_Judges practicing at the Bar._--A curious disquisition has run through "N.
& Q." on the relinquishment of their sees by bishops, but I do not see that
any of them are shown to have officiated as parish priests after quitting
the episcopate.
Not that this is the point I wish now to put before you and your readers,
but I want information on a somewhat kindred subject.
In Craik's _Romance of the Peerage_ there occurs:
"Percy's leading counsel upon this occasion was Mr. Sergeant
(afterwards Sir Francis) Pemberton, who subsequently rose to be first a
puisne judge, and then Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was thence
transferred to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and after all
ended his days a practitioner at the bar."--Vol. iv. p. 291. note.
Pemberton, it appears, was dismissed from the Common Pleas in 1683; he was
counsel for the seven bishops in 1688, as was also another displaced judge,
Sir Creswell Leving, or Levinge, who was superseded in 1686.
Are these the only two instances of judges, _qui olim fuere_, practising at
the bar? If not, are they the latest? And farther, if not the latest, does
not etiquette forbid such practice now?