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Cliffords Inn
187, Fleet Street. (EC4) Named from the ancient family of Clifford, its former possessors, It was demised in the year 1337 by the widow of Robert de Clifford to students of the common law at the yearly rent of £10. It was in the hail of this Inn that the judges sat after the Great Fire of 1666 to determine causes arising out of that calamity. (Reference: Smith's Streets of London, p. 263) George Dyer, the friend of Elia, lived in Clifford's Inn. Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon, etc., lived at No. 15 for thirty-eight years.
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