ANON. A Certamen Epistolare: Letters between an Attorney and a Dead Parson (1724). ANON. An essay on the Amendment and Reduction of the Laws of England, for the ease of the subject, the advancement of justice, and regulating the profession of the law (1724). ANON. Law Quibbles; or, a treatise of the Evasions, Tricks, Turns, and Quibbles commonly used in the profession of the law, etc (1726). SASSON (Dim). Law-Visions, or, Pills for Posterity, (with) Plain Truth by way of a dialogue between Truman and Skinall, two Attorneys, and Season, a Bencher (1736). READ HODSHON. The Honest Man's Companion: or, the Family Safeguard. Illustrated with Copper Plates, and done at the Request of Several Gentlemen and Others, occasion'd by an Attorney's defying any Person to paint him or his Brotherhood in their proper Colours, or to propose any method to regulate them or their Practice. As also Remarks upon Roman-Catholick Lawyers practising as Chamber-Counsel and Conveyancers, etc. (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1736). R. CAMPBELL. The London Tradesmen, being a compendious view of all the trades, professions, arts both liberal and mechanic, now practised in the cities of London and Westminster, calculated for the information of parents, and the instruction of youth in the choice of business (1747). ANON. Animadversions upon the present laws of England; or, an Essay to render them more useful and less expensive to all His Majesty's subjects. To which is added, A Proposal for regulating the Practice and reducing the Number of Attornies, Solicitors, etc., with a supplement humbly submitted to the serious consideration of both Houses of Parliament (c. 1749). ANON. An Address to all the Electors of all the Counties, Cities, and Counties of Cities, and Boroughs of England-Earnestly recommending to them to insist upon their respective representatives moving for, and procuring, a bill to restrain the excessive number of attornies, etc., in England and Wales, and shewing that, including the Newgate attornies, Newgate sollicitors, and pettifoggers, and not reckoning the knights of the post, there are ten thousand more than can live by honest gain (c. 1755). ANON. Observations in the duty of an Attorney and Solicitor submitted to the public consideration, but addressed more especially to Young Practitioners of the Law (c. 1759). ANON. Reflections or Hints founded upon experience and facts touching the law, lawyers, officers, attorneys, and others concerned in the administration of justice, humbly submitted to the consideration of the legislature (1759). INDEX Abingdon, Earl of, imprisoned for libel on an attorney, 19 n. 3 14, 15 Appleton, Robert, II Apprenticeship indentures, attorneys insisted on, 53 length of, 53, 55-7 Articles of clerkship, stamp duty on, Banking, attorneys and, 75, 111-15, Bankruptcy proceedings, attorneys Banks, Joseph, attorney, 71 early relations with attorneys and attorneys resist encroachments of, their increased respect for attorneys, 28, 29 Barstow, Thomas, attorney, 99 Bayley, Nathaniel, attorney, 61, 159 Binkley, Thomas, attorney, 117 attorneys in, 72-3 Law Society, 36, 48-50 Blackstone, Sir William, 18, 58 n. 3 Bowns, Charles, attorney, 88-9, 96, Bristol attorneys in, 15, 75 Law Society, 15 n. 2, 36–8 Law Library Society, 38 Bull, Edward, 120, 165 Burton, Michael, attorney, 69 Cambridge, 6, 102, 109–10 Canals, attorneys and builders of, 64, 24-5 Chatterton, Thomas, 61 Clerks of the Peace, 9 n., 104–8, 110 43, 49, 78, 84, 122, 127, 129 Crosby, Brass, attorney, 82 Danser, Jonathan, attorney, 97 Dawson, Jonathan, attorney, 63~4, 116 Day, Joseph, 12 n. 4, 58 n. 3 attacks Society of Gentlemen Debts, recovery of small, 30, 41, 49 by attorneys, 48, 50 Devon and Exeter Law Society, 36 6 Parkes, Joseph, attorney, 103 and Sir James Lowther, 91, 96 55-7, 58 Preston, James, attorney, 94, 95 Private Bills, soliciting of, 26, 95, 103 Professional families, attorneys found, 71-2 |