per bench.” It. consisted of a chief justice aod three. puisne justices, who were by their office the sovereign conservators of the peace und supreme coroners of the land. It was u remnant of the aula regis, and was not originally fixed to any certain place, but might follow the king’s person, though for some centuries past it usually sat at Westminster. It had a very extended jurisdiction -both in criminal and civil causes; the former in what was called the “crown side” or “erown office,” the latter in the “plea side,”