mittimuses

Updated: June 5, 2025

"Then," said he, "I must commit you;" and ordered his clerk to make a mittimus. And divers mittimuses were made, but none of them would hold; for still, when they came to be read, we found such flaws in them as made him throw them aside, and write more. He had his eye often upon me, for I was a young man, and had at that time a black suit on.

Thomas Ellwood - The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself