MarketJustice of Chester
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Justice of Chester

The Justice of Chester was the chief judicial authority for the county palatine of Chester, from the establishment of the county until the abolition of the Great Sessions in Wales and the palatine judicature in 1830.

Justices of Chester
• Philip Orreby 1202–29 • John de Grey c.1246 • William de Vernon 1229–?1236 • Richard de Vernon • Earl of Lincoln • John Lestrange 1241-1245 • John Grey 1245-1249 • Alan la Zouche 1250–1255 • Gilbert Talbot 1255– • Luke de Thaney c.1265 • Guncelin Badelesmere 1276-79 • Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton 1281-1290 • Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton c.1297 • Richard Massy c.1300 • Richard Daumary c.1325 • William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon c.1330 • Hugh de Freyne c.1335 • Henry Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby 1336–1342 • Thomas de Felton 1369–1381 • Sir John Holland 1381–1385 • Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York 1385–1387 • Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland 1387–1388 • Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester 1388–1391 • John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter 1391–1394 • Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk 1394–1398 • William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire 1398–1399 • Henry Percy 1400–1403 • Gilbert Talbot, 5th Baron Talbot 1403–1419 • Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter 1420–1427 • Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester 1427–1440 • William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk 1440–1450 (jointly from 1443, murdered 1450)) • Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley 1443–1459 (jointly to 1450) • John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury 1459–1460 (KIA 1460) • in commission 1460 • John Needham 1461 • Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby 1461–1471 • Richard, Duke of Gloucester 1471 • Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby 1471–1504 • Sir Thomas Englefield 1505–1514? • Sir Nicholas Hare 1540–1545 • Sir Robert Townshend 1545–1557 • Sir John Pollard 1557 • George Wood Esq.1558 of Hall atte Wood, Balterley, Staffordshire • John Throckmorton 1558–1578 • Sir George Bromley 1564–1589 • Richard Shuttleworth 1589–1592 • Sir Richard Lewknor 1592–1616 ==Chief and Puisne Justices of Chester==
Chief and Puisne Justices of Chester
Offices abolished 1830 ==References==
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