260; also iii. 420.
[415] In England in like manner, and perhaps for the same reason, all
Attorneys have been converted into Solicitors.
[416] 'There is at Edinburgh a society or corporation of errand boys,
called Cawdies, who ply in the streets at night with paper lanthorns,
and are very serviceable in carrying messages.' _Humphrey Clinker_.
Letter of Aug. 8.
[417] Their services in this sense are noticed in the same letter.
[418]
'The formal process shall be turned to sport,
And you dismissed with honour by the Court.'
FRANCIS. Horace, _Satires_, ii.i.86.
[419] Mr. Robertson altered this word to _jocandi_, he having found in
Blackstone that to irritate is actionable. BOSWELL.
[420] Quoted by Johnson, _ante_, ii. l97.
[421] His god-daughter. See _post_ May 10, 1784.
[422] See _post_, under Dec. 20, 1782
[423] See _ante_, i. 155
[424] The will of King Alfred, alluded to in this letter, from the
original Saxon, in the library of Mr. Astle, has been printed at the
expense of the University of Oxford. BOSWELL.
[425] He was a surgeon in this small Norfolk town.
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