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Doctors’ Commons (Knightrider Street)

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Formerly Mountjoy’s Inn, the Doctors’ Commons, Knightrider Street was the meeting place for the Doctors’ Commons, where they kept a common table and built up a precious library of foreign law books (Baker 180). Eventually, the Doctors’ Commons, Knightrider Street housed five courts: the Court of Arches, the Prerogative Court, the Court of Faculties and Dispensations, the Consistory Court of the Bishop of London, and the High Court of Admiralty (Harben). Henry Harben notes that the building burned down in the Great Fire of 1666 and was subsequently rebuilt on the same site (Harben). The building was sold in 1865 after the Doctors’ Commons was dissolved (Baker 181).

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MLA citation

Rothwell, Molly. Doctors’ Commons (Knightrider Street). The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 6.6, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 30 Jun. 2021, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/DOCT1.htm. INP.

Chicago citation

Rothwell, Molly. Doctors’ Commons (Knightrider Street). The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 6.6. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed June 30, 2021. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/DOCT1.htm. INP.

APA citation

Rothwell, M. 2021. Doctors’ Commons (Knightrider Street). In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 6.6). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/6.6/DOCT1.htm. INP.

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TEI citation

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Meeting places for the Court of Arches

St. Mary Le Bow was the original meeting place for the Court of Arches. After the Great Fire of 1666, the Court of Arches often met at the Doctors’ Commons, Knightrider Street.

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    The Doctors’ Commons, Knightrider Street was located in the building that formerly housed Mountjoy’s Inn, Knightrider Street.

      Meeting places for the Doctors’ Commons

      The Doctors’ Commons moved from the Doctors’ Commons, Paternoster Row to the Doctors’ Commons, Knightrider Street.

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