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ination, and reasonableness, he was praised by both sides. 
The following is one story told of him. He had promised 
Sir Robert Walpole to give a living to a certain rector. When 
the rector came for the living, he mentioned the petition of 
the curate to be continued and begged it might be granted. 
The rector-expectant answered that he had already promised 
it to another. Chancellor Talbot then refused to give the 
rector the living, but gave it to the curate instead. 
Hardwicke (1690-1764). Chancellor Talbot was succeeded 
by Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, who was the son of an 
attorney; attended a private school; studied law under Sal- 
keld; was admitted to the Middle Temple and called to the 
bar; gained a considerable practice largely due to Lord Mac- 
clesfield, chief justice of King’s Bench; became solicitor-gen- 
eral ; then attorney-general ; entered Parliament and was 
promoted to the House of Lords; became chief justice of the 
King’s Bench; and finally in 1737 Lord Chancellor. He mar- 
ried a daughter of the sister of Lord Somers. He was ex- 
cused from taking part in the impeachment of Lord Maccles- 
field. He published a book on the judicial authority of the 
master of the rolls in chancery. He refused the office of chief 
justice until the salary was raised from £2,000 to £4,000. He 
was recorder of Gloucester from 1734 till his son Charles suc- 
ceeded him. He did not accept the chancellorship until a 
grant in reversion of a fellowship in Exchequer was given 
his son, but he retained the Great Seal twenty years, and 
during that time made his name illustrious. He was char- 
acterized by beauty of person, urbanity of manner, and sweet- 
ness of voice; and excited the animosity only of Horace 
Walpole. In the absence of the king from England he had 
the principal management of the kingdom (with two others, — 
the Duke of Newcastle and Robert Walpole). As one of the 
lord high stewards he prosecuted the rebels of 1745. He was 
made a steward of the University of Cambridge, tho not a 
university man. He was made a peer in 1754. In 1756 he 
resigned the Great Seal, because the Duke of Devonshire suc- 
ceeded the Duke of Newcastle, and refused it on the return 
to power again of the Duke of Newcastle. He has been criti- 
cised for his partisanship as a statesman; he was not a law 
reformer; but he was a man of transcendent abilities as a 
magistrate. He was never reversed. Some think his repu- 
