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Baron Amphlett being admitted a Serjeant-At-Law, 1874. Creator: Unknown.
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Baron Amphlett being admitted a Serjeant-At-Law, 1874. 'It seems likely that under the Judicature Act of last Session Sir R. Amphlett will be at once the "last of the Barons" and the last of the Serjeants. We present a sketch of the curious old ceremony of admitting the new Judge to the degree of Serjeant-at-Law. The Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and his four puisne brethren endeavour to preserve their gravity while Mr. Baron Amphlett, attended by his "colt" (Mr. R. Holmden Amphlett), prays the widow's dower in the cause of Ann Wynn, widow of Francis Wynn, against Richard Jones, and demands of the said Richard Jones a third part of three hundred acres of land, messuages, and barns in Yorkshire. A learned Serjeant makes a feint of opposing the application on the part of Richard Jones (who, together with Ann Wynn, is alleged to be present in court), but speedily withdraws, and then the new Baron is admitted within the ranks of the Serjeants, bows to the court, and shakes hands with his coifed friends on each side of him. The Chief Justice asks him if he has anything to move, to which the learned gentleman responds with a graceful bow and retires with his "colt" to the Queen's Bench, where he is sworn in'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.
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