HKB
my opinion the livers in these are very like to those that are of the inns in the chancery, their names also are these so far as I now remember:
Brodegates. St. Mary Hall. Hart Hall. White Hall. Magdalen Hall. New Inn. Alburne Hall. Edmond Hall. Postminster Hall.
The students also that remain in them are called hostlers or halliers. Hereof it came of late to pass that the right Reverend Father in God, Thomas, late archbishop of Canterbury, being brought up in such an house at Cambridge, was of the ignorant sort of Londoners called an "Hostler," supposing that he had served with some inn-holder in the stable, and therefore, in despite, divers hung up bottles of hay at his gate when he began to preach the gospel, whereas indeed he was a gentleman born of an ancient house, and in the end a faithful witness of Jesus Christ, in whose quarrel he refused not to shed his blood, and yield up his life, unto the fury of his adversaries.
Besides these there is mention and record of divers other halls or hostels that have been there in times past, as Beef Hall, Mutton Hall, etc., whose ruins yet appear: so that if antiquity be to be judged by the shew of ancient buildings which is very plentiful in Oxford to be seen, it should be an easy matter to conclude that Oxford is the elder university. Therein are also many dwelling-houses of stone yet standing that have been halls for students, of very antique workmanship, besides the old walls of sundry others, whose plots have been converted into gardens since colleges were erected.
In London also the houses of students at the Common Law are these:
Sergeant's Inn. Furnival's Inn. Gray's Inn. Clifford's Inn. The Temple. Clement's Inn. Lincoln's Inn. Lion's Inn. David's Inn. Barnard's Inn. Staple Inn. Newmann.