OF

THE CHIEF JUSTICES

OF

ENGLAND.

FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TILL THE DEATH
OF LORD TENTERDEN.

BY JOHN LORD CAMPBELL, LL.D., F.R.S.E.,

AUTHOR OF

'THE LIVES OF THE LORD CHANCELLORS OF ENGLAND.'

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LIVES OF THE LORD CHANCELLORS, AND
KEEPERS OF THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND, from the Earliest
Times till the Reign of George the Fourth. By JOHN LORD
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CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.

CHAPTER XL.

CONCLUSION OF THE LIFE OF LORD MANSFIELD.

Lord Mansfield in retirement, 1. His opinion upon the introduction of

jury trial in civil cases in Scotland, 3. Recollections of Lord

Mansfield by his grand nephews, 5. His amusements, 5. His care

of his fortune, 6. He abstains from giving any opinion upon the

Regency question, 7. His views of the French Revolution, 8. His

continuing powers of memory, 10. His last illness, 11. His death, 11.

His will, 12. His position among the lawyers of the 18th century,

13. Felicity of the life of a lawyer practising under him, 16. Solution

of the charge that he knew no law, 17. Sermon written by him

and preached by a bishop, 18. His demeanour in society, 20. His

facetiæ, 21. Jokes on Serjeant Hill, 24. His advice to a general

about to act as a colonial judge, 25. The space occupied by him in

the public eye, 26. His habits of industry and temperance, 28. His

defects and faults, 30. Without original genius, 30.
His want of

moral courage, 30. Defence of his public conduct, 32. Lampoon

upon him supposed to be written by a Chief Justice, 33. His cha-

racter by Smollett, 34. By other contemporaries, 34. By Lord

Monboddo, 35. By Bishop Hurd, 36. By Bishop Newton, 33.

Imitations of his manner of speaking, 37. Likeness of him, 38.

Aspiration of the Author, 38.

CHAPTER XLI.

LIFE OF LORD KENYON, FROM HIS BIRTH TILL HE WAS APPOINTED

CHIEF JUSTICE OF CHESTER.

Composition of this Memoir an unpleasant task for the biographer, 39.

Family of the Kenyons, 40. Birth of Lord Kenyon, 41. His defec-

tive education, 42. He is apprenticed with an attorney, 42. His

love of the desk, 42. His attempt to rival the Welsh bards, 43.

His disappointment in not being taken into partnership with his

master, 44. He is admitted a student at the Middle Temple, 45.