Note 496 — Chapter I

Foss, Judges of England vii, 109, 110. Burnet, Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale. Mr. J. M. Rigg in his article on Hale in the Dictionary of National Biography doubts the truth of this on the ground that Penruddock was tried at Exeter, and Hale belonged to the Midland circuit. Hale however changed his circuit on at least one occasion. See Foss vii. 112, and the Gentleman’s Mag., July 1851, p. 13, where an anecdote is told which shows that Hale had belonged at one time to the Western circuit.