recent biographer written from the opposite point of view. [54] Appointed Attorney-General in 1689, and Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas in the same year. He was a prominent Whig, and at the time of this trial had appeared for the defence in several previous State Trials, among others that of Lord Russell, vol. ii. p. 6. He afterwards appeared for the defence in the case of the Seven Bishops, and was well known as an adherent of the Prince of Orange at the Revolution. He died in 1691. [55] See his dying speech, _State Trials_, xi. 312, in which he makes no reference to Lady Lisle. [56] This passage with several others proves that Jeffreys had got up the case beforehand pretty much as counsel would to-day. Cf. pp. 246, 259, 268, 273. [57] Cf. p. 245. [58] He was born in Denbighshire. [59] Cf. p. 245. [60] _Ante_, p. 239. [61] Cf. _ante_, p. 245. [62] Lady Lisle's attainder was afterwards reversed on the ground that this ruling is wrong; it does not represent the present law (see Stephen's _Digest_, art. 62), which, however, rests on a subsequent dictum of Hale's followed by Foster, due probably to his recollection of this case. Sir James Stephen suggests that as a matter of mere law Jeffreys may have been right (_Hist. Crim. Law_, vol. ii. p. 234); he also says: 'I think that this is another of the numerous instances in which there really was no definite law at all, and in which the fact that a particular course was taken by a cruel man for a bad purpose has been regarded as a proof that the course taken was illegal.'--(_Ibid._, vol. i. p. 413). [63] Cf. with note, p. 270. Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press * * * * * TRANSCRIBERS' NOTES Pages 11, 37: Inconsistent spelling of Gawdie/Gawdy as in original. Pages 12, 25: Inconsistent hyphenation of Durham House/Durham-House as in original. Pages 16, 153: Inconsistent spelling of musquets/muskets as in original. Page 21: machiavelian standardised to Machiavelian (second occurrence). Pages 30, 41: Inconsistent hyphenation of hearsay/hear-say as in original. Page 42, footnote 17: Inconsistent spelling of Amias/Amyas as in original. Pages 55, 97, 99, footnote 56: Inconsistent hyphenation of beforehand/ before-hand as in original. Page 91: your's as in original. Page 103: Repeated 'the' removed in 'Answer must be the the same'. Page 127, footnote 30: Inconsistent spelling of Geoffry/Geoffrey as in original. Pages 129, 159: Inconsistent spelling of visor/vizor as in original. Page 135: Lord-Chief Baron standardised to Lord Chief-Baron. Page 137: latitute as in original. Page 142: Commonweath corrected to Commonwealth. Page 152: waved as in original. Pages 162, 204: Inconsistent hyphenation of apiece/a-piece as in original. Page 164: Capell standardised to Capel (third occurrence).