[Footnote 22: Perhaps the first bail-bond historically noted.

And I remembered Penn before his accusers, and Fox in the bail-dock, where he was lifted up in spirit, as he tells us, and "the Judge and the Jury became as dead men under his feet.

There was Suina man able to furnish excellent counsel for bail actions.

And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases, to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects.

They came with warm hands, sympathetic words, and offers of bail money and other aid, if wanted.

Their history and campaign incidents were duly paraded in the newspapers; and throughout the Union Lincoln's ancient and local sobriquet of "Honest Old Abe" was supplemented by the national epithet of "The Illinois Bail-splitter."

The bail des fermes was re-established, the Caisse d'escompte had resumed payment, the stockholders (rentiers) received their quarters' arrears, the loan whereby the comptroller-general met all expenses had reached eleven per cent.