John Kelynge
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John Kelynge KS was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1663. He became Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
John Kelynge
Matthew Hale (jurist)
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Sir Matthew Hale was an influential English lawyer, most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown. He occupied various public offices both under the
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…advancement, he was appointed to fill the vacant seat in the King's Bench on 18 June 1663. He was present at the noted trial of the witches at Bury before Chief Baron Hale, in March 1662. He was appointed as Hale's coadjutor on the circuit. The dissatisfaction with the verdict which he is represented to have expressed…
1670 portrait of Hale by John Wright
William Noy, whom Hale served as a pupil
Richard Cromwell, who summoned the Third Protectorate Parliament
Hale as Chief Justice of the King's Bench