THE PRISONER WHO AFTERWARDS BECAME LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Francis Pemberton (1625-97), was imprisoned in the Fleet Prison for debts contracted during a period of youthful extravagance. While in gaol lie applied himself to the study of law, and came to be regarded as a kind of legal oracle by his fellow prisoners, who nicknamed him Counsellor. With the fees they gave him for legal advice he bought books to continue his studies. He then prevailed upon his creditors to grant his release from prison that he might' the sooner earn money to pay off his debts. Called to the Bar in 1654, after a brilliant career in the Palace Court at Westminster, and, subsequently, in the House of Lords, he became a puisne judge. He was knighted in 1675, and ultimately, on the dismissal of Scroggs, was made Lord Chief Justice in 1681.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 14 January 1936, Page 10
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