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"^1613 Sir John Davies, Attorney-General. 

 1634 Sir jS'athaniel Catelyn, Recorder of Dublin. 

 1639 Sir ITaurice Eustace, Prime Sergeant. 

 1661 Sir Audley Mervyn,^ Prime Sergeant. 



1689 Sir Eichard Nagle, Attorney-General. 



1692 Sir Richard Levinge, Solicitor-General. 



1695 Robert Rochfort, Attorney-General. 



1703 Alan Brodrick, Solicitor-General. 



1710 Hon. John Porster, Recorder of Dublin and Attorney-General. 



1713 Alan Brodrick.^ 



1715 William Conolly. 



1727 "William Conolly, again elected. 



1729 Sir Ralph Gore, Bart., Chancellor of the Exchequer. 



1733 Henry Boyle, Chancellor of the Exchequer. 



1756 John Ponsonby, First Commissioner of Customs and Excise. 



*1761 John Ponsonby, again elected. 



1769 John Ponsonby, ,, 



*1771 Edmund Sexton Pery, afterwards Viscount Pery. 



*1776 Edmund Sexton Pery, again elected. 



1783 Edmund Sexton Pery, ,, 



1785 John Poster, afterwards Lord Oriel. 



*1790 John Foster, again elected. 



1798 John Poster, ,, ,, 



In the above list the office mentioned after the Speaker's name in 

 each case indicates an office held concui-rently with the Speakership. 



An asterisk prefixed to the date denotes a contested election to the 

 chair. The Speakers not so marked were elected nemine contradicente. 



Some particulars may here be appropriately offered regarding the 

 three first names in the above list. 



^ During Sir Mervyn Audley's absence in England in 1661, Sir John Temple, 

 the Solicitor- General, was temporarily elected Speaker. 



Temple was designed by the Duke of Ormond for the Speakership in the 

 intended Parliament of 1678, which, however, was never called, as appears by a 

 letter in the Ormonde papers at Kilkenny. 



-Brodrick vacated the Chair on his appointment in 1710 to the position of 

 Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. Being dismissed from that oflB.ce by Harley 

 in the following year, he re-entered the House of Commons in 1713, and was 

 elected Speaker by a majority of four. Brodrick's re-election is perhaps the first 

 instance of the choice of a Speaker in opposition to the wishes of the Court. 



