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Bailiffs

Images

  • A young man, 'Sir Fopling Flutter' ogles women through a lens while a bailiff serves him a writ. Mezzotint, 1769, by J. Dixon after himself.
  • A doctor taking the pulse of a gouty bachelor surrounded by the consequences of his life style. Mezzotint, ca. 1770.
  • A drunken man sits at home with his family while bailiffs remove their furniture. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • A drunken man sits at home with his family while bailiffs remove their furniture. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • A bailiff (Mr Fixem, centre) calls on an affluent man (left) to enforce payment of a debt, assisted by his assistant (Bung, right). Etching by George Cruikshank.
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    In this booke is conteyned the offyce of shyryffes, baylyffes of lybertyes, escheatours, constables, and coroners, and sheweth what euery one of them maye do by vertue of these offices : drawen oute of bookes of the commen lawe and of the statutes.

    Fitzherbert, Anthony, 1470-1538 | Date: [1558?]
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    A bailiff (Mr Fixem, centre) calls on an affluent man (left) to enforce payment of a debt, assisted by his assistant (Bung, right). Etching by George Cruikshank.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: [1836] | Reference: 32377i
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    In this boke is conteyned ye office of shyryffes, baylyffes of lybertyes, escheatours, constables, & coroners : and sheweth what euerye one of them may do by vertue of theyr offyces drawen out of bokes of the comen lawe & of the statutes.

    Fitzherbert, Anthony, 1470-1538 | Date: In the yere of our Lorde God. M.CCCCC.XLIX. The .IX. daye of Marche
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    A clerk named Boniface bows and presents a financial document. Etching by R. Brichet, ca. 1783, after J. F. de Göz.

    Goez, Joseph Franz, Freiherr von, 1754-1815. | Date: [1783?] | Reference: 2954096i
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    A doctor taking the pulse of a gouty bachelor surrounded by the consequences of his life style. Mezzotint, ca. 1770.

    | Date: [1770?] | Reference: 11198i
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