[50] The sign outside is a modern imitation.
[51] In Aubrey’s ‘Natural History,’ p. 277, a manuscript in the library of the Royal Society, is the following memorandum: ‘This day, May the 18th, being Monday, 1691, after Rogation Sunday, is a great convention at St. Paul’s church of the Fraternity of the adopted masons, where Sir Christopher Wren is to be adopted a brother, and Sir Henry Goodric of the Tower, and divers others. There have been kings that have been of this sodality.’
[52] Not in edition 1576, but edition 1596, p. 233.—[Ed.]
[53] See ‘City of London Livery Companies’ Commission,’ 1884, vol. ii.
[54] Sir William Dugdale, in his ‘Origines Juridiciales,’ records that the whole cost of this gatehouse was £153 10s. 8d., ‘the brick and tile used for the same being digged out of that piece of ground then called the Coneygarth, lying on the west side of the house, adjoyning to Lincoln’s Inn Fields.’ This valuable relic is now, I fear, in a somewhat neglected condition.
[55] T. Hudson Turner in the Archæological Journal for December, 1848, quoting from an account in the Office of the Duchy of Lancaster.
[56] See an interesting article on this subject in the ‘Archæologia,’ vol. ix. (1789), by the Hon. Daines Barrington.
[57] For further details about the armorial bearings, see ‘Gray’s Inn; its History and Associations,’ by W. R. Douthwaite, 1886, chap. xi.
[58] Dodsley’s ‘London,’ 1761, vol. iii., p. 58.
[59] ‘Scrope and Grosvenor Roll,’ i. 178.