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A Book About Lawyers

by John Cordy Jeaffreson

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  1. 1Part I — Houses and Householders — Chapter I — Ladies in Law Colleges
  2. 2Chapter II — The Last of the Ladies
  3. 3Chapter III — York House and Powis House
  4. 4Chapter IV — Lincoln’s Inn Fields
  5. 5Chapter V — The Old Law Quarter
  6. 6Part II — Loves of the Lawyers — Chapter VI — A Lottery
  7. 7Chapter VII — Good Queen Bess
  8. 8Chapter VIII — Rejected Addresses
  9. 9Chapter IX — “Cicero” upon His Trial
  10. 10Chapter X — Brothers in Trouble
  11. 11Chapter XI — Early Marriages
  12. 12Part III — Money — Chapter XII — Fees to Counsel
  13. 13Chapter XIII — Retainers General and Special
  14. 14Chapter XIV — Judicial Corruption
  15. 15Chapter XV — Gifts and Sales
  16. 16Chapter XVI — A Rod Pickled by William Cole
  17. 17Chapter XVII — Chief Justice Popham
  18. 18Chapter XVIII — Judicial Salaries
  19. 19Part IV — Costume and Toilet — Chapter XIX — Bright and Sad
  20. 20Chapter XX — Millinery
  21. 21Chapter XXI — Wigs
  22. 22Chapter XXII — Bands and Collars
  23. 23Chapter XXIII — Bags and Gowns
  24. 24Chapter XXIV — Hats
  25. 25Part V — Music — Chapter XXV — The Piano in Chambers
  26. 26Chapter XXVI — The Battle of the Organs
  27. 27Chapter XXVII — A Thickness in the Throat
  28. 28Part VI — Amateur Theatricals — Chapter XXVIII — Actors at The Bar
  29. 29Chapter XXIX — “The Play’s the Thing”
  30. 30Chapter XXX — The River and the Strand by Torchlight
  31. 31Chapter XXXI — Anti-Prynne
  32. 32Chapter XXXII — An Empty Grate
  33. 33Part VII — Legal Education — Chapter XXXIII — Inns of Court and Inn…
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV — Lawyers and Gentlemen
  35. 35Chapter XXXV — Law-French and Law-Latin
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI — Student Life in Old Time
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII — Readers and Mootmen
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII — Pupils in Chambers
  39. 39Part VIII — Mirth — Chapter XXXIX — Wit of Lawyers
  40. 40Chapter XL — Humorous Stories
  41. 41Chapter XLI — Wits in ‘Silk’ and Punsters in ‘Ermine’
  42. 42Chapter XLII — Witnesses
  43. 43Chapter XLIII — Circuiteers
  44. 44Chapter XLIV — Lawyers and Saints
  45. 45Chapter XLV — Lawyers at their Own Tables
  46. 46Chapter XLVI — Wine
  47. 47Chapter XLVII — Law and Literature

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