EVERYTHING NECESSARY FOR A BARRISTER’S CHAMBERS.

£ s. d.

A mahogany chair, stuffed with hay, for the learned barrister 0 10 0

A japan chair, for the learned barrister’s clerk 0 3 0

A table to hold a plate and a mug, for the learned barrister 0 8 0

A foot-and-a-half wide by five-feet-six long French bedstead 0 13 0

A hay mattress for ditto 0 5 0

A superior feather-bed, warranted best damaged quills 1 5 0

Two blankets in one 0 7 0

A superior brown quilt 0 3 0

Six yards of calico, to fold into a pair of sheets 0 5 0

A yard of matting for the learned barrister’s sitting-room 0 4 0

A pint tea-kettle 0 0 6

A wig-box, the wig to be hired when wanted 0 4 0

Two yards of black stuff, to hang up to look like a gown 0 3 0

A pair of endorsed dummies, as briefs 0 1 6

A blue bag and white stock 0 2 0

A fender and one fire-iron 0 4 0

A coal-scoop 0 1 0

A set of backs of old books, labelled “Reports” 0 1 0

Sundries 0 0 6

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£5 0 0

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MOTTO FOR THE LONG FIRM.--“Order is heaven’s first law.”

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