APPENDIX.

(A.) THE PARLIAMENTS OF ENGLAND AND OF

THE UNITED KINGDOM.

The following list, to the reign of Anne, is from Returns compiled by order of the House of Commons, and published in 1879:

*This official return preserves the theory that Charles II. began to reign on his father's decease.

The official return published in 1879 ends with the first Parliament of Anne. The following are the later dates:—

* With this Parliament the Scottish was amalgamated, the first Parliament of Great Britain meeting Oct. 23, 1707.

+ The first Imperial Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was opened Jan. 22, 1801.

(B.) SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The following list, down to the reign of Charles I., is on the authority of Hakewel's collection from the records and Journals of Parliament (1670). The subsequent names are chiefly from Dod's "Manual of Dignities." The dates, as compared with the regnal years, are supplied throughout from Sir Harris Nicolas's "Chronology of History." Reelections are not specified, unless another individual had succeeded to the chair for a time :

The first to receive the title of Speaker, although others had in a measure

performed the office before.