As a married woman, I was unable to give recognizances, being only a chattel, not a person cognisable by law; the Court mercifully ignored thisor I should have had to go to prisonand accepted Mr. Bradlaugh's sole recognizance as covering us both.

All the clergy here are his pupils, and suck all they have from him; Allen cannot make a warrant without his precedent, nor our quondam John Evans draw a recognizance sine directione Michaelis.

After waiting for her about an hour, the magistrate said, "Well gentlemen, the woman does not make her appearance, and I shall be obliged to forfeit your recognizance.

During the walk she had taken rapid recognizance of everything in her path.

" Of course, the master was very angry, and so was the magistrate, who had inadvertently written the recognizance just as it was dictated to him.