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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
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ing was largely rewarded in after life. Placed as a lad with a solicitor, whom he leftfor a merchants office, which he also resigned,eventually he was articled to one of the swornclerks of Chancery. At the expiration of hisarticles he qualified himself for the bar, but hadto wait long and patiently ere he was rewardedwith any practice. When briefs did at last fall to Soho Square.) SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY. 193 his lot, it very soon became manifest that they wereheld by a master, and the result was that a tide ofprosperity set in, and success came upon him likea flood. His income rose to about ^9,000 ayear, and in his diary he congratulated himself thathe did not press his father to buy him a seat in the 1806—the electors of Westminster having returnedhim to Parliament without the expenditure of ashilling on his part ; a great thing in those days ofbribery and corruption—and during the short ad-ministration of Mr. Grenville he was appointedSolicitor-General, and knighted. Nor was he dis-
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TIIE SIGN OF TheE MISCHIEF (sCC pa^C I96). Six Clerks Office. Romilly now rapidly rose todistinction in the Court of Chancery, where he wasdistinguished for his profound learning and forcibleeloquence ; and to him Lord Brougham has paidthe following tribute :— Romilly, by the force ofhis learning and talents, and the most spotlessintegrity, rose to the very height of professionalambition. He was beyond question or pretence ofrivalry the first man in the courts in this country.Romilly entered the House of Commons inII3--V01,. III. tinguished professionally only: but during hispolitical career he was listened to with rapt atten-tion, and a passage in one of his speeches in favourof the abolition of the slave-trade received thesingular honour of three distinct rounds of applausefrom the House. But Romillys grand claim to remembrance restsupon his humane efforts to mitigate the Draconiccode of English law, in which nearly three hundredcrimes, varying from murder to keeping company 194 O

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