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CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

LIVES OF THE CHIEF JUSTICES FROM THE CONQUEST TO THE REIGN OF
EDWARD I.

Origin and Functions of the Office of Chief Justiciar, or Chief Justice, of

England, Page 1. Odo, the first Chief Justiciar, 4. His Birth, 4.

He accompanies William the Conqueror in the Invasion of England, 5.
He is appointed Chief Justiciar, 6. Cause tried before him, 7. His

Quarrel with the King, 8. He is liberated from Imprisonment, 9.

He conspires against William Rufus, 10. He is banished from
England, 12. His Death, 12. William Fitz-Osborne Chief Justiciar,

13. William de Warrenne and Richard de Benefacta Chief Justiciars,

14. William de Carilefo Chief Justiciar, 16. Flambard Chief

Justiciar, 17. First Sittings in Westminster Hall, 17. Roger,

Bishop of Salisbury, Chief Justiciar, 18. Ralph Basset Chief

Justiciar, 19. Prince Henry (afterwards Henry II.) Chief Justiciar,
19. Richard de Luci Chief Justiciar, 20. Robert, Earl of Leicester,

Chief Justiciar, 21. Ranulfus de Glanville, 22. His Birth, 22. He

is Sheriff of Yorkshire, 23. He takes William the Lion, King of
Scots, Prisoner, 23. How the News was received by Henry II., 25.

Glanville made Chief Justiciar, 27. Glanville as a Law Writer, 29.

Preface to Glanville's Book, 30. Mode of Trial by Grand Assize or

by Battle, 31. Glanville's Conduct to the Welsh, 34. Glanville's

Prohibition in the Suit between Henry II. and the Monks of Canter-

bury, 35. A new Crusade, 37. Glanville takes the Cross, 38.

Glanville is killed at the Siege of Acre, 40. Hugh Pusar, Bishop of

Durham, Chief Justiciar, 40. His licentious youth, 41. His meri-

torious middle age, 41. His seven years of Blindness, 42. His

Death, 43. William Longchamp, 43. Walter Hubert, Archbishop

of Canterbury, Chief Justiciar, 44. Case of William-with-the-Long-

Beard, 44. Hubert deposed from the Justiciarship, 47. Geoffrey

Fitzpeter Chief Justiciar, 47. Trial of the Case of Fauconbridge v.

Fauconbridge, 49. Peter de Rupibus, 51. Peter de Rupibus in

favour with Henry III., 51. He takes the Cross, 53. He gains a

Battle for the Pope, 54. His Death, 54. Hubert de Burgh, 54.

THE LIVES OF THE CHIEF JUSTICES FROM THE ACCESSION OF EDWARD I.

TO THE APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF JUSTICE TRESILIAN.

Judicial Institutions of Edward I., 83. Ralph de Hengham Chief

Justice of the Court of King's Bench, 85. His Origin, 85. His

Progress in the Law, 85. Law Books composed by him, 86. He is

appointed Guardian of the Kingdom, 88. He is charged with Bribery,

88. Convictions of the Judges, 89. De Hengham is fined 7000

Marks, 89. Opinions respecting him in after-times, 90. He is

restored to public Employment, 91. His Death, 91. De Weyland

Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 91. His Conduct, 91. He

absconds in Disgrace, 91. His Punishment and Infamy in after-

times, 92. De Thornton Chief Justice of King's Bench, 93. Roger

le Brabaçon, 93. He is employed by Edward I. in the Dispute about

the Crown of Scotland, 94. His Address to the Scottish Parliament,

95. He assists in subjecting Scotland to English Jurisdiction, 96.

He is made Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 97. His Speech at

the Opening of the English Parliament, 98. His Death, 99. Sir

William Howard, qu. whether a Chief Justice? 99. Henry le Scrope,

101. Summoned to the House of Lords, 101. Chief Justice of the

King's Bench, 102. Henry de Staunton Chief Justice of the King's

Bench, 102. Ballad on Chief Justice Staunton, 104. Sir Robert

Parnyng, 105. Sir William de Thorpe, 105. His professional

Progress, 105. He is made Chief Justice of the Court of King's

Bench, 106. His Addresses to the two Houses of Parliament, 106.

He is charged with Bribery, 107. He is found guilty: qu. whether

CHIEF JUSTICES TILL THE DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM GASCOIGNE.

Sir Robert Tresilian, 114. He is made a Puisne Judge of the Court of

King's Bench, 114. Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 115. His

Plan to enable Richard II. to triumph over the Barons, 116. The

Opinion of the Judges on the Privileges of Parliament, 116.

Measures prompted by Tresilian against the Barons, 119. The

Barons gain the Ascendency, 119. Tresilian prosecuted for High

Treason, 120. He absconds, 121. Proceedings in Parliament, 121.

Tresilian attainted, 123. He comes to Westminster in Disguise,

123. He is discovered, apprehended, and executed, 124. His Cha-

racter, 127. Sir Robert Belknappe, 128. His Family, 128. He

is made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 129. The Manner in

which he was coerced into the giving of an illegal Opinion, 129. He

is arrested and convicted of High Treason, 130. Judges attainted of

High Treason, 131. The Sentence commuted for Transportation to

Ireland, 132. He is allowed to return to England, 133. His Death,

134. Sir William Thirnynge, 134. Chief Justice of the Common

Pleas, 135. Justification of the part he took in the Deposition of

Richard II., 135. He is appointed to carry to Richard II. the Re-

nunciation of the Allegiance of the Nation, 138. The account of

the Manner in which he executed this Commission, 139. He acts as

Chief Justice under Henry IV., 141. His Death, 142. Sir William

Gascoigne, 143. His Origin and Education, 143. His Success at the

Bar, 143. He is appointed Attorney to represent Bolingbroke, after-

wards Henry IV., 144. His Proceedings in this capacity on the

Death of John of Gaunt, 144. He is appointed Chief Justice of the

King's Bench, 145. His Refusal to try a Prelate and a Peer, 146.

Story of his committing the Prince of Wales to Prison; qu. whether

it be authentic? 148. When and where first mentioned, 149. Story

as related by Sir Thomas Elyot, 150. Represented on the Stage, 152.

How the Story is treated by Shakspeare, 153. Refutation of the

Claims of other Judges, 155. Merit of Sir W. Gascoigne in this

transaction, 156. Sir William Gascoigne's Law Reforms, 157. Curious

Case in which he acted as an Arbitrator, 159. Refutation of the

Assertion that he died in the Reign of Henry IV., 159. His Will,

160. His tomb and Epitaph, 162.

Dyer, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 211. Latin

Verses in his Praise, 211. His Origin and Education, 212. His

early Genius for Reporting, 212. His Merits as a Reporter, 213,

He is Speaker of the House of Commons, 213. He is made

Queen's Serjeant, 214. He conducts the Prosecution against Sir

Nicholas Throckmorton, 214. He is made a Puisne Judge, 217.

Chief Justice of Common Pleas, 217. His Reports, 218.
Care

on the Marriage of Minors, 219. Case on the Benefit of Clergy,

220. Cases on the Law of Villeinage, 220. His Conduct on the

Trial of the Duke of Norfolk, 223. Charge against him for arbi-

trary Conduct as Judge of Assize, 225. His Death, 226. Publica-

tion of Reports, 227. Sad Fate of the Last of his House, 228. Sir

Robert Catlyne Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 228. His Descent

from Cataline the Conspirator, 228. Feast when he was called

Serjeant, 229. He is made a Puisne Judge, 231. Chief Justice, 231.

He assists at the Trial of the Duke of Norfolk, 231. Qu. whether

the fact of a Witness being a Scot renders him incompetent, or only

goes to his credit? 232. Chief Justice Catlyne passes Sentence on

Hickford, 234. His Death and Burial, 236. His Descendants, 236.

Sir Christopher Wray, 236. His doubtful Parentage, 236. He is a

Serjeant-at-Law, 237. He is Speaker of the House of Commons, 237.

He is made Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 240. He tries

Campion the Jesuit, 240. Trial of William Parry for Treason, 242.

Wray presides in the Star Chamber on the Trial of Secretary

Davison, 243. Trial of the Earl of Arundel, 245. Death of Chief

Justice Wray, 245. His Character, 245.

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