The " Black Books " of Lincolns Inn. panye shall be sworne uppon the Evangeliste to tell what they knowe concernying that act." The offenders were at length dis covered by this means and expelled, but were afterwards re-admitted at the interces sion of the King's Sergeants, on paying fines. Alas! these were only a few of the escapades on the part of the young gentle-
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exploit with "Sampson Stockfish, behind Gray's Inn." Then we have another young gentleman breaking the doore of the White Hart in Holbourne at night and beating the housewife of the same to the scandal of the Society." One Norton, "confessyd that he, Copleton and Gascon divers tymys have gone forth in the nyght to make mery;" and
GATEWAY то LINCOLN'S INN. again, John Bradshaw makes his humble men which vexed the righteous souls of the confession "of having pleyed at the cards at Benchers from day to day. the porter house of the Rolles in the Chan"HEARING THE CHIMES AT MID cclare Lane with dyvers of his felyship," and NIGHT." promises being re-admitted that he will In fact, Master Justice Shallow's recollec "never hereafter do so more." On another occasion a young gentleman of the Inn was tions of the wildness of his youth when he caught "in domo suspecta" near Newgate by "lay at Clement's Inn and his feats about Turnbull Street" do not seem to have been the Constable and Beadle of the Ward and, at all over colored. For instance, one but for the Alderman's "reverence for the Hobart, a member, is fined 20 pence "for Society" would have been sent to Newgate. What Master Justice Shallow calls the fighting with the Society of Gray's Inn at nyght"—reminiscent of Master Shallow's botta robas was indeed a subject on which
