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APPENDIX D 637 succeeded Jenkins in the South in 1684, that he remained in the same department till 1688, and that Preston in the latter year took the Northern. Accordingly from 1668 it is possible to give the lists of Secretaries for the Southern and Northern provinces separately, although Haydn's Book of Dignities (ed. Ockerby, 1890) makes no attempt to discriminate between them before 1761, and is singularly inaccurate in its allocations after that date, these being taken from the old editions of the Foreign Office List in which the provinces were wrongly assigned until the issue of the year 1892, when they were for the first time correctly given, partly at the instance of the present writer. The Dictionary of National Biography is not always to be depended upon with regard to the provinces which it assigns to individual Secretaries, some of which are simply copied from Haydn without verification trom more authoritative sources. Secretaries of State for the Southern department 1668. Henry, Earl of Arlington 1674. Sep. Henry Coventry (from the Northern department) 1680. Apr. Robert (Spencer), Earl of Sunderland (from the Northern department) 1680/1. Feb. 2. Sir Leoline Jenkins (from the Northern depart- ment) 1684. Apr. Robert (Spencer), Earl of Sunderland (from the Northern department) 1688. Oct. Charles (Earl of Middleton) from the Northern department), till Dec. 1688 1688/9. ^^^- 5- Daniel (Finch), Earl of Nottingham, till Nov. 1693 1693/4. Mar. 4. Charles (Talbot), Earl, afterwards Duke of Shrewsbury till 12 Dec. i698(^) 1699. May 14. Edward (Villiers), Earl of Jersey, till June 1700 1700. Nov. 5. James Vernon (from the Northern department), returned to the Northern department Jan. 1701/2 1701/2. Jan. 4. Charles (Montagu), Earl of Manchester C") 1702. May 2. Daniel (Finch), Earl of Nottingham, till May 1 704 1704. May 18. Sir Charles Hedges (from the Northern depart- ment) 1706. Dec. 10. Charles (Spencer), Earl of Sunderland 1 7 10. June 15. William (Legge), Lord (afterwards Earl of) Dart- mouth 1713. Aug. 17. Henry (St. John), Viscount Bolingbroke (from the Northern department) (^) From Dec. 1698 till May 1699 and again from June to November 1 700 Vernon (then Secretary for the Northern Province) administered both departments. (*>) The D.N.B. assigns Manchester to the Northern province, which is proved to be erroneous by Vernon's letter to Stepney (then Envoy at Vienna) dated 6 Jan. 1 70 1/2. [^Letters illuitrative of the reign ofJVilliam III, vol. iii, p. 163.]