The Inns of Court

INDEX

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, Y.

Abinger, Lord, 103
Abram, Messrs., shop, 67
Adam, architect, 197, 201
Addison, Joseph, 62, 66
Ainger, Canon, 59
Albert, Prince, 120
Alderson, Edward Hall, 94
Allington, Sir Richard, 183
Ancients. See Benchers
Anson, Sir William, 72
Apprentices at the Law, 5, 6, 9, 12, 17 ff., 36, 38, 39, 166, 186-188
Ashburton, Lord, 81
Ashmole, Elias, 81
Asquith, Right Hon. H. H., 93
Atterbury, Bishop, 183
Bacon, 136
Sir Francis, 89, 144-146, 148-152, 155-162
Sir Nicholas, 146, 153, 156
Barebone, Dr., 143
Barnard’s Inn, 102, 173-175
Barristers, Inner, 11 ff.
Outer, or Utter, 11 ff.
Roll, 80
Bathurst, Lord, 121
Beaumont, Francis, 89, 152
Benchers, 11 ff., 61, 95, 100, 153
Bernasconi, 117
Bettenham, Jeremy, 161
Blackfriars, 108, 109
Blackstone, Sir W., 70, 165
Boswell, James, 87-89
Bolting, 59
Bowen, Lord, 72
Brewer, Dr., 184
Brougham, Lord, 117, 121
Burghley, Lord, 142
Burke, Edmund, 45, 69
Burleigh, Lord, 149
Burnet, Bishop, 183, 184
Butler, Bishop, 183
Butler, Samuel, 57, 163
Byllyng, Sir W., 139
Camden, William, 163
Campbell, Lord, 81, 93, 121
Thomas, 126
Canning, George, 93, 121
Carew, Sir Randolph, 98
Carey Street, 177, 178
Chancery Lane (= Chancellor’s Lane = New Street), 1, 8, 106, 107, 122, 128, 196-199
Old Temple in, 29
Chapman, George, 163
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 37, 64, 104, 105, 191
Chelmsford, Lord, 103
Cheshire Cheese, the, 69
Chester Inn, 180
Chichester, Bishop of, 106, 107
Child’s Bank, 66
Churches, Round, 28, 29, 47
Cibber, Colley, 103
City, the, boundaries of, 6, 7
Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, 80
Clement’s Inn, 95, 177
Clergy excluded from the Courts, 4, 8
Cleveland, John, 163
Clifford’s Inn, 5, 167, 176, 178-180, 198
Kentish Mess, 180
Cobbett, William, 163
Cockburn, Sir Alexander, 81
Coif, the, 192, 195
Order of the, 188, 189
Coke, Sir Edward, 87, 92, 98, 179, 196, 201
Lord, 146
Coleridge, Lord, 72
Colman, George, 121
Colonies, the, and the Inns of Court, 78-80
‘Comedy of Errors,’ the, 150
Coney Garth, 107, 111
Congreve, William, 80
Connaught, H.R.H. the Duke of, 163
Converts, House of the, 181 ff.
Courts, the Civil, 3, 4
Coverley, Sir Roger de, 162
Cowper, Lord Chancellor, 81
William, 73, 104
Cox, Serjeant, 199
Cromwell, Oliver, 113, 114, 130
Thomas, 163
Crusades, 188
influence of, 2
Cursitor Street, 156
Davey, Lord, 121
Day, Thomas, 60
Denys, Hugh, 140
Despencer, Hugh le, 36
Devereux Court, 35, 82
Devil Tavern, the, 66
Devil’s Own, the, 129 ff.
Dickens, Charles, 126-128, 169-171, 176
quoted, 46, 82, 83
Disraeli, Benjamin, 121
Donne, Dr., 114 ff.
Drake, Sir Francis, 78
Eldon, Lord Chancellor, 81, 131, 134
Ellenborough, Lord, 93, 94, 134
Ellesmere, Earl of, 129
Ely, Bishops of, 197
Ely Place, 171
Embankment, the, 67, 74, 94
Erskine, Lord, 121, 133
Essex House, 35
Water Gate, 84
Inn, 35
Street, 29, 35
Evelyn, John, 81
Eyre, Sir James, 146
Faryngdon’s Inn, 198
Feasts and Bevels. See Inns of Court
Fetter Lane, 178, 198
Fielding, Henry, 62, 73
Finch, Sir Heneage, 99, 100
Fire of London, the, 45, 47, 57, 74, 96, 103, 179
of 1678, 59, 73, 81, 96
Fitchett’s Field, 30
Fitzgerald, Edward, quoted, 96
Percy, 176
Fleet Street, 1, 2, 5, 9, 29-31, 44, 65, 102, 178, 196
No. 16, 45
No. 17, 45
Ford, John, 80
Fresco by Watts, 120
Furnival’s Inn, 122, 175, 176
Gainsborough, 113
Gardiner, Bishop, 146
Gascoigne, George, 163
Sir William, 163
Gauden, Dr. John, 58
Gibbons, Grinling, 102
Gifford, Robert, M.R., 81
Gladstone, W. E., 121
Goldsmith, Oliver, 62, 65, 69-72, 104, 163
Goldsmith’s grave, 71
Goldsmith, Sir Francis, 185
‘Gorboduc,’ 99
Gordon Riots, 131, 132
Grant, Sir William, 133
Gray, Earl de, 108
Gray’s Inn, 6, 70, 87, 89, 108, 135 ff., 195
Ancients of, 153
and Barnard’s Inn, 173-175
and Francis Bacon, 148 ff.
and Queen Elizabeth, 146-152
and Shakespeare, 148, 150
and Staple Inn, 172
arms of, 160
buildings of, 142 ff.
Chapel, 144, 154, 155
Field Court, 159
Fields, 136
Fullwood’s Rents, 162
Gardens, 159 ff.
Gateways, 143, 144
Hall, 144 ff.
Lane, 136, 143
Library, 144, 145
masques and plays at, 148 ff.
moots received at, 21
origin of, 137-142
pensions and pensioners of, 153
Raymond Buildings, 159
Road, 145, 158
rookery in, 161
South Square, 143 ff., 157, 159
Square, 143, 155, 156
surroundings of, 135, 136
Verulam Buildings, 158, 159
Walks, 162
Grenville, George, 93
Grey Friars, the, 137
Greys, the, of Wilton, 137 ff.
Griffith, Henry, 147
Grimthorpe, Lord, 112, 118
Hale, Sir Matthew, 98, 118, 167, 179
Hallam, Henry, 122-128, 131
No. 13 (Soane Museum), 124-126
fresco, by Watts, 120, 121
Gateway, 111-113, 130
Library, 113, 118
New Hall, 118-122
Square, 122
Old Buildings, 113
Hall, 117, 118
origin of, 107-111
Revels at, 117
Stone Buildings, 118, 128, 129
Linge, Bernard van, 116
Lockwood, Sir Frank, 94, 121
London County Council, 45, 67
London, growth of, 1, 136
Louvres, 23, 24, 76, 117
Lovell, Sir Thomas, 111, 112
Lushington, Stephen, 94
Lyon’s Inn, 176
Lyte, Sir Henry Maxwell, 183
Lyttleton, Edward, Lord, 92, 130
Sir Thomas, 92, 98
Macaulay, Lord, 157
Mackworth, Dr. John, 173
Macnaghten, Lord, 121
Mandeville, Geoffrey, effigy of, 54
Manningham, John, diary of, 77
Mansfield, Lord, C.J., 81, 103, 121,

131
Masque of Flowers, the, 152
Masques and Plays, 24-26, 65, 89, 148 ff.
Matthews, Sir Philip, 141
Maule, Sir John, 93
Mercers’ Company, the, 175
Micklethwaite, Dr., 58
Middle Temple. See Temple, Middle
Lane, 67, 74
Midsummer Night’s Dream, 148
Milford Lane, 84
Molyneux Globes, 79
Moots, 11 ff.
More, Sir Thomas, 122, 175, 181
Museum, Sir John Soane, 124-126
Record Office, 183, 184
Nethersale, John, 118
Neville, Sir Thomas, 142
New Inn, 40, 181
Norths, the, 81
Norton, Thomas, 65, 99
O’Connell, Daniel, 20, 121
‘Old Curiosity Shop,’ the, 126-128
Ossulston, Manor of, 137
Overbury, Sir Thomas, 80
Parvis, the, of St. Paul’s, 191
Paston Letters, the, 139
Paulet, Sir Amias, 66
Pembroke, Earl of, 35, 36
Earls of, effigies of, 53
Penn, William, 121
Perceval, 121
Petyt, Sylvester, 102
William, 102
Pitt, William, 113, 121
Plays. See Inns of Court, Masques
Plowden, Edmund, 80
Monument, 56
Poland, Sir Harry, 101
Pollocks, the, 81, 100
Portpool, Manor of, 137, 140, 141
Market, 171
Portsmouth, Duchess of, 127
Street, 127
Post-Revels. See Inns of Court, Feasts, etc.
Praed, W. M., 69
Prudential Assurance Company, 169, 170, 172, 175, 176
Prynne, John, 25
William, 117, 121
Pym, John, 77, 163
Queen Anne, 98
Caroline, 98
Elizabeth, 25, 78, 146-152
Mary, 98
Victoria, 6, 119, 184
Quincey, Thomas de, 80
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 78, 160
Raymond, Lord, 146
Rayner, C. J., 121
Readers, 12 ff.
Readerships, revived, 20
Readings, 11 ff.
Record Office, the Public, 80, 179, 182-185
Museum of the, 183, 184
Red Cross Knights. See Templars Lion Fields, 143
Revels. See Inns of Court
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 69
Robes of the Bar, 193, 194
Rogers, Samuel, 93
Rolls Chapel, 182-185
Monuments, 183
Master of the, 182 ff.
Romilly, Sir Samuel, 132, 136
Roo, John, 150
Rupert, Prince, 100
Russell, Lord, 72, 121
Sackville, Thomas, 65, 99
Savoy, the, 36
Scott, Sir G., 118
Scrope’s Inn, 108, 195
Scropes, Le, the, 108, 195, 196
Selden, John, 87, 93, 167, 179
grave of, 55
Serjeants, the, 12, 13, 186 ff.
Abolition of the Order of, 194, 195
the, at St. Paul’s, 190, 191
Feasts, 192, 193
Inn (Chancery Lane), 178, 179, 197-199
Inn (Fleet Street), 92, 196, 197
Inns, 12, 195 ff.
Robes of the, 193, 194
Shadwell, William, 80
Shakespeare, William, 42, 43, 75, 148, 150
at the Temple, 24
‘Twelfth Night,’ 77, 78
Shene, Convent of, 141
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 20
Shirley, James, 153
Shoe Lane, 108
Sidney, Sir Philip, 162
Skipworth, W., 139
Smirke, Sir Robert, 198
Sydney, 96
Soane, Sir John, Museum, 124-126
Solicitors excluded from the Inns of Court, 166
Somers, Lord Chancellor, 81
Somerset, Earl of, 152
House, 181
Southey, Robert, 163
Spedding, James, 96, 149, 151, 160
Spenser, Edmund, 68, 69
St. Anne, Chapel of. See Temple
St. Dunstan’s Church, 178
St. George’s Inn. See New Inn
St. James’s Palace, 112
St. John, Oliver, 130
Order of. See Knights Hospitallers
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 56, 67, 137
the Serjeants and, 189-191, 195
St. Thomas, Chapel of. See Temple
Knights of, 190
Staple Inn, 87, 137, 169-173
Stapleton Inn, 35
Steele, Richard, 66
Stowell, Lord, 81
Strand Inn, 180
the, 35, 177
Strange, Sir John, 183
Street, 30, 178
Architect, 1
Sundials (Temple), 72, 73, 81 n., 95, 96
Swift, Dean, 66
Taylor, Sir Robert, 128
Tom, 90, 91
Templars, the Knights, 1, 2, 27 ff., 48, 98, 106, 171
and the Serjeants, 188, 189
badge of the, 31, 32
customs of, 97
decadence and dissolution of the Order of the, 33 ff.
effigies of, 46, 51-55
origin of the Order, 27, 28
settlement in England, 28 ff.
Temple, the, 29, 110
a place of sanctuary, 60, 61
attacked by Wat Tyler’s men, 36
Temple Bar, 6-8
Chapel of St. Thomas, 59, 189, 200
Church, the, 44-59, 71, 74, 97
Chapel of St. Anne, 48, 189
dedication of the, 30, 31
description of, 46-56
Master of the, 57-59
Master’s House, 47, 57, 58
Cloisters, 59 , 60
Flower Show, 94
Gardens, 6, 42, 43
buildings, 74
Temple, Inner, 6, 37, 86 ff. See Clifford’s Inn and Temple, Templars
Benchers’ Garden, 196
characteristics of the, 86, 87
charter of the, 40, 41
Clock Tower, 97
Cloister Court, 60
crest of the, 31, 32
Crown Office Row, 89-91
Farrar’s Buildings, 89
Feasts, 192
Fig-tree Court, 73, 93, 94
Garden, 94, 95
gateway, 1, 44, 45
Gordon Rioters at, 132
Hall, 38, 59, 65, 76, 96-99, 101
Harcourt Buildings, 74
Hare Court, 68, 89, 92, 93, 101
Johnson’s Buildings, 44, 87
King’s Bench Walk, 87, 91, 102-104
Library, 96, 101, 102
Mitre Court, 89, 92
Buildings, 91, 92
Paper Buildings, 89 ff., 93, 102
Parliament, 18
rebuilding of, 96
Revels at, 98 ff.
solicitors excluded from, 166
sundial, Temple Gardens, 95
Tanfield Court, 97
Treasurer’s House, 97
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FOOTNOTES:

[1] ‘Survey of London.’

[2] Dugdale, ‘Origines Juridiciales.’

[3] Fortescue, ‘De Laudibus Legum.’

[4] Bedwell, Quarterly Review, October, 1908.

[5] Strype.

[6] Pollock and Maitland, ‘History of English Law,’ vol. i., p. 102.

[7] See my ‘Story of Oxford,’ chap. iv.

[8] Kelly, ‘Short History of the English Bar.’

[9] ‘The Glory of Generosity,’ quoted by Herbert, ‘Aniquities of the Inns of Court.’

[10] Kelly, p. 56.

[11] Kelly, p. 127.

[12] Bellot, ‘Inner and Middle Temple,’ p. 36.

[13] Dugdale.

[14] MS. cited by Addison, ‘Knights Templars,’ p. 348.

[15] ‘History of the Temple,’ pp. 64-67.

[16] See Hutchinson, ‘Minutes of Parliament of Middle Temple,’ vol. i., p. 12.

[17] An excellent little brochure on No. 17, Fleet Street, is published by the L.C.C., and obtainable in ‘Prince Henry’s Council Chamber.’

[18] The site is marked by seven large stone slabs. Outside the north door of the old Hall stood the Chapel of St. Thomas. It was connected with the Cloisters, and thereby with the Chapel of St. Anne or with the present main entrance of the Temple Church. Indications of the old cloister are traceable in the present Buttery and the ancient chamber beneath it. The walls of this chamber are of rubble and Kentish rag, and the ceiling is supported by groined arches. Its floor is on the same level as that of the ancient Church. There is an open fireplace of later date. Mr. Inderwick takes this room to have been the old “Refectory of the Priests.”

[19] ‘The Temple Church.’

[20] Cf. ‘The Inns of Court and Chancery’ (W. J. Loftie).

[21] ‘Origines Juridiciales.’

[22] ‘Sepulchral Monuments,’ vol. i., pp. 24, 50.

[23] Gough, ‘Sepulchral Monuments.’

[24] Raised 2 feet in 1908, but otherwise unaltered.

[25] Can only be visited by obtaining an order. It would be gracious of the Benchers to relax this restriction.

[26] Bellot, ‘Inner and Middle Temple.’

[27] Thackeray, ‘Pendennis.’

[28] ‘Pendennis.’ Before migrating to No. 2, Brick Court, William Makepeace Thackeray lived at 10, Crown Office Row, probably sharing chambers, which have since disappeared, with Tom Taylor.

[29] ‘Middle Temple Records.’

[30] ‘Life of Wolsey.’

[31] Bellot, p. 269.

[32] ‘English Humourists.’

[33] See Irving, ‘Goldsmith.’

[34] Wheatley, ‘Literary Landmarks of London.’

[35] Vol. v., p. 231.

[36] Restored 1903.

[37] ‘Diary of John Manningham, of the Middle Temple.’

[38] Quarterly Review, October, 1908; Green Bag, April, 1908.

[39] Upon the seventeenth-century block, which it replaced, there used to be a sundial, which has disappeared. Perhaps its motto, ‘Vestigia nulla retrorsum,’ was deemed too generous a warning against entering upon the perilous paths of litigation.

[40] Dickens, ‘Martin Chuzzlewit.’

[41] Those of Nos. 4 and 5 are attributed to Sir Christopher Wren.

[42] His portrait, by Van Somer, hangs in the Hall.

[43] Inderwick, ‘Inner Temple Records,’ vol. ii., p. lxii.

[44] Inderwick, ‘Inner Temple Records,’ vol. i., p. xxiv. Cf. p. 48, supra.

[45] Bellot.

[46] The last occasion of a Revel taking place in the Halls of the Inns of Court was upon the elevation of Mr. Talbot to the woolsack (1734). Then, after dinner, the Benchers all assembled in the Great Hall of the Inner Temple, and a large ring having been formed round the fireplace, the Master of the Revels took the Lord Chancellor by the hand, who with his left took Mr. Justice Page, and the other serjeants and benchers being joined together, all danced about the fireplace three times, while the ancient song, ‘Round about our Coal Fire,’ accompanied by music, was sung by the Comedian, Tony Aston, dressed as a barrister. This song of the House has unfortunately been lost.

[47] Bellot, ‘Inner and Middle Temple,’ p. 49.

[48] Notes and Queries, April 2, 1892.

[49] Duchy of Lancaster, Ancient Deeds, L, 137; Close Rolls, 14 Edward I., M, 2d.

[50] Quoted by Stow.

[51] Loftie, p. 53.

[52] Dugdale.

[53] ‘Life of Dr. Donne,’ by Izaak Walton.

[54] ‘Black Book of Lincoln’s Inn.’

[55] Ibid.

[56] Loftie.

[57] Cf. Daily Telegraph, January 4, 1909.

[58] Kelly, ‘Short History of the English Bar.’

[59] Stow, vol. i., p. 11; ed. Kingsford.

[60] Douthwaite, ‘Notes on Gray’s Inn,’ 1876.

[61] Luttrell’s ‘Diary,’ June 10, 1684, quoted by Douthwaite.

[62] Douthwaite, p. 175.

[63] Enumerated by Douthwaite, ‘Gray’s Inn,’ 1886, and, with plates, by Dugdale.

[64] Cf. Professor A. V. Dicey, in the Nineteenth Century, September, 1903.

[65] Spedding, ‘Life and Letters of Francis Bacon.’

[66] Halliwell-Phillipps, ‘Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare,’ p. 104.

[67] Op. cit., vol. i., p. 342.

[68] ‘Master Worsley’s Book’—Observations on the Constitution, etc., of the Middle Temple. Written, 1733.

[69] To commemorate the centenary of this date a bronze statue of the Philosopher is shortly to be placed in the centre of the grass plot in South Square.

[70] W. J. Broderip, Fraser’s Magazine, 1857.

[71] Cf. Edinburgh Review, vol. cxxxiv., p. 488.

[72] ‘Calendar of Inner Temple Records,’ vol. i., p. xiii.

[73] Historical MSS. Commission, XII., part i., vol. i., p. 60.

[74] By a charter of Edward IV., 1463, the Staple of wools was set at Leadenhall.

[75] Cf. ‘Staple Inn,’ by E. Williams, F.R.G.S., p. 100.

[76] Douthwaite, p. 257.

[77] Notes and Queries, April 2, 1892.

[78] A full descriptive catalogue, drawn up by Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte, is obtainable at the Public Record Office.

[79] ‘Black Books of Lincoln’s Inn,’ vol. i., p. xxxix.

[80] See Serjeant Pulling, ‘The Order of the Coif.’

[81] Notes and Queries, April 2, 1892.

[82] Fetter Lane is said to be derived from ‘Fewters,’ as the abode of vagrants, cheats, and fortune-tellers.

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