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The Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court, [2] along with Gray's Inn, [3] Lincoln's Inn, [4] and the Middle Temple. [5] The Inns are responsible for training, regulating, and selecting barristers within England and Wales, and are the only bodies allowed to call a barrister to the Bar and allow him or her to practice.
In 1337 the premises were divided into the Inner Temple, where the lawyers resided, and Middle Temple, which was also occupied by lawyers by 1346. [7] Lincoln's Inn, the largest, is able to trace its official records to 1422. [8] The records of Gray's Inn begin in 1569, but teaching is thought to have begun there in the late-fourteenth century. [9]
At the Inner Temple this man was known as the "Prince of the Sophie" (the Sophy being a term used to refer to the ruler of Persia at that time); at the Middle Temple it was the "Prince D'Amour" (French for "Prince of Love"); Lincoln's Inn had the "Prince of the Grange" and Gray's Inn selected a "Prince of Purpoole". [2]
(The 'Old Temple' was located in Holborn, roughly where Lincoln's Inn now stands.) [4] In addition to the church, Temple now appears in the names of Inner Temple, Middle Temple, the Temple Bar, and the nearby Temple tube station.
The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, also known as, The Masque of the Olympic Knights, is an English masque created in the Jacobean period. It was written by Francis Beaumont and is known to have been performed on 20 February 1613 in the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace, as part of the elaborate wedding festivities surrounding the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of ...
King's Bench Walk is located in the Inner Temple, [1] one of the four Inns of Court.The other three Inns of Court are Middle Temple, [2] Lincoln's Inn [3] and Gray's Inn. [4] The area borrows its name from the Order of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon, more commonly known as the Knights Templar which is a historical western Christian military order that was established in 1118 AD.
Fountain Court, at the heart of Middle Temple. The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple (with which it shares Temple Church), Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn.
The Library is first mentioned in 1440, [2] then in the Inn’s records in 1506. The Library refused to accept John Selden's manuscripts in 1654, most likely because the size of the collection would have necessitated a new building, but it has been described as "the greatest loss which the Library of the Inner Temple ever sustained". [3]