"I know what I mean," said the apostate: "I desire that the question may be recorded in Court." "Record what you will, I am not afraid of you, Mr.Solicitor," said Pemberton.

Then came a loud and fierce altercation, which the Chief Justice could with difficulty quiet.

In other circumstances, he would probably have ordered the question to be recorded and Pemberton to be committed.

But on this great day he was overawed.

He often cast a side glance towards the thick rows of Earls and Barons by whom he was watched, and who in the next Parliament might be his judges.