There the jurymen, violent partisans, taken for a single day by courtly Sheriffs from the mass of society and speedily sent back to mingle with that mass, were under no restraint of shame, and being little accustomed to weigh evidence, followed without scruple the directions of the bench.
But in the High Steward's Court every Trier was a man of some experience in grave affairs.

Every Trier filled a considerable space in the public eye.

Every Trier, beginning from the lowest, had to rise separately and to give in his verdict, on his honour, before a great concourse.

That verdict, accompanied with his name, would go to every part of the world, and would live in history.

Moreover, though the selected nobles were all Tories, and almost all placemen, many of them had begun to look with uneasiness on the King's proceedings, and to doubt whether the case of Delamere might not soon be their own.
Jeffreys conducted himself, as was his wont, insolently and unjustly.
He had indeed an old grudge to stimulate his zeal.