What are Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, The Inner Temple and The Middle Temple, all in London?
The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn its similar connection with "The Winter's Tale".) The masque was sponsored by two of the four Inns of Court. (The other two inns sponsored a wedding tribute of their own, "The Memorable Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn," by George Chapman.) Inns of Court records reveal that the Inner Temple paid over £1200 for its half of the costs of the masque; the bill for Gray's Inn must have been comparable. The Inner Temple charged its members assessments of £1 or £2 to help pay the cost; charges at Gray's Inn ranged from £1 to £4. The costumes
Inner Temple buildings near the centre of the Temple) and the "middle inn" (occupying the unconsecrated buildings between the "inner inn" and the Outer Temple). These became the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, and were distinct societies by 1388, when they are mentioned in a year book. The Hospitallers leased the land to the Inner Temple for £10 a year, with students coming from Thavie's Inn to study there. There are few records of the Inner Temple from the 14th and 15th centuries—indeed, from all the societies, although Lincoln's Inn's records stretch back to 1422. The Temple was sacked by Wat