Excerpt from The Lives of the Chief Justices of England, Vol. 4 of 4: From the Norman Conquest Till the Death of Lord Tenterden Impartial in the administration of justice, without respect of persons or opinions, he was not only just between man and man in all ordinary cases, but also where his intimate friend, his patron, his enemy, or his own interest interfered for in a word, he seemed to have loved justice as his life, and the laws as his inheritance, and acted as if he always remembered Whose image and commission he bore, and to whom he was account able for the equity of his decrees. He was a man of excellent piety and unaffected devotion he did not use his religion as a cloak to Cover or keep him warm, but was early acquainted with religious principles and practices, and through the whole course of his life he was a serious and sincere Christian, of a strong and masculine piety, without any mixture of enthusiasm or superstition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.