The Archive · 1922

HISTORIC LINCOLN'S INN

The celebration of the 500th anniversary of the establishment of Lincoln's Inn—which is to ye spread through a series of interesting public functions over the period October to December—is ar event which has an interest far beyond the records and traditions \of the law, for Lincoln's Inn Hall and Library and the general associations of the site are linked most intimately with the anti-quar ian history of London, says the '"'Cbserver."'

It is because the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn began officially to occupy the Palace of the Bishops of Chichester in "Chancellors? or Chancery-Lane (while holding Thavy's Inn and Furnival's Inn as dependencies) in 1422) that the 500th anniversary is now arrived at, but, in fact, the

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