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 A TABLE OF PRECEDENCY. AMONG MEN. Bishop of Meath, and then all ether Bishops of Ireland, according to their Seniority of Consecration, e Barons, according to their Patents./ Speaker of the House of Commons. Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal (when existing). Treasurer "| Comptroller > of the Household. Master of the Horse J Secretaries of State (being under the degree of Baron.) Eldest Sons of Viscounts. Younger Sons of Earls. Eldest Sons of Barons. Knights of the Garter, the Thistle, and St. Patrick (being Peers) . Privy Councillors. Chancellor of the Exchequer. Chancellor ot the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. Master of the Rolls. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Judge Ordinary. Lords Justices of Chancery. Vice Chancellors. Judges of the Queen's Bench i according Judges of the Common Pleas j> to date of Barons of the Exchequer I appointment Judge of the Court of Probate. Bannerets, made by the Sovereign in person under the Royal Standard, displayed in an Army Royal in open war. Younger Sons of Viscounts. Younger Sons of Barons. Baronets, according to date of Patent. Bannerets not made by the Sovereign in person. Knights Grand Crosses of the Bath. Knights of the Star of India. Knights Grand Crosses of St. Michael and St. George. Knights Commanders of the Bath, and other Orders. Knights Bachelors. Companions of the Order of the Bath, and other Orders. Esquires (those of the Bath and by Creation, are allowed precedence of all others). Gentlemen (entitled to bear arms). AMONG WOMKN. Maids of Honour. Wives of the Younger Sons of Viscounts. Wives of the Younger Sons of Barons. Wives of Baronets. Wives of Bannerets / if not Bannerets Royal). Wives of Knights of the Thistle. Wives of Knight Grand Crosses of the Bath. Wives of Knights of St. Patrick. Wives of Knights Grand Crosses of St. Michael and St. George. Wives of Knights Commanders of the Bath. Wivfes of Knights Commanders of St. Michael and S'. George. Wives of Knights Bachelors. Wives of Companions of the Bath. Wives of Companions of St. Michael and St. George. Wives and Daughters of Esquires : viz. Wives of the Ernest Sons of the Younger Sons of Peers. Daughters of the Eldest Sons of the Younger Sons of Peers. Wives of Baronets' Eldest Sons. Daughters of Baronets. Wives of Bannerets' Eldest Sons. Daughters of Bannerets. Wives of Eldest Sons of Knights of the Garter. Daughters of Knights of the Garter. Wives of the Eldest Sons of Knights Grand Crosses of the Bath, and of St. Michael and St. George, and Wives of the eldest Sons of other Knights of the said Orders, respectively. Daughters of said Knights. Wives of the Eldest Sons of Knights Bachelors. Daughters of Knights Bachelors. Wives of the Younger Sons of the Younger Sons of Peers. Daughters of the Younger Sons of the Younger Sons of Peers. Wives of Baronets' Younger Sons. Wives of Bannerets' Younger Sons. Wives of the Younger Sons of Knights of the Bath, and St. Michael and St. George respectively. Wives of the Younger Sons of Knights Bachelors. Wives of Gentlemen. Daughters of Gentlemen. e By the Irish Church Act of 1869. / But if any Peer be the Principal Secretary of State, he shall be placed above all other Peers of his degree, not having any of the great offices before mentioned. By the 23rd Article of the Union of Scotland, which was confirmed by statute 5th Anne, cap. 1, all Peers of Scotland shall be Peers of Great Britain, and have rank next after the Peers of the like degree in England at the time of the Union, which commenced the 1st of May, 1707, and before all Peers of Great Britain of the same degree created after the Union. By the Act for the Union of Ireland, 39 and 40 Geo. III. cap. 67, it is enacted, " The Lords of Parliament ou the part of Ireland shall have the same privileges as the Lords on the