trin. Courts. REPORTS OF CASES DETERMINED IN The several Courts of Westminster-Hall, FROM 1746 TO 1779: BY THE HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, KNT. ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS: WITH MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE. Second Edition, REVISED AND CORRECTED, WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND REFERENCES, INCLUDING SOME FROM THE MSS. OF THE LATE MR. SERJT. HILL: BY CHARLES HENEAGE ELSLEY, ESQ. OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: S. SWEET, 3, CHANCERY LANE; R. PHENEY, 17, FLEET STREET; A. MAXWELL, 21, عا REPORTS OF CASE S. MICH. TERM, 1769, AND HILARY TERM, 1770. I ATTENDED the Court of Exchequer. HILARY TERM, 10 GEO. III. February 9, 1770.-I KISSED his Majesty's hand, on being appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in the room of Mr. Justice CLIVE, who resigned upon a pension of 12007. a year. February 12.-I was called a Serjeant; the motto on my rings being, Secundis, dubiisque, rectus. And Mr. Justice YATES being desirous to retire into the Court of Common Pleas, I consented to exchange with him; and accordingly, February 16.-I kissed his Majesty's hand on being appointed a Judge of the Court of King's Bench, and received the honour of knighthood. And the same night, Mr. Justice YATES resigned his office of Judge of the King's Bench, and he and myself were both sworn into our respective offices, before Lords Commissioners SMYTHE and ASTON, at the former's house in Bloomsbury Square. [ 681 ] EASTER TERM,-10 GEO. III. 1770.-K. B. THE KING v. WILLIAM VARLEY. S. C. 1 East's P. C. 164; 1 Leach, 76.. [ 682 ] THE prisoner was found guilty at last York Assizes for forging Forging the imand counterfeiting a forged and false coin, to the similitude of pression of money on an ir |