Note 409 — Book XI.
John Beames translation
Responsalis. From some expressions made use of by Bracton and Fleta, it has been conjectured, that an Attorney, an Essoiner, and a Responsalis, differed in some respects. (Bracton 212. b. and Fleta L. 6. c. 11. s. 6. 7.) Of this opinion Lord Coke seems to be. (Co. Litt. 128. a.) Yet, we must be cautious, in applying these distinctions to Glanville; for they may, after all, be the result of a much more recent period. Nor is the reading of Bracton, in the passage alluded to, perfectly free from suspicion.