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Excerpt from The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, Vol. 3: The Black Books; From A. D. 1660 to A. D. 1775 His Volume begins with 1660, the year of the Restoration of Charles II. And finishes with the accounts of Mr. John Coxe, junior, Treasurer from jan. 23, 1775, to Jan. 23, 1776. The materials are, as before, the Black Books and the Red Books with the addition of the Serle's Court Book, begun by order of the Bench in 1694, to contain all orders relating to Serle's Court and the admittances thereto. And still continued in relation to New Square, the present name of Serle's Court. A mss. In the Steward's office containing a selection of the Principal p. Orders down to 1770 is the only previous attempt to carry out what has been done more fully by the present series of volumes. Mr. Henry Gibbs, clerk to Mr. J. Coxe, junior, a Master of the Bench, seems to have extracted and indexed such orders of Council as he thought important, under the supervision of Mr. Coxe, and was rewarded with ten guineas by the Bench. The mss. Is known as Coxe's Digest. The arrangement of the Buildings of the Inn will be fully treated of in the next volume, where a detailed and chronological account will be given as complete as the evidence permits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.