[42] Turner's "History of England," i. 514
[43] We owe this curious unpublished letter to the zeal and care of
Professor Dugald Stewart, in his excellent "Dissertations."
[44] It is still a Chancery word. An answer in Chancery, &c., is
referred for _impertinence_, reported _impertinent_--and the
_impertinence_ ordered to be struck out, meaning only what is
immaterial or superfluous, tending to unnecessary expense. I am
indebted for this explanation to my friend, Mr. Merivale; and to
another learned friend, formerly in that court, who describes its
meaning as "an excess of words or matter in the pleadings," and who
has received many an official fee for "expunging impertinence,"
leaving, however, he acknowledges, a sufficient quantity to make the
lawyers ashamed of their verbosity.
[45] Sen. Epist. 21.
[46] Baillet gives the dates and plans of these grammars. The
_cabalistic_ was published in Bruxelles, 1642, in 12mo. The
_audacious_ was in folio, printed at Frankfort, 1654.--Jugemens des
Savans. Tome ii. 3me partie.