[587] MS. in Bib. Int. Temp. No. 17. fo. 408.
[588] Burton’s Leicestershire, p. 235.
[589] After the courts of King’s Bench and Exchequer had by a fiction of law drawn to themselves a vast portion of the civil business originally transacted in the Common Pleas alone, the degree of serjeant-at-law, with its exclusive privilege of practising in the last-named court, was not sought after as before. The advocates or barristers of the King’s Bench and Exchequer were, consequently, at different times, commanded by writ to take upon them the degree of the coif, and transfer their practice to the Common Pleas.
[590] Malcom. Lond. Rediviv., vol. ii. p. 282.
[591] MS. Bib. Cotton. Vitellius, c. 9, fol. 320, a.
[592] MS. Bib. Cotton, c. 9, fol. 320, a.
[593] Hargrave, MS. No. 19, 81. f. 5. fol. 46.
[594] MS. in Bib. In. Temp., No. 19, fol.
[595] In. Temp. Ad. Parliament, ibm. XV. die Novembris Anno Philippi et Mariæ tertio et quarto, coram Johe Baker Milite, Nicho Hare Milite, Thoma Whyte Milite, et al. MS. Bib. In. Tem. Div. 9, shelf 5, vol. xvii. fol. 393.
[596] Ex registr. In. Temp., f. 112, 119, b. Med. Temp., f. 24, a. Dugd., Orig. Jurid., p. 310, 311.