 | 1921 - 804 pages
...bat a week, and at this tyme readings are totally in all the Inns of Court layd aside ; and to speak? truth, with great reason, for it was a step once to the dignitie of a Serjeant, dot not soe now." IJramston's autobigrapby (CS) 6; the manner in which any excuse was seized upon to... | |
 | William Ralph Douthwaite - 1886 - 330 pages
...of the Kinge, more are called to be serjeants that never read at all then that have read once. . . . Formerly they read constantly a fortnight, since but...once to the dignitie of a serjeant, but not soe now." ©rtersf for ffiobernnum. In old times, an introductory course of study in one of the Inns of Chancery... | |
 | 1921 - 824 pages
...or were to be indulged, etc. ; yet readings were inioyned, and some read that found noe advantage. Formerly they read constantly a fortnight, since but...once to the dignitie of a serjeant, but not soe now." Bramston's autobigraphy (CS) 6; the manner in which any excuse was seized upon to put off Readings... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1924 - 758 pages
...or were to be indulged, etc. ; yet readings were inioyned, and some read that found noe advantage. Formerly, they read constantly a fortnight, since...once to the dignitie of a serjeant, but not soe now," Bramston's Autobiography (CS) 6; the manner in which any excuse was seized upon to put off readings... | |
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Serjeants, there was not tyme for readings, that manie fitt had binn on the King's side in the warr, and either wanted monie or were to be indulged, etc. ; yet readings were inioyned, and some read that found noe advantage. Formerly, they read constantly... 