“LADY JUDGE”
Wo have noted several feminine justices of the peace, hut there has been only one lady judge, says the London "Daily Chronicle." This was a certain Lady Berkeley, who complained to Henry VIII. of trespass that had been committed on her estate, with assaults on her servants. The King very obligingly granted her a commission of assize, armed with which she apprehended and prosecuted the offenders, empaneled a jury, sat as judge .in her own cause, and passed exemplary sentences on the prisoners, and then bade farewell to the judicial "bench forever.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7865, 29 July 1911, Page 13
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