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T.C. ...The whole taken from Sandford. At the upper end of the Hall in the Courts of Chancery and King's Bench their Majesties are represented Sitting in their chairs of State at Dinner, surrounded with their Attendants: On the West side of the Hall on the outside of the Table at the upper end, the Dukes of Aquitain and Normandie were seated and next to them the four Great Officers viz. the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, the Lord Treasurer, the Lord President of the Council & the Lord Privy Seal; below them were ranged the Dukes, Marquisses, Earl's, Viscounts & Barons. Opposite these, on the inner side of the Tables the Dutchesses, Marchionesses, Countesses, Viscountesses and Baronesses were Seated. At the East side of ye Hall, at the upepr End and on the Inner side of the Table were placed the two Archbishops, next to them the Bishops, then ye Lords Chief Justices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron, the Justices of both Benches, the Baron of ye Excheguer, ye Kin