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LINCOLN'S INN. 
 
 HE Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn have their 
 origin in a group of lawyers, who between 1286 
 and 1310 were brought by H. de Lacy, Earl of 
 Lincoln, to settle near his Manor House in 
 Holborn.^ Here they occupied a house in Shoe Lane 
 (known in later years as Thavy's Inn), acquiring the title 
 they still bear by being under the patronage of the Earl of 
 Lincoln. Thence at a date previous to the death of Lord 
 Furnival in 1383, the larger part of the Society, taking their 
 title with them, moved to Lord Furnival's two messuages in 
 Holborn, leaving a minority to occupy Thavy's Inn as 
 dependents of the Society. By the year 1422 again a 
 majority had moved from Furnival's Inn and are found 
 occupying, as tenants to the Bishop, the Palace of the 
 Bishops of Chichester in Chancellor's or Chancery Lane, 
 and holding Thavy's Inn and Furnival's Inn as dependencies. 
 
 The " Hospitium de Lincoln's Inn," as the heading of 
 the first Black Book of 1422 calls the Palace, has remained 
 ever since in the possession of the Society, who acquired 
 the fee in 1580. The Records of the Society incidentally 
 give details of the site. 
 
 ^ Black Books of Lincoln's Inn, Vol. IV., pp. 263-298. The Site of 
 Lincoln's Inn, by W. Paley Baildon, F.S.A. 
 
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 It was separated from Chancery Lane l)y a ditch and a 
 mud wall, thatched with reeds ; at one point a gate, near the 
 present old Gatehouse, gave access to the Lane. A similar 
 boundary marked the North and West sides of the property, 
 and the latter was pierced in the North end by an opening 
 to the space now known as Lincoln's Inn Fields. The 
 West ditch and wall ran along the line of the present wall, 
 across the present gateway to Lincoln's Inn Fields, and over 
 the site of No. 11 and 11a New Square, till abreast of a 
 point row marked by a white stone and inscription on the 
 East wall of No. 11 New Square. 
 
 On the South side a wall ran eastward from the point 
 just mentioned along the line of the South front of No. 13 
 New Square and continued South of the front of Old 
 Buildings to Chancery Lane. The Eastern end was, at one 
 time, marked by a palisado and ditch some sixteen feet to 
 the South of the line of buildings. A postern gate, just 
 opposite to No. 13 New Square, gave access to Fickett's 
 Fields, now in part New Square. 
 
 Among the buildings were the Bishop's Hall, a Chapel 
 of St. Mary and another of St. Eichard, or, it may be, one 
 building containing two chapels, and several two-storey living 
 houses built of timber and plaster or " dawb." None of 
 these buildings now exist, though their sites are conjecturable. 
 The rest of the property to the Northward was taken up by a 
 garden bordering on Chancery Lane, and a coney garth or 
 rabbit warren lying on the West of it. The herb or kitchen 
 garden close to the postern gate before mentioned, of which 
 traces still remain in the trees between the South end of Old 
 Buildings and the North end of New Square, East side, w\as 
 added to by the Society at the later date of 1585. 
 
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 OLD HALL. 
 
 The oldest building of Lincoln's Inn is the Old Hall, 
 which in 1489 replaced the Bishop's Hall. Successive 
 alterations and adaptations have left little visible of its 
 original form. 
 
 It was in every way the centre of the social life of the 
 Inn. For more than a century after it was built, the great 
 fireplace in its middle provided the only fire to which the 
 majority of members had access. In it took place the 
 eating, teaching, recreation, meetings of the Society, and 
 the solemn dancings l)y the members of the Inn at great 
 feasts. Here, too, in 1662, on the occasion of a visit from 
 Charles II., the members performed a masque, of which a 
 rare copy is preserved in the Library. In the last two 
 centuries it has served as a Chapel and a Law Court, and is 
 now used as a Lecture Room. It contains a screen of 
 uncommon type. 
 
 On the walls are the arms of King Charles II., the 
 Princes and Nobles who dined here and were admitted into 
 tire Society on February 29th, 1671. 
 
 GATE HOUSE. 
 
 The Gate House, opening into Chancery Lane, was 
 begun in 1517-18 and finished in 1520-1. The building of 
 it was currently attributed to Sir Thomas Lovell, but the 
 records only credit him with a considerable contribution, 
 and state that William Sulyard, a Barrister of the Inn, was 
 entrusted with the erection. Sir Thomas Lovell, K.G., was 
 long a valued fellow of the Society ; admitted in 1464 he 
 
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 served every office in succession ; in 1485, after fighting for 
 Henry VII. at Bosworth in August, the Society elected him 
 a Governor in November, and before the end of the year the 
 King had made him Chancellor of the Exchequer for 
 life ; the Borough of Northampton had returned him to 
 Parliament ; and the House of Commons had elected him 
 Speaker. He is known to have been a great builder, and 
 may well have assisted the Society with advice, and in this 
 wuy connected his name with the Gate House. His last 
 contribution was in 1520, four years before his death. 
 
 On the Chancery Lane front is a tablet of three panels. 
 The central one has the arms of Henry YIII. — France and 
 England quarterly within the Garter and surmounted by a 
 Crown. The left hand panel has the arms of Henry de Lacy, 
 Earl of Lincoln (or, a lion rampant purpure). On the right 
 hand panel are the arms of Sir Thomas Lovell ; Lovell, 
 quartering Muswell (vert, two chevronels argent, each 
 charged with a cinq-foil gules) also within the Garter. A label 
 gives the date 1518. 
 
 There are but three other such Gate Houses left in 
 London.^ The Guard Room still exists on the South side. 
 The Vaulting in the archway, which was repointed in 1542, 
 according to the Records, has since disappeared. 
 
 The Gate House can only be considered old in general 
 appearance and in form, so many reparations having swept 
 its surface. Its construction and foundations are defective 
 and have been strengthened in recent years. 
 
 Those of St. James's Palace, Lambeth Palace, and St. John's, 
 Clerkenwell. v. " The Old Gatehouse of Lincoln's Inn," by W. Palsy 
 Baildon, F.S.A. 
 
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 OLD BUILDINGS. 
 
 The houses called Old Buildings, extending from the 
 South side of the Old Gate JHouse to the corner of New 
 Square, are the surviving examples of the general rebuilding 
 which began by the making of " a Bevy of New Chambers 
 at the Back Syde of the Hall by the Kitchen" in 1524, and 
 continued to about 1613. The internal arrangement of a 
 Set appears from an inventory of a Bencher's Set in 1605 to 
 have been as follows : it comprised two " studies " and an 
 inner chamber, shut off from each other by wainscot 
 partitions which formed a central ante-chamber into 
 which the three rooms opened. Each of these three 
 rooms had a window on the outer side, and windows 
 in the partitions gave a through light to the ante-chamber, 
 in which was a wainscot bed with a curtain. There was no 
 fireplace. A Set was occupied by one Bencher or two 
 Barristers. 
 
 John Thurloe, who was one of the Council of State 
 under the Protector Cromwell, occupied the ground floor 
 of No. 24 Old Buildings from 1647-59. He then moved 
 to No. 13 Old Buildings (now pulled down), which he left 
 in 1661, and never after had Chambers in the Inn. The 
 State Papers which were published by Birch in 1742 were 
 said to have been discovered in a false ceiling in No. 13 
 during the reign of WilHam III. 
 
 CHAPEL. 
 
 The Chapel, begun in 1620 and finished in 1623, was 
 designed and built by Inigo Jones. It has since been 
 restored and much altered by Wyatt in 1797, and restored 
 and lengthened by Salter, under the superintendence of the 
 
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 late Lord Grimthorpe in 1 882-3. It was built on pillars, in 
 view of using the cloister below as a place of burial. 
 S tow's Survey of London^ thus criticises the cloister : " The 
 raising this Chapel on Pillars affords a pleasing melancholy 
 Avalk underneath, and, by night, particularly when illuminated 
 by lamps, it has an eff'ect that may be felt l)ut not described." 
 
 The six original windows in the body of the Chapel are 
 best described as figure and canopy windows, and have the 
 arms of the donors placed beneath the feet of the figures. 
 Some bear the signatures of makers of them. On the figure 
 of St. Matthias is the signature of " Bernard." On those of 
 St. Andrew and St. John, " R.B." combined in a cipher. 
 The St. John bears " RB." also in a cipher and an imperfect 
 inscription. The St. James has part of an inscription. The 
 St. Thomas has the initials "R.B." The St. Bartholomew 
 shows the letter " R.," and in the background a representa- 
 tion of the Chapel and part of the Old Hall. Finally, 
 that of St. Matthew bears a cipher which appears to 
 contain (besides other letters) "RB.," and the letters 
 making up "Fecit." The remaining eighteen figures in the 
 windows bear no signature. 
 
 Horace Walpole ascribes these windows to the family 
 of Van Linge, showing the current tradition, and has been 
 followed by subsequent writers. This family are stated to 
 have been Dutchmen, but little seems to be known of them 
 except their works. Windows made by them still exist at 
 Oxford, in Christchurch, and in the Chapels of Wadham, 
 University, and Queen's. Mr. Winston thus describes their 
 style : — " Coloured glass is used by them in the draperies, 
 and enamel colours applied as in a painting are much used 
 in the heads and the naked parts of the figures and in the 
 
 Ed. 1755, p. 72. 
 
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 backgrounds of the design." Another characteristic is that 
 one background is often prolonged through all the lights of 
 a window. An instance of this is the window showing the 
 Chapel and Old Hall. 
 
 The names of two of the family are known. The fine 
 East Window of Wadham College Chapel bears the signature 
 of Bernard Van Linge 1622 : that in Christchurch is signed 
 Abraham Van linge 1630 and the seven windows in the 
 Chapel of University College also bear the name of Abraham 
 Van Linge, but with the date 1641. 
 
 The Lincoln's Inn Windows are dated within two years 
 after that of Wadham. It may be that the signature of 
 Bernard to the figure of St. Matthias is that of the 
 author of the Wadham window : but so far no real light has 
 been thrown on the signatures to the windows of this 
 chapel. 
 
 A comparison of the whole series of figures, one with 
 another, reveals a variety of composition and treatment, 
 suggesting that several artists have contributed to the series 
 who were assistants only to the Van Linge. 
 
 Where the background so requires, architectural details 
 are given with great delicacy — and the view of the Old 
 Hall adjoining the Chapel (in the second window on the 
 South side) has the further charm of giving the view which 
 presented itself to a spectator entering the Inn by the Old 
 Gate House, at the date of the window. 
 
 The small landscapes over the heads of St. Paul and 
 St. John the Baptist, are full of detail. 
 
 The East window is composed of the coats of arms of 
 
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 each Treasurer of the Society, beginning with the year 1680 
 (in which Luke Astry was Treasurer) to the present time. 
 
 The West window contains the remaining fragments of 
 the arms of some early Readers and worthies of the Inn, 
 the earKest being of Anthony Irby, Reader in 1590. The 
 glass we learn from the " Black Books," was made "by a 
 Dutchman in 1624 " at a cost of 22/- a piece. Probably 
 this Dutchman was of the Van Linge family. , 
 
 The woodwork of the pews dates from 1 623, and was 
 made by " Price the Joyner " for £220. 
 
 The Registers show that marriages were celebrated in 
 the Chapel from May 1695 to March 1754. The burials 
 begin June 1695, and the last (of a Bencher) was in 
 May 1852. 
 
 HALL AND LIBRARY. 
 
 The Building comprising the Hall, Benchers' Rooms, 
 and Library, was designed by Philip Hardwick, " in the 
 collegiate style towards the end of the 16th century before 
 the admixture of Italian architecture."^ Begun in 1843, it 
 was opened on October 30th, 1845, by the late Queen 
 Victoria and her Prince Consort, who was then admitted 
 to, and made a Bencher of, the Society. 
 
 The Hall is 120 feet long, 45 feet wide, and 62 feet 
 high. On entering by the South door, the fresco on the 
 North wall by the late G. F. Watts, O.M., R. A., is well seen. 
 It is fully described on pp. 12 to 14. Affixed to the panelHng 
 of the Hall are the arms of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, 
 
 Black Books, Vol. IV., p. 215. 
 
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 Treasurer 1904, and of members of distinction in politics 
 who have been invited to the Bench ; of Bishops who 
 have held the post of Preacher to the Society ; and of the 
 many members who have attained Judicial office in England 
 or Ireland. At the upper end of the Hall below the fresco 
 is the dais on which stands the Bench table ; at this table 
 dine " The Worshipful the Masters of the Bench " (the 
 Benchers), who (to quote their earliest appellation in the 
 Records) are " the Governors of the Society." The cross 
 table below is that of the " Outer Barristers " (now termed 
 Barristers), and the tables running lengthwise are reserved 
 for the " Inner Barristers " (now the Students), who are in 
 process of being called to the Bar of Lincoln's Inn. 
 
 Among the busts behind the Bench Table is one of 
 W. Pitt, a copy ])y Theed of an original by Nollekens. 
 
 Among the pictures on the walls are those of Gilbert, 
 (J.B., 1725, l)y Dahl ; Bathurst, L.C., 1771, by Sir N. Dance; 
 Grant, M.R., 1801, by Harlow; and Thomson, C.B., 1814, 
 by Opie. 
 
 The Hall and Liljrary are joined by a Corridor, on 
 either side of which lie the Benchers' Council Chamber and 
 Drawing lloom. 
 
 In the Corridor is a chest, presented by Mr. H. Heydon 
 in 1549, then Treasurer, for the "safe custody of the 
 purchase of this House and all other books of accompt 
 concerning the same." Against the North Wall is a lead 
 cistern, characteristic of the date it bears, and a bust 
 of Inigo Jones, Architect of the Chapel, presented by 
 G. W. Reynolds, Esq., in 1904. A glass case against the 
 wall further on contains relics which have been dug up 
 within Lincoln's Inn. A carving of two figures, in alabaster, 
 
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 of a kind Iviiown to have l)ecn made at or near Nottingham, 
 which was dug up in 1822, much Ijelow the foundation of 
 the present chapel, is probably a relic of the Bishop's chapel 
 and represents the Annunciation. The several earthenware 
 jugs, more or less ornamented, were in use in the Inn, and the 
 smaller ones, ornamented with green glaze, held the ration 
 of beer served out to each meml)er in the fifteenth century 
 and after. A sixteenth century charm engraved on lead, and 
 made to the end that " nothing may prosper nor go forward 
 that E-aufe Scrope taketh in hand" may l)e contemporaneous 
 with the Benchership of Scrope from 1558-1571. A bronze 
 figurine of Greek Art, dating from 600 B.C., also dug up in 
 the New Garden, must have an interesting history. 
 
 To the left of the Glass Case, on the wall is a picture 
 of Paul before Felix, by W. Hogarth, painted for the 
 Society by him in 1748. It was bought with a sum of 
 £200 left by Lord Wyndliam, Chancellor of Ireland for the 
 ornamenting of the (then) Hall. The terms of the bequest 
 and an autograph letter and receipt from Hogarth are on 
 the walls of the Drawing Room. 
 
 In the Council Chamber are portraits of Kindersley, Y.C., 
 1851, by G. Richmond ; Selborne, L.C., 1872-4 and 1880-5 by 
 G. F. Watts, R.A. ; Lord Russell of Killowen, L.C.J., by 
 Sargent, R.A. (this is on loan to the Society) ; and the 
 Prince of Wales, when Treasurer of the Society for the 
 year 1904, by Ouless, R.A. There are in this room a series 
 of engravings and mezzotints of past worthies and a notable 
 number of crayon drawings and stipple engravings by the 
 late G. Richmond ; also a water-colour drawing representing 
 the opening of the Hall by the late Queen and her Consort. 
 
 The busts of Eldon, L.C., and Cairns, L.C., stand on 
 either side of the Drawing Room Door. 
 
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 On the walls of the Drawing Room are Eainsford, 
 C.J.K.B., 1676, by Gerard Soeste ; Skynner, C.B., 1777, by 
 Gainsborough ; Wm. Pitt, First Lord of the Treasury and 
 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1783-1801, hj Gainsborough ; 
 F. Hargrave, Treasurer, 1813, by Keynolds; andErskine, L.C., 
 1806, by Lawrence. There are also engravings of many 
 persons of distinction in their day. 
 
 The Library, which has been lengthened since it was 
 built, is now 131 feet long, 40 feet high, and 44 feet wide, 
 exclusive of the two Oriels, 6 feet in length and 17 feet wide. 
 It contains mainly books treating of the Law — one notable 
 series being the MSS. of Sir Matthew Hale, left by him to 
 the Society of which he was a Member. There are some 
 old volumes in the wooden boards used for binding from 
 the 13th to the 15tli Century, and some fine examples of 
 early printing and binding ; also a Book of Common Prayer, 
 mounted with silver engraved plates, and dated 1634. 
 
 A Statue of Erskine, L.C., by Westmacott, stands in 
 the centre. 
 
 NEW SQUARE. 
 
 We return now to other parts of the Inn. New Square, 
 originally called Serle's Court, was built l)ctween 1682 and 
 1693. Serle and the Society each claimed to be interested 
 in parts of Picket's Field, which lay between Lincoln's Inn 
 and the Strand. By mutual consent the buildings were 
 erected which at present form New Square. Considerable 
 litigation took place between Serle and others, claiming 
 under him or against him, one of whom was Dr. Barbon, 
 supposed to have been the son of Praise God Barebones, 
 whose name is often mentioned in connection with the 
 Puritan Partv. 
 
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 The "Stone Buildings," which lie between Chancery 
 Lane and the Eastern side of the present garden, were begun 
 in the year 1775. On the face fronting the gardens is a 
 sun-dial, put up by Wm. Pitt when Treasurer, as the initials 
 on it testify. The l)uil(lings in red brick in the vicinity of 
 the Old Hall and Chapel date from 1845-1880. 
 
 THE GARDENS. 
 
 In the time of the occupation by the Bishop of Chichester 
 the Northern part of his property, from Chancery Lane to 
 Lincoln's lim Fields, was taken up on the Chancery Lane 
 side by a garden, and on the Western side by a coney garth. 
 When the Society came into residence the rabbits formed 
 part of the weekly fare, and became an inducement to 
 poaching by the young gentlemen of the Inn. But from 
 1506 the garth and garden supplied clay for thousands of 
 bricks, and elms for the rebuilding of the Inn, and the rabbits 
 disappeared. Then walks were laid out, trees were planted, 
 and the present terrace walk was made in 1584. By 1629 
 the gardens, it is clear, had become a favourite resort of the 
 public : for in this year a Royal Messenger, holding a 
 warrant to arrest a man unconnected with the Inn, searched 
 Lincoln's Inn Gardens in his ordinary course and there 
 found his man. The remarkable sequel is thus detailed by 
 Sir Robert Heath, A.G., in his letter to King Charles I.: 
 " The messenger, out of respect to the place, forbore to 
 attach him : notwithstanding, when the messenger was 
 quietly gone into the street, about thirty gentlemen {i.e., of 
 the Inn) fetched him into the House violently, pumpt him, 
 shaved him and disgracefully used liim."^ 
 
 Black Books, Vol. II., 452. 
 
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 A century and a half later Stone Buildings were begun 
 to be built in the garden site, and in 1834 the Hall and 
 Library took up a great piece of the rabbit warren, and a 
 further piece was occupied by the New Gate and road into 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields. The Garden of New Square dates 
 from 1845. Enough of the Bishop's garden and coney 
 garth remains to please the eye and to preserve the quiet 
 of the Inn. 
 
 ARMS OF THE SOCIETY. 
 
 The Coat of Arms of the Society, as certified by the 
 Herald's Office in 1701, were in 1516, and still are, azure 
 seme de fers de moline or, on a dexter canton or, a lion 
 rampant purpure'* ; of these the lion rampant purpure in a 
 field or belong to the family of de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, 
 whose name the Society has always borne. 
 
 THE RECORDS. 
 
 The Records of the Society (known as the Black 
 Books), which begin in the year 1422 and continue to the 
 present time, have been kept with great regularity, and 
 show the inner life of the Society with extraordinary 
 minuteness for nearly 500 years. These Records have been 
 printed, and are obtainable at the Steward's Office, Lincoln's 
 Inn. They comprise two volumes of Admissions and four 
 volumes of Records. 
 
 THE WATTS FRESCO. 
 
 In 1852 the late Mr. G. F. Watts, O.M., R.A., proposed 
 to the Bench to decorate the North wall of the New Hall 
 
 * Black Books, Vol. III., pp. 207-8. 
 
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 with a painting on fresco called by him "Justice, The 
 Hemicycle of Law Givers." His proposal was accepted, 
 and the w^ork (45 feet in widtli and 40 feet in height) w^as 
 completed in October, 1859. 
 
 Fresco painting is the art of mural painting upon 
 freshly laid plaster lime, wdiilst it continues damp, wath 
 colours capable of resisting the caustic action of the lime 
 with which they are mixed or brought into contact, and this 
 particular painting was executed on plaster freshly laid, 
 piece by piece as required, in tempera colour with egg medium. 
 Much interest was taken in this experiment, as the painting 
 was the first real fresco on any public w^all in England. 
 
 By the year 1890, defects were apparent in the surface, 
 and Professor Church, of the Royal Academy, was instructed 
 to advise upon the best means of cleaning the painting and 
 to report upon the condition of the surface. It was found 
 impossible to arrest the decay of the surface, which continues 
 to be caused by the nature of the plaster, and will in time 
 destroy the whole painting. 
 
 The follow^ing letter, written by Mr. Watts in 1869 to 
 his friend, Mr. C. H. Eickards, of Manchester, is of much 
 interest : — 
 
 " I must own that your friend's^ expressed opinion 
 of my Lincoln's Inn Fresco is very gratifying to me, for 
 I know that the work is one of my very best efforts and 
 I cannot but be regretful that very few persons see it 
 or care to see it. The faith I have in the justice of time 
 would console me for this, but I hear it is beginning to 
 decay, and suppose it will go the way of all Frescos in 
 England, and speedily crumble away, so that my best 
 
 George Falkner. 
 
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 chance of going worthily down to posterity will be lost, 
 especially as the design has had no other existence of 
 any kind. It is but natural that engravings and 
 repetitions of all kinds should be made of popular 
 subjects, while more serious efforts should not be cared 
 for, and I have no sort of right to complain. Time is the 
 only judge whose dictum is a serious matter to serious 
 workers, but the destruction of one's work, before it 
 can receive judgment, is a thing that you will allow 
 may reasonably cause regret even to the least vain." 
 
 Mr. Watts, in 190^3, wrote that this Fresco ''is Eeal 
 Fresco and the only one, I think, on any pul)lic wall or any- 
 where perhaps in England."'''' 
 
 When Mr. Watts died in 1904, a desire sprang up to 
 have a record which should recall the artist and his gallant 
 attempt to establish in England this noble l)ranch of the 
 pictorial Art. The Bench, sharing this idea, in the 
 Treasurership of Lord Alverstone, L.C.J., commissioned 
 Mr. ^ iels M. Lund, a gold medallist of the Royal Academy, 
 to paint a copy of the work, on the reduced scale of a 9 feet 
 base. This will be hung in the Bar Library of the Royal 
 Courts of Justice, and, in view of the impossibility of 
 photographing successfully the painting itself, will be the 
 best obtainable record of the great artist's work. 
 
 Two details may here be interposed. The signature, 
 "G. F. Watts, 1859," will be found in the left hand bottom 
 corner beneath some thistles at the point of Edward I.'s 
 sword ; and secondly, " many of the heads are portraits 
 more or less," as Mr. Watts states in a letter of 1903. 
 
 These two letters are part of the Memoranda relating to the Fresco 
 collected by Mr. Warwick H. Draper, of Lincoln's Inn, the initiator 
 of the movement for secm'ing a record of the Fresco. 
 
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 The description which follows shows the names of the 
 personages represented, beginning at the top of the painting 
 with the figure on the left hand of the spectator, continuing 
 to the last on the right in each row of figures, and beginning 
 again with the left hand figure in the next line, and so on 
 through the rows into which the painting may (roughly) 
 be divided. 
 
 Below will be found a nominal list, which states the 
 name of each personage represented, next, the historic 
 description of each personage, and, lastly, the name of the 
 person (if any) of whom the painting was more or less a 
 portrait. 
 
 J. DOUGLAS WALKER, 
 A Master of the Bench of Lincokis Inn. 
 
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