The life of ... Sir John Holt ... With a table of references to all his lordship's arguments and resolutions in the several volumes of reports ... / By a gentlemen of the Inner-Temple [i.e. John Rayner].

  • John Holt
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1764
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    as the Lord Keeper ufeth to fit, and fvvore a Philacer there, which Office he gave as Chief Juftice of the Com?non Bench, and after¬ wards went into Chancery. Ore, Car. Rep. P. 600. pi. 2. Dugd. Chron. Ser. P. Iio. Chron. Jurididal. P. 193. Cro. Car. Rep. P. 368. Sir Orlando Bridgman, Knight and Baronet, Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, to King Charles the feccnd, was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and yet he continued Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas: And it was laid, that thefe two Places were not inconfiftent. Sid. Rep. P. 338. pi. i., His Lordffiip took Fines, &c. in his Chamber, and received the Profits, but did not fit in Court. Sid. Rep. P. 365. pi. 2. Foriefc. Rep. P. 392. Sid. Rep. P. 3. Dugd. Chron, Ser. P. 114, 116. Chron. Juridicial. P. 199, 203. The Earl of Hard-udcke was Lord High Chancellor, as well as Chief Juftice of the King's-Bench, and his Lorclfnip came into the Kind's-Bench Court, 29 April, in Eajler Term, 1736, 10 Geo. 2. took the Oaths, and heard Mr. Solicitor Stranges's Motion. Stra. Rep. 2 Vol. P. 1071. Kel. Rep. P. 134. An dr. Rep. P. 1. Append, to Chron. Juridicial. P. iO. To conclude, it is recent in every Body's Memory, that on the Pvefignation of the Earl of Hardvdcke, and Appointment of the late Lord Chief Juftice Willes, Mr. Juftice Wilmot, and Mr. Baron Smythe, Lords Commiffioners for the Cuftody of the Great Seal of Great-Britain, they continued Jufticesof their refpefitive Courts all the Time they were Commiffioners. It is not doubted, but that upon diligent Search, many more Precedents might be produced, and, perhaps, more pertinent to the Subjefit, and more in Point than the above; however, thefe already mentioned, may be generally thought fufficient. bir Robert Raymond was advanced to the Dignity of Peerage, by the Stile and Tide of Lord Raymond, Baron of Abbots-Lan^ley, in the County of Hertford, by Letters Patent, dated 15 January, 1730, 4 2. [This Title is now extincL ''Addenda to 5 Vol. Collins's Peerage] 5 Vol. P. 365. On the 29th of June following, his Lordffiip was defiled one of the Governors of the Charter- Houfe, in the Room of Thomas Lord Trevor, deceafed. His Lordlhip departed this Life [2 Stra Rep. P. 948. Kel. Rep. P. 243.] at his Houfe in Red-Lyon Square, in the 60th Year of his Age, on the 15th of April, 1732, and was buried at Abbots Langley in Hertj'ordjhire, where a Monument is erefited to his Memory. Note; the Inlcription thereon is too long to be inferted here, but may be feen in Col. Peer. P. 365. C) Thefe are efteemed exceeding good Reports; the Collector of them was made a Serjeant at Law, 2Q Decembert 1714, 1 Geo. 1. Append, to Chron. Juridicial. P. 11. (*) Sir