Edward Jenks (1861–1939) British legal scholar
Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter I, Old English Law, p. 7
“Perry [Como] gave his usual impersonation of a man who has simultaneously been told to say 'Cheese' and shot in the back with a poisoned arrow.”
'Olde Rubbishe'
Essays and reviews, The Crystal Bucket (1982)
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