=2. 8. 102 your bond Of Sixe; and Statute of eight hundred!= I. e., of six, and eight hundred pounds. ‘Statutes merchant, statutes staple, and recognizances in the nature of a statute staple were acknowledgements of debt made in writing before officers appointed for that purpose, and enrolled of record. They bound the lands of the debtor; and execution was awarded upon them upon default in payment without the ordinary process of an action. These securities were originally introduced for the encouragement of trade, by providing a sure and speedy remedy for the recovery of debts between merchants, and afterwards became common assurances, but have now become obsolete.’--S. M. Leake, _Law of Contracts_, p. 95. Two of Pecunia’s attendants in _The Staple of News_ are _Statute_ and _Band_ (i. e. Bond, see _U._ 34). The two words are often mentioned together. In Dekker’s _Bankrouts Banquet_ (_Non-dram. Wks._ 3. 371) statutes are served up to the bankrupts. Trains is evidently trying to impress Fitzdottrel with the importance of Merecraft’s transactions. ACT III. =3. 1. 8 Innes of Court.= ‘The four Inns of Court, Gray’s Inn, Lincoln’s Inn, the Inner, and the Middle Temple, have alone the right of admitting persons to practise as barristers, and that rank can only be attained by keeping the requisite number of terms as a student at one of those Inns.’--Wh-C. Jonson dedicates _Every Man out of his Humor_ ‘To the Noblest Nurseries of Humanity and Liberty in the Kingdom, the Inns of Court.’ =3. 1. 10 a good man.= Gifford quotes _Merch. of Ven._ 1. 3. 15: ‘My meaning in saying he is a good man, is, to have you understand me, that he is sufficient.’ Marston, _Dutch Courtesan_, _Wks._ 2. 57. uses the word in the same sense. =3. 1. 20 our two Pounds, the Compters.= The London Compters or Counters were two sheriff’s prisons for debtors, etc., mentioned as early as the 15th century. In Jonson’s day they were the Poultry Counter and the Wood Street Counter. They were long a standing joke with the dramatists, who seem to speak from a personal acquaintance with them. Dekker (_Roaring Girle_, _Wks._ 3. 189) speaks of ‘Wood Street College,’ and Middleton (_Phoenix_, _Wks._ 1. 192) calls them ‘two most famous universities’ and in another place ‘the two city hazards, Poultry and Wood Street.’ Jonson in _Every Man in_ (_Wks._ 1. 42) speaks of them again as ‘your city pounds, the counters’, and in _Every man out_ refers to the ‘Master’s side’ (_Wks_. 2. 181) and the ‘two-penny ward,’ the designations for the cheaper quarters of the prison. =3. 1. 35 out of rerum natura.= _In rerum natura_ is a phrase used by Lucretius 1. 25. It means, according to the _Stanford Dictionary_, ‘in the nature of things, in the physical universe.’ In some cases it is practically equivalent to ‘in existence.’ Cf. _Sil. Wom._, _Wks._ 3. 382: ‘Is the bull, bear, and horse, in _rerum natura_ still?’