rity of the rights and liberties of his people, who are the greatest as well as the freest people on the face of the earth, merely because their sovereigns are obliged to live in subjection to the written laws of the land. The title of grace was first given to our kings about the time of Henry IV., and that of majesty first to Henry VIII. The title of his present Majesty is, GEORGE the Third, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Sovereign of the Orders of the Garter, Thistle, Bath, and St. Patrick; Duke and Elector of Brunswick Lunenburg, Bishop of Osnaburgh, and Arch Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire. LORD LORD CHANCELLOR. THE Lord High Chancellor of England is the first lay person of the realm in all civil affairs, next after the king and princes of the blood. He is the chief administrator of justice in the kingdom; and presides over the vast and extensive jurisdiction of the court of chancery. All other justices are tied to the strict letter of the law; but the chancellor has the king's absolute power to mitigate its rigour, to govern his judgment by the law of nature and conscience, and to order all things according to equity. The The offices of lord high chancellor and lord keeper, by a statute of Queen Elizabeth in 1563, were made one. Till that time they were different, and frequently subsisted at the same time in different persons. The keeper was created by the delivery of the great seal; but the lord chancellor was made by patent: though now that he has the keeper's office, the delivery of the seal is his 'appointment. By his office he is a privy counsellor, as well as speaker of the house of lords; and superior, in point of precedency, to every temporal peer. To him belongs the appointment of all justices of the peace throughout the kingdom. He is visitor, in the king's right, of all hospitals and colleges of royal foundation; |