“J. Popham.[A]
Edw. Coke.[B]
W. Waad.[C]
John Corbett.”
(The A and B at the left side of the Declaration are Coke’s own marks.)
[A] The Lord Chief Justice of England.
[B] Afterwards the celebrated Lord Chief Justice of England, and Editor of “Littleton’s Tenures.” This Humphrey Littleton, mentioned in the Text, was a descendant of Sir John Littleton, Author of the immortal legal work.
[C] Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
CHAPTER LVIII.
We are now come to the crux of this Inquiry.
To every philosophical thinker who takes the trouble to ponder the matter it must be evident that the ethical principles enunciated in the first part of the Declaration, given in extenso in the preceding chapter, are intellectually irrefutable and morally irreproachable; although their obviousness, certainly, will not be palpable to “the man in the street.”