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THE
LIVES
OF
THE LORD CHANCELLORS
AND
KEEPERS OF THE GREAT SEAL
ENGLAND,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TILL THE REIGN OF
KING GEORGE IV.
BY
JOHN LORD CAMPBELL, A.M. F.R.S.E.
[SECOND SERIES,
FROM THE REVOLUTION OF 1688, TO THE DEATH OF LORD CHANCELLOR THURLOW, IN 1806.]
VOL. V.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1
Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE,
New-Street-Square.
CONTENTS
THE FIFTH VOLUME.
CHAPTER CXXIX.
LIFE OF LORD CHANCELLOR HARDWICKE FROM HIS BIRTH TILL HE WAS APPOINTED
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Character of Lord Hardwicke, Page 1. Difficulty in doing Justice to it, 1. His
Origin, 2. His Birth, 2. His Education, 2. He is put as Clerk to an Attorney, 3.
His Diligence and Desire of Improvement, 4. Greatly pleases his Master, 4.
How he escaped from the Tasks imposed upon him by his Mistress, 4. Friendships
he formed while in the Attorney's Office, 5. He is introduced to Lord Chief
Justice Parker, and becomes Law Tutor to his Sons, 6. He writes a Paper in the
"Spectator," 9. His Preparations for the Bar, 11. He is called, 11. He ra-
pidly gets into Business, 12. Goes the Western Circuit, 12. His Translation
of Coke upon Littleton into Verse, 13. His Marriage, 14. He practises in the
Court of Chancery, 15. Lord Macclesfield's excessive Partiality for him, 15.
He distinguishes himself there, 16. He is returned to Parliament, 17.
Prudence in not speaking, 17. The Solicitor General accuses the Attorney
General of Corruption, 18. The Attorney General is acquitted and the Solicitor
General dismissed, 18. Yorke is appointed Solicitor General, and knighted, 19.
Envy created by this Appointment, 20. At first not employed in the Court of
Chancery, 20. Soon in any Cause, 20. He is re-elected for Lewes, 21. Sir
R. Raymond, Attorney General, 21. His Speech on the Prosecution of Layer
for High Treason, 21.
His
CHAPTER CXXX.
CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD HARDWICKE TILL HE WAS APPOINTED LORD
CHANCELLOR.
He is promoted to be Attorney General, 23. An excellent Law Officer, 23.
His Mode of conducting Excise Prosecutions in the Exchequer, 24. Ex-
officio Informations for Libel, 24. He writes a Pamphlet on the judicial
Functions of the Master of the Rolls, 25. He supports Bill for the Ba-
nishment of Atterbury, 25. His Behaviour on the Impeachment of Lord
Macclesfield, 26. Yorke devotes himself to the Duke of Newcastle, 27.
Acces-