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of June 1818, "'Furnival's Inn Cellar' was a place well known to the professional gentlemen, where a good dinner may be had at a reasonable price." The Inn was dissolved as a society in 1817 when Lincoln's Inn did not renew its lease and the medieval building was demolished in 1818. The building was
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Furnival's Inn was founded about 1383 when William de Furnival, 4th Lord Furnival leased a boarding facility to Clerks of Chancery, who prepared writs for the king's courts, assisted by apprentices who, as such, received a preliminary legal training. By the 15th century the Inns of Chancery had
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By the seventeenth century, the Inns of Chancery began to turn into societies for attorneys and solicitors; they became residences, offices and dining clubs. The greater part of the old Inn was taken down in Charles I's time, and a new building erected in its stead. Although it survived the
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lived in a set of chambers at No. 7 Furnival's Inn from 1888 to 1889. The site was redeveloped again, in 1879, as the headquarters of the Prudential Assurance. A plaque marks the site where Furnival's Inn stood.
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become preparatory schools for students wishing to be called to the bar by the Inns of Court. In 1548 it was affiliated to
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from 1900 and was abolished as a civil parish in 1930. It was unpopulated after the construction of Holborn Bars.
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rented rooms here between December 1834 and throughout the first year of his marriage, until 1837. He began the
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Parker, David. "Dickens, the Inns of Court, and the Inns of Chancery",
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Early-18th-century engraving of Furnival's Inn by Sutton Nicholls
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rebuilt as apartments by a new owner who retained the old name.
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Furnival's Inn was an area for local government partly in the
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St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr
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Former civil parishes in the London Borough of Camden
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Former buildings and structures in the City of London
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List of demolished buildings and structures in London
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while a tenant there. The character John Westlock in
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Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place
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Shepherd
Inn of Chancery
Holborn Bars
Prudential Assurance Company
Holborn
London

Holborn Bars
Lincoln's Inn
Sir Thomas More
Great Fire of London

Charles Dickens
Pickwick Papers
J.M. Barrie
City of London
Middlesex
extra-parochial area
civil parish
Poor Law Union
St Andrew Holborn
Metropolitan Borough of Holborn
List of demolished buildings and structures in London
"Ground plan of Furnivals Inn"
"MORE, Thomas I (1477/78-1535), of London and Chelsea, Mdx. - History of Parliament Online"


Parker, David. "Dickens, the Inns of Court, and the Inns of Chancery", The Literary London Journal, March 2010

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