The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-06-08
THE TEMPLE INNS.
OLD HOMES or LEGAL LIGHTS

Walk and Talk with the 7" Brseness Bar
risser ~-Bew sullivan Get Tits Taste for
Church Music.
A London correspondent writes: "Aud
80 you've written me up In your Boston
paper, which seems so like our London
Times 70 me IN ,ts dignity and eleverness.
and much better in lts scope and interest
and chattinessy" On this, as a pleased
smile spread over his features, he softly
murmured {" Fancy.o Then he looked at
me, hall deprecatingly, as though be was
thinking OF his own dement's, and hall
complimentary as though thinking OF
my sereed about him. 1 held my hand
out at sound of this genial voice. aud there
in the busy Strand stood my dear old "brief-
less barristcr." lie had Just left "our Office
in London" where he had purchased 4
paper, which he had 10 the pocket OF his
top coat. I've grown used TO assccisting
him with the 'inns OF court" aud > come
on him thus in the Strand startled me a
bit. So sort OF dueked my head a~k-
wSrdly and stammered out: Yes. II you
please. sir.'
g well, am pleased" he ehafir ely re-
sponded. "Let us walk as far as Holborn
bars. where we can quietly stray inside
the private door and drink glass OF old
ltNi1 10 NONi tulA kAiDtifNdu
We did as he suggested, and over our
tipple he said a. No doubt you think you
have quite flushed London's legal inns,
with your summary o! Gray's Inn and
Lincoln's Inn"
"well.H l answered, "of course there
are more OF them. II seems to me London
is made up OF the immediate interests OF
the legal profession and the other recog.
nized liberal professions. But 1 confess
cherished the delusion that l bad nearly
done with the law here, much to my regret,
nv dear barrister."
..No;hinr OF the sort" he replied
"Conle, LET us walk up toward your lodg'
iugs. and win give you some additional
legal information
Well, we started on our instructive walk
i cannot give you his items rerbGti'a, Tor
was not rude enough TO take them down IL
shorthand; but, as we walked slowly, and
the day was almost divine In It's balmlH
sunshine. joited them down on the tab
lets Of nv memory, and give pou the prin'
cipal bulk which / have retained. 1t seem,
10 me my dear old fathers spirit quite pos
sesses me when the haunts OF the lawyers
are diseoursed upon. i listen with reyer
ence 10 all thereto, and am happier wher
writing OF these Thugs than on any Other
subject. lily IL SlNNoAht' ~
Us listen. Calling the abodes OK law student:
"inns of COURT dates before the reigr
az Edward H., when practicers OF law
wore so called because they belonged Il
the Kings court, noticed on the Plaeitf
roIls during the reign Of Richard /. Al
This time Johnson's Inn, at Dowgate, Few
ter's (Fetter'sl Lane Inn and Paternoster
Row Inn were the "swell" legal inns
Primitive doubtless, but they served thelI
day and purpose. At this time the ser
geants and apprentices OF the law heard
clients eases 10 ST. Paurs church, fact
SET forth in Chaucer. Sir John Fortescu'
mo relation to Miss Fortescue-Finney)
chief Justice TO Henry VI, named foul
regular inns OF court-the Inner Tempt
the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, ant
Grav's Iun-and ten inns OF chancery.
In Fortescue's time the
FOUR RECOGNIZED INNS
were frequented by the nobility ant
wealthy gentry; the inns OF chancery D!
the merchants and others not rich enough
To NV the expense OF the inns Of court
They studied Holy Scripture rs well
law. and learned singing, harmony, dane
inc and other Dastimes. The only penalt.
for faults was expulsion. which is the cas-
a; present, and then, as now, this dire stat
of things was greatly dreaded. But tn
nenaltv was more honoreG in the breacl
Than in the observance, and the boys Wer
famed far and near for their reyels ant
innocent gayeties. In 1888 the lou
inns of court gave q grand masque
rade in honor of Charles L. ant
Oueen Henrietta Maria at While
hail. The morals OF the young lega
students were wisely looked after, ana ID
court az Star Chamber desired the primer
mics Of the inns Of court and chancery no
To hermit the young fellows TO be out o
doors after 6 O'Clock at night "wlthou
yery great and necessary causes, nor I
yxear anv kind Of weapon" But all Worl
and no nlay is prone 10 make JACK uu'
lad. so a marty with late hours had to b
indnleed If 81 intervals. But the Spartan
severity of the Star Chamber COMMITTED
10 the Tower at one time no less person
ages than Sir Thomas wyatt, the bsr
NJ Surrey. and young Pickering 10
..breakIng windows ana eating hesl
in Lent" During Henry Wis relgl
there were eight hundred studenls u
the foUr INNS OF court, and LOCO IN the tel
inns OF chancery, making total OF l'oVV
In 1850 there were in the four INNS Q
court alone upward OF 1000 students
There are not a. many at present, althoug'
the number OF those who are directly AM
indirectly connected Win me INNS
Greater. AT present the inns Of chancery
a. Educational institutions. are no more
and there are numberless other Inn
which are independent OF the man
inns. and are little more than serle
~ dignified chambers resembling UNI
versity buildings in their studlou
and exclusive atmosphere. Then, besid
the Temple proper, with the Mlddl
and Inner Temples, the Temple INN
now include a splendid new yariegate
marble and IRON monastic-looklng Dulldlne
called the Outer Temple, and frownln
nroudly down on Fleet street. But don
care Tor new buildings as much as the Oh
ones although there was originally an oute
TemnJe. which took in Essex House an
Gardens. The two temples and my oeiove
2ray's Inn pay no poor rates, ana man
tain their own Door. But Lineoln's Inn na
not entireIy that exemption. BY TINS t'm
IN bis remaaks we had reached Gray's Inr
and looking UP, ] was pleased 10 see
ribbon bow / had sent my orlenes
barristerv doing duty as a winooW-Sure ira!
loon. "Tbe inns OF court. ne saiu WI.
majestic wave OF his thin arHtoerstl
hand. a hand which seemed best unlVSu
lace rufies aud velvet, :. are proper
sueaking, the trade-gmlds OF ibe law. an :
am proud to know that my pioeneis -
the profession, who are most eniineu'' a.
ever ready 10 preserve our olu 'iui ',.,,D,,
ored customs" Win an alnos. 5 1870 -
glance toward the inn. we proceeueo VIZ
oIu walk and chat.
THE TEMPLE PROPER,
.the mater" as it were. OF the other len
nile inns. l pointed out TO you as we turn ne
into Fleet street from the strand; In
INV boundary and M llfl