CHAPTER VIII.
GEORGE BORROW'S NORWICH--THE LAWYER'S OFFICE Doubts were very frequently expressed in Borrow's lifetime as to his having really been articled to a solicitor, but the indefatigable Dr.
Knapp set that point at rest by reference to the Record Office.

Borrow was articled to Simpson and Rackham of Tuck's Court, St.Giles's, Norwich, 'for the term of five years'-- from March 1819 to March 1824--and these five years were spent in and about Norwich, and were full of adventure of a kind with which the law had nothing to do.

If Borrow had had the makings of a lawyer he could not have entered the profession under happier auspices.

The firm was an old established one even in his day.

It had been established in Tuck's Court as Simpson and Rackham, then it became Rackham and Morse, Rackham, Cooke and Rackham, and Rackham and Cooke; finally, Tom Rackham, a famous Norwich man in his day, moved to another office, and the firm of lawyers who occupy the original offices in our day is called Leathes Prior and Sons.