Various accounts.
Exam. before J---- J----.
Propy found.
Mrs. Stevens,}
Mr. Johnson, } Witnesses.

I made a rule throughout my professional life to note my cases with
the greatest care.




CHAPTER IV.

AT THE OLD BAILEY IN THE OLD TIMES.


It is a vast space to look back over sixty years of labour, and yet
there seems hardly a scene or an event of any consequence, that is not
reproduced in my mind with a vividness that astonishes me.

In my earlier visits to her Majesty's Courts of Justice my principal
business was to study the Queen's Counsel and Serjeants, and they
were worthy the attention I bestowed on them. They all belonged to
different schools of advocacy, and some knew very little about it.

I went to the Old Bailey, a den of infamy in those times not
conceivable now, and I verily believe that no future time will produce
its like--at least I hope not. Its associations were enough to