Note 275 — Chapter II

Heather v. Frankfort Co., Pennypacker’s Colonial Cases, 142; II Colonial Records, 447, March 1, 1708-9. That the “cornering” of the bar was not a new experiment would appear from an incident mentioned by Barrington in his “Observations on the Statutes,” page 294n. “There is also —— a petition of Robert Pickerell, exhibited to the king in parliament the second year of Richard the Second; by which he complains that Alice Perrers had retained all the advocates in Westminster Hall, so that he could have no advice; ‘si il ne donneroit si grande summe d’or, quil ne poit attainder.’”