THE LORD CHANCELLORS

AND

KEEPERS OF THE GREAT SEAL

OF

IRELAND.

LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARR AND PARLIAMENT STREET

Rec. July 26, 1900.

AUTHOR OF RECOLLECTIONS OF THE IRISH BAR''THE BAR LIFE OF O'CONNELL' ETC.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

IRE 908.7 OFL

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

LIFE OF LORD CHANCELLOR BRODRICK, VISCOUNT MIDLETON, FROM HIS

BIRTH TILL THE ATTEMPT TO REPEAL THE TEST ACT IN 1717.

Earl of Whar-

Irish Roman

The Brodricks, page 1. Sir St. John Brodrick, 1. Midleton, 2. St. John Brodrick's

Marriage, 2. Birth of Alan, 3. A Practising Barrister, 3. The Brodricks

Attainted, 3. King's Serjeant, 3. Solicitor-General, 3. Member for Cork

City, 3. Elected Speaker-His Speech, 3. Lord Chancellor's Speech in ap-

proval, 4. The Speaker a Friend to Toleration-Baneful effects of Intolerance,

4. Letter to Earl of Nottingham, 5. Treatment of the Presbyterians, 5.

Case, and Opinion of Mr. Brodrick, 5. Loses his Office, 5. Continues Speaker,

6. Attorney-General, 6. Arrival of the Earl of Pembroke, 6. The Viceroy

unable to procure the Repeal of the Test Act, 7. Letter from Mr. Doddington,

7. Brodrick's Suggestion, 7. Recall of Earl of Pembroke, 7.

ton Lord Lieutenant, 7. Dean Swift supports the Test, 7.

Catholics in 1707, 8. Addison-His Deficiency as an Orator, 8. Brodrick

Knighted-and Chief Justice, 9. Called to the House of Lords, 9. Thanks from

the Commons-and Reply, 9. Removed from Chief Justiceship, 10. Parlia-

ment Dissolved, 10. Brodrick M.P. and Speaker, 10. Speech-Duties of the

Speaker, 10. His Experience, and Expectations, 11. Accession of George I.,

12. Brodrick Lord Chancellor, with a Peerage, 12. Viscount Midleton, 12.

Presbyterians endeavour to Repeal the Test, 12. Letter from the Viceroy, 13.

Repeal not Advisable-Consulted Lord Chancellor and Speaker, 13. Lord

Chancellor and his Son, 14. The Attempt abandoned, 14. The first Sir Robert

Peel and his Son, 14.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

LIFE OF LORD CHANCELLOR LORD MIDLETON-CONCLUDED.

Cause of Sherlock v. Annesley-Decree, 15. Order by Irish House of Lords
Reversed by English House of Lords, 15. Petition to Irish Lords-Call of the
House, 16. Resolutions and Report, 16. Order to High Sheriff-Injunction--
Refusal by the High Sheriff, 16. The Sheriff Fined, 17. He Petitions the Irish