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the Lord Lieutenant, the Lord High Chancellor, and Treasurer, with 

 tables from the same and from Howard's book on the Exchequer. Then 

 follows " A List (in Lodge's mode) of all the officers noticed on the 

 patent rolls of Chancery in Ireland, and also on the patent rolls of 

 Chancery in England, from 1760 to 1826 ;" but a memorandum 

 added says, " the Rolls and Indices not having been made up be- 

 yond the year 1811, so as to be conveniently accessible at the time 

 of the latest searches made for this report, in 1818, the subsequent 

 appointments on the rolls of Chancery, both in England and Ireland, 

 from that year to the 7th of the King, will be given in a future 

 appendix or supplementary part," which, however, does not any where 

 make itself manifest ; scattered additions to a later period are how- 

 ever given from the King's Letter Book. It was in the compilation 

 of this list, we presume, that Mr. Lascelles was employed by the 

 Irish Record Commissioners, and to their credit be it stated, that it 

 is the only part of the work, not Lodge's, that bears any respectable 

 face. 



Part IV A strange wilderness of rugged Latin appears to be 

 brought down to the year 1359 ; but here a sudden break throws us 

 upon nearly the whole of Prynne's "Animadversions, Amendments, and 

 Explanations of the Fourth Part of the Institutes," relating to Ire- 

 land; after which are inserted dreary extracts from Rymer's Foedera, 

 occupying nearly a hundred pages ; and at the end are desultory and 

 irrelevant memoranda relating to the time of Charles II., from papers 

 in the Hanaper office at Dublin. Thus terminates the first woeful 

 volume, of about eight hundred and seventy pages. 



Part V., and volume II., commence with an abridgment of Harris 

 and Ware's lists and memoirs of the bishops of each diocese in Ire- 

 land ; but in lieu of tracing the sees from their foundation, as in the 

 original work, Mr. Lascelles starts from the year 1150; a mere list of 

 the succeeding prelates down to the year 1820, follows, and to this is 

 subjoined a supplement of dry particulars concerning the see since the 

 Reformation, from the Patent Rolls of Chancery in Ireland. Next 

 we are favoured with all the letter-press of Dr. Beaufort's ecclesiastical 

 map of Ireland, stating the extent, &c. of each see ; followed by notes 

 of royal presentations, as well to common livings, as to dignities 

 remaining on record on the Patent Rolls of Chancery, from the 

 Reformation to the present time; consisting, so far as 1760, of 

 nothing but unclassified items in the chronological order in which 

 they necessarily occur ; but subsequently to that period arranged 

 under the heads of dioceses, parishes, and dignities : for this we 

 suppose there was some particular facility. Next come notes of 

 grants of glebe lands, and the union and separation of parishes since 

 the same periods, and in the same disorder as the matter immediately 

 preceding ; and then, with the exception of the introductory matter, 

 and some interspersed in the way of memoranda, is inserted, at full 

 length, Erck's Ecclesiastical Register of Ireland, which occupies 52 

 of Mr. Lascelles' enormously valuable pages. Appended are par- 

 liamentary papers presenting tables of the unbeneficed curates of the 

 established church. To these succeeds the table of dissolved mo- 

 nasteries given in Harris's edition of Ware ; but supposing this and 



