others for thirty-one years, at a half-yearly rent of fifty-three shillings. The proceeds of this Inn, (or part thereof,) were appropriated to support the Chantry of St. Agatha, St. Lucy, and St. Scholastica, in York Cathedral; in consequence of which, it was seized by the crown, on the dissolution of the Chantries, and Edward the VIth, in his 3d year, granted it to Sir Edw. Montague, Knt. Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and John Champenet; but it was afterwards recovered by the Dean and Chapter in a suit at law. The following particulars concerning this Inn were extracted from a small octavo manuscript in the hand-writing of Archbishop Sancroft, now preserved in the Library of Emanuel College, at Cambridge. Sancroft was made Dean of York in 1663, but in less than a twelvemonth afterwards he was promoted to the Deanery of St. Paul's. "1st. The Lease was granted on a mistaken suggestion, that my Lord of Elie had before led us the way in his example. "2d. Our Brethren that granted it were willing to shew as hoñble a respect as any to that venerable Society; but we all hope use will not be made of that to the Church and our great prejudice. 66 “3d. We had a promise made us, of which we desire performance. 1. That S. W. Humble should have his Light free. If that be equal (wh. tis not) to the reserved Rent, yet tis much short of the value.-2. That we should be secured from the Purchaser, by giving him satisfaction, or rather, according to the-Lrs by obtaining their consent before the sealing of the Lease. "4th. For the Rent, 'Tis in arrear. It was anciently, (1600,) 53s. for each half-year. In Dean Scot's time, I think, brought down to 4. 16. 8 the whole year, and now tis endeavoured to sink it yet lower, 53s for the whole year, with a strange unusuall general clause. "1608. Half-year's rent, for Serjeant's Inn, 1. 13. 4. For the Porter's Lodge 15s. which rent continued to the Distraction. Tis worth, (they say 601. per ann. I think) 1001. Cole gave for the purchase 840l. would give 1000l. Mr. Humble pays the Inne 31. per annum for opening his jett window into their yard.—Fitt in renewing the Lease to reserve our tenants rights. One Ridley and his son purchased it of the late Trustees of Cole, Bookseller, at the Printing-Press in the Old Exchange Buildings. He hath a copy of a Judgment and recovery of the Inne, &c. in the Court of Common Pleas, the pretence that they belonged to a Chantry, not to the Church only. We paid 8l. per ann. to a Chantry out of some of those Tenements." * In the Great Fire of 1666, the old Inn was wholly consumed, but a new lease having been granted, in 1670, to the Judges and Serjeants-at-Law, the les sees rebuilt the Inn in a more uniform style, including a chapel, hall, and kitchen, and it continued in their occupation until the year 1730. Shortly afterwards the whole was taken down, and the present respectable pile of buildings, which includes a small quadrangular court, was erected in its stead. On the east side is a handsome stone-fronted mansion, standing * One Peter Cole was a Printer, in London, during the time of the Civil Wars. on the site of the old hall and chapel, which was erected at the expense of the Amicable Assurance Society, and forms their present Office. That Society was incorporated by Queen Anne, in 1706. SERJEANTS' INN, CHANCERY LANE. 66 This Inn consists of two small courts, surrounded by irregular brick buildings, and having a communication eastward with Clifford's Inn. These premises, which have been the property of the See of Ely from a very remote period, were in the 17th of Richard the IId, demised to a Clerk of the Chancery Court, under the description of "Tenementum domini Johannis Skarle."-In Henry the IVth's reign, this was called "Hospicium nuper Faryndon's in Chancellor's Lane," and Faryndon's Inn. In the same reign it appears to have become a residence of the Judges and Serjeantsat-Law, and in 1430 it was decribed as Hospicium Justiciariorum." On a renewal of the lease to Sir Thos. Grey, Knt. in 1484, it was called "Hospicium vocatum Serjeant's Inn ;" and by that appellation it has ever since been distinguished. It is still occupied as in former times, all the twelve Judges, and many of the Serjeants-at-Law still having chambers here, whilst on the contrary, Serjeants' Inn in Fleet Street has but one Serjeant now residing in it.-In the windows of the Hall, are the armorial bearings, &c. of the most eminent of those who have been members of this Inn. The Chapel is small and neat, but it possesses nothing to give interest to curiosity. SCROOPE'S INN, HOLBORN. Besides the two Inns just described, the Serjeantsat-Law had anciently a third, nearly opposite to St. Andrew's Church, in Holborn, on the site of what was formerly Scroope's Court, but is now the lower end of Union Court.*-In Richard the IIIds reign, it was denominated Mansio domini Scroope de Bolton modo vocata le Serjeants' 'Place;"† but it had previously been called Scroope's Inn,' as appears from Stow, who states that he had found the same so recorded in the 36th of Henry the VIth. He mentions it as one of the "faire buildings," which stood on the north side of Oldborne Hill, above the bridge. It was probably deserted by the Serjeants soon after the renewal of their lease of Serjeants' Inn, Chancery Lane, in 1484;-as, by an Inquisition taken at Guildhall in the 14th of Henry the VIIth, the "house or tenement late called Serjeants' Inn," together with two gardens and two cottages thereto belonging, was found to have been the property of the then recently-deceased Sir John Scroope, Knt. Lord Scroope of Bolton, to whom the premises had been conveyed in the 9th of the same reign, by Sir Guy Fairfax, Knt. one of the Justices of the King's Bench. Every trace of the old mansion has long ago vanished. Union Court was built about George the Ist's reign, and so called from its then first opening a communication be tween Holborn and Charles Street.. + Vide Bailiff's "Accounts of the Bishopric of Ely," anno 1640. "Survey of London," p. 726: edit. 1618. LONDON MARTS FOR FEMALE BRAVERY," IN QUEEN ELIZABETH'S REIGN. In Nicholas Breton's very curious poem, intituled "a Floorish upon Fancie," (published in 1582, by Richarde Ihones, dwelling at the signe of the Rose and Crowne, neere Holborne Bridge') in The Forte of Fancie, are several passages giving an insight into the more fashionable resorts for female decorations and attire, which in the poetical language of that age were called 'bravery.' The Poet, in his comparative illustrations, makes a kind of Tour through the capital, as will be seen from the ensuing extracts.-Fancy's 'Wardrobe,' he assimilates to Watling Street, and doubtless, with tolerable acccuracy, as we know from Stow, that it was inhabited by "wealthy Drapers," and from other authorities, that it was a mart for apparel of all kinds. Of her Gallerie' he speaks thus: "The Entrie, first before you come into the Hall, About the Entrie-walles "From Entrie then you come And that with manie jewels riche |