1681 Stewart, second son of the Earl of Moray. 1682 Maxwell of Nether-Pollock. Kennedy of Cullean, now Earl of Cassilis. 1683 Pringle of Stichel. Calder of Muirton, now of Parkhouse, Kent. 1687 Inglis of Cramond. Stewart of Allanbank. Patterson of Eccles. Ext. Hall of Dunglass. Threipland of Fingask. King WILLIAM III. 1690 Lauder Dick of Fountainhall. 1692 Grant of Dalvey. 1693 Stewart Denham of Coltness and Westshiel. 1694 Dunbar ofMochrum. Anstruther of Anstruther. Anstruther of Wrae, now of Balcaskie. 1695 Dickson of Sornbeg. 1697 Wedderburn of Ballendean. Home of Lumsdane, now of Renton. Hamilton Dalrymple of Bargeny and North Berwick. 1698 Kennedy of Closburn. Ext. 1699 Forbes of Foveran. Elliot of Minto. 1699 Johnstone of Westerhall. 1700 Livingston of Westquarter and Bedlormie. Dunbar of Northfield. 1701 Dalrymple of Hailes. Whiteford of Blairquhan, 1702 Cunningham of Milncraig, now of Livingstone. 1702 Suttie of Balgone. Queen ANNE. Gibson Carmichael of Skirling. 1703 Mackenzie of Scatwell. Hay Macdougal of Makerston. Hamilton of Rosehall. 1704 Rochead of Innerleith. Reid of Barra. Nairn of Melgum, Count Melgum. Nairn of Dunsinnan. Sir Humphry Colquhoun, Bart. and the heirs-male of hist 1705 Grant of Cullen, now of Monymusk. Wishart of Clifton Hall, with divers remainders. 1706 Holburne of Menstrie and Otterston. A List of the OFFICERS of STATE, and other GREAT OFFICERS in SCOTLAND. THE CHANCELLOR. He was the chief in matters of justice; and in the laws of King Malcolm II. he is placed before all other officers; and from these it appears, that he had the principal direction of the Chancery, or Chancellary, as it is called, which is his proper office. He had the custody of the King's Seal; and he was the King's most intimate counsellor, as appears by an old law, cited by Sir James Balfour : "The Chancellar sall, at al tymes, assist the King, in giving him counsall mair secretly nor the rest of the nobility, to quhais ordinances all officiaris, als well of the realme as of the Kingis house, sould answer and obey. The Chancellar sall be ludgit neir unto the Kingis Grace, for keiping of his bodie, and the seill; and that he may be readie, baith day and nicht, at the Kingis command." By having the custody of the Great Seal, he had an opportunity of examining the King's grants and other deeds which were to pass under it, and to cancel them, if they appeared against law, and were obtained surreptitiously, or by false suggestions. King James VI. ordained the Chancellor to have the first place and rank in the nation, ratione officii, by virtue whereof he presided in the Parliament, and in all courts of judicature. After the restoration of King Charles II. by a particular declaratory law, Parliament 1st, the Lord Chancellor was declared, by virtue and right of his office, President in all the meetings of Parliament, or other public judicatures of the kingdom. Although this act was made to declare the Chancellor President of the Exchequer, as well as other courts; yet in 1663 the King declared the Treasurer to be President of that court, The The office of Lord Chancellor was abolished by the Union, there being no farther use for the judicial part of this office; and to answer all the other parts of the Chancellor's office, a Lord Keeper of the Great Seal was elected, with a salary of L.3000 a-year. A List of the LORD CHANCELLORS of SCOTLAND, From the year 1057, to the abolishing of that Office in 1708. 1057 Evan, to King Malcolm III. sirnamed Canmore. -93 Oswald, to King Donald VII. -94 Earl Constantine, to Duncan II. the Usurper. Sphothad, Abbot of the religious Culdees, to Duncan. -97 Earl Rorey, to King Donald VII. after the expulsion of Duncan. -98 Humphrey, Bishop of Dunkeld, to King Edgar. 1107 Constantine, Earl of Fife, to King Alexander I. -24 Herbert, Abbot and Bishop of Glasgow. -25 Walter. -29 John, Bishop of Glasgow. Herbert, Great Chamberlain; -47 Edward. William Cuming, Bishop of Durham, -51 Engelramus, Bishop of Glasgow. -53 Walter Senescallus. -57 Gregory, Bishop of Dunkeld. -61 Nicolaus, Chamberlain. -63 Willielmus de Ripariis, Prior of St Andrew's. -65 Hugo de Morville, Lord of Lauderdale. -71 Walter Bidun, Bishop-elect of Dunkeld. 78 Roger, (son to the Farl of Leicester), Bishop of St Andrew's. -83 Walterus de Beide, a Frenchman. -87 Walterus de Vidone. -89 Hugo, Bishop of Glasgow. -92 Willielmus de Lundyne. -99 William Malvoisine, Bishop of St Andrew's. 1202 Florence, Bishop-elect of Glasgow. Richard, afterwards Bishop of Duukeld. 1211 Willielmus de Bosco, or Wood, Bishop of Dumblane. -13 Florentine, Bishop-elect of Glasgow. -14 Willielmus Riddel. Robert Kildelicht, Abbot of Dunfermline. -16 Walterus de Oliford. -26 Thomas de Stry velin, Archdeacon of Glasgow. -27 Matthew Scot, Bishop of Aberdeen. -30 William de Lindesay. -31 William Bondington, Bishop of Glasgow. Richard de Innerkeithing, afterwards Bishop of Dunkeld. -47 William de Bond. -51 Gameline, Bishop of St Andrew's. -53 Richard de Innerkeithing, Bishop of Dunkeld. 56 William Wiseheart, Bishop of Glasgow, afterwards Bishop of St Andrew's. -73 William Fraser, Dean of Glasgow, afterwards Bishop of St Andrew's. -95 Alexander de Baliol. Allan, Bishop of Caithness; and confirmed in the office by King -98 Maurice, Bishop of the Isles. Adam, Bishop of Brechin. 1301 Bernard, Abbot of Aberbrothock. -27 Dr Walter Twynham, Canon of Glasgow. Sir John Carrick, Prebendary of Glasgow. -77 John Peebles, Bishop-elect of Dunkeld. -80 John Lyon, Lord Glamis. 1 Sir John Carrick, again. -95 Sir Alexander Cockburn of Langton. Robert Boyd, Lord Boyd. Duncan Petit, Archdeacon of Glasgow. Gilbert Greenlaw, Bishop of Aberdeen, to King Robert III.. and during the administrations of Robert and Murdoch, Dukes of Albany. 1422 Sir John Forrester of Corstorphine. -24 William Lauder, Bishop of Glasgow. -27 John Cameron, Bishop of Glasgow. Sir William Crichton, afterwards Lord Crichton. Turned out. -44 James Kennedy, Bishop of St Andrew's. He held the office only a few weeks. |