Butcher Row was pulled down in 1813, and Pickett Street was erected in its place. This street was pulled down to make way for the new Law Courts, and now nearly the whole northern portion of St. Clement's parish has been cleared away. A great improvement has been made, but in order to obtain this many picturesque houses of interest have had to be destroyed. Returning within the Bar to the city, and walking up Chancery Lane, we come to Lincoln's Inn Gateway, one of the three historical gateways of importance in London; the other two being St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, and the entrance to St. James's Palace. This gatehouse of brick was built by Sir Thomas Lovell, K.G., son of the executor of Henry VII., and bears the date upon it of 1518. This interesting building, although perfectly sound and in good condition, was shored up a few years ago when old chambers by the side of it were pulled down and rebuilt, and it then narrowly escaped destruction. Efforts were successfully made to save the gate, and it is to be hoped that it may remain to give distinction to Chancery Lane for many years. Returning to Chancery Lane, and crossing Holborn, we come to Gray's Inn. The fine hall, which is full of associations of the deepest interest, was built between the years 1555 and 1560. Of the hall which it replaced there is no record, save that in 5 Edw. VI. [Illustration: LINCOLN'S INN GATEWAY, CHANCERY LANE.] (1551), it "was seiled with fifty-four yards of wainscot, at 2s. a yard." [Illustration: GRAY'S INN HALL] The present hall has the great distinction, according to Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps, of being "one of the only two buildings now remaining in London in which, so far as we know, any of the plays of Shakespeare were performed in his own time."[385] The other, of course, being the Middle Temple Hall, where _Twelfth Night_ was acted on February 2, 1601-2. _The Comedy of Errors_ was played on the evening of Innocents' Day (December 28), 1594, in the hall, before a crowded audience; some of the guests from the Inner Temple created a disturbance because they were not properly accommodated, and this led to an official inquiry. Mr. Sidney Lee thinks it probable that Shakespeare himself was not present, as he was acting on the same day before the Queen at Greenwich. Another performance of the play was given in the hall by the Elizabethan Stage Society on December 6, 1895.[386] George Gascoigne's _Jocasta_, adapted from the Phoenissæ of Euripides, was acted in the Refectory in 1566. Gray's Inn was famous for its masques and revels, and on July 7, 1887, in honour of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, the Benchers of Gray's Inn presented in the hall, to a distinguished audience, the _Masque of Flowers_, which had been performed before James I. on Twelfth Night, two hundred and sixty-four years before.