From the PREFACE. The subject of this work has been foreshadowed in the article under the same title in the ' Edinburgh Review' for October, 1878. It has been long projected; the time has arrived when it is required.

This is a reprint of the 1942 edition, which was strictly limited to 1000 copies. (Despite requests for additional copies, Warren refused to reissue the book. (He published an edition of extracts instead, however, in order to address these ...

Part One includes: The king's serjeant and the legal system of the Irish medieval lordship; The king's serjeant in Tudor Ireland, 1485- 1603; The serjeants in the Stuart era, 1603- 90; From the Boyne to the Union - The serjeants in ...