Welsh Journals

writer of the article in the D.N.B. has made a manful effort to make his case look respectable: one of the managers of Strafford's im- peachment, Recorder of London, later Chief Justice of the Upper Bench, he succeeded at the Restoration to be knighted and be ap- pointed a King's serjeant, besides holding intact the manor of Hawar- den which had come up for sale as part of the forfeited estates of the 7th Earl of Derby and which he had bought in 1653-4. This ac- quisition paved the way for his election (with the younger Trevor) as M.P. for Flintshire in the second Protectorate Parliament and for his being named, in January, 1657, as commissioner for assessments in the same county (Acts and Ords. ii, 1086) he had long before this been a member of some of the most important committees set up by the Parliament in London and the Home Counties. If he were to strive to exert it, his influence would have been very effective, and all on the side of moderation and compromise but there is no overt proof that he spoke a word to affect the appointments of the Triers in Flintshire (in fact, his somewhat late arrival" in the county and his double obsession with high matters of state and deep questions of law seem to bring the possibility of that influence to a fine point of attenuation). Sound Puritans could not help being delighted to hear that Sir John fell from his horse at the Coronation procession of Charles II, and was nearly killed.