Now, in order that the king's conscience should be in such keeping, it was clear that he must HAVE a conscience, since a nonentity could not be in keeping, or even put in commission; and, having a conscience, it followed, ex necessitate rei, that he must have the attributes of a conscience, of which memory formed one of the most essential features.

Conscience was defined to be "the faculty by which we judge of the goodness or wickedness of our own actions.

(See Johnson's Dictionary, page 162, letter C.London edition.

Rivington, publisher.) Now, in what manner can one judge of the goodness or wickedness of his acts, or of those of any other person, if he knows nothing about them?
and how can he know anything of the past, unless endowed with the faculty of a memory ?" Again; it was a political corollary from the institutions of Leaphigh, that the king could do no wrong-- "I beg your pardon, my brother Downright," interrupted the chief-justice, "it is not a corollary, but a proposition--and one, too, that is held to be demonstrated.

It is the paramount law of the land." "I thank you, my lord," continued the brigadier, "as your lordship's high authority makes my case so much the stronger.