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2iid. A list of the Offices and Officers of the Exchequer of 

 Chester, as thoy were in the year 1603. 



.3rd. A bst of the Chamberlains and Justices of Chester 

 from 1828 to 1603. This supplies deficiencies in Mr. 

 Orraerod's List (History of Cheshire), and, in conjunction with 

 Serjeant Marshall's MS. list now in the public Record Office, 

 serves to form a complete list down to the abolition of the 

 Palatinate Indicature in 1880. 



4th. A Warrant of Queen Elizabeth for the enrolling in 

 Chancery, and the Exemplification of the Opinion of several of 

 the Judges on the exclusive Jurisdiction of the Exchequer 

 Court of Chester, as the Chancery of the Palatinate, delivered 

 to the Queen 10th Eebruary, 1568. This opinion is given at 

 length by Coke, in his 4th Institute, cap. 87, wherein, after a 

 brief notice of the origin of the Palatinate, etc., occurs the 

 following passage : — 



" Witliin this County Palatine, and the County of the City 

 " of Chester, there is and antiently hath been a principal 

 " Officer, called the Chamberlain of Chester, who hath, and 

 " time out of mind hath had, the Jurisdiction of a Chancelour; 

 " and the Court of Exchequer at Chester is and time out of 

 '^ mind of man hath been the Chancery Court for the said 

 "County Palatine, whereof the Chamberlain of Chester is 

 *' Judge in Equity. He is also Judge of matters at the com- 

 *' mon law within the said County, as in the Court of Chancery 

 " at Westminster ; for this Court of Chancery is a mixt court." 



" There is also a Vice Chamberlain, which is the Deputy of 

 " the Chamberlain. And there is within the same a Justice, 

 " called the Justice of Chester, who hath Jurisdiction to hear 

 " and determine matters of the crown, and of common pleas. 

 "Of fines and recoveries levied and sutfered, as well within 

 " the County Palatine of Chester as of the City of Chester, 

 "see the Statutes of 2d Elizabeth 6 c. 28 and 48 Eliz : 

 "cap. 15.'' 



He then proceeds to give the Opinion of the Judges in 



