lingered in the practice of our courts. Long after judges
ceased to sell injustice, they delayed justice from interested motives,
and when questions concerning their perquisites were raised, they would
sometimes strain a point, for the sake of their own private advantage.
Even Lord Ellenborough, whose fame is bright amongst the reputations of
honorable men, could not always exercise self-control when attempts were
made to lessen his customary profits, "I never," writes Lord Campbell,
"saw this feeling at all manifest itself in Lord Ellenborough except
once, when a question arose whether money paid into court was liable to
poundage. I was counsel in the case, and threw him into a furious
passion, by strenuously resisting the demand; the poundage was to go
into his own pocket--being payable to the chief clerk--an office held in
trust for him. If he was in any degree influenced by this consideration,
I make no doubt that he was wholly unconscious of it."

George III.'s reign witnessed the introduction of changes long required,
and frequently demanded in the mode and amounts of judicial payments. In
1779, puisne judges and barons received an additional L400 per annum,
and the Chief Baron an increase of L500 a year. Twenty years later,
Stat. 39, Geo. III., c. 110, gave the Master of the Rolls, L4000 a
year, the Lord Chief Baron L4000 a year, and each of the puisne judges
and barons, L3000 per annum. By the same act also, life-pensions of
L4000 per annum were secured to retiring holders of the seal, and it was
provided that after fifteen years of service, or in case of incurable
infirmity, the Chief Justice of the King's Bench could claim, on
retirement, L3000 per annum, the Master of the Rolls, Chief of Common
Pleas, and Chief Baron L2500 per annum, and each minor judge of those
courts or Baron of the coif, L2000 a year. In 1809, (49 Geo. III., c.
127) the Lord Chief Baron's annual salary was raised to L5000; whilst a
yearly stipend of L4000 was assigned to each puisne judge or baron. By
53 Geo. III., c. 153, the Chiefs and Master of the Rolls, received on
retirement an additional yearly L800, and the puisnes an additional
yearly L600. A still more important reform of George III.'s reign was
the creation of the first Vice Chancellor in March, 1813. Rank was
assigned to the new functionary next after the Master of the Rolls, and
his salary was fixed at L5000 per annum.

Until the reign of George IV. judges continued to take f