G.B.Grove

THE

PLEADER'S GUIDE,

A DIDACTIC POEM,

IN TWO BOOKS,

CONTAINING

THE CONDUCT OF A SUIT AT LAW,

With the Arguments of

COUNSELLOR BOTHER'UM,

AND

COUNSELLOR BORE'UM,

IN AN ACTION BETWIXT

JOHN-a-GULL, and JOHN-a-GUDGEON,

For ASSAULT AND BATTERY, at a late
Contested Election.

BY THE LATE

JOHN SURREBUTTER, Esq.
SPECIAL PLEADER, AND BARRISTER AT LAW.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES, (SUCCESSORS

TO MR. CADELL) IN THE STRAND.

Entered at Stationer's Hall.

5001936

LIBRARY

TO THE READER.

THE following production of the late ingenious MR. SURREBUTTER, Special Pleader, and Barrifter at Law, is fubmitted to your perusal in the precise form in which it was found among the Author's Papers at his decease. The Poem is divided into two Books, each of which is subdivided into eight Parts, being the substance of a Courfe of Lectures originally intended for the use of his kinsman,