Common Pleas is in Miscellaneous.
John Evelyn's Diary. 25th June 1696. A trial in the Common Pleas between the Lady Purbeck Temple and Mr. Temple, a nephew of Sir Purbeck, concerning a deed set up to take place of several wills. This deed was proved to be forged. The cause went on my lady's side. This concerning my son-in-law, Draper, I stayed almost all day at Court. A great supper was given to the jury, being persons of the best condition in Buckinghamshire.
On 9th October 1591 Richard Brownlow [aged 38] was appointed Chief Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas which office he held until heis death which made him a very wealthy.
In June 1668 Hugh May [aged 46] was appointed Comptroller of the King's Works and Clerk to the Recognizances.
In 1514 Lewis Pollard [aged 49] was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas which office he held until 1526.
In 1520 Richard Broke was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas.
On 5th November 1545 John Hynde [aged 65] was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas.
On 10th May 1625 Henry Yelverton [aged 58] was appointed the fifth Judge of the Common Pleas.
In 1686 John Powell [aged 54] was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas.
On 10th November 1345 William de Shareshull [aged 55] was appointed Second Justice of the Common Pleas.
In 1483 Roger Townshend [aged 58] was appointed Third Justice of the Common Pleas followin the promotion of John Catesby [aged 50] [presumably to Second Justice of the Common Pleas].
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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In 1484 Roger Townshend [aged 59] was appointed Second Justice of the Common Pleas after the death of John Catesby [aged 51].
In 1483 Roger Townshend [aged 58] was appointed Third Justice of the Common Pleas followin the promotion of John Catesby [aged 50] [presumably to Second Justice of the Common Pleas].