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The Agas Map of Early Modern London has some lovely depictions of sites in legal London. Here are the four Inns of Court, for a start. I hadn’t realised just how far they were from the city centre - Gray’s Inn (top left) is positively rural! [1/7]
![The Agas Map of Early Modern London has some lovely depictions of sites in legal London. Here are the four Inns of Court, for a start. I hadn’t realised just how far they were from the city centre - Gray’s Inn (top left) is positively rural! [1/7]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EekkbaMWAAAlZ4x.png "The Agas Map of Early Modern London has some lovely depictions of sites in legal London. Here are the four Inns of Court, for a start. I hadn’t realised just how far they were from the city centre - Gray’s Inn (top left) is positively rural! [1/7]")
On the left is Lincoln’s Inn, with its fields and grazing cattle, and on the right is the Temple - inc. Temple Bar, Temple Church, and the wharf where lawyers would have hired boats to travel to court… [2/7]
![On the left is Lincoln’s Inn, with its fields and grazing cattle, and on the right is the Temple - inc. Temple Bar, Temple Church, and the wharf where lawyers would have hired boats to travel to court… [2/7]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eekken_X0AAmRSZ.png "On the left is Lincoln’s Inn, with its fields and grazing cattle, and on the right is the Temple - inc. Temple Bar, Temple Church, and the wharf where lawyers would have hired boats to travel to court… [2/7]")
![On the left is Lincoln’s Inn, with its fields and grazing cattle, and on the right is the Temple - inc. Temple Bar, Temple Church, and the wharf where lawyers would have hired boats to travel to court… [2/7]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EekkgkkWkAAAJ18.png "On the left is Lincoln’s Inn, with its fields and grazing cattle, and on the right is the Temple - inc. Temple Bar, Temple Church, and the wharf where lawyers would have hired boats to travel to court… [2/7]")
… upstream in Westminster Hall. I hope these little figures are lawyers going about their business! [3/7]
![… upstream in Westminster Hall. I hope these little figures are lawyers going about their business! [3/7]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eekko1UXkAIdZNo.png "… upstream in Westminster Hall. I hope these little figures are lawyers going about their business! [3/7]")
Here’s Old St Paul’s Cathedral, where lawyers would have touted for business once the courts had adjourned for the day. [4/7]
![Here’s Old St Paul’s Cathedral, where lawyers would have touted for business once the courts had adjourned for the day. [4/7]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eekkv7vWsAAFI-H.png "Here’s Old St Paul’s Cathedral, where lawyers would have touted for business once the courts had adjourned for the day. [4/7]")
The Temple butted up against Whitefriars - this area had remained a legal sanctuary after the dissolution of its eponymous monastery, and was a notorious refuge for debtors evading imprisonment. [5/7]
![The Temple butted up against Whitefriars - this area had remained a legal sanctuary after the dissolution of its eponymous monastery, and was a notorious refuge for debtors evading imprisonment. [5/7]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eekk0UrX0AER-8Y.png "The Temple butted up against Whitefriars - this area had remained a legal sanctuary after the dissolution of its eponymous monastery, and was a notorious refuge for debtors evading imprisonment. [5/7]")
Further east was Bridewell, the palace-turned-prison. It was eventually pulled down in the C19, but part of the site had a legal afterlife as the location of De Keyser’s Royal Hotel. [6/7]
![Further east was Bridewell, the palace-turned-prison. It was eventually pulled down in the C19, but part of the site had a legal afterlife as the location of De Keyser’s Royal Hotel. [6/7]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eekl7FhXkAAiYu0.png "Further east was Bridewell, the palace-turned-prison. It was eventually pulled down in the C19, but part of the site had a legal afterlife as the location of De Keyser’s Royal Hotel. [6/7]")
Anyway, I had better get back to my lecture-writing, but if anyone else wants to investigate/procrastinate, I'd love to see what you find! [7/7] https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/agas.htm
