CLIFFORD'S INN, near St. Dunstan's Church, in FLEET STREET. An Inn of Chancery appertaining to the Inner Temple, so called after Robert Clifford, to whom the messuage was granted by Edward II., in the third year of his reign; and by whose widow, in the 18th of Edward III., the messuage was let to students of the law.

Peter Cunningham, Hand-Book of London, 1850