page_title: Augustine Nicolls
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Augustine Nicolls / Life
caption_attribution_description: Monument to Sir Augustine Nicolls About 1616 Sir Augustine Nicolls (1559–1616) was a judge (a Justice of Common Pleas). He is shown between figures of Justice and Prudence. A monument in a cathedral or church provided an important opportunity for celebrating a dead person's virtues, character and achievements. Monuments were also served to perpetuate the names of individuals and families. Black marble and alabaster, painted Probably carved by Nicholas Stone (born in Woodbury, Devon, about 1587, died in London, 1647) From the demolished church of St Denis, Faxton, Northamptonshire Given by the Rector and Churchwardens of Lamport with Faxton Museum no A.9-1965 Wikipedia Loves Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum This photo of item # A.9-1965 at the Victoria and Albert Museum was contributed under the team name "va_va_val" as part of the Wikipedia Loves Art project in February 2009. Victoria and Albert Museum The original photograph on Flickr was taken by Val_McG—please add a comment to the original Flickr page whenever a use has been made on Wikipedia or another project. Project galleries on Flickr: this institution, this team
context_page_description: Sir Augustine Nicolls or Nicholls was an English judge.
context_section_description: Nicolls was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, in April 1559. He was the second son of Thomas Nicholls, serjeant-at-law, by Anne, daughter of John Pell of Ellington, Huntingdonshire. The Wardour Abbey manor in Ecton had been in the family for three generations, having been purchased by Augustine's grandfather, William Nicolls or Nicoll, of Hardwicke, Northamptonshire, who died in 1575.
  Nicolls trained in the common law, and became reader at the Middle Temple in the autumn of 1602. On 11 February 1603 Elizabeth I summoned him to become serjeant-at-law by taking the degree of the coif; but she died before the writ was returnable, and it had to be renewed by James I. Nicolls was sworn on 17 May following. On 14 December 1603 Nicolls was made recorder of Leicester.
  In 1610 Nicolls was attached as serjeant to the household of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. On 11 June 1610 he, in addition to the manors of Broughton and Faxton which he had purchased, received a grant in fee simple of the manor of Kibworth-Beauchamp, Leicestershire. On 26 November 1612 he was appointed justice of common pleas, and was knighted at the same time. Three years later his patent was renewed on his appointment as chancellor to Charles, Prince of Wales. 
  Nicolls died unexpectedly on 3 August 1616 while on circuit; the cause has been given as a "surfeit", or the "new ague".  He died in Kendal, and there is a monument to his memory in Kendal Parish Church. 
  His tomb, in black marble and alabaster, was in Faxton Church, Northamptonshire, but was moved to the Victoria and Albert Museum in the 20th century. The museum attributes the monument to the sculptor Nicholas Stone.
  Robert Bolton, whom Nicolls had presented to the living of Broughton, testified to his not accepting bribes.
caption: Monument to Sir Augustine Nicolls, now at the Victoria and Albert Museum
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