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| | LYONS INN |
 | | Lyons Inn, which lay between Wych Street on the north and Hollowlane (Holywell Street) on the south, takes it name from James Lyouns, sergeant at arms, who held property in St Clement Danes by 1377 and frequently witnessed charters there, the last known early in 1384. |
 | | Ownership of the Inn apparently belonged to Edmund West at his death in 1530, when the Inn and two adjoining gardens and cottages were taken into the king's hands and delivered to Sir Giles Alyngton, Kt, treasurer of the inn, and six others who were executors and relatives of West. |
 | | In 1582 Elizabeth's son, Edmund Bokenham, sold to Nicholas Hare, Treasurer of the Inner Temple, Lyons Inn with its rooms and gardens, which Elizabeth was holding for life, and in a separate transaction he sold to Hugh Hare of the Inner Temple five tenements adjoining the Inn, occupied by tenants. |
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