Doctors’ Commons (Paternoster Row)
Described by Walter Thornbury as a
small inconvenient house in Paternoster Row,the Doctors’ Commons, Paternoster Row was the medieval meeting place for the Doctors’ Commons. After the Doctors’ Commons relocated to the Doctors’ Commons, Knightrider Street, their building in Paternoster Row became the location of the Queen’s Head Tavern (Thornbury).
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Thornbury, Walter.Baynard’s Castle and Doctors’ Commons.
Old and New London. Vol. 1. London, 1878. 281-293. Remediated by British History Online.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Paternoster Row is mentioned in the following documents:
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Doctors’ Commons (Knightrider Street)
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).Doctors’ Commons (Knightrider Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Doctors’ Commons
The Doctors’ Commons was a group of men from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge who practiced civil law (Baker 180). G.R. Elton claims that this society was formed in 1511 and was modelled after the Inns of Court (Elton 155). Sir John Baker claims that this society was already established in the fifteenth century by thedoctors of the Arches
(Baker 180). Encyclopaedia Britannica states that the society leased a building near Paternoster Row from 1565 until their dissolution in the nineteenth century; however, most scholars agree that the Doctors’ Commons moved from their Paternoster Row location to a building in Knightrider Street early in Elizabeth I’s reign (Doctors’ Commons
; Thornbury; Harben). A motion to dissolve the Doctors’ Commons was put forth in 1858 and by 1865 they had sold both their library and building (Baker 181). Most of the records surviving from the Doctors’ Commons are housed at the Lambeth Palace Library. For an accessible overview, see Wikipedia.This organization is mentioned in the following documents:
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