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 APPENDIX D 619 1 50 1. June 25. Thomas (Howard), Earl of Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk 1522. Dec. 4. Thomas (Howard), Earl of Surrey, (in 1524 succeeded as Duke of Norfolk) 1546/7. Feb. 10. Edward (Seymour), Duke of Somerset 1549/50. Feb. 3. William (Powlett), Earl of Wiltshire, afterwards Marquess of Winchester, till his death 10 Mar. 1571/2 1572. Sep. 15. William (Cecil), Lord Burghley, till his death 4 Aug. 1598 1599. May 15. Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, afterwards Earl of Dorset, till his death 19 Apr. 1608 1608. May 4. Robert (Cecil), Earl of Salisbury, till his death 24 May 1 61 2 1612 to 1614. In Commission (also 1 61 8 to 1620, 1635 to ^^S^j 1 64 1 to 1642 (*) 1 6 14. July II. Thomas (Howard), Earl of Suffolk, till July 1618 1620. Dec. 14. Henry (Montagu), Viscount Mandeville, after- wards Earl of Manchester 1 62 1. Sep. 30. Lionel, Lord Cranfield, afterwards Earl of Middlesex 1624. Dec. 1 1. Sir James Ley, afterwards Earl of Marlborough 1628. July 15. Richard, Lord Weston, afterwards Earl of Port- land, till his death 13 Mar. 1634/5 1643. Oct. 3. Francis, Lord Cottington 1660. June 19. Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, First Lord of the Treasury 1660. Sep. 8. Thomas (Wriothesley), Earl of Southampton, Lord High Treasurer till his death, 16 May 1667 1667. June I. George (Monck), Duke of Albemarle, First Lord of the Treasury till his death, 3 Jan. 1 669/70 C") (^) Henry (Howard), Earl of Northampton, was placed first in the Commission dated 16 June 161 2. Thomas (Egerton), Lord Ellesmere, (Lord Chancellor), was placed first in the Commission dated 24 June 1613/4. Archbishop Abbot of Canterbury was placed first in the Commission dated 21 July 1 61 8. Archbishop Laud was placed first in the Commission dated 15 March 1634/5. Edward, Lord Lyttelton, (Lord Chancellor), was placed first in the Commission dated 21 May 1 64 1. C') On his death no new Commission was issued, and Lord Ashley, whose name followed his in the Commission of 1667 became the senior member of the Board. Until the i8th century the First Lord of the Treasury, when the office was in commission, was always the man of highest rank on the Board, and the position had per se none of the importance which afterwards became attached to it.