Index of Gardiner's History of England

Finch, Sir John, (Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1634-1640; Lord Keeper, 1640),

• as Speaker of the Parliament of 1628, interrupts Eliott
• obtains leave to go to the King,
• declares the King's pleasure that the House be adjourned,
• is held down in the Speaker's chair,
• refuses to put Eliot's motion to the House,
• pleads to be allowed to go to the King,
• double allegiance of,
• becomes Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
• maintains the King's claims in the Forest of Dean,
• threatens the jury in the question of the extension of Waltham Forest,
• sits as Holland's assessor in enforcing the extension of Waltham Forest,
• is appointed to ask the opinion of the Judges on the legality of ship-money,
• behaves rudely to Prynne in the Star Chamber,
• gives judgment in the case of ship-money,
• alarm caused by the doctrine laid down by,
• becomes Lord Keeper,
• is created Lord Finch of Fordwich,
• See Finch, John
• See Finch of Fordwich, Lord