Researching lawyers

[Mary from Italy]

In case anyone's interested, I've found The register of admissions to Gray's inn, 1521-1889, together with the register of marriages in Gray's inn chapel, 1695-1754 on Google book search:

http://www.archive.org/stream/registerofadmiss00gray#page/n7/mode/2up

If anyone happens to know of a similar list for Clement's Inn, I should be grateful :)

[Muggins in Sussex]

Hi Mary

Not Clements Inn, but there is an Inner Temple admissions database 1547 -1850 here http://www.innertemple.org.uk/archive/itad/index.asp

Is this any help ? http://www.innertemple.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31&Itemid=30

The archivist at Inner Temple might be able to help

[Mary from Italy]

Thanks very much, I'll try the Inner Temple archivist. I know Clement's Inn no longer exists as an Inn of Chancery, and I was wondering who had the records. I'm looking for somebody who would have been admitted in approximately the 1580s-1590s.

[Mary from Italy]

Hmm, just read your second link properly - it sounds as though very few records survive from Clement's Inn. Pity.

[Muggins in Sussex]

Hi Mary

I came across this today, and thought of you http://www.societyofgenealogists.com/new-family-history-databases-on-the-sog-members%e2%80%99-website/

I think you have to be a member to view the database and it doesn't apparently yet include London.

But I thought of you anyway :)

[Mary from Italy]

Thanks very much - I'll bookmark the page in case it comes in useful later.

I contacted the archivist from the Inner Temple; unfortunately she says that the published records for Clement's Inn only date from 1656, which is slightly too late for me.