Excerpt from The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria Scanty Materials for a Memoir of Lord Chancellor Bowes, 91. Birth - Native of Surrey, 91. Called to the Bar in England and Ireland, 91. Serjeant, 91. Obtains a Seat in the House of Commons, 91. Solicitor-general in 1730, 92. Attorney-general and Chief Baron - Puisne Barons, 92. Bumper Squire Jones, 93. Remarkable Trial, 93. Romantic Story of James Annesley, Lord Altham, 94. Plaintiff's Counsel, 97. Defendant's Counsel, 98. Defendant denies the Legitimacy of the Plaintiff - The Charge to the Jury, 98. Verdict for the Plaintiff - Writ of Error - and Death of James Annesley, 98. Chief Baron named for Great Seal, 98. Lord Mansfield also Spoken of, 99. Bowes Lord Chancellor, 99. Cause List in Arrear, 99. Decree against Dean of Down, 99. The Dean Declines to Meet the Lord Chancellor, 100. The Lords' Address to the Duke of Bedford, 100. Toleration to Catholics, 101. Registra tion of Priests, 101. Opposed by the Lord Chancellor, 101. Discussed before Privy Council, 102. The Duke tries to effect Reforms, 102. The Duchess of Bedford, 102. Richard Rigby, the Viceroy's Secretary, 102. A Managing Viceroy, 102. Questions for Answers, 103. Reply of the Speaker, 103. The attorney-general, 104. The solicitor-general, 104. Postmaster-general, 104. The Ministry Defeated, 104. Complaints of the Viceroy, 104. Repeal of Poyning's Law Spoken of, 105. Social Habits of the Irish Secretary, 105. Rigby's Reply, 105. The Chancellor and Rigby, 106. Duties as Speaker of the Lords Easy, 106. Contrast presented by the Commons, 106. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.