Chris [Hollis] turned up in the morning and told me a good story.
Mr. Justice Phillimore was trying a sodomy case and brooded greatly whether his judgment had been right.
He went to consult [former Lord Chancellor] Bikenhead. “Excuse me, my lord, but could you tell me—What do your think one ought to give a man who allows himself to be buggered?”
“Oh, 30s or £2—anything you happen to have on you.”
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