 The Caroline period saw a decline in prosperity for Gray 's Inn . Although there were many notable members of the Inn , both legal ( Sir Dudley Digges , Thomas Bedingfield and Francis Bacon , for example ) and non @-@ legal ( including William Juxon , the Archbishop of Canterbury ) , the list could not compare to that of the Elizabethan period . Following the English Restoration , admissions fell to an average of 57 a year . 
