In 1292 King Edward I decided that he wanted the King’s Courts to be out of the Church’s hands. It’s unknown why exactly. He certainly didn’t have an axe to grind with them about marital Law or the Law of succession. Unlike a few of his predecessors. He just decided, one day, on a whim, to wrap them all up and hand them over to that august body, the Judiciary, and the rest is as they say – history. These good men and true, these authors of the Law decided to use this new space to create the Inns, and it was from this fine new campus that the Law was taught and learned.
historyLarge groups of young men flocked to the Inns, they were thirsty for knowledge, and it wasn’t long before they started to get thirsty for something other than books and Latin. Taverns, hostelries and boarding houses
