On account of his learning and general talents he was made chancellor of France by Charles Martel, mayor of the palace, in 737.
The contest was brought to a conclusion by an almost unanimous election of the chancellor Heribert.
His Chancellor had also composed some verses of a similar character during his visit to Tycho.
Hope, however, still cheered him amid his labours, but that hope was founded chiefly on the learning and character of Nicolas Caasius, the Chancellor of the Kingdom, from whom he had experienced the warmest attentions.
The monks set up a fresh cry of terror and fell to chanting prayers, and Father Alfred and the Chancellor sought refuge in the shadow with the Prior.
Father James's face flushed slightly at the prospect, and the Sub-prior and the Chancellor drew nearer in sudden interest.
They found the Abbot pacing the gravel path between the cloister and the church, with his chancellor at his side.
The Chancellor stepped forward and with much rattle of parchment opened the roll and cleared his throat preparatory to intoning.
Dispatch instantly to the Lord Chancellor for the great seal, and have commissions of array drawn.
The Prior took them and after a glance held them inquiringly toward the Chancellor and Father Albert; but each disclaimed all knowledge.
Upon his appearance they all arose and remained standing while the Chancellor droned a Latin blessing.
What do you mean, sirrah, to speak of Mistress and Master More when you name theChancellor of England and his lady?
The Chancellor took on himself to send the macers of the Privy Council round to the few printers and booksellers who could then be found in Edinburgh, charging them not to publish any work without his license.
The same answer was given to the Chancellorin Buckinghamshire.
Lewis was informed in the same week by Bonrepaux that the Chancellor was entirely with the Treasurer, and by Barillon that the Chancellor was in league with the Secretary.
He soon found out that the Vice chancellor was weak, ignorant, and timid, and therefore gave a loose to all that insolence which had long been the terror of the Old Bailey.
Sir John Ernley, Chancellor of the Exchequer, insisted that the delay should not exceed forty-eight hours; but he was overruled; and it was resolved that the discussion should be postponed for three days.
The Chancellor then told them that a criminal information would be exhibited against them in the Court of King's Bench, and called upon them to enter into recognisances.
Messengers were despatched in all haste to the Duke of Albemarle, who had succeeded Monmouth as Chancellor of the University.
He had never held up his head since the Chancellor had been dragged into the justice room in the garb of a collier.
Several Commissioners, of whom the Chancellorwas one, had been appointed to dispense the public alms.
Lockhart said that he would lose his head rather than sign such a letter as the Chancellor had drawn, but took care to say this in a whisper which was heard only by friends.
The Usher of the Black Rod summoned the Commons to the bar; and the Chancellor announced that the Parliament was prorogued to the tenth of February.
His work he dedicated to the two judges at Taunton, Sir John Walter and Sir John Denham, and to the archdeacon of Wells and the chancellor of the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Fortescue himself, perhaps because he was a second cousin of the queen and brother of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, seems to have escaped the gallows.
The chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster wrote in the meantime that the judges had been to see him.
But Bishop Morton,[39] before whose chancellor the boy had first been brought, was present, and the judges turned the boy over to him for further investigation.
Master Foscue was unquestionably Sir John Fortescue, later Chancellor of the Exchequer, and at this time keeper of the great wardrobe.
A bunch of seals, each about the size of that peculiar to the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, dangled from his fob.
Now, from the date of the Archbishop's resignation, till the appointment of the Earl of Loudon as Chancellor in 1641, the Great Seal was in commission, the head commissioner being the Marquis of Hamilton.
Joseph Hume is at least as fitted for the situation ofChancellor of the Exchequer as Sir Charles Wood; or if Joseph is rather too ancient, why not our undaunted M'Gregor?
As soon as the chancellor of the jury had finished delivering the above verdict the prisoner swooned, and was carried out of court insensible.
Is it surprising that the Chancellor of the Exchequer said, in support of this tax, that it was so unjust to all, that no one was worse off than his neighbour, or had any reason to complain?
The king, already incensed with Coke, and stimulated by Bacon, thought this too great an insult upon his chancellor to be passed over.
The courtiers opposed it as without precedent; the chancellor of the duchy observing that it was of so high and transcendent a nature, he had never known the like within those walls.
Mede gives of the manner in which the heads of houses forced the election of Buckingham as Chancellor of Cambridge, while the impeachment was pending against him.
The fact was, that the chancellor had issued a second writ for this county, on the ground of some irregularity in the first return, and a different person had been elected.
This was probably a disappointment to Lord Chancellor Egerton, who had moved to consult them, and proceeded from Coke's dislike to him and to the court.
He was little formed to endure a competitor in his own profession, and lived on ill terms both with the lord chancellor Egerton, and with the attorney-general, Sir Francis Bacon.
Nor to mention Sir Thomas More's Utopia, the principle of toleration had been avowed by the Chancellor l'Hospital, and many others in France.
Three were to form a quorum, but the chancellor necessarily to be one.
It was first settled by a verbal agreement between Archbishop Sheldon and the Lord Chancellor Clarendon, and tacitly given into by the clergy in general as a great ease to them in taxations.
I told the chancellor on the spur and in the excitement of the moment what I thought of the falsehoods contained in his epistle and of his previous conduct which, if he is a gentleman, he is bound to justify.
In that year he was commissary to Dr Bridgwater, chancellor of Ely, and in 1585 he sat in parliament for Winchelsea.
The chancellor employed Fitz Stephen in legal work, made him sub-deacon of his chapel and treated him as a confidant.
He was also made lord chancellor of Ireland in 1463.
He took the deepest interest in education, and in 1880 became chancellor of Queen's University, Kingston.
