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1719 or 1720. Samuel Powell, appointed and died between 3 Nov., 1719, and 3 Nov., 1720. Never attended.

1720. Mark Milbanke. 3 Nov., 1720.

1722. Gilbert East, 3 Nov.. 1722.

1727. John Highmore. 3 Nov., 1727.

1728. Henry Wood. 11 Feb., 1728. 1735. Henry Simon. 3 Nov.. 1735. 1744. John'Knottesford. 3 Nov., 1744. 1747. John Close. 3 Nov., 1718. 1772. Fletcher Rigge. 12 Nov., 1772.

1829. John Edward George Bayley, afterwards 2nd Baronet. Born 1793, died 23 Dec., 1871. 23 Jan., 1830. 1871. Edward Bromley.

(In 1876 the Circuit was rearranged, and Edward Bromley became Clerk of Assize on the then created North - Eastern Circuit.)

Thomas Starkie Shuttleworth, for the whole Circuit except the Civil business of the County of Lancaster, for which Thomas Edmund Paget, late Protho- notary for the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, was made Clerk of Assize. See Order in Council, 5 Feb., 1876.

Thomas Moss Shuttleworth.

Sir Herbert Stephen, 2nd Baronet.

1876.

1877. 1889.

NORTH-EASTERN CIRCUIT.

(Created by Order in Council of 5 Feb., 1876.)

1876. Edward Bromley, then Clerk of Assize on the Northern Circuit. By the Order in Council he was appointed to act for the whole of the newly created Circuit except for the County of Durham ; and for that County John Wetherell Hays, hitherto Clerk of the Crown for the same County, was made Clerk of Assize for Criminal business, and William C. Ward, hitherto Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Durham, was made Clerk of Assize for Civil business.

1900. Claude Fitzroy Wade, appointed in October.

1678. 1679. 1689.

1710. 1718.

1763. 1801.

1846.

1855.

1889.

1908.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.

Henry Parker, then existing.

Samuel Floyer. 3 Nov., 1679.

Thomas Breton. " Resined." 4 1689.

Thomas Mulso. Resigned. 3 Nov..

Thomas Mulso, jun., his son. 3 1719.

Meredith Price. 12 Nov., 1764.

John Bellamy. 'Appointed 23 Nov. 23 Oct., 1846. 12 Nov., 1812.

Hon. Charles Robert Claude Wilde. 1 Nov., 181C ; resigned on his succeed- ing as 2nd Lord Truro, 11 Nov., 1855; died 28 March, 1891. 12 Nov., 1846.

Edward Archer Wilde. Died June, 1889.

James Llewellyn Mathews. Died 15 Dec. 1907.

Frederick William Grantham. Appointed 15 Jan.

Nov.,

1710. Nov.,

died

Born

WESTERN CIRCUIT.

1678. 1690.

Re-

1812. 1836. 1864. 1868. 1888.

1911.

Lawrence Swanton, then existing, signed.

Francis Swanton, his nephew. 3 Nov., 1690.

Harry Parker. 3 Nov., 1704.

Christopher Hawkins. 3 Nov., 1721.

Richard Maddock. 3 Nov., 1743.

John Follett. Died before 13 April, 1812. 12 Nov., 1770.

Thomas Chambre. 17 June, 1813.

Sidney Gurney. 15 Feb., 1837.

Thomas Edward Chitty.

William Channell Bovill.

James Read, previously Clerk of Indict- ments.

Arthur Willoughby Trevelyan Channell,. previously Associate on the South- Eastern Circuit. Appointed 18 May.

NORTH WALES AND CHESTER DIVISION OP THE. NORTH AND SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT.

1830. John Lloyd, then existing. 1835. Edward Weston Lloyd. 1852. Henry Linwood Strong. 1858. Henry Crompton. Resigned. 1901. David Henry Crompton. Resigned.. 1909. Charles Stubbs, LL.D. (No Clerk of Assize on this Circuit was ever a member of the Society of the Clerks of Assize. )

SOUTH WALES AND CHESTER DIVISION OF THE. NORTH AND SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT.

1830.

1836.

1839.

1885. 1888.

1890.

T. Jones. (Previous to 1830 the Welsh Judges went their own Circuits, and the- Circuit Officers were under the Princi- pality of Wales. Mr. Jones, who was nicknamed " Caliban " (see Sir J. Ar- nould's ' Memoir of Lord Denman,' vol. ii. p. 39), is described in the Law Lists as " Mr.," whereas all other officers are described as " Esquire." He was probably the T. Jones who was Deputy to Sir Henry Mathias, Protho- notary and Clerk of the Crown of the South' Wales Circuit before the changes of 1830.)

Hon. Richard Denman. In 1839 ap- pointed Clerk of Assize on the Home- Circuit. 15 June, 1837.

Henry Halford Vaughan. Born 1811 ; died 19 April, 1885. ' D.N.B/ 26 May, 1842.

Charles Sumner Maine.

James Kenneth Stephen. Died 3 Feb.. 1892. ' D.N.B.'

Hon. Stephen William Buchanan Coleridge.

CLERKS OF THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. On 12 Nov., 1835, it was

" unanimously agreed that the Clerk of the Central Criminal Court for the time being should be eligible to be admitted into the Society of~ the Clerks of Assize, and be considered as a Clerk of Assize on his admittance and during the continuance of his office, but no longer ; and that John Clark, the present Clerk of the Central Criminal Court, should be elected accordingly."