“The best men are but men, and are sometimes transported with passion.”

— Robert Atkyns (judge)

11 How. St. Tr. 1206.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)

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Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House … 1621–1710

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