circuiteers

Brother-circuiteers came to his wife's drawing-room for tea and chat, coffee and cards.

A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866

The ostentatious and costly hospitality which law and public opinion thus compelled or encouraged them to exercise towards circuiteers of all ranks had seriously embarrassed a great number of country gentlemen; and the queen was assailed with entreaties for a reform that should free a sheriff of small estate from the necessity of either ruining himself, or incurring a reputation for stinginess.

A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866

Another of the memorable Northern circuiteers was John Hullock, who, like George Wood, became a baron of the Exchequer, and of whom the following story is told on good authority.

A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866

But of all the great men whose names illustrate the annals of the circuit, Lord Eldon is the person most frequently remembered in connexion with the jovial ways of circuiteers in the old time.

A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866

Exposed to some of the discomforts, if not all the dangers, [33] of travel; required to ride over black and cheerless tracts of moor and heath: now belated in marshy districts, and now exchanging shots with gentlemen of the road; sleeping, as luck favored them, in way-side taverns, country mansions, or the superior hotels of provincial towns -- the circuiteers of olden time found their advantage in cultivating social hilarity and establishing an etiquette that encouraged good-fellowship in their itinerant societies.

A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866