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Admitted 19 October, 1616.

Son and heir of William Newman of Ludgvan, Cornwall. He was a member of Trinity College, Oxford, at the time of his entry to the Inn. He wrote a prose Satire entitled The Bible-bearer, reflecting upon "parties who are only politically pious for profit or preferment," and a Poem called Pleasure's Vision, short, but of considerable merit.

Admitted 4 June, 1611.

Son and heir of John Nicholas of Winterbourne Earls, Wilts, where he was born 4 April, 1593. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford, where he matriculated in 1611. In 1618 he became Secretary to the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and in 1625 "Secretary for the Admiralty." In 1627 he was returned for Dover. During Charles I.'s absence in Scotland in 1641 he was the principal official left in England, and on the king's return he was knighted at Whitehall and made Secretary of State and Privy Councillor. In this capacity he served the king through all the troubles of his reign. On the death of the king he retired to the Continent, and at the Restoration he returned with Charles II., but resigned his Secretaryship 15 Oct. 1662, and retired to East Horsley, in Surrey, where he died 1 Sept. 1669.

Admitted 5 November, 1575.

Second son of Thomas Nicholls, Serjeant-at-Law. He was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, 1559. He was called to the Bar 10 Feb. 1583, and was Reader at the Inn in 1602, and received the order of the Coif in the following year, and shortly afterwards was made Recorder of Leicester. In 1612 he became a Justice of the Common Pleas, an appointment which he held for four years, when he died on circuit at Kendal ("judex jura dans," as Fuller writes) a few days after an entertainment at Naworth Castle by Lord William Howard ("Belted Will"), dying as if poisoned 3 Aug. 1616. He had a high reputation as a judge, but with a "mighty opposition to Popery."

Admitted 1 July, 1602.

Son and heir of Francis Nicolls of Hardwick, co. Northampton, and nephew of {q.v.). He was called to the Bar 30 Oct. 1607. He represented Northamptonshire in Parliament in 1628—9, and was High Sheriff in 1631. In 1640 he was Secretary to the Elector Palatine, and in the following year was created a Baronet. He died 4 March, 1642.

Admitted 2 May, 1861.

Only son of John Noble of Brighton, Sussex. He was born at Boston, Lincolnshire, 2 May, 1827. He became an energetic supporter of the Anti-Corn Law League and an advocate of the "Free Breakfast Table." He was