TAKES HIS SEAT IN CHANCERY. CCXlll 



Through the whole of this progress a constant communi 

 cation was maintained between Buckingham and the Lord 

 Keeper, (a) 



On the 7th of May, being the first day of term, the Seat in 

 Lord Keeper went in great state to Westminster, in the 

 following order : 



1. Clerks and inferior officers in Chancery. 



2. Students in law. 



3. Gentlemen servants to the Keeper, Serjeants at 



arms, and the seal-bearer, all on foot. 



4. Himself, on horseback, in a gown of purple satin, 



between the Treasurer and the Keeper of the 

 Privy Seal. 



5. Earls, Barons, and Privy Councillors. 



6. Noblemen of all ranks. 



7. Judges, to whom the next place to the privy coun 

 cillors was assigned. 



In this pomp he entered the hall, (b) How different 

 from the mode in which his successor took his seat ! (c) 



(a) Newark, 6th April, vol. xii. p. 315; Auckland, 18th April, vol. xii. 

 p. 316; Newcastle, 23rd April, vol. xii. p. 317; Edinburgh, 3rd June, 

 vol. xii. p. 318. 



(6) G. Camdeni Regni Jacobi I. Annaluem Apparatus, Anno 1617, 

 Maii 7. Primo die termini Franciscus Baconus Gustos Sigilli solemn 

 Pompa processit ad Practorium West-monasteriense hoc ordine. 1. Scribae 

 et inferiores officiarii in Cancellaria. 2. Studiosi juris. 3. Famuli gene- 

 rosi Custodis servientes ad arma et sigillifer pedibus. 4. Ipse in equo toga 

 ex purpura sattin inter Thesaurarium et Custodem Privati Sigilli. 5. Co- 

 mites, barones, consiliarii privati. 6. Nobiles se interposuerunt. 7. Judices 

 quibus locus assignatus erat proximus consiliariis privatis. 



(c) The following is the account by Bishop Hacket, of Archbishop Wil 

 liams, Lord Bacon s successor, taking his seat : &quot; Upon the first day of 

 term, when he was to take his place in court, he declined the attendance of 

 his great friends, who offered, as the manner was, to bring him to his first 

 sitting with the pomp of an inauguration. But he set out early in the 



