The younger sons of Dukes.
Viscounts according to their patents.
The eldest sons of Earls.

The younger sons of Marquises.
Bishop of London.

Bishop of Durham.

Bishop of Winchester.

All other Bishops according to seniority of consecration.
* Barons according to their patents.
Speaker of the House of Commons.
Commissioners of the Great Seal.
The Treasurer of the Household.
The Comptroller of the Household.
Master of the Horse.

The Vice Chamberlain.

Secretary of State, being under the degree of Baron.
The eldest sons of Viscounts.

The younger sons of Earls.

The eldest sons of Barons.
Knights of the Garter (if not nobles).†
Privy Councillors (ditto).

* Any peer, being principal secretary of state, shall take precedence of all other peers of his degree. But the priority of signing treaties, or instruments, by public ministers, is always enjoyed by rank of place, and not by title.

It was confirmed by stat. 5 Anne, chap. 8, That all peers of Scotland shall be peers of Great Britain, and have rank next after the peers of the same degree in England, at the date of the union, May 1, 1707. By Act 39 & 40 Geo. III. cap. 67, it is enacted, That the lords of Parliament on the part of Ireland shall have the same privileges as the lords of Great Britain; and all the lords spiritual of Ireland shall rank next after the lords spiritual of Great Britain, and shall enjoy the same privileges, except that of sitting in the House of Lords. The temporal peers of Ireland have rank next after the peers of the same rank in Great Britain created before the union. All peerages of Ireland and Great Britain created since the union have rank according to creation, and are considered in all respects as peerages of the United Kingdom, and enjoy the same privileges, excepting those peers of Ireland who have not sittings in the House of Lords.

+ Knights of the Thistle and of St. Patrick have no precedence, under the statutes of their orders, and would be placed according to their rank irrespective of their knighthood.

Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster.
Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
Master of the Rolls.

Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
Vice-Chancellor.

Judges and Barons of the degree of the Coif of the said Courts according to seniority, and

Judges of the Court of Review.

Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy.

Bannerets made under the Royal banner, in open war, and the
King or Prince of Wales personally present.
The younger sons of Viscounts.

The youngers sons of Barons.
Baronets according to their patents.
Bannerets not made by the King himself in person.
Knights Grand Crosses of the Bath.

Knights Grand Crosses of St. Michael and St. George.
Knights Commanders of the Bath.

Knights Commanders of St. Michael and St. George.
Knights Bachelors.
Companions of the Bath.

Companions of St. Michael and St. George.
Eldest sons of the younger sons of Peers.
The eldest sons of Baronets.

The eldest sons of Bannerets.

The eldest sons of Knights of the Garter.
The eldest sons of Knights Bachelors.
The younger sons of Baronets.
Esquires by creation.
Esquires by office.

Gentlemen entitled to bear arms.

Clergymen, Barristers at Law, Officers in the Navy and Army who are Gentlemen by profession.

Table of Precedency among Women.

THE QUEEN (Regnant or Consort, as the case may be). The Queen Dowager.

Princess of Wales.

Princesses, daughters of the King or Queen Regnant. Princesses and Duchesses, wives of the King's or Queen Regnant's younger sons.

King's or Queen Regnant's granddaughters. Wives of the King's or Queen Regnant's grandsons. King's sisters.

Wives of the King's or Queen Regnant's brothers.
The King's aunts

Wives of the King's uncles.

Daughters of the King's or Queen Regnant's brothers' of sisters' sons.

Wives of the King's nephews.
Duchesses.

Marchionesses.

Wives of the eldest sons of Dukes.
Daughters of Dukes.
Countesses.

Wives of the eldest sons of Marquises.
Daughters of Marquises.

Wives of the younger sons of Dukes.
Viscountesses.

Wives of the younger sons of Marquises.
Baronesses.

Wives of the eldest sons of Viscounts.
Daughters of Viscounts.

Wives of the younger sons of Earls.
Wives of the eldest sons of Barons.
Daughters of Barons.

Wives of Knights of the Garter.
Wives of Bannerets made by the King in person.
Wives of the younger sons of Viscounts.
Wives of the younger sons of Barons.

Wives of Baronets.

Wives of Bannerets not made by the King in person.
Wives of Knights Grand Crosses of the Bath.

Wives of Knights Grand Crosses of St. Michael and St. George.
Wives of Knights Commanders of the Bath.

Wives of Knights Commanders of St. Michael and St. George. Wives of Knights Bachelors.

Wives of Companions of the Bath.

Wives of Companions of St. Michael and St. George.
Wives of the eldest sons of the younger sons of Peers.
Daughters of the younger sons of Peers.
Wives of the eldest sons of Baronets.
Daughters of Baronets.

Wives of the eldest sons of Knights of the Garter.
Wives of the eldest sons of Bannerets.
Wives of the eldest sons of Knights Bachelors.
Daughters of Knights Bachelors.
Wives of the younger sons of Baronets.
Wives of Esquires.

Wives of Gentlemen.

Wives of Clergymen, Barristers at Law, and Officers in the

Navy and Army.

The Great Officers of State, and of
the Royal Household.

THE LORD HIGH STEWARD.

THE power and influence of the lord high steward, anciently the first great officer of state, were in former times so exorbitant, that after the elevation of Henry of Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, to the throne, when the office came into the hands of the crown, it was not thought prudent to intrust it again in the person of a subject. Since that time, therefore, there has not been any lord high steward in England, except to officiate pro tempore at a coronation, or for the arraignment of a peer or peeress for a capital crime.

THE LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR.

Formerly the second, now the first, great officer of the crown, is the lord high chancellor, or keeper of the great seal, which are the same in authority, power, and precedence. They are appointed by the sovereign's delivery of the great seal to them, and by taking the oath of office. They differ only in this point that the lord chancellor has also letters patent, whereas the lord keeper has none. He is an officer of very great power, no patents, writs, or grants being valid, until he affixes the great seal thereto.

Among the many great prerogatives of his office, he has a power to judge according to equity, conscience,