a rhiming catalogue of poets who were candidates for the laureatship, characterizes him thus,

"Hales set by himself, most gravely did smile,
To see them about nothing keep such a coile;
Apollo had spied him, but knowing his mind,
Past by, and call'd Falkland, that sat just behind.”

DAVID JENKINS.

THIS honest and intrepid lawyer, whose name is now but little known, ought to be recorded as an example of unshaken loyalty in the worst of times. He was a native of Pendoylon, in Glamorganshire, and was entered at Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 1597. After taking his bachelor's degree, he removed to Gray's Inn, where he studied the common law, and was called to the bar. Early in the reign of Charles the first, he was made one of the judges for South Wales, and continued in that office till the rebellion broke out, "at which time," says Wood, "he either imprisoned divers persons in his circuit, or condemned them to die, as being guilty of high-treason, for bearing arms against the king." This naturally provoked the resentment of the rebels, and the judge falling into their hands at the taking of Hereford, in 1645, he was hurried up to London, and committed prisoner to the Tower.

On being brought to the bar of the Court of Chancery, he denied the authority of the Commissioners, because their seal was counterfeited, in consequence of which he was sent to Newgate. From thence he was brought to the bar of the House of Commons, where he was reprimanded

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a rhiming catalogue of poets who were candidates for the laureatship, characterizes him thus,

"Hales set by himself, most gravely did smile,
To see them about nothing keep such a coile ;
Apollo had spied him, but knowing his mind,
Past by, and call'd Falkland, that sat just behind."

DAVID JENKINS.

THIS honest and intrepid lawyer, whose name is now but little known, ought to be recorded as an example of unshaken loyalty in the worst of times. He was a native of Pendoylon, in Glamorganshire, and was entered at Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 1597. After taking his bachelor's de gree, he removed to Gray's Inn, where he studied the common law, and was called to the bar. Early in the reign of Charles the first, he was made one of the judges for South Wales, and continued in that office till the rebellion broke out, "at which time," says Wood, "he either imprisoned divers persons in his circuit, or condemned them to die, as being guilty of high-treason, for bearing arms against the king." This naturally provoked the resentment of the rebels, and the judge falling into their hands at the taking of Hereford, in 1645, he was hurried up to London, and committed prisoner to the Tower.

On being brought to the bar of the Court of Chancery, he denied the authority of the Commissioners, because their seal was counterfeited, in consequence of which he was sent to Newgate. From thence he was brought to the bar of the House of Commons, where he was reprimanded

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