With a little more context, the sentence reads:
Jeffreys conducted himself, as was his wont, insolently and
unjustly. He had indeed an old grudge to stimulate his zeal. He
had been Chief Justice of Chester when Delamere, then Mr. Booth,
represented that county in Parliament. Booth had bitterly
complained to the Commons that the dearest interests of his
constituents were intrusted to a drunken jackpudding.41 The
revengeful judge was now not ashamed to resort to artifices which
even in an advocate would have been culpable.
While Mr. Booth, who later became Lord Delamare, was a member of the Houses of Commons he complained about Judge Jeffrys having been appointed Chief Justice of Cheshire, which was presumably Booth's constituency.
For a fuller text see: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext00/2hoej10.txt
By the way, how do you link to a url which is not an http one?
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