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have seen how he repaid their kindness, by seconding the Lord Chief 
Justice, in trying to conciliate the west country in the following 
year. On Cromwell becoming Lord Protector, he rearranged the 
Judges of the Courts of Law, and moved Nicholas to the Court of 
Exchequer, to strengthen that Court. As one of the Judges in- 
sulted at Salisbury he declined any active part throughout the trials 
of the risers, affording fresh proof of the fairness with which they 
-were conducted. Of him it could be said, that the fire of the ad- 
vocate was extinguished by the impartiality of the judge. 
_ Mr. Justice Hugh Wyndham of the Common Pleas was the sixth 
son of Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham, Somersetshire, 
and of Felbrigge, Norfolk. His mother was a daughter of Sir 
Henry Portman, and he was born about 1603. To Lincoln’s Inn he 
eame March 19th, 1622. After his call to the bar in 1629, he 
worked steadily at his profession. Business followed, and then the 
wars. In the early troubles his sympathies were with the Crown. 
The connection of his family with King Charles’s Court, is too well 
known to be more than mentioned here. But his sense of justice 
moved him in course of time, to think there was some good in the 
Parliamentary cause; and so it came to pass, that though he let it 
be understood that he would object to serve under the Lord Protector, 
yet when asked to go as Commissioner on the Northern Cireuit in 
the spring of 1654, he consented to do so. On the 30th of May, 
of that year, he somehow or other accepted the office of Judge of the 
Common Pleas. In after days he was re-appointed by both Richard 
Cromwell and Charles II. By the latter, a baron of the Exchequer, 
June 20th, 1670. He died on cireuit at Norwich, July 27th, 1684, 
and his remains and monument are at Silton in Dorsetshire. The 
most important duty he ever discharged was the present, when he 
presided at Salisbury, with no little credit. 
But the chief actor in the Commission was John Glynne, Serjeant- 
_at-Law, not yet Lord Chief Justice. He was born to wealth and 
position in 1602 at the seat of the Glynne family, Glyn Lleven, 
Caernarvon. He added to these and the great natural gifts which 
he possessed, no little of the scholarship of Westminster School 
and Hart Hall, now part of New College, Oxford, whither he 
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