OF THE CHIEF JUSTICES OF ENGLAND. FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TILL THE DEATH BY JOHN LORD CAMPBELL, LL.D., F.R.S.E., AUTHOR OF 'THE LIVES OF THE LORD CHANCELLORS OF ENGLAND.' THIRD EDITION. IN FOUR VOLUMES.-VOL. I LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1874. The right of Translation is reserved Caws PUBLIC LIBRARY 150143 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899 Uniform with the present Work. LIVES OF THE LORD CHANCELLORS, AND "A work of sterling merit-one of very great labour, of richly diversified interest, and, we are satisfied, of lasting value and estimation. We doubt if there be half-a-dozen living men who could produce a Biographical Series on such a scale, at all likely to command so much applause from the candid among the learned as well as from the curious of the laity."-Quarterly Review. VEM AOBK LONDON PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. TO THE HONOURABLE DUDLEY CAMPBELL. MY DEAR DUDLEY, As you have chosen the noble though arduous profession of the Law, I dedicate to you the LIVES OF THE CHIEF JUSTICES, in the hope that they may stimulate in your bosom a laudable ambition to excel, and that they may teach you industry, energy, perseverance, and self-denial. Learn that, by the exercise of these virtues, there is no eminence to which you may not aspire, and, from the examples here set before you, ever bear in mind that truly enviable reputation is only to be acquired by independence of character, by political consistency, and by spotless purity both in public and private life. I cannot hope to see you enjoying high profes sional distinction; but, when I am gone, you may rescue my name from oblivion, and, if I should be forgotten by all the world besides, you will tenderly remember Your ever affectionate Father, CAMPBELL. |