THE

LIVES

OF

THE CHIEF JUSTICES

OF

ENGLAND.

FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TILL THE DEATH
OF LORD MANSFIELD.

BY

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

AUTHOR OF

"THE LIVES OF THE LORD CHANCELLORS OF ENGLAND."

[SECOND AMERICAN EDITION.]

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

PHILADELPHIA:

BLANCHARD & LEA.

1853.

KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS.

PUBLIC LIBRARY

821164

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1917

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER XIX.

CHIEF JUSTICES FROM THE RESIGNATION OF SIR MATTHEW HALE TILL THE

APPOINTMENT OF JEFFREYS.

State of the Times, Page 17. SIR RICHARD RAYNSFORD, 17. His early Career,

17. He is made a Baron of the Exchequer, 18. A Puisne Judge of the King's

Bench, 18. Chief Justice, 18. He decides the great Case of Privilege on the

Commitment of Lord Shaftesbury, 18. He is removed from his Office, 19. His

Death, 19. His Epitaph, 19. Contrast between Raynsford and his Successor,

SCROGGS, 19. Story that Scroggs was the Son of a Butcher, 20. His true

Parentage, 20. He carries Arms as a Cavalier, 21. He studies Law, 21. He

becomes a Serjeant, 21. He is arrested for Debt, 21. He is introduced to

Charles II., 22. He is made a Puisne Judge of the Common Pleas, 22. He

undermines Lord Chief Justice Raynsford, 22. He is made Chief Justice of

the King's Bench, 23. The part taken by him respecting the Popish Plot, 23.

Murder of Stayly, the Roman Catholic Banker, 23. Other Murders committed

by Scroggs, 24. Trial of a Popish Priest, 24. Scroggs changes Sides, 25.

He procures the Acquittal of Sir George Wakeman, 26. Attacks on Chief

Justice Scroggs, 26. Eloquent Speech by him in his own Vindication, 26.

Acquittal of the Earl of Castlemaine; and of Mrs. Cellier, 27. Dialogue with

Dangerfield, 28. Ingenious Scheme to extinguish the Liberty of the Press, 28.

Scroggs frustrates the Attempt to indict the Duke of York as a Popish Recu-

sant by discharging the Grand Jury, 29. Charges against Scroggs before the

King in Council, 29. He is acquitted, 30. Proceedings against him in the

House of Commons, 30. Articles of Impeachment carried up to the Lords,

31. He is saved by the sudden Dissolution of Parliament, 31. Reasons for

cashiering him, 31. He is cashiered, 31. He retires into the Country, 32.

His Death, 32. His Character, 32.

CHAPTER XX.

LIFE OF LORD CHIEF JUSTICE PEMBERTON.

Glance at the Career and Character of SIR FRANCIS PEMBERTON, 33. His Origin

and Education, 33. At Cambridge, 34. He is entered at the Temple, 35.