By W. W. Ravenhill, Esq. 255 
Two other orders follow, one of which relates to the prosecution of 
one William Costine, accused of the manslaughter of his wife, the 
other to a dispute between the parishes of Upton Pyne and St. Giles’s 
near Torrington, Devon, as to the settlement of a poor impotent 
man, John ffurseman. Neither have anything to do with the Rising 
in the West. 
It is well to observe the names above once again, Rolle and Nicholas 
both present, and Windham absent ; and the entry may be relied on, 
for I find on reference to other entries, that only the Judges present 
in court were placed in the heading. For instance suppose two 
Judges were on circuit, only the one presiding in the Crown Court 
would be mentioned. Here there was only one Court, and that a 
Crown Court; and all five Judges are named and therefore present. | 
I have not been able to find any plan or view of High Sheriff 
Copplestone’s Court. No doubt it was a great improvement, which 
Chief Justice Rolle and other Western Circuit Judges would be sure 
to compliment him upon. But it does seem rather hard, to call on 
the ratepayers to pay for a work they never authorized; carried out 
whether lavishly or otherwise they probably knew not; by a nominee 
of the Government, over whom they had no control.’ 
The Court then sat in great state on the 18th, and Mr. Serjeant 
Glynn delivered his charge to the Grand Jury.’ We shall obtain 
some insight into the character of that address from the following 
letter :-— 
“ Mr. James Nutley to Mr. Secretary Thurloe.* 
In obedience to your command, I humbly certify your honor, that the Grand 
jury here, although they first made diverse scruples upon the bills of high 
treason, the chiefest whereof was concerning the Statute laws, against which 
the offence is alledged to bee committed, what those statutes were, and then 
how they could be meant of his highnesse the lord protector ; and they having 
the old Statute of 25 Ed. III. and the late ordinance; and it being given in 
charge by Mr. Sergeant Glynne very learnedly and fully, that by the Statute of 
25 Edw. III. and the common law, the levying warre against the chief officer of 
the commonwealth (lett the name be whatsoever) was high treason, and by the 
word king in that statute must be meant the Chief officer (and the beareing of 
that office) the Major part of the Grand Jury were quicklie satisfied. I was 
—E0SESI]’—E Eee are 
1 The present Courts at Exeter are a separate building of much later date. 
*3 Th,, 398. 
