 Westminster-hall,) to make this procession on horseback, as in old time the way was, when coaches were not so rife. And accordingly the judges, &c. were spoken to, to get horses, as they and all the rest did, by borrowing and hiring, and so equipped themselves...  The Order of the Coif - Page 246by Alexander Pulling - 1884 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...adventures that befel that grave cavalcade told with a good deal of harmless mirth. " His lordship had an early fancy, or rather freak, the first day...counsel and judges, used to wait upon the great seal to Westminster-hall,) to make this procession on horseback, as in old time the way was, when coaches were... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1823 - 426 pages
...adventnres that befel that grave cavalcade told with a good deal of harmless mirth. " His lordship had an early fancy, or rather freak, the first day...counsel and judges, used to wait upon the great seal to Westminster-hall,) to make this procession on horseback, as in old time the way was, when coaches were... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...adventures that befel that grave cavalcade told with a good deal of harmless mirth. " His lordship had an early fancy, or rather freak, the first day...counsel and judges, used to wait upon the great seal to Westminster-hall,) to make this procession on horseback, as. in old time the way was, when coaches... | |
 | Roger North - Great Britain - 1826 - 482 pages
...we are indebted to Roger North for the following amusing account of the cavalcade. " Hi.-i lordship had an early fancy, or rather freak, the first day...counsel, and judges, used to wait upon the great seal to Westminster-hall), to make this procession on horseback, as in old time the way was, when coaches were... | |
 | Literature - 1841 - 500 pages
...Lord Shaftesbury to the Woolsack. " His Lordship had an early fancy, or rather freak, the first day of term (when all the officers of the law, King's Counsel,...upon the Great Seal to Westminster Hall) to make this precession on horseback, as in old time the way was, when coaches were not so rife. And accordingly... | |
 | Law - 1870 - 542 pages
...expertest horseman in all the four Inns : — " ' His Lordship ' (Roger North says in the Examta), ' had an early fancy, or rather freak, the first day of the term (when all the officers of law, King's counsel, and Judges used to wait upon the Great Seal to Westminster) to make his procession... | |
 | Edward Foss - Courts - 1864 - 438 pages
...from his horse (see his life), speaks of it as occasioned by Lord Chancellor Shaftesbury's " freak to make this procession on horseback, as in old time the way was, when coaches were not so rife." The same authority states that " the very next Term after they fell to their coaches as before." During... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 342 pages
...record of the equestrian ambition of a Lord Chancellor — Shaftesbury— in 1672 : " His lordship had an early fancy, or rather freak, the first day...in old time the way was, when coaches were not so rifeAnd accordingly, the judges, etc., were spoken to, to get horses, as they and all the rest did,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 600 pages
...record of the equestrian ambition of a Lord Chancellor — Shaftesbury — in 1 672 : ' His lordship had an early fancy, or rather freak, the first day...seal to Westminster Hall), to make this procession horseback, as in old time the way was, when coaches -wen. not so rife. And accordingly, the judges,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 572 pages
...record of the equestrian ambition of a Lord Chancellor — Shaftesbury — in 1672 : ' His lordship had an early fancy, or rather freak, the first day...king's counsel, and judges, used to wait upon the g, at seal to Westminster Hall), to make this procession n horseback, as in old time the way was, when... | |
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