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BVt beſide all this, there is
in and about this Citie, a
whole Vniverſitie, as it
were, of Students, pra
ctisers
or pleaders, and
Iudges of the Lawes of this Realme, not
living of common ſtipends, as in other
Vniverſities it is for the moſt part done,
but of their owne private maintenance,
as being altogether fed, either by their
places, or practice, or otherwiſe by their
proper Revenues, or exhibition of pa
rents
and friends: for that the yonger
ſort are either Gentlemen or the ſonnes
of Gentlemen, or of other moſt wealthy
perſons. Of theſe Houſes there bee at
this day foureteene in all, whereof nine
doe ſtand within the Liberties of this
Citie, and five in the Suburbs there
of:
VIZ.
Within the
Liberties.
For Iudges and Sergeants onely.
Fleetſtreet,
Chancery Lane,
In
Fleetſtreet, Houſes of Court.
Houſes of
Chancerie.
Fleetſtreet,
Oldborne,
Oldborne,
Oldborne,
Oldborne,
Without the
Liberties.
Houſes of Court.
Oldborne,
Chancerielane,
by the old Temple.
Houſes of
Chancerie without Temple barre,
in the liberty of Weſtminſter.
There was ſometime an Inne of Ser
geants in Oldborne,
as ye may reade of
Scroopes Inne, over againſt Saint Andrews Church.
There was alſo one other Inne of Chancerie,
called Cheſters Inne, for the neere
neſſe to the Biſhop of Cheſters houſe, but
more commonly termed Strand Inne,
for that it ſtood in Strand ſtreet, and
neere unto Strand bridge without Tem
ple Barre, in the liberty of the Dutchie
of Lancaſter. This Inne of Chancery, with
other houſes adjoyning, were pulled
down in the reigne of Edw. the 6EdwardSommerſet, who in place
thereof raiſed that large and beautifull
houſe, called Sommerſet Houſe.
There was moreover, in the Of Orders and Cuſtomes.Henry the ſixthChancery, mentioned by Iuſtice ForteſcueEngland: but where it ſtood, or when it
was abandoned, I cannot find, and ther
fore I will leave it, and returne to the
reſt.
The Houſes of Court be repleniſhed,
partly with yong ſtudents, and partly
with Graduates and practiſers of the
Law: but the Innes of Chancerie, being
(as it were) provinces, ſeverally ſubje
cted to the Innes of Court, bee chiefly
furniſhed with Officers, Atturneys, Sol
liciters and Clerkes, that follow the
mon Pleas. And yet there want not
ſome other, being young ſtudents, that
come thither ſometimes from one of
the Vniverſities, and ſometimes imme
diately from Grammer Schooles, and
theſe having ſpent ſome time in ſtudy
ing upon the grounds of the Law, and
having performed the exerciſes of their
owne houſes, (called Boltas Mootes, and
putting of caſes) they proceed to be ad
mitted, and become ſtudents in ſome of
theſe foure houſes or Innes of Court,
where continuing by the ſpace of ſeven
yeeres, or thereabouts, they frequent
Readings, Meetings, Boltings, and o
ther learned exerciſes, whereby grow
ing ripe in the knowledge of the Lawes,
and approved withall, to bee of honeſt
converſation, they are either by the ge
nerall conſent of the Benchers, or Rea
ders, (being of the moſt ancient, grave,
and judiciall men of every Inne of the
Court, or by ſpeciall priviledge of the
preſent Reader there, ſelected and cal
led to the degree of Vtter Barriſters, and
ſo enabled to be common Counſellors.
and to practiſe the Law, both in their
Chambers, and at the Barres.
Of theſe, after that they be called to a
further ſtep of preferment, called the
Bench, there are two (every yeere) cho
ſen among the Benchers of every Inne
of Court, to be Readers there, who doe
make their Readings at two times of
the yeere alſo: that is, one in Lent, and
the other in the beginning of Auguſt.
And for the helpe of yong Students
in every one of the Innes of Chancerie,
they doe likewiſe chooſe out of every
one Inne of Court a Reader, being no
Bencher, but an Vtter Barriſter there, in
tenne or twelve yeeres continuance, and
of good profit in ſtudie. Now from
theſe of the ſaid degree of Counſel
lours, or Vtter Barriſters, having conti
nued therein the ſpace of foureteene or
fifteene yeeres at the leaſt, the chiefeſt
and beſt learned are (by the Benchers)
elected to increaſe the number, as I ſaid,
of the Bench amongſt them; and ſo in
their time doe become, firſt ſingle, and
then double Readers, to the ſtudents of
thoſe houſes of Court.
After which laſt Reading, they bee
named Apprentices at the Law, and in
default of a ſufficient number of Serje
ants at Law, theſe are, at the pleaſure
of the Prince, to bee advanced to the
places of Serjeants.
Out of which number of Serjeants
alſo, the void places of Iudges are like
wiſe ordinarily filled, albeit (now and
then) ſome be advanced by the ſpeciall
favour of the Prince, to the eſtate, dig
nity, and place both of Serjeant and
Iudge, as it were in one inſtant. But
from thence-forth, they hold not any
roome in thoſe Innes of Court, by being
tranſlated to one of the ſaid two Innes,
called Serjeants Innes, where none
but the Serjeants and Iudges doe con
verſe.