<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gascoigne" class="extiw" title="w:William Gascoigne">William Gascoigne</a>, Chief Justice during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" class="extiw" title="w:Henry IV of England">Henry IV</a>'s reign, refuses to allow the king to pass sentences on bishops or peers.  Doyle points out that the scarlet robes of the Chief Justice was an aesthetic choice (it was not the official colour of judicial robes at that point in time).
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1864
<cite class="book" style="font-style:normal" id="Reference-Doyle-1864"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_William_Edmund_Doyle" class="extiw" title="w:James William Edmund Doyle"> Doyle, James William Edmund</a> (1864) "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=YcM_AAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA353">Henry IV</a>" in    <i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=YcM_AAAAYAAJ">A Chronicle of England: B.C. 55 – A.D. 1485</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:London" class="extiw" title="w:en:London"><span title="capital and largest city of the United Kingdom">London</span></a>:  Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts &amp; Green, pp. p. 353 Retrieved on 12 November 2010. <small></small></cite>