Editing Doctors' Commons (section)

==In Victorian literature==
Satirical descriptions of Doctors' Commons can be found in [[Charles Dickens]]'s ''[[Sketches by Boz]]'' and in ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]'' in which Dickens called it a "cosey, dosey, old-fashioned, time-forgotten, sleepy-headed little family party."<ref name=dcopperfield>''[[David Copperfield]]'' (1849), Charles Dickens, chapter 23.</ref>

In the same-era novel ''[[The Moonstone]]'' by [[Wilkie Collins]], the [[solicitor]] of [[Gray's Inn Square]] Mathew Bruff notes, "I shall perhaps do well if I explain in this place, for the benefit of the few people who don't know it already, that the law allows all [[will and testament|wills]] to be examined at Doctor's Commons by anybody who applies, on payment of a [[shilling (British coin)|shilling]] fee."{{sfn|Collins|1998|pp=274–275, 289}}

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.