18 AUGUST 1888, Page 24

The Diary of Mr. Justice Rokeby. (Privately Printed.)—Thomas Rokeby was

made Justice of the Common Pleas in 1689, and removed to the King's Bench in 1695. He died in 1699. His diary contains notes of cases tried by him, and some personal reminiscences, &c. Circuit expenses seem to have cost the Judges sums varying from .617 to over £50, or thereabouts. Some of the notes have interest, as the principles of a judgment affirming a Quaker marriage. 1692 seems to have been a wet year, for on July 27th "the waters were so great at Colebrook, that they came just into ye body of the Coach." Here is another item :—" The cause of ye Orange Merchants against ye Cornish wreckers for God's good see (wickedly) called, high damages, £800."