a saw: given by Sir William Jones, knight, one of the justices of the court of King's Bench.

V. On the south side of the chapel. The first light in the Ely window contains the picture of St. Peter, with a key in his right hand: given by Henry, earl of Northampton.

The second light hath the effigies of St. Andrew, with a book expanded in his right hand. The gift of William, earl of Pembroke.

The third light contains St. James the Great. Given by John, earl of Bridgewater.

The fourth light contains the picture of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist, with a cup in his left hand. Given by James, earl of Carlisle.

VI. The middle window on the south side; the first light contains St. Philip, with a cross in his right, and a book in his left hand. The joint gift of lord Abergavenny, and Maria, daughter of the duke of Buckingham, 1623.

The second light contains St. Bartholomew. Given by Henry, lord Abergavenny, and Frances, daughter of Thomas, earl of Rutland.

The third hath the effigies of St. Matthew. Given by Sir Thomas Fane, knight and bart. and his wife Mary, baroness Le Despencer.

The fourth light contains the picture of St. Thomas, with a spear in his hand. Given by Francis Fane, earl of Westmoreland, and Maria, daughter of Sir Anthony Mildmay, knight.

VII. The south-west window. The first light contains St. James the Less, with a book in one hand, and a roller's club in the other; subscribed Robert Spencer, of Wormleighton.

The second light contains St. Simon; subscribed Sir Henry Compton, knight.

The third light has St. Judas, holding a book closed; subscribed Thomas Spencer, of Clarendon.

The fourth light contains St. Matthias, with an axe in his right hand, and a book in his left. Under which is John Spencer, of Offley, Esq.

The

The small lights above made by the intersection of the arches of the mullions are replenished with variety of other figures depicted on the glass.

The west window contains several coats of arms; as that of Henry De Lacy, earl of Lincoln, and other arms.

The east window is also painted with a variety of arms, &c.

This building may be seen every morning at eleven o'clock, at which time Divine service is constantly performed.

LINCOLN'S INN boasts of a greater number of eminent men than other law society. Sir John Fortescue; Sir Arthur Plantagenet, viscount Lisle; Sir Thomas Lovell; Sir Thomas More; Lambard; Sir Henry Spelman; Ley, earl of Marlborough; Sir John Denham; Prynne; lord chancellor Egerton; speaker Lenthall; Oliver St. John; Noy; Sir Ranulph Crewe; Sir Matthew Hale; and William Pitt.

CURSITOR'S STREET, was formerly called Cursitor's Alley, on account of the office of that name. The Cursitors, or Clerks of Course, as they are called in Stat. 18. Edw. III. are a corporation, among whom the counties of England are divided. It is their business to make out all original writs into the counties for which they are Cursitor.

The recollection of the antient domains of the bishops of Chichester, is preserved in the name of CHICHESTER RENTS; which are built on part of the gardens.

SYMONDS INN is not a regular inn of court; but was built about two centuries since, by a gentleman named Symonds, for the casual accommodation of masters in chancery, solicitors, and attornies. Here is kept the office for issuing rules of court; and the office for the clerk of the papers.

THE ROLLS is so called, from being a repository for all rolls in chancery, and other records, since the year 1483. This was first a house of converted Jews, who were here maintained, founded by king Henry III. in 1233; but in the year 1290, all Jews being banished the kingdom, and the number of converts thereby become few, this house was

given, by patent of Edward III. about the last of his reign, to William Burstall, clerk, the first Master of the Rolls, whose successors in that great office have resided here

ever since.

The place of MASTER OF THE ROLLS is an office of great dignity, in the gift of the king, either for life or during pleasure. He is always the principal master in chancery, and has in his gift the office of the Six Clerks in Chancery, of the two Examiners of the same court, and of the Clerk of the Chapel of the Rolls, who acts immediately under him in that office. He has several revenues belonging to the office of the Rolls, and by act of parliament receives a bandsome annual salary out of the hanaper.

William Barons, afterBishop Tunstall, 1516.

There have been several eminent men who have borne this office since Burstal: Thomas Stanley, dean of St. Martin-le-Grand, 1400. Nicholas Bubwith, afterwards bishop of London, 1403. William Warham, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury, 1494. wards bishop of London, 1502. Thomas Cromwell, 1534. Sir Robert Southwell, 1541. Sir Nicholas Hare, 1553. Sir William Cordell, 1557. Sir Gilbert Gerard, 1581; father to the first lord Gerard, of Bromley. Lord keeper Egerton, 1594. Edward Bruce, lord Bruce of Kinloss, 1603. Sir Edward Philips. Julius Cæsar, 1614; see under St. Helen's, where he was buried. Sir Dudley Diggs, 1636. Sir John Colepeper, lord Colepeper, 1642. Sir Harbottle Grimston, 1660. Sir John Churchill. Sir John Trevor. Sir Joseph Jekyll. Sir Thomas Sewell. Sir Lloyd Kenyon. Sir Richard Pepper Arden, lord Alvanley. Sir William Grant.

Sir

The CHAPEL is an antient structure, built of brick, boulder, and some free-stone, the doors and windows Gothic; the roof covered with slate. The ornament of the presses for rolls on the inside, is columns and pilasters of the Ionic and Composite orders. It is in length sixty feet, breadth thirty-three.

MONUMENTS. On the north side, near the east end, a very old tomb, with the effigy of a man carved in stone

lying at full length, under a head, between two cherubims; and on the south front an inscription to the memory of JOHN YONG, LL. D. master of the Rolls, and dean of York, who died April 25, 1516.

On the north side a magnificent monument, adorned with the effigy of an elderly gentleman in a long robe in full proportion, cumbent on his right side, his head resting on his hand; to the memory of EDWARD, lord BRUCE, of KINLoss, who died 14 January, 1610.

Up the chancel steps, on the south side of the chapel, is a spacious monument of the Corinthian order, with the figures of a man, woman, and three children, in a kneeling posture, and an inscription to the memory of a person named ALLINGTON.

The minister is appointed by the Master of the Rolls.

The LIBERTY OF THE ROLLS, is a district exempt from the power of the sheriff of Middlesex, or other officer, exIt commences at the corner of cept by leave of the master. Cursitor Street, next to Chancery Lane, taking in the Rose wine vaults; where it crosses into White's Alley, which it wholly takes in, except two or three houses on each side next Fetter Lane; and there it crosses into the Rolls garden, which it likewise takes in; from thence running into Chancery Lane, by Serjeant's Inn, it crosses to Bell Yard, which it takes in almost to Fleet Street, except a few houses on the back of Crown Court, which is in the city liberty. It then runs across the houses to Shire Lane, taking in all the east side; and again crossing over to Lincoln's Inn New Square, runs to the pump at the corner of the garden, whence it crosses to where it commenced at Cursitor Street.

Opposite the Rolls, was the town residence of the priors of Nockton Park, in Lincolnshire. It was afterwards used for the Six Clerks Office, till that establishment was removed to Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn.

SERJEANT'S INN, consists of two small courts, communicating with Clifford's Inn, and Chancery Lane; and is sur rounded by the judges' chambers, which are spacious and handsome.

The inn, till the year 1484, was denominated "Faryngdon's Inn, in Chancellor's Lane;" and was held of the bishop of Ely by one of the clerks in Chancery. There is nothing noticeable except the HALL.

The ascent to the HALL is by a very handsome flight of stone steps, guarded by a balustrade. The building is of brick, with stone cornices, with handsome pediment, surmounted by a turret and clock. Though the interior is not spacious, it is convenient and well proportioned; and the windows are filled with armorial bearings of those who have been members, &c. The CHAPEL is small and neat, but no otherwise remarkable *.

CHANCERY,

• SERJEANTS AT LAW were formerly distinguished in Latin by the denomination Narratores, and in French Countors, or Pleaders; and according to Sir Edward Coke, they are upwards of eleven hundred years standing; the degree is mentioned in a statute of the third of Edw. I.

They may plead in any of the courts, and none but of that degree in the Common Pleas. The twelve judges are commonly chosen from among the serjeants, and therefore they distinguish the latter by the name of Brother.

When the serjeants are few, the judges signify to the king who are fit for that degree; they are then called to that honourable distinction by the royal mandate directed to them, commanding them upon a great penalty to take upon them the degree by a certain time therein mentioned, being constituted with much solemnity and ceremony.

They then take the following oath at the Chancery bar: "Ye shall swear well and truly to serve the king's people as one of the serjeants at the law; and ye shall truly conceal them that ye be retained with, after your cunning and ye shall not defer or delay their causes willingly for covet of money, or other thing that may turn ye to profit; and ye shall give due attendance accordingly. So help ye God."

It was customary for them on the following day to be conducted by the society to which the chief justice of England belonged, to perform the antient ceremony of counting.

And having had their coifs of white linen or silk put on, without any black ones over, and being cloathed in robes of two colours, they walked from thence to Westminster Hall, accompanied by a great number of gentlemen of the long robe of several houses of court and chancery, the warden of the Fleet, marshal, &c. and attended by clerks, two of each serjeant's immediately following him, &c. also by the stewards, butlers, and other servants to the houses, all bare-headed, and cloathed in VOL. IV. No. 82. short

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