This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... Sir John Fortescue, who was the chief justice of the King's Bench during half the reign of Henry the Sixth, in his famous discourse de laudibus legum Anglice, tells us that in his time the annual expenses of each law-student amounted to more than 281., (equal to about 450Z. of our present money, ) ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... Sir John Fortescue, who was the chief justice of the King's Bench during half the reign of Henry the Sixth, in his famous discourse de laudibus legum Anglice, tells us that in his time the annual expenses of each law-student amounted to more than 281., (equal to about 450Z. of our present money, ) that all the students of the law were gentlemen by birth and fortune, and had great regard for their character and honour; that in each Inn of Court there was an academy or gymnasium, where singing, music, and dancing, and a variety of accomplishments, were taught. Law was studied at stated periods, and on festival days, after the offices of the church were over, the students employed themselves in the study of history, and in reading the Holy Scriptures. Everything good and virtuous was there taught, vice was discouraged and banished, so that knights, and barons, and the greatest of the nobility of the kingdom, placed their sons in the Temple and the other Inns of Court; not so much, he tells us, to make the law their study, or to enable them to live by the profession, as to form their manners and to preserve them from the contagion of vice. "Quarrelling, insubordination, and murmuring, are unheard of; if a student dishonours himself, he is expelled the society; a punishment which is dreaded more than imprisonment and irons, for he who has been driven from one society is never admitted into any of the others; whence it happens, that there is a constant harmony amongst them, the greatest friendship, and a general freedom of conversation." The two societies of the Temple are now distinguished by the several denominations of the Inner and the Middle Temple, names that appear to have been adopted with reference to a part of the ancient Temple, ...
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