Chief Justice of the King's Bench is in King's Bench.
In 1338 Richard Willoughby [aged 48] was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
On 24th July 1340 Robert Parning was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
In 1372 John Cavendish [aged 26] was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
In 1381 Robert Tresilian was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
On 31st January 1388 Walter Clopton was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench which position he held for life.
On 15th November 1400 William Gascoigne [aged 50] was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
In 1413 William Hankford [aged 63] was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
Around 13th April 1440 John Hody was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench by patent dated 13 April 1440.
After 13th May 1461 John Markham was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
On 23rd January 1468 Thomas Billing was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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On 7th May 1481 William Hussey [aged 38] was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
On 24th November 1495 John Fineux aka Fyneux [aged 54] was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
In 1539 Edward Montagu [aged 54] was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
In 1552 Roger Cholmeley [aged 57] was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench which position he held until 1553.
In 1554 William Portman was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
On 8th November 1574 Christopher Wray [aged 50] was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
In 1616 Henry Montagu 1st Earl Manchester [aged 53] was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland 1640. 4th January 1640. Savoy.
F. Lord Willoughby to his uncle, the Earl of Rutland [aged 60], at Belvoir Castle [Map].
When we ate your venison my Elizabeth Cecil Baroness Willoughby of Parham 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 [aged 73] Lewis Boyle 1st Viscount Boyle [aged 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 [aged 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 Lettice Boyle [aged 30] Mr. Goring's [aged 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 [aged 54]. It is known to be between those two. My Lord Finch [aged 12] will be Chief Justice of the King's Bench and the Attorney General to be Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Signet.
On 21st November 1665 John Kelynge [aged 58] was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
On 21st November 1665 John Kelyng [aged 58] was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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On 18th May 1671 Matthew Hale [aged 61] was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
In 1818 Charles Abbott 1st Baron Tenterden [aged 55] was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench.