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The Inns of Chancery trained clerks of chancery and also provided initial training for men wishing to enter into one of the inns of Court. Later in the period, as the legal profession began to split into two branches, the Inns of Chancery became associated with training of the 'lower branch' solicitors.
Call to the Bar is the graduation ceremony
By the time of Sir Matthew Hale (1629) the custom for law students to be first entered to an Inn of Chancery before being admitted to an Inn of Court had become obsolete, and thenceforth the Inns of Chancery have been abandoned to the attorneys.