He had been Chief Justice of Chester when Delamere, then Mr.Booth, represented that county in Parliament.

Booth had bitterly complained to the Commons that the dearest interests of his constituents were intrusted to a drunken jackpudding.

[41] The revengeful judge was now not ashamed to resort to artifices which even in an advocate would have been culpable.

He reminded the Lords Triers, in very significant language, that Delamere had, in Parliament, objected to the bill for attainting Monmouth, a fact which was not, and could not be, in evidence.

But it was not in the power of Jeffreys to overawe a synod of peers as he had been in the habit of overawing common juries.