Sir William Gascoigne refuses to sentence a prelate or peer mb-code 2594265 Treasurer of St

Treasurer of St

King Edward VI (top)

In the middle distance a man stands behind another man and distracts him by tickling his ear

with vessels on the River Thames

Cleveland House

Sir William Gascoigne refuses to sentence a prelate or peer mb-code 2594265 Treasurer of StSir William Gascoigne defies King Henry IV, 1405 (1864). Gascoigne (1366 1423), Chief Justice of England, refusing to pass a sentence of death upon Lord Scrope (1350 1405), Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, the Earl Marshal, who had been implicated in the failed uprising against the King in the north. Gascoigne insisted that they had the right to be tried by thier peers. Both men were subsequently executed.