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kindness, and by encouragement : to the jurors, by being a 

 light to lead them to justice : to the advocates, by hearing 



especially in all intricate ones, give such an account of the reasons that 

 prevailed with him, that the counsel did not only acquiesce in his authority, 

 but were so convinced by his reasons, that I have heard many profess that 

 he brought them often to change their opinions; so that his giving of 

 judgment was really a learned lecture upon that point of law; and which 

 was yet more, the parties themselves, though interest does too generally 

 corrupt the judgment, were generally satisfied with the justice of his 

 decisions, even if they were made against them. Male s Life, p. 91. 



(6) If any shall browbeat a pregnant witness, on purpose to make his proof 

 miscarry, he checketh them, and helps the witness that labours in his delivery. 

 On the other side he nips these lawyers who, under a pretence of kindness to 

 lend a witness some words, give him new matter, yea clean contrary to what he 

 intended. Fuller. 



(c) He is patient and attentive in hearing the witnesses, though tedious. 

 He may give a waking testimony who hath but a dreaming utterance ; and 

 many country people must be impertinent before they can be pertinent, 

 and cannot give evidence about a hen, but first they must begin with it in 

 the egg. All which our judge is contented to hearken to. Fuller. 



He meets not testimony half way, but stays till it come at him : he that 

 proceeds on half evidence will not do quarter justice. Our judge will not 

 go till he is lead. Fuller. 



Let not the judge meet the cause half way, nor give occasion to the 

 party to say his counsel or proofs were not heard. 



Patience is the lawyer s gift. Lloyd s Life of Sir John Jeffrey, 223. 

 &quot; Prudens qui patiens,&quot; was Lord Burleigh s saying, and Sir Edward 

 Coke s motto. Lord Burleigh is said to have carried matters prudently 

 and patiently as became so great a statesman. Lloyd. 



But nothing was more admirable in him than his patience : he did not 

 affect the reputation of quickness and dispatch, by a hasty and captious 

 hearing of counsel. He would bear with the meanest, and give every man 

 his full scope, thinking it much better to lose time than patience. In sum 

 ming up an evidence to a jury, he would always require the bar to interrupt 

 him if he did mistake, and to put him in mind of it, if he did forget the 

 least circumstance; some judges have been disturbed at this as a rudeness, 

 which he always looked upon as a service and respect done to him. 



Hale s Life, p. 177. 



As his majesty was secured by his loyalty, so his subjects were by his 

 patience, a virtue he carried with him to the bench, to attend each circum 

 stance of an evidence, each allegation of a plea, each plea in a cause ; 

 hearing what was impertinent, and observing what was proper. His usual 



