as professional training[1]. That they were also Societies to which it was deemed no small honour to belong is shown by the presence amongst ordinary members of many of the chief public men of the time, at their respective dates—Royal and Noble personages, Statesmen, Soldiers, Sailors, Courtiers, Ecclesiastical and other Dignitaries[2]— who were admitted apparently honoris causa, though there is no express mention of the fact on the Registers.
Another, and not the least interesting feature of the List, is the presence upon it of a number of members from the British North American Colonies before their separation from the Mother Country, who, on their return home, took a leading part in bringing about that separation, and in the framing of the Federal and State Constitutions, a part for
- ↑ Fortescue (De Laudibus, cap. 49) relates that the curriculum of students at the Inns of Court included not only the study of the Law, but such subjects as "sacred and prophane History," and that even the lighter accomplishments of Singing, Dancing, and all kinds of Music were practised; while Sir George Buck (Appendix to Stow's Chronicle, p. 1069) reckons the Inns amongst the " Universities of England."
- ↑ Including one Mitred Abbot (p. 18).
