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Staple Inn (ex. par.)

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"STAPLE'S-INN, Holborn, is three houses on the south side, going from Middle-row towards Farringdon-street. It is an inn of Chancery, and an appendage as an inn of court to Gray's-inn. This inn is said to have been anciently a hall for the accommodation of wool-staplers, whence it derived its name; but it was an inn of Chancery before 1415, and in 1529 the benchers of Gray's-inn purchased it for its present purpose." [J. Elmes, A Topographical Dictionary of London and its Environs (1831) - transcribed by Brian Randell]

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This place is located in Farringdon Without Ward.

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History

Staple Inn - an illustrated history, on the Medieval London website.

Cunningham, Timothy. The history and antiquities of the four Inns of Court; namely, the Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn; and of the nine Inns of Chancery; to wit, Clifford's Inn, Clement's Inn, Lion's Inn, New Inn, Strand Inn, Furnival's Inn, Thavies Inn, Staple Inn, and Barnard's Inn; also of Serjeant's Inn in Fleet-Street and Chancery-Lane, and Scroop's Inn . . .. London, Printed for G. Kearsly (1780) 251 pp. [Full text]
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