Note 486 — Chapter I

This rule was not without exception. Baron Flowerdue, raised to the bench in 1684, held office quamdiu se bene gesserit. (Prothero, Statutes and Constitutional Documents 143). And we learn from Coke (Inst. iv. 117) that the Chief Baron always held office on a permanent tenure (Prothero cviii.). Of course it made no difference, for good behaviour in the eyes of the king, with whom the decision rested, was likely to have much in common with his good pleasure.