few people who don't know it already, that the law allows all wills to be examined at Doctor's Commons by anybody who applies, on payment of a shilling fee." Doctors' Commons is mentioned anachronistically in the much later short story The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which Sherlock Holmes apparently obtains some information there about the will of the wife of Dr Grimesby Roylott of Stoke Moran. See also List of demolished buildings and structures in London References Bibliography External links Description of Doctors' Commons from Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz 1511 establishments in England 1865 disestablishments Anglicanism English law History of the Church of England History of the City of London Legal buildings in London Legal history of England Legal organisations based in London Legal professions Social history of London