Scroggs, Sir William, an infamous Judge of Charles II.'s reign, who became Chief-Justice of the King's Bench in 1678, and whose name is associated with all manner of injustice and legal corruption; was impeached in 1680, and pensioned off by the king; (d. 1683).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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