_Peine forte et dure_, 12 Pepys, Samuel, 4 Pickersgill, M.P., on prisoner giving evidence, 196 Pickwick, and imprisonment for debt, 45, 47 Piers Plowman, on debt, 75; on law and poor, 172, 173; on lawyers, 188 Police courts, abolition of fines, 297 Poor law, 271-284; Royal Commission, report of, 272; in time of Elizabeth, 276; in eighteenth century, 276; in 1834, 277; general mixed workhouses, 278-284 Poor man's lawyer, necessity of, 184-187 Poor Prisoners Defence Act, 194-197 _Priestley_ v. _Fowler_, 76-79 Procedure and the poor, 172-188 Public houses, 252-270. _And see_ Licensing. Railway Conciliation Boards, and their working, 111, 112 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 1, 3 _Regina_ v. _Thomas Hall_, 129 Registrars of County Courts and private practice, 72, 73 "Reformatio Legum Ecclesasticarum, The," 125 Ridley, Sir Matthew White, on workmen's compensation, 87 Rivers Pollution Acts, 248 Roe, Gilbert, author of "Our Judicial Oligarchy," 86, 94 Rogues and Vagabonds, 4-7 Ruskin, John, 108 Sabbatarianism, evils of, 215 Salford quarter sessions in 1824, 17 Salisbury, Earl of, 244, 245 Schuster, Dr., on German system of debt collecting, 71 Scold, common, trial and punishment of, 235 Scots divorce, 126 Scott, Sir William, 15 _Seisachtheia, The_, 29 Selden, John, on marriage contract, 150 Shop lifting by ladies, 204 Sims, George R., his "How the Poor Live," 242, 243 _Sittlichkeit_, 66 Slums, legislation against, 236 Smith, Judge Lumley, on divorce costs, 148, 149 Smith, Rev. Sidney, on prisoners' right to counsel, 190, 191; on prisoners' inability to give evidence, 192 Smith, Sir A. L., Master of the Rolls, on workmen's compensation, 89 Smollett, 9, 42 Snowden, Philip, M.P., and the living wage, 109; on strikes, 111 Socrates, on thirst, 255 Solicitors, speculative, 175 Solon, and imprisonment for debt, 27-31 Starkie, Sir Thomas, 17 Stephen, Mr. Justice, decision in telephone case, 82 Stipendiary magistrates, want of in country, 223; necessary in interests of justice, 231 Sumner, Lord, 180, 181 Swift, on lawyers, 181, 182 Taylor, Jeremy, his prayer for debtors, 75 Teetotallers, persecution of licence holders by, 259; their ideals, 260; Charles Kingsley's views of, 264-266, 270 Telephone, legal position of, 82, 83 Tennant, Mrs., report on divorce, 136 Thackeray, on prisoner giving evidence, 193 Torrens Act, 1868, 241 Treasury fees on Administration Orders, exorbitancy of, 121-124, 298 Twelve Tables, The, 32 Tyburn, 7, 15, 16 Vinogradoff, Professor, 84 Warrington, Harry, imprisonment for debt, 45, 46 Webb, Mrs. Sidney, her report on poor law, 280 Weston, Richard, trial of, 11, 12 Whipping, punishment of, 6-9, 209-212 Witchcraft, 100 Workhouses, 271-284. _And see_ Poor Law.