MRP: Gray's Inn walks, London

Gray's Inn walks, London

Editorial history

21/12/11, CSG: Created page

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Suggested links

See Grays Inn chambers, London
See Hatton Garden

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Images

Gray's Inn Gardens, 1804

Samuel Butler, author of Hudibras, 1847

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Image credits & copyright information

(1) Plate 19: 'Gray's Inn, from the Gardens,' in Herbert, William (ed.), Antiquities of the inns of court and chancery : containing historical and descriptive sketches relative to their original foundation, customs, ceremonies, buildings, government, &c. ; with a concise history of the English law (London, 1804), betw. pp. 338 & 339
- Book and image are out of copyright
- Sourced from Internet Archive edition

(2) Plate, 'Samuel Butler', ADD DETAILS
- Book and image are out of copyright
- Sourced from Internet Archive edition

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Mentions of Gray's Inn walks in Wiki primary sources

Sir George Oxenden correspondence

See 30th March 1663, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, London
- Richard Oxinden refers to a group of his and Sir George Oxenden's friends who used to meet at Gray's Inn walks

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Notes

Pepys diary, Grayes Inn walkes

"[Sunday 11 August 1661] To Clerkenwell Church, only to see the two fayre Botelers;1 2 and I happened to be placed in the pew where they afterwards came to sit, but the pew by their coming being too full, I went out into the next, and there sat, and had my full view of them both...Hence to Graye’s-Inn walks, and there staid a good while; where I met with Ned Pickering, who told me what a great match of hunting of a stagg the King had yesterday; and how the King tired all their horses, and come home with not above two or three able to keep pace with him. So to my father’s, and there supped, and so home."

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Possible primary images sources

Map of St. Andrew Holborn, Richard Blome, John Strype's London

Richard Blome, 'A Mapp of S:t Andrew Holborne,' pub. in John Strype’s A Survey of London (XXXX, XXXX)

Prospect of Gray's Inn & walks, Richard Blome, John Strype's London

'Prospect of Gray's Inn', pub. in John Strype’s A Survey of London (XXXX, XXXX)

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Possible secondary sources

Butler, Samuel, Hudibras, vol. 1 (London, 1847)
- Edition with notes by Rev. Treadway Rusel Nash
- Illustrated with wood cuts by Thurston

Herbert, William (ed.), Antiquities of the inns of court and chancery : containing historical and descriptive sketches relative to their original foundation, customs, ceremonies, buildings, government, &c. ; with a concise history of the English law (London, 1804)