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Between 1327 and 1337, intermittently, William de Herle was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
On 3rd September 1329 John Stonor (age 48) was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas which office he held until 2nd March 1331.
On 7th July 1335 John Stonor (age 54) was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for a second time. He held the office until 30th November 1341.
On 9th May 1342 John Stonor (age 61) was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for a third time. He held the office until 22nd February 1354.
On 23rd April 1520 Robert Brudenell (age 59) was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
On 22nd November 1530 Robert Norwich was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
In 1545 Edward Montagu (age 60) was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
On 23rd August 1553 Richard Morgan was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
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The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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On 8th October 1554 Robert Broke was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
In January 1559 James Dyer (age 49) was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
On 5th October 1588 Anthony Browne was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
On 28th November 1626 Thomas Richardson (age 57) succeeded Sir Henry Hobart as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, after a vacancy of nearly a year.
In 1631 Robert Heath (age 55) was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas which post he held until Sep 1634.
In January 1640 John Bankes (age 51) was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland 1640. 4th January 1640. Savoy.
F. Lord Willoughby to his uncle, the Earl of Rutland (age 60), at Belvoir Castle [Map].
When we ate your venison my wife and I drank your health and my Lady's and did not forget little Mr. George, whom, I am glad to hear, grows towards a man. "There hath beene a marriage at the court betweene one of my Lord of Corcke (age 73) sonnse (age 21) and my Lady Elizabeth Feelding, about which there is a greate stur, for it seemes he did not prove eoe rite as a man should be to goo about such a business. For the report goese that his manly part had lost something in his former serviocesse, and beside that he was soe full of severall disceases ... as that it was tould the Queene (age 30), whoe sent for my Lady Elizabeth, and tould her that she must desier her not to lett her husband lye with her that night, whoe put of, modilestly making little answere, but she seemed so lothe to understand the Queene, as that she tould her she must command her not to come in a pair of sheets with him, and tould her the reasons; soe as that he is gone out of the way some say into France, others thinks he is in London under cower. It was discovered by his sister (age 30) Mr. Goring's (age 31) wife, to whom he had imparted his grevancess, and she had plotted it soe, to make an excuse for him, that he should falie downe stares that day, and she would come and take him up, and soe he should complane how he had breused himselfe and strained his back with the fale, that he should be soe ill he was not fitt to goe to bed to his wife that night. But could not keepe her counsel but must tell her husband Jorge Goring, and he presently ran and tould the Queene, and soe it was discovered and then it was presently in every buddy's mouth.".
My Lord Keeper is so ill that the physicians think he cannot recover. My Lord Chief Justice Bramstone is talked of to be Lord Keeper, and Bishop Wren (age 54). It is known to be between those two. My Lord Finch (age 12) will be Chief Justice of the King's Bench and the Attorney General to be Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Signet.
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On 23rd May 1668 John Vaughan of Transgoed (age 64) was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. He won lasting fame for his important decision in Bushell's Case, that juries were not to be fined for returning a verdict against the direction of the judge.
On 6th April 1687 Robert Wright (age 53) was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1724 Thomas Wyndham 1st Baron Wyndham (age 42) was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
In November 1873 John Duke Coleridge 1st Baron Coleridge (age 52) was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.