During several stanzas the apparitor narrates to the devil, as one consummately wicked man to another, all the tricks of his trade to drum up cases for himself and his court.
The devil, amazed and disgusted at laws which "excell the paines of hell," turns to go, whereupon the apparitor seeks to arrest and fine him for traveling on the Sabbath.
The apparitor of the Bishop of London went with a citation into the shop of a mercer of St. Bride's, Henry Clitheroe by name.
A stranger had died in a house in St. Dunstan's belonging to a certain John Fleming, and an apparitor had been sent "to seal his chamber and his goods" that the church might not lose her dues.
The latter are explained, in an accompanying private note of instruction, to hold the money until the apparitor Cuebas marries his daughter, when he is to be aided with it.
In this case the tribunal, with rare moderation, only ordered its apparitor to seize the books in the hands of the students.
I must have stated somewhere in these memoirs that I passed more than thirty of my sixty-five years as apparitor to the Faculty of Letters at Dijon.
Nearly four years ago, my wife being dead and my children married, I had just accepted my retiring pension as apparitor to the Faculty, when an advertisement in the newspaper happened to come to my notice.
She was in one of the rooms belonging to an apparitor of that Officium, and, as he had a wife, or at least a partner, to take care of her, she might consider herself very well off.
The chief apparitor looked unflinching into the proconsul's gray-brown eyes.
Take this," he said, handing the apparitor the parchment, "and make search for the man herein described.
William Langlands, anapparitor or macer (bacularius) of the See of St Andrews, presented these letters to the curate of the church of Borthwick, requiring him to publish the same at the service of high mass.
It was the Court Calendar;31 there in order were written down cases which years ago the Apparitor had proclaimed with his own voice, before the authorities, or of which he had managed to learn later.
So the Apparitor quietly went out into the hall, seated himself by a candle, and took from his pocket a little book that always served him as a Prayer Book,30 and from which he never was parted, either at home or on a journey.
So speaking he threw open the door and called the Apparitor to undress him.
Toward this cheese house the Seneschal and the Apparitor walked silently, each armed with an immense pole, as with a pike; after them the housekeeper stole through the hemp, with the scullion, a small but very strong lad.
The Apparitor alone knew how to undo and fold up this belt; he took this trouble upon himself and ended with the following speech:— “Where was the harm that I moved the tables to the old castle?
Everybody knows that a party to a suit summons an apparitor and dictates to him whatever he chooses, and the apparitor proclaims it.
The Apparitor said rightly that in the hall of the castle there was room both for the gentlemen of the bar and for the invited guests.
The Apparitor had long ago arrived at the Count’s house.
As soon as he caught sight of the summons, the Apparitor extended his hand and listened with a solemn air; he stood there with dignity, but he would have been glad to jump for joy.
The apparitor is the ambassador of the law, and ambassadors are not subject to punishment, so that I do not know why you keep me under guard.
Mr. Garden then sent his apparitor for his commission, from the Bishop of London, to act as commissary.
Official patience with the ordained upstart was exhausted, and the apparitor was sent to summons Whitefield to the court of the Rev.
Being recalled by the apparitor and registrar, he returned, and handed in his exception to be read and filed.
The summons is not yet served on thee, and if they send an apparitor to Kinfauns without a warrant under the King's own hand, I make mine avow, by the Red Rover's soul!
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