"The contents of the volume are extremely entertaining, and convey not a little information on ancient ideas and habits of life. While members of the legal profession will turn to the work for incidents with which to illustrate an argument or point a joke, laymen will enjoy its vivid descriptions of old-fashioned proceedings and often semi-barbaric ideas to obligation and rectitude."--_Dundee Advertiser._ "The subjects chosen are extremely interesting, and contain a quantity of out-of-the-way and not easily accessible information.... Very tastefully printed and bound."--_Birmingham Daily Gazette._ "The book is handsomely got up; the style throughout is popular and clear, and the variety of its contents, and the individuality of the writers gave an added charm to the work."--_Daily Free Press._ "The book is interesting both to the general reader and the student."--_Cheshire Notes and Queries._ "Those who care only to be amused will find plenty of entertainment in this volume, while those who regard it as a work of reference will rejoice at the variety of material, and appreciate the careful indexing."--_Dundee Courier._ "Very interesting subjects, lucidly and charmingly written. The versatility of the work assures for it a wide popularity."--_Northern Gazette._ "A happy and useful addition to current literature."--_Norfolk Chronicle._ "The book is a very fascinating one, and it is specially interesting to students of history as showing the vast changes which, by gradual course of development have been brought about both in the principles and practice of the law."--_The Evening Gazette._ Transcriber's Notes: Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. Punctuation has been corrected without note. The following misprints have been corrected: "Thackerey" corrected to "Thackeray" (page 87) "improptu" corrected to "impromptu" (page 87) "access" corrected to "excess" (page 112) Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.