CHAPTER XXIV

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BAYNARD'S CASTLE AND DOCTORS' COMMONS.

Baron Fitzwalter and King John--The Duties of the Chief Bannerer of London--An Old-fashioned Punishment for Treason--Shakesperian Allusions to Baynard's "Castle"--Doctors' Commons and its Five Courts--The Court of Probate Act, 1857--The Court of Arches--The Will Office--Business of the Court--Prerogative Court--Faculty Office--Lord Stowell, the Admiralty Judge--Stories of him--His Marriage--Sir Herbert Jenner Fust--The Court "Rising"--Doctor Lushington--Marriage Licences--Old Weller and the "Touters"--Doctors' Commons at the Present Day 281

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