the last Chief Justice who went in
procession to Westminster, i. 126; his
inability to ride, and accident on the
Oxford circuit to, i. 140; his rural
villa at Hendon, i. 190; his poetical
talent, and respect for his wife's artis-
tic powers, i. 273; his professional re-
ceipts in 1807, i. 301; the last Chief
Justice who wore his official costume in
the House of Lords, i. 376; his failure in
obtaining the place of a chorister at
Canterbury, ii. 42; his subsequent
career, ii. 43; anecdote of a serjeant
acting as his deputy, ii. 217; Lord
Campbell's testimony to his ability as
Attorney-General of the Grand Court of
his circuit, ii. 274 (note); enlightened
as to the thraldom in which he was held
by Scarlett, ii. 318; anecdote of, ii. 328;
Sir Peter Laurie's awkward reference
to his humble origin, ii. 331; a poor
speaker, ii. 333; his dying words, ii. 344
Aberdeen, arbitrary execution of a Lord
Provost of, ii. 214

Adams, Serjeant, conclusion of his last
judicial address, ii. 209 (note)
Addison, his description of superfluous
members of the bar, and of the Tem-
plar, ii. 358 (note)

Admiralty, the Lords of, site of the offices
previously occupied by, i. 182
Adolphus, Mr., criminal advocate, his
admirable retort to Scarlett, ii. 318
Advocates, comparison of their art with
that of the actor, ii. 46
Advocates, Scotch, the incomes made by,
i. 295; head-costume of, and adoption
of wigs by, i. 373

Albert, Prince, a member of the Bar, ii.

83

Alderson, Baron, witticisms of, ii. 237;
his rejoinder to a man convicted of
swindling, ii. 393

Temple, fed by, ii. 350

Anglia, East, proverbial for the number
of its illustrious judges and advocates,
ii. 232 (note)

Anglo-Saxons, the study of Norman-
French by, ii. 150

Anne, Queen, a lord-keeper ordered to
assume the full-bottomed wig by, i.
371; Ned Ward's account of the lower
legal practitioners in the time of, i. 381
Apsley, Baron, Lord Chancellor, see
Bathurst

Apsley House, its site and founder, i. 30,

192

Arden, Richard Pepper, Lord Alvanley,
Thurlow's habitual insolence to, ii.
209; record in the book of the Grand
Court of his circuit against, ii. 275
Argyll, the Duke of, Lord Justice General
of Scotland, infamous conviction at a
trial presided over by, ii. 214
Assize-Balls, the chief events of country -
town life, i. 144

Attorneys, law students in the offices of,
ii. 197; Dr. Johnson's satirical remarks
on one, ii. 319; their position under
the Plantagenets and succeeding Eng-
lish monarchs, ii. 320; reduction of
their number in the time of Henry VIII.,
ib. note; their exclusion from the
Houses of Court in the reign of Charles I.,
ii. 321; Bishop Earle's satirical sketch
of one, ib.; Bishop Earle's distinction
of barristers from, ii. 322; those of the
Commonwealth, ii. 323; the relations
of those practising in London with their
country brethren, ib.; their fall in
public esteem after the Revolution of
'88, ii. 325; the usual instructors of
Inns of Court men, ii. 326; Roger
North's account of the increased law
business transacted by, ib.; a good
story of one, and song founded on it,

ii. 327; assumption of the title of
solicitor by, ii. 328; one of the last
evidences of the old prejudice against,
ib.; an advantage enjoyed by barristers
over, ii. 329; deficiency in mental cul-
ture of those of last century, ii. 382;
the position, duty, and education of
their apprentices, ib.; value of legal
training in the offices of, ii. 383 (note)
Attorney-General, the, permission to sit
in Parliament granted to, ii. 103 (note);
a cruel answer given to a country solici-
tor by one, ii. 211
Aubrey, John, the antiquary, his curious
statement regarding the early life of
Chief Justice Popham, i. 337
Audley, Lord Chancellor, his town man-
sion, i. 179

BACHELOR, the, his objectless exist-

ence, 268

Bacon, Francis, Lord, his progress from
Gray's Inn to Westminster, i. 122; his
Essay on Love, and constructions put
on it, i. 230 (note); his sentimental in-
tercourse with his cousin, i. 231; re-
jection of his suit by his cousin, dir
William Hatton's widow, i. 232; his
union with Alice Barnham, i. 235;
reason of his desire for a title, i. 236;
his marriage not a mercenary one, ib.;
Hepworth Dixon's account of his mar-
riage, i. 237; his salary and fees as
Attorney-General, i. 282; his love of
rich clothes, i. 360; his status as a
barrister, ii. 5; his love of music, ii.
31; secret of his success, and of that
of his father, ii. 99; commencement of
his terms at Gray's Inn, ii. 170; a good
saying of, ii. 203 (note); anecdote of
one of his incapable clerical successors,
ii. 246; his pompous hospitality in
York House, ii. 292; dinner given to
the judges by, ii. 293; his elevation
the reward of years of labour, ii. 314
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, return to Elizabeth
of the Great Seals held by, i. 65; two
residences of, i. 186; new law university
projected by, ii. 177; several happy
speeches of, ii. 201; apocryphal stories
relating to, ii. 202; story of his fatal
attack of cold, ib.

Bag, the Lawyer's, ii. 1; change in the
colour of, ii. 2; formerly a mark of
distinction, ib.; Lord Campbell on the
presentation of, ii. 3; Chancery and
Common Law customs with reference to,
ib.; questions to be settled relating to, ib.
Bagman, a Manchester, Erskine's exami-
nation of, ii. 254

Baker, Mr., Solicitor in Chancery, his
singular integrity, ii. 323

Bands, when first worn by Englishmen, i.
377; Peacham on the extravagance of
the fashion in, ib.; Taylor, the Water
Poet, on those worn by the fops
of Charles I.'s reign, i. 378, various
fashions of, ib.; those worn in the
time of Charles I., Charles II., and at
the present day, i. 379, 380; White-
lock's testimony respecting their adop-
tion by the Bar, ib.; trade in West-
minster Hall in, i. 381

Bar, the, etiquette of, i. 298; anecdote,
told by Roger North, illustrative of its
rapacious dishonesty in the time of
Charles II., i. 328; bands slowly adopted
by, i. 379 (note); costume and toilet of
the leading members of, ii. 6; mourning
costume of, ii. 9; its comparative purity
under Elizabeth and Victoria, ii. 95
(note); erroneous opinion concerning the
members of, ii. 137; its members in
the 17th and 18th centuries, ii. 138;
humble origin of several distinguished
members of, ii. 137, 140; liberal access
for men of all ranks to, ii. 141; num-
bers called at different periods to, ii.
158; preparatory course of study for,
i. 178; the etiquette of, ii. 310, et seq.;
rarity of sudden success at, ii. 314;
young men, in former times, not ex-
pected to hold leading positions at, ib. ;
means by which sudden success was
achieved in Charles II.'s time, at, ib. ;
reflections on progress at, ii. 315; bad
profession for a poor man, ii. 331;
eminent equity counsel's opinion as to
the causes of failure at, ii. 332; success
not generally achieved by merely showy
parts at, ii. 333; non-professional edu-
cation in the present day of, ii. 384;
value of university education as a train-
ing for, ib.; absorption of able young
men from the Universities by, ib.
Bar, the Common Law, present of a bag
a mark of success at, i. 142
Bar, the Chancery, bags carried by mem-
bers of, ii. 3

Bar, the Parliamentary, fees taken by the
leaders of, i. 299

Bar, the Elizabethan, its humour and
quickness, ii. 203 (note)

Bar, the Australian, remarkable speech of
a counsel at, ii. 255

Bar, the Irish, cause of the number of
early successes at, ii. 314 (note)
Bar, the junior, the life of assize balls, i.

145

Bar, the, in Westminster Hall, ii. 355

Barnard's Inn, a law school dependent on
Gray's Inn, ii. 131; allowance of wine
for the ceremony of initiation at, ii. 305;
once popular with attorneys, ii. 321 (note)
Barristers, their travelling etiquette on
circuit, i. 139; posting a disagreeable
and expensive process to, i. 140; their
petty squabbles on circuit, i. 141; their
married life in past and present days,
i. 164, 168; sources of recreation in the
old system of life for, i. 170; situation
of their wives in chambers, i. 174; dif-
ficulties and expense of marriage in the
present day to, i. 267; why they don't
marry when young, i. 269; their fees
at different periods, i. 275, et seq.; dif-
ficulty of estimating their prosperity
in past times, i. 276; their payment
compared with the remuneration of
physicians, i. 297; adoption of the
wig by, i. 366, 372; the custom of
wearing wigs in society discontinued
by, i. 374; sums paid in 17th century
for gowns by, ii. 10; their ordinary
career in England, ii. 89; their ambi-
tion to enter Parliament, ib.; their
number in the 17th and 18th centuries,
ii. 141; the utter and inner, ii. 177
(note); the circuit life of, ii. 263; cus-
tom incumbent, in the time of Charles
II., on, ii. 270; intervention of at-
torneys not formerly deemed necessary
by, ii. 312; their professional tone in
past times, ii. 313; license allowed, in
the 17th century, to, ii. 314; their
professional rise at different periods, ii.
315; biographic fictions respecting, ib.;
means formerly used to push themselves
into practice by, ii. 316; their extreme
obsequiousness to the bench in the 17th
century, ib.; acted under Edward I. as
attorneys, ii. 320; their ungenerous
conduct to attorneys after the Revolu-
tion of '88, ii. 325; encroachment of
attorneys upon the business of, ii. 326;
advantage over attorneys enjoyed by, ii.
329; accommodation in Westminster
Hall for, ii. 355; amusing replies by
witnesses to, ii. 356
Barrister, a distinguished, painful scandal
concerning, i. 142

Barristers, literary, disappearance of the
prejudices against, ii. 398
Barrister, the briefless, income necessary
in olden times, and in the present day
to, ii. 174

Barrister, the Singing, his professional
failure, ii. 27

Barristers, Chamber, large incomes made
by, i. 300

Barrow, Sir James, his objection to the
discontinuance of Law Latin in pleading,
ii. 156, (note)

Bathurst, the Honourable Henry (Baron
Apsley and Earl Bathurst), his appoint-
ment as Lord Chancellor, and anecdotes
of, i. 30; celebrated mansion built by,
and action commenced by a soldier's
widow against, ib.; his conduct on the
trial of Lady Kingston, i. 31; Sir
Charles Williams's lines, suggested by
his judicial perplexities and blunders,
on, ii. 247

Bawdon, Sir John, a wealthy merchant
and alderman, his serious blunder in
rejecting the suit of a lawyer for his
daughter, i. 248

Bayley, Mr. Justice, remark of the French
advocate on, ii. 233; anecdote illustra-
tive of the characteristic courtesy of,
ii. 386 (note)

Beauchamp, William de, Dugdale's quaint
description of his interview with his
lawyers, i. 276

Beaufort, Cardinal, union cf political and
ecclesiastical greed in, i. 275; ii. 93
Beaumont and Fletcher, mask written for
the Inns of Court by, ii. 75
Becket, Thomas à, Chancellor, his de-
gradation from his saintly rank, ii. 282
Bedford, the Duke of, his house in Blooms-
bury-square, i. 197

Bedford Square, Lord Eldon's house in,
and the Prince Regent's visits to it, i.
200

Bedingfield, Sir Henry, Chief Justice of
the Court of Common Pleas, Narcissus
Luttrell's notice on the sudden death
of, ii. 336 (note)

Bell, Jockey, famous Chancery pleader,
anecdote told by Lord Campbell re-
specting, ii. 376 (note)

Bench and Bar, the, prevalence of cor-
ruption among the members of, i. 314;
want of integrity once prevalent among
them, ii. 309; reprehensible tone long
assumed by them, ii. 313

Bendlowes, Serjeant, observations of the
author of "Law and Lawyers' respect-
ing, i. 280 (note); the only barrister
of the rank of serjeant at the beginning
of Elizabeth's reign, ii. 368 (note)
Bentham, Jeremy, his reminiscence of a
celebrated scene on the bench, ii. 234
Bethel, Sheriff, how the author of the

"Examen" threw contempt on, i. 367
Bigamist, a convicted, amusing judicial
address to, ii. 393

Biography, legal, an important lesson
taught by, ii. 331