Aduocate

They haue no Lawyers, but euery man is his owne Aduocate, and both the complaint of the accuser, and the answere of the defendant, are in maner of petition deliuered to the Emperour, intreating iustice at his hands.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

It was agreed that I should teache thee, the arte of pleading, and in the first matter whiche thou diddest pronounce and sentence giuen on thy parte, thou shouldest paye me the other halfe of the money (for the first moitie I receiued before hande) and nowe to auoyde the satisfaction thereof (although thou knowest, that I haue full well deserued it) thou to defraude me of my duetie, refusest to be an Aduocate.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

When Protagoras hadde taught him the vttermost of his knowledge: the Scholler Euathlus, to defraude hym of the reste of his money, determined neuer to be Aduocate, whose craft Protagoras perceiuing, cited him by writte, to appeare before the iudge, to aunswere the reste of the bargaine.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

Or as another said to a mouthy Aduocate, _why barkest thou at me so sore?

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

They haue no Lawyers, but euery man is his owne Aduocate, and both the complaint of the accuser, and the answere of the defendant, are in maner of petition deliuered to the Emperour, intreating iustice at his hands.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584

Or as another said to a mouthy Aduocate, why barkest thou at me so sore?

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

Tully whiche in tho days was a great Aduocate in Rome sholde plede Miloes cause.

The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528

[A. iii.r] rude vtteraunce of the Aduocate greatly hindereth and apeyreth his clie [n] tes cause.

The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528