"Taxes, L420. "The charges of my being made a serjeant-at-law, and of removing myselfe and family to London, and a new coach and paire of horses, and of my knighthood (all which were within the first halfe year of my coming from York), upon the best calculation I can make of them, were att least L600." Concerning the expenses attendant on his removal from the Common Pleas to the King's Bench in 1695--a removal which had an injurious result upon his income--the judge records: Nov. 1. To Mr. Partridge, the Crier of King's Bench, claimed by him as a fee due to the 2 criers, L2. Nov. 12. To Mr. Ralph Hall, in full of the Clerk of the Crown's bill for my patent, and swearing at the Lord Keeper's, and passing it through the offices, L28, 14_s._ 2_d._ Dec. 6. To Mr. Carpenter, the Vintner, for wine and bottles, L22, 10_s._ 6_d._ To Gwin, the Confectioner, for cakes, L5, 3_s._ 6_d._ To Mr. Mand (his clerk), which he paid att the Treasury, and att the pell for my patent, allowed there, L1, 15_s._ Tot. L60, 2_s._ 8_d._ The charges for wine and cakes were consequences of a custom which required a new judge to send biscuits and macaroons, sack and claret, to his brethren of the bench. In the reign of George I. the salaries of the common law judges were raised--the pensions of the chiefs being doubled, and the _puisnes_ receiving fifteen hundred instead of a thousand pounds. Cowper's incomes during his tenure of the seals varied between something over seven and something under nine thousand per annum: but there is some reason to believe that on accepting office, he stipulated for a handsome yearly salary, in case he should be called upon to relinquish the place. Evelyn, not a very reliable authority, but still a chronicler worthy of notice even on questions of fact, says:--"Oct. 1705. Mr. Cowper made Lord Keeper. Observing how uncertain greate officers are of continuing long in their places, he would not accept it unless L2,000 a yeare were given him in reversion when he was put out, in consideration of his loss of practice. His predecessors, how little time soever they had the seal, usually got L100,000, and made themselves barons." It is doubtful whether this bargain was actually made; but long after Cowper's time, lawyers about to mount the woolsack, insisted on having terms that should compensate them for loss of practice. Lord Macclesfield had a special salary of L4000 per annum, during his occupancy of the marble chair, and obtained a grant of L12,000 from the king;--a tellership in the Exchequer being also bestowed upon his eldest son. Lord King obtained even better terms--a salary of L6000 per annum from the Post Office, and L1200 from the Hanaper Office; this large income being granted to him in consideration of the injury done to the Chancellor's emoluments by the proceedings against Lord Macclesfield--whereby it was declared illegal for chancellors to sell the subordinate offices in the Court of Chancery. This arrangement--giving