Legal History

The Inns of Chancery 1340-1640

By John Baker
Selden Society December 2017

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780854232277
Publisher
Selden Society
Publication
December 2017
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The Inns of Chancery 1340-1640: With an Edition of the surviving Statutes and Orders

The ten or so Inns of Chancery were all founded in the century after 1340, and for some 300 years were a part of the so-called third university of England'. Their names are mostly still familiar as London place-names, though few of their buildings are still standing.

Most that has been written about them relates to their later history when they had largely ceased to be involved in legal education. Recent research in manuscript sources has revealed more information about their earlier history than was previously available, although their origins - like those of the inns of court - remain tantalisingly obscure.

This volume sets out what is known about the inns of chancery in their heyday as schools of law, and includes texts of all the surviving written regulations by which they were governed, some of which have only recently come to light.

The volume also includes 24 pages of illustrated plates.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Illustrations with Acknowledgments;
Introduction
The Inns of Chancery
Origins and Outline histories of Particular Inns
The Statutes and Orders of the Inns of Chancery
The Internal Organisation of the Inns
Admission, Residence and Commons
The Exercises of Learning
Student Life and Behaviour
Appendix 1: Miscellaneous Documents and Records 1339-1603
Appendix 2: The Case of Staple Inn 1622
Appendix 3: Mootable Days in the Inns of Chancery
Appendix 4: Principles and Treasures of the Inns of Chancery 1440-1640
Appendix 5: Armorial Windows in the Inns of Chancery
Appendix 6: Domestic Records of the Inns of Chancery;
Statutes and Orders of the Inns of Chancery
Barnard's Inn
Clements Inn
Clifford Inn
Furnival's Inn
New Inn
Staple Inn
General Orders for the Inns of Chancery 1439-1704
General Index;
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