ABSTRACT
At about 9 o'clock on the morning of 4 April1678, the Earl of Pembroke was brought from the Tower to Westminster Hall to be tried by his peers on a charge of murdering Nathanael Cony. Between 11 and 12 noon, the Lords, judges and assistants of the House of Lords came, two by two, from the House into the Hall, where a court had been erected, with four maces before them; and four more before the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Nottingham, together with his own Serjeant and Purse Bearer, with Garter King at Arms and the deputy Black Rod bearing the white staff. After making obeisance to the throne, they all took their places; the Serjeants, with their maces erect, kneeling, four on each side of the throne.
