nd Bar_. I am further indebted to Sir James Balfour Paul,
Lyon King of Arms, for permission to include "The Circuiteer's Lament,"
from the privately printed volume _Ballads of the Bench and Bar_, and to
the editor of the _Edinburgh Evening Dispatch_ for a number of the more
recent anecdotes in the Scottish chapters of the book.

GEO. A. MORTON.

LIST OF CONTENTS

I. THE JUDGES OF ENGLAND PAGE 3

II. THE BARRISTERS OF ENGLAND 67

III. THE JUDGES OF IRELAND 107

IV. THE BARRISTERS OF IRELAND 127

V. THE JUDGES OF SCOTLAND 153

VI. THE ADVOCATES OF SCOTLAND 199

VII. THE AMERICAN BENCH AND BAR 223

LIST OF PORTRAITS

LORD THURLOW _Frontispiece_

_From a painting by Thomas Phillips, R.A.
By permission of the Trustees of the National Portrait
Gallery._

EARL OF ROSSLYN _Page_ 8

EARL OF MANSFIELD 16

EARL OF ELDON 20

_By permission of the Trustees of the Scottish National
Portrait Gallery._

LORD KENYON 24

LORD ERSKINE 32

LORD WESTBURY 36

LORD BROUGHAM 40

LORD CAMPBELL 44

_By permission of the Trustees of the National Portrait
Gallery, and Mr. Emery Walker._

LORD CHELMSFORD 48

SIR ALEXANDER COCKBURN 52

_By permission of Harry A. Cockburn, Esq._

LORD BRAMPTON (SIR HENRY HAWKINS) 56

THE HON. MR. JUSTICE DARLING 60

_From a photograph by C. Vandyk._

SIR SAMUEL MARTIN 64

THE HON. MR. JUSTICE GRANTHAM 72

_From a photograph by Elliott & Fry, Ltd._

JOHN ADOLPHUS 76

SAMUEL WARREN, Q.C. 80

LORD ROMILLY 88

SERJEANT TALFOURD 96

VISCOUNT CARLETON