E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Graeme Mackreth, and Project Gutenberg the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) 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 PART VI. AMATEUR THEATRICALS. XXVIII. ACTORS AT THE BAR 224 XXIX. "THE PLAY'S THE THING" 230 XXX. THE RIVER AND THE STRAND BY TORCHLIGHT 238 XXXI. ANTI-PRYNNE 243 XXXII. AN EMPTY GRATE 251 PART VII. LEGAL EDUCATION XXXIII. INNS OF COURT AND INNS OF CHANCERY 258 XXXIV. LAWYERS AND GENTLEMEN 265 XXXV. LAW-FRENCH AND LAW-LATIN 277