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Cecil Headlam. The Inns of Court
The Inns of Court
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THE INNS OF COURT
CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF THE INNS
CHAPTER II. THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS AND THEIR SUCCESSORS
CHAPTER III. THE TEMPLE CHURCH
CHAPTER IV. THE MIDDLE TEMPLE
CHAPTER V. THE INNER TEMPLE
CHAPTER VI. LINCOLN’S INN AND THE DEVIL’S OWN
CHAPTER VII. GRAY’S INN
CHAPTER VIII. INNS OF CHANCERY
CHAPTER IX. THE SERJEANTS AND SERJEANTS’ INNS
APPENDIX
INDEX
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Cecil Headlam
Published by Good Press, 2019
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‘For the space of seven years or thereabouts,’ says Stow, ‘they frequent readings, meetings, boltinges, and other learned exercises, whereby growing ripe in the knowledge of the lawes, and approved withal to be of honest conversation, they are either by the general consent of the Benchers or Readers, being of the most auncient, grave and iudiciall men of everie Inn of the Court, or by the special priviledge of the present Reader there, selected and called to the degree of Utter Barristers, and so enabled to be Common Counsellors, and to practise the law, both in their Chambers, and at the Barres.’
Readers, to help the younger students, were chosen from the Utter Barristers. From the Utter Barristers, too, were chosen by the Benchers ‘the chiefest and best learned’ to increase the number of the Bench and to be Readers there also. After this ‘second reading’ the young Barrister was named an Apprentice at the Law, and might be advanced at the pleasure of the Prince, as Stow says, to the place of Serjeant, ‘and from the number of Serjeants also the void places of Judges are likewise ordinarily filled.’ ‘From thenceforth they hold not any roome in those Innes of Court, being translated to the Serjeants’ Innes, where none but the Serjeants and Judges do converse’ (Stow, i., pp. 78, 79).
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