Clerical Tonsure
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The having the head shaven, which was formerly peciiliar to clerks, or persons in orders, and which the coits worn by serjeants at law are sup- ) posed to have been intrcduced to conceal.
1 Bl. Comm. 24, note ¢; 4 Bl. Comm. 367.