Justice of Chester
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Chief Justice of Chester
)The Justice of Chester was the chief judicial authority for the
Great Sessions in Wales and the palatine judicature in 1830.[2]
Within the County Palatine (which encompassed
Elizabeth I, a second justice was added to each of the Welsh circuits,[4]
after which the senior and junior justice are generally referred to as the Chief Justice of Chester and the Second or Puisne Justice of Chester.
Because the Cheshire justices were free to practise as
Puisne Justice
were abolished in 1830, as part of reforms that also brought Wales under the jurisdiction of the courts at Westminster.
Justices of Chester
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- Philip Orreby 1202–29 [5]
- John de Grey c.1246 [6]
- William de Vernon 1229–?1236
- Richard de Vernon
- Earl of Lincoln
- John Lestrange 1241-1245
- John Grey 1245-1249
- Alan la Zouche 1250–1255 [7]
- Gilbert Talbot 1255– [7]
- Roger de Montalt/Mohaut (aka Mold) 1258–1259 [7]
- Fulk de Orreby 1259–1261 [7]
- Thomas de Orreby 1261–1262 [7]
- William la Zouche 1262– [8]
- Luke de Thaney c.1265 [8][7]
- James de Audley c.1265 [7]
- Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton c.1270
- Robert de Ufford c.1276– [9]
- Guncelin Badelesmere 1276-79
- Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton 1281-1290
- Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton c.1297
- Richard Massy c.1300 [8]
- Robert Holland, 1st Baron Holand c.1307–c.1320
- Pain de Tibetot c.1311 [10]
- Richard Daumary c.1325 [11]
- William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon c.1330 [12]
- Hugh de Freyne c.1335 [13]
- Henry Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby 1336–1342 [14]
- Thomas de Felton 1369–1381 [15]
- Sir John Holland 1381–1385
- Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York 1385–1387
- Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland1387–1388
- Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester1388–1391
- John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter 1391–1394
- Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk 1394–1398
- William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire1398–1399
- Henry Percy 1400–1403
- Gilbert Talbot, 5th Baron Talbot 1403–1419
- Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter 1420–1427
- Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester 1427–1440
- William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk 1440–1450 (jointly from 1443, murdered 1450))
- Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley 1443–1459 (jointly to 1450)
- John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury 1459–1460 (KIA 1460)
- in commission 1460
- John Needham 1461
- Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby 1461–1471
- Richard, Duke of Gloucester 1471
- Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby 1471–1504
- Sir Thomas Englefield 1505–1514?
- Sir Nicholas Hare 1540–1545
- Sir Robert Townshend 1545–1557
- Sir John Pollard 1557
- George Wood Esq.1558 of Hall atte Wood, Balterley, Staffordshire
- John Throckmorton1558–1578
- Sir George Bromley 1564–1589
- Richard Shuttleworth 1589–1592
- Sir Richard Lewknor 1592–1616
Chief and Puisne Justices of Chester
Offices abolished 1830
References
- ^ Yates, p. 6
- ^ Yates, p. 7
- ^ Yates, pp. 32–33
- ^ The Penny Cyclopedia, p. 505
- ^ Jones, Douglas. The Church in Chester, 1300-1540. p. 102.
- ^ Gastrell, Francis. Notitia Cestriensis, Or, Historical Notices of the Diocese of Chester: Cheshire. p. 140.
- ^ a b c d e f g Jones, Philip. In Search of Chester's Medieval Castle.
- ^ a b c Hanshall, J.H. The history of the county palatine of Chester. p. 143.
- ^ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition. p. 494.
- ^ Public Records, Great Britain. Report, 1840-1908, Volume 36. p. 27.
- ^ THE THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT. p. 370.
- ^ Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition. p. 691.
- ^ Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition. p. 332.
- ^ Bothwell, James. Edward III and the English Peerage: Royal Patronage, Social Mobility, and ... p. App. 2.
- ^ Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, Suffolk. Proceedings, Volume 4, Issues 1-4. p. 28.
Bibliography
- Yates, Joseph Brooks (1856). The Rights and Jurisdiction of the County Palatine of Chester, the Earls Palatine, the Chamberlain, and Other Officers. Charles Simms & Co. Retrieved 4 May 2007.
- The Penny Cyclopedia of the Society for the Dissemination of Useful Knowledge, Volume XXVI. London: Charles Knight & Co. 1843. Retrieved 4 May 2007.