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Grays Inn chambers, London

Editorial history

08/10/11, CSG: Created page

THIS ENTRY REQUIRES RESEARCH

Suggested links

See Places

See Gray's Inn walks, London
See Hatton Garden

To do

• Pull together references to chambers at Inns of Court in Sir George Oxenden correspondence, in Oxenden, Master, Dallison families, and amongst lawyers involved in legal cases affecting Oxenden, Master, Dallison families

- Alexander Emerson (Lincoln's Inn)
- Sir Edmund Hoskins (Gray's Inn)
- Edward Kelke (junior) (Gray's Inn)
- Robert Raworth (Gray's Inn)
- John Vincent (Gray's Inn)

• Add other names from Wiki primary sources

• Search for an early C17th map or plan of St. Andrew's Holborn & Gray's Inn

• Search for contemporary descriptions of Fray's Inn, of chambers in the Inn, and of Gray's Inn walks

Images

Gray's Inn Hall & Chapel, 1804

Gray's Inn Gardens, 1804

Image credits & copyright information

(1) Plate 18: 'Gray's Inn great Square, Chapel, &c.,' in Herbert, William (ed.), Antiquities of the inns of court and chancery : containing historical and descriptive sketches relative to their original foundation, customs, ceremonies, buildings, government, &c. ; with a concise history of the English law (London, 1804), betw. pp. 328 & 329
- Out of copyright book & image
- Sourced from an Internet Archive edition

(2) Plate 19: 'Gray's Inn, from the Gardens,' in Herbert, William (ed.), Antiquities of the inns of court and chancery : containing historical and descriptive sketches relative to their original foundation, customs, ceremonies, buildings, government, &c. ; with a concise history of the English law (London, 1804), betw. pp. 338 & 339
- Out of copyright book & image
- Sourced from an Internet Archive edition

Profile of Gray's Inn

Mentions of Gray's Inn in Wiki primary sources

Inventories

Law suits

Letters

See 30th March 1663, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, London (mentions "Ned Kelke" as part of Oxenden circle of friends in London at Gray's Inn)
See 19th March 1665/66, Letter from Robert Raworth to Sir GO, Grayes Inn

Wills

See William Dallison Justice of Common Pleas will
- "to the company and fellowship of Grays Inne towards theXX comons Twelve shillings"
See Edward Kelke (junior) will
- "I Edward Kelke of Grayes Inne in the Countie of Midds Esquire"
See Robert Raworth will
See John Vincent will

Notes

Ralph Whitfield & Robert Raworth

Ralphe Whitfeild (alt, Whitfield, Whitfeld) and Robert Raworth were of Grays Inn, with Raworth possibly a servant to Whitfeild. Both Whitfeild and Raworth married daughters of Sir Henry Spelman and became brothers-in-law, though the timing of these marriages has not yet been determined by this author

Clement Spelman

Clement Spelman (1598-1679), a lawyer, was the youngest son of the same Sir Henry Spelman. He was a Baron of the Exchequer between 1663 and 1679. The DNB states that he was of Grays Inn, admitted in 1613, made ancient in 1638 and a bencher in 1660. However, A2A index records show a Clement Spelman of Middle Temple. This latter Clement Spelman may be the former's eponymous second cousin who later became Recorder of Nottingham. Fellow Grays Inn lawyer Ralph Whitfield appears to have collaborated with Clement Spelman on several estate transactions in the late 1620s, possibly on Spelman family estate matters.^[1]

Robert Raworth related admissions to Gray's Inn

'1607/08 Feb.3 Ralph Whitfield, gent., late of Staple Inn, fol. 617'^[2]
'1612 Aug. 9. Herbert Whitfield, of Tenterden, Kent, Esq., fol. 673'^[3]
'1622 Aug. 12 Robert Whitfield, third son of Herbert W., of Tenterden, Kent, gent., fol. 797'^[4]
'1624/25 Mar. 12 Herbert Whitfield, M.D., of Tenterden, Kent., fol. 825'^[5]
'1624/25 Mar. 12 Robert Whitfield, of Tenterden, Kent, gent., fol. 826'^[6]
'1631/32 Mar. 2. Herbert Whitfield, son and heir of Ralph W., of Tenterden, Kent, Esq., "absque fine., as son of a reader" fol. 885'^[7]
'1632 Aug. 13 Henry Whitfield, gent., second son of Ralph W., of this Inn, "absque fine.," fol. 889'^[8]
'1633 July 20 Ralph Whitfield, third son of Ralph W., Esq., reader of this Inn, fol. 898'^[9]
'1633 July 20 William Whitfield, son and heir of William W., of Snodland, Kent., Esq., fol. 898'^[10]
'1633 Aug. 16 Roger Whitfield, fourth son of Ralph W., Esq., reader of this Inn, fol. 903'^[11]
'1633 Aug. 16 Charles Spelman, second son of John S., Esq., of Haydon, Norfolk, Esq., fol. 903'^[12]
'1649 June 6. John Whitfield, son of Thomas W., of Biddenden, Kent, gent., fol. 1,044'^[13]
'1651 Nov. 26. John Whitfield, son and heir of Thomas W., of Biddenden, Kent, gent., fol. 1,069'^[14]

Possible primary images sources

Map of St. Andrew's, Holborn, Richard Blome, John Strype's London

Blome, Richard, 'A Mapp of S:t Andrew Holborne,' pub. in John Strype’s A Survey of London (XXXX, XXXX)

Herbert, William (ed.), Antiquities of the inns of court and chancery : containing historical and descriptive sketches relative to their original foundation, customs, ceremonies, buildings, government, &c. ; with a concise history of the English law (London, 1804)
- Contains 24 plates bound into text
- See especially:
-- Plate 18: 'Gray's Inn great Square, Chapel, &c.,' p. 329
-- Plate 19: 'Gray's Inn, from the Gardens,' p. 339

Possible primary sources

Possible secondary sources

1. ↑ Lincolnshire Archives: MON 3/33/5 28 November 1627: Exemplification of Common Recovery; Norfolk Record Office: Hare 3106 202 x 1 26 May 1628: Exemplification of Recovery of Easter Term 4 Car.I. 1628
2. ↑ J. Foster (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 119
3. ↑ J. Foster (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 130
4. ↑ J. Foster (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 168
5. ↑ J. Foster (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 176
6. ↑ J. Foster (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 176
7. ↑ J. Foster (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 195
8. ↑ J. Foster (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 197
9. ↑ J. Foster (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 200
10. ↑ J. Foster (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 200
11. ↑ J. Foster (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 202
12. ↑ J. Foster (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 202
13. ↑ J. Foster (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 251
14. ↑ J. Foster (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 259