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 636 APPENDIX D 1615/6. Jan. 3. Sir Thomas Lake, till Feb. 1618/9 (joint with Winwood) 1617/8. Jan. 8. Sir Robert Naunton, till Jan. 1622/3 {vice Winwood) 1 61 8/9. Feb. 16. Sir George Calvert, afterwards Lord Baltimore, till Jan. 1624/5 (vice Lake) 1622/3. Jan. 14. Sir Edward Conway, afterwards Viscount Conway, till Dec. 1628 (vice Naunton) 1624/5. Feb. 9. Sir Albertus Morton, till his death 6 Sep. 1625 (wc<r Calvert) 1625. Sep. 9. Sir John Coke, till Feb. i639/4o('') (vice Morton) 1628. Dec. 14. Dudley (Carleton), Viscount Dorchester, till his death 15 Feb. 163 1/2 (vice Conway) 1632. June 15. Sir Francis Windebank, till Dec. 1640 (vice Dorchester) 1639/40. Feb. 3. Sir Henry Vane, till Dec. 1641 (vice Coke) 1 64 1. Nov. 27. Sir Edward Nicholas, left England in 1646, re- appointed by Charles II Sep. 1654, till Oct. 1662 (vice Windebank) 164.1 Jl. Jan. 8. Lucius (Cary), Viscount Falkland, till his death 20 Sep. 1643 ('^"^^ Vane) 1643. Sep. 28. George, Lord Digby, afterwards Earl of Bristol, till 1645 (vice Falkland) 1660. June Sir William Morice, till Sep. 1668 (joint with Nicholas) 1662. Oct. 2. Sir Henry Bennet, afterwards Earl of Arlington, till Sep. 1674 (vice Nicholas) It has not been possible to discriminate with certainty between the provinces of the Secretaries earlier than 1668, from which time Arlington appears to have had charge of the Southern department, but it would seem that the provinces were not so sharply defined then as at a later date. Trevor, Coventry, Williamson and Sunderland were successively Secretaries for the North. Coventry and Sunderland, in accordance with what became an almost regular custom, appear to have been transferred to the South on becoming senior of the two Secretaries. Jenkins was certainly at the Northern department from 1680 to 168 1 when he succeeded Sunderland in the Southern: this is proved by a letter of Jenkins to the Prince of Orange dated 4 Feb. 1 680/1, printed in Groen van Prinsterer, Archives de la Maison d' Orange-Nassau, series ii, vol. 5, p. 478, where is the first explicit mention of either " North " or " South " as the designation of a Secretary's province which I have found. The Preston correspondence in the Appendix to the Historical MSS. Commission 7th Report shows con- clusively that Sunderland (previously Secretary for the Northern province) (*) The Earl of Northumberland, in a letter recording his resignation in 1640, contemptuously describes him as "an old Noddy."