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Title: The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick
A Lecture

Author: Frank Lockwood

Release Date: April 25, 2007 [eBook #21214]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LAW AND LAWYERS OF PICKWICK***

Transcribed from the 1894 Roxburghe Press edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

The Law
and
Lawyers of Pickwick.

_A LECTURE_.

With an Original Drawing of "Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz."

BY
FRANK LOCKWOOD,
Q.C. M.P.

LONDON:
_THE ROXBURGHE PRESS_,
_3_, _Victoria Street_, _Westminster_,
AND
32, CHARING CROSS, S.W.

Uniform with this Edition.

CHARLES DICKENS' HEROINES AND WOMEN-FOLK:

Some Thoughts Concerning Them.

BY
CHARLES F. RIDEAL.

_With an original Drawing of Edith Dombey_.

{Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz: p0.jpg}

PREFATORY.

At the request of my friend Lord Russell of Killowen, then
Attorney-General, I delivered this lecture at the Morley Hall, Hackney,
on December 13th, 1893. I had previously delivered it in the city of
York at the request of some of my constituents. I feel that some apology
is required for its reproduction in a more permanent form, which apology
I most respectfully tender to all who may read this little book.

F. L.

THE LAW AND LAWYERS OF "PICKWICK."

Sir CHARLES RUSSELL: I stand but for a single instant between you and our
friend, Mr. Lockwood. He needs no introduction here; but I am sure I may
in your name bid him a hearty welcome.

Mr. FRANK LOCKWOOD: Mr. Attorney-General, Ladies and Gentlemen--It is
some little time ago that I was first asked whether I was prepared to
deliver a lecture. Now I am bound at the outset to confess to you that
lecturing has been and is very little in my way. I spent some three
years of my life at the University in avoiding lectures. But it came
about that in the constituency which I have the honour to represent, it
was suggested to me that it was necessary for me to give a lecture, and
it was further explained to me that it did not really very much matter as
to what I lectured ab