to the
bar in 1631-32. He practised for a short time in the oppressive Forest
Courts, attempted to present some persons at the Hertford Quarter
Sessions in 1642, for what he held to be unlawful drilling under the
Militia Ordinance, and was in consequence committed to Windsor Castle
till 1660. He was released at the Restoration, and was called upon to
supply the place of the King's Serjeant, Glanville, at this trial. He
was afterwards knighted, and entered Parliament, where he was employed
in drafting the Act of Uniformity. As to his connection with the trial
of the Bury St. Edmunds witches, see _post_, pp. 226, 229. He took a
prominent part in Vane's trial, and was made a puisne judge in 1663. He
was appointed to succeed Hyde as Lord Chief-Justice in 1667, after the
post had been vacant seven months. He was said to owe his place to
corrupt dealings with Clarendon, or to the favour of Lady Castlemaine,
but this is doubted by Campbell, who otherwise takes a most unfavourable
view of his career. His subsequent conduct on the bench was such that,
though he never presided at any trials of great importance, a petition
against him was considered in the House of Commons, and a Committee
reported most unfavourably on his behaviour. He made his peace with the
House, but sank into insignificance, and died in 1671, still in office.

[33] See vol. ii. pp. 35, 37.

[34] It does not appear whether any difference was made in Hulet's case.

[35] The Regicides actually tried were Sir Hardress Waller, Colonel
Thomas Harrison, William Hevingham, Isaac Pennington, Henry Martin,
Gilbert Millington, Robert Tichburne, Owen Roe, Robert Lilburne, Adrian
Scroop, John Carew, John Jones, Thomas Scot, Gregory Clement, John Cook,
George Fleetwood, Simon Meyn, James Temple, Peter Temple, Thomas Wait,
Hugh Peters, Francis Hacker, Daniel Axtell, William Hulet, Henry Smith,
Edmund Harvey, John Downes, Vincent Potter, and Augustin Garland. They
were all convicted. Of these there were executed--Thomas Harrison, John
Carew, John Cook, Thomas Scot, Hugh Peters, Gregory Clement, John Jones,
Daniel Axtell, Francis Hacker, Adrian Scroop.

[36] Thomas Harrison (1606-1660) was born in Staffordshire of lowly
origin. He is said to have enlisted in Essex's Life Guard, which was the
corps used for the purpose of training officers for the Parliamentary
Army, in 1642. In 1644 he was serving in Fleetwood's regiment in
Manchester's army. He was present at the battles