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204 PREAUDIENCE AND PRECEDENCE OVER ALL HIS MAJESTYS COUNSEL.

,—Privy Seal, Westminster, July 9,—patent. Sept 14, 1615.—Life.—13 Jac. I.—Being a man learned in his profession, of good conformity in his religion, and otherwise for his life and manner well reported of, was admitted one of the King's counsel at law, and the rather because we understand (says the King) that good and necessary use may be made of his service there by reason of his knowledge of that country which the rest of our learned counsel there do want. In this grant is contained a clause of place and precedence in the King's courts or elsewhere, and preaudience, but with a proviso that the same should not derogate from any office before granted by the King or his predecessors.—After this no grants of preaudience appear until the close of George the Second's reign; however, all who retired from the office of Attorney-General or Prime Sergeant without accepting any higher place, generally had grants of preaudience.

,—Privy Seal, Kensington, Oct. 23,—patent, Nov. 6, 1755.—Pleasure. By this patent he had a grant of preaudience, place and precedence of his Majesty's Prime Sergeant-at-Law, Attorney-General, and Solicitor-General, and all his Majesty's counsel, with full liberty of sitting and