Sir Hugh Wyndham SL, of Silton, near Gillingham, Dorset, was an English Judge of the Common Pleas and a Baron of the Exchequer.
Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, SL was an English judge who served as Chief Justice of Chester during the reign of James I of England.
Sir Thomas Billing was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
Sir Edward Saunders was an English judge and Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench.
Sir Job Charlton, 1st Baronet KS was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1679. He was Speaker of the House of Commons of England briefly in 1673.
Sir Thomas Reeve, was a British justice.
Sir Francis Gawdy was an English judge. He was a Justice of the King's Bench, and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. His country seat and estates were in Norfolk.
Sir Robert Rede KS was an English Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
Sir Robert Brudenell KS was an English justice. He entered Inner Temple in 1480 and gave his first reading in 1490 on the subject of De donis conditionalibus, followed by a second reading in 1500. He became governor of the inn in 1496, and before 1503 served as treasurer. In 1503 he was also made a Serjeant-at-law, followed by a promotion to King's Serjeant in 1504 and an appointment as a puisne justice of the King's Bench in 1507. At some point he was knighted, and on 23 April 1520 he was sent "sideways" to become Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, remaining until 22 November 1530. He died on 30 January 1531, leaving a son, Thomas; his great-grandson later became Earl of Cardigan.
Sir John Baldwin was an English lawyer and chief justice of the Common Pleas.
Sir Thomas Wood KS, in archaic spelling Wode, of Childrey in Berkshire, was an English landowner, lawyer, administrator and politician who became Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
Sir Thomas Frowyk KS was an English justice.
Sir Robert Norwich KS JP was a British justice. He was a member of Lincoln's Inn, and is first mentioned practicing in the Court of Requests in 1516, followed by service in his home county of Essex as a commissioner in 1518. The same year he became a Bencher of his Inn, also giving his first reading, and acted as the Treasurer from 1519 to 1520. He was created a Serjeant-at-law in 1521, followed by a promotion to King's Serjeant a year later and, in 1525, an appointment as a Justice of the Peace, again for Essex. In 1529 he was knighted and appointed Surveyor of the King's Liveries, along with Sir Thomas Nevill, an office he held until his death. He was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas on 22 November 1530, although there are few records of his character or career as Chief Justice. He died in April 1535, and was buried in St Nicholas's Chapel near Serjeant's Inn.
Sir Henry Bedingfield was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660 and from 1685 to 1686. He was briefly Chief Justice of the Common Pleas at the end of his life.
Sir Thomas Abney was an English barrister and later judge. He was baptized at Willesley, Derbyshire on 30 April 1691 and was the younger son of Sir Edward Abney, by his second wife, Judith, daughter and co-heir of Peter Barr, of London.
John Bathe was an Irish barrister and judge. He was a member of a famous legal dynasty, and had a distinguished career under the Tudors, holding office as Solicitor General for Ireland and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas.
Sir James Hales was an English judge from Kent, the son of the politician and judge John Hales. Though a Protestant, he refused to seal the document settling the crown on the Protestant claimant Lady Jane Grey in 1553, and during the following reign of the Catholic Queen Mary opposed the relaxation of the laws against religious nonconformity. Imprisoned for his lack of sympathy to Catholicism and subjected to intense pressure to convert, in a disturbed state of mind he committed suicide by drowning. The resulting lawsuit of Hales v. Petit is considered to be a source of the gravediggers' dialogue after Ophelia drowns herself in Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
Matthew Skinner was an English serjeant-at-law, judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1738.
Sir John Spelman was an English judge from Norfolk, noted for his composition of law reports.
Sir Robert Dillon of Newtown near Trim was an Irish judge of the Tudor era. He served as Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas for more than twenty years, despite repeated calls for his removal on the grounds of age and ill health.
