ABSTRACT
By the AUTHOR A DECLARATION: First used in 1735. The pomp and authority of the mocklegal language is supported by the use of blackletter type and the spoof royal arms.
Haberdashers of Points and Particles: Editors like Theobald, who emphasise such details as punctuation, are contemptuously compared with tradesmen who live by selling such implicitly trivial items as thread, tape and buttons (see Jarvis 1995: 25-6, 79).
