The Judges of England: With Sketches of Their Lives, and Miscellaneous Notices Connected with the Courts at Westminster, from the Time of the Conquest, Volumen7Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1864 |
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The Judges of England: With Sketches of of Their Lives and ..., Volumen7 Edward Foss Vista completa - 1864 |
The Judges of England: With Sketches of Their Lives, and ..., Volumen7 Edward Foss Vista de fragmentos - 1966 |
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Página 68 - Pollers of the people : these, like the frogs of Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarce a room free from them. They sup in our cup.
Página 161 - ... got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a staircase; and that was his desk where he sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business and earned some pence by hackney-writing. And thus by degrees he pushed his faculties and fell to forms, and, by books that were lent him, became an exquisite entering clerk; and by the same course of improvement of himself, an able counsel first in special pleading then...
Página 111 - ... that if the King could have found out an honester and fitter man for that employment, he would not have advanced him to it; and that he had therefore preferred him, because he knew none that deserved it so well.
Página 238 - When he was in temper, and matters indifferent came before him, he became his seat of justice better than any other I ever saw in his place.
Página 79 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the...
Página 34 - Powys, the junior of the batch, a day or two after their creation, he said " that he had something to say to him, viz. That the rings which he and the rest of the serjeants had given weighed but eighteen shillings a piece ; whereas Fortescue, in his Book De Laudibus Legum Angliae says, ' The rings given to the chief justice and to the chief baron ought to weigh twenty shillings...
Página 77 - Henry Viscount Cornbury, who was called up to the House of Peers by the title of Lord Hyde, in the lifetime of his father, Henry Earl of Rochester, by a codicil to his will, dated Aug.
Página 161 - by his troggs," (such a humorous way of talking he affected) " none could say he wanted issue of his body for he had nine in his back.
Página 161 - I remember) and courting the attorney's clerks for scraps. The extraordinary observance and diligence of the boy made the society willing to do him good. He appeared very ambitious to learn to write ; and one of the attornies got a board knocked up at a window...
Página 144 - Papers, 1660, p. 212; Gent. Mag. lii.69. Henry VIII., who derived his descent from the Norman baron of that name, a combatant on William's side at the battle of Hastings : but his connection with Robert Malet, one of the judges of the King's Bench in the reign of Edward I. cannot now be traced. The subject of this memoir was born about the year 1582, and took his legal degrees in the Middle Temple, entering that society on November 29, 1600, being called to the bar on November 7, 1606, and becoming...