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Excerpt from The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Judicial, Military, Naval, and Municipal, From the Earliest Periods to the Present Time, Compiled Chiefly From the Records of the Public Officers Of the numerous writers that have sprung up within the past half-century, we have, of course, availed ourselves. We have not gone, for instance, to dugdale for our list of the Lord Chancellors. The indefatigable antiquary, Mr. 'hardy, of the Tower, has recently produced, after much laborious research, a roll of the Lord Chan cellors, the most accurate that has ever appeared, and of this roll. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.