Note 282:1 — Chapter IX · LATER RECORDS
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As barristers often preferred to do business at their own homes, chambers in the Temple were rather at a discount just then, and their landlords, "preferring tenants of no legal skill to no tenants at all, let them out to any that offered, . . ." consequently many private people creep about the Inns of Court.—"Newgate Calendar," i. 470.