The Panelled Rooms, Vol 2 The Clifford's Inn Room (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

PLATE I.—Plan of the Room.„ II.—The Chimney-piece.„ III.—The Overmantel.„ IV.—Detail of the Chimney-piece.„ V.—Measured drawing of the Chimney-piece with Panelling.„ VI.—Measured drawing of a Side Wall of the Room.„ VII.—Measured drawing of the End Wall with Window Openings.„ VIII.—Doorway.„ IX.—Measured Drawing of Head of Doorway (VIII).„ X.—Doorway.„ XI.—Measured drawing of Head of Doorway (X).„ XII.—Measured drawings of Sections of Mouldings.--PANELLED ROOM OF CARVED OAK AND CEDAR, FROM No. 3, CLIFFORD'S INN,LONDON.Date 1686 to 1688. HISTORY.IN the year 1310 Edward II granted to Roger de Clifford, Marshal of England, a house and garden called, in the languageof the time, " messuage with the appurtenances next to the church of St. Dunstan-in-the-West in the suburb of London." At Roger de Clifford's death the property passed to his second son Robert, whose widow, in 1345, let it to students of the law for £ 10 a year. Such is the origin of Clifford's Inn. Mention of it is made in State Papers of the fourteenth century as " Inn of Clyfford by the Church of St. Dunstan," and it is probable that to this time can be put down the foundation of the Society of Clifford's Inn. For more than one hundred years the property remained in the possession of the Clifford family, though used as a school for study of the law; but in 1468 the freehold was granted to John Kendale and his heirs male, and later, in 1618, was acquired by the Society of Clifford's Inn. Records of the Society show that from about the latter date, resident members of the Inn, called Fellows, were admitted to a set of chambers, at first for a life and afterwards for one or two lives beyond their own. This sense of ownership sometimes led them to take great pride in the decoration of their chambers, as in the case of the panelled room now exhibited in the Museum.In the course of history the buildings of Clifford's Inn have undergone great changes. Of those still standing, the earliest in date, No. 12, goes back to the year 1624. Although a small part only of the Inn suffered from the ravages of the Great Fire in 1666, much rebuilding was done during the architectural revival whichfollowed this historic disaster. To this period belongs the panelled room here described, but the building of which it formed part has been pulled down within recent years.The occupant of the chamber, according to the Records of Clifford's Inn, was named John Penhallo or Penhallow. His arms are carved on the mantelpiece. He was admitted on the 5th February, 1674, to a chamber on the first floor of the building in the south-west corner of the first Court, afterwards known as No. 3. This building was pulled down and re-erected in 1686, and two years later John Penhallow was admitted to the chamber in which the panelling was put up, and also to another chamber over it" in consideration of the interest which he had in his own chamber before it was rebuilt, and also of the money which he had laid out in rebuilding the same chamber."* There is no doubt, therefore, that it was for John Penhallow that the room now exhibited in the Museum was made, and it is evident that the work was carried out between the years 1686 and 1688. John Penhallow died in 1716, and was succeeded by his brother and executor, Benjamin (d. 1722), whose administrator, George Robinson, nominated one Timothy Rogers, duly admitted in 1722, as the second life. It does not appear that the later tenants of the chamber were persons of any historical interest.In " The Visitations of Cornwall, comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 and 1620, with additions by Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Vivian (Exeter, 1887)," a full genealogy of the Penhallow family is given, of which an extract relating to the John and Benjamin Penhallow, who occupied the chambers in Clifford's Inn, is quoted on the following page. The family was of Cornish origin, and dated back in the i4th century to John Penhalow ..