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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



497 



Fate, the author does not seem to have a very 

 respectful opinion ; though he allows Sir John 

 Strange, the retiring solicitor, whose place is the 

 object of contest, and who afterwards became Mas- 

 ter of the Rolls, to escape without a character. 



William Noel, who eventually became a Judge 

 of the Common Pleas, thus pleads his claim : — 



" If a Gentleman born, and Descent of high blood. 

 And knowledge of Law, which I tliink pretty good; 

 If oft being mention'd in all the News Papers, 

 At ev'ry Promotion, as one of the Gapers, 

 Can entitle a man to the Place in Dispute, 

 I presume that with Justice I can't be left out." 



He did not obtain any benefit from his adver- 

 tised efficiency till fifteen years after, in 1757 ; 

 and I am afraid that some of the " Gapers" whose 

 merits are lauded by the editors of the modern 

 journals, will have to wait still longer before they 

 succeed. 



Dudley Ryder, who became Chief Justice of 

 the King's Bench in 1754, is t&us alluded to by a 

 Puritan candidate : — 



" The Cloak and the Band, it is very well known, 

 I've, like R — d— r, declia'd for the sake of this Gown." 



The next is a Welshman, Richard Lloyd, not 

 appointed Solicitor-General till 1754, and pro- 

 moted to a puisne-barony in the Court of Exche- 

 quer in 1759, who is described as founding his 

 pretensions on his pedigree " fifty yards long," 

 and the fact that 

 .♦•The first of my Ancestors held this same Place, 



In the reign of King Lucius, the first King of Grace." 



He is silenced by the Chancellor's answer : — 



" Tho' oft in the Papers Preferment you get, 

 His Majesty hardly has heard of you yet." 



The conceit of Nathaniel Gundry, who was 

 raised to the Bench seven or eight years after 

 this publication, is thus pictured : — 



" In the front of the crowd then appear'd Mr. G — nd — y, 



' To this Office,' quo' he, ' my Pretences are sundry. 



Imprimis my merit, e'en great as t' attract 



His M— j — y's notice, so nice and exact 



As lately to call me inside of the Bar, 



From among the Rear-guard, poor Souls! how they 

 stare ! 



Which is plain that he meant me some further Prefer- 

 ment, 



More worthy my Learning, my Parts and Discernment. 



More claims I might urge, but this I insist on 



Is sufficient to merit the Office in question.' " 



His presumption is thus chastised, with a hint 

 on the ways of advancement : — 

 " Then the President thus, • You're too full of Surmizes ; 

 The Man who is stiff, like an Oak, never rises. 



To rise you must fall ; 'tis the way thro' the Doors 

 Now-a-days of Preferment, to creep on all fours.' " 



The remaining two Judges infuturo are Thomas 

 Clarke, who became Master of the Rolls in 1754, 

 and William Murray, afterwards the great Earl 

 of Mansfield. Of Clarke, beyond bia abuse of the 



" Common Law Dunces," and his reliance on his 

 knowledge of Civil Law, and of Murray, beyond 

 the suggestion of self-laudation which I noticed 

 in the former communication, the satirist says 

 nothing severe or pointed. 



The several peculiarities of the chars^cters and 

 manners of the twenty-two other candidates are 

 as sharply depicted ; but as the names of most of 

 them are little known at the present day, and as I 

 have already occupied a sufficient space in your 

 pages, devoted to more useful matters, I will 

 leave them to be studied by those who are inter- 

 ested ifi the scandal of the times. A Templab. 



LEIGHTON AND CAREY. 

 (2°«» S. X. 257. 329. 39a.) 



The statement is quite correct that there never 

 was a governor of Guernsey of the name of Carey, 

 but still your correspondent's inquiry is not alto- 

 gether without foundation ; for during the time 

 that Sir Thomas Leighton was governor, Peter 

 Carey (the same that you have spoken of as being 

 a Jurat) was on several occasions appointed to 

 act as Lieutenant-Governor. 



Thomas Leighton, Esquire (who in 1579 re- 

 ceived the honour of knighthood), was appointed 

 Captain or Governor of Guernsey, by letterg 

 patent bearing date 15th April, 12 Eliz., and he 

 was admitted to the office on the 18th of May, 

 1570. In the Letters Patent, and also in the 

 Record of his admission, his name is written TMy^ 

 ton. But there is preserved in the State Paper 

 Office a series of letters written by him from 

 Guernsey — one of them of as early a date as the 

 2nd of June, 1570 (within three weeks after he 

 was admitted to his office) — and in these letters 

 he invariably signs his name Leighton ; though on 

 some of them, in the endorsement of the secretary, 

 the name is spelled (as in the Letters Patent) 

 Layton. And this spelling of the name no 

 doubt' represents the manner in which it was 

 pronounced, — at least in official quarters. But 

 he appears to have been himself somewhat par- 

 ticular about the spelling. For by letters patent 

 bearing date 24 April, 20 Eliz., the queen granted 

 him certain seignorial rights within the island ; 

 and in this instrument, his appointment as Cap- 

 tain being recited, it is stated to have been made 

 " Eidem Thomas Leighton per nomen Thome 

 Layton, Armiger." \ must observe that Sir 

 Thomas Leighton was Governor of Guernsey 

 only and its dependencies, and not as your cor- 

 respondent W. A. Leighton supposes (x. 398.) 

 of Jersey also. He continued to hold the office 

 till his death in 1610, and during this time, being 

 a man of some mark, he was frequently absent, 

 sometinjes on public and sometimes on private 

 business. On these occasions the duties of his 



