Lorenzo Dow, a 19th century evangelist, was going on a preaching tour when at some point he came to a small town one cold winter night. Once at the local general store he saw the town's lawyers gathered around the potbellied stove.
Dow told the men about a recent vision in which he had been given a tour of hell, quite like the traveler in Dante's Inferno. One of the lawyers then asked what he had seen.
"Very much what I see here," Dow said. "All of the lawyers gathered in the hottest place."
A Dublin lawyer died in poverty and many barristers of the city subscribed to a fund for his funeral. The Lord Chief Justice of Orbury was asked to donate a shilling (a quarter). "Only a shilling?" said the Justice, surprised. "Only a shilling to bury an attorney? Well, look, here's a guinea (roughly 20 shillings); go and bury 20 more of them."