Notes & Queries Archive
QUERY1849

A MAIDEN ASSIZE—WHITE GLOVES

By A LIMB OF THE LAW.

Mr. Editor.—I forward for insertion in your new publication the following "Note," taken from the Times of the 20th of August, 1847:— "A Fortunate County.—In consequence of there being no prisoners, nor business of any kind to transact at the last assizes for the county of Radnor, the high sheriff, Mr. Henry Miles, had to present the judge, Mr. Justice Cresswell, with a pair of white kid gloves, embroidered in gold, and which have been forwarded to his lordship; a similar event has not taken place for a considerable number of years in that county. His lordship remarked that it was the first tim…

Topics: Victorian Customs, Judicial Practices

Locations: Radnor