Excerpt from The Lives of the Chief Justices of England, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Norman Conquest Till the Death of Lord Mansfield<br><br>Two Chief Justices of the Common Pleas, 207. Origin of the willes, 208. Sir John's early Career, 208. He enters Parliament, and is made a Welsh Judge, 208. Subsequent Disappointments, 209. He becomes Attorney General, 209. His Speech against the Repeal of the Septennial Act, 210. He is made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 211. His Disappointment on the Death Of Lord Chancellor Talbot, 211. His Intrigues with Lord Carteret, 211. He is made First Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal, 212. He loses the Chancellorship by his own Mismanagement, 213. Scene between Sir John Willes and Sir Robert Henley, 214. Sir John Willes broken-hearted, 214. Death Of Sir John Willes, 214. His Judicial Decisions, 215. His Conduct on the Trial Of Eliza beth Canning, 216. His Private Life, 216. His Descendants, 217.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.