He exchanged Winchelsea for Canterbury at the election of 1625. A new writ issued on 19 March, and Finch was re-elected ( Comm. Finch was returned to parliament for Winchelsea in February 1623-4, but was unseated on petition on the ground that certain voters had been excluded by the mayor. Finch as their recorder,' and craving 'pardon for discontenting their lordships' ( Cal. On the corporation wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Zouch praying that they might not be compelled to re-elect Finch, as it would be 'against their consciences and their charter, and greatly to the disquiet of the city.' On 28 May, however, they changed their tone, humbly informing the council that they were willing to re-elect Mr. The corporation had refused to obey the order of the privy council, and it remained as yet unenforced. 1619, soliciting the interest of Lord Zouch, warden of the Cinque ports, with the privy council, from which he had obtained a mandamus against the corporation for his reinstatement, speaks vaguely of the 'factious carriage' of one Sabin ( ib. The cause of his removal does not appear. 177), and was dismissed by the corporation shortly afterwards. He was certainly recorder of the city in March 1618-19 ( Egerton MS. Foss says, without giving his authority, that in 1617 he was elected recorder of Canterbury. In 1617 he was elected a bencher of his inn, where, in the autumn of the following year, he discharged the duties of reader ( Douthwaite, Gray's Inn, p. In 1614 he was returned to parliament for Canterbury. 130), and Finch himself, on the occasion of his instalment as lord chief justice, publicly confessed that the first six years of his pupilage were mainly devoted to other pursuits than the study of the law ( Rushworth, Hist. Clarendon states that he 'led a free life on a restrained fortune,' and that he 'set up upon the stock of a good wit and natural parts, without the superstructure of much knowledge in the profession by which he was to grow' ( Rebellion, Oxford ed. 1584, admitted a member of Gray's Inn in February 1600, and called to the bar on 8 Nov. FINCH, Sir JOHN, Baron Finch of Fordwich (1584–1660), speaker of the House of Commons and lord keeper, son of Sir Henry Finch, by Ursula, daughter of John Thwaites, was born on 17 Sept.
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