= 'The four Inns of Court, Gray's
Inn, Lincoln's Inn, the Inner, and the Middle Temple, have alone
the right of admitting persons to practise as barristers, and
that rank can only be attained by keeping the
requisite
number
of terms as a student at one of those Inns.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
95.
Two of Pecunia's attendants in _The Staple of News_ are
_Statute_ and _Band_ (i. e. Bond, see _U._ 34).
The two words are often mentioned together. In Dekker's
_Bankrouts Banquet_ (_Non-dram. Wks._ 3. 371)
statutes are served up to the bankrupts.
Trains is evidently trying to impress Fitzdottrel with the
importance of Merecraft's transactions.
ACT III.
=3. 1. 8 Innes of Court.
= 'The four Inns of Court, Gray's
Inn, Lincoln's Inn, the Inner, and the Middle Temple, have alone
the right of admitting persons to practise as barristers, and
that rank can only be attained by keeping the
requisite
number
of terms as a student at one of those Inns.
'--Wh-C.
Jonson dedicates _Every Man out of his Humor_ 'To the Noblest
Nurseries of Humanity and Liberty in the Kingdom, the Inns of Court.'
=3. 1. 10 a good man.= Gifford quotes _Merch. of Ven._
1. 3. 15: 'My meaning in saying he is a good man, is, to have
you understand me, that he is sufficient.' Marston, _Dutch
Courtesan_, _Wks._ 2. 57. uses the word in the same sense.
