Six hundred years and upwards have elapsed since Fitzstephen wrote. It is pleasant to think that the well has lasted so long, and that the place is still quiet. The Clare family, who have left their name to Clare Market, appear to have occupied Clement's Inn during part of the reign of the Tudors. From their hands it reverted to those of the law. It is an appendage to the Inner Temple. We are not aware of any greater legal personage having been bred there, than the one just mentioned. Shallow takes delight in his local recollections, particularly of this inn. In one of the masterly scenes of this kind, Falstaff's corroboration of a less pleasant recollection, and Shallow's anger against the cause of it, after such a lapse of time, are very ludicrous. "_Shallow._ Oh, Sir John, do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George's Fields? "_Fals._ No more of that, good Master Shallow, no more of that. "_Shal._ Ha, it was a merry night. And is Jane Nightwork alive? "_Fals._ She lives, Master Shallow. "_Shal._ She never could away with me. "_Fals._ Never, never; she would always say she could not abide Master Shallow. "_Shal._ By the mass. I could anger her to the heart. She was then a bonaroba. Doth she hold her own well?--and had Robin Nightwork by old Nightwork, before I came to Clement's Inn. "_Silence._ That's fifty-five years ago. "_Shal._ Ha, Cousin Silence, that thou hadst seen that that this knight and I have seen! Ah, Sir John, said I well? "_Fals._ We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow. "_Shal._ That we have, that we have, that we have; in faith, Sir John, we have; our watchword was, _Hem, boys_! Come, let's to dinner: come, let's to dinner: Oh, the days that we have seen! Come, come."[142] The sites of Arundel, Norfolk, Surrey, and Howard Streets (the last of which crosses the others), were formerly occupied by the house and grounds originally constituting the town residence of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, then of the Lord High Admiral Seymour, and afterwards of the Howards Earls of Arundel, from whom it came into possession of the Duke of Norfolk. It was successively called Bath's Inn (Hampton Place, according to some, but we know not why), Seymour Place, Arundel House, and Norfolk House. It was a wide low house, but according to Sully, who lodged in it when he was ambassador to James I., very convenient, on account of the multitude of rooms on the same floor.