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There are many stories of the smart repartee of white and coloured witnesses and prisoners appearing before American judges, but the most of them bear such strong evidence of newspaper staff manufacture as to be unworthy of more permanent record than the weekly "fill up" they were designed for. Of the more reputable we select a few.
Judge Emory Speer, of the southern district of Georgia, had before his Court a typical charge of illicit distilling. "What's your name?" demanded the eminent judge. "Joshua, jedge," drawled the prisoner. "Joshua who made the sun stand still?" smiled the judge, in amusement at the laconic answer. "No, sir. Joshua who made the moon shine," answered the quick-witted mountaineer. And it is needless to say that Judge Speer made the sentence as light as he possibly could, saying to his friends in telling the story that wit like that deserved some recompense.
A newly qualified judge in Tennessee was trying his first criminal case. The accused was an old negro charged with robbing a hen-coop. He had been in Court before on a similar charge, and was then acquitted. "Well, Tom," began the judge, "I see you're in trouble again."—"Yes, sah," replied the negro. "The last time, jedge, you was ma lawyer."—"Where is your lawyer this time?" asked the judge. "I ain't got no lawyer this time," answered Tom. "I'm going to tell the truth."
Judge M. W. Pinckney tells the story of a coloured man, Sam Jones by name, who was on trial at Dawson City, for felony. The judge asked Sam if he desired the appointment of a lawyer to defend him. "No, sah," Sam replied, "I'se gwine to throw myself on the ignorance of the cote."
A Southern lawyer tells of a case that came to him at the outset of his career, wherein his principal witness was a negro named Jackson, supposed to have knowledge of certain transactions not at all to the credit of his employer, the defendant. "Now, Jackson," said the lawyer, "I want you to understand the importance of telling the truth when you are put on the stand. You know what will happen, don't you, if you don't tell the truth?"—"Yessir," was Jackson's reply; "in dat case I expects our side will win de case."
When Senator Taylor was Governor of Tennessee, he issued a great many pardons to men and women confined in penitentiaries or jails in that State. His reputation as a "pardoning Governor" resulted in his being besieged by everybody who had a relative incarcerated. One morning an old negro woman made her way into the executive offices and asked Taylor to pardon her husband, who was in jail. "What's he in for?" asked the Governor. "Fo' nothin' but stealin' a ham," explained the wife. "You don't want me to pardon him," argued the Governor. "If he got out he would only make trouble for you again."—"'Deed I does want him out ob dat place!" she objected. "I needs dat man."—"Why do you need him?" inquired Taylor, patiently. "Me an' de chillun," she said, seriously, "needs another ham."
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Etiquette in the matter of dress was, in early days, of little or no consequence with American lawyers, especially in the Southern States. In South Carolina this neglect of the rigid observance of English rules on the part of Mr. Petigru, a well-known barrister, gave rise to the following passage between the Bench and the Bar.
"Mr. Petigru," said the judge, "you have on a light coat. You can't speak."
"May it please the Bench," said the barrister, "I conform strictly to the law. Let me illustrate. The law says the barrister shall wear a black gown and coat, and your honour thinks that means a black coat?"
"Yes," said the judge.
"Well, the law also says the sheriff shall wear a cocked hat and sword. Does your honour hold that the sword must be cocked as well as the hat?"
He was permitted to go on.
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In the United States, as elsewhere, the average juryman is not very well versed in the fine distinctions of the law. On these it is the judge's duty to instruct him. What guidance the jury got from the explanation of what constitutes murder is not quite clear to the lay mind, however satisfactory it may have appeared to the judge.
"Gentlemen," he stated, with admirable lucidity, "murder is where a man is murderously killed. The killer in such a case is a murderer. Now, murder by poison is just as much murder as murder with a gun, pistol, or knife. It is the simple act of murdering that constitutes murder in the eye of the law. Don't let the idea of murder and manslaughter confound you. Murder is one thing; manslaughter is quite another. Consequently, if there has been a murder, and it is not manslaughter, then it must be murder. Don't let this point escape you."
"Self-murder has nothing to do with this case. According to Blackstone and other legal writers, one man cannot commit felo-de-se upon another; and this is my opinion. Gentlemen, murder is murder. The murder of a brother is called fratricide; the murder of a father is called parricide, but that don't enter into this case. As I have said before, murder is emphatically murder."
"You will consider your verdict, gentlemen, and make up your minds according to the law and the evidence, not forgetting the explanation I have given you."
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There is a delightful frankness about the address submitted to the electors by a candidate who solicited their support for the position of sheriff in one of the provinces of the United States, but its honesty cannot be questioned:
"Gentlemen, I offer myself a candidate for sheriff; I have been a revolutionary officer; fought many bloody battles, suffered hunger, toil, heat; got honourable scars, but little pay. I will tell you plainly how I shall discharge my duty should I be so happy as to obtain a majority of your suffrages. If writs are put into my hands against any of you, I will take you if I can, and, unless you can get bail, I will deliver you over to the keeper of the gaol. Secondly, if judgments are found against you, and executions directed to me, I will sell your property as the law directs, without favour or affection; if there be any surplus money, I will punctually remit it. Thirdly, if any of you should commit a crime (which God forbid!) that requires capital punishment, according to law, I will hang you up by the neck till you are dead."
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Rufus Choate was designated the leader of the Massachusetts Bar—a distinctive title which long outlived him and marked the sense of esteem in which he was held by his brother lawyers, as well as indicating his outstanding ability and success.
In 1841 a divorce case was tried in America, and a young woman named Abigail Bell was the chief witness of the adultery of the wife. Sumner, for the defence, cross-examined Abigail. "Are you married?"—"No."—"Any children?"—"No."—"Have you a child?" Here there was a long pause, and then at last the witness feebly replied, "Yes." Sumner sat down with an air of triumph. Rufus Choate was advocate for the husband, who claimed the divorce, and after enlarging on other things, said, "Gentlemen, Abigail Bell's evidence is before you." Raising himself proudly, he continued, "I solemnly assert there is not the shadow of a shade of doubt or suspicion on that evidence or on her character." Everybody looked surprised, and he went on: "What though in an unguarded moment she may have trusted too much to the young man to whom she had pledged her untried affections; to whom she was to be wedded on the next Lord's Day; and who was suddenly struck dead at her feet by a stroke of lightning out of the heavens!" This was delivered with such tragic effect that Choate, majestically pausing, saw the jury had taken the cue, and he went on triumphantly to the end. He afterwards told his friends that he had a right to make any supposition consistent with the witness's innocence.
A client went to consult him as to the proper redress for an intolerable insult and wrong he had just suffered. He had been in a dispute with a waiter at the hotel, who in a paroxysm of rage and contempt told the client "to go to ——." "Now," said the client, "I ask you, Mr. Choate, as one learned in the law, and as my legal adviser, what course under these circumstances I ought to take to punish this outrageous insult." Choate looked grave, and told the client to repeat slowly all the incidents preceding this outburst, telling him to be careful not to omit anything, and when this was done Choate stood for a while as if in deep thought and revolving an abstruse subject; he then gravely said: "I have been running over in my head all the statutes of the United States, and all the statutes of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and all the decisions of all the judges in our Courts therein, and I may say that I am thoroughly satisfied that there is nothing in any of them that will require you to go to the place you have mentioned. And if you will take my advice then I say decidedly—don't go."
Choate defended a blacksmith whose creditor had seized some iron that a friend had lent him to assist in the business after a bankruptcy. The seizure of the iron was said to have been made harshly. Choate thus described it: "He arrested the arm of industry as it fell towards the anvil; he put out the breath of his bellows; he extinguished the fire upon his hearthstone. Like pirates in a gale at sea, his enemies swept everything by the board, leaving, gentlemen of the jury, not so much—not so much as a horseshoe to nail upon the doorpost to keep the witches off." The blacksmith, sitting behind, was seen to have tears in his eyes at this description, and a friend noticing it, said, "Why, Tom, what's the matter with you? What are you blubbering about?"—"I had no idea," said Tom in a whisper, "that I had been so abominably ab-ab-bused."
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A veteran member of the Baltimore Bar tells of an amusing cross-examination in a Court of that city. The witness seemed disposed to dodge the questions of counsel for the defence. "Sir," admonished the counsel sternly, "you need not tell us your impressions. We want facts. We are quite competent to form our own impressions. Now, sir, answer me categorically." From that time on he got little more than "yes" and "no" from the witness. Presently counsel asked: "You say that you live next door to the defendant."—"Yes."—"To the south of him?"—"No."—"To the north?"—"No."—"Well, to the east then?"—"No."—"Ah," exclaimed the counsel sarcastically, "we are likely now to get down to the one real fact. You live to the west of him, do you not?"—"No."—"How is that, sir?" the astounded counsel asked. "You say you live next door to the defendant, yet he lives neither north, south, east, or west of you. What do you mean by that, sir?" Whereupon the witness "came back." "I thought perhaps you were competent to form the impression that we lived in a flat," said the witness calmly; "but I see I must inform you that he lives next door above me."
In the Supreme Court of the United States the President interrupted counsel in the course of a long speech by saying: "Mr. Jones, you must give this Court credit for knowing something."—"That's all very well," replied the advocate (who came from a Western State), "but that's exactly the mistake I made in the Court below."
In a suit for damages against a grasping railway corporation for killing a cow, the attorney for the plaintiff, addressing the twelve Arkansas good men and true who were sitting in judgment, and on their respective shoulder-blades, said: "Gentlemen of the jury, if the train had been running as slow as it should have been ran, if the bell had been rung as it 'ort to have been rang, or the whistle had been blown as it 'ort to have been blew, none of which was did, the cow would not have been injured when she was killed."
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Although not strictly a story of either the Bench or the Bar of America, it is so pertinent to the latter that we cannot omit the following told by the Scottish clergyman, the late Dr. Gillespie of Mouswold, in his amusing collection of anecdotes.
A young American lady was his guest at the manse while a young Scottish advocate was spending a holiday in the neighbourhood. He was invited to dine at the manse, and took the young lady in to dinner, and kept teasing her in a lively, good-natured manner about American people and institutions, while it may be guessed his neighbour held her own, as most American girls are well able to do. At length the advocate asked, "Miss ——, have you any lawyers in America?" She knowing what profession he belonged to replied quick as thought, "Oh yes, Mr. ——, lots of lawyers. I've a brother a lawyer. Whenever we've a member of a family a bigger liar than another, we make him a lawyer."
A quaint decision was given by Judge Kimmel, of the Supreme Court at St. Louis, in an application for divorce by Mrs. Quan. The judge directed Patrick J. Egan, a policeman, to supervise the domestic affairs of the couple, and to visit their home daily for thirty days. After questioning the wife closely on her attitude towards her husband and his treatment of her, Egan wrote down for the wife's guidance a long array of precepts. Among these were the following:
"Don't remonstrate with your husband when he has been drinking. Wait until next morning. Then give him a cup of coffee for his headache. Afterwards lead him into the parlour, put your arms about him, and give him a lecture. It will have more weight with him than any number of quarrels.
"If he has to drink, let him have it at home.
"Avoid mothers-in-law. Don't let them live with you or interfere in your affairs.
"If you must have your own way, do not let your husband know you are trying to boss him. Have your own way by letting him think he is having his.
"Dress to suit your husband's taste and income. Husbands usually don't like their wives to wear tight dresses. Consult him on these matters.
"Don't be jealous or give your husband cause for jealousy.
"When your husband is in a bad humour, be in a good humour. It may be difficult, but it will pay."
The policeman-philosopher's precepts were duly printed, framed, and placed against the wall of the family sitting-room. After paying only fifteen of the thirty visits to the house directed by the judge, the results could not have been more gratifying. Mr. and Mrs. Quan were delighted, and presented the guide to martial bliss with a handsome token of their gratitude in the form of a gold watch.
Many of the droll sayings of the American Bench of past years are attributable to the fact that the judges were appointed by popular vote, and the successful candidate was not always a man of high attainments in the practice of his profession at the Bar, or of profound learning in the laws of his country. Too often he was a man of no better education than the mass of litigants upon whose causes he was called to adjudicate. For instance, a Kentuckian judge cut short a tedious and long-winded counsel by suddenly breaking into his speech with: "If the Court is right, and she thinks she air, why, then, you are wrong, and you knows you is. Shut up!"
"What are you reading from?" demanded Judge Dowling, who had in his earlier life been a fireman and later a police officer. "From the statutes of 1876, your honour," was the reply. "Well, you needn't read any more," retorted the judge; "I'm judge in this Court, and my statutes are good enough law for anybody." A codified law and precedent cases were of no account to this "equity" judge.
But these are mild instances of the methods of early American judges compared with the summing up of Judge Rodgers—Old Kye, as he was called—in an action for wrongful dismissal brought before him by an overseer. "The jury," said his honour, "will take notice that this Court is well acquainted with the nature of the case. When this Court first started in the world it followed the business of overseering, and if there is a business which this Court understands, it's hosses, mules, and niggers; though this Court never overseed in its life for less than eight hundred dollars. And this Court in hoss-racing was always naterally gifted; and this Court in running a quarter race whar the hosses was turned could allers turn a hoss so as to gain fifteen feet in a race; and on a certain occasion it was one of the conditions of the race that Kye Rodgers shouldn't turn narry of the hosses." Surely it must have been Old Kye who, upon taking his official seat for the first time, said: "If this Court know her duty, and she thinks she do, justice will walk over this track with her head and tail up."
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On a divorce case coming before a Western administrator of the law, Judge A. Smith, he thus addressed the plaintiff's counsel, who was awaiting the arrival of his opponent to open proceedings. "I don't think people ought to be compelled to live together when they don't want to do so. I will decree a divorce in this case." Thereupon they were declared to be no longer man and wife. At this juncture the defendant's counsel entered the Court and expressed surprise that the judge had not at least heard one side of the case, much less both sides, and protested against such over-hasty proceedings. But to all his protestations the judge turned a deaf ear; only informing him that no objections could now be raised after decree had been pronounced. "But," he added, "if you want to argue the case 'right bad,' the Court will marry the couple again, and you can then have your say out."
Breach of promise cases generally afford plenty of amusement to the public, both in the United States and Great Britain, but it is only in early American Courts that we hear of a judge adding to the hilarity by congratulating the successful party to the suit. A young American belle sued her faithless sweetheart, and claimed damages laid at one hundred dollars. The defendant pleaded that after an intimate acquaintance with the family, he found it was impossible to live comfortably with his intended mother-in-law, who was to take up residence with her daughter after the marriage, and he refused to fulfil his promise. "Would you rather live with your mother-in-law, or pay two hundred dollars?" inquired the judge. "Pay two hundred dollars," was the prompt reply. Said the judge: "Young man, let me shake hands with you. There was a time in my life when I was in the same situation as you are in now. Had I possessed your firmness, I should have been spared twenty-five years of trouble. I had the alternative of marrying or paying a hundred and twenty-five dollars. Being poor, I married; and for twenty-five years have I regretted it. I am happy to meet with a man of your stamp. The plaintiff must pay ten dollars and costs for having thought of putting a gentleman under the dominion of a mother-in-law."
The charms of the female sex were more susceptible to the Iowa judge than to his brother of the former story. This worthy refused to fine a man for kissing a young lady against her will, because the complainant was so pretty that "nothing but the Court's overwhelming sense of dignity prevented the Court from kissing her itself."
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"A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind," wrote Garrick, and something of this nature must have actuated Judge Bela Brown in a case in a Circuit Court of Georgia. The judge was an able lawyer, and right good boon companion among his legal friends. The night before the Court opened he joined the Circuit barristers at a tavern kept by one Sterrit, where the company enjoyed themselves "not wisely, but too well." Next morning the judge was greatly perturbed to find a quantity of silver spoons in his pocket, which had been placed there by a wag of the company as the judge left the tavern the night before. "Was I tipsy when I came home last night?" timidly asked the judge of his wife. "Yes," said she; "you know your habits when you get among your lawyer friends."—"Well," responded the judge, "that fellow keeps the meanest liquor in the States; but I never thought it was so bad as to induce a man to steal."
Before the close of the Court a man was arraigned for larceny, who pleaded guilty, but put forward the extenuating circumstance that he was drunk and didn't know what he was doing. "What is the nature of the charge," asked Judge Brown. "Stealing money from Sterrit's till," replied the clerk. "Are you sure you were tipsy when you took this money?"—"Yes, your honour; when I went out of doors the ground kept coming up and hitting me on the head."—"That will do. Did you get all your liquor at Sterrit's?"—"Every drop, sir." Turning to the prosecuting attorney the judge said, "You will do me the favour of entering a nolle prosequi; that liquor of Sterrit's I have reason to know is enough to make a man do anything dirty. I got tipsy on it myself the other night and stole all his spoons. If Sterrit will sell such abominable stuff he ought not to have the protection of this Court—Mr. Sheriff, you may release the prisoner."
The judge of a Court in Nevada dealt differently with a man who, charged with intoxication, thought to gain acquittal by a whimsical treatment of his offence. On being asked whether he was rightly or wrongly charged he pleaded, "Not guilty, your honour. Sunstroke!"—"Sunstroke?" queried Judge Cox. "Yes, sir; the regular New York variety."—"You've had sunstroke a good deal in your time, I believe?"—"Yes, your honour; but this last attack was most severe."—"Does sunstroke make you rush through the streets offering to fight the town?"—"That's the effect precisely."—"And makes you throw brickbats at people?"—"That's it, judge. I see you understand the symptoms, and agree with the best recognised authorities, who hold it inflames the organs of combativeness and destructiveness. When a man of my temperament gets a good square sunstroke he's liable to do almost anything."—"Yes; you are quite right—liable to go to jail for fifteen days. You'll go down with the policeman at once." With that observation the conversation naturally closed, and the victim of so-called sunstroke "went down."
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"Sheriff, remove the prisoner's hat," said a judge in the Court of Keatingville, Montana, when he noticed that the culprit before him had neglected to do so. The sheriff obeyed instructions by knocking off the hat with his rifle. The prisoner picked it up, and clapping it on his head again, shouted, "I am bald, judge." Once more it was "removed" by the sheriff, while the indignant judge rose and said, "I fine you five dollars for contempt of Court—to be committed until the fine is paid." The offender approached the judge, and laying down half a dollar remarked, "Your sentence, judge, is most ungentlemanly; but the law is imperative and I will have to stand it; so here is half a dollar, and the four dollars and a half you owed me when we stopped playing poker this morning makes us square."
The card-playing administrator of law must have felt as small as his brother-judge who priced a cow at an Arkansas cattle-market. Seeing one that took his fancy he asked the farmer what he wanted for her. "Thirty dollars, and she'll give you five quarts of milk if you feed her well," said the farmer. "Why," quoth the judge, "I have cows not much more than half her size which give twenty quarts of milk a day." The farmer eyed the would-be purchaser of the cow very hard, as if trying to remember if he had met him before, and then inquired where he lived. "My home is in Iowa," replied the judge. "Yes, stranger, I don't dispute it. There were heaps of soldiers from Iowa down here during the war, and they were the worst liars in the whole Yankee army. Maybe you were an officer in one of them regiments." Then the judge returned to his Court duties.
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Judge Kiah Rodgers already figures in a story, and here we give his address to a delinquent when he presided at a Court in Louisiana. "Prisoner, stand up! Mr. Kettles, this Court is under the painful necessity of passing sentence of the law upon you. This Court has no doubt, Mr. Kettles, but what you were brought into this scrape by the use of intoxicating liquors. The friends of this Court all know that if there is any vice this Court abhors it is intoxication. When this Court was a young man, Mr. Kettles, it was considerably inclined to drink, and the friends of this Court know that this Court has naterally a very high temper; and if this Court had not stopped short off, I have no doubt, sir, but what this Court, sir, would have been in the penitentiary or in its grave."
There was a strong sense of duty to humanity, as well as seeing justice carried out, in the Californian sheriff after an interview with a self-confessed murderer, who desired to be sent to New York to be tried, when he addressed the prisoner: "So your conscience ain't easy, and you want to be hanged?" said the sheriff. "Well, my friend, the county treasury ain't well fixed at present, and I don't want to take any risks, in case you're not the man, and are just fishing for a free ride. Besides, those New York Courts can't be trusted to hang a man. As you say, you deserve to be killed, and your conscience won't be easy till you are killed, and as it can't make any difference to you or to society how you are killed, I guess I'll do the job myself!" and his hand moved to his pocket; but before he could pull out the revolver and level it at the murderer, that conscience-stricken individual was down the road and out of killing distance.
Like the sailor who objected to his captain undertaking the double duty of flogging and preaching, prisoners do not appreciate the judge who delivers sentence upon them and at the same time admonishes them in a long speech. After being sentenced a Californian prisoner was thus reproached by a judge for his lack of ambition:
"Where is it, sir? Where is it? Did you ever hear of Cicero taking free lunches? Did you ever hear that Plato gamboled through the alleys of Athens? Did you ever hear Demosthenes accused of sleeping under a coal-shed? If you would be a Plato, there would be a fire in your eye; your hair would have an intellectual cut; you'd step into a clean shirt; and you'd hire a mowing-machine to pare those finger-nails. You have got to go up for four months!"
In conclusion we return to the jury-box of a New York Court for the story of a well-known character who frequently was called to act along with other good men and true. As soon as they had retired to deliberate on the evidence they had heard, he would button up his coat and "turn in" on a bench, exclaiming, "Gentlemen, I'm for bringing in a verdict for the plaintiff (or the defendant, as he had settled in his mind), and all Creation can't move me. Therefore as soon as you have all agreed with me, wake me up and we'll go in."
L'ENVOI
"THE TASK IS ENDED, AND ASIDE WE FLING THE MUSTY BOOKS TIED UP WITH LEGAL STRING; AND SO GOOD NIGHT, SINCE WE OUR SAY HAVE SAID, SHUT UP THE VOLUME AND PROCEED TO BED; AND DREAM, DEAR READER, OF A FUTURE, WHEN A LAWYER MAY SHAKE HANDS WITH YOU AGAIN."
WILLOCK: Legal Facetiae.
INDEX
Abbot, Mr. Justice, 43
Abinger, Lord, 35, 36, 42
Adam, H. L., 80, 101
Adams, Serjeant, 85
Adolphus, John, 76
Alderson, Baron, 45
Alemoor, Lord, 156
Allen, Serjeant, 68
Alverstone, Lord, 62
Andrews, W., 26, 99
Anne, Queen, 107, 159
Archibald, Mr. Justice, 94
Ardwall, Lord, 193, 212
Arnot, Hugo, 201, 203
Atkinson, Mrs., 90
Auchinleck, Lord, 155
Avonmore, Lord, 119-122, 131, 133
Avory, Lord, 62, 63
Bacon, Lord, 68
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, 5
Bacon, Vice-Chancellor, 38, 54
Baird, Mr., of Cambusdoon, 192
Baldwin, Mr., 83
Balfour, Sheriff, 209
Ballantine, Serjeant, 81, 88
Balmuto, Lord, 201
Bannatyne, Lord, 165
Barjarg, Lord, 156
Bell, Abigail, 234
Bethel, I. B., 136
Birrell, Augustine, 89
Blair, Lord President, 170
Blair, Thomas W., 159
Boswell, James, 155, 165
Bowen, Lord, 53, 54
Boyd, Judge, 135
Boyle, Lord Justice-Clerk, 175
Braxfield, Lord, 155, 182, 183, 200
Brocklesby, Dr., 15
Brougham, Lord, 17, 39-43, 117, 188, 205
Brown, Judge Bela, 243
Buchan, Earl of, 27, 202
Bullen, Edward, 85
Burrowes, Peter, 145
Burrows, Sir James, 9
Bushe, Charles K., 118, 122, 138
Butler, Sir Toby, 127
Byles, Mr. Justice, 49
Byron, Lord, 224
Campbell, Lord John, 13, 25, 34, 35, 41-44, 76, 86
Campbell, Lord President, 181
Carleton, Chief Justice, 112
Carleton, Lady, 112
Chambers, Montague, 77
Charles II, 6, 68
Chelmsford, Lord, 46
Chitty, Lord Justice, 38
Choate, Rufus, 234-236
Clare, Lord, 132
Clarke, George, minstrel, 97
Clarke, Thomas, 75, 76
Clonmel, Earl of, 109, 110
Coalston, Lord, 156
Cockburn, Lord, 171, 173, 174, 175, 185-187, 215
Cockburn, Sir Alexander, 46, 47, 55-57
Cockle, Serjeant, 100, 101
Coleridge, Lord, 51, 52
Collins, Stephen, Q.C., 140, 141
Colman, George, 79
Colquhoun, Sir James, 202
Connor, John, 143
Cooke, Tom, 36
Cottenham, Lord Chancellor, 42
Coutts, Thomas, 159
Covington, Lord, 155
Cox, Judge, 245
Crabtree, Jesse, 79
Cranworth, Lord, 35
Cringletie, Lord, 170
Crispe, Thomas E., 94
Crosbie, Andrew, 205
Cunningham, Lord, 206
Curran, J. P., 109, 113, 120, 121, 127-134
Danckwerts, Mr., Q.C., 59
Darling, Mr. Justice, 3, 4, 58-60
Davenport, Sir Thomas, 12
Davy, Serjeant, 70, 71
Deas, Lord, 177
Denman, Lord, 72, 73
Dewar, Lord, 51
Dirleton, Lord, 153
Douglas, Alexander, W.S., 188
Dowling, Judge, 240
Doyle, Mr., 121
Duke, Mr., K.C., 60
Dun, Lord, 159
Dundas, Henry (Lord Melville), 157, 200 Robert, first Lord President, 156, 158 —— second Lord President, 204
Dunning, Serjeant, 17, 73, 74
Egan, John, Q.C., 131, 134
Egerton, Master of Rolls, 6
Eldin, Lord, 164, 167-171
Eldon, Earl of, 10-12, 17-19, 167, 171, 179
Elizabeth, Queen, 68
Ellenborough, Lord, 20, 21
Elliock, Lord, 156
Erne, Lord, 114
Erskine, Henry, 27, 164, 199-202 John, of Carnoch, 157 —— Lord, 27-31, 46
Esher, Lord, 54
Eskgrove, Lord, 155, 160, 161, 162, 164, 199
Evans, 228
Eve, Mr. Justice, 69
Fisher, Dr., 19
Fitton, Lord Chancellor, 127
Flood, Right Hon. H., 110
Forglen, Lord, 160
Fortesque, Lord, 8
Foster, Judge, 113
Fountainhall, Lord, 153, 154
Furton, Sir Thomas, 132
Gardenstone, Lord, 156
Garrick, David, 243
George III, 19, 24
Gillespie, Rev. Dr., 238
Gillon, Joseph, W.S., 219
Glengarry, 161
Gould, Mr. Justice, 22, 30, 60, 71
Grady, H. D., 135-136
Graham, Baron, 34
Grantham, Mr. Justice, 58
Guildford, Lord, 68
Guthrie, Lord, 193
Hailes, Lord, 156
Halkerston, Lord, 163
Halligan, Denis, 113, 114
Hardwicke, Lord, 8
Harper, Sheriff, 206
Harris, Billy, 111
Hatton, Lord Chancellor, 5
Haweis, Rev. H. R., 223
Hawkins, Sir Henry (Lord Brampton), 54-57
Hayward, Mr., 132
Healy, Tim, 146, 147
Henderson, Sir John, 161
Henn, Chief Baron, 111 Jonathan, 111, 112 William, Judge, 111
Henry VIII, 4
Henry, Patrick, 224
Hermand, Lord, 165, 174, 176, 179-181
Herrick, Mr., 141
Hill, Serjeant, 69, 70
Holmes, Mr., 138
Holroyd, Chief Justice, 38
Holt, Lord Justice, 37
Hook, John, 224
Horne, Mr., Dean of Faculty, 193
Horner, Mr., 183
Hyde, Edward (Lord Campden), 7
Jackson, Sheriff Officer, 116
James, Edwin, 85, 86
James V, 153
Jeffrey, Lord, 172, 187
Jeffreys, Judge, 7
Jekyll, Serjeant, 79, 80
Kames, Lord, 5, 156, 165, 166
Keating, Mr. Justice, 61, 68
Keller, Jerry, 139
Kennedy, Mrs., 52
Kennet, Lord, 158
Kenyon, Lord, 10-12, 22-24
Kilkerran, Lord, 163
Kingston, Duchess of, 13
Knight-Bruce, Lord Justice, 47, 48
Labron, John, 39
Landseer, Sir Edwin, 81
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 85
Lawson, Mr. Justice, 123
Lee, Jack, 77
Leeds, Duke of, 46
Lees, Richard, 206
Lifford, Lord Chancellor, 110
Lockwood, Sir Frank, 89, 92
Logan, Sheriff, 206
Lysaght, Edward, 136, 137
M'Cormick, Samuel, 175
Macdonald, Chief Baron, 34
Macklin, Actor, 128
Maclaren, Lord, 194
MacMahon, Serjeant, 145
Mahaffy, Ninian, 140, 141
Mair, Ludovick, 208
Maloney, Mr., 130
Manners, Lord Chancellor, 141
Mansfield, Earl of, 14-16, 74, 205
Margarot, 183
Martin, Baron, 44, 45, 81
Maule, Mr. Justice, 31-34
Meadowbank, Lord (first), 159
Meadowbank, Lord (second), 164, 169, 179
Mellor, Mr., 91, 92
Miller, Sir Thomas, 157
Millicent, Sir John, 6
Milton, Lord, 159
Missing, Serjeant, 75
Mitchell, John, 112
Monboddo, Lord, 153, 157
Moncreiff, Lord, 175, 183, 184 Rev. Sir Henry Wellwood, 175 Lord Justice-Clerk, 211
Moore, Frankfort, 123
Moore, Judge, 112
More, Sir Thomas, 4, 5
Muir, Mr., 82
Murphy, Mr., gaoler, 117
Nagle, Mr., 127
Nangle, Mr., 107, 108, 109
Nares, Mr. Justice, 27
Newhall, Lord, 160
Newton, Lord, 171-173
Norbury, Lord, 114-117, 132, 133, 145
Norfolk, Duke of, 19
O'Connell, Daniel, 117, 141-144
O'Flanagan, F. R., 107, 137
O'Gorman, Mr., 139, 140
O'Grady, Chief Baron, 117-119
Orton, Arthur, 55
Oswald, Francis, 95, 96
Page, Mr. Justice, 22
Parker, Chief Baron, 15
Parry, Serjeant, 93, 101
Parsons, Chief Justice, 223, 224
Parsons, Commissioner, 144, 145
Patteson, Mr. Justice, 61
Peat, Mr., 80
Petigru, Mr., 231
Phillimore, Sir Walter, 57
Phillips, Charles, 54
Phillips, 123, 128
Phipps, Lord Chancellor, 107
Pigot, Chief Baron, 141
Pinckney, Judge W. M., 230
Pitfour, Lord, 158
Pitmilly, Lord, 174
Plowden, Mr., 55
Plunket, Lord, 122, 123, 138
Polkemmet, Lord, 155, 163, 164
Powis, Mr. Justice, 8
Pratt, Sir John, Lord Justice, 9
Prime, Serjeant, 26, 72
Pritchard, Mary, 77
Pyne, Chief Justice, 107, 108
Queensberry, Duke of, 29
Raine, Mr., 100
Redsdale, Lord Chancellor, 140
Reid, David, 159, 160
Ribton, Mr., Q.C., 50
Robertson, Patrick, Lord, 188
Roche, Sir Boyle, 133
Rodgers, Judge K., 241, 247
Romilly, Lord, 89
Rose, Sir George, 18
Ross, Charles, 159
Russell, Lord John, 42
Russell, Lord, of Killowen, 51
Rutherford, Lord, 189
Rutland, Earl of, 4
Ryder, Chief Justice, 9
Scarlett, Miss, 43
Scott, James, Q.C., 137
Scott, Sir Walter, 160, 199, 219
Shaftesbury, Lord, 6
Shand, Lord, 190, 191, 193
Shee, Mr., Q.C., 51
Sinclair, Sir John, 30
Sleigh, Warner, 83
Smith, Judge A., 241
Smith, F. E., 95
Speer, Judge Emery, 229
Stanley, Lord, 41
Stonefield, Lord, 157, 185
Strichen, Lord, 156
Sugden, Sir Edward, 39
Sullivan, Mr., 223
Sumner, Mr., 234
Swinton, Lord, 200
Taylor, Senator, 230
Tenterden, Lord, 25
Thomas, Serjeant, 73
Thomson, Baron, 34
Thorpe, W. G., 86
Thurlow, Lord, 10-13, 19, 20
Townshend, Lord, 110
Tunstal, Dr., 77
Warren, Samuel, 46, 83
Wauchope, Mr., of Niddrie, 186
Webster, Daniel, 227, 228
Wedderburn, Alexander (Lord Roslin), 7
Weldon, Mrs., 54
Weller, Mr., 107, 108
Westbury, Lord, 34, 35, 47
Wharton, Mr., 94
Whigham, Mr., 79
Wight, Alexander, 155
Wightman, Mr. Justice, 50
Wilkins, Serjeant, 6, 72, 73
Willes, Mr. Justice, 21, 49, 78
Williams, Montague, 49, 88
Wills, Mr. Justice, 38
Wirt, William, 227, 228
Yorke, Edward (Lord Hardewicke), 8
Young, Lord, 191-193
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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARLYLE OF INVERESK (1722-1805)
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ANNALS OF THE PARISH
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5. R. L. STEVENSON: MEMORIES
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LADY HAMILTON
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PRINCE CHARLIE
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Transcriber's Note:
Illustration captions have been moved slightly to coincide with the mention of the person named in the caption.
The following special characters appear in the text: ă a breve ā a macron
This book includes a lot of dialect, which often looks misspelled but was intentionally written that way. Therefore, some irregularities that might be errors have not been corrected in order to preserve author intent. Name variants (mostly occurring in the index) also have not been corrected. However, obvious errors have been corrected, and punctuation has been standardized.
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