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 Education for the English Bar in the Inns of Court. will materially impede his professional progress." In the time of Elizabeth this certainly would not have expressed the feeling of the leaders of the bar, for at that time the system

since 1852 there has been a great increase in interest, and a concerted effort for improve ment. The Inns of Court are today the same as those that tLord Coke, in the preface to his

INNER TEMPLE LIBRARY.1

of education was most thorough and per fectly developed. Toward the latter part of the I7th century legal training began to be neglected. At present the system is poor as compared with what it formerly was, but

reports, called the "four famous and re nowned Colleges or Houses of Court"—the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, and the Middle Temple. "These Inns are not corporations in the

1 The illustrations in this article are from those by Herbert Railton, in The Inns of Court and Chancery, by W. J. Loftie. For other illustrations of the Inns of Court see THK GREEN BAG, Vol. IV, No. 8, August, 1892; Vol. VI, Nos. 9 and 10, September and October, 1894; Vol. XIV, No. 10, October, 1902.