The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-13


city. Through this ancient gateway, now
except the narrow arctway over
the sidewalk on the south side OF the street,
how many pageants have wen1ed their way
TO glory or to the scatfold. Here the Black
Prince passed when making his triumphaI
entry into Westminster after the battle oil
Poictiers. Through Henry ". MARCHED
with his victorious troops after the battle OF
Agincourt. Anne Boleyn passed through
its gloomy portals towards the Tower, never
to return .and, twenty-five years after
wards, her daughter Queen Elizabeth, was
received at the gate amidst the unbounded
re5oiclngs of the nation. +13l E1s
4 Let us cross the street, now filled with
omnibusses, hansoms, and hackney-coaches,
and enter Chancery lane, with Serieants'
Inn to the right, behind St. Dunstan's
church, the bells Of which make such an in
fernal clatter that you would suppose the
saint had employed as; ringer the devil,
whose nose he is said to have pulled with
pair Of red-hot pincers. In Fetter lane is
The new Record Office, where is kept the
celebrated Domesday Book, written in two
volumes on yellum. Before you reach Lin.
coln,s Inn YOU encounter dingy old court
ward containing the Rolls Court and Chapel.
In the Chapel is one OF the noblest pieces OF
monumental sculpture that you will see any
where. It is the tomb OF DR.. John Young,
master OF the rolls in the time OF Henry
VIII. The aged master reposes in ethgy
upon sarcophagus within circular, arch,
on the back OF which the half figure OF the
Saviour rises in low relief between two che-
rubims. In the panel OF the pedestal IS the
inscription and date 49, .:z:.s st..5
DoMINys. FIRMAMENTvM. MEUM. MDXvI.
You enter Lincoln's Inn through mag
niticent brick gateway, with the date 1918
over it. haven't time to tell you ali about
| it, but it may be briefly described as a cor.
poration OF lawyers similar to those OF the
two Temples. It has vast library. The
hall contains a large fresco called "The
School OF legislation" representing the
| law.giyers Of the world from Moses to Ed
ward l., and Hogarth's "Paul before Fe-
| lix." In this picture the artist has intro
duced a dog, with a collar marked Felix,
smelling the great apostles shins where the
gives had rubbed them. The library is
adorned with noble statue Of Erskine by
| Westmacott. Lincoln's Inn is fayorlte
residence of lawyers. Among the distin-
guished members Of the profession who have
lived here were Lord -Chancellors Somers,
Cowper, and Harcourt; Camden, Lough-
borough, and Erskine. Across the square
is the Old Hall, an insignificant building, in
which the Courts of Chancery used to sit
occasionally, and which Dickens has de-
scribed in connection with the case Of Jarn-
dyce Us. Jarndyce, in .sBleak House,
The name Lincoln's Inn came from Henry
de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, whose town-house
about 1872 occupied its site. Lincoln's- Inn
Fields, called by Dickens, with no propriety
that could discover, 6 the perplexed and
tronb1ous voIlev .oP the shadow of the law ~
is one of the largest and shadiest squares in
London, filled with magnificent elms. and
laid off in charmine nely-contemplative walks.
Gray's Inn, north OF Holborn, formerly
belonged to the Earl Gray, Of Wilton. The
buildings are in the French style, with
steep roofs and small.paned windows, and
contain q handsome hall built in 1860.
Here Lord Bacon wrote his Nouu71, OrqGn-
urn, and in the garden planted some trees,
which, like the noble hand which once
tended them, have long since yielded to de-
cav. William Cecil, the great Lord Bur-
| leigh Of Queen Elizabeth's reign, was one
OF the many distinguished members OF
Gray's Inn. To the readers OF the SpectG-
| tor, who fear are becoming somewhat rare
+ in these days, Gray's Inn, with Sir Roger
de Coverley, is made as familiar as house
hold scenes. When you have finished your
walk past its red-brick courts and retraced
YOUR way down Chancery lane past the no
Bile walls OF Lincoln's Inn, and passed
again through the shady, quiet rambles OF
the Temples, you may rest yourself In the
f." Garden OF the Roses" beneath the shadow
of ancient elms, where the witty, the wise,
the great, and the noble OF past ages have,
| like you and your friend OF an hour ago,
met and passed away forever. ii.