Note 200 — A Song in Praise of the Leather Bottel.196
Reading edition
"Noy, when Whitlocke came to him about the Bill, advised with him about the King's Patent concerning an association between England and Scotland for fishing. Noy loved a little drollery, and gave Whitelocke eleven groats out of his little purse. Here, said Noy, take these single pence; and I give you more than an attorney's fee, because you will be a better man than an Attorney-General; and this you will find to be true. This was in 1629."—Lives of Eminent Sergeants at Law, by H. W. Woolrych, Lond. 1869.