HIGH (or HIGHWAY) LAWYER, subs. phr. (thieves’).—A mounted robber or highwayman. See also SCRIPPER, OKE, MARTIN, and STOOPING.
1592. GREENE, Groatsworth of Wit, (ed. DYCE), Int. p. xxix. The legerdemains of … HIGH LAWYERS.
1608. DEKKER, The Belman of London [GROSART (1885), iii. 151]. The thiefe that commits the robbery, and is cheife clerke to Saint Nicholas, is called the HIGH LAWYER.
