Physicians, perfumed wands once carried
by, i. 128; payment in past and pre-
sent times of, i. 279 (note)
Pitt, William, an auditor of Erskine's
first speech in the House of Commons,
ii. 115; disfiguring imputation removed
from his name, ii. 306
Places, legal, the purchase of, i. 314
Platt, Baron, amusing anecdote of, ii.
308

Plays and Actors, their dependence, in
Charles II.'s time, on the approval of
the law colleges, ii. 159
"Pleader's Guide," the, Mr. Surrebutter's
description of his professional career
in, ii. 192

Plumpton, Sir Robert, his remarkable
agreement with Serjeant Yaxley, i. 278
Polito, Keeper of Exeter Change Mena-

gerie, Erskine's application of a well-
used joke to, ii. 244

Pollexfen, Henry, Chief Justice of Com-
mon Pleas, the mansion of, i. 188
Pollock, Sir Frederick, effective story told
by, ii. 249

Pool's Company, Roger North's account
of, ii. 191

Poor's Box, the Chancellor's, distribution
of its contents, ii. 270 (note)
Pope, his inscription for the tombstone
of Lord Chancellor Harcourt's son, ii.
373 (note); his eulogy on Talbot, ii.
374

Popham, Chief Justice, curious tradition
of, i. 336; John Aubrey the antiquary's
statement regarding the early history
of, i. 337; how he is said to have be-
come possessed of Littlecote Hall in
Wiltshire, ib.

Porter, Charles, Lord Chancellor of Ire-
land in William III.'s reign, Roger
North's piquant sketch of, ii. 168 (note)
Posting, the disadvantages of, i. 140;
petty squabbles of barristers on the
road, i. 141

Powell, Justice, his jocularity, ii. 228;
his telling reproof of Bishop Fowler's
credulity, ib.

Powis, Sir Lyttleton, letter to Lord Chan-
cellor King from, imploring continuance
of his salary for life, i. 349; Philip
Yorke's amusing mystification of, ii.

219

Powis House (Newcastle House), selected

by William III. as an official residence
for Lord Chancellors, i. 182; sold to
the Duke of Newcastle, i. 183; suc-
cessive occupants of, ib. and i. 190;
description of it in the "
Guide," 1763, i, 196

Pratt, Sir John, Chief Justice, his town
mansion, i. 197; poetical version of a
memorable decision of, ii. 221; barba-
rous custom enforced by, ii. 270 (note)
Pratt, Charles, a barrister on the Western

circuit, son of Sir John Pratt, his
losses in horseflesh, i. 147
Precedence, patents of, privileges con-
ferred by, ii. 6 (note)

Prerogative, the Royal, an unpopular
view of, ii. 95

Presents, the custom of giving and receiv-
ing, i. 308; the purchase of places by,
i. 314; good use made by Sir Matthew
Hale of one, i. 415; renunciation by
Lord Cowper of, i. 317; reluctance of
the chiefs of the Common Law Courts
to resign their New Year favours, i.
319

Press, the, distinguished lawyers who
have been connected with, ii. 370;
circumstances that probably once pal-
liated the prejudice against gownsmen
on, ii. 371; illiberal resolution of the
Benchers of Lincoln's Inn against
reporters for, ib.

Preston, the Conveyancer, Lord Ellen-
borough's polite irony on a speech of,
ii. 238

Pretender, the Old, seals made for, i. 64
Prince Regent, the, anecdotes of, i. 20
Prisoners, convicted, absurd address from
a judge on the bench to, ii. 392
Procedure, legal, reluctance to aban lon
the use of Norman-French words in, ii.
146

Profession, the legal, representative mem-
bers in the present day of, ii. 329;
its general culture, ii. 382
Prynne, his "Histriomastyx," and demon-
stration against him, ii. 68; his address
to the barristers of Lincoln's Inn, ii.
69; demonstration by the gentlemen of
the Inns of Court against, ii, 72 et
seq.

Puckering, Lord Keeper, his remarks on
the grasping habits of the bar, i. 275
Punning, addiction of lawyers to the
habit of, 206

Puritans, anecdotes illustrative of their
aversion to lawyers, i. 83
Purpoole, the Prince of, his revels at
Gray's Inn, ii. 63

Purses, State, absence of one on an im-
portant occasion, i. 68; preserved as
memorials of judicial eminence, i. 74

UEEN'S BENCH, Court of, SS
collars worn by the Chief Justices
of, i. 384. See also King's Bench

act as a Commissioner of the Republican
Seal, i. 38

Widows, remarks on the custom that
permits them to retain the name and
title of their first husband, i. 234 (note)
Wigs, the, their adoption as a part of
legal costume, i. 366; fashion of those
worn in the reign of Charles II., i. 371;
earliest notice in English records of, i.
377 (note); patronized by Queen Eliza-
beth and Mary Queen of Scots, ib.
Wightman, Sir William, his sudden death,
ii. 336

Wilde, Sir Thomas, Lord Truro, malicious
story relating to, i. 234 (note)
Wilkes, "Liberty," his pithy criticism on
Lord Thurlow's memorable declaration
of his devotion to George III., i. 58
Wilkins, Serjeant, his pantomimic reply
to a discourteous impeachment, ii. 44;
his failure to control an angry mob at
Shaftesbury, ii. 45 (note); a merry
thought of,-attributed also to Sir
John Millicent, ii. 205

Willes, Sir John, Chief Justice, his death
and its supposed cause, i. 197; his
mortification at Lord Mansfield's con-
temptuous treatment of him, ii. 233;
a peculiar merit in the eyes of Horace
Walpole of, ii. 325; his ambitious
character, ii. 336; his vanity, and a
humiliating disappointment to, ii. 337
Williams, Dean, the last clerical Lord
Keeper, return of the Great Seal to
James I. by, i. 67; ceremonial of
mounted procession to Westminster dis-
pensed with by, i. 123; his residence,
i. 179, 181; his estimate of the Chan-
cellor's lawful income in Egerton's time,
i. 312; Lord Campbell's injudicious ob-
servation on the Report of, ib. (note);
ungenerous allusion to Francis Bacon in
an Inaugural Address by, i. 328; story
illustrating his jealousy of any attempt
to tamper with his honesty, ib, knavish
counsel of, ii. 99; a pert Chancery bar-
rister's attempted mystification of, ii.
198 (note); early hour of opening his
winter sittings, ii. 292

Williams (publisher of Paine's "Age of
Reason"), Lord Kenyon's grand oration
at the trial of, ii. 391

William III., dissatisfaction with the Com-
missioners of the Great Seal appointed
by, i. 29; Great Seal of James II. re-
covered and used by, i. 45; seals made
by order of, ib.; his selection of a per-
manent home for the Keepers of the
Great Seal, i. 182; anecdote of his visit
to the Temple, ii. 12

William IV., keen contest for a damasked
seal at the commencement of his reign,
i. 40; his unsatisfactory decision re-
specting this contest, i. 42

Wilmot, John Eardley, his address to his
son on his promotion to the chiefship of
the Common Pleas, ii. 336
Windsor Castle, Whig and Tory intrigues
(1788) in, ii. 13

Winnington, Sir Francis, Solicitor-General
to Charles II., his professional revenues,
i. 285

Witness, a venal, his unscrupulous false
testimony and sudden death, ii. 251
Witnesses, Judge Jeffreys' treatment of,
ii. 252; two recognised ways of dealing
with dangerous ones, ib.; anecdote il-
lustrating a simple method of tampering
with, ib.; Erskine's jocular mode of
examining them, ii. 253; curious reply
of one, ii. 257; difficulty of understand-
ing the provincialisms of, ii. 258; Lord
Mansfield's reproof of the ill-timed fa-
miliarity of one, ii. 259; curious tes-
timony of two, ii. 260; Baron Perrot's
method of deciding between the conflict-
ing testimony of, ii. 261; curious mis-
understanding of the testimony of one
from Newcastle, ib. ; amusing answers
of one at the Newcastle Assizes, ib.;
the custom of browbeating them boldly
reproved, ii. 268; amusing replies to
barristers by, ii. 356

Witnesses, professional, their distinctive
ensign, ii. 360

Wit, judicial, anecdotes of, ii. 236, et seq.
Wits, anguish, as well as laughter, caused
by, ii. 207

Wolsey. Cardinal, grandeur of his pageants
as Chancellor, i. 121; his sittings in
Chancery, i. 122 (note); memorable pro-
gresses of, i. 178; his displeasure at a
play by Serjeant Roo at Gray's Inn, ii.
54; necessity of a new law university
acknowledged by, ii. 177; scholastic
functions discharged by, ii. 282 (note);
lavish expense of his kitchens, ii. 290;
a patron of letters, ii. 373
Wood, Baron, time and place of his death,
i. 204

Wood, George, famous Special Pleader,
good story told by Campbell of, i. 148;
eminent pupils of, ii. 277; his adven-
ture with a highwayman, ib.
Woolsack, the, what it is, i. 42
Wreathcock, a base attorney, his venal
"gang" of professional witnesses, ii.
360; poetical lines alluding to, ib.
Wright, Sir George, addicted to wine, ii. 301
Wright, Bob (afterwards Chief Justice

the bags in which the Great Seals were
kept, 65
"Rolliad," the, lines on the discovery of the
theft of the seals from Lord Thurlow's
house, by a contributor to, i. 50
Rolls, the Mastership of, price said to
have been paid by Sir Harbottle Grim-
stone for, i. 187; Archbishop Laud's
view of the value of the office, i. 314;
its purchase by Sir Charles Cæsar, ib.
Romilly, Sir Samuel, his origin, ii. 140;
his witty remark in reference to Lord
Eldon's penuriousness, ii. 298; his
curious statement as to Erskine's fond-
ness for animals, ii. 299; his delight in
literature, ii. 377 (note), and ii. 378
Roo, Serjeant, Wolsey satirized in a
masque by, ii. 54

Rose, Sir George, court witticisms of, ii.
227; lines on the removal of certain
trees in Lincoln's Inn Garden by, ii. 327
Rosslyn, the Earl of, see Wedderburn,
Alexander

Royalists, the opinion that soldiers were
fit occupants of judicial posts maintained
by, i. 84

Ruff, the, the question as to the origin of,
i. 378

66

Rump," the, the new Great Seal of, i. 38;
destruction of the seal used by, i. 39; its
seal acknowledged by Charles II., i. 41;
their Great Seal used by Royalists, i. 63
Russell, John, Bishop of Lincoln, letter
from the Protector Richard to, i. 217
Russell, Mr. William, Deputy Surveyor of
Newcastle, amusing misunderstanding
of testimony borne by, ii. 261
Russell Square, its quasi-fashionable re-

pute, i. 203; names of lawyers asso-
ciated with, ib. and i. 204.
Ryder, Chief Justice, his origin, ii. 140;
poetical version of a judicial decision of,
ii. 221; his pompous equipage, i. 155;
misunderstanding relating to the trans-
ference of his state carriage, i. 156; a
plodding lawyer, ii. 333; honour of he-
reditary nobility just missed by, ii. 337;
his sudden death, ii. 338; a peerage
honourably won by his son, ib.

"Sagrir, or Doomsday Draweth Nigh," a
curious work of the 17th century against
lawyers, i. 321

Salisbury, Cecil, Earl of, his character of
lawyers in the time of James I., ii. 313
St. John, Oliver, his military services to
the monarchy, i. 88

St. John, Lord, his comical trouble during
Term," ii. 246

66

"Sally," word used by Roger North, re-
marks on it, i. 134 (note)
Sarsfield the Raptor, cause célèbre occa-
sioned by him, ii. 312

Saunders, Chief Justice, his early life,
education, habits, and acquirements, ii.
138 (note); Roger North's account of
his manner of putting cases to students,
ii. 184; a confirmed sot, ii. 301
Saxons, the, the attestations of deeds by,
i. 24

Scandal, the Edmunds, gratifying termi-
nation of, i. 317 (note)

Scarlett, discreditable mode by which he
gained his ascendancy over Lord Tenter-
den, ii. 319

Sceaux, Garde de, origin of the appella-
tion in France, i. 33

Scotland, anecdotes illustrative of the ad-
ministration of justice in, ii. 213
Scott, Sir Walter, his opinion of Lord
Erskine, i. 102; good story told by, ii.
319; repulsive tradition communicated
by Lord Webb Seymour to, i. 338; bal-
lad written on preceding tradition by,
i. 339

Scott, John, Lord Eldon, an heirloom of,
i. 42; strange adventure of the Great
Seal held by, i. 55; commissions signed
without the sanction of the king by, i.
57; transition of the seals to, i. 70; his
first London residences, i. 100; attack
of the Gordon rioters on him and his
wife, i. 101; story of the Gordon riots
from the Anecdote Book of, i. 102 (note);
repulsion of the Corn Law rioters by,
and Lord Wellington's polite approval
of his tactics, i. 106; his adventure on
the Northern Circuit, i. 106 (note); his
criminal practice, i. 107 (note); one of
the Lincoln's Inn volunteers, i. 109;
finest sight seen by, and letter written
in reference to it, i. 110; his irritation
at Erskine's triumph in the trials of
Hardy, Horne Tooke, and Thelwall, i.
153; a bad rider, i. 153, 154; his
pursuit of Bessie Surtees on horseback,
i. 154; anecdote of his first excursion
with the North Circuiteers, ib.; anec-
dote of his journey from Newcastle to
London, i. 157; his unseemly economy

its surrender by women, i. 75; held by
Eleanor of Provence, ib. ; a republican
officer's proposal for the keeping of it, i.
84

Seals, Great, of Edward III. i. 35; of
Henry VIII. i. 36; of James I. i. 37;
of Charles I. ib.; of the Parliament, i.
38; of the Rump, ib. ; of Charles II.
i. 41; of George III. i. 42; of Richard
I. i. 44; of James II. ib. ; of William
and Mary, i. 45; of William III. ib. ;
of Queen Victoria, i. 65; of Philip and
Mary, ib.; of Elizabeth, ib. ; of the
Lord Protector Somerset, ib.
Sealing, the practice of, i. 20; its im-
portance in ages when writing was an
accomplishment acquired by few, i. 21;
protection against forgery by, i. 22, 23;
Norman practice of attesting deeds by,
i. 24

Sealing-wax, time of its invention, and

difficulty, in former days, of procuring
a supply of, i. 23; the earliest letter
sealed by, ib.

"Sell," remark on Shakspeare's use of the

word, i. 134 (note)

Sempstresses, Ned Ward's account of their

occupation in Westminster Hall, ii. 356
Serjeants-at-Law, ridiculous account of
the origin of the robes worn by, i. 280
(note); Fortescue on admission to the
state or degree of, and on the distin-
guishing sign of, i. 367; the wig now
worn by, i. 369; diminution in the
number of, ii. 6; distinctive badge of,
ib. (note); condition of their creation
in olden times, ii. 181 (note); sale of
legal opinions in St. Paul's Churchyard
by, ii. 310; their contumacious de-
meanour to Chief Justice Sir James
Mansfield, ii. 313; salutation of the
judges at the beginning of each new
term to, ii. 366; lines from Chaucer
in reference to curious customs of, ib.
(note); their ancient dignity and splen-
dour, ib. (note); variations in their
power and prosperity, ii. 367 (note);
pleasantries addressed to, and Dickens'
inimitable caricature of, ii. 368 (note)
Sermons, Assize, complaints of the cor-
ruption of the bench and bar, in the
time of Charles I., in, i. 314
Settlement, the act of, judges placed above
the caprice of the crown by, i. 94
Seymour, Speaker, capture of Serjeant
Pemberton by, ii. 361

Shaftesbury, Earl of, see Cooper, Anthony
Ashley

Shakspeare, probability that law was
studied by, ii. 379

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, many mots
wrongly ascribed to, ii. 205; his pun-
gent reply to Edward Law's attempt
to ridicule one of his rhetorical speeches,
ii. 240; service rendered to Parliamen-
tary reporters by, ii. 372

Sheriffs, great burden to, i. 309; their
official expenditure at different periods,
&c., ii. 269; parsimony of one reproved
by Sir William Gascoyne, ii. 270; lines
from "A Northern Circuit" in praise
of a munificent holder of the office, ii.
272

Shields, John, excellent song by, ii. 275
Shore, Jane, her husband's pride in her
beauty, i. 212; Edward IV.'s courtship
of, ib.; her temptation and flight, ii.
213; her conduct at court, ib.; Sir
Thomas More's panegyric at court on,
i. 214; the usurper Richard's con-
temptible prosecution of, ib.; her
public penance, i. 215; Sir Thomas
More's remarks on the cruel persecution
of, i. 216; Solicitor-General Lynom
captivated by, and the Protector
Richard's letter on his proposed mar-
riage to her, i. 217; her life after her
deliverance from prison, and Sir
Thomas More's account of her in old
age, i. 218; exaggerations of ballad
poetry respecting, i. 219: chap-books
and ballads founded on the history of,
i. 220

Shoreditch, false derivation of the name,
and its true origin, i. 218

Silk Gowns, recent liberality in the dis
tribution of, ii. 4; occasionally ex-
changed for bombazine, or laid aside by
eminent counsel, ii. 7; conferred on
many young men, ii. 9; anecdote re-
specting one, ib. (note)

Silvester, Sir John, an Old Bailey Judge,
victim, under very ridiculous circum-
stances, of a thief, ii. 200
Skull-caps, use in former days of, i. 287;
how and when they were worn, i. 371
Sloane, Sir Hans, his museum, and how
it came into his possession, ii. 347
Sloper, Colonel, client gained by William
Murray's brilliant speech for, i. 174
Small v. Attwood, the advocate underpaid
by a large fee in the case of, i. 300
Smith, Father (Bernard Schmidt), organs
built in England by, ii. 34; his rivals,
ib.

Society, modern, the sub-division of labour
in, i. 77

Societies, law debating, in the 17th cen-
tury, ii. 190; distinguished lawyers
who practised elocution at, ii. 192