Doctors of Law, exercent in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts," with a common 'seal.-Coote's English Civilians.

DEANS OF THE ARCHES.

(From the reign of Henry VIII.)

THE PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY.

(From the reign of King Henry VIII.)

1 "Summoned," as one of his contemporaries wrote, perhaps in allusion to his character, "to decide a great dispute that had arisen in heaven."-Coote.

2 Sir Daniel Dun is mentioned with great severity by archbishop Abbot (of Canterbury) in his account of the proceedings in the celebrated case of the earl and countess of Essex.-Notes at Doctors' Commons.

3 Father of the unprincipled parliamentarian who was imprisoned for his concern in the death of Charles.— Coote.

4 He supported the cause of king William, as a lieutenant of infantry, at the battle of the Boyne. After the reduction of Ireland he resumed his academical pursuits, became a graduated civilian, and obtained the chancellorship of Ely, and afterwards other honours.-Idem.

1658. Dr. William Purefoy. June 7.
1659. Dr. Walter Walker: appointed by the
parliament. March 12.

** Dr. William Turner, knighted: appointed a short time before the Restoration. 1668. Sir Leoline Jenkins, knt.1 Feb. 6. Served on various diplomatic missions; a plenipotentiary to Cologne, to the congress at Nimeguen, &c. ; one of the principal secretaries of state, 1680. Died, 1685. 1685. Dr. Richard Raines. Judge this year; but no record of his appointment: knighted in 1686.

1710. Rt. hon. sir Charles Hedges, knt.; late one

of the principal secretaries of state Jan. 10.

1714. Dr. John Bettesworth. June 11: died
Dec. 1751.

1751. Rt. hon. sir George Lee, M. P. Dec. 20.
1758. Dr. Edward Simpson, knt., M. P. Dec. 2.
1764. Sir George Hay, knt., M. P. June 4.
1778. Dr. Peter Calvert. Oct. 13.
1788. Sir William Wynne, knt. Aug. 25: af-
terwards Rt. hon. sir William.
1809. Rt. hon. sir John Nicholl, knt. Jan. 20.
1834. Rt. hon. sir Herbert Jenner (Fust), D.C.L
Oct. 21. The PRESENT (1851) Judge
of the Prerogative Court.

1520. Dr. Richard Foxfoord (under bishop

Stokesley), chancellor until 1539.

1546. Dr. John Croke.

1637. Sir Richard Chaworth, knt.
1663. Sir Thomas Exton, knt.
1685. Sir Henry Newton, knt.
1715. Dr. Humphrey Henchman.

1739. Dr. John Andrew, fellow of Trinity Hall.

1561 Dr. Thomas Huick, or Huycke (fellow of 1747. Sir Edward Simpson, knt., M. P.

Jesus' College, Oxford).

1574. Dr. John Hamond, or Hammonde.
1583. Sir Edward Stanhope, knt.

1607. Sir Thomas Crompton, knt., M. P.
1611. Dr. Thomas Edwards.
1616. Dr. Henry Marten, knighted.
1627. Dr. Arthur Ducke, M. P.

[Assisted in the negotiations at Newport,
and suffered greatly in the royal cause:
died at Chiswick, in 1649.

1759. Dr. John Bettesworth.

1764. Sir George Hay, knt., M. P.

1779. Sir William Wynne, afterwards Rt. hon. sir William.

1788. Sir William Scott, knt., afterwards Rt.
hon., and created lord Stowell

1821. Sir Christopher Robinson, knt.
1828. Dr. Stephen Lushington, afterwards rt.
hon. Stephen Lushington. The PRESENT
(1851) Judge of the Consistory Court.

1 Sir Leoline Jenkins was first M. P. for Hythe, in Kent, and afterwards for the university of Oxford. He died in 1685, and was buried in the chapel of Jesus College, to which he had been a great benefactor. All his property he bequeathed to charitable uses. His letters and papers are printed in two volumes, folio.-Cocte.

2 This eminent civilian (though he was vulgarly called by the great COKE Dr. Cow-heel, in derision) was a man of an enlarged and comprehensive mind, and of vast learning. He considered that the range of a lawyer's study should be co-extensive with Nature herself. "A lawyer," he said, "professeth true philosophy, and should not, therefore, be ignorant (if it were possible) of either beasts, fowls, or creeping things; nor of the trees, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall."-Illustrations of Lawyers.

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY.

(From the reign of Henry VIII.)

KING'S (NOW QUEEN'S) ADVOCATES.

(From the commencement of the Eighteenth Century.)

The name of Cæsar was assumed by the family of Adelmar, or Athelmer, in consequence of the marriage of the grandfather of this civilian with the daughter of the duke de Cesarini.-Coote's Civilians.

ADMIRALTY ADVOCATES.

(From the Restoration of King Charles II. to the present time.)

1661. William Turner, D.C.L. Oct. 29.
1674. Richard Lloyd, D.C.L. May 19. In the
room of sir Walter Walker, whose ap-
pointment does not seem to be recorded.
1685. Thomas Pinfold, D.C.L. Sept. 13.
1686. William Oldyss or Oldiss, D.C.L. July 17.
1693. Fisher Littleton, D.C.L. Sept. 17.
1694. Henry Newton, D.C.L. pro tem. Dr. Littleton
being absent from indisposition. Jan. 26.
1697. Dr. Newton permanently appointed.
March 16.

1704. Nathaniel Lloyd, D.C.L., deputy, during
the absence of Dr. Newton. Nov. 15.
1714. Henry Penrice, D.C.L. Oct. 28.
1715. Richard Fuller, D.C.L. Aug. 15.
1727. Exton Sayer, D.C.L. March 30.
1731. Edmund İshan, D.C.L.

Oct. 1.

1741. William Strahan, D.C.L. March 20.
1748. Thomas Salusbury, D.C.L. Aug. 9.
1751. Charles Pinfold, jun., D.C.L. Nov. 14.
1756. John Bettesworth, D.C.L. Feb. 15.
1764. George Harris, D.C.L. June 14.
1782. William Scott, D.C.L. (the late lord
Stowel). May 1.

1788. Thomas Bever, D.C.L. Sept. 4.
1791. William Batline, D.C.L. Nov. 12.
1809. Sir Christopher Robinson, knt. D.C.L.
March 1.

1811. James-Henry Arnold, D.C.L. Nov. 25.
1829. John Dodson, D.C.L., now sir John Dod-
son, knt., the PRESENT Queen's advo-
cate. March 11.

1834. Joseph Phillimore, D.C.L. Oct. 25. The PRESENT (1851) Admiralty Advocate.

JUDGES

OF THE COURT OF SESSION OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF CHESTER, &c. (From the Accession of King James I., to the abolition of that Judicature in 1830. — From the Records at the Rolls' Offices.)

Sir Richard Lowknor or Leuknor, chief justice,
1 Jas. I.

H. Townsend, puisne judge, 1 Jas. I.
Thomas Chamberlayne, chief justice, 14 Jas. I.
James Whitlock, chief justice, 19 Jas. I.
Sir John Bridgman, chief justice, 1 Chas. I.
Marm. Lloyed, puisne judge, 1 Chas. I.
Richard Prytherg, puisne judge, 12 Chas. I.
Sir Thomas Milward, puisne judge, 14 Chas. I.
John Bradshaw (1648), chief justice, 24 Chas. I.
Peter Warburton, puisne judge,
Thomas Fell, puisne judge, 1649.
Timothy Turner, chief justice, 12 Chas. II.
Sir Geoffrey Palmer, chief justice, 12 Chas. II.
Robert Milward, puisne judge, 13 Chas. II.
Sir John Charlton, chief justice, 14 Chas. II.
George Johnson, puisne judge, 26 Chas. II.
Sir George Jeffreys, chief justice, 32 Chas. II.
John Warren, puisne judge, 33 Chas. II.
Sir Edward Herbert, chief justice, 36 Chas. II.
[Edward'] Lutwych (from March to October),
chief justice, 2 Jas. II.

Sir Job Charlton, chief justice, 2 Jas. II.
John Trenchard, chief justice, 1 Wm. and M.
Lyttleton Powis, puisne judge, 1 Wm. and M.
John Coombe, chief justice, 2 Wm. and M.
Salathiel Lovel, puišne judge, 8 Wm. and M.
Joseph Jekyll, chief justice, 9 Wm. III.
John Pocklington, puisne judge, 6 Anne.
John Ward, puisne judge, 10 Anne.
Edward Jeffreys, puisne judge, 1 Geo. 1.
Spencer Cooper, chief justice, 4 Geo. I.
John Willis, puisne judge, 13 Geo. I.
John Willis, again, chief justice, 2 Geo. II.
William Jessop, puisne judge, 2 Geo. II.
John Verney, chief justice, 8 Geo. II.

| Richard Pottinger, puisne judge, 8 Geo. II.
Matthew Skynner, chief justice, 12 Geo. II.
John Talbot, puisne judge, 14 Geo. II.
William Noel, chief justice, 23 Geo. II.
Taylor White, puisne judge, 30 Geo. II.
John Morton, chief justice, 3 Geo. III.
John Skynner, puisne judge, 12 Geo. III.
Francis Buller (Nov. till May), puisne judge,
18 Geo. III.

Hon. Daines Barrington, puisne judge, 18 Geo.
III.

Lloyd Kenyon, chief justice, 20 Geo. III.
Richard Pepper Arden, chief justice, 24 Geo. III.
Edward Bearcroft, chief justice, 28 Geo. III.
Francis Burton, puisne judge, 28 Geo. III.
James Adair, king's serjeant, chief justice, 37
Geo. III.

William Grant, chief justice, 38 Geo. III.
James Mansfield, chief justice, 39 Geo. III.
Vicary Gibbs (summer circuit only), chief justice,
44 Geo. III.

Robert Dallas, chief justice, 45 Geo. III.
Richard Richards (summer circuit only), chief
justice, 53 Geo. III.

Sir William Garrow, chief justice, 54 Geo. III.
William Draper Best, king's serjeant, puisne
judge, 57 Geo. III.

John Leach (summer circuit only), chief justice, 57 Geo. III.

William Draper Best, king's serjeant, chief justice, 58 Geo. III.

Samuel Marshall, serjeant-at-law, puisne judge, 58 Geo. III.

John Singleton Copley, serjeant-at-law, chief justice, 59 Geo. III.

Charles Warren, chief justice, 59 Geo. III.

The personal name of this judge is supplied from the patent of his successor, sir Job Charlton, knt., which is the first of the series that appears to have been recorded in the Patent Books of the Receipt of the Exchequer. It is dated 29 April, 2 Jac. II.; and grants the office of Our Justice of the Counties of Chester and Flint, "As Geoffry Palmer, knt; George Jefferyes, knt.; Edward Herbert, knt.; or Edward Lutwich, knt., formerly or lately justices, had holden the same.”—Auditor's Patent Book, No. 10, fol. 142.

CHIEF CORPORATE OFFICERS OF LONDON.

THE RECORDER OF LONDON.

THE Recorder of London is the principal legal officer of the corporation, and is always a barrister of eminence, and is appointed for life by the Court of Aldermen. Both the Recorder and Common Serjeant sit as judges in the trial of criminal offences committed within the city, and such other parts of the surrounding neighbourhood as come within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court. Many of the Recorders of London have subsequently become judges of our superior courts of law, and several of them, chief justices of England, and lord chancellors. Sir Henry Montagu, Recorder in 1603, was created viscount Mandeville, and made lord high treasurer, in 1620.

RECORDERS OF LONDON.

1298. Jeffery de Norton, alderman. 1304. John de Wangrave, alderman. 1320. Geoffrey de Hertpoll, alderman. 1321. Robert de Swalchyne, alderman. 1329. Gregory de Norton, alderman. 1339. Roger de Depham, alderman. 1363. Thomas Lodelow.

1365. William de Halden, alderman. 1377. William Cheyne.

[A personage of this name was a justice of the king's bench in 1416, and, in 1424, was the chief justice of that court.] 1389. John Tremayne, common serjeant. 1392. William Makenade.

1394. John Cokam, or Cokeyn.

1398. Matthew de Suthworth.

1403. Thomas Thornburgh.

1405. John Preston.

1415. John Barton, sen.: serjeant-at-law in 1416. 1422. John Fray; became a baron of the exchequer in 1428, and chief baron in 1436.

1426. John Simonds, or Symond. 1435. Alexander Anne.

1440. Thomas Cockayne.

William (John?) Bowes.

1442. Robert Danvers, common serjeant.
1451. Thomas Billyng: a justice of the king's
bench in 1465; and lord chief justice in
1469.

1455. Thomas Urswyke: chief baron of the ex-
chequer in 1472.

1471. Humphry Starkey: chief baron of the exchequer in 1483.

1483. Thomas Fitzwilliam: speaker of the house of commons in 1489.

The records, up to this time, are imperfect. The subsequent records have been better preserved; and the names and dates that follow are, therefore, regular and consecutive.

1511. Richard Brooke or Broke: a justice of the common pleas in 1521; and in 1526, chief baron of the exchequer.

1520. William Shelley, one of the judges of the sheriffs' court made a justice of the common pleas in 1527.

1527. John Baker, one of the judges of the sheriffs' court.

1536. Sir Roger Cholmeley, serjeant-at-law: in 1546, made chief baron of the exchequer; in 1552 made chief justice of the king's bench.

1546. Robert Brooke or Broke: serjeant-at-law in 1552; in 1554 chief justice of the common pleas.

1552. Ranulph Cholmeley, one of the judges of the sheriffs' court.

1563. Richard Onslow made solicitor-general in 1566.

1566. Thomas Bromley: solicitor-general in 1569.

1569. Thomas Wilbraham: went to the court of
wards and liveries, 1571.

1571. William Fleetwood: serjeant-at-law, 1580.
1591. Edward Coke: solicitor-general in 1592;
attorney-general, 1594; chief justice of
the common pleas, 1606; and chief jus-
tice of the king's bench, 1613.
1592. Edward Drew, serjeant-at-law.
1594. Thomas Flemynge: serjeant-at-law same
year; solicitor - general, 1595; chief
baron of the exchequer, 1604; and chief
justice of the king's bench, 1607.
John Croke, of the Inner Temple: speaker
of the house of commons, 1601; a jus-
tice of the king's bench, 1607.

1595.

1603. Henry Montagu: chief justice of the king's bench in 1016; and lord treasurer in 1620.1

1615. Thomas Coventry 2, one of the judges of the sheriffs' court: solicitor-general, 1616; attorney-general, 1620; and lord keeper, 1625.

In this year sir Henry Montagu was created lord Kimbolton and viscount Mandeville, and, in 1625, earl of Manchester, and ancestor of the subsequent dukes of Manchester.

2 Sir Thomas Coventry was created, in 1628, lord Coventry, of Aylesboro', Worcestershire; and was (observes lord Clarendon) well worthy of his great and uninterrupted good fortune. S