BY THE SAME AUTHOR. The Judges of England. With Sketches of their Lives, and Notices of the Courts at Westminster, from the Conquest to the Present Time. 9 Vols. 8vo. 1268. Tabulæ Curiales; or, Tables of the Superior Courts of Westminster Hall. Showing the Judges who sat in them from 1066 to 1864; with the Attorney and Solicitor Generals of each reign. To which is prefixed an Alphabetical List of all the Judges during the same period. 8vo. 10s. 6d. Br191.8.3 A HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARITAMENT STREET PREFACE. In my former work I endeavoured to trace, chronologically, the different incidents and changes in the Courts of Westminster that occurred from the reign of William the Conqueror to that of her present Majesty; and I gave an account under each reign of the judicial personages who then administered the law. The arrangement then adopted, with its palpable historical advantages, had, biographically, one inconvenience, that when information was required for any individual judge, the time of whose existence was doubtful or uncertain, a search became necessary among several volumes or reigns in order to find the narrative. To remedy this defect, and to facilitate the reference to every name in the judicial record, and also to reduce the bulk to one convenient volume, this publication has been undertaken. It is limited to the biographical portion of the larger work, and comprehends every name therein introduced, with slight abridgments and corrections, adding to them the judges who have been appointed since 1864: the whole number exceeding 1,600 lives. I have not thought it necessary in the separate lives to refer specially to Dugdale's Chronica Series,' because, from the Conquest till the decapitation of Charles I., I have inserted every name that is included in his list. I have even done so when I have ventured to differ from him in regard to the individual filling the particular position, or flourishing at the precise period represented. In all these cases I have been careful to quote the authorities upon which I base the objections I have raised; and I have invariably, as well in the lives above alluded to as in those of the judges who flourished since Dugdale wrote, given such references as will, I trust, justify every fact I have introduced. In the long period of eight hundred years over which the *A 3 |