I can assure you that I esteem most highly the honour of dining with you and my brother Benchers this evening, and with those distinguished men whom I see around me right and left.
The Benchers assume and exercise a power that can scarcely be reconciled to the reason of the thing.
It is no less probable that his fine musical taste enabled him to see that the Middle Temple benchers were in the right, and gave especial weight to his words when he spoke against Harris's instrument.
In February, 1682, the Benchers of the Temples, wishing to obtain for their church an organ of superlative excellence, invited Father Smith and Renatus Harris to compete for the honor of supplying the instrument.
In June, 1685, the benchers of the Middle Temple, made a written declaration in favor of Father Smith, and urged that his organ should be forthwith accepted.
Students and barristers outshone the brightest idlers at Whitehall, whilst within the walls of their Inns benchers still made a faint show of enforcing old restrictions upon costume.
Both organs being thus stationed under the roof of the church, the committee of benchers appointed to decide on their relative merits declared themselves ready to listen.
The same habits of uproarious self-indulgence were in vogue with the benchers of the inns, and the Doctors of Doctors' Commons.
Then the judges and benchers take their places, and sit down at the upper end of the hall.
The benchers accordingly informed him that they would not call him to the bar, giving as their reasons his 'want of birth, want of fortune, want of education, and want of temper.
His friend, William Jackson, hereupon printed a letter,[7] addressing the benchers in the true Junius style.
But must keep it up, I suppose, for good of Inn; and Benchers (hang them!
Have the Benchers decided to sternly limit the numbers of the Profession?
Find that the Students who are going to be "called within the Bar," have to be presented to the Benchers on one special evening, after dinner, in Hall.
The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple" is one of the essays richest at once in personal recollections, in wonderful portraiture, and in those subtle literary touches which impart their peculiar flavour to the whole.
Elderly benchers indulged in facetious observations upon the young man's pale face and moody manner.
The benchers of the Inner Temple will tell you that Robert Audley is troubled with none of the epidemics whose outward signs are turn-down collars and Byronic neckties.
With this request, however, it was impossible for the Benchers to comply, though anxious, by every means in their power, to do honour to his memory.
Even Benchers were found to sit in Term Time with hats on.
The routine of the Inn was impeccable; but students and benchers were not.
The benchers and barristers of the Middle Temple, under the direction of the prostitute Shower, were again foremost in the race of infamy.
The king was thanked in several addresses for directing the customs to be levied, particularly in one from the benchers and barristers of the Middle Temple.
In the end, four of the Benchers were carried out dead.
There was a very painful scene last week at the dinner of the Benchers of Gray's Inn.
Who should come into the Square, marching along as if the old place, Benchers and all, belonged to him, but Mr. Athelstan Arundel!
When he talked, he sometimes became animated, and would tell anecdotes of the Bar and of the time when he was called, nearly fifty years agone, by the Benchers of Gray's Inn.
The benchers sit at a table round which are ranged the students to be called.
Formerly orders were frequently issued both by the benchers and by the crown on the subject of the dress, manners, morals and religious observances of students and members.
Their jurisdictions and privileges are equal, and upon affairs of common interest the benchers of the four inns meet in conference.
The benchers are the senior members of the society, who are invested with the government of the body to which they belong.
Other benchers fulfil the duties of master of the library, master of the walks or gardens, dean of the chapel and so forth, while others are readers, whose functions are referred to below.
The benchers vary in number from twenty in Gray's Inn to seventy and upwards in Lincoln's Inn and the Inner Temple.
In 1842, the entire available space in the churchyard being covered with graves, the benchers decided to permit no more interments there, and ordered it to be paved over.
The benchers observe somewhat more style at their table than the other members do at theirs.
To the parliament chamber, adjoining the hall, the benchers repair after dinner.
Then the Judges and Benchers take their places, and sit down at the upper end of the Hall.
If it was resolved upon, the two youngest of those who served as butlers for the festival lighted two torches, with which they preceded the benchers to the upper end of the hall.
Michael whispered a word or two to one of the Masters, and David was presently summoned to attend the Benchers and their distinguished guests in the inner chamber to which they withdrew for wine and dessert.
For a number of reasons I know pretty well that the Benchers would not make themselves ridiculous by having the story of my successful entry into their citadel told in open court.
She isn't about to be executed for having deceived the Benchers of the Inner Temple in 1905; she is only in prison for a suffragist offence).
The benchers appear to take cognizance of any kind of misconduct, whether professional or not, which they may deem unworthy of the rank of barrister.
Counsel may also be punished by the summary power of the court or judge as for a contempt, and by the benchers of the inn to which he may belong on cause shown.
Its powers are not disciplinary, but it would draw the attention of the benchers to any gross violation of the professional etiquette of the bar.
I was dining with my brother benchers at the Middle Temple Hall, when a message was brought that a gentleman would like to see me "partickler" after dinner, if I could give him a few minutes.
Benchers of mine, and when we met at the Parliament Chamber after dinner it was more than likely that many stories would be told, for we often fought our battles over again.
Seems that theBenchers have thrown open dining-hall to the public as well!
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