CIRCUIT JUDGE'S RETINUE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 70, 10 March 1914, Page 8

CIRCUIT JUDGE'S RETINUE.

I 14 BEDROOMS AT ONE TOWN. I am ashamed of the amount of luggage a judge has to carry about with him.—Mr Justice Banker, before the Royal Commission on Delay in the King's Bench Division. The cook and his cooking utensils were mentioned by Mr Justice Darling as among the equipment which accompanies a judge on circuit. The full retinue, according to an authority in a western assize town, is: A marshal, a clerk, butler, cook, valet, marshal's man. _ While the sheriff, in addition to providing housing accommodation! with fire, lighting, linen, and' kitchen utensils, supplies a house butler, footman, kitchenmaids, scullerymaids, chambermaids, bootmen, and knifemen. He also is responsible for t'he judge's state coach, the ringing of the church bells on his arrival, and the trumpeters. According to the same West Country authority all the roams in the judge'? lodgings at an assize town were thus occupied: Two judges' bedrooms, two marshals' bedrooms, two clerks' bedrooms, two marshalmen's bedrooms, two butlers' rooms, and one cook'si bedroom. Three other bedrooms were occupied by members of the judge's own family who were enjoying the tour on circuit. The baggage a judge takes with him is quit® personal or belongs to his retinae. j