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Westminster Hall: Or, Professional Relics And Anecdotes of the Bar, Bench ...
Thomas Roscoe
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In its pros- pect the garden of the Inner Temple is much su- perior to its rival of the Middle Temple^ though the latter is adorned with a short avenue of fine, lime-trees, which in summer forms a most refresh- ing shade. May no sacrilegious bencher medi- tate their destruction ! In these gardens may be seen those pensive descBuvrS lawyers, *' Who in trim gardens take their pleasure j" while their more fortunate brethren are acquiring fame and profit amid the heat, the noise, and the bustle of ...the courts.
200 LA\^ ANiy tlirongli the Temple. Chaucer is reported to havfe been a Templar^ and in later days^ Johnson occu» pied a miserable set of chambers in loner Temple Lane. The Mitre Tavern, situated at the termi- nation of a passage leading from the Temple to^ Fleet-street, was a favourite haunt of the great Lejdcographer. The chambers in King's Bench: Walk, in which lord Mansfield resided, are im« mortalized in the verse of Pope : '' To number five direct your doves.
There spread round Murray all your blooming loves 5" and in the parody of Gibber : ^ Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he tatts, And he has Chambers 10 the King's Bench Walks.** [To he continued^ *^ A thief being arraigned at the bar for stealing a inare, in his pleading urged many things in his own behalf, and at last nothing availing, he told the Bench, the mare rather stole him than he the mare ; which in brief he thus related r That passing over several grounds, about his lawful occasions, he was pursued close by a fierce mastiff dog, and so was forced to save himself by leap- ing over a hedge, which, being of an agile body, lie effected 3 and in leaping, a mare standing oa LAWYERS.


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