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1778. 4 Term. [Monday] Nov. 2.

it ought to be Lord Cheif Justice, if what Impey told us on board of Ship was true, that he was call’d Lord Cheif Justice by the King, and I have no reason to doubt it was true: My reason for not calling him so myself is peculiar to me, because he behaved very strangely relative to that title, first by refusing to insist on it at the first opening of the Court which I pressed him much to do; and next by declining it in a remarkable manner, of which I took at the time, publick notice to the Court, on occasion of the Rule made Nov. 4th 1776 relative to the Company’s Debtors, when a Note having been taken, at his desire, of what he said, the title had been put to it, to this effect “My Lord Chief Justice said” and Impey had directed it to be alter’d to “the Cheif Justice said” and Lemaistre told me, (though I did not observe it myself,) that I laughed aloud at what Impey said in the most contemptuous manner he ever
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