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... coifs on their heads , and tied them under their chins , and put on their scarlet robes , placing the cape over their shoulders in the manner of doctors . Thus were they publicly created serjeants at law . On Monday , the new serjeants ...
... coifs on their heads , and tied them under their chins , and put on their scarlet robes , placing the cape over their shoulders in the manner of doctors . Thus were they publicly created serjeants at law . On Monday , the new serjeants ...
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... coif was in Michaelmas , 1463 ' ; and his practice seems to have been considerable , both during the next seven years of Edward's reign and the short restoration of Henry VI . that followed . The death or retirement of Chief Justice Sir ...
... coif was in Michaelmas , 1463 ' ; and his practice seems to have been considerable , both during the next seven years of Edward's reign and the short restoration of Henry VI . that followed . The death or retirement of Chief Justice Sir ...
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... coif in 1463 ' , and made king's serjeant on April 18 , 1469. It was not till more than twelve years afterwards that he was promoted to the Bench , being constituted justice of the Common Pleas on November 20 , 1481 , 21 Edward IV . He ...
... coif in 1463 ' , and made king's serjeant on April 18 , 1469. It was not till more than twelve years afterwards that he was promoted to the Bench , being constituted justice of the Common Pleas on November 20 , 1481 , 21 Edward IV . He ...
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... coif before he was raised to the bench . This event occurred about Hilary , 1487 , 2 Henry VII . In that term the first fine was levied before him ; and in the following November he was appointed one of the commissioners to whom the ...
... coif before he was raised to the bench . This event occurred about Hilary , 1487 , 2 Henry VII . In that term the first fine was levied before him ; and in the following November he was appointed one of the commissioners to whom the ...
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... coif . Three years subsequently , on May 7 , 1481 , he was made chief justice of the King's Bench , on the death of Sir Thomas Billing . 4 On the accessions of Edward V. , Richard III . , and Henry VII . , his patent of chief justice ...
... coif . Three years subsequently , on May 7 , 1481 , he was made chief justice of the King's Bench , on the death of Sir Thomas Billing . 4 On the accessions of Edward V. , Richard III . , and Henry VII . , his patent of chief justice ...
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Page 148 - ... into the service of a most noble, wise, and liberal prince. If you will follow my poor advice, you shall, in your...
Page 220 - England, and to repress and extirpate all errors, heresies, and other enormities and abuses heretofore used in the same, be it enacted, by authority of this present Parliament, that the King our Sovereign Lord, his heirs, and successors, Kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted, and reputed, the only supreme head on earth of the Church of England...
Page 496 - Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-Keeper led the brawls ; The seals and maces danc'd before him. His bushy beard, and shoe-strings green, His high-crown'd hat and satin doublet, Mov'd the stout heart of England's Queen, Though Pope and Spaniard could not trouble it.
Page 496 - Full oft within the spatious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave * Lord-Keeper led the Brawls; The Seal, and Maces, danc'd before him. His bushy beard, and shoe-strings green, His high-crown'd hat, and sattin-doublet, Mov'd the stout heart of England's Queen, Tho' Pope and Spaniard could not trouble it.
Page 371 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good ; here stands the man ; good. If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes ; mark you that : but if the. water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself ; argal, he that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life.
Page 269 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 219 - I thank our Lord, son," quoth he, " I find his grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me, as any subject within this realm : howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us), it should not fail to go.
Page 438 - History of the High and Mighty Prince, Henry Prince of Purpoole, Archduke of Stapulia and Bernardia, Duke of High and Nether Holborn, Marquis of St. Giles and Tottenham, Count Palatine of Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell, Great Lord of the Cantons of Islington, Kentishtown, Paddington, and Knightsbridge, Knight of the Most Heroical Order of the Helmet, and Sovereign of the same, who reigned and died, AD 1594.
Page 147 - ... to be measured forth right into the north of every man's ground, a line there to be drawn, a trench to be cast, a foundation laid, and a high brick wall to be built. My father had a garden there...
Page 258 - And as soon as he was entered into his chamber of presence, where there was...