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in the Chancery Division. At the present to speak of Francis Bacon — belong too time the Chancery Division has a practically largely to general English history to ren exelusive jurisdiction over the following der any notices of them here desirable — we matters: (1) administrations; (2) the dis may commence with solution of partnerships and the taking of partnership and other accounts; (3) the re LORD NOTTINGHAM. demption and foreclosure of mortgages; (4) the raising of portions and other charges Heneage Finch, the Earl of Nottingham, on land; (5) the sale and distribution of and " The Father of English Equity," was the proceeds of prop born December 23, erty, subject to any 1 62 1. Educated at Westminster School lien or charge; (6) the execution of and Christ Church, trusts, charitable and Oxford, he joined the private; (7) the rec Inner Temple, in tification, the setting 1638, and was called aside, and the cancel to the bar in 1645. lation of deeds and He soon acquired a other written instru large practice, as any ments; (8) the spe one who refers to cific performance of "Siderfin's Reports" contracts between will see at a glance. vendors and purchas One of his most ers of real estate, in famous forensic ap cluding contracts for pearances was in leases; (9) the par 1659, for Mr. Street, tition or sale of real who had been return estate, and ( 10) the ed for Worcester to wardship of infants the parliament of and the care of in Richard Cromwell, fants' estates. son of the great Pro LORD THURLOW. tector, and was pe The Chancery Di titioned against on vision has now also, had borne arms as a as we have seen, a concurrent jurisdiction the ground that with law, in all matters whatsoever, subject to cavalier. Finch was known at the bar as the provisions of the judicature acts. Some "the silver-tongued lawyer" (a title which accounts of the defects of the old Court of was revived in our own time in the person Chancery and of the working of the modern of the late Lord Chief-Justice of England), Chancery Division will be given incidentally and " the English Cicero." He rose to the in the course of the biographical sketches highest legal office in the state with great which we now proceed to attempt of a few rapidity. In 1660 he received the solicitorof the leading Lord Chancellors, Vice-Chan- generalship and the honor of a baronetcy. In 1670 he became Attorney-General. In cellors, and Judges of these tribunals 1673 he received the Great Seal, and held LORD CHANCELLORS. it at first as Lord Keeper and afterwards as Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More, and Lord Chancellor, till his death in 1682. the other ecclesiastical Chancellors — not He was made Earl of Nottingham in 1681.