Boutell has figured this brass, which he states to be that of a serjeant-at-law. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
As soon as any member of an inn of court is raised by royal writ to the state, degree, and dignity of a serjeant-at-law, he ceases to be a member of the society. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference
Thereupon the Lord Chancellor issued a writ to each of them, summoning them to appear under a heavy penalty, and take upon themselves the state and degree of serjeant-at-law. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
His wife was a daughter of the Edgars, who flourished about four hundred years in the county of Suffolk, and produced an eminent and wealthy serjeant-at-law, Sir Gregory Edgar, in the reign of Henry the Seventh. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of My Life and Writings]
The fiat had gone forth that no judge should be required henceforth to take or to have taken the degree of serjeant-at-law (36 and 37 Vict., c. 66, s. 8), and, as this was tantamount to the abolition of the order, it was resolved to sell the property of the inn. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
The eldest was a serjeant-at-law, and died in 1556. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
JOHN BRADSHAW, serjeant-at-law, was appointed president. From Wordnik.com. [A child`s history of England] Reference
He was called to the degree of serjeant-at-law, 18 Nov., 1510, and six years later he was appointed king's serjeant. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Wathin, with whom she was distantly connected; the wife of a potent serjeant-at-law fast mounting to the Bench and knighthood; the centre of. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
'Whenever he scrupled anything in phrase or diction,' he would refer his doubt to that accomplished serjeant-at-law, John Hoskyns or Hoskins. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference
For the last ten years of his life he seems to have practised as serjeant-at-law in England, frequently serving as judge or commissioner of assize, and he died in 1626. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
Two individuals alone form an exception to the above category, and are offered to the respectful admiration of the reader, -- the one, a shadowy serjeant-at-law, Mr. Titmarsh's travelling companion, who escapes with. From Wordnik.com. [The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh] Reference
The document is undated, but since Audley is mentioned without any rank or title, it was probably before November 1531, when he became serjeant-at-law and king's serjeant, and certainly before May 1632 when he was knighted. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX.] Reference
Lady Dunstane's anxiety to draw them over to the cause of her friend set her thinking of the influential Mrs. Cramborne Wathin, with whom she was distantly connected; the wife of a potent serjeant-at-law fast mounting to the Bench and knighthood; the centre of. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
"coyphae" (cf. the coif of the serjeant-at-law) to clerics, except when on journey. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
But who will maintain that all those who formed the motley throng of the medieval pilgrimages came with their minds properly attuned, and who is prepared to say that because the majority of modern pilgrims consummate their aim by using the convenience of the railway they are less devout than Chaucer's merchant, serjeant-at-law, doctor of physic, and the rest who rode on horseback -- the most convenient, rapid, and comfortable method of travel then available?. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful Britain: Canterbury] Reference
"The charges of my being made a serjeant-at-law, and of removing myselfe and family to London, and a new coach and paire of horses, and of my knighthood (all which were within the first halfe year of my coming from. From Wordnik.com. [A Book About Lawyers] Reference
Two individuals alone form an exception to the above category, and are offered to the respectful admiration of the reader, — the one, a shadowy serjeant-at-law, Mr. Titmarsh’s travelling companion, who escapes with a few side puffs of flattery, which the author struggles not to render ironical, and a mysterious countess, spoken of in a tone of religious reverence, and apparently introduced that we may learn by what delicate discriminations our adoration of rank should be regulated. From Wordnik.com. [The Kickleburys on the Rhine] Reference
Ballantine became a serjeant-at-law in. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
BALLANTINE, WILLIAM (1812-1887), English serjeant-at-law, was born in. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
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