A Minute of the evidence of the witness is drawn up forthwith and read to the witness.
The outcome was a decision to limit the width of the bat, a ruling that was signed off in the club minutes by Brett himself, along with the club captain, John Nyren, and their star batsman, John Small, who was also a bat maker: "In view of the performance of one White of Ryegate on September 23rd," it read, "that ffour [sic] and quarter inches shall be the breadth forthwith.
During his illness Starkey read one of his curate's sermons, and was not only "cured" forthwith, but embraced his strange doctrines.
The result is a thoroughly good read, which will almost certainly be consigned forthwith to New Labour's equivalent of the Vatican's 'Index' of works the faithful are forbidden to read.
There is a presumption that if the worst, most delinquent tearaways would just put down their machetes for a moment and sit down to read a good book, they would instantly see the merit in a well-tailored pair of galoshes, join the world Scout movement and behave with stiff-upper-lipped decency at all times forthwith.
In 1981, nominee John Banville wrote a letter to the Guardian requesting that the prize be given to him forthwith; with the prize fund he would buy every copy of the longlisted books in Ireland and donate them to libraries, "thus ensuring that the books not only are bought but also read - surely a unique occurence".
Everyone who has read her at all, and some who have not, knows a little of it: how her first husband, the villainous M. Willy, captain of a stable of ghostly, anonymous scribes, thrust a pen into her hand, which forthwith produced the unforgettable Claudine, whom he at once claimed as his own.
"To say we didn't have an understanding that the collections would begin forthwith?
This order is forthwith".
"They must be stopped forthwith".
