abuse. God forbid that my eloquence should eve be made use of for such a purpose." WIGS AND GOWNS. At the Summer Assizes at Lancaster in 1819, Mr. Scarlett having hurried into court without his wig and gown, apologized to the Judge, and expressed a hope that the time would shortly come, when these mummeries would be entirely discarded. In accordance with this wish, all the counsel appeared the next day in court without the usual professional badges of wisdom. This change of fashion lasted but for a day; and the wig-maker has still as important a share as ever, in making foolish faces wise, and wise faces foolish. INDEX. ANECDOTES OF THE BAR. 55 Apology, a good Bar, Independence of the.. 162 Breach of Promise of Mar- 32 142 Garrick at Law.. By-standers, right of........ 109 Hale, Judge Charles 1., trial of Clarendon, Lord,. 130 ....... Hanging Judge. ... ........ Hardship of Arrest .... Church, the, and the Bar.... 136 Horne Tooke... Coke.. and Bacon .... 121 Humane Juryman 3 6 Common Sense,v. Black Letter 168 Counsel and Witnesses Ingenuity Baffled. Practice, old John Doe and Richard Roe.. 137 85 58 Court, being covered in...... Coventry Act, the... Covetousness requited Crosbie, Andrew .......... Crying Lawyer ..... Curran, rise of -, downfall of.. D'Aguessean 45 23 Law, the, and the Fact ...... 59 ... 120 Dauntless Advocate ........ 93 Ecclesiastical Oppression. 128 138 40 Erskine, Hon. Henry ........ Mackenzie, Sir George ... 119 Expectancy 119 Norbury, Lord .......... Female Advocate. 33 Overbury, Murder of Sir Finesse..... 38 Thomas, 92 |