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 Recorder of London in the reign of James I, and an Edward Finch, his brother, an eminent clergyman, Vicar of Christ Church, London, who died in 1642.]

SIR JOHN FINEAU,

JUDGE,

Was born "by all probablity" (Fuller says) at Swingfield, a place said to have been bestowed on one of his ancestors by Nicholas Criol, for saving his life at the Battle of Poictiers. He was twenty-eight years old, the same authority adds, when he took to the study of the law; he followed the profession another twenty-eight years before he became a judge, and he continued a judge the same number of years, so that he must have lived eighty-four years. He owed his elevation to the bench to his bold opposition to the payment of tenths to the Pope. He was a great benefactor of the Church of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, and according to Fuller, deserves all the praise bestowed upon him by the monks. He had a house at Canterbury and at Heme, where he died in 1525,

[See Fuller's " Worthies," "Foss's Lives of the Judges."]

SIR JOHN FINET

COURTIER AND WIT,

Was born at Soulton, near Dover, in 1571. He was a gentleman of wit and ingenuity among the courtiers of James I., and Charles I., and wrote a work on the precedency, treatment, audience, and punctilios to be