court
The eastern arcade of the Field, walled in and roofed over a century ago: a long hall with a single tall window at the west end so that the afternoon sun enters along the floor. At the east end stands the witness wall, whitewashed every week, and before it the Court lamp on its iron tripod. A shadow called to testify is laid across the wall under that lamp, and a Reader reads it aloud to the bench. Sentences are given in lamp-hours: a fine of forty hours is forty hours of lamp withdrawn. The Jus...
Located in The Ledger of Shadows.