"Butler v. Moore" was an Irish case (Ireland at the time formed part of the United Kingdom, but had a separate legal system).In 1823, in the case of the "R v. Redford", which was tried before William Draper Best, 1st Baron Wynford, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas on circuit, when a Church of England clergyman was about to give in evidence a confession of guilt made to him by the prisoner, the judge checked him and indignantly expressed his opinion that it was improper for a clergyman to reveal a confession.