Judge of the Arches and the Prerogative Courts. In 1768, being then Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, he presented the honors of that illustrious body, to the King of Denmark, at Newmarket. In 1769 he published "The Rights and Privileges of both the Universities, and of the University of Cambridge in particular, defended in a Charge to the Grand Jury at the Quarter Sessions for the Peace, at Cambridge, October the 10th, 1768;" he also published his argument in the case of the Colleges of Christ and Emanuel. His poetry may be seen in Dodsley's Collections. He distinguished himself by the acuteness of his answers, when examined at the bar of the House of Commons, on the Quebec Constitution. He was appointed Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in the room of Sir George Hay. He resigned this high office in October 1798, and at the age of 72 he died, on the 21st of March 1803, at two o'clock in the morning, while sitting in his chair, at Twinstead Hall, near Sudbury, which he had represented in two Parliaments. His learned and singular judgment in the High Court of Admiralty, in the case of the ship Columbus, is published in the Collectanea Juridica, vol. 1, p. 82.

71. Sir William Wynne, Doctor of Laws, seems to have followed the track of Sir James Marriot to the top of his profession, which has been dignified by so many. eminent men, who were distinguished by their talents and probity. In October 1778, he was appointed VicarGeneral of the province of Canterbury, and his Majesty's Advocate-General. On the decease of Sir J. Marriot, was elected in his room, Sir Wm. Wynne, one of his Majesty's Privy Council, Official Principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury, Master of the Prerogative Court of

Canterbury, Commissary of the Deanery of the Arches, and Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

72. John Reeves.

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73. John De Witt was born of a noble family in 1625; became pensionary of Dordrecht, and pensionary of Holland, Intendant of the Fiefs, and Keeper of the Seals. During troublous times he governed Holland with great ability, though he could not always command success. · He excluded William the Third, Prince of Orange, from his constitutional share in the government of the States. He was thereupon attacked by four assassins. Prince of Orange was restored to the Stadtholdership; but two great men could not safely exist at the same time, within the same republic; mutual accusations ensued; and a popular tumult arose, which sacrificed De Witt to the people's passions, at the Hague, in 1672; he died, repeating with his last breath, Horace's OdeJustem et tenacem propositi virum, &c.*

74. Sir William Temple was born in 1629, at Lon= don, the son of Sir William Temple, of Sheen, and Master of the Rolls in Ireland, by a sister of the learned Henry Hammond. He was a student at Emanuel College, Cambridge, under the erudite Cudworth.

After

some travel, he retired to a private life in Ireland, during the usurpation. At the restoration, he returned to England with a view of serving his country, chiefly, as a negotiator. He is chiefly praised for settling the triple league in 1668; and secondly, for procuring the marriage of the

Princess Mary with the Prince of Orange. Both DeWitt and the States of Holland expressed their satisfaction with the conduct of Temple. After the peace of Nimeguen, he was recalled from Holland, in February, 1678-9. He now applied himself to his private studies. He died in 1700, at Moor Park, near Farnham, in the seventyfirst year of his age; leaving a character for principles and knowledge, which has been drawn in very opposite colors, by very different parties.

OPINIONS

OF

EMINENT LAWYERS

ON VARIOUS POINTS OF

ENGLISH JURISPRUDENCE.

First. The King, who wears the Crown of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoys the sovereignty of the general territory belonging to the same Crown, with the allegiance of the inhabitants thereof, under the various modifications of the existing law. The following opinions seem to acknowledge the truth of that proposition, as a fundamental principle of the established Constitution.

The King's prerogative, within those territories, may be considered, then, under two heads: I. Of his Ecclesiastical authority: II. Of his Civil authority.

I. Of the King's Ecclesiastical authority abroad. The royal prerogative, in this respect, is distributed into two subordinate heads: 1st, The Bishop of London is diocesan of the colonies: 2d, The Archbishop of Canterbury's prerogative power, concerning wills and administions, is superior to the analogous prerogative powers, in the colonies.

(1.) The opinion of the Attorney-General Northey, this subject, in 1705.

To the Right Hon., the Lords Commissioners, for Trade and Plantations.

May it please your Lordships;

In obedience to your Lordships' commands, signified to me by Mr. Popple, Jr., your Secretary, I have considered of the annexed extract of a letter from Colonel Seymour, Governor of Maryland, relating to the Jesuits and papists there; and the extract also sent me, of the grant of the Province of Maryland to Lord Baltimore, relating to the ecclesiastical power. And the questions proposed thereon, whether the laws of England against Romish priests, are in force in the plantations, and whether her Majesty may not direct Jesuits, or Romish priests, to be turned out of Maryland.

And as to the said clause in the grant of the Province of Maryland to Lord Baltimore, relating to the ecclesiastical power, I am of opinion, the same doth not give him any power to do any thing contrary to the ecclesiastical laws of England, but he hath only the advowsons of, and power to erect and consecrate churches, and such power as the Bishop of Durham had, as Earl Palatine, in his County Palatine, who was subject to the laws of England; and the consecrations of chapels ought to be, as in England, by orthodox ministers only.

As to the question, whether the laws of England, against Romish priests, are in force in the plantations; by the statute of 27mo. of Elizabeth, cap. 2., every Jesuit, seminary priest, or other such priest, deacon or religious, or ecclesiastical person, born within this realm or any