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Thavie's Inn was a former Inn of Chancery, associated with Lincoln's Inn, established at Holborn, near the site of the present side street and office block still known as Thavies Inn Buildings. ''Thavie's Inn'' is one of the earliest Inns of Chancery on record, both by date of establishment and dissolution. It remains a well-known City of London landmark, where Lloyd's Bank is situated, on the opposite side of Holborn Circus from Ely Place. ==Origin of property== In 1349 John Thavie, an armourer based in the parish of St Andrew's, Holborn, "left a considerable Estate towards the support of the fabric forever" of that church, a legacy which survived the English Reformation. It has been invested carefully through the centuries, and still provides for the church's current upkeep.〔"London:the City Churches" Pevsner,N/Bradley,S : New Haven, Yale, 1998 ISBN 0-300-09655-0〕 His name has been transcribed as 'Thavy', 'Tavy' and 'Davy', ''i.e.'' the Welsh surname. In his will, the property is described as an inn "wherein the apprentices used to dwell" (note the past tense) and the assumption is that these were "Law Apprentices" who were known to lodge along Holborn, to be near the chancellor's court, ''i.e.'' at the Bishop of Lincoln's establishment there. The property in question is best located by the present Bartlett's Buildings on the south-side of Holborn. Thavie's original property, which was left for his endowment of the church, may still have been let to 'lawyers' by Thavie's executors for income, and may have been the original home of Lincoln's Inn before it relocated to its present site on Chancery Lane.〔''The Wards of Farringdon'' Tony Sharp FWC 2000〕 There is, however, considerable confusion as to just how the names of both the Inn of Chancery and the Inn of Court are derived. The will's statement uses the past tense and we know from the records of the inn that the community of clerks had moved to the neighbouring house of John de Besvile; it is this site that is associated with the title of 'Thavie's Inn' and the assumption is that the transfer of that name indicates the later lawyers association as having started in the original Thavy premises. There is a reference, after the relocation but before 1400, to the clerks at Besvile's house being addressed as "treshonorable, tresage compagne de David Inn in Holborn" ''ie.'' the 'Right Honourable and Learned Company of David's Inn in Holborn'. A deed of 1419 referring to "Davesynne" is extant. All of these references are important because they are the first record of any formal establishment of lawyers. Lincoln's Inn's own records, the 'Black Books', themselves start in 1422.〔''The Parish of St Andrew Holborn'' pp. 14–22 Caroline Barron, London 1979〕 Note: at the end of the 19th Century until the late '20s-early '30s, H.J. Cooper & Co Ltd were located in the Thavies Inn itself or in the area. They were wholesale and manufacturing jewellers, at the confirmed address '22 Thavies Inn, Holborn, London.' The Managing Director was Henry James Cooper. The company made lovely sterling holloware, among other sterling and gold goods. One of their patented designs is called "The SPOUTETTE," a scalloped hanging tea infuser/strainer (found periodically on eBay and Ruby Lane). The company was founded by The Cooper Brothers in Birmingham, but at the turn of the century, H. J. Cooper then branched off and moved his operations to London. The company was founded in the late 1890s, closed by 1930. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thavie's Inn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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