CONTENTS:--Under Watch and Ward--Under Lock and Key--The Practice of Pledging--The Minstrel in the Olden Time--Curious Landholding Customs--Curiosities of Slavery in England--Buying and Selling in the Olden Time--Curious Fair Customs--Old Prejudices against Coal--The Sedan Chair--Running Footmen--The Early Days of the Umbrella--A Talk about Tea--Concerning Coffee--The Horn Book--Fighting Cocks in Schools--Bull Baiting--The Badge of Poverty--Patents to wear Nightcaps--A Foolish Fashion--Wedding Notices in the Last Century--Selling Wives--The Story of the Tinder Box--The Invention of Friction matches--Body Snatching--Christmas under the Commonwealth--Under the Mistletoe Bough--A carefully prepared Index. "We welcome 'Bygone England.' It is another of Mr. Andrews' meritorious achievements in the path of popularising archaeological and old time information without in any way writing down to an ignoble level."--_The Antiquary._ "A delightful volume for all who love to dive into the origin of social habits and customs, and to penetrate into the byways of history."--_Liverpool Daily Post._ "There is a large mass of information in this capital volume, and it is so pleasantly put that many will be tempted to study it. Mr. Andrews has done his work with great skill."--_London Quarterly Review._ Elegantly Bound in Cloth Gilt, Demy 8vo., 7s. 6d. THE LAWYER in HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND HUMOUR, Edited by WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S. CONTENTS. Introduction--Law Amongst Primitive Races--Ivo, Saint and Lawyer--Benefit of Clergy--Chaucer's Man of Law--The Law in Shakespeare--Revels at the Inns of Court--The Law in Scott--Dickens' Lawyers--Literary Lawyers--The Law in Rhyme--Fighting Lawyers--The Costume of the Law--Curious Circuit Customs--The Last Execution for Witchcraft--Curious Legal Facts, Customs, and Fictions--People in the Pillory--Amenities of the Bench and the Bar--Curiosities of the Witness Box--The Law and Laughter--Lawyers and Eloquence--Sealed and Delivered--A carefully compiled Index. It will be gathered from the foregoing list of contents that the volume is one of unusual interest and value. The work may be read with pleasure and profit, and merits a place in the reference library. PRESS OPINIONS "A welcome addition to the lighter literature of the law."--_The Times._ "A considerable amount of historical and literary information."--_Daily News._ "An entertaining work. It is rich in the lore and the humour of the law, and ought to be as interesting to the layman as to the lawyer."--_The Globe._ "An entertaining volume."--_Manchester Guardian._ "A handsome volume.... The work is printed and got up in a style that does credit to the well-known firm of publishers."--_Chester Courant._ "Deserves to be placed amongst the best English books of reference."--_Stockport Advertiser._ "It is a repository of many entertaining, useful, and surprising facts, the result of considerable research."--_Birmingham Daily Gazette._