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have seen how he repaid their kindness, hy 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 

 came 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 Circuit 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 J udge 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 circuit at Norwich, July 27th, 1681, 

 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 Llevon, 

 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 ho 



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