quarterly paid me by him, I found myself easyd of so many cares and discontents as I may well account that the 27th day of June foregoing the first day of my outward happiness since the decease of my dearest mother." All things considered, a bachelor in James I.'s London with a clear income of L100 per annum was on the whole as well off for his time as a young barrister of the present day would be with an annual allowance of L250 or L300. Francis North, when a student, was allowed only L60 per annum; and as soon as he was called and began to earn a little money, his parsimonious father reduced the stipend by L10; but, adds Roger North, "to do right to his good father, he paid him that fifty pounds a year as long as he lived, saying he would not discourage industry by rewarding it, when successful, with less." George Jeffreys, in his student-days, smarted under a still more galling penury, for he was allowed only L50 a year, L10 being for his clothes, and L40 for the rest of his expenditure. In the following century the nominal incomes of law-students rose in proportion as the wealth of the country increased and the currency fell in value. In George II.'s time a young Templar expected his father to allow him L150 a year, and on encouragement would spend twice that amount in the same time. Henry Fielding's allowance from General Fielding was L200 per annum; but as he said, with a laugh, he had too feeling and dutiful a nature to press an affectionate father for money which he was totally unable to pay. At the present time L150 per annum is about the smallest sum on which a law-student can live with outward decency; and L250 per annum the lowest amount on which a chamber barrister can live with suitable dignity and comfort. If he has to maintain the expenses of a distant circuit Mr. Briefless requires from L100 to L200 more. Alas! how many of Mr. Briefless's meritorious and most ornamental kind are compelled to shift on far less ample means! How many of them periodically repeat the jest of poor A----, who made this brief and suggestive official return to the Income Tax Commissioners--"I am totally dependent on my father, who allows me--nothing!" CHAPTER XXXVII. READERS AND MOOTMEN.