Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon].

  • Richard Fenton
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    judge was summing up the evidence, too clear and uncontradicted not to convict him, he was amusing himself by trans- ferring the live stock he had bred in pri- son, from his own neglected pasture, to one more highly cultivated and flowery, the bar wig of the Attorney-general on the circuit, at whose back he stood. The jailor, who was likewise a barber, and dealt in other locks than those of a pri- son, had long eyed the bushy treasure, and, in the event of his being hanged, had bargained for the crop. This man was purveyor of hair to one of his fraternity in the neighbourhood of Lincoln’s Inn, who had ever since the introduction of the bar wig, the monopoly of those pompous coverings for the heads of all the eminent law- yers of that day ; and two years after, having undergone the varied ordeal of papering, pinching, crimping, baking, and torture a thousand ways, I was pro- moted to thatch the cranium of the notorious judge Jefferies, that bloody
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