1579.8.11.

LIVES

OF

EMINENT ENGLISH JUDGES

OF THE

SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES.

EDITED BY

W. N. WELSBY, Esq., M. A.,

RECORDER OF CHESTER.

London:

S. SWEET, CHANCERY LANE, FLEET STREET.

1846.

TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BARON PARKE,

IN WHOM

THE LEGAL PROFESSION RECOGNIZES, WITH ONE VOICE,

THE COMBINATION OF THE HIGHEST JUDICIAL QUALITIES,

THESE

MEMOIRS OF EMINENT ENGLISH JUDGES

ARE, WITH HIS PERMISSION,

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.