Culture, England, Miscellaneous, Justice of the Common Pleas

Justice of the Common Pleas is in Common Pleas.

In 1328 Richard Willoughby (age 38) was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas.

In 1354 Henry Green was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas.

In 1371 John Cavendish (age 25) was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas.

In 1405 John Cockayne (age 45) was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas.

On 15 Oct 1429 William Paston (age 51) was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas.

On 05 Sep 1461 Judge Richard Choke (age 41) was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas which position he held for life.

In 1518 John More (age 67) was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas.

In 1539 Edward Montagu (age 9) was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas.

In 1552 William Stanford (age 42) was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas.

Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

The Letter Books of Amias Paulet Keeper of Mary Queen of Scots Published 1874 Marys Execution. Poulet (age 54), as has already been said, was made Chancellor of the Garter in April, 1587, but he did not retain this preferment for a whole year. He continued in the Captaincy of Jersey up to his death, but he appears to have resided in and near London. In the British Museum are two letters from him of small importance. One, addressed to the Lord High Admiral, is dated, "From my poor lodging in Fleet Street [Map], the 14th of January, 1587," about "right of tenths in Jersey, belonging to the Government." The other, "From my little lodge at Twickenham, the 24th of April, 1588," "on behalf of Berry," whose divorce was referred by the Justices of the Common Pleas to four Doctors of the Civil Law, of whom Mr. Doctor Caesar, Judge of the Admiralty, to whom the letter was written, was one.

His name also occurs in a letter, from Walsingham to Burghley, dated May 23, 1587, while Elizabeth still kept up the farce of Burghley's disgrace for despatching Mary Stuart's death-warrant. "Touching the Chancellorship of the Duchy, she told Sir Amias Poulet that in respect of her promise made unto me, she would not dispose of it otherwise. But yet hath he no power to deliver the seals unto me, though for that purpose the Attorney is commanded to attend him, who I suppose will be dismissed hence this day without any resolution." And on the 4th of January following, together with the other lords of the Council, he signed a letter addressed by the Privy Council to the Lord Admiral and to Lord Buckhurst, the Lieutenants of Sussex, against such Catholics as "most obstinately have refused to come to the church to prayers and divine service," requiring them to "cause the most obstinate and noted persons to be committed to such prisons as are fittest for their safe keeping: the rest that are of value, and not so obstinate, are to be referred to the custody of some -ecclesiastical persons and other gentlemen well affected, to remain at the charges of the recusant, to be restrained in such sort as they may be forthcoming, and kept from intelligence with one another." On the 26th of September, in the year in which this letter was written, 1588, Sir Amias Poulet died.

Poulet was buried in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London. [Map]. When that church was pulled down to be rebuilt, his remains, with the handsome monument erected over them, were removed to the parish church of Hinton St. George. After various panegyrics in Latin, French, and English inscribed on his monument, a quatrain, expressive apparently of royal favour, pays the following tribute to the service rendered by him to the State as Keeper of the Queen of Scots: Never shall cease to spread wise Poulet's fame; These will speak, and men shall blush for shame: Without offence to speak what I do know, Great is the debt England to him doth owe.Execution of Mary Queen of Scots.

In 1595 Thomas Owen of Condover was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas.

On 30 May 1654 Hugh Wyndham Baron of the Exchequer (age 52) was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas by Oliver Cromwell (age 55).

In 1816 Charles Abbott 1st Baron Tenterden (age 53) was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas.

William Paston was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas.

John Bourchier was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas.