ROBERT,

LORD RAYMOND,

ONE of those many eminent men who have risen to the peerage from the profession of the law. He was solicitor-general to queen Anne, attorney-general to king George the first, by whom he was appointed one of the commissioners of the great seal, and chief justice of the king's bench; in which station he died, having published

"Two Volumes of Reports." Fol.

[This Robert was the son of sir Thomas Raymond, a justice of the king's bench, who died on the circuit in 1683. Robert succeeded sir John Pratt as chief justice, was created baron Raymond of Abbot's Langley, Herts, by George the second in 1730, and died in 1732, leaving one son, who deceasing without issue, in 1753, the title became extinct.2

His lordship's Law Reports have not been sought after by the present editor; for the merit of them, whatever it may be, can only be duly appreciated by a legal practitioner. But they are professionally. held in good repute; and, as a proof of this, were republished by Mr. Justice Bayley, in 1790.]

2 Bolton's Peerage, p. 235.

PETER KING,

LORD KING,

WAS related to Mr. Locke, who, on seeing his Treatise in Defence of the Rights of the Church, persuaded him to apply himself to the law, to the highest dignity of which he rose. We have of his writing

"An Enquiry into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity, and Worship, of the primitive Church." 1691.2

"The History of the Apostles' Creed, with critical Observations on its several Articles." 1703, 8vo.3 1711. 1719. 1737.

"The Speech of Sir Peter King, Knight, Recorder of London, at St. Margaret's Hill, to

2 [This Enquiry consisted of two parts, and has in the title of 1719, "By an Impartial Hand." The design of this treatise is in general to represent the constitution, discipline, unity, and worship of the church as it flourished within the first 300 years after Christ.]

[In this work the author truly says, "he has not contented himself with reading modern books or collections made by later writers, but hath had immediate recourse to the remaining monuments of the primitive ages of the church, from whence only all learning of this kind can be derived;" and he cites more than forty ancients whom he employed or consulted.]

the King's most Excellent Majesty, upon his royal Entry, Sept. 20. 1714." Fol.

[Of lord-chancellor King, who was nephew by his mother's side to our great metaphysician, Mr. Locke, the following particulars are recorded on his monument in Ockham church, Surry*, and in the Peerage of Collins.5

He was born in the city of Exeter of worthy and substantial parents, but with a genius greatly superior to his birth. By his industry, prudence, learning, and virtue, he raised himself to the highest reputation, and to the most dignified employments in the state. He applied himself to his studies in the Middle Temple, and to an exact and complete knowledge in all the branches of law, he added the most extensive learning, theological and civil. He was chosen a member of the house of commons in 1699, recorder of the city of London in 1708, and in the same year had the honour of knighthood conferred on him by queen Anne. On the accession of George the first, in 1714, he was made chief justice of the common pleas. In 1725 he was created baron King of Ockham, in Surry; and raised to the post of

♦ Gent. Mag. vol.lxx. p. 113.

Vol. vii. p. 272.

6 Dr. Birch, in a brief MS. notice of lord King, prefixed to his Enquiry, describes him as the son of Jerom King, a salter, of the city of Exeter.