 Having withdrawn from politics , Kenyon instead switched his focus to his job as Master of the Rolls . As a judge of the Court of Chancery he was required to deal with cases of equity ; though he was almost entirely unfamiliar with the Roman law it was based on , he had previously practised in the Chancery . He was not considered as good as his successor , Sir William Grant , but Lord Eldon wrote that " I am mistaken if , after I am gone , the Chancery Records do not prove that if I have decided more than any of my predecessors in the same period of time , Sir Lloyd Kenyon beat us all " . With the retirement of Lord Mansfield as Lord Chief Justice , Kenyon succeeded him on 9 June 1788 , and was made Baron Kenyon of Gredington , in the county of Flint . 
