240 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1660- 



D. of Gloucester. Comes Scarsdale. 



Marq. of Winton. Comes Berks. 



Marq. of Dorcester. Comes Elvers. 



L. Steward. Viscount Stafford. 



Comes South ton. Viscount Paget. 



L. Chamberlain. Viscount Fynch. 



L. Great Chamberlain. Viscount Lucas. 



Comes Derby. Viscount Arundel. 



Comes Portland Viscount Eobertes. 



Comes Peterborough. Viscount Seymour. 



Comes Bolingbrooke. Viscount Mohun. 



Comes Bristol. Viscount Wharton. 



Comes Devon. Vis. Howard de Charlt. 



Comes Winchilsea. Viscount Tenham. 

 Comes Dorset. 



&quot; Their Lordships, or any five, to meet on Monday 

 next, in the afternoon, at 3 of the clock ; and to have 

 power to send for such persons as they think fit, to give 

 them information concerning this business ; and to 

 send for the Patent.&quot; 



On the 20th of August, it was ordered, &quot; That the 

 Lord Chancellor and Mr. Attorney General do attend 

 the Lords Committee, which are to meet this after 

 noon, to advise them, in point of law, concerning 

 the Marquis of Worcester s Patent.&quot;* Then on the 

 23rd of August, the Marquis of Dorchester reports 

 from the Committee, &quot; That the Marquis of Worcester 

 confessed to their Lordships, that a Patent was made, 

 and left in his hands, by the King, to create him Duke 

 of Somerset, upon certain conditions, which never yet 

 were performed ; that he made no use of it ; that the 

 said Patent is in the hands of his son the Lord Herbert ; 



* Jo. II. of Lords, Vol. xi. p. 135. 



