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In the early years of the last century the Library acquired by
gift one of its most valuable and historically important manuscripts.
This was a set of four fifteenth century illuminations on vellum which
provide the earliest known depictions of the English courts and court
dress. They date from about 1460 and show the four courts at Westminster
Hall - the courts of Chancery, Common Pleas, Exchequer and King's
Bench. The illuminations were presented to the Inn by Lord Darling
(Treasurer 1914-1915), who had purchased them at Christie's in 1894. |
