Magistrates Court
Place
Also appears as: The Magistrates Court, The Old Magistrates Court
Court hard by the Bearpit. Blue-chinned justice, bacon testimony and the conversion of disorder into paperwork.
Appears in
- Helix Folt, the Conservative chapters:
- Pretty Poli chapters:
Connections
Who is found here
- Mr Justice Shallow presided over by (1 passage)
- Mr Justice Silent presided over by (1 passage)
From the books (2 passages)
The next assizes were to be held at the Magistrates Court, conveniently located just up the road from the Bearpit, with Messrs Justices Shallow and Silent presiding. Mr Justice Shallow had by the quaffing of a great quantity of port rendered his complexion exceedingly florid, and had by the generous application of schoolroom chalk rendered his chin surpassing blue. Mr Justice Shallow having by the identical methods achieved a comparable…
…assizes of the Justices, who for the most part sat upon the bench in their blue-chinned pomp at the Magistrates Court hard by the Bearpit. It so happened that upon the bench, between Justices Shallow and Silent sitting thereupon in their blue-chinned pomp, was to be found Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet, withal his pomp went more after a grey-feathered perching fashion. And it so happened that there was arraigned before these…