This book provides biographical sketches of some of the most notable judges in English history. It covers the period from the 1600s to the 1800s, and includes figures such as Judge Jeffreys, Lord Mansfield, and Lord Eldon. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the legal history of England, and is an essential reference for anyone studying law or legal history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Excerpt from Lives of Eminent English Judges of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries The Biographies which compose this Volume were originally published in the "Law Magazine," and were read, I believe, with some degree of favour. The Lives of Lords Nottingham, Hardwicke, Mansfield, Thurlow, and Ashburton were from the pen of the late Edmund Plunkett Burke, afterwards Chief Justice of St. Lucie, whose premature and melancholy death was the occasion of much regret to his friends and the Profession. For the rest I am responsible, with the exception of the memoirs of Hale and Blackstone, which were by other hands. I have the permission of the writers to include them also in this Volume. The whole have been carefully revised, and some inaccuracies, both of fact and of expression, have been corrected. I did not venture upon the more difficult and delicate task, of pourtraying the lives and characters of any of the distinguished Judges who have adorned the Bench and the Woolsack within the present century. It has, however, been well performed by my friend Mr. Townsend, whose Memoirs are also about to be presented to the public in a collected form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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