group buildings legal institutions london initially attached offices drew existing gradually changed purpose offices accommodation place initial training practice training died instead dedicated associations offices founding wales single unified professional association purpose died long period decline sold demolished history believed evolved tandem 12th 13th century law taught city london primarily clergy 13th century events happened destroyed form legal education firstly decree england legal education exist second papal bull prohibited clergy teaching law result system legal education fell apart lawyers instead settled immediately outside close possible provided permanent court small village inhabited later took landlord inn question sprung took original purpose buildings offices draft precise dates founding unknown commonly said oldest existed inn founded considered oldest legal historians mistakenly considered oldest centuries education step student join taught form learning taught readers sent inn attached discuss cases students end legal term particularly promising students transferred parent begin stage education approximately students studying time time accommodation offices branch english legal profession sixteenth seventeenth centuries purpose changed outbreak english civil war practice teaching ceased result dedicated association instead offering offices accommodation foundation wales respectively professional bodies profession relegated little eccentric dining clubs gradually dissolved sold popular book reported remember purpose buildings investigation failed uncover origins inn sold sold demolished john wrote attached like honour princess known detail acknowledged anybody found records inn inn inn attached attached inn inn attached lincoln inn inn attached tenth inn outer temple proven exist legal historian originally independent fell allegiance claiming independence right nineteenth century directly attached sixteenth century began charging higher acceptance fees students trained independent students trained dissolved shut located near inn named took coat arms large letter buildings completely rebuilt 19th century queen anne style noted members included sir william_shakespeare justice shallow character member inn members noted wild lot known drinking parties later years inn poor library chapel funds spent repairs maintenance building inn place considerable antiquity records originally purchased inhabitants turned initially small respected inn educated people noted sir inn institution perished public contempt long came hammer pick time dissolved inhabited lowest lawyers struck rolls surveyed found run idea duties inn century inn dissolved replaced inn oldest mentioned generally considered dependent members maintained independent note independence custom send message year received deliberately replied coat arms modified form family arms noted students include sir said studied historical records find evidence associated inn called shortest lived founded fifteenth century pulled lord somerset role lord protector build students instead went absorbed inn said studied strand inn originally founded 15th century noted students included sir thomas attended going lincoln inn buildings pulled way road strand destruction left attached lincoln inn inn founded reign named 1820s inn completely rebuilt noted tenants include began write papers whilst living inn demolished inn second oldest founded sold dated originally inn wool merchants stayed reference inn coat arms contained wool reign elizabeth largest students permanent residents buildings survived great fire london rebuilt seventeenth century nineteenth inn shut building sold headquarters originally known inn owner established large students year reign elizabeth permanent residence institute legal education enforced odd practice student got wrong word penny improper word supervision traditionally sent reader inn year treated great respect noted pupils included sir later distinguished inn badly damaged gordon riots set fire door bought house
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