164 Records of the Rising in the West, A.D. 1655. 



correspondent, but simply certifying" of them " vera copia" He was 

 perhaps educated at Cambridge, but of this I have discovered no 

 direct evidence. One of the learned legal societies gave him an 

 introduction to the bar. He rose to eminence in his profession, 

 and entered Parliament. Here he soon won respect and confidence ; 

 and was named successively, Commissioner of the Broad Seal, and 

 of the Uxbridge Treaty. In April, 1649, it will be remembered, 

 he became Attorney- General to the Parliament. As such he was 

 engaged in several important trials, amongst others, Love's, Lil- 

 burne's, and Gerard's; and so brought much talent and experience 

 to the present circuit, of which perchance he was a member before 

 he became Attorney- General. 



Roger Hill, the first of the junior counsel for the Government, 

 like so many others engaged on the present assize, was a west- 

 countryman ; belonging to an old Somersetshire family, near Taunton. 

 Born at Colyton in Devon, in 1605, he entered the Temple at 

 nineteen years of age, and reached the bar about eight years later. 

 In the year 1644 he formed the one silent member of the array of 

 counsel who prosecuted Archbishop Laud ; in the following year he 

 was elected M.P. for Bridport. Then came his nomination as a 

 commissioner for the King's trial. In return for his present services, 

 he received the coif. Afterwards, in 1657, if not before, a Baron's 

 seat in the Exchequer fell to him. At the Restoration he retired, 

 and died in 1667. 



Of Mr. Graves, the third counsel for the Commonwealth, I can 

 find no traces. His name does not occur amongst the judges of that 

 period. Perchance he sank in the vast ocean of law, which has been 

 the bourn, as well as the nursery, of many fine intellects. 



Serjeant Maynard, the leader of the then western circuit, is not re- 

 corded as taking part in these proceedings, and most probably re- 

 mained in London. 1 



1 Anthony Wood gives the following well-known passage, without citing any 

 authority for the quotation : " Upon which occasion, the author of Hudibras the 

 1st and 2nd parts in Lond. 1674, oct., canto the 2nd, p. 92, about vein and remis, 

 had the verses following, which were not allowed to stand in the frst edition, 

 1663, because Glynne and Maynard were then living: — 



