. Pleasantries of English courts and lawyers. ons less in accordance withjustice than her own private interests. Never did judgeset law and equity more fearfully at nought. Not con-tent with the exorbitant sums which she wrung from themerchants whom she compelled to unload their ships ather royal hythe, the Lady Keeper required the City topay her a large sum—due to her, as she pretended, fromarrears of queen gold ; and when Richard Picard andJohn de Northampton, sheriffs of London, had the pre-sumption to resist this claim, she very promptly packedthem off to the Marshalsea. Having thus dispos
. Pleasantries of English courts and lawyers. ons less in accordance withjustice than her own private interests. Never did judgeset law and equity more fearfully at nought. Not con-tent with the exorbitant sums which she wrung from themerchants whom she compelled to unload their ships ather royal hythe, the Lady Keeper required the City topay her a large sum—due to her, as she pretended, fromarrears of queen gold ; and when Richard Picard andJohn de Northampton, sheriffs of London, had the pre-sumption to resist this claim, she very promptly packedthem off to the Marshalsea. Having thus disposed ofthe sheriffs, she, on equally unlawful , subjectedthe Lord Mayor to like treatment. But the great event during her tenure of the seals wasthe birth of her daughter Catherine, on St. Catherines COURTS AND LAWYERS. 59 Day, 1353. The Keeper of the Seals was not actually-delivered on the bed of justice ; but with only a slightdeparture from literal truth, the historian may affirmthat the little princess was born upon the c-^.^1^^
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