young man's hat, and swept it all in, and gave it him; and making the admission nill, or nothing, 'let this,' said he, 'be a beginning of your getting money here'; where his Lordship made good the omen."
During his residence at the Temple, he pursued his legal studies with unremitting assiduity; and, being called to the Bar on 28 June, 1661, was engaged as counsel to argue before the House of Lords in the Case of the Five Members. For this he was made a King's Counsel, and, though only thirty-one years of age, called to the Bench of his Inn (5 June, 1668). In May, 1671, he became Solicitor-General, and was knighted; and in the same year served the office of Treasurer and Autumn Reader at the Middle Temple, when he took for his subject the Statute of Fines. In 1673, being elected for King's Lynn, he became Attorney-General, which position he held till advanced to the Bench of the Common Pleas in 1675. On the death of Lord Chancellor Nottingham in 1682, he was entrusted with the Great Seal, which he kept till his death 5 Sept. 1685.
In addition to his legal studies. Lord North devoted himself to music and science, and is known as the author of the following treatises: Alphabetical Index of Verbs Neuter [printed with Lilly's Grammar]; A Philosophical Essay on Music [Anon.]; Argument in the Case of Sir W. Soames and Sir S. Barnardiston (1689); Arguments for giving Judgment for the Earl of Bath (1693); A Paper on the Gravitation of Fluids considered, in the Bladders of Fishes [Phil. Trans. ii. 845].
Lord Guilford left unpublished A Paper on the Static Barometer, and chiefly by his means barometers, previously very scarce, began to be commonly sold in shops.
Admitted 21 April, 1669.
Sixth and youngest son of Dudley, fourth Lord North, and thus younger brother of Francis North, first Lord Guilford (q.v.). He was born at Tostock in Suffolk, 3 Sept. 1653. He was called to the Bar 29 May, 1674, elected a Bencher 27 Oct. 1682, appointed Lent Reader at the Inn in 1682, and Treasurer in 1683, being then only thirty years of age. He became Steward of the Courts to Archbishop Sancroft in 1678, and Solicitor-General to the Duke of York (James II.) in 1684; but he is principally known by his writings, which throw much light upon the history of his time.
His publications bear the following titles: A Discourse of Fish and Fish Ponds, try a Person of Honour (1713); Examen, or An Inquiry into the Credit and Veracity of a Pretended Complete History [Dr. White Kennett's], showing the perverse and wicked design of it, and the many falsities and abuses of truth contained in it [with Memoirs in Vindication of Charles II. and his reign] (1740); The Life of Francis North, Baron Guilford (1742); The same, with Lives of Right Hon. Francis North, the Bight Hon. Dudley North, and Dr. John North, with Notes and Illustrations by H. Roscoe (1826); A Discourse on the Study of the Laws … with Notes and Illustrations by a Member of the Temple [H. Roscoe] (1824); Memoirs of Musick, edited by Ed. F. Rimbault in 1846.
NORTHAMPTON, EARL OF. See HOWARD, HENRY.
Admitted 26 November, 1618.
Second son of John Northcote of Hayne, Devon. He was Sheriff of his county in 1626. In 1640 he joined Charles I. at York, and in 1641 was created a Baronet; but in Parliament he acted with the Presbyterians, and
