The Fire of London Disputes Act 1666 was an Act

Act of Parliament

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 of the Parliament of England

Parliament of England

The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England. In 1066, William of Normandy introduced a feudal system, by which he sought the advice of a council of tenants-in-chief and ecclesiastics before making laws...

 (18 & 19 Cha. II c. 7) with the long title

Long title

The long title is the formal title appearing at the head of a statute or other legislative instrument...

 "An Act for erecting a Judicature for Determination of Differences touching Houses burned or demolished by reason of the late Fire which happened in London." Following the Great Fire of London

Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666. The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman City Wall...

, Parliament established a court to settle all differences arising between landlords and tenants of burnt buildings, overseen by judges of the King's Bench

King's Bench

The Queen's Bench is the superior court in a number of jurisdictions within some of the Commonwealth realms...

, Court of Common Pleas

Court of Common Pleas (England)

The Court of Common Pleas, or Common Bench, was a common law court in the English legal system that covered "common pleas"; actions between subject and subject, which did not concern the king. Created in the late 12th to early 13th century after splitting from the Exchequer of Pleas, the Common...

 and Court of Exchequer

Court of Exchequer

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The twenty two judges who served under the act included the following.

• Sir John Archer
  John Archer (judge)
  John Archer was an English judge.Archer was the son of Henry Archer, Esq., of Coopersale, Theydon Garnon, Essex, by Anne, daughter of Simon Crouch, of London, alderman. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1619, and M.A. in 1622. Having entered Gray's Inn as a...
  
  
• Sir Robert Atkyns
  Robert Atkyns (judge)
  Sir Robert Atkyns KB KS was an English Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Member of parliament, and Speaker of the House of Lords.-Early life:...
  
  
• Sir Orlando Bridgman
• Sir William Ellys
• Sir Heneage Finch
  Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham
  Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, PC , Lord Chancellor of England, was descended from the old family of Finch, many of whose members had attained high legal eminence, and was the eldest son of Sir Heneage Finch, recorder of London, by his first wife Frances Bell, daughter of Sir Edmond Bell of...
  
  
• Sir Matthew Hale
  Matthew Hale (jurist)
  Sir Matthew Hale SL was an influential English barrister, judge and jurist most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown. Born to a barrister and his wife, who had both died by the time he was 5, Hale was raised by his father's relative, a strict...
  
  
• Sir Timothy Littleton
  Timothy Littleton
  Sir Timothy Littleton was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1670.Littleton was the son of Sir Edward Littleton of Henley Shropshire and his wife Mary Walter, daughter of Edward Walter of Ludlow. His father was chief justice of North Wales...
  
  
• Sir William Morton
  William Morton (judge)
  Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Morton KS was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and from 1663 to 1665. He fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War....
  
  
• Sir Francis North
  Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford
  Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford PC KC was the third son of the 4th Baron North, and was created Baron Guilford in 1683, after becoming Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in succession to Lord Nottingham....
  
  
• Sir Richard Rainsford
• Sir Christopher Turnor
  Christopher Turnor (judge)
  Sir Christopher Turnor was an English judge, knight and royalist.He was eldest son of Christopher and Ellen Turnor of Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire. He matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1623...
  
  
• Sir Edward Turnour
• Sir Thomas Twisden
  Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet
  Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1647 to 1648. He was a High Court judge who presided at the trial of regicides....
  
  
• Sir Thomas Tyrrell
  Thomas Tyrrell
  Sir Thomas Tyrrell was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660. He fought on the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War....
  
  
• Sir John Vaughan
  John Vaughan (judge)
  Sir John Vaughan SL , of Trawsgoed, was a British justice.-Life:He was born in Ceredigion, Wales, the eldest of eight children of Edward Vaughan and his wife Letitia Stedman of Strata Florida, and was educated initially at The King's School, Worcester between 1613 and 1618, when he was admitted to...
  
  
• Sir William Wilde
  Sir William Wilde, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Wilde, 1st Baronet was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.Wilde was recorder of London in 1659. On 27 Mar 1660 he was elected Member of Parliament for the City of London in the Convention Parliament.On 13 Sep 1660, Wilde was created baronet. He was...
  
  
• Sir Hugh Wyndham
• Sir Wadham Wyndham
  Wadham Wyndham
  Sir Wadham Wyndham SL , English judge, was born at Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, the ninth son of Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham, and his wife, Joan, daughter of Sir Henry Portman...
  
  

Portraits of the judges by John Michael Wright

John Michael Wright

John Michael Wright was a portrait painter in the Baroque style. Described variously as English and Scottish, Wright trained in Edinburgh under the Scots painter George Jamesone, and acquired a considerable reputation as an artist and scholar during a long sojourn in Rome...

 were put up in the Guildhall by the city in gratitude for their services. These paintings, completed in 1670, hung in London's Guildhall

Guildhall, London

The Guildhall is a building in the City of London, off Gresham and Basinghall streets, in the wards of Bassishaw and Cheap. It has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial and administrative centre of the City of London and its Corporation...

 until it was bombed during World War II; today only two (those of Sir Matthew Hale

Matthew Hale (jurist)

Sir Matthew Hale SL was an influential English barrister, judge and jurist most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown. Born to a barrister and his wife, who had both died by the time he was 5, Hale was raised by his father's relative, a strict...

 and Sir Hugh Wyndham) remain in the Guildhall Art Gallery

Guildhall Art Gallery

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 the remainder having been destroyed or dispersed.

The act was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1948

Statute Law Revision Act 1948

The Statute Law Revision Act 1948 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.Section 5 and Schedule 2 authorised the citation of 158 earlier Acts by short titles....

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