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 interesting details of his career, but his fame now rests chiefly on his Reports,, which are written in so simple and precise, but yet so dramatic a style, that he is termed by Lord Mansfield, the "Terence of Reporters."

There is no record of his admission, but he was three times Reader at the Inn, viz. in 1525, 1533, and 1539. He was the third son of Thomas Saunders of Northamptonshire. He became Serjeant in 1540, and King's Serjeant in 1547. He represented Coventry, Lostwithiel, and Saltash respectively in Parliament, and in the end of the reign of Edward VI. was made Recorder of the first-named city. In this capacity, on the death of the king, he advised the mayor to refuse to read the proclamation of Lady Jane Grey, and for this service he was on 4 Oct. 1553, made a Judge of the Common Pleas and knighted. Two years later he became Chief Justice of the King's Bench, but on the accession of Elizabeth he was removed into the Court of Exchequer as Chief Baron. He was engaged in the trials of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton and the Duke of Norfolk, and his arguments and decisions are freqently [sic] given in the Reports of Dyer and Plowden. He died 12 Nov. 1576.

Admitted 16 April, 1832.

Second son of Samuel Saunders of Bath, where he was born 21 Feb. 1814. He was called to the Bar 9 June, 1837. From 1855 to 1860 he was Recorder of Dartmouth, and from 1860 to 1878 Recorder of Bath. He was made a Metropolitan Police Magistrate for the Thames district in the latter year, which position he held till shortly before his death, 28 Feb. 1890.

He left behind him some twenty-four treatises on legal subjects, the best known of which now are those relating to the law of Assault and Battery (1842); Affiliation (1850); and Negligence (1871). He was also the editor of many well-known legal works, and the reporter, in conjunction with R. G. Welford, of Real Property Cases (1846); and, with H. T. Cole, of Bail Court Reports (1847—9).

Admitted 9 February, 1682-3.

On the Register he is entered as "George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, Lord-Keeper of the Privy Seal." He was the son of Sir William Savile of Thornhill, Yorkshire, where he was born 11 Nov. 1633. He was educated abroad at Paris and Geneva. In the Convention Parliament of 1660 he represented Pontefract. In 1668 he was created Baron Savile and Viscount Halifax. In 1672 he became a Privy Councillor, and was sent on an embassy to France. In 1682, and again in 1689, he became Lord Privy Seal, and in 1685 was Lord President of the Council. He was one of those who opposed the Test Act. In the Convention Parliament of 1689 he was chosen Speaker. He is personified in Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel under the name of "Jotham." He died at Halifax House 5 April, 1695, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.