Bencher

There is Pump Court and Fountain Court, with their hydraulic apparatus, but one never heard of a bencher disporting in the fountain; and can’t but think how many a counsel learned in the law of old days might have benefited by the pump.

ten of them Aldermen, or chief Benchers

Come, come, you are well understood to be a perfecter / giber for the table than a necessary bencher in the / Capitol.