1. gascoigne, sir william English judge, born at Gawthorpe, Yorkshire; during Richard II.'s reign he practised in the law courts, and in 1397 became king's serjeant; threeyears later he was raised to the Lord Chief-Justiceship; his single-eyed devotion to justice was strikingly exemplified in his refusal to passsentence of death on Archbishop Scrope; the story of his committing PrinceHenry to prison, immortalised by Shakespeare, is unauthenticated (1350-1419).
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