. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . .770.—Thomas Dokker. 1769.—Philip MassiDger. 117 113 OLD ENGLAND. [Book V. who are imposed upon by that mysterious carriage of the body which is put on to hide the defects of the mind. The Middle Temple Hall (Figs. 1726, 1727) was completed in1572, after ten years had been spent in its erection. It is thelargest and most sumptuous of the halls of the inns of court. Theanus of a great number of eminent lawyers who have received theirlegal education in the society are emblazoned on the win
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . .770.—Thomas Dokker. 1769.—Philip MassiDger. 117 113 OLD ENGLAND. [Book V. who are imposed upon by that mysterious carriage of the body which is put on to hide the defects of the mind. The Middle Temple Hall (Figs. 1726, 1727) was completed in1572, after ten years had been spent in its erection. It is thelargest and most sumptuous of the halls of the inns of court. Theanus of a great number of eminent lawyers who have received theirlegal education in the society are emblazoned on the is also much rich carving; but the principal feature of theplace is the famous painting, by Vandyke, of Charles I. en horse-back. The Hall abuts on the garden, where stands what was,until very recently, the only fountain in London—an object madefamiliar in our own day, through the pages of Martin Chuzzle-wit, to countless thousands who never saw, and are never likely tosee the spot in question. The well-known gateway of Lincolns Inn (Fig. 1728) was builtin the early part of the sixteen
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