir Hugh Carleton, Chief Justice of the Conmion Pleas, and Sir Samuel Bradstreet, one of the Justices of the King's Bench, Commissioners,—Privy Seal, St. James's, 9 June,—patent, 14 July,—Inr. 15 July, 1788.—28. 3a p. m. 39. d. R. 99.
Same Commissioners,—Lord Lifford deceased,—Dublin, 5 May 1789.—29 Geo. III. 2a p. m. 16. 19 d. R. 101. Memorandum from the Hanaper Records : Lord Lifford died at his house in Sackville-street, on Tuesday, 28 April, 1789. The same evening the Great Seal was taken by his son, Mr. Serjeant Hewitt, to the Lord Lieutenant at the Castle, and all business was postponed until Tuesday the 5 May following, when the Commissioners being immediately sworn into office, the Great Seal, purse, and patent were delivered to them by the L. L., but his Grace the Abp. kept the Seal.
John Fitzgibbon, Attorney General,—Lord Lifford deceased,—Privy Seal, St. James's, 13 June,—patent, 20 June, Inr. 23 June, 1789.—29 Geo. III. 3a p. m. 23. 24. f. R. 102.
Abp. of Dublin, Lord Clonmel, and Lord Carle-
