_Judges styled Reverend_ (Vol. iv., pp. 151. 198).--The following is
an extract from the title of a small octavo volume, printed for the
assignees of {159} John More, Esq., London, 1635, which lately came into
my hands:--_La novel Natura Brevium du Juge Tresreverend Monsieur Anthony
Fitzherbert_; with a new table by William Rastall. The preface is headed
as follows:--"La Preface sur cest lieuz compose per le Reverend Justice
Anthony Fitzherbert."
Anthony Fitzherbert was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
in 1523, and died in 30 Hen. VIII. William Rastall was appointed
Serjeant-at-law in 1554, and one of the Justices of the Common Pleas
in 1558: it would seem, therefore, that as Rastall is not styled
"Serjeant-at-law" in the title-page of the book when he made a new table
to its contents, that the complimentary style of Reverend, as applicable
to the judges, was used at least as late as the middle of the sixteenth
century.