Note 181 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 2)
Reading edition
Famous Victories, scc. iv, v (a continuous scene), ‘Jayler, bring the prisoner to the barre’ (iv. 1).... ‘Thou shalt be my Lord chiefe Justice, and thou shalt sit in the chaire’ (v. 10); Sir T. More, sc. ii. 104, ‘An Arras is drawne, and behinde it (as in sessions) sit the L. Maior.... Lifter the prisoner at the barre’; Warning for Fair Women, II. 1180, ‘Enter some to prepare the judgement seat to the Lord Mayor....(1193) Browne is brought in and the Clerk says, ‘To the barre, George Browne’; M. V. IV. i; 1 Sir John Oldcastle, V. x; &c.