Collar of Esses

MR. J.G. NICHOLS, in his reply to the Query of φ., says, that "the judges" are among those who are *now* privileged to wear these collars. Allow me to suggest to him that the privilege among them is limited to the *chiefs* of the three courts. The other judges certainly now never wear them, and I am unaware that they ever did so. I have a large, though by no means a perfect collection of legal portraits, and there is not one puisne judge or baron so distinguished. The earliest legal worthy who is represented with this collar is in the reign of Henry VIII., and it adorns not a chief justice, bu…