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CONTENTS
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| The Great Charter : the Bench, or Common Bench, or Court of Common Pleas, and the Court before the King himself, or King's Bench | 17 |
| The Justices of Assise: their jurisdiction distinct from and inferior to that of the Justices in Eyre | 18 |
| The Chancellor and his office; Original Writs; Patents, Charters, and Writs Close | 19 |
| Constitution of the Court of Chancery | 20 |
| The Chancery an office of the Parliament | 20 |
| Original meaning of 'Parliament': the King in his Council in his Parliament | 20 |
| Separation of the Council from the Parliament: its importance | 21 |
| The records of the Council not all in one place | 21 |
| Jurisdiction of the Council : the Star Chamber | 21 |
| Appeal to the King in Council | 22 |
| Judicial Committee of the Privy Council | 22 |
| Antiquity of the principle of appointing Committees | 22 |
| Committee of Council relating to trade, or 'Board of Trade' | 22 |
| Adaptation, in the Board of Trade, of the old constitution to a new order of things | 23 |
| Committee of Council on Education, now the 'Board of Education' | 23 |
| Board of Agriculture and Fisheries | 24 |
| The Chancellor and the Great Seal: the Chancellor as Secretary | 24 |
| The Privy Seal and Privy Signet | 25 |
| The King's Secretary takes over the Chancellor's secretarial duties | 25 |
| Becomes 'Principal Secretary of State' | 25 |
| 'The Secretary of State' and 'The Secretaries of State' | 26 |
| The State Paper Office and other repositories of State Papers | 26 |
| The five Principal Secretaries of State—Home, Foreign, War, Colonial, and Indian | 27 |
