...which is mentioned by William Browne as already proverbial in the seventeenth century : — I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after. The reference is to the stannary courts at Lydford in Devonshire, which were extremely arbitrary in...

...William Browne as already proverbial in the seventeenth century : — I oft have heard of Lyflford lair, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after. But the phrase 'law of Lydford,' for summary justice,1 has been traced as far back as the fourteenth...

...more than he wynneth. Richard the Redeles, 1399, iii. 145. EETS, P. Plow., Vis., p. 491. I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw And sit in judgment after. Wm. Browne, Lansd. MSS. 777, p. 36o. See Chambers, B. of Days, ii. 327, and Haz., p. 132. As it is...

...administration of justice prevailed. A burlesque copy of verses on this town begins : ' I oft have heard of Lydford Law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after.' See WEBTCOTT'S History of Devonthire. 3 See the acts 18 Cha. n. oh. 3 and 30 Cha. n. ch. 2, against...

...made its own laws — that oft-quoted and most unpleasant Lydford law, " Hang today; try to-morrow." " In the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." " Is this the place ? " you will cry as soon as we turn down by the "Dartmoor Inn," and Lydford comes...

...Lidford, with its fabled prototype of lynch law, whereof Browne, the Tavistock poet, wrote : I 've ofttimes heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after. Moretón Hampstead, Bovey Tracey with a church full of quaint epitaphs of Anglican martyrs, Holne,...

...it when they deal with Lydford. The poem begins with a reference to ' Lydford law ' : ' I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after'; 58 and the reference is probably to the cruel and peremptory laws of the Stannary Courts, of which...

...execute without a hearing. And when it was said in derision: "I oft have heard of Lydford law Where in the morn they hang and draw And sit in judgment after." The bard did not have in mind the custom that now prevails in the good commonwealth of Texas, for we...

...prisoner there, wrote the verses afterwards. They begin with the following allusion : " I oft have heard of Lydford law ; How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ; At first I wondered at it much, But since I find the matter such As it deserves no laughter." men of Devon and...

...it. Lydford law was, but also gather that in Browne's time it had passed into a proverb. I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgement after : At first I wondered at it much ; But soon I found the matter such As it deserves...