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Excerpt from The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, Vol. 1: The Black Books; From A. D. 1422 to A. D. 1586
Index. The earlier buildings were two-storied and apparently built of timber and plaster or dawb: the accounts shewing the cost of erecting the buildings contain a curious charge for the purchase of gloves for the carpenters.
The chambers for the most part were long rooms, inside of which a cell or cells were constructed by panelling*: these cells called studies were the subject of frequent orders by the Bench. The ?oor space outside the studies was probably shared in common by the inhabitants of each chamber and partly occupied by bedding. The Bench lay down that in chambers the junior is to give place to the senior: and on one occasion adjusta dispute about the title to some bedding in the chamber.
Each house of chambers was distinguished by a name such as Le Horsemill, The Dovehouse (of which more below), or by references to the occupants or sites of other chambers. Apparently the convenience of denoting numbers had not yet suggested itself up to the date of the close of this volume.
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