A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson
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A BOOK ABOUT LAWYERS.
by
JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON,
Barrister-at-Law Author of "A Book About Doctors," Etc., Etc.
Reprinted from the London Edition.
Two Volumes in One.
New York: _Carleton, Publisher, Madison Square._ London: S. Low, Son & Co., M DCCC LXXV.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1807, by G.W. Carleton & Co., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
John F. Trow & Son, Printers, 205-213 East 12th St., New York.
CONTENTS.
PART I. HOUSES AND HOUSEHOLDERS.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. LADIES IN LAW COLLEGES 7
II. THE LAST OF THE LADIES 13
III. YORK HOUSE AND POWIS HOUSE 22
IV. LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS 27
V. THE OLD LAW QUARTER 36
PART II. LOVES OF THE LAWYERS.
VI. A LOTTERY 49
VII. GOOD QUEEN BESS 55
VIII. REJECTED ADDRESSES 62
IX. "CICERO" UPON HIS TRIAL 71
X. BROTHERS IN TROUBLE 75
XI. EARLY MARRIAGES 86
PART III. MONEY.
XII. FEES TO COUNSEL 97
XIII. RETAINERS, GENERAL AND SPECIAL 113
XIV. JUDICIAL CORRUPTION 122
XV. GIFTS AND SALES 136
XVI. A ROD PICKLED BY WILLIAM COLE 143
XVII. CHIEF JUSTICE POPHAM 149
XVIII. JUDICIAL SALARIES 153
PART IV. COSTUME AND TOILET.
XIX. BRIGHT AND SAD 163
XX. MILLINERY 169
XXI. WIGS 171
XXII. BANDS AND COLLARS 182
XXIII. BAGS AND GOWNS 187
XXIV. HATS 195
PART V. MUSIC.
XXV. THE PIANO IN CHAMBERS 206
XXVI. THE BATTLE OF THE ORGANS 208
XXVII. THE THICKNESS IN THE THROAT 219
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson
- 2: Or through the gate of Lincoln's Inn
- 3: In this generation a successful Chancery barrister
- 4: It must be borne in mind that the married barrister
- 5: At the house of Sir Joseph Jekyll
- 6: The chief attraction of Lincoln's Inn gardens
- 7: When it rained they hailed a hackney coach
- 8: With a fee of a thousand guineas
- 9: He started from the archiepiscopal palace
- 10: Hatton did not move from Holborn to the Strand
- 11: Formerly the abode of Keeper Littleton
- 12: On leaving Bucklersbury he took a house in Crosby Place
- 13: Who was a bencher of Lincoln's Inn
- 14: It was on Hampstead Heath that Loughborough
- 15: And when the rabble decided on torturing a bull with dogs
- 16: But the conveyancer was almost the last of his species
- 17: Passing on to Bloomsbury Square
- 18: Subsequently Lord Ellenborough
- 19: By conferring the post on Jekyll
- 20: For once following the fashion
- 21: Sir Samuel Romilly lived there
- 22: Clench lived in Brownlow Street
- 23: Having among them a single eel
- 24: Erasmus assures his readers that though verging on old age
- 25: Attended service in Chelsea Church
- 26: Had misread the essay 'Of Love
- 27: Who braved the displeasure of Whitgift
- 28: He met Alice Barnham in Marylebone Chapel
- 29: With the title of Baroness Stratheden
- 30: It was so inauspicious that Mr
- 31: Men who avowed themselves 'Heart and Jointure Brokers
- 32: Jeffreys pitied and consoled her
- 33: Jeffreys would have created less scandal if
- 34: And whose illegitimate son became Dean of Wells
- 35: Disappointed in his pursuit of Anne Bawdon
- 36: Que le Chancelier Cowper epousa deux femmes
- 37: He was said to have committed bigamy
- 38: Manley puts into the mouth of Lord Cowper
- 39: Who actively supported the Cowper interest
- 40: Spencer Cowper rode into Hertford
- 41: Four prisoners Spencer Cowper
- 42: Young Harcourt applied sedulously to the study of the law
- 43: Whilst her husband read Vinerian Lectures
- 44: At present the young barrister
- 45: But the Chancellor declined to act upon it
- 46: The marchioness sat in the fetid court of the Old Bailey
- 47: ' Whereupon Pinchbek stood up the rest being silent
- 48: Sergeant Yaxley bound himself to attend the assizes at York
- 49: For every oone of my lordes counsaill to have c's
- 50: He made L6000 per annum in his profession
- 51: Attorney General Noy for his signature
- 52: ' from December 1674 to January 13
- 53: A famous Chancery practitioner
- 54: He was frequently employed in arbitration cases
- 55: And received twenty guineas with his brief
- 56: Draughtsmen find their clerks wrote loosely and wordily
- 57: In the other eleven months I got one shilling
- 58: The duke retains him as his 'standing counsell in ffee
- 59: But he made L3000 a year by answering cases
- 60: Of judicial corruption in the reigns of Edward I
- 61: Et maxime pro terris Templariorum manutenendis
- 62: Judges were forbidden to accept gifts from actual suitors
- 63: Ornaments of gold or silver workmanship
- 64: This ring was received certainly pendente lite
- 65: The lawful revenue of the office stands thus
- 66: The assize sermons of Charles I
- 67: The word fee signifies salary
- 68: Effected in Chancery by accident or design
- 69: Lord Macclesfield was punished with official degradation
- 70: Paid his money to Lady Macclesfield
- 71: The good man forthwith sent messengers to Nonsuch House
- 72: Whence they were called Inns of Court
- 73: And a Master of Chancery who is still alive
- 74: John Popham passed from Oxford to the Middle Temple
- 75: Sir Richard Dayrell of Littlecot in com
- 76: Lord Mansfield's favorite investment was mortgage
- 77: It appears that in the year 1694
- 78: And L1200 from the Hanaper Office
- 79: And the puisnes an additional yearly L600
- 80: In the latter to L7000 per annum
- 81: Should wear any cut or pansid hose
- 82: Upon penalty of iiis iiiid for every offence
- 83: This was the first of the seven orders made in 1 Eliz
- 84: ' Thou shall make holy rayments for Aaron and his sons
- 85: Non per coifae ligamina sed per guttur eum apprehendens
- 86: Wore the undiminished coif and coif cap
- 87: Wore his own hair and a coif cap
- 88: When Lord Ellenborough furiously called out
- 89: Eldon would have accepted the condition
- 90: The little falling bands encreased to ruffes
- 91: At this time Whitelock had been about seven years at the bar
- 92: We walked down by the sempstresses
- 93: Is assured that at the Chancery bar
- 94: To which Lord Campbell and Causidicus draw attention
- 95: Together with barristers holding patents of precedence
- 96: Before he was a barrister for seven full years' standing
- 97: When a council was to be held at Windsor
- 98: For the most part they were either slovenly or foppish
- 99: Among the surrounding promenaders
- 100: To Lord Stormont's valet de chambre
- 101: He used to lay aside wig and hat
- 102: Situated within a stone's throw from Chancery Lane
- 103: And take his place among the choristers
- 104: Where in his undergraduate days he took lessons on the viol
- 105: His second being Renatus Harris
- 106: Renatus Harris divided his organ into two
- 107: With a sneer the Recorder interposed A musitioner
- 108: The best shop of its kind in Canterbury
- 109: Sergeant Wilkins took neither of those courses
- 110: Wilkins because he was a successful barrister
- 111: Do you know what Sir John Mitford is crying about
- 112: Then the Chrystemas to be kept here
- 113: Pallaphilos had many other mock officers
- 114: Gerard Leigh and illustrious strangers
- 115: Was the aspect of Prince Pallaphilos
- 116: Or even all the benchers of a particular inn
- 117: Before each mounted masquer rode a torch bearer
- 118: Lingered amongst barristers on Circuit
- 119: Born in the same year as Selden
- 120: Then came the first chariot of the grand masquers
- 121: And the Inner Temple and Grayes Inn
- 122: Heneage Finch had been chosen Autumn Reader of that inn
- 123: Charles called for the Admittance Book of the Inn
- 124: The barristers and students had their ordinary fare
- 125: Of which society he is a barrister and a bencher
- 126: Some seventeen years before Edward III
- 127: 's time there were eight Inns of Chancery
- 128: And yet the manciple set all her capp
- 129: Runs Mulcaster's translation of the 'De Laudibus
- 130: And on the holye dayes to the studye of holye Scripture
- 131: Fortescue nowhere mentions any such rule
- 132: And grandson of a dissenting minister
- 133: Whereby they overstock the profession
- 134: One was Cromwell's secretary Thurloe
- 135: In like manner our parochial usages
- 136: Which be to be pleded in any of his courts
- 137: And also after he had become an utter barrister
- 138: Lost no time in recalling Latin to the records and writs
- 139: And finally the judge instructing the jury
- 140: Or pilloried a sad apprentice of the law in Chancery Lane
- 141: Montague and sett him in the chaire
- 142: But the watchmen secured one or two of the watermen
- 143: Where Richard Martin was sitting
- 144: Had been formerly his lordship's laundress at the Temple
- 145: Briefless requires from L100 to L200 more
- 146: In proving his knowledge of law and Law French at moots
- 147: That Dugdale observes But the times are altered
- 148: The moots were carefully performed
- 149: Ought to frequent the Common Pleas
- 150: Described the career of John Surrebutter
- 151: Bade Tewkesbury and Clerk adieu
- 152: And worked as a special pleader for a time
- 153: Is this 'The Convivial Rabbits
- 154: Of the same sort were the pleasantries with which
- 155: Being for the most part feeble attempts at punning
- 156: When Sir William Follett accosted him
- 157: Advocates are intellectual gladiators
- 158: Lord Thurlow had the indecency to say
- 159: Sir Causticus Witherett inquired
- 160: As an enthusiastic chess player
- 161: Answered Sir Lyttleton Powys's banter on the Western Circuit
- 162: And as this apple pie has been eaten
- 163: There are more ways than six of nicking seven on the dice
- 164: Jekyll threw him this couplet Garrow
- 165: Asked Lord Lyndhurst from the woolsack
- 166: That the Chancellor said 'I doubt
- 167: Interrupted the venerable Maynard by saying
- 168: Too often wearers of the ermine
- 169: Lord Camden leaned forwards and inquired in a whisper
- 170: Lord Ellenborough enjoys a high place
- 171: Lord Ellenborough would have laughed
- 172: ' instead of 'Mors Janua Vitae
- 173: As a litterateur Erskine met with meagre success
- 174: And when he is on the woolsack
- 175: I believe the administration was said
- 176: Erskine concluded by recapitulating
- 177: Notwithstanding its jocoseness
- 178: You were born and bred in Manchester
- 179: Thurlow and his adversary met in Hyde Park
- 180: Or B rocklesby B rocklesby or R ocklesby
- 181: That you also are an early riser
- 182: Barrister with facetious tone
- 183: It is asserted that the wealthier aldermen
- 184: If they were not kidnappers themselves
- 185: For as soon as the sheriff made his appearance
- 186: With the jovial ways of circuiteers in the old time
- 187: It luik'd mair like a skyet when aw furst seed it rise
- 188: Hullock obtained permission to inspect it again
- 189: At the installation of a new Master of Chancery
- 190: Flaw firmly established himself in the realms of bliss
- 191: Evona that he should go round the church of St
- 192: Thurlow asked savagely of a country curate
- 193: The daughter of the Vicar of Weobly
- 194: Eldon gave the petitioner the desired preferment
- 195: And their usual time for supping was between five P
- 196: Similar praise cannot be awarded to Lord Guildford
- 197: This man was so amazing and extraordinary a mimic
- 198: With the exception of Kenyon and Eldon
- 199: Amongst the listeners to Erskine
- 200: Lord Nottingham was so disabled by gout
- 201: Roderic concluded he had killed his man
- 202: Until Robert Henley held the seals
- 203: From the many stories told of Thurlow and ebriosity
- 204: Help yourself to a glass of Newcastle port
- 205: Whilst they sought briefs on the circuit
- 206: Which would have shut out journalists from the Society
- 207: Since the days of Chancellor de Bury
- 208: Lord Stowell clung fast to his literary friendships
- 209: But are practitioners with an abundance of business