[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.