 Again, let us remember that in some districts, such as Durham and Chester, bishops exercised temporal jurisdiction.Even in the King's Courts, as Lord Coke points out, often the judges were priests, before Innocent IV prohibited priests from acting as judges.Pollock and Maitland's "History of the Laws of England" gives us as a specimen date, that of 16 July 1195, on which there sat in the Court of King's Bench an archbishop, three bishops, and three archdeacons.