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A      CALENDAR      OF 

THE   INNER    TEMPLE 

RECORDS. 


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A    CALENDAR    OF 
THE  INNER  TEMPLE 
RECORDS 


EDITED    BY 

F.    A.    IN  BERWICK,    K.C. 

ONE  OF   THE   MASTERS   OK   THE    BENCH 


VOL.  III. 

12  CHARLES   II.  (1660)— 12  ANNE  (1714) 


LONDON:  PUBLISHED  BY  ORDER  OF  THE 
MASTERS  OF  THE  BENCH  AND  SOLD  BY 
HENRY  SOTHERAN  AND  CO.;  STEVENS  AND 
HAYNES;  STEVENS  AND  SONS,  LIM.  1901 


CHISWICK    I'RKSS  :    CHARLES   WHITTINGHAM   AND   CO. 
TDOKS  COURT,  CHANCERY   I.ANE,    LONDON. 


CONTENTS. 

A    LIST   OF   THE     INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS,    AND    NOTE    ON    THE 
ENTRIES  IN  THE  CALENDAR. 

INTRODUCTION  : 

CHARLES  II. 

Restoration  of  the  Monarchy. — Procession  and  Dinner  of  Serjeants. — Readers' 
Feast  given  by  Sir  Heneage  Finch  in  1661. — Inner  Temple  Hall  described. — Dug- 
dale's  Description  of  the  Reception  of  the  King  and  the  Duke  of  York. — The  Duke 
of  York  called  to  the  Bench. — A  second  Royal  Visit  in  1671. — Orders  as  to  Cost 
of  Entertainments. — For  preventing  Disorders  at  Christmas. — For  Regulation  of 
Admissions. — Attorneys  and  Solicitors. — The  Plague  in  1665. — The  Temple 
deserted. — Deaths  in  1665. — The  Great  Fire  of  1666. — No  Appliances  for  meeting 
it. — At  Whitefriars  on  the  4th. — Checked  by  the  brick  buildings  in  King's  Bench 
Walk. — The  Church  not  injured. — Broke  out  again  on  Thursday,  6th. — Ex- 
tinguished by  Templars  and  others  acting  under  orders  of  the  Duke  of  York. — 
Ogilby's  map  showing  destruction  in  the  Inn. — Nearly  the  whole  Inn  destroyed. — 
Fig  Tree  Court  blown  up  on  Thursday  night. — Paper  Buildings  not  touched.— 
Serjeants'  Inn,  their  Hall  and  Chapel  destroyed. — Described  by  Dugdale. — The 
Inner  Temple  Gateway. — The  Prince's  Arms. — The  Master's  House. — Built  by  Dr. 
Ball. — Assisted  by  Benchers  of  the  Inner  Temple. — Destroyed  by  the  Fire. — Pay- 
ments in  respect  of  the  Fire. — Proceedings  for  the  rebuilding  of  the  Inn. — Com- 
menced in  Oct.,  1666. — Committees  appointed. — Agreement  with  Francis  Phelips. 
— As  to  King's  Bench  Walk  and  the  Offices. — Arrangement  with  Dr.  Ball  for 
rebuilding  the  Master's  House. — Ram  Alley. — Mitre  Court. — Alienation  Office- 
rebuilt  by  the  Crown.— Arrangements  with  other  "burnt  interest  persons." — Founda- 
tions certified  by  Sir  C.  Wren,  Surveyor  General. — Library  and  Moot  Chamber 
rebuilt. — Contribution  of  Sir  Heneage  Finch. — Readers'  coats  of  arms  restored  and 
set  up  in  Library. — Rebuilding  completed  by  Feb.,  1671. — The  Dutch  Fleet  in  the 
Thames. — March,  1669. — Dispute  with  the  City  as  to  the  Lord  Mayor's  Sword. — 
Jeffryes  employed  as  Spokesman  for  the  Inn. — Interview  with  the  Lord  Mayor  and 
Aldermen. — The  Lord  Mayor  insists. — Riot  in  the  Inn. — The  King  appealed  to. — 
Violence  offered  to  the  Lord  Mayor  and  his  Attendants. — Benchers  effect  a  Com- 
promise.— Lord  Mayor  and  his  party  leave  the  Inn. — Several  Members  of  the  Inn 
brought  before  the  Privy  Council  for  a  Riot. — The  Case  for  the  Temple  stated  by 
Sir  Heneage  Finch. — The  King  present  at  the  Arguments. — No  Order  made. — 
Pepys's  Account  of  the  Affair. — Our  Case  prepared  by  William  Petyt. — He  is  called 
to  the  Bar  in  Recognition  of  his  Services. — Fee  Farm  Rent  of  ^10  per  ann.  settled 
on  the  Queen. — The  Reversion  on  her  Death  sold  to  the  Crown  for  ,£80. — Re-in- 
troduction of  the  Court-hand  and  of  the  Exchequer  Mode  of  Accounting. — Oct., 
1677,  second  Fire  in  the  Inner  Temple. — King's  Bench  Walk  again  destroyed. — 
Improvements  in  Fire  Appliances  since  1666. — Described. — Payments  in  respect 
of  this  Fire. — Nov.,  1677,  Committee  appointed  to  arrange  for  rebuilding. — Similar 
Agreements  to  those  in  1666. — Builders  to  deposit  ^50  for  each  chamber. — Rebuilt 
in  1678. — Tablet  on  No.  4,  King's  Bench  Walk. — Jan.,  1678-9,  Fire  in  the  Middle 
Temple. — Description  by  Roger  North. — The  River  and  Conduits  fro/en. — Great 
portion  of  Middle  Temple  destroyed. — Its  Hall  saved. — Western  side  of  Hare 
Court  destroyed. — Inner  Temple  Hall  partly  burnt. — Cloisters  destroyed. — Church 
not  injured.— Small  Library  in  the  Inner  Temple  blown  up.— Many  persons  injured. 
— Duke  of  Monmouth  and  others  assisted  at  the  Fire. — Damage  to  the  Temple  de- 
scribed by  Roger  North. — Visit  of  the  Lord  Mayor  and  Sheriffs  to  the  Fire. — They 
bear  up  the  City  Sword. — Are  driven  out  by  the  gentlemen  of  the  Inner  Temple. 
— Disputes  between  the  two  Societies  as  to  the  Rebuilding. — Meetings  of  Middle 
Temple  Students  at  the  Apollo. — The  Devil  Tavern. — Dr.  Nicholas  Barbon's 
Model. — Meetings  of  the  two  Societies  in  the  Round  of  the  Church. — Difficulties 


vj  CONTENTS. 

referred  to  the  Lord  Keeper.— He  settles  a  Model  for  Hare  Court.— The  Cloisters. 
—Dispute  referred  to  Lord  Keeper.— Who  decides  on  Model  by  Sir  C.  Wren.— 
Cloisters  rebuilt  by  Middle  Temple  in  1681.— Library  and  end  of  the  Hall  rebuilt. 
—Subscription  by  Jeffryes.— Loss  to  the  two  Societies.— Wooden  Shops  near  the 
Church.— Described.— Pen  and  Lloyd's  Shop  in  the  Porch.— Chapel  of  S.  Ann.— 
Payments  made  in  respect  of  this  Fire.— In  1683  a  Fire  in  which  the  Treasurer  was 
killed.— Halt's  Coffee-house.— Early  Insurance  Office.— The  Church.— Much  neg- 
lected till  1678.— Playford's  Report.— Nothing  done  till  after  the  Fire. — In  1681 
Sir  C.  Wren  called  in  to  advise.— His  advice  adopted.— Work  done  to  the  Church. 
Carving  by  Grinling  Gibbons.— The  Crucifix.— Vaults  built  for  each  Society.— The 
Organ.— Suggested  in  Sept.,  1682.— Contest  between  Bernard  Smith  and  Renatus 
Harris.— Both  Organs  erected  and  tried  in  the  Church.— Disagreements  between  the 
Societies  as  to  the  mode  of  Selection.— Referred  to  Lord  Keeper  Guilford  in  1685. 

He  dies  without  deciding. — Referred  to  Jeffryes,  Lord  Chancellor  in  1686. — He 

decides  in  favour  of  Smith.— Organist  not  appointed  till  1688  at  a  salary  of  £25 
per  ann.— Question  whether  any  Organ  in  the  Chapel  before  1685. — Wren's  work  in 
the  Temple.— Middle  Temple  Gateway.— Doorways  in  King's  Bench  Walk.— His 
1  )inners  at  the  Devil  Tavern. — Services  in  the  Church,  1 660-1 7 14.— Dr.  Ball,  Master. 

His  "  Trial." Dr.  Win.  Sherlock. — His  Works  dedicated  to  the  Benchers  of  the 

two  Societies.— Presentation  by  the  Inner  Temple.— His  Deprivation  in  1689. — The 
Inn  paid  for  Preachers  appointed  by  him  during  his  Deprivation. — Dean  of  S.  Paul's. 
—Resigned  in  1704. — Dr.  Thomas  Sherlock  held  post  of  Master  for  fifty  years. — 
Case  of  Richard  Langhorne. — Victim  of  Gates  and  Bedloe. — Benchers'  Kindness 
to  his  Widow. — Disposal  of  his  papers  .  ix-liii 

JAMES  II. 

Martin  Hildesby,  a  Roman  Catholic,  called  by  Order  of  the  King  in  Feb., 
,687. — Refusal  to  call  Catholics  generally.— Orders  made  in  May,  1689. — Hildesby 
exempted. — leffryes. — His  intimate  Connection  with  the  Inn. — Subscribes  ^40 
towards  Wainscotting  the  Hall  and  Library. — His  Eldest  Son  admitted. — Benchers 
commission  Kneller  to  paint  his  Portrait. — 1687,  paid  for  and  set  up  in  the  Hall.— 
Cost  j£$o. — Given  to  his  Eldest  Son  in  1694. — Christopher  Milton. — Brother  of 
the  Poet. — Bencher  of  this  Society.— Made  Baron  of  Exchequer  in  1686. — Died  in 
1693. --Entertainments  during  Reigns  of  Charles  II.  and  James  II. — Dramatic  Per- 
formances twice  a  Year. — Reasons  for  the  Discontinuance  of  the  grand  Christmas 
and  the  Masque. — No  Play  of  Shakespeare  mentioned. — Probable  Cause.- — Plays 
performed  in  our  Hall,  1660-1688. — "The  Brothers." — "Epicene,  or  the  Silent 
Woman." — "The  Night  Walker,  or  the  Little  Thief." — "The  Changes,  or  Love  in  a 
Maze." — "  Love  in  a  Tub." — "  Secret  Love,  or  the  Maiden  Queen." — "The  Little 
French  Lawyer." — "Sir  Martin  Marr-all." — "The  Committee." — "  Philaster,  or 
Love  lies  a  bleeding." — "  The  Spanish  Curate." — "  The  Scornful  Lady." — "  London 
Cuckolds."—"  Rule  a  Wife  and  have  a  Wife."—"  The  Plain  Dealer."—"  The  Fond 
Husband,  or  the  Plotting  Sisters."— "  The  Soldier's  Fortune."— "The  Spanish 
Friar." — Commanded  by  Queen  Mary  in  1689. — "The  Cheats  of  Scapin  "  liii-lxxv 

WILLIAM  AND  MARY. 

New  Arrangements  in  the  Inn. — Duties  and  Emoluments  of  Treasurer  and 
others.— Orders  nowin  Force. — Precedence. — Appointments. — Benchers' Chambers. 
— Orders  for  Repairs. — Proposed  Deed  of  Trust. — No  Alteration  in  Legal  Educa- 
tion.— Inns  of  Chancery. — Subject  to  our  Jurisdiction  in  Certain  Matters.— Case  of 
Mr.  Fry. — Entertainment  to  the  Benchers  of  Gray's  Inn. — The  Garden. — Making 
of  a  Formal  Garden. — A  Benchers'  Garden  laid  out  in  1693  in  place  of  the  Aliena- 
tion Garden. — Fountain,  Bulbs,  and  Orange  Trees. — Taverns  and  Coffee-houses  in 
vicinity. — The  Fountain. — Agreement  with  Dixon  the  Tenant. — The  Rainboiv  paid 
Licence  for  Windows.— The  Star.— The  Mitre.— Hall's  Coffee-house. — The  Horn. 
-The  Palsgrave.— -The  Hercules  Pillars.— Position  of  the  Devil  Tavern. — Token 
issued. — The  Rainboiv  Token.— Portraits  of  William  and  of  Mary  by  Kneller. — 


CONTENTS.  vii 

Coke  and  Littleton  refrained  and  hung  in  the  Hall. — Death  of  Mary. — The  Master, 
Dean  Sherlock's,    Sermon Ixxv-lxxxii 

WILLIAM  III. 

Depreciation  of  Silver. — Value  of  Guineas,  30^.  each. — The  Recoinage  Act, 
1696. — Allowances  on  their  Fall  in  Value. — Schemes  for  Lighting  the  Courts  and 
Passages  of  the  Inn. — Convex  Lights. — Not  successful. — Conic  Lights. — The 
Church. — Night  Burials. — Miscellaneous  Entries. — Substantial  Repairs  in  1695 

Ixxxii-lxxxv 

ANNE. 

Hurricane  in  November,  1703. — Damage  to  the  Inn. — The  Master's  House. — 
The  Church  escaped. — Repairs  to  the  Church  in  1 706. — New  Battlement  and 
Buttresses  added. — Interior  painted  and  Wainscot  added  to  Pillars  of  the  Round. — 
Question  as  to  the  relative  Positions  of  the  Master  and  the  Benchers. — Report  of 
Committee,  June,  1706. — Declares  their  respective  Legal  Rights. — Portrait  of  Queen 
Anne  by  Kneller. — Cost  £80. — Sir  James  ThornhilFs  Picture  in  1 709. — Cost  £70. 
— Arrangement  of  Pictures  in  the  Hall  in  the  time  of  Anne. — Bad  Financial 
Position  of  the  Inn. — Advance  of  ^800  by  Treasurer  and  Benchers. — Without 
Interest. — Fines  pro  non  saltando. — Catering  for  the  Hall  handed  over  to  the 
Steward  under  Contract. — Numerous  Applications  by  Steward. — Committee  ap- 
pointed to  reconsider  Steward's  position,  in  1713. — Privileges  of  the  Inn. — Arrest 
and  Rescue  of  Mr.  Borlase  by  members  of  the  Society. — Defended  at  Cost  of  the 
Inn. — Judgment  of  Sir  J.  Holt. — Permissions  granted  by  Benchers  to  arrest  Debtors 
in  the  Inn,  not  being  Members. — William  Petyt. — His  Collections. — His  MSS. — 
His  Will. — Legacies  to  Inner  and  Middle  Temple. — His  Collections  sent  to  this 
Inn  by  Sylvester  Petyt. — New  Library  erected. — Librarian  appointed  at  salary. — 
Authorized  Yearly  Expenditure  on  Books  by  Treasurer. — William  Petyt's  Portrait. 
—The  Grace  Book. — Completion  of  the  cycle  1507-1714. — Changes  in  the  Inn. 
— Its  Condition  at  the  time  of  Queen  Anne. — The  Church. — Conclusion 

Ixxxv-xcvii 


CALENDAR  OF  THE  RECORDS  (prepared  by  W.   PAGE,   F.S.A.) 

PAGE 

CHARLES  II.        ........  i 

JAMES  II.       ........  218 

WILLIAM  AND  MARY  ...                           .         .  259 

ANNE .         .  367 


APPENDICES  ..........       443 


INDEX  AND  GLOSSARY        .......  475 


viii  CONTENTS. 

ILLUSTRATIONS  : 

PAGE 

QUEEN  ANNE  (from  portrait  by  Kneller  in  the  Inner 

Temple  Hall) Frontispiece 

FLYING  HORSE  (from  a  bookplate  of  the  Inner  Temple 

Library  designed  by  James  Kirk .         .         .         .         ix 

TOKENS  issued  by  the  "  Devil  and  Dunstan  "  tavern, 

and  by  the  "  Rainbow"  tavern  .         .          .       Ixxxii 

SILVER  GILT  "  NEF,"  belonging  to  the  Inner  Temple        xcviii 
HEADPIECE  (by  T.  G.  Jackson,  R.A.)  ....  i 

HENEAGE  FINCH,   LORD  NOTTINGHAM  (from  a  portrait 

by  Kneller  in  the  Inner  Temple)     ...  92 

PENN'S  SHOP  in  the  Church  Porch       .         .         .         .128 

OLD  HOUSES,  still  standing,  in  Middle  Temple  Lane, 
which  were  erected  before  the  Great  Fire.  They 
were  in  continuation  of  similar  houses  on  the 
western  side  of  Hare  Court,  which  were  destroyed 
in  the  fire  of  1679  (from  an  etching  by  Frank 
Newbolt  A.R.E.,  of  the  Inner  Temple,  Barrister- 
at-law)  .  ...  .  217 

OLD  HOUSES  IN  FLEET  STRKET,    showing    the    Inner 

Temple  Gateway  and  the  "  Prince's  Arms  "  .         .       258 
HEADPIECE  (by  T.  G.  Jackson,  R.A.)       .         .         .  259 

WILLIAM   III.  (by  Kneller) 292 

MARY  II  (by  Kneller) 310 

DOORWAY,  5,  KING'S  BENCH  WALK,  built  in  1678  by 
Sir  Christopher  Wren  (from  a  drawing  by  Frank 
Newbolt,  A.R.E.)  .  366 

HEADPIECE  (by  T.  G.  Jackson,  R.A.)       ...  367 

WILLIAM  PKTYT  (from  a  portrait  in  the  Inner  Temple)       418 
DOORWAY,  4,  KING'S  BENCH  WALK,  built  in   1678  by 
Sir  Christopher  Wren  (from  a  drawing  by  Frank 
Newbolt,  A.R.E.) 442 


A   LIST   OF   THE   INNER   TEMPLE 

RECORDS. 

(REVISED.) 

JHE  following  list  of  the  various  classes  of  the  Inner 
Temple  Records  contains  the  additional  volumes  of 
Miscellanea  which  have  been  sorted,  arranged,  and 
bound  since  Volume  I.  of  this  Calendar  was  issued. 

The  classes   marked  with   an    asterisk   are    being    included   in  the 

calendars  now  in  course  of  publication  : 

*  Acts  of  Parliament,  1505  to  present  date  (17  vols.}. 
Admission  Books,  1547  to  1569  and  1571  to  1830  (5  vols.). 
Admissions  by  Certificate,  1668  to  1818. 

Admission  Stamp  Books,  1683  to  present  date  (24  vols.}. 

Admittances  to  Chambers,  1554  to  1667  (2  vols.}. 

Bar  Bonds,  1672  to  1873. 

Bar  Books,  1788  to  present  date  (4  vols.}, 

Bar  and  Commons  Bonds,  Lists  of,  1673  to  1819. 

*  Bench  Table  Orders,  1685  to  present  date  (28  vols.},  and  copy  of  a 

volume  now  missing,  commencing  in  1 668. 

Bench  Minutes,  1706  to  1879  (incomplete). 

Book  of  Communicants  at  t/ie  Temple  CfmrcJi,  1667  to  1771  (incom- 
plete). 

*  Book  of  Evidences,  1568  to  1732. 

Buttery  Books,  1676  to  1685,  1700  to  1710,  1721  to  1800  (3  vols.}. 
Calls  to  the  Bar,  1638  to  the  present  date  (3  vols.}. 
Call  Stamp  Books,  1695  t°  the  present  date  (16  vols.}. 
Certificate  Books,  1725  to  1778,  and  1809  to  1891. 
in.  a  * 


A  LIST  OF  THE  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS. 

Chamber  Account  Books,  Large,  1759  to  1836  and  Small,  1792  to  the 

present  date. 

Chamber  Bonds,  1753  to  1863. 

Chamber  Books,  1 709  to  1 760  (incomplete  ;  see  vol.  xxx.  of  Miscellanea). 
Chamber  Books,  Index  to,  1693  to  1814. 
Chambers,  Surrenders  of ,  1685  to  1690. 
Commons  Account  Books,  1766  to  1826. 
Commons  Bonds,  1672  to  1879. 
Deeds,  Leases,  etc. 

*  General  Account  Books,  1682  to  present  date. 

*  General  Account  Receipt  Book,  1682/0  1684,  1688  to  1691,  1694  to 

1847,  1851  to  1870. 
Marriage  Licences,  eighteenth  century,  for  marriages  performed  in  the 

Temple  Church. 

*  Miscellanea : 

Letters  and  Papers,  1586  to  1830  (vols.  i.  to  vi.). 

Accounts  and  Estimates,  1673  to  1780  (vols.  vii.  to  x.). 

Library,  1708  to  1842  (vol.  xi.). 

Historical  Notes  (vol.  xii.). 

Copies  of  Public  Records  and  Mr.  Hewlett's  report  on  fee  farm 

rent  (voi.  xiii.). 
Proceedings  in  suit  of  Sir  Julius  Caesar  v.  the  Earl  of  Manchester, 

1630  to  1633  (vol.  xiv.). 
Papers  in  suit  of  Banks  v.  Collett,  1725,  and  Inner  Temple  v. 

Middle  Temple,  1726  (vol.  xv.). 

Papers  in  suit  of  Hellier  v.  Borrett,  1734-5  (vol.  xvi.). 
Papers  in  suit  of  Bambridge  v.  Borrett,  1734-41  (vol.  xvii.). 
Orders  for  Burial  in  the  Temple  Church,  1771  to  1851  (vol.  xviii.). 
Temple  Church,  etc.,  1660-1845  (vols.  xix.  and  xx.). 
Epitaphs  in  Temple  Church  (vol.  xxi.). 
Pamphlets  on  Temple  Church  (vol.  xxii.). 
Draft  Conveyance  of  Inner   and  Middle  Temple,    1751    (vol. 

xxiii.). 
Orders,  etc.,  as  to  treasurers,  readers,  benchers,  and  barristers, 

undated,  etc.  (vol.  xxiv.). 
Orders,  etc.,  as  to  officers  and  servants  of  the  Inn,  undated,  etc. 

(vol.  xxv.) 
Chambers,  etc.,  undated,  etc.  (vol.  xxvi.). 


A   LIST    OF  THE    INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS. 

Revels,  Foundlings,  and  unclassified,  undated,  etc.  (vol.  xxvii.). 
Pamphlets  on  rules,  customs,  etc.     Proceedings  of  Commissioners 

of  Sewers  for  Kent  (vol.  xxviii.). 
Pamphlets  on  rules,  history,  etc.  (vol.  xxix.). 
Chamber  Books,  1709,  1710,  1712,  1715-1727,  1733-1/53,  1760 

(vol.  xxx.). 

A  Treatise  on  the  duties  of  the  officers  and  members  (vol.  xxxi ). 
A  Treatise  on  the  history  and   division  of   the  Temples  and 

rights  of  the  Masters  (vol.  xxxii.). 

Rules  and  Government  of  the  Middle  Temple  (vol.  xxxiii.). 
Notes  on  the  Inns  of  Court  and  Chancery  (vol.  xxxiv.). 
Butler's  Account  Book,  1734-45  (vol.  xxxv.). 
Account  and  Receipt  Book,  1 704-9  (vol.  xxxvi.). 
Printed  Acts  of  Parliament. 
*  Miscellaneous  Account  Books. 

1606  to  1687,  Similar  to  the  General  Account  Books  (2  vols.). 

1614  to  1682,  Christmas  Account  Book  (i  vol.). 

1696  to   1704,  Accounts  of  Allowances  to  Master  Richardson 

(i  vol.). 

1728  to  1741,  Accounts  of  Commons  (i  vol.). 
Original  Parliaments,  1660  to  1880. 
Pensions  and  Preachers  Account  Books,  1762  to  1 8 1 1 . 


NOTE   ON  THE  ENTRIES  IN  THE  CALENDAR. 

Similar  remarks  to  those  made  in  the  note  on  p.  vii  to  the  second 
volume  apply  to  the  third.  The  formal  entries  relating  to  admit- 
tances to  and  viewing  of  chambers  have  been  omitted,  and  the 
regular  entries  which  occur  at  certain  intervals,  such  as  allowances  to 
watchmen  and  other  officers  of  the  Inn,  the  assessment  of  pensions, 
when  single,  and  fines  for  non-attendance  at  vacations,  have,  as  a 
rule,  also  been  left  out.  Owing  to  the  large  increase  in  the  amount 
of  business,  transacted  principally  at  the  Bench  Table,  towards  the 
end  of  the  seventeenth  and  during  the  eighteenth  century,  such 
matters,  other  than  those  before  referred  to,  as  are  formal,  both  in 
the  Acts  of  Parliament  and  Bench  Table  Orders,  have  been  calen- 
dared as  shortly  as  possible  ;  at  the  same  time  everything  of  general 
interest  has  been  abstracted  fully.  The  headings  to  the  minutes  of 
the  several  Parliaments  and  Bench  Tables  which  show  the  attend- 
ances, became  so  frequent  and  occupy  so  much  space,  that  it  has 
been  thought  it  would  meet  all  requirements  to  summarize  the 
attendances  at  the  beginning  of  each  year,  and  this  course  has  been 
adopted  from  the  commencement  of  the  reign  of  William  and  Mary 

(P-  259). 

The  accounts  have  been  dealt  with  in  the  same  manner  as  in 
the  earlier  volumes,  the  first  account  for  each  reign  being  abstracted 
fully,  and  some  intermediate  accounts  being  treated  in  a  like  way. 

The  Index  and  Glossary  have  been  compiled  upon  the  same 
principle  as  in  the  previous  volumes. 

WILLIAM  PAGE. 


INTRODUCTION. 

HE  Inner  Temple,  like  other  parts  of  the  country,  was 
well  prepared  for  the  restoration  of  the  monarchy. 
Mr.  Richard  Goddard,  a  royalist,  who  had  been 
elected  treasurer  in  October,  1659,  remained  in  office 
until  the  election  of  Sir  Heneage  Finch,  the  king's 
solicitor-general,  in  November,  1661.  Barristers 
favourable  to  the  royal  cause  were  put  on  the  bench,  and  serjeants- 
at-law  were  created.  Those  members  of  our  society  who  were 
qualified  took  part  in  the  coronation  procession,  and  the  usual  bon- 
fires attested  the  loyalty  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  inns  of  court.  But 
the  entire  community  was  occupied  with  the  change  of  government 
and  its  consequential  difficulties.  The  disposal  of  the  regicides,  the 
disbanding  of  the  army,  the  distribution  of  places,  the  reconstitution 
of  the  judicial  benches,  the  re-establishment  of  the  church,  and  the 
passage  of  the  new  prayer  book  through  the  house  of  commons 
were  matters  requiring  not  a  few  months  for  their  elaboration  and 
many  more  to  carry  them  into  effect,  so  that  subjects  of  minor 
importance  were  treated  as  of  no  account.  In  other  respects  the 
current  of  the  inn  flowed  on  as  before,  and  nothing  of  moment 
in.  b 


CHARLES  1 ! 


Vol.  ii.,  p. 


x  INTRODUCTION. 

happened  to  trouble  the  peace  of  the  inn  until  the  outbreak  of  the 

plague  in  1665. 

In  Michaelmas  term,  1660,  the  new  Serjeants,  of  whom  there  were 
fourteen,  comprising  six  from  our  inn,  met  in  the  Inner  Temple  hall 
and,  after  counting,  went  in  procession  to  the  court  of  common  pleas, 
where  they  were  received  by  the  chancellor  and  the  judges.  A  long 
and  detailed  account  of  the  ceremony  is  given  by  Siderfin,  who  was 
present,  and  it  is  repeated  by  Foss.1  It  was  similar  to  previous 
creations  of  Serjeants,  although,  the  number  being  larger,  there  was 
probably  a  greater  attendance  and  more  display. 

On  Thursday,  the  isth  of  August,  1661,  Sir  Heneage  Finch, 
Bart.,  solicitor-general,  being  reader  of  the  inn,  gave  his  feast  in  the 
antient  hall.  This,  as  it  then  stood,  had  a  large  window  at  the  east 
end,  to  which  light  was  admitted  over  a  small  low  library,  which 
occupied  the  ground  between  the  hall  and  the  new  brick  buildings. 
It  also  had  short  windows  to  the  north,  over  some  chambers  of  one 
story  called  Twisden's  buildings,  and  long  windows  to  the  south, 
through  which  the  light  came  without  interruption.  The  eastern 
window  was  filled  with  large  coats  of  arms,  including  those  of  Edward 
the  Confessor,  Queen  Elizabeth,  King  James  I.,  and  numerous  dis- 
tinguished noblemen  and  chancellors.  A  list  of  these,  some  twenty- 
four  in  all,  as  they  then  existed,  is  given  in  Dugdale's  "  Origines 
Juridiciales,"2  Sir  Thomas  Littelton,  K.B.,  the  author  of  the 
"  Tenures,"  being  the  only  person,  not  a  nobleman  or  a  chancellor, 
honoured  with  a  place  in  that  window.  In  those  on  the  north  side 
were  twelve  coats,  on  the  south  were  twenty  coats — showing, as  appears 
from  old  drawings,  that  the  windows  looking  southward  were  nearly 
twice  the  depth  of  those  looking  towards  the  north.3  To  this  feast  the 
king  was  bidden.  He  came  in  the  royal  barge  from  Whitehall  accom- 
panied by  the  Duke  of  York,  the  lord  chancellor,  various  ministers 
of  state,  and  a  great  number  of  the  nobility.  A  portion  of  the  retain- 
ing wall  being  removed  to  provide  a  landing  stage  for  the  royal  party, 
the  king  and  his  company  landed  from  the  river  in  the  Inner  Temple 
garden,  where  they  were  received  by  the  reader  and  by  Sir  Orlando 
Bridgman,  a  former  member  of  the  inn,  but  now  chief  justice  of  the 

1  "Judges,"  vol.  vii.,  p.  32. 

1  Fo.  184-185. 

*  Dugdale,  fo.  186,  gives  these  coats  of  arms. 


INTRODUCTION.  xi 

common  pleas,  in  his  robes  of  office  and  his  collar  of  SS.  The  fol- 
lowing description  is  given  by  Dugdale,  garter  king-at-arms,  who  was 
probably  present  on  the  occasion  : 

"  On  each  side  as  his  majesty  passed  stood  the  reader's  servants  in  scarlet 
cloaks  and  white  tabba  doublets  ;  there  being  a  way  made  through  the  wall 
into  the  Temple  Garden,  and  above  them  on  each  side  the  benchers,  baristers 
and  other  gentlemen  of  the  society,  all  in  their  gowns  and  formalities  the 
loud  music  playing  from  the  time  of  his  landing  till  he  entred  the  hall  ;  where 
he  was  received  with  xx  violins,  which  continued  as  long  as  his  majesty  stayed. 
Dinner  was  brought  up  by  fifty  select  gentlemen  of  the  society  in  their  gowns 
who  gave  their  attendance  all  dinner  while,  none  other  appearing  in  the  hall 
but  themselves  ;  the  King  and  the  Duke  of  York  sitting  under  a  canopy  of 
state  at  a  table  set  at  the  upper  end  of  the  hall,  advanced  three  steps  above 
the  rest.  The  Lord  Chancellor  with  the  rest  of  the  noblemen  sitting  at  a  long 
table  on  the  right  side  of  the  hall  ;  and  the  reader  with  those  of  the  society  on 
the  other  side."1 

After  the  dinner  the  Duke  of  York,  the  Duke  of  Buckingham, 
the  Earl  of  Dorset  and  Secretary  Morris  were  admitted  members  of 
the  society.  At  the  first  ensuing  parliament,  viz. :  on  3rd  November, 
1 66 1,  the  Duke  of  York  was  by  special  order  called  to  the  bar  and 
also  to  the  bench,  and  an  order  was  made  that  his  arms  be  set  up  in 
the  eastern  window  of  the  hall.  A  transcript  of  the  order  calling 
the  duke  to  the  bench  was  framed  and  glazed  and,  until  a  compara- 
tively recent  date,  was  still  to  be  seen  in  the  parliament  chamber.2 

In  1671  the  king  and  the  duke  again  honoured  the  treasurer  with  p.  81 
their  presence  on  Candlemass  day,  on  which  occasion  the  hall  was 
again  arranged  for  their  reception,  and  a  performance  of  "  The  Com- 
mittee," a  comedy  by  Sir  R.  Howard,  was  given  for  their  entertainment 
by  the  players  of  the  king's  house.  The  reader's  feast  of  1661  was 
the  last  of  the  great  entertainments  chronicled  by  Dugdale  or  by  any 
later  historian.  Other  festivities  were  honoured  by  the  presence  of 
kings,  queens,  and  great  officers  of  state,  but  they  were  of  a  more 
modern  type  and  were  wanting  in  those  picturesque  details  which 
delight  the  artist  and  the  antiquary. 

In  November,  1661,  an  order  was  made  by  the  benchers  with    p.  6 

1  Dugdale's  "Origines  Juridiciales,"  fo.  157. 

3  See  Pennant's  "  London,"  4th  ed.,  1805,  p.  142.  After  leaving  the  inn  the  party, 
according  to  Pepys,  went  to  the  theatre -and  saw  "The  Witts,"  a  comedy  by  Sir 
William  Davenant.  (Diary,  vol.  ii.,  p.  82.) 


xii  INTRODUCTION. 

the  object  of  reducing  the  cost  of  entertainments,  so  that  members 

might  not,  by  fear  of  the  necessary  expense,  be  hindered  taking  the 

post  of  reader.     To  prevent  possible  disorders  at  Christmas  the 

commons  were  dissolved  from  S.  Thomas'  day  to  Epiphany,  and  the 

penalty  of  expulsion  from  chambers  was  added  to  other  punishments 

p.  22     incurred  by  disorderly  conduct.     In  February,  1663-4,  an  order  was 

p.  30    made  as  to  moots.     In  June,  1664,  an  order  in  council  was  issued  to 

all  the  inns  of  court  and  of  chancery  nearly  identical  with  that  pro- 

Vol.  ii.,  p.  83    mulgated  by  King  James  in  November,  1614.     It  was  signed  by  the 

chancellor  (Clarendon),  by  the  chief  justice,  the  chief  baron,  and 

other  judges,  and  among  other  details  it  defined  once  more  the  re- 

p.  30     spective   positions    of  the   barrister   and   the   attorney-at-law,    and 

declared  that  from    henceforth    no    common    attorney   or  solicitor, 

"  they  being  ministerial  persons  of  an  inferior  nature,"  should  be 

admitted  to  any  of  the  four  houses  of  court,  though  they  might 

be  admitted,  as  before,  to  the  inns  of  chancery. 

The  plague,  which  had  for  many  years  periodically  visited 
the  Temple,  found  the  lawyers  as  ready  as  ever  to  deal  with  its 
advance  by  flying  from  its  contagion.  This  was  the  time-honoured 
and  generally  successful  plan  adopted  by  the  inn.  On  notice  of  any 
case  of  suspicious  sickness  within  the  society,  commons,  moots,  and 
readings  were  postponed,  and  the  inhabitants  betook  themselves  to 
the  country  homes  of  their  parents  or  their  friends.  The  great 
pp.  37-40  scourge  of  1665  accordingly  found  the  Temples  deserted,  and  beyond 
the  notices  of  adjournment  in  the  summers  of  1665  and  1666  no 
record  of  those  dismal  months  appears  in  our  books.1  The  great 
fire  which  occurred  in  the  following  year  wqs  a  matter  of  far  greater 
concern.  It  found  us  entirely  unprepared.  No  appliances  for  deal- 
ing with  an  extensive  fire  seem  to  have  been  anywhere  provided  or 
even  understood.  Although  the  inn  was  well  supplied  with  water 
from  the  New  River  and  an  unlimited  quantity  was  procurable  from 
the  Thames,  yet  there  were  no  means  at  hand  to  turn  the  flow  of 
water  on  to  the  burning  piles.  The  fire  commenced  about  two 
o'clock  in  the  morning  of  Sunday,  2nd  September,  1666.  A  north- 
easterly wind  was  then  blowing  and  the  flames  were  thus  rapidly 

1  Among  the  burials,  however,  there  are,  between  August  and  November,  1665, 
twelve  deaths  registered  as  "of  the  plague,"  including  that  of  the  steward  of  the  Inner 
Temple.  See  Appendix,  p.  450. 


INTRODUCTION.  xiii 

carried  towards  the  west.  During  the  whole  of  Sunday  and  Monday 
the  fire  raged  through  the  city,  skirting  the  river-banks  to  the  south- 
west and  reaching  Holborn  to  the  north.  On  Tuesday  the  4th  it 
had  arrived  at  Whitefriars,  on  the  eastern  boundary  of  the  Inner 
Temple.  Fleet  Street,  Ludgate  Hill,  and  Fetter  Lane  were  in 
flames,  and  it  seemed  that  nothing  could  save  the  inn  with  its  vener- 
able church.  During  the  night,  however,  the  wind  fell,  and  with  it 
the  great  onward  force  of  the  fire  slackened,  so  that  on  Wednesday, 
the  5th,  hopes  were  entertained  of  saving  the  western  suburbs  of 
the  city. 

The  solidity  of  the  brick  building  recently  erected  in  King's 
Bench  Walk  gave  a  temporary  check  to  the  advance  of  the  fire,  and 
the  judicious  use  of  gunpowder  within  our  walls,  by  making  open 
spaces,  hindered  the  further  progress  of  the  flames.  Thus,  though  a 
great  portion  of  the  inn  was  destroyed,  yet  the  fire  was  stayed  at  the 
confines  of  the  church,  and  the  flames  which  had  swallowed  up  the 
cathedral  of  King  Ethelbert,  spared  the  chapel  of  the  knights 
templars.  On  Thursday  evening,  the  6th,  the  fire  broke  out  again 
in  the  Inner  Temple  owing,  as  was  supposed,  to  some  sparks  falling 
upon  a  pile  of  wooden  buildings.  But  the  templars  with  their 
servants,  acting  under  the  orders  of  the  Duke  of  York,1  a  bencher 
of  the  inn,  who  remained  all  night  and  personally  superintended  the 
operations,  succeeded  before  morning,  by  the  free  use  of  gunpowder, 
in  stopping  the  progress  of  the  flames  and  saving  the  inn  from 
further  destruction.  In  this  they  were  also  aided  by  the  soldiers 
who  had  been  sent  to  the  city  to  assist  in  dealing  with  the  fire, 
by  the  sailors  from  the  fleet,  and  by  four  engineers  whom  the 
benchers  employed  to  aid  in  the  demolition  of  buildings  within  p.  41 
the  inn.  The  exact  amount  of  injury  done  to  the  Temple  is  not 
easily  ascertained.  A  map  in  the  possession  of  the  society  has 
a  line  drawn  across  it  showing  the  limits  of  the  fire,  and  the 
investigations  which  I  have  been  able  to  make  into  this  subject 
show  the  line  to  be  substantially  accurate.  According  to  this  map, 
which  was  published  by  John  Ogilby  in  1677,  the  whole  of  what  is 
now  known  as  King's  Bench  Walk,  the  Alienation  buildings,  Mitre 
Court  buildings,  Tanfield  Court,  a  block  corresponding  with  and 
then  known  as  Lamb  buildings,  the  whole  of  the  buildings  upon  the 
'  "London  Gazette,"  8th  Sept.,  1666. 


Kiv  INTRODUCTION. 

area  now  covered  by  the  library,  the  class  rooms  and  the  parlia- 
ment chamber  with  the  offices  below,  were  consumed  by  the  fire. 
The  church  appears  to  have  been  nearly  touched  at  the  south-eastern 
corner,  but  in  other  respects  to  have  been  saved  by  reason  of  its 
open  position,  although  it  was  dangerously  surrounded  by  small 
shops  built  up  against  its  southern  and  western  walls.  All  the 
houses  from  the  north  of  the  churchyard  and  from  King's  Bench 
Walk  to  Fleet  Street,  including  Ram  Alley,  Mitre  Court,  and  Ser- 
jeant's Inn,  were  burnt  to  the  ground,  but  the  Inner  Temple  Lane, 
the  gateway  built  in  the  time  of  King  James  I.,  and  the  buildings 
immediately  abutting  upon  it  seem  to  have  escaped.  Fig  Tree 
Court  does  not  appear  to  have  come  under  the  direct  influence  of  the 
fire.  It  was  probably  burnt  or  partially  blown  up  during  the  Wednes- 
day or  the  Thursday  night  when  the  fire  broke  out  again  in  the 
Temple.  The  object  in  blowing  up  this  portion  of  Fig  Tree  Court 
would  have  been  to  save  the  antient  hall  and  the  cloisters  which 
communicated  with  the  church  in  the  preservation  of  which  both 
societies  were  jointly  interested.  The  entries  in  the  records  cor- 
roborate the  line  of  Ogilby's  map,  and  show  that  the  following 
buildings  were  undoubtedly  destroyed  : 

p.  4,  King's  Bench  Walk,  including  the  Crown  Office,  the  King's  Bench  Office, 

and  the  small  lodges  adjoining  the  river. 

p.  50  The  Alienation  Office  in  its  large  garden  and  the  Exchequer  Office. 

The  buildings  by  Ram  Alley  (formerly  called  Fuller's  Rents)  at  the  top 
of  King's  Bench  Walk  and  the  Alienation  garden. 

p.  42  Tanfield  Court. 

p.  44  The  Master's  house,  which  stood  to  the  north  of  the  church  and  of  Tan- 

field  Court. 

The  whole  or  the  greater  part  of  Fig  Tree  Court. 

p.  43  The  end  of  the  Inner  Temple  hall  was  burnt  and  narrowly  escaped  de- 

struction. 

It  is  probable  also  that  much  damage  was  done  which  is  included 
under  the  headings  of  repairs,  rebuildings  of  staircases,  and  simihr 
entries.  The  Middle  Temple,  including  the  cloisters,  was  not 
touched  by  fire  upon  this  occasion,  unless  it  may  have  been  affected 
by  the  partial  destruction  of  Fig  Tree  Court.  Old  Paper  Buildings, 
the  subject  of  much  discussion  in  previous  reigns,  with  their  gravel 
court  yards  and  their  galleries  looking  into  the  garden  where  Selden 
and  his  friends  congregated,  were  left  intact,  though  the  trees  under 


INTRODUCTION.  xv 

which  the  templars  were  wont  to  walk  must  have  suffered  consider- 
ably. Serjeants  Inn  in  Fleet  Street,  the  principal  home  of  the 
Serjeants  and  the  judges,  which  stood  in  a  garden  adjoining  the 
Inner  Temple  was,  with  its  hall,  its  chapel  and  its  kitchen,  burnt  to 
the  ground.  According  to  Dugdale  *  the  windows  of  the  hall  or 
refectory  of  the  Serjeants  contained,  in  1664,  as  many  as  forty-three 
coats  of  arms  of  fellows  of  the  inn.  The  chapel,  in  its  south  window, 
also  had  one  coat,  that  of  Serjeant  Bedlowes,  who  died  in  1596.  The 
hall  was  rebuilt  at  the  cost  of  the  then  fellows  of  the  inn,  but  the 
judges  and  Serjeants  thenceforward  mainly  used  the  smaller  and 
more  modern  Serjeants  Inn  in  Chancery  Lane. 

The  gateway,  at  the  entrance  to  Inner  Temple  lane,  had  been 
rebuilt  in  1610  by  John  Bennet,  one  of  the  king's  sergeants  at  Vol.  2,  p.  51 
arms,  who  had  received  his  appointment  on  the  1 4th  of  July,  1609. 2  It 
was  surmounted  by  a  handsomely  decorated  house  projecting  slightly 
into  Fleet  Street.  It  contained  three  stories  of  rooms,  one  of  which 
was  and  still  is  decorated  with  the  badge  and  cypher  of  Henry 
Prince  of  Wales,  eldest  son  of  King  James,  who  died  in  November, 
1612.  The  second  and  third  floors  projected  each  beyond  the  other, 
and  the  first  and  second  had  large  bay  windows  facing  the  street. 
The  exterior  was  decorated  with  the  Prince  of  Wales'  feathers  and 
other  emblems.  On  the  third  or  upper  story,  was  a  gallery  from 
which  the  household  could,  on  occasions,  assemble  to  witness  the 
various  processions  entering  and  leaving  the  city.  Behind  this  gallery 
were  the  upper  rooms  of  the  house,  surmounted  by  two  gables,  one 
immediately  over  the  gateway  and  one  towards  the  east.  The  space 
occupied  by  our  gateway  was  about  half  the  breadth  of  the  house,  to 
which  the  entrance  was  through  a  door  to  the  east.  It  was  called 
the  Princes  Arms,  a  name  which  it  retained  for  many  generations.3 
S.  Dunstan's  church  and  two  or  three  houses  to  the  eastward  on 
either  side  of  the  road  were  all  in  Fleet  Street  that  survived  the 
great  fire.  Of  the  buildings,  except  the  church,  now  to  be  found  in 
the  Inner  Temple,  this  gateway  and  certain  work  connected  with  the  Vol.  i.,  p.  22 

1  "Origines  Juridiciales,"  fo.  326,  331. 

a  "  Sta.  Pap.,  Dom.,  Jac.  I.,"  vol.  xlvii.,  no.  33.     Docquet. 

1  An  interesting  account  of  this  old  gateway  and  house  is  given  by  Mr.  Philip 
Norman,  Tr.S.A.,  in  the  "Home  Counties  Magazine"  for  the  present  year,  1900, 
vol.  ii.,  pp.  227-236,  and  321-330. 


xvi  INTRODUCTION. 

hall,  referred  to  in  a  previous  volume,  are  all  that  remain  to  the  society 
of  that  which  was  standing  before  the  fire  of  London.1 

P.  5  Dr.  Ball,  who  was  appointed  master  of  the  Temple  in  February, 

1 66 1,  had  a  chamber  allotted  to  his  use  without  payment  of  rent. 
He  felt,  however,  that  the  providing  of  a  suitable  house  for  the 
master  was  "  a  matter  of  civil  as  well  as  of  sacred  concern."  And 

p.  23  the  two  societies,  concurring  in  that  sentiment,  resolved  in  May,  1664, 
that,  upon  his  building  such  a  house  in  the  garden  at  the  east  end  of  the 
church,  he  should  have  the  exclusive  use  of  the  same  so  long  as  he 
remained  master  of  the  Temple.  The  benchers  of  the  Inner  Temple 

p.  25  in  furtherance  of  this  object  gave  Dr.  Ball  out  of  their  funds  the  sum 
of  £ i oo  towards  the  cost  of  such  building.  In  January,  1664-5,  the 
building  being  apparently  complete,  Dr.  Ball,  in  a  petition  to  this 

p.  34  house,  after  thankfully  acknowledging  the  help  and  the  sympathy 
which  he  had  received  from  the  society,  stated  that  beyond  the  ;£ioo 
which  he  had  thus  acquired  he  had  already  expended  over  .£150,  and 
prayed  for  some  alleviation  of  the  burthen  he  had  taken  upon  him- 
self. This  was  referred  to  a  committee,  and  upon  their  report  in 

P-  35  February,  1665,  a  further  sum  of  ^100  was  granted  to  the  master 
"  to  be  paid  out  of  the  treasury  of  this  house  towards  his  great  dis- 
bursements about  the  building  of  his  house  in  the  garden  at  the  east 
end  of  the  church."  The  master  had  thus  been  little  more  than  a 
year  in  his  new  home  when  his  exertions  and  his  self  denials  were 

p.  44     rendered  nugatory  by  the  great  fire,  which  burnt  down  the  house  he 

had  just  succeeded  in  erecting. 

General  Accounts,  The  payments    in   respect  of  this  fire  appear  to  have  been  as 

fo-  I0°  follows  : 

"  To  Air.  Lyster  of  the  bench  for  defraying  the  charges  of  the  fire,  £100. 
P-  4'  To  Samuel  Hale  for  watching  in  the  fire  time,  £i  15^. 

To  4  engineers  that  worked  at  the  fire  by  order  of  the  bench,  £4. 

To  Spiers  the  grocer  for  half  a  barrel  of  powder  used  in  the  time  of 
the  fire,  £i  8s. 

To  Fifield  for  his  attendance  after  the  fire,  £6. 

To  a  soldier  of  Kingston  for  service  done  to  prevent  the  firing  of  the 
hall,  £2. 

To  the  three  butlers  for  watching,  &c.,  £4. 
p.  42  To  Richard  Row,  mariner,  £f,,  and  a  further  £5  given  by  parliament,  £10. 

A  drawing  of  these  "  old  buildings,  near  ye  Temple  Gate  in  Fleetstreete,"  is 
reproduced  in  this  volume. 


INTRODUCTION.  xvii 

To  Mrs.  Roe,  "  the  seaman's  widdy,  that  hope  to  putt  out  the  fire  at     p.  48 
the  end  of  the  hall  (given  in  1668),  £2."  p.  65 

On  the  28th  October,  1666,  the  benchers  commenced  proceed- 
ings for  the  reconstruction  of  the  inn.  They  appointed  a  committee  p.  40 
of  nine  of  their  number  "  to  consider  of  the  new  buildings  to  be 
erected  in  the  house  and  to  take  into  consideration  all  the  circum- 
stances touching  the  same."  On  the  3Oth  November  a  committee  of  p-  42 
seven  with  a  quorum  of  three  was  appointed  "  to  treat  with  any 
persons  and  to  settle  all  matters  in  reference  to  the  rebuilding  of  the 
society,"  and  leave  was  given  for  the  immediate  commencement  of  a 
portion  of  Tanfield  Court  and  of  certain  chambers  in  Fig  Tree  p.  42 
Court.  On  the  2 7 th  January,  1666-7,  an  agreement  was  made  with  p.  43 
Francis  Phelips,  a  bencher,  for  the  rebuilding  of  "  those  chambers 
and  rooms  called  King's  Bench  building,  lately  consumed  by  fire." 
This  sets  out  certain  conditions  upon  which  the  chambers  throughout 
the  inn  were  rebuilt  by  its  members.  Phelips  was  to  erect  these 
buildings,  at  his  own  cost,  and  not  to  be  liable  to  the  society  for  any 
fine  in  entering  upon  them.  He,  his  executors  and  assigns,  were  to 
have  a  grant  of  the  chambers,  when  built,  for  three  consecutive  lives, 
with  power  during  that  period  to  admit  thereto,  and  to  receive  pay- 
ment of  fines  for  admission,  from  any  persons  who  were  members  of 
the  inn.  The  houses  were  to  be  four  stories  high.  The  former 
occupants  of  chambers  were  to  have  a  preferential  right  of  admission, 
and  the  masters  of  the  crown  and  of  the  king's  bench  offices  were  to 
have  a  right  to  a  treaty  with  Phelips  for  the  re-erection  of  their  re- 
spective offices.  In  the  following  February  an  arrangement  was  made  p.  44 
with  Dr.  Ball,  by  which  he  undertook  to  lay  out  ^400  in  the  re- 
building of  his  house,  which  had  been  burnt  down.  He  was  to  build 
in  brick,  and,  in  consideration  thereof,  was  to  have  a  lease  for  thirty- 
one  years  commencing  from  his  death  or  his  ceasing  to  be  master. 
He,  or  his  executors,  were  on  the  commencement  of  such  thirty-one 
years  to  offer  the  house  to  the  two  inns  at  a  rental  of  .£40  a  year  for 
the  whole  time.  If  they  declined,  then  he  or  his  executors  were  to 
offer  it  to  the  master  for  the  time  being  for  ^40  a  year,  and  if  he 
declined  then  he  or  they  were  to  be  at  liberty  to  let  it  to  any  member 
or  members  of  either  inn  at  such  rents  as  might  be  agreed.  The  re- 
building of  the  chambers  by  Ram  Alley  was  undertaken  by  some  pp.  45>  46 
members  of  the  society  in  the  spring  of  1667.  Ram  Alley  itself  was 

in.  c 


xviii  INTRODUCTION. 

also  rebuilt,  and  those  interested  in  the  subject  will  find  the  Ram 
Alley  of  the  restoration  under  the  name  of  Hare  Place.  It  is 
entered  from  Fleet  Street  between  the  gateway  of  Serjeant's  Inn  and 
the  Mitre  Tavern.  There  is  no  longer  any  entrance  from  Ram 
Alley  to  the  Temple.  Mitre  Court  and  the  Mitre  Tavern  were  also 
rebuilt,  and  the  gate  into  Mitre  Court,  as  to  which  frequent  orders 
may  be  found  in  the  earlier  volumes  of  these  records,  was  re-erected, 

p.  50  and  is  still  closed  at  night  and  opened  in  the  morning.  The  Aliena- 
tion office,  with  its  sets  of  chambers  looking  into  the  Alienation 
garden,  was  rebuilt  by  the  crown,  and  in  consideration  thereof  the 
king  and  his  successors  had  the  right  to  admit  to  such  chambers  any 
member  of  the  inn  without  fees  to  the  society  for  such  admission. 

p.  So  Arrangements  similar  to  those  with  Mr.  Phelips  were  made 

with  any  members  of  the  inn  who  desired  to  rebuild  the  chambers 

p.  51  which  they  had  occupied,  and  among  others  Roger  Twisden,  son  of 
the  judge,  was  licensed  to  build  on  the  north  side  of  the  hall  and  to 
have  a  lease  for  two  lives.  A  stipulation  was,  however,  inserted 
that  he  should  put  a  leaden  roof.  Other  members,  all  "  burnt 
interest  persons,"  undertook  the  building  of  chambers  in  continuation 
pp.  61-64,  69-70  of  those  erected  by  Mr.  Phelips  in  King's  Bench  Walk.  The  certifi- 

p.  72  cates  as  to  the  foundations  for  these  buildings  bear  the  name  of 
Christopher  Wren.  In  respect  of  this  matter  he  appears  to  have 
received,  as  surveyor-general,  a  fee  of  ^"5.  Generally  it  may  be  said 
that  any  members  of  the  society  who  lost  their  chambers  by  the  fire 
were  enabled  to  rebuild,  at  their  own  cost,  on  the  same  advantageous 
terms  as  were  granted  to  Mr.  Phelips  and  others.  The  library  and 
a  moot  chamber  under  it,  at  the  east  end  of  the  hall,  were  rebuilt  by 

p.  48     the  society  during  the  year  1667  at  the  cost  of  ^430.     They  were 

p.  53  painted  at  a  cost  of  ,£32  15^.  and  were  wainscottedat  a  cost  of  ^"136. 
Towards  this  expense  of  .£598  15^.  Sir  Heneage  Finch  contributed 

p.  60  the  sum  of  ^150,  a  memorandum  of  which  generous  gift  was  duly 
entered  on  the  minutes  of  February,  1668-9.  After  this  "Samuel 

p.  80  Walker,  painter  and  herald,"  was  commissioned  to  paint  for  the  library 
the  escutcheons  of  past  readers  at  $s.  each.  Those  of  new  readers 
were  to  be  paid  for  at  the  rate  of  5^.  each.  For  this  work  he  received 

p-  81  in  all  ,£28  js.  orf.,  the  price  of  the  arms  of  189  past  readers  at  T,S.  each, 
and  in  the  following  year  he  put  up  the  arms  of  six  recent  readers  at 
the  price  of  30$.  The  rebuilding  of  the  inn  was  thus  energetically 


INTRODUCTION.  xix 

taken  in  hand  and  rapidly  completed,  so  that  in  February,  1671,  the 
treasurer  was  able  to  show  to  the  king  and  his  brother  a  new  temple 
raised  upon  the  ashes  of  the  old  domain.  p.  81 

During  the  period  of  trouble  immediately  following  the  great 
fire,  London  was  thrown  into  a  panic  by  the  appearance  of  the  dutch 
fleet  in  the  Thames.  Our  two  great  warships  the  "  Royal  Charles  " 
and  the  "  Royal  James,"  were  burnt,  and  the  city  was  threatened  with 
a  blockade.  Accounts  of  the  popular  feeling  at  that  time  are  given 
by  Pepys,1  by  Evelyn,2  and  by  Macaulay.3  The  town  lay  helplessly 
at  the  mercy  of  the  enemy,  and  probably  our  society  did  all  that  was 
practicable  or  even  possible  when  they  appointed  two  of  their 
servants  to  keep  a  good  look  out  "  at  the  time  when  the  Dutch  fleet  p.  48 
came  into  the  River."  The  enemy  dictated  their  own  conditions  of 
peace,  and  the  nation  was  fain  to  submit  to  the  defeat  and  indignity 
as  one  of  the  penalties  for  a  restoration  of  the  Stuarts.  But  the 
business  of  rebuilding  their  city  still  occupied  the  minds  of  the  people, 
and  disregarding  for  the  moment  the  foreign  intrigues  of  their  rulers 
and  the  disasters  to  the  fleet,  they  devoted  their  energies  to  the 
accomplishment  of  this  great  object.  Thus  in  the  course  of  some 
four  or  five  years  from  the  date  of  the  great  fire  the  Inner  Temple 
was  rebuilt,  and  the  students  and  barristers  of  the  society  were  re- 
established in  their  homes  under  sounder,  healthier,  and  more  com- 
modious conditions. 

In  the  spring  of  1668-9,  one  °f  our  periodical  contests  with  the 
city  broke  out,  and  this  introduces  us  to  George  Jeffryes,  then  recently 
called  to  be  a  barrister  of  our  society.  The  Temples  had  from  the 
earliest  times  declared  themselves  to  be  extra  parochial  and  beyond 
the  jurisdiction  of  the  city  authorities,  while  the  latter  claimed  that 
the  Temples  were  within  the  suburbs  of  the  city  lying  outside  the 
city  walls.  The  subject  had  been  discussed  under  the  common-  Vol.  ii.,  pp.  371 
wealth,  when  it  was  held  that  the  Temples  were  not  for  any  purpose,  372 
either  of  assessment  or  otherwise,  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  city 
of  London.  The  templars  also  contended  that  the  lord  mayor  had 
no  right,  as  lord  mayor,  to  bear  up  his  sword  within  their  confines, 
and  thus  assume  a  jurisdiction  equivalent  to  a  royal  control  over 
them  and  their  society.  On  this  occasion  the  lord  mayor,  Sir  William 

1  "  Diary,"  vol.  vi.,  pp.  355-376.  2  "  Diary,"  vol.  ii.,  pp.  24,  25. 

3  "  History,"  vol.  i.,  p.  191. 


XX 


INTRODUCTION. 


Turner,  had  agreed  to  dine  with  Mr.  Goodfellow,  the  reader  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  who  was  about  to  be  created  a  serjeant  at  law,  and  the 
dinner  was  fixed  for  Wednesday,  3rd  March,  1668-9.  The  lord  mayor 
had  somehow  communicated  to  the  reader  his  intention  of  coming 
in  state,  with  his  officers,  and  of  bearing  up  his  sword  through  the  inn 
and  within  the  hall.  Upon  this  being  known  the  whole  society 

p.  66  protested,  and  the  reader  sent  two  of  the  fellows,  Thomas  Wroth  and 
George  Jeffryes  to  see  his  lordship  and  endeavour  to  accommodate 
matters.  These  two  gentlemen  had  an  interview  with  the  lord 
mayor  and  the  aldermen,  and  pointed  out  to  them  that  the  members 
of  the  inn  were  satisfied  that,  by  law  and  by  precedent,  the  lord 
mayor  was  not  entitled  to  bear  up  his  sword  within  the  Temple,  and 
that  they  were  determined  to  insist  on  their  rights.  If,  however,  the 
mayor  would  accommodate  them  as  to  this  particular  ceremony,  he 
would  be  received  with  every  mark  of  cordiality  and  respect.  The 
mayor  then  said  he  would  not  come  at  all,  but  being  further  pressed 

p.  67  by  Mr.  Jeffryes  with  personal  compliments,  hoping  thus  to  come  to 
some  agreement,  the  lord  mayor  retired  to  consult  with  the  aldermen. 
On  his  return  he  sent  a  message  to  the  reader  "  I  will  come  and  dine 

p.  68  with  him.  I  will  bear  up  my  sword  and  see  who  dares  to  take  it 
down."  This  challenge  to  the  inn  was  promptly  accepted.  In  the 
afternoon  of  this  same  day,  the  lord  mayor  with  the  sheriffs  and  a 
retinue  of  officers,  came  to  the  Inner  Temple,  entering  through  the 
Inner  Temple  lane.  As  the  party  entered  the  cloisters  they  were 
met  by  the  barristers  and  students  of  the  inn,  who  informed  the 
lord  mayor  that  unless  he  lowered  his  sword  he  would  not  be  per- 
mitted to  enter  the  hall.1  On  his  approaching  the  hall  he  found  "the 
great  staircase  of  the  hall "  thronged  with  gentlemen  and  students, 
some  of  whom  carried  their  swords  under  their  gowns,  determined  to 
maintain  the  hall  against  any  attempt  to  enter  it  by  force,  and  crying 
out  to  beat  down  the  sword  "in  a  very  loud  and  rude  manner." 
Upon  the  mayor  still  persisting,  a  rush  was  made  for  the  sword. 
It  was  not  captured,  but  the  sword  bearer  was  bruised,  and  some 
of  the  pearls  from  the  scabbard  were  knocked  off  in  the  scuffle. 
The  cap  of  maintenance  was  partly  pulled  off,  and  some  of  the 

1  Report  of  an  assault  made  upon  the  mayor  and  aldermen  of  the  city  upon  the  occa- 
sion of  dining  with  the  reader  of  the  Inner  Temple,  1669.  "City  Records,"  London, 
etc.,  by  Sharpe,  vol.  ii.,  p.  440. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxi 

city  marshal's  men,  having  affronted  the  gentlemen,  they  were 
carried  off  to  be  put  under  the  pump,  "but  were  not  pumped."  The 
students,  however,  took  away  the  officers'  sticks,  and  beat  them  with 
their  own  weapons.  In  the  result  the  lord  mayor  with  his  retinue 
took  shelter  in  the  chambers  of  auditor  Phillips.  Meanwhile  the 
sheriffs,  with  Sir  John  Nicholas  the  recorder,  had  gone  to  Whitehall 
to  see  the  king,  who  appears  to  have  advised  the  lord  mayor  to 
return  to  the  city.  This  he  attempted  to  do,  but  the  templars, 
headed  by  Mr.  Hodges,  son  of  a  deceased  alderman,  and  by  some 
other  hot-headed  youths,  assailed  his  lordship,  calling  him  "  Mr. 
Mayor,"  and  abused  the  sheriffs  in  remarkably  scurrilous  and  threat- 
ening language.  They  also  beat  some  of  the  aldermen  and  one  of 
the  sheriffs,  distributed  black  eyes  among  the  servants,  and  refused 
to  allow  the  mayor  to  depart,  if  he  insisted  on  bearing  up  his  sword, 
except  by  way  of  Ram  Alley,  this  being  regarded  as  the  back  door  of 
the  inn.  The  mayor  and  his  party  were  thus  driven  back  to  Mr. 
Phillips'  chambers,  and  the  benchers  then  interposed.  They  ob- 
tained an  undertaking  from  the  gentlemen  that  the  mayor  should  be 
allowed  to  depart  without  molestation.  This  he  did,  though  he  was 
accompanied  to  the  gate  by  the  fellows  of  the  inn  shouting  and 
jeering  at  the  city  party. 

This  is  the  account  given  by  the  witnesses  on  behalf  of  the 
city.     Numerous  depositions  were  also    made  by  members  of  the 
inn,1  but  although  they  do  not  fully  admit  the  scurrilous  language     p.  65 
attributed   to   them    by   the    city    officers,    there    is    no    substantial 
dispute  as  to  the  facts  of  the  encounter.      "  A  hall — a  hall,"  was 
the  battle  cry  of  the  templars,  and  to  that  cry  the  society  assembled 
in  great  numbers,  and  seem  to  have  resented  very  deeply  the  action 
of  the  lord  mayor  and  the  sheriffs.    On  the  2ist  of  March  an  order 
was   made  for  the   attendance   before  the  king  in    council   of  Sir 
John    Nicholas,  the  recorder,  and  certain   of  the   aldermen   along     p.  66 
with  Hodges,  Morgan,  Pettus,  Jeffryes,  Litelton,  Shaw,  Wyn,  and 
Bates,  gentlemen  of  the  Inner  Temple  who  had  been  more  or  less 
concerned  in  the  uproar.2     On  the  24th  of  March,  Hodges,  Wyn  and     p.  68 
Mundy  were  sent  for  again,  and  affidavits  were  read.     The  case  for 

1  "Miscellanea,"  vol.  i.,  fol.  51. 

*  The  latter  were  afterwards  entertained  at   supper  by  the   inn   at  a  cost  of     p.  65 
£3  'Sj.  4<f. 


xxii  INTRODUCTION. 

the  Temple  was  submitted  to  the  privy  council,  the  king  himself 
App.,  p.  443  being  present,  by  Sir  Heneage  Finch  (afterwards  Lord  Nottingham),1 
treasurer  of  the  inn.  He  contended  that  the  Temple  was  exempted 
from  the  jurisdiction  of  the  mayor  and  aldermen  of  the  city,  and  had 
been  so  from  the  earliest  period.  That  on  the  dissolution  of  the 
monasteries,  the  crown  held  it  as  a  separate  franchise,  and  that  the 
patent  of  6  Jac.  I.,  conveyed  the  soil  to  the  benchers  with  general 
words  which  revived  and  continued  all  the  antient  privileges.  That 
even  under  the  commonwealth  the  city  was  not  permitted  to  exercise 
Vol.  ii.,  pp.  371-  any  kind  of  authority  in  the  Temple,  although  the  city  was  much 
courted  by  the  army  and  the  government  of  that  day.  That  the 
city  charter  was  fourteen  days  later  in  date  than  the  patent  of  the 
Temple,  and  moreover  that  whereas  certain  antient  exempted  monas- 
teries, e.g.,  Whitefriars,  Blackfriars  and  Smithfield,  were  added  to 
the  city  jurisdiction  by  express  words,  there  were  no  such  words  in 
regard  of  the  Temple,  which  therefore  retained  its  exemption  as 
against  the  city.  He  argued  at  some  length  that  the  inconveniences 
to  the  Temple  in  being  under  the  city  would  be  insupportable, 
whereas  no  inconvenience  would  be  suffered  by  the  city  if  the 
exemption  were  upheld.  The  heads  of  his  argument  are  very 
clearly  stated  in  his  memorandum,  and  they  seem  to  have  produced 
a  good  effect.  The  council  were  not  prepared  to  decide  against  the 
p.  68  Temple,  nor  to  punish  any  of  the  gentlemen,  and  on  the  7th  April, 
1669,  they  made  an  order  that  the  king's  pleasure  in  the  matter 
be  suspended  till  the  rights  and  privileges  of  the  Temple  had 
been  tried  before  the  courts.  This  put  the  city  to  bring  an  action 
against  the  benchers,  to  have  it  declared  that  the  Temple  was 
within  their  jurisdiction.  But  no  such  action  was  ever  brought,  and 
although  in  January,  1678-9,  when  the  lord  mayor  and  sheriffs,  again 
attempting  to  bear  up  the  city  sword  within  the  precincts  of  the 
Temple,  were  treated  with  even  more  violence  than  in  1669,  no 
steps  were  taken,  and  no  attempt,  I  believe,  was  ever  made  to  enforce 
the  claim.  Pepys2  refers  to  this  scene  in  the  Temple  of  which  he 
gives  the  same  account,  but  adds  that  Sir  Richard  Browne  caused 
the  drums  to  beat  for  the  train-bands,  in  answer  to  which  the 

1  Petyt  MSS.,  No.  538:  vol.  17,  fol.  388.     Argument  by  Sir  Heneage  Finch  as 
to  the  Temple  beingwithout  the  Jurisdiction  of  the  City  of  London,  A.D.  1669.    App.  II. 

2  "  Diary,"  vol.  viii.,  p.  243. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxiii 

students  threatened  to  try  the  charter  of  the  city.  On  the  7th  of 
April,  Pepys  went  to  the  council  chamber,1  and  heard  the  complaint 
of  the  city  tried  against  the  gentlemen  of  the  Temple  for  a  riot  when 
the  lord  mayor  was  there  : 

"  But,  upon  hearing  the  whole  business  the  city  was  certainly  to  blame 
to  charge  them  in  this  manner  with  a  riot :  but  the  king  and  council  did 
forbear  to  determine  anything  in  it  till  the  other  business  of  the  title  and 
privilege  be  decided,  which  is  now  under  dispute  between  them,  whether  the 
Temple  be  within  the  liberty  of  the  city  or  no.  But  I  was  sorry  to  see  the 
city  so  ill-advised  as  to  complain  in  a  thing  where  their  proofs  were  so  weak." 

This  incident  is  also  referred  to  in  the  New  View  of  London,2 
where  the  conduct  of  the  lord  mayor  is  spoken  of  as  an  insult  to 
the  gentlemen  of  the  Inner  Temple.  The  preparation  of  our  case 
was  entrusted  to  William  Petyt,  exigenter  of  London,  a  great  bene- 
factor to  our  society  in  later  years,  who  in  February,  1670-1,  was 
"  called  to  the  bar  and  to  be  an  utter  barrister  of  this  house,  for  his  p.  74 
services  done  in  asserting  and  defending  the  rights  and  privileges 
of  the  Temple." 

The  fee  farm  rent  of  ^10  per  annum  due  from  each  of  the 
Temples  to  the  crown,  under  the  patent  of  6  Jac.  I.,  was  regularly 
paid  into  the  exchequer.    The  receipt  for  this  sum  was  taken  by  tally, 
according  to  the  antient  practice  of  that  office.     In  November,  1668,     p.  52 
it  was  notified  to  the  inn  that  this  fee  farm  rent  had  become  part  of 
Queen  Catherine's  jointure,  and  an  order  was  made  that   for  the 
future  the  same  should  be  paid  to  Mr.  Watts,  her  majesty's  receiver. 
In  the  spring  of  1673  communications  were  opened  with  the  societies 
through  the  medium  of  John  Lindsay,  a  banker  in  London,  for  the 
purchase  by  them  of  this  rent,  subject  to  the  payment  of  the  queen's 
jointure.     A  committee  was   appointed  consisting  of  the  treasurer    p.  92 
and  one  bencher  of  each  inn  with  power  to  treat,  and  an  agree- 
ment was  arranged  in  February,   1675-6,  with  the  trustees  for  the 
sale   of  the  crown    fee  farm   rents,   by  which   each   inn  purchased 
in  perpetuity  the  fee  farm  rent  of  ^10  per  annum,  subject  to  the 
queen's  life  interest  therein.     The  price,  viz.,  £80,  was  by  no  means     p.  108 
unduly  favourable  to  the  crown,  and  was  probably  induced  by  his     p.  109 
majesty's  necessities.     The  annuity  was  duly  paid  until  the  death 

1  "Diary,"  p.  286. 

2  "A  New  View  of  London."     London,  1708.     Vol.  ii. 


xxiv  INTRODUCTION. 

of  the  queen  in  1703.     The  transaction  was  carried  out  by  Mr. 

p.  108     Brent,  who  drew  and  enrolled  the  conveyance  for  £i  \os.,  and  re- 
ceived a  gratuity  of  £2. 

On  the  i3th  of  June,  1673,  what  now  appears  a  very  retrograde 

p.  92  movement  was  made  in  the  private  affairs  of  the  society.  It  was 
then  ordered  "  that  the  three  junior  butlers  do  by  the  beginning  of 
Michaelmas  term  write  a  court-hand,  and  also  know  the  antient  and 
accustomed  way  of  casting  up  accounts  by  counters,"  under  penalty 
of  losing  their  places  as  butlers.  For  many  years  past  private  and 
business  letters,  the  correspondence  of  statesmen,  and  documents  of 
every  description,  except  those  of  a  legal  character,  had  been  written 
in  the  ordinary  hand  then  in  use,  a  hand  not  greatly  differing  from 
that  of  the  eighteenth  century,  and  for  a  period  of  nearly  twenty-five 
years  what  is  known  as  the  "  court-hand  "  had  disappeared  even  from 
the  records  of  courts  of  justice.1  It  is  not  known  precisely  when  the 
"  court-hand  "  first  came  into  general  use.  It  appears  to  have  been 
a  continuation  of  the  old  norman  system  of  characters  introduced 
by  William  I.,  which  had  become  gradually  deteriorated  as  years 
rolled  on.  I  think  there  is  evidence  that  the  court-hand  became  one 
of  the  recognized  systems  for  public  writings  during  the  reign  of 
Richard  II.  By  the  time  of  Elizabeth  it  had  ceased  to  be  invariably 
used,  and  the  mixture  of  the  court  and  the  ordinary  hand  frequently 
gives  rise  to  difficulty  in  deciphering  writings  of  the  sixteenth  century.2 
In  its  place  an  ordinary  legible  hand  had  been  substituted, and  an  inspec- 
tion of  our  books  will  show  the  advantage  which  the  use  of  the  ordinary 
text  was  to  both  writers  and  readers.  Persons  familiar  with  the  "court- 
hand  "  must  have  been  few,  and  one  fails  to  discern  what  advantage 
could  have  been  anticipated  by  its  continuance  or  revival.  The  "  antient 
and  accustomed  way  "  of  casting  up  accounts  was  that  practised  in  the 
exchequer,  the  great  tax  collector  and  accountant  of  the  nation.  The 
"  way  "  was  antient  enough,  for  its  practice  of  accounting  and  dis- 
charging by  counters  and  tallies  was,  according  to  Madox,3  at  least  as 
old  as  the  reign  of  William  Rufus.  In  this  way  every  payment  to 
the  crown  was  made  and  every  receipt  was  given,  and  it  is  fair  to  our 

1  Statute  (c.  37)  26th  November,  1650. 

*  See  preface  to  "  Wright's  Court-hand  Restored,"  London,  1879. 

3  "  History  and  Antiquities  of  the  Exchequer  of  the  Kings  of  England  from  the 
Norman  Conquest  to  the  reign  of  Edward  II."  London,  1708.  2  vols.  "Antiquities 
of  the  Exchequer,"  by  Hubert  Hall,  F.S.A.  London,  1891, 


INTRODUCTION.  XXT 

predecessors  to  say  that  this  process  of  accounting  and  discharging 
commended  itself  so  much  to  successive  governments  that  it  con- 
tinued in  force,  in  regard  to  crown  accounts,  until  1834.  An  accu- 
mulation of  tallies,  at  that  time,  caught  fire  and  burnt  down  the 
houses  of  parliament.  After  this  the  mode  of  computation  by 
counters  on  a  chess  board,  and  of  discharge  by  notches  in  a  stick,  was 
recognized  as  too  antiquated  for  the  nineteenth  century,  and  came  to 
an  end.1  How  long  this  system  of  accounts  was  retained  in  the 
Temple  is  doubtful.  The  court-hand  continued  to  be  employed  for 
entering  the  admissions  of  students  and  sometimes  for  the  acts  of 
parliament,  but  in  other  respects  the  ordinary  hand  quickly  super- 
seded the  antient  use.2 

Sometime  in  the  month  of  October,  1677,  a  fire  broke  out  in  the 
Inner  Temple.     Its  origin  is  nowhere  stated,  but  it  was  of  a  serious 
character,  involving  the  rebuilding  of  nearly  the  whole  of  King's 
Bench  Walk.     Between  the  dates  of  these  two  fires  (1666  and  1677) 
considerable  advance,  as  will  be  seen,  had  been  made  in  the  appli- 
ances for  the  prevention  and  extinction  of  fire.     The  only  precautions 
that  appear  from  the  records  to  have  been  taken  before  the  great  fire 
are  as  follows.      In    November,    1604,   an  old  order  for  providing     Vol.  ii.,  p.  7 
leather  buckets  in  case  of  fire,  apparently  in  reference  to  Ram  Alley,     Vol.  ii.,  p.  295 
was  renewed.     In  November,  1650,  it  was  "ordered  that  any  fellow 
admitted  to  or  using  any  chamber  or  room  shall  take  care  that  the 
chimney  therein  be  swept  and  the  fire  within  the  same  room  be  safely 
kept,  under  pain  of  .£5  for  every  neglect  therein  or  every  time  such 
chimney  shall  happen  to  be  on  fire."     I  find,  also,  several  entries 
for  "mending  the  engine."      In  1649,    155.      In  1654,  £\   155.  orf.     Vol.  ii.,  p.  290 
In  1657-8  it  was  twice  mended,  once  for  £i  ly.  od.,  and  again  for     Vol.  ii.,  p.  311 
7-r.     In  1656-7  Stephen  Cressar,  the  joiner,  received  £10  'js.  yd.  for    Vo!-  "•»  p>  32§ 

making  a  house  for  the  engine.      It  is  not  stated  what  this  engine 

Vol.  11.,  p.  325 

was,  and  there  is  no  reason  to  suppose  that  it  was  a  fire  engine  as 
such  a  machine  is  understood  at  the  present  day.  I  n  an  account  of  the 
fires  of  London  given  by  Mr.  Knight,3  in  his  history  of  London, 

1  A  description  of  this  antient  mode  of  accounting  is  given  in  "The  King's 
Peace,"  pp.  53-55.  London,  1895. 

a  Its  use  was  abolished  for  official  documents  in  1735  by  statute,  4  Geo.  II.  c.  26, 
and  6  Geo.  II.  c.  14. 

3  "  London,"  by  Charles  Knight,  London,  1843,  vol.  iv.,  p.  181.  A  sketch  of  what 
is  described  as  the  first  fire  engine  of  London,  by  F.  \V.  Fairholt,  F.S.A.,  is  given  at 

in.  d 


xxvi  INTRODUCTION. 

he  is  of  opinion,  I  think  correctly,  that  a  fire  engine  which  pumped  a 
continuous  flow  of  water  was  not  known  in  London  until  long  after 
the  date  of  the  great  fire. 

"  How  our  ancestors  endeavoured  to  extinguish  fires  we  can  only 
guess  from  the  nature  of  things.  Buckets  of  water  would  be  brought 
and  thrown  upon  the  flaming  materials  by  the  bystanders,  or  the  thatch  of  a 
cottage  would  be  pulled  down,  or  one  group  of  houses  would  be  allowed  to 
burn  itself  out,  and  others  would  be  tended  for.  After  a  time  when  the 
ingenuity  of  machinists  enabled  men  to  use  some  more  effective  means  than 
mere  buckets  of  water,  a  kind  of  syringe  or  squirt  was  employed,  which  seems 
to  have  been  the  first  rudiment  of  a  fire-engine  known  in  England.  Numbers 
of  these  were  kept  by  the  parochial  authorities,  as  the  small  fire-engines  now 
are.  Their  construction  was  very  simple.  Each  squirt  was  about  three  feet 
in  length,  with  an  aperture  at  the  lower  end  about  half  an  inch  in  diameter 
and  a  capacity  of  about  half  a  gallon.  It  had  a  handle  on  each  side,  and  was 
worked  by  three  men,  thus : — two  men  held  the  squirt  by  the  handles  and  the 
nozzle,  while  a  third  worked  a  piston  within  it  in  the  manner  of  a  syringe :  the 
aperture  was  held  downwards  in  a  vessel  of  water  while  the  squirt  was  being 
filled  ;  and  when  filled  the  nozzle  was  directed  upwards,  and  the  stream  of 
water  directed  on  the  burning  materials  by  the  working  of  the  piston." 

In  a  history  of  the  monument,  by  Mr.  C.  Welch,  F.S.A., 
librarian  to  the  corporation  of  London,1  it  is  stated  that  the  engines 
in  use  at  the  time  of  the  fire  were  "brass  hand-squirts."  In  the 
Guildhall  museum  are  three  of  these  engines,  one  belonging  to  the 
ward  of  Aldgate  in  1672,  one  to  the  parish  of  S.  Dionis  Backchurch, 
and  one  used  at  the  Guildhall  in  1687.  In  the  act  for  preventing 
and  suppressing  fires  in  London,  passed  in  i668,2  frequent  reference 
is  made  to  the  provision  of  hand-squirts  of  brass,  and  among  other 
requirements  each  of  the  twelve  great  companies  is  to  supply  30 
buckets,  i  engine  and  2  hand-squirts  of  brass,  every  alderman  who 
has  been  sheriff  is  to  provide  himself  with  24  buckets  and  i  brass 
hand-squirt.  The  "engine"  is  left  undescribed.  It  was  probably 
some  contrivance  for  the  carriage  or  reception  of  water,  to  be  pro- 
jected on  to  the  flames  by  means  of  these  brass  hand-squirts.  A 
manual  engine  throwing  a  continuous  stream  of  water  and  worked 
by  several  men,  seems  to  have  been  the  invention  of  Hautsch,  of 
Nuremberg,  in  1657.  The  adaptation  to  such  a  machine  of  the 

p.    177.     (See  "English  Encyclopedia  of  Arts  and  Sciences,"  vol.  iv.,  p.   83,  title 
"  Fire-engine.") 

1  "Jx>ndon,"  1893,  p.  75.  *  jg-ig  Car.  II.,  c.  7. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxvii 

flexible  hose  was  the  work  of  Vanderheyde,  of  Amsterdam,  about 
1672,  and  it  was  shortly  afterwards  adopted  in  Paris.     It  is  doubt- 
ful when  engines  of  this  description  were  introduced  into  England. 
The  first  representation  of  a  fire  under  the  influence  of  such  engines 
is  to  be  found  in  an  engraving  of  the  time  of  William  and  Mary.1 
It  shows  the  inventions  of  J.  Lofting,2  a  dutchman,  who  obtained  a 
patent   in    London  for  the  manufacture   of  fire  engines    and  was, 
probably,  the  first  person  to  introduce  the  modern  system  into  use 
in  this  country.     It  has  the  flexible  hose  and  the  air  chamber,  and  is 
worked  as  a  manual  engine  of  the  present  day.     Within  a  very  few 
years  after  the  great  fire,  however,  a  fire  engine  of  some  description 
became  known  in  London  as  a  possible  aid  in  extinguishing  fire,  and 
it  was  adopted  by  the  city.     The  inn,  appreciating  the  value  of  such 
an  appliance,  secured  a  machine  described  as  a  "  water  engine,"  which 
was  kept  in  a  shed  near  the  King's   Bench  office.     A  system  was 
also  organized  by  which  leathern  buckets  were  kept  in  the  hall,  in 
readiness  to  be  passed  by  hand  when  the  alarm  of  fire  was  given,     p.  122 
S.  Bride's  and  S.  Dunstan's  3  parishes  also  provided  themselves  with 
engines  which  were  brought  into  the  Temple  in  1677  and  assisted  in 
subduing  the  flames.      The  charges  for  payment  of  the  men  who     p.  114 
worked    at   the    engine    from    S.    Dunstan's,    suggest    that    it  was 
probably  of  a  similar  construction  to  that  described  by  Fairholt.    This 
consisted  of  a  large  tank,  four  or  five  feet  in  height,  on  low  wheels 
with  a  platform  on  which  a  man  could  stand.     The  tank  or  engine 
being  drawn  to  the  fire,  was  filled  with  water  brought  in  buckets. 
Several  men,  working  a  manual,  forced  the  water  from  the  tank  through 
the  squirt,  which  was  directed  by  the  man  on  the  platform.     There 
was  no  air  chamber  and  no  continuous  flow,  nor  was  there  any  flexible 
hose  then  in  use.    In  October,  1 676,  a  committee  of  the  bench  had  been 
appointed  "  to  consider  all  necessary  means  to  prevent  any  accidental 
fires  in  this  society,  and  to  view  the  engine,  and  to  report  what  further    p.  uz 
number  of  buckets  will  be  necessary  to  be  added  to  the  former,  now 
hung  up  in  the  hall."     The  second  fire,  therefore,  did  not  find  the 
inn  altogether  unprepared,  and  it  was  probably  owing  to  this  circum- 

1  One  of  these  engravings  is  in  the  collection  of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries 
Burlington  House.     "London  Prospects,"  fo.  26. 

2  "  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  vol.  xxxiv.,  p.  72. 

*  The  old  church  of  S.  Dunstan  which  survived  the  fire  was  pulled  down  in  1832 
''Churches  of  London,"  by  Geo.  Godwin,  F.R.S.,  London,  1838,  vol.  i. 


xxviii  INTRODUCTION. 

stance  that  the  damage  was  not  more  disastrous  and  that  its  ravages 
were  confined  to  King's  Bench  Walk.  The  payments  made  in 
reference  to  this  fire  indicate,  for  the  first  time,  the  assistance  which 
the  society  was  enabled  to  obtain  from  the  neighbouring  parishes  and 
their  engines. 

p.  114  To  the  watermen  that  toiled  at  the  fire £l 

To  the  steward's  man  for  his  pains  in  extinguishing  the  fire  .     .  £i 

To  the  engineer  of  S.  Bride's  parish £2 

p.  115  To  the  engineer  of  S.  Dunstan's £2 

To  the  men  that  worked  at  the  engine  of  S.  Dunstan's      .     .     .  1 5*h 
To  four  watermen  for  pulling  down  the  wall  and  for  loss  of  a 

pickaxe IO" 

To  letters  to  the  reader  .  .  .  and  horse  hire  riding  down  to  the 

treasurer  after  the  fire £t 

The  bill  of  my  (chief  butler's)  expenses  at  the  fire .£18  35. 

No  gunpowder  seems  to  have  been  used,  and  no  houses  were  pulled 
down. 

Early  in  November,  1677,  within  a  month  after  the  fire,  a  com- 

p.  119  mittee  was  appointed  to  draw  up  an  act  for  the  rebuilding  of  the 
burnt  premises  and  to  compensate  and  arrange  with  the  "  burnt 
interest"  persons  under  the  late  fire.  The  arrangements  made  with 
the  members  of  the  inn  were  on  the  same  scale  as  those  after  the  great 
fire.  The  houses  to  be  rebuilt  in  King's  Bench  Walk  were  to  com- 
prise cellars  or  basement,  chambers  on  the  ground  floor  and  three 
pairs  of  stairs  and  no  more  above  the  ground  floor  chambers.  They 
were  to  be  38  feet  in  depth,  with  a  brick  wall  not  less  than  6  feet  in 
height  next  to  Whitefriars,  and  a  space  was  to  be  left  between  the 

p.  122  wall  and  the  buildings.  Each  builder  was  to  have  two  consecutive 
lives  and  an  assignment  for  one  life  by  his  executors,  in  consideration 

p.  121  of  his  building.  He  was  also  to  be  at  liberty  to  make  a  way  through 
the  Temple  wall  to  the  river,  so  as  to  bring  the  necessary  building 
material  by  water,  and  to  be  allowed  to  mix  mortar  and  to  store  plant 

p.  122  on  the  Temple  land.  Before  commencing  operations,  however,  he 
was  to  deposit  in  respect  of  each  chamber  the  sum  of  ^50  with 
"  Mr.  Blanchard,  goldsmith,  near  Temple  Bar."1 

1  This  gentleman  lived  at  the  sign  of  The  Marygold,  No.  i  Fleet  Street.  He  was 
afterwards  partner  with  Mr.  Child  who  founded  Child's  bank.  "Signs  of  old  Fleet 
Street  to  the  end  of  the  XVIII.  Century,"  by  F.  G.  Hilton  Price,  Dir:  S.  A. 
"Archaeological  Journal,"  1895,  p.  353. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxix 

The  King's  Bench  office,  which  was  burnt  down  with  the  rest  of    p.  121,  122 
King's  Bench  Walk,  was  rebuilt  under  an  arrangement  with  Mr. 
Livesay  by  which  he  was  paid  ,£120  for  his  interest  and  materials  in 
the  office,  and  the  inn  took  over  the  reconstruction.     The  office  was     p.  123 
to  be  built  over  four  sets  of  chambers  on  the  ground  floor,  with  one 
chimney  in  each,  to  be  80  feet  in  length,  30  feet  in  breadth,  and 
ii  feet  in  height  between  the  floor  and  the  ceiling.     It  was  to  be 
covered  with  lead,  and  to  be  subject  to  an  agreement  by  which  the 
occupants  were  not  to  burn  any  sea  coal  or  other  fuel  or  firing 
"saving  only  charcoal  and  billets."     A  computation,  made  by  the     p.  126 
treasurer  and  the  surveyor,  suggested  that  if  each  occupant  of  the 
four  ground  chambers  paid  ^80  for  a  life,  the  inn  might  be  fairly  re- 
imbursed their  outlay.     Under  these  circumstances  the  new  King's 
Bench  Office  was  built  "one  storey  high  as  the  Exchequer  Office."     p.  121 
A  very  considerable  portion  of  the  King's  Bench   buildings   must 
have  been  destroyed,  as  among  other  "  burnt  interest  persons  "  are 
some  claiming  in  respect  of  houses  on  either  side  of  the  entrance 
from  the  Temple  to  Whitefriars.     Leave  was  also  given  to  Minors,     p.  124 
the   head   butler,    to   build    a   cellar   and    three   stories  over  it  at     p.  119 
the  end  of   Hampson's  buildings,  which  is  also  described  as  "  the 
southernmost  staircase  in   King's  Bench  buildings."     The  rebuild-     p.  124 
ing   of  King's    Bench   Walk   suggested    that  of   Paper   Buildings,     p.  126 
and  a  proposal  to  this  effect  was  under  the  consideration  of  the 
bench  when  the  next  disastrous  fire  occurred.     On  No.  4   King's 
Bench  Walk  a  stone  tablet  commemorates  the  destruction  and  the 
rebuilding  of  King's  Bench  Walk  in  these  words : 

"  CONFLAGRATAM  AN°.   1677.      FABRICATAM  AN°.    1678.       RlCIIARDO 

POWELL  ARMIGER  THESAURAR." 

Scarcely  was  the  rebuilding  of  King's  Bench  Walk  accomplished 
than  a  fire  broke  out  in  the  Middle  Temple,  from  which  our  pre- 
decessors narrowly  escaped  the  calamity  of  being  once  more  driven 
from  their  homes.  An  account  of  this  fire  and  of  the  circumstances 
under  which  it  arose  is  given  by  Roger  North,  a  member  of  the 
Middle  Temple,  who  at  that  date  was  inhabiting  a  set  of  chambers 
in  Brick  Court.1  About  10  p.m.  on  Sunday,  26th  January, 
1678-9,  smoke  was  seen  to  be  coming  from  the  chambers  of  Mr. 

1  "The  Autobiography  of  the  Hon.  Roger  North":  London,  1887,  pp.  36-61, 
"Luttrell's  Diary":  London,  vol.  i.,  p   7. 


xxx  INTRODUCTION. 

Thornbury  in  Pump  Court.  The  fire  was  caused  by  a  flaming 
lump  of  sea  coal  falling  from  the  grate  on  to  the  deal  boards  next 
the  hearth,  no  one  being  in  the  chambers  at  the  time.  Thus 
started,  it  burned  furiously,  for  there  was  a  hard  frost  of  greater 
duration  and  severity  than  had  been  known  for  years.  The  Thames 
and  the  flow  from  the  conduits  were  frozen  so  that  the  engines  could 
not  work,  and  water  could  only  be  obtained  by  passing  it  in  buckets 
from  hand  to  hand.  Even  this  was  not  accomplished  without  dif- 
.  ficulty,  for  it  froze  in  the  transit.  The  house  where  the  fire  com- 
menced being  an  old  building,  the  walls  being  wainscotted  with  oak, 
and  there  being  many  deal  partitions,  it  burned  like  a  barrel  of 
pitch,  and  the  whole  of  that  side  of  Pump  Court  was  soon  ablaze. 
The  wind  carried  the  fire  up  Middle  Temple  Lane  towards  Fleet 
Street,  encountering  and  burning  certain  chambers  described  as 
"  a  sort  of  paper  buildings  "  abutting  on  the  lane.  Part  of  Brick 
Court  to  the  west  of  the  lane  and  part  of  Hare  Court  to  the  east,  the 
latter  being  the  property  of  the  Inner  Temple,  were  also  burnt.  Pro- 
ceeding on  its  way,  the  fire  consumed  the  rest  of  Pump  Court,  a  great 
part  of  Elm  Tree  Court  and  Vine  Court,  which  was  situate  between 
Pump  Court  and  the  cloisters.  Fig  Tree  Court  was  also  partially 
consumed.  In  order  to  save  the  Middle  Temple  hall  attempts  were 
made  to  blow  up  the  houses  at  the  corner  of  Elm  Tree  Court,  but 
the  fabric  being  strong  and  well-built,  the  gunpowder  had  no  appre- 
ciable effect,  and  the  fire  was  ultimately  stayed  at  that  corner  by  the 
solid  masonry  of  those  very  buildings.  To  save  the  shops  in  Fleet 
Street  a  house  was  blown  up  in  Hare  Court,  where  the  officials  of  the 
p.  148  fine  office  kept  their  records.  This  was  done  with  so  great  haste 
that  they  were  unable  to  remove  their  documents,  and  an  act  of 
parliament  was  subsequently  obtained  to  supply  the  loss  that  was 
thus  sustained.  The  fire  now  approached  the  outer  walls  of  the 
church.  Some  houses  were  then  blown  up  and  the  shops  against 
the  church  were  pulled  down,  with  the  result  that  the  fabric  of  the 
church  escaped  with  a  slight  injury  to  the  roof  of  the  round.  Thus, 
for  the  second  time,  was  the  progress  of  the  fire  arrested  at  the  portal 
of  the  church.  As  in  1666  the  east  or,  as  Dryden  called  it,  "  the  hostile 
Belgian  wind,"  carried  the  flames  to  the  eastern  end  of  the  church 
and  there  spent  its  fury,  so  in  1679  a  wind  from  the  west  carried 
the  fatal  fire  over  our  houses  and  lanes,  and  having  laid  desolate  the 


INTRODUCTION.  xxxi 

templars'  dwellings  to  the  west  of  the  church,  stayed  its  destructive 
progress  at  the  church  itself. 

The  cloisters  were  burnt  down  and  the  Inner  Temple  hall  was 
in  great  danger.  The  latter  was,  however,  protected  by  the  solid 
masonry  which  is  still  to  be  seen  in  the  buttery,  in  the  offices,  and  at 
the  western  end  of  the  hall.  It  was  thus  saved,  although  it  was  once 
partially  on  fire.  Beyond  the  hall  were  the  new  buildings  of  four 
stories,  erected  after  the  fire  of  1666,  and  between  them  and  the 
eastern  end  of  the  hall  was  a  small  library  of  one  story  under  the 
eastern  window  of  the  hall.  This  the  persons  engaged  in  dealing 
with  the  fire  somewhat  unnecessarily  blew  up.  Having  put  too 
little  powder  for  the  substantial  building  in  Elm  Court,  they  used  so 
much  for  this  little  library  that  the  explosion  scattered  the  timbers  in 
all  directions,  wounding  several  persons  and  endangering  the  lives  of  p.  145 
many  others.  The  linen  and  books,  however,  had  been  previously  p.  144 
removed.  It  would  have  been,  as  it  was  said,  as  useful  to  blow  up 
London  bridge  as  this  little  room,  for  even  had  it  caught  alight,  it 
could  have  done  no  harm,  as  the  brick  and  stone  buildings  on  either 
side  were  safe  from  any  danger  of  fire.  A  map  in  the  possession  of 
the  Inner  Temple  portrays  the  inn  "as  it  was  in  1671,  when  the 
king  and  the  duke  of  York  dined  with  the  treasurer,  Sir  Heneage 
Finch."  It  shows  the  little  library  at  the  east  end  of  the  hall,  being  p.  Si 
a  building  of  one  story  with  the  eastern  window  of  the  hall  above 
it.  In  Ireland's  "  Inns  of  Court"1  a  sketch  is  given  of  the  hall 
and  the  library  to  the  east  as  they  stood  at  the  end  of  the  last 
century.  The  fire  lasted  from  eleven  on  Sunday  night  to  noon 
on  Monday,  and  left  open  an  area  of  great  extent,  "  bounded  by  the 
Middle  Temple  hall  and  part  of  Elm  Court  southward,  the  Palgrave 
buildings  in  Old  Essex  Court  westward,  the  taverns  and  Hare  Court 
northward,  and  the  church  and  Inner  Temple  buildings  eastward,  all 
which  places  lay  in  view  of  one  another,"2  so  that  a  person  standing 
on  the  steps  of  the  Middle  Temple  hall  had  an  uninterrupted 
view  of  the  side  of  the  Devil  tavern  to  the  west,  and  of  the 
Rainbow  to  the  north  of  Hare  Court,  of  the  entrance  to  the  church, 
and  of  Lamb  building  in  Tanfield  Court.  In  the  course  of  this 
night  the  lord  mayor,  accompanied  by  the  sheriffs,  came  in  state 

1  London,  1800,  p.  19. 

1  "North's  Autobiography,"  p.  42. 


xxxii  INTRODUCTION. 

about  midnight  to  visit  the  fire,  but  the  gentlemen  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  asserting  their  privileges,  refused  to  admit  him  so  long  as 
he  bore  up  his  sword,  and  ultimately  drove  him  out.  "  At  this  he 
went  over  the  way  to  a  tavern,  where  some  say  he  first  got  drunk 
and  then  returned,  dismissing  the  engines  he  met  coming  from  the 
city." '  The  Earl  of  Craven,  the  Earl  of  Faversham,  some  officers 
of  the  guards,  and  the  Duke  of  Monmouth,  who  was  then  courting 
popularity,  were  also  among  the  visitors,  and  rendered  assistance 
in  quenching  the  fire.  Lord  Faversham,  being  too  eager  to  help, 
narrowly  escaped  being  blown  up  with  the  records  of  the  fine  office 
in  Hare  Court,  and  received  a  severe  wound  in  the  head  from  a 
falling  beam.  John  Crosse,  the  brewer  of  the  society,  was  also  a 
sufferer.  His  brewery  was  at  the  western  end  of  the  hall,  and  he 
208  there  lost  beer  to  the  value  of  £20,  which  went  to  supply  the 
engine  in  default  of  water,  and  for  which  he  was  not  compensated 
until  May,  1684.' 

The  success  and  the  general  content  which  followed  the  re- 
building of  the  Inner  Temple  after  the  great  fire,  were  hardly  attained 
by  the  Middle  in  their  trouble.  At  the  time  of  the  fire  in  1678-9, 
there  was  much  friction  between  the  gentlemen  of  the  Middle  inn 
and  their  benchers.  Both  inns  suffered  at  this  time  from  the  vagaries 
of  the  students  at  their  Christmas  festivities,  although,  as  the  benchers 
of  the  Middle  took  the  matter  more  seriously  than  those  of  the  Inner, 
the  trouble  was  at  that  time  less  pronounced  with  us  than  with  them. 
To  such  an  extent  had  this  arisen,  that  at  a  meeting  at  Serjeant's  Inn 
after  Christinas,  1678,  the  benchers  of  the  Middle  Temple  were 
obliged  to  invoke  the  assistance  of  the  judges  in  order  to  obtain  a 
hearing.  The  whole  society  was  in  open  rebellion,  and  the  mediation 
of  the  judges  only  obtained  a  delay  with  a  view  to  an  accommodation. 
In  the  meanwhile  the  fire  came  and  found  two  hostile  camps.  It  was 
thus  some  time  before  any  general  agreement  could  be  arrived  at  as 

1  "  North's  Autobiography,"  p.  38. 

2  "  The  Thames  being  frozen,  there  was  great  scarcity  of  water,  it  being  so  bitter  a 
frost,  the  water  hung  in   isecles  at  the  eves  of  the  houses.     The  engine  plaid  away 
many  barrels  of  beer  to  stop  the  fire :  but  the  chief  way  of  stopping  the  fire  was  by 
blowing  up  houses  :  in  doing  which  many  were  hurt,  particularly  the  Earl  of  Faver- 
sham, whose  skull  was  almost  broken :  but  he  is  now  in  some  hopes  of  recovery." — 
"A  Brief  Historical  Relation  of  State  Affairs."    By  Narcissus  Luttrell.     Oxford,  1857, 
vol.  i.,  p.  7. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxxiii 

to  a  scheme  for  rebuilding.  This  was  ultimately  arranged,  however, 
on  somewhat  the  same  lines  as  had  been  adopted  by  us.  Not,  how- 
ever, until  after  the  gentlemen  had  a  tumultuous  meeting  of  their 
own  at  "  The  Apollo," *  a  room  in  The  Devil  Tavern  in  Fleet 
Street,  a  house  rendered  famous  in  olden  days  by  the  society  of  Ben 
Jonson  and  his  literary  companions.  It  was  found  on  clearing  the 
ground  that  the  old  foundations  were  not  available  for  modern 
buildings,  and  a  new  model  for  the  inn  was  settled,  in  course  of 
which  Vine  Court,  already  referred  to,  disappeared  altogether.  For 
the  execution  of  this  plan,  after  much  consideration  and  some  un- 
successful attempts,  the  Middle  Temple  put  themselves  into  the 
hands  of  Dr.  Nicholas  Barbon2  (son  of  the  well-known  Praise  God 
Barbon)  who  had  much  employment  and  success  in  rebuilding  houses 
after  the  great  fire.  Under  his  auspices  the  Middle  Temple  was  re- 
built, although,  after  the  fashion  of  contractors  of  all  times,  there  was 
a  failure  in  the  course  of  the  work,  and  the  benchers  were  ultimately 
compelled  to  take  the  business  over  and  complete  it  for  themselves. 
The  rebuilding  of  Hare  Court  and  other  portions  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, including  some  Inner  Temple  chambers  over  the  cloisters,  was 
the  subject  of  much  consideration.3  It  was  at  first  proposed  to 
entrust  the  work  to  Dr.  Bnrbon,  who  was  rebuilding  the  Middle 
Temple,  but  that  was  not  accepted.  There  were  accordingly 
meetings  of  the  two  societies  in  the  round  of  the  church,  and  much 
feeling  appears  to  have  been  aroused.  It  was  afterwards  agreed 
in  July,  1679,  that  Hare  Court  and  Pump  Court  should  be  rebuilt  p.  135 
according  to  a  model  approved  by  Heneage  Finch,  our  former 
treasurer,  now  lord  chancellor.  To  carry  out  this  plan  a  sum  of  pp.  '35'  '46 
^496  was  borrowed  from  Sir  Robt.  Sawyer,  K.C.  who  was  after- 
wards attorney-general,  and  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  inn  from 
1683  to  1688.  The  tenants  of  the  western  side  of  Hare  Court  with  p-  '33 

1  See  Knight's  "London,"  vol.  i.,  p.  373.     The  terra  cotta  bust  of  the  Apollo, 
from  this  room,  is  still  extant  in  Child's  bank. 

2  He  was  christened   "  Unless-for-Jesus-Christ-thou-hadst-been-damned  "-Barbon, 
but  after  the  fall  of  puritanism  he  renounced  his  baptismal  name  and  assumed  that  of 
Nicholas.     He  was  qualified  as  a  physician,  and  began  life  as  Dr.  Nicholas  Barbon. 
Not  succeeding,  however,  at  this,  he  set  up  as  a  builder,  and  was  skilful  in  restoring  old 
houses  and  streets. 

3  The  benchers  during  this  year,  as  in  1678,  had  frequent  meetings.     Bench  tables 
were  held  weekly,  and  sometimes  oftener,  between  January  and  July  both  in  and  out 
of  term. 

IIT.  c 


xxxiv  INTRODUCTION. 

their   names   and    staircases,   are   given    at  p.    133.      And  as  the 
pp.  134,  141     owner  of  The  Devil  Tavern  would  not  redress  the  nuisance  of  his 
building  over  against   Hare  Court,  the  workmen  of  the  inn  were 
ordered  by  the  bench  to  abate  it  themselves.     The  rooms  over  the 
P.  136     buttery  at  the  west  end  of  the  hall,  including  the  upper  library,  which 
had  come  under  the  influence  of  the  fire,  were  rebuilt  by  Sir  John 
Heath,  a  son  of  the  chief  justice  of  Charles  I.,  who  had  been  trea- 
surer in  1673. 

The  cloisters,  as  they  stood  before  this  fire,  were  "  low  mean 
buildings,"  about  half  their  present  width.  They  were  not  built 
over  except  in  a  part  near  the  Inner  Temple  hall,  where  a  Mr. 
Newnham  had  some  chambers.  It  was  originally  proposed  by  the 
Middle  Temple  that  the  ground,  which  belonged  to  that  society, 
should  be  covered  with  chambers,  and  that  the  cloisters  should  not 
be  rebuilt,  and  they  approached  the  Inner  Temple  with  a  view  to 
some  amicable  arrangement.  Roger  North,  in  his  life  of  Lord 

o  o 

Keeper  North,  who  was  a  bencher  of  the  Middle  Temple,  gives  an 
account  of  the  discussion  which  was  referred  for  settlement  to 
Heneage  Finch,  the  lord  chancellor,  as  was  usual  in  those  cases. 

The  chancellor,1  according  to  Roger  North,  "would  by  no 
"means  give  way  to  it,  and  reproved  the  Middle  Templars  very 
"wittily  and  eloquently  upon  the  subject  of  students  walking  ineven- 
"  ings  there,  and  putting  cases  which,  he  said,  was  done  in  his  time, 
"as  mean  and  low  as  the  buildings  were  then,  however  it  comes,  said 
"  he,  that  such  a  benefit  to  students  is  now  made  so  little  account 
"  of."  And  thereupon  the  cloisters,  by  the  order  and  disposition  of 
Sir  Christopher  Wren,  were  built  as  they  now  stand.2  His  plan 
considerably  enlarged  the  area  of  the  cloisters  by  taking  in  a  portion 
of  the  churchyard,  and  some  land  both  north  and  south  belonging 
to  this  inn.  Written  directions  were  given  by  him  as  to  the  position 
of  the  columns,  the  strength  of  the  floors,  and  the  solidity  of  the 
walls,  which  would  render  the  buildings  both  durable  and  secure. 
The  ground  plan  and  the  elevation  of  the  cloisters,  and  the  chambers 
above,  are  signed  if  not  actually  drawn  by  Sir  Christopher,3  and  it 

1  Roger  North  inaccurately  describes  him  as  "  Mr.  Attorney."     Finch  ceased  to 
be  attorney,  and  became  Lord  Keeper  in  1673,  ar>d  Chancellor  in  1675. 

J  "Lives  of  the  Norths,"  by  Hon.  Roger  North,  London,  1826,  vol.  i.,  p.  27. 

'  The  originals  of  these  plans  are  in  the  possession  of  the  Middle  Temple,  whose 


INTRODUCTION.  xxxv 

thus  appears  that  this  exceedingly  plain  and  commonplace  structure 
was  the  production  of  the  great  architect.  Though  built  under  his 
auspices  it  hardly  adds  to  his  reputation,  and  is  unworthy  of  the 
place  or  of  the  church  to  which  it  forms  the  entrance.  In  all  the 
schemes  for  rebuilding,  great  care  was  taken  by  both  societies  to 
preserve  the  church,  by  providing  that  new  buildings  should  not 
touch  the  fabric,  and  thus  to  secure  it,  as  far  as  possible,  from 
danger  of  fire  by  contact  with  inflammable  matter.  The  cloisters 
have  the  following  inscription  on  a  slab  on  the  western  side  : 

"  VETUSTISSIMA  TEMPLARIORUM  PORTICU  IGNE  CONSUMPTA  AN°  1-678 
NOVA  H.EC  SUMPTIBUS  MEDIJ  T.EMPLI  EXTRUCTA  AN0  l68l. 

GUILELMO  WHITELOCKE  :  ARM"  THESAUR"." 

The  library  and  the  end  of  the  hall  were  rebuilt  in  the  year  1680, 
at  the  cost  of  the  society.     The  voluntary  subscriptions  from  former    p.  157 
members  of  the  inn  amounted  in  the  whole  to  ^320.    The  rebuilding 
and    wainscotting   of  the    library  cost  ^309,   towards  which  "Sir    p.  157 
George  Jeffryes,  his  majesty's  serjeant-at-law,"  subscribed  £^o.    For    p.  169 
wainscotting  the  hall  and  setting  up  the  screen  and  the  music  room 
£110  was  paid.     A  sum  of  £10  was  also  paid  for  carving  the  arms     p.  169 
of  the  society  over  the  screen,  and  ^"10  for  carving  the  king's  arms 
in  oak  at  the  top  of  the  hall.     The  explosion  which  had  destroyed     p.  169 
the   library  must   have   at    the   same    time    damaged    the    eastern 
window  of  the  hall  with  the  large  coats  of  arms,  which  might  other- 
wise   have  been  transferred    to   the   windows  of  the   new  library.1 
The  pictures   from  this  library  were  afterwards  set  up  in  the  hall. 
There   were   thus    two    libraries,  one    at    the   western  end    of  the 
hall,  called  the   upper  library,  where   the  gentlemen   during   their 
Christmas  vacation   played  hazard,  and   the   new  library,  to  which 
there  was  access  from  the  hall  and  the  benchers'  rooms  by  a  stair- 
case, the  remains  of  which  existed  in   1866,  when  the  present  hall 
was    built.      The    losses    suffered    by    the    two    societies    in    this 
second  fire  were  not  great,  except  in  regard  to  the  buildings,  which 
Mr.  North  says,2  "  to  say  truth  were  better  burnt  than  left,  being  for 

benchers  have  kindly  allowed  me  to  inspect  them.  They  are  very  similar  in  execution 
and  in  paper  to  numerous  drawings  of  Sir  Christopher  at  Oxford  and  elsewhere. 

1  The  eastern  window  of  the  hall  \vas  still  there  in  1686,  when  it  is  described  as     p.  236 
being  "  in  some  danger  of  falling." 

*  "Autobiography,"  p.  43. 


xxxvi  INTRODUCTION. 

the  most  part  ragged  deformed  stuff."  The  records  of  the  fine 
office,  and  a  portion  of  the  Tradescant  collection,  comprising  books 
and  medals,  then  kept  by  Elias  Ashmole,  the  antiquary,  in  an  upper 
room  also  suffered  from  the  fire.1  Mr.  North,  in  another  con- 
nexion, gives  a  description  of  the  condition  of  Fleet  Street  during 
the  fire.  It  opens  up  a  dismal  view  of  the  habits  of  some  of  our 
neighbours,  and  of  the  risks  to  which,  on  such  occasions  as  these,  the 
property  of  our  members  was  subjected.  "  Here  it  was  observed 
that  women  and  children  stood  in  Fleet  Street  ankle  deep  in  water 
(for  all  the  pipes  were  cut),  which  in  that  pinching  cold  night  could 
not  have  been,  in  such  numbers  and  so  pertinaciously  as  they  did, 
unless  their  husbands  and  friends  were  gone  in  to  steal,  and  they 
stayed  expecting  to  carry  off  the  booty."' 

This  description  of  the  fire  of  1679,  by  a  spectator  and  a  sufferer 
in  the  calamity,  affords  a  vivid  illustration  of  the  lines  of  Dryden  on 
the  great  fire  in  the  "  Annus  Mirabilis."  The  poet's  reference  to 
the  cutting  of  the  pipes,  the  fetching  of  the  buckets  from  the 
neighbouring  church,  the  working  of  the  engines,  the  ladders,  and 
above  all  the  thieves  who  rush  in  as  soon  as  the  flames  have  scared 
away  the  owners  of  property,  affords  a  striking  corroboration  of  the 
picture  drawn  by  Roger  North  of  the  details  of  the  fire  and  of  the 
band  of  women  waiting  in  the  freezing  water  to  receive  from  their 
friends  the  proceeds  of  their  plunder.3 

1  "Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  vol.  ii.,  p.  172. 
a  "  Autobiography,"  p.  41. 

1  ccxxix. 

Now  streets  grow  throng'd  and  busy  as  by  day  : 
Some  run  for  buckets  to  the  hallow'd  quire ; 
Some  cut  the  pipes,  and  some  the  engines  play, 
And  some,  more  bold,  mount  ladders  to  the  fire. 


CCLI. 

As  those  who  live  by  shores  with  joy  behold 
Some  wealthy  vessel  split  or  stranded  nigh, 
And  from  the  rocks  leap  down  for  shipwreck'd  gold, 
And  seek  the  tempests  which  the  others  fly : 

CCLII. 

So  these  but  wait  the  owners'  last  despair, 
And  what's  permitted  to  the  flames  invade  ; 


INTRODUCTION.  xxxvii 

The  wooden  shops  facing  Tanneld*  Court,  with  their  backs 
against  the  church,  had  been  a  source  of  discomfort  to  the  benchers 
of  the  Inner  Temple  for  some  generations,  and  attempts  had 
been  made  to  agree  with  the  other  inn  for  their  removal.  They  Vol.  ii.,  pp.  ixxvii, 
had  been  rebuilt  after  the  fire  of  1666  by  Roberts  the  panierman,  2IS 
Williams  the  stationer,  and  others,  when  the  society,  with  a  view  to  p.  77 
the  possibility  of  their  wishes  being  carried  out,  inserted  a  clause  in  p.  ior 
the  lease  to  the  tenants  that  such  shops  were  held  subject  to  the 
right  of  the  inn  to  cancel  the  lease  should  both  houses  agree  to  pull 
down  "  the  buildings  now  about  the  church  in  order  to  the  repairing 
and  beautifying  of  the  outside  of  the  church."  In  the  fire  of  1678-9  p.  149 
they  were  demolished  for  the  protection  of  the  church,  after  which 
some  were  rebuilt  by  Williams  the  stationer,  who,  in  June,  1680,  in 
consideration  of  his  expense  in  the  matter,  was  given  an  extended 
lease  for  thirty  years  at  a  rental  of  £6.  I  am  not  aware  of  any 
drawing  of  these  shops  before  the  fire  of  1678  ;  but  Ogilby's  map,  in 
1671,  shows  the  church  to  have  been  almost  hidden  by  high  wooden 
buildings.  A  drawing  by  R.  West1  under  the  date  of  1737  shows 
the  nature  of  the  buildings  after  the  two  fires.  They  were  low 
wooden  sheds  as  far  as  the  fourth  window  to  the  west.  Against 
the  round  and  the  last  windows  they  were  of  a  more  substantial 
character  and  comprised  one  or  two  stories  over  the  ground  floor. 
Playford's  house  and  shop,  which  were  at  the  church  door  at  the 
northern  end  of  the  cloisters,  held  its  own  and  does  not  appear  to 
have  been  affected  by  either  of  the  fires.  Ireland,2  referring  to  these 
shops,  describes  them  as  "  sheds  and  houses  of  a  mean  cast  of  char- 
acter, and  ill  suited  to  the  situation.  Here  shoes,  boots,  wigs,  and 
lattitats  vie  with  each  other  for  pre-eminence."  Among  the  miscel- 
laneous engravings  in  the  library  of  the  society  of  antiquaries3  is  a 
small  plate,  six  inches  by  four,  headed,  "  Temple  Church  Porch." 

E'en  from  their  jaws  the  hungry  morsels  tear, 
And  on  their  backs  the  spoils  of  Vulcan  lade. 

"  Annus  Mirabilis,"  by  John  Dryden,  published  in  1667.  This  fire  was  regarded  as  so 
serious  a  matter  for  the  two  societies  of  the  Temple  that  the  fellows  of  Lincoln's  Inn, 
out  of  sympathy  with  their  unfortunate  colleagues,  held  no  feast  or  revels  during  Easter 
term  ("  Black  Books  of  Lincoln's  Inn,"  vol.  iii.,  p.  124). 

1  Published  by  Toms  on  18  March,  1739. 

'  "  Inns  of  Court,"  p.  10. 

3  "  London  Prospects,"  fo.  30,  Society  of  Antiquaries. 


xxxviii  INTRODUCTION. 

It  is  apparently  a  tradesman's  advertisement,  or  the  title-page  of  a 
book,  and  has  a  good  drawing  of  the  church  porch  with  a  stationer's 
shop,  similar  to  those  formerly  in  Westminster  hall,  under  one  of 
the  southern  arches  inside  the  porch.  It  is  issued  by  Penn  and 
Lloyd,  stationers,  etc.  It  bears  no  date,  but  an  entry  of  1678, 

p.  128  To  Penn  the  stationer,  for  books,  pens,  ink  and  paper,  for  the  use  of  the 

Treasurer,  £2. 

seems  to  identify  the  stationer  and  his  shop.  The  chapel  of  S.  Ann, 
which  had  been  gradually  falling  into  ruins,  was  to  some  extent  pro- 
tected by  these  buildings,  but  we  hear  nothing  of  it  during  the  whole 
of  the  period  covered  by  this  volume.  It  was  probably  shut  off  from 
the  church  after  1679,  and  what  was  left  of  it  was  used  as  a  store- 
house for  the  papers  of  the  fine  office.  It  was  partly  hidden  by  the 
shops  that  were  erected  over  its  ruins,  but  some  portions,  shewing 
where  it  was  attached  to  the  church,  are  indicated  in  West's  drawing. 
It  was,  however,  a  commonplace  and  uninteresting  building,  and  it 
was  probably  no  loss  to  the  society  when  it  was  altogether  removed 
in  1827.' 

The  following  payments  show  the  serious  character  of  the  fire, 
and  the  exertions  used  to  subdue  it  : 

£  s.    d. 

p.  143      Given  away  on  Sunday  night,  26th  January  and  Monday  2/th  at 

the  time  of  the  fire  in  the  Temple  for  drink  and  candles  and  links     2   10     O 

p.  144      For  carrying  the  linen  and  books  out  of  the  library,  is.  6d.,  and  two 

men  for  moving  books  out  of  the  library,  2s.      .         .         .         .036 
For  carrying  books,  readers'  coats  of  arms,  and  the  rest  of  the  things 

p.  145  out  of  the  libraries       .         .        .         .         .         .         .         .         .     2   10     O 

Several  men  for  helping  to  save  the  west  end  of  the  hall .         .         .200 
48  men  for  watching  and  putting  out  the  fire  on  Monday  night        .     416     O 
Seven  watermen         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .1150 

Seven  other  men        .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .0176 

Men  that  were  wounded  in  the  time  of  the  fire          .         .         .         .     O  17     6 

Nash's  men  that  helped  about  the  hall  in  the  time  of  the  fire  .         .300 
five  men  for  working  during  the  fire  .         .         .         .         .         .         .     O  10     O 

men  concerned  in  pulling  down  Powell's  building     .         .         .         .500 

carrying  lead  from  end  of  the  hall O     I     O 

8  engineers  and  another  (Silver)        .         .         .         .         .         ..1220 

The  Recorder's  man  paid  for  links  &c 096 

1  "The  Temple  Church,"  by  Wm.  Burge,  Q.C.,  F.R.S.,  London,  1843,  p.  18. 


INTRODUCTION.  xxxix 

£    s.     d. 
Essington  of  Houndsditch  for  money  laid  out  at  fire  and  to  buy 

him  a  pair  of  gloves  (IO.T.)  .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .     2  n     6 

do.  for  6  buckets  lost  at  fire       .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .140 

3  new  river  watermen  for  breaking  open  pipes  in  the  fire  time.  .026 
Geo.  Cooke  for  powder1  used  in  the  fire,  by  order  of  the  committee  3  10  o 
Several  men  for  watching  and  warding  from  29th  Jany.  to  7th 

Feby.    at    id.    per    night    for   watching    and    Sri.    per  day  for 

warding 868 

For  porters  and  messengers  about  buckets  and  for  gunpowder  to 

other  workmen  in  and  about  the  fire  .         .         .        .         .         .400 

half  the  cost  of  carrying  away  the  rubbish  out  of  the  churchyard  at 

the  blowing  up  of  the  building 2     o     o      p.  170 

a  barrel  of  gunpowder  purchased  of  the  grocer  for  the  use  of  the  inn 

during  the  late  fire  by  order  of  Sir  Geo.  Jeffries.         .         .         .400 
to  the  painter  for  76  yards  of  oiled  work  wainscott  colour  near  the  P-  '  7 ' 

hall  and  the  buttery  and  for  painting  and  gilding  the  12  branches 

in  the  hall  .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .8150 

to  the  upholsterer  for  half  a  dozen  chairs  for  the  library  in  place  of  p.  1 -  \ 

those  that  were  lost  in  the  fire    .         .         .         .         .         .         .3120 

I  have  set  out  the  figures  representing  the  work  done  and  action 
taken  in  respect  of  these  three  fires  in  1666,  in  1677,  and  in  1679. 
The  great  activity  and  the  appliances  in  use  at  the  two  later  fires  are 
very  remarkable  in  comparison  with  those  of  the  former  date.  At  that 
time  the  whole  of  London  seems  to  have  been  helpless  and  paralysed, 
and  the  fire  that  consumed  without  hindrance  14,000  houses  and 
numerous  churches  and  chapels  would,  with  equal  facility,  have 
destroyed  the  Temple,  had  it  not  been  for  the  providential  change  of 
wind  on  the  night  of  Tuesday,  the  4th  of  September. 

A  fire  of  comparatively  small  dimensions  occurred  in  August, 
1683,  in  the  buildings  erected  by  Sir  Thomas  Robinson,  Bart.,  chief 
prothonotary  of  the  common  pleas.     He  was  at  this  time  in  the  third 
year  of  his  treasurership.     The  fire,  which  originated  in  Hall's  Coffee 
house,  having  caught  the  rooms  in  which  he  lived,  he  leapt  from  the 
window  and  was  killed.     He  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church  on  7th     p.  453 
August,  1683,  and  a  committee  was  appointed  in  Michaelmas  term     p.  I92 
to  inquire  into  the  circumstances  of  the  fire,  and  the  conduct  of  the 
watchmen  and  others  in  relation  thereto.     Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  A.G., 
was  appointed  treasurer  in  his  place. 

The  church,  which  had  been  left  in  good  repair  by  the  benchers 

1  A  barrel  of  powder  in  1666  cost  £2  \6s.  p.  41 


xl  INTRODUCTION. 

of  the  commonwealth,  was  much  neglected  during  the  early  period 
of  Charles  II.  The  duty  of  rebuilding  the  inn  after  the  fire  of  1666 
was  probably  held  to  be  paramount  to  all  others.  But  although  the 
money  which  was  voted  towards  providing  a  permanent  house  for 
the  master  of  the  Temple,  showed  that  the  society  was  not  unmindful 
of  the  needs  of  the  church,  yet  it  must  be  admitted  that,  for  some 
fifteen  years  after  the  restoration,  little  if  anything  had  been  done. 
The  first  occasion  upon  which  attention  was  officially  drawn  to  its 
p.  103  condition  was  in  1675.  In  July  of  that  year,  John  Playford,  the 
clerk,  informed  the  treasurer  and  benchers  of  the  two  societies  of 
several  matters  in  the  church  requiring  speedy  repair : 

"  FIRST,  the  doors  in  the  screen  which  parts  the  church  are  at  this  time 
so  much  decayed  and  broken  as  they  are  no  security  to  the  church,  wherein 
now  standeth  the  chest  with  ye  communion  plate,  and  also  the  several  vest- 
ments and  books  belonging  to  the  church. 

"SECOND,  the  pulpit  is  so  rotten  at  this  time  and  decayed  as  it  is  in 
great  danger  of  falling  ;  also  the  velvet  before  the  pulpit  and  the  cushion 
thereto  belonging,  are  bothe  so  much  decayed  and  worn  out,  having  been  so 
often  mended,  as  much  longer  they  cannot  be  serviceable. 

"  THIRD,  there  is  at  this  time  great  want  of  a  good  bell  in  the  steeple, 
which  want  may  be  soon  supplied  if  ...  the  two  bells,  now  in  the  steeple, 
which  are  both  cracked  and  useless,  be  cast  into  one,  it  will  make  an 
excellent  bell  that  will  be  heard  into  all  courts  belonging  to  both  societies. 

"  FOURTH,  the  two  surplices  at  this  time  belonging  to  the  church  are 
both  worn  out." 

Playford's  peculiar  position  in  regard  to  the  church  and  to  the 
Temple,  and  his  credit  as  a  musician  and  a  writer,  gave  much  weight  to 
his  representations,  apart  from  their  very  reasonable  character,  and 
a  committee  was  at  once  appointed  by  this  society  to  consider  his 
statement.  There  is  no  record  of  the  action  taken  thereupon.  But 
it  was  a  matter  of  equal  concern  to  the  two  societies,  and  nothing 
could  be  done  without  the  concurrence  of  both.1  A  speedy  agree- 
ment under  these  circumstances  would  have  been  difficult,  as  it  clearly 

p.  114  involved  a  substantial  expenditure.  The  condition  of  the  interior  of 
the  church  was,  however,  under  the  consideration  of  the  two  societies, 
as  it  appears  that  they  had  agreed  to  pay  £  1 50  each  for  altering, 

p.  113     and  I  suppose  reconstructing  the  seats.    In  July,  1677,  it  was  reported 

1  A  want,  which  could  be  supplied  by  one  society  without  offending  the  other, 
p.  1 14      was  attended  to,  and  a  new  surplice  was  provided  at  a  cost  of  ,£3. 


INTRODUCTION.  xli 

that  the  cost  which  had  been  originally  estimated  and  provided  for 
at  £i 50  each,  would  be  ^300.     It  was  thereupon  ordered  that  the 
matter   be  again  considered,  and  in  the  meantime  that  the  .£150 
advanced  be  repaid  to  the  treasurer.     In  November,  1677,  the  sur-    p.  124 
veyor  was  called  in  to  advise  as  to  the  arrangement  of  the  pews  and 
a  committee  was  appointed  to  organize  a  fund  and  to  solicit  con- 
tributions  towards   the  re-seating   and    the   general    repair   of  the     p.  128 
church.       The    alterations   and  repairs    then    recommended    would 
probably  have  been  carried  out  forthwith,  but  for  the  disastrous  fires 
of  1677  and  1678-9.     These  so  fully  occupied  the  minds,  and  were 
so  heavy  a  draught  upon  the  funds  of  the  two  societies  and  of  their 
individual  members,  that  the  reparation  of  the  church  naturally  stood 
over  until  the  rebuilding  of  the  two  inns  had  been  nearly  completed. 
In  the  meantime,  however,  some  work  was  done  by  private  subscrip- 
tions;  Lady  Rainsford  and  Lady  Littleton  gave  £10  towards  the    p.  143 
repair  of  the  church  windows,  Lady  Wilde  gave  £  10  for  the  same 
purpose,  and  Serjeant  Crooke  gave  £20  towards  the  repairs  since 
the  fire.     The  king's  arms  were  put  up  in  the  window  of  the  church 
in  1680  at  a  cost  of  .£4  to  this  society,  and  the  chief  butler  has  an    p.  157 
entry  of  work  done  by  Daniel   Ireland,  the  glazier,  in  the   Inner 
Temple  church,  £i  45.,  probably  a  repair  to  a  window  on  the  south 
side.     Playford's  suggestion  as  to  the  recasting  of  the  two  cracked 
bells,  so  as  to  make  one  sound  bell,  was  carried  out  after  the  church    pp.  238,  254 
was  restored.1     There  is  at  present  only  one  bell  which  bears  the 
following  inscription  : 3 

"  Sir  R.  Sawyer,  A.G.  t.  Inner  Temple,  Sir  Henry  Chauncy  t.  Middle     p-  239 
Temple,  John  Bartlet  made  me  1686." 

In  1 68 1 -2  Sir  Christopher  Wren  was  requested  to  advise  the  p.  173 
societies  as  to  the  requirements  of  the  church.  In  May,  1682,  he 
reported  that  the  church  was  "  very  ruinous  for  want  of  repair,"  and 
that  the  cost  of  the  necessary  work  would  be  not  less  than  ;£  1,400. 
This  outlay  was  undertaken  by  the  two  societies,  and  it  was  ordered 
that  there  be  an  aid  roll  to  which  every  bencher  be  assessed  at  ,£3, 
every  barrister  at  £2  §s.,  and  every  gentleman  under  the  bar  at 

1  Towards  this  expenditure  a  legacy  of  £10  was  left  to  the  two  societies  by  Dr.     p.  238 
Ball. 

3  Architectural  illustrations,  and  an  account  of  the  Temple  Church,  by  R.  W. 
Billings,  London,  1838,  p.  39. 

III.  / 


xlii  INTRODUCTION. 

p.  177     £i  ios.     As,  however,  the  collection  of  these  sums  required  much 
pp.  180,  181     time,  and  the  repairing  and  repewing  of  the  church,  with  the  pro- 
viding of  a  new  pulpit,  were  works  that  required  immediate  atten- 

p.  177  tion,  Sir  Thomas  Robinson,  the  treasurer,  undertook  to  provide  the 
necessary  funds  upon  an  indemnity  being  given  by  the  society. 

p.  198     Under  these  conditions  the  work  went  forward.     The  church  was 

p.  212  entirely  repaved  with  alternate  squares  of  black  and  white  marble, 
the  walls  were  wainscotted  up  to  the  bottom  of  the  windows,  square 
pews  were  constructed  within  the  five  aisles  formerly  described,  the 
round  was  separated  from  the  oblong  portion  of  the  church  by  a  carved 
oak  screen  and  organ  loft,  and  the  high  and  subsidiary  altars,  with 
whatever  remained  of  their  original  construction,  were  replaced  by  a 
carved  altarpiece  reaching  several  feet  above  the  bottom  of  the 
centre  window.  A  tall  pulpit  and  reading-desk,  with  an  elaborately- 
carved  sounding-board,  were  placed  in  the  centre  aisle,  about  half 
way  down  the  church. 

On  the  floor  one  step  led  from  the  nave  to  the  pews  and  two 
steps  from  the  nave  to  the  altar.  The  screen  went  completely  across 
the  church  and  blocked  the  beautiful  view  from  the  western  door  to  the 
altar.  The  central  archway  was  occupied  by  the  organ,  which,  with  its 
ornamental  front,  ran  up  nearly  to  the  ceiling.  Entrance  to  the  north 
and  south  aisles  of  the  church  was  through  the  doorways  under  the  side 
arches.  The  carved  work  behind  the  altar  and  the  carvings  over  the 
organ  were  by  Grinling  Gibbons.1  The  former  appears  from  the 
accounts  to  have  cost  the  two  societies  at  least  ^570.  The  columns  of 

p.  199  the  church,  however,  were  disfigured  and  endangered  by  numerous 
monumental  slabs,  to  support  which  the  marble  was  cut  away.  The 
handsome  monuments  of  Plowden,  of  Martin,  and  of  the  bishop, 
were  still  retained  against  the  walls,  where  numerous  tablets  were 
also  to  be  seen.2  In  the  round  portion  the  figures  of  the  knights 
were  inclosed  within  rails  which  were  painted  and  gilt.  Among  other 
entries  in  relation  to  the  church,  I  find  in  the  accounts  for  1673-4 
p.  98  a  payment  of  ^3  los.  "  For  painting  and  mending  the  Crucifix." 
Whether  this  was  replaced  in  the  church  after  the  restoration,  or 

1  Billings,  p.  43.  Upon  the  restoration  of  the  church  in  1840  the  altar  screen  was 
sold,  and  it  is  now  in  the  Bowe's  Museum  at  Barnard  Castle.  It  corresponds  with  the 
description  given  in  the  "New  View  of  London." 

3  Some  of  these  are  now  in  the  triforium. 


INTRODUCTION.  xliii 

was  used  elsewhere,  I  am  unable  to  say.     Other  entries  are  for  a 
purple  velvet  pulpit  cushion  with  heavy  gold  tassels,  £4  iolA:  for  13 
iron  candlesticks  £2  i**  4*:  for  the  Inner  Temple  porter's  staff  of    p.  212 
bamboo  with  silver  head,  £7  islt-\  and  for  his  gown,  ^4:  for  locks    p-  212 
and  hinges  for  the  pews,  £io.1     The  vault  for  the  use  of  the  Inner    p.  199 
Temple  was  also  built  at  this  date  at  a  cost  to  the  society  of  ^"60.     p.  212 
Thenceforward  burials  took  place  in  this  vault,  which  was  not  finally    p-  264 
closed  until  the  present  century. 

A  summary  of  the  expenditure  on  the  church  at  this  period 
shows  the  inn  to  have  contributed  ^952  16.?.  od.     The  church  was    p-  198 
opened  to  the  public  on  the  nth  February  1682,  when  the  Bishop    p.  212 
of  Rochester  preached,  and  was  entertained  at  a  dinner  given  by 
the  two  societies  in  the  master's  house.     On  the  following  Sunday    p-  199 
there  was  a  special  sermon  by  the  Revd.  John  Standish,  D.D.,  chap- 
lain in  ordinary  to  his  Majesty.2 

A  good  description  of  the  church  as  it  existed  in  1 703,  less  than 
twenty  years  after  the  completion  of  the  work,  is  to  be  found  in  the 
"  New  View  of  London."  3  The  author  says  : 

"  It  is  built  of  the  anticnt  Gothic  Order,  the  Walls  Stone,  covered  with 
finishing  and  strengthened  with  Buttresses  :  has  a  Treble  Roof  covered  with 
Lead  and  supported  with  neat  pillars  of  Sussex  Marble  and  the  floor  of  the 
whole  is  paved  with  black  and  white  marble  :  that  of  the  Chancel  2  steps 
higher  than  the  middle  and  I  higher  than  the  side  lies:  the  lies  are  5  in 
number  viz. :  3  (as  is  usual)  running  E.  and  W.  and  one  cross  He  near  the 
entrance  into  the  Chancel  and  another  Parallel  with  the  last  bet"  the  W.  end 
of  the  Ranges  of  Pews  and  the  screen.  This  ch.  is  not  only  antique  in  its 
Order,  neat  in  its  Workmanship  and  rich  in  its  materials,  but  very  beautiful 
in  its  Finishing,  Qualifications  that  seldom  are  found  in  one  Structure.  The 
Pillars  and  Floors  are  not  only  Marble  but  the  Windows  are  adorned  with 

1  There  are  several  entries  referring  to  the  "type"  and  "tipes,"  e.g.  "for  gilding 
the  tipes  of  the  church,"  "cutting  a  hole  for  the  type  to  hang  to."  According  to  the 
terms  of  the  period  the  word  "type"  had  several  meanings.  One  was  the  canopy  over 
the  pulpit,  which  in  this  case  hung  from  the  roof.  Another  was  the  capping  of  a  turret 
which  was  gilt  at  the  same  time  as  the  folding  doors.  See  "  Glossary  of  Architecture." 
Oxford,  1850.  J.  H.  Parker,  vol.  i.,  p.  503. 

"  "  A  SERMON  preached  at  the  TEMPLE  the  Sunday  After  the  CHURCH  was  opened  ; 
being  then  newly  Repaired  Adorned  and  Beautified  at  the  Joynt  Expence  of  the  two 
HONOURABLE  SOCIETIES.  By  JOHN  STANDISH,  D.D.  and  Chaplain  in  Ordinary 
to  His  Majesty.  How  Dreadful  is  this  Place  !  Surely  this  is  none  other  but  the  House 
of  God,  Gen.  28,  17.  LONDON.  Printed  by  Henry  Clark,  for  Robert  Clavel  at  the 
Sign  of  the  Peacock  at  the  West-End  of  St.  Paul's.  MD.CLXXXIII." 

3  "A  New  View  of  London,"  vol.  ii.,  p.  363. 


xliy  INTRODUCTION. 

pretty  small  Columns  of  the  same  specie  of  Stone.  It  is  well  pewed  and 
wainscotted  with  right  wainscot  above  8  foot  high  :  the  Altar  piece  is  of  the 
same  species  of  timber  but  much  higher,  finely  carved  and  adorned  with 
4  Pilasters  and  betw"  them  and  the  columns  with  entablature  of  the  Corinthian 
order:  also  enrichments  of  cherubims,  a  shield,  festoon,  fruit  and  leaves  en- 
closed with  handsome  rail  and  banister.  The  pulpit  is  also  finely  carved  and 
finnier'd  placed  near  the  E.  end  of  the  middle  He,  the  Sound  Board  is  pendant 
from  the  roof  of  the  church :  It  is  enriched  with  several  carved  arches,  a 
crown,  festoons,  cherubims,  vases,  &c.  The  round  tower  at  the  W.  end  of  the 
ch.  is  supported  with  6  pillars  wainscotted  with  oak  6  foot  high,  and  is  also 
adorned  all  round  (except  the  E.  part)  with  an  upper  and  lower  range  of  small 
arches  and  blank  apertures. 

"  The  screen  at  the  W.  end  of  the  lies  is  as  the  altar  piece  &c.  of  right 
wainscott  adorned  with  10  Pilasters  of  the  Corinthian  order,  also  :  3  Portals 
and  Pediments  :  and  the  organ-gallery  over  the  Middle  aperture  is  supported 
with  two  neat  fluted  columns  of  the  Corinthian  order  and  adorned  with  en- 
tablatures and  Compass  pediment  and  also  the  queen's  arms  finely  carved : 
the  Intercolumns  and  large  pannels  in  carved  frames  and  near  the  Pediment 
on  the  S.  side  is  an  enrichment  of  cherubims  and  the  carved  figure  of  a 
Pegasus,  the  Badge  of  the  Society  of  the  Inner  Temple  and  on  or  near 
the  Pediment  on  the  X.  side  an  enrichment  of  cherubims  and  the  Figure  of  a 
Holy  Lamb,  the  Badge  of  the  Society  of  the  Middle  Temple,  for  though  these 
houses  have  but  one  church,  yet  they  seldom  sit  promiscuously  there  but  the 
Inner  Tf tuple  on  the  S.  and  the  gentlemen  of  the  Middle  Temple  Xd  from  the 
middle  He." 

Nothing  appears  to  have  been  done  to  the  chapel  of  S.  Ann, 
which  is  described  by  Sir  Robert  Smirke J  as  a  small  antient  building 
consisting  of  a  crypt  with  a  vaulted  chamber  over  it,  both  formerly 
communicating  with  the  church.  In  1827  its  removal  became 
necessary  by  reason  of  its  ruinous  and  decayed  condition.  It  had 
formed  no  part  of  the  original  edifice  of  the  round  church,  but  had 
been  built  up  against  the  walls  at  a  subsequent  date.  Closer 
investigation  showed  that  this  date  could  not  have  been  many  years 
after  the  completion  of  the  eastern  portion  of  the  church,  and  that  it 
was  in  fact  nearly  contemporaneous  with  it. 

The    restoration  and  embellishment  of  the  church,  under  the 

superintendence  of  Sir  Christopher  Wren,  seem  to  have  suggested 

to  the  societies  the  propriety  of  providing  an  organ  suitable  to  the 

p.  199     place  and  worthy  of  the  two  houses.     For  this  purpose  they  took 

1  Report  of  Sir  Robert  Smirke,  November,  1827,  when  the  southern  exterior  of 
the  church  was  restored  by  the  Inner  Temple.—"  Miscellanea,"  vol.  xx.  fo.  37.  "The 
Temple  Church,"  by  William  Burge,  Q.C.,  F.R.S.,  London,  1843,  p.  18. 


INTRODUCTION.  xlv 

the  opinion  of  Dr.  Blow  and  other  masters  of  music,  and  entertained 
them  at  a  dinner  at  the  joint  expense.  Following  upon  this  con- 
ference, the  treasurers  of  the  two  inns,  viz.,  Sir  Thomas  Robinson  of 
the  Inner  and  Sir  Francis  Withens  of  the  Middle,  had  a  conversation 
in  September,  1682,  with  Bernard  Smith,  the  king's  organ  maker, 
who  had  already  built  the  organ  for  Westminster  Abbey.1  The 
subjects  under  discussion  were  the  making  of  an  organ  for  the  church 
and  the  setting  up  of  an  organ  loft,  both  to  be,  as  suggested,  under 
the  superintendence  of  Bernard  Smith.  The  conversation,  how- 
ever, did  not  amount  to  a  contract,  and  shortly  afterwards  the  name 
of  Renatus  Harris2  was  submitted  to  the  benchers  as  that  of  a 
proper  person  to  build  their  organ.  Not  being  able  to  decide  at 
once,  the  benchers  agreed,  in  1682-3,  tnat  if  each  artist  would  set  up 
an  organ  in  one  of  the  halls,  they  would  choose  that  organ  for  the  p.  194 
church  which  had  "the  greatest  number  of  excellencies."  In  the 
meantime  one  Phillips,  who  had  made  a  case  for  the  organ  to  be 
erected  in  the  church,  was  ordered  to  remove  it  forthwith.  The  p.  191 
artists  were  subsequently  permitted  to  erect  their  organs  in  the 
church.  Harris's  was  placed  on  the  south  side  near  the  communion  p.  197 
table,  and  Smith's  between  the  church  and  the  round  walk.  In  the 
summer  of  1684  the  two  organs  were  completed  and  the  competition 
began.  Dr.  Blow  and  Purcell,  two  famous  organists,  played  for 
Smith,  and  Giovanni  Battista  Draghi,3  organist  to  Queen  Catherine, 
performed  for  Harris.  Both  organs  appear  to  have  been  of  great 
excellence  in  every  respect,  so  that  the  general  public  as  well  as  the 
benchers  were  very  undecided  as  to  which  was  the  finer  instrument. 
The  competition  became  tedious,  the  partisans  of  the  respective  can- 
didates caused  scandal  by  the  violence  of  their  attitude,  and  the 
question  promised  no  early  solution,  when  the  benchers  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  on  the  26th  May,  1685,  appointed  a  small  committee  to 
confer  with  a  committee  of  the  Middle  Temple  to  nominate  some  p.  223 
persons  as  judges  to  decide  between  the  two  competitors.  On  the  p.  225 
2nd  June,  1685,  the  Middle  Temple  passed  a  resolution  in  favour  of 

1  "  A  Few  Notes  on  the  Temple  Organ,"  by  Edmund  Macrory,  M.A.   London,  1861. 
The  organ  at  the  Abbey  was  opened  30  December,  1660.     "Pepys's  Diary,"  vol.  i., 

P-  3i3- 

1  "Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  vol.  xxv.,  p.  21. 
1  Ibid,,  vol.  xv.,  p.  421. 


xlvi  INTRODUCTION. 

purchasing  the  organ  of  Bernard  Smith  as  the  more  suitable  for  the 
church.  The  Inner  Temple,  however,  declined  to  take  upon  them- 
selves to  select  the  organ,  and  insisted  on  the  joint  appointment  of 
p.  226  skilled  persons  to  make  the  selection.  Resolutions  were  passed  by 
the  two  societies  and  meetings  of  a  joint  committee  were  held,  but 
each  society  adhering  to  its  resolution,  the  Middle  insisting  on  the 
pp.  227  and  230  selection  of  Smith's  organ  and  the  Inner,  without  objecting  to  Smith 
or  adhering  to  Harris,  insisting  that  the  selection  of  so  costly  and 
important  a  possession  should  be  guaranteed  by  the  opinions  of 
certain  of  the  best  and  most  independent  masters  of  music  in  Eng- 
land, the  matter  came  to  a  deadlock.  In  this  position  the  two 
societies  took  the  course  which  was  always  adopted  under  similar 
circumstances.  As  they  had  recently  acted  in  regard  to  Hare  Court 
and  afterwards  as  to  the  rebuilding  of  the  cloisters,  so  they  did  with 
regard  to  the  organ.  They  applied  to  the  lord  chancellor  to  arbi- 
trate between  them.  On  the  26th  of  June,  1685,  the  Middle  Temple 
appointed  a  committee  "  to  state  in  writing  the  matters  in  difference 
between  the  society  and  the  Inner  Temple  about  the  choice  of  an 
organ  for  the  Temple  church,"  and  to  attend  the  lord  keeper 
thereon.1  The  lord  keeper  at  this  date  was  Francis  North,  Lord 
Guilford,  who,  however,  died  in  September,  1685,  and  nothing  was 
done  by  him  in  the  matter.  In  February,  1685-6,  another  com- 
mittee "  was  appointed  to  apply  to  the  lord  chancellor  for  his 
determination  upon  the  subject.  The  chancellor  then  was  Lord 
Jeffryes,  who  appears  to  have  taken  the  matter  in  hand  and  to  have 
decided  in  favour  of  Bernard  Smith's  organ.  The  tradition,  there- 
fore, which  has  come  down  from  Tudway3  (1705-1726)  to  the  pre- 
sent time,  that  the  Temple  organ  was  the  choice  of  Lord  Jeffryes 
seems,  like  nearly  all  traditions  connected  with  the  law  and  its  pro- 
fessors, to  have  a  substantial  foundation  in  fact.  That  Jeffryes  was 
a  member  of  the  Inner  Temple  and  had  a  voice  or  a  casting  vote  in 
the  choice  is  not  consistent  with  the  facts.  Jeffryes  was  no  longer  a 
member  of  the  inn.  He  had  left  the  society  in  1680  when  he  was 
created  a  serjeant,  in  the  same  way  that  Lord  Guilford  had  left  the 
Middle  Temple  on  his  being  appointed  chief  justice  of  the  common 

1  Macrory,  p.  24.  »  Ibid.,,  p.  24. 

5  "  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  vol.  Ivii.,  p.  291 ;  Macrory,  p.  25. 


INTRODUCTION.  xlvii 

pleas  in  1674.  Nor  is  there  any  reason  to  credit  Jeffryes  with  a 
knowledge  of  music.  He  became  the  umpire  between  the  two 
societies  solely  by  reason  of  his  being  the  lord  chancellor,  and,  as 
such,  the  person  who  customarily  settled  differences  between  them 
which  could  not  be  adjusted  by  means  of  a  conference  or  a  joint 
committee. 

The  benchers   acted  with  much   liberality  towards   these    two 
artists.      To   Smith,  the  full  price    of  his  organ   was  paid  and   he 
received  a  salary  for  tuning  and  repairs.     To   Renatus  Harris  this 
society,  in  consideration  of  his  expenses  and  his  labours,  advanced 
^"200  upon  his    bonds,1  which  they  afterwards  in  February,   1690,     p.  238 
ordered  to  be  delivered  over  to  him.2    The  price  of  the  organ  appears    pp.  244,  271 
to  have  been  .£1,000,  of  which  this  inn  paid  ,£500.     The  matter  of  the 
organ  was  thus  concluded  in  1686,  and  it  was  afterwards  erected  on 
the  spot  designed  for  it  by  Sir  Christopher  Wren.     The  societies 
seem,  however,  to  have  been  in  no  hurry  to  introduce  the  melody  of 
an  organ  into  the  service  of  the  church,  for  it  was  not  until  27th  of 
May,  1688,  that  the  first  organist  was  appointed.     Mr.  Francis  Pigott 
occupied  that  position  at  a  salary  of  ,£25  a  year,  from  each  society,     p.  248 
"he  providing  and  paying  thereout  an  able  blower,"  and  £10  a  year    pp.  370,  385,  393, 
was  paid  to  Bernard  Smith,  by  each  inn,  for  cleaning  and  tuning  his     39  '  4'7 
organ. 

A  memorandum  in  the  miscellaneous  papers,3  bearing  date 
about  1735,  and  giving  an  account  of  the  present  organ  and  its 
selection,  has  the  following  statement.  "  It  does  not  appear  there 
was  any  organ  in  the  church  before  the  year  1685."  How  far  that 
may  be  an  accurate  statement  is  open  to  doubt.  There  is,  however, 
no  reference  in  any  part  of  the  proceedings  in  1682-86  to  any  old 
organ,  or  indeed  to  any  organ  having  been  in  the  Temple  church 
recently  before  that  date.  The  only  references  in  our  records  to  the 
existence  of  an  organ  are  of  a  very  early  period.  In  the  inventory 
of  the  possessions  of  the  knights  templars  at  the  New  Temple  in 
London,  when  their  property  was  confiscated  by  Edward  II.,  in 
1307,  is  an  entry,  "In  the  church  .  .  .  Two  pairs  of  organs,  price 

*     In  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  (3oth  January,  1518-19)  an     Vol.  i.,  p.  45 

1  "  Miscellanea,"  vol.  xix.,  fo.  39.  J  Ibid.,  fo.  39. 

*  Ibid.,  xix.,  fo.  39. 

VBaylis,  "Temple  Church,"  App.,  p.  142- 


xlviii  INTRODUCTION. 

order  was  made  for  "  a  roll  containing  the  names  of  members  of  the 
society,  in  order  that  from  them  may  be  raised  josh.,  for  new  organs 
in  the  church,  for  the  part  of  the  Inner  Temple."  It  would  appear, 
therefore,  that  at  an  early  period,  an  organ,  or,  as  the  expression  then 
was,  "a  pair  of  organs,"  were  used  in  the  church,  although  there  is 
no  record  of  any  dealing  with  or  renewal  of  the  organs  from  1519  to 
the  date  now  under  consideration,  a  period  of  over  160  years. 

With  the  exception  of  the  plans  of  the  cloisters,  to  which  I  have 
referred  as  being  in  the  possession  of  the  Middle  Temple,  I  have  not 
had  the  good  fortune  to  meet  with  any  drawings  of  Sir  Christopher 
Wren  used  either  in  the  Temple  or  in  the  Temple  church.  There 
is,  however,  among  the  collection  of  Wren's  drawings  at  All  Souls, 
Oxford,1  of  which  college  he  was  a  fellow,  a  drawing  for  a  church, 
unnamed.  It  represents  the  western  end  of  a  church  with  a  carved 
oak  screen  extending  across  the  building.  This  is  surmounted  by 
an  organ  gallery,  carrying  a  large  organ  ornamented  with  carvings 
and  with  hanging  drapery.  It  has  a  very  considerable  resemblance 
p.  255  to  the  western  end  of  our  church,  where  the  organ  was  hung  with 
curtains,2  and  pilasters,  pediments  and  other  classical  ornaments 
formed  part  of  the  design.  This  may,  therefore,  possibly  have  been 
one  of  the  drawings  for  the  arrangement  of  that  portion  of  the 
church.  From  1674-1684,  Wren  was  engaged,  according  to  Mr. 
Blomfield,  in  rebuilding  the  greater  part  of  the  Temple.  His  work 
is  described  as  quite  plain,  only  enriched  with  quoins  and  well- 
proportioned  cornices  and  a  few  charming  door-ways.3  Mr.  Blom- 
field gives  me,  as  examples,  the  pediment  and  Ionic  order  in  Portland 
stone  and  gauged  brick  in  the  Middle  Temple  gateway.  Wren's 
influence,  he  thinks,  and  probably  also  his  design,  are  traceable  in 
New  Court  and  the  adjoining  courts,  also  in  the  houses  with  gauged 
brick  doorways,  notably  one  with  engaged  Corinthian  columns  in 
brick,  in  King's  Bench  Walk.  These  are  regarded  as  excellent 
early  examples  of  the  use  of  soft  bricks  rubbed  and  fine-jointed  in 
putty,  a  material  which  Wren  used  more  freely  and  successfully 
than  any  English  architect  before  or  since.  He  was  frequently 

1  Vol.  iv.,  fo.  103. 

p.  255  '  To  Markerdale  for  the  moiety  of  his  bill  for  curtains  to  the  organ  in  the  Temple 

Church,  ,£6  141-.  lod. 

'  "A  history  of  Renaissance  Architecture  in  England,"  by  Reginald  Blomfield,  M.  A., 
London,  1897,  vol.  i.,  p.  172.     Two  of  Wren's  doorways  are  reproduced. 


INTRODUCTION.  xlix 

to  be  seen  in  the  Temple  advising  as  to  the  church,  and  among 

the  accounts  for  the  year  1682-3,  are  payments  for  various  dinners     p.  i9& 

at  the  "  Devil  Tavern "    to   Sir  Christopher  Wren  when  he  had 

been  giving  orders  to  the  workmen,  superintending  the  plastering, 

colouring,  and  whitening   the    Inner  Temple    side   of  the    church, 

settling  the  estimates  for  the  carved  panels  on  the  benchers'  pews 

and  otherwise  employed  on  the  work.     Nor  was  he  in  other  respects 

unconnected  with  the  Temple,  for  Sir  William  Wren  was  a  member 

of  the  Middle  Temple,  and  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church,  on  the     App.,  p.  445 

ist  January,  1689-90. 

During  the  period  comprised  in  this  volume,  the  services  of  the 
church  were  performed  by  three  clergymen — the  master,  who  enjoyed 
the  house  and  to  whom  we  paid,  as  our  share,  a  stipend  of  ^100  per 
annum,  a  reader  to  whom  we  paid  ,£50  per  ann.,  and  an  assistant 
curate  or  reader  of  prayers  to  whom  we  paid  ^30  per  ann.  To 
these  should  be  added  the  names  of  Dr.  Ken,  Dr.  Crisp  and  Dr. 
South,  who  preached  at  Christmas  by  request  of  the  students  and 
junior  members  of  the  society  and  at  their  expense.  The  masters 
were  Dr.  Ball,  Dr.  William  Sherlock  and  Dr.  Thomas  Sherlock. 

Dr.   Ball,  Prebendary  of  Lincoln   and  of  Ely,  and   Rector  of 
Bluntisham,    to    whom    reference    has    already    been    made,    was 
appointed  to  the  mastership    of  the    Temple  on  the  promotion  of 
Dr.    Gauden    to    the    bishopric    of    Exeter    in    1660.       Dr.    Ball's 
conduct  in  respect  of  the  building  of  the  master's    house  recom- 
mended him  to  the  kindly  consideration  of  the  Temples,  and  on 
many  other  occasions  he  showed  the  personal  interest  which  he  took 
in  the  society.     An  incident  in  reference  to  this  gentleman  has  not 
been  elucidated.      There  are  charges  in    1671-2  for  providing  wit-     p.  89 
nesses  and  otherwise  in  regard  to  "  Dr.  Ball's  trial,"  from  which  it 
appears  that  the  Inner  Temple  was  supporting  Dr.  Ball  in  his  trial, 
whatever  the  question   may  have  been.     He  died  in  April,  1684,  at 
the  age  of  86,  and  was  buried  in  the  new  vestry  on  the  south  side     App.,  p.  454 
of  the  church.     In  that  church  already  lay  the  bones  of  his  two     App.,  p.  447 
wives,  who  died  successively  in  March,  1667-8,  and  in  August,  1681,     App.,  p.  448 
and  of  four  sons,  Burnell,  John,  Thomas,  and  William,  who  died     App.,  p.  453 
respectively  in  1670,  in  1679,  in  1681,  and  in  1682.  App.,  p.  452 

Dr.  William  Sherlock l  who  succeeded  Dr.  Ball,  was  a  celebrated     App.,  p.  453 

1  "  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  vol.  Hi.,  p.  95. 
ill.  g 


1  INTRODUCTION. 

divine,  with  a  great  reputation  as  a  preacher.  He  had  held  the 
living  of  S.  George,  Botolph  Lane,  and  was  a  prebendary  of  S. 
Paul's  before  being  appointed  master  of  the  Temple.  He  held  strong 
views  as  to  the  divine  right  of  kings  and  the  duty  of  passive  obedi- 
ence, and  he  refused  for  some  months  to  take  the  oath  of  allegiance 
to  William  and  Mary.  This  resulted  in  his  being  temporarily  de- 
prived, in  August,  1689,  of  all  his  offices  and  emoluments,  including 
those  of  the  mastership  of  the  Temple.  During  this  period — which 
was,  however,  in  effect  only  one  of  suspension — he  published  the  most 
celebrated  of  his  works,  "  A  Practical  Discourse  on  Death,"  being  the 
substance  of  sermons  preached  in  the  Temple  church.  In  the  dedi- 
cation of  this  book  to  the  benchers  of  the  two  societies  he  alludes  to 
his  deprivation  in  these  terms : 

"  One  Reason  of  Publishing  this  Plain  Discourse  is,  because  I  can't  now 
Preach  to  you  as  formerly  I  have  done,  and  have  no  other  way  left  of  dis- 
charging my  Duty  to  You,  but  by  making  the  Press  supply  the  Pulpitt  Part 
of  this  you  have  already  heard,  and  should  have  heard  the  rest,  had  I  enjoyed 
the  same  Liberty  still :  which  God  restore  me  again  when  He  sees  fit :  if  not 
his  Will  be  done.  And  the  only  Reason  of  this  Dedication  is,  to  make  this 
publick  and  thankful  Acknowledgment  (before  I  am  forced  from  You,  if  I 
must  be  so  Unhappy)  of  Your  Great  Respects,  and  many  singular  Favours 
to  me  :  which  have  always  been  so  free  and  generous,  that  they  never  gave 
Time  nor  left  any  Room  for  me  to  ask  :  especially  that  obliging  Welcome  you 
gave  me  at  my  first  coming,  I  mean  Your  Present  of  a  House,  which  besides 
the  Conveniences  and  Pleasures  of  a  Delightful  Habitation,  has  afforded  me 
that  which  I  value  much  more,  the  frequent  Opportunities  of  Your  Conversa- 
tion." ' 

The  society,  recognizing  his  great  popularity,   had  presented  him 

l>.  256     on  the  8th  Nov.,  1688,  with  a  cask  of  canary  and  a  hogshead  of 

claret,  which  were  afterwards,  on  the  loth  Nov.,  changed  for  a  pair 

of  silver  candlesticks,  bearing  the  arms  of  the  Inner  Temple.     The 

master  having,  on  the  loth  February,  1689-90,  consented  to  pray  for 

the  king  and  queen,   and   in  August,    1690,    to  take  the  oaths  of 

allegiance  to  them  as  monarchs  de  facto,  he  was  permitted  to  retain 

p.  273    his  preferments,  and  continued  to  reside  and  preach  in  the  Temple.2 

1  The  eighteenth  edition  of  this  book  was  published  in  1723,  sixteen  years  after 
his  death. 

''  The  popular  excitement  attendant  upon  Sherlock's  conversion  from  the  attitude 
of  a  non-juror  to  that  of  a  supporter  of  the  existing  government,  with  his  subsequent 
acceptance  of  the  deanery  of  S.  Paul's,  is  described  at  length  by  Lord  Macaulay 
("  History,"  vol.  iv.,  pp.  44-51). 


INTRODUCTION.  li 

In  1690  he  was  paid  ^50  by  the  society  for  the  expenses  of  the  p.  273 
preachers  engaged  by  him  during  his  suspension.  In  1691  he  was 
appointed  dean  of  S.  Paul's.  In  January,  1694-5,  he  preached  in  the 
Temple  Church  a  eulogistic  sermon  on  the  late  queen,  Mary, 
who  had  died  on  the  28th  December,  1694.  He  resigned  his 
mastership  in  1704,  and  died  in  1707.  He  was  succeeded  by  his 
son,  Dr.  Thomas  Sherlock,1  an  equally  distinguished  and  eloquent 
preacher,  who  was  successively  master  of  S.  Catherine's  Hall,  Cam- 
bridge, chaplain  to  queen  Anne,  dean  of  Norwich,  prebendary  and 
dean  of  Chichester,  bishop  of  Bangor  and  bishop  of  Salisbury. 
Having  declined  the  archbishopric  of  York,  he  was,  in  1 748,  made 
bishop  of  London.  In  November,  1 753,  being  still  bishop  of  London, 
he  travelled  to  the  Temple  from  his  palace  at  Fulham  to  announce  his 
resignation  of  the  mastership,  which  he  had  held  in  conjunction  with 
his  other  preferments  for  a  period  of  fifty  years.  He  spoke  of  his 
relation  to  the  two  societies  as  being  the  great  happiness  of  his  life, 
"  as  it  introduced  me  to  the  acquaintance  of  some  of  the  greatest  men 
of  the  age,  and  afforded  me  the  opportunities  of  improvement  by  living 
and  conversing  with  gentlemen  of  a  liberal  education,  and  of  great 
learning  and  experience."  He  was  extremely  popular  with  the  members 
of  the  Temple,  and  dying  in  July,  1771,  was  buried  at  Fulham.  In  1725 
he  published,  at  the  request  of  the  two  societies,  a  series  of  "  Dis- 
courses on  the  Use  and  Intent  of  Prophecy,"  '*  comprising  sermons 
preached  in  the  Temple  church  in  April  and  May,  1724.  It  went 
through  several  editions,  and  was  much  attacked  by  religious  and 
political  opponents. 

Our  society,  which  did  not  escape  from  some  association  with 
the  gunpowder  plot,  was  not  altogether  exempted  from  the  evil  effects 
of  the  popish  plot  of  1678.  Richard  Langhorne,  a  roman  catholic 
gentleman,  was  one  of  the  earliest  victims  of  Gates  and  Bedloe.  He 
was  a  barrister  of  this  inn,  having  chambers  in  Inner  Temple  Lane,3 
where  he  practised  chiefly  as  a  conveyancer.  After  the  great  fire  of 
1666  the  house  of  commons  appointed  a  committee,  of  which  Sir 
Robert  Brook,  M.P.,  was  chairman,  "  to  inquire  into  the  causes  of 

1  "  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  vol.  Hi.,  p.  93. 

2  "The  Use  and  Intent  of  Prophecy,  in  the  several  Ages  of  the  World,  by  Thos. 
Sherlock,  D.D.,  Dean  of  Chichester  and  Master  of  the  Temple,  London,  1725." 

'  "State  Trials,"  vol.  vii.,  p.  426.     Langhorne  is  described  by  Macaulay  as  the 
"  chief  lay  agent  of  the  Jesuits  in  England."     History,  vol.  iv.,  p.  285  (note). 


lii  INTRODUCTION. 

the  late  fire."     Numerous  informations  were  hied  and  amongst  them 
the  following  : 

"  Mr.  Light  of  Ratcliff,  having  some  discourse  with  Mr.  Langhorne  of  the 
Middle  (?)  Temple,  Barrister  (reputed  a  zealous  Papist)  about  February  — 65 
last,  after  some  discourse  in  disputation  about  Religion,  he  took  him  by  the 
hand,  and  said  to  \\\m,you  expect  great  things  in  Sixty-Six,  and  think  that  Rome 
will  be  destroyed,  but  what  if  it  be  London" ' 

This  being  reported  to  the  house  on  the  22nd  January,  1666-67, 
Langhorne  was  called  before  the  parliamentary  committee,  and 
examined  as  to  whether  the  disaster  had  not,  to  his  knowledge,  been 
caused  by  the  treachery  of  the  popish  faction.  He  was  thus  a  person 
who  had  been  already  suspected,  and  a  fit  subject  for  Gates  and  his 
witnesses.  These  denounced  him  as  a  party  to  the  plot.  He  was 
arrested  in  his  chambers  on  the  yth  of  October,  1678,  by  a  warrant 
from  the  privy  council,  and  was  kept  in  close  confinement  in  New- 
gate until  his  trial.  It  was  alleged  that  Langhorne  had,  in  his 
chambers,  openly  discussed  with  Gates  the  killing  of  the  king  and 
other  treasons,  and  had  shown  to  him  commissions  granted  by  the 
pope  to  various  persons,  amongst  them  being  one  to  himself  as 
judge  advocate  of  the  army.  It  was  also  alleged  by  the  witnesses 
that  Langhorne  was  party  to  an  offer  of  .£10,000  being  made  to 
Sir  George  Wakeman  to  poison  the  king,5  an  offer  which,  it  was 
said,  Sir  George  refused  as  the  amount  was  too  small  by  ,£5,000. 
Upon  this  evidence  Langhorne  was  condemned  and  executed, 
denying  to  the  last  the  truth  of  Gates  and  Bedloe's  story.  As  it 
was  alleged  that  these  commissions,  along  with  a  number  of  com- 
promising letters,  which  it  was  sworn  he  had  copied  into  a  register, 
were  in  his  chambers,  these  were  immediately  seized  and  held  by 
p.  127  the  inn,  and  officers  were  put  to  watch  them.  His  books,  papers 
p.  ,28  and  writings  were  carefully  searched,  and  it  is  fair  to  assume  that 
nothing  criminatory  was  found,  as  no  original  paper  was  produced 
p.  144  at  his  trial.  When  the  fire  broke  out  in  January,  1678-9,  all 

"A  True  and  Faithful  Account  of  the  several  Informations  exhibited  to  the 
Honourable  Committee  appointed  by  the  Parliament  to  inquire  into  the  late  Dreadful 
Burning  of  the  City  of  London  together  with  other  Informations  touching  the  Insolency 
of  Popish  Priests  and  Jesuites  :  and  the  Increase  of  Popery,  brought  to  the  Honourable 
Committee  appointed  by  the  Parliament  for  that  purpose.  Printed  in  the  year  1667. 
—From  a  collection  of  pamphlets  in  the  library  of  Sion  College,  London,  Y.  14-37. 
"  "  State  Trials,"  vol.  vii.,  p.  431. 


INTRODUCTION.  liii 

these  papers  were  removed  and  replaced  when  the  danger  was  past 
but  the  watching  of  the  chambers  was  continued  till  after  his  death. 
He  was  tried  on  the  I4th  June,  1679,'  and  executed  on  the  follow-  P-  HS 
ing  1 4th  July.  There  is  little  reason  to  doubt  that  he  was  entirely 
innocent  of  the  charge.  The  trial  of  Sir  George  Wakeman,  who  was 
indicted  with  Langhorne,  was  by  reason  of  illness  postponed  until  the 
i8th  July,  1679,  four  days  after  Langhorne's  execution.  Wakeman 
was  then  acquitted  by  the  jury.2  Chief  Justices  Scroggs  and  North, 
who  both  assisted  at  the  trial  of  Langhorne,  had  by  this  time  formed 
a  distrust  of  Gates  and  his  witnesses,  and  agreed  with  the  jury  in  not 
believing  their  evidence.  The  benchers  out  of  kindness  to  Mrs. 
Langhorne,  his  widow,  permitted  her  to  sell  her  late  husband's 
chambers  for  ^50,  and  subsequently  gave  her  ^25  out  of  the  funds  p.  183 
of  the  house.  In  February,  1684-5,  some  of  his  clients'  deeds  and  p.  230 
papers  had  been  handed  over  to  them,  and  in  November,  1687,  the 
remainder  were  delivered  to  his  son.  P-  Z5° 

There    is    little    to   notice  in    the    short    reign    of  James    II.     JAMES  II. 
Bonfires  celebrated  the  defeat  of  the  rebels  in  the  west  in    1685,     p.  230 
and  the  birth  of  the  Prince  of  Wales,  the  old  pretender,  in  1688.     p.  255 
Luttrell,  under  date  of  5th  November,    1686,  says:    "orders   have 
been  sent  to  the  inns  of  court  for  calling  several   roman  catholics 
to  the  barr :    and  accordingly   6  have   been  called  at   Graies    Inn, 
2    at    Lincolns    Inn    and    i    of    the    Inner    House."3       The    sub- 
stantial accuracy  of  this  entry  is  established,  so  far  as  the  "  Inner 
House  "  is  concerned,  by  the  records  of  our  society.     On  the  5th     P-  243 
February,  1686-7,   Martin    Hildesby,  or  Hildesley,  was  ordered,  at 
the  bench  table,   to  be  called  to  the  bar  "on  his  majesty's  special 
recommendation,"  and  at  the  parliament  held  on  the  nth  February     p.  240 
following,  he  was  duly  called.     That  this  gentleman  was  a  roman 
catholic,  and  that  without  his  majesty's  "  special  recommendation  " 

'  "  State  Trials,"  vol.  vii.,  p.  508. 

3  Ibid.,  p.  591. 

'  "  Diary,"  vol.  i.,  p.  388.  I  find  from  the  "  Black  Books "  of  Lincoln's  Inn, 
vol.  iii.,  p.  158,  that  in  November,  1686,  Jfettry  Smith  was  called  "upon  the  intima- 
tion of  Sir  Thos.  Powis,  KA,  H.M.  Solicitor-General,  that  it  is  his  majesty's  pleasure." 
On  the  5  Feb.,  1686-7,  Sir  Thos.  Manly,  Kt.,  and  Martin  Judd  were  called  upon  a 
similar  intimation.  John  Chappell  was  similarly  called  in  Feb.,  1687-8,  ib.,  p.  162,  and 
John  Brown  and  Henry  Collett  in  July,  1688.  Ib.,  p.  166.  The  calls  of  these  two 
last-named  gentlemen  were,  however,  reconsidered  in  Nov.,  1688.  //>.,  p.  166. 


liv  INTRODUCTION. 

he  would  not  have  been  called,  I  entertain  no  doubt.  The  inns  still 
held  to  their  procedure,  requiring  candidates  for  the  bar  to  take  the 
sacrament,  as  appears  from  an  entry  in  the  preceding  i6th  November. 

p.  241  On  that  day  Alexander  Fraser  petitioned  the  bench  that  he  might 
be  called  under  special  circumstances,  without  having  kept  the 
number  of  terms  required  by  the  regulations.  He  had  been  a  member 
of  the  inn  for  many  years,  but  had  been  much  employed  in  foreign 
service,  and  was  then  about  to  attend  the  Duke  of  Albemarle  in 
Jamaica.  An  order  was  thereupon  made  "  that  he  be  called  to  the 
\&x  provided  he  receive  the  sacrament  in  the  Temple  Churcli"  At  the 

p.  240     parliament  held  on  the  28th  November,  1686,  Alexander  Fraser  was 

p.  201  duly  called.  In  May,  1689,  an  order  was  made  that  those  who  had 
been  called  to  the  bar  within  two  years  and  had  not  taken  the  oaths  of 
allegiance  and  supremacy,  and  received  the  sacrament  according  to 

p.  266     the  order  of  the  house,  should  attend  the  bench  table.     In  pursuance 

p.  268  of  this  order,  Martin  Hildesley  with  Nathaniel  Piggott  and  Richard 
Delamer,  were  ordered  to  attend  the  table  in  November,  1689. 
Piggott  having  then  and  there  refused  to  take  the  oaths  tendered 
to  him,  his  call  was  vacated  and  he  was  suspended  from  commons. 

p.  278  In  November,  1690,  his  suspension  was  taken  off,  and  as  we  hear  no 
more  of  Martin  Hildesley,  I  assume  that  he  either  took  the  oaths  and 
received  the  sacrament  or  was  held  not  to  have  been  within  the 
rule,  inasmuch  as  he  had  not  been  called  within  two  years  of  May, 
1689. 

The  entries  relating  to  Jeffryes,  who  ended  his  career  with  the 
flight  of  his  royal  master,  are  not  very  numerous,  but  such  as  they 
are,  they  show  the  interest  which  he  took  in  the  society.  He  was 
born  in  the  year  of  king  Charles's  execution,  the  son  of  a  Welsh 
gentleman  of  old  family.  His  father  and  his  elder  brother  were 
successively  high  sheriffs  of  the  county  of  Denbigh,  and  his  younger 
brother  was  a  prebendary  of  Canterbury.  He  was  educated  at 
Shrewsbury  and  afterwards  at  S.  Paul's  school,  whence  he  went  to 
Westminster  under  Dr.  Busby,  from  whom  it  has  been  suggested 
that  he  learned  the  efficacy  of  flogging  as  a  punishment  for  evil  doers. 
From  Westminster  he  was  sent  to  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  at  the 
age  of  14,  and  in  the  following  year,  1663,  he  was  admitted  at 

P-  55     tne  Inner  Temple.     While  a  student  he  was  deputed,  by  the  mock 
parliament  held  by  the  gentlemen  at  Christmas,  1667,  to  invite  Dr. 


INTRODUCTION.  lv 

Crisp  to  preach  in  the  Temple  Church  on  the  following  Sunday.    On 
the  22nd  November,  1668,  being  then  twenty  years  of  age,  he  was     p.  59 
called  to  the  bar.     In  March,  1668-9,  he  was  selected,  as  we  have 
already  seen,  by  Mr.   Goodfellow,  the  reader,  to    accompany  Mr. 
Wroth,   as  a  deputation  to  the  lord  mayor  and  court  of  aldermen 
as  to  the  proposed  bearing  up  of  his  lordship's  sword  in  the  Inner 
Temple.      He   was  afterwards  called  before  the  council    board    to 
answer   for   the  part  he  took  in  those    proceedings.       In   1671,  at 
the   age  of    23,    he    was    elected  common   serjeant,    and    in    1678, 
at   the   age    of    30,    recorder   of    London.       In    November,     1674,     p.  102 
he  was  discharged  of  his    duty  as    reader   in    Clement's   Inn.     In 
January,  1677-8,  he  was  elected  to  the  bench  of  this  society,  and  in     p.  120 
February,    1678-9,   his  eldest   son,  John,  then  aged  8    years,  was 
specially  admitted.      In  1680  he  was  created  serjeant-at-law  and  left     p.  131 
the  inn.    In  May,  1680,  his  son  was  admitted  to  his  father's  chambers,     p.  153 
and  later  in  1680,  being  then  king's  serjeant,  he  gave  ^"40  towards  the     p.  169 
cost  of  wainscotting  the  hall  and  the  library.     In  1683,  at  the  age  of    p.  169 
35,  he  was  chief  justice  of  the  King's  Bench,  and  in  1685,  at  the 
age  of  37,  he  was  lord  chancellor.     He  took  an  active  part  in  dealing 
with  the  fire  of  1679,  and  was  called  in,  as  chancellor,  in  1686  to  settle 
the  dispute  as  to  the  organ  between  the  two  societies.     In  January, 
1685-6,  having  completed  the  business  of  the  assize,  a  committee     p.  234 
of  this  inn  waited  upon  him  to  know  if  he  would  please  to  have 
a  play  when   he  dined  with  the  benchers  on  grand  day.     This  he 
accepted,  and  heard  "  The  Committee."     A  similar  invitation  went     p.  238 
to  him  in  October,  1686,  and  he  dined  again  and  saw  "The  Scorn- 
ful Lady"  on  the  ist  November.     He  received  a  like  invitation  for     p.  239 
All   Souls,  1687,  and  saw  the   play  of  "The   Cheats  of  Scapin,"  a 
rendering  of  Moliere's  celebrated  play.     The  year  1685  was  distin-     p.  255 
guished    by    Monmouth's    rebellion    and  the  "  bloody    assize,"    and 
in   1687,   with  a    knowledge    of  all    his  judicial    errors,    but,   as    I 
suppose,  with  a  feeling  of  kindness  towards  their   old  companion, 
the  benchers  commissioned  Sir  Godfrey  Kneller  to  paint  the  portrait 
of  Lord  Jeffryes  at  a  cost  of  ^50.     It  was  paid  for  in  1687  and     p.  245 
"set  up  in  the  hall."1     The  compliment  thus  paid  to  Jeffryes  was 
unique.     As  far  as  I   have  been  able  to  ascertain  it  was  the  first 
occasion  upon    which    the    fellows    of  this    inn    commissioned   any 
1  An  engraving  of  this  picture,  by  R.  White,  is  among  those  in  the  benchers'  rooms. 


Ivi  INTRODUCTION. 

artist  to  paint  the  portrait  of  any  of  their  number  and  paid  for  the 
portrait  from  the  funds  of  the  society.  A  biographical  sketch  of 
Jeffryes  would  be  beyond  the  scope  of  this  preface,  nor  is  it  neces- 
sary, for  the  subject  has  been  treated  by  writers  well  qualified  to 
undertake  the  task,  the  last  of  whom,  a  barrister  of  our  inn,  has  given 
much  care  and  attention  to  the  study.1  The  judgment  of  many 
generations  has  condemned  Jeffryes  as  a  violent,  overbearing,  and 
unjust  judge,  without  considering  whether  upon  fuller  examination 
of  his  story  there  may  not  be  some  reason  to  doubt  the  absolute 
propriety  of  so  merciless  and  wholesale  a  condemnation.  There 
exist,  at  the  present  time,  four  contemporaneous  portraits  of  Jeffryes 
by  Sir  Godfrey  Kneller.  One  when,  at  the  age  of  30,  he  was 
recorder  of  London ;  one  when,  at  the  age  of  36,  he  was  lord  chief 
justice  ;  one  in  the  possession  of  Lord  Tankerville,  when  he  was 
lord  chancellor,  at  the  age  of  38 ;  and  one  painted  for  this  society 
as  already  mentioned.  They  all  agree  in  presenting  him  as  a  man  of 
dignified  mien  and  of  fine  features.  And  though  they  do  not  portray 
a  person  of  amiability,  they  are  consistently  wanting  in  those  indica- 
tions of  drink,  debauchery,  and  savagery  with  which  his  personal 
appearance  is  usually  associated.  He  died  in  the  Tower  in  1688, 
and  was  buried  in  the  church  of  All-Hallows  Barking.  After  the 
revolution  Jeffryes'  picture  was  removed  from  the  hall  to  the  chambers 
of  Mr.  Holloway,  a  bencher  of  the  inn,  where  it  appears  still  to  have 
been  in  1693.  At  that  time  his  son,  who  was  a  member  of  the  inn, 
having  asked  that  the  picture  might  be  given  to  him,  an  order  was 
p.  306  made  on  the  gth  February,  1693-4,  that  "the  treasurer  do  declare 
to  Lord  Jeffryes  that  at  his  lordship's  desire,  the  house  do  make  a 
present  to  his  lordship  of  his  father's  picture,  now  in  Mr.  Holloway's 
chamber."  This  picture  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Philip 
Yorke,  of  Errig  Park,  Wrexham,  in  the  county  of  Denbigh.2  Beside 
it,  is  a  portrait  of  Sir  Thomas  Jeffryes,  Knight,  of  Alcantara  in  Spain, 
a  brother  of  the  chancellor. 

Another    familiar    name    appears    constantly    in    this    volume. 
Christopher  Milton,  brother  of  John  Milton,  was  a  member  of  our 

1  "The  Life  of  Judge  Jeffryes,"  by  H.  B.  Irving,  M.A.,  Oxon.     London,  1898. 

2  An  engraving  of  this  portrait,  at  the  British  Museum,  describes  him  as  "  the  Rt. 
Honble.  George  Earl  of  Flint,  Viscount  Weikham,  Baron  of  Wem."     He  never  appears 
to  have  claimed  these  titles. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ivii 

inn,  lived  within  it,  and  took  part  in  our  affairs.     He  was  a  younger 
brother  of  the  poet,  and  after  taking  his  degree  at  Christ's  College, 
Cambridge,  he  entered  the  Inner  Temple.     In  January,  1639-40,  he    Vol.  ii.,  p.  254 
was  called  to  the  bar.     He  was  a  staunch  royalist,  unwavering  in  his 
fidelity  to  the  throne.     As  a  lawyer  he  had  little,  if  any  success,  and 
except  for  the   reflected  light  cast  upon  him  by  his  distinguished 
brother,  he  would  probably  have  passed  through  life  without  notice. 
At  the  restoration  he  was,  in  November,  1660,  included  in  a  batch  of    p.  i 
royalists  elected  to  the  bench,  and  was  chosen  reader  for  the  summer 
vacation  of  1665.     He  never  appears  to  have  been  treasurer,  but  he     p.  36 
continued  to  be  a  frequent  attendant  at  the  bench  until  the  year 
1686,  when  he  was,  at  the  age  of  71,  created  a  baron  of  the  ex- 
chequer by  James  II.      In  November,    1679,  he  appears   to  have     pp.  151,  152 
been  in  some  financial  difficulties,  as  he  was  summoned  before  his 
brother  benchers  and  ordered  to  pay  up  his  arrears,  with  a  threat  that 
if  that  were  not  done  by  Saturday  they  would  "  proceed  to  padlock 
his  chambers  :  and  that  none  of  his  charges  be  allowed  for  repairing 
his  chambers  unless  he  shew  better  cause."     These  payments  had 
not  been   made    in   February,    1679-80,  when  a  peremptory  order 
was  made  against  him  and  the  money,    I   suppose,  was  produced,     p.  152 
His  son  was  also  ordered  to  pay  £$  for  caution  money.     In  1687 
he  was    promoted   to  be   a  justice    of   the  common   pleas,  and  in 
1688  he  retired  on  a  pension.     He  continued  after  his  judgeship  to 
retain  his  chambers  in  the  inn,  and  these  were  refitted  for  his  use. 
Entries  appear  in  1686  for  locks  and  ironwork  for  Baron  Milton's     fo.  266 
chambers,    £$    igs. ;    for   wainscotting    Baron    Milton's    chambers, 
;£66  js.  \d. ;  and  for  his  bookshelves,  ,£5  95-.  yd.     He  died  at  Ipswich 
in  1693,  aged  78.     Three  of  his  sons  were  specially  admitted  to  the     p.  3 
inn:  viz.,  Christopher,   in    1661,    Richard,  in  November,  1667,  and     p.  49 
Thomas,  his  eldest  son,  in  November,  1670.  p.  74 

On  the  iith  of  December,  1688,  the  king  left  London  on  his 
way  to  France.  On  Saturday  the  I5th  he  was  at  Rochester,  after  his 
release  from  his  captors  at  Sheerness.  On  Sunday  the  i6th  he 
returned  to  London,  and  the  society  of  the  Inner  Temple  were  among 
the  very  few  of  his  subjects  who  did  him  any  honour.  They  lighted 
"  a  bonfire  on  the  king's  return  from  Rochester."  On  the  morning  of  p.  264 
the  1 8th  he  left  Whitehall  for  Rochester,  and  then  quitted  his  king- 
dom and  his  country  for  ever. 

in.  h 


Iviii  INTRODUCTION. 

Vol.  i.,  p.  Ixv-lxxiii  I  have  drawn  attention  in  previous  volumes  to  the  literary  and 

Vol.  ii.,  p.  xxxviii-  artistic  tastes  of  the  society  as  exemplified  by  the  various  entertain- 
ments, provided  by  the  inn,  for  the  amusement  of  their  members  and 
their  guests.  We  have  seen  that  the  gross  feeding  and  the  inane 
burlesque  of  the  grand  christmas  gradually  gave  way  to  the  masque. 
The  masque  from  being  at  first  merely  spectacular,  in  course  of  time 
assumed  the  proportion  of  profusely  decorated  scenery,  accompanied 
by  song  and  dance,  and  then  of  allegories,  in  the  composition  of 
which  Beaumont,  Ben  Jonson,  Daniel,  Myddleton,  Brown,  and  other 
poets  of  the  day  did  not  scruple  to  participate.  Under  the  two  early 
Stuart  kings  dramatic  works  were  introduced  to  the  partial  exclusion 
of  the  masque,  and  we  now  arrive  at  a  period,  after  the  restoration, 
when  the  masque  disappeared  and  its  place  was  occupied  by  stage 
plays,  one  at  All  Hallows  (the  ist  November),  and  one  at  Candle- 
mass  (the  2nd  February).  And  these  plays,  excepting  at  the  times  of 
the  plague  and  of  the  several  fires,  were  regularly  given.  The  revels 
of  the  old  type  with  mock  chancellors,  and  other  high  officials  and 
sham  ceremonies  of  a  court  ceased,  so  far  as  there  is  any  record  of 
them  in  our  inn,  before  the  commonwealth.  The  master  of  the  revels 
was,  however,  appointed  yearly,  with  a  salary  of  £2,  and  there  was 
a  regular  payment  for  music,  even  through  the  time  of  the  puritan 
ascendency.  The  marshals  for  christmas  were  also  appointed,  but 
their  offices  were  sinecure.  The  grand  days  were  still  continued 
and,  as  before,  invitations  to  judges  and  other  distinguished  per- 
sonages were  still  given  at  the  reader's  feast.  But  the  amusements 
were  of  a  different  type,  and  the  duties  of  the  master  of  the  revels 
were  of  a  less  onerous  character.  The  old  style  of  entertainment 
seems,  however,  to  have  been  continued  at  the  other  inns.  In 
January,  1662,  Evelyn  was  present  at  Lincoln's  Inn  at  "a  solemn 
foolery  "  of  the  Prince  de  la  Grange  with  his  mock  princes,  grandees, 
and  nobles1  and  in  January,  1667-8,  he  saw  the  revels  at  the  Middle 
Temple,  which  he  describes  as  "  an  old  riotous  custom,  and  has  rela- 
P- 29  tion  neither  to  virtue  nor  policy."2  We  were  not,  however,  free 
from  reproach,  for  our  records  show  that  gambling  was  openly  and 
P.  18  extensively  carried  on  in  the  upper  library  at  christmastide.  And 
although  it  was  ordered  that  there  should  be  only  one  table  for 

1  "  Evelyn's  Diary,"  vol.  i.,  p.  359. 
1  Ibid.,  vol.  ii.,  p.  32. 


INTRODUCTION.  lix 

hazard,  yet  strangers  played  as  well  as  members,  and  the  games  were 
probably  sufficiently  high  and  riotous  to  have  justified,  in  our  case    p.  55 
also,  the  unfavourable  criticism  of  Mr.  Evelyn. 

The  plays  which  after  the  restoration  were  received  with  public 
applause,  soon  assumed  a  very  different  character  from  those  of  the 
previous  reigns.     Shakespeare  had  died  on  the  23rd  April,  1616, 
Beaumont  in  the  previous   March,  Fletcher  in  August,  1625,  and 
Ben  Jonson  in  August,  1637.     During  the  civil  wars,  and  under  the 
commonwealth,  the  times  were  not  propitious  for  the  study  or  the 
encouragement  of  the  drama.      But  a  school  of  dramatic  art  and 
poetry  arose  after  the  accession  of  the  new  king,  which  went  far  to 
justify  the  antipathy  which  many  people,  untouched  with  puritanism 
or  precision,  entertained  towards  the  stage.     It  becomes,  under  the 
circumstances,  interesting  to  consider  what  was  the  view,  taken  by  a 
society  of  learned  and  educated  gentlemen,  of  the  plays  that  were 
then  produced,  an  opinion  which  can  most  effectually  be  tested  by  a 
consideration  of  the  works  which  they  introduced  into  their  hall. 
It  will  be  observed  that  the  names  of  the  plays  are  given  in  our 
books  with  great  irregularity.    It  seems  to  have  depended  altogether 
upon  chance,  or  upon  the  fancy  of  the  clerk,  whether  the  name  of  the 
play  was  entered  or  not.     The  payments,  however,  in  all  cases,  are 
strictly  chronicled.     It  is,  therefore,  not  unreasonable  to  regard  the 
performances,  so  given,  as  fairly  representative  of  the  class  of  drama 
which  found  favour  with  the  benchers  and  barristers  of  the  society. 
The  plays,  thus  chronicled,  between  the  accession  of  Charles  II.  in 
1660  and  the  flight  of  James  II.  in  1688,  are  twenty  in  number,  most 
of  them  comparatively  unknown  to  playgoers  of  the  present  genera- 
tion.    Attention  is  at  once  struck  by  the  fact  that,  during  the  whole 
of  this  period  of  twenty-eight  years,  not  one  play  of  Shakespeare 
is  recorded  as  having  been  produced.      Dryden,  writing  in    1665, 
says  that  two  plays  of  Beaumont  and  Fletcher  are  produced  through- 
out the  year  to  one  of  Shakespeare  or  Ben  Jonson,  and  he  gives  a 
reason  for  this  which  is  not  altogether  accepted  by  Hallam.1    I  think, 
however,  that  the  explanation  is  not  far  to  seek.     Shakespeare  being 
comparatively  without  liberal  education,   and  not  having  had  the 
advantage  of  mixing  from  his  youth  with  gentlemen  and  gentlemen's 
sons,  had  not  acquired  the  art  of  writing  to  the  taste  of  that  class 
1  Hallam,  "Lit.  Hist.,"  vol.  iii.,  p.  114,  note  e,  Dryden. 


Ix  INTRODUCTION^ 

from  whom  the  inns  of  court  were  recruited,  and  without  whose 
presence  a  theatre  could  not  be  kept  open.  Shakespeare  smacked  of 
the  ruff  and  the  farthingale  long  after  these  eccentricities  of  costume 
had  disappeared,  while  Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  though  his  contem- 
poraries, wrote  as  men  who  had  mixed  habitually  from  their  boyhood 
with  persons  of  polite  education  and  of  good  society,  where  manners 
were  easier  and  more  natural,  and  conversation  was  more  ready  and 
sparkling.  A  combination  of  tragedy  or  comedy  with  alternate 
scenes  of  farce,  in  the  nature  of  a  subsidiary  plot,  commended  itself 
to  audiences  of  the  seventeenth  century,  and  will  be  found  in  nearly 
all  these  plays.  It  soon,  however,  died  out,  except  perhaps  in  some 
of  the  minor  theatres,  in  which  it  has  been  received  with  admiration 
even  during  the  present  century.  Most  of  these  plays,  and  certainly 
those  of  Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  are  either  of  foreign  (generally  of 
Spanish)  extraction,  or  deal  with  persons  and  incidents  alien  to 
English  tastes  and  habits.  This  gave  the  writers  greater  freedom 
in  the  construction  of  their  plots.  Scenes  which  would  be  con- 
demned as  absurd,  if  applied  to  English  people,  would  not  meet  with 
the  same  condemnation  when  applied  to  foreign  countries,  as  to 
whose  modes  of  thought  and  of  life  the  English  of  the  seventeenth 
century  were  both  ignorant  and  credulous.  During  the  eighteenth 
century,  the  fate  that  had  overtaken  Shakespeare  fell  upon  Beaumont 
and  Fletcher.  The  qualities,  which  kept  their  plays  upon  the  stage 
to  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century,  failed  to  attract  when  the 
manners  of  polite  society  changed.  Their  comedies  no  longer  filled 
the  playhouses  when  they  ceased  to  reflect  the  sentiments  and  habits 
of  the  class  who  supported  the  drama.  And  the  same  rule  applied 
to  Wycherley,  Congreve,  Shadwell  and  others  of  that  class.  When 
plays  which  dealt  alone  with  variations  of  the  cardinal  vices,  which 
represented  a  state  of  society  not  recognized  as  belonging  to  any 
country  or  any  age,  and  which  depended  for  their  success  upon  witty 
dialogue  and  cynical  allusions,  failed  to  please  the  audience,  the  works 
of  these  various  dramatists  of  the  restoration  disappeared  from 
the  stage,  and  few,  if  any,  were  ever  resuscitated.  To  enable  the 
templars  of  the  twentieth  century  to  form  an  opinion  of  the  tastes  of 
their  predecessors,  I  give  some  account  of  these  plays.  They  are 
not  commonly  known  at  the  present  day,  but,  during  the  period  com- 
prised in  this  volume,  they  were  the  principal,  if  not  the  only  enter- 


INTRODUCTION.  hi 

tainment  provided  for  our  members  and  our  guests,  and  formed  an 
integral  portion  of  the  life  of  our  inn.  They  were,  as  will  be  seen, 
mostly  performed  by  the  players  of  the  king's  house.  Those  of  the 
duke's  house  were  only  occasionally  engaged.  Women  appeared  upon 
the  English  boards  for  the  first  time  after  the  restoration,  a  change 
which  was  not  to  the  taste  of  many  cultivated  persons.  The  actors 
invariably  received  £20  a  play,  and  the  usual  payments  were  made 
for  the  music.  They  were  also,  though  this  was  probably  confined 
to  the  ladies  who  then  trod  the  boards,  occasionally  sent  for  in 
coaches ;  coach  hire  being  an  item  on  these  occasions.  An  entry  in  p.  98 
January,  1681-2,  "  ffor  sweetmeats  for  Madam  Gwin  ^01  :  oo  :  oo,"  p.  184 
with  music,  and  dice,  attests  the  popularity  of  the  celebrated  artist. 

The  following  plays  are  recorded  from  1660  to  1688. 

2nd  Nov.,  1663.    "THE  BROTHERS."     A  comedy  in  five  acts,  by    p.  16 
James  Shirley.1     (By  the  King's  players.) 

This  play  was  licensed  in  1626,  but  was  not  published  until 
1652,  the  original  title  being  "The  Brothers,  a  Comedie,  as  it  was 
acted  at  the  private  House  in  Black  Fryers."  The  scene  is  laid  in 
Spain,  and  both  prologue,  and  epilogue  refer  to  the  old  Spanish  plot, 
and  the  defeat  of  the  armada  which  was  still  (in  1626)  sure  to  elicit 
the  cheers  of  the  audience.  Some  passages  of  the  play  are  con- 
sidered as  being  of  great  literary  merit.  James  Shirley  wrote  in  the 
time  of  Charles  I.,  who  is  said  to  have  considered  the  "  Gamesters" 
one  of  the  best  plays  he  had  seen  for  some  years.  A  not  very 
favourable  criticism  of  Shirley's  works  is  given  by  Hallam,2  who  I 
think  hardly  does  justice  to  Shirley's  poetic  instinct. 

Candlemass,  1663-4. — "EPICENE,  OR  THE  SILENT  WOMAN."  A 
comedy  in  five  acts,  by  Ben  Jonson.  (By  His  Majesty's  players.) 

This  was  a  favourite  comedy,  not  only  at  the  time  of  its  production  p.  25 
in  or  about  1609,  but  also  at  its  revival  among  the  plays  of  the  restora- 
tion period.  Morose,  a  rich  uncle,  has  a  nephew  whom  he  treats 
scurvily  and  leaves  in  penury.  The  scheme  of  the  play  is  an 
attempt,  by  this  young  man  and  his  friends,  to  drive  Morose  to  make 
some  provision  for  his  nephew.  Moroses  character  is  implied  by 
his  name,  and  he  has  in  addition  a  dread  of  noise  and  bustle.  Under 

1  "Dramatic  Works  of  James  Shirley,"  by  Dyce,  London,  1833,  vol.  i.,  p.  186.     p.  16 
Serge  curtains  were  bought  and  a  screen  was  hired  for  this  performance. 
1  "Literary  History,"  London,  1854,  vol.  iii.,  p.  121. 


kii  INTRODUCTION. 

these  circumstances  they  bring  about  a  marriage  between  him  and  a 
boy  passing  as  Epicene,  a  very  silent,  reserved  and  undemonstrative 
woman.  Directly  after  the  marriage  the  supposed  bride  breaks  out 
into  voluble  and  violent  language,  introduces  noisy  and  disreputable 
women  of  her  acquaintance,  called  the  "  Collegiate  Ladies,"  opposes 
her  husband  and  orders  the  household  about  with  the  airs  of  a  major 
domo.  The  uncle  is  thus  driven  to  despair,  and  promises  to  make 
a  liberal  settlement  on  the  nephew  if  he  can  get  a  divorce.  This 
device  occupies  the  fifth  act,  during  which  all  the  company  are  on 
the  stage.  A  sea  captain,  Tom  Otter,  and  a  barber,  Cutbeard,  assume 
the  parts  of  a  divine  and  of  a  learned  civilian,  and  discuss  with  great 
humour,  but  a  certain  want  of  delicacy,  the  various  grounds  upon 
which  a  nullity  can  be  granted.  In  the  result  the  silent  bride  dis- 
closes herself  as  a  boy,  and  the  two  learned  disputants  agree  that  it 
is  a  case  in  which  a  nullity  must  be  decreed,  as  there  was  an  error 
personce.  Ben  Jonson  showed  much  courage  in  the  devising  and 
producing  of  this  plot,  as  it  was  nearly  contemporaneous  with 
the  celebrated  case  of  the  Countess  of  Essex,  afterwards  Countess 
of  Somerset.  In  the  details  of  this  case  James  I.  took  great 
personal  interest ;  and  to  judge  from  contemporary  writers  it  was 
the  subject  of  discussion,  not  only  among  the  lords  and  ladies  of  the 
court  but  generally  throughout  the  country.  Tom  Otter  is  described 
as  a  valiant  captain  in  the  navy  who,  in  his  own  house,  is  ruled  by  a 
termagant  wife  whom  he  describes  as  his  princess.  This  character 
n  the  revival  pleased  Charles  II.,  who  called  his  naval  brother 
(the  Duke  of  York)  Tom  Otter1  out  of  pleasant  allusion  to  his 
domestic  difficulties.  Hallam  describes  it  as  written  with  a  great  deal 
of  spirit,  and  thinks  it  has  a  value  as  a  representation  of  London 
life  in  the  higher  ranks  of  society  at  that  period.  "  It  is  a  proof,"  he 
says,  "of  Jonson's  extensive  learning  that  the  story  of  the  play  and 
several  particular  passages  have  been  detected  in  a  writer  so  much 
out  of  the  beaten  track  as  Libanius."  2  Dryden  wrote  a  prologue  and 
an  epilogue  for  the  revival.  The  former  was  spoken  by  Hart  and 
the  latter  by  Mrs.  Marshall.  Burbage  had  formerly  played  in  it  *  At 
this  time  Betterton  was  cast  for  the  part  of  Morose.4 

1  "Pepys's  Diary,"  vol.  vii.,  p.  52.  »  "Lit.  Hist.,"  vol.  iii.,  p.  97. 

'  "  Lives  of  the  Actors  in  Shakespeare's  Plays,"  p.  25.     Burbage  died  in  1618. 
*  "  Life  of  Betterton,"  p.  30. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixiii 

All  Saints'  Day,  1664. — "THE  NIGHT  WALKER,  OR  THE  LITTLE    p.  25 
THIEF,"  a  comedy  in  five  acts  by  Beaumont  and  Fletcher.1    (By  His 
Majesty's  players.) 

A  very  bright,  witty,  and  amusing  comedy.  Maria,  a  young 
heiress,  is  compelled  by  her  mother  to  marry  Justice  Allgripe,  a 
wealthy  miser.  Two  young  cavaliers  conspire,  by  paying  Maria 
great  attention,  to  make  the  justice  jealous  of  her  on  his  wedding 
day.  She  swoons,  and  being  supposed  to  be  dead,  is  put  into  a 
coffin.  Her  mother  prudently  packs  away  the  plate  and  the  wedding 
presents  in  a  large  chest,  and  to  prevent  the  justice  getting  them, 
puts  the  chest  in  the  same  room  with  the  coffin.  Lurcher,  a  philo- 
sophic cavalier,  who  has  turned  housebreaker  on  principle,  aided  by 
the  little  thief,  a  young  woman  masquerading  in  boy's  clothes, 
frightens  away  the  occupants  of  the  house  by  imitations  of  the  devil 
searching  for  the  murderers  of  Maria.  Having  thus  got  rid  of  the 
household,  they  steal  what,  in  the  dark,  they  believe  to  be  the  box 
of  plate,  but  which  turns  out  to  be  the  coffin.  This  being  opened 
at  Lurcher 's  house,  his  mistress  insists  that  it  is  only  a  trick  to  bring 
another  woman  into  the  house,  and  refuses  to  be  pacified  until  she 
sees  her  supposed  rival  safely  buried.  The  party  accordingly  ad- 
journ to  the  graveyard,  where  the  fresh  air  revives  Maria,  who  sits 
up  in  her  coffin  and  scares  away  her  captors.  Maria  then  goes 
towards  her  home,  and  on  the  way  meets  the  justice,  who  believing 
her  to  be  a  ghost,  returns  to  his  house  and  bars  up  his  doors 
and  windows  in  order  to  keep  out,  at  the  same  time,  any  walking 
spirits  and  any  demands  for  the  return  of  Marias  dowry.  Sub- 
sequently Lurcher  and  the  little  thief  get  into  the  house  and  per- 
secute the  justice,  the  former  as  a  fury  sent  to  destroy  him,  and  the 
latter  as  an  angel  coming  to  preserve  him.  This  scene  and  the 
following,  in  which  they  lead  him  to  the  churchyard  under  the  pre- 
tence that  he  is  dead  and  must  be  properly  buried,  though  naturally 
partaking  of  exaggeration,  are  bright  and  terse  and  full  of  witty 
allusions,  and  in  good  hands  would  have  played  admirably.  The 
comedy  concludes  with  the  union  of  Maria  and  her  lover,  a  senti- 
mental gentleman  of  a  melancholy  type,  through  the  confession  of 
the  justice,  that  before  his  marriage  with  Maria  he  had  been  con- 
tracted to  the  little  thief,  whom  he  had  deserted  in  view  of  obtaining 

1  "Works  of  Beaumont  and  Fletcher,"  London,  1711,  vol.  vi.,  p.  2837. 


bdv  INTRODUCTION. 

the  former's  fortune.  He  acknowledges  his  pre-contract,  in  the  pre- 
sence of  witnesses,  and  agrees  to  have  it  confirmed  by  holy  church. 
The  under  plot  mainly  concerns  itself  with  the  domestics,  but  the  ad- 
ventures of  Maria  as  the  pretty  night  walker,  who  appears  alternately 
as  a  ghost  and  as  a  Welsh  maid,  added  to  the  tricks  of  the  little 
thief,  furnish  ample  materials  for  a  comedy  of  which  Pepys  speaks  as 
"  a  very  merry  and  pretty  play."  l 

p.  38  Candlemass  Day,  1664-5. — "  THE  CHANGES,  OR  LOVE  IN  A  MAZE" 

(Loueina  Maze),  a  comedy  in  five  acts,  by  James  Shirley.2  (By  the 
King's  actors.) 

Pepys  describes  it  as  a  dull,  silly  play,  which  has  little  in  it  but 
Lacy's  part  of  a  countryman,  which  he  did  to  admiration.3  A  very 
successful  play  of  this  name  by  Dion  Boucicault,  which  held  the 
London  stage  for  many  years,  and  in  which  Alfred  Wigan  played  the 
leading  part,  has  no  relation  to  this  comedy  either  in  plot  or  sentiment. 

p.  65  Candlemass  Day,  1667-8. — "THE  COMICAL  REVENGE,  OR  LOVE 

IN  A  TUB,"  a  comedy  in  five  acts  by  Sir  George  Etheridge.  (By  the 
players  of  the  Duke's  house.) 

This,  which  Pepys  describes  as  a  "  silly  play,"  "merry  by  gesture 
but  not  by  wit,"4  seems  to  deserve  the  condemnation.  Dufaur,^. 
French  valet,  making  love  to  a  pert  chambermaid,  is  made  drunk, 
and  while  asleep  is  put  into  a  tub,  of  which  the  bottom  is  knocked 
out,  and  he  is  left  with  his  head  through  the  top  and  his  hands 
through  the  sides  to  roam  about  the  stage.  This  incident  has  nothing 
to  do  with  the  real  action  of  the  play,  and  is  introduced  to  give  a  low 
comedy  touch  to  an  otherwise  serious  and  sentimental  drama  com- 
prising love  scenes  and  a  duel.  It  is  written  mostly  in  verse,  and 
the  best  part  is  that  of  a  vivacious  widow.  Notwithstanding,  how- 
ever, the  poorness  of  the  play,  Betterton  and  his  wife  played  the 
principal  parts,  and  the  company  cleared  ^1,000  by  the  performance 
in  the  course  of  a  month.5 

1668-9. — "SECRET  LOVE  OR   THE  MAIDEN   QUEEN,"   by  John 

r-  65     Dryden.6     (By  the  King's  players.) 

'  Diary,"  vol.  ii.,  p.  22. 

'Shirley's  Dramatic  Works,"  by  Dyce,  vol.  ii.,  p.  275. 

'  Diary,"  vol.  ii.,  p.  240;  vol.  iii.,  p.  164  ;  vol.  vi.,  p.  298;  vol.  vii.,  p.  309,  412. 

'  Diary,"  vol.  iv.,  p.  325  ;  vol.  vi.,  p.  43.          5  "  Life  of  Betterton,"  p.  97. 

' '  Secret  Love,  or  the  Maiden  Queen,'  as  it  is  acted  by  his  Majesty's  Servants 


INTRODUCTION.  lxv 

This  celebrated  play  has  the  disadvantage  of  being  not  only  in 
blank  verse,  but  of  having  many  important  passages  in  rhyme,  a 
method  which  prejudicially  affects  the  natural  flow  of  the  language. 
This  is  particularly  noticeable  in  the  otherwise  beautiful  scenes 
between  the  queen  and  Philocles  her  lover.  The  plot  is  said  to  have 
been  taken  in  part  from  some  older  writers,  and  in  part  to  have  been 
suggested  by  the  king,  who  greatly  admired  it,  and  called  it  his 
play.  It  is  very  similar  in  construction  to  Scribe's  well-known  "  Le 
Verre  d'Eau,"  where  queen  Anne  and  Captain  Masham  occupy 
the  respective  positions  of  the  Sicilian  queen  and  Philocles,  and  the 
same  scheme  is  adopted  for  the  conclusion.  Although  the  king 
claimed  to  have  had  a  hand  in  the  construction  of  the  piece,  he  is 
understood  to  have  objected  to  the  mixture  of  broad  comedy  and 
serious  drama  as  being  inartistic.  He  also  thought  it  liable  to  ex- 
ception as  treating  the  bond  of  marriage  too  lightly,  in  the  love 
scenes  between  Florimel  and  Celadon,  in  the  presence  of  the  maiden 
queen.  This,  Dryden  in  his  preface,  submitting  his  judgment  to 
that  of  the  king,  admits  to  have  been  a  fault.  In  the  conclusion  he 
speaks  of  the  "  chief  parts,  both  serious  and  comic,  having  been  per- 
formed to  the  height  of  excellence."  The  great  attraction  of  the 
piece,  however,  was  the  acting  of  Nell  Gwyn  in  the  part  of  Florimel, 
a  maid  of  honour.  She  was  then  about  nineteen  years  of  age,  and 
lived  in  Maypole  Alley,  leading  from  Newcastle  Street  to  Drury 
Lane.  A  description  of  her  standing  at  the  door  and  watching  the 
milkmaids  on  the  ist  of  May,  1667,  dancing  round  the  maypole, 
recently  re-erected  at  the  bottom  of  Newcastle  Street,  is  to  be  found 
in  Pepys's '  diary.  In  the  last  act  Florimel,  wishing  to  thwart  her 
lover  Celadon  in  his  attempted  amours  with  two  sisters  Orinda  and 
Sabiua,  disguises  herself  as  a  young  nobleman  and  makes  love  to 
the  two  young  ladies.  Being  challenged  to  fight  with  Celadon,  she 
refuses  and,  instead  of  duelling,  dances  a  jig.  The  "  Maiden  Queen" 
was  brought  out  at  the  king's  theatre  on  the  2nd  February,  1666-7. 
The  dialogue  between  Florimel  and  Celadon  has  been  described  as 

at  the  Theater  Royal,  written  by  John  Dryden,  Esqro.,  London  .  .  .  1669"  A  preface 
by  Dryden  dedicates  the  play  to  the  king.  When  the  play  was  printed  the  cast  of  the 
chief  parts  was  as  follows  :  Queen  of  Sicily,  Mrs.  Marshall ;  Arteria,  her  confidant,  Mrs. 
Knep  ;  Florimel,  a  maid  of  honour,  Mrs,  Ellen  Guyn  ;  Lysimartes,  prince  of  the  blood, 
Mr.  Burt ;  Philocles,  Major  Mohun ;  Celadon,  Mr.  Hart. 
1  Vol.  vi.,  p.  296. 

in.  i 


Ixvi  INTRODUCTION. 

"  a  prize  fight  of  wits."  1     The  play  had  a  long  run,  and  is  criticized 
as  follows  by  Pepys  : 2 

"2nd  March,  1666-7.  After  dinner  with  my  wife  to  the  king's  house  to 
see  the  '  Mayden  Queene,'  a  new  play  of  Dryden's,  mightily  commended  for 
the  regularity  of  it  and  the  strain  and  wit :  and  the  truth  is  there  is  a  comical 
part  done  by  Nell,  which  is  Florimell,  that  I  never  can  hope  ever  to  see  the 
like  done  again,  by  man  or  woman.  The  king  and  the  Duke  of  York  were 
at  the  play.  But  so  great  performance  of  a  comical  part  was  never,  I  believe, 
in  the  world  before  as  Nell  do  this,  both  as  a  mad  girle,  then  most  and  best 
of  all  when  she  comes  in  like  a  young  gallant ;  and  hath  the  motions  and 
carriage  of  a  spark  the  most  that  ever  I  saw  any  man  have." 

p.  73  1668-9.     "THE  LITTLE  FFRENCH  LAWYER,"  a  comedy,  in  five 

acts,  by  Beaumont  and  Fletcher.3     (By  the  King's  players.) 

The  leading  part  of  this  piece  is  La  Writt,  the  little  lawyer, 
who  is  forced  against  his  will  to  put  down  his  blue  bag  and  take  part 
as  second  in  a  duel.  Thenceforth  he  neglects  his  affairs  and  becomes 
a  fire-eater,  challenging  the  judges  who  decide  against  his  clients. 
It  is  a  well-drawn  and  comical  character,  and  the  final  catastrophe 
where  he  engages  in  a  duel  with  an  opposing  lawyer  and  their 
seconds  decamp  with  their  masters'  clothes,  leaving  them  stripped  to 
the  waist  in  the  snow,  too  cold  to  use  their  weapons,  is  humorously 
dealt  with.  The  scene  is  laid  in  Paris.  This  led  Hallam  to  con- 
jecture that  "  The  Little  French  Lawyer"  had  its  origin  in  some  French 
novel  or  drama.  On  reflection,  however,  he  was  of  opinion  that  it 
was  derived  from  a  Spanish  source,  whence  Beaumont  and  Fletcher 
drew  the  plots  of  many  of  their  plays.4 

p.  73  Allhallows,  1670. — "  SIR  MARTIN  MAR-ALL,"  a  comedy,  in  five 

acts,  by  John  Dryden.     (By  the  Duke's  players.) 

This  play  was  produced  in  1667  and  published  in  1669.  It  is 
an  adaptation  of  "  L'Etourdi,"  by  Moliere,  and  was  a  very  successful 
work.  It  is  an  amusing  production,  but  the  comedy  of  the  French 
writer  is  reduced  to  low  comedy,  bordering  on  farce,  by  the  English 
adapter.  The  character  of  Lttie  in  Moliere's  play  is  that  of  a  blun- 
dering, inconsequential  gentleman  who,  notwithstanding  his  unlucky 
blunders,  gains  the  woman  on  whom  he  has  set  his  affections.  Sir 

1  "  Diary,"  vol.  vi.,  p.  203. 

2  "  Diary,"  vol.  vi.,  p.  203 ;  ibid.,  p.  336  ;  ibid.,  vol.  vii.,  p.  286. 

3  Works,  vol.  iii.,  p.  1225. 

4  Hallam,  "Literary  History,"  vol.  iii.,  p.  no. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixvii 

Martin  Mar-all,  on  the  other  hand,  is  little  better  than  a  self- 
sufficient  idiot,  who  ultimately  marries  the  waiting  maid,  while 
Millicent,  the  lady,  marries  the  valet.  This  result  has  been  much 
and,  I  think,  rightly  censured.  The  French  public  would  have  been 
shocked  at  a  man  of  family  being  married  to  a  servant,  and  more 
than  shocked  at  the  spectacle  of  a  young  lady  of  wealth  and  good 
family  disguising  herself  in  order  to  marry  a  valet,  who  had  never 
exhibited  any  inclination  for  her.  The  English  public  of  the  day 
would,  I  suppose,  have  been  less  scandalized  at  this  result  than  at 
the  melancholy  spectacle  of  such  a  woman  being  thrown  away  upon 
a  fool.  Pepys,  reflecting  the  tastes  of  the  period,  describes  it  as 
"  mighty  witty1  and  fullest  of  proper  matter  for  mirth  that  ever  was 
writ." 

Candlemass,    1670-1,  and  again   on    2nd  February,   1685-6. —    P-  81 
"  THE  COMMITTEE,"  a  comedy,  in  five  acts,  by  Sir  Robert  Howard,    P-  23S 
K.B.     (By  the  King's  players.) 

This  play,  which  seems  to  have  been  a  favourite  with  audiences 
of  the  restoration  period,  was  published  in  1665.  The  author,  Sir 
Robert  Howard,  was  a  younger  son  of  the  Earl  of  Berkshire.  His 
sister,  Lady  Elizabeth  Howard,  was  married  to  John  Dryden,  who 
assisted  Sir  Robert  in  some  of  his  literary  efforts,  and  no  doubt 
helped  him  to  the  position  he  attained  as  an  author  and  dramatist. 
Evelyn 2  speaks  of  "  The  Committee  "  as  a  "  ridiculous  play,"  but 
agrees  with  Pepys  that  Lacey's  Irish  footman  was  "played  to  ad- 
miration." Pepys,  who  saw  it  in  1663,  when  Cromwell's  daughter, 
then  Lady  Fauconbridge,  was  present  in  a  box,  thought  it  an  in- 
different play.3  In  August,  1667,  when  Mrs.  Knepp  was  one  of  the 
players,  he  liked  it  better.4  The  rest  of  the  cast  is  not  mentioned. 
The  scene  is  laid  in  London  during  the  commonwealth,  and  deals 
with  the  iniquities  of  the  committee  for  compounding  or  dealing  with 
the  sequestered  estates  of  the  royal  party.  Being  produced  after 
the  restoration,  it  naturally  favours  the  cavaliers.  Mr.  Day,  chair- 
man of  the  committee,  and  Mrs.  Day,  his  wife,  a  scheming,  vulgar, 
talkative  woman,  who  has  been  raised  from  a  position  of  domestic 
service  to  be  the  wife  of  the  committee  man,  when  she  is  addressed 
as  "  her  ladyship,"  are  not  very  interesting  parts.  Ruth,  the  daughter 

1  "  Diary,"  vol.  vii.,  p.  261.  '  "  Diary,"  vol.  i.,  p.  371. 

9  "Diary,"  vol.  iii.,  p.  165.  '  Ibid.,  vol.  vii.,  p.  67. 


Ixviii  INTRODUCTION. 

of  a  deceased  cavalier,  whose  estates  are  being  administered  by  Mr. 
Day,  and  whom  they  describe  as  their  daughter,  is  a  very  bright  and 
amusing  part,  which  was  played,  I  imagine,  by  Mrs.  Knepp.  The 
great  attraction  of  the  play,  however,  was  an  Irish  servant  named 
Teague.  It  appears  to  have  been  the  first  dramatic  conception  of 
an  Irishman  of  the  rollicking,  faithful,  and  blundering  type,  made 
familiar  to  us  now  by  a  continued  series  of  excellent  actors.  It  is 
said  that  the  original  of  the  part  was  an  Irishman  in  the  service  of 
the  Howards,  whose  faithful  blunders  and  eccentricities  are  worked 
out  by  Dryden.  The  play  had  considerable  popularity,  as  appears 
from  contemporary  writers,  and  this  is  to  some  extent  supported  by 
the  fact  that  it  appears  to  have  been  acted  at  least  thrice  in  the  hall 
of  the  Inner  Temple.1  The  plot,  however,  is  wanting  in  originality, 
and  there  are  no  really  fine  passages  in  the  text.  Plays  dealing  with 
the  affairs  of  the  commonwealth  are  but  few.  They  were  probably, 
for  many  reasons,  not  very  attractive.  "  The  Roundheads,  or  the 
Good  Old  Cause,"  by  Mrs.  Aphra  Behn,2  dealt  in  scandalous  fashion 
with  Cromwell's  widow  and  his  daughters,  and  was  even  thus  by  no 
means  successful. 

p.  Si  On  the  occasion  of  The  Committee  being  performed  on  Candlemass 

(2nd  February),  1670-1,   the  court  were  present,  and  a  scaffolding 
for  their  reception  cost  the  society  .£15.     It  was  again  played  before 

>.  238     the  lord  chancellor  and  the  judges  on  the  grand  day  in  February, 
1685-6. 

p.  89  ist  November,  1671.—"  PHILASTER,  OR  LOVE  LYES  A  BLEEDING," 

a  comedy,  in  five  acts,  by  Beaumont  and  Fletcher.3     (By  the  King's 
players.) 

Philaster,  heir  to  the  throne  of  Sicily,  and  a  popular  favourite, 
is  in  love  with  Arethusa,  daughter  of  the  reigning  king,  who  has 
promised  her  hand,  and  the  succession  to  the  throne,  to  the  prince  of 
Spain.  The  prince  is  drawn  with  all  those  frailties  with  which 
popular  opinion  in  the  seventeenth  century  debited  a  Spanish 
grandee.  Philaster  has  in  his  service  a  page  called  Bellario,  who  is, 
however,  the  daughter  of  a  Sicilian  noble.  This  young  lady,  rightly 
named  Euphrasia,  is,  in  performance  of  a  vow,  making  a  pilgrimage 

1  It  was  played  again  on  ist  November,  1703 ;  p.  385. 

3  "Plays  by  Mrs.  Behn"  (3rd  ed.),  vol.  i.,  p.  284.    London,  1724. 

'  "  Works,"  vol.  i.,  p.  75. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixix 

in  man's  attire,  and  by  the  same  vow  is  forbidden  to  disclose  her  sex 
till  the  end  of  her  pilgrimage.  To  facilitate  his  love-making  with 
ArethTisa,  Philaster  sends  her  Bellario  as  an  attendant,  with  the 
result  that  the  confidence  and  affection  naturally  arising  between  the 
two  women,  give  rise  to  doubts  of  Arethusds  chastity,  and  in 
these  doubts  Philaster,  among  others,  is  led  to  concur.  The  troubles 
and  complications,  arising  from  this  equivocal  position,  fill  the  five 
acts  of  the  play  and  provide  powerful  situations  for  both  Pkilaster 
and  Bellario.  Ultimately  Bellario  meets  her  father,  thus  ending  her 
pilgrimage.  She  declares  herself.  The  Spanish  pretender  is  driven 
off  by  the  Sicilians.  Philaster  is  recognized  as  rightful  heir  to  the 
throne,  is  married  to  Arethusa,  and  the  play  ends  in  a  short  epilogue. 
The  parts  of  Pkilaster  and  Bellario  are  well  and  powerfully  drawn. 
The  language  is  in  the  best  tone  of  the  dramatists,  and  the  interest 
in  the  play  is  well  sustained  throughout.  Pkilaster,  a  part  which 
had  originally  been  played  by  Burbage,1  was  filled  at  this  time  by 
Betterton,  and  Bellario  was  impersonated  by  Nell  Gwyn.  In  this 
part  she  made  a  great  success,  although  it  is  a  serious  and  almost 
tragic  role.  From  first  to  last  there  is  no  touch  of  comedy,  much 
less  of  that  species  of  farce  in  which  from  all  accounts  Nell  was  inimit- 
able. Many  of  her  speeches  are  long  and  would  tax  the  powers  of 
a  thoughtful  and  experienced  comedian.  There  is  no  love  scene  in 
which  she  is  engaged,  and  no  opportunity  for  a  dance  or  a  song. 
But  her  small  and  lissome  figure,  with  a  slight  tendency  to  plump- 
ness, her  musical  voice  and  clear  intonation,  with  the  charm  invariably 
attaching  to  her  style,  must  have  made  her  a  very  fascinating  boy. 

The  plot  of  "  Philaster  "  is  more  improbable  than  would  be  agree- 
able to  modern  taste,  while  the  motives  and  the  sentiments  of  the 
several  characters  would  now  be  regarded  as  somewhat  over- 
strained. Notwithstanding,  however,  the  somewhat  qualified  praise 
of  Pepys,2  who  was  "disappointed,"  and  of  Hallam3  who  describes 
it  as  not  first-rate,  "  Philaster "  has  always  appeared  to  me  a 
very  charming  play,  and  one  of  the  best  of  the  productions  of 
Beaumont  and  Fletcher.  It  is  admirable  from  a  dramatic  stand- 
point. As  a  literary  work  it  is  far  above  the  level  of  the  dramatists 

1  "  Lives  of  the  Actors  in  Shakespeare's  Plays,"  p.  25. 
'  "  Diary,"  vol.  ii.,  p.  139 ;  vol.  viii.,  p.  33. 
3  "Literary  History,"  vol.  iii.,  p.  100. 


Ixx  INTRODUCTION. 

of  the  restoration,  and  not  inferior  to  those  of  even  a  later  era.  Many 
of  the  lines  are  strikingly  beautiful,  and  even  Hallam  admits  that  it 
contains  "  frequent  sweetness  of  poetry." 

p.  108  Candlemass,  1675-6,  and  ist  November,  1686. — "  THE  SPANISH 

P-  244     CURATE,"  a  comedy,  in  five  acts,  by  Beaumont  and  Fletcher.1    (By  the 
King's  players.) 

The  plot,  which  is  laid  in  Spain,  is  not  of  a  very  interesting  char- 
acter, and  is  probably  taken  from  some  Spanish  source.  1 1  has,  however, 
some  droll  situations.  Amongst  these  is  a  scene  in  which  Lopez,  the 
curate,  and  Diego,  his  sexton,  call  a  meeting  of  the  parishioners  and 
upbraid  them  for  their  wilful  neglect  of  the  interests  of  the  church  in 
failing  to  marry,  to  have  christenings,  and  to  die,  upon  all  of  which 
occasions  fees  are  payable  to  the  curate  and  the  clerk.  After  a 
colloquy  carried  on  in  mock  solemnity,  during  which  the  curate  and 
sexton  announce  their  intended  departure,  the  parishioners  prevail 
on  Lopez  and  Diego  to  remain,  undertaking  that  the  younger 
members  of  the  flock  shall  marry  and  provide  christenings,  and 
that  there  shall  be  more  funerals  than  of  old.  In  another  scene  the 
curate,  who  is  assisting  Leandro  in  an  intrigue  with  the  wife  of 
Bartolus,  the  parish  lawyer,  sends  for  the  latter  to  make  a  will  for 
Diego,  who  is  put  into  bed  and  represented  as  dying.  The  pa- 
rishioners assist  in  this  function  and  take  part  in  the  instructions. 
By  various  devices  the  lawyer  is  thus  kept  away  from  his  house 
while  his  place  is  supplied  by  the  lady's  lover. 

Hallam  speaks  well  of  this  play,  and  places  it  in  the  highest 
rank.2  Pepys  saw  it  twice,  but  apparently  did  not  like  it,3  though 
he  speaks  of  it  as  a  good  play.  The  characters  of  Lopez,  the  curate,  in 
this  piece,  of  Sir  Roger,  the  parson,  in  "  The  Scornful  Lady,"  and  of 
Dominic,  the  friar,  in  "  The  Spanish  Friar,"  indicate  the  low  social 
position  which  was  occupied  by  the  inferior  ranks  of  the  clergy  in  the 
seventeenth  century. 

p.  108  All  Saints'  Day,  1675. — "THE  SCORNFUL  LADY,"  a  comedy,  in 

five  acts,  by  Beaumont  and  Fletcher.4     (By  the  King's  players.) 

A  charming  play,  reflecting  the  domestic  manners  of  the.  period, 
and  full  of  allusions  to  local  habits.  It  is  not  coarse  in  situation, 

1  "Works,"  vol.  ii.,  p.  465.  "  "Literature  of  Europe,"  vol.  iii.,  p.  103. 

0  "Diary,"  vol.  i.,  p.  360;  ibid.,  vol.  ii.,  p.  163. 
4  "  Works,"  vol.  i.,  p.  231. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxi 

though  somewhat  coarse  in  language.  Addison  admired  it  and 
admitted  that  the  character  of  Vellum  in  "The  Drummer  "  was  taken 
from  that  of  Savil  in  "The  Scornful  Lady."1  Pepys  saw  it  many 
times,  but  gives  no  description  or  opinion  of  the  play.2  The  character 
of  the  scornful,  sharp-tongued  but  affectionate  lady  is  skilfully  and 
effectively  sustained  throughout.  Doll  Common  played  Abigail,  a 
vicious  and  intriguing  chambermaid,  and  Mrs.  Knepp  a  widow.3 

Candlemas-day,  1681.     Before  the  Lord  Chancellor  and  Judges      p.  183 
— "  LONDON  CUCKOLDS,"  a  comedy,  in  five  acts,  by  Edward  Ravens- 
croft.     (By  the  Duke's  players.) 

The  author  of  this  play  was  a  member  of  the  Middle  Temple,4 
who  gave  up  the  study  of  the  law  for  dramatic  composition.  It  was 
written  in  disparagement  of  the  city,  and  was  a  counterblast  to  their 
disapproval  of  comedies  and  stage  players.  It  was  given  for  many 
years  on  each  9th  of  November  (lord  mayor's  day),  at  both  Covent 
Garden  and  Drury  Lane.  It  is  described  in  the  "  Life  of  James 
Quin"5  as  "the  most  rank  play  that  ever  succeeded."  It  certainly 
cannot  be  contended  that  it  is  a  decent  play,  but  it  must  be  admitted 
that  it  is  amusing.  Some  of  the  actresses,  however,  after  a  time 
refused  to  perform  any  part  in  it,  and  in  1751  Garrick  declared  that 
it  should  never  disgrace  the  boards  of  his  theatre.  From  that  date 
it  has  not  been  seen  in  London.  It  was  given  in  our  hall  on  grand 
day  in  February,  1681-2,  a  special  allowance  being  made  to  the 
master  of  the  revels.  The  lord  chancellor  (Lord  Nottingham),  a 
former  member  of  the  society,  and  many  of  the  judges,  with  other 
distinguished  persons,  were  present.  As  its  first  production  was  at 
the  theatre  in  Dorset  Gardens  in  1682,"  the  performance  at  our  inn 
in  February  of  that  year  was  in  the  nature  of  a  dress  rehearsal, 
or  at  all  events  one  of  its  very  earliest  representations.  It  was  pub- 
lished later  in  1682,  "as  it  is  acted  at  the  Duke's  theatre."7  It 

1  Hallam's  "Literary  History,"  vol.  iii.,  p.  105. 

'  "Diary,"  vol.  i.,  p.  294,  318,  345;  vol.  ii.,  p.  396;  vol.  vi.,   p.  115;  vol.  vii., 
p.  115;  vol.  viii.,  p.  37. 

3  Ibid.,  vol.  vi.,  p.  115. 

4  "  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  vol.  xlvii.,  p.  316. 
'  London,  1887,  p.  14. 

6  "Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  vol.  xlvii.,  p.  317. 

"  The  London  Cuckolds,  a  comedy  as  it  is  acted  at  the  Duke's  theatre.  By 
Edward  Ravenscroft,  gent.  London  :  Printed  for  Jas.  Hindmarsh  at  the  sign  of  the 
Black  Bull  near  the  Royal  Exchange  in  Cornhill  Anno.  Dom.  1682." 


Ixxii  INTRODUCTION. 

appears  from  this  edition  that  Mrs.  Barry,  Mrs.  Coror,  and  Mrs. 
Petty  played  the  leading  women's  parts.  The  prologue  was  spoken 
by  Mrs.  Barry.  The  piece  is  not  to  be  found  in  any  editions  of  the 
plays  of  this  period,  and  copies  of  it  are  scarce.  The  description 
given  above  is  by  no  means  exaggerated,  and  under  the  circum- 
stances it  is  not  surprising  that  our  colleague's  works  have  long  since 
disappeared  from  the  stage. 

p.  183  On  All  Saints'  Day,  1682,  before  the  Judges. — "  RULE  A  WIFE 

AND  HAVE  A  WIFE,"  a  comedy,  in  five  acts  by  Beaumont  and  Fletcher.1 
(By  the  Duke's  players.) 

This  is  founded  on  the  same  story  as  Shakespeare's  "  Catherine 
and  Petruchio,"  where  a  husband  of  humble  position  marries  a  head- 
strong and  imperious  woman  of  fortune  and  good  family,  and  moulds 
her  to  his  wishes  by  resolution,  courage,  and  honesty  of  demeanour. 
It  is  not  a  very  interesting  play,  but  it  gives  good  scope  for  acting  in 
the  principal  parts,  those  of  Leon,  the  husband,  and  Margarita,  the 
wife.  Betterton  is  said  to  have  played  the  principal  part,  Michael 
Perez?  The  under-plot,  where  an  intriguing  chambermaid  takes  in 
a  money-hunting  colonel,  is  said  to  be  borrowed  from  Cervantes, 
but  the  type  is  common  enough  in  plays  of  all  countries,  and  the 
original  idea  is  probably  beyond  the  limits  of  inquiry.  Pepys,3  who 
saw  it  in  1661,  did  not  like  it ;  but  Hallam,4  discussing  it  as  a  literary 
work,  speaks  of  the  vigour  of  the  characters  and  the  vivacity  of  the 
humour,  and  thinks  it  must  have  required  a  powerful  company  to 
play  it  well. 

p.  212  ist  November,  1683. — "  THE  PLAIN  DEALER,"  a  comedy,  in  five 

acts,  by  William  Wycherley.  (By  Alexander  Davenant,  by  appoint- 
ment of  his  brother  Charles  and  Betterton,  and  the  rest  of  the  sharers 
of  the  Duke's  house.) 

This  play,  produced  by  Wycherley  in  1674,  and  printed  in  1676, 
has  been  the  subject  of  much  unfavourable  criticism.  There  is 
hardly  a  character  in  the  piece  in  which  one  can  take  an  honest 
interest.  It  is  said  to  have  been  partly  founded  on  "  Le  Misanthrope  " 

'  "Works,"  vol.  iii.,  p.  1018. 

1  "  Life  and  Times  of  that  Renowned  Actor,  Thomas  Betterton."  London,  1888, 
p.  101. 

3  "Diary,"  vol.  ii.,  p.  i. 

4  "  Literary  History,"  vol.  iii.,  p.  109. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxiii 

of  Moliere,  and  that  the  character  of  Fidelia,  who  follows  her  lover 
in  boy's  clothes,  is  taken  from  "  Viola"  in  "Twelfth  Night,"  but  the 
distance  in  each  case,  between  the  foundation  and  the  superstructure, 
is  immense.  The  dedication  "  To  my  Lady  B.,"  a  noted  procuress 
and  plain-dealer,  is  perhaps  the  best  part  of  the  book.1  William 
Wycherley's  father,  Daniel,  was  a  barrister  of  this  inn,  to  which  the 
author  was  admitted  in  1659  at  the  age  of  19.  In  1662  he  was  p.  17 
appointed  controller  for  the  Christmas.  His  portrait  by  Lely  in  1668 
presents  him  as  a  handsome  young  man.  It  was  engraved  in  1703, 
and,  according  to  Pope,  Wycherley,  then  aged  64,  in  sickness  and  in 
penury,  himself  suggested  the  motto,  "  quantum  mutatus  ab  illo." 2 

ist  November,  1684,  Allhallows-day. — "  THE  FOND  HUSBAND,    p.  212 
OR  THE  PLOTTING  SISTERS,"  a  comedy,  in  five  acts,  by  T.  Durfey. 
(By  the  players  of  the  Duke's  house.) 

Tom  Durfey 's  various  productions  were  popular  at  the  time, 
and  this  was  probably  one  of  his  best.3  It  was  licensed  in  June, 
1676,  and  was  played  as  late  as  I5th  June,  1713,  when  Richard 
Steele,  having  induced  the  management  of  Drury  Lane  to  produce  it 
for  the  author's  benefit,  recommended  the  public  to  visit  it  and  to 
support  "my  old  friend,  Tom  Durfey."  Charles  1 1.  witnessed  the 
comedy  on  three  of  the  first  five  nights  of  its  performance. 

4th  November,  1685. — "  THE  SOLDIER'S  FORTUNE,"  a  comedy,  in    p.  230 
five  acts,  by  Thomas  Otway.     (By  Mr.  Davenant's  players.) 

This  play  was  written  by  Otway  after  his  return  from  Flanders, 
where  he  was  an  officer  in  the  Duke  of  Monmouth's  regiment.  It 
was  produced  in  1681,  Betterton4  and  Mrs.  Barry  playing  the 
principal  parts.  It  is  a  grossly  indecent  play,  which  is  said  to  have 
taken  "  extraordinarily  well."  The  charge  of  indecency  is,  however, 
combatted  by  Mrs.  Aphra  Behn,  who  professes  to  be  shocked  at  the 
pruriency  of  women  who  are  ready  to  see  indecency  in  it.5 

2nd  February,   1686-7. — "THE   SPANISH  FRIAR,"  called  "The    P- 244 
Spanish  Priest,"  a  comedy,  in  five  acts,  by  John  Dryden.     (By  Mr. 
Davenant's  players.) 

This  play,  which  was  produced  in  1681-2,  is  somewhat  similar 

See  "Spectator,"  No.  266. 

"  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  vol.  Ixiii.,  p.  195. 

Ibid.,  vol.  xvi.,  pp.  252-253;  "Guardian,"  No.  82. 

"  Life  of  Betterton,"  p.  97.     Betterton  played  the  part  of  Beaugard, 

"  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  vol.  xlii.,  p.  348. 

III.  k 


Ixxiv  INTRODUCTION. 

to  the  "  Spanish  Curate "  by  Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  inasmuch  as 
the  character  of  Lopes,  the  curate  in  the  latter,  resembles  that  of 
Dominic,  the  friar,  in  the  former.  In  both  he  is  represented  as  a 
sensual,  scandalous  priest,  who  easily  lends  himself,  in  consideration 
of  liberal  doles,  to  an  intrigue  by  the  young  wife  of  an  old  usurer 
with  a  gallant  lover.  It  must  be  admitted,  however,  that  the  Dominic 
of  Dryden  is  by  far  the  more  entertaining  ecclesiastic  of  the  two. 
The  serious  portion  of  the  play,  where  Torrismond,  a  valiant  and 
honest  soldier,  in  love  with  Leonora,  queen  of  Arragon,  is  opposed 
by  Bertram,  a  prince  of  the  blood,  also  a  courtier  of  the  queen, 
is  marred  by  the  tacit  assent  given  by  the  queen  to  the  murder  of 
the  captive  king  in  order  to  secure  her  marriage  with  Torrismond. 
The  scenes  between  him  and  the  queen,  and  indeed  every  scene  in 
which  either  is  on  the  boards,  is  finely  written  and  impressive,  and 
the  "  Spanish  Friar  "  may,  I  think,  be  fairly  described  as  the  best  of 
Dryden's  plays.  The  climax,  when  it  appears  that  Bertrand  had 
not  carried  out  the  murder  and  that  the  king  still  lives,  does  not 
altogether  relieve  the  unpleasant  effect  of  the  situation  previously 
created,  although  the  queen's  penitence  and  proposed  retirement  enlist 
sympathy  with  her.  The  intrigue  between  Elvira,  the  usurer's  wife, 
and  Lorenzo,  a  colonel  in  the  queen's  army,  is  interrupted  by  various 
comical  devices,  and  is  ultimately  put  an  end  to,  when  they  are  in  the 
act  of  eloping,  by  the  discovery  that  they  are  brother  and  sister — a 
catastrophe  which  would  not  be  altogether  to  the  taste  of  the  present 
day,  although  it  was  apparently  not  objected  to  in  the  seventeenth  or 
eighteenth  centuries.  The  play  was  prohibited  at  court  by  James  II. 
on  the  ground  of  its  treatment  of  the  roman  catholic  priesthood. 
After  the  revolution  it  was  the  first  piece  commanded  by  queen 
Mary,  who,  in  1689,  was  present  at  its  performance.  The  choice 
was  unfortunate,  for  the  play  abounds  in  expressions  which  were 
hailed  by  the  Jacobites  as  applying  to  her  conduct  towards  the  de- 
posed king,  her  father,  and  unpleasant  comments  were  made  upon 
her  encouraging  a  drama  which  was  said  to  be  a  slander  upon  the 
roman  catholic  religion,  his  attachment  to  which  had  cost  her  father 
a  throne.1  But  Mary  had  been  away  from  England  for  many  years 

1  "Works  of  John  Dryden,"  by  Sir  Walter  Scott,  Bart.  London,  1821,  Second 
edition,  vol.  vi.,  p.  371,  n.f.  "  Lives  of  the  Queens  of  England,"  by  Agnes  Strickland. 
London,  1847,  vol.  xi.,  p.  40. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxv 

before  her  accession  and  probably  knew  little,  if  anything,  of  the 
plays  then  in  vogue.  Her  distress  during  the  representation,  which 
was  followed  by  a  continued  enmity  to  Dryden,  then  leagued  with 
her  enemies,  whom  she  suspected  of  having  brought  about  her  dis- 
comfiture, sufficiently  shows  that  she  had  not  been  previously  made 
aware  of  the  character  of  the  piece.1 

ist  November,  1687. — "THE  CHEATS  OF  SCAPIN,"  a  comedy,  in    p.  253 
five  acts,  by  T.  Otway.     (By  players  engaged  by  Mr.  Davenant.) 

This  play  is  an  adaptation  of  "  Les  Fourberies  de  Scapin,"  by 
Moliere. 

The  revolution  of  1688,  which,  without  bloodshed,  put  William  WILLIAM  AND 
and  Mary  upon  the  throne,  is  followed  by  a  considerable  diminution  MARY. 
in  the  interest  of  our  records.  Trials  for  high  treason,  which  had 
been  frequent  during  the  previous  reigns,  no  longer  occupied  the 
same  prominent  position.  Judges,  paid  by  fixed  salaries,  and  irre- 
moveable  except  by  a  resolution  of  the  two  houses  of  parliament, 
were  no  longer  subject  to  the  influence  of  the  throne.  Parliament 
having  assumed  control  of  the  general  administration  of  the  country, 
the  crown  no  longer  interfered  in  the  private  affairs  of  its  subjects 
or  in  those  of  the  inns  of  court.  One  great  lawyer  and  independent 
judge,  Sir  John  Holt,  occupied  the  post  of  lord  chief  justice  from  the 
accession  of  William  and  Mary  for  a  period  of  twenty-one  years. 
At  the  same  time  a  great  and  immediate  accession  of  business  is 
recognized.  Our  parliament  and  bench  table  orders  become  so 
numerous  and  so  voluminous  that,  as  will  be  observed,  it  has  been 
necessary  to  re-arrange  the  principle  upon  which  they  are  set  out, 
and  by,  what  I  hope  will  be  considered,  judicious  curtailments,  to 
render  them  available  for  the  purpose  of  these  calendars.  The  civil 
war  had  been  followed  by  visitations  of  pestilence  and  of  fire,  which 
endangered  and  crippled  our  society.  Plots,  a  threatened  outbreak 
of  a  second  civil  war,  an  arbitrary  and  unconstitutional  reign  followed 
by  an  informal  abdication,  had  distracted  the  country.  And  now 
that  England  had  settled  down  to,  what  it  hoped  would  prove,  the 
establishment  of  public  peace  and  national  prosperity,  our  society 
joined  in  the  general  aspiration  and  proceeded  to  set  its  house  in  order. 
One  of  the  early  steps  was  to  introduce  a  more  businesslike  system 

1  In  the  cast  Betterton  played  Torrismond  and  Mrs.  Betterton  Elvira.     "  Life  of 
Betterton,"  p.  97. 


Ixxvi  INTRODUCTION. 

than  heretofore  by  regulating  the  duties,  emoluments  and  privileges  of 
the  treasurer,  the  under  treasurer,  the  benchers  and  other  officials  of 
p.  175    the  inn.      It  had  been  decided  in   1682,  that  there   should  be   a 
p'  I7      permanent  under-treasurer  whose  duties,  then  denned,  were  from 
p.  274    time  to  time  extended  as  business  increased.     In  June,   1691,  the 
earliest  orders  as  to  the  treasurer  appear  in  the  minutes.     Up  to 
this  date,  as  will  have  been  remarked,  a  treasurer  was  often  re-elected 
for  several  years,  especially  if  he  were  one  of  the  law  officers,  as  had 
recently  happened  in  the  case  of  Sir  Heneage  Finch,  afterwards  lord 
chancellor.     By  the  new  orders,  which  are  still  in  force,  the  treasurer 
T.O.  21     was  elected  annually  in  Michaelmas  term,  for  one  year  only,  and  not 
T.O.  27     to  be  elected  again  until  each  bencher  had  served  his  turn  according 
to  his  seniority.     The  treasurer's  emoluments,  arising  from  fees  and 
otherwise,  had  hitherto  been  varying  and  uncertain.     It  was   now 
T.O.  25     declared  that  each  treasurer  should  be  allowed  the  sum  of  ^100  for 
p.  275     the  duties  of  his  office.     He  was  not  to  claim  any  further  or  other 
recompense  or  allowance,1  and  was   prohibited  spending  any  sum 
exceeding  ^5  from  the  funds  of  the  society  without  the  leave  of  the 
bench.     By  a  further  order,  the  question  of  precedence  was  settled 
p.  276     strictly  according  to  seniority  of  election,  except  in  the  cases  of  the 
attorney  and  solicitor  general,  who,  while  in  office,  were  allowed 
T.O.  23    precedence.      King's   counsel,   as    such,  were   given    no   rights   of 
precedence.     The  choice  of  bench  chambers,  at  a  parliament,  was 
also   declared   to   be   according   to    seniority,   beginning   with   the 
T.O.  28    treasurer,  and  that  no  bencher  should  be  eligible  for  such  choice, 
unless  he  had  been  personally  present  at  the  bench  table,  and  had 
dined   twice   in   each    of    the    two   terms    immediately   preceding. 
P-  277     Exceptions  were,  however,  made  in  favour  of  members  of  parlia- 
ment, who  in  the  interest  of  their  constituents  were  not  required 
to  keep  these  terms.     With  regard  to  appointments  to  the  staff  of 
T.O.  78     the  society,  which  had  hitherto  apparently  been  in  the  gift  of  the 
P-  312    treasurer,  it  was  ordered  that  the  under-treasurer,  the  steward,  and 
the  chief  butler  should  always   be  appointed  by  the  bench   table 
and  confirmed  by  a  parliament.     Other  servants  (except  the  cook) 
if  their  places  fell  vacant  in  term  time  were  to  be  selected  by  the 
P.  3r7     bench,  but,  if  in  vacation,  then  by  the  treasurer.     The  head  cook's 

p  310  '  The  first  payment  of  .£100  by  way  of  allowance  to  the  treasurer  was  made  to 

Sir  Edward  Ward  in  1694. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxvii 

place,   however,  was   specially  declared  to  be  in  the   gift   of  the 
treasurer,  whether  the  vacancy  occurred   in  or  out  of  term.     All 
orders  of  the  bench  were  to  be  regularly  entered  by  the  under-    p.  319 
treasurer,  and  the  accounts  of  the  treasurer  and  others  to  be  duly 
audited.     Payments  to  the  officers   of  the  house,  other  than  the 
under-treasurer,  on  a  call  to  the  bar,  were  settled  in  June,  1697,  at    p.  335 
£,1  14-y.  6d.,  inclusive  of  $s.  to  the  treasurer's  clerk,  but  exclusive  of 
los.  to  the  under-treasurer.     Those  on  a  call  to  the  bench  were  left    p-  323 
as  before.     Twenty  sets  of  chambers  and  no  more  were  allotted  to 
the  benchers,  and  arrangements  were  made,  from  time  to  time,  to  pay    p.  312 
for  their  repairs  out  of  the  funds  of  the  house.     Substantial  sums    p.  297 
were  allowed  to  certain  benchers  on  account  of  the  expenses  of  their    p'  2" 
chambers   in    February,    1693,   and    in    1700,   the    treasurer,   John    P- 361 
Clendon,  was  allowed  ^50  towards  his  repairs.     Bench  chambers 
were  also  repaired  at  the  cost  of  the  inn  after  the  great  storm  in     p.  398 
1704,  and  further  orders  were  made  in  1708.  p.  434 

About  this  time  also,  November,  1692,  it  was  contemplated  to 
"  transfer  the  interest  of  both  Temples  to  trustees  of  both  societies,"  p-  297 
and  the  treasurer  was  directed  to  confer  with  his  brother  of  the 
Middle  Temple  and  report  the  result  to  the  inn.  There  is  no  such 
report  extant,  but  the  question  was  revived  in  June,  1695,  when  a 
resolution  was  passed  "that  a  conference  be  desired  with  the  Middle  p.  3>6 
Temple  touching  the  lodging  of  the  freehold  of  both  Houses  in  an 
equal  number  of  each  House."  Nothing,  however,  was  done  in  this 
direction  until  1 732,  when  a  deed  of  arrangement,  and  to  some  extent 
of  partition,  was  executed,  by  which  the  limits  of  the  two  societies 
were  finally  determined. 

I  do  not  find  any  special  orders  or  proposals  for  improving  or 
enforcing  the  study  of  the  law.  Students  still  learned  their  law  at 
moots  and  at  lectures,  by  sitting  in  court,  and,  most  important  of  all, 
by  regular  study  and  attendance  in  barristers'  chambers,  followed  by 
imparlance,  or  by  meetings  or  conferences  to  discuss  among  them- 
selves the  various  points  which  had  arisen  during  the  day. 

The    bench   continued  to    exercise    their   antient  jurisdiction 
over  the  several  inns  of  chancery,  for  which  readers  were  regularly 
appointed.      The   principal   and   antients   of  Clement's    Inn   were    p-  z67 
summoned,  in  November,  1689,  to  show  cause  why  they  were  not 
in    commons.      Edward   Gerrard,   the  principal,   was  ordered,   in    p-  *7S 


Lxxviii  INTRODUCTION. 

November,  1690,  to  clear  and  discharge  his  accounts  for  the  seven 

p.  278    years  he  had   been  principal  of  that  inn,  the  accounts  to  be  duly 

p.  283     audited,  and  all  parties  to  attend  the  table.     In  November,  1690, 

p.  279     the  principal  and  rules  of  Clifford's  Inn  were  summoned  to  show 

cause  why  they  did  not  elect  a  reader,  and  were  ordered  to  do  so 

forthwith.     A  yearly  rent  of  £6  35-.  ^d.  was  received  from  Lyon's 

Inn  in  respect  of  certain  shops  which  belonged  to  this  society  within 

the  boundary  of  that  inn,  and  readers  were  appointed  as  to  our  other 

p.  302     inns  of  chancery.     In  November,  1693,  the  treasurer  of  Lyon's  Inn 

was  summoned  to  show  cause  why  he  did  not  attend  the  reader 

p.  311     appointed  by  this  society.     In  March,  1693-4,  an  order  was  issued 

that  the  treasurer  and  antients  of  Lyon's  Inn  do  inquire  what  reputed 

papists  or  "  non-jurats "  have  chambers  in  the  society,  and  return 

their  names   to  her  majesty's  commissioners  in  the  Inner  Temple 

library  on  241)1  March. 

A  memorandum,  dated  25th  January,  1689-90,  refers  to  the  case 
p.  321  of  William  Fry  at  Gray's  Inn.  This  gentleman  was  a  member  of 
the  society,  and  complained  to  the  judges  that  he  had  been  passed 
over  in  calls  to  the  bench.  His  appeal  was  heard  by  Chief  Justice 
Holt,  Justice  Gregory,  and  Barons  Nevill  and  Turton.  They 
decided  that  it  was  discretionary  with  the  benchers  as  to  the  person 
and  the  time  when  they  would  call  to  the  bench  :  and  that  they 
could  not  be  required  to  assign  any  reason  for  their  refusal  to  call 
any  person  to  the  bench,  although  if  they  had  called  and  then  dis- 
benched  him  they  could  be  summoned  to  give  their  reason  for  such 
p.  363  disbenching.1  On  Friday,  yth  February,  1700-1,  an  entertainment 
was  given  to  the  treasurer  and  benchers  of  Gray's  Inn.  The  hour 
appointed  was  six  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  when  the  guests  were 
received  by  torchlight  and  entertained  with  canary  for  about  half  an 
hour  till  the  supper  was  ready  in  the  library,  and  were  then  treated 
to  "  a  very  handsome  supper  and  plenty  of  Burgundy  wine."  The 
festivities  were  prolonged  until  midnight,  when  the  porters  prepared 
coaches  for  the  masters  of  Gray's  Inn  and  brought  them  to  the  hall 
steps.  The  occasion  of  this  unique  act  of  hospitality  is  not  recorded. 
The  garden  and  the  general  appearance  of  the  inn,  which  had 
been  much  considered  under  the  commonwealth,  was  neglected  after 

1  The  same  view  was  held  by  the  judges  on  the  appeal  of  Mr.  Abraham  Hayward, 
Q.C.,  in  1848.     "  Miscellanea,"  vol.  ii.,  fo.  84. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxix 

the  restoration.     Beyond  the  payment  of  the  gardeners'  wages  and 
sums  for  paving  the  summerhouse  and  for  new  flower  pots,  little,  if    p.  180 
anything,  appears  to  have  been  spent  on  the  garden  for  a  period  of 
over  twenty-eight  years.     After  the  accession  of  the  new  king  and 
queen   attention    was   again    directed    to   its    improvement,  and    it 
rapidly  assumed  the  appearance  of  a  formal  garden  according  to  the 
then    prevailing  taste.     In    1689,   King's    Bench  Walk  was   newly    p.  269 
planted  with  chestnut  and  lime  trees.      In  the  following  year  the 
walks  were  newly  gravelled  at  a  cost  of  ^"203  ios.,  and  an  alehouse    p.  271 
kept  by  the  gardener  within  the  garden  was  shut  up.     A  wall  near 
the  King's  Bench  office  was  lowered  to  the  level  of  the  garden  wall 
next  the  Thames,  and  the  bricks  thus  obtained  were  used  to  build 
a  greenhouse.     The  Alienation  office  having  disappeared    in  the 
great  fire,  possession  of  the  garden,  which  lay  between  the  King's 
Bench  office  and  Serjeants'  Inn,  was  resumed  by  the  society.     In    p.  50 
1693  it  was  taken  in  hand  by  the  benchers  and  converted  into  a 
private  garden,  of  which  each  bencher  had  a  key.     It  was  called  the    p.  298 
"bencher's  garden,"   the  "privy  garden,"  or  the  "little  garden,"  to    £'  ^°) 
distinguish  it  from  the  great  garden  abutting  on  the  river.     Some     p.  376 
elms,  which  had  formerly  obstructed  the  view  from  Serjeants'  Inn, 
were  cut  down.     Walks  were  made  with  broken  shell,  grass  plats     p.  357 
were  laid  down,  and  a  fountain  with  a  lion's  face  and  a  copper 
scallop  shell  to  receive  the  water,  was  erected  in  the  centre,  under  a 
copper  cherry  tree  with  spreading  branches.     Bulbs  were  planted    p.  424 
which,  with  rows  of  orange  trees  in  tubs,  gave  it  the  appearance  of    p.  42s 
a  dutch  garden.     In  1696,  it  was  again  put  in  order  at  a  cost  of    p.  337 
a  sun-dial  was  set  up,  water  was   laid   on,   a  tiled  summer    p.  320 


house  was  built,  and  it  became  the  subject  of  much  attention  from     P-  328 

p.  334 

the  masters  of  the  bench.     The  great  garden  also  underwent  a    p.  333 
similar  transformation.      The   walks  were  newly  laid  with  cockle    I>-  3f)3 
shells.     Jessamines,   peaches,  "nectrons,"  cherries  and  plum  trees 
were  supplied,  and  every  year  sums  of  money  were  devoted  to  it. 
Numerous  elm  and  lime  trees  were  planted  in  rows,  and  others  which    p.  351 
interfered  with  the  symmetry  of  the  broad  walks  were  cut  down. 
Standard   laurels,   junipers,    hollies   and   box  trees   were    planted.     P-  299 
Under  the  treasurership  of  Sir  Simon   Harcourt  (afterwards  lord    p.  378 
chancellor)  the  garden  was  ornamented  with  fifteen   yew  trees  in 
pots,  and  the  beds  were  filled  with  jonquils,  tulips,  yellow  dutch 


Ixxx  INTRODUCTION. 

p.  343    crocuses,  fifty   "  armathagalum "   with  box  trees  and  "  fillerayes." 

p.  391  Orange  trees  in  tubs  stood  along  the  terrace.  These  were  carried 
to  Islington  for  the  winter,  and  returned  to  the  Temple  in  the 
summer  until  1705,  when  a  glass  covered  shed  was  constructed  for 

p.  406  their  protection.  In  1 707  a  pedestal  for  the  dial  on  the  great  garden 
steps  was  supplied,  at  a  cost  of  ,£25,  by  Edward  Strong.  This  was 
the  contractor  for  S.  Paul's,  which  he  built  under  Wren's  superintend- 
ence. 

By  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century  the  inn  had  become  well 
supplied  with  taverns  and  coffee  houses  in  its  immediate  vicinity. 
The  Devil  tavern,  as  already  mentioned,  was  a  source  of  continual 
trouble  to  the  society.  The  Fountain  tavern  at  the  Temple  Gate, 

p.  294  formerly  the  Prince  s  Arms,  of  which  Southerby  was  landlord  and 
'  ^°  Dixon  tenant,  had  opened  windows  into  Inner  Temple  lane  without 
the  leave  of  the  society.  These  were  in  May,  1698,  stopped  up 
by  order  of  the  house,  and  were  reopened  only  upon  Dixon  ac- 
knowledging the  right  of  the  society  to  stop  his  lights  and  agreeing 
to  pay  2S.  6d.  per  annum  as  an  acknowledgment  and  a  rent,  to  "  keep 
apart  for  the  use  of  the  masters  of  the  bench  the  best  room  in  his 
house  upon  any  public  show  or  occasion,"  and  to  sign  the  entry 
in  the  records.  This  arrangement  was  duly  carried  out,  and  pay- 
ments will  be  found  in  respect  of  refreshments  supplied  to  the 
benchers  when  occupying  a  room  at  the  Fountain  to  witness  the 

P-  370  proclamation  of  queen  Anne  and  her  visit  to  the  city.  The  Rain- 
bow coffee  house  in  Fleet  Street,  which  had  formerly  belonged  to 
Farr,  and  afterwards  to  his  widow,  under  the  name  of  Farr's  coffee 
house,  had  windows  looking  into  Inner  Temple  Lane,  and  others 
looking  into  Hare  Court,  and  for  these  a  payment  was  made  by 

p.  271     Hargrove,  the  tenant,  of  6,r.  8d.  and  2s.  a  year  respectively.     The 

p.  263  windows  in  the  Inner  Temple  Lane  were  to  be  obscured  by  lattices, 
and  the  rooms  in  the  basement  to  be  used  only  as  cellars.  The  Star 

p.  261  was  at  the  Inner  Temple  gate.  This  vintner  was  summoned  before 
the  bench  table  in  May,  1689,  for  causing  a  nuisance  by  his  bar 
bells,  etc.  On  promise  of  future  good  conduct  he  was  dismissed. 

p.  238  The  Mitre  tavern  was  outside  the  entrance  to  Mitre  Court  buildings. 
Hall's  coffee  house  was  at  the  Whitefriars  gate.  On  the  occasion  of 
a  fire  at  this  house  in  1686  a  sum  of  ,£4  was  paid  by  us  to  the 
servants  of  "the  Insurance  Office  and  Friendly  Society"  for  their 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxxi 

help  in  preserving  the  Temple  buildings  from  the  conflagration 
which  was  sufficiently  near  to  be  a  source  of  considerable  danger.1 
The  Horn  tavern,  where  the  two  treasurers  met  in  1707,  "about  p.  406 
the  church,"  was  on  the  other  side  of  Fleet  Street,  and  is  now  known 
as  Anderton's  hotel.  There  were,  also,  in  close  proximity  to  both  gate- 
ways, a  considerable  number  of  taverns  and  coffee  houses  not  actually 
mentioned  in  our  books.  The  Palsgrave  Head  was  on  the  site  now 
occupied  by  Lloyd's  Bank.  Its  occupant  issued  a  \d.  token  having, 
on  the  obverse,  the  figure  of  a  man  in  armour  wearing  a  full  wig  and 
holding  in  his  left  hand  a  short  sword  or  baton,  with  an  inscription, 
THE  PALSGRAV  HEAD  TAVERN.  The  reverse  had,  in  the  field,  HER 
HALFE  PENNY  D.D.,  inscribed  WITHOVT  •  TEMPLE  •  BARR.  Dick's  coffee 
house  was  opened  about  1 688.  The  Hercules'  Pillars,  a  house  much 
frequented  by  Pepys  and  his  friends,  as  well  as  by  the  counsellors  of 
the  Temple,  was  between  the  Inner  Temple  gate-house  and  Serjeants' 
Inn.  The  proprietor  of  this  house  issued  a  \d.  token,  having,  on  the 
obverse,  a  figure  of  Hercules  with  a  pillar  in  each  hand,  with  the 
inscription, THE HERCULUS  FILLERS;  on  the  reverse,  the  initials  I.  M.  S. 
and  the  inscription  IN  FLEET  STREETE.  There  were  also  others,  in- 
cluding The  Cock,  too  numerous  to  mention.  The  Devil  tavern  or, 
according  to  its  correct  name,  The  Dunstan  and  Devil  tavern,  one  of 
the  oldest  in  London,  was  down  an  alley  to  the  west  of  the  Middle 
Temple  gateway,  and  occupied  the  spot  known,  from  1787  to  1879, 
as  Childs'  Place.  About  the  latter  date  it  was  taken  into  Childs' 
bank.  It  faced  the  windows  looking  westward  from  Hare  Court 
Tokens  were  issued  in  1658  by  John  Simon  Wadlow,  the  proprietor, 
with  the  following  inscription  on  the  obverse:  AT  THE  D[EVIL]  AND 
DUNSTAN'S,  with  S.  Dunstan  holding  the  devil  by  the  nose  :  on  the 
reverse,  WITHIN  TEMPLE  BARRE,  with  the  initials  J.  S.  W.  From  a 
drawing  by  Cleghorne  in  1 746,  its  sign,  hanging  from  an  iron  stanchion 
into  Fleet  Street,  displayed  S.  Dunstan  sitting  in  a  chair  gazing  at 
his  crucible,  with  the  devil,  as  a  black  man,  looking  over  his  shoulder 
and  grinning.  The  devil,  however,  had  long  since  supplanted  the 
saint  in  public  estimation,  and  driven  him  out  of  the  partnership,  as 
the  tavern  had,  even  from  the  time  of  Ben  Jonson,  been  known  by  the 
name  of  The  Devil,  and  later  on  as  The  Old  Devil  to  distinguish  it 

1  £,\o  had  been  paid  to  "the  insurer's  men"  in  1683,  which  is  a  very  early     p.  200 
reference  to  fire  insurance,  but  there  is  no  mention  of  any  office  or  society. 

III.  / 


Ixxxii 


INTRODUCTION. 


from  The  New  Devil,  started  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  road  about 
I689.1  In  1666  James  Farr  of  The  Rainbow  issued  a  token,  with 
the  inscription  on  the  obverse:  JAMES  FARR,  1666,  with  a  rainbow 
based  on  clouds;  on  the  reverse,  •  IN  FLEET  STREET:  HIS  HALF- 
PENNY. He  had  formerly  kept  a  coffee  house,  being  the  second 
house  of  that  character  opened  in  London.  In  respect  of  this  house 
he  was  prosecuted  in  1657  for  annoying  his  neighbours  by  "evil 
smells"  in  "making  of  a  drink  called  coffee,"  and  setting  fire  to  his 
chimney  to  the  danger  of  Daniel  Pakeman  of  the  Rainbow.  He 
seems  after  this  to  have  acquired  The  Rainbow,  where  he  issued  his 
tokens  and  made  a  considerable  fortune.2 

p.  309  Jeffryes'  portrait  having  been  removed  from  the  hall  in  February, 

1693-4,  the  treasurer  was  ordered  in  June  of  that  year  to  provide 

the  portraits  of  king  William  and  queen  Mary,  "to  be  set  up  in  the 

hall."     A  commission  was  accordingly  given  to  Sir  Godfrey  Kneller, 

and  the  portraits,  now  in  our  hall,  were  painted  by  him  at  a  cost 

p.  310     (including  the  frames)  of  ;£6o.     At  the  same  time  that  the  monarchs 

of  the  revolution  were  thus  honoured,  the  portraits  of  those  old 

champions  of  the  law,  Sir  Edward  Coke  and  Sir  Thomas  Littleton, 

p.  315     were  reframed  by  "  Driver,  the  picture  frame   maker,"  at  a  cost  of 

p.  320     .£8,  and  were  hung  up  in  the  hall  with  "  hooks  and  rings,  with  plates, 

p-  321     screws,  and  nails."     The  queen's  portrait,  however,  was  not  long  in 

the  hall  before  she  passed  away.     It  was  placed  there  after  the  long 

vacation  of  1694,  and  in   December  of  that  year  her  majesty  was 

attacked  by  small  pox,  to  which,  after  a  short  illness,  she  succumbed. 

1  A  catalogue  of  London  Traders'  tokens,  presented  to  the  Corporation  Library 
by  H.  B.  H.  Beaufoy,  F.R.S.,  by  Jacob  Henry  Burn.  Printed  for  the  Corporation, 
A.D.  1853,  p.  75,  where  Cleghorne's  drawing  is  reproduced. 


2  A  catalogue  of  London  Traders'  tokens,  p.  83.  "  Brief  Lives,"  by  John  Aubrey, 
Oxford,  1898,  vol.  i.,  p.  no,  gives  an  interesting  account  of  James  Farre.  I  have 
obtained  a  drawing  of  the  token  of  The  Devil  tavern  from  Chambers'  "  Book  of  Days," 
vol.  i.,  p.  538,  and  of  The  Rainbow  from  Mr.  Philip  Norman,  Tr.  S.  A.  They  are  re- 
produced below.  Tokens  of  the  Palsgrave  Head  and  Hercules  Pillars  are  in  my 
possession. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxxiii 

Her  eulogy, which  was  pronounced  in  theTemple  church  by  the  master, 
Dr.  William  Sherlock,  dean  of  St.  Paul's,  is  considered  a  master- 
piece of  style  as  a  funeral  oration.  It  was,  however,  after  the 
fashion  of  the  times,  made  the  subject  of  violent  attacks  by  journalists 
and  preachers  opposed  to  the  revolution. 

The  pound  piece,  which  under  the  name  of  a  "guinea,"  being    WILLIAM  III. 
made  of  fine  gold  from   New  Guinea,  was   first  issued  in   March, 
I663,1  became  a  source  of  trouble  which  culminated  in  the  reign  of 
king  William  and  was  dealt  with  by  the  Recoinage  Act.2     Owing  to 
the  continued  depreciation  in  value  of  silver  coins  from  clipping  and 
other  causes,  the  guinea  had  become  of  the  value  of  thirty  shillings, 
at  which  price  it  was  accepted  in  payment  of  taxes  and  other  govern- 
ment charges.     The  Recoinage  Act  had  fixed  the  highest  price  of  a 
guinea  at  twenty-two  shillings,  at  which  value  it  would  be  accepted 
by  the  government  on  and  after  the  4th  May,  1696.     The.  effect  of    p-  33s 
these  new   regulations    appears   in    our   accounts   for    1695-6.     In 
accordance  with  an  order  of  the  bench  that  this  house  should  bear     p.  326 
the  loss  on  the  fall  in  value  of  the  guineas,  the  under-treasurer  was 
allowed    .£45    12$.  on   114  guineas   which   had    fallen   from    thirty     p- 328 
to   twenty-two   shillings,   £10    on    25    guineas  at  a  loss  of  eight     p.  329 
shillings  per  guinea,   and  jTi   6s.  on  6^  guineas  at  a  loss  of  four 
shillings  per  guinea.     The  exact  dates  of  these  allowances  are  not 
given,  but  as  the  4th  May  was  the  last  day  upon  which  clipped  silver 
would  be  received  at  all  by  the  government,  and  as  the  new  coinage 
was  being  rapidly  issued,  they  may  fairly  be  assumed  to  have  been 
of  some  date  between  the  passing  of  the  act  in  January  and  the  4th 
May,  1696.* 

The  supplying  of  good  and  sufficient  water  to  the  inn  had  been 
effected  in  1619  under  the  auspices  of  Sir  Hugh  Middleton.  A  Vol.  ii.,  p.  114 
system  of  lighting  the  courts  and  passages  of  the  inn  was  under- 
taken during  the  reign  of  king  William.  Soon  after  the  great  fire 
of  1666  various  schemes  were  tried,  and  patents  were  granted  to 
Reeves,  Vernatty,  Lyndus,  and  others,  for  the  proper  lighting  of 

1  Kenyon,  "Gold  Coins."  London,  1884,  pp.  169,  178.  The  last  coinage  of 
guineas  was  in  1813.  Ibid.,  p.  195. 

3  William  III.,  c.  i.     zist  January,  1695-6. 

3  Lord  Macaulay  says  that  on  the  full  issue  of  the  new  coinage  the  guinea  fell  to 
2is.  6d.,  being  fsd.  below  the  price  allowed  by  hw.  "  History,"  vol.  iv.,  p.  643. 


Ixxxiv  INTRODUCTION. 

streets  and  other  public  and  private  places.1  None  of  these  plans 
appear  to  have  commended  themselves  to  our  society  until  after  the 
year  1694,  when,  according  to  Knight,2  a  licence  was  granted  by 
the  corporation  to  certain  persons  interested  in  "glass  lights,  com- 
monly called  or  known  by  the  name  of  convex  lights,"  for  the  sole 
supply  of  the  public  lights  in  all  public  places  in  the  city  for 

p.  351  twenty-one  years.  Taking  advantage  of  this  new  scheme,  our 
benchers  in  1698-9  contracted  with  the  proprietors  of  the  convex 
lights  for  lighting  the  society,  with  sixteen  lamps  for  a  year,  at  ^40. 

p.  368  The  light  was  also  tried  in  1702  in  a  glass  lamp  in  the  church,  but 
it  was  not  successful,  and  was  taken  down  and  sent  back  to  the 

p.  412  proprietors.  A  better  fate  attended  the  lights  in  a  branch  brass 
candlestick  in  the  hall,  which  was  put  up  in  1708.  In  July,  1704, 
Richard  Cole  patented  "  an  extraordinary  way  or  invention  of  form- 
ing glasses  in  conical  figures  and  lamps,  to  be  used  not  only  in 
streets  and  other  public  and  private  places  but  also  in  mines  and 
quarries  underground  and  in  ships  at  sea."  The  convex  lights  not 

p.  432  being  apparently  satisfactory,  the  bench,  in  1711,  tried  the  conical 
lights  and  agreed  with  the  proprietors  for  lighting  the  inn,  by  their 
system,  at  ^"40  a  year.  Under  this  contract  the  inn  continued  to 
be  lighted  until  the  end  of  the  reign  of  queen  Anne. 

The  exterior  of  the  church  having  been  put  into  thorough 
repair,  and  the  interior  having  been  decorated  under  Charles  II.  and 
James  II.,  there  was  little  need  for  expenditure  during  the  succeed- 
ing reigns.  Some  miscellaneous  entries,  however,  relating  to  the 
church  and  its  services  may  be  interesting.  The  night  burials, 
which  were  frequent  under  the  commonwealth  and  previously,  con- 
tinued for  some  few  years  after  the  restoration,  but  ceased,  so  far  as 
they  are  recorded,  after  the  death  of  Dr.  Ball  in  1684.  Sums  were 
71,  320  paid,  apparently  for  the  first  time  in  1689,  for  the  decoration  of  the 

p.  260     church  at  Christmas  with  holly,  ivy,  rosemary,  and  bay  leaves.     In 

p.  291  1692  the  master  was  requested  to  cause  "  his  most  pious  and  loyal 
sermon,  preached  on  Sunday  last,"  to  be  printed.  In  1700  the 
psalms  of  Brady  and  Tate  were  substituted  for  the  older  psalter  of 

P-  348    Sternhold  and  Hopkins,  and  thirteen  psalm  books  were  purchased  at 

1  These  are  given  in  the  abridgments  of  specifications,  1637-1866,  issued  by  the 
Commissioner  of  Patents,  "  London,"  1871,  pp.  1-2. 

2  "  London,"  vol.  i.,  p.  105. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxxv 

a  cost  of  £i.     Places  in  the  church  were  kept  for  the  ladies,  and    p-  35g 
orders  were  given   not  to  admit   Mrs.  Green,  the  glazier's  grand-     p.  300 
daughter,  nor  any  inferior  persons  to  the  ladies'  seats.     The  price  of    Vol.  ii.,  p.  86 
sermons  appears  from  the  accounts  to  have  gone  up  from  10^.  each     p.  357 
in  1614,  to  4  os.  each  in  1699.     In  1704  eight  new  common  prayer 
books,  in  folio,  for  the  church,  cost  £6,  the  old  books  being  dis-     P-  385 
tributed  among  the  members  of  the  inn.     In  October  of  the  same     p-  387 
year  it  was  ordered,  that  prayers  be  read  in  the  Temple  church  every     p.  385 
morning  except  Sundays  and  holy  days,  as  well  in  term  time  as  in     p.  372 
vacation,  at  8  a.m.  pp"  342'  3SI 

A  small  amount  was  from  time  to  time  expended  on  necessary 
repairs  to  the  church,  but  nothing  substantial  was  done  until  the 
treasurership  of  Nicholas  Courtenay,  1694-5.  During  this  period  a 
sum,  amounting  altogether  to  about  ,£230,  was  paid  by  this  society  as 
their  proportion  of  the  outlay.  There  is  no  description  of  the  work, 
but  it  appears  from  the  "  New  View  of  London,"1  that  the  south- 
west exterior  was  newly  built  with  stone  and  the  following  inscription 
set  upon  the  walls  : 

"VETUSTATE   CONSUMPTUM  :    IMPENSIS   UTKIUSQUE  SOCIETATIS 

RESTITUTUM. 
NICH  :   qOURTNEY]        |  „ 

ROGERO  BELLINGHAM  j 

On  the  26th  and  2;th  of  November,  1703,  a  terrific  hurricane,  ANNE 
only  approached  in  intensity  by  the  storm  which  raged  through 
all  Europe  on  the  3rd  of  September,  1658,  the  day  of  Cromwell's 
death,  swept  the  whole  face  of  England.  It  damaged  property, 
in  London  alone,  to  the  amount  of  over  £2, 000,000.  It  destroyed 
great  quantities  of  shipping  and  wrecked  the  Eddystone  light- 
house, and  it  had  its  natural  effect  on  our  inn.  Numerous  entries 
show  the  damage  done  to  our  tenements,  including  the  master's  p.  385 
house,  which  suffered  severely,  and  was  restored  at  the  cost  of  the 
two  societies.  Like,  however,  the  great  fires  of  the  seventeenth 
century,  the  "  Great  Storm,"  as  it  is  called,  had  no  evil  effect  upon 
the  structure  of  our  church,  which  thus  escaped  the  hurricane  as  it 
had  escaped  the  conflagration.  In  February,  1703-4,  further  and 
other  repairs  to  the  church  became  necessary,  and  it  was  agreed  to 

1  Vol.  ii.,  p.  562. 


Ixxxvi  INTRODUCTION. 

P-  38S    join  with  the   Middle  Temple  in  the  necessary  cost.     The  work 
does  not  appear  to  have  been  very  pressing,  and    it  was  not,   in 
fact,  undertaken  until  1705-6,  when,  according  to  the  "  New  View  of 
London,"  1  the  interior  was  newly  whitewashed,  gilt  and  painted,  and 
the  pillars  of  the  round  portion  were  wainscotted.     A  new  battle- 
ment and  buttresses  were  added  on  the  southern  side,  the  east  end 
p-  407     of  the  church  was  mended  with  stone,  and  other  parts  of  the  outside 
were  effectively  repaired.     The  figures  of  the  knights  were  once  more 
cleaned  and  painted,  and  the  iron  work  inclosing  them  was  painted 
p.  406     and  gilt.     The  amount  expended  according  to  the  accounts  for  1 706-7 
was,  for  our  share,  about  ,£605,  including  the  erection  of  a  new 
p.  407     "cupilow,"  or  cupola  for  the  saints  bell  at  the  south  side  of  the 
church.     A  "  knight  templar  "  was  also  mended  with  plaster  of  Paris, 
at  a  cost  of  qs/i. 

In  the  course  of  the  year  1705-6,  not  long  after  the  appointment 
of  Dr.  Thomas  Sherlock  to  the  mastership,  questions  arose  as  to  the 
respective  positions  of  the  master  and  the  benchers  of  the  two 
societies,  principally  in  reference  to  the  fees  to  be  taken  on  burials. 
The  patent  of  1608,  which  put  the  benchers  into  possession  of  the 
entire  soil  of  the  Temple,  and  imposed  upon  them  certain  obligations 
in  regard  to  the  church,  left  the  position  of  the  master  somewhat 
Vol.  ii.,  p.  171  undefined.  Dr.  Micklethwaite  made  claims  of  an  excessive  and 
unreasonable  character,  which  were  not  allowed  by  the  benchers, 
and,  on  his  appeal  to  the  privy  council,  were  not  sustained.  Dr. 
Sherlock,  a  man  in  sympathy  with  the  Temple,  found  his  position 
also  in  many  respects  unsatisfactory.  After  some  discussion  a 
committee  was  appointed,  consisting  of  five  benchers  of  each  society. 
p.  402  They  reported  on  the  6th  June,  1706,*  as  to  the  fees  taken  in 
former  times,  and  at  the  date  of  their  report,  for  the  soil  and  for 
the  service.  For  the  soil,  the  fees  formerly  varied  from  £2  in  the 
chancel  above  the  steps,  to  ios/1.  in  the  round  walk  and  elsewhere 
below  the  chancel  and  aisle,  and  for  the  service  yk.  to  the  curate, 
\sh.  to  the  clerk,  and  $s/i.  ^d.  to  the  gravemaker.  At  the  time 
of  the  report  the  rates  were,  in  the  round,  for  the  soil  £i,  for  the 
service,  to  the  master,  iosk.,  to  the  clerk,  5^.,  to  the  sexton,  2sk.  6d. 
For  other  burials  the  rates  for  the  soil  varied  from  \osk.  to  .£3,  the 

1  Vol.  ii.,  p.  562. 

3  "  Miscellanea,"  vol.  xx.,  fol.  9,  contains  the  full  report. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxxvii 


curate,  the  clerk  and  the  sexton  taking  the  respective  fees  of  yk., 
and  3^.  \d.  They  also  reported  that  it  lay  upon  the  master  to 
supply  the  church,  at  his  own  cost,  with  a  minister  or  reader,  and  a 
clerk  or  sexton,  and  to  officiate  daily  in  the  church,  either  in  person  or 
by  deputy.  That  the  Inner  H  ouse  had  ordered  a  payment  of  ^100  per 
annum  to  be  made  to  Dr.  Ball,  and  subsequently  to  Dr.  W.  Sherlock, 
which  had  regularly  been  paid,  the  Middle  Temple,  in  like  terms, 
ordering  a  payment  of  £70  per  annum.  But  that  these  were 
voluntary  payments,  and  remained  in  force  so  long  only  as  the 
respective  societies  were  agreeable  thereto.  This  report  was 
affirmed  by  the  benchers  of  the  two  societies  in  1607.  The  burials, 
however,  decreased  annually  in  number,  and  the  question  seems  thus 
to  have  been  set  at  rest.  We  have  no  copy  of  Dr.  Sherlock's 
patent,  under  which  it  was  said  that  the  master  was  bound  to 
provide  at  his  own  expense  a  reader  and  a  clerk.  There  is,  how- 
ever, among  the  "  Miscellanea"  l  a  copy  of  the  patent  granted  to  Dr. 
Benson  in  October,  1826.  This  appoints  him  master  of  the  New 
Temple,  and  "  in  consideration  of  daily  service  and  duty  to  be 
celebrated  in  the  said  church,"  gives  him  all  profits  and  advantages 
arising  therefrom  "  in  as  ample  manner  and  form  as  Dr.  Ball,  Dr. 
William  Sherlock  and  Dr.  Thomas  Sherlock  .  .  .  enjoyed  the 
same,"  together  with  an  annuity  of  ^37  6s.  8d.,  to  be  paid  out  of 
the  exchequer.  It  proceeds  : 

"We  will  nevertheless  and  our  intention  is  that  the  said  Christopher 
Benson  shall  from  time  to  time  find  one  Priest,  Presbiter  or  Minister  to 
administer  and  serve  in  all  and  all  manner  of  Divine  Services  and  offices 
belonging  to  such  Minister  within  the  church  aforesaid.  And  to  administer 
or  cause  to  be  administered  the  Sacrament  to  all  and  singular  persons  residing 
within  the  New  Temple  as  often  as  need  shall  be.  And  also  one  other  man 
called  Clerk  and  Sexton  to  attend,  observe,  and  execute  all  and  singular 
matters  and  things  which  belong  and  appertain  to  such  offices  within  our  said 
church,  and  that  only  at  the  cost,  charges  and  expence  of  him  the  said 
Christopher  Benson." 

It  would  seem,  therefore,  that  the  patent  issued  to  Dr.  Thomas 
Sherlock  was  in  the  same  form  as  that  under  which  Dr.  Benson  and 
his  predecessors  held  the  office,  and  that  the  societies  of  the  Temple 
not  only  acted  in  a  voluntary  spirit  in  making  the  yearly  allowance 

1  Vol.  xx.,  fol.  2. 


Ixxxviii  INTRODUCTION. 

to  the  master,  but  also  in  defraying  the  expenses  of  the  reader  or 
curate,  the  clerk  and  the  sexton.  This  cost  they  have  uniformly 
borne  from  the  time  of  king  James  I. 

P-  373  Queen  Anne  came  to  the  throne  in  March,  1702.     In  Michaelmas 

term  of  that  year  it  was  unanimously  agreed  that  the  treasurer,  Sir 
Simon  Harcourt,  should  cause  her  majesty's  portrait  to  be  painted 
and  placed  in  the  hall.  This  commission  he  entrusted  to  Sir  Godfrey 
Kneller,  who  had  finished  the  work  early  in  the  following  year.  On 

p.  377  the  28th  January  he  was  paid  ^80,  and  the  picture  now  in  our 
possession  was  placed  in  the  hall.  In  September,  1709,  Sir  James 
Thornhill,  who  was  then  in  high  favour  with  the  queen,  painted  for 

p.  4'7  the  hall  of  our  society,  at  the  price  of  £70,  the  picture  of  Pegasus, 
surrounded  by  Neptune  and  the  Muses,  springing  from  Mount 

p.  442  Helicon.  The  arrangement  of  the  pictures  in  the  hall  at  the  death 
of  queen  Anne  was  as  follows.  At  the  east  end  of  the  hall  the  queen 
was  in  the  centre,  with  William  and  Mary,  and  the  two  judges,  Coke 
and  Littleton,  on  either  side.  Towards  the  western  end  was  a  screen, 
beyond  the  screen  the  music  room  or  gallery,  and  over  that  Sir  James 
Thornhill's  picture,  which  fitted  the  upper  part  of  the  western  wall.1 
The  difficulty  arising  from  the  multitude  of  strangers  within  the 
inn,  which  had  been  felt  during  and  since  the  commonwealth,  had 
become  more  pronounced  after  the  restoration,  and  stringent  orders 
were  made,  from  time  to  time,  for  their  expulsion.  Before  the 
accession  of  queen  Anne  the  number  of  thess  objectionable  persons 
had  considerably  decreased,  in  consequence,  as  I  presume,  of  the 
stricter  and  more  business-like  mode  in  which  the  affairs  of  the 
society  had  been  conducted.  It  was  probably  owing  in  some  measure 
to  this,  as  well  as  to  other  causes,  that  the  financial  position  of  the  inn 
had,  by  1/04,  become  very  unsatisfactory.  In  order  to  relieve  the 
pressure,  fifteen  members  of  the  bench  joined  with  the  treasurer  in 

p.  386     advancing  £50  each,  without  interest,  towards  paying  the  debts  of 

the  house.     This  ^800  was  to  be  repaid  as  and  when  the  arrears  of 

commons  and  other  duties  should   be   received.      Payments   were 

pp.  398-440     also  made  by  gentlemen,  on  their  call,  towards  the  expenses  of  the 

organ.     The  sums  varied,  between  1706  and  1714,  from  £iS  to  ^36. 

pp.  330,  342,  For  various  reasons  grand  day  had  not  been  kept  in   several 

35°.  356 

1  At  a  later  date  it  was  removed  to  a  corresponding  position  on  the  eastern  wall. 
See  a  drawing  in  Knight's  "  London, "'vol.  iv.,  p.  353. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxxix 

terms  during  the  later  years  of  the  reign  of  William  III.,  and  the  enter- 
tainments, after  the  peace  of  Ryswick  in  November,  1697,  appear  to 
have  been  reduced  in  number  and  in  cost.  An  attempt  was  made  to 
relieve  this  dulness  and  to  revive  in  the  hall  some  of  the  old  customs. 
Thus,  the  players  were  more  frequently  in  attendance,1  and  it  was 
desired  by  some  of  the  bench  to  restore  the  old  practice  of  dancing 
in  the  hall.  As  the  old  regulations  were  presumably  still  in  force, 
several  members  were  called  up  to  the  table  for  not  dancing  on  p.  381 
grand  night  in  the  previous  Michaelmas  term,  and  fines  pro  non 
saltando  were  imposed.  These  were  afterwards  remitted,  but  in 
November,  1 704,  it  was  ordered  that  the  antient  exercise  of  dancing  p.  389 
be  revived,  and  that  "  for  non-performance  the  usual  amercements 
be  imposed."  This  revival,  in  the  reign  of  queen  Anne,  of  the 
customs  of  the  time  of  queen  Elizabeth,  does  not  appear  to  have  been 
very  successful.  It  was  certainly  not  in  accordance  with  the  senti- 
ment of  the  day,  when  the  dancing  men  probably  preferred  the  society 
of  ladies,  pro  saltando,  to  that  of  each  other.  Nor  was  this  formal 
dancing  publicly  regarded  with  much  favour.  In  the  "  Virtuoso,"  a 
comedy  by  Shadwell,  published  about  the  date  of  these  orders  of 
revival,  the  solemn  and  grave  motions  of  the  benchers  dancing  at 
their  revels  are  dealt  with  as  a  common  topic  of  derision.2 

About  this  time  also  a  scheme,  which  had  previously  been  pro-  p.  383 
pounded  and  favourably  received,  was  finally  adopted.  By  this 
arrangement  the  steward  undertook  the  catering  for  the  hall,  pro- 
viding all  necessary  food,  and  taking  for  his  payment  the  commons 
then  paid,  with  certain  allowances  for  grand  days  and  other  special 
occasions.  The  gentlemen  messed  either  three  or  four  together,  p.  384 
"  as  formerly  in  this  society,"  and  gave  their  names  to  the  butler  as 
they  came  into  commons  and  went  out.  The  manciple  with  his 
duties  thus  came  to  an  end,  and  the  provisioning  of  the  society  was 
done  by  contract.  In  1708  a  new  steward  (Trowell)  was  appointed 
under  new  conditions.  He  apparently  undertook  to  make  annual 
payments  to  the  house  in  consideration  of  his  post.  The  price  of 
provisions,  however,  rose  considerably  after  this  year,  and,  in  conse- 
quence of  application  by  him  on  this  ground,  he  was  in  1709  remitted  p.  423 

1  No  play  of  Shakespeare  was  performed  from  1688  to  the  death  of  Anne. 
1  "  The  Virtuoso,  a  Comedy  ....  written  by  Thomas  Shadwell,  Laur."    London 
1704,  P-  39- 

III.  m 


xc  INTRODUCTION. 

p.  427     ^50  of  the  payments  due  from  him,  and  in  1710  he  was  remitted 
,£100.      In   1713  a  committee  was   appointed  to    go  through  the 
PP-  438>  439     steward's  accounts,  to  see  what  contract  ought  to  be  made  with  him 
and  what  he  ought  to  be  paid. 

The  insistence  on  the  privileges  of  the  Temple,  as  an  antient 
sanctuary,  was  maintained  after  the  revolution  as  it  had  been  under 
James  I.  and  Charles  II.     In  August,  1697,  a  debtor  from  Cornwall, 
named  Humphrey  Borlase,  who  had  been  arrested  within  the  Inner 
Temple,  was  rescued  by  the  members  of  our  society,  who  resisted 
the  officers  and  caused  a  great  hubbub,  in  the  course  of  which  several 
persons  were  wounded.1     This  being  reported  to  the  benchers,  an 
p-  336     order   was    passed   "  That   this    society    will    maintain    the   antient 
privileges    of  the   House  and  defend  the  prosecution    against   the 
persons  concerned  in  the  pretended  rescue  of  Humphrey  Borlase; 
P-  33s     Esquire."     Their  intervention  appears  to  have  been  to  some  extent 
successful,  as  the  indictments  were  quashed,  at  a  cost  to  the  inn  of 
£46  los.  8rtf.     An  action  having  been  brought  in  Michaelmas  term 
against  the  debtor  and  others,"  and  motion  made  to  hold  the  defendants 
to  special  bail   in  ,£400,  the  lord  chief  justice  (Sir  J.   Holt)  held 
that  although  the  Temples  were  extra  parochial  and  not  in  the  city 
of  London  or  its  franchise,  yet  they  were  in  the  county  of  London 
and  within  the  reach  of  justice,  citing  cases  where  felonies  had  been 
committed   in  the   Temple    and    the    felons    convicted  at  the  Old 
Bailey.     As  to  executing  of  fi-fa  or  arresting  of  the   students  of 
the  Temple,  he  said  there  should  be  due  regard  paid  to  the  inns  of 
court  and  the  members  of  the  inn,  but  not  to  be  extended  to  persons 
who  came  thither  by  fraud  and  sheltered  themselves  there  with  an 
intent  and   purpose  to  cheat  their  creditors  :  and  finding  that  the 
defendant  Borlase  came  from  Gray's  Inn  with  this  purpose,  irregularly 
and  without  any  certificate  from  the  treasurer,  as  there  should  have 
been,  the  defendants  were  ruled   to   find   special   bail,  which  was 
afterwards    fixed   at    ,£200.      This    result    appears    to   have    been 
regarded   as   establishing    the    claim   of    the  templars,    for    I    find 
during  the  reign  of  queen  Anne  that,  on  two  occasions,  permission 

p.  409     was  solicited  of  the  benchers  and  granted  by  them  under  special 

p.  416 

1  See  a  letter  descriptive  of  this  affair,  dated  7  August,  1697.     Historical  MSS. 
Commission,  5th  Rep.,  App.,  p.  386. 

'  Brown  v.  Borlase  and  others.    "  Skinner,"  fo.  584.    Michaelmas  term,  9  Will.  III. 


INTRODUCTION.  xci 

Conditions,  to  arrest  a  debtor  within  the  precincts  of  the  Temple. 
In  neither  case,  however,  was  the  debtor  a  member  of  bur  society, 
and  in  each  case  he  was  served  with  notice  of  the  intended  arrest. 

William   Petyt,  whose  services  to    the   society  in    1669   have     p.  74 
already  been  mentioned,  died  in  October,  1707,  at  the  age  of  71,*     App.,  p.  461 
and  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church.     He  had  served  the  several 
offices  of  the  inn,  having  been  bencher  in  1689,  reader  in  1694,  and     p.  304 
treasurer  in  1701-2.     His  name  appears  frequently  on  committees,     p.  370 
and  he  took  great  interest  in  our  affairs.     During  the  course  of  his 
long  career,  for  many  years  of  which  he  was  keeper  of  the  records  in 
the  tower  of  London,  he  had  made  an  extensive  and  valuable  collec- 
tion of  antient  MSS.,  among  them  being  original  letters  of  kings  and 
queens  of  this  country,  of  diplomatists,  of  foreign  agents,  and  of  other 
distinguished  persons.     These  were  kept  in  the  Inner  Temple,  where 
they  still  remain.     He  had  also  caused  copies  to  be  made  of  the 
journals  of  parliament,  of  certain  royal  charters,  and  of  other  legal 
and  historical  documents  to  which  his  official  position  had  given  him 
access.     At  the   time  of  Petyt's   death,  and    for   many  succeeding 
generations,  these  MSS.  were  invaluable  to  the  historian  and  the 
antiquary.     Of  late  years,  however,  the  labours  of  the  master  of  the 
rolls,  and  his  assistants  in  the  record  office,  of  the  commissioners 
of  public  records,  of  the  historical  MSS.  commission,  and  of  other 
public  bodies,    have  deprived    Petyt's   collections    of  their  special 
value.     Among    his   papers    are  a   series    of  letters   which   passed 
between  roman   catholics    in  England,  during  the    reign  of  queen 
Elizabeth,  throwing  an  interesting  light  upon  the  inner  life  of  the 
catholic  community  at  that  period.     By  his  will,  which  was  dated     p.  4i3 
1 2th  July,  1705,  he  left  certain  of  his  MSS.  and  books,  which  are     p.  413 
set  out  in  our  under-treasurer's  receipt,  in  trust  that  they  should  be 
kept  together  for  the  public  use  in  a  proper  place,  towards  the  pro- 
curement of  which  he  left  a  sum  of  ^150,  to  be  employed  at  the 
discretion  of  his  executors.     He  also  bequeathed  ^50  to  each  of 
the  societies   of  the  Temple  for  the  purchase  of  books  for  their 
respective  libraries.     His  brother  and  executor,    Sylvester    Petyt,     p.  420 
principal    of  Barnard's    inn,  acting  under  the  powers  of  the  will, 

1  In  the  "  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  vol.  xlv.,  p.  132,  Petyt  is  incorrectly 
described  as  having  been  called,  etc.,  by  the  Middle  Temple.  It  appears,  however, 
from  his  will,  that  he  was  at  one  time  a  member  of  that  society. 


xcii  INTRODUCTION. 

transferred  to  the  benchers  of  the  Inner  Temple  the  entire  collection, 
p.  4' 7     together  with  a  sum  of  .£150  towards   the  completion  of  a  new  or 
additional  library,  which  they  then  had  in  contemplation.     A  pay- 
P-  393     ment,  in  November,  1705,  of  £20  $s.  for  the  carving  in  the  library 
during  the  treasurership  of  Thomas  Walker,  indicates  the  room  then 
used  as  a  second  library.     The  fine  carving  over  the  fireplace  (be- 
lieved to  be  the  work  of  Grinling  Gibbons),  bears  the  inscription, 

T.  THOMA  WALKER  ARM  :  A.D.  1705, 

which  sufficiently  identifies  it  as  the  subject  of  this  payment.     In 

p.  411  1708-9  ^"50  paid  to  Cordwell  the  carpenter  on  account  of  his  con- 
tract to  build  a  new  library,  and  a  further  payment  of  ^"100  on 

p.  425  account,  in  1709-10,  show  that  Petyt's  legacy  was  employed  in 
the  construction  of  a  library  other  than  that  in  existence  in  1705.  In 
this  room,  fitted  throughout  with  bookcases  and  used  as  a  library, 
Petyt's  MSS.,  under  lock  and  key,  reposed  for  many  generations. 
Our  obligations  to  Petyt  do  not  cease  with  the  gift  of  his  books  and 
his  MSS.  and  his  contribution  towards  the  construction  of  a  new 
library.  We  have,  at  the  present  time,  in  addition  to  our  law  library, 
consisting  of  some  26,000  volumes,  a  library  of  general  history  and 
literature.  This  comprises  about  35,000  volumes,  duly  catalogued. 
It  includes  histories  of  all  countries,  county  histories,  books  on 
theology,  architecture,  painting,  the  fine  arts,  and  every  class  of 

p.  416  work  essential  to  a  complete  general  library.  The  acquisition  and 
arrangement  of  Petyt's  books  and  MSS.  were  followed  by  the  appoint- 
ment, in  June,  1709,  of  a  librarian  or  library  keeper,  at  a  yearly 

p.  4i7  salary  of  £20.  Mr.  Samuel  Carter,  the  first  holder  of  this  office, 
was  required  to  find  two  sureties  in  the  sum  of  _£  1,000,  and  to 
attend  in  the  library,  from  Lady  day  to  Michaelmas,  from  9  a.m. 
to  noon  and  from  3  p.m.  to  6  p.m.,  and  from  Michaelmas  to  Lady 
day,  from  10  a.m.  to  noon,  and  from  3  p.m.  to  5  p.m.  In  1713, 

p.  438  Joshua  Blew  having  succeeded  Mr.  Carter  as  keeper  of  the 
library,  an  order  was  made  by  the  bench  that  "  the  treasurer 
for  the  time  being  do  lay  out  £20  yearly  out  of  the  treasury  in 
purchasing  of  books  for  the  library."  This  accession  of  works  of 
general  interest  in  1708,  together  with  the  means  of  harbouring 
them  in  a  suitable  place,  thus  formed  the  nucleus,  if  not  the  founda- 
tion, of  the  valuable  library  which  our  society  now  .possesses. 


INTRODUCTION.  xciii 

A  portrait  of  William  Petyt  has  hung  for  many  generations  in 
our  parliament  chamber.  It  represents  him  in  a  garb,  probably 
that  of  keeper  of  the  tower  records.  One  hand  holds  a  parchment 
deed,  the  other  has  a  half  open  book.  In  the  upper  corner  is  his 
coat  of  arms,  together  with  his  motto,  Qui  sestime  Pctyt  deviendra 
grand.  There  is  no  definite  entry  relating  to  the  gift  of  this  portrait 
to  the  society,  but  there  is  little  doubt  that  it  came  with  other  things 
from  the  estate  of  Sylvester  Petyt.  This  gentleman  by  his  will 
bearing  date  the  23rd  of  May,  1719,  refers  to  the  portraits  of 
his  brother  and  himself"  which  are  now  in  the  house  in  Belle  Savage 
Yard  "  and  desires  that  they  may  be  set  up  in  the  church  library  at 
Skipton,  Yorks,  of  which  he  was  a  substantial  benefactor  if  not  the 
founder,  and  to  the  poor  of  whose  parish  William  had  also  be- 
queathed a  legacy.  Sylvester's  portrait  was  accepted  by  the  parish 
of  Skipton  and  put  up  in  the  library,  where  it  still  hangs.  William's 
portrait  is  not  there,  and  seems  to  have  found  its  natural  resting 
place  in  the  library  of  the  Inner  Temple  to  which  William  was  so 
great  a  benefactor.  A  portrait  of  Sylvester  Petyt,  by  Richard  van 
Bleeck,  is  in  the  National  Portrait  Gallery.1 

In  an  inventory  taken  about  the  time  of  queen  Anne's  death,  the  p.  44 2 
"  Grace  Book  "  is  mentioned.  It  was  kept  in  the  buttery  by  the 
chief  butler,  whose  duty  it  was  to  lay  it  on  the  table  before  the 
treasurer  at  each  meal.  It  is  a  small  volume  about  nine  inches 
by  seven,  is  in  MSS.  throughout,  and  appears  from  the  hand- 
writing, in  some  parts,  to  be  of  the  fifteenth  century.  The  only 
graces  which  it  now  contains,  of  the  "  diverse  gracie  "  mentioned  in 
the  contents,  are  three  in  number  written  in  latin  on  a  paper  interleaved 
by  Joshua  Blew,  who  was  chief  butler  and  keeper  of  the  library  in 
1713.  The  graces  which,  according  to  the  table  of  contents,  were  P- 4*4 
originally  in  the  book  were  probably  transferred  to  a  grace  book  of  a 
later  date  when  this  was  withdrawn  from  use.  A  great  portion  of 
the  contents,  in  addition  to  the  latin  graces,  has  also  been  removed. 
There  remain  in  the  book  an  interesting  "  table  of  contents,"  which  APP-  No-  IV- 
will  be  found  in  the  Appendix,  and  a  kalendar,  with  tables  for  finding 
the  Sunday  letter  and  the  moveable  feasts,  beginning  in  1436  (14 

1  It  was  presented  "  by  the  Principal  and  Antients  of  Barnard's  Inn,  June,  1884," 
and  not,  as  stated  in  the  "  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  vol.  xlv.,  p.  132,  by  the 
Inner  Temple.  Sylvester  Petyt  died  in  1719. 


xciv  INTRODUCTION. 

Hen.  VI.),  and  ending  in  1507  (23  Hen.  VII).  There  are  also 
coloured  astronomical  and  astrological  charts.  At  the  foot  of  the 
kalendar  for  each  month  are  rhyming  latin  verses  giving  season- 
able advice  as  to  food  and  medical  treatment,  and  expressing  moral 

Vol.  ii.,  p.  24  sentiments.  The  earliest  reference  to  this  book  is  on  the  first  page 
of  our  first  book  of  accounts.  It  is  dated  1605-6,  and  is  "  for  mend- 
ing the  Grace  Book,  bosses  and  clasps,  new  glueing  it  and  putting 

, pp.no,  141,  in  new  parchments,  ^sh.  6d."  It  was  mended  again  in  1618,  in 
p.  82  1623,  in  1656,  and  in  1671.  The  present  binding  is  of  a  common- 
place and  modern  character,  the  bosses  and  clasps  have  disappeared, 
and  the  edges  have  been  cut.  On  one  of  the  blank  pages  Joshua 
Blew  has  made  the  following  entry  : 

Provyded  that  on  Festival  dayes  whcnne  it  shall  happen  the  mayster  of 
the  Temple  to  be  pre[sent]  that  then  the  Grace  to  be  referred  to  his  seying 

And  if  the  Grace  boke  be  not  sett  on  the  borde  that  then  the  botelers  to 
forfeit  every  oon  of  them  a  Peny  to  be  paid  incontinent  to  hym  being  present 
that  shulcle  say  Grace  Whereof  jd.  shall  be  yeven  to  a  poor  man  to  Pray  for 
the  soule  of  the  seyde  John  Nethersole 

According  to  the  ordinaunce  thys  present  boke  is  made  for  a  remem- 
braunce  the  xxi  ycre  of  King  Henry  the  vijth  and  the  yere  of  our  Lorde  1 505 
as  above. 

I  have  not  been  able  to  trace  any  direct  personal  connection 
between  John  Nethersole  and  the  Inner  Temple.  He  belonged  to  a 
family  settled  near  Barham  in  Kent.  In  the  list  of  counsel  practising 
in  the  reign  of  Henry  VII.  are  the  three  Kentish  names  of  John 
Fineux,  of  Gray's  Inn,1  John  Nethersole,  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  and  John 
Roper,  of  the  Inner  Temple.2  Among  the  principal  benefactors  of 
the  city  of  Canterbury,  through  whose  munificence  S.  Michael's 
Gate  was  rebuilt  in  1475,  is  John  Nethersole,  whose  name  was 
inscribed  on  the  stone.3  In  1498  he  was  appointed,  along  with  Sir 
John  Fineux,  a  commissioner  of  oyer  and  terminer  for  Maidstone 
and  Canterbury.4  Towards  Lincoln's  Inn,  of  which  he  was  admitted 
a  member  in  1481,  he  was  very  charitably  disposed,  and  a  gift  of  40 
marks  to  that  society  towards  building  a  library,  in  consideration  of 

1  Douthwaite's  "  History  of  Gray's  Inn,"  p.  46. 
*  Foss's  "Judges,"  vol.  v.,  p.  20. 

3  Hasted's  "  History  of  Kent,"  vol.  iv.,  p.  414. 

4  "  Materials  for  a  History  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VII.,"  Rolls  Series,  1877,  vol  i., 

P-  455- 


INTRODUCTION.  xcv 

masses  to  be  said  by  their  chaplain  for  the  repose  of  his  soul,  is  duly 

recorded  in  their  books.1     His  will,  signed  on  the  I2th  September 

1504,  was  proved  on  the  nth  February,  1504-5,  by  John  Roper,  one 

of  his  executors  and  residuary  legatees.2     By  it   he  gives    many 

legacies  to  churches  and  ecclesiastical  foundations,   chiefly  in  and 

about  Canterbury,  but  nothing  to  either  Lincoln's  Inn  or  the  Inner 

Temple.     It  is  therefore  reasonable  to  assume  that  the  gifts  to  the 

two  societies  were  made  before  September,  1504.     He  appoints  as 

his  executors  and  residuary  legatees  John  Fyneux,  chief  justice  of 

the  lord  king,  to  hold  pleas  "coram  ipse  rege,"  John  Roper,  William 

Nethersole  his  brother,  Roger  Lychefeld,  and  John  Man,  and,  as 

overseers,  the  Abbot  of  S.  Augustin's  and  the  Prior  of  Christchurch,     Vol.  I.,  p.  467 

Canterbury.     John  Roper,  who  came  from  Linstede,  in  Kent,  was  of    ~fl"'l'>  p'  457 

a  family  of  lawyers,  members  of  the  Inner  Temple.     He  married  a 

daughter  of  Sir  John  Fineux,  the  lord  chief  justice,3  of  Swingfield,  in 

Kent,  and  was  for  some  time  attorney-general  to  Henry  VIII.4     He 

died  in  1524.      His  eldest  son,  William,  married  the  eldest  daughter 

of  Sir  Thomas  More,  and  was  the  author  of  his  biography.5     A  John 

Roper  became,  by  assignment,  owner  of  one  moiety  of  the  master's 

house  in  or  about  1542,  a  property  which  the  same  or  another  John 

Roper  sold  in  1586.     There  were  other  Ropers,  also  members  of  the 

society.     It  is  possible,  therefore,  that  the  benefaction  above  indicated 

may  have  accrued  to  this  inn  through  the  testator's  neighbour  and 

colleague  at  the  bar,  John  Roper. 

The  conclusion  of  this  volume,  which  ends,  for  a  time,  the  pub- 
lication of  our  records,  brings  down  the  history  of  our  inn  to  the 
accession  of  George  I.  Commencing  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VII., 
when  the  dynastic  contentions  of  the  wars  of  the  roses  were  for 
ever  set  at  rest,  and  concluding  with  the  reign  of  Anne,  when  the 
then  kingdoms  of  England,  Scotland,  and  Ireland  were  consoli- 
dated and  formed  into  one,  our  records  cover  a  period  of  over  two 
hundred  years.  We  have,  in  that  cycle,  the  story  of  the  Tudors 
and  of  the  Stuarts,  of  the  struggles  of  the  great  rebellion,  of  the 

1  "Black  Books  of  Lincoln's  Inn,"  London,  1899,  vol.  i.,  pp.  74,  135,  136,  138. 

2  P.  C.  C.,  Somerset  House,  Holgrave,  25. 

3  Foss's  "Judges,"  vol.  v.,  p.  165.     His  name  also  appears  as  the  king's  attorney 
in  a  subsidiary  roll  of  15  Henry  VIII.  (1523).     See  "  Records,"  vol.  i.,  p.  455. 

*  Foss's  "Judges,"  p.  165.     "  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  vol.  xx.,  p.  343. 
5  "Dictionary  of  National  Biography,"  vol.  xlix.,  p.  215. 


xcvi  INTRODUCTION. 

attempted  reforms  and  the  failures  of  the  puritan  ascendency,  of 
the  wealth  of  our  society  in  its  earlier  history,  and  of  its  poverty 
in  later  days.     The  picturesquely  mediaeval  appearance  of  our  inn, 
with  its  hanging  signs,  its  bastelle,  its  refectory  and  lodgings  for 
the  priests,  its  chapels  for  the  patron  saints,  had  disappeared  before 
the  restoration.     Fires,  of  unusual  ferocity,  had  laid  waste  the  antient 
buildings  of  our  society  which  afterwards  assumed  the  monotonous 
but  utilitarian  aspect  of  to-day.     All  the  courts  of  our  inn,  King's 
Bench  Walk,  our  eastern  boundary,  and  the  cloisters  had  been  de- 
stroyed and  rebuilt.     The  great  garden  had  been  re-laid,  re-turfed, 
;md  planted   in  the  fashion  of  Haarlem  and  Amsterdam,  and  other 
little  formal  gardens,  no  longer  to  be  found,  had  sprung  up  within  our 
walls.     There  remained  only,  of  our  old  foundation,  the  church  and 
the  antient  hall  of  the  templars,  the  ruined  chapel  of  S.  Ann  hidden 
by  the  adjacent  buildings,  and  some  groined  arches  which  indicated 
the  old  time  features  of  our  home.     The  highway  to  the  inn  was 
still  the   river,   the  great  thoroughfare   of  the   metropolis,  and  the 
antient  privileges  and  exemptions  of  the  society  were  still  jealously 
guarded.     Pure  water  and  public  lighting  had  cleansed  the  inn  and 
added  to  its  health  and  its  security,  and  the  plague,  which,  for  over 
one  hundred  and  fifty    years,   was  an    annual    though   unwelcome 
guest,  had,  by  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century,  altogether  disap- 
peared.    The  governors,  who  in  former  days  reigned  over  us,  had 
long  since  ceased  to  form  part  of  our  system.     The  crown  and  the 
council    had   ceased   to  interfere  with   the    inns  of  court,  and  the 
benchers,   of  their  own  motion  had,  by  a  series  of  orders,  estab- 
lished the  rules  which  even  to-day  guide  our  deliberations.     Con- 
temporaneously with   the   feeling   of  independence  which  followed 
the  revolution  of  1688,  the  costly  compliments  and  the  sumptuous 
entertainments  to  royal   favourites   and  powerful   ministers,   which 
formed  a  part  of  our  antient  programme,  had  come  to  an  end.     In 
another   respect  also    time   had  worked   a    change.      Our  inns  of 
chancery  had,  by  the  eighteenth  century,  ceased  to  be  exclusively 
seminaries  of  learning,  and  had  become  little  more  than   lodgings 
for  young  students  or  for  elderly  aspirants  to  the  honourable  and 
lucrative  dignity  of  a  principal  or  a  treasurer.     Through  the  whole 
of  these  two  hundred  years,  we  find  a  steadfast  adherence  to  the  time- 
honoured  system  by  which  the  active  workers  of  the  profession  of  the 


INTRODUCTION.  xcvii 

law  are  divided  into  two  branches  distinct  and  well-defined.  We  see 
our  students  drawn  from  the  same  class  of  the  community.  We  notice 
an  ever-increasing  affinity  with  the  two  universities,  and  the  liberal 
arts  still  cultivated  by  our  members.  In  the  matter  of  legal  education 
alone,  we  recognize,  during  this  period,  little  or  no  advance.  No 
perceptible  difference  existed  between  the  training  of  the  chief  justices 
of  Henry  VI.  and  queen  Anne.  The  curriculum  of  study  described 
by  Sir  John  Fortescue,  in  1470,  might  equally  well  have  served  for 
an  exposition  by  Sir  John  Holt,  in  1710. 

The  church,  round  which  our  professional  homes  were  clustered, 
had  witnessed  many  changes.  The  old  established  religion  with  the 
prior  and  his  priests,  carrying  the  badge  of  knighthood  and  serving 
the  order  of  S.  John  in  the  New  Temple,  had  given  place  to  the 
servants  of  the  reformation.  The  revival  of  the  mass,  with  its 
reactionary  violence  under  Mary,  had  been  succeeded  by  the  restora- 
tion of  the  protestant  faith  under  Elizabeth.  The  high  church 
doctrines  of  Laud  and  his  admirers  had  been  followed  by  the  out- 
burst of  puritanism.  The  attempted  resuscitation  of  the  old  religion 
by  James  II.  had  induced  many  years  of  clerical  and  literary  conflict 
in  the  pulpit  and  in  the  press,  and  our  church  had  become,  at  times, 
the  battlefield  of  contending  ecclesiastics.  But  the  consecrated 
temple  itself,  after  its  varied  experience  of  altars,  of  tables,  of  vest- 
ments, of  pulpits,  of  ornaments,  and  of  whitewash,  presented  in  the 
time  of  Anne  a  building  not  without  attraction.  Its  former  em- 
bellishments had  gone,  but  it  was  still  the  alma  mater  of  the  two 
societies,  and  it  was  endowed  with  all  the  classical  and  architectural 
decoration  which  the  greatest  architect  of  the  day  could,  without 
impropriety,  add  to  the  beauty  of  its  original  design. 

The  nineteenth  century  has  swept  away  the  handiwork  of 
Wren,  of  Gibbons,  and  of  other  masters,  and  has  reproduced,  as  far 
as  may  be,  the  mediaeval  tone  of  the  antient  church.  Modern 
initiative,  has  added  to  the  antient  system  a  broad  and  liberal  scheme 
of  legal  instruction,  and  the  good  fellowship  of  the  templars  brings 
together,  day  by  day,  hundreds  of  barristers  and  students  in  our 
common  hall.  What  the  future  may  have  in  store  for  this  purely 
English  institution,  described  in  our  liturgy  as  "  the  two  learned 
and  honorable  societies  of  this  House,"  we  may  not  know.  It 
suffices  that  in  the  main  principles  of  our  society,  in  its  collegiate 
in.  n 


XCV111 


INTRODUCTION. 


character,  in  the  freedom  and  the  equality  of  our  members,  in  the 
study  and  maintenance  of  the  law,  and  in  the  recognition  of  our  part 
in  the  administration  of  justice,  we  have  trodden  in  the  footsteps  of 
our  fathers,  have  bettered  their  instruction  and  improved  their  ways. 
The  homes  of  our  great  lawyers  may,  like  the  hours  noted  on  the 
sundial,  pass  away  and  be  no  longer  thought  of,  but  their  memories 
will  be  venerated  by  English  people,  so  long  as  they  are  proud  of 
their  country's  history  and  of  the  spirit  of  their  country's  laws. 

F.  A.  INDERWICK. 

WlNCHELSEA, 

31  December,   1900. 


c  )i/cfr  r?t/t  - 


A  CALENDAR  OF  THE 


INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS. 


ACTS   OF   PARLIAMENT. 


CHARLES    II. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  25  November,  12  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1660,  before 
SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  knight,  solicitor  general,  JOHN  HEATH, 
attorney  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  and 
others.  RICHARD  GODDARD,  treasurer. 

PECIAL  admissions  of  Lumley  Robinson,  son  of 
Robinson  of  the  bench,  and  of  Henry  Croke,  son 
of  Sir  Robert  Croke,  at  the  request  of  their  fathers 
respectively. 

John  Farewell,  Christopher  Milton,  Robert 
Shieres,  Richard  Etherington,  Christopher  Goodfellow,  and  Edward 
Peck  called  to  the  bench. 

Dr.  Bure  and  Thomas  Fanshaw  called  associates  to  the  bench. 


in. 


A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [,66i 


PARLIAMENT  on  27  January,  12  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1660-1,  before  SIR 
HENEAGE  FINCH,  knight,  solicitor  general,  JOHN  HEATH,  attorney 
of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  and  others. 
RICHARD  GODDARD,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner : — William  Stile,  Henry  Wynn, 
and  John  Trafford. 

Allowance  of  4/z.  to  the  gentlemen  who  kept  private  commons 
this  last  Christmas  as  in  former  Christmases,  allowance  also  of  board 
wages  to  such  of  the  officers  as  were  not  in  commons  this  last  Christmas, 
and  of  wages  to  watchmen  during  the  Christmas  vacation. 

Special  admission  of  William  Peck,  at  the  request  of  his  father, 
Mr.  Peck,  of  the  bench. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  5  May,  13  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1661,  before  SIR 
HENEAGE  FINCH,  JOHN  HEATH,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  and  others. 
RICHARD  GODDARD,  treasurer. 

Sir  Heneage  Finch  chosen  reader  for  the  summer  vacation ;  and 
Johnson,  Roger  Heath,  and  Goodwyn,  his  attendants. 

Special  admission  of  John  Goodwin  at  the  request  of  his  grand- 
father, Mr.  Goodwin  of  the  bench ;  and  of  Charles,  Duke  of  Rich- 
mond, at  his  own  request. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  26  May,  13  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1661,  before  SIR 
HENEAGE  FINCH,  JOHN  HEATH,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  and  others. 
RICHARD  GODDARD,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Thomas  Foster,  at  the  request  of  his  father, 
Mr.  Foster  of  the  bench,  and  of  Thomas  Littleton,  grandchild  and 
heir  to  Sir  Edward  Littleton,  late  lord  keeper,  at  the  request  of  his 
father,  Sir  Thomas  Littleton. 

Order  that  the  chamber  wherein  Serjeant  Halloway  stood  ad- 
mitted be  annexed  to  Mr.  Yorke's  chamber,  as  it  was  formerly  held 
by  Mr.  Selden. 


,661]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  3 

Robert  Phillipps,  Leonard  Pole,  Thomas  Berringer,  John 
Andrewes,  John  Stubbs,  John  Danvers,  William  Dennington, 
Nathaniel  Bond,  John  Biggs,  Robert  Sawyer,  Anthony  Bowyer, 
Walter  Moyle,  Christopher  Abdy,  John  Treavor,  Andrew  Broughton, 
Richard  Harris,  Robert  Croke,  and  Francis  Purley  are  called  to  the 
bar.  And  they  "  are  all  to  be  presently  sworn  in  respect  of  the 
coronation  and  late  call  of  Serjeants  (although  some  of  them  are  not 
of  full  time,  but  to  be  no  precedent  for  the  future,  but  that  every 
fellow  of  this  House  shall  be  seven  years  complete  admitted  before 
they  shall  be  called  to  the  bar,  and  perform  such  exercise  as  by  the 
orders  of  the  House  they  ought  to  do)." 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  16  June,  13  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1661,  before  SIR 
HENEAGE  FINCH,  JOHN  HEATH,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  and  others, 
RICHARD  GODDARD,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  reader's  dinner : — Gravely  Norton,  Samuel  Trot- 
man,  and  Rowland  Jewkes. 

Phillips  of  the  bench  chosen  an  attendant  on  the  reader. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  30  June,  13  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1661,  before  SIR 
HENEAGE  FINCH,  knight  and  baronet,  JOHN  HEATH,  EDWARD 
JOHNSON,  and  others.  RICHARD  GODDARD,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Christopher  Milton,  son  of  Mr.  Milton  of 
the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  3  November,  13  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1661,  before 
SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  JOHN  HEATH,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  and 
others.  RICHARD  GODDARD,  treasurer. 

Arthur  Treavor  chosen  reader,  and  Johnson,  Thurland,  and 
Yorke  his  attendants. 

Officers  for  the  grand  Christmas : — Marshals  :  Francis,  Lord 
Newport,  Sir  Thomas  Littleton,  and  Sir  Thomas  Trevor.  Stewards : 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[1661 


"  Viscount  Lord  Cockeyne,"  Sir  William  Walter,  and  Sir  Thomas 
Barnardiston.  Butlers:  Sir  Henry  Cholmeley,  Sir  George  Booth, 
and  Sir  Bainham  Throckmorton. 

Auditors  : — Treavor,  Yorke,  Baldwin,  and  Lee,  for  the  steward's 
accounts ;  and  Thurland,  Pecke,  Halloway,  and  Shuter  for  the 
treasurer's  accounts. 

Order  that  in  consideration  of  the  great  expense  of  re-building 
his  chamber  in  Fig-tree  Court,  Shuter  shall  be  allowed  to  nominate 
a  fellow  to  the  same  at  any  time  before  his  death. 

Order  that  forasmuch  as  John  Goodwynn  refused  to  read  at  the 
next  Lent  vacation,  he  shall  be  disbenched  and  fined  100  marks. 

"At  this  Parliament  His  Highness  the  Duke  of  York,  the  Duke 
of  Buckingham,  the  Earl  of  Dorset,  and  Secretary  Morris,  who  were 
formerly  specially  admitted  of  this  House,  are  at  this  Parliament 
confirmed." 

The  Duke  of  York  called  to  the  bar  and  also  to  the  bench. 

Special  admission  of  Richard  Chandler,  grandchild  of  Richard 
Goddard,  treasurer,  at  the  request  of  his  grandfather. 

Treasurer : — Sir  Heneage  Finch,  knight  and  baronet,  his 
Majesty's  solicitor  general. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

*  Entries  similar  to  those  marked  with  an  asterisk  occur  frequently  in  the  accounts. 

ACCOUNT  of  Richard  Fifield,  chief  butler,  from  4  November,  1660, 

to  3  November,  1661. 


RECEIPTS. 

From  Francis  Cheeke,  treasurer  of  Lyon's 

Inn,  for  the  rent  of  that  house  for  a 

year,*  4//. 
From  him  for  two  tenements  adjoining  the 

said  House,*  3/2".  13^-.  a,d. 
From  Whightwick  and  Henley,  for  the  rent 

of  the  King's  Bench  office,  5//. 
From  Sir  Thomas  Fanshaw  for  the  rent  of 

the  Crown  office,*  5/7'. 


From  Burrell  for  the  rent  of  the  Warrant 

office,*  2/i. 
From  Lord  Fanshaw  for  two  years'  rent  of 

the  Exchequer  office,  40/1. 
From  Sir  William  Drake  for  the  rent  of 

the  Fine  office,*  20/1. 
From  Robinson  for  theirent  of  his  office,*  zli. 
From  Tomlinson,  milliner,  for  the  rent  of 

his  shop  *  at  the  Temple  Gate,*  ali. 
From  the  porter  of  the  gate  for  the  rent  of 

several  shops  which  he  holds,*  55. 


Gate. 


1  The  account  for  the  year  previous  describes  the  shop  as  at  the  Inner  Temple 


i66i] 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


From  the  under  cook  for  the  like,*  los. 
From  the  turnspits  for  the  like,*  4</. 
From  the  gardener  for  the   rent  of  his 

house,*  zli. 
From  Frewen  for  the  rent  of  his  chamber,* 

2/1. 
From  Thomas  Turner  for  the  rent  of  his 

shop  and  chamber  in  the  Churchyard,* 

6s.  8</. 
From  Lincolne,  the  scrivener  in  Parson's 

Court,  for  the  rent   of  his  shop  for  a 

year  and  a  half,  i//.  105. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  the  Bishop  of  Exeter  for  Michaelmas 
term,  1660,  \zli.  los. 

To  the  master  of  the  revels  by  the  trea- 
surer's order,  zli. 

For  the  moiety  for  wire  set  on  the  King's 
arms  in  the  church,  \s.  6d. 

To  Edmund  Clarke  for  half  a  year's  rent 
for  the  New  River  Water,*  i//.  6.r. 
Bd. 

To  John  Underwood  for  mending  the 
engine,  i/i. 

To  the  master  of  the  revels,  \li. 

More  to  the  same  by  the  treasurer's  order, 

Zli. 

For  a  staff  and  wands  for  Candlemas  day,* 

is. 
To  John  Holland  for  the  hire  of  plate  and 

linen  on  Candlemas  day,*  zli. 
To  four  watchmen  to  keep  the  doors  the 

same  day,  6s. 
To  William  Pich  for  pots,  brooms,  and 

torches,  5/z.  175.  6d. 
To  the  musicians  for  their  yearly  fee  and 

attendance  on  5th  Nov.,  3/2'.  6s.  8</. 
For  four  brass  candlesticks,  i/i.  zs. 
To  Heath  for  reading  prayers,*  j/i.  los. 


To  Miland,  the  smith,  for  the  moiety  of 

work  done  in  the  church  and  at  the 

doctor's  chambers,  los. 
For  mending  a  silver  bowl,  is.  6d. 
For  the  hire  of  carpets  and  cushions  to 

hang  on  the  scaffold  at  the  Gate,  when 

the  King  passed  by,  15.?. 
To  Henry  Chilton,  steward,  for  apparels 

due  to  him  at  Whitsuntide,  ioo#. 
For  a  silver  "  barge  "  for  the  basket  porter, 

5* 

To  Dr.  Griffith  by  the  treasurer's  order, 

20//. 

To   John   Playford   for   a   buttery   book, 

I  2.T. 

To  Edmund  Farey  for  the  moiety  of  a  bill 
for  joiner's  work  done  in  the  church, 
igs.  6d. 

For  twenty-four  loads  of  gravel  at  3</.  a 
load,  3//.  i2.r. 

For  staves  and  wands  on  All  Hallow's  day,* 

2S. 

To  four  watchmen  for  that  day,*  6s. 
To  the  master  of  the  revels  by  order,  i//. 
For  hire  of  plate  and  linen  on  All  Hallows 

day,*  zli. 

To    Henry    Miland,    the    smith,    for   the 
moiety  of  work    done   in  the  church, 
i//.  45.  t\d. 
To    the  woodmonger   for    two    loads    of 

faggots  for  bonfires,  \li.  4^. 
To  Heath  for  reading  prayers  for  half  a 

year,*  "j/i.  ios. 

For  papers  and  counters  for  the  use  of  the 
House,  3-r. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  406/1.  45.  zd. 
Sum    total    of    the     disbursements, 

330/7.  135.  od. 

So  there  remains  in  the  accountant's 
hands,  75//.  zs.  zd.  (sic). 


MISCELLANEA. 

1 66 1,  February  2.  Office  copy  of  Letters  Patent  for  the  ap- 
pointment of  RICHARD  BALL,  S.T.P.,  as  master  or  warden  of  the 
house  and  church  of  the  New  Temple,  London. 


A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1661 


ACTS   OF   PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  24  November,  13  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1661,  before 
JOHN  HEATH,  attorney  of  the  Duchy,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  ARTHUR 
TREAVOR,  and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

"Whereas  grand  readings  in  the  Inns  of  Court  were  originally 
instituted  for  the  improving  of  students  and  professors  of  the  law,  in 
the  knowledge  and  learning  of  the  statutes  and  laws  of  this  kingdom, 
and  never  intended  that  the  readers  should,  after  all  their  pains  and 
study  in  the  performance  of  that  exercise,  be  put  unto  such  great  and 
excessive  cost  and  charges  in  unnecessary  feasting  and  entertain- 
ments, as  is  not  only  very  prejudicial  to  the  readers  in  their  estates 
and  fortunes,  but  contrary  to  the  very  institution  of  readings,  and 
have  been  a  principal  occasion  of  the  long  discontinuance  of  that 
exercise,  the  great  and  excessive  cost  and  charges  having  much 
discouraged  the  undertaking  and  reviving  of  the  same.  For  a  full 
remedy  whereof,  and  to  the  end  that  readings  may  for  the  future  be 
reduced  to  their  primitive  institution,  and  that  no  person  may  be 
discouraged  from  the  performance  of  that  exercise  by  the  unnecessary 
and  expensive  cost  and  charges  thereof,  be  it  therefore  enacted  by 
the  authority  of  this  Parliament,  that  for  the  time  to  come,  no  reader 
of  this  society  shall  come  into  the  hall,  any  night  during  the  time  of 
his  reading,  in  order  to  keep  any  supper,  except  it  be  for  the  first  day 
when  the  reader  is  to  take  his  place  in  the  hall,  neither  shall  any  reader 
of  this  society  invite  or  entertain  in  the  hall  any  strangers  upon  any 
reading  days,  to  the  end  that  he  may  for  the  benefit  of  the  students 
and  other  fellows  of  this  society  the  better  intend  the  performance  of 
that  exercise,  without  improvident  excess. 

"  Whereas  the  liberty  formerly  granted  to  the  gentlemen  of  this 
society  in  time  of  Christmas,  intended  only  for  a  civil  and  moderate 
recreation,  hath  for  many  years  past  degenerated  into  licentiousness 
and  disorder,  to  the  great  offence  of  Almighty  God,  the  scandal  and 
dishonour  of  this  society,  the  corrupting  and  debauching  of  divers 
young  gentlemen,  members  of  the  same,  and  unless  timely  prevented, 
may  endanger  the  total  subversion  of  the  good  government  thereof, 
and  although  great  care  hath  been  taken  and  divers  good  acts  from 
time  to  time  made  for  the  regulating  of  Christmas  commons  and 


,661]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  7 

redress  of  such  shameful  disorders,  yet  they  have  always  proved 
fruitless  and  unsuccessful,  and  have  not  produced  that  good  effect 
expected  from  them,  for  the  preventing  therefore  of  so  great  mischief, 
inconveniences,  and  further  growing  evil  of  this  nature  in  time  to 
come,  It  is  upon  full  debate  and  consideration  thereof  had,  ordained, 
and  enacted  that  for  the  time  of  Christmas  now  next  ensuing,  no 
commons  shall  be  kept  within  this  House,  but  the  commons  of  this 
House  shall  dissolve  and  break  up  on  the  Saturday  after  dinner  pre- 
ceding St.  Thomas'  day  next,  and  not  begin  again  until  the  Saturday 
night  next  ensuing  the  feast  of  Epiphany,  and  in  the  mean  time  the 
keys  and  possession  of  the  hall,  buttery,  kitchen,  and  other  rooms  and 
places  of  like  public  office  for  this  House,  shall  be  left,  remain,  and 
abide  in  the  custody  and  disposition  of  the  treasurer  of  this  society, 
to  the  end  this  present  act  may  more  effectually  be  observed  and 
executed  in  all  respects. 

"Whereas  in  order  to  preserve  the  government  of  this  House 
against  all  disorders  and  tumults,  the  power  of  inflicting  the  punish- 
ments of  suspension  from  commons,  putting  out  of  commons,  forfeit- 
ure of  chambers,  amercements,  and  expulsion  have  been  by  the  ancient 
orders  of  this  House  imposed  upon  the  several  fellows  of  this  society 
according  to  the  respective  faults  and  crimes  committed  against  the 
orders  of  this  House  ;  and  whereas  of  late  times  divers  fellows  of 
this  society  have  upon  occasion  of  imposing  any  the  said  punish- 
ments, endeavoured  to  raise  a  mutiny  by  giving  countenance  to  the 
person  or  persons  so  deservedly  punished,  and  in  order  thereunto, 
have  not  only  put  themselves  out  of  commons  but  persuaded  other 
fellows  of  this  society  to  do  the  same,  thereby  giving  countenance 
and  abetting  the  persons  so  offending.  For  remedy  whereof,  be  it 
enacted  by  this  present  parliament  and  by  the  authority  of  the  same, 
that  in  case  any  member  of  this  society  shall,  for  any  offence  by  him 
committed  against  the  orders  of  this  society,  be  either  suspended,  put 
out  of  commons,  expelled,  or  otherwise  punished,  that  then,  if  any 
fellow  or  member  of  this  society  shall  in  countenance  of  such  offender, 
so  put  out  of  commons,  either  put  himself  out  of  commons  or  persuade 
any  others  to  put  themselves  out  of  commons,  or  otherwise  abet  the 
said  person  so  offending  or  punished,  as  aforesaid,  that  then  all  and 
every  person,  so  offending,  shall  forfeit  his  and  their  chamber  and  be 
absolutely  disabled  from  being  called  to  the  bar  or  bench  and  to  be 


8  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1661-2 

subject  to  such  other  punishment  as  the  bench  for  the  time  being 
shall  think  fit  to  impose." 

Special  admissions  of  Henry  and  Thomas  Pagett ;  of  Robert 
Johnson,  at  the  request  of  his  uncle,  Edward  Johnson  of  the  bench; 
and  of  Samuel  Hopkins,  son  of  Sir  Richard  Hopkins  of  the  bench, 
at  the  request  of  his  father. 

The  petitions  of  Henry  Chilton,  steward,  and  of  James  Ellis  are 
referred  to  the  table. 

It  is  ordered  that  Dr.  Ball,  master  of  the  Temple,  shall  be 
allowed  from  this  society  25/2.  per  quarter  in  full  satisfaction  for  all 
dues  and  demands  whatsoever  from  this  society.  And  for  the  better 
raising  of  such  monies,  as  already  are  or  hereafter  shall  be  payable 
from  this  House  to  Dr.  Ball  for  his  preaching  in  the  Temple  church, 
it  is  ordered  that  every  fellow,  who  has  a  chamber,  shall  pay  every 
term  as  follows  :  every  bencher,  2s.  6d. ;  every  utter  barrister,  25. ; 
every  other  fellow,  is.  8d.  ;  and  every  fellow  being  in  commons  with- 
out a  chamber,  every  utter  barrister,  is.  6d.,  and  every  other  fellow 
under  the  bar,  1 2d. 

"  It  is  likewise  ordered  that  Dr.  Griffith,  lecturer  of  the  Temple, 
shall  be  allowed  from  this  society  12/2.  los.  per  quarter,"  and  for  the 
raising  of  which,  every  bencher  shall  pay  2s.  per  term  ;  every  utter 
barrister  who  has  a  chamber  or  shall  be  in  commons,  is.  6d. ;  and 
every  other  fellow  who  has  a  chamber  or  shall  be  in  commons,  is. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  26  January,  13  Charles  H.,A.D.  1661-2,  before 
JOHN  HEATH,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  ARTHUR  TREAVOR,  and  others. 
SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  reader's  dinner  : — Ravenscroft,   John    Lane,   and 
Phillip  Smith. 


PARLIAMENT  held  9  February,  14  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1661-2,  before 
JOHN  HEATH,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  ARTHUR  TREAVOR,  and  others. 
SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  George  Shieres,  son  of  Mr.  Shieres  of  the 
bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 


i66zj  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  9 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  20  April,  14  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1662,  before 
EDWARD  JOHNSON,  FRANCIS  PHILLIPPS,  EDWARD  THURLAND,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

The  election  of  the  reader  and  his  attendants  is  referred  to  the 
next  parliament. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  n  May,  14  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1662,  before 
RICHARD  GODDARD,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  FRANCIS  PHILLIPPS,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

His  Majesty  having  sent  a  letter  directed  to  the  treasurer  and 
benchers  of  this  society,  desiring  that  John  Heath,  attorney  of  the 
Duchy,  one  of  the  benchers  of  this  House,  might  be  excused  from  his 
reading,  in  respect  whereof  and  in  consideration  of  the  services  he 
has  done  and  great  sufferings  he  has  undergone  for  his  Majesty,  it  is 
ordered  that  he  shall  be  totally  excused  and  discharged  from  ever 
reading,  receiving  nevertheless  all  advantages  as  if  he  had  already 
read. 

Edward  Thurland  chosen  reader  and  Goddard,  Yorke,  and  Hol- 
bech,  his  attendants. 

Upon  the  petition  of  John  Baker  for  an  allowance  in  respect  of 
22/z.  IO.T.  expended  in  re-building  the  greatest  part  of  his  chamber, 
blown  down  by  the  violence  of  the  wind,  it  is  ordered  that  he  be 
allowed  20  marks. 

Francis  Hoblyn,  Henry  Deering,  John  Alchorne,  Edward  Lloyd, 
John  Wadman,  William  Coo,  William  Farrer,  William  Alston, 
Thomas  Argall,  James  Founteyne,  Thomas  Flatman,  Laurence 
Blomley,  Alexander  Fitton,  Alexander  Stanhope,  George  Walker, 
and  Edward  Edkins  called  to  the  bar. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  i  June,  14  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1662,  before  JOHN 
HEATH,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  ARTHUR  TREAVOR,  and  others.  SIR 
HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards   of    the    reader's    dinner :— John    Edisbury,    Richard 
Greenvile,  and  William  Lane. 

III.  C 


io  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1662 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  15  June,  14  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1662,  before  JOHN 
HEATH,  RICHARD  GODDARD,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  and  others.  SIR 
HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Entries  of  admittances  to  chambers  only. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  4  November,  14  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1662,  before 
JOHN  HEATH,  RICHARD  GODDARD,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  and  others. 
SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

William  Yorke  chosen  reader,  and  Holbitch,  Boll,  and  Johnson, 
his  attendants. 

Auditors  : — Goddard,  Phillips,  Dalby,  and  Henn  for  the 
steward's  accounts  ;  and  Thurland,  Yorke,  Croke,  and  Buggins  for 
the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Officers  for  the  grand  Christmas : — Marshals  :  Francis,  Lord 
Newport,  Sir  Thomas  Littleton,  Sir  Thomas  Trevor.  Stewards  : 
Francis  Coventry,  Sir  William  Walter,  and  Sir  Thomas  Barnardiston. 
Butlers  :  Sir  George  Booth,  and  Sir  Bainham  Throckmorton. 

The  admission  of  Rupert,  Prince  Palatine,  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Cleveland,  Joselin,  Lord  Peircy,  John,  Lord  Berkeley,  Henry  and 
Bernard  Howard  of  Norfolk  (who  were  admitted  at  the  last  reading) 
are  confirmed. 

Special  admission  of  Philip  Frowd,  at  the  desire  of  Thurland, 
late  reader. 

Cave  and  Farewell  of  the  bench,  Carew  and  Harris  of  the  bar, 
and  Wroth  and  Coddington  under  the  bar,  or  any  three  of  them,  are 
desired  to  examine  the  accounts  and  compare  them  with  former  years, 
taking  into  consideration  the  late  exactions,  and  to  propose  a  remedy. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Heneage  Finch,  continued. 


1662] 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

*  Entries  similar  to  those  marked  with  an  asterisk  occur  frequently  in  the  accounts. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Heneage  Finch,  treasurer,  from  3  November,  1661, 

to  4  November,  1662. 


RECEIPTS. 

Admissions  to  the  House,  i58//.  6s.  8d. 
Admittances  to  chambers,  297^'.  105. 
Calls  to  the  bar,  6o/r'. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  Anthony  Elton,*  for  nursing  a  child  for 

14  weeks,  at  4$.  a  week,  and  205.  for 

clothes,  2li.  &s. 
To    Seth    Elliott,*    the   gardener,    for   a 

quarter's  wages,  4//.  1 5 s. 
To  his  wife,*  for  washing  the  house  linen, 

2/i.  us.  8</. 
To  Anthony  Elton,*  for  nursing  a  child 

10  weeks,  1/1. 


To  a  gentleman    that   brought  my  Lord 
Cook's  books  from  the  Lady  Sadler's,  s//. 
To  the  carman,  $s. 
To  the  porters,  75.  6d. 
Given  to  a  man  that  brought  two  pictures 

from  my  Lady  Sadler's,  6.r. 
To  the   Duke  of  York's  company  for  a 

play  on  ist  Nov.,  2oli. 

To  John  Playford,  for  his  wages  as  clerk  of 

the  church  and  for  necessaries  laid  out 

upon  the  church  for  a  year,  3//.  i  $s.  zd. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  7 1  oft.  1 6s.  ?>d. 

Sum  total  of  the  disbursements, 

145.  8J. 
Remainder,  216/1.  2s. 


ACCOUNT  of  Richard  Fifield,  chief  butler,  from  3  November,  1661,  to 

4  November,  1662. 


RECEIPTS. 

From  Henley  for  the  rent  of  the  King's 
Bench  office,  5//. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Dr.  Ball,  on  6  December,  1661,  by  the 
treasurer's  order,  for  his  allowance  for 
the  year  past,  ioo//. 
To  Dr.  Griffith,  by  the  treasurer's  order, 


To  Wright,  the  musician,  for  his  yearly 

fee  and  5  Nov.,  4/1. 
To   Dr.  Ball,  on   22  April,   1662,  for  his 

allowance  for  a  quarter  ended  at  Lady 

day,1  25/7. 
To  Dr.   Griffith  for  a  quarter's  stipend,1 

I2//'.    I  OS. 

To  Hall,  for  painting  and  setting  up  the 
Duke  of  York's  arms  in  the  hall  window, 
3* 

1  A  like  sum  allowed  him  quarterlj'. 


To  the  woodmonger  for  400  of  faggots  for 

bonfires,  2/i.  8s. 

To  Thomas  Cartwright,  the  mason,  for  the 
moiety  of  work  done  at  the  Temple 
Bridge,  6s.  6d. 

To  the  Exchequer  for  the  fee  farm  rent  of 
the  House  for  two  years  and  a  half  at 
Michaelmas,  1662,  25/1. 
To  Heath  for  reading  prayers  for  half  a 
year,  •j/i.  los. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  4i8//'.  195. 

54 
Sum  total  of  the  disbursements,  377//. 

2S.    IO(/. 

So  there  remains  in  the  accountant's 

hands,  4i//.  75.  id.  (sic.) 
Allowance  to  the  accountant  for  his  pains 
in  overseeing  the  gravelling  of  the  walks 
and  paving  the  churchyard. 


12  A   CALENDAR    OF   THE  [1662-3 

ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  23  November,  14  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1662,  before 
JOHN  HEATH,  RICHARD  GODDARD,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  and  others. 
SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Order  that  those  owing  for  vacation  or  amercements  since  Hilary 
term,  1660,  shall  make  payment  thereof  upon  pain  of  having  their 
chambers  seized  and  sold  ;  and  those  owing  for  vacations  before 
Hilary  term,  1660,  shall  have  liberty  to  compound  with  the  treasurer. 

Special  admissions  of  Heneage  Finch,  second  son  of  Sir  Heneage 
Finch,  treasurer,  at  the  request  of  his  father  ;  of  William  Finch,  third 
son  of  Sir  Heneage  Finch,  at  the  request  of  his  father  ;  and  of 
Edward  Pecke,  second  son  of  Pecke  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of 
his  father. 

George  Johnson,  George  Cure,  Nicholas  Dennis,  Samuel  Bald- 
win, Thomas  Farrer,  and  Richard  Croke  called  to  the  bench. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  25  January,  14  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1662-3,  before 
JOHN  HEATH,  RICHARD  GODDARD,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  and  others. 
SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Allowances  of  board  wages  to  the  officers,  wages  to  watchmen, 
and  to  the  gentlemen  keeping  private  commons  at  Christmas. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — Francis  Cooper,  Edmund 
Wyld,  and  Sir  Jeremy  WhichcotL 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  8  February,  14  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1662-3,  before 
JOHN  HEATH,  RICHARD  GODDARD,  EDWARD  JOHNSON  and  others. 
SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Order  that  the  steward  shall  give  security  before  the  end  of  the 
term  for  the  paying  and  discharging  of  debts  due  to  the  baker, 
brewer,  and  such  others  as  serve  the  House  with  provisions,  and  in 
default  the  steward  to  be  discharged  from  his  office. 

Order  that  any  bencher  under  the  degree  of  a  reader,  who  shall 
be  chosen  reader's  attendant  and  fail  therein,  shall  be  fined  20 
marks. 


,663]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  13 

Order  that  George  Johnson  and  George  Cure  be  fined  40/2.  each 
for  refusing  to  come  to  the  bench  after  being  called,  and  that  they  be 
for  ever  disabled  from  being  called  to  the  bench. 

It  is  ordered  that  any  bencher  of  this  House  who  shall  refuse, 
and  declare  before  the  reading  next  preceding  his  choice  that  he  will 
not  read,  shall  be  disbenched  and  fined  ioo/z.,  but  if  he  shall  not  so 
declare  it,  he  shall  be  disbenched  and  fined  150/2.  for  disappointing 
the  House. 

William  Lister  and  Richard  Powell  called  to  the  bench. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  10  May,  15  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1663,  before  JOHN 
HEATH,  RICHARD  GODDARD,  EDWARD  JOHNSON  and  others.  SIR 
HEANAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Allowance  to  officers  and  watchmen. 

Matthew  Holbech,  who  was  to  have  read  at  the  summer  vaca- 
tion, but  declared  his  refusal  before  the  last  Lent  reading,  is  dis- 
benched and  fined  ioo/z.,  and  his  chamber  to  be  seized. 

Bold  chosen  reader  for  the  summer  vacation,  and  Cave  and 
Tubervile,  his  attendants.  The  election  of  the  third  bencher  as 
ancient  is  respited  till  next  parliament. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  31  May,  15  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1663,  before  JOHN 
HEATH,  RICHARD  GODDARD,  EDWARD  JOHNSON  and  others.  SIR 
HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Richard  Goddard  chosen  attendant  on  the  reader. 

Special  admissions  of  Francis  Foster,  son  of  Foster  of  the 
bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father ;  and  of  William  Yorke,  nephew  of 
Yorke  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  uncle. 

Whereas  Arthur  Bold,  a  bencher,  was  chosen  reader  for  the 
summer  vacation,  and  has  expressed  himself  unwilling  to  hold  that 
office,  it  is  ordered  that  in  case  he  shall  fail  to  read  this  summer, 
he  shall,  after  the  first  Sunday  in  August  next,  incur  the  fine  of  200/2. 
and  be  disbenched  and  his  chamber  seized,  and  that  the  like  penalty 
be  inflicted  upon  all  future  benchers  who  shall  fail  to  perform  the 
exercise  of  reading  in  their  turns,  being  chosen. 


14  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1663 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  21  June,  15  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1633,  before  JOHN 
HEATH,  RICHARD  GODDARD,  EDWARD  JOHNSON  and  others.  SIR 
HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  readers  dinner : — Thomas  Bulstrod,  George 
Farewell,  and  Francis  Williamson. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  5  July,  15  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1663,  before  JOHN 
HEATH,  RICHARD  GODDARD,  EDWARD  JOHNSON  and  others.  SIR 
HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

The  petition  of  Mary  Lashley,  Samuel  Speed,  James  Farr, 
Richard  Gwynn,  Widow  Cock,  Thomas  Birdwhistle,  William 
Pinckney,  Edward  Husband,  and  Christopher  Perrin  to  the 
treasurer  and  masters  of  the  bench  setting  out  that  the  petitioners 
"  utterly  disclaiming  all  pretences  of  right  or  interest  unto  any 
watercourses  from  their  respective  habitations  into  the  common 
sewer,  and  from  thence  into  the  River  of  Thames,  through  any  of 
the  lanes  of  this  honourable  society,  yet  your  petitioners  for  want  of 
such  watercourse  (especially  upon  any  sudden  rain)  being  much 
annoyed  to  the  great  prejudice  of  their  respective  houses,  do  humbly 
present  this  their  distressed  condition  to  your  wonted  clemency  and 
prudence  for  relief,  and  in  all  humility  beseech  your  honours 
graciously  to  permit  your  petitioners  (without  the  least  infringing 
the  immunities  or  rights  of  your  honourable  House)  to  convey  their 
watercourse  through  the  Inner  Temple  Lane.  They  freely  engaging 
(with  all  gratitude)  that  for  the  future  they  will  be  very  cautious  of 
occasioning  any  manner  of  annoyance  or  offence  thereby  to  your 
honourable  society." 

It  is  ordered  that  the  petitioners  be  permitted  to  make  a  passage 
for  their  water,  according  to  the  directions  of  the  officers  of  the 
House,  and  the  said  watercourse  to  continue  during  pleasure. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  5  November,  15  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1663,  before 
JOHN  HEATH,  RICHARD  GODDARD,  EDWARD  JOHNSON  and  others. 
SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Order  that  John  Cave,  a  bencher,  who  should  have  read  this 


1663]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  15 

next  Lent  vacation  and  refused,  shall  be  disbenched,  his  chamber 
seized,  and  that  he  be  fined  200/2. 

John  Turbervile  chosen  reader  for  the  next  Lent  vacation,  and 
Phillips,  Foster,  and  Sir  Richard  Hopkins,  his  attendants. 

Auditors : — -Trevor,  Peck,  Shuter,  and  West  for  the  steward's 
accounts ;  and  Thurland,  Shieres,  Carew,  and  Palgrave,  senior,  for 
the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Officers  for  the  grand  Christmas  : — Marshals :  Francis,  Lord 
Newport,  Sir  Thomas  Littleton,  and  Sir  Thomas  Trevor.  Stewards  : 
Francis  Coventry,  Sir  William  Walter,  and  Sir  Thomas  Barnardiston. 
Butlers  :  Sir  George  Booth  and  Sir  Bainham  Throckmorton. 

"  Whereas  by  the  ancient  order  of  this  society,  every  member 
thereof  being  once  called  to  the  degree  of  serjeant  at  law,  hath 
usually  quitted  the  possession  of  such  chamber  or  lodging  as  he 
held  therein  before  such  his  call,  presently  or  at  least  within  a  term 
or  two  after,  but  now  upon  the  last  call  of  Serjeants,  whereby  divers 
are  removed  hence  who  had  never  performed  the  office  and  exercise 
of  readers,  there  hath  been  a  necessity  of  calling  many  to  the  bench 
table  to  supply  the  exercise  and  government  of  the  House,  who  suffer 
great  inconvenience  and  discouragement  for  want  of  bench  chambers, 
some  whereof  are  still  full  of  those  Serjeants,  called  above  three  years 
since,  by  which  the  exercise  and  government  of  the  House  hath 
much  failed,  and  so  is  like  to  do  for  the  future.  It  is  therefore 
ordered  and  enacted,  etc.,  that  the  head  butler  of  this  House  do 
forthwith  give  notice  to  all  Serjeants  at  law,  formerly  of  this  Society, 
who  do  still  keep  the  possession  of  any  chambers  or  lodgings  therein, 
which  they  formerly  held  as  bench  chambers,  that  they  quit  possession 
of  the  same  before  the  end  of  this  present  term.  And  that  if  they 
shall  neglect  so  to  do  by  the  space  of  fourteen  days  after  the  end  of 
this  term,  that  then  the  head  butler  of  this  House  shall  take  possession 
of  the  same  for  the  use  of  this  society,  or  such  masters  of  the  bench 
who  are  by  act  of  parliament  of  this  House  admitted  thereto  respec- 
tively, by  setting  new  locks  upon  the  doors  of  the  same." 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Heneage  Finch  continued. 


i6 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[1663 


GENERAL   ACCOUNT    BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Heneage  Finch,  treasurer,  from  4  November,  1662, 

to  5  November,  1663. 


Admissions  to  the  House,  226/2'.  6s.  ?>d. 
Admittances  to  chambers,  931/2.  165.  %d. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  Anthony  Elton,  for  nursing  a  child  for 

three  weeks  and  205.  for  clothes,  2/2'.  los. 
For  a  lantern  for  the  treasurer's  staircase, 

8s. 
To  Chilton,  for  wine  for  the  House  and 

for  the  supper  of  the  auditors  of  the 

treasurer's  account,  19/2'.  45.  3^. 
For  a  play  called  "The  Brothers,"  which 

was  acted  by  the  King's  players,  20/2'. 
To  Richard  Wooseley,  the  baker,  for  bread 

to  23  Jan.  last,  130/1. 
To  Yorke,  at  his  reading,  the  sum  of  20/2'., 

which  he  paid  to  the  treasurer  when  he 

was  called  to  the  bench,  20/2. 
To   Frances  Elton,  widow,  for  nursing  a 

child,  i//.  6.r. 
To  the  porter,  for  candles  burnt  at  the  gate 

for  a  year,  zli.  85. 


To  Margaret  Fox,  for  nursing  a  child,  ili. 

45. 

For  coach  hire  to  Lombard  Street  to  re- 
ceive 100/2.  given  to  the  House  hy  Mr. 
Audeley,  25. 
To  Barbara  Renton,  for  nursing  a  child, 

ili.  6s. 

To  Henry  Hall,  the  potter,  for  84  cast  of 
pots  and  for  bringing  and  laying  of  them 
in,  6 ft.  195.  8d. 

To  Clark,  an  attorney,  for  suing  John 
Goodwin's  bond  and  George  Johnson's 
bond  to  the  outlawry,  3/2'. 
To  John  Young,  for  mason's  work  for  the 
repair  of  the  bridge  at  the  Water  Gate 
and  other  work,  24/2.  1 •js.  •jd. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  1 370/2'.  55.  $d. 
Sum  total  of  the  disbursements,  5 1 2/1. 

IQS.  6d. 

In  the  hands  of  the  treasurer,  857/2'. 
145.  lod. 


ACCOUNT  of  Richard  Fifield,  chief  butler,  from  4  November,  1662, 

to  5  November,  1663. 


RECEIPTS. 

From  Turner,  for  the  rent  of  the  barber's 
shop  and  chambers  in  the  churchyard, 
6.r.  8<Z. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  the  master  of  the  revels,  by  order  of 

the  masters  of  the  bench,  2/1. 
Quarterly  allowances  to  Dr.  Ball  and  Dr. 

Griffiths  as  before. 
To  the  master  of  the  revels  on  Candlemas 

eve  and  Candlemas  day,  by  order  of  the 

masters  of  the  bench,  4/2'. 
To   Drake,   the   upholsterer,   for  a   serge 

curtain  and  for  hire  of  a  screen  on  All 

Hallows  day,  \li. 


To  Browne,  for  a  sundial,  3/2. 
To  Playford,  clerk  of  the  church,  for  the 
payment  of  several  ministers  for  reading 
prayers  in  the  Temple  Church,  a  quarter 
ending  at  Michaelmas,  3/2.  155. 
To  the  Exchequer,  for  the  fee  farm  rent 

for  a  year,  10/2'. 
To  the  master  of  the  revels  on  5  Nov.,  by 

order  of  the  bench,  2/2. 
For  200  faggots  for  bonfires,  1/2.  45. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  417/2'.  19^. 

id. 
Sum  total  of  disbursements,  340/2'.  i6s. 

gd. 

Remaining  in  the  accountant's  hands, 
77/2.  25.  4<£ 


,662]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  17 

CHRISTMAS   ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACTS  OF  PARLIAMENT  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  Inner  Temple,  held  on 
the  Vigil  of  St.  Thomas  the  Apostle,  1662. 

Tyrrell,  speaker  of  the  Parliament  for  this  Christmas. 

Orders  that  Wicherly  be  controller  for  the  present  Christmas ; 
that  Pargiter,  Parker,  and  Tirer  be  stewards  for  the  first  week  in 
Christmas  ;  and  that  Steward,  Traps,  and  Hoskins  be  the  committee 
of  music  for  this  Christmas. 

Every  person  who  shall  come  into  commons  this  Christmas 
shall  subscribe  and  pay  205-.  to  the  stewards ;  and  that  no  person, 
now  in  town,  shall  be  admitted  into  commons  this  Christmas  but 
those  who  shall  pay  in  the  said  20^.  to  the  stewards  betwixt  this  and 
Wednesday  at  noon. 

Mr.  Lane  to  bring  the  order  of  the  last  Christmas  Parliament 
into  the  next  parliament. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  22  December. 

Order  that  the  stewards  give  in  bond  to  the  speaker  to-day 
according  to  custom. 

Whereas  it  appears  upon  the  report  of  Sawyer  and  Cock  that 
Hare  was  re-admitted  after  his  expulsion,  that  therefore  the  former 
order  for  his  suspension  be  taken  off  the  file. 

Order  that  Pollexfen  give  an  account  forthwith  of  all  such 
moneys  as  he  hath  at  any  time  received  by  the  order  of  the  com- 
mittee of  thirteen,  appointed  by  the  last  Christmas  Parliament.  And 
further  that  the  account  which  Pollexfen  has  now  brought  into  this 
parliament  of  the  moneys  received  by  him,  according  to  the  order  of 
the  said  committee,  shall  be  a  sufficient  account  and  allowed.  And 
the  said  Pollexfen  to  bring  in  the  31/2.  I2.y.  4^.  with  which  he  now 
stands  charged,  into  parliament  this  morning. 

The  accounts  which  Lister  has  brought  in  of  the  moneys  received 
by  him,  by  order  of  the  said  committee,  be  a  sufficient  account  and 
allowed,  and  that  he  have  the  thanks  of  this  House  for  his  care  and 
fidelity. 

Ledgingham  to  have  6oli.  in  satisfaction  for  his  chamber,  seized 
by  the  bench  in  pursuance  of  an  order  made  15  November,  1662,  by 

III.  D 


i8  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1661 

the  committee  of  thirteen  ;  and  the  48/2'.  5^.  lod.  already  paid  to  him 
by  order  of  the  committee  shall  be  part  of  the  said  sum  ;  and  upon 
payment  of  the  balance  by  the  speaker,  Ledgingham  shall  assign  all 
his  interest  in  the  said  chamber.  Ledgingham  to  be  particularly 
invited  to  keep  his  Christmas  with  this  society,  and  the  committee  of 
music  to  wait  upon  him  for  that  purpose. 

The  speaker  to  pay  the  residue  of  the  31/2'.  12s.  4^.,  remaining 
in  his  hands  after  Ledgingham  is  satisfied,  to  the  stewards  for  the  use 
of  the  House. 

No  person  who  has  not  paid  his  20^.  and  is  owing  for  repasts 
shall  take  any  more  until  he  pay  what  is  behind  or  his  2CW. 

Every  person  shall  pay  for  his  repasts  before  he  rise  from  the 
table. 

The  gentlemen  to  pay  2s.  for  each  repast,  and  for  every  stranger 
he  brings  in,  is. 

Auditors  to  be  appointed  to  take  an  account  of  the  50/2.  paid  to 
Pargiter  and  Hopkins  by  order  of  the  committee  of  thirteen,  for  the 
use  of  the  House,  and  John  Harris,  Boone,  and  Lane  be  the  auditors 
for  that  purpose. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  December. 

Order  that  the  marshal  upon  the  penalty  of  a  noble,  to  be 
deducted  from  his  wages  for  every  default,  to  take  care  that  there  be 
but  one  table  for  hazard  and  that  in  the  upper  library,  and  that  the 
table  for  hazard  pay  every  box  is. 

The  stewards,  out  of  the  money  they  are  to  receive  from  the 
speaker,  are  to  pay  all  debts  contracted  during  the  last  Christmas, 
not  exceeding  altogether  the  sums  of  5/2. 

The  steward  to  take  care  hereafter  that  dinner  be  served  up  at 
twelve  o'clock,  and  supper  before  seven,  and  the  present  stewards  to 
be  continued  for  the  following  week,  and  that  they  have  the  thanks 
of  the  House  for  their  care  and  pains. 

Boone,  John  Harris,  and  Law  to  be  the  auditors,  to  audit  this 
week's  accounts,  and  to  bring  in  their  report  next  parliament. 


i66»-3]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  19 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  30  December. 

Order  that  the  9/2.  in  Hopkins'  hands  of  the  moneys  delivered 
him  by  order  of  the  committee  of  thirteen,  be  paid  to  the  speaker. 

That  the  benchers  (including  the  six  benchers  of  last  call)  be 
invited  to  dine  with  Mr.  Controller  this  Christmas.  That  Sunday  be 
the  day  for  the  benchers  to  dine  with  Mr.  Controller,  and  that  the 
committee  of  music  be  desired  to  invite  the  benchers  accordingly. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  2  January,  1662-3. 

Order  that  the  Serjeants  of  this  society  be  likewise  invited  to 
dine  with  Mr.  Controller  on  Sunday  next ;  and  that  the  committee  of 
music  be  desired  to  invite  the  Serjeants  accordingly. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  3  January. 

Order  that  the  present  stewards  be  continued  for  the  residue  of 
this  Christmas  ;  and  that  Pescod,  John  Harris,  and  Boone  be  auditors 
for  the  last  week's  expenses,  and  bring  in  their  report  to  the  next 
parliament. 

That  a  committee  be  appointed  to  wait  on  Yong,  late  lord  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  and  desire  him  in  the  name  of  this  House  to  attend 
this  society  betwixt  this  and  Twelfth  Day ;  and  that  Cook,  Litleton, 
Gilthrop,  and  Mudeford  be  a  committee  to  wait  upon  his  late  honour 
accordingly. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  4  January. 

Ordered  that  whereas  Pargiter,  Parker,  and  Tirer  "  have  now 
resigned  their  stewardships,  that  their  resignation  is  excepted,  and 
that  they  be  longer  stewards  ;"  and  that  they  be  again  stewards  for 
the  rest  of  this  Christmas. 


zo  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1662-3 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  5  January. 

Order  that  whereas  it  appears  that  Hare  has  affronted  Powell, 
the  said  Hare  be  suspended  commons  till  he  acknowledges  the  said 
affront. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  6  January. 

Ordered  that  Cooke  be  speaker  pro  tempore  during  the  speaker's 
absence. 

That  whosoever  shall  now  be  chosen  lord  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
shall  not  refuse  the  office ;  and  that  Martin  be  lord  of  the  Inner 
Temple  this  Christmas. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  9  January. 

Order  that  the  former  auditors  be  continued. 

That  a  committee  be  appointed  to  collect  all  the  rents  due  to  the 
lord  of  the  Inner  Temple  from  chambers  or  offices  in  the  House,  and 
to  pay  them  to  his  lordship's  treasurer;  and  that  Gilthrop,  Mudeford, 
and  Coddington  be  such  committee. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  10  January. 

Order  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  wait  on  the  masters  of 
the  bench,  and  desire  them,  in  the  name  of  the  gentlemen  this 
Christmas,  that  Ledgingham  be  restored  to  the  society ;  and  that 
Buggin,  Powell,  Hampson,  Richardson,  Wicherley,  and  Terrell  be 
that  committee. 

That  Christmas  commons  end  this  night. 

That  eight  persons  be  appointed  commissioners  to  audit  the 
accounts. 

That  Pargeter,  Parker,  Tirer,  Richard  Harris,  Cook,  John  Harris, 
and  Gilthrop,  or  any  five  of  them,  be  such  commissioners,  and  that 
Coddington  be  added  to  them. 


,663-4J  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  21 

That  the  former  orders  be  executed  before  the  first  day  of  next 
term. 

That  the  watchmen  have  their  coats  given  to  them. 

MISCELLANEA. 

1663,  i  August.  Agreement  between  Sir  Heneage  Finch, 
treasurer  of  the  Inner  Temple,  of  the  first  part,  Sir  Edward  Turner, 
treasurer  of  the  Middle  Temple,  of  the  second  part,  and  John  Younge 
and  Nicholas  Younge,  his  son,  citizens  and  freemasons  of  London,  of 
the  third  part,  as  to  the  repair  of  the  Temple  Bridge. 

ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  22  November,  15  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1663,  before 
JOHN  HEATH,  RICHARD  GODDARD,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  and  others. 
SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Robert  Audley,  John  Carnesew,  John  Melton,  John  Harris, 
Charles  Tooke,  John  Croke,  John  Smith,  Walter  Hooper,  George 
Palmer,  George  Noades,  Thomas  Tirer,  Samuel  Gorges,  William 
Westbrooke,  William  Greene,  Philip  Pargiter,  James  Mickleton, 
John  Nicholson,  John  Hodges,  Thomas  Jenner,  John  Wine,  Thomas 
Champion,  Nicholas  Townley,  Walter  Littleton,  Richard  Young, 
James  Coddington,  and  John  Richardson,  are  called  to  the  bar.  And 
the  said  John  Richardson  is  not  to  be  sworn  till  he  is  of  full  seven 
years'  standing. 

Robert  Pescodd,  prothonotary  of  the  Chancery,  called  an  assistant 
to  the  bar. 

Order  that  the  chief  butler  for  the  future  shall  not  present  any 
gentleman's  name  in  his  paper  to  be  called  to  the  bar  before  he  be  of 
full  time  and  done  some  exercise. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  24  January,  15  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1663-4,  before 
JOHN  HEATH,  FRANCIS  PHILLIPS,  ARTHUR  TREVOR,  and  others. 
HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — George  Farewell,  Kenwricke 
Eyton,  and  Francis  Williamson. 


22  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1663-4 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  7  February,  16  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1663-4,  before 
ARTHUR  TREAVOR,  EDWARD  THURLAND,  WILLIAM  YORKE,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  William  Baldwin,  son  of  Baldwin  of  the 
bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father;  and  of  William  Howard,  son  of 
Sir  William  Howard,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

"  Whereas  by  the  ancient  orders  of  this  House  such  gentlemen 
of  this  society  as  intended  to  be  called  to  the  bar,  were  to  perform 
at  the  Inns  of  Chancery  twelve  grand  moots  over  and  besides  petty 
moots  and  other  exercises.  And  whereas  that  learned  exercise,  by 
reason  of  the  long  discontinuance  of  readings,  hath  been  forborne, 
and  since  the  reviving  of  readings  not  so  diligently  performed  as 
formerly,  by  reason  that  the  vacation  utter  barristers,  who  are 
amerciable  by  the  ancient  orders  of  this  House  upon  any  failure  of 
the  said  grand  moots,  have  conceived  that  they  were  not  equally 
obliged  with  other  students  under  the  bar  to  perform  the  same.  It 
is  therefore  ordered  that  the  said  vacation  utter  barristers  shall  as 
formerly  be  diligent  in  performing  the  said  grand  moots  under  such 
penalties  as  were  formerly  inflicted  upon  them.  And  it  is  also 
further  ordered  that  this  House  will  expect  that  students  under  the 
bar  of  this  society,  that  shall  hereafter  be  called  unto  the  bar,  shall 
perform  eight  grand  moots  and  such  other  exercise  as  they  ought  to 
perform,  before  they  be  called  to  the  bar.  And  the  third  butler  to 
take  notice  of  all  such  as  shall  perform  the  said  exercise,  and  of  the 
failers,  if  any  shall  be,  and  at  the  beginning  of  the  term  to  certify  the 
bench  then  in  commons  thereof  accordingly." 

The  petition  of  Magdalen  Curtis,  widow  of  William  Curtis, 
formerly  for  above  thirty  years  steward  of  the  society,  to  the  treasurer 
and  masters  of  the  bench,  setting  out  that  her  great  sufferings  in  the 
late  times  which  with  many  losses  attending  her  impoverished  con- 
dition, enforces  her  to  ask  for  relief. 

Order  that  the  said  petitioner  shall  have  10/2.  towards  her 
relief. 


,664]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  23 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  i  May,  16  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1664,  before 
RICHARD  GODDARD,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  FRANCIS  PHILLIPS,  and 
others.  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Thomas  Foster  chosen  reader  for  the  summer  vacation,  and  Sir 
Richard  Hopkins,  Milton,  and  Treavor,  his  attendants. 

Special  admission  of  Robert  Johnson,  at  the  request  of  his 
grandfather,  Edward  Johnson  of  the  bench. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  22  May,  16  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1664,  before 
EDWARD  JOHNSON,  ARTHUR  TREAVOR,  EDWARD  THURLAND,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

"  Whereas  a  building  is  now  erecting  on  the  north  side  of  the 
garden  adjoining  to  the  Temple  Church,  in  the  soil  whereof  the 
Middle  Temple  have  an  equal  interest  with  this  society,  it  is  there- 
fore declared  at  this  present  parliament  that  Dr.  Ball,  the  present 
master  of  the  Temple,  shall  have  the  leave  of  this  society  to  hold 
and  enjoy  the  same  during  his  being  master,  and  that  after  the  death 
or  removal  of  Dr.  Ball  the  same  shall  for  ever  continue  in  the  joint 
and  equal  disposition  of  both  the  societies." 

Special  admission  of  John  French,  grandchild  to  the  late  Lord 
Chief  Justice  Foster,  at  the  request  of  his  father,  Mr.  French,  of 
this  House. 

The  petition  of  Sir  Robert  Henley,  knight,  prothonotary  of  the 
Court  of  King's  Bench,  that  he  and  his  father  have  held  the  build- 
ings or  rooms  wherein  the  King's  Bench  Office  is  now  kept,  under 
the  society,  for  above  thirty  years,  at  the  rent  of  5/2.,  and  in  con- 
sideration of  the  sum  of  400/2'.  contributed  by  George,  Duke  of 
Buckingham,  the  petitioner's  predecessor,  towards  erecting  the  same. 
Of  late  the  rent  has  been  raised  to  20/2'.  ;  the  petitioner  therefore  prays 
that  the  society  will  permit  him  to  enjoy  the  said  rooms  for  his  life 
at  the  said  rent  of  20/2'.  per  annum.  Whereupon  an  order  was  granted 
in  accordance  with  the  above  petition. 

The  petition  of  Eleanor  Saunders,  widow  of  John  Saunders,  late 
under  cook,  that  her  husband,  having  been  for  many  months  sick  of 
a  lingering  consumptive  distemper,  was  compelled  through  poverty 


34  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  1664 

to  contract  some  debts,  the  petitioner  prays  that  some  relief  may  be 
granted  to  her.     Order  that  the  petitioner  be  granted  5/2'. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  12  June,  16  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1664,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  knight,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  ARTHUR  TREAVOR, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — John  Shelton,  Henry  Elwes, 
and  Richard  Derringer. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  26  June,  16  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1664,  before 
RICHARD  GODDARD,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  ARTHUR  TREAVOR,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Order  that  the  chamber  of  Richard  Collins,  two  pair  of  stairs 
high  in  Tanfield  Court,  shall  be  seized. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  3  November,  16  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1664,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  ARTHUR  TREAVOR,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Sir  Richard  Hopkins,  knight,  chosen  reader,  and  Thurland, 
Milton,  and  Sheires,  his  attendants. 

Auditors  : — Sir  John  Heath,  Yorke,  Hamson,  and  Henn  for 
the  steward's  accounts  ;  and  Phillips,  Foster,  Cooper,  and  Dalby  for 
the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Special  admission  of  Henry  Huddleston,  of  Sawston,  in  the 
county  of  Cambridge,  at  the  request  of  Foster,  late  reader. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Heneage  Finch,  solicitor  general,  is  continued. 


:664] 


INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Heneage  Finch,  treasurer,  from  5  November,  1663, 

to  3  November,  1664. 


Admissions  to  the  House,  i83//. 
Admittance  to  chambers,  47 ili.  IT,S.  A,d. 
Caution  money  on  calls  to  the  bar,  <)6li. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  Barbara  Benton,  for  nursing  a  child  1 2 

weeks  and  20.?.  for  clothes,  2//.  45. 
To  his   Majesty's  players,  for  a  play  on 

Candlemas    day    called    "The    Silent 

Woman,"  2O//. 
To  Dr.  Ball,  towards  building  a  house  in 

his  garden,  looli. 
To  Elliott,  the  gardener,  for  laying  of  the 

walk  where  the  Black  Building  stood, 

and  for  gravel,  i6//.  i8s.  lod. 


To  Serjeant  Hoskins'  man  upon  delivering 

up  of  the  keys,  los. 
To  the  potter,  for  pots  in  Lent  vacation, 

for  the  reading,  -jli.  i  is.  6d. 
To  the  same  in  Easter  term,  ili.  igs. 
To  his  Majesty's  players,  for  acting  a  play 
on  All  Saints  day  last  in  the  Temple 
called  "The  Little  Thief,"  20/1. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  i,6o9//.  8.r. 

td, 
Sum  total  of  the  disbursements,  9S7//. 

i2s.  iid. 
In  the  hands  of  the  treasurer,  65  ili. 


ACCOUNT  of  Richard  Fifield,  chief  butler,  from  5  November,  1663,  to 

3  November,  1664. 


RECEIPTS. 

From  Francis  Cheeke,  treasurer  of  Lyon's 
Inn,  for  the  rent  of  that  House,  4/1. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Power,  the  draper,  for  seven  yards  and 

a  half  of  green  cloth  for  a  carpet  for  the 

bench  table,  4/1.  25. 

To  Weston,  for  a  leather  carpet,  zli.  2s. 
To  Dr.  Ball,  for  his  allowance  at  25/1.  a 

quarter. 
To  Dr.  Griffiths,  for  the  like  at  12/1.  los. 

a  quarter.' 
To  Sleighton,  for  reading  prayers,  at  3/1. 

15$.  a  quarter. 
To  Richard  Atkinson  on  28  April,  1664, 


for    chimney    money    for    two    years, 
ili.  4s. 

To  William  Mills,  the  porter,  for  the  hire 
of  men  to  guard  the  thieves  taken  in 
Cooke's  chamber,  55.  6d. 
To  Richard   Roberts,  for  his  charges  in 

prosecuting  the  thieves,  i8s. 
To   Parnell,  for   reading   prayers   for   the 

Michaelmas  quarter,  3//.  155. 
To  the  Exchequer,  for  the  fee  farm  rent, 

i  oli. 

For  300  of  faggots  for  bonfires,  ili.  i6s. 
Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  48S//.  4^.  2d. 
Sum  total  of  the  disbursements,  377//. 

i6s. 

So  there  remains  in  the  accountant's 
hands,  io8//.  -js.  $d. 


III. 


a6  A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1663 


CHRISTMAS   ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

ACTS  OF  PARLIAMENT  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  Inner  Temple  held  on 
the  Vigil  of  St.  Thomas,  1663. 

Officers  : — Litleton,  speaker  ;  Barnes,  controller  ;  Danvers, 
Lane,  and  Fitzwilliam,  stewards  ;  Traps,  Cutler,  and  Treavor,  the 
committee  of  music. 

Ordered  that  every  one  now  absent,  who  does  not  pay  before 
Wednesday,  may  not  come  into  commons  without  special  motion. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  21  December. 

Allowance  of  Terrell's  accounts  concerning  Ledgingham's 
chamber,  and  the  money  in  Terrell's  hands  to  be  paid  to  the  stewards, 
and  the  stewards'  bonds  be  sealed. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  23  December. 

Order  that  Henry  Bagshaw,  nominated  by  the  Middle  Temple, 
do  preach  on  Christmas  Day ;  and  that  Denton  preach  on  Sunday 
next. 

Order  that  Whithall  and  South  be  ambassadors  to  the  Middle 
Temple  ;  and  that  Littleton  and  Terrill  be  appointed  to  acquaint 
Denton  of  the  House's  choice  for  next  Sunday. 

Orders  that  napkins  be  provided  by  the  stewards  throughout 
the  whole  hall,  and  that  they  be  changed  every  day ;  that  Mr. 
Solicitor  General  have  the  thanks  of  the  House  returned  him  for  the 
doe  he  sent  to  the  controller  and  the  House ;  that  it  be  left  to 
the  stewards'  discretion  to  provide  what  they  think  fit  for  every 
mess ;  and  that  the  fashion  of  the  watchmen's  coats  and  the  time 
when  they  shall  be  provided,  be  referred  to  the  discretion  of  the 
stewards,  the  value  of  the  coats  not  exceeding  2os.  a  piece. 


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CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  24  December. 

Orders  that  the  controller  have  no  power  to  give  order  for  any 
commons ;  that  the  marshal  and  butlers  have  2s.  6d.  reward  for 
detecting  every  box  keeper  who  shall  in  any  way  defraud  the  House 
in  his  box  keeping ;  and  that  there  be  a  committee  of  three  to  have 
power  to  search  any  box  keeper,  whom  they  suspect  to  defraud  the 
House,  and  that  Whithall,  Ramsden,  and  Trender  be  of  that 
committee. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  25  December. 

Order  that  Phillip  Litleton  and  Pettit  be  auditors  of  the  accounts 
of  the  steward  for  this  week,  and  that  the  auditors  have  "  exceed- 
ings "  in  their  commons  only  for  that  day  on  which  they  bring  in 
their  accounts. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  26  December. 

Orders  that  no  person  speak  above  once  to  the  same  question 
after  it  is  fully  stated  and  agreed  upon ;  that  Pollexfen,  Terrill,  the 
elder,  and  Richardson  be  the  auditors  for  the  stewards'  accounts  ;  that 
the  House  admit  no  trumpeters  or  drummers  except  his  Majesty's 
into  the  hall ;  and  that  no  gentlemen's  servants  have  any  commons 
allowed  by  the  stewards,  except  the  controller's  two  men. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  December. 

Order  that  the  auditors'  allowances  of  the  stewards'  accounts  for 
the  last  week  be  allowed  by  the  House,  and  that  the  stewards  bring 
in  their  accounts  as  they  did  in  the  year  1660. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  i  January,  1663-4. 

Orders  that  the  auditors  for  last  week  be  newly  elected  for  this 
week  ;  that  the  bench  and  Serjeants  of  this  society  be  invited  to 
dinner  this  Christmas  ;  and  that  the  parliament  chamber  be  appointed 


28  A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1664 

for  the  retiring  rooms  of  the  benchers  and  Serjeants,  and  that  the 
box  keeper  and  butlers  attend  upon  them. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  5  January. 

Orders  that  the  accounts  brought  in  by  the  auditors  and  reported 
in  parliament,  pass  ;  that  no  officer's  mess  be  above  six  ;  and  that  the 
officers,  except  the  controller,  have  for  their  "exceedings"  half  as 
much  as  the  commons  of  the  rest. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  6  January. 
Order  that  Needham  be  Lord  of  the  Temple. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  8  January. 

Order  that  Phillips,  Sawyer  (notwithstanding  his  not  being  in 
commons),  and  Pettit  be  auditors  for  this  week. 
That  Christmas  be  continued  a  week  longer. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  1 1  January. 

Order  that  the  accounts  brought  in  by  the  auditors  be  allowed ; 
that  the  stewards  by  their  turns  take  special  care  of  all  the  neces- 
saries of  the  kitchen  ;  and  that  Robinson,  the  second  cook,  have  4/2'. 
given  him  by  the  House. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  15  January. 

Order  that  Phillips,  Pettit,  and  Treavor  of  the  bar,  be  auditors 
for  the  week. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  16  January. 

Orders  that  the  accounts  by  the  auditors  brought  in  be  allowed ; 
that  the  controller,  the  speaker,  the  stewards  and  the  committee  of 
music  have  the  thanks  of  the  House ;  that  the  late  stewards  be  a 
committee  to  receive  the  box  money  this  present  night ;  that  the  late 
auditors  receive  the  accounts  of  the  committee  of  all  the  moneys  that 


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INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


29 


any  way  accrue  to  the  House ;  that  the  stewards,  having  discharged 
themselves  to  the  auditors,  have  their  bonds  delivered  up  ;  and  that 
the  said  committee  dispose  of  the  surplusage  of  the  money  that  shall 
accrue  to  the  House,  according  to  their  discretion,  for  the  honour  of 
the  House. 

Order  that  this  Christmas  commons  end  to-night;  that  Allen 
receive  all  the  remaining  utensils  of  the  House  into  his  custody,  till 
next  Christmas  ;  and  that  the  watchmen  have  their  coats  given  them 
by  the  House. 

ACCOUNT  for  Christmas,  1663-4.  The  following  are  given  as 
examples  of  the  daily  accounts  for  dinner  and  supper  : — 


Sunday,  27  December.  For  dinner: — 15 
tongues  and  15  udders,  3//.  7^.  6d. ;  14 
capons,  2/1.  2S. ;  4  pheasants  and  8 
teals,  i/i.  y.  4d. ;  3  tarts,  y.  For 
supper :  —  14  shoulders  of  mutton, 
2/i.  gs. ;  19  tarts,  igs. ;  8  cocks  and  8 
partridges,  ili.  i2s. ;  5  snipe  and  12 
larks,  8s.  8d. ;  a  leg  of  veal  and  22  Ib.  of 
beef,  1 2S. ;  a  dish  of  tarts,  $s. ;  2  breasts 
and  a  loin  of  veal,  gs. ;  in  all  manner  of 
particulars  for  dressing  and  garnishing, 
as  by  the  cook's  bill  appears,  $/i.  is. 
In  all,  \ili.  is.  6d. 

Monday,  28  December.  For  dinner  : — 
42  chicken,  zli.  2s. ;  14  geese  at  45., 


2/i.  i6s.  6d. ;  6i  Ibs.  of  bacon,  $s.  $d. ; 
42  marrow  bones,  i/i.  8s. ;  8  quarts  of 
oysters,  i6s. ;  16  green  plovers,  ill.  ^s. ; 
a  tart,  $s. ;  10  cocks,  and  8  widgeons, 
ili.  8s.  ;  2  partridges,  and  24  larks,  8.T. ; 
2  dried  tongues,  6s. ;  anchovies  and  other 
things  by  bill,  15$.  $d.  Yof  supper: — 
14  necks  and  breast  of  veal,  2/i.  i6s. ;  14 
capons,  2/i.  2S. ;  4  ducks  and  8  cocks, 
i/i.  2s.  8d.  ;  8  partridges,  2  teals,  2 
pullets,  and  12  larks,  i/i.  $s.  8d.  ; 
anchovies  and  butter  and  other  things, 
i  gs.  2d. ;  a  leg  of  veal  and  beef  for 
gravy,  i2s.  6d.  In  all,  20/1.  us.  8J. 


Amongst  the  other  items  the  following  occur : — 

For  4  pullets,  one  pheasant  and  8  cocks, 
i/i.  i4S.  For  14  pigs,  $/i.  75.  6d.  For 
4  dozen  larks  and  16  Ib.  of  sausages, 
I4S.  8d.  For  14  "Westfalie"  hams, 
4/i.  45.  For  8  widgeons  and  18  green 
plovers,  ili.  i$s.  For  billets  and  faggots, 
ili.  i6s.  For  coals,  "j/i.  For  staves, 
2S.  6d.  For  the  porter,  wax  torches, 
and  glasses,  ili.  los.  lod.  For  music, 
15/2.  For  dice,  $ili.  For  wine,  2g/i.  4$. 
For  casting  boxes,  $li.  gs.  To  the 


marshal,  usher  and  harper,  6/.  For 
blowing  the  horn,  5^.  Allowed  a  min- 
ister, z/i.  4s.  For  15  turkeys,  4/1.  los. 
For  2  "growsis"  and  2  "  curlewes,"  i6.r. 
Beef  for  sweetbreads.  Paid  the  charge 
of  my  lord's  night,  28//'.  14^.  Received 
in  box  money,  307//.  9^.  dd.  For  wash- 
ing the  hall  and  library,  $s.  Paid  the 
surgeon  and  to  the  watchman,  that  was 
hurt,  3//. 


30  A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1664 


MISCELLANEA. 

1664,  June  1 8.  Orders  made  by  the  Lord  High  Chancellor  of 
England  and  all  the  Judges  of  both  benches  and  barons  of  the  Ex- 
chequer, by  command  of  the  King,  signified  by  the  Lord  Chancellor 
for  the  government  of  the  Inns  of  Court  and  Chancery. 

"  First,  That  the  Inns  of  Chancery  shall  hold  their  government 
subordinate  to  the  benchers  of  every  the  Inns  of  Court  unto  which 
they  belong,  and  that  the  benchers  of  every  Inn  of  Court  make  orders 
for  governing  them,  as  to  keeping  commons  and  attending  and  per- 
forming exercise,  according  to  former  usage.  And  in  case  any 
attorney,  clerk,  or  any  officer  of  any  court  of  Justice,  being  of  any  of 
the  Inns  of  Chancery,  shall  withstand  the  direction  given  by  the 
benchers  of  Court,  upon  complaint  thereof  to  the  Judges  of  the 
Court  in  which  he  shall  serve,  he  shall  be  severely  punished,  either 
by  'forejudging'  from  the  Court,  or  otherwise  as  the  case  shall  deserve. 

"  Secondly,  That  the  benchers  of  every  Inn  of  Court  cause  the 
Inns  of  Chancery  to  be  surveyed  that  there  may  be  a  competent 
number  of  chambers  for  students,  and  that  once  a  year  an  exact  sur- 
vey be  taken  that  the  chambers  allotted  for  that  purpose  be  accord- 
ingly employed." 

Thirdly,  as  to  the  lodging  and  harbouring  of  dangerous  persons. 
This  is  in  the  same  words  as  the  first  of  the  like  rules  made  in  1614 
(see  Inner  Temple  Records,  vol.  ii.,  p.  83). 

Fourthly,  as  to  good  government  in  matters  of  religion.  In  the 
same  terms  as  the  second  of  the  rules  above  referred  to. 

Fifthly,  as  to  the  society  being  ordained  chiefly  for  the  profession 
of  the  law.  In  the  same  terms  as  the  third  of  the  above  mentioned 
rules. 

"  Sixthly,  In  that  there  ought  always  to  be  observed  a  difference 
between  utter  barristers,  readers  in  Court,  apprentices  at  law,  which 
are  the  principal  persons  next  to  the  sergeants  at  law  and  judges  in 
administration  of  justice,  and  attorneys  and  solicitors,  which  are  but 
ministerial  persons  of  an  inferior  nature,  and  therefore  it  is  ordered 
that  from  henceforth  no  common  attorney  or  solicitor  shall  hereafter 
be  admitted  of  any  of  the  four  Houses  of  Court." 


1664]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  31 

Seventhly,  as  to  the  maintaining  of  readings.  In  the  same 
terms  as  the  sixth  of  the  rules  before  referred  to. 

"  Eighthly,  That  none  be  admitted  to  the  bar  but  only  such  as  be 
at  least  of  seven  years'  continuance  and  have  kept  his  exercise  within 
the  House  and  abroad  in  Inns  of  Chancery,  and  have  been  frequently 
in  commons  according  to  the  orders  of  the  House.  And  none  be 
called  to  the  bar  by  readers  but  by  the  bench  at  parliaments,  councils, 
and  pensions,  and  that,  when  they  shall  find  a  number  of  fit  and 
learned  students  and  of  honest  conversation  and  well  deserving  the 
same." 

"  Ninthly,  That  the  benchers  hereafter  be  chosen  for  their  learn- 
ing, for  their  only  keeping  the  exercises  of  their  House,  for  their 
honest  behaviour  and  good  dispositions  and  such  as  for  their  experi- 
ence and  practice  be  of  best  note  and  ability  to  serve  the  kingdom. 
And  if  any  refuse  to  read  then  they  are  to  undergo  such  fine  and 
censure  as  the  benchers  or  readers  shall  think  fit  to  lay  on  them, 
which,  if  they  shall  refuse  to  pay  or  perform,  then  upon  complaint  to 
the  judges,  such  course  shall  be  taken  by  them  as  shall  enforce  them 
to  the  performance  thereof." 

Tenthly,  as  to  decency  in  apparel.  In  the  same  terms  as  the 
ninth  of  the  rules  before  referred  to. 

Eleventhly,  as  to  reverence  and  respect.  In  the  same  terms  as 
the  last  of  the  above  rules. 

"  Twelfthly,  It  is  ordered  that  readings  in  the  Inns  of  Court  begin 
at  the  usual  time  and  continue  until  Friday  in  the  second  week  next 
after  their  commencement  inclusive,  as  hath  been  heretofore  used. 
And  for  the  prevention  of  disorders,  that  the  readers  take  care  that 
no  person  be  permitted  to  drink  in  their  cellars,  and  that  there  be  no 
expense  of  wine  in  the  House  but  publicly  in  hall  at  meals." 

"  Thirteenthly,  For  that  readings  are  grown  so  excessive  a  charge 
that  many  of  eminent  abilities  for  learning  have  been  discouraged 
from  undertaking  the  same,  and  some  which  did,  have  been  much  dis- 
abled thereby  in  their  estates  to  the  injury  of  them  and  their  families, 
it  is  ordered  that  no  reader  have  above  twelve  attendants  in  liveries 
nor  expend  above  300/2.  in  the  whole  charge  of  his  readings,  except 
such  as  are  of  the  King's,  Queen's  or  Prince's  Counsel,  or  such  others 
as  have  liberty  to  come  within  the  bar  or  the  recorder  of  the  City  of 
London  for  the  time  being." 


32  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1664 

"  Fourteenthly,  For  the  better  supporting  and  carrying  on  of  read- 
ings, it  is  ordered  that  such  benchers,  barristers,  and  other  gentlemen 
of  the  several  societies  attend  at  the  readings  for  arguing  the  reader's 
cases  and  performing  other  exercises  and  services,  both  within  the 
societies  and  at  the  Inns  of  Chancery,  as  hath  been  used  by  the 
ancient  orders  of  the  respective  Inns  of  Court.  And  that  the  benchers 
consider  of  and  impose  fitting  penalties  to  enjoin  the  due  observance 
thereof." 

"  Fifteenthly,  It  is  ordered  that  readers  at  Inns  of  Chancery  be 
chosen  and  continue,  and  readings  and  all  other  exercises  be  duly 
performed  there,  according  to  the  former  usages  of  the  respective 
Inns  of  Court  and  Chancery. 

"Sixteenthly,  For  prevention  of  unnecessary  expense  lately 
crept  into  the  Inns  of  Court  and  of  disorders  thereby  occasioned,  it  is 
ordered  that  no  gentleman  of  any  Inns  of  Court,  being  either  called 
to  the  bar  or  at  or  under  the  bar,  who  shall  bring  in  any  bar  or  other 
moot,  shall  give  any  entertainment  with  wine  or  otherwise  to  the 
gentlemen  of  the  society  or  others,  either  within  or  out  of  the  House, 
upon  penalty  that  the  gentleman  that  breaks  this  order  shall  pay  10/2. 
to  the  society,  and  that  such  moot  shall  not  be  taken  to  be  an  exer- 
cise, but  here  to  remain  in  the  same  (and  no  better)  condition  than  as 
if  the  moot  had  not  been  performed  at  all. 

"  Seventeenthly,  For  that  it  is  found  by  experience  that  by  the 
neglect  of  commons  in  the  vacations  the  gentlemen  of  the  Inns  of 
Court  are  often  drawn  to  frequent  ordinaries,  gaming-houses,  and 
other  places  of  disorder,  whereby  the  neglect  of  their  studies,  if  not 
the  corruption  of  their  manners,  is  occasioned,  it  is  ordered  that  the 
benchers  of  every  Inn  of  Court  take  care  that  commons  be  constantly 
kept  as  well  all  the  vacations  as  in  the  term  time,  except  as  is  herein- 
after mentioned,  and  that  the  barristers  and  other  gentlemen  of  the 
societies  do  keep  or  be  cast  into  commons,  according  to  the  ancient 
orders  of  the  respective  societies.  And  for  the  prevention  of  dis- 
honour to  the  societies  by  the  great  disorders  and  mischief  which 
happen  by  gaming  and  other  licentious  courses  lately  used  in  the 
time  of  Christmas,  no  commons  shall  be  kept  in  any  Inns  of  Court  in 
the  time  of  Christmas  or  in  one  week  before  or  after.  And  if  this 
order  shall  not  be  observed  or  if  any  shall  presume  to  break  open 
the  hall,  kitchen,  or  cellar  doors  in  any  Inns  of  Court  or  attempt  the 


,664]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  33 

same,  for  the  keeping  of  Christmas  commons,  that  complaint  be  made 
thereof  to  the  Lord  Chief  Justices  or  any  other  the  Judges  which 
shall  be  then  in  town  who  will  take  a  speedy  and  .  .  .  course  for  the 
suppressing  and  punishment  thereof." 

And  lastly,  for  that  the  keeping  up  of  constant  exercises  is  the 
chiefest  means  of  inciting  gentlemen  to  diligence  in  their  studies, 
and  of  attaining  a  sufficient  ability  in  the  profession  of  the  law,  it  is 
ordered  that  the  benchers  of  the  several  Inns  of  Court  take  especial 
care  that  exercises  be  regularly  performed  as  well  in  the  vacation  as 
in  the  terms,  according  to  the  orders  of  the  respective  Houses,  and 
for  the  better  support  thereof  in  the  vacations,  that  barristers  and 
gentlemen  under  the  bar  be  strictly  enjoined  by  the  benchers  of 
every  Inn  of  Court,  to  keep  their  vacations  according  to  the  ancient 
customs  of  the  respective  Houses. 

Signed,  Clarendon,  C.,  Robt.  Hyde,  Orl.  Bridgman,  Matthew 
Hale,  Edward  Atkins,  Tho.  Twisden,  Tho.  Tirrell,  Chr.  Turner, 
Sam.  Browne,  Wm.  Wyndham,  Ja.  Keeling,  Ja.  Archer,  and  Richd. 
Rainsford.  (Copy.) 


ACTS   OF   PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  November,  16  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1664,  before 
EDWARD  JOHNSON,  EDWARD  THURLAND,  JOHN  TUBERVILL,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Charles  Hatton,  second  son  of  Christopher, 
Lord  Hatton,  at  the  request  of  Tubervile,  late  reader ;  and  of  Whit- 
locke  Bulstrod,  grandchild  of  Bulstrod  of  the  bench,  deceased,  at  the 
request  of  his  father,  Richard  Bulstrod. 

John  Vaughan  "  is  desired  to  accept  of  the  bench  according  to 
his  former  call  and  with  the  like  seniority,  voice,  and  precedency,  but 
discharged  of  any  obligation  or  expectation  to  read  by  the  unanimous 
consent  of  this  parliament  and  the  full  respect  of  the  whole  House." 

Whereas1  John  Warner  has  lately  purchased  of  the  relict  of 
Thomas  Turner,  barber,  a  shop  and  room  over  it  in  the  churchyard, 
and  has  added  two  rooms  to  the  same,  it  is  ordered  that  in  considera- 

1  This  entry  is  at  the  end  of  the  volume  of  Acts  of  Parliament,  and  in  a  different 
handwriting  to  the  other  entries  of  proceedings  at  this  parliament. 
HI.  F 


34  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1664-5 

tion  of  his  surrendering  the  remainder  of  the  lease  granted  to  the 
said  Thomas  Turner,  he  shall  have  a  new  lease  for  twenty-one 
years.  Nevertheless  the  said  shop  and  rooms  shall  be  subject  to 
the  House  in  case  the  church  be  repaired  and  beautified  on  the 
outside. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  29  January,  16  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1664-5,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  knight,  attorney  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster, 
EDWARD  JOHNSON,  FRANCIS  PHILLIPS,  and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE 
FINCH,  treasurer. 

Allowance  to  officers  and  watchmen.     The  allowance  to  the 
gentlemen  for  Christmas  commons  is  referred  to  the  bench  table. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — Lancelot  Johnson,  the  elder, 
John  Sparrow,  and  Edward  Searle. 

Petition  of  Dr.  Richard  Ball,  reciting  that  "  an  habitation  within 
your  walls  for  your  preacher  is  both  of  a  civil  and  sacred  concernment, 
which  made  me  much  desire  it,  though  I  sat  rent  free  where  I  lived. 
The  love  of  your  society  towards  this  work  I  do  and  shall  always 
thankfully  acknowledge,  which  gave  me  the  last  spring  one  hundred 
pounds.  Besides  that  hundred  pounds  I  have  laid  out  upon  that 
building  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  and  upwards.  My  humble 
request  to  your  honourable  society  is  that  you  will  be  pleased  to 
remove  this  great  burden  from  my  shoulders  or  at  least  to  lighten 
it."  Order  for  the  said  petition  to  be  referred  to  Mr.  Attorney  of 
the  Duchy  and  Sir  Richard  Hopkins,  to  inquire  into  the  nature  of 
the  doctor's  disbursements  and  report  to  the  bench  table. 

Petition  of  Richard  Rudyard,  a  member  of  the  society  of  the 
Middle  Temple.  "That  the  petitioner's  chamber  being  situate  on 
the  east  side  of  the  churchyard  in  part  looking  towards  Parson's 
Court  and  the  chamber  over  the  same  belonging  to  the  Inner  Temple, 
and  the  side  of  the  chamber  adjoining  to  Parson's  Court  being  an  old 
stone  wall,  and  windows  very  ruinous  and  ready  to  fall  down,  to  the 
great  danger  of  the  petitioner  and  his  neighbours  and  all  passing 
through  Parson's  Court."  The  petitioner  at  the  encouragement  of 
Sir  Heneage  Finch  repaired  the  said  chambers,  and  expended  upon 
the  Inner  Temple  chamber  the  sum  of  20  marks,  which  he  prays  he 


,664-5]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  3S 

may  be  re-imbursed.     Order  that  Foster  and  Powell  of  the  bench 
view  the  said  repairs  and  report  to  the  next  parliament. 

Petition  of  Thomas  Moore,  gentleman,  member  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  that  whereas  by  reason  of  his  great  loss  sustained  through 
one  Fabian  Hicks,  late  a  member  of  this  Society,  to  whom  at  several 
times  he  lent  "by  specialtie"  and  otherwise  270/2'.,  for  the  last  70/2. 
whereof  he  had  a  bargain  and  sale  of  a  chamber,  to  which  he  was 
never  admitted  and  so  knoweth  himself  to  be  lost  in  law.  And  also 
by  reason  of  several  great  losses  sustained  in  the  late  rebellious 
times,  for  his  loyalty,  together  with  his  great  charge,  having  a  wife 
and  eight  children  reduced  from  a  plentiful  estate  to  extreme 
poverty,  he  prays  he  may  be  assigned  a  chamber  in  lieu  of  the 
chamber  above  referred  to,  or  such  relief  as  may  seem  meet.  Order 
that  loli.  be  given  to  the  said  petitioner. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  12  February,  17  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1664-5,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  FRANCIS  PHILLIPS,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Order  upon  the  report  of  the  attorney  of  the  Duchy  and  Sir 
Richard  Hopkins  that  100/2.  be  given  to  Dr.  Ball  to  be  paid  out  of 
the  treasury  of  this  House  towards  his  great  disbursements  about  the 
building  of  his  house  in  the  garden  at  the  east  end  of  the  church. 

Order,  upon  the  report  of  Foster  and  Powell,  that  20  marks  be 
given  to  Rudyard  for  the  repairs  to  the  chamber  in  the  churchyard. 

James  Heath,  George  Croke,  John  Halloway,  Nathaniel 
Whetham,  Thomas  Clarke,  George  Abbott,  Ambrose  Phillips, 
William  Armiger,  Edward  Batthurst,  John  Gilthorpe,  William  Lane, 
Thomas  Pecke,  John  Taylor,  Thomas  Hobson,  William  Ryley, 
Kenwrick  Eyton,  Thomas  Pettit,  Edward  Baldwin,  Charles  Danvers, 
Lewis  Ethrington,  and  Richard  Hopkins  called  to  the  bar. 

"  Whereas  there  hath  of  late  been  a  more  frequent  failure  of 
exercise  in  this  society  than  formerly,  which  has  been  occasioned  by 
reason  that  the  students  of  this  society  have  neglected  to  keep  their 
vacations  according  to  former  orders,  whereby  they  might  have 
enabled  themselves,  both  by  their  study  and  conversation  ;  for  remedy 
whereof  and  in  order  to  have  commons  kept  in  the  vacations,  be  it 
enacted  that  no  member  of  this  society  whatsoever  shall  be  called  to 


36  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1665 

the  bar,  unless  he  be  constantly  in  commons  the  two  last  reading 
vacations  before  the  time  of  his  being  called  to  the  bar,  and  also  have 
performed  all  exercises  required  by  the  orders  of  this  House.  And 
the  better  to  encourage  the  students  of  this  society  punctually  to  per- 
form the  exercises  of  this  House,  it  is  hereby  enacted  that  whenso- 
ever any  student  of  the  society  shall  perform  the  several  exercises  of 
grand  moots,  petty  moots,  library  moots,  clerks'  commons  cases,  and 
imparlances,  and  he  being  of  full  time,  shall  be  called  to  the  bar  and 
not  stay  and  expect  until  a  general  call  to  the  bar  shall  be." 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  23  April,  17  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1665,  before  SIR 
EDWARD  THURLAND,  knight,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  FRANCIS 
PHILLIPS,  and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Christopher  Milton  chosen  reader  for  the  summer  vacation,  and 
York,  Shieres,  and  Ethrington,  his  attendants. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  May,  17  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1665,  before  SIR 
EDWARD  THURLAND,  EDWARD  JOHNSON,  ARTHUR  TREVOR,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

The  choice  of  the  stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  is  referred  to 
the  bench  table. 

Special  admission  of  John  Carter,  at  the  request  of  Sir  Richard 
Hopkins,  and  of  Robert  Lister,  son  of  Lister  of  the  bench,  at  the 
request  of  his  father. 

Petition  of  Henry  Chilton,  steward  of  the  society,  to  be  paid  the 
sums  owing  him  upon  apparels,  and  to  allow  him  for  the  future 
poundage  upon  the  chamber  rolls. 

Order  thereupon  that  the  steward  shall  have  the  allowance  of 
poundage  for  money  gathered  on  the  chamber  rolls,  as  formerly 
Thomas  Allen,  the  butler,  had.  He  shall  also  have  50/2'.  paid  him 
towards  the  apparels,  and  Sir  Thomas  Foster,  Powell,  Thomas  Carew 
and  Hampson  are  ordered  to  inquire  when  the  apparels  became  due. 

Order  in  accordance  with  the  recommendation  of  Yorke,  together 
with  the  other  auditors  of  the  steward's  accounts,  that  the  steward 
shall  yearly  bring  into  his  account  all  debts  due  to  him  by  the  House 


1665]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  37 

or  any  member  for  apparels  or  commons,  which  shall  not  be  de- 
manded again,  and  that  one  of  the  masters  of  the  bench  and  one  of 
the  bar  who  were  auditors  of  the  said  steward's  account  the  preceding 
year,  should  also  be  auditor  the  second  year,  that  they  may  the  better 
understand  what  is  fit  to  be  allowed  and  what  not. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  n  June,  17  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1665,  before  Sir 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  knight,  RICHARD 
GODDARD,  and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — John  Carrell,  George  Cure, 
and  John  Coysh. 

Special  admission  of  Robert  Lyee,  son  of  John  Lyee,  of  Ruth- 
bride  in  Ireland,  at  the  request  of  Trevor ;  and  of  Charles  Baldwinn, 
son  of  Baldwinn  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father.  Admission 
also  of  Viscount  Fanshaw. 

Order  that  by  reason  of  the  sickness  of  the  plague  increasing,  the 
reading  for  the  next  vacation  shall  not  be  kept,  and  therefore  the 
reader,  his  attendants,  and  the  vacationers  are  discharged. 

Whereas  Viscount  Fanshaw  desired  a  piece  of  ground  between 
the  new  building  in  Parson's  Court  and  the  old  building,  called 
Fuller's  Buildings,  containing  in  length  55ft.  and  in  breadth  3oft.,  to 
build  a  room  for  the  Exchequer  Office,  commonly  called  the  Re- 
membrancer, it  is  ordered  that  he  shall  have  liberty  to  build  there, 
provided  that  he  build  it  substantially  and  cover  it  with  lead,  that  he 
build  no  higher  than  the  bottom  of  the  window  of  the  first  storey  and 
range  in  front  with  the  new  building  in  Parson's  Court.  And  he 
shall  hold  the  same  for  forty  years  at  the  yearly  rent  of  40^.,  keeping 
it  in  repair.  And  if  the  estate  which  Viscount  Fanshaw  now  has  in 
the  said  office  should  determine  within  the  said  term,  or  if  the  office 
be  removed,  this  act  shall  determine.  And  the  building  to  be  finished 
before  next  term. 


A  CALENDAR  OF  THE 


[1665-6 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Heneage  Finch,  treasurer,  from  4  November,  1664, 

to  5  February,  1665. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  the  King's  actors,  for  acting  a  play 
called  "  Love  in  a  Maze,"  at  the  Inner 
Temple  Hall  on  Candlemas  day,  zoli. 

To  Henry  Rogers,  the  potter,  for  pots, 
4//.  9-r.  6d. 

To   Henry    Hall,    the    potter,   for    pots, 


To  John  of  Oxford,  by  order  of  the  bench, 

4li. 

For  sea  coal  for  the  watchmen,  ili.  2s. 
Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  io867*.  15.5. 

3* 

Sum  total  of  the  disbursements,  66i77. 

i2S.  5<7. 
In  the  treasurer's  hands,  425/1'.   2S. 


DISBURSEMENTS  by  Richard  Fifield,  chief  butler,  from  3  November, 
1664,  to  3  November,  1665. 


To  the  master  of  the  revels,  by  orders  of 

the  bench,  4//. 

To  Playford,for  a  new  parliament  book,  1 3^ . 
For  Baker's  funeral,  2/i.  qs.  6d. 
To  Dr.  Ball,  for  his  allowance,  at  25//.  a 

quarter. 
To  Dr.  Griffith  for  the  same,  at  izli.  IQS. 

a  quarter. 
To  Parnell,  for  reading  prayers,  at  T,!i.  i  $s. 

a  quarter. 
To  Miland,  for  the  moiety  of  work  done 

in  the  church,  js.  yd. 
To  Playford,  the  clerk,  for  the  payment  of 

several   ministers    for   reading  prayers, 


For  six  dozen  counters,  3*. 
To  Hall,  the  glass  painter,  for  setting  up 
Mr.  Justice  Keeling's  arms  in  the  hall 
window,  ili.  6s.  8</. 
To   Pomeray,  for  reading  prayers  for  a 

quarter,  3/2'.  i$s. 

To  the  Exchequer  for  fee  farm  rent,  io//°. 
To  the  woodmonger  for  faggots  for  bon- 
fires, 3//.  155. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  4677*.  zs.  $d. 
Sum  total  of  the  disbursements,  3437*. 

5s.  M. 

There   remains   in   the  accountant's 
hands,  1237*'.  165.  8<7. 


ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  1 1  February,  18  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1665-6,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  EDWARD  JOHNSON, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Order  that  the  pension  be  double. 

Allowance  of  5^.  a  man  weekly  to  the  officers  and  watchmen 
during  the  time  of  the  late  discontinuance  of  commons. 


,666]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  39 

The  reader,  his  attendants,  and  the  stewards  for  the  reader's 
dinner  are  continued.  And  in  regard  to  the  sickness  of  the  plague 
still  continuing,  the  same  officers  and  the  vacationers  are  discharged. 

Appointment  of  the  auditors  for  the  treasurer's  accounts  deferred. 

Order  that  every  fellow  shall  pay  his  commons  within  half  a 
week  from  the  auditing  thereof,  and  the  steward  is  to  deliver  the 
name  of  any  fellow  failing  to  do  so  to  the  masters  of  the  bench,  and 
should  the  steward  omit  to  do  this,  he  is  to  expect  no  further  aid 
from  the  House  for  such  debts. 

Order  that  the  steward  shall  attend  at  the  clerks'  commons 
table  with  his  rolls,  at  the  beginning  of  dinners  and  suppers  there 
to  receive  the  money  due  to  him  for  commons,  according  to  the 
ancient  usage. 

Roger  Hill  called  to  the  bar. 

The  appointment  of  Anthony  Smith  as  steward,  confirmed. 

Treasurer: — Sir  Heneage  Finch,  re-elected. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  6  May,  1666,  before  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR 
EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  WILLIAM  YORKE.  SIR  HENEAGE 
FINCH,  treasurer. 

Pension  assessed  single. 

Allowance  to  officers  and  watchmen  during  the  time  that  com- 
mons were  discontinued  in  the  last  vacation. 

Christopher  Milton  continued  reader,  and  York,  Shieres,  and 
Etherington  his  attendants. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner : — John  Carrell,  George  Cure, 
and  John  Coysh. 

Special  admission  of  Thomas  Littleton,  son  of  Sir  Thomas 
Littleton,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Order  that  Thomas  Allen,  second  butler,  shall  collect  the  money 
due  upon  the  rolls  of  Henry  Chilton,  late  steward. 

Order  that  Richard  Fifield,  chief  butler,  shall  have  the  chambers 
and  rooms  lately  built  near  the  gardener's  house,  and  that  he  may 
dispose  of  his  ground  chamber  in  the  Inner  Temple  Lane. 


40  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1666 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  May,  1666,  before  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR 
EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  RICHARD  GODDARD.  SIR  HENEAGE 
FINCH,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Richard  Crooke,  eldest  son  of  Richard 
Crooke,  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father ;  and  of  Arthur 
Fitton,  at  the  request  of  Arthur  Trevor  of  the  bench,  his  uncle. 

William  Palgrave,  James  Tyrrell,  Isaac  Foxcroft,  Francis  Fuller, 
Christopher  Bard,  Henry  Parker,  Ambrose  Butler,  John  Wilkinson, 
Richard  Whitcome,  Richard  Edde,  and  John  Turbervill  called  to 
the  bar. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  i  July,  1666,  before  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR 
EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  RICHARD  GODDARD.  SIR  HENEAGE 
FINCH,  treasurer. 

Francis  Manley  and  Thomas  Wroth  called  to  the  bar. 

The  reading  for  the  next  summer  vacation  is  not  to  be  kept,  on 
account  of  the  sickness.  The  reader,  his  attendants,  the  stewards  for 
the  reader's  dinner,  and  the  vacationers  are  discharged  from  their 
attendance. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  October,  1666,  before  SIR  JOHN  HEATH, 
SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  WILLIAM  YORKE.  SIR  HENEAGE 
FINCH,  treasurer. 

Allowances  to  officers  and  watchmen. 

Order  that  Sir  John  Heath,  Sir  Edward  Thurland,  Yorke,  Sir 
Thomas  Forster,  Goodfellow,  Pecke,  Baldwin,  Croke,  and  Powell, 
benchers,  or  five  of  them,  shall  consider  of  the  new  buildings  to  be 
erected  in  this  House,  and  take  into  consideration  all  circumstances 
touching  the  same. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  5  November,  18  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1666,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  SIR  THOMAS 
FORSTER.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Milton  chosen  reader,  and  Yorke,  Shieres,  and  Etherington,  his 
attendants. 


1 666] 


INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS. 


Auditors : — Sir  Thomas  Forster,  Croke,  Hampson,  and  West, 
for  the  steward's  accounts ;  and  Sir  Edward  Thurland,  Goodfellowe, 
Buggins,  and  Henne,  for  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Special  admission  of  Francis  Twisden,  at  the  request  of  Mr. 
Justice  Twisden,  his  father ;  and  of  Charles  Forster,  at  the  request 
of  Sir  Thomas  Forster,  his  father. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Heneage  Finch,  continued. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Heneage  Finch,  treasurer,  from  5  February,  1665-6 

to  5  November,  1666. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 


To  John  Craford,  for  nursing  a  bastard 
child,1  2/1.  4s. 

To  Alice  Chiltern,  daughter  and  adminis- 
tratrix of  Henry  Chiltern,  late  steward, 
for  wages  due,  i2//'.  i6s. 

To  Samuel  Hall,  for  watching  in  the  fire 
time,  ili.  i$s. 

To  Spier,  the  grocer,  for  the  Inner  Temple 
share  of  a  barrel  of  powder  used  in  the 
time  of  the  fire,  ili.  8s. 


To  Mrs.  Anne  Mathew,  for  stones  and 
paving  the  Middle  Temple  Lane,   for 
the  Inner  Temple  share,  jti.  os.  6d. 
Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  "jgzli.  2s. 

i  o</. 
Sum    total    of    the    disbursements, 

538/t".  is.  2d. 

There   remains   in   emendels,   254/1". 
is.  8d. 


DISBURSEMENTS  by  Richard  Fifeild,  chief  butler,  from  5  November, 
1665,  to  5  November,  1666. 


Allowance  as  usual  to  Dr.  Ball  and  Pomery. 

To  Robert  Britton,  a  carpenter,  the  moiety 

of  a  bill  for  work  done  at  the  church, 

lit.    I2S.   lid. 

To  Thomas   Porter,  bricklayer,   for   the 

like,  2  It. 

To  Blake,  plumber,  for  the  like,  ^li.  8s. 
To  Playford,  the  clerk,  for  hiring  a  preacher, 

IOS. 

For  the  fee  farm  to  the  Exchequer,  loli. 

To  four  engineers  that  worked  at  the  fire, 
by  order  of  the  masters  of  the  bench,  4//. 

To  the  glass  painter,  the  moiety  for  mend- 
ing the  king's  arms  in  the  church  and 
work  in  the  hall,  zli.  is. 

To  Drake,  the  upholsterer,  for  mending 

1  Several  other  like  payments. 

in.  G 


an  old  leather  carpet,  and  for  a  new 

carpet,  ill.  igs. 

To  the  woodmonger,  for  faggots  for  bon- 
fires, 4/r°.  45. 
Allowed  to  Fifeild  for  his  attendance  after 

the  great  fire,  6//. 
To  a  soldier  of  Kingston,  for  service  done 

to  prevent  the  firing  of  the  hall,  zli. 
To  the  three  butlers,  Andrew,  Richard,  and 

Robert,  for  pains  taken  and  watching, 

amongst  them,  4/z'. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  342/r'.  8.r.  &d. 
Sum  total  of  disbursements,    243/1'. 


So  there  remains,  gM.  1 55.  $d. 


. 

42  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1666-7 


ACTS   OF  PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  25  November,  18  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1666,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  SIR  THOMAS 
FORSTER.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

George  Turbervile  called  to  the  bar. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  30  November,  18  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1666,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  FRANCIS 
PHELIPS.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Sir  John  Heath,  attorney-general  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster, 
Sir  Edward  Thurland,  one  of  the  King's  counsel-at-law,  Edward 
Pecke,  Samuel  Baldwin,  William  Lister,  and  Richard  Powell,  masters 
of  the  bench,  or  three  of  them,  to  be  a  committee  "  to  treat  with  any 
persons  and  settle  all  matters  in  reference  to  the  rebuilding  of  the 
Society." 

Order  for  Edward  Pecke  to  rebuild  the  rooms  or  chambers  upon 
the  soil  allotted  for  the  corner  chamber  of  Tanfield  Court,  where  his 
chamber,  which  was  burnt  down,  formerly  stood. 

Licence  to  Hopton,  Shuter,  and  Charles  Stewart,  in  consideration 
of  rebuilding  the  chamber  of  the  said  Shuter  in  Figtree  Court, 
formerly  burnt,  and  paying  the  sum  of  10/2.  to  have  an  assignment 
in  the  said  chamber. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  January,  18  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1666-7,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  FRANCIS  PHELIPS. 
SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Allowance  to  officers  and  watchmen  during  the  discontinuance 
of  commons. 

Stewards  for  reader's  dinner : — John  Carrell,  George  Cure,  and 
John  Coysh. 

Tubervile  chosen  one  of  the  attendants  on  the  reader  in  the 
place  of  Yorke,  now  deceased. 

"  Whereas  at  this  parliament  Richard  Rowe,  mariner,  who  had 
5/z.  formerly  given  him  by  this  society  for  his  pains  taken  in  ex- 


i666-7]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  43 

tinguishing  the  fire  at  the  end  of  the  Inner  Temple  Hall,  did  now 
petition  for  a  further  reward,  whereupon  it  is  ordered  that  the  peti- 
tioner shall  have  given  to  him  the  sum  of  5/2'.  more  as  a  full  and  final 
reward  from  this  society." 

An  agreement  dated  27  January,  1666-7,  between  the  treasurer 
and  masters  of  the  bench  of  the  Inner  Temple  and  Francis  Phelips, 
a  bencher,  touching  the  new  building  of  those  chambers  and  rooms 
called  the  King's  Bench  Building,  lately  consumed  by  fire,  (i)  It  is 
agreed  that  Francis  Phelips  may  rebuild  the  said  buildings  four 
storeys  high,  and  may  also  build  3oft.  in  length  from  the  south  end  of 
the  King's  Bench  Buildings,  towards  the  river  Thames,  to  adjoin 
and  be  part  of  the  said  building.  (2)  That  Francis  Phelips  may 
have  the  old  material  and  may  lay  the  useless  rubbish  on  the  low 
place  between  the  walks  before  the  King's  Bench  Buildings  and  the 
Thames,  and  have  the  use  of  a  landing-place  used  by  the  gardeners, 
and  also  the  use  of  the  void  places  before  that  building,  or  between 
the  Thames  and  that  building,  for  laying  his  materials  and  working 
his  frame  for  the  building.  (3)  That  no  partner  or  sharer  be  im- 
posed on  the  said  Francis  Phelips,  and  that  the  gentlemen  who  had 
chambers  in  those  buildings  before  the  late  fire,  be  preferred  for  the 
new  chambers.  (4)  That  the  master  of  the  King's  Bench  Office  to 
be  admitted  to  a  treaty  as  others  that  had  chambers,  and  the  master 
of  the  Crown  Office  in  the  King's  Bench  may  be  treated  upon  the 
same  terms.  (5)  That  the  said  treasurer  and  masters  of  the  bench, 
as  far  as  lawfully  they  may  in  parliament,  shall  grant  to  the  said 
Francis  Phelips,  his  executors,  administrators,  and  assigns,  the  ground 
where  the  said  building  called  the  King's  Bench  Building  stood,  the 
cellar  under  the  south  part  thereof,  and  3oft.  of  ground  from  the  said 
building  towards  the  River  Thames,  of  the  same  breadth  as  the 
King's  Bench  Building,  for  three  lives,  whereof  two  are  to  be  named 
within  two  years,  and  the  third  by  the  will  or  other  writing  of  the 
said  Francis.  (6)  That  the  said  Francis  shall  have  power  to  grant 
the  said  chambers.  (7)  As  to  the  payments  to  the  treasurer  for 
admittances  to  the  said  chambers.  (8)  That  the  persons  admitted  to 
such  chambers  must  be  members  of  the  society.  (9)  That  every 
room  of  the  said  building  is  granted  to  the  said  Francis,  his  executors, 
administrators  or  assigns  for  three  lives.  (10)  That  the  said  Francis 
be  admitted  to  the  said  ground  without  fine,  (i  i)  That  the  persons 


44  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1666-7 

to  whom  the  said  Francis  shall  grant  the  same  chambers  shall  hold 
the  same  without  let  or  disturbance.  (Signature  of  Francis  Phelips.} 
Order  that  the  masters  of  the  bench,  who  build  any  other  lodg- 
ings in  the  House,  are  to  have  the  like  liberties  and  the  same  terms 
as  Francis  Phelips. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  10  February,  19  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1666-7,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  SIR  THOMAS 
FOSTER.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  William  Farrer,  at  the  request  of  Farrer  of 
the  bench,  his  father ;  and  of  Edward  Herbert,  son  of  Sir  Edward 
Herbert,  deceased. 

John  Conde,  Nicholas  Smith,  John  Sparrowe,  Francis  Wooll- 
freston,  Albian  (sic)  Chaire,  William  Kenwrick,  Edward  Trapps, 
Thomas  Mann,  Thomas  Stermey,  Henry  Russell,  Thomas  Wardner, 
John  Moyle,  and  John  Church,  called  to  the  bar. 

"  Upon  the  proposal  of  Dr.  Ball,  master  of  the  Temple,  to  build 
his  house,  lately  burnt  down,  at  his  own  charge,  and  to  lay  out  in 
building  it  the  sum  of  400/2.,  it  is  agreed  and  so  ordered  that  Dr. 
Ball  laying  out  400/2'.  or  more  in  building  the  said  house,  and  to  build 
with  brick,  shall  have  a  lease  thereof  for  one  and  thirty  years  to 
commence  from  the  time  of  his  death  or  leaving  the  mastership  of 
the  Temple,  which  shall  first  happen,  and  that  the  said  Dr.  Ball,  his 
executors,  or  administrators,  within  three  months  from  and  after  the 
time  of  his  death  or  removal,  which  shall  first  happen,  shall  make  a 
tender  of  the  said  building  and  let  the  same  for  the  whole  term  to 
the  treasurers  for  the  time  being  of  both  Temples,  at  40/2.  per 
annum,  which  said  treasurers  shall  have  two  terms'  time  to  consider 
whether  they  will  give  40/2'.  per  annum  to  the  said  Dr.  Ball,  his 
executors  or  administrators,  for  the  said  house  so  to  be  built  as 
aforesaid,  for  and  during  the  term  of  the  said  lease,  and  then  the 
said  house  be  employed  as  both  societies  shall  agree,  but  if  the  said 
treasurers  shall  within  the  time  aforesaid  refuse  to  give  to  the  said 
Dr.  Ball,  his  executors  and  administrators,  40/2.  per  annum  for  the 
said  house,  for  and  during  the  said  term,  then  the  said  Dr.  Ball,  his 
executors  or  administrators,  shall  let  the  said  house  to  the  master  of 


1667  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  45 

the  Temple  for  the  time  being  at  40/2.  per  annum.  And  if  the 
master  of  the  Temple  shall  refuse  to  give  the  said  rent,  then  he  shall 
let  the  same  to  any  member  or  members  of  either  of  the  societies  of 
the  Temples  and  to  no  other,  at  what  rate  he  thinks  fit." 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  April,  19  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1667,  before  SIR 
EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FORSTER,  and  CHRISTOPHER 
GOODFELLOWE.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Milton  chosen  reader,  and  Turbervile,  Sheires,  and  Etherington 
his  attendants. 

Special  admission  of  John  Goodfellowe,  at  the  request  of 
Christopher  Goodfellowe,  his  father ;  and  of  Richard  Powell,  at  the 
request  of  his  father,  Powell  of  the  bench. 

Sir  Edward  Thurland,  Robert  Sheires,  Christopher  Goodfellowe, 
Richard  Croke,  and  William  Lister,  five  of  the  masters  of  the  bench, 
or  any  three  of  them,  to  be  a  committee  to  see  the  building  by  Ram 
Alley  carried  on  and  the  passages  set  out,  and  the  rubbish  and  other 
obstructions  in  the  way  of  the  buildings  removed  at  the  charge  of 
those  who  layed  the  rubbish  there,  and  to  provide  that  the  work  be 
finished  by  winter.  It  is  also  desired  that  they  will  view  the  ground 
by  the  Alienation  Office  and  arrent  it. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  19  May,  19  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1667,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  SIR  THOMAS  FORSTER. 
SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Order  that  if  any  gentleman,  who  has  undertaken  the  new 
building  by  Ram  Alley,  shall  not  begin  the  said  building  before  the 
first  parliament  in  the  next  term,  then  some  other  gentleman  whose 
chambers  have  been  burnt  down,  shall  be  permitted  to  build  in  his 
room. 

"  Whereas  the  original  institution  of  reading  did  only  respect 
the  instruction  and  advantage  of  the  students  in  the  progress  of  their 
studies,  and  whereas  according  to  the  said  institution  and  the  ancient 
course  and  usage  of  readings  thereupon  grounded  in  this  and  other 


46  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1667 

inns  of  court,  the  readers  were  not  exposed  to  such  excessive  charges 
and  expenses  in  feastings  and  entertainments  as  in  these  later  times, 
wherein  by  reason  of  the  late  excesses  in  that  kind,  divers  of  this 
society,  sufficient  for  their  learning,  have  been  and  yet  are  very  much 
discouraged  from  undertaking  the  said  laudable  exercise  of  reading, 
and  whereas  also  of  late  years  several  gentlemen  of  this  society,  not 
content  with  the  allowances  of  wine  made  unto  them  by  the  readers 
at  public  meals  in  the  hall,  have  used  to  press  into  the  reader's  cellar 
and  many  times  to  carry  strangers  with  them  thither,  there  to  enter- 
tain themselves  and  their  friends,  not  without  some  disorder  often- 
times happening  to  the  gravity  and  good  government  of  this  society. 
For  the  better  regulation  therefore  of  such  charges  and  the  preven- 
tion of  the  like  discouragements,  irregularities,  and  inconveniences 
for  the  future,  be  it  enacted  and  it  is  hereby  enacted  by  this  present 
parliament,  that  no  reader  of  this  society  shall  or  may  from  hence- 
forth have  more  than  six  servants  in  liveries  to  attend  upon  him 
during  his  reading  without  the  licence  and  approbation  of  the 
treasurer  and  benchers  of  this  society,  or  the  major  part  of  them  for 
the  time  being,  first  had  and  obtained  (the  King's,  Queen's,  and 
Prince's  counsel,  the  recorder  of  London,  and  such  who  are  allowed 
to  practise  within  bar,  only  excepted),  and  that  no  reader,  without 
licence  as  aforesaid,  during  his  said  reading  shall  or  may  come  at 
night  into  the  hall  or  be  at  any  expense  there  for  exceedings  or  other- 
wise at  suppers,  or  make  any  feasts  or  entertainments  to  strangers 
upon  reading  days.  And  that  the  said  readers  may  be  at  liberty  to 
take  their  own  time  for  breaking  their  statute  at  the  laver,  so  as  the 
same  be  done  without  prejudice  to  the  said  exercise.  And  lastly  that 
the  gentlemen  of  this  society  shall  be  content  with  the  reader's  allow- 
ance of  wine  in  the  public  hall  at  meals,  without  pressing  or  entering 
at  any  time  hereafter  themselves  or  carrying  any  strangers  into  the 
cellar  appointed  for  the  reader's  stores." 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  9  June,  19  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1667,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  SIR  THOMAS 
FORSTER.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner : — John  Carrell,  George  Cure, 
and  Thomas  Blount. 


1667]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  47 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  3  November,  19  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1667,  before 
SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  CHRISTOPHER  GOODFELLOW,  and  SAMUEL 
BALDWYN. 

Robert  Shieres  chosen  reader,  and  Sir  Thomas  Forster,  Ether- 
ington,  and  Goodfellow,  his  attendants. 

Auditors  : — Lister,  Powell,  Edwards,  and  Gardiner  for  the 
steward's  accounts ;  and  Baldwyn,  Croke,  West,  and  Dolben  for  the 
treasurer's  accounts. 

Special  admission  of  James  Morton,  at  the  request  of  his  father, 
Sir  William  Morton,  one  of  the  justices  of  the  King's  Bench. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Heneage  Finch,  continued. 


BENCH   TABLE   ORDERS.1 
BENCH  TABLE  held  on  12  May,  1667. 

Order  that  Crooke,  Hampson,  and  Richard  Holloway  be  a 
committee  to  consider  the  debts  due  from  the  fellows  to  the  steward. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  13  May,  1667. 

That  Powell,  West,  and  Charles  Holloway  should  join  the  said 
committee. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  14  May,  1667. 

Order  that  the  second  and  third  butlers  shall  daily  assist  the 
steward  to  collect  the  moneys  due  on  the  steward's  roll,  and  that 
loo/z.  thereof  shall  be  received  by  the  steward  for  buying  provisions 
and  the  rest  paid  to  the  chief  butler. 

1  These  are  on  fol.  6  dors,  of  the  first  vol.  of  the  Bench  Table  Orders. 


A  CALENDAR  OF  THE 


[1667 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer,  from  5  November,  1666, 

to  3  November,  1667. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  two  watchmen,  for  watching  one  night 

at   a    fire,   which    happened  over  the 

Crown  Office,  5^. 
To  five  watermen,  for  helping  to  quench 

that  fire,  55. 
To  John  Underwood,  for   mending   the 

engine,  ili.  8s. 
To  John  Ladd,  for  pulling  down  a  brick 

wall  which  stood  within  the  Alienation 

Office  Garden,  io//. 
To  William  Berry  and  Samuel  Hall,  for 

watching  at  the  time  when  the  Dutch 

fleet  came  into  the  River,  ili.  IQS. 
To  John  Jordan,  the  bricklayer,  for  building 


the  library  and  the  chamber  under  it, 


For  moving  a  heap  of  rubbish  from  before 

the  Exchequer  Office,  125. 
To  John  Playford,  for  his  wages  and  board 
wages  as  clerk,  and  for  necessaries  about 
the  Church,  and  for  mending  the  bells, 
i3/«.  175. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  68g//.  85.  <)d. 
Sum  total  of  disbursements,  i,o68/t.  5.?. 
Remains  in  apparels,  378//.  i6.y.  8d. 

(sic). 

Memorandum,  the  treasurer  is  to  be 
charged  with  i2/z.  for  15,000  bricks,  at 
the  rate  of  i6s.  per  1,000. 


DISBURSEMENTS  by  Richard  Fifield,  chief  butler,  from  5  November, 
1666  to  3  November,  1667. 


Allowance  to  Dr.  Ball,  as  before. 

To   Pomeroy,  for   a  quarter,  for  reading 

prayers  in  the  Temple  Church,  ended 

Christmas,  1666,  3#.  155. 
To  Richard  Row,  mariner,  given  him  by 

parliament,  £//'. 
For  mending  the  pump  in  Hare  Court, 

ili.  6s. 

To  Hockett,  for  reading  prayers,  for  quar- 
ter ending  Lady  Day,  3/z.  15^. 
To  Playford,  for  providing  a  preacher  on 

26th  May,  1667,  ili. 
For  an  hour  glass,  and  half  hour  glass, 

is.  $d. 


For  searching  records  in  several  offices, 

ili.  35.  8<f. 
To  Sherwood,  the  minister,  by  order  of 

the  bench  table,  30/7. 
To  Dr.  Stillingfleet,  for  his  allowance  for 

the  Michaelmas  quarter,  2O//. 
To  the  master  of  the  revels,  by  order  of 
the  bench,  2/i. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  367//.  15.  8<f. 
Sum  total  of  the  disbursements,  333/1. 

35.  nd. 

In  the  accountant's  hands,  $M.  i  is. 
yd.  (sic.) 


MISCELLANEA. 

1666,  November  23.  Order  by  the  treasurer  for  the  special 
admission  of  Henry  Bering,  of  the  University  of  Cambridge. 

1666-7,  February  7.  Like  order  for  the  general  admission  of 
Robert  Wadman,  of  the  University  of  Oxford. 


i667-8]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  49 


ACTS   OF   PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  24  November,  19  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1667,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  FRANCIS 
PHILLIPPS.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

John  Boynton,  Thomas  Carew,  Edward  Shelton,  Robert 
Hampson,  and  Thomas  Harris,  called  to  the  bench. 

Special  admission  of  Richard  Milton,  son  of  Milton  of  the  bench, 
at  the  request  of  his  father. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  26  January,  19  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1667-8,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  FRANCIS  PHILLIPPS, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  of  the  reader's  dinner : — Sir  John  Wynn,  Sir  John 
Churchman,  and  Richard  Langhorn. 

Special  admission  of  John  Wolstenholme,  at  the  request  of 
Phillipps  of  the  bench,  and  due  to  him  at  his  reading. 

Order  that  Edward  Shelton  and  Thomas  Harris,  for  refusing  to 
come  to  the  bench,  are  fined  100  marks  each. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  9  February,  20  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1667-8,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  FRANCIS  PHILLIPPS, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Sir  John  Heath,  Phillipps,  Goodfellow,  and  Lister,  appointed  a 
committee  to  determine  all  differences  which  may  arise  between  the 
builders  of  the  several  staircases  near  Ram  Alley. 

Richard  Batt,  John  Walker,  Edward  Cooke,  John  Clendon, 
John  King,  John  Chambelyn,  William  Nourse,  Cherry  Culpepper, 
John  Ramsden,  Christopher  Milton,  and  Henry  Trinder  called  to 
the  bar,  "  laying  down  one  vacation  and  entering  into  bond  of  200/2'. 
with  two  sureties  before  they  be  sworn." 

William  Harpham,  an  ancient  fellow  of  the  society,  in  respect  of 
his  office,  is  called  to  be  an  associate  of  the  bar. 

Henry  Hene  and  Edmund  West  called  to  the  bench. 

Sir  Nicholas  Stroud  called  an  associate  of  the  bench. 

in.  H 


So  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1668 

"  Whereas  certain  rooms  have  been  heretofore  purposely  erected 
and  builded  within  the  precinct  of  this  House,  without  any  charge  to 
the  society  for  the  Office  of  Alienation,  which  buildings  ever  since  the 
erection  of  them,  together  with  the  garden  adjoining  have  been  used 
to  and  for  the  use  of  the  said  office  and  of  the  officers  and  clerks 
serving  in  the  same,  and  for  no  other  use,  which  said  buildings  and 
several  other  buildings  belonging  to  this  Society,  adjoining  to  the  said 
garden  were  burnt  by  the  late  great  fire,  and  whereas  a  certain 
quantity  of  ground  belonging  to  this  Society,  containing  3,2Ooft.,  or 
thereabouts  is  now  made  part  of  the  said  garden  and  some  part  of  the 
buildings,  newly  erected  at  the  charge  of  the  King's  Majesty  for  the 
said  Office  of  Alienation,  are  built  upon  ground  belonging  to  this 
Society  and  likewise  some  part  of  the  buildings  newly  erected  by  this 
Society  are  likewise  built  upon  ground,  part  of  the  said  garden,  con- 
taining i,oi7ft.  or  thereabouts."  It  is  ordered  that  the  King,  his 
heirs,  and  successors  may  for  ever  have  all  the  rooms  and  buildings 
lately  erected  at  the  King's  charge  and  the  said  garden  plot  thereunto 
adjoining,  as  now  it  is,  in  lieu  and  recompense  of  the  soil  whereupon 
the  buildings  have  been  erected  at  the  charge  of  this  Society  or  any 
of  the  members  thereof,  to  the  use  aforesaid  or  any  other  like  public 
service  or  to  or  for  the  use  of  any  fellow  of  the  Society  for  the  time 
being.  And  the  King,  his  heirs,  and  successors  may  nominate  such 
persons,  fellows  of  this  House,  to  be  admitted  into  the  same  rooms, 
buildings,  and  other  the  premises.  And  the  treasurer  shall  admit 
such  persons  without  any  charge,  but  they  shall  bear  the  ordinary 
duties. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  12  April,  20  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1668,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Richard  Etherington  chosen  reader,  and  Sir  Richard  Hopkins, 
Goodfellow,  and  Peck  his  attendants. 

Humphrey  Wirley,  one  of  the  prothonotaries  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas,  called  an  associate  of  the  bar. 

Thomas  Weely  called  to  the  bar. 

Order  that  all  fellows,  who  had  their  chambers  burnt  down  and 
desire  to  build  chambers  in  this  House,  if  they  declare  such  desire 


1668]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  51 

before  the  beginning  of  Trinity  term  to  the  masters  of  the  bench, 
shall  have  ground  allowed  them  to  build  upon,  under  the  same  con- 
ditions as  have  been  granted  to  others,  but  in  case  such  persons  do 
not  make  their  desire  known  before  next  term,  they  shall  be  debarred 
from  such  liberty  and  benefit. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  3  May,  20  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1668,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Order  that  Humphrey  Wirley,  one  of  the  prothonotaries  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas,  shall  sit  at  the  upper  end  of  the  ancient  bar 
table,  above  the  rest  of  the  utter  barristers. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  24  May,  20  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1668,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — John  Penne,  Francis  Shal- 
crosse,  and  William  Dike. 

Humphrey  Wirley  called  an  associate  to  the  bench. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  7  June,  20  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1668,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Order  that  Richard  Etherington,  Christopher  Goodfellow, 
Edward  Peck,  William  Lister,  Richard  Powell,  and  Robert  Hampson, 
six  masters  of  the  bench,  or  any  three  of  them,  be  a  committee  to 
consider  Graham's  petition,  the  several  reparations  "  of  the  walls  and 
sewers  and  the  fitting  of  the  soil,"  against  next  term,  and  to  settle 
the  differences  between  this  House  and  Mr.  Langon. 

Licence  to  Roger  Twisden  to  build  on  the  north  side  of  the 
hall,  for  two  lives,  and  he  shall  pay  the  House  for  such  materials  as 
he  shall  use,  and  cover  the  building  with  lead 

Whereas  Edward  Shelton  has  paid  the  fine  of  100  marks  for  not 
coming  to  the  bench,  it  is  ordered  that  he  shall  receive  his  fine  back 


5*  A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1668 

if  he  take  his  place  at  the  bench  table  the  first  week  of  next  Michael- 
mas term. 

Special  admission  of  Edward  Bamfeild,  son  and  heir  apparent  of 
William  Bamfeild,  of  Gray's  Inn  Lane,  at  the  request  of  Sheires,  in 
respect  of  his  reading ;  and  of  Edward  Cooke  great  grandchild  of 
Sir  Edward  Cooke,  deceased,  at  the  request  of  Sir  Edward  Cooke, 
his  father. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  8  November,  20  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1668,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Pension  assessed  double. 

Christopher  Goodfellowe  chosen  reader,  and  Milton,  Pecke,  and 
Dennis  his  attendants. 

Auditors : — Powell,  Hampson,  Gardner,  and  Shuter  for  the 
steward's  accounts ;  and  Croke,  Pecke,  Richard  Holloway,  and 
Dolben,  for  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Special  admission  of  Robert  Heath,  nephew  of  Sir  John  Heath, 
at  the  request  of  his  uncle. 

Order  that  the  fee  farm  rent  shall  be  paid  to  Watts,  the  Queen's 
receiver,  it  being  part  of  her  Majesty's  jointure. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Henry  Finch,  continued. 


BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  3  November,  1668. 

Croke,  Powell,  and  Hampson  to  examine  the  orders  of  the 
House  and  report  such  as  shall  be  found  to  be  for  the  good  and 
benefit  of  the  House. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  6  November,  1668. 

Crooke,  Powell,   Hampson,   Henne,  and  West  to  consider  of 
sums  owing  to  the  House. 


1668] 


INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS. 


S3 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Heneage  Finch,  treasurer,  from  3  November,  1667, 

to  8  November,  1668. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

In  part  of  a  sum  due  to  the  treasurer, 
100/2'.  In  full  of  what  was  due  to  him  in 
apparels  at  the  foot  of  the  last  account, 
274/2'.  1 6s.  8d. 

To  Isaac  Row,  for  painting  the  library  and 
moot  chamber,  327?'.  15.?. 

To  William  Roundthwayte,  the  joiner, 
for  wainscotting  the  library  and  moot 
chamber  and  for  other  things,  136/2'. 

To  Morice  Emmott  and  Stephen  Cresser, 


for  the  half  of  the  party  wall  so  high  as 
the  library,  21/2'.  2s.  6d. 
To  Henry  Rogers  and  Henry  Hale,  for 

pots,  20/2'.  los. 

To  Mowre,  the  herald  painter,  as  by  his 
bill  appears,  5/2'.  i8.r. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts  [not  given]. 
Total  of  the  disbursements,  998/2'.  175. 

M 
There  rest  in  apparels,  154/2'.  115.  od. 


RECEIPTS  by  Richard  Fifield,  chief  butler,  from  3  November,  1667, 

to  8  November,  1668. 


Of  John  Palgrave  for  a  fine  for  the  failure 
of  a  moot  at  Clement's  Inn  for  his  de- 
fault when  he  was  reader  there,  2/. 


Of  Dennington  for  the  like  at  Clifford's 
Inn,  4/2'. 


DISBURSEMENTS  by  Richard  Fifield  for  the  same  time. 


To  Milton  of  the  bench,  by  the  treasurer's 
order,  the  sum  of  31/2.  6s.  8</.  for  money 
due  by  Carrell,  one  of  the  stewards  of 
the  bar,  for  Milton's  reading,  and  for 
John  Clerke  and  Rosse,  the  two  stewards 
under  the  bar,  31/2.  6s.  8d. 

To  Dr.  Ball,  for  his  allowance,  at  25/2.  a 
quarter. 

To  Dr.  Stillingfleet,  for  his  allowance,  at 
20/2'.  a  quarter. 

To  Hockett,  for  reading  prayers,  at  3/2'.  1 5.?. 
a  quarter. 

To  the  master  of  the  revels,  2/2". 

To  Berre,  the  musician,  for  the  5  Nov.  and 
the  yearly  fee,  4/2. 

To  Thomas  Allen,  for  chimney  money  for 
two  years,  1/2'.  4*. 

For  staves  and  wands,  zs. 

To  Edwards,  the  linen  draper,  for  i6gi  ells 
of  "  broad  Gentis';  Holland  "  for  table 
cloths  and  20  yards  for  towels,  20/2'. 


Delivered  to  the  treasurer  to  present  to 
my  lord  chief  justice  Vaughan,  when 
he  took  his  leave  of  this  House  as  a 
Serjeant,  10/2". 

For  a  purse,  is. 

To  Wynn,  for  setting  up  two  dials  at  the 
end  of  the  church,  4/2. 

To  Drake,  for  hire  of  chairs,  tables,  and 
carpets  on  All  Saints  day  and  Candle- 
mas day  last,  zli. 

For  a  pair  of  weights  to  weigh  the  bread, 

5*- 
To  the  woodmonger  for  400  of  faggots  for 

bonfires,  3/2'. 

For  the  fee  farm  rent  for  a  year  ended  at 
Michaelmas,  1668,  to  Watts,  the  Queen's 
receiver,  10/2'. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  532/2'.  $s.  id. 
Sum  total  of  the  disbursements,  5 1  \li. 

85.  5^. 
So  there  remains,  20/2.  \y.  8</.  (sic.) 


54 


A  CALENDAR  OF  THE 


[1667-8 


Allowed  to  Fifield  in  respect  of  his  extraordinary  pains  about 
the  buildings,  5/2'. 


CHRISTMAS   ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  for  Christmas,  1667-8.     Amongst  the  items  the  following 


occur  :- 


Nine  Westphalian  hams,  ili.  i&s. ;  one 
hare,  a  tongue,  and  anchovies,  ios.;  for 
shrimps,  zs.;  fresh  salmon,  14^. ;  to  the 
horn  blower  and  hall  cleaner,  55. ;  to  the 
King's  trumpeters,  3/1'.  9^. ;  for  oranges, 


lemons,  and  porters,  6.T.  iod.;  the  harper 
for  two  weeks,  zli. ;  for  green  fish  and 
whitings,  1 75. ;  for  music,  "jli. ;  and  for 
dice,  34//.  2s.  dd. 


ACTS  OF  THE  CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  beginning  on  St.  Thomas' 

Eve. 

Officers  : — Thomas  Walker,  controller  ;  Litleton,  speaker  ; 
Whithall,  Winford,  and  Ramsden,  stewards  ;  and  Hales,  Cooke,  and 
Shann,  the  committee  of  music. 

Order  that  tables  may  be  set  up  this  night  for  play,  and  commons 
to-morrow. 

That  all  that  shall  not  subscribe  or  pay  in  their  money  by  to- 
morrow at  noon,  shall  be  excluded  out  of  commons,  unless  by  special 
order  of  parliament. 

That  no  suppers  be  held  in  the  hall  on  any  nights  but  festivals, 
till  further  order ;  and  whether  on  Tuesday  night  or  not,  is  left  to  the 
discretion  of  the  stewards. 

That  there  be  but  one  hazard  table,  and  that  in  the  library. 

That  private  suppers  be  left  wholly  to  the  discretion  of  the 
stewards. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  December  22. 

Order  that  Drinkwater  be  speaker  in  the  room  of  Litleton,  who 
has  resigned,  and  that  Litleton  have  the  thanks  of  the  House. 

That  Ramsden  be  admitted  into  commons,  paying  his  money. 
That  there  be  napkins  throughout  the  hall. 


i667-8]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  55 

That  the  butlers  shall  demand  both  of  the  gentlemen  of  the 
House  and  strangers  the  accustomed  sum  for  repasts. 

That  the  present  number  of  watchmen  continue  till  further 
order. 

That  the  stewards  examine  the  precedence  concerning  the  meat 
that  comes  from  the  controller's  table,  whether  it  belongs  to  the 
buttery  boys  or  the  controller's  servants,  and  in  the  meantime  his 
servants  to  have  it. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  December  25. 

Order  that  Agar  be  admitted  into  commons. 

That  Sheppard  and  Shann  be  ambassadors  to  the  Middle  Temple. 

That  Jeffryes  and  Clendon  do  wait  upon  Crisp  with  the  desire 
of  the  House  to  preach  the  next  Sunday. 

That  Clendon,  Mostine,  and  Blincow  be  auditors  of  the  accounts 
for  this  week. 

That  there  be  play  in  the  hall  this  night. 

That  the  controller  be  desired  that  there  may  be  no  dancing  on 
Sunday  nights. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  December  26. 

Order  that  the  thanks  of  this  House  be  given  to  Sheppard  and 
Shann,  ambassadors  to  the  Middle  Temple. 

That  Dr.  Chreighton  be  desired  to  preach  the  next  Sunday,  and 
if  his  convenience  will  not  permit,  that  Dr.  South  be  desired.  Crisp 
by  a  former  order  being  appointed,  and  his  absence  not  permitting, 
that  Mostine  and  Sheires  wait  on  the  same  person. 

That  Hanmer  and  Herne  be  admitted  into  commons. 

That  Sheppard,  Shane,  Whithall,  and  Sheires  be  a  committee  to 
wait  on  the  committee  of  the  Middle  Temple  about  the  satisfaction 
which  we  demand  for  the  affront  done  by  the  ambassadors  to  the 
controller. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  December  28. 

The  accounts  of  the  stewards  being  audited,  the  thanks  of  the 
House  be  given  to  the  auditors  and  stewards  for  their  care. 


56  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [,667-8 

That  Whithall,  one  of  the  stewards  who  resigns  his  office,  be 
given  the  thanks  of  the  House,  and  Sheires  be  appointed  in  his  place. 
Ramsden  and  Winford  are  desired  to  continue  as  stewards  for  the 
ensuing  week. 

That  the  thanks  of  the  House  be  given  to  the  controller  for  his 
concurrence  in  reducing  the  number  of  watchmen. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  December  31. 

Order  that  what  is  offered  by  the  Middle  Temple  in  relation  to 
the  affront  done  to  the  controller  and  this  House  is  satisfactory,  and 
that  the  thanks  of  the  House  be  given  to  the  gentlemen  that  managed 
the  conference,  and  that  Sheires  and  Shane  be  desired  to  attend 
thereon. 

That  the  controller  be  allowed  five  pounds  or  thereabouts  above 
his  ordinary  allowance  for  next  Thursday's  dinner. 

That  the  number  of  watchmen  be  reduced  to  twelve. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  January  i,  1667-8. 

Order  that  Litleton  and  Sheppard  be  desired  to  attend  the 
gentlemen  of  the  Middle  Temple. 

"  Whereas  there  was  a  difference  between  the  two  Houses,  and 
upon  the  acknowledgment  of  their  ambassadors  this  day  in  full 
parliament,  in  these  words  :  For  that  affront  our  ambassadors  offered 
either  to  the  controller  in  particular  or  to  the  Society  in  general,  we 
are  sorry.  Dan.  Fox,  Will.  Arundell.  Ordered  that  it  is  satisfactory, 
and  the  ancient  amity  be  renewed  and  continued." 

That  the  thanks  of  the  House  be  given  to  Litleton  and  Shep- 
pardes. 

Whereas  by  an  order  of  the  last  parliament  the  House  was 
pleased  to  allow  five  pounds  extraordinary  towards  the  controller's 
dinner  on  Thursday,  upon  serious  consideration  of  the  company  that 
dine  with  him,  it  is  ordered  that  five  pounds  more  be  added  to  the 
former,  and  what  is  expended  above  that  sum  he  is  to  defray  on  his 
own  account,  and  this  by  his  own  motion. 


i668]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  57 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  3  January. 
That  the  auditors  of  last  week  be  continued. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  4  January. 

That  the  accounts  be  allowed  and  the  stewards  continued. 

That  Cooke,  Sheppard,  and  Shane  be  desired  to  attend  the 
Middle  Temple  to-morrow,  to  know  when  they  intend  to  leave  off 
play. 

That  the  watchmen  accused  and  turned  out  and  their  accusers 
do  appear  at  the  next  Parliament. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  6  January. 

That  the  stewards  do  present  the  parson,  who  preached  by  order 
of  this  House,  with  two  pieces  in  gold. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  7  January. 

The  ambassadors  of  the  Middle  Temple  made  answer  that  they 
would  continue  the  keeping  of  Christmas  this  week.  It  is  ordered 
thereupon  that  this  is  no  friendly  answer. 

Ordered  that  Mostine  and  Wynn  do  attend  the  Parliament  of 
the  Middle  Temple  to  explain  their  answer,  and  that  they  demand  a 
positive  answer  as  to  the  time  when  they  will  leave  off. 

Order  that  the  number  of  the  commons'  music  and  the  watchmen 
be  contracted. 

That  the  gentlemen  in  commons  deposit  ios.  more,  and  that  if 
the  box  money  do  come  in,  the  debts  of  the  House  being  discharged, 
it  be  repaid  them  at  the  end  of  Christmas. 

That  it  be  left  to  the  discretion  of  the  committee  of  music  to 
contract  the  number  of  music,  and  the  number  of  watchmen  be 
reduced  to  eight.  That  the  watchmen  accused  by  the  controller's 
servants  of  breaking  open  his  chamber  door,  be  acquitted. 

in.  i 


58  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1668 

That  the  box  keeper  who  lost  his  box  pay  2os.  for  his  neglect. 
That  the  hatch  keeper  have  the  same  allowance  as  his  pre- 
decessors. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  10  January. 

Orders  that  Humphries,  Harris,  and  Clendon  be  auditors  for  the 
week's  accounts,  and  that  Christmas  be  continued  the  next  week. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  13  January. 

Orders  that  Shane  and  Sanders,  being  desired  to  attend  the 
Middle  House,  that  their  embassy  be  allowed  and  confirmed.  That 
last  week's  accounts,  being  audited,  are  allowed.  That  the  stewards 
be  continued  and  two  watchmen  more  be  added  to  the  former  number. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  15  January. 

That  the  committee  of  music  do  wait  upon  the  treasurer  and 
receive  their  instructions  from  the  speaker. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  17  January. 

Ordered  that  the  auditors  be  continued,  that  the  play  and 
Christmas  commons  end  to-morrow  night,  and  that  the  committee  of 
music  have  the  thanks  of  the  House. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  18  January. 

Order  that  the  fine  imposed  upon  the  box  keeper  for  losing  his 
box  be  remitted,  and  that  he  make  public  acknowledgment  before  the 
steward  that  took  up  the  boxes  that  night.  That  what  is  got  by  the 
boxes  this  night  above  what  will  discharge  the  debts  of  the  House 
be  given  to  the  butlers. 

That  the  money  ordered  to  Mr.  Ken,  that  preached  by  the 
order  of  the  House,  be  delivered  to  Spark,  one  of  the  gentlemen  of 
this  House,  to  his  use. 


1668-9]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  59 

That  the  accounts  be  allowed. 

That  the  controller,  the  speaker,  the  stewards,  and  the  com- 
mittee of  music  have  the  thanks  of  the  House,  and  that  the 
Parliament  be  adjourned  to  the  garden  at  3  o'clock  in  the  afternoon. 


ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  22  November,  20  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1668,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  Treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  John  Haughfell,  at  the  request  of  Milton, 
in  respect  of  his  reading. 

Sir  George  Charnock,  Edward  Thurland,  Thomas  Tilson,  John 
Glass,  Holland  Williams,  Thomas  Farmer,  Joseph  Langton,  Edward 
Nosworthy,  Hugh  Vaughan,  Henry  Wynford,  Henry  St.  John, 
Thomas  Foster,  Roger  Mosten,  Christopher  Pegg,  James  Cardrow, 
Gabriel  Barnes,  Thomas  Gale,  Thomas  Geeres,  Hodges  Goodwyn, 
Paul  Foley,  John  Whitehalgh,  and  George  Jefferys  called  to  the  bar, 
"  laying  down  one  vacation  and  entering  into  bond  of  200/2'.  with  two 
sureties  before  they  are  sworn." 

Order  that  the  gentlemen  who  have  chambers  in  any  of  the 
late  new  buildings  shall  have  time  given  them  until  the  first 
Parliament  in  Hilary  term  to  nominate  their  lives. 

Peck,  Baldwyn,  Crooke,  and  West,  four  of  the  benchers,  are 
desired  to  examine  the  Act  of  Parliament  made  27  January,  1666-7, 
concerning  the  new  buildings,  and  to  consider  of  an  Act  of  Parliament 
for  the  admittance  of  such  gentlemen  into  their  chambers  as  have  or 
shall  have  any  chambers  in  the  late  new  buildings. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  24  January,  20  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1668-9,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  FRANCIS  PHILLIPP, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for   the  reader's  dinner: — Sir   Peter  Terrill,  Simon 
Degg,  and  John  Vincent. 


60  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1668-, 

Special  admission  of  Thomas  Hopkins,  son  of  Sir  Richard 
Hopkins  of  the  bench,  and  of  John  Dalby,  son  of  Edward  Dalby  of 
the  bar. 

Further  time  till  next  Parliament  given  to  the  gentlemen  who 
have  chambers  in  any  of  the  late  new  buildings,  to  nominate  their 
lives. 

Order  that  Thomas  Williams,  stationer,  who  rebuilt  certain 
shops  in  Tanfield  Court  to  his  great  charge,  shall  hold  the  same 
shops  for  thirty-one  years  at  the  rent  of  6/z'.,  and  shall  not  assign  the 
same  to  any  person  (except  a  stationer,  bookseller,  scrivener,  watch- 
maker, or  milliner)  without  the  consent  of  the  treasurer  and  benchers. 

Nomination  by  Francis  Philips  of  his  two  sons,  Francis  and 
John,  to  the  buildings  lately  erected  by  him. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  7  February,  21  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1668-9,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

The  petition  of  Jane  Elliott,  for  twenty-nine  years  the  laundress 
of  the  Inn,  for  an  increase  of  wages,  all  things  being  much  dearer 
than  they  were  when  she  first  came.  Order  thereupon  that  she  have 
an  increase  of  5/2'.  a  year. 

A  further  time  till  the  first  parliament  in  Easter  term  given  for 
nominating  lives  to  the  new  chambers.  Sir  Richard  Hopkins  to 
have  till  the  end  of  that  term. 

"  Memorandum  that  Sir  Heneage  Finch,  knight  and  baronet, 
his  Majesty's  Solicitor  General,  treasurer  of  this  House,  having  new 
built  two  rooms  for  the  use  of  this  society,  viz.,  a  library  and  a  moot 
chamber,  hath  at  this  parliament  freely  given  unto  this  society  towards 
the  charges  of  the  said  building  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds." 

Sir  John  Heath,  Sir  Edward  Thurland,  Sir  Thomas  Foster,  Sir 
Richard  Hopkins,  Goodfellow,  Powell,  Henne,  and  West  to  consider 
of  a  new  building  to  be  built  at  the  south  end  of  Phillipps'  buildings, 
and  to  report. 


i669]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  61 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  15  February,  21  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1668-9,  before 
SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  CHRISTOPHER  GOODFELLOW,  EDWARD 
PECKE,  and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Sir  Edward  Thurland,  Peck,  Baldwyn,  Powell,  and  West,  are 
desired  to  inquire  into  the  title  of  the  soil  of  this  House,  and  to  make 
their  report. 

Adjournment  till  next  parliament  of  the  proposal  of  Keck  and 
others,  who  were  sufferers  with  him  by  the  late  fire,  to  build  a  whole 
staircase  on  the  House  terms. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  2  May,  21  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1669,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Edward  Pecke  chosen  reader,  and  Etherington,  Baldwyn,  and 
Farrer,  his  attendants. 

Special  admission  of  Matthias  Goodfellow,  at  the  request  of 
Goodfellow  of  the  bench,  by  reason  of  his  reading. 

Gentlemen  in  the  new  buildings  to  nominate  their  lives  before 
Sunday  next,  or  in  default  their  chambers  to  be  seized. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  23  May,  21  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1669,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Goodfellow,  Peck,  Lister,  Powell,  and  Hampson  to  consider  of 
a  new  building  to  be  built  at  the  south  end  of  Phelips'  building,  and 
to  lay  out  the  ground  and  to  determine  all  differences  which  may 
arise  between  the  builders. 

Order  that  all  those  gentlemen  who  had  their  chambers  burnt  by 
the  late  fire  and  do  not  enter  their  names  to  build  in  the  new  building 
at  the  south  of  Phelips'  building  before  the  first  parliament  of  Trinity 
term,  shall  not  have  any  ground  allowed  them. 

Order  that  all  those  gentlemen  who  have  chambers  in  the  new 
building  near  Ram  Alley,  shall  have  till  the  first  parliament  of 
Michaelmas  term  to  nominate  their  lives. 


62  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1669 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  13  June,  21  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1669,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  FRANCIS  PHELIPS,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards   for   the   reader's    dinner : — Thomas    Streete,    John 
Nourse,  and  Sir  Francis  Buncombe. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  June,  21  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1669,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  others.  SIR 
HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

The  form  of  the  terms  for  admittance  to  the  newly  built  chambers 
in  the  King's  Bench  Walks. 

The  petition  of  William  Livesay,  the  younger,  fellow  of  this 
House,  for  further  interest  in  a  chamber  in  Fig-tree  Court  which 
may  encourage  him  to  rebuild  the  same. 

Order  thereupon  that  the  petitioner  shall  have  two  concurrent 
lives  in  the  same,  to  be  nominated  the  term  after  the  building  is 
finished. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  2  July,  21  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1669,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others. 

Peck  of  the  bench  is  discharged  from  reading  this  summer, 
because  Samuel  Baldwyn  has  received  a  writ  to  be  serjeant  at  law. 

Samuel  Baldwyn  chosen  reader,  and  Ethrington,  Farrer,  and 
Croke,  his  attendants. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner: — Thomas  Streete,  John  Nourse, 
and  Sir  Francis  Duncombe. 

Order  that  the  i8/z'.  deposited  by  John  Vincent  with  Lister  upon 
being  chosen  one  of  the  stewards  for  the  grand  feast  in  Goodfellow's 
reading,  shall  be  paid  to  the  use  of  the  House. 


i668-9]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  63 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  7  November,  21  Charles  H..A.D.  1669,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Pension  for  this  half  year  assessed  double. 

Auditors  : — Hampson,  West,  Buggins,  and  Shuter,  for  the 
steward's  accounts ;  and  Peck,  Farrer,  Dolben,  and  Bering,  for  the 
treasurer's  accounts. 

Nicholas  Dennis,  a  bencher,  having  declared  to  the  treasurer  his 
resolution  not  to  come  any  more  to  the  bench  table  nor  to  read,  it  is 
ordered  that  he  shall  be  disbenched  and  fined  100  marks. 

Order  that  Edward  Peck  be  totally  excused  from  ever  reading, 
receiving  nevertheless  all  advantages  as  if  he  had  already  read. 

Special  admission  of  James  Tyrrill,  at  the  request  of  Justice 
Tyrrill  his  father ;  and  of  Unton  Crooke,  at  the  request  of  Serjeant 
Crooke,  his  grandfather. 

John  Mosyer,  Charles  Holloway,  Simon  Degg,  and  Thomas 
Streate,  called  to  the  bench  ;  and  William  Longvile,  one  of  the  six 
clerks  in  Chancery,  called  an  associate  of  the  bench. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Heneage  Finch,  continued. 

BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 
BENCH  TABLE  held  on  9  November,  1668. 

Farrer,  Croke,  Hampson,  Henne,  and  West  to  examine  the 
steward  and  cook  concerning  the  feast  of  All  Hallows  last,  and  to 
report. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  3  December,  1668. 

Order  that  the  vacation  barristers  who  were  discharged  from 
serving  their  three  vacations  during  the  late  great  sickness  and  were 
to  have  served  three  others  in  lieu  thereof  shall  be  abated  two  vaca- 
tions upon  paying  all  other  duties. 


64  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1669 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  31  January,  1668-9. 

Whereas  several  fellows  came  into  the  hall  in  the  time  of  revels 
with  their  hats,  swords,  and  coats,  it  is  ordered  that  no  fellows  shall 
at  any  time  come  into  the  hall  but  in  their  gowns  and  caps,  according 
to  the  ancient  orders  of  the  House. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  20  February,  1668-9. 

Orders  for  payments  to  be  made  for  beer  and  to  the  baker,  and 
that  Thomas  Allin  shall  give  an  account  of  moneys  received  upon 
Mr.  Smith's  Roll. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  10  May,  1669. 

Farrer,  Powell,  Hampson,  Henne  and  West,  to  examine  the 
differences  between  Chalton  and  Smith,  the  stewards. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  25  May,  1669.* 

Order  by  the  committee  to  set  out  the  ground  for  a  new  build- 
ing at  the  south  end  of  Phelips'  building,  that  the  said  new  building 
shall  be  built  20  ft.  distant  from  Phelips'  building,  and  range  with  it, 
and  not  to  exceed  38  ft.  in  depth,  nor  6  ft.  in  front  for  a  staircase. 

Order  that  if  any  of  the  servants,  who  serve  the  House  with 
beer,  bread,  coals,  or  chandlery  ware,  and  who  shall  be  unpaid  by 
the  steward  one  term,  do  not  make  it  known  at  the  first  parliament 
in  the  term  following,  they  are  not  to  expect  payment  from  the 
House. 

GENERAL  ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Heneage  Finch,  treasurer,  from  8  November,  1668 

to  8  November,  1669. 


Remaining  in  apparels  at  the  foot  of  the 
last  account,  I54//.  us.,  whereof  I5<D//. 
us.  the  treasurer  was  pleased  to  pre- 


sent to  the  society  towards  the  charge 
of  building  the  library,  so  there  remains 
in  apparels,  4//. 


1  These  are  at  the  end  of  the  volume  of  Bench  Table  Orders. 


1669] 


INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  the  players  of  the  Duke's  house,  for 

acting  "  Love  in  a  Tub,"  upon  Candle- 
mas Day,  2oli. 
To  Simon   New,  for   nursing  a  bastard 

child  for  a  year,  6/i.  4*. 
To  Footer,  "for  carrying  a  woman  to  (sic) 

Mr.    Almory's  chamber  to  the  King's 

Bench  prison,"  105. 
To  the  King's  players,  for  acting  "The 

Mayden  Quene,"  2oli. 
To  John  Underwood,  for   mending  the 

engine,  \li.  us. 
To  Jonas  Mortimer,  for  mending  the  pump 

in  Hare's  Court,  iu. 


To    Francis    Smith,    for    Ragstone,   zli. 

19*.  6d. 
To  Daniel  Ireland,  the  glazier,  for  work 

done  in  the  Temple  round,  i//.  65. 
To   Thomas   Porter,   the    bricklayer,  for 
work  done  about  the  Temple  church 
2/z'.  is.  6d. 
To  the  same,  for  work  done  in  the  Inner 

Temple  hall,  75. 

To  John  Playford,  the  clerk,  for   neces- 
saries in  the  church,  T,li.  is.  %d. 

Sum  total  of  receipts,  583^'.  i6s.  8d. 
Sum  total  of  disbursements,  6os//.  2.?. 

td. 
So  rest  in  apparels,  21/1.  55.  6d. 


RECEIPTS  by  Richard  Fifield,  chief  butler,  from  8  November,  1668, 

to  7  November,  1669. 

Of  Rosse,  being  chosen  one  of  the  stewards  for  the  drinking  supper  in  Milton's 
reading,  -jli.  IQS. 

DISBURSEMENTS  by  Richard  Fifield,  chief  butler,  for  the  same  time. 


To  labourers,  for   carrying   rubbish,  and 

clearing  the  passage  at  the  end  of  the 

wall  that  comes  from  the  King's  Bench 

Buildings,  3//'.  3^.  zd. 
To  the  collier,  for  coals,  spent  in  the  time 

of  Anthony  Smith,  steward,  lo/i. 
To  Dr.  Ball  and  Dr.   Stillingfleet,  as   in 

former  accounts. 
To   Hockett,   for   reading   prayers   for  a 

quarter,  at  Christmas,  3//.  1 55. 
To  Parry,  the  musician,  for  5  Nov.,  and 

his  yearly  fee,  4//. 
Gave  Mrs.  Roe,  the  seaman's  widow,  "  that 

hope  to  putt  out  the  fire  at  the  end  of 

the  hall,"  zli. 
To   Morice,    for    reading    prayers    for    a 

quarter,  at  Lady  Day,  3//.  i$s. 
For  a  load  of  faggots,  for  a  bonfire   on 

23rd  April,  1669,  us.  8d. 
To  Petitt,  by  order  of  the  bench  table,  2o//. 


To  Rawlins,  for  reading  prayers  for  a 
quarter  ended  at  Midsummer,  3//.  15^., 
and  the  like  amount  for  Michaelmas 
quarter. 

To  John  Smith,  the  cook,  for  a  supper  for 
the  gentlemen  that  attended  at  the  Coun- 
cil Table,  3//.  i8s.  4<t. 

To  the  treasurer,  for  Sir  Richard  Hopkins, 
Serjeant  Goodfellow,  and  Serjeant  Bald- 
win, is//. 

For  three  purses,  $s. 

To  the  woodmonger,  for  faggots  for  bon- 
fires, 3//. 

For  staves  and  wands  for  All  Saints  Day, 

2S.   41?. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  645/1.  ly. 
Sum  total  of  the  disbursements,  47S//. 

i8s.  nd. 
And  so  there  remains,  i-joli.  (sic). 


MISCELLANEA. 
1668-1669.      Numerous    depositions   and   other   papers  as  to 

III.  K 


66  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1669 

pulling  down  the  sword  of  the  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  and  insulting 
him  by  gentlemen  of  the  Inner  Temple,  on  3  March,  1668-9. 

The  depositions  are  to  the  effect  that  on  the  arrival  of  the  Lord 
Mayor  and  several  of  the  aldermen  to  dine  with  the  reader  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  they  were  compelled  to  retire  from  the  tumult  in  the 
inn  to  Auditor  Phillips'  chamber.  While  there  Sir  John  Nicholas 
came  with  a  message  from  the  King,  and  the  Lord  Mayor  sent  for 
the  reader  and  some  of  the  benchers  to  hear  the  King's  message, 
when  one  of  the  fellows,  by  name  Hodges  (son  of  Mr.  Hodges,  late 
an  Alderman  of  London),  declared  they  would  maintain  the  privileges 
of  the  House,  and  addressed  the  Lord  Mayor  as  Mr.  Mayor,  and 
used  him  "slightly." 

1668-9,  March  21.  Order  for  the  attendance  before  the  King 
in  Council,  of  the  recorder  of  London,  and  two  or  more  of  the 
aldermen,  and  of  Hodges,  Morgan,  Pettus,  Jeffries,  Litleton,  Shan, 
Wyn,  and  Bates,  gentlemen  of  the  Inner  Temple. 

1668-9,  March  23.  Letter  from  Thomas  Wroth  to  William 
Petyt  stating  that  "  on  Wednesday  the  3rd  current  Mr.  Reader,  having 
a  messenger  sent  him  from  the  Lord  Mayor  (who  had  previous  intelli- 
gence of  the  gentlemen's  intentions)  to  acquaint  him,  that  unless  he 
might  come  as  Lord  Mayor  he  should  not  expect  him.  Being  studious 
how  to  demean  himself  in  so  ticklish  a  case,  he  was  advised  to  send 
some  of  the  bar  civilly  to  inform  his  Lordship  of  the  students'  fixed 
purpose  to  make  claim  that  this  society  was  privilegiatus  and  extra 
jurisdictionem  of  the  city.  Mr.  Reader  approved  of  Mr.  George 
Jeffries  and  myself.  Accordingly  we  went  to  Guildhall,  where,  finding 
the  Lord  Mayor  and  Court  of  Aldermen  sitting  (a  stately  object  for 
a  curious  eye),  Mr.  Jeffries  brake  the  ice,  and  after  a  complimental 
salute  with  the  presentation  of  Mr.  Reader's  respects  to  his  Lordship 
and  the  rest  of  his  brethren,  told  him  that  Mr.  Reader  (understanding 
his  Lordship  did  defer  doing  him  and  this  House  the  honour  as  to 
dine  with  him  upon  the  account  of  the  dispute  might  arise  about 
bearing  up  his  sword)  had  sent  us  to  advertise  his  Lordship  that  the 
gentlemen  (being  at  present  persuaded  by  former  precedents  his 
Lordship  ought  not  to  carry  his  sword  erect  within  the  boundaries  of 
the  society)  were  resolved  to  stand  upon  their  privileges,  but  hoped 
his  Lordship  would  not  deny  them  that  right,  but  grant  them  what 
justice  his  predecessors  had  done.  Upon  this  we  were  desired  to 


1669]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  67 

withdraw  (a  motion  I  must  acknowledge  I  thought  improper,  to  say 
no  more,  to  be  made  to  persons  who  came  to  them  upon  such  a 
message,  but  being  somewhat  to  seek  in  City  formalities  we  accord- 
ingly retired).  After  some  short  discourse  amongst  the  cabal  we 
were  re-ushered  in  towards  an  answer,  which  amounted  to  this  effect, 
viz. :  That  his  Lordship  took  it  as  an  high  affront  we  should  come  so 
to  accost  him.  Thereupon  Mr.  Jeffries  replied  that  if  he  had  any 
ways  so  expressed  himself  as  that  the  manner  savoured  of  disrespect 
towards  his  Lordship  it  was  beyond  his  intentions  and  he  was  mis- 
understood, wherefore  he  craved  leave  to  explain  himself.  Upon 
that  he  spake  some  words  whose  direct  sense  I  cannot  on  the  sudden 
recover,  but  as  I  then  apprehended  they  sounded  in  nature  of  an 
apology.  I  seconded  them  with  this  caveat,  by  request  that  his 
Lordship  would  not  let  our  actings  reflect  upon  our  particular  persons 
since  we  came  not  on  the  students'  but  Mr.  Reader's  account.  Mr. 
Jeffries  added  that  both  Mr.  Reader  and  the  whole  House  had  so 
great  a  regard  for  the  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  and  especially  towards 
his  Lordship's  peculiar  person,  that  we  came  in  testimony  of  that 
respect  to  acquaint  his  Lordship  with  the  gentlemen's  design,  that  he 
might  not  be  surprised,  and  that  if  his  Lordship  would  please  to 
waive  the  debate  and  so  far  to  comply  with  the  gentlemen's  humours 
as  to  dispense  with  that  point  of  state,  his  Lordship  should  find  all 
imaginable  civility  of  treatment  as  large  as  any  his  predecessors  had. 
Leaving  them  again  to  their  consultations,  some  minutes  being  passed, 
we  received  this  answer  by  the  city  mouth  : — That  his  Lordship 
would  not  compound  with  hot-headed  young  men,  and  that  he  would 
not  come  at  all.  Whereupon  we  desired  some  of  his  brethren's 
presence ;  he  told  us  it  was  an  improper  proposal,  and  they  unani- 
mously cried  out  one  and  all,  perceiving  his  Lordship's  backwardness. 
Mr.  Jeffries  told  him  that  the  society  would  take  it  as  a  great  favour 
to  enjoy  his  and  his  brethren's  company  and  they  were  so  sensible  of 
the  honour  they  should  receive  thereby  as  that  possibly  (which  if  I 
mistake  not  in  a  little  time  changed  note  into  doubtless)  Mr.  Reader 
might  so  far  prevail  with  the  gentlemen  as  to  persuade  them  not  to 
desire  or  expect  anything  of  reverting  his  Lordship's  sword.  This 
caused  the  last  private  debate  which  brought  forth  this  vote,  spoken 
by  his  Lordship  himself:  I  bear  the  King's  sword,  London  is  my 
jurisdiction,  and  I  shall  bear  it  up  throughout  the  City,  I  take  the 


68  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1669 

Temple  to  be  part  thereof  where  my  predecessors  have  borne  it  up, 
and  that  of  late  memory  since  the  King's  restoration.  Hereupon  I 
desired  favour  to  interrupt  his  Lordship  and  offer  as  a  particular 
instance  to  the  contrary  that  the  sword  was  turned  down  when  his 
Lordship's  brother,  Mr.  Turner,  was  reader  of  the  Middle  House. 
Sir  John  Lawrence  stood  up  and  told  his  Lordship  that  at  that  time 
he  had  the  honour  from  the  King  to  be  entrusted  with  the  sword 
now  committed  to  his  Lordship,  and  assured  him  there  was  no  such 
thing,  but  he  bore  it  upright  all  the  way,  his  Lordship  (if  I  mistake 
not)  confirmed  the  same  by  his  own  knowledge.  I  turned  my  speech 
to  one  of  the  aldermen  near  me,  and  in  a  lower  voice  told  him  that  I 
might  mistake  the  precise  example,  but  the  thing  was  lately  done  I 
was  very  confident."  The  Lord  Mayor  insinuated  somewhat  dero- 
gatory to  the  Reader's  candour  and  hospitality,  and  being  the  King's 
representative  when  we  spoke  to  him  we  spoke  to  the  King,  and 
therefore  we  ought  to  use  sober  expressions.  The  Lord  Mayor's 
final  resolution  was,  "  My  service  to  your  Reader,  etc.,  and  tell  him  I 
will  come  and  dine  with  him,  I  will  bear  up  my  sword  and  see  who 
dares  take  it  down."  I  gave  his  Lordship  many  thanks  and  our 
errand  was  done. 

1668-9,  March  24.  Order  for  the  attendance  before  the  council 
of  Hodges. 

1668-9,  March.  Numerous  informations  and  depositions  touch- 
ing this  matter  whereby  it  appears  that  the  Lord  Mayor  and  aldermen 
were  forced  on  arrival  to  retire  into  Auditor  Phillips'  chamber  by 
reason  of  the  opposition  of  the  students  to  the  sword  being  held 
upright.  The  Lord  Mayor  determined  to  return  home,  and  upon 
entering  the  cloister  the  students  would  not  permit  him  to  go  peace- 
ably, but  cried,  "  Down  with  the  sword!"  so  that  he  was  compelled 
to  return  to  Mr.  Phillips'  chamber,  where  he  was  followed  by  the 
students  shouting  and  crying,  "A  Hall !  a  Hall !"  There  are  also  de- 
positions as  to  an  alleged  assault  upon  the  City  Marshal's  man. 

1669,  April  7.  Order  at  the  council,  after  reading  affidavits 
against  Hodges,  Wyn,  and  Mundy,  the  three  principal  actors  in  the 
disorders,  that  the  declaration  of  the  King's  pleasure  touching  the 
matter  be  suspended  till  the  rights  and  privileges  of  the  Temple  had 
been  tried  before  the  courts. 

Abstracts  from  Stow's  chronicle  continued  by  Edmund  Howes, 


1669-70]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  69 

and  from  various  deeds  and  charters  as  to  the  liberties  and  privileges 
of  the  Inner  and  Middle  Temple. 


ACTS   OF   PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  November,  21  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1669,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Thomas  Farrer  chosen  reader,  and  Peck,  Croke  and  Lister, 
attendants. 

Sir  Nathaniel  Powell,  John  Hoskins,  William  Genew,  Timothy 
Burrell,  Anthony  Deane,  Raphael  Humfrey,  Thomas  Walker, 
Edward  Kemp,  Thomas  Dandy,  and  Christopher  Paul  called  to  the 
bar,  and  John  Phellipps  called  an  associate  to  the  bar. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  30  January,  21  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1669-70,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — John  Fowke,  Francis  Pem- 
berton,  and  James  Garden. 

Orlando  Bridgeman  called  to  the  bar. 

John  Boynton,  Thomas  Carewe,  Thomas  Harris,  Simon  Degg, 
and  Thomas  Streete,  lately  called  to  the  bench,  and  who  neglected  to 
come  to  the  bench  table,  are  fined  100  marks  each. 

Peck,  Croke,  Hampson,  West,  and  Mosyer  appointed  a  com- 
mittee to  view  the  ground  for  a  new  building  to  range  in  a  line  with 
Phelips'  building. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  n  February,  22  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1669-70, 
before  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  FRANCIS 
PHELIPS,  and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

John  Phelips  called  an  associate  to  the  bench. 
John  Dawling  called  to  the  bar,  and  John  Cooke  an  associate  to 
the  bar. 

Pecke,  Croke,  Powell,  Hampson,  and  West,  to  consider  of  visus 


?o  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1669-70 

in  villa,  how  it  may  stand  with  former  acts  of  parliament  and  the  con- 
veniency  of  this  House,  and  to  report. 

Order  that  Sir  John  Sparrow,  Sturmey,  Butler,  Shelbury, 
Saunders,  Batt,  and  Bagnall,  "  all  burnt  interest  persons,"  shall  have 
liberty  to  build  twenty  feet  southward  of  Phelips'  building  to  range 
with  the  same,  to  be  thirty-six  feet  in  depth  and  sixty  feet  in  front, 
with  other  stipulations  as  to  time  of  completion,  fines,  etc. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  24  April,  22  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1670,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  FRANCIS  PHELIPS,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  solicitor  general,  treasurer. 

Richard  Crooke  chosen  reader,  and  Farrer,  Lister,  and  Powell, 
his  attendants. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  15  May,  22  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1670,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  FRANCIS  PHELIPS,  and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH, 
attorney  general,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Walter  Norborne,  son  of  Walter  Norborne, 
formerly  a  bencher  ;  and  of  William  Mole,  at  the  request  of  Farrer, 
in  respect  of  his  reading. 

Order  that  5/2'.  be  given  to  widow  Wexton,  dishwasher,  upon  her 
petition. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  17  June,  22  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1670,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — John  Harvey,  Edward  Ford, 
and  Thomas  Saunders. 

Special  admission  of  William  Crofts,  at  the  request  of  Mr.  Justice 
Wyld,  his  grandfather  ;  of  Simon  Degg,  at  the  request  of  Sir  Simon 
Degg,  his  father ;  and  of  Hugh  Lister,  at  the  request  of  Lister  of 
the  bench,  his  father. 

Order  that  Cowper  shall  have  liberty  to  nominate  another  life 
into  his  chamber,  paying  such  fine  as  the  parliament  shall  think  fit. 


1669-70]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  ?I 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  6  November,  22  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1670,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  EDWARD  PECKE,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

William  Lister  chosen  reader,  and  Croke,  Powell,  and  Hampson, 
his  attendants. 

Auditors : — Hampson,  West,  Buggin,  and  Shuter,  for  the 
steward's  accounts  ;  Pecke,  Powell,  Dering,  and  Richard  Edwards 
for  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Order  that  William  Mynors  be  admitted  to  the  place  of  chief 
butler. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Heneage  Finch,  continued. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 
BENCH  TABLE  held  on  15  November,  1669. 

Order  that  no  reader  of  any  of  the  Inns  of  Chancery  belonging 
to  this  House  shall  present  any  names  to  the  bench  table  to  be  dis- 
charged of  their  reading  until  within  eight  days  of  the  end  of  every 
Michaelmas  term. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  20  November,  1669. 

Orders  for  the  payment  of  all  sums  of  money  owing  upon  the 
rolls  of  Henry  Chilton  and  Anthony  Smith,  late  stewards  ;  for  Farrer 
and  Powell  to  make  inspection  into  all  the  bonds  since  Sir  Heneage 
Finch  was  treasurer ;  that  no  gentleman  be  put  out  of  commons  but 
by  one  of  the  two  ancient  butlers ;  and  that  Peck,  Hampson,  and 
West  consider  the  differences  concerning  the  new  building  by  Ram 
Alley. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  8  February,  1669-70. 

Order  that  every  gentleman  who  has  a  garret  chamber  in  the  new 
building  by  Ram  Alley  shall  pay  55/2'.,  or  the  participants  to  dispose 
of  them,  and  the  two  ground  chambers  on  both  sides  of  the  passage 
to  pay  loli.  less  than  the  other  ground  chambers. 


72  A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1670 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  27  April,  1670. 

Upon  reading  certificates  from  Peter  Mills,  Richard  Kirby,  and 
Christopher  Wren  as  to  the  foundations  under  Mr.  Phellipps'  Build- 
ing, it  is  agreed  that  the  foundation  on  the  south  end  is  a  good  one 
and  that  Sturmy,  Shelbury,  Batt,  Sanders,  Butler,  and  Bagnall  shall 
agree  with  Sir  John  Sparrow  and  pay  loo/z.  each  towards  the  said 
building,  or  be  excluded  from  any  benefit  in  the  same. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  30  April,  1670. 

Order  that  in  every  term  on  the  first  and  last  Friday  at  nights, 
the  first  and  last  reader  and  the  next  in  prospect  to  read,  or  in  their 
absence  the  next  above  or  below  them,  and  the  puisne  bencher  then 
in  commons,  do  meet  to  consider  of  all  orders  of  the  House  and  to 
propose  to  the  table  what  they  conceive  fit  for  the  government  of  the 
House,  and  they  are  to  be  allowed  2os.  a  time  out  of  the  treasury  for 
their  entertainment.  That  the  attorney  employed  to  put  in  suit  the 
bonds  of  the  House  do  attend  the  same  committee. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  17  May,  1670. 

Orders  that  not  more  than  15/2'.  be  allowed  to  the  long  vaca- 
tioners' commons  and  20/2.  in  the  summer  vacation  ;  that  in  vacation 
times  the  gentlemen  shall  conform  to  the  ancient  settled  commons  of 
the  House  and  not  change  the  same  into  any  other  sort  of  meat. 

Order  that  at  no  grand  day  shall  there  be  allowed  to  the  chief 
cook  above  40$.  for  extraordinary  cooks  for  his  assistance. 

Order  that  the  last  and  next  reader  and  puisne  bencher  for  the 
time  being  shall  attend  and  assist  at  the  yearly  taking  of  the  accounts 
of  the  treasurer  and  steward  of  the  House. 

Order  that  weights  and  scales  be  provided  at  the  charge  of  the 
House,  for  weighing  all  meat  and  bread  brought  in  for  the  service  of 
the  House. 

Order  that  the  ancient  order  for  casting  into  commons  all 
members  of  the  House  that  are  visus  in  villa  for  every  whole  week 
of  term,  be  renewed. 


1670] 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


73 


BENCH  TABLE,  held  on  13  (sic)  May,  1670. 

Order  for  the  payment  of  fines  for  chambers  in  the  New  Build- 
ings, and  for  the  nomination  of  lives  to  the  same. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Heneage  Finch,  treasurer,  from  8  November,  1669, 

to  7  November,  1670. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  the   King's  players,  for  acting  "The 

Little  French  Lawyer,"  2o/z'. 
To  William  Mills,  for  candles  burnt  at  the 

gate    from    Lady  day   to  Michaelmas, 

!/«'.    105. 

To  John  Playford,  the  clerk,  upon  the 
funeral  of  Mr.  Polland,  \li.  igs. 

"To  Sergeant  Baldwin  and  Sir  Francis 
Duncumbes  not  attending  him  as  one  of 
his  stewards  at  his  reading,"  i8//. 

To  Francis  Mowers,  for  three  escutcheons 


for    readers,    set    up   in    the    library, 
i//.  2s.  6d. 

To  Aldridge  and  Cresser,  in  part  for  build- 
ing the  new  houses  of  office,  $oli. 
To   the  Duke's  players   for   acting    "Sir 
Martin  Mar-all "  on  All  Hallows'  day  in 
the  Temple  Hall,  20/1'. 
Received  in  all,  aft^li. 
Disbursed  in  all,  468/1.  L-JS.  id. 
Allowed  the  treasurer,  4/1. 
So  there  remains  in  apparels,  g/i.  i  •js. 
id. 


DISBURSEMENTS  by  Richard  Fyfield,  chief  butler,  from  7  November, 
1669,  to  6  November,  1670. 


To  the  master  of  the  revels,  by  order  of 

the  bench,  8#. 
To  William  Mills,  porter,  for  watching  on 

revelling  nights,  ili.  zs. 
Allowances  to  Dr.  Ball,  Dr.  Stillingfleet, 

and  Mr.  Rawlins,  as  before. 
To  Starky,  for  his  pains  taken  in  sorting 

the  books,  los. 

To  Wardner,  for  tobacco  and  pipes,  zs. 
To  the  master  of  the  revels,  8/«. 
To  Dr.  Wren,  surveyor  general,  by  order 

of  the  bench,  5#. 


To  Drake,  the  upholsterer,  for  a  curtain 
and  for  mending  the  leather  carpet, 
i&s. 

The  total  of  receipts,  635//.  gs.  8d. 
The  total  of  disbursements,  3i6//.  is. 

5* 

So  there  remains,  3ig//.  8s.  3^. 

Whereof  iq/i.  8s.  i,d.  is  allowed  the 
accountant  for  his  long  and  faithful 
service  to  the  society. 


III. 


74  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [16-0-1 

ACTS   OF   PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  November,  22  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1670,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  SIR  THOMAS 
FOSTER.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Thomas  Milton,  eldest  son  of  Milton  of 
the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Order  that  Arthur  Sparkes  of  the  Middle  Temple,  be  admitted 
one  of  the  utter  barristers  of  the  society,  and  that  he  be  of  the  same 
standing  as  he  was  in  the  other  House. 

John  Peachey,  Matthew  Holbech,  Thomas  Langley,  Henry 
Sayer,  Jacob  Trollop,  John  Blencoe,  Edward  Ward,  and  Daniel 
Witcherly  (who  is  to  be  sworn  at  his  time)  called  to  the  bar. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  5  February,  22  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1670-1,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner : — Thomas  Henshaw,  Thomas 
Frewen,  and  Anthony  Farrington. 

Richard  Holloway,  Francis  Pemberton,  and  Sir  William 
Poultney,  called  to  the  bench. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  12  February,  23  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1670-1,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  John  Herbert,  of  Swansea,  in  the  county 
of  Glamorgan,  at  the  request  of  Lord  Chief  Justice  Vaughan,  his 
grandfather. 

Order  that  "  William  Petyt,  exigenter  for  London,  for  his 
services  done  in  asserting  and  defending  the  rights  and  privileges  of 
the  Temple,  be  called  to  the  bar,  and  to  be  an  utter  barrister  of  this 
House,  and  to  be  sworn  at  his  time." 

Powell,  Hampson,  and  West,  are  desired  to  meet  on  Wednes- 


1671]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  75 

day  night  next,  to  treat  with  the  principal  and  ancients  of  Lyon's 
Inn,  concerning  the  erecting  of  a  new  building  in  the  said  House. 

Order  that  the  opening  of  the  passage  into  White  Friars  be 
respited. 

Order  that  all  persons  concerned  in  the  chambers  in  the  new 
buildings,  built  since  the  late  dreadful  fire  of  London,  shall  nominate 
their  lives  and  pay  their  fines,  or  their  chambers  to  be  forfeited. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  24  May,  23  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1671,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Richard  Powell  chosen  reader,  and  Lister,  Hampson,  and  West, 
his  attendants. 

The  admissions  made  at  the  last  reading  of  Theophilus,  Earl  of 
Huntingdon,  Robert,  Earl  of  Ailesbury,  Thomas,  Viscount  Faucon- 
berg,  and  Charles  West,  son  of  Lord  Delawarr,  are  confirmed. 

The  petition  of  the  treasurer  and  fellows  of  Lyon's  Inn,  setting 
out  that  the  said  society  (being  a  very  ancient  society)  for  many 
years  last  past  has  been  and  still  is  much  straitened,  not  only  in  build- 
ings and  chambers  to  entertain  the  fellows,  but  also  in  ground 
whereon  to  build,  for  supply  whereof  the  petitioners'  predecessors, 
being  owners  of  five  tenements  belonging  to  Lyon's  Inn,  were 
pleased  by  an  act  of  their  parliament  made  in  35  Elizabeth,  to  unite 
to  their  ancient  House,  two  of  the  said  five  tenements,  which  were 
shortly  after  taken  in  and  built  upon  for  the  enlargement  of  their 
House ;  and  the  three  other  tenements  were  afterwards  purchased 
by  the  petitioners'  predecessors,  the  conveyance  thereof  being  taken 
to  feoffees  in  trust  for  the  benefit  of  the  society.  And  the  ancient 
chambers  of  the  House  (being  very  bad  and  inconvenient,  either  for 
students  or  practisers)  many  of  the  fellows  are  necessitated  to  take 
lodgings  abroad,  whereby  they  keep  themselves  out  of  commons, 
and  the  public  exercises  of  the  House  are  not  attended  as  they  ought 
to  be. 

For  the  remedy  whereof  the  treasurer  and  ancients  of  the  said 
society  have  resolved  on  a  course  for  new  buildings  within  the  con- 
fines of  the  ancient  House,  which,  as  by  a  "  platform "  thereof 


76  A   CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1671 

showed  to  a  committee  of  the  bench,  will  extend  to  the  street  on 
both  sides,  and  now  only  inclosed  with  dead  walls,  but  not  having  a 
stock  for  building  they  are  enforced  to  set  out  the  ground  for  a  term 
to  some  members  of  the  society,  that  will  undertake  the  building  if 
they  may  have  liberty  to  convert  the  ground  rooms  towards  each 
street  into  shops,  which  after  the  end  of  such  term  will  turn  to  the 
sole  benefit  of  the  society.  And  although  the  whole  building 
intended  is  to  be  on  the  ancient  ground  of  the  House,  whereon  the 
petitioners  humbly  conceive  they  may  build  for  chambers,  yet  in 
regard  of  the  converting  of  the  ground  rooms  towards  the  street  into 
shops,  they  think  it  a  duty  not  to  proceed  to  any  such  contract  for 
building  without  application  for  the  concurrence  of  the  benchers  of 
the  Inner  Temple  therein. 

Upon  consideration  of  their  said  petition,  and  reference  to  the 
plot  or  map  tendered  by  them,  whereby  the  place  appears  to  be  at 
the  east  end  of  the  ground  of  the  same  House,  and  to  be  built  on 
from  north  to  south,  it  is  ordered  that  they  may  make  three  such 
rooms  into  shops  northward  and  as  many  southward  for  twenty-one 
years,  so  that  there  be  no  doors  nor  passage  from  such  shops  into  the 
House  of  Lyon's  Inn.  And  the  said  plot  to  be  kept  amongst  the 
records  of  the  Inner  Temple. 

Order  that  Charles  Holloway,  Hampson,  and  Richard  Holloway 
be  a  committee  to  confer  with  the  masters  of  the  bench  of  the  Middle 
Temple,  concerning  the  building  of  one  Smith  upon  the  walls  of  the 
house  of  Dr.  Ball,  to  the  weakening  and  endangering  of  his  dwelling 
and  stopping  up  of  his  lights. 

Letter  from  the  Earl  of  Essex  to  Sir  Heneage  Finch  : — "  Sir, 
the  term  now  drawing  on  and  consequently  the  meeting  of  the  parlia- 
ment of  the  Inner  Temple,  I  presume  to  remind  you  and  the  rest  of 
the  worthy  gentlemen  who  are  the  benchers  of  that  society,  of  my 
last  request  and  your  very  kind  promises,  and  desire  that  you  will  at 
your  next  meeting,  direct  the  opening  the  gate  into  Whitefriars. 
And  whereas  you  were  apprehensive  that  myself,  or  such  as  shall 
claim  under  me,  may  pretend  as  of  right  to  a  gate  there,  I  do  hereby 
declare  that  I  do  neither  pretend  to  it  nor  desire  it  as  a  right,  but  as 
a  favour  from  the  House,  and  shall  ever  be  ready  to  acknowledge  it 
as  such." 

Order  upon  the  above  letter  that  the  passage  between  the  new 


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buildings  called  King's  Bench  Building,  and  the  new  buildings  join- 
ing to  the  same,  formerly  called  Stapleton's  Buildings,  be  forthwith 
opened,  and  that  such  door  or  doors  be  fitted  with  locks,  and  be 
shut  and  opened  at  such  times  as  this  society  shall  think  fit. 

Whereas  Richard  Roberts,  panierman  of  this  society,  has  lately 
by  consent  of  the  bench  built  two  shops  in  Tanfield  Court,  he 
requests  that  a  term  may  be  granted  to  him  in  the  said  shops.  It  is 
therefore  ordered  that  he,  his  executors,  and  assigns  may  hold  the 
same  shops  for  thirty-one  years. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  4  June,  23  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1671,  before  SIR 
EDWARD  THURLAND,  EDWARD  PECK,  THOMAS  FARRER,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Order  that  Powell,  Hampson,  West,  Mowsier,  and  Charles 
Holloway,  or  three  of  them,  be  a  committee  to  consider  the  proposals 
for  a  new  building  at  the  south  of  Sir  John  Sparrow's  building  towards 
the  Thames. 

Order  for  the  abatement  of  the  fine  of  Baynes  for  admittance 
to  a  chamber. 

Order  for  the  nominating  of  lives  in  the  new  buildings. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  25  June,  23  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1671,  before  Sir 
JOHN  HEATH,  attorney  of  the  Duchy,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND, 
WILLIAM  LISTER,  and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — John  Boynton,  Samuel  Bond, 
and  John  Alston. 

Special  admission  of  Christopher  Wandesford,  at  the  request  of 
Serjeant  Baldwin. 

"  This  parliament  having  taken  notice  of  the  notorious  disorders 
for  divers  nights  lately  past,  committed  in  Fleet  Street  near  the  same 
society,  by  divers  disorderly  and  unknown  persons  in  actual  breach 
of  his  Majesty's  peace,  by  assaults  insolently,  with  great  violence 
made  upon  the  watchmen  there  attending  their  duty  according  to  the 
laws  of  the  land  and  customs  and  orders  of  the  city  of  London,  and 
that  in  open  contempt  and  defiance  of  the  good  and  laudable  govern- 


78  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1671 

ment  of  the  same  city  and  with  great  rudeness  and  incivility  to  the 
very  person  of  the  right  honourable  the  Lord  Mayor  thereof  in  the 
actual  exercise  of  his  lawful  authority  ;  for  the  suppression  of  the 
same  disorders,  some  of  which  misdoers  having  escaped  the  pursuit 
of  the  watch,  have,  by  and  upon  the  pretence  of  being  fellows  of  the 
society,  obtained  entrance  (as  is  reported)  at  the  gates  of  this  House 
at  unseasonable  times  of  the  night,  abusing  the  same  House  for  a 
refuge  from  justice,  to  the  dishonour  of  this  society  and  reproach  to 
the  discipline  thereof."  It  is  therefore  declared  that  this  society  will 
use  all  possible  care  and  diligence  for  the  discovering  of  the  same 
offenders  and  for  bringing  them  to  condign  punishment,  and  it  is 
commanded  to  every  officer  and  servant  to  make  strict  inquiry  for 
the  same  offenders,  and  as  soon  as  they  shall  discover  their  names  to 
give  information  thereof  to  the  attorney-general,  treasurer  of  the 
society,  that  they  may  be  proceeded  against.  And  if  any  fellow  shall 
assault  any  watchman  of  the  city  of  London  or  disturb  or  resist  them 
in  doing  their  duty,  such  fellow  shall  be  ipso  facto  expelled.  That 
the  gates  of  the  House  shall  be  every  night  fast  locked  and  bolted 
before  eleven  o'clock  and  in  no  case  opened  again  before  four  o'clock 
next  morning.  And  if  any  fellow  attempt  to  force  open  the  gates  of 
this  House  or  assault,  menace,  or  abuse  any  servant  for  doing  his 
duty  in  keeping  the  gates  fast,  such  fellow  shall  be  ipso  facto  expelled. 

Licence  to  Richard  Fifeild,  formerly  chief  butler  of  this  society, 
to  dispose  of  his  chambers  in  the  Inner  Temple  Lane. 

Licence  to  the  treasurer  and  fellows  of  Lyon's  Inn  to  convert 
the  ground  rooms  of  their  proposed  new  buildings  lying  northward 
and  southward  towards  the  respective  streets,  into  shops,  so  that 
there  be  no  door  or  passage  immediately  out  of  or  through  such 
shops  into  Lyon's  Inn.  Saving  to  this  society  and  the  trustees  for 
the  same  the  several  rents  heretofore  due  from  the  society  of  Lyon's 
Inn  or  their  trustees  to  this  society  or  the  trustees  of  the  same. 


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PARLIAMENT  held  on  9  July,  1671,  before  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR 
EDWARD  THURLAND,  THOMAS  FOSTER,  and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE 
FINCH,  treasurer. 

Special  admissions  of  Christopher  Goodfellow,  son  of  Serjeant 
Goodfellow,  formerly  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of  his  father,  and  of 
Oxenbridge  Harward,  at  the  request  of  Richard  Coke. 

Stephen  Primatt  having  admitted  himself  to  Gray's  Inn  without 
the  leave  of  this  society  and  being  called  to  the  bar  there,  returned 
into  commons  in  this  House,  and  denied  to  pay  his  duties,  for  which 
being  sent  to  the  bench  table,  he  refused  to  come  unless  he  might  sit 
at  the  bar  table.  It  is  therefore  ordered  that  he  be  expelled  from 
the  society. 

Order  that  Lucas'  chamber  be  seized  and  Almery,  who  lodges 
there,  have  a  fortnight  to  move  his  papers. 

Giles  Duncombe,  William  Peck,  Thomas  Littleton,  Samuel 
Trottman,  Richard  Andrews,  Peter  Shepheard,  John  Baynes,  Robert 
Wynn,  John  Shann,  Robert  Browne,  John  Powell,  and  Robert  Fagg 
called  to  the  bar.  Littleton,  Trottman,  Browne,  and  Shann  to  be 
sworn  as  of  this  term,  and  the  rest  when  they  have  received  the 
sacrament. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  29  October,  23  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1671,  before 
SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  THOMAS  FARRAR, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Auditors : — West,  Mowsyer,  Buggin,  and  Cure,  for  the  steward's 
accounts ;  and  Powell,  Crooke,  Richard  Edwards,  and  Thomas 
Edwards,  for  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Robert  Hampson  chosen  reader. 

Treasurer: — Sir  Heneage  Finch,  continued. 


8o  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [i  670-1 

BENCH   TABLE   ORDERS. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  25  November,  1670. 

Order  that  Farrer,  Croke,  Powell,  Hampson,  and  Holloway 
consider  of  the  setting  up  of  all  the  readers'  coats  of  arms  in  the 
library  and  to  treat  with  a  herald  painter  about  it. 

Farrer,  West,  Mowsier,  and  Holloway  to  consider  of  the  differ- 
ences among  the  workmen  at  the  building  near  Ram  Alley. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  10  February,  1670-1. 

Whereas  the  treasurer  and  ancients  of  Lyon's  Inn  desire  to 
erect  a  new  building  in  Lyon's  Inn  upon  waste  ground  there,  the 
matter,  as  to  viewing  the  ground  and  the  title  of  the  said  treasurer 
and  ancients,  is  referred  to  Powell,  Hampson,  and  West. 

Order  for  keys  to  be  made  and  locks  fixed  to  all  the  doors, 
except  two,  belonging  to  this  House,  because  of  the  great  resort  of 
foreigners  and  strangers  to  the  necessary  houses  of  this  House. 

At  a  committee  held  on  10  February,  Powell,  West,  and 
Holloway  being  present,  it  was  ordered  that  Ayliffe  should  not  dispose 
of  his  garret  chamber  till  he  had  paid  Cressett  (sic),  the  carpenter. 

Upon  the  showing  of  some  coats  of  arms  of  the  readers'  which 
were  blazoned  by  Waker,  painter  and  herald,  and  adjudged  by  the 
committee  to  be  reasonably  done,  it  was  ordered  that  he  paint  the 
same  to  be  fixed  in  the  library,  at  3^.  an  escutcheon,  and  $s.  to  be 
allowed  for  every  new  reader. 

Whereas  the  House  has  been  at  a  considerable  charge  in  roast- 
ing and  dressing  the  provisions  and  commons  of  the  House  with 
charcoal,  it  is  ordered  that  the  old  range,  wherein  charcoal  is  burnt, 
shall  stand,  and  a  new  one  over  against  it  on  the  other  side  of  the 
kitchen  shall  be  made  with  irons  for  the  burning  of  sea  coals,  and  the 
great  pot  to  be  fixed  in  brick  "  copper  wise  "  for  sea  coal. 

Order  that  the  steward  bring  in  his  flesh  by  five  or  six  o'clock 
at  night  or  at  six  in  the  morning,  and  the  fish  by  ten  in  the  morning. 

Order  that  Richard  Parringdon  be  second  cook  in  the  room  of 


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81 


Ralph  Bancroft,  and  the  said  Ralph  to  succeed  Turnespitt  in  the 
room  of  the  said  Richard. 

Order  that  a  gauge  be  bought  for  measuring  casks  of  beer. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  14  May,  1671. 

Order  that  the  chief  butler  affix  to  the  screen  an  order  for  all 
gentlemen  to  pay  for  their  commons  in  arrear. 

Order  that  Stephen  Cresser,  the  carpenter,  view  the  remaining 
part  of  the  gate  belonging  to  the  arch  near  the  water  side,  and 
report 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  15  May,  1671. 

Order  for  Charles  and  Richard  Holloway  to  view  the  building 
of  Smith  adjoining  the  house  of  Dr.  Ball,  and  to  report  what  pre- 
judice is  done  to  his  house  thereby. 


GENERAL   ACCOUNT    BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Heneage  Finch,  treasurer,  from  6  November,  22 
Charles  II.,  A.D.  1670,  to  29  October,  23  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1671. 


RECEIPTS. 

From  Edward  Peck,  being  a  present  to 
the  society  for  dispensing  with  his  read- 
ing, 2OO//'. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  the  King's  players,  for  acting  a  play 
called  "The  Committee"  on  Candle- 
mas day  last,  zoli. 

To  Stephen  Cresser,  for  scaffolding  of  the 
hall  for  entertainment  of  the  Court, 

iS# 

To  Thornhill,  for  painters'  work  done  in 

the  garden,  1 9^. 
To  Richard   Roberts,    for   wine   for  the 

bench  for  Hilary  term,  ig//.  i6s.  6d. 
To  John  Playford,  for  necessaries  for  the 

church,  6//'.  175. 
To  two  labourers,  for  the  Inner  Temple 

share,  for  removing  rubbish  in  the  north 

churchyard,  4*.  64. 

III.  M 


To  Richard  Powell,  for  three  stewards  of 

the  bar  who  should  have  attended  him 

at  his  reading,  6o//. 
To  Richard  Roberts,  for  the  use  of  the 

King's  players,  for  acting  a  play  in  the 

Hall,  on  All  Saints  day  last,  2o//. 
To  the  Middle  Temple  plumber,  for  the 

Inner  Temple  part  for  work  done  to  the 

waterman's  shed,  i//.  i$s. 
To  John  Edge,  for  the  Inner  Temple's 

part    of    work    done    on    the    rounds, 

15*.  dd. 
To    Samuel    Waker,    the    arms    painter, 


Disbursed  in  all,  1015/1.  js.  \id. 
Received  in  all,  997#. 
Remains  in  apparels,  i8//.  7.?.  nd. 
Allowed  to  the  treasurer's  man,  4/2'. 
And  so  there  remains  in  apparels,  22/1. 
•js.  iid. 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[,67. 


ACCOUNT  of  William  Minors,  chief  butler,  from  6  November,  1670, 

to  29  October,  1671. 


RECEIPTS. 

From  Tomlinson,  for  a  year's  rent  for  his 

shop  in  the  Inner  Temple  Gate,  zli. 
From  Williams,  for  a  year's  rent  of  two 

shops  in  Tanfield  Court,  6ff. 
From  George  Warner,  for  the  rent  of  his 

shop  and  chamber  in  the  churchyard, 

6s. 
From  William  Mill,  for  a  year's  rent  of 

two  shops,  55. 
From  the  turnspits,  for  a  shop,  $d. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  John  Rawlings,  for  reading  prayers  for 
a  quarter  ending  at  Christmas,  1670, 
3//.  15*. 

To  Dr.  Ball,  for  a  quarter  ending  then, 
25/1. 

To  Dr.  Stillingfleete,  for  the  same  quarter, 

20lt. 

Like  payments  to  the  same  three  persons 
at  the  quarters  ending  Lady  day,  Mid- 
summer, and  Michaelmas,  1671. 

To  twelve  men,  for  watching  and  keeping 
the  hall  doors,  \li.  4$. 

To  three  men,  for  watching  the  breaches 
of  Whitefriars  wall  and  the  River  of 
Thames,  6s. 

To  six  men  more,  that  watched  at  the  hall 
doors,  i2s. 

To  three  men  more  that  watched  at  White- 
friars  breach  and  the  Thames  Wall,  6s. 

To  Mr.  Child's  servant,  who  brought  the 
basin  and  ewer  from  Mr.  Allen,  zli. 

For  paving  and  tiling  the  passage  into  the 
hall,  45. 

To  the  musicians  on  Candlemas  day,  iff. 

To  the  porters  who  brought  the  branches 
at  the  grand  day  of  revels,  4*. 


For  horse  hire  into  the  country  to  Mr. 

Fields  for  several  bonds,  iff. 
To  the  joiner,  for  bringing  and  setting  up 

the  reader's  arms,  IQS. 
For  a  new  press,  for  the  bonds  and  writings 

of  the  House,  iff.  155. 
For  weighing  and  engraving  the  House 

plate,  7*. 

For  a  statute  book  and  standish,  2/».  15*. 
To    Richard    Roberts,  for   wine   on   the 

King's  coronation  day,  ili,  <)s. 
For  four  gallons  of  Lambeth  ale,  45. 
For  torches  upon  the  search  at  night,  2S. 
For  coach  hire,  attending  Sir  Simon  Degg 

to  Gray's  Inn  concerning  Primate,  25. 
To  Watts,  for  the  fee  farm  rent,  loff. 
To  Holland,  for  plate  and  linen  the  last 

grand  day,  2/1.  los. 
To  Williams,  for  the  admittance  book  and 

the  buttery  book,  iff. 
For  coach  hire  when  the  judges  were  in- 
vited, 2S. 
To  Playford,  for  binding  the  Grace  Book 

and  for  paper  and  ink,  i6s. 
For  a  stamp  for  glass  bottles,  6s. 
For  twelve  dozen  of  glass  bottles,  3/». 
For  the  arrest  of  Mr.  Foord,  and  for  the 
writ  and  warrant  and  other  charges,  2li. 
For  staves,  tobacco,  and  pipes,  the  three 

last  grand  days,  8s.  6d. 
To  the  men  who  kept  the  hall  doors  the 

last  grand  day,  8s. 

For  coach  hire  inviting  the  judges,  3^. 
Sum  of  the  receipts,  293//.  85.  (>d. 
Sum  of  the  disbursements,  309/1.  ys.  8d. 
Allowed  the  butler,  for  the  collection 

of  the  fines  for  the  chambers,  5/>. 
So  there  remains  in  apparels,  21  /;'.  is. 

2d. 

Signed,  16  February,  i67i[-a]. 


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ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  12  November,  23  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1671,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  THOMAS  FOSTER, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Sir  John  Trevor  is  at  his  request  discharged  from  being  master 
of  the  revels. 

Powell,  Hampson,  and  West  of  the  bench  are  appointed  a  com- 
mittee to  treat  and  consider  with  the  committee  of  the  other  House 
concerning  the  title  of  the  soil  of  both  Houses,  also  to  inquire  where 
the  interest  is  vested  and  to  make  their  report. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  26  November,  23  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1671,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  and  others.  SIR 
HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Powell,  West,  and  Mowsier  chosen  attendants  on  the  reader. 

Order  that  the  workmen  of  this  House  shall  meet  with  the 
workmen  of  the  other  House  to  view  the  damages  done  to  the 
building  of  Dr.  Ball  by  one  Smith,  a  herald  painter,  by  building  upon 
the  wall  thereof. 

Hopton  Shuter  chosen  an  auditor  of  the  treasurer's  accounts  in 
the  room  of  Thomas  Edwards,  deceased. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  23  January,  23  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1671-2,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  EDWARD  PECKE,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner : — Sir  Francis  Roll,  Bart., 
Samuel  Mellish,  and  William  Wollaston. 

Order  that  if  Sir  John  Sparrowe,  who  by  act  of  parliament  of  1 1 
February,  1669-70,  commenced  to  erect  a  certain  building  at  the 
lower  end  of  King's  Bench  Building,  shall  not  repay  to  Thomas 
Robinson,  one  of  the  masters  of  the  bench,  the  800/2.  and  other  moneys 
borrowed  from  him,  by  next  parliament,  the  said  Thomas  Robinson 
shall  enjoy  the  said  ground  and  buildings. 


84  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [i67i-» 

Licence  to  Humphrey  Wirley1  to  build  a  ground  room  about 
1 2ft.  by  1 3ft,  and  cover  it  with  lead  on  the  waste  piece  of  ground 
adjoining  Serjeant's  Inn  and  the  Alienation  Office  garden. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  15  February,  24  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1671-2,  before 
SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  EDWARD  PECKE, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Wright  Croke,  at  the  request  of  his  father, 
Richard  Croke. 

Time  given  to  Sir  John  Sparrow  till  Saturday  in  Whitsun  week 
to  repay  Thomas  Robinson  the  money  lent  on  security  of  the  build- 
ings lately  erected  on  the  south  end  of  Mr.  Francis  Phelipps'  Build- 
ings and  towards  the  River  of  Thames. 

Order  that  Robert  Hampson,  a  bencher,  shall  build  two  stair- 
cases of  46ft.  each  in  front,  and  36ft.  in  depth,  from  the  end  of 
Sir  John  Sparrow's  Buildings  towards  the  waterside,  for  which  he 
shall  have  two  lives  and  an  assignment  to  the  said  chambers,  paying 
the  fines  of  the  new  built  chamber  at  or  before  the  end  of  Hilary 
term,  1674,  or  sooner,  and  paying  the  sum  of  150/2'.  to  the  House  at 
or  before  the  last  parliament  in  Hilary  term  next.  He  shall  also 
have  the  ground  between  the  said  building  and  the  wall  next  to 
Whitefriars  and  build  two  staircases  more  to  the  water  side  the  year 
following,  in  case  he  shall  have  sold  the  greatest  part  of  these  and 
the  House  think  fit  to  have  more  upon  the  terms  above  mentioned. 
And  with  regard  to  the  second  building,  the  said  Hampson  shall 
remove  the  houses  of  office  at  his  own  charges.  It  is  further  ordered 
that  Powell,  Mosier,  and  Sir  Simon  Digg  shall  be  appointed  a  com- 
mittee to  prepare  an  act  of  parliament  for  this  purpose. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  i  May,  24  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1672,  before  SIR 
EDWARD  THURLAND,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  EDWARD  PECKE, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Edward  West  chosen  reader. 

Hopton  Shuter  and  William  Dolben  called  to  the  bench. 

1  In  the  margin  this  name  is  spelt  Worley. 


,671]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  85 

Henry  Henn  disbenched  and  fined  150/2.  for  refusing  to  take 
the  office  of  reader. 

Special  admission  of  Richard  Ingoldsby,  son  of  Sir  Richard 
Ingoldsby,  and  grandson  of  Mr.  Justice  Croke,  at  the  request  of 
Robert  Hampson. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  10  June,  24  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1672,  before  SIR 
EDWARD  THURLAND,  RICHARD  CROKE,  RICHARD  POWELL  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Order  as  to  Sir  John  Sparrow's  buildings,  in  which  are  recited 
the  acts  of  n  February,  1669-70,  and  23  January  and  15  February, 
1671-2.  And  whereas  Sir  John  Sparrowe  failed  in  the  payment  of 
the  money  due  to  Robinson  and  the  said  building,  containing  one 
staircase,  wherein  were  six  chambers,  two  garrets,  and  two  cellars, 
were  finished  at  the  charge  of  the  said  Robinson,  it  is  ordered  that 
the  said  Robinson  shall  have  the  said  ground  and  all  the  buildings, 
chambers,  and  premises  thereon  erected,  under  the  same  conditions 
as  Sir  John  Sparrowe,  saving  that  the  said  Robinson  shall  have 
time  till  Trinity  Term  next  to  nominate  two  lives  to  each  of  the 
chambers. 

An  agreement  made  between  the  treasurer  and  masters  of  the 
bench  of  the  Inner  Temple  and  Robert  Hampson,  one  of  the 
benchers  and  the  late  reader  of  the  same  society,  dated  1 5  February, 
1671-2.  First,  that  Robert  Hampson  shall  build  before  the  end  of 
Hilary  Term  two  staircases  consisting  of  eight  chambers,  each  con- 
taining 46ft.  in  length  and  36ft.  in  depth,  at  the  lower  end  of  the 
building  lately  erected  by  Sir  John  Sparrowe  running  southward 
towards  the  waterside,  to  be  four  storeys  in  height,  each  chamber  in 
each  storey  respectively  to  be  as  high  as  the  chambers  in  the  said 
Sir  John  Sparrowe's  building.  That  the  said  Robert  Hampson 
shall  have  the  use  of  landing  places  by  the  gardener's  house  for 
landing  materials.  That  the  treasurer  and  masters  of  the  bench  do, 
as  far  as  lawfully  they  may  in  parliament,  grant  to  the  said  Robert 
Hampson  the  said  place  containing  92  ft.  in  length  from  north  to 
south  and  36  ft.  in  depth  from  east  to  west,  to  begin  from  and  adjoin- 
ing to  the  said  Sir  John  Sparrowe's  building,  together  with  the 
ground  between  the  said  two  intended  staircases  and  the  brick  wall 


86  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [167* 

next  adjoining  to  Whitefriars,  to  hold  the  same  for  three  lives. 
Then  follow  the  usual  rules  as  to  the  nomination  of  lives  to  the  same 
chambers.  Covenant  by  the  said  Robert  Hampson  to  pay  to  the 
treasurer  of  the  society  the  sum  of  I  $oli. 

Upon  information  that  the  three  other  Inns  of  Court  have  put 
off  their  readings  this  summer  vacation,  and  there  being  no  precedent 
known  that  ever  any  one  of  the  Inns  of  Court  did  keep  a  reading 
without  some  one  at  the  least  of  the  other  Inns  of  Court,  it  is  ordered 
that  the  reading  be  put  off  for  this  summer  vacation,  and  that 
Edmund  West,  reader  elect,  be  excused  pro  hac  vice. 

Order  that  Thomas  Robinson  shall  have  the  void  plot  of  land 
between  the  building  erected  by  Sir  John  Sparrowe  and  the  brick 
wall  next  adjoining  to  Whitefriars  for  the  like  term  and  interest  as  he 
has  in  the  said  building. 

Special  admission  of  Richard  Cooke,  son  of  William  Cooke,  at 
the  request  of  Richard  Powell. 

Order  that  every  fellow  now  in  commons  and  owing  dues,  shall 
pay  his  dues  before  he  goes  out  of  commons.  And  no  butler  to  put 
any  such  out  of  commons  until  he  pay  the  same. 

Order  that  every  fellow  who  is  in  arrear  for  vacations  before 
Francis  Phelip's  reading,  shall  have  liberty  to  compound  for  the  same 
for  one  moiety  of  the  money  due  for  the  said  vacation,  so  as  the  said 
moiety  be  paid  by  the  first  parliament  in  Michaelmas  term. 

Order  that  any  fellow  who  shall  stand  indebted  upon  the  butler's 
rolls  of  pensions,  preacher's  duties,  vacations,  and  amercements,  and 
shall  not  by  the  first  parliament  in  Michaelmas  Term  discharge  the 
same,  shall  for  his  default,  if  he  be  in  commons,  be  put  extra  per 
mandatum,  and  if  he  be  not  in  commons  and  have  a  chamber,  then 
his  chamber  to  be  seized,  and,  if  he  have  no  chamber,  then  he,  his 
pledges  or  sureties  to  be  put  in  suit. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  June,  1672,  before  SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND, 
EDWARD  PECKE,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE 
FINCH,  treasurer. 

Admittance  of  Henry  Parker  to  chambers. 


,67I-iJ  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  87 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  3  November,  24  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1672,  before 
SIR  EDWARD  THURLAND,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  EDWARD  PECKE, 
and  others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Auditors:  —  Mosyer,  Charles  Holloway,  Cure,  and  John 
Gardiner,  for  the  steward's  accounts  ;  and  Powell,  Hampson, 
Deering,  and  Buckby,  for  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Edmund  West  chosen  reader,  and  Hampson,  Mosyer,  and 
Charles  Holloway,  his  attendants. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Heneage  Finch  continued. 

Special  admission  of  Charles  Croke,  son  of  Richard  Croke,  at 
the  request  of  his  father. 

Mr.  Woodrofe  chosen  lecturer  to  this  society  in  the  room  of  Dr. 
Stillingfleete,  and  he  shall  have  the  same  allowance  of  four  score 
pounds  as  was  paid  to  his  predecessor,  Dr.  Stillingfleet. 

BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  18  November,  1671. 

Order  that  the  proposition  of  Robert  Hampson  to  build  from 
Sir  John  Sparrowe's  building  to  the  river  of  Thames,  be  presented 
at  the  next  parliament  to  be  confirmed. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  13  February,  1671-2. 

Order  for  the  collection  of  moneys  in  arrear  upon  the  steward's 
rolls. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  14  February,  1671-2. 

Appointment  of  William  Clarke,  the  former  steward's  servant, 
as  puisne  butler. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  15  February,  1671-2. 

Order  that  Powell,  Hampson,  West,  Mowsier,  Charles  Hollo- 
way,  and  Sir  Simon  Degg,  of  the  bench,  and  Shuter,  Dolben,  Ward, 


88  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [i67x 

Blincoe  and  Humphrey,  of  the  bar,  be  a  committee  to  consider  the 
former  orders  for  regulating  the  buttery,  in  order  to  bring  down  the 
rates  of  commons  and  for  the  payment  of  the  duties  of  vacations, 
amercements,  pensions,  preachers,  and  other  duties. 

Order  that  the  persons  mentioned  in  a  paper  offered  to  the  table 
by  Powell,  who  were  behind  in  their  proportions  of  their  charges  of 
the  building  between  the  Exchequer  office  and  Ram  Alley,  in  pursu- 
ance of  an  order  of  the  bench  table  made  on  8  February,  1669  [-70], 
shall  attend  this  board. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  5  February l. 

Francis  Vaughan,  one  of  the  ancients  of  the  bar,  having  re- 
quested an  abatement  of  his  charges  upon  the  rolls  of  pensions, 
vacations,  preachers'  duties,  and  amercements,  and  it  being  con- 
sidered he  was  two  years  a  reader  in  the  Inns  of  Chancery,  in  which 
years  he  was  amerced  for  failure  of  exercise,  his  duties  were  remitted 
to  15/1. 

The  differences  between  Powell  and  Sir  John  Trevor  as  to  the 
prices  of  chambers  in  the  half  staircase  at  the  east  end  of  the  new 
building  in  the  Inner  Temple,  near  Ram  Alley,  are  referred  to 
Hampton  and  Shuter. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  17  June,  1672. 

Order  that  the  petition  of  Anthony  Smith,  the  late  steward,  be 
referred  to  the  last  committee,  and  William  Pecke,  the  second  butler, 
do  attend  with  the  rolls. 


1  This  entry  is  out  of  place  in  the  original  MS. 


1672-3] 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


89 


GENERAL   ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir   Heneage  Finch,  treasurer,  from  29  October,   23 
Charles  II.,  A.D.  1671,  to  3  November,  24  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1672. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 
To   Daniel  Ireland,  the  Middle  Temple 

glazier,  for  work  done  in  the  church  and 

Powell's  chamber,  ili.  •]$. 
To  Anne  Crosse  for  nursing  foundlings. 
To  the  King's  players,  for  acting  "  Phi- 


laster"  in  the  Temple  Hall  on  i  Nov., 

2O//. 

Total  of  disbursements,  6o7//.  195.  gd. 
Total  of  receipts,  360/1.  i$s.  4^. 
Remains  in  apparels,  2477;".  6s.  £</. 


ACCOUNT  of  William  Minors,  chief  butler,  for  the  same  period. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 
Payments  to  Dr.  Ball,  Dr.  Stillingfleete, 

and  John  Rawlins,  as  in  last  account. 
To  the  "musiconers  "  for  their  yearly  fee, 

4& 

To  Buggins,  master  of  the  revels,  zli. 
To  Richard  Roberts,  for  wine  for  the  revels, 

4/f. 

To  Warner,  master  of  the  revels,  4/1. 

For  coach  hire  when  the  judges  were  in- 
vited on  Candlemas  day,  2s. 

For  writing  10  paper  books,  by  order  of 
the  bench,  3//. 

To  two  porters,  for  carrying  the  books  to 
Serjeants'  Inn,  45. 

To  the  porter  of  Serjeants'  Inn,  for  the  use 
of  their  hall,  los. 

To  Sir  Edward  Thurland,  when  he  went 
out  Serjeant,  loli. 


To  Hudson,  for  faggots  for  two  years'  bon- 
fires, 5//'. 

To  old  Oxford  at  several  times  in  his  sick- 
ness, by  order  of  the  bench,  zli.  los. 

For  "  subpenainge  "  the  witnesses  at  Dr. 
Ball's  trial,  los. 

To  a  messenger  for  going  into  the  country 
to  summon  Collins  at  that  trial,  12.?. 

For  tobacco,   wands,   and  porters  at   the 
three  grand  days,  i/i. 

To  Dormer,  the  painter,  \li. 

For  six  coats  of  the  last  reader's  arms, 
i/i.  i os. 

To  Mr.  Picke,  for  chimney  money,  i/i.  i6s. 
Total  of  the  receipts,  362^'.  IQS.  Sif. 
Total  of  disbursements,  35o//.  175-.  5j</. 
So  remains  in  emendels,    n//.    13.?. 


ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  3  February,  25  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1672-3,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  FRANCIS  PHELIPS,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — Henry  Birkett,  Anthony 
Kecke,  and  John  Machell. 

Special  admission  of  Francis  Phelips,  eldest  son  of  Francis 
Phelips,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 


in. 


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90  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [i67z  3 

Order  that,  for  the  future,  benchers  as  well  as  others  shall  be 
cast  into  commons  every  term  for  their  chambers,  two  weeks,  whereof 
the  grand  week  to  be  one  ;  and  that  the  chambers  of  benchers,  as 
well  as  others,  shall  be  liable  to  be  seized  for  suffering  strangers  and 
bankrupts  to  lodge  in  them.  The  admittance  also  of  unfitting  persons 
into  this  society  should  be  examined  and  reformed. 

Order  that  all  bonds  of  200/2.  entered  into  by  any  fellows  shall 
and  may  be  given  up  on  their  paying  all  duties  and  entering  into  a 
new  bond  of  ioo/z.,  if  they  have  no  chambers,  and  50/2.  if  they  have 
a  chamber.  And  for  the  future  the  like  rules  to  be  observed  as  to 
bonds. 

Order  that  a  committee  of  two  of  the  bench,  two  of  the  bar,  and 
two  under  the  bar,  be  appointed  to  consider  how  the  commons  may 
be  reduced  and  the  payment  of  pensions,  vacations,  and  other  duties 
be  made. 

Lumley  Robinson,  Edward  Peck,  Joseph  Girdler,  Samuel 
Loddington,  Edwin  Baldwyn,  Robert  Davy,  Francis  Berkly,  Eustacius 
Budgell,  John  Hales,  Thomas  Tutt,  John  Acourt,  Thomas  Harris, 
William  Perkins,  Thomas  Lister,  Robert  Abbot,  Edward  Jex,  Thomas 
Gibbons,  Francis  Twisden,  Berkly  Hanson,  Gilbert  Aspenwall,  and 
Edward  Capell  called  to  the  bar. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  20  April,  25  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1673,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  FRANCIS  PHELIPS,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

John  Mosyer  chosen  reader. 

Special  admission  of  Thomas  Etherington,  at  the  request  of 
Etherington  of  the  bench,  his  father ;  and  of  Matthew  Lister,  at  the 
request  of  the  said  Etherington. 

The  following  admissions  made  in  the  last  reading  of  Edmund 
West  were  confirmed : — William,  Earl  of  Craven,  John,  Viscount 
Brackley,  Sir  William  Egerton,  knight  of  the  Bath,  Thomas  Egerton, 
Charles  Egerton  and  Stuart  Egerton,  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Bridgewater, 
Sir  George  Croke,  Sir  Richard  Ingoldsby,  knight  of  the  Bath,  and 
Broome  Whorwood. 

Edward  Clarke  called  to  the  bar. 


,673]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  11  May,  25  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1673,  before 
FRANCIS  PHELIPS,  EDWARD  PECKE,  THOMAS  FARRER,  and  others. 
SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

West,  Charles  Holloway,  and  Sir  Simon  Degg  chosen  attendants 
on  the  reader. 

Special  admission  of  Owen  Norton,  eldest  son  of  Brett  Norton, 
of  Sherrington  in  the  county  of  Bucks,  at  the  request  of  West  of  the 
bench. 

Further  time  granted  to  Thomas  Robinson  to  nominate  lives  to 
his  new  building. 

An  account  of  the  chambers  disposed  of  by  Hampson,  giving 
the  names  of  their  occupiers. 

Sir  John  Trevor,  Richard  Edwards,  and  John  Simpson  called  to 
the  bench. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  15  June,  25  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1673,  before  SIR 
JOHN  TREVOR,  FRANCIS  PHELIPS,  EDWARD  PECKE,  and  others. 
SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner : — Sir  Thomas  Carew,  Sir 
Robert  Jenkinson,  and  John  Curzon. 

Order  that  Charles  Whittacre,1  lately  admitted  a  member  of  the 
society  of  Gray's  Inn,  be  admitted  one  of  the  utter  barristers  of  this 
society,  and  be  of  the  same  standing  of  the  bar  that  he  was  of  in  the 
said  House,  giving  the  usual  bond  to  the  treasurer. 

Order  that  Powell,  Hampson,  Richard  Holloway,  Shuter,  and 
Dolben  shall  examine  what  duties  are  owing  from  members  of  the 
society,  and  to  consider  what  compositions  are  fit  to  be  made  for  the 
same,  and  to  report  to  the  bench  table. 

Licence  to  the  treasurer  and  fellows  of  the  society  of  Lyon's  Inn 
to  build  upon  a  void  plot  of  ground  adjoining  the  new  buildings 
towards  Wich  Street,  between  the  new  buildings  and  the  old  buildings 
westward,  and  to  pull  down  one  ground  chamber  with  a  chamber 
over  the  old  building. 

1  Marginal  note  that  he  was  called  to  the  bar  of  Gray's  Inn  on  25  Nov.,  1668. 


92  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1673 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  26  October,  25  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1673,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  FRANCIS  PHELIPPS,  and 
others.  SIR  HENEAGE  FINCH,  treasurer. 

Auditors  : — Hosier,  Charles  Holloway,  Cure,  and  Blomley,  for 
the  steward's  accounts ;  and  Hampson,  West,  Heath,  and  Buckby, 
for  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  John  Heath,  attorney  general  of  the  Duchy. 

BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 
BENCH  TABLE  held  on  13  June,  1673. 

"  Ordered  at  the  bench  table  that  Kenricke  Eyton,  third  butler, 
William  Clarke,  fourth  butler,  and  Ralph  Sumner,  puisne  butler,  do 
by  the  beginning  of  Michaelmas  term  next  write  a  court  hand  and 
also  know  the  ancient  and  accustomed  way  of  casting  up  accounts  by 
counters.  And  if  they  shall  be  careless  and  negligent  in  attaining 
thereto  then  every  such  butler,  so  ignorant,  shall  then  lose  his  place 
and  be  made  incapable  of  serving  the  House  as  butler." 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  18  June,  1673. 

Order  "  upon  the  report  of  the  masters  of  the  bench  appointed 
by  the  table  to  meet  with  two  of  the  masters  of  the  Middle  House, 
that  Mr.  Farrer  be  desired  with  the  butler  to  wait  upon  Mr.  Treasurer 
of  this  House  to  acquaint  him  that  whereas  the  Middle  House  have 
appointed  their  treasurer  and  Mr.  Northey  to  treat  for  the  purchase 
of  the  fee  farm  of  their  House,  that  Mr.  Treasurer  and  Mr.  Farrer 
be  desired  to  treat  for  the  fee  farm  belonging  to  this  House." 

Order  that  Edward  Pecke,  Robert  Hampson,  Charles  Holloway, 
and  William  Dolben  of  the  bench,  be  a  committee  to  settle  the 
differences  between  Sir  Erasmus  Harbey,  Dickinson,  and  Oxen- 
bridge  Harwood  touching  the  chamber  of  Sir  Erasmus  Harbey  and 
moneys  lent  by  Dickinson. 


^slenea^f  ^/4/ic/i  '.  C~>tirf  af  ... 

,/rcaAurfr  .X  '  /.  l66 

^Lfrtt  to&uiceUor  l6 

\SJVm  f/n'  crufimit  in  tne  ^Siinet'^/ejnJilf  . 


,/rcaAurfr  .X  '  /.  l66l-2. 


i673] 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


93 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Heneage  Finch,  treasurer,  from  3  November,  24 
Charles  II.,  A.D.  1672,  to  26  October,  25  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1673. 


RECEIPTS. 

From  Hampson  for  a  fine  for  leave  to 
build  two  staircases  near  the  water  side, 
below  Sir  John  Sparrow's  building, 
I5o//. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Edward  West  for  two  stewards  that  did 
not  attend  at  the  reading,  4O#. 


To  Ralph  Bancroft's  wife  to  bury  her 
husband,  who  died  a  servant  to  the 
society,  alt. 

Total  disbursements,  520/2.  fs.  yd. 

Total  receipts,  532//".  13^.  $d. 

Remains  in  emendels,  i  zli,  55.  gd. 


ACCOUNT  of  William  Minors,  chief  butler,  from  3  November,  1672, 

to  3  November,  1673. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 
Payments  to  Dr.  Ball,  Dr.  Woodroffe  (in 

the  place  of  Dr.  Stillingfleete)  and  John 

Rawlins,  as  before. 
For  the  reader's  coat  of  arms,  5$. 
To  the  master  of  the  revels  for  the  grand 

day  at  night,  4/1. 


Sum  total  of  receipts,  3i3//.  os.  (xi. 
Sum    total   of  disbursements,  2  53//. 

7.?.  6d. 
In  the  accountant's  hands,  6o/z.  2^.  8d. 


ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  3  November,  25  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1673,  before 
SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  EDWARD  PECKE,  THOMAS  FARRER,  and 
others.  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  treasurer. 

Charles  Holloway  chosen  reader  and  Mosyer,  Sir  Simon  Degg, 
and  Richard  Holloway,  his  attendants. 

Special  admissions  of  Richard  Blondell,  son  of  John  Blundell 
(sic)  of  Tiverton,  in  the  county  of  Devon,  at  the  request  of  his 
kinsman,  Mosyer  of  the  bench. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  23  November,  25  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1673,  before 
SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  EDWARD  PECKE,  THOMAS  FARRER,  and 
others.  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  treasurer. 

Croke,  Powell,  Hampson,  West,  Mosyer,  Dalben  (sic),  Shuter, 


94  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE 

and  Auditor  Phelipps,  of  the  bench,  and  Buckby,  Heath,  Ward,  Lane, 
Blomley,  Foster,  and  Kemp,  of  the  bar,  shall  ascertain  all  arrears  of 
this  House,  and  clear  the  treasurer's  and  butler's  accounts. 

Heneage  Finch,  William  Finch,  Abraham  Jacob,  Edward 
Hildyerd,  Thomas  Tayler,  Samuel  Carter,  John  Fortescue,  John 
Garbrand,  Edward  Jennings,  Richard  Osborne,  John  Elsom,  Matthew 
Loveday,  Thomas  Hanmer,  John  Sampson,  Ralph  Hough,  Henry 
Deeringe,  Charles  Vaughan,  Michael  Newnam,  Robert  Clayton, 
John  Leigh,  William  Pyers,  and  Nathaniel  Bladen,  called  to  the 
bar. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  i  February,  25  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1673-4,  before 
FRANCIS  PHILLIPS,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  EDWARD  PECKE,  and 
others.  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — Samuel  Ash,  William  Alston, 
son  of  Sir  Edward  Alston,  and  Richard  Hopton. 

Whereas  "John  Peachey,  an  utter  barrister  of  this  House,  has 
been  lately  expelled  from  this  society  for  several  misdemeanours  by 
him,  together  with  others,  committed  the  last  summer  vacation,  in 
spending  1:50/2.  in  commons,  or  thereabouts,  of  the  House's  stock  and 
treasure,  contrary  to  an  act  of  parliament  and  express  order  of  the 
bench  table,  and  also  for  presuming  to  make  an  order  or  declaration 
that  the  bench  table  have  no  power  to  make  any  order  to  bind  the 
vacation  barristers  and  students,  and  that  they  have  the  sole  power 
to  govern  this  society  in  vacation  times,  and  caused  the  said  order 
and  declaration  to  be  entered  in  the  Buttery  Book,  all  which  tends  to 
the  manifest  destruction  of  the  government  of  this  society,  and  there- 
fore deserved  the  most  severe  punishment,  but  forasmuch  as  the  said 
Mr.  Peachey  hath  visited  each  particular  bencher,  and  made  his 
humble  address  unto  them  at  the  bench  table,  and  prayed  to  be 
restored."  It  is  ordered  that  he  be  re-admitted  and  restored  to  the 
fellowship  of  this  society. 

Order  that  the  porter  shall  take  care  that  there  be  no  beggars 
suffered  to  be  within  the  precincts  of  this  House. 

Order  that  Buggins  be  desired  to  attend  to-morrow  as  master  of 
the  revels. 


,674]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  95 

Order  that  it  be  referred  to  the  bench  table  to  consider  of  the 
annoyances  of  the  dirt  and  filth  falling  into  this  House  from  Mitre 
Court  and  of  other  nuisances  there. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  11  February,  26  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1673-4,  before 
CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  EDWARD  PECKE,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  and 
others.  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  treasurer. 

Order  that  every  member  in  arrear  for  vacations,  before  the 
reading  of  Francis  Phelipps,  shall  have  liberty  to  compound  for  the 
same  for  one  moiety,  so  that  the  said  moiety  and  all  duties  for  pen- 
sions, preacher's  duties,  and  amercements  be  paid  before  Ascension 
Day. 

Order  that  vacation  barristers  who  should  have  served  their 
vacations  in  the  time  of  the  late  great  sickness,  and  were  to  serve 
other  vacations  in  lieu  of  the  same,  shall  be  abated  two  vacations 
upon  paying  all  other  duties  before  Ascension  Day. 

Order  that  if  any  member  be  indebted  upon  any  of  the  steward's 
rolls  for  commons  or  upon  any  of  the  butler's  rolls  for  pensions, 
preacher's  duties,  vacations,  and  amercements,  and  shall  not  three 
days  before  the  last  parliament  in  Easter  term  next,  discharge  his 
duties  upon  such  rolls,  he  shall  be  suspended  from  commons,  if  he 
be  in  commons,  and  if  he  be  not  in  commons  his  chamber  to  be 
seized,  and  if  he  have  no  chamber  then  his  pledges  to  be  put  in 
suit. 

Order  that  such  fellows  as  have  had  orders  for  admissions  to 
chambers  and  who  shall  not  pay  their  fines  before  the  first  parlia- 
ment of  Easter  term  next,  shall  utterly  lose  their  said  admissions. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  10  May,  26  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1674,  before 
CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  EDWARD  PECKE,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  and 
others.  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  attorney  of  the  Duchy,  treasurer. 

Sir  Simon  Degg  chosen  reader,  and  the  butler  to  give  him 
notice  thereof. 

The  confirmation  of  the  admissions  made  by  the  last  reader, 
Charles  Holloway : — The  Earl  of  Arlington,  the  Earl  of  Burlington, 


96  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1674 

Lord  Clifford,  the  Bishop  of  Rochester,  the  Bishop  of  Oxford.'Lord 
Byron,  Lord  Lucas,  and  Sir  Robert  Holt. 

Order  that  no  advantage  be  taken  of  the  admittances  of  Hampson 
and  West  into  bench  chambers,  till  they  shall  dispose  of  their  own 
chambers. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  31  May,  26  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1674,  before 
CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  RICHARD  CROKE,  RICHARD  POWELL,  and 
others.  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  treasurer. 

Charles  Holloway,  Richard  Holloway,  and  Francis  Pemberton 
are  chosen  attendants  on  the  reader. 

Special  admission  of  Thomas  Dickins  of  London,  at  the  request 
of  Charles  Holloway. 

Order  that  those  gentlemen  who  have  neglected  to  pay  their 
duties  in  arrear  upon  the  rolls  of  the  House,  shall  pay  the  same  upon 
demand  before  the  first  day  of  next  term,  and  upon  their  refusal,  their 
chambers  to  be  padlocked  or  their  bonds  to  be  put  in  suit. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  June,  26  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1674,  before 
SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  knight,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  EDWARD  PECKE, 
and  others.  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — John  Wilson,  Arthur  Bar- 
nardiston,  and  Henry  Kempe. 

Order  that  Robinson  shall  have  time  to  nominate  lives  to  his 
new  buildings. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  5  July,  26  Charles  II.,  A.n.  1674,  before  SIR 
JOHN  TREVOR,  knight,  RICHARD  ETHERINGTON,  EDWARD  PECKE, 
and  others.     SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  treasurer. 

Order  that  all  fellows  indebted  for  vacations  before  the  reading 
of  Francis  Phelipps  are  discharged  from  the  payment  of  all  sums 
due  for  not  keeping  their  respective  vacations. 


1673-4]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  97 

Powell,  Hampson,  West,  Mosyer,  Shuter,  Dolben,  and  Edwards, 
masters  of  the  bench,  are  desired  to  be  a  committee  to  consider  of 
all  debts  left  owing  by  the  last  treasurer,  and  to  consider  of  all  bills 
of  workmen  paid  by  the  chief  butler. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  25  October,  26  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1674,  before 
SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  EDWARD  PECKE,  and 
others.  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  treasurer. 

Auditors: — Charles  Holloway,  Richard  Holloway,  of  the  bench, 
and  Courtney  and  Ward,  of  the  bar,  for  the  steward's  accounts  ;  and 
Edmund  West,  William  Dolben,  of  the  bench,  and  John  Peachey 
and  Thomas  Hanmer,  of  the  bar,  for  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Sir  Simon  Degg  was  excused  from  any  penalty  for  failing  to 
read  the  last  summer  vacation,  in  compliance  with  his  Majesty's 
desire  expressed  in  his  letter. 

Treasurer: — Sir  John  Trevor,  one  of  his  Majesty's  counsel  at 
law. 

Sir  Simon  Degg  chosen  reader  for  the  Lent  vacation,  whereof 
the  chief  butler  is  to  give  him  speedy  notice  that  his  answer  may  be 
had  before  the  next  parliament. 

BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 
BENCH  TABLE  held  on  Friday,  28  November,  1673. 

Licence  to  Charles  Holloway,  reader,  to  stop  up  the  doorway  at 
the  further  end  of  the  Cloister  leading  to  Figtree  Court,  "  and  to  place 
the  same  over  against  his  chamber  door,"  annexing  the  wood  house, 
thereby  gained,  to  his  chamber. 


in. 


98 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


['674 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  John  Heath,  treasurer,  from  27  October,  25  Charles 
II.,  A.D.  1673,  to  27  October,  26  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1674. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  the  steward,  Warner,  for  suppers  for  the 

auditors  of  the  treasurer's  and  steward's 

accounts,  ili.  $s.  6d. 
For    gravel    and    workmanship    for    the 

walk  before  Hampson's  buildings,  g/i. 

6s. 
To  Richard  Roberts,  for  5  dozen  of  quart 

market  bottles,  at  45.  6d.  a  dozen,  ili. 

i6s. 

For  a  new  horn,  ili.  is. 
For  the  judges'  mess  on  All  Saints  day, 


To  John  Bclford,  head  cook,  for  a  year's 
wages,  ili.  6s.  8d. 


Total  receipts,  555/2.  19*.  id. 
Total  disbursements,  550/2'.  155.  lod. 
Remaining  in  the  treasurer's  hands, 


NOTE.  —  The  auditors  allow  the  account 
except  9//.  6s.  for  the  walk  before  Hamp- 
son's buildings  and  ili.  IQS.  for  the 
alterations  of  the  wainscot  in  the  Library, 
where  the  picture  was  set  up,  which  is 
disallowed  by  direction  of  the  bench 
table.  So  there  remains  in  the  trea- 
surer's hands  15/2'.  19^.  $d.,  out  of  which 
is  deducted  \li.  allowed  to  Samuel  Phi- 
lipps,  the  treasurer's  clerk. 


ACCOUNT    of    William    Minors,    from    3    November,    1673,    to    25 

October,  1674. 

For  charcoal,  is.  8d. 

For  cleansing  the  gutters  in  the  great  snow 
in  the  reading  time,  1 2S. 

For  the  two  last  readers'  coats  of  arms,  IQS. 

To  Young,  the  stone-cutter,  for  keeping 
the  Temple  Bridge  in  repair  for  three 
years,  3/2. 

To  Mr.  Bloome,  by  the  order  of  Sir  John 
Heath,  treasurer,  for  two  books  pre- 
sented to  the  table,  5/2'. 

To  John  Hudson,  for  all  billets,  faggots, 
sea  coal,  and  old  coal  in  the  time  of 
James  Ellis,  late  steward,  29/2'.  6s.  ^d. 

To  William  Mylls,  for  a  year's  candles  burnt 
at  the  gate,  3/2'. 

For  coach  hire  six  several  times  to  my 
lord  keeper's,  i2s. 

For  painting  and  mending  the  crucifix, 
3/r'.  IQS. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  737/2'.  iqs.iod. 
Sum  total  of  disbursements,  741/2.  9$. 


Salaries  to  Dr.  Ball  for  three  quarters  end- 
ing at  Midsummer,  to  Dr.  Woodroffe 
for  three  quarters  ending  at  Lady  Day, 
and  to  Rawlins  for  a  year  ending  at 
Michaelmas,  at  the  same  rates  as  before. 

To  the  players,  for  two  plays  acted  in  the 
hall  on  All  Hallows'  and  Candlemas 
day,  40/2'. 

To  Lord  Keeper  Clarke  for  venison  pre- 
sented to  the  bench,  2/2. 

For  the  use  of  a  chair  when  my  lord 
keeper  sat  there,  2/2'.  5^. 

To  the  master  of  the  revels,  by  direction 
of  the  table,  4/2'. 

To  the  woodmonger  for  faggots  for  bon- 
fires, 4/2.  45. 

For  a  new  elbow  chair  in  the  library,  3/2.  55. 

For  staves,  wands,  tobacco,  and  pipes  on 
All  Hallows'  Day  and  Candlemas,  ili.  2s. 

For  hiring  a  coach  for  the  players,  2S. 

For  writing  books  for  the  masters  of  the 
bench  when  they  were  before  the  judges 
at  Serjeant's  Inn,  2/2.  51. 

To  two  porters  to  Serjeants'  Inn,  3^. 


And  there  remains  due    to  the  ac- 
countant, 3/*.  95.  id. 


1674-5]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  99 


ACTS   OF  PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  8  November,  26  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1674,  before 
[blank].     SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  K.C.,  treasurer. 

Arthur  Weavour,  Rowland  Jewkes,  Edmund  Wyott,  and  Lancelot 
Johnson,  called  to  the  bench. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  22  November,  26  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1674,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  EDWARD  PECKE,  and 
others.  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  treasurer. 

Order  that  Sir  Simon  Degg  for  refusing  to  read  at  the  next 
Lent  vacation  shall  be  disbenched  and  fined  200/2. 

Special  admission  of  William  Lyster,  at  the  request  of  William 
Lister,  master  of  the  bench,  his  father. 

Charles  Baldwyn,  Henry  Vincent,  William  Simpson,  James 
Farwell,  John  Methwyn,  and  Walter  Burdet,  called  to  the  bar. 

PARLIAMENT  held  by  adjournment  on  24  November,  following,  before 
EDWARD  PECK,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  RICHARD  CROKE,  and  others. 
SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  treasurer. 

Richard  Holloway  elected  reader. 

Richard  Sackvile  called  to  the  bar  with  a  salvo  to  his  seniority, 
but  he  is  not  to  be  sworn  till  he  has  received  the  sacrament. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  31  January,  27  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1674-5,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  EDWARD  PECKE,  and 
others.  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  treasurer. 

Richard  Holloway  is  discharged  from  his  reading  because 
Francis  Pemberton  has  received  a  writ  from  the  King  to  be  serjeant 
at  law.  And  the  said  Pemberton  is  elected  reader  in  his  place. 

Charles  Holloway  and  Sir  William  Poultney  chosen  attendants 
on  the  reader. 

Sir  John  King,  knight,  called  to  the  bench. 


ioo  A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [i674-5 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  7  February,  27  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1674-5,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  EDWARD  PECKE,  and 
others.  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — Henry  Kempe,  John  Willson, 
and  Arthur  Bernardiston. 

Edmund  Pollexfen,  Samuel  Mellish,  Rowland  Jewkes,  Edmund 
Wyott,  Lancelot  Johnson,  Sir  Littleton  Osbaldston,  Anthony 
Farrington,  and  Henry  Pollexfen,  called  to  the  bench. 

A  list  of  the  lives  nominated  to  Hampson's  new  buildings. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  25  April,  27  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1675,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  (sic),  EDWARD  PECKE,  elected 
Serjeants  at  law,  and  others.  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  treasurer. 

Sir  John  Trevor,  one  of  his  Majesty's  counsel  and  treasurer, 
chosen  reader. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  16  May,  27  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1675,  before  SIR 
JOHN  KING,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  and  others.  SIR  JOHN 
TREVOR,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  William  \Vylde,  third  son  of  Sir  William 
Wylde,  knight  and  baronet,  justice  of  the  Court  of  King's  Bench. 

Whereas  at  the  parliament  held  on  15  June,  1673,  Powell, 
Hampson,  Richard  Holloway,  Shuter,  and  Dolben,  were  desired  to 
examine  what  duties  are  owing  upon  the  butler's  rolls,  etc.,  it  is 
ordered  that  the  said  committee  be  revived. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  13  June,  27  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1675,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  JOHN  KING,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  and  others. 
SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  treasurer. 

Stewards  of  the  reader's  dinner  : — Lancelot  Johnson,  Sir  Littleton 
Osbaldston,  and  John  Palgrave. 


,675]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  101 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  20  June,  27  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1675,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  JOHN  KING,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  and  others. 
SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  treasurer. 

Charles  Holloway,  Richard  Holloway,  and  Sir  William  Poultney, 
chosen  attendants  on  the  reader. 

James  Farr,  an  inhabitant  of  Fleet  Street,  lately  petitioned 
that  whereas  his  dwelling  house  was  much  in  decay,  there  was  a 
necessity  to  re-build  it,  and  that  a  small  part  of  his  ground  room,  which 
looked  into  Hare  Court,  of  about  4  ft.  in  breadth  and  6  ft.  in  length, 
stands  out  beyond  the  rest  of  his  building,  yet  ranges  with  the 
adjoining  messuage,  he  cannot  however  make  his  work  uniform  unless 
that  which  stands  out  be  carried  up  of  an  equal  height  with  the  rest, 
he  therefore  prays  that  he  may  be  permitted  to  carry  his  house  up 
of  an  equal  height,  two  stories  above  his  ground  room.  Which 
petition  was  referred  to  Robinson,  an  associate  of  the  bench,  Powell, 
and  West,  two  of  the  masters  of  the  bench,  who  reported  that  the 
south  side  of  Farr's  dwelling  adjoined  the  north  end  of  Hare  Court 
towards  the  chamber  of  John  Turbervill,  and  that  out  of  the  ground 
room  of  the  back  part  of  the  said  dwelling  house,  towards  the  west 
end  thereof,  there  was  a  small  jetty  into  Hare  Court,  one  story  in 
height,  etc.  Whereupon  licence  was  granted  to  the  said  James  Farr 
to  carry  up  the  said  jetty  of  the  length  of  7  ft.  10  in.  and  the  breadth 
of  3  ft.  5  in.  two  stories  high  above  the  ground  room.  To  hold  for 
21  years,  and  the  said  James  Farr  to  pay  a  fine  of  405.  and  the  yearly 
rent  of  65.  Sal. 

Order  that  George  Warner,  the  steward  of  this  society,  may 
hold  certain  shops  and  rooms  set  out  in  his  petition  (not  recited)  built 
since  the  late  dreadful  fire  of  London,  for  2 1  years  at  the  rent  of 
6.y.  Sff.  And  it  is  also  ordered  "  that  the  said  shop  and  rooms,  now 
built,  adjoining  to  the  same,  shall  be  subject  to  the  House  in  case 
both  Houses  shall  hereafter  agree  to  pull  down  the  buildings  that  are 
now  about  the  church  and  next  adjoining  the  said  shop  and  rooms, 
in  order  to  the  repairing  and  beautifying  the  outside  of  the  church." 

Sir  John  Clayton  chosen  steward  for  the  reader's  dinner,  in  the 
room  of  Lancelot  Johnson. 


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PARLIAMENT  held  on  30  October,  27  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1675,  before 
SIR  JOHN  KING,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  and 
others.  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  treasurer. 

Richard  Holloway  chosen  reader. 

Auditors  : — Charles  Holloway  and  Edwards,  of  the  bench,  and 
Heath  and  Ward,  of  the  bar,  for  the  steward's  accounts  ;  and  Dolben 
and  Pollexfen,  of  the  bench,  and  Hodges  and  Hanmer,  of  the  bar, 
for  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

The  following  admissions  in  the  reading  of  Sir  John  Trevor  are 
confirmed,  viz.: — Charles,  Duke  of  Southampton,  Henry,  Duke  of 
Grafton,  George,  Earl  of  Northumberland,  the  Earl  of  Northampton, 
the  Earl  of  Ancram,  the  Lord  Windsor,  Lord  Berkeley,  Edward 
Grey,  Edward  Kynnaston,  and  William  Eyton. 

The  petitions  of  Thomas  Greene  and  Timothy  Holland,  clerks, 
were  read  and  referred  to  the  table. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  John  King,  one  of  his  Majesty's  learned  counsel 
in  the  law. 

BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  12  November,  1674. 

Order  that  Fuller's  chamber  in  Philips'  new  building  be  once 
more  seized  and  padlocked  for  not  paying  the  duties  to  the  House. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  27  November,  1674. 

Order  that  the  committee  for  the  inspecting  the  bills  of  the 
House  be  revived. 

Wyne,  reader  of  Lyon's  Inn,  is  discharged. 

Jeffrey  discharged  from  being  reader  of  Clement's  Inn. 

Foxcroft,  reader  of  Clifford's  Inn,  is  discharged. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  15  June,  1675. 

Orders  for  the  attendance  of  Lee  and  Downes  at  the  table  after 
dinner. 


,675]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  103 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  16  June,  1675. 

Order  for  Lee  to  remove  his  family  out  of  his  chamber  within 
three  weeks,  on  pain  of  forfeiture. 

Orders  that  Edwards'  chamber  be  re-padlocked  and  Lucas' 
chamber  be  seized  and  viewed  by  Edrington  and  Powell,  in  order 
that  it  may  be  sold. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  Saturday,  25  July,  1675. 

Order  that  Robinson,  Milton,  Etherington,  Farrar,  Powell, 
Hampson,  C.  Holloway,  Richard  Holloway,  Shuter,  Dolben,  and 
Farrington,  or  three  of  them,  do  meet  in  the  library  on  Tuesday 
next,  to  receive  the  proposal  of  the  inhabitants  of  Mitre  Court  con- 
cerning a  drain  into  the  Inn. 

Petition  of  John  Playford,  clerk  of  the  Temple  Church,  to  the 
treasurer  and  masters  of  the  bench,  informing  them  of  several  matters 
in  the  church  which  want  speedy  repair. 

"  First,  the  doors  in  the  screen,  which  parts  the  church,  are  at 
this  time  so  much  decayed  and  broken  as  they  are  no  security  to  the 
church,  wherein  now  standeth  the  chest  with  your  communion  plate 
and  also  the  several  vestments  and  books  belonging  to  the  church. 

"  Second,  the  pulpit  is  so  rotten  at  this  time  and  decayed  as  it  is 
in  great  danger  of  falling ;  also  the  velvet  before  the  pulpit  and  the 
cushion  thereto  belonging,  are  both  so  much  decayed  and  worn  out, 
having  been  so  often  mended,  as  much  longer  they  cannot  be  service- 
able. 

"  Third,  there  is  at  this  time  great  want  of  a  good  bell  in  the 
steeple,  which  want  may  be  soon  supplied  if  your  masterships  shall 
please  to  give  order  that  those  two  bells  now  in  the  steeple,  which 
are  both  cracked  and  useless,  be  cast  into  one ;  it  will  make  an 
excellent  bell  that  will  be  heard  into  all  courts  belonging  to  both 
societies. 

"  Fourth,  the  two  surplices  at  this  time  belonging  to  the  church 
are  both  worn  out,  one  of  which  is  allowed  by  the  honourable  society." 

A  like  paper  was  delivered  to  the  society  of  the  Middle  Temple. 

Milton,  Edrington,  Powell,  Farrar,  Hampson,  West,  and 
Holloway  to  consider  the  above  petition. 


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['675 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26  June  (sic),  1675. 

Order  that  Shuter  and  Dolben  be  added  to  the  committee  to 
consider  as  to  the  drain  in  Mitre  Alley. 

Order  of  the  said  committee  (signed  by  Powell,  Hampson,  and 
Shuter)  that  a  large  iron  grate  be  placed  at  the  mouth  of  the  drain  in 
the  south  side  of  Mitre  Court,  and  that  the  following  occupiers  of 
Mitre  Court,  viz.  :  —  John  Moore,  Arthur  Boldero,  Stephen  Primatt, 
John  Harmer,  William  Trehearne,  Thomas  Lindon,  -  Savadge, 
widow,  Theophilus  Terrill,  John  Wayte,  Joseph  Brookes  and 
Christopher  Hart  shall  pay  yearly  to  the  treasurer  $s.  4^.,  and  each 
inhabitant  to  set  a  grate  at  his  own  sink  or  gutter  running  into  the 
common  drain  which  passes  down  Mitre  Court.  Dated  10  July, 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT    BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  John   Trevor,   treasurer,   from    25    October,    1674, 

to  30  November,  1675. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

For  engrossing  two  petitions  to  his  Majesty 
in  reference  to  Sir  Simon  Degg's  read- 
ing- 3s- 

For  a  play  acted  at  the  Temple  hall  on 
Candlemas  day  last,  20/1. 

To  Thomas  Newman,  the  House  brick- 
layer, for  making  the  brick  wall  betwixt 
the  Temple  and  Whitefriars,  26/1.  los.  <)d. 

For  repairs  to  the  lecturer's  lodgings,  1 5/2'. 


To  a  waterman  for  towing  a  dead  body 
from  the  garden  wall  unto  the  tide,  is. 
To  the  watermen  who  attended  the  grand 

day  and  reading  week,  ill.  zs. 
To  Mr.  Dutton,  for  setting  up  the  King's 
arms,  etc.,  in  the  Temple  window,  20/1'. 
145. 

Total  receipts,  626/1.  os.  6d. 
Total  disbursements,  536/2'.  zs.  $d. 
Remaining  in  the  treasurer's  hands, 
89/2'.  iBs.  T,d. 


Account  of  William  Minors,  chief  butler,  from  25  October,  1674,  to 

30  October,  1675. 


RECEIPTS. 

Of  Mr.  Beamont,  treasurer  of  Lyon's  Inn, 
for  a  year's  rent  of  that  House,  4/2. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 
To    Dr.  Ball,   Dr.   Woodroffe,  and  John 

Rawlins,  as  before. 
To  the  Serjeants  when  they  took  leave  of 

the  House,  15/2. 
For  three  purses,  45. 


For  cleansing  the  well  by  the  house  of 
office,  1/2.  oj.  6d. 

For  three  readers'  coats  of  arms,  155. 

To  Francis  Scares,  by  the  treasurer's 
order,  for  clothes  and  looking  after 
the  children  when  they  were  sick,  iff. 

IOS. 

To  Mrs.  Woolley,  for  9  yards  of  green 
baize  for  a  carpet  for  the  "swingers'" 
table,  iff.  6s. 


,675-6]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  105 


To  John  Blyth  "  for  two  graves-digging  for. 

two  nurse  children,"  is. 
For  a  table  for  the  library,  105. 
For  washing  the  library  and  hall  six  times,  iis 
For  carrying  away  the  rubbish  when  the 

hearth  was  taken  up  in  the  hall,  is. 
To  the  surveyor  upon  the  view  of  the  wall 


near  the  buttery,  and  other  workmen  for 
their  advice,  8.y. 
For  a  green  bag  for  carrying  the  rolls  in, 


2s. 


Total  receipts,  329/1.  185.  lod. 
Total  disbursements,  335/2'.  17*.  nd. 
Due  to  the  accountant,  5/1.  195.  id. 


ACTS   OF   PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  November,  27  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1675,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON, 
THOMAS  FARRAR,  and  others.  SIR  JOHN  KING,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  John  Holloway,  at  the  request  of  his  father 
Richard  Holloway,  reader  elect. 

Arthur  Barnardiston,  an  utter  barrister,  discharged  of  his  fine 
for  being  formerly  chosen  one  of  the  stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner, 
in  consideration  of  his  condition. 

Sir  John  Trevor,  Sir  William  Poultney  and  Hopton  Shuter, 
chosen  attendants  on  the  reader. 

William  Abell,  John  Saunders,  Robert  Wadman,  Thomas 
Tongue,  Edward  Herbert,  Robert  Payne,  William  Barnesly,  Walter 
Savadge,  John  Pottenger,  John  Spencer,  Robert  Gillmore,  and 
William  Good  called  to  the  bar.  Good  not  to  be  sworn  until  his  full 
time  of  standing. 

The  Act  of  22  May,  18  Charles  I.,  concerning  apparels,  is 
repealed. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  30  January,  28  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1675-6,  before 
CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  RICHARD  POWELL,  and 
others.     SIR  JOHN  KING,  treasurer. 
Stewards   for   the  reader's   dinner  : — Thomas   Lewis,    Thomas 

Stavely,  and  Francis  Vaughan. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  6  February,  1675-6,  before  SIR  JOHN  HEATH, 

THOMAS   FARRAR,    RICHARD  POWELL,   and  others.     SIR  JOHN 

KING,  treasurer. 

Further  time  given  to  Sir  Richard  Hopkins,  serjeant  at  law,  to 
nominate  a  life  to  his  chamber. 

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I 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  16  April,  28  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1676,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  RICHARD  POWELL,  RICHARD  HOLLOWAY,  and 
others.  SIR  JOHN  KING,  treasurer. 

Sir  William  Poultney  chosen  reader. 

Special  admission  of  Simon  Harcourt,  son  of  Sir  Philip  Har- 
court,  of  Stanton  Harcourt,  in  the  County  of  Oxford,  at  the  request 
of  Richard  Holloway,  late  reader. 

Order  that  duties  owing  before  the  beginning  of  Trinity  Term, 
1660,  be  pardoned  to  all  who  shall  pay  the  duties  since  that  time 
incurred. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  7  May,  28  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1676,  before 
CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  RICHARD  HOLLOWAY, 
and  others.  SIR  JOHN  KING,  treasurer. 

Richard  Holloway,  Hopton  Shuter,  and  William  Dolben,  at- 
tendants on  the  reader. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  u  June,  28  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1676,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  and 
others.  SIR  JOHN  KING,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — Sir  Nicholas  Stroud,  William 
Robinson,  and  John  Gore. 

Special  admissions  of  John  Poultney  aud  William  Poultney,  the 
eldest  and  second  sons  of  Sir  William  Poultney,  reader  elect. 

Samuel  Powell  called  to  the  bar. 

Time  given  to  Thomas  Robinson  to  nominate  lives  to  his 
buildings. 

"  Whereas  in  the  case  of  Mr.  Jewkes,  a  barrister  of  this  society, 
the  treasurer  and  several  of  the  masters  of  the  bench,  by  order  of  the 
House  did  make  their  complaint  unto  the  right  honourable  the  Lord 
Chief  Justice  Raynsford,  for  that  one  of  the  tipstaffs  belonging  unto 
his  lordship,  had  (without  leave  obtained  therein)  taken  the  said  Mr. 
Jewkes  out  of  his  chamber  and  delivered  him  over  in  execution,  in 
breach  of  the  privilege  of  the  Temple,  desiring  his  lordship's  favour- 


,676]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  107 

able  redress  therein.  In  answer  whereunto,  his  lordship  having 
expressed  the  great  respect  he  had  for  the  Society  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  did  declare  that  the  present  case,  as  his  lordship  was  in- 
formed, was  a  case  of  great  extremity  to  the  utter  ruin  of  a  family 
depending  thereon,  and  that  his  lordship  would  take  care  for  the 
future  nothing  of  the  like  nature  should  be  done  to  the  prejudice  of 
those  ancient  privileges  which  have  been  accustomedly  enjoyed  by 
the  members  of  this  society,  his  lordship  also  recommending  it  to  the 
governors  of  the  House  to  take  effectual  care  that  foreigners  be  not 
harboured  therein  to  the  obstruction  of  justice.  Which  being  re- 
ported to  the  table,  it  is  ordered  that  a  memorial  thereof  be  made 
and  entv-i'ed  in  the  parliament  book  at  the  next  parliament  that  shall 
be  held  for  this  society." 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  29  October,  28  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1676,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY, 
and  others.  SIR  JOHN  KING,  treasurer. 

Auditors  : — Edwards  and  Farrington,  of  the  bench,  and  Ward 
and  Thurland,  of  the  bar,  for  the  steward's  accounts  ;  and  Richard 
Holloway  and  Pollexfen,  of  the  bench,  and  Purley  and  Hodges,  of 
the  bar,  for  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Hopton  Shuter  chosen  reader. 

The  following  admissions  made  in  the  last  summer  reading  by 
Sir  William  Poultney  and  confirmed,  viz,,  Christienlaus,  Duke  of 
Mecklenburgh,  Charles,  Lord  Grey  of  Rolleston,  Sir  John  Brown- 
low,  Bart.,  George  Clarke,  and  William  Berrington. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Thomas  Foster,  knight. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 
BENCH  TABLE  held  on  28  October,  1676. 

Dolben,  Edwards,  Farrington,  John  Hales,  and  Crispe  to  be  a 
committee  to  consider  the  regulating  of  commons,  the  buttery,  and 
other  expenses. 


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GENERAL   ACCOUNT    BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  John  King,  solicitor  general  of  the  Duke  of  York, 
treasurer,  from  9  November,  1675,  to  29  October,  1676. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 


To  the  King's  players,  for  acting  a  play  in 
the  Temple  Hall  called  "The  Scorn- 
ful Lady"  on  All  Saints  day,  1675, 
20/1. 

To  Richard  Roberts,  for  wine  for  the 
bench  table  in  Michaelmas  term,  2$/i. 
65.  6d. 

To  George  Warner,  steward,  by  order  of 
the  bench,  68/r'.  8*.  $d. 

To  Henry  Hall,  for  187  dozen  of  pots, 
ii It.  is.  6d. 

To  the  King's  players,  for  acting  a  play 
called  "  The  Spanish  Curate "  in  the 
Inner  Temple  Hall  on  Candlemas  day, 
1675-6,  2oli. 

To  Henry  Hall,  for  169  double  dozen  of 
pots,  etc.,  9#.  175.  2d. 


To  Playford,  for   hassocks,  etc.,  for  the 

Temple  church,  2/1.  15^.  &d. 
To  Hilliare,  the  painter,  lo/i.  is.  nd. 
To  Mr.  Lyndsay,  for  the  purchase  of  the 

reversion  of  the  fee  farm  rent  of  the 

Inner  Temple,  8o/r'. 
To  Mr.  Brent,  for  the  conveyance  of  the 

fee  farm  rent  and  enrolling  the  same, 

ili.  IQS. 
For  his  pains  and  care  in  it,  as  a  gratuity, 

2/1. 
Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  524/1.  i8s. 

y. 

Total  of  the  disbursements  with  4//. 
allowed  to  Daniel  Storer,  the  trea- 
surer's clerk,  505/2.  i8s.  Sd. 

And  so  there  remains  i8/».  igs.  "jd. 


RECEIPTS  by  William  Minors,  chief  butler,  from  30  October,  1675, 

to  1 8  November,  1676. 


Of  Beamont,  treasurer  of  Lyon's  Inn,  for  a 

year's  rent,  4/7'. 
Of  Thomas  Lewis,  for  his  fine  as  steward 

in  Richard  Holloway's  reading,  i8//. 


Of  Thomas  Stavely,  steward  to  the  same, 
2oli. 

Of  John  Machell,  steward  in  West's  read- 
ing, for  his  fine,  i8/<. 


DISBURSEMENTS  by  William  Minors  for  the  same  time. 


Salary  to  Dr.  Ball,  as  before. 

To  Timothy  Holland,  for  reading  prayers 

at  3#.  15.!-.  a  quarter. 
To  Richard  Holloway,  the  fines  of  three 

stewards  for  his  dinner,  6o//. 
To  John  Watts,  the  Queen's  receiver,  for 

one  year's  rent,  loli.  25. 
For  half  a  year's  rent  for  the  New  River 

Water,  ili.  \(>s.  $d. 
For   painting  three  of  the  readers'  arms, 

I5S. 

To    Buggins,    master   of    the    revels    for 
Michaelmas,  1675,  io/;'. 


For  Candlemas  and  two  other  grand  days, 

8/». 
For  nursing  of  Christmas  and  Ben  Temple, 

3//.    I2S. 

Like  entries  for  nursing  Ahurst  Temple, 

Mary  Temple,  Abraham  Temple,  and 

John  Temple. 
To  Daniel  Ireland,  for  the  moiety  of  a  bill 

for  mending  a  glass  lanthorn,  i  is. 
To  the  porters,  for  attending  at  the  hall 

doors  on  All  Hallows  and  Candlemas 

days,  ili. 
To  the  musicians,  for  their  yearly  fee,  4//'. 


i676] 


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109 


For  cleaning,  digging,  and  stopping  up  the 

well  in  Hare's  Court,  iff.  los. 
For  scouring  the  green  carpet  for  "  the 

swingers' "  table,  3 s. 
For  wands,  tobacco,  and  pipes  for  the  three 

last  grand  days,  iff.  IQS. 
For  proving  Edmund  Prideaux's  will,  i6s. 
For  sweeping  and  washing  the  library  and 

the  hall,  and  for  herbs  and  flowers  for 

them,  los. 
For  my  charges  in  sending  letters  to  the 

stewards  and  my  journey  into  the  country 

to  Sir  Roger  Hill,  iff. 


For  hiring  coaches  to  invite  the  judges 

three  times,  8s. 
For   hearth   money  for   chimneys  in  the 

House's  hands,  iff.  45. 
To  John  Blyth  for  making  a  grave,   is., 
and  to  the  nurse  towards  the  burial  of 
a  nurse  child,  45. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  422/2.  8s. 

6d. 
Sum  total  of  disbursements,  469/z.  4.?. 

gd. 

So  there  is  due  to  the  accountant 
46/1'.  i6s.  $d. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

1675-6,  February  29.  Receipt  by  John  Lindsay  of  London, 
goldsmith,  to  Daniel  Finch,  Henneage  Finch,  and  William  Finch, 
sons  of  Henneage,  Lord  Finch,  Baron  of  Daventry,  and  lord 
chancellor,  for  8o/z.,  being  the  consideration  money  mentioned  to  be 
paid  in  an  indenture  of  even  date,  between  Francis,  Lord  Hawley, 
Sir  Charles  Harbord,  and  others,1  of  the  first  part,  the  said  John 
Lindsay  of  the  second  part,  and  the  said  Daniel,  Henneage,  and 
William  Finch,  of  the  third  part. 

ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  26  November,  28  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1676,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  SIR  JOHN  KING,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  treasurer. 

Sir  William  Poultney,  Dolben,  and  Edwards  chosen  attendants 
on  the  reader. 

Sir  Thomas  Hanmer,  K.C.,  the  Queen's  solicitor,  called  to  the 
bench. 

Henry  Crispe,  John  Goodfellow,  Richard  Milton,  William 
Younge,  Henry  Gaudy,  John  Sturmy,  John  Wilson,  Thomas  Jobber, 
Arthur  Maudett,  William  Foster,  John  Haughfen,  Ralph  Milbourne, 
Philip  Neeve,  Edmund  Jenney,  John  Dalby,  Josias  Calmady, 
William  Pudsey,  John  Winston,  John  Wallis,  James  Grove,  Hugh 


'  These  persons  were  the  trustees  for  the  sale  of  the  Crown  fee  farm  rents. 


no  A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1*7*-, 

Barker,  William  Corey,  Richard  Powell,  Jeffery  Jefleryes,  Lovelace 
Hercey,  Thomas  Vincent,  Richard  Webb,  John  Oxenham,  and 
William  Wilkinson,  called  to  the  bar.  The  three  last  not  to  be 
sworn  till  they  shall  be  of  full  time. 

Order  that  the  next  convenient  chamber  that  shall  fall  to  the 
disposal  of  the  House,  be  appointed  for  the  master  of  the  revels. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  n  February,  29  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1676-7,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  SIR  JOHN  KING,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner  : — George   Tipping,  Arthur 
Weaver,  and  Edmond  Pollexfen. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  13  May.  :Q  Charles  II..  A.D.  1677,  before  SIR 
JOHN   HEATH.  SIR  JOHN    KING,  THOMAS  FARHAR,  and  others. 

S:A  THOMAS  FOSTER,  treasurer. 

Sir   Wi'/.iam    Do'.ben,   K.C..   recorder  of  the   City  of  London, 

chosen  reader. 

Fines  for  admittances  to  chambers  to  be  paid  upon  pain  of  the 
•idrr.iriinces  beir.^  ~2.de  void. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  :~  May.  .29  Charles  II..  A.D.  1677.  before  SIR 
J;HN  HEATH.  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON.  THOMAS  FARRAR,  and 
others.  SIR  TKCY.AS  FOSTLR.  treasurer. 

Shuter.  Edwards,  and  Simpson  chosen  attendants  on  the  reader. 

Order  that  the  chamber  up  three  pair  of  stairs  and  the  garret  in 
the  first  staircase  in  the  Paper  Buildings,  shall  be  for  the  use  of  the 
present  master  of  the  revels,  so  long  as  he  continue  in  that  office. 

Order  "  that  the  ancient  order  of  casting  into  commons  all 
members  of  this  society  (except  such  as  have  chambers)  that  are 
risus  in  rilla  for  ever)'  whole  week  in  term,  be  renewed,  and  a  roH 
to  be  specially  made  for  that  purpose,  and  that  the  butlers  and 
stewards,  as  heretofore,  are  to  use  their  diligence  in  certifying 
thereof" 


.677]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  m 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  24  June,  29  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1677,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  treasurer. 

Stewards  for  the  reader's  dinner : — William  Cawley,  Ralph 
Jennings,  and  Benjamin  Lister. 

Whereas  Samuel  Grant's  chamber  was  twice  padlocked  up  for 
his  refusing  to  pay  his  duties  for  commons  and  has  been  since  broken 
open,  it  is  again  ordered  that  the  said  chamber  be  padlocked  with 
two  padlocks,  and  seized  to  the  use  of  the  House,  and  secured  by 
two  watchmen. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  i  July,  29  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1677,  before  [blank] 
SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  treasurer. 

Sir  John  Biggs  chosen  steward  for  the  reader's  dinner  in  the 
room  of  William  Cawley. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  October,  29  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1677,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  treasurer. 

Pensions  assessed  double. 

Auditors  : — Farrington  and  Johnson,  of  the  bench,  and  Thurland 
and  Thomas  Petitt,  of  the  bar,  for  the  steward's  accounts ;  and 
Pollexfen  and  Sir  William  Poultney,  of  the  bench,  and  Hodges  and 
William  Petitt,  of  the  bar,  for  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Special  admission  of  John  Dolben,  second  son  of  the  bishop  of 
Rochester,  at  the  request  of  Sir  William  Dolben,  recorder  of  London, 
and  serjeant  at  law  elect. 

Order  for  the  chamber  wherein  Turbervile  was  admitted,  to  be 
seized. 

"  Whereas  by  the  ancient,  most  accustomed,  and  laudable  rules 
and  practices  of  this  society,  the  treasurership  thereof  hath  been 
usually  from  time  to  time  placed  in  and  continued  unto  some  master 
of  the  bench,  who  hath  actually  performed  the  exercise  of  a  grand 


ii2  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1676-7 

reader,  unto  which  treasurership  the  said  readers  respectively  were 
accustomed  annually  to  be  elected  according  to  their  antiquity  and 
seniority  in  reading ;  therefore  for  the  better  government  of  this 
society,  it  is  at  this  present  parliament  ordered,  declared,  and  enacted 
that  a  new  treasurer  for  this  society  shall  be  from  henceforth  annually 
elected  at  the  first  parliament  in  every  Michaelmas  term,  and  that  a 
reader  then  present  in  the  said  parliament,  who  hath  not  been 
treasurer  before  that  time,  shall  be  elected  treasurer  for  the  year 
ensuing,  and  be  it  further  declared  that  in  the  election  of  a  treasurer, 
respect  from  time  to  time  be  had  to  the  senior  reader  who  hath  not 
been  treasurer,  that  shall  be  present  at  the  time  of  such  election." 

Heneage  Finch,  K.C.,  and  Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  K.C.,  Richard 
Heath,  Henry  Selbey,  Anthony  Kecke,  William  Buckby,  Nicholas 
Courtney,  John  Kelings,  and  William  Longuevile  are  called  to  the 
bench. 

Treasurer  : — Richard  Powell. 

BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 
BENCH  TABLE  held  on  30  October,  1676. 

West,  Charles  Holloway,  and  Pollexfen  are  desired  to  inquire 
what  chambers  in  the  new  buildings  "  are  cast  in,  and  to  settle  the 
same." 

Hampson,  Richard  West,  Richard  Holloway,  Dolben  and 
Pollexfen  to  be  a  committee  to  consider  all  necessary  means  to 
prevent  any  accidental  fires  in  this  society,  and  to  view  the  engine 
and  to  report  what  further  number  of  buckets  will  be  necessary  to 
be  added  to  those  now  hung  up  in  the  hall. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7  November,  1676. 

Order  for  the  better  conveniency  of  gentlemen  paying  commons 
that  the  steward  or  his  servant  shall  attend  immediately  after  the 
horn  has  blown,  at  the  lower  end  of  the  clerks'  commons  table,  with 
his  rolls  of  commons,  till  the  masters  of  the  bench  shall  come  into 
the  hall.  And  he  shall  afterwards  remove  from  thence  with  the  rolls 
to  the  yeomen's  table  till  the  commons  are  called  to  be  served  up,  so 


1677]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  113 

that  the  gentlemen  can  freely  peruse  the  rolls  and  "  see  themselves 
cut  out  of  the  same  upon  payment  of  their  said  commons,  without 
attending  upon  the  said  stewards." 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  2  May,  1677. 

Order  that  Sir  Nathaniel  Powell,  at  his  request,  be  discharged 
from  a  vacation. 

Re-appointment  of  the  same  committee  (with  the  addition  of 
Charles  Holloway)  selected  on  30  October,  to  consider  the  means  for 
the  prevention  of  fires. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  4  May,  1677. 

Orders  that  the  chambers  of  Grant,  Shelbury,  Palgrave,  Roberts, 
Boeveys  and  Hambden  be  padlocked ;  that  the  padlock  on  Roberts' 
chamber  be  taken  off  upon  his  paying  lo/z. ;  and  that  Farrer, 
Hampson,  Holloway,  Edwards  and  Farrington  shall  meet  and  con- 
sider of  all  persons  admitted  into  chambers. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7  May,  1677. 

Order  that  Powell  and  others  shall  be  a  committee  to  consider 
the  debts  of  the  House. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  9  May,  1677. 

Order  that  all  gentlemen  of  the  society  in  arrear  for  vacations 
and  amercements  shall  have  liberty  to  compound  for  half  the  money 
due,  provided  they  pay  within  a  certain  time. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7  July,  1677. 

"  Upon  information  at  the  table  that  the  charge  of  altering  the 
seats  in  the  church,  for  this  House's  part,  will  amount  to  300/2'., 
which  is  double  as  much  as  was  at  first  proposed,  it  is  ordered  that 
the  altering  of  the  said  seats  be  suspended  until  our  next  meeting, 

in.  Q 


A  CALENDAR   OF  THE 


and  that  the  1 50/2.  in  the  head  butler's  hands  be  returned  unto  the 
treasurer." 

Order  that  the  election  of  Graham,  principal  of  Clifford's  Inn, 
be  confirmed,  and  Summers  yield  obedience  thereto,  and  forthwith 
deliver  up  to  Graham  the  chamber  books,  keys,  writings,  and  other 
things  belonging  to  the  principal  of  that  society.  And  in  case 
Summers  "  shall  refuse  to  yield  obedience  thereto,  this  table  will 
take  the  consideration  of  proceeding  against  him  the  next  term,  for 
the  punishment  of  his  contempt  in  that  behalf." 

Order  that  in  case  of  Summers'  contempt  of  the  above  order, 
that  Gardiner,  the  reader  of  that  society,  be  discharged  of  his 
reading  there  for  the  next  summer  vacation.1 

GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Thomas  Foster,  knight,  treasurer,  from  27  October, 

1676,  to  27  October,  1677. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  the  players  sent  by  Mr.  Roberts,  2O//. 
For  a  surplice,  3//. 
To  Dr.  Woodroffe,  6o//. 
To  the  head  cook,  Mr.  Belford,  ili.  6s.  &/. 
To  Mr.  Roberts,  for  wine,  25/1.  6s. 
To  the  watermen  that  toiled  at  the  fire, 

lit. 
To  the   steward's  man,   by  order  of  my 

masters  of  the  bench,  for  his  pains  in 

extinguishing  the  fire,  ili. 
To  the  engineer  of  St.  Bride's  parish,  2li. 
To  the  engineer  of  St.  Dunstan's,  2/z'. 
To  four  watermen  for  pulling  down  the 

wall  and  for  the  loss  of  a  pickaxe,  105. 


To   the  players   at   Candlemas,   sent   by 

Richard  Roberts,  zoli. 
To  Richard  Roberts,  for  his  pains  in  pro- 

viding wine,  ili. 
Given  to  Anthony  Vassallo,  of  Candia,  ac- 

cording as  other  Inns  of  Court  have  given, 

under  the  hand  of  the  treasurers,  ili. 
To  the  carpenter,  for  the  music  room,  4/1. 

i&s.  zd. 

Given  to  a  sick  washpot,  ili. 
Sum  total  of  the  receipts, 
Total  of  the  disbursements, 


And  so  there  remains  with  \li.  allowed, 
33#.  6*.  id. 


RECEIPTS  by  William  Minors,  chief  butler;  from  29  October,  1676, 

to  28  October,  1677. 


Of  Richard  Roberts,  for  his  shop  in  Tan- 
field  Court,  5-r. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  Dr.  Ball,  for  his  salary,  each  quarter, 


1  In  another  hand  there  is  added,  "  and  afterwards  by  the  order  of  the  table  was 
discharged." 


i677] 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


To  Dr.   Woodroffe,  for   his  salary,  each 

quarter,  zoli. 
To  Holland,  the  reader,  each  quarter,  3/2. 

155. 
To  Francis  Soares,  varying  amounts  each 

quarter   for  nursing  from  three  to  six 

children. 
For  the  rent  of  the  House  to  the  Queen's 

receiver  for  two  years  and   zs.  for  re- 
ceipts, zoli.  zs. 
To  Newman,  the  bricklayer,  for  work  done 

"in  my  chamber"  by  throwing  down 

the  wall  by  the  gentlemen,  zli.  \$s. 
For  faggots,  for  bonfires,  \li.  \£>s. 
To  Brickwood,  the  pavier,  for  work  done 

in  Figtree  Court,  8*. 
To  the  musicians,  their  yearly  fee,  4/1. 
For  painting  three  coats  of  readers'  arms, 

155. 

Allowed  the  master  of  the  revels,  i  zli. 
For  wands,    staves,    tobacco    pipes,  and 

candles,  the  two  last  Grand  days,   \li. 

I  OS. 


To  the  porters,  for  watching  the  gate  at 

the  same  time,  ili.  izs. 
For  washing  the  hall  and  libraries,  \li.  izs. 
For  sending  several  letters  to  the  reader's 
stewards  for  horse  hire,  riding  down  to 
the  treasurer  after  the  fire,  \li. 
Paid  back  to  Sir  Nathaniel  Powell  by  order 
of  the  bench  for  a  vacation  when  he 
was  sick,  4/1. 

For  a  Spanish  table  for  the  library,  145. 
To  the  new  Serjeants  on  their  going  out, 

zoli. 

For  the  purses,  6s. 

The  bill  of  my  expenses  at  the  fire,  1 8//.  35. 
For  curtains,  for  the  music  room,  zli. 
To  porters,  to  watch  the  bonfires,  65. 
To  the  men  that  worked  at  the  engine  of 
St.  Dunstan's,  15^. 

Sum  total  of  the  receipts,  596//.  85.  zd. 
Sum  total  of  the  disbursements,  6io//. 

iSJ. 

So  there  remains  due  to  theaccountant, 
14/1.  TS.  (sic). 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

1677,  June   i.      Letter  from   William   Minors,   chief   butler  to 
Finch,  as  to  compounding  for  duties. 

1677,  December  n.  Serjeants'  Inn  in  Chancery  Lane.  "The 
judges  of  both  benches  and  barons  of  the  Exchequer  taking  into 
consideration  a  difference  depending  in  the  society  of  Clifford's  Inn 
concerning  the  election  of  a  principal,  whereupon  the  benchers  of  the 
Inner  Temple  and  the  judges  of  that  Society  had  been  attended  and 
had  proposed  expedients,  but  there  had  been  no  acquiescence,  did 
think  fit  to  appoint  a  meeting  of  all  the  judges  to  prevent  the  ill  con- 
sequences and  scandal  that  may  arise  to  the  profession  of  the  law 
thereby,  and  accordingly  the  Lord  Chief  Justice  Raynsford,  Lord 
Chief  Justice  North,  Lord  Chief  Baron  Mountague,  Baron  Little- 
ton, Justice  Windham,  Justice  Atkins,  Justice  Jones,  Justice  Scroggs, 
this  day  assembled,  Justice  Twisdon,  Justice  Wyld,  Baron  Thur- 
land,  and  Baron  Bertie  being  hindered  by  infirmity  or  other  accident, 
Mr.  Powall,  treasurer  of  the  Inner  Temple,  and  Mr.  Hampson, 
bencher  of  that  House,  attending  without,  and  Mr.  Sommers  and 


n6  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1677 

Mr.  Graham,  the  two  competitors  for  the  office  of  principal,  and 
divers  other  members  of  Clifford's  Inn,  of  their  several  parties,  like- 
wise attending,  were  called  in  and  examined  whether  they  had  pur- 
sued the  due  methods  of  making  complaints  of  this  nature,  which 
the  judges  declared  ought  to  be  made  in  this  manner,  viz.,  first  to 
the  benchers  of  the  Inns  of  Court,  to  which  they  belong,  to  whose 
government  the  government  of  the  Inns  of  Chancery  is  and  ought 
to  be  subordinate,  and  if  any  of  the  Inns  of  Chancery  shall  find 
themselves  aggrieved  by  the  determination  of  the  said  benchers, 
they  may  appeal  to  his  Majesty's  judges  that  were  of  that  Inn  of 
Court,  who  may  examine,  and,  if  they  see  cause,  correct  such  deter- 
mination. And  if  any  shall  think  fit  to  appeal  from  the  determina- 
tion of  the  said  judges,  they  may  apply  themselves  to  all  the  judges, 
who,  upon  any  general  meeting,  may  take  order  therein.  And  in 
this  particular  case  it  appearing  that  applications  had  been  first  made 
to  the  benchers  of  the  Inner  Temple,  and  after  to  the  judges  of  that 
society,  but  some  questions  arising  about  the  formalities  of  the  said 
appeals,  it  was  proposed  as  an  expedient  that  setting  aside  all  former 
decisions  and  proposals,  the  judges  would  appoint  a  day  for  the 
hearing  of  all  parties  concerning  the  right  and  manner  of  election, 
and  determine  the  same,  to  which  there  appears  a  general  con- 
currence. And  Mr.  Powell  and  Mr.  Hampson  did  on  the  behalf  of 
the  Inner  Temple  assent,  and  Mr.  Sommers  and  Mr.  Graham  like- 
wise and  the  rest  of  the  society  of  Clifford's  Inn  then  present,  where- 
upon the  judges  did  appoint  Monday  next  at  nine  of  the  clock  in 
the  morning  in  this  place  to  hear  all  parties  concerned  in  this  matter, 
and  thereupon  to  take  such  order  as  to  them  shall  seem  just.  At 
which  time  and  place,  the  said  justices  being  again  assembled,  the 
treasurer  and  several  of  the  benchers  of  the  Inner  Temple  and  the 
contesting  parties  of  Clifford's  Inn  attending  were  called  in,  and 
after  a  full  hearing  of  what  would  be  alleged  on  either  side,  it  clearly 
appeared  to  the  said  judges  that  by  the  ancient  constitutions  of  the 
society  of  Clifford's  Inn,  upon  any  vacancy  of  the  office  of  principal 
there  ought  to  be  three  persons  proposed  by  the  rules  to  the  com- 
mons of  the  House  for  their  election  ;  and  that  the  commons  had 
not  liberty  to  choose  any  other  person  to  be  principal  but  one  of  the 
three  so  proposed,  but  the  said  justices  declared  that  it  is  agreeable 
to  reason  and  justice  that  every  one  of  the  persons,  so  to  be  pro- 


1677]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  117 

posed,  be  a  person  well  qualified  for  the  office.  And  if  the  rules 
propose  persons  unfit,  it  may  be  just  cause  of  complaint,  which  being 
alleged  to  be  the  present  case  and  the  chief  ground  of  the  complaint 
to  the  benchers  of  the  Inner  Temple,  whereupon  the  benchers  had 
thought  fit  to  change  the  nomination  in  order  to  a  new  election. 
The  judges,  to  avoid  personal  reflections,  which  would  increase  the 
opposition  of  parties,  declined  the  examination  of  that  matter,  and 
because  victory  on  either  side  would  occasion  burnings  and  re- 
proaches, they  proposed  divers  expedients  for  a  new  election  of  a 
principal  to  continue  for  three  years,  wherein  the  present  competitors 
should  be  wholly  waived.  But  difficulties  appearing  therein,  it  was 
at  last  unanimously  agreed  by  all  parties  that  if  the  judges  there 
present  would  be  pleased  to  take  the  trouble  to  nominate  any  of  the 
rules  of  that  society  to  be  principal,  they  would  willingly  submit  that 
such  person  should  be  principal  for  three  years. 

Which  being  accepted  by  the  judges,  and  the  names  of  all  the 
rules  being  presented  to  them,  the  said  judges  did  unanimously  concur 
in  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Ingram  to  be  the  principal  of  their  society 
for  the  term  of  three  years  from  the  death  of  Mr.  Attwood. 

After  which  it  was  represented  to  the  judges  that  in  the  society 
the  rules  are  arbitrarily  chosen  without  regard  to  antiquity,  and  it 
was  answered  that  the  society  being  divided  into  parties  by  this 
difference,  the  party  which  had  at  this  present  the  major  vote  among 
the  rules  would  overpower  the  rest  in  the  choice  of  new  rules  wholly 
out  of  their  own  party,  so  that  the  others  which  were  the  major  part 
of  the  society,  although  the  major  part  of  the  present  rules  might  be 
oppressed,  and  that  the  power  of  the  principal  was  swelled  so  much 
by  the  influence  he  had  upon  the  rules,  that  he  is  now  allowed 
eighteen  chambers  for  his  own  use,  when  other  members  of  the 
society  want  the  chambers,  and  that  there  ought  to  be  yearly 
accounts  given  up,  but  no  account  had  been  given  these  many  years 
past,  which  inconveniences  are  the  occasions  that  the  commons  of 
the  society  have  so  earnestly  desired  a  principal  of  their  good  liking 
that  matters  may  not  be  carried  so  for  the  future. 

Whereupon  the  judges  declared  that  the  occasion  of  their 
meeting  was  concerning  the  election  of  a  principal,  which  being  now 
over,  they  thought  it  not  proper  to  take  any  order  on  other  matters, 
nevertheless  they  did  intimate  that  upon  the  choice  of  a  rule  those 


n8  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [,677 

which  were  most  ancient  in  the  society  ought  not  without  reason  to 
be  pretermitted,  but  upon  that  or  any  other  abuse  of  government 
there  might  be  complaint  to  the  benchers  of  the  Inner  Temple,  who 
are  to  regulate  the  same  and  until  they  have  been  applied  unto,  the 
judges  will  not  meddle  therein." 


ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  4  November,  29  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1677,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  and 
others.  RICHARD  POWELL,  treasurer. 

The  choosing  of  the  reader  postponed  till  the  last  parliament  of 
this  term. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  18  November,  29  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1677,  before 
[blank].     RICHARD  POWELL,  treasurer. 

Richard  Edwards  chosen  reader. 

The  act  of  parliament  of  28  October  last,  touching  the  election 
of  treasurer,  declared  void. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  25  November,  29  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1677,  before 
[blank].     RICHARD  POWELL,  treasurer. 

Sir  William  Poultney,  Wyatt,  and  Johnson,  chosen  attendants 
on  the  reader. 

Whereas  Thomas  Robinson,  chief  prothonotary  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas,  an  ancient  associate  of  the  bench  table,  has  paid  to 
the  treasurer  the  sum  of  200/2.,  as  a  free  and  voluntary  present,  and 
whereas  Richard  Brow[n]low,  his  predecessor,  was  formerly  an 
associate  of  the  bench  table,  and  was  afterwards  called  to  be  a 
bencher  with  a  discharge  from  readings,  and  was  afterwards  elected 
treasurer,  it  is  therefore  ordered  that  the  said  Thomas  Robinson 
shall  be  called  to  be  one  of  the  masters  of  the  bench,  with  a  full  dis- 
charge to  him  of  his  readings,  and  to  hold  seniority  and  other  privi- 
leges as  if  he  actually  performed  the  office  and  duty  of  a  grand 
reader. 


1677]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  119 

Order  that  care  be  taken  for  the  preservation  of  Roger  Crowle's 
interest  in  the  King's  Bench  Buildings. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  29  November,  29  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1677,  before 
[blank].     RICHARD  POWELL,  treasurer. 

Order  that  William  Minors,  the  head  butler,  shall  have  the  like 
privileges  "  as  the  several  other  builders  of  the  burnt  buildings,"  and 
shall  have  22  ft.  in  front  and  20  ft.  depth  towards  Whitefriars, 
whereon  to  build  a  cellar  and  three  storeys  over  at  the  lower  end  of 
Hampson's  buildings. 

Order  that  the  committee  appointed  concerning  the  re-building 
of  the  King's  Bench  Buildings,  lately  consumed  by  fire,  shall  draw 
up  an  act  for  that  purpose. 

Alston,  at  his  request,  is  discharged  from  continuing  master  of 
the  revels. 

Samuel  Astrey,  John  Luke,  and  Tobias  Eden,  called  associates 
to  the  bar. 

Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  Robinson,  Hampson,  Sir  William  Poultney, 
Edward  West,  Pollexfen,  and  Courtney,  of  the  bench,  and  Thomas 
Pettit,  Thomas  Jennor,  Edward  Ward,  Robinson,  the  younger, 
William  Simpson,  Thomas  Milton,  William  Barnesly,  William  Abell, 
Samuel  Dodd,  Philip  Neeve,  John  Powell,  Richard  Powell,  Henry 
Crispe,  and  Henry  Gaudy,  appointed  a  standing  committee  to  regu- 
late the  expenses  of  the  buttery  and  kitchen. 

Edward  Lloyd,  Edward  Barker,  Jasper  Blithman,  William 
Farrar,  John  Heames,  Barnard  Smithson,  Littleton  Powell,  Stephen 
Downes,  Manwaring  Davies,  Richard  Coleman,  John  Bond,  John 
Hartley,  Tanfeild  Leman,  Ellis  Lloyd,  Thomas  Hopton,  Francis 
Lane,  William  Crofts,  Richard  Courthop,  Samuel  Gibbs,  Edward 
Griffith,  Lee  Warner,  Thomas  Milton,  Robert  Price,  Robert  Ryther, 
Samuel  Dodd,  John  Cressett,  Griffith  Lloyd,  Martin  Baldwyn,  Nathan 
Wright,  James  Stephens,  Thomas  Boltoh,  Sir  John  Lowther,  Bart., 
Humphrey  Courtney,  and  John  Tregagle,  called  to  the  bar,  but  the 
three  last  not  to  be  sworn  till  they  have  received  the  sacrament. 
Samuel  Graunt  is  also  called  to  be  an  utter  barrister  of  this  society. 


no  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1677-5 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  January,  29  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1677-8,  before 
SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON, 
and  others.  RICHARD  POWELL,  treasurer. 

Sir  George  Jefferyes  called  to  the  bench. 

Order  that  those  having  chambers  in  the  King's  Bench  Build- 
ings shall  pay  their  fines.  And  that  all  gentlemen  residing  in  and 
about  the  city  of  London  shall  pay  their  House  duties  on  or  before 
2  February,  and  those  in  the  country  before  the  next  parliament, 
upon  pain  of  being  excluded  from  all  interest  in  the  intended  new 
buildings. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  10  February,  30  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1677-8,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  and 
others.  RICHARD  POWELL,  treasurer. 

Stewards  of  the  reader's  dinner : — George  Farwell,  Francis 
Wightwick,  and  Edward  Bullock. 

Whereas  many  of  the  sufferers  by  the  late  fire  in  the  King's 
Bench  Buildings  have  desired  leave  to  build  their  chambers,  it  is 
ordered  that  they  or  their  assigns  may  do  so,  three  pair  of  stairs  high 
and  no  more,  besides  the  ground  chambers  and  cellars,  upon  the  same 
foundation  in  the  front  to  the  walks  as  formerly,  and  38  ft.  in  depth, 
with  a  brick  wall,  not  to  be  lower  than  6  ft,  to  be  built  next  to  the 
Whitefriars  and  a  space  to  be  left  between  the  said  wall  and  the 
buildings.  And  for  the  encouragement  of  the  said  builders,  it  is 
ordered  that  every  owner  or  assignee  shall  have  two  lives  and  an 
assignment  in  his  respective  chambers,  so  to  be  built,  and  that  Sir 
John  Trevor,  Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  Robinson,  Hampson,  Sir  William 
Poultney,  Edwards,  the  present  reader,  Johnson,  Wyatt,  Heath, 
Courtney,  and  Kelinge,  shall  be  a  standing  committee  to  settle  all 
differences  touching  the  said  building,  with  various  powers  given  to 
them  as  to  bringing  in  other  members  to  build  in  the  place  of  any 
owner  neglecting  or  refusing  to  join  in  the  said  building.  And 
whereas  Francis  Philipps,  an  infant,  was,  by  virtue  of  his  father's  last 
will,  owner  of  a  double  chamber,  one  pair  of  stairs  high,  it  is  ordered 
that  Sir  Robert  Sawyer  may  join  in  rebuilding  the  said  chamber, 


,678]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  121 

provided  that  if  the  said  Francis  shall  within  one  year  after  he  shall 
attain  the  age  of  twenty-one,  repay  the  said  Sir  Robert  the  money 
disbursed  by  him  with  interest,  that  he,  being  a  fellow,  shall  be 
admitted  to  the  chamber  aforesaid.  And  every  of  the  said  builders 
shall,  for  every  chamber,  deposit  50/2.  with  Mr.  Blanchard,  goldsmith, 
near  Temple  Bar,  before  2  February  next.  And  the  said  builders 
shall  have  liberty  to  make  a  gateway  in  the  Temple  wall  by  the 
Thames  side,  and  to  land  and  lay  materials  there,  and  frame  their 
timber  and  make  mortar,  as  former  builders,  making  good  the  wall 
again. 

Order,  with  the  consent  of  Livesay,  that  in  recompense  for  his 
interest  and  materials  in  the  late  King's  Bench  office,  he  shall  have 
120/2.,  and  that  the  treasurer,  Robinson,  Milton,  Farrar,  Hampson, 
West,  Holloway,  Sir  William  Poultney,  Edwards,  the  reader,  Wyatt, 
Heath,  and  Selby,  be  a  committee  to  treat  with  Livesay  for  the 
disposal  of  the  ground,  and  to  allot  new  ground  whereon  to  rebuild 
the  said  office,  which  is  to  be  one  storey  high,  as  the  Exchequer 
office,  and  covered  with  lead. 

! 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  April,  30  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1678,  before  SIR 
THOMAS  HANMER,  SIR  GEORGE  JEFFERYES,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  and 
others.  RICHARD  POWELL,  treasurer. 

The  choosing  of  the  reader  is  respited. 

Special  admissions  of  Samuel  Cust,  second  son  of  Sir  Richard 
Cust,  bart.,  at  the  request  of  Edwards  ;  of  Richard  Holloway,  second 
son  of  Richard  Holloway,  serjeant  at  law,  at  the  request  of  his  father; 
and  of  John  Kelinge,  eldest  son  of  Kelinge,  of  the  bench,  at  the 
request  of  his  father. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  14  May,  30  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1678,  before 
THOMAS  ROBINSON,  ROBERT  HAMPSON,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY, 
and  others.  RICHARD  POWELL,  treasurer. 

Additional  privileges  granted  to  William  Minors  in  the  build- 
ings he  is  erecting  at  the  lower  end  of  Hampson's  Buildings,  reciting 
the  previous  orders  and  grants  made  to  him. 

III.  R 


122  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1678 

Order  for  those  who  have  an  interest  in  the  King's  Bench 
Buildings  to  make  their  payments  of  50/2.  and  40/2.  each  before  the 
first  day  of  next  term. 

Whereas  in  1668,  William  Roundethwaite,  joiner,  with  the 
leave  of  the  bench,  erected  at  his  own  expense  a  shop  or  working 
room  in  the  Inner  Temple  ground  near  the  gardener's  house,  to  work 
in  for  the  service  of  the  said  society,  which  was  so  used  till  about 
1677,  when  it  was  destroyed,  to  the  loss  and  prejudice  of  the  said 
William.  And  at  his  petition  the  masters  of  the  bench  gave  him 
licence  to  build  a  room  at  his  own  charges  for  the  standing  and 
keeping  of  the  water  engine  belonging  to  this  society,  and  to  build 
over  it  a  shop  or  room  to  work  in  for  the  service  of  the  society,  it  is 
therefore  ordered  that  the  said  William  and  his  assigns  shall  hold 
the  same  during  the  pleasure  of  the  treasurer  and  benchers. 

Samuel  Astrey  called  an  associate  and  to  sit  at  the  upper  mess 
of  the  bar  table. 

Order  for  the  payment  of  50/2'.  each  by  those  interested  in  the 
King's  Bench  Buildings. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  9  June,  30  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1678,  before  SIR 
THOMAS  HANMER,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  and 
others.  RICHARD  POWELL,  treasurer. 

Order  for  the  payment  of  50/2.  by  Pyers  and  other  gentlemen 
interested  in  the  King's  Bench  Buildings. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  16  June,  30  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1678,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  SIR 
THOMAS  FOSTER,  and  others.  RICHARD  POWELL,  treasurer. 

Allowance  of  two  lives  and  one  assignment  to  Sir  John  Trevor 
in  consideration  of  his  rebuilding  his  chamber  in  the  Inner  Temple 
Lane. 

Articles  of  agreement  made  with  Livesay  on  18  June,  1678,  for 
rebuilding  the  King's  Bench  office.  The  said  office  to  be  80  ft.  in 
length,  30  ft.  in  breadth,  and  1 1  ft.  in  height,  between  the  floor  and 
ceiling.  The  roof  to  be  covered  with  lead,  allowing  nine  pounds  of 
lead  to  every  foot.  Articles  as  to  the  doors,  windows,  and  fittings,  as 


1678]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  123 

to  the  nomination  of  lives  and  the  use  of  the  building  in  case  it 
should  cease  to  be  used  for  the  said  office,  as  to  the  payments  to  be 
made  by  the  said  William  Livesay  towards  the  said  building,  and 
stipulations  touching  his  keeping  the  same  in  repair  and  paying  the 
chimney  money  and  all  other  public  taxes,  and  not  to  burn  any  sea 
coals  in  the  chimneys  or  other  fuel  or  firing,  "  save  only  charcoals 
and  billets." 

Order  that  the  treasurer  proceed  to  cause  the  said  office  to  be 
built  accordingly  on  the  ground  where  the  foundations  of  the  same 
were  last  digged,  between  the  building  lately  erected  by  William 
Minors  on  the  east  part  and  the  gardener's  house  on  the  west,  and 
that  he  cause  to  be  built  four  ground  chambers  under  the  said 
intended  office  with  one  chimney  in  each.  Further  stipulation 
against  the  use  of  sea  coal. 

PARLIAMENT  held,  by  adjournment,  19  June,  30  Charles  II.,  A.D. 
1678,  before  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  CHRISTOPHER 
MILTON,  and  others.  RICHARD  POWELL,  treasurer. 

Appointment  of  the  treasurer,  Farrar,  Hampson,  Edwards,  and 
Johnson  to  be  a  committee  to  view  and  set  out  the  ground  for  Sir 
John  Trevor's  building. 

Appointment  of  the  same  members  (except  the  treasurer)  to  view 
and  set  out  the  ground  for  the  treasurer's  buildings. 

Order  for  a  committee  to  be  appointed  to  settle  all  differences 
concerning  the  King's  Bench  new  buildings. 

Order  that  Methwyn's  petition  be  referred  to  the  table. 

Order  that  commons  and  exercise  be  kept  for  the  space  of  one 
month  after  the  end  of  the  term  and  no  longer,  and  that  those  then 
attending  shall  be  excused  the  residue  of  the  next  long  vacation. 
And  they  shall  be  allowed  loli.  towards  the  charge  of  their  commons. 

Order  for  the  treasurer's  proposals  for  rebuilding  his  chamber 
to  be  prepared,  against  Wednesday  night. 


124  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1677-8 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  3  November,  30  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1678,  before 
[blank].     RICHARD  POWELL,  treasurer. 

Auditors : — Farrington,  Heath,  Petitt,  and  Blincoe  for  the 
steward's  accounts,  and  Pollexfen,  Kelinge,  William  Petitt,  and 
Goodfellow,  for  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Special  admission  of  Richard  Edwards,  eldest  son  of  Richard 
Edwards,  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Order  that  William  Minors,  chief  butler,  shall  pay  to  Thomas 
Jenner,  an  utter  barrister,  $2li.,  for  building  a  cellar  chamber  under 
the  southernmost  staircase  in  the  King's  Bench  Buildings. 

Order  for  the  payment  by  those  claiming  interest  in  any  chamber 
in  the  two  staircases  next  the  passage  into  Whitefriars  in  the  King's 
Bench  Building,  to  pay  their  proportions  towards  the  building  of 
those  chambers. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Thomas  Hanmer,  the  Queen's  solicitor  general. 


BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  3  November,  1677. 

The  petition  of  the  gentlemen  concerned  in  the  buildings  lately 
burnt,  referred  to  Milton,  Farrar,  and  others. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  5  November,  1677. 

Order  that  Hampson,  West,  Edwards,  Pollexfen,  Farrington, 
Heath  and  Keeling  be  a  committee  to  treat  with  the  masters  of  the 
bar  and  the  gentlemen  under  the  bar  concerning  a  contribution  for 
alteration  of  the  seats  in  the  church  and  repairing  of  the  church. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  9  November,  1677. 

Order  that  Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  Sir  Thomas  Foster,  Farrar, 
Milton,  Hampson,  West,  and  Holloway  be  a  committee  to  attend 
with  the  treasurer  upon  the  judges  of  the  King's  Bench  on  Saturday 


1677]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  125 

morning,  loth  November,  1677,  touching  Clifford's  Inn,  at  the  side 
bar,  and  to  move  them  that  I  nee,  of  that  Inn,  may  be  forejudged  that 
court.  Memorandum  : — Copies  of  the  orders  of  6  Charles  I .  and  the 
orders  made  by  this  table  in  Ince's  case. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  10  November,  1677. 

Order  that  all  those  who  are  interested  in  the  late  burnt  build- 
ings, called  King's  Bench  Buildings,  and  who  intend  to  build,  do 
give  in  their  names  to  the  treasurer  before  the  last  Sunday  in  this 
Michaelmas  term. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  24  November,  1677. 

Order  that  the  treasurer  do  pay  10/2.  to  Mr.  Adams  for  the  map 
he  presented  to  this  society,  which  is  now  hanging  in  the  Parliament 
Chamber. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  29  November,  1677. 

i 

Upon  the  report  of  the  committee  appointed  to  inquire  as  to  the 

interest  of  those  who  suffered  in  the  late  fire  in  the  King's  Bench 
Buildings,  as  to  the  number  of  lives  and  assignments  to  be  granted, 
it  was  proposed  that  the  building  be  built  upon  the  same  foundations 
in  the  front  to  the  walks,  as  formerly,  and  38  ft.  "  from  out  to  out  in 
depth,"  and  a  brick  wall  be  built  next  the  White  Friars  and  a  space 
to  be  left  between  the  wall  and  the  building ;  the  building  to  be  three 
pair  of  stairs  high  and  no  more,  besides  the  ground  chambers  and 
cellars.  The  table  agreed  to  the  said  proposals  and  ordered  that 
Robinson  and  others  be  a  committee  to  settle  all  differences  touching 
the  said  building. 


"6  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1678 

BENCH  TABLE  held  in  the  Parliament  Chamber,  on  Friday  night,  15 
February,  1677-8.  Present:  POWELL,  treasurer,  SIR  THOMAS 
HANMER,  FINCH,  and  ROBINSON,  of  the  bench ;  PEACHEY,  BLIN- 
cow,  JOHN  POWELL,  and  HALES,  of  the  bar,  and  NICHOLAS 
HOOPER,  of  the  masters'  commons. 

Orders  as  to  the  rating  of  commons  and  that  every  barrister  and 
student  who  went  out  of  commons  upon  Thursday  night  in  the  said 
grand  week,  or  was  visus  in  villa  and  had  not  a  chamber,  should  pay 
8.y.  f>d.  a  man  for  the  week,  and  those  who  come  into  commons  again 
in  the  week  after  the  grand  week,  and  were  visus  in  villa  and  have 
chambers,  should  pay  y.  6d.  a  week,  and  a  roll  be  kept  of  the  same. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  9  May,  1678. 

Order  that  the  treasurer,  Robinson,  and  others,  be  a  committee 
to  consider  Livesay's  proposals,  the  building  by  William  Minors,  the 
butler,  and  the  shed  of  the  joiner. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  18  June,  1678. 

Order  that  Simpson's  proposal  for  himself  and  others  for  re- 
building Paper  Buildings  be  sent  in  writing  to  the  treasurer. 

Report  of  the  treasurer,  upon  his  conference  with  a  surveyor 
and  workmen  touching  the  building  of  the  intended  King's  Bench 
office.  The  surveyor  and  workmen  were  of  opinion  that  it  would 
not  cost  above  90/2.  or  too/z.  to  build  with  four  chambers  under  the 
office,  and  if  such  chambers  were  sold  at  8o/z.  each  for  one  life  it 
would  help  to  reimburse  the  society.  It  was  therefore  ordered  that 
the  said  chambers  should  be  built. 

Order  that  William  Minors  may  enclose  a  piece  of  ground,  part 
thereof  to  be  employed  for  a  garden,  and  may  build  on  the  other  part 
adjoining  the  wall  next  the  White  Friars,  lying  between  the  Engine 
House  on  the  south  and  the  brick  wall  going  from  the  said  Minors' 
building  towards  the  White  Friars  on  the  north.  And  the  said  Minors 
to  deliver  up  his  interest  in  a  chamber  under  Serjeant  Simpson's,  and 


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INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS. 


127 


may  take  down  the  porter's  lodge  and  convert  the  materials  to  his 
own  use,  filling  up  the  ground  at  his  own  cost. 

Order  for  a  step  of  the  King's  Bench  Buildings  to  be  lowered. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  10  (sic)  June,  1678. 

Orders  for  the  payments  of  commons  by  those  in  arrear,  and 
for  Baynes,  Levett,  Danvers,  Bridges,  and  Guillim  to  attend  the 
table  to  show  cause  why  their  chambers  should  not  be  seized  for 
non-payment  of  commons. 


GENERAL   ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Richard  Powell,  treasurer,  from  [blank]  October,  1677, 
to  [blank]  November,  1678. 

Receipts  from  various  persons  towards 
building  the  northernmost  staircase  in 
the  King's  Bench  Buildings,  and  to- 
wards building  the  King's  Bench  office. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Minors  for  the  players  on  All  Saints' 
day,  2oli. 

To  Mr.  Adams,  for  a  map  of  England 
which  he  presented  to  the  Society,  and 
was  placed  in  the  Library,  lo/i. 

To  Robert  Lathwell,  for  two  dozen  leather 
buckets,  4/i.  4.5. 

To  the  King's  players,  for  acting  on 
Candlemas  day,  2oK. 

To  Groom,  a  gardener  of  Twickenham, 
for  two  fir  trees  for  Hare  Court,  icxr. 

To  Storer,  Sir  John  King's  clerk,  for  a 
copy  of  the  schedule  of  the  House,  re- 
ceived from  Sir  John  King's  executrix, 

5*- 

To  Stephen  Cresser,  the  carpenter,  for 


paling   six   trees    in    Hare  Court,    3/2'. 

I2S. 

To  Playford,  the  clerk,  for  wages  to  Lady 
day,  and  the  moiety  of  the  church  bible, 

For  painting  the  engine,  i/z.  6s. 
To  Dutton,  for  mending  the  title  of  my 
Lord   Chancellor's    arms    in   the    hall 
window,  ili.  los. 

To  several  men,  for  watching  at  Lang- 
horne's  chamber,  ending  3  November, 
i//.  i os.  6d. 

Accounts  of  money  paid  to  the  carpenter, 

bricklayer,  and  mason,  for  building  the 

north   staircase   in    the    King's    Bench 

Buildings  and  the  King's  Bench  office. 

Sum   total   of  the  receipts,    1,825/2'. 

i6s.  5</. 
Total  of  the  disbursements,  1,756/2'. 

135.  9</. 

So   there   remains   after  deductions, 
60/2'.  2s.  8</. 


RECEIVED  by  William  Minors,  chief  butler,  from  28  October,  1677, 

to  23  October,  1678. 


Of  Beaumont,  treasurer  of  Lyon's  Inn,  for 
a  year's  rent,  4//'. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  Francis  Soares,  for  nursing  Christmas, 


Benjamin,    Abraham,    Margaret,    and 
Mary  Temple,  a  quarter,  11/2'.  145. 
For  coach  hire  and  linkmen,  two  several 
grand  days  to  invite  my  Lord  Chancellor 
and  Judges,  6s. 


128 


A   CALENDAR   OF  THE 


[1677-8 


For  a  play  acted  in  the  Inner  Temple  on 
All  Hallow's  day,  zoli. 

To  Tayler,  the  surveyor,  for  attending  the 
bench  to  view  the  Temple  Church  about 
the  ordering  of  the  pews,  55. 

To  Penn,  the  stationer,  for  books,  pens, 
ink,  and  paper  for  the  use  of  the 
treasurer,  ili. 

For  coach  hire  at  seven  several  times  the 
treasurer  and  the  bench  were  to  wait 
upon  my  Lord  Chancellor,  145. 

Given  several  times  to  my  Lord  Chan- 
cellor's porter,  'js. 

To  the  bricklayer,  for  work  done  in  Robin- 
son's building  occasioned  by  the  fire, 
and  pulling  down  of  the  ruins  in  the 
King's  Bench  Buildings,  $li. 

For  a  "standish,"  ink,  pens,'  and  paper, 
when  Mr.  Edwards  was  reader,  6s. 

For  removing  the  rubbish  from  Whitefriars 
wall,  145-. 


For  entering  the  deed  of  purchase  of  the 
fee  farm  in  the  Book  of  Evidences  of 
the  House,  ili. 

For  writing  thirty  proposals,  by  order  of 
the  treasurer,  delivered  to  several  of  the 
masters  of  the  bench,  ili.  los. 

To  Langly,  for  faggots  for  bonfires, 
•  alt.  'i  6s.  •  . 

For  a  green  bag,  tape,  candles,  and  two 
joiners  to  search  for  the  use  of  the 
committee  appointed  to  search  the 
writings  in  Langhorne's  chamber,  by 
order  of  the  treasurer  and  the  said 
committee  of  parliament,  ili. 

For  a  reader's  coat  of  arms,  IQS. 

For  coach  hire  for  the  attorney  general,  is. 

To  the  sempstress  for  oyster  clothes,  IQS. 
Total  of  the  receipts,  346/7'.  65.  8</. 
Total   of  the   disbursements,  $6B&'. 

i6s.  lod. 
And  so  there  remains,  22/1.  IQS.  zd. 


CHRISTMAS    ACCOUNT    BOOK. 


ACCOUNT  for  Christmas,  beginning  23  December,  1677,  and  ending 

1 1  January,  1678. 

The  following  is  the  account  for  Christmas  day,  1677  : — 


A  shoulder,  neck,  and  leg  of  veal,  15^.; 
2  legs  of  mutton,  8s.  zii. ;  4  rabbits, 
3.?.  4d. ;  2  pullets  with  eggs,  4$. ;  \  firkin 
of  butter,  125. ;  6  Ib.  of  fresh  butter, 
35.  6d. ;  |  bushel  of  flour,  5,5-. ;  200 
pippins,  45.  2d.;  6  Ib.  of  currants,  2*.  6d. ; 
6  Ib.  of  sugar,  at  $d.,  2s.  6d. ;  i  Ib.  of 


sugar,  at  8d. ;  i  Ib.  of  anchovies,  is.  6d. ; 
i  Ib.  of  samphire,  8d. ;  i  Ib.  of  capers, 
lod. ;  2  doz.  bottles  of  claret,  ili.  45.  ; 
spice,  is.  6d. ;  rose  water,  6d. ;  dates,  is.; 
paper,  6d. ;  6  Ib.  of  beef  suet,  35. ;  cod's 
head,  75. ;  oysters  and  shrimps,  $s. ;  2 
rabbits,  15.  8d.  Sum,  5/2.  6s.  lod. 


Amongst  the  other  items  are  the  following  : — 

A  Cheshire  cheese,  in  weight  40  Ib.,  ili. ; 
oranges  and  lemons,  2S. ;  8  "  crambed 
chickens,"  us. ;  8  tame  pigeons,  8.f. ; 
8  "  chicken's  peepers,"  8s.  ;  2  Ib.  of 
sausages,  is.  ;  2  Ib.  of  white  sugar, 
is.  4d. ;  "  caraways  and  varges,"  yd. ;  4 
geese,  165.;  2  "jiggettes"  of  mutton, 
1 3.!-.;  4  turkeys,  ili.;  i  bottle  of  white 


wine,  is. ;  4  carps,  12  £.;  i  chine  of 
salmon,  6s. ;  4  soles,  $s. ;  18  whitings, 
35. ;  2  ducks,  5.?. ;  pots  and  candlesticks, 
for  a  week,  4/1.  us.  8d. ;  candles,  for  a 
week,  8/1.  us.;  in  dice  and  casting 
boxes,  for  a  week,  i\li.  gs. ;  wine,  for  a 
week,  i6/«.  TS.  6d.  ;  the  cook's  wages  for 
himself  and  man,  for  a  week,  3//'. ;  the 


ajj-o  Deeds  and.ctherW\ 


i677-8]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  129 


steward's  man,  for  a  week,  zli.  los. ;  the 
under  cook,  1 5  J. ;  for  blowing  the  horn, 
55. ;  allowed  Mr.  Jane,  the  minister, 
3#.  3^. ;  1 8  fieldfares,  45.  6d.  •  8  fat 
chickens,  95.  6d.  ;  2  leverets,  5^.  ;  3 
dozen  larks,  85. ;  6  green  plovers,  1 2S. ; 
4  wood  pigeons,  45. ;  8  sucking  rabbits, 


6s. ;  2  bottles  of  Canary,  55. ;  to  the 
King's  drummers,  3/2".  45.  6d. ;  dice  and 
casting  boxes,  for  a  week,  65/2'.  is. ;  tin 
money  boxes,  i//'.  8s.  6d.;  a  treat  at 
Mr.  Controller's  chamber,  5/z'.  155.  5^.; 
2  tails  of  salmon,  155. ;  and  for  the 
usher's  bag  and  staff,  3^. 


CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  Saturday,  22  December,  1677. 

Officers  :— Weston,  the  controller  ;  Mundy,  the  speaker  ;  Prince, 
Gwillim,  and  Prideaux,  stewards  ;  Backwell,  Pultney,  and  Darrell,  the 
committee  of  music ;  Hooper,  Trevor,  and  Jekill,  auditors  of  the 
stewards'  accounts. 

Orders  that  the  stewards  respectively  give  in  bonds  in  the 
penalty  of  200/2'.,  on  Monday,  to  the  speaker  ;  that  there  be  a  private 
dinner  to-morrow  in  the  hall,  and  public  commons  begin  on 
Monday  ;  that  the  old  order  of  paying  in  20^.  be  revived,  and  the 
gentlemen  pay  the  same  before  they  come  into  commons. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  24  December. 

Upon  an  account  of  the  beer  in  the  cellar,  there  remains,  90 
barrels  of  small  beer  and  6  barrels  of  strong  beer. 

Orders  that  Ivory  be  one  of  the  stewards  in  the  room  of  Prince  ; 
and  that  Tonge  be  on  the  committee  of  music  in  place  of  Backwell. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  30  December. 

Orders  that  the  gentlemen  of  the  bar,  now  in  commons,  have 
votes  with  the  gentlemen  under  the  bar;  that  Mr.  Jane  have  the 
thanks  of  the  House  for  his  excellent  sermon  and  have  three  broad 
pieces  for  his  pains,  and  that  the  stewards  give  the  same  to  the  com- 
mittee of  music  to  deliver  to  him ;  that  if  two  auditors  audit  the 
accounts  it  is  sufficient,  and  the  auditors  be  continued  ;  that  the 
stewards  provide  plates  by  to-morrow  at  noon  in  the  hall,  and  that 
the  poor  have  los.  a  week  in  lieu  of  the  broken  bread  left  at  meals  ; 
that  if  any  gentleman  of  the  House  come  into  the  hall  at  dinner 
above  twice,  either  by  invitation  or  otherwise,  he  shall  pay  2s.  for  a 
repast. 

in.  s 


130  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1678 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  4  January,  1677-8. 

Orders  that  Christmas  be  continued  on  till  further  order ;  that 
the  first  week's  accounts  passed  by  the  auditors  be  allowed  ;  and  that 
Grant,  the  younger,  be  admitted  steward  in  the  place  of  Prideaux, 
who  shall  have  the  thanks  of  the  House  for  his  great  care  and  pains 
in  the  execution  of  his  office. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  6  January. 

Orders  that  Gwillim  give  security  and  take  upon  him  the  sole 
management  of  the  office  of  steward  ;  that  no  one  in  commons  who 
is  not  an  officer  shall  bring  any  guests  into  the  hall  without  leave  of 
the  controller  and  steward  ;  that  the  controller  have  power  to  bring 
in  every  meal  four  persons,  the  speaker,  three,  and  the  other  officers, 
one  each  ;  that  the  moneys  received  for  rent  by  the  lord  of  misrule 
be  continued  in  the  hands  of  the  speaker;  that  the  thanks  of  the 
House  be  returned  to  Mr.  Pengry  for  his  excellent  sermon,  and  the 
committee  of  music  receive  two  guineas  from  Ivory  to  present 
to  him. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  8  January. 

Orders  that  six  of  the  guards  and  two  of  the  warders  be  dis- 
charged ;  that  Gwillim  treat  with  the  box  keepers  concerning  the 
furnishing  of  their  own  tables  with  dice ;  that  the  business  of  the 
stewards  (the  former  stewards  resigning  their  offices)  may  be  managed 
by  a  committee,  and  that  Abell,  Dodd,  and  Gwillim  be  the  persons 
appointed  for  the  same ;  and  that  the  moneys  collected  by  the  lord 
of  misrule  and  deposited  in  the  hands  of  the  speaker,  be  delivered 
up  to  Abell,  who  is  appointed  the  receiver  of  all  moneys  for  the 
residue  of  this  Christmas,  and  that  he  give  in  bond  before  he  enters 
upon  the  said  office. 

MISCELLANEA. 

1677-8,  January  27.  Order  of  the  bench  table  that  a  fine  of 
2O/z.  be  imposed  on  John  Wilkinson  for  his  discharge  from  being 
reader  for  Clement's  Inn. 


1678-9]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  131 

1678?     The  case  of  Mr.  Alston,  member  of  the  Inner  Temple 
for  thirty  years,  as  to  rebuilding  his  chamber. 


ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  25  November,  30  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1678,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  treasurer. 

William  Walker,  John  Treves,  Nicholas  Baxter,  Nicholas  Pot- 
tenger,  Richard  Prince,  Lovett  Crompton,  John  Allen,  Francis 
Lloyd,  Robert  Browne,  Richard  Leavinge,  Edward  Hopton,  George 
Lucy,  William  Jonas,  Nicholas  Hooper,  James  Mundy,  Robert 
Blaney,  William  Church,  and  Thomas  Newport  called  to  the  bar. 

Order  that  the  regulation  of  exercises  be  taken  into  considera- 
tion next  term. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  26  January,  30  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1678-9,  before 
CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  RICHARD  POWELL,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  treasurer. 

Order  that  John  Hoyle,  formerly  of  Gray's  Inn,  be  admitted  to 
this  society,  ad  eundem  statum. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  18  February,  31  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1678-9,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  GEORGE  JEFFERYES,  THOMAS  FARRAR, 
and  others.  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  John  Jefferyes,  eldest  son  of  Sir  George 
Jefferyes,  recorder. 

Order  that  the  masters  of  the  bench,  or  any  three  of  them,  be  a 
committee  to  hear  all  differences  concerning  the  new  buildings  to  be 
erected  in  Hare  Court  or  elsewhere,  which  were  destroyed  by  the 
late  fire  there,  and  they  are  to  have  power  to  treat  with  the  Middle 
Temple. 


132  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1679 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  18  May,  31  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1679,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  treasurer. 

Sir  Thomas  Foster,  Farrar,  West,  Edwards,  Wyatt,  Heath,  and 
Farrington  be  a  committee  to  consider  the  petition  of  Tayler,  of  the 
Devil  Tavern. 

Order  for  the  parliament  to  be  adjourned. 

PARLIAMENT  held  by  adjournment  on  19  May,  31  Charles  II.,  A.D. 
1679,  before  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  FOSTER,  THOMAS 
ROBINSON,  and  others.  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  treasurer. 

"  It  is  ordered  and  enacted  nemine  contradicente  that  the  order 
made  by  the  committee  the  last  vacation,  in  compliance  with  Dr. 
Barebones'  model,  be  declared  void,  and  that  the  Cloisters  shall  be 
continued  in  the  same  place  and  same  dimensions  as  before  the 
fire." 

Whereas  the  chambers  over  the  Inner  Temple  buttery,  wherein 
Sir  John  Heath  stood  admitted  for  his  life,  were  lately  burnt  down, 
it  is  ordered  that  he  shall  have  liberty  to  rebuild  the  same  upon  the 
same  terms  as  any  other  builders  have  had  in  this  society. 

Mr.  Newman  shall  have  the  like  benefit  of  rebuilding  his  chamber. 

Order  that  the  committee  appointed  to  treat  with  the  Middle 
Temple,  do  view  Gillmore's  and  Baxter's  ground. 

Order  that  Buckle  be  in  the  same  condition  in  Hare's  Court  as 
Trottman,  late  deceased,  was  in  all  respects  as  to  rebuilding. 

Confirmation  of  an  order  by  the  committee  of  20  February  last, 
that  the  west  side  of  Hare  Court  next  the  Middle  Temple  Lane, 
shall  be  built  into  four  staircases,  consisting  of  cellars,  ground 
chambers,  and  three  pair  of  stairs,  without  garrets,  and  that  each 
staircase  shall  contain  in  front  30  ft.  within  the  walls  and  in  depth 
38  ft.  from  out  to  out,  and  that  at  both  ends  of  the  said  building  such 
breaks  as  formerly  shall  be  left  for  the  preservation  of  the  lights  in 
Pump  Court  at  the  south  end,  and  the  chambers  in  the  Middle 
Temple  Lane  at  the  north  end,  unless  otherwise  agreed  upon  by  the 
several  proprietors,  and  that  the  said  several  chambers  in  the  four 


,679]  INNER    TEMPLE  RECORDS.  133 

respective  staircases  shall  be  built  by  the  treasurer  of  the  said  society, 
and  the  several  persons  who,  before  the  fire,  had  chambers  on  that 
side  of  Hare  Court,  in  such  places  and  manner  as  is  hereinafter 
mentioned  (that  is  to  say)  that  at  both  ends  of  the  said  buildings  and 
between  each  staircase  there  shall  be  a  wall  of  brick,  carried  up  2  ft. 
above  the  tiles.  In  the  first  staircase,  Mr.  Appleford  shall  build  the 
ground  chamber  next  to  Fleet  Street ;  Mr.  Robinson,  the  other 
ground  chamber  over  against  it ;  Mr.  John  Powell,  the  chamber  one 
pair  of  stairs  over  Mr.  Appleford's  chamber  and  half  the  chamber 
next  Hare  Court ;  and  Mr.  Robinson  the  other  half  chamber  next 
the  Middle  Temple  Lane.  On  the  other  side  of  the  staircase,  Mr. 
Middlemore, the  chamber  over  Mr.  Powell;  Mr.  Minors,  the  chamber 
over  Mr.  Powell  and  Mr.  Robinson  ;  Mr.  Treasurer  over  Mr.  Mid- 
dlemore ;  Mr.  Carter  over  Mr.  Minors.  The  second  staircase,  Mr. 
Robinson  to  build  the  ground  chambers  ;  one  pair  of  stairs,  Mr. 
Dawling,  the  chamber  towards  Fleet  Street ;  Mr.  Fountaine,  the 
chamber  against  it;  Mr.  Armiger,  over  Mr.  Fountaine;  Mr.  Webb 
over  Mr.  Dawling  ;  Mr.  Sands,  over  Mr.  Armiger  ;  Mr.  Selby,  over 
Mr.  Webb.  The  third  staircase,  Mr.  Hurst,  the  ground  chamber 
towards  Fleet  Street ;  Mr.  Browne,  the  chamber  over  against  it, 
paying  to  Mr.  Treasurer  40/2'.  in  hand  ;  Mr.  Poultney,  the  chamber 
over  Mr.  Hurst ;  Mr.  Trinder,  the  chamber  over  Mr.  Browne  ;  Mr. 
Treasurer,  over  Mr.  Poultney;  Mr.  Jefferies,  over  Mr.  Trinder;  Mr. 
Sumner  over  Mr.  Treasurer;  Mr.  Treasurer  over  Mr.  Jefferies.  The 
fourth  staircase,  Mr.  Treasurer  both  the  ground  rooms;  Mr.  Grainge 
both  the  chambers  one  pair  of  stairs  ;  the  Treasurer,  the  chamber 
next  Fleet  Street,  over  Mr.  Grainge  ;  Mr.  Hall,  the  chamber  over 
against  it,  next  Pump  Court,  paying  Mr.  Treasurer  15/2'.;  Mr. 
Treasurer,  the  chamber  next  Fleet  Street;  Mr.  Jekill,  the  chamber 
over  against  it,  next  Pump  Court,  three  pair  of  stairs  high.  Pro- 
vision for  the  accommodation  of  members  in  the  new  buildings  and 
the  nomination  of  lives  to  the  same  by  the  builders. 

Confirmation  of  an  order  by  the  committee  of  the  bench  for  the 
encouragement  of  such  gentlemen  as  shall  undertake  to  build  a  stair- 
case, that  all  gentlemen  builders  pay  their  moneys  according  to  their 
articles. 

Order  that  Mr.  Robinson's  garret  chamber  be  consolidated  with 
his  chamber  one  pair  of  stairs. 


134  A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1679 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  i  June,  31  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1679,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  and  others. 
SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  treasurer. 

Upon  the  report  of  Farrar  that  Taylor  of  the  Devil's  Tavern 
will  not  redress  the  nuisance  of  his  building  over  against  Hare 
Court,  it  is  ordered  that  the  said  nuisance  be  abated  by  the  House 
workmen,  and  the  parliament  will  stand  by  them  and  save  them 
harmless  for  their  so  doing. 

On  the  reading  of  Middlemore's  petition  it  was  considered  that 
Sir  Robert  Sawyer  having  an  interest  in  the  House  chambers,  the 
parliament  cannot  dispose  thereof  without  his  consent. 

The  consideration  of  Gilmore  and  Baxter's  building  deferred  till 
next  Parliament. 

Appointment  of  Sir  John  Trevor,  Robinson,  Hampson,  West, 
Longuevile,  and  Courtney  as  a  committee  touching  Sir  Robert 
Sawyer's  act  of  parliament. 

Order  that  the  chief  butler  make  up  his  rolls  and  leave  a  dupli- 
cate with  the  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Thomas  Meeres,  eldest  son  of  Sir  Thomas 
Meeres,  at  the  request  of  Sir  John  Trevor. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  29  June,  31  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1679,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  and  others. 
SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Richard  Buckby,  eldest  son  of  Buckby,  of 
the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Liberty  to  Francis  Fuller  to  appropriate  a  part  of  another  cellar 
to  his  own  cellar. 

Order  for  Abbot  to  pay  his  duties. 

The  sums  in  arrear  from  Howland,  Peirce  and  Walkingden 
respited  till  next  parliament. 

Order  for  the  moiety  of  Tyrer's  chamber  belonging  to  Elwes  to 
be  seized. 


1679]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  135 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  6  July,  31  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1679,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  and  others. 
SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  treasurer. 

Act  of  parliament  for  mortgaging  the  chambers  newly  built  or 
being  built  on  the  west  side  of  Hare  Court  for  496/2'.  to  Sir  Robert 
Sawyer. 

Whereas  by  an  order  of  the  last  parliament  in  Easter  term, 
Edwards  and  Keeling  were  desired  to  view  and  set  out  the  ground 
in  Fig  Tree  Court  for  the  rebuilding  of  the  chambers  of  Gilmore  and 
Baxter,  they  report  that  the  said  Gilmore  and  Baxter  may  build  to 
the  farthermost  extent  of  the  Inner  Temple  ground  in  Fig  Tree 
Court,  next  Vine  Court,  and  in  a  straight  line  from  the  buttery  wall 
towards  Offley's  chamber  of  the  Middle  Temple,  in  length  62^  ft.  and 
in  depth  from  Vine  Court  into  Fig  Tree  Court,  31  ft.  The  said 
building  to  range  with  the  quoin  of  the  kitchen  next  to  the  said 
building.  And  they  may  build  two  storeys  from  the  same  foundation, 
that  is  to  say,  a  ground  chamber  and  one  pair  of  stairs,  and  to  cover 
the  same  with  lead. 

PARLIAMENT  held  by  adjournment,  on  10  July,  A.D.  1679,  before 
THOMAS  ROBINSON,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  ROBERT  HAMPSON,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  treasurer. 

Licence  to  William  Minors,  chief  butler,  to  enclose  a  small 
piece  of  ground  containing  56  ft.  by  20  ft.,  next  Whitefriars  wall, 
adjoining  on  the  south  to  the  new  building  lately  erected  by  him, 
part  thereof  to  be  employed  as  a  garden,  and  to  build  one  storey  upon 
the  other  part,  and  to  cover  the  said  building  with  lead. 

Licence  to  Hampson  of  the  bench  to  build  over  the  ground 
chambers  to  be  erected  by  Offley  and  Etkins,  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
and  whereon,  before  the  late  fire,  stood  West's  chambers,  situated 
near  the  passage  into  the  churchyard. 

An  act  for  building  the  staircase  now  set  out  in  Hare's  Court, 
adjoining  to  Pump  Court,  upon  part  of  what  was  formerly  the  Middle 
Temple  ground  in  Pump  Court,  and  upon  the  waste  ground  in  Hare's 
Court,  and  part  of  the  old  building  there  to  be  built  according  to  the 


136  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1679 

model  now  agreed  upon  by  both  Houses,  before  the  lord  chancellor. 
Which  staircase  is  to  contain  54  ft.  in  front  from  east  to  west,  and 
42  ft.  in  depth  from  north  to  south.  Further  particulars  of  the  build- 
ing set  out  and  regulations  as  to  the  lives  and  assignments  granted 
to  those  undertaking  the  building. 

Act  that  the  toft  where  William  Pettit's  chamber  stood  before 
the  fire  shall  be  rebuilt  in  manner  following,  "  First  that  an  arch  of 
five  foot  between  the  walls,  shall  be  left  against  the  church,  between 
the  building  now  standing  and  the  building  to  be  new  raised  upon 
the  said  toft,  and  that  the  toft  or  soil  where  the  old  passage  into  the 
Cloisters  was,  shall  together  with  the  aforesaid  toft,  be  built  into  one 
staircase,  consisting  of  cellars,  ground  rooms,  and  three  pair  of  stairs, 
without  garrets,  thirty  foot  deep  from  out  to  out,  and  fifty-seven  foot  in 
length,  and  a  fire  wall  to  be  made  next  the  building  now  standing,  and 
that  the  staircase  shall  be  placed  uniform  next  the  church  according 
to  the  model  agreed  on,  the  ground  chamber  not  to  rise  above 
six  steps,  each  step  not  exceeding  seven  [inches  ?]  to  a  step  in 
depth,  and  the  outside  of  the  lowest  step  to  be  pitched  even  with 
the  outside  of  the  said  building."  Pettit  shall  build  the  ground 
chambers  ;  Gardner  the  chamber  one  pair  of  stairs,  over  the  new 
arch ;  Wyott,  Munday,  Roberts,  and  Buckle  to  build  the  other 
chambers  in  the  said  building.  The  ground  floor  and  one  pair  of 
stairs  not  to  exceed  10  ft.  in  height  from  floor  to  ceiling,  and  the 
chambers  two  pair  of  stairs  not  to  exceed  9  ft.,  and  the  north  end  of 
the  said  staircase  to  be  rebuilt  next  Hare  Court  with  a  cant  of  3  ft., 
if  so  great  a  cant  be  found  necessary  for  preserving  the  ancient 
lights  in  the  old  buildings.  Provisions  for  the  nomination  of  lives 
and  assignments  to  the  said  building. 

Agreement  between  the  treasurers  and  masters  of  the  bench  of 
the  Inner  Temple  and  Sir  John  Heath,  of  the  bench.  That  Sir 
John  Heath,  his  executors,  administrators,  and  assigns  shall  at 
his  or  their  costs  and  charges  rebuild  two  storeys  high  over  those 
butteries,  called  the  Inner  Temple  outward  and  inward  butteries, 
according  to  the  same  dimensions  for  length  and  breadth  from  out 
to  out,  and  with  such  outlets  to  the  north,  not  exceeding  the  extent 
they  were  of  before  the  fire,  and  with  such  chimneys  and  windows 
as  he  or  they  shall  find  most  convenient,  and  shall  have  a  staircase 
or  way  to  the  same  on  the  north  side  over  and  upon  Newman's 


1678-9]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  137 

lodgings  as  formerly,  the  first  chambers  of  the  said  staircase  not 
exceeding  10  ft.  in  height,  and  the  second  storey  not  exceeding  g\  ft. 
in  height  from  floor  to  ceiling,  and  a  roof  over  the  same  of  timber 
covered  with  tiles  or  slate,  with  liberty  to  erect  garrets  within  the 
rafters,  only  for  the  accommodation  of  the  said  lodgings.  The  said 
building  to  be  covered  by  the  end  of  Michaelmas  term  next.  Care 
to  be  taken  for  the  preservation  of  the  butteries  from  the  weather. 
The  said  Sir  John  to  have  the  material  saved  from  the  burnt  build- 
ings, and  to  deposit  the  rubbish  in  the  low  places  between  the  walks 
of  the  King's  Bench  Buildings,  etc.  Provisions  for  the  nomination 
of  three  lives,  and  for  the  said  Sir  John  to  enjoy  all  the  place  where 
his  lodgings,  burnt  in  the  late  fire,  formerly  stood,  and  as  to  his 
disclaiming  any  right  to  all  other  bench  chambers.  The  upper  and 
lower  chambers  to  be  considered  but  one  chamber. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  6  November,  31  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1679,  before 
CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  EDMUND  WEST,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and 
others.  THOMAS  FARRAR,  treasurer. 

Auditors  :  —  Heath,  Selby,  Blincow,  and  Peachy,  for  the 
steward's  accounts;  Farrington,  Sir  John  Keelynge,  Simpson,  and 
Goodfellow,  for  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Special  admission  of  Charles  Poultney,  third  son  of  Sir  William 
Poultney,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Treasurer  : — Thomas  Farrar. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  23  November,  1678. 

Robinson,  and  others,  appointed  a  committee  to  settle  the  sums 
to  be  paid  for  chambers  in  the  northernmost  staircase  of  the  King's 
Bench  Building,  newly  built  by  the  late  treasurer,  and  orders  by  the 
same  committee. 

Order l  that  all  persons  of  the  society  who  had  not  received  the 

1  In  the  margin  is  "  An  order  in  pursuance  of  an  order  from  the  House  of  Lords 
concerning  receiving  of  the  sacrament." 

III.  T 


i38  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1678-9 

communion  within  this  twelvemonth,  be  summoned  to  take  the 
oaths  as  the  commission  directs,  and  that  the  chief  butler  shall 
return  the  names  of  all  such  and  others,  as  are  commorant  in  the 
Temple,  to  the  treasurer  and  benchers  or  any  two  of  them,  and  the 
clerk  shall  attend  with  the  Communion  Book  to  examine  the  truth 
of  the  said  return. 

Order  that  the  summons  extend  and  be  executed  by  the  chief 
butler  against  all  such  as  are  commorant  in  the  Temple ;  and  that 
on  7  January,  1678-9,  at  the  Library,  at  3  o'clock,  the  commissioners 
are  to  meet,  and  before  that  time  the  butler  to  prepare  and  make 
such  returns,  as  aforesaid,  and  in  the  mean  time  Hampson  and 
Pollexfen  to  examine  the  statutes  concerning  the  matter. 

Order  that  the  principals  of  Clement's  Inn,  Clifford's  Inn,  and 
Lyon's  Inn  shall  make  a  like  return  to  the  benchers  at  the  time 
and  place  aforesaid. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  29  January,  1678-9. 

West,  and  others,  appointed  a  committee  to  remove  rubbish, 
open  passages,  appoint  guards,  and  do  other  necessary  matters. 
Clark  and  Berry,  the  butlers,  to  attend  them.  The  four  puisne 
butlers  are  to  watch  by  turns  every  night. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  3  February,  1678-9. 

Order  that  Robinson,  Farrar,  Holloway,  and  Sellby  be  added 
to  the  former  committee,  and  to  consider  the  various  tofts  of 
ground  within  the  society,  and  also  the  ruinous  buildings,  walls,  and 
chimneys,  occasioned  by  the  late  fire,  and  an  exchange  with  the 
Middle  Temple. 

Order  that  Minors  shall  take  care  to  clear  all  those  places  that 
may  be  in  danger  of  encroachment  by  the  Middle  Temple,  viz.  :— 
From  Vine  Court  upon  Fig  Tree  Court ;  from  Vine  Court  to  Hare 
Court  by  Powell's  chamber ;  from  Pump  Court  to  Hare  Court,  where 
the  Fine  Office  was ;  from  Tremane's  staircase  and  the  Clerk  of  the 
Warrants,  and  the  passage  there ;  Newnam's  chamber,  [which]  lieth 
in  the  angle  betwixt  the  Cloisters  of  Vine  Court,  and  Fig  Tree  Court. 


1678-9]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  139 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  6  February,  1678-9. 

Order  that  the  whole  table  be  of  the  committee  for  the  burnt  build- 
ings, and  report  to  the  table  every  day  at  dinner  what  they  think  fit  to 
be  done. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  17  February,  1678-9. 

Orders  that  Hampson,  and  others,  be  a  committee  to  examine 
the  workmen's  petition ;  that  the  treasurer,  Sir  John  Heath,  and 
Robinson  shall  wait  upon  the  Lord  Chancellor  concerning  the  build- 
ings about  the  church  ;  that  the  Recorder  have  the  use  of  the  chamber 
next  adjoining  his  own  ;  that  the  chief  cook  and  Smith,  the  butler, 
be  restored  into  commons  ;  and  as  to  "  the  agreement  about  putting 
out  of  Margaret  Temple  and  the  security  to  be  left  with  Mr. 
Treasurer." 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on   18  February,  1678-9.     Present: — SIR  JOHN 
HEATH,  ROBINSON,  HAMPSON,  WEST,  EDWARDS,  and  others. 

Order  that  the  chamber  of  Sir  John  Heath,  part  of  the  bench 
chamber  enjoyed  before  the  fire,  be  put  in  repair. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  20  February,  1678-9. 

Order  that  the  west  side  of  Hare  Court,  next  the  Middle  Temple 
Lane,  shall  be  built  into  four  staircases,  consisting  of  cellars,  ground 
chambers,  and  three  pair  of  stairs,  without  garrets  ;  with  other 
provisions  regarding  the  same  buildings. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26  February,  1678-9.     Present : — SIR  THOMAS 
HANMER,  ROBINSON,  HAMPSON,  and  EDWARDS. 

Order  for  rebuilding  the  toft  in  Hare  Court  next  Vine  Court, 
and  for  the  builders  to  have  the  same  interest  as  the  builders  on  the 
west  side. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  12  March,  1678-9. 

Order  for  the  encouragement  of  gentlemen  to  undertake  to 
build  a  staircase,  burnt  down  in  the  late  fire. 


1 40  A   CALENDAR    OF   THE  [,679 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  14  May,  1679. 

Order  that  Sir  John  Heath,  Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  Sir  George 
Jefferies,  Robinson,  Hampson,  West,  Edwards,  and  Heath,  be  a 
committee  to  meet  a  committee  of  the  Middle  Temple,  viz. : — 
Northey,  Lechmore,  Trollop,  Collins,  Staples,  Whitlock,  Edward 
Smith,  and  Thomas  Smith  about  building. 

Orders  that  the  state  and  condition  of  the  House  be  taken  into 
consideration  on  Tuesday  next,  at  dinner  ;  and  that  Buckle's  case  be 
referred  to  the  treasurer  and  Edwards. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  15  May,  1679. 

Orders  that  the  affairs  of  Saunderfeild  be  referred  to  West, 
Edwards,  and  Selby  ;  and  that  three  of  the  committee  shall  meet 
three  of  the  Middle  Temple  in  the  Rounds  and  report  what  they 
have  done. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  21  May,  1679. 

Order  "  that  it  be  in  the  first  place  insisted  upon  that  there  be 
a  conveyance  made  from  the  Middle  Temple  to  the  Inner  Temple, 
according  to  our  ancient  interest,  to  persons  to  be  by  us  nominated, 
and  that  the  committee  formerly  appointed  be  pleased  to  prepare 
a  conveyance  to  be  offered  to  the  table  accordingly,  as  soon  as 
may  be." 

Orders  that  Vine  Court  be  put  into  the  same  condition  as  it  was 
before  the  first  treaty  since  the  fire ;  and  that  the  parties  interested  in 
the  south-east  part  of  Hare's  Court  shall  have  liberty  to  build  their 
several  chambers  according  to  the  first  order,  Buckle  standing  in 
the  place  of  Trottman,  deceased. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  16  May,  1679. 

Memorandum,  that  the  following  order  was  entered  out  of  place. 
That  the  putting  off  by  the  Middle  Temple  of  the  meeting  till  after 
Sunday  next,  on  which  day  our  parliament  is  to  be  held,  will  be  so 
prejudicial  to  our  gentlemen  who  are  concerned  in  Hare's  Court  that 
we  think  it  reasonable  to  proceed  without  them,  and  in  the  meantime 


1679]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  141 

we  expect  the  Middle  Temple  to  stay  their  building  in  Vine  Court, 
so  that  our  ancient  lights  may  not  be  obstructed  in  Hare  Court  till 
matters  are  adjusted  between  us. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  21  May,  1679. 

Orders  that  the  chief  butler  shall  summon  the  committee  to 
meet  concerning  the  Devil  Tavern ;  and  that  Gillmore  and  Baxter 
shall  attend  Powell,  Edwards,  and  Keeling  to-morrow  for  settling 
their  foundations  in  Fig  Tree  Court. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  23  May,  1679. 

Order  that  the  arrears  of  the  master's  and  lecturer's  wages  be 
referred  to  Wyatt,  and  others,  who  shall  also  consider  how  best  to 
prevent  failure  of  exercises. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  24  May,  1679. 

Order,  for  an  appointment  to  meet  the  Middle  Temple,  and  that 
care  be  taken  that  the  chimneys  in  the  lodging  adjoining  the  church, 
be  pulled  down. 

Order  "  that  all  members  of  this  society  now  in  town,  who  have 
not  received  the  sacrament  within  a  year  last  past,  and  cannot  bring 
a  certificate  thereof,  do  receive  the  sacrament  on  Sunday  sevennight 
next,  being  the  ist  of  June,  in  the  Temple  Church,  or  else  incur  the 
penalty  in  the  same  order  mentioned." 

"  That  notice  be  given  to  the  master  of  the  Temple  or  the  reader 
that  a  sacrament  be  in  the  Temple  Church  on  Sunday  come  seven- 
night  next,  being  the  first  of  June." 

Orders  for  the  attendance  of  the  masters  of  the  bench  and  the 
gentlemen  in  arrear  for  their  chambers  in  King's  Bench  Buildings. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26  May,  1679. 

Orders  that  Robinson,  and  others,  be  a  committee  to  inquire 
into  the  debts  of  the  House  ;  that  Sir  Thomas  Foster,  and  others,  be 
g  committee  to  view  the  joiner's  shop  over  the  engine  house. 


142  A   CALENDAR    OF   THE  [1679 

An  account  of  the  debts  owing  by  and  to  the  House. 

Memoranda  that  Lee,  who  is  not  admitted,  bought  a  chamber  of 
Sir  John  Parsons ;  that  the  collection  of  the  money  owing  to  the 
House  be  hastened ;  that  no  bench  chambers  be  made  for  a  year 
ensuing ;  that  two  bottles  of  wine  only  be  allowed  to  the  upper  mess 
of  the  bench  table  and  one  to  every  other  mess,  and  the  wine  to  be 
set  on  the  table  ;  to  speak  about  the  Middle  Temple  building  in  Vine 
Court ;  to  direct  the  Chancery  practisers  to  take  the  speediest  course 
for  taking  the  bill  in  Chancery  against  the  Middle  Temple,  off  the 
file ;  that  a  roll  of  duties  in  arrear  be  made ;  to  see  what  has  become 
of  Bullock's  and  Weaver's  money ;  and  that  all  bonds  be  delivered 
up  to  the  present  treasurer  by  the  precedent  treasurer. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26  June,  1679. 

Orders  that  Legh  shall  pay  all  commons  due  to  the  time  of  his 
submission,  and  that  Farrington  and  Keeling  shall  view  the  plot  near 
White  Friars,  which  Fuller  requested  of  the  House  to  be  adjoined  to 
his  chamber. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  29  June,  1679. 

Order  that  Sir  John  Heath's  act  be  deferred  till  the  last  parlia- 
ment of  this  term. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  30  June,  1679. 

Orders  that  the  chambers  of  Peirce  and  Walkinden  be  seized  in 
default  of  payment  of  the  rates  set  upon  them,  and  that  Powell,  the 
last  treasurer,  being  indebted  to  the  House,  as  is  shown  by  his 
account,  shall  pay  the  amount  of  his  debt  before  the  next  parliament. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  6  July,  1679. 

Order  that  Hampson  be  admitted  to  build  in  the  place  where 
West's  chamber  was  before  the  fire. 

Certificate  by  Thomas  Newman  that  he  had  adjusted  his 
accounts  with  John  Stanbrooke. 


,679]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  143 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  27  October,  1679.  Present: — SIR  THOMAS 
HANMER,  treasurer,  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  ROBERT  HAMPSON, 
EDMUND  WEST,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  ANTHONY  FARRINGTON, 
and  RICHARD  HEATH. 

Orders  for  the  payment  of  the  sum  due  to  John  Stanbrooke, 
limeman ;  for  Hampson,  Farrington,  and  Heath,  to  view  the  drains 
in  Mitre  Court ;  and  for  a  door  to  be  made  to  the  cellar  in  Keeling's 
staircase. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  3  November,  1679. 

Orders  for  the  masters  of  the  bench  to  be  a  committee  to  con- 
sider the  affairs  of  the  House,  and  to  meet  every  Friday  night ;  for 
Spooner's  petition  to  be  referred  to  the  same  committee ;  and  for 
notice  to  be  given  to  the  Middle  Temple  that  the  passage  through 
Fig  Tree  Court  may  be  opened. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  6  November,  1679. 

Order  that  the  matter  of  Langhorne's  chamber  be  put  off  till  the 
last  parliament  of  this  term,  and  that  notice  be  given  in  the  mean 
time  to  Sir  William  Langhorne  to  prove  the  payment  of  the  fine, 
otherwise,  upon  default,  it  shall  be  disposed  of  by  the  House. 

Order  that  the  petitions  be  referred  to  the  Friday  night 
committee. 


GENERAL   ACCOUNT    BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Thomas   Hanmer,  knight,  solicitor  general  of  the 
Queen,  treasurer,  from  3  November,  1678,  to  4  November,  1679. 

RECEIPTS.  DISBURSEMENTS. 


Of  Buckby,  being  the  gift  of  Lady  Rains- 
ford  and  Lady  Littleton  towards  the 
repair  of  the  church  windows,  loli. 

Of  Lady  Wylde,  for  the  like  use,  ioli. 

Of  Serjeant  Crooke,  as  a  present  towards 
repairs  since  the  fire,  zoli. 


To  William  Sore,  the  porter,  for  several 
men's  watching  and  warding  from  3 
Nov.,  1678,  to  16  Nov.,  4//'.  i&s.  6d. 

Given  away  on  Sunday  night,  26th  January, 
and  Monday,  2  7th,  at  the  time  of  the  fire 
in  the  Temple,  for  drink  and  candles 
and  links,  zli.  IQS. 


144 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[1679 


To  Thomas  Carter,  for  carrying  the  linen 
and  books  out  of  the  library,  is.  6d. 

To  two  men,  for  moving  books  out  of  the 
library,  2s. 

To  several  men,  for  helping  to  save  the 
west  end  of  the  hall,  zli. 

To  48  men,  for  watching  and  putting  out 
the  fire  on  Monday  night,  4/r.  i6s. 

To  seven  watermen,  i//'.  15*. 

To  seven  other  men,  that  were  recom- 
mended in  the  time  of  the  fire,  1 TS.  6d. 

To  seven  other  men,  that  were  wounded 
in  the  time  of  the  fire,  i  fs.  6d. 

To  Nash's  men,  that  helped  about  the 
hall  in  the  time  of  the  fire,  3/2. 

To  five  men,  for  working  during  the  fire, 
\os. 

To  Cresser,  the  House  carpenter,  to  dis- 
charge all  those  men  concerned  in 
pulling  down  Powell's  Building,  5/7'. 

To  my  man,  for  carrying  lead  from  the 
end  of  the  hall,  is. 

To  Thomas  Silver,  io//.,  to  be  divided 
between  eight  engineers,  and  2  guineas 
for  himself,  i2li.  25. 

To  Mr.  Recorder's  man,  for  money  laid 
out  for  links  and  candles,  on  Monday 
night,  in  the  fire  time,  95.  6d. 

To  Mr.  Essington,  of  Houndsditch,  2/1. 
is.  6d.,  being  money  laid  out  by  him 
at  the  time  of  the  fire,  ios.,  to  buy  him 
a  pair  of  gloves  by  order  of  the  masters 
of  the  bench,  zli.  us.  6d. 

To  the  said  Mr.  Essington,  for  six  buckets 
that  were  lost  in  the  fire  time,  i/i.  45. 

To  three  New  River  Watermen,  for  break- 
ing open  pipes  in  the  fire  time,  2S.  6d. 

To  George  Cooke,  for  powder  used  in  the 
time  of  the  fire,  by  order  of  the  com- 
mittee, 3//.  loj-. 

To  Mr.  Crouch  and  my  man,  for  money 
laid  out  by  them  for  carrying  away  Mr. 
Langhorne's  goods,  books,  writings,  and 
papers  out  of  his  chamber  in  the  fire 


time.     For  watching  them  and  carrying 

them  back  again,  and  for  cleansing  the 

chamber,  5/2. 
To  William  Clarke  and  George  Berry,  for 

several   men's   watching  and  warding, 

from  29  Jan.  to  7  Feb.,  at  the  rate  of 

is.  a.  night  for  watching,  and  8d.  a.  day 

for  warding,  8//.  6s.  &d. 
To  Cresser,  the  carpenter,  for  work  done 

in  the  hall,  "jli.  45.  yl. 
To  Newman,  the  bricklayer,  for  work  done 

after  the  fire,  2oli.  1 2s.  2d. 
To  Davies,  the  glazier,  for  work  done  after 

the  fire,  30/7'. 
To  Cresser,  the  carpenter,  in  part  for  work 

done   by  him   in  building   the  King's 

Bench  Office,  loli. 
For    a    padlock    to    put    on    Reading's 

chamber,  2s. 
To    Mills,  the  porter,  for   candles   used 

about  the  House  by  watchmen,  155. 
To    Sore,    the    porter,    to    pay    William 

Burt  for  watching   14  nights,  at   is.  a 

night,  at  Reading's  chamber,  1 6s.  $d. 
To  two  men,  for  the  first  night's  watching 

at  Reading's  chamber,  35.  $d. 
To   John    Playford,  clerk,   for   disburse- 
ments   for    the    church    for    a    year, 

3/z'.  7*.  t>d. 
To  Samuel   Binion,  for  watching  at  the 

breach  in  the  Temple  wall,  from  8  Aug. 

to  5  Sept.,  and  for  candles,  ill.  IQS.  yd. 
To  Davies,  the  glazier,  for  work  done  at 

the  east  end  of  the  church,  ili.  "js.  $d. 
To  John  Duncomb,  one  of  the  Queen's 

receivers,  loli.  is. 
To   Captain    Hammond,  for   wine,  45//. 

185.  6d. 

Sum  of  the  receipts,  s68//.  17*.  f>d. 
Sum    of   the    disbursements,    555//'. 

145.  nd. 

And  so  there  remains  with  4//.  paid 
to  the  treasurer's  clerk,  <)li.  2s.  jd. 


1679] 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


'45 


ACCOUNT  of  William  Minors,  chief  butler,  from  3  November,  1678, 

to  4  November,  1679. 


RECEIPTS. 

From  Beaumont,  treasurer  of  Lyon's  Inn, 
for  a  year's  rent,  4/z. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

For  staves,  tobacco,  and  wands  for  Michael- 
mas Grand  day,  i6s. 

To  the  master  of  the  revels  at  several 
times,  by  order  of  the  masters  of  the 
bench,  14/1'. 

Payments  to  Dr.  Woodroffe  and  Dr.  Ball. 

For  faggots  for  bonfires,  4/1.  i8s. 

To  the  musicians,  their  yearly  fee,  4//. 

To  William  Mills,  for  candles  in  watching 
and  searching  Langhorne's  chamber, 
and  upon  several  occasions  about  the 
fire,  tli.  S.T. 

To  the  labourers,  for  carrying  the  books, 
reader's  coat  of  arms,  and  the  rest  of 
the  things  out  of  the  libraries,  2/1.  los. 

For  a  press  for  the  books  and  bonds  in 
Mr.  Minors'  house,  to  be  returned  when 
the  library  is  built,  2 ft.  los. 

"  For  portersand  messengers  about  buckets, 
and  for  gunpowder,  and  other  workmen 
in  and  about  the  fire,"  4/7'. 

For  a  reader's  escutcheon,  5*. 

For  three  drafts  of  the  House  grounds,  15^. 

For  coach  hire,  to  invite  my  lord  chan- 
cellor and  judges  against  the  Grand 
Day  and  to  the  link  boy,  8s. 

For  coach  hire  for  the  bench  to  attend  my 
lord  chancellor  and  judges  about  the 
House  building,  6s. 


For  coach  hire,  for  Powell  of  the  bench  to 
the  Duke  of  Monmouth's,  4* . 

For  copies  of  Alderman  Bateman's  letter 
from  the  treasurer  of  the  Middle  Temple 
for  our  bench,  2S. 

For  seizing  Allington  in  the  mint  and 
carrying  him  before  the  recorder,  los. 

For  carrying  three  persons  by  water  about 
a  letter  found  directed  to  my  Lord 
Powis  and  shewed  to  the  Secretary  of 
State,  3.?. 

For  writing  three  hundred  of  tickets,  de- 
livered at  gentlemen's  chambers  by  order 
of  the  House  of  Lords,  and  to  give  notice 
to  receive  the  sacrament,  and  deliver 
them  at  each  chamber  with  a  witness, 

I//'.    1OS. 

For  two  copies  of  Sir  Robert  Sawyer's  Act, 

5-f- 

For  two  years  fee  farm  to  the  Queen's  re- 
ceiver, 2oli. 

To  Mr.  Rogers,  the  lecturer,  for  one  year's 
salary  for  reading  prayers  "  in  the  Inner 
Temple  church,"  i5//. 
Sums  claimed  by  the  accountant  for  the 
vacations,  for  the  Christmas  vacation, 
being  six  weeks  and  a  half,  for  Lent 
vacation,  being  thirteen  weeks,  for  the 
little  vacation,  being  two  weeks  and  a 
half,  and  for  the  long  vacation,  being 
fifteen  weeks. 

Sum  of  the  receipts,  353//.  i8s. 
Sum  of  the  disbursements,  3847;'.  i8s. 

nd. 

So  there remainsdueto the  accountant, 
3 1//.  i  id. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1679.  Bill  of  complaint  filed  by  the  treasurer  and  benchers  of 
the  Inner  Temple  in  the  court  of  Chancery  against  the  benchers  of 
the  Middle  Temple,  as  to  the  bounds  and  jurisdictions  of  the  two 
inns. 


in. 


u 


146  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1679-80 

1679?  Order  of  parliament  as  to  the  security  to  be  given  to 
Sir  Robert  Sawyer  for  money  advanced  for  rebuilding  the  chambers 
on  the  west  side  of  Hare's  Court. 

1679.  Assignment  by  William  Minors  to  Sir  Thomas  Hanmer 
for  the  use  of  the  society  of  the  Inner  Temple  of  all  his  right  to  a 
cellar  chamber  in  the  King's  Bench  Buildings  under  Serjeant  Simp- 
son's chamber. 


ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  November,  32  (sic)  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1679, 
before  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  CHRISTOPHER 
MILTON,  and  others.  THOMAS  FARRAR,  treasurer. 

Nathaniel  Readeinge,  an  utter  barrister,  expelled. 

Order  for  a  shed  to  be  annexed  to  Christopher  Sparkes' 
chamber. 

Order  for  the  treasurer  to  dispose  of  a  chamber  in  Fig  Tree 
Court  where  Berkley  Hanson,  deceased,  was  admitted. 

John  Hillersden,  Wright  Crooke,  Samuel  Howland,  Edward 
Loggin,  John  Sandys,  Charles  Musters,  and  Edward  Perrott  called 
to  the  bar. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  29  January,  32  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1679-80,  before 
SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  SIR  GEORGE  JEFFERIES,  recorder  of  the 
city  of  London,  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  and  others,  THOMAS 
FARRAR,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Thomas  Simpson,  eldest  son  of  Sir  John 
Simpson,  serjeant  at  law,  and  grandchild  of  Sir  Thomas  Twisden, 
late  a  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench;  and  of  Charles  Baker,  son  of 
John  Baker,  late  of  Windsor  in  the  county  of  Berks,  esquire,  at  the 
request  of  Thomas  Farrar,  treasurer. 

"  Whereas  there  hath  of  late  been  great  failure  of  exercise,  both 
in  term  and  in  vacation,  principally  occasioned  by  such  members  of 
the  society  who  having  no  chamber  in  the  House,  contrary  to  ancient 
rules  and  orders  of  this  society,  do  upon  their  call  to  the  bar  im- 
mediately leave  the  society  and  seldom  appear  in  the  House  to  do 


i679-8o]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  147 

their  exercise,  whereby  other  fellows  of  the  said  society  that  have 
done  their  exercise  are  by  the  ancient  orders  of  the  House  liable  to 
be  amerced  as  well  as  themselves."  It  is  therefore  ordered  that  all 
members  that  have  chambers  and  have  performed  their  exercises,  shall, 
upon  their  call  to  the  bar,  deposit  the  sum  of  4/2.  only,  being  the  usual 
caution  money  paid  at  their  call.  And  those  who  have  performed 
their  exercises,  and  have  no  chambers,  shall  upon  their  call  to  the  bar 
and  before  the  next  parliament  wherein  they  are  to  be  confirmed, 
and  before  they  are  sworn,  pay  the  sum  of  50/2.  caution  money, 
which,  upon  buying  a  chamber  and  discharging  all  duties  then  due, 
shall  be  repaid,  save  only  4/2'.,  the  usual  caution  money. 

William  Yorke,  John  Edwards,  Edmund  Prideaux,  Richard 
Leighton,  Edward  Owen,  Grimbald  Paunceford,  James  Sloane,  Daniel 
Disney,  John  Hawkins,  Owen  Norton,  Richard  Fincham,  Thomas 
Oliver,  William  Clarke,  Philip  Farwell,  and  Thomas  Sturt  are  called 
to  the  bar. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  12  February,  32  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1679-80, 
before  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  ROBERT 
HAMPSON,  and  others.  THOMAS  FARRAR,  treasurer. 

The  petition  of  Nicholas  Young  and  John  Young,  two  of  the 
masons  belonging  to  the  society,  that  as  200/2.  is  due  to  them  for 
work  done,  they  may  have  the  liberty  of  disposing  of  a  chamber 
three  pair  of  stairs  north  over  the  narrow  passage  leading  into 
Whitefriars  for  150/2. 

Order  for  the  nomination  of  lives  to  the  chambers  newly  built. 

Order  that  the  vacation  barristers  shall  next  Lent  vacation  keep 
in  commons  until  the  first  Sunday  in  Lent,  which  is  the  grand  read- 
ing week,  and  no  longer,  and  the  same  shall  be  taken  in  lieu  of  a  full 
vacation. 

Order  that  Sir  Thomas  Hanmer,  Robinson,  Hampson,  West, 
and  other  members  of  the  bench  table  in  town  or  any  two  of  them, 
shall  be  a  standing  committee  for  transacting  all  affairs  and  concerns 
of  the  House  relating  to  Newman's  Buildings,  the  Cloisters,  the 
conveyance  of  the  Temple,  the  drain  in  Hare  Court,  the  cellar  in 
Hampson's  new  buildings,  and  all  other  matters  arising  in  the  said 


148  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [«68o 

society,  and  all  their  acts  to  be  confirmed  the  first  parliament  in 
Easter  term. 

Orders  for  Newnham  to  have  two  lives  and  an  assignment  as 
other  builders ;  that  the  chimney  built  by  Wheeler  next  Robinson's 
building  be  respited  ;  and  that  Minors,  the  chief  butler,  shall  have  till 
next  parliament  to  nominate  lives  to  his  chambers. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  2  May,  32  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1680,  before 
THOMAS  ROBINSON,  JOHN  MOSYER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and 
others.  THOMAS  FARRAR,  treasurer. 

Sir  John  Boynton  and  Sir  Francis  Manly,  knights,  called  to  the 
bench. 

Order  that  Hampson,  West,  Mosyer,  Holloway,  Edwards  and 
Farrington  be  a  committee  to  consider  Newnham's  building  over  the 
Cloisters. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  23  May,  32  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1680,  before 
THOMAS  ROBINSON,  JOHN  MOSIER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and 
others.  THOMAS  FARRAR,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Francis  Pemberton,  son  of  Sir  Francis 
Pemberton,  serjeant  at  law,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Agreement  with  Sir  William  Drake  as  to  his  tenure  of  the  Fine 
Office  in  Hare's  Court. 

Samuel  Floyer  called  to  be  an  associate  to  the  bar. 

Nominations  to  the  new  chambers  on  the  west  side  of  Hare 
Court. 

Michael  Newnham,  an  utter  barrister,  to  have  the  same  terms 
in  his  chamber,  erected  over  the  Cloisters,  as  the  rest  of  the  builders 
on  the  west  side  of  Hare  Court. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  20  June,  32  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1680,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  and 
others.  THOMAS  FARRAR,  treasurer. 

Order  that  the  padlocking  of  Robert  Abbot's  chamber  be 
respited  till  next  parliament. 


1680]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  149 

Cornelius  Manly  called  to  the  bar. 

Nominations  to  the  chambers  on  the  west  side  of  Hare  Court. 

Upon  the  petition  of  Thomas  Williams,  stationer,  setting  out 
that  he  had  been  tenant  of  the  society  28  years,  and  being  in  the 
year  1666  burnt  down,  did  about  1668  obtain  permission  to  build 
certain  shops  in  Tanfield  Court,  of  which  he  was  given  a  term  of  thirty- 
one  years,  at  a  yearly  rent  of  6/z. ;  and  that  in  the  late  fire,  by  order 
of  the  benchers,  his  said  shops  were  pulled  down,  since  which  time 
he  has  rebuilt  them.  He  prays  for  an  increase  of  his  term  and 
abatement  of  his  rent.  Whereupon  it  is  ordered  he  shall  have  the 
term  of  thirty-one  years  at  the  rent  of  6li. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  June,  32  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1680,  before 
THOMAS  ROBINSON,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS, 
and  others.  THOMAS  FARRAR,  treasurer. 

William  Minors,  chief  butler,  to  have  time  granted  him  for 
twelve  months  to  nominate  lives  to  his  chambers  in  the  lowermost 
building  next  the  River  of  Thames. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  June,  32  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1680,  before 
THOMAS  ROBINSON,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS, 
and  others.  THOMAS  FARRAR,  treasurer. 

Licence  to  William  Minors,  the  chief  butler,  to  assign  his 
interest  in  certain  buildings  erected  by  him,  to  Robert  Wynne. 

Order  as  to  the  nomination  of  lives,  etc.,  to  Hampson's 
buildings. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  i  July,  32  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1680,  before  SIR 
THOMAS  HANMER,  JOHN  MOSYER,  ANTHONY  FARRINGTON,  and 
others.  THOMAS  FARRAR,  treasurer. 

Order  that  a  committee  of  the  whole  table  or  any  three  of  them 
do  meet  in  the  vacation  if  any  difference  should  arise  betwixt  this 
society  and  the  Middle  Temple. 

The  election  of  the  reader  to  be  respited  to  Michaelmas  term. 


iSo  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1679-80 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  7  November,  32  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1680,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  THOMAS  ROBINSON, 
and  others.  THOMAS  FARRAR,  treasurer. 

Auditors  : — Heath,  Longuevile,  Peachy,  and  Clendon,  for  the 
steward's  accounts ;  and  Farrington,  Courtney,  Wright,  and  Good- 
fellow,  for  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Order  that  Thomas  Webling,  in  consideration  of  his  discharging 
loo/z.  debt  from  the  society  to  Thomas  Newman,  bricklayer,  and 
upon  payment  of  50/2.  to  Mrs.  Langhorne,  her  trustee,  or  assigns, 
shall  be  admitted  to  the  chamber,  late  of  Mr.  Langhorne,  in  the  Inner 
Temple  Lane,  and  upon  payment  of  the  said  50/2.  he  is  to  have  a 
discharge  from  Sir  William  Langhorne  and  all  others  concerned  and 
entrusted  for  Mrs.  Langhorne. 

Order  that  Mr.  Solicitor  Finch,  Sir  John  Heath,  Sir  Thomas 
Hanmer,  Sir  John  Trevor,  and  Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  his  Majesty's 
learned  counsel  at  law,  be  requested  to  attend  his  Majesty  touching 
the  papers,  books,  and  writings  in  Langhorne's  chamber,  that  they 
may  be  forthwith  disposed  of. 

Order  that  25/2,  be  paid  out  of  the  treasury  to  Mrs.  Langhorne. 

Treasurer  : — Thomas  Robinson,  chief  prothonotary  of  the  Court 
of  Common  Pleas. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7  November,  1679. 

Christopher  Spark's  petition  referred  to  Farrington,  Heath,  and 
John  Keeling. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  8  November,  1679. 

Orders  that  the  matter  of  Courthop's  chamber  be  referred  as 
above  ;  that  Walker  be  fined  ios.,  because  his  laundress  emptied  a 
chamber  pot  out  of  the  window  ;  that  Spark  may  build  a  shed  near 
his  chamber  in  Ram  Alley;  and  that  the  petition  of  Middlemore  be 
referred  to  Hampson  and  Edwards. 


,679]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  151 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  10  November,  1679. 

Order  that  the  head  butler  attend  Powell  and  West  touching  the 
conveyance  made  to  the  Inner  Temple. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  12  November,  1679. 

Orders  that  Roberts  and  Buckle  attend  the  table  to-morrow  and 
that  the  act  of  parliament  for  building  be  then  brought  to  the  table  ;  that 
the  head  butler  attend  Milton,  of  the  bench,  for  his  duties,  otherwise 
that  he  be  proceeded  against  by  the  laws  of  the  House,  and  that  the 
said  butler  demand  4/2.  from  Milton,  the  son,  for  caution  money. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  13  November,  1679. 

Orders  that  application  be  again  made  to  Milton,  and  if  his 
duties  be  not  paid  by  Saturday,  the  table  will  proceed  to  padlock  his 
chambers  ;  that  none  of  his  charges  be  allowed  for  repairing  his 
chamber,  unless  he  show  better  cause  ;  and  that  the  chief  butler  give 
an  account  daily  what  duties  he  has  received. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  14  November,  1679. 

Order  that  Milton  and  Powell  have  notice  to  be  at  the  table 
to-morrow  at  dinner,  to  give  their  final  answer  as  to  not  paying 
their  duties  ;  the  like  order  for  Wirley. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  15  November,  1679.  Present: — THOMAS 
FARRAR,  treasurer,  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  HUMPHREY  WIRLEY,  and 
ROBERT  HAMPSON. 

Orders  that  Wirly's  chamber,  which  is  now  made  into  an  office, 
shall  be  discharged  from  payment  of  commons  and  other  duties,  so 
long  as  the  same  continues  an  office ;  that  the  chief  butler  again 
attend  Powell  about  his  duties  and  about  the  delivery  of  all  books, 
bonds,  and  other  writings  concerning  the  House  ;  that  every  warrant 
be  delivered  to  the  chief  butler  ;  and  that  all  admissions  be  void  unless 


i5«  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1679-80 

they  are  entered  into  the  Admission  Book  within  a  term  of  being 
made. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  14  (sic)  November,  1679. 

Whereas  there  are  great  sums  of  money  owing  by  the  society  to 
workmen  and  other  officers  of  this  society  which  cannot  be  discharged 
unless  the  several  members  do  faithfully  pay  their  several  duties,  it  is 
ordered  that  all  arrears  of  duties  be  paid. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  17  November,  1679. 

"  Whereas  there  hath  of  late  been  great  failure  of  exercise  both 
in  term  and  vacation,  principally  occasioned  by  such  members  of  the 
society  who  upon  their  call  to  the  bar  immediately  leave  the  society 
and  seldom  appear  in  the  House  to  do  their  exercise,  whereby  the 
fellows  of  the  said  society  that  have  done  their  exercise  are  by  the 
ancient  order  of  this  House  liable  to  be  amerced  as  well  as  them- 
selves," it  is  ordered  that  all  such  members  as  have  chambers,  upon 
their  call  shall  deposit  the  sum  of  4/z'.,  being  the  usual  caution 
money  paid  at  their  call,  and  that  all  others  having  no  chambers  upon 
call  to  the  bar  and  before  the  next  parliament  after  they  are  to  be 
confirmed,  pay  the  sum  of  50/2'.,  which  upon  buying  a  chamber  and 
paying  all  duties,  shall  be  repaid,  less  4/2'.  for  caution  money. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  2  February,  1679-80. 

Orders  for  Sir  Thomas  Foster  and  Milton  to  pay  their  duties  ; 
and  for  Bagnall  and  Thomas  Foster  to  attend  the  table. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  5  February,  1679-80. 

The  matters  concerning  Wheeler's  chamber  referred  to  Sir 
Thomas  Hanmer  and  others. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  6  February,  1679-80. 

Orders  for  Sir  Thomas  Forster  to  pay  forthwith  ;  Milton  to  be 
written  to  that  he  do  the  same  ;  for  Edwards  and  Hampson  to  settle 


i68o]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  153 

Fountaine's  and  Middlemore's  chamber  ;  and  for  Thomas  Farmer, 
the  reader  for  Clifford's  Inn,  to  be  discharged  his  reading  upon  pay- 
ment of  2O/Z. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  30  April,  1680. 

Orders  that  the  chief  butler  go  to  Box  and  give  him  notice  to 
build  upon  the  old  ground  where  the  library  was  built ;  that  the 
Crown  Office  be  viewed  and  speedy  care  taken  to  set  up  the  same 
again  ;  that  the  rubbish  in  the  churchyard  and  in  the  Middle  Temple 
be  removed,  and  the  chief  butler  speak  with  Buck  of  the  Middle 
Temple  to  join  in  the  charge  ;  that  Newnham  attend  the  table 
touching  his  arrears  of  duties ;  that  the  persons  concerned  in  the 
west  side  of  Hare  Court  meet  at  the  treasurer's  chamber;  and 
that  consideration  be  had  and  taken  with  the  Middle  Temple  con- 
cerning the  conveyances  between  the  two  Houses. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  10  (sic]  May,  1680. 

Order  that  Newnham  have  18  ft.  to  rebuild  his  building  burnt 
down,  "and  the  form  to  be  built  as  the  old  cloisters  were  built  and 
the  same  height." 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  3  May,  1680. 

Orders  that  John,  eldest  son  of  Sir  George  Jefferys,  the  king's 
Serjeant,  be  admitted  to  both  his  father's  chambers  ;  that  Fuller  and 
Cardrow,  two  of  the  readers  of  the  Inns  of  Chancery,  continue  their 
exercises  as  formerly. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  8  May,  1680. 

The  disposal  of  the  chambers  under  the  King's  Bench  Office 
referred  to  Robinson  and  others. 

Orders  for  the  chief  butler  to  bring  in  a  list  of  those  who  had 
paid  their  duties  ;  and  for  Courtopp  to  attend  touching  the  nuisance 
in  his  chamber. 


in. 


154  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1680 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  n  May,  1680. 

Order  that  "  my  masters  of  the  bench,"  hereafter  named,  or 
any  three  of  them,  be  a  committee  to  attend  the  Lord  Chancellor 
about  the  conveyance  of  the  Temples,  viz.  : — Sir  John  Heath, 
Robinson,  Holloway,  Sir  William  Poultny,  Edwards,  Farrington, 
and  Heath. 

Order  that  the  chief  butler  wait  on  the  masters  of  the  bench, 
who  are  now  absent  from  the  table,  to  meet  at  Westminster  by 
7  o'clock  in  the  court  that  was  erected  for  trial  of  the  lords,  viz. : — 
Farrar,  treasurer,  Sir  John  Heath,  Sir  Thomas  Hanmer,  Sir  John 
Trevor,  Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  Sir  Thomas  Foster,  Robinson,  Hol- 
loway, Sir  William  Poultney,  Edwards,  Heath,  Selby,  Wyott,  John- 
son, Farrington,  Pollexfen,  Keck,  and  Courtney. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  19  May,  1680. 

Order  that  upon  Newnham  paying  his  duties,  the  pillars  of  the 
cloister  over  which  he  is  to  build  his  chambers,  shall  be  forthwith 
erected,  and  that  with  as  much  speed  as  conveniently  may  be,  by  the 
treasurer. 

Orders  that  duties  in  arrear  be  paid ;  that  the  whole  table  be  a 
committee  to  receive  proposals  for  rebuilding  the  chambers  in  Paper 
Buildings  ;  that  Mosyer  and  others  be  a  committee  to  examine  the 
debt  of  John  Wise,  the  plumber,  and  to  examine  the  weight  of  the 
lead  he  received  which  formerly  covered  the  library. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  21  May,  1680. 

Order  that  Cornelius  Manly,  son  of  Sir  Francis  Manly,  serjeant 
at  law,  be  admitted  at  the  next  parliament,  and  at  the  first  parliament 
of  next  term  he  shall  be  called  to  the  bar. 

Orders  that  the  difference  with  Fountaine  as  to  the  west  side 
of  Hare  Court  be  referred  to  Robinson  and  Edwards ;  that  Floyer 
be  admitted  an  associate  to  the  bar ;  that  the  matters  in  difference 
about  Wheeler's  chamber  in  Robinson's  Building  be  referred  to  Sir 


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John  Trevor  and  others;  that  the  matters  concerning  Everard's 
chamber  in  the  King's  Bench  Building  be  referred  to  Mosyer  and 
others. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  22  May,  1680. 

Re-appointment  of  the  committee  touching  the  plumber's  bill ; 
and  orders  as  to  the  chambers  of  Serjeant  Pemberton,  Howland,  and 
Serjeant  Hampson. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  17  June,  1680. 

Orders  that  the  chambers  of  Collwall,  Gurdon,  Leavetts, 
Sackville,  Vane,  Wentworth,  and  Wheeler  be  padlocked,  and 
Prideaux  to  have  notice  to  pay ;  that  the  said  persons  be  first 
summoned  to  appear  at  the  table. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  18  June,  1680. 

Orders  that  the  chambers  of  Abbot  and  Baynes  be  padlocked, 
unless  they  pay  their  duties ;  that  Cure  pay  his  duties  or  attend  the 
table ;  that  Ward,  Shurland,  and  John  Lee  pay  their  duties ;  that 
Hancock,  Giles  Duncomb,  and  Collwall  attend  the  table ;  and  that 
Robert  Abbot  pay  zili.  for  a  composition  of  his  duties. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  29  June,   1680.     Present: — The  treasurer, 
EDWARDS,  ROBINSON,  FARRINGTON,  HOLLOWAY,  and  others. 

Orders  that  Courtopp  and  Farmer  attend  the  table ;  that  upon 
the  reading  of  the  petition  of  John  Stanbrooke,  his  debt  be  the  first 
discharged. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  3  July,  1680. 

Order  that  a  committee  of  the  whole  House,  in  the  absence  of 
the  treasurer,  do  consider  and  settle  the  affairs  of  the  House,  and  the 
matters  of  difference  between  the  House  and  the  Middle  Temple. 


A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [,68o 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  6  July,  1680. 

Order  that  Richard  Middlemore's  petition,  touching  an  exchange 
of  his  chamber,  "  being  before  in  the  staircase  next  Fleet  Street  on 
the  west  side  of  Hare's  Court,"  burnt  down  by  the  late  dreadful  fire, 
be  granted. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  2  (sic)  July,  1680.  Present: — FARRAR, 
treasurer,  ROBINSON,  EDWARDS,  WYOTT,  POLLEXFEN,  FARRINGTON, 
and  COURTNEY. 

Order  touching  the  rebuilding  of  William  Gwillim's  chamber. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  25  October,  1680.  Present : — SIR  THOMAS 
HANMER,  ROBINSON,  HOLLOWAY,  EDWARDS,  FARRINGTON,  and 
HEATH. 

Order  that  the  whole  bench  table  be  a  committee  to  examine 
into  the  pulling  down  of  the  pillar  under  Newnham's  chamber  in  the 
last  vacation,  and  to  report  to  the  table  before  the  next  parliament. 
The  committee  to  meet  in  the  library,  and  Pettit  and  Newnham  to 
attend. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26  October,  1680. 

Order  that  the  gates  into  White  Friars  be  open  from  7  a.m.  to 
7  p.m.  in  winter,  and  from  5  a.m.  to  9  p.m.  in  summer. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  3  November,  1680. 

Orders  that  Serjeant  West  have  liberty  to  nominate  another 
life,  and  that  Holloway  and  others  be  a  committee  to  examine  the 
accounts  of  Smith,  the  steward. 


i68oj 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT    BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Thomas  Farrer,  treasurer,  from  7  November,  1679,  to 

7  November,  1680. 


RECEIPTS. 

From  Thomas  Farmer  for  his  fine  for 
being  excused  reader  in  Clifford's  Inn 
in  respect  of  his  sickness,  20/1. 
Moneys  received  upon  the  subscriptions 
towards  the  building  of  the  hall  and 
library : 

From   John    Keeling,   his   Majesty's 

Serjeant  at  law,  2oli. 
From  Serjeant  Croke,  2oli. 
From  Serjeant  Hampson,  io//'. 
From  Serjeant  West,  io#. 
From  Serjeant  Boynton,  20/1. 
From  Serjeant  Buckby,  20/1. 
From  Serjeant  Manley,  20/1. 
From  Thomas  Farrer,  treasurer,  loli. 


From  Mr.  Solicitor  Finch,  2o//. 
From  Sir  Thomas  Hanmer,  zoli. 
From  Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  2o//. 
From  Thomas  Robinson,  chief  pro- 
thonotary  of  the  Common  Pleas, 

20//. 

From  John  Mosyer,  Richard  Edwards, 
Edwin  Wyott,  Anthony  Farrington, 
Henry  Pollexfen,  Richard  Heath, 
Anthony  Keck, William  Longuevile, 
Johnson,  Selby,  and  Courtney,  io/*'. 
each. 

From  Serjeant  Hampson,  for  his  fine 
for  his  chamber,  6o/;'. 

Total,  38o/;'. 


Receipts  by  William  Minors,  chief  butler. 

From  Beaumont,  treasurer  of  Lyon's  Inn,  4/7. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  Justice  Dolben,  on  4  Dec.  and  19  Feb., 

Payments  to  Dr.  Ball,  Dr.  Woodroffe,  and 

Rogers,  the  reader. 
ToStanton,  the  stone  cutter,  for  making  and 

erecting  the  pillars  in  the  Cloister  (July 

2nd),  2o//. 
To  Samuel  Cozens,  for  building  the  wall 

towards  the  water  side  near  the  King's 

Bench  Office,  i6ti. 
"  To  Serjeant  Hampson,  for  the  draft  of  the 

conveyance  of  the  Middle  Temple,  and 

to  his  man  for  writing,  125.  (sd." 


Various  payments  for  nursing  and  bury- 
ing foundlings. 

For  candles  burnt  at  the  Temple  Gate, 
i/;.  9-y.  8d. 

To  Humphrey  Stich,  mason,  for  work  done 
in  Mitre  Court,  3//'.  1 js. 

To  Richard  Dutton,  the  glass  painter,  for 
work  done  in  getting  up  in  the  windows  the 
King's  arms  in  the  Temple  church,  4#. 

To  Garland,  the  painter,  for  work  done  in 
the  library,  I7//. 

To  William  Rownthwaite,  towards  wain- 
scotting  the  library,  89/7. 

To  Cressar,  the  carpenter,  for  work  done 
upon  the  building  of  the  library,  220/1. 


Disbursements  by  William  Minors,  chief  butler. 


To  the  Serjeants  upon  their  taking  leave 
of  the  House,  with  seven  purses,  35/». 

10S. 

To  Daniel  Ireland,  the  glazier,  for  work 


done  in  the  "  Inner  Temple  Church," 

lit.  4.T. 

To  Cleare,  the  surveyor,  in  part  of  his 
service  and  for  drawing  several  drafts 


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A  CALENDAR  OF  THE 


[1680-1 


for  the  designs  of  the  new  buildings, 

3#.  i  os. 
"  To  the  labourers  for  three  several  times 

throwing  in  the  earth  upon  the  Middle 

Temple,  digging  their  foundation  in  the 

Cloisters,  3//." 
To  the  labourers,  pulling  down  the  porter's 

lodge,  zli. 


For  coach  hire,  for  the  bench  several 
times  attending  my  Lord  Chancellor 
about  the  Cloisters,  i6s. 

Total  of  the  receipts,  i.Soy//.  6s.  8<t. 
Total  disbursements,  i,8o6/;.  i8s.  i  id. 
So  the  accountant  is  indebted  to  the 
succeeding  treasurer,  7*.  <$d. 


ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  November,  32  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1680,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  and 
others.  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Orders  that  the  report  of  the  view  of  Longley's  chamber  in 
Paper  Buildings  and  the  election  of  reader  be  respited. 

Order  that  an  information  be  brought  against  all  those  who  have 
had  a  hand  in  pulling  down  the  pillar  in  the  Cloisters  under  New- 
nam's  Buildings. 

Special  admission  of  Charles  Poultney,  son  of  Sir  William  Poult- 
ney,  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

John  Adams,  John  Ludford,  Robert  Bennett,  Thomas  Trevor, 
Daniel  Foucaut,  Lewis  Buckle,  Robert  Dodsworth,  John  Backwell, 
John  Vaughan,  and  Gilbert  Dolben,  are  called  to  the  bar. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  3  February,  33  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1680-1,  before 
THOMAS  FARRAR,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  EDWIN  WYATT,  and  others. 
THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Proposals  read  and  agreed  upon,  that  a  committee  be  appointed 
to  examine  the  debts  to  the  House  by  members  for  pensions  and 
preacher's  duties  ;  to  settle  the  rolls  of  vacations  and  amercements  ; 
to  have  liberty  to  compound  with  persons  in  arrear  for  vacations  and 
amercements  ;  to  meet  thrice  a  week  in  the  vacation  and  every  Friday 
night  during  term ;  to  receive  from  the  steward  and  chief  butler 
every  man's  answer  of  refusal  to  pay  the  same.  The  committee  to 
consist  of  any  three  of  the  bench  and  such  number  of  the  bar  and 
others  as  they  shall  think  fit  to  meet  with. 


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PARLIAMENT  held  on  13  February,  33  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1680-1,  before 
THOMAS  FARRAR,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  EDWIN  WYATT,  and  others. 
THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Order  that  the  rubbish  in  the  churchyard  be  forthwith  removed. 

Order  that  the  participants  in  the  building  on  the  west  side  of 
Hare's  Court  do  show  cause  why  they  do  not  raise  the  35/2.  that  was 
to  be  paid  by  them  to  the  House,  which  they  undertook  to  pay 
on  the  account  of  Mr.  Appleford. 

Special  admission  of  Richard  Croke,  eldest  son  of  George  Croke, 
an  utter  barrister,  brother  of  Serjeant  Croke,  at  the  request  of  the 
said  serjeant. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  17  February,  33  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1680-1,  before 
SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  THOMAS  FARRAR, 
and  others.  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Order  that  commons  be  broken  up  on  Saturday,  and  the  vacation 
barristers  discharged  of  their  forfeitures. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  8  May,  33  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1681,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  and  others. 
THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Sir  Thomas  Hanmer,  the  Queen's  solicitor  and  K.C.,  chosen 
reader. 

Order  for  an  act  to  be  passed  for  the  better  ordering  of  reading. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  5  June,  33  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1681,  before  SIR 
ROBERT  SAWYER,  attorney  general,  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  CHRIS- 
TOPHER MILTON,  and  others.  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Order  that  Whitlock  Deane  shall  attend  the  table  to  show  cause 
why  he  permits  any  stranger  to  inhabit  his  chamber,  and  why  a  door 
is  made  to  the  prejudice  of  the  other  gentlemen  in  that  building. 


160  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [,6g, 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  19  June,  33  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1681,  before  SIR 
ROBERT  SAWYER.     THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  John  Farrington,  son  of  Farrington  of  the 
bench. 

Order  for  the  two  chambers  of  Sir  Robert  Sawyer  to  be  con- 
solidated. 

Order  that  every  person  already  called  to  the  bench  who  has 
not  read,  shall  from  henceforth  pay  into  the  hands  of  the  treasurer, 
as  he  stands  in  seniority  for  the  time  of  reading,  the  term  before  he 
is  in  turn  to  read,  the  sum  of  100/2.  or  read  (in  case  that  the  other 
societies  of  the  Inns  of  Court  shall  at  the  same  time  read),  and  in 
case  he  shall  then  by  writing  to  the  said  treasurer  disclaim  the  benefit 
and  advantage  of  any  right  to  a  bench  chamber,  then  to  pay  no  more 
than  the  said  ioo/z'.,  and  he  shall  then  be  accepted  as  an  actual 
reader  as  if  he  had  read  ;  but  in  case  he  declare  that  he  expects  a 
bench  chamber,  he  shall  pay  the  further  sum  of  50/2'.  In  case  any 
person  should  refuse  to  pay  the  said  loo/z.  or  to  read,  he  shall  be 
disabled  from  being  a  bencher.  And  everyone  called  up  to  the 
bench  table  as  a  bencher,  shall  pay  at  his  call  before  he  shall  take  his 
place  the  sum  of  50/2.,  and  also  in  his  turn,  when  he  shall  come  to  read, 
pay  the  further  sum  of  50/2.  or  read,  and  shall  also  then  either  dis- 
claim or  make  his  election  to  a  bench  chamber  in  writing,  and  upon 
such  election  shall  pay  the  further  sum  of  50/2'.,  and  shall  have  one 
bench  chamber,  when  the  same  shall  fall  to  him.  If  he  shall  refuse 
to  pay  the  said  sum  or  read,  he  shall  be  disabled  from  being  a 
bencher. 

Every  person  henceforth  called  to  be  an  associate  to  the  bench 
shall  pay  50/2.  before  he  take  his  place  at  the  bench  table. 

Provided  that  if  any  person  called  to  the  bench  table  in  order  to 
read,  shall  actually  read  or  die  before  it  shall  come  to  his  turn,  the 
said  sum  of  50/2.  shall  be  returned  to  him  or  his  executor  or  ad- 
ministrator. 

Provided  that  nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  taken  to  the  prejudice 
of  the  present  interest  of  Sir  Thomas  Hanmer  and  Edwin  Wyatt,  in 
respect  of  bench  chambers. 

Order  that  if  the  windows  of  any  bencher  or  any  other  member 


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be  broken  for  "  asserting  of  and  adhering  to  the  government  of  this 
society,  such  windows  shall  be  repaired  out  of  the  treasury  of  this 
society." 

Order  that  the  officers  of  this  society  shall  be  indemnified  for 
what  they  have  done  or  shall  do  in  obedience  to  the  orders  of  the 
bench. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  13  November,  33  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1681,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON, 
and  others.  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Edwin  Wyatt  chosen  reader. 

Special  admission  of  Thomas  Robinson,  grandson  of  the  treasurer 
and  son  of  Lumley  Robinson,  at  the  request  of  his  grandfather. 

Ratification  of  Serjeant  West's  nomination  of  William  Croke, 
his  nephew,  and  John  Holloway,  son  of  Serjeant  Richard  Holloway, 
to  his  chambers  in  Hare's  Court,  adjoining  Pump  Court. 

Order  for  the  payment  to  John  Stanbrooke  of  155/7.  for  lime, 
formerly  owing  to  Thomas  Newman,  bricklayer. 

Order  that  Minors,  the  head  butler,  should  be  allowed  48/7.,  lent 
by  him  to  the  said  Newman. 

Order  for  the  act  of  3  February,  33  Charles  II.,  concerning  the 
examination  of  the  debts  of  the  House,  to  be  revived. 

"  Whereas  several  great  misdemeanours  have  been  committed 
by  several  gentlemen  of  this  society,  both  of  the  bar  and  under  the 
bar,  in  Easter  term  last,  by  blowing  of  the  horn  for  the  meeting 
and  assembling  together  in  the  hall,  and  passing  several  votes,  and 
making  orders,  thereby  taking  upon  them  the  government  of  the 
House,  and  threatening  the  servants  of  the  House  in  case  they  did 
not  set  up  the  said  orders  at  the  screen  of  the  said  hall  in  the  term 
time,  contrary  to  all  the  ancient  usages  of  this  House,  forthwith  three 
of  the  said  utter  barristers,  that  is  to  say,  Mr.  Grimbald  Paunceford 
(styled  in  one  of  the  said  orders  speaker  of  the  parliament),  and  Mr. 
Daniel  Foucaut,  for  threatening  one  of  the  butlers  of  this  society,  and 
Mr.  Robert  Blaney,  for  subscribing  their  said  orders,  styling  himself 
clerk  of  their  said  parliament,  being  by  the  order  of  the  bench  table 
put  out  of  commons,  and  the  said  Mr.  Blaney  after  he  was  so  put 
out  of  commons  committing  the  same  offence  the  second  time,  and 

III.  V 


i62  A  CALENDAR    OF   THE  [1681 

being  sent  for  to  come  up  to  the  bench  table  and  there  refusing  to 
answer  to  such  questions  as  were  demanded  of  him,  was,  by  like 
order  of  the  said  table  expelled  this  society.  Whereupon  the  rest  of 
the  barristers  and  students  going  out  of  commons  in  Trinity  term 
following,  countenancing  the  said  offenders  and  not  coming  into 
commons  in  the  beginning  of  the  Michaelmas  term,  application  was 
made  by  the  bench  to  my  Lord  Chief  Justice  Pemberton  and  the  rest 
of  the  judges  formerly  of  this  society,  and  thereupon  the  gentlemen 
of  the  bar  and  under  the  bar  immediately  coming  into  commons  in 
order  to  their  being  heard  before  the  said  judges,  upon  full  hearing 
both  of  the  bench,  bar,  and  under  the  bar,  the  said  judge  declared  the 
whole  proceedings  aforesaid  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  bar  and  under 
the  bar  to  be  contrary  to  the  ancient  rules  or  customs  of  this  society, 
yet  the  said  judges,  making  it  their  request  to  the  bench  to  restore 
the  said  member  expelled  and  those  put  out  of  commons,  and  all  the 
rest  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  bar  and  under  the  bar  the  next  day  at 
the  bench  table  end,  making  the  said  request  for  the  said  three 
gentlemen,  it  is  ordered  that  the  said  Mr.  Grimbald  Paunceford 
and  Mr.  Daniel  Foucault  be  admitted  into  commons  at  this  time, 
without  any  further  suit  to  be  made  by  the  three  gentlemen  or  any 
of  them  to  the  benchers  at  their  several  chambers  (according  to  the 
ancient  usage  in  like  cases)  or  any  other  act  to  be  done  by  them 
notwithstanding." 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  20  November,  33  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1681,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON, 
and  others.  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Auditors  :  —  Longuevile,  Selby,  Clendon,  and  Dod,  for  the 
steward's  accounts ;  and  Courtney,  Heath,  Goodfellow,  and  Pudsey, 
for  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Order  that  the  garret  or  chamber  four  pair  of  stairs  high  in  the 
staircase  built  by  Serjeant  Peck,  be  consolidated  with  the  chamber 
two  pair  of  stairs  high  in  the  possession  of  John  Cooke,  and  the  roof 
to  be  made  good  by  the  said  John  Cooke. 


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PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  November,  33  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1681,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON, 
and  others.  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Order  that  the  request  of  Baxter  to  erect  "  pallisadoe  pales,"  and 
to  make  steps  before  his  building,  be  referred  to  Cure,  Purley, 
Clendon,  and  Wright. 

The  election  of  treasurer  respited  till  next  parliament. 

Order  that  the  several  rolls  of  commons,  audited  by  the  bar  and 
those  under  the  bar,  be  signed  by  the  bench. 

Order  for  commons  to  be  broken  up. 

Order  that  Minors,  the  chief  butler,  shall  forbear  to  receive  or 
collect  any  moneys  from  any  member  due  for  fines,  admittances,  and 
pension  and  other  rolls,  or  from  other  persons,  but  such  moneys  shall 
in  future  be  collected  by  a  person  to  be  appointed  by  the  treasurer. 
The  bench  will  take  into  consideration  any  service  that  the  said 
Minors  has  done  or  shall  do  for  the  society,  as  to  any  perquisites 
that  do  or  shall  or  may  belong  to  him  as  chief  butler.  And  when  he 
has  paid  all  such  moneys,  already  collected,  to  the  treasurer,  his  bond 
may  be  delivered  up. 

BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  8  November,  1680. 

Order  for  Adams  to  be  cast  into  commons  for  his  chamber. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  9  November,  1680.  THOMAS  ROBINSON, 
treasurer. 

Answers  of  the  benchers  to  the  Middle  Temple.  As  to  the 
gutters  that  belong  to  the  Inner  Temple,  from  Hare's  Court  and  lead 
into  the  Middle  Temple  Lane,  and  also  those  of  Serjeant  Hampson's 
Building,  "  it  is  agreed  that  let  the  Middle  Temple  conform  to  make 
all  their  pipes  from  their  gutters  that  belong  to  their  buildings  to  be 
carried  down  the  side  of  their  respective  buildings  into  drains,  the 
Inner  Temple  doth  consent  in  all  places  of  their  buildings  that  the 
like  shall  be  done  by  them.  As  to  the  pillar  under  Newman's 


164  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1680 

building  it  was  set  up  by  the  consent  of  both  Houses  at  the  charge 
of  the  Inner  Temple.  As  to  the  pavement  of  the  Middle  Temple 
Lane  and  elsewhere,  it  is  agreed  that  all  places  on  the  account  of  the 
Inner  Temple  shall  be  discharged,  the  Middle  Temple  doing  the 
same  which  on  their  account  ought  to  be  done.  As  to  all  what  Dr. 
Bairbone  saith,  it  is  rejected,  for  Mr.  Minors,  our  butler,  informs  us 
the  contrary." 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  10  November,  1680. 

Orders  that  no  members  shall  have  any  dishes,  for  carrying  their 
commons,  or  earthen  pots,  but  the  laundresses  are  to  bring  dishes  of 
their  own  ;  that  the  cook  shall  make  an  inventory  of  the  pewter  of 
the  House  ;  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  consider  the  proposals 
of  the  Middle  Temple,  and  Pettitt  and  Newman  be  present  at  the 
time  appointed  on  Friday,  at  7  o'clock,  in  the  library;  and  that  a 
committee  be  appointed  to  consider  the  building  on  the  west  side  of 
Hare  Court. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  24  November,  1680. 

Order  that  the  chief  butler  shall  deliver  bills  of  the  duties  owing 
by  members  under  the  bar  and  other  members,  to  such  members 
before  they  are  called  to  the  bar  or  bench  ;  and  the  like  shall  be  done 
to  every  member  upon  alienating  a  chamber. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  30  November,  1680. 

Orders  that  the  names  of  those  of  full  standing  only  shall  be 
brought  up  for  a  call  to  the  bar,  and  shall  be  first  approved  of  by  the 
treasurer ;  and  that  Sir  Nathaniel  Powell,  bart.,  be  discharged  from 
being  reader  at  Clement's  Inn  upon  payment  of  26/2'. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  4  December,  1680. 

Order  that  the  chief  butler  shall  bring  to  the  treasurer  an 
account  of  the  debts  of  the  House  and  of  the  members  that  belong 
to  the  House ;  that  Cressar  and  Pawlett  shall  take  away  all  those 
things  they  have  put  into  the  four  cellars  under  the  King's  Bench 


,68o-i]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  165 

«, 
Office  and  Cressar  is  to  floor  the  same  ;  that  the  King's  arms  be  set  up 

in  the  window  where  they  formerly  were,  and  the  bricklayer  remove 
the  scaffolds  and  posts,  lying  in  the  gutter  next  the  window  at  the 
upper  end  of  the  hall. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  28  January,  1680-1. 

Order  that  no  earthen  pots  be  delivered  out  of  the  buttery  for 
carrying  beer  out  of  the  cellar. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  i  February,  1680-1. 

Order  that  a  committee  be  called  for  7  o'clock  on  Friday  night 
in  the  Library  to  settle  the  interests  in  the  west  side  of  Hare  Court. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7  February,  1680-1. 

Order  for  the  builders  in  the  west  side  of  Hare  Court  to  attend 
the  said  committee ;  and  for  the  balance  to  be  paid  on  Edward 
Chauntler's  bill. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  11  February,  1680-1. 

Orders  that  certain  chambers  in  Hare  Court  and  the  cellars  in 
the  King's  Bench  Office  be  viewed  ;  that  the  engine  house  and 
joiner's  shed  be  moved  and  set  by  the  pump  ;  that  the  treasurer 
nominate  lives  to  his  chamber ;  that  the  rubbish  in  the  churchyard 
be  removed  ;  that  Sir  George  Jefferyes  pay  his  duties  before  his 
chamber  passes ;  and  that  the  steward  bring  in  a  list  of  all  the 
moneys  he  has  received  of  the  debts  above  5/2'. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  12  February,  1680-1. 

John  Wheeler  to  have  two  ground  chambers  under  the  King's 
Bench  Office. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  13  February,  1680-1. 
Order  that  all  proprietors  in  any  of  the  buildings  built  since  the 


166  A  CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1680-1 

fire  are  to  nominate  their  lives ;  and  that  those  who  have  not  paid 
their  arrears  shall  not  have  the  benefit  of  a  second  life. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  18  March,  1 680-1. 

Whereas  the  benchers  and  gentlemen  of  the  Inner  and  Middle 
Temple  did  lately  attend  the  lord  chancellor,  who  proposed  expedients 
for  accommodating  the  differences  betwixt  the  said  societies  about 
rebuilding  the  Cloisters,  it  is  desired  by  Thomas  Robinson, 
treasurer,  Sir  Thomas  Hanmer,  John  Mosyer,  and  William  Longue- 
ville  that  the  said  expedients  be  reported  to  the  first  parliament  of 
next  term,  until  which  time  a  stop  should  be  put  to  further  proceed- 
ing in  the  building  there. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  25  April,  1681. 

Orders  that  the  account  of  Newman,  the  bricklayer,  be  examined  ; 
and  that  the  steward  do  give  an  account  of  the  persons  indebted  to 
him. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26  April,  1681. 

Order  for  the  examination  of  the  steward's  and  butler's  accounts ; 
and  notice  for  the  attendance  of  the  masters  of  the  bench  for  the 
grand  affairs  of  the  House. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  30  April,  1681. 
Order  as  to  the  payment  of  duties  in  arrear. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  2  May,  1681. 
Order  as  to  the  examination  of  Newman's  accounts. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  3  May,  1681. 

A  committee  appointed  to  determine  matters  concerning  Apple- 
ford's  chamber  and  the  buildings  in  Hare's  Court. 


,6SiJ  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  167 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  4  May,  1681. 

Order  for  the  chief  butler  to  give  to  the  second  butler  a  list  of 
fines,  etc.,  unpaid. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  5  May,  1681. 
Notice  for  the  attendance  of  the  masters  of  the  bench. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  9  May,  1681. 

A  committee  appointed  to  examine  the  abuse  of  commons  and 
extravagance  of  the  buttery. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  i  i  May,  1681. 

Order  that  "a  roll  be  made  of  all  the  chambers  as  to  their 
chimneys  that  never  were  burnt.  Also  a  roll  to  be  made  of  the 
burnt  chambers  to  commence  from  the  next  half  year  after  they  were 
inhabited,  leaving  out  at  present  the  chambers  unfinished." 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7  June,  1681. 

The  petition  of  the  pot-woman  referred  to  three  of  the  masters 
of  the  bench  ;  order  for  consideration  of  the  staircase  in  Hare  Court, 
built  by  Sir  Thomas  Hanmer  upon  account  of  the  House,  to  be 
referred  to  a  committee ;  that  every  Friday  night  be  appointed  for  a 
meeting  in  the  Library  at  6  o'clock  about  the  House  business  ;  and 
that  the  carpenter  and  smith  can  take  their  remedies  at  law  if  they 
please. 

A  COMMITTEE  held  on  10  June,  1681.  .  Present  :--  THOMAS 
ROBINSON,  treasurer,  FARRAR,  HOLLOWAY,  EDWARDS,  WYOTT, 
FARRINGTON,  JOHNSON,  and  SELBY. 

Order    to    pay   John  Stanbrooke,  limeman,    155/2.  out  of  the 


168  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [,68, 

treasury ;  that  the  pot- woman's  account  be  referred  to  Heath  and 
Selby ;  that  every  proprietor  in  the  furthermost  staircase  in  Hare's 
Court  next  Fleet  Street  pay  30*.  towards  the  improvement  of  their 
building. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  1 1  June,  1681. 

A  committee  appointed  to  receive  the  proposals  in  reference  to 
Paper  Buildings ;  order  that  the  shop  of  Leonard  Woolley,  barber, 
in  Tanfield  Court,  be  padlocked  up  for  not  paying  rent  to  Thomas 
Williams,  the  tenant. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  15  June,  1681. 

A  committee  appointed  to  consider  the  grievances  of  the  gentle- 
men of  the  bar  and  under  the  bar. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  16  June,  1681. 
Order  as  to  the  interest  of  the  builders  of  chambers. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  21  June,  1681. 
Order  for  the  rubbish  near  Gower's  chamber  to  be  removed. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  25  October,  1681. 

Order  that  the  chief  butler  bring  in  all  the  keys  belonging  to 
the  Library  to  the  treasurer. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  i  November,  1681. 

Order  that  the  puisne  butlers  shall  wait  on  all  the  gentlemen  of 
the  bar  and  under  the  bar  (except  Paunceford,  Foucault,  and  Blaney), 
and  to  acquaint  them  with  the  orders  of  the  judges  of  this  society 
that  they  forthwith  come  into  commons  in  order  to  being  heard 
before  the  said  judges  at  Serjeants'  Inn  in  Fleet  Street,  on  4 


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169 


November,  to  arrange  the  differences  between  the  benchers  and 
them,  and  a  copy  of  the  order  be  screened  to-morrow  at  dinner  in 
the  hall. 

BENCH  TABLE'  held  on  25  June,  1681. 

Order  that  a  garret  chamber  be  taken  down,  and  the  roof  be 
made  firm. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  23  November,  1681. 

Order  that  Thomas   Sorrell,  the  junior  butler,  be   suspended 
commons  for  neglecting  to  take  in  the  beer  in  due  time. 


GENERAL   ACCOUNT    BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Thomas  Robinson,  chief  prothonotary  of  the  Common 
Pleas,  treasurer,  from  7  November,  1680,  to  28  November,  1681. 


RECEIPTS. 
From  Sir  Nathaniel  Powell,  bart.,  for  not 

discharging    the    place    of    reader    of 

Clement's  Inn,  2o//. 
From  Sir  Thomas  Hanmer,  S.  G.,  in  full 

discharge   for   last    summer's    reading, 

i  oo//. 
From  Sir  George  Jeffryes,  his   Majesty's 

Serjeant  at  law,  for  his  subscription  for 

wainscotting  the  hall  and  library,  4.0/1. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Dr.  Ball,  for  his  salary,  at  i  oo//.  a  year, 
to  Dr.  Woodroffe,  at  8o//.  a  year,  and 
Rogers,  the  reader,  at  i  $ti.  a  year. 

To  Playford,  the  clerk  of  the  Temple 
Church,  for  disbursements  for  a  year, 
3//.  25. 

Various  payments  to  William  Scares,  for 
nursing  four  bastard  children. 

To  Roundthwayte,  the  joiner,  for  wains- 
cotting the  hall  and  setting  up  the  screen 
and  music  room,  no//. 


To  the  same,  for  two  forms  of  oak  to  the 
bench  table,  2 1  ft.  long,  six  new  tables  of 
deal  in  the  hall,  and  five  new  "trussells," 
also  three  pipes  of  deal  to  carry  off  the 
water  for  the  hall  and  kitchen,  24  yards 
of  plain  wainscott  at  the  lower  end  of 
the  hall  where  the  clerks  sit,  and  other 
jobs,  i  ili. 

Given  to  the  workmen  in  the  hall  about 
the  wainscotting,  and  the  masons  about 
the  stairs,  to  drink,  $s. 

To  Emmett,  the  carver,  for  engraving  and 
carving  the  arms  of  the  Society  over  the 
screen,  and  for  12  carved  sconces,  and 
8  pine-apples,  io//. 

To  the  same,  for  graving  and  carving  the 
King's  arms  in  oak,  and  setting  them 
up  at  the  top  of  the  hall,  io//. 

To  Home,  the  bricklayer,  for  work  done 
about  the  tiling  of  the  sides  of  the  hall, 
the  enlarging  the  drain  from  the  stone 
steps  in  the  Inner  Temple  Lane  to  the 
church,  and  for  works  done  in  the 


1  This  entry  is  placed  out  of  order  in  the  original  MS. 


III. 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[1681 


kitchen   for   the   boilers    and   hearths, 
i4//. 

To  the  same,  for  making  a  drain  in  the 
Inner  Temple  Lane,  leading  to  the 
Cloisters,  13  yards  in  length,  14  inches 
wide,  and  18  inches  high,  2li.  IQS. 

To  the  same,  for  laying  a  foundation  of 
bricks,  where  the  pillars  in  the  Cloisters 
were  removed  and  under  the  steps,  and 
for  mending  the  hearth  in  the  kitchen, 
lit.  145. 

To  Langly,  the  plaisterer,  for  repairing  the 
south  side  of  the  hall,  with  lime  and 
hair,  and  putting  it  into  a  stone  colour, 
and  other  jobs,  as  stopping  the  glass  in 
the  windows  where  the  King's  arms  are 
and  work  at  the  kitchen  stairs,  6li. 

To  Edward  Sabin,  the  smith,  for  12 
sconces  of  iron,  with  branches,  at  i/i.  35. 
the  sconce,  set  about  the  hall,  i$li.  i6s. 

To  the  same,  for  16  pair  of  hinges  for  the 
window  shutters  in  the  hall,  3  hoop 
trivets  in  the  kitchen,  a  fender  for  the 
kitchen  range,  etc.,  14/1. 

To  William  Cleare,  in  part  for  his  pains  in 
surveying  divers  works,  i/e. 

To  Thomas  Meredith,  for  the  moiety  of 
carrying  away  rubbish  out  of  the  church- 
yard, at  the  blowing  up  of  the  building, 
which  was  to  be  paid  by  agreement  be- 
tween the  two  Houses,  as  it  appears  by 
Serjeant  Hampson's  certificate,  zli. 

To  Duncomb,  the  Queen's  receiver  of  the 
rent  for  the  Inner  Temple,  and  for  the 
acquittance,  loli.  is. 

To  the  steward's  man,  for  a  dinner  in  the 
vacation  time,  1681,  at  a  meeting  of  gen- 
tlemen in  the  library,  to  attend  the  lord 
chancellor  about  the  Cloister  upon  the 
summonsof  the  Middle  Temple,  13.?.  ud. 

To  the  same,  for  one  other  dinner  in  the 
same  vacation  at  a  second  meeting  of 
gentlemen  in  the  library,  of  the  bench 
and  bar,  upon  the  same  account, 
i  !i.  35.  6d. 

To  David  Lumsden,  grocer,  for  a  barrel 
of  gunpowder,  for  the  use  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  in  the  time  of  the  late  fire, 
procured  and  taken  up  by  Sir  George 


Jeoffries  of  him,  for  the  said  use,  and 
affirmed  so  to  be  by  the  said  Sir  George, 

4& 

To  Joan  Symmes,  widow,  the  pot-woman, 
upon  the  certificate  of  Sorrell,  the  butler, 
that  1 8  score  and  16  double  dozen  of 
pots  and  other  earthenware  were  then 
brought  in  for  the  use  of  the  said 
society,  at  is.  id.  the  double  dozen, 
but  upon  examination  there  did  want 
21  double  dozen  of  pots  and  16  double 
dozen  of  wine  cups  and  candlesticks, 
which  Sorrell  did  affirm  were  received 
the  13  Nov.,  before  that  he  borrowed 
of  Lincoln's  Inn.  The  which  pots  have 
lasted  this  whole  year,  loli. 

To  four  labourers,  three  days  to  fill  up  the 
Cloisters  with  earth  and  to  raise  the 
same,  at  2od.  a  day,  ili. 

To  Evans,  the  pavior,  for  paving  part  of 
the  churchyard,  by  our  stairs  and 
Cloister  to  the  common  sewer,  6/«. 

To  Thomas  Goodwyn,  linen  draper,  at  the 
Golden  Key  in  Fleet  Street,  for  linen 
for  the  use  of  the  society,  viz.  : —  5  long 
bar  cloths,  5-0  ells  long,  10  cloths,  for 
the  middle  bar  table,  5  ells  long,  2 
"  swinger's  cloths,"  for  that  table,  2^  ells 
long,  5  higher  cloths,  4 \  ells  long,  5  long 
student's  cloths,  5^  ells  long,  5  clerk's 
commons  cloths,  3!  ells  long,  5  yeo- 
man's cloths,  4j  ells  long,  5  officer's 
cloths,  3|-  ells  long,  i8//.  45. 

To  the  same,  for  7  pieces  of  Silesia  diaper, 
which  made  6  dozen  napkins,  for  the 
bench  table,  zli.  16.?. 

To  the  same,  for  two  pieces  of  diaper 
tabling  for  the  bench  table,  ili.  125. 

To  the  same,  for  1 2  yards  of  towelling,  for 
the  hall,  6s. 

To  Elliott's  wife,  for  making  the  linen  and 
marking  it,  ili.  gs. 

To  the  porter  of  Serjeant's  Inn,  when  the 
society  waited  on  the  judges  about  the 
differences,  55. 

To  Young,  the  mason,  for  work  done  in 
the  Cloisters,  and  for  the  steps  up  the 
hall,  the  same  being  begun  in  Farrer's 
time,  20/i. 


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171 


To  Dallow,  for  1 5  dozen  of  glass  bottles, 
marked  with  the  arms  of  the  House,  at 
4S.  a  dozen,  3//.  in  full  of  a  bill  of  $li.  qs. 
for  the  same. 

To  Garland,  painter,  for  76  yards  of  oiled 
work,  wainscott  colour,  in  the  passage 
between  the  hall  and  buttery,  and  for 
painting  and  gilding  the  1 2  branches  in 
the  hall,  etc.,  8/i.  15.?. 

To  Davis,  the  glazier,  for  glazing  in  the 


hall,  the  lanthorn  there  in  the  kitchen 
and  officer's  room,  and  the  several 
windows  of  the  masters  of  the  bench's 
that  were  broken  in  the  last  disturb- 
ances, according  to  an  act  of  parlia- 
ment, 6/1.  IQS. 

Receipts,  8jo/i.  8s.  n</. 

Disbursements,  733//'.  gs.  \d. 

Remaining  in  the  treasurer's  hands, 
136/2'.  <)s.  iod.  (sic.) 


ACCOUNT  of  William  Minors,  chief  butler,  for  the  same  date. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  William  Clarke,  second  butler,  upon 
the  rolls  of  chimneys  belonging  to  the 
society  and  due  to  the  commissioners  of 
the  hearth  tax,  4/1. 

Paid  for  news  and  intelligence  in  Michael- 
mas term,  1680,  zli. 

For  two  leather  skins  to  set  the  pots  on  the 
form  by  the  bench  table,  45. 

For  two  gilt  nails  to  hang  the  bench  table 
order  thereon,  2s. 

To  Home,  the  bricklayer,  for  making  the 
drain  in  Hayre's  Court,  \li.  12S.  6d. 

To  several  labourers,  for  throwing  up  the 
rubbish  lying  by  the  Middle  Temple  on 
the  ground  belonging  to  the  churchyard, 
and  clearing  the  passage  to  the  Inner 
Temple  Hall,  i/i.  2s. 

For  buttery  baskets,  4*. 

To  Playford,  the  church  clerk,  for  a  year's 
salary,  2/1. 

For  flowers  and  strewings,  also  for  sweep- 
ing the  library  and  washing  of  it  at 
several  times,  12s. 

For  coach  hire  "for  my  masters  of  the 
bench "  when  they  attended  my  lord 
chancellor  concerning  the  Cloisters,  1 2s 

To  the  glass  painter,  being  the  remaining 
part  of  a  bill  for  work  done  in  Farrer's 


time,  which  was  paid  upon  setting  up  of 
the  coats  of  arms  in  the  window  in  the 
hall,  2/i. 

\  To  Cooper,  the  upholsterer,  for  half  a 
dozen  chairs  for  the  library  in  the  room 
of  those  that  were  lost  in  the  fire, 

3//.    12S. 

|  Towards  the  charges  for  hanging  up  the 
branches  in  the  hall,  for  ladders,  porters, 
and  cords,  8s. 

For  mending  Heathe's  aud  Edward's  win- 
dows that  were  broken  last  summer, 
6s.  6d. 

For  porters,  towards  the  removing  Lang- 
horne's  books  and  writings,  8.r. 

For  fixing  up  the  readers'  coats  of  arms, 
8s. 

"  For  the  taking  off  the  prosecution  against 
William  Clarke  and  Smith,  the  butlers, 
upon  their  entrance  into  recognizance 
about  the  breaking  down  the  pillar  by 
order  of  the  Middle  Temple,"  i/i.  45. 

Spent  at  several  times  going  to  Sir  Chris- 
topher Wrenn  about  the  Cloisters  with 
the  masons  of  both  Houses,  1 2s. 
Sum  of  the  receipts,  182/1.  i6s.  nd. 
Sum  of  the  disbursements,  127/7'.  os. 

So  there  remains,  55/7'.  i6s.  $d. 


172  A   CALENDAR    OF    THE  [1681-2 


ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  5  February,  34  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1681-2,  before 
SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  RICHARD  EDWARDS, 
and  others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  bart.,  treasurer. 

Order  that  Minors,  the  chief  butler,  prepare  an  account  to  be 
alphabetically  engrossed  of  all  bonds  of  admittance  in  one  parcel,  and 
all  bar  bonds  in  another. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Thomas  Robinson. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  12  February,  33'  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1681-2,  before 
SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  RICHARD  EDWARDS, 
and  others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Order  that  Philip  Neeve  shall  pay  two  commons  in  arrear  upon 
admittance  to  a  chamber. 

Francis  Twisden  called  an  associate  to  the  bench,  and  William 
Farrer,  Richard  Stevens,  and  Gabriel  Armiger  called  associates  to 
the  bar. 

Windsor  Finch,  William  Wylde,  Thomas  Hicks,  John  Wight- 
wick,  William  Harmer,  Francis  Richardson,  Seth  Clayton,  John 
Jones,  Charles  Greene,  Edward  Mills,  Robert  Skinner,  Rowland 
Wynne,  Richard  Wynne,  John  Lloyd,  Ralph  Hare,  William  Fiennes, 
John  Peachey,  junior,  Nicholas  Ansell,  Daniel  Deligne,  William 
Gilpin,  Joseph  Barnes,  Richard  Turner,  Richard  Knap,  Anthony 
Suxberry,  Charles  Pindar,  John  Poultney,  Charles  Croke,  John 
Holloway,  William  Martin,  Lionel  Walden,  William  Jennings,  John 
Pratt,  Piers  Lloyd,  Henry  Lloyd,  Duncan  Dee,  James  Etheridge, 
and  Samuel  Harris  called  to  the  bar.  Order  that  John  Dolben  be 
called  at  the  next  parliament,  if  any  of  his  puisnes  be  called. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  7  May,  34  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1682,  before  SIR 
ROBERT  SAWYER,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

The  election  of  the  reader  is  adjourned. 

'   A  mistake  in  original  MS.  for  34. 


i68z]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  173 

Special  admission  of  Henry  Hollo  way,  second  son  of  Richard 
Holloway,  serjeant  at  law,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Licence  granted  to  Sir  Godfrey  Copley,  bart.,  to  make  a  door- 
way into  his  ground  chamber  in  the  passage  between  the  Cloisters 
and  Elm  Court,  belonging  to  the  Middle  Temple. 

Order  for  Edwards,  Farrington,  and  Heath  to  view  the  stair- 
case in  the  Inner  Temple  Lane,  wherein  Tyrer,  Serjeant  Buckby, 
and  others  have  an  interest. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  21  May,  34  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1682,  before 
CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY, 
and  others.  SIR  CHARLES  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Admittance  of  Charles  Meriton  to  a  chamber. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  25  May,  34  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1682,  before  SIR 
THOMAS  HANMER,  THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Order  that  Edward  Perrot,  who  was  admitted  to  two  chambers 
which  were  not  consolidated,  should  pay  all  duties  of  commons,  pen- 
sions, and  preachers,  and  all  other  duties  whatsoever  as  for  two 
several  distinct  chambers. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  May,  34  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1682,  before  SIR 
ROBERT  SAWYER,  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

"Whereas  the  church,  belonging  to  both  Societies,  is  very  ruin- 
ous for  want  of  repair,  and  upon  search  made  by  Sir  Christopher 
Wrenn  and  other  able  surveyors,  we  are  given  to  understand  by  a 
strict  search  and  inquiry  made  thereinto,  that  the  said  charge  will 
amount  to  no  less  than  1,400/2.,  it  is  therefore  ordered  and  enacted  at 
this  parliament  that  the  aid  roll,  wherein  every  master  of  the  bench 
and  associate  thereunto  belonging,  be  taxed  at  three  pounds,  every 
barrister  and  associate  to  the  bar,  at  two  pounds  five  shillings,  every 
gentleman  under  the  bar,  one  pound  ten  shillings." 


174  A    CALENDAR    OF    THE  [1682 

Order  that  the  treasurer  be  pleased  to  subscribe  his  name  at  the 
bottom  of  each  roll. 

Richard  Mason,  nephew  of  Sir  Richard  Mason,  called  to  the 
bar. 

Heneage  Finch,  S.  G.,  chosen  reader. 

Robert  Clowes,  Anthony  Bowyer,  Francis  Purley,  William 
Farrer,  Alexander  Stanhope,  Philip  Pargiter,  and  John  Hodges  called 
to  the  bench. 

Order  that  Farrer,  Edwards,  and  Wyatt  be  added  to  the  com- 
mittee to  consider  of  a  ruinous  building  in  the  Inner  Temple  Lane,  in 
Serjeant  Buckby's  staircase. 

Order  that  Sir  John  Trevor  be  written  to  concerning  his  building. 

Order  that  William  Clarke,  second  butler,  repair  the  buildings 
on  the  west  side  of  Hare's  Court,  and  35/2'.  be  demanded  for  Apple- 
ford's  chamber  in  pursuance  of  an  act  of  parliament. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  25  June,  34  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1682,  before  SIR 
THOMAS  HANMER,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  THOMAS  FARRER,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

"  Whereas  the  debts  of  the  House  still  continue  very  great  and 
this  society,  being  very  much  disabled  in  their  revenue  (that  did 
come  in  by  chambers)  by  reason  of  several  fires  that  have  of  late 
years  happened  in  this  society,"  it  is  ordered  that  the  chambers 
falling  to  the  use  of  the  House  shall  not  be  claimed  by  any  non- 
reader  until  the  debts  of  the  House  be  paid. 

Order  that  Milton,  Farrer,  Mosyer,  Holloway,  and  Wyott,  of 
the  bench,  be  a  committee  to  prepare  an  act  of  parliament  to  prevent 
the  steward's  demands  for  allowances  for  commons  from  insolvent 
persons  brought  up  by  him  to  the  auditors  that  sit  on  his  account. 

Order  that  Milton,  Farrer,  Holloway,  Edwards,  Wyott,  and 
Farrington  be  a  committee  to  consider  a  way  how  to  retrench  the 
charge  of  this  House  as  to  the  buttery  and  cellar  and  other  ex- 
penses. 

Order  that  Robert  Clowes,  Anthony  Bowyer,  Francis  Purley, 
William  Farrer,  Alexander  Stanhope,  Philip  Pargiter,  John  Nichol- 
son, and  John  Hodges,  shall  take  their  places  as  benchers  on  Thurs- 


,6gz]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  175 

day  next,  and  William  Clark,  the  second  butler,  give  them  notice 
thereof. 

Order  that  the  gentlemen  of  the  bar  who  have  not  already 
bought  chambers,  shall  show  cause  why  they  should  not  pay  the 
money  contained  in  the  condition  of  their  bonds. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  4  July,  34  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1682,  before  SIR 
THOMAS  HANMER,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  THOMAS  FARRER,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Admittance  of  John  Pratt  to  a  chamber. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  6  July,  34  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1682,  before  SIR 
ROBERT  SAWYER,  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Order  that  there  be  a  committee  appointed  to  treat  and  settle 
the  matters  of  the  "  Papers  Buildings  "  and  to  secure  the  builders' 
interest. 

Order  that  Bagnall  be  treated  with  about  a  third  staircase  in  the 
Paper  Buildings,  next  to  the  water  side,  upon  his  offer  of  500/2'.  to 
the  House.  A  like  order  also  for  Farrington  of  the  bench.  Both 
of  them  to  have  the  same  terms  as  other  builders  have,  who  were 
burnt  down  at  the  dreadful  fires  happening  formerly  and  of  late  in  the 
society. 

"Whereas  by  an  order  of  the  bench  table  of  the  i  July,  1682,  a 
committee  was  then  appointed  of  the  whole  table  or  any  six  of  them 
to  be  a  committee  to  consider  of  a  way  in  reference  to  a  standing 
sub-treasurer  of  this  society,  as  to  what  he  is  to  do,  both  as  to  his 
receipt  of  moneys,  the  security  that  he  is  to  give,  and  that  which  is 
to  be  incumbent  upon  him  by  way  of  duty  in  reference  to  the  affairs 
of  this  House,  and  what  allowance  he  shall  have  for  such  his  employ- 
ment. And  in  pursuance  of  the  same  order  of  the  bench  table 
abovesaid,  the  third  day  of  July  following,  Sir  John  Heath,  his 
Majesty's  attorney  general  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  Christopher 
Milton,  Thomas  Farrer,  Charles  Holloway,  Richard  Edwards,  Edwin 


176  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1681 

Wyott,  and  Henry  Selby,  esquires,  seven  of  the  masters  of  the  bench 
did  meet  as  a  committee  accordingly,  and  were  all  of  an  opinion  as 
followeth  : — That  the  standing  sub-treasurer  that  shall  be  agreed 
upon  by  this  society  shall  receive  all  the  rents,  revenues,  and  casual 
profits  of  this  society  arising  from  all  matters  concerning  the  same, 
except  the  steward's  rolls  for  commons,  and  dispose  thereof  by  order 
of  the  treasurer  of  this  society  for  the  time  being,  under  his  hands, 
and  not  otherwise  unless  it  be  by  the  particular  order  of  the  bench 
table  whilst  they  are  in  commons ;  that  the  said  sub-treasurer  shall 
every  first  week  in  every  term  give  to  the  treasurer  an  account  of 
what  moneys  he  hath  received  in  the  precedent  vacation,  and  before 
the  end  of  the  last  week  of  the  term,  what  he  hath  received  in  that 
term  ;  that  at  the  beginning  of  every  term,  in  the  first  week,  he  shall 
give  an  account  to  the  table  of  all  persons  in  the  society  who  are  in 
arrear  of  any  duties  to  the  same,  and  refused  to  pay;  that  of  all  such 
accounts  given,  the  chief  butler  shall  make  three  rolls  every  Michael- 
mas and  Easter  term,  to  be  delivered,  one  to  the  treasurer,  one  to 
the  sub-treasurer,  and  one  to  the  head  butler ;  that  no  works  shall  be 
done  by  any  workman  employed  in  this  society,  or  goods  bought  for 
their  use  but  by  order  of  the  table  or  treasurer  in  term  time,  or  of 
the  treasurer  in  the  vacation,  or  the  senior  bencher  resident  in  his 
absence,  to  the  contracts  whereof  the  sub-treasurer  shall  be  always 
privy  and  give  an  account  to  the  treasurer  of  the  due  performance 
thereof. 

"  That  he  shall  give  good  security,  such  as  the  table  shall  approve 
of,  for  due  performance  of  his  duty,  and  true  discharge  of  his  account 
with  three  sureties  to  the  value  of  two  thousand  pounds.  That  he  shall 
have  allowed  to  him  for  all  the  said  moneys  received  by  him  for 
the  use  of  the  society,  twelve  pence  in  the  pound.  That  every  one 
admitted  into  this  society  by  certificate  from  any  Inn  of  Chancery 
shall  pay  to  the  under  treasurer,  for  his  own  use,  twenty  shillings, 
besides  the  usual  admittance  to  the  treasurer  of  the  House.  That  he 
have  a  convenient  chamber  allowed  him  during  the  execution  of  his 
said  office,  without  being  liable  to  be  cast  into  commons  for  the  same 
or  other  duties.  That  he  be  allowed  out  of  the  treasury  every  term 
during  the  execution  of  his  said  office  the  sum  of  five  pounds.  That 
the  person  to  be  admitted  into  the  said  office  be  Mr.  Anthony  Belbin, 
a  member  of  this  society.  Which  said  report  of  the  committee  being 


,68zJ  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  177 

read  at  this  parliament,  it  is  ordered  and  enacted  that  the  said  Mr. 
Anthony  Belbin  be  settled,  constituted,  and  appointed  sub-treasurer 
thereof,  upon  the  said  terms  and  conditions  in  the  report  of  the  com- 
mittee above  mentioned,  specified. 

"Whereas  an  act  for  an  aid  roll  hath  lately  passed  in  the  par 
liament  of  this  society  for  the  rating  the  several  members  thereof,  in 
relation  to  their  several  degrees,  towards  the  repairs  of  the  Temple 
Church  and  the  new  building  the  pews  of  the  same,  being  much  in 
decay  (according  to  ancient  precedents  of  acts  of  parliament  of  this 
House),  the  charge  thereof  being  computed  by  Sir  Christopher  Wrenn, 
his  Majesty's  surveyor  general,  and  divers  workmen,  will  amount 
unto  at  least  the  sum  of  fourteen  hundred  pounds,  to  be  borne  pro- 
portionably  by  the  two  societies  of  the  Inner  and  the  Middle  Temple. 
And  whereas  by  the  great  debts  of  clivers  gentlemen  of  this  society 
in  the  payment  of  their  respective  dues  upon  the  said  aid  roll  so 
rated,  this  good  work  is  like  to  be  much  retarded,  if  not  totally  laid 
aside,  unless  moneys  from  time  to  time  be  disbursed  as  the  occasion 
of  so  great  work  shall  and  will  require."  And  whereas  the  present 
treasurer,  at  the  request  of  the  society,  is  pleased  to  lay  down  and 
expend  as  occasion  shall  require  such  money  for  completing  the  said 
work,  although  at  present  very  inconsiderable  sums  on  the  said  aid 
rolls  are  received  by  him,  it  is  therefore  ordered  that  the  said 
treasurer,  his  heirs,  executors,  and  administrators  are  and  shall  be 
saved  harmless  and  indemnified  for  any  contract  he  shall  make  relat- 
ing to  the  said  church  or  workmen. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  5  November,  34  Charles  II.,  A. D.  1682,  before 
THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS, 
EDWIN  WYATT,  LANCELOT  JOHNSON,  and  others.  SIR  THOMAS 
ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Auditors: — Longuevile,  Selby,  Clendon,  and  Dodd  for  the 
steward's  accounts ;  and  Johnson,  Heath,  Barnesly,  and  Pudsey  for 
the  treasurer's  accounts. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Thomas  Robinson,  continued. 

Launcelot  Johnson  chosen  reader. 

III.  A  A 


1 78  A    CALENDAR    OF    THE  [i68i-z 

Admission  of  Francis  Browne,  ad  eundem  gradum,  called  to  the 
bar  at  Gray's  Inn  on  21  November,  1681,  and  paid  his  caution 
money  for  his  bar-moot,  as  appears  by  certificate  from  the  treasurer 
of  Gray's  Inn. 

Edward  Herbert,  K.C.,  called  to  the  bench. 

Order  that  the  sub-treasurer  shall  attend  at  every  parliament 
and  duly  enter  all  such  acts  and  orders  as  shall  be  there  made,  and 
all  certificates  or  warrants  of  admittances,  either  into  or  out  of  this 
House,  be  prepared  by  him  and  presented  to  the  treasurer  for  his 
subscription,  as  a  warrant  for  him  to  enter  into  the  book  of  admit- 
tances. And  to  prevent  abuses  for  the  future  by  the  exercise  butler 
in  his  account  of  all  exercises  to  be  performed  by  such  gentlemen  of 
this  society  that  from  time  to  time  shall  stand  to  be  called  to  the 
bar,  it  is  ordered  that  the  exercise  butler  shall  in  every  term  here- 
after attend  the  said  sub-treasurer  to  make  out  the  respective  exercise 
of  such  gentlemen  by  the  book  of  exercise  kept  by  him  for  the  pur- 
pose, which  book  the  said  sub-treasurer  shall  certify. 

Order  that  consideration  be  had  at  the  next  parliament  of  those 
gentlemen  who  were  in  commons  last  summer  vacation,  which  was 
held  for  a  week  only. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  25  January,  1681-2. 

Order  that  the  steward  and  third  butler  shall  give  an  account  of 
what  money  they  have  received  in  the  rolls  of  commons,  pensions, 
preachers,  etc. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  3  February,  1681-2. 

Order  for  the  account  of  Stephen  Cressar  the  carpenter  to  be 
examined. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  31  January,  1681-2. 
Whereas  upon  the  entertainment  upon  grand  days  of  the  judges 


,681-2]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  179 

and  serjeants  at  law  of  this  society,  it  has  been  found  by  experience 
that  great  loss  has  happened  by  sending  out  of  pewter  dishes  and 
plates  with  meat  in  them  at  dinner  time  to  several  chambers  and 
places  unknown,  which  never  have  been  returned  to  the  pewterer 
that  provided  the  pewter  for  such  days  at  a  certain  rate  for  the  loan 
thereof,  for  the  prevention  whereof  for  the  future,  it  is  ordered  that 
no  member  whatsoever  on  such  days  shall  be  permitted  to  send  out 
of  the  hall  any  such  dishes  or  plates  in  dinner  time  to  any  place 
whatsoever,  unless  he  first  give  notice  in  writing  of  the  place  where 
it  shall  be  carried. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  n  February,  1681-2. 

Order  that  Richard  Stevens  and  Gabriel  Armiger  be  called  to 
the  bar  at  the  next  parliament. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  12  February,  1681-2. 

The  interest  of  Minors,  the  butler,  in  his  building  be  referred  to 
a  committee. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  14  February,  1681-2. 

Whereas  William  Peck  was  chosen  reader  of  Clement's  Inn  at 
Michaelmas,  1680,  and  neglected  to  perform  the  exercise  incumbent, 
for  which  he  was  ordered  to  pay  2o/z.,  and  whereas  he  has  not  con- 
formed with  the  same  order  he  is  fined  a  further  10/2. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  18  February,  1681-2. 
Allowance  of  50^.  a  week  made  towards  vacation  commons. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  6  May,  1681-2. 
Order  that  Holloway,  Edwards,  and  Farrington  be  a  committee 


i8o  A   CALENDAR   OF    THE  [i68z 

to  consider  of  an  aid  roll  in  reference  to  the  work  that  is  to  be  done 
in  and  about  the  church,  the  pews,  and  pulpit,  and  to  bring  in  a 
number  of  persons  that  are  responsible  for  the  same,  and  what  the 
quantum  shall  be  as  to  the  several  degrees  in  the  society. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  6  May,  1682. 

Order  that  the  gates  leading  into  White  Friars  be  opened,  until 
further  order,  from  5  a.m.  to  8  p.m. 

Order  for  the  treasurer  to  put  in  suit  the  bonds  of  those  who 
have  not  paid  their  duties. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7  May,  1682. 

Orders  for  the  benchers  to  meet  at  dinner  in  the  hall  on  Thurs- 
day next ;  for  the  buttery  book  to  be  examined. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  18  May,  1682. 

Order  as  to  the  accounts  of  Cresser,  the  carpenter ;  that  there  be 
a  tax,  viz.  :— 3/7'.  on  every  bencher,  2/2.  55.  on  every  barrister,  and 
i/?.  iO5.  on  every  gentleman  under  the  bar. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  19  May,  1682. 

Order  for  the  bench  to  receive  proposals  from  the  participants 
of  the  Paper  Buildings. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  20  May,  1682. 

"  Upon  an  address  made  to  the  table  by  Mr.  William  Morgan, 
his  Majesty's  cosmographer,  who  did  at  the  same  time  present  the 
society  with  a  map  of  the  survey  of  the  city  of  London  and  West- 
minster and  borough  of  Southwark,  together  with  a  fair  prospect  of 
London  and  Westminster,  in  one  frame,  it  is  ordered  that  the 


,682]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  181 

treasurer  of  this  House  do  give  unto  him,  the  said  Mr.  Morgan,  out 
of  the  moneys  of  this  House,  the  sum  of  io/z.,  as  a  respect  from  this 
society  to  him  for  the  same." 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26  May,  1682. 

Orders  that  a  committee  do  search  for  precedents  for  aid  rolls, 
that  they  may  be  able  to  give  an  account  thereof  to  the  table ;  that 
a  committee  do  examine  all  matters  touching  Minors'  Building  ;  that 
the  bench  attend  the  table  on  Sunday  next  at  supper,  about  an  aid 
roll  for  the  repair  of  the  church  ;  that  a  committee  examine  the 
matters  relating  to  Trinder's  chamber ;  and  that  the  chief  butler 
bring  all  papers  since  the  lord  chancellor's  treasurership  to  this 
House  before  Sunday. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  16  June,  1682. 

Orders  that  the  chief  butler  shall  wait  upon  the  lord  chancellor 
to  obtain  his  leave  to  put  in  suit  the  bonds,  taken  in  his  name,  when 
he  was  treasurer;  that  the  treasurer's  clerk,  Mr.  Belbin,  shall  demand 
the  moneys  due  on  the  aid  roll  for  the  repair  of  the  church  ;  that 
the  House  shall  not  be  liable  for  the  linen  ordered  by  Minors. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  19  June,  1682. 

A  committee  to  examine  the  plasterer's  account  and  the 
plumber's  account,  the  brewer's  account,  and  how  the  linen  was 
taken  up  by  Minors  for  the  use  of  the  House. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  19  June,  1682. 

Order  that  the  admittances  to  chambers  of  those  who  have  not 
paid  their  fines  to  be  void. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  29  June,  1682. 

Order  that  Robert  Clowes  be  discharged  from  his  call  to  the 
bench,  by  alleging  that  his  juniors  were  at  the  table  before  him. 


182  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [168* 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  24  June,  1682. 

Order  that  a  committee  shall  examine  the  books,  papers,  rolls, 
and  other  things  in  the  custody  of  Minors ;  and  to  consider  a  way  of 
lessening  the  debts  of  the  House. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  i  July,  1682. 

A  committee  to  consider  as  to  a  standing  sub-treasurer,  as  to 
what  he  shall  do  regarding  the  receipts,  the  security  he  shall 
give,  etc. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7  July,  1682. 

Allowance  of  50^.  a  week  for  vacation  commons. 

George  Berry,  puisne  butler,  upon  acknowledging  his  fault  in 
recording  an  exercise  as  having  been  performed  by  Bawdes  and 
Cooke,  who  stood  for  a  call  to  the  bar,  that  never  was  performed, 
was  restored  into  commons. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  8  July,  1682. 

Order  that  Minors,  the  chief  butler,  for  his  several  and  great 
misdemeanours  committed  in  the  execution  of  his  office,  be  dis- 
charged, especially  for  bringing  up  John  Wightwicke  to  the  bench 
table  to  be  sworn  a  barrister,  in  order  to  his  call  in  Hilary  term  last, 
and  affirming  that  all  the  duties  had  been  paid,  and  the  usual  bonds 
entered  into,  which  was  not  so,  and  it  is  declared  that  Short,  an 
attorney  of  the  King's  Bench,  shall  be  admitted  to  the  said  office. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  31  October,  1682. 

Petition  of  William  Mynors  to  be  restored  to  his  place  of  chief 
butler,  which  it  was  ordered  should  have  further  consideration. 


1682] 


INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS. 


183 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT    of    Sir    Thomas    Robinson,    chief    prothonotary    of    the 
Common  Pleas,  from  28  November,  1681,  to  5  November,  1682. 


RECEIPTS. 

From  Halsey,  principal  of  Lyon's  Inn,  for 
a  year's  rent  of  the  inn  and  tenements 
adjoining,  -jli.  i$s.  a,d. 

From  Edwin  Wyatt  in  discharge  of  read- 
ing, ioo//. 

From   Henneage   Finch,    for    the    same, 

IQOli. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

In  salaries  to  Dr.  Ball,  Dr.  VVoodrofFe, 
John  Stacey,  the  reader,  and  Playford, 
the  clerk,  zzoli.  zd. 

For  wine  spent  at  the  bench  table,  46/1. 
ijs.  6d. 

For  pots  and  earthenware,  viz.  : — pots, 
candlesticks,  salts,  wine  cups,  and 
bench  cups  (a  single  dozen  of  bench 
cups  costing  as  much  as  three  double 
dozen  of  the  other  ware),  IT/I.  y. 

For  watchmen  and  board  wages,  (total) 
I47//.  15.?.  8d. 

To  the  Duke's  players,  for  a  play  acted  on 
Candlemas  day  last  in  the  hall,  before 
the  lord  chancellor  and  the  judges, 
called  "  The  London  Cuckolde,"  20/7. 

To  James  Munday,  as  master  of  the 
revels,  allowed  to  him  for  entertainment 
of  his  company  on  Candlemas  day,  at 
night,  being  the  Grand  day,  4/7. 

To  the  Queen's  receiver,  for  the  fee  farm 
rent  and  receipt,  loli.  is. 

To  Belford,  for  loan  of  pewter,  and  for  the 
venison  plates  that  Sir  Robert  Sawyer 
gave  in  Hilary  term,  ili.  45. 

For  the  lord  mayor's  warrant  to  search  for 
coiners  over  Foster's  chamber,  2*.  6d. 

To  Harrington,  a  thief  taker,  upon  the 
account  of  Sir  Thomas  Littleton,  to 
search  in  the  house  of  office  for  some 


tools  pretended  to  be  cast  in  by  the 
thieves,  $s. 

To  the  porters,  to  carry  a  boy  to  the  house 
of  correction,  for  firing  the  hall,  is. 

For  the  hire  of  a  coach  and  four  horses, 
for  Sir  John  Heath  and  Sir  Thomas 
Hanmer  to  Windsor,  when  they  pre- 
sented the  address  to  his  Majesty, 
\li.  i$s. 

To  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Langhorne,  widow  of 
Richard  Langhorne,  being  allowed  to 
her  by  order  of  the  bench  table  out  of 
her  late  husband's  chamber,  that  was 
formerly  sold  by  the  House,  she  having 
before  that  time  received  50/4'.  from  the 
purchaser,  z^li. 

To  Morgan,  by  order  of  the  bench  table, 
for  a  map  of  the  survey  of  London,  the 
city  of  Westminster,  and  borough  of 
Southwark,  that  he  presented  to  the 
society,  lo/i. 

To  the  Duke's  players,  for  a  play  called 
"  Rule  a  wife  and  have  a  wife,"  on  All 
Saints'  day,  before  the  judges,  20/1. 

To  James  Munday,  as  master  of  the  revels, 
for  the  entertainment  of  his  company  on 
Grand  day,  being  All  Saints'  day,  4//., 
and  for  the  next  Saturday,  at  night,  for 
the  said  entertainment,  2//.,  6//. 

For  a  green  curtain  of  serge,  for  the  music 
room,  ili.  5.?. 

For  several  men  to  dig  and  carry  earth 
behind  the  Paper  Buildings,  and  to 
level  the  ground  between  the  said 
buildings  and  Serjeant  Hampson's 
Buildings,  down  to  the  King's  Bench 
Office,  from  the  White  Friars,  and  for 
laying  the  walks  there,  loli.  6d. 

For  200  loads  of  gravel,  at  is.  ?>d.,  to  be 


184 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[1682 


laid  against  the  King's  Bench  Office,  and 

from  the  White  Friars  Gate  to  the  houses 

of  office,  and  for  the  garden,  i  fit.  $s.  $d. 
To  the  gardener,  for  wages,  etc.,  3S//.  i8s.  6d. 
To  Langley,  the  plasterer,  for  work  done 

in  the  Cloisters  and  the  passage  to  the 

hall,  and  for  the  arms  in  the  arch  there 

in  fretwork,  i$li. 
To  Brickwood,  the  pavior,  for  paving  the 

Cloisters  under  the  hall,  8s. 
To    Evans,    for    paving    between    Paper 

Buildings  and  the  Garden  wall,  under 

the  trees  there,  4//.  IDJ-. 
To  Sabine,  for  the  rails  twisted  at  the  hall 

steps,  the  hinges,  rivets,  locks,  etc.,  for 

the  hall  door,  ig/i. 


Expenses  of  nursing  Christmas,  Benjamin, 
and  Thomas  Temple,  at  3.?.  each  child 
a  week. 

For  faggots  burnt  at  the  gate  on  8  April, 
the  day  the  King  and  Duke  of  York 
came  to  town,  on  29  May,  the  King's 
birthday,  and  on  the  Duke  of  York's 
birthday. 

To  Rounthwaite,  the  joiner,  for  the  screen 
doors  of  the  hall,  the  coping  arch  in 
the  Cloisters,  etc.,  i^li.  us. 

Sum  of  the  receipts,  1,20"]  li.  i6s.  $d. 
Sum  of  the  disbursements  and  allow- 
ances, i,o43//.  r&f.  $d. 
And  so  there  remains,  163/2'.  17^.  \  id. 


CHRISTMAS    ACCOUNT    BOOK. 


ACCOUNT  for  Christmas,  beginning  17  December,  1681,  and  ending 

19  January,  1682. 


The  following  is  the  account  for  Sunday, 
25  December: — Bill  of  fare,  i$li.  "]s,  4</.; 
wine,  i2//.  12$.;  to  the  marshal,  IQ.J.  ; 
music  in  the  hall,  2/i. ;  chocolate,  coffee, 
and  tea,  ili.  33-.  6d. ;  6  doz.  of  glasses, 
3//.  ;  and  drums  and  trumpets,  1 1  //. 
i6s.  6d. 

Amongst  other  items  are  the  following  : — 
2  gallons  of  buttered  ale,  8.T. ;  4  dozen 
casting  boxes,  8s. ;  dice,  ili.  14^.  ;  2 
livery  coats,  T,/i.  1 5*. ;  pipes,  6d.  ;  the 
harper,  two  nights,  IQJ.  ;  cyder,  6s. ;  to 
the  watermen,  for  dice  picked  up,  5^. ; 
2  gilt  partizans  (of  this,  Gwillim  paid 
30^.,  and  I  paid  3//.  ios.),  5/2'. ;  tobacco, 
1 2S. ;  the  private  committee  (to  wait  on 
the  lords)  their  dinner,  9^.  6d.  ;  to 
Horwood,  for  coach  hire  to  Lord 
Craven's  and  the  parson's,  7.$. ;  to  the 
Duke  of  Albemarle's  trumpeter,  i/i. 
is.  8d.  ;  to  Black  Jack,  for  candle  and 
perfume,  45.  6d. ;  coaches  waiting  to  go 
to  Whitehall,  ili.  55. ;  Playford's  bill  for 


lights  on  Christmas  night,  ili.  14^.  6d. ; 
to  the  joiner,  for  rails  about  the  hazard 
table,  1 8.r.  ;  for  28  coats  and  caps  for  the 
"  innwatch  "  (besides  the  controllers'  2 
guards),  and  one  coat  and  cap  for  the 
usher  at  i6s.  a  piece,  23/2'.  45. ;  a  plume 
of  white  feathers,  and  another  of  black, 
for  the  controller,  8/i. ;  to  the  two 
ministers,  each  3  guineas,  6li.  9^.  (sic); 
a  load  of  earthenware,  ili.  14^.  ;  for  8 
truncheons  and  thongs  for  the  "  inn- 
watch,"  3^.  2d.  ;  to  the  man,  for  fetching 
two  does  from  Newhall  and  his  charges, 
ili.  i2s.  6d.;  to  17  "  outwatchmen," 
i  ili.  8s. ;  to  Harwood  (sic),  for  going  to 
the  parsons  to  desire  them  to  print  their 
sermons,  6s.  6d.  ;  "  for  sweetmeats  for 
Madam  Gwinn  "  (Thursday,  1 2  January, 
1682),  ili. ;  to  Warren,  which  he  gave 
the  wounded  man,  ili.  is.  6d. ;  for  the 
relief  of  Clifford,  the  wounded  watch- 
man, ili.  los. ;  to  the  poor,  ili.;  5^ 
dozen  flint  glasses,  at  4^.  6d.  a  dozen, 


i6Sz]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  185 


which  were  broken,  \li.  $s.  6d. ;  to  the 
watchman  in  prison,  \li. ;  to  Deligne 
and  Gwillim,  to  go  to  the  Lord  Mayor, 
about  Clifford,  the  wounded  watchman, 


17^.  6</. ;  to  Willis,  for  bailing  him,  icw. ; 
for  a  meeting  at  the  Home  Tavern, 
ili.  i2s.  6d. ;  and  to  the  Duke  of 
Albemarle's  gentleman,  105.  g</. 


A  list  of  those  in  commons  at  this  Christmas,  32  in  number,  is 
given. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1682,  October  21.  Bonds  by  William  Clarke  and  Elias  Dyer, 
puisne  butlers  of  the  society,  for  the  performance  of  their  duties,  and 
the  safe  keeping  of  the  plate  and  silver  vessels,  table  linen,  lanthorns, 
etc.,  of  the  Inn. 

1682.  A  note  of  the  several  books  delivered  to  the  sub-treasurer, 
Belbin,  by  the  order  of  the  Treasurer,  Robinson  : — i,  Pension  Rolls  ; 
2,  Rolls  of  preachers'  duties,  the  old  rolls  delivered;  3,  Vacation 
Rolls  ;  4,  Amercement  Rolls  ;  5,  Aid  Rolls  ;  6,  Rolls  of  the  steward's 
allocationes ;  "  Between  5  and  2,600  Bonds,  which  I  alphabeted, 
excepting  4  bonds,  which  were  delivered  to  Sir  Thomas  Foster  in 
his  treasurership  " ;  one  book  of  admittances  of  Edward  VI.  ;  one 
other  of  Philip  and  Mary,  Elizabeth,  James  I.,  and  Charles  I.  ;  and 
another  Admission  Book  since  Charles  II.  ;  two  books  of  admittances 
into  chambers  ;  four  books  of  Acts  of  Parliament,  the  first  beginning 
in  the  time  of  Henry  VII.,  hitherto;  several  writings  in  boxes  which 
concerned  the  House,  especially  writings  concerning  tenements 
belonging  to  Lyon's  Inn,  and  the  purchase  of  the  House;  Buttery 
Book. 


ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  19  November,  34  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1682,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY, 
and  others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Nomination  by  William    Livesey  of  his  two  sons,  John  and 
Charles,  to  the  King's  Bench  Office. 

III.  B  B 


186  A   CALENDAR    OF  THE  [1682-3 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  23  November,  34  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1682,  be- 
fore SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  THOMAS 
FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and  others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBIN- 
SON, treasurer. 

Anthony  Bowyer,  Francis  Purley,  William  Farrer,  senior,  Alex- 
ander Stanhope,  John  Nicholson,  and  John  Hodges  fined  100  marks 
each,  unless  they  pay  the  sum  of  50/2.  and  come  and  take  their  places 
at  the  bench  table  before  next  parliament. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  November,  34  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1682,  before 
SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  THOMAS  FARRER, 
CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and  others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON, 
treasurer. 

The  gentlemen  whowere  in  commons  for  a  week  after  the  masters 
of  the  bench  went  out  last  long  vacation,  shall  be  excused  from  pay- 
ing for  the  whole  vacation. 

The  order  for  Anthony  Bowyer,  Francis  Purley,  William  Farrar, 
John  Nicholson,  and  John  Hodges  to  be  fined  for  not  coming  up  to 
the  bench  when  called  is  made  absolute.  The  fine  upon  Stanhope 
for  reasons  given  to  the  bench  is  totally  excused. 

Thomas  Engeham,  Robert  Frampton,  John  Tucker,  William 
Wright,  and  Philip  Owen,  called  to  the  bar. 

Order  that  all  members  of  this  society,  who  are  proprietors  of 
chambers  that  were  burnt  down,  are  appointed  to  nominate  their 
lives,  and  particulars  are  to  be  given  of  those  nominated. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  4  February,  35  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1682-3,  before 
THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS, 
EDWIN  WYATT,  and  others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Robert  King,  eldest  son  of  Sir  John  King, 
knight,  deceased,  late  one  of  the  masters  of  the  bench,  at  the  request 
of  Sir  John  Heath,  on  behalf  of  Lady  King. 

"  Whereas  by  reason  of  the  great  and  frequent  importunities  of 
the  young  students  of  this  society,  who  frequently  press  to  be  called 


i6«3]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  187 

to  the  bar,  not  having  full  time,  and  some  of  them  not  having  done 
or  performed  any  of  the  exercise  of  this  House,  and  others  very  little, 
whereby  the  learning  of  this  House  is  much  decayed,  and  such  per- 
sons, when  called,  very  unable  to  perform  the  subsequent  exercise  of 
this  House  incumbent  on  them  as  vacation  barristers,  contrary  to  the 
ancient  customs  and  orders  of  this  House  ;  to  prevent  the  same  for 
the  future  a  committee  [was  appointed]  by  virtue  of  an  order  of  the 
bench  table  made  27  November,  1682."  In  pursuance  of  which 
order  Milton,  Farrer,  Holloway,  and  Edwards  did,  on  29  November 
following,  meet  as  a  committee  and  were  all  of  opinion,  as  followeth  : 
"  That  no  member  of  this  society  shall  be  presented  to  the  table 
for  to  be  called  to  the  bar  before  he  be  full  seven  years  standing  and 
hath  been  actually  in  commons  four  years  of  the  said  seven,  and  hath 
performed  the  exercises  following,  viz.  : — one  imparlance  actually  to 
be  performed,  one  library  moot,  six  petty  moots,  and  as  many  clerk's 
common  cases,  and  in  case  of  grand  readings,  four  grand  moots,  and 
no  call  to  be  to  the  bar  but  only  in  Michaelmas  term  yearly."  Which 
report  being  taken  into  consideration,  it  is  ordered  that  no  one  shall 
press  to  be  called  to  the  bar  unless  he  be  qualified  both  for  time  and 
exercise,  as  this  act  before  mentioned  doth  require. 

Order  for  returning  the  exigents  and  suing  out  outlawries  against 
Francis  Berkeley,  John  Howland,  Rock,  Edward  Thurland,  Thomas 
Walker,  John  Allen,  William  Coode,  William  Gower,  John  Hillersdon, 
Samuel  Howland,  Edward  Owen,  Griffith  Parry,  Ramsden,  Richard 
Sackvile,  John  Burroughs,  Kenwick  Eyton,  and  Thomas  Foster,  in- 
debted to  the  House  for  commons  and  other  duties. 

The  fines  upon  Anthony  Bowyer,  Francis  Purley,  and  William 
Farrer  for  not  coming  to  the  bench  table  are  remitted,  they  having 
conformed  to  the  order  made  upon  them  and  come  up  to  the  bench 
table. 

Whereas  by  an  order  of  the  bench  table  of  31  January  last,  John 
Champion,  Richard  Ruth,  and  John  Bagot,  fellows  of  this  society, 
were  suspended  commons  for  some  outrageous  misdemeanours  com- 
mitted by  them  in  the  late  Christmas  commons,  which  order  of  sus- 
pension by  command  of  the  bench  was  fairly  written  in  the  buttery 
book  of  this  House  by  the  chief  butler  in  the  presence  of  the  masters 
of  the  bench  according  to  custom.  And  whereas  it  appears  that  the 
said  persons  or  others  by  their  appointment  obliterated  and  crossed 


i88  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1685 

out  the  said  order,  in  affront  and  contempt  of  the  government  of  this 
House.  Whereupon  by  another  order  of  the  bench  table  of  3  Feb- 
ruary, it  was  further  ordered  that  the  said  book  of  commons  should 
be  again  brought  up  to  the  bench  table  and  the  said  order  of  sus- 
pension again  entered  and  written  by  the  chief  butler  upon  the  same 
leaf  where  it  formerly  was  written,  upon  the  upper  part  thereof,  and 
for  the  prevention  of  the  like  miscarriage  for  the  future,  it  was 
ordered  that  the  butlers  do  constantly  keep  the  said  inner  buttery 
locked,  according  to  the  ancient  orders  of  this  House,  and  shall  not 
permit  any  fellows  to  enter  the  said  rooms  to  eat  their  commons  or 
make  any  stay  but  only  the  masters  of  the  bench,  and  such  as  are 
appointed  to  take  the  accounts. 

Whereas  John  Champion  and  Heath  Edwards,  members  under 
the  bar,  were  with  others  lately  summoned  to  attend  the  bench  table 
to  give  an  account  of  their  late  riotous  and  outrageous  proceedings, 
in  keeping  the  hall  and  other  offices  of  this  society  against  the  pre- 
sent government  of  this  House,  "and  hallooing  and  shouting  with 
their  guards  and  other  rabble  of  people  at  the  treasurer,  the  attorney 
general,  and  solicitor  general,  being  the  then  masters  of  the  bench 
that  were  in  town,  who  came  into  the  hall  on  the  essoign  day  of  this 
term  after  dinner,  and  did  demand  the  possession  of  the  said  hall, 
library,  buttery,  and  kitchen,  for  the  use  of  the  said  society,  and  to 
disperse  the  tumultuous  assembly,  but  were  in  a  most  insolent  manner 
denied  the  possession  thereof  by  them ;  and  they  did  accordingly 
keep  possession  thereof,  and  gathered  up  new  guards  of  mean  persons 
to  their  assistance  (about  fourteen  of  their  then  guards  leaving  them), 
who  continued  gaming  in  the  said  hall  until  seven  of  the  clock  the 
next  morning,  being  Sunday,  and  then  prepared  for  a  ball  on  the 
same  day  in  the  said  hall,  the  which  they  kept  locked  with  the  other 
offices  and  places  till  twelve  of  the  clock  on  the  said  Sunday,  until 
the  lord  chief  justice  Pemberton,  then  chief  justice  of  England,  did 
come  down  in  person,  accompanied  with  the  said  masters  of  the 
bench  and  divers  barristers  of  this  society,  and  demanded  entrance 
thereinto,  they  having  not  yielded  obedience  to  his  warrant  the  day 
before ;  and  also  causing  money  to  be  raised  (being  attended  with 
armed  men,  their  guards)  on  the  respective  members  of  this  House 
against  all  ancient  usage  and  custom  and  against  their  wills,  extorting 
the  same  from  them  on  pretence  that  some  of  the  masters  of  the 


,683]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  189 

bench  had  paid  ;  and  imprisoning  several  servants  of  this  society  for 
yielding  obedience  to  the  commands  of  the  said  masters  of  the  bench 
of  this  society  in  leaving  the  said  hall  and  attending  on  the  said 
benchers.  Upon  which  summons,  when  they  appeared  they  were  so 
far  from  acknowledging  of  the  said  offences  that  they  justified  their 
proceedings  in  a  most  insolent  manner,  and  thereby  aggravated  their 
offences.  Whereupon  the  bench  taking  the  same  into  consideration, 
and  that  which  never  was  paralleled  in  this  House,  did  at  that  time 
suspend  them,  with  some  others  guilty  of  the  same  offence,  from  the 
commons  of  this  House,  but  finding  the  said  persons  still  persisting 
to  affront  the  government  of  this  House  and  for  preventing  the  like 
insolencies  for  the  future,"  do  hereby  order  and  declare  that  the  said 
Champion  and  Edwards  be  absolutely  expelled  and  no  longer  reputed 
members. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  n  February,  35  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1682-3,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  THOMAS  FARRER, 
CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and  others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON, 
treasurer. 

Charles  Bawdes  and  Cavendish  Weedon  called  to  the  bar. 

Thomas  Jenner  and  John  Wyne  called  to  the  bench,  and  the 
call  of  Ambrose  Phillipps  is  adjourned  till  Wednesday  next. 

John  Grady  and  Thomas  Price,  who  were  ready  to  perform 
Chancery  exercise  in  Clifford's  Inn,  were  allowed  their  exercise 
because  they  were  hindered  by  reason  that  Fuller  (who  was  to  read 
there  for  Phillipps)  upon  hearing  that  Phillipps  was  to  be  called  to 
the  bench,  did  not  proceed. 

The  fine  of  100  marks  on  John  Hodges  for  not  coming  to  the 
bench  is  remitted. 

Order  for  the  parliament  to  be  adjourned  till  Wednesday. 

PARLIAMENT  held  by  adjournment  from  the  i  ith  to  the  i4th  February, 
1682-3,  before  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  JOHN 
MOSYER,  and  others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Whereas  the  vacation  barristers  and  gentlemen  under  the  bar, 
in  respect  there  is  not  nor  has  been  any  readings  of  late  years  in  this 


I9o  A   CALENDAR    OF   THE  [,683 

society,  and  the  next  week  being  Shrove  week  and  the  four  weeks 
after  being  reading  month,  wherein  they  cannot  in  accustomed  manner 
perform  their  exercise  until  the  five  weeks  be  over,  request  that  they 
may  enter  upon  their  exercise  the  next  week  ensuing.  It  is  ordered 
that  the  said  vacation  barristers  and  gentlemen  do  accordingly  enter 
upon  their  exercises. 

Order,  in  regard  to  the  great  debts  of  the  House  that  50$.  a 
week  be  allowed  this  vacation  to  the  gentlemen  keeping  vacation 
commons. 

Ambrose  Phillipps  called  to  the  bench. 

Order  that  parliament  take  into  consideration  the  compound- 
ing of  the  vacations  and  amercements  of  all  members  who  shall 
have  discharged  their  commons,  pensions,  and  preacher's  duties 
by  the  beginning  of  next  term  and  give  their  names  to  the  sub- 
treasurer. 

Whereas  Heath  Edwards,  who  with  John  Champion  was  of  late 
justly  expelled  this  House  for  riotous  behaviour,  has  petitioned  the 
treasurer  and  the  rest  of  the  bench  to  be  restored,  acknowledging 
his  faults  and  praying  their  pardon  therefor,  it  is  ordered  that  upon 
the  said  Edwards  paying  all  his  duties  he  shall  be  restored. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  13  May,  35  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1683,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and 
others.  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Anthony  Farrington  chosen  reader. 

Basil  Feilding  called  to  the  bar. 

Order  that  those  gentlemen  that  were  actually  in  commons  this 
last  Lent  vacation,  at  the  time  when  the  masters  of  the  bench  that 
were  in  town  gave  them  leave  to  go  out,  be  excused  for  the  remainder 
of  the  said  vacation. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  20  May,  35  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1683,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLOWAY,  and  others. 
SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  William  Farrer,  son  of  William  Farrer,  at 
the  request  of  his  father. 


,683]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  191 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  24  June,  35  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1683,  before 
THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  and 
others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Whereas  the  buildings  called  the  Paper  Buildings  in  this 
society,  being  by  their  antiquity  become  ruinous  and  in  decay,  and 
not  suitable  to  nor  complying  with  the  uniformity  and  beauty  of  the 
rest  of  the  buildings  of  this  House,  several  proposals  have  been 
received  from  and  made  to  the  present  proprietors  and  owners  of  the 
respective  chambers  for  rebuilding  the  same,  but  with  little  success, 
by  reason  of  the  particular  and  private  advantages  demanded  by  the 
proprietors,  which  the  House  could  not  agree  to  without  loss;  it  is 
therefore  ordered  that  the  said  Paper  Buildings  shall  be  rebuilt  at  the 
charge  of  this  House,  when  the  chambers  shall  come  into  the  power 
of  the  House,  and  such  lives  as  shall  fall  to  the  House  shall  be  kept 
in  the  power  of  the  House. 

Order  that  members  not  in  arrear  with  their  duties  may  com- 
pound for  their  vacations  and  amercements,  at  any  time  between  this 
and  the  end  of  Michaelmas  term. 

Parliament  adjourned  till  Thursday. 


PARLIAMENT  held  by  adjournment  from  24  June,  35  Charles  II.,  A.D. 
1683,  before  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  EDWIN 
WYAT,  and  others.  SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  treasurer. 

Order  that  an  act  be  prepared  that  no  member  shall  be  hence- 
forth called  to  the  bar  without  he  have  a  chamber  in  this  society. 

Order  that  a  letter  be  written  to  Francis  Berkeley  that  if  he 
does  not  pay  his  duties,  that  his  chamber  in  Paper  Buildings  will  be 
disposed  of  for  the  use  of  the  House. 

"  Ordered  that  the  case,  prepared  by  Philipps,  the  joiner,  for  an 
organ  which  stands  in  the  organ  loft,  prepared  for  the  joint  use  of 
both  the  societies  of  the  Temple,  be  removed,  and  that  the  said  joiner 
have  notice  to  remove  the  same  out  of  that  place,  and  if  the  same  be 
not  removed  by  Saturday  next  at  noon,  then  the  officers  belonging 


19*  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1683 

to  this  House,  namely,  the  respective  butlers,  with  other  inferior 
officers  of  this  House,  do  in  the  afternoon  of  the  said  Saturday  next 
remove  the  same  out  of  that  place." 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  October,  1683,  before  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR 
THOMAS  HANMER,  SIR  THOMAS  JENNER,  recorder  of  London, 
CHARLES  HOLLOW  AY,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER, 
treasurer. 

Treasurer: — Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  A.G. 

The  board  wages  of  officers  and  wages  of  watchmen  for  the  long 
vacation  are  referred  to  a  committee,  consisting  of  Sir  Thomas 
Jenner,  Holloway,  Heath,  Johnson,  and  Courtney,  to  examine  the 
several  demeanours  of  the  said  officers  and  watchmen  in  that  time, 
and  particularly  in  relation  to  the  late  fire  that  happened  in  Sir 
Thomas  Robinson's  Buildings,  whereby  the  said  Sir  Thomas 
Robinson  lost  his  life. 

Auditors  : — Selby,  Pargeter,  Dodd,  and  Leigh  for  the  steward's 
accounts  ;  and  Heath,  Wyat,  Pudsey,  and  Blincoe  for  the  treasurer's 
accounts. 

Henry  Pollexfen  chosen  reader. 

Order  that  those  gentlemen  who  were  actually  in  commons  last 
vacation  during  the  whole  time  commons  continued,  and  went  out 
with  the  leave  of  the  treasurer  and  the  rest  of  the  masters  of  the 
bench  in  town,  be  excused  for  the  remainder  of  the  vacation. 

John  Cooke,  chief  prothonotary  of  the  Common  Pleas  and  an 
associate  to  the  bar,  is  called  to  sit  at  the  upper  end  of  the  bar  mess. 

The  further  consideration  of  the  act  ordered  to  be  prepared, 
touching  the  calling  to  the  bar  of  members  not  having  chambers,  is 
respited. 


BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 
BENCH  TABLE  held  on  8  November,  1682. 

Order  that  Mynors  be  restored  into  commons  as  chief  butler, 
but  not  to  intermeddle  in  the  receipt  of  money. 


i682-3]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  i93 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  6  November,  1682. 

Order  that  Anthony  Bowyer,  Francis  Purley,  William  Farrer, 
Alexander  Stanhope,  Philip  Pargiter,  John  Nicholson,  and  John 
Hodges,  who  were  called  to  the  bench,  shall  take  their  places  at  the 
bench  table  before  Monday  next,  otherwise  the  bench  will  take  it  as 
a  refusal  and  will  proceed  to  a  further  call. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  27  November,  1682. 

Order  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  consider  what  exercises 
are  fit  to  be  incumbent  upon  those  to  be  called  to  the  bar,  before  the 
names  are  presented  to  the  bench  table. 

Order  that  Bowyer,  Purley,  Farrer,  Stanhope,  Pargiter,  Nicholson 
and  Hodges,  who  were  called  to  the  bench  and  refused  to  take  their 
places,  are  fined  100  marks  each,  except  Stanhope,  who  for  reasons 
given  to  the  bench,  is  excused. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  29  January,  1682-3. 

Order  for  John  Champion,  Heath  Edwards,  John  Bagott, 
Richard  Rooth,  and  William  Gwilliam,  members  under  the  bar,  to 
attend  the  table. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  31  January,  1682-3. 

Order  that  Champion,  Edwards,  Ruth, .  and  Baggott  be  sus- 
pended commons  for  misdemeanours  upon  pretence  of  Christmas 
commons. 

Further  order  against  sending  out  pewter  dishes  with  meat  from 
the  hall  on  grand  days. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  i  February,  1682-3. 

The  complaint  of  Serjeant  Buckby,  concerning  his  chamber  in 
the  Inner  Temple  Lane,  referred  to  a  committee. 
in.  c  c 


194  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [.682-3 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  5  February,  1682-3. 

It  is  agreed  to  call  Thomas  Jenner,  John  Wynn,  and  Ambrose 
Philipps  to  the  bench. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  8  February,  1682-3. 

It  is  agreed  that  Charles  Bawdes  be  called  to  the  bar  nemine 
contradicente,  and  Cavendish  Weedon  be  called,  but  not  sworn  till 
he  is  of  full  standing. 

Report  of  the  committee  as  to  the  defects  in  Serjeant  Buckby's 
chamber. 

Upon  the  petition  of  Henry  Chichester,  second  son  of  Sir  John 
Chichester,  bart.,  deceased,  it  is  ordered  that  he  be  entered  in  the 
Book  of  Admissions,  he  having  paid  his  admission  fee  in  error  to 
Minors,  the  butler,  who  had  not  accounted  for  it. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  13  February,  1682-3. 

Petition  of  Robert  Fenwick,  vintner,  for  leave  to  make  a  vault 
in  Hare  Court. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  14  February,  1682-3. 

Petition  of  William  Gower,  that  he  was  about  ten  years  since 
admitted  at  New  Inn  and  remained  there  for  three  years,  when,  as  by 
certificate  appears,  he  removed  himself  to  the  Inner  Temple,  where 
he  has  resided  seven  years.  In  Michaelmas  term  he  gave  in  his 
name  to  stand  for  the  bar,  and  was  rejected,  but  having  "  a  tender  of 
preferment,"  which,  without  being  at  the  bar,  he  is  incapacitated  to 
accept,  he  prays  the  favour  of  the  bench  for  the  present  call.  It  was 
agreed  that  as  in  this  vacation  there  can  be  no  call,  and  the  petitioner 
not  having  performed  his  full  exercise,  he  has  an  opportunity  of 
qualifying  himself  against  the  next  call. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  16  February,  1682-3. 
Order  "that  whereas  Mr.  Smith  and  Mr.  Harris,  organ  makers, 


,683]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  I95 

have  been  employed  by  the  treasurers  of  both  societies  of  the  Temples 
to  prepare  two  organs  respectively  by  them  to  be  made,  the  said 
society  to  have  the  election  jointly  of  that  which  shall  be  esteemed 
the  best  organ,  both  as  to  sound  and  price.  The  which  organs,  when 
made,  were  mutually  agreed  on  by  the  said  then  treasurers  to  be  set 
up  in  some  convenient  place  at  one  and  the  same  time,  within  one 
of  the  halls  of  the  said  societies,  as  shall  be  approved  of  by  the  said 
societies  jointly  for  the  trial  of  the  said  respective  organs.  It  is 
therefore  ordered  that  the  said  agreement  be  kept,  and  that  neither 
of  the  said  organs,  so  to  be  made,  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  set  up  in  the 
Temple  Church,  belonging  to  the  said  societies,  until  such  organ 
shall  be  first  chosen  and  approved  of  by  the  joint  choice  of  the  said 
societies,  and  after  such  choice  then  such  organ,  so  chosen,  shall  be 
set  up  in  the  said  Temple  Church  in  that  place  appointed  by  the 
joint  consent  of  both  the  said  societies." 

Elias  Dyer  and  Thomas  Smith,  the  two  younger  butlers,  are 
appointed  to  keep  the  pews  in  the  Church. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  30  April,  1683. 

Order  for  William  Pitt,  the  son  of  George  Pitt,  who  has  a 
chamber  in  the  Cloisters,  to  attend  and  show  cause  why  he  should 
not  mend  his  leads. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  i  May,  1683. 

Order  that  Holloway,  Selby,  and  Pargiter,  shall  make  search  in 
Hampson's  Buildings,  near  the  King's  Bench  Office,  where  several 
persons  lodge  with  their  families,  that  are  not  members  of  this  society, 
against  the  orders  of  the  House. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  4  May,  1683. 

Order  that  Whitlocke  Deane,  Edward  Deane,  John  Dolbin,  and 
Francis  Kellett  shall  attend  the  table  to  show  cause  why  they  permit 
strangers  to  lodge  in  their  chambers ;  and  that  the  fine  on  the  baker 
for  not  supplying  bread  properly  baked,  be  confirmed. 


196  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1683 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7  May,  1683. 

Order  that  the  strangers  in  the  chambers  of  Whitlock  Dean  and 
Edward  Deane  be  removed,  and  that  examination  be  made  whether 
Cropley  was  admitted  a  member,  or  whether  he  is  fitting  to  be  a 
member  of  this  House;  and  nomination  of  Basil  Fielding  for  call  to 
the  bar. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  8  May,  1683. 

Order  that  Milton,  Farrer,  Holloway,  Wyatt,  and  Hodges,  shall 
meet  the  masters  of  the  Middle  Temple  in  reference  to  setting  up  of 
an  organ. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  14  May,  1683. 

Orders  for  Cavendish  Weedon  to  be  sworn ;  and  that  John 
Stanbrooke  have  two  concurrent  lives  in  a  chamber,  in  discharge  of 
a  debt  due  to  him. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  15  May,  1683. 

Petition  of  John  Higden,  who  in  1622,  became  a  clerk  to 
Starkcy,  an  attorney  in  Clifford's  Inn,  and  was  admitted  to  that 
society,  that  he  may  continue  in  the  chamber  of  Whitlock  Deane 
during  the  continuance  of  his  lease  thereof,  or  be  admitted  to  the 
society  pro  tcmpore.  Order  thereupon  that  the  gentlemen  concerned 
in  Serjeant  Hampson's  Buildings  do  attend  the  Bench  Table  touch- 
ing the  lodging  of  strangers. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  16  May,  1683. 

Upon  full  debate  it  is  not  thought  fit  to  admit  Luke  Cropley  nor 
John  Higden,  members  of  the  society,  and  order  that  they  and  all 
other  strangers  do  leave  their  lodgings  in  Serjeant  Hampson's 
Buildings. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  17  May,  1683. 
Petition  of  Luke  Cropley,  that  in  1681  he  paid  fees  to  Minors,  the 


i6S3]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  197 

chief  butler,  for  his  admission  to  the  Inn,  and  therefore  hopes  he  has 
done  nothing  worthy  of  the  bench's  displeasure.  Order  thereupon 
that  the  matter  be  referred  back  to  the  committee. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  n  June,  1683. 

Order  for  proposals  to  be  received  for  the  building  of  Paper 
Buildings. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  13  June,  1683. 

Petition  of  Renatus  Harris,  organ  maker,  that  having  made  an 
organ  in  competition  with  Smith,  and  being  ready  to  set  up  his  work, 
he  has  given  Smith  notice  thereof,  that  both  instruments  may  be  set 
up  at  the  same  time  in  the  same  place,  for  the  more  equal  and  better 
trial  and  comparing  of  the  stops  by  those  organists  and  masters  in 
music  whom  the  societies  shall  appoint  to  judge  which  is  the  best. 
That  Smith  refuses  to  put  up  his  organ,  and  his  delays  are  prejudicial 
to  the  petitioner,  who  therefore  prays  he  may  be  permitted  to  set  up 
his  organ  on  the  south  side  of  the  communion  table,  and  there  remain 
till  the  matter  in  difference  be  determined.  Which  petition  was 
granted  by  the  bench. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  16  June,  1683. 

It  is  not  thought  fit  that  Luke  Cropley  be  admitted  a  member, 
and  it  is  ordered  that  he  leave  his  lodgings  in  the  Inn. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  19  and  21  June,  1683. 
Orders  as  to  the  rebuilding  of  Paper  Buildings. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  25  October,  1683. 

Order  that  Edward  Herbert  be  excused  his  duties  owing  before 
the  sale  of  his  chamber  to  the  Lord  Chief  Justice  Jeofferyes. 

The  petition  of  John  Blincoe,  John  Lee,  Walter  Burdett,  and 
William  Yorke,  that  they  were  admitted  to  their  chambers  by  Serjeant 


198 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[.683 


Hampson,  which  chambers  being  lately  burnt  down,  they  pray  that 
the  benchers  will  set  a  reasonable  value  upon  the  Serjeant's  interest, 
and  order  him  to  release  his  said  interest.  Which  petition  is  referred 
to  Edwards  and  Heath. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT   BOOK.1 


ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Thomas  Robinson,  bart.,  chief  prothonotary  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas,  treasurer,  from  6  November,  1682,  to 
20  October,  1683. 


RECEIPTS. 
From  Halsey,  principal  of  Lyon's  Inn,  for 

a  year's   rent  and  for  two  tenements, 

7/f.  13*.  4//. 
Moneys  received  upon  the  aid  roll,  for 

repairs  of  the  church,  22$li.  i$s. 
Moneys  received  upon  subscriptions,  for 

repairs  of  the  church,  i8i#.  14*.  6d. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

The  half  for  two  dinners  at  the  Devil 
Tavern,  for  the  entertainment  of  Sir 
Christopher  Wrenne,  at  his  coming  to 
survey  and  give  orders  to  workmen  about 
the  Temple  Church,  \li.  14^.  6d. 

To  Langley,  for  plastering,  scaffolding,  and 
whitening  and  colouring  the  body  of  the 
Temple  Church  belonging  to  the  Inner 
Temple  side,  the  sum  of  his  bill  being 
adjusted  by  Sir  Christopher  Wrenne, 


The  moiety  of  a  dinner  at  the  Devil  Tavern, 
for  the  entertainment  of  Sir  Christopher 
Wrenne,  i$s. 

To  Lambert,  at  the  Three  Tuns  in  Essex 
Buildings,  the  moiety  of  a  dinner  at  his 
house,  for  the  entertainment  of  Clare, 
the  surveyor,  at  his  coming  to  give  direc- 
tions about  the  Temple  Church,  IDS.  gd. 

To  workmen,  for  carrying  earth  into  the 


Temple  Church  to  fill  up  the  outward 
aisle  and  half  the  middle  aisle  on  the 
Inner  Temple  side,  for  the  masons  to 
lay  the  marble  stones,  zli.  gs.  lod. 

To  Thomas  Carver,  for  carving  the  panels 
in  the  Temple  Church,  on  the  Inner 
Temple  side,  for  the  benchers'  pew, 
being  29!  ft.  at  7.?.  a  foot,  by  agreement 
with  Sir  Christopher  Wren,  loti.  6s.  6d. 

To  John  King,  mason,  in  part,  for  laying 
stones  of  marble  in  the  Temple  Church, 
on  the  Inner  Temple  side,  $oli. 

To  Stuart,  the  plasterer,  for  whitening  the 
rounds  and  cupola  in  the  Temple 
Church,  it  being  in  the  whole  1,670 
yards,  at  3<f.  a  yard,  being  20/1'.  17^.  6d. 
the  moiety  whereof  (the  Middle  Temple 
paying  the  remainder),  loli.  8.T.  gd. 

To  him  more  for  painting  the  windows 
of  the  Temple  Church,  on  the  Inner 
Temple  side,  when  they  were  taken 
down,  13^. 

To  Cresser,  the  carpenter,  for  flooring  the 
Temple  Church,  for  the  pews  of  the 
Inner  Temple  side,  being  eleven  square, 
at  3//.  per  square,  and  for  alterations 
which  were  not  in  the  bill,  37//.  13*. 

To  Ledsome,  the  plumber,  for  mending 
the  holes  in  the  Temple  Church,  on  the 
Inner  Temple  side,  5//. 


1  The  additional  matter  included  within  brackets  in  this  and  subsequent  accounts 
is  taken  from  the  General  Account  Receipt  Books. 


i683] 


INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


199 


To  Merchant,  the  moiety  for  the  loan  of 
scaffolding  "  for  the  round's  whitening," 
3#.  i  of. 

To  Cresser,  the  carpenter,  the  moiety  for 
the  organ  loft,  the  screen,  and  founda- 
tion of  the  pulpit,  and  reader's  and 
clerk's  pews,  after  abatement,  i3//.  ictf. 

To  King,  the  mason,  in  further  part  of  his 
bill,  for  laying  marble  stones  in  the 
church  on  the  Inner  Temple  side, 
5o//. 

To  Davis,  the  glazier,  for  cleansing  the 
windows,  and  for  new  glasses  in  the 
Temple  Church  and  in  the  round,  on 
the  Inner  Temple  side,  7//. 

To  Garland,  the  painter,  "jli. 

To  Dutton,  the  glass  painter,  for  the  moiety 
of  his  bill  for  mending  and  putting  up 
the  King's  arms  in  the  church,  i/z. 

To  Clare,  the  surveyor,  for  surveying  the 
Temple  Church  on  the  Inner  Temple 
side,  36". 

The  half  of  a  bill,  for  a  treat  for  Dr.  Blow 
and  the  rest  of  the  masters  of  music, 
when  they  came  about  the  organ,  zli.  45. 

To  Mare,  the  surveyor,  for  measuring  the 
whole  church  and  rounds,  viz. : — of  join- 
ers, carvers,  and  stone  cutters'  work, 
being  three  days  about  it,  having  a  man 
to  help  him,  and  to  Home,  the  brick- 
layer, for  helping,  \li.  i2s.  6d. 

To  the  ironmonger,  in  part  of  his  bill  for 
locks  and  hinges  for  the  pews,  loli. 

To  Sabin,  the  smith,  1 7#. 

The  moiety  of  a  bill  in  full,  for  joiner's 
work  and  carver's  work,  for  making  the 
screen,  altar  piece,  and  for  the  iron  work 
for  the  'type'  in  the  Temple  Church, 
28s#.  is.  $d. 

To  Rounthwaite,  the  joiner,  in  full,  for 
making  the  pews  in  the  Temple  Church, 
1 6 1//.  gs. 

The  sub-treasurer's  bill,  for  odd  disburse- 
ments, 4/».  2d. 

Total  of  money  disbursed,  for  repairs 
of  the  Temple  Church,  -jozli. 
i6s.  id. 

To  the  painter,  for  gilding  the  ironwork  of 
the  hall  doors  and  other  things,  5 A'. 


For  a  load  of  faggots,  for  a  bonfire  at  the 
Temple  Gate,  on  5  Nov.,  1682,  izs. 

To  Stacey,  the  Temple  reader,  for  his 
quarter's  salary,  3//.  15^. 

To  the  gardener,  for  wages  [nineteen  lime 
trees  planted  in  the  walks,  etc.],  i8#. 
165. 

For  the  moiety  of  a  dinner  at  Dr.  Ball's 
house,  for  the  entertainment  of  the 
Bishop  of  Rochester,  when  he  preached 
in  the  Temple  Church,  at  the  opening 
of  the  church  after  it  was  repaired,  the 
Middle  Temple  paying  the  other  moiety. 
[On  ii  Feb.,  1682-3.  For  Battalia  pie; 
salad ;  tame  pigeons ;  2{-  dozen  of  best 
Pontack,  at  14^. ;  one  dozen  bottles  of 
best  Canary,  ili.  4$. ;  6  bottles  of  best 
Champagne,  9^. ;  mum  ale  and  tobacco, 
etc.],  4//.  14^.  9</. 

To  Playford,  the  clerk  of  the  church,  the 
moiety  of  his  bill  for  necessaries  laid 
out  for  the  church,  the  Middle  Temple 
paying  the  other  moiety,  zli.  14^.  t)d. 

To  "  the  House  musicioners,"  for  three 
grand  days,  viz. : — Candlemas  day,  1681, 
All  Hallows  day,  and  Candlemas  day, 
1682,  being  formerly  paid  as  a  fee  of  zli. 
per  annum,  but  now  paid  as  a  gratuity, 
3//. 

To  William  Clare,  for  surveying  "  the  hall, 
cloisters,  etc.,"  i/;'. 

To  William  Garland,  the  painter,for  colour- 
ing 21  pallisadoe  pales  round  the  trees 
in  the  walks,  with  nine  posts  there, 
zli.  i os. 

For  mending  leather  buckets  damaged  at 
the  fire  which  happened  at  the  Queen's 
Head  Tavern,  opposite  the  Temple, 
i6s. 

To  Jodderell,  solicitor  in  Chancery,  for 
defending  a  suit  brought  against  the 
Temple  by  Wise,  the  plumber,  6//.  15.?. 

For  a  load  of  faggots,  for  a  bonfire,  on  29 
May,  i2.r.  6d. 

To  New,  for  a  dinner  at  the  time  of  meet- 
ing to  make  the  address  [to  His  Ma- 
jesty upon  his  preservation  from  the  late 
horrible  conspiracy,  on  5  July,  1683], 
2/i.  i6s.  "]d. 


200 


A   CALENDAR   OF  THE 


[1682-3 


Gave  away  at  the  time  of  the  fire,  viz. : — to 
the  men  that  played  the  St.  Bride's  and 
St.  Giles'  engines,  to  Sheriff  Rich's  men 
that  fetched  the  powder,  and  to  men 
that  went  up  and  down  the  city  for 
buckets  and  to  several  others,  as  I  saw 
occasion,  $li.  175. 

To  the  insurer's  men,  by  order,  io//°. 

To  the  men  that  brought  and  played  St. 
Dunstan's  engine,  2/1. 


To  the  men  that  brought  and  played  the 
Middle  Temple  engine,  and  their 
buckets,  i  It. 

For  faggots  for  a  bonfire  at  the  Inner 
Temple  Gate  on  9  Sept.  1683. 

Sum  of  the  receipts,  2,zy)li.  qs.  $d. 
Sum   of  the  disbursements,  i,6^6li. 

i2S.  Sti. 
And  so  there  remains,  542//.  i6s.  id. 


CHRISTMAS   ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  for  Christmas,  beginning  14  December,  1682. 

The  account  is  incomplete,  and  gives  only  the  sum  total  ex- 
pended daily  during  the  first  week,  and  a  few  details  at  the  end, 
of  no  particular  interest. 

For  tobacco,  i  lb.,  35.  |       For  Mr.  Controller's  feather,  16.?. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  on  14  December,  1682. 

Officers: — John  Champion,  controller  ;  Heath  Edwards,  speaker; 
Price,  Rowth,  and  Edwards,  stewards  ;  Bagott,  Warter,  and  Hart,  the 
committee  of  music ;  Keilwaie  and  Jobber,  auditors ;  and  Gwillim, 
clerk  of  the  parliament. 


ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  18  November,  35  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1683,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  SIR  THOMAS  JENNER, 
EDWARD  HERBERT,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

John  Cooke,  chief  prothonotary  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas, 
called  an  associate  to  the  bench. 

Whereas  the  gentlemen  who  were  lately  called  to  the  bar  and 
had  no  chambers  at  the  time  of  their  call,  but  entered  into  bonds  to 
buy  the  same  within  a  year,  have  greatly  neglected  the  same,  that  in 
the  two  last  calls,  wherein  there  were  twenty  seven  called  not  having 
chambers,  two  only  have  bought  chambers,  many  of  them  so  soon  as 


1683]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  201 

they  are  called  immediately  leave  the  society  and  seldom  appear 
again,  not  regarding  the  performance  of  the  condition  of  their  bonds, 
nor  keeping  their  vacations,  nor  doing  any  exercise  as  they  ought  to 
do,  which  is  the  great  cause  that  there  has  been  of  late  such  failure 
of  exercise  on  the  bar  side,  to  the  dishonour  of  this  society,  it  is 
therefore  ordered  that  no  member  shall  be  called  to  the  bar  without 
he  has  actually  a  chamber  in  this  House  or  lays  down  zoli.  as  a 
caution  to  buy  the  same  within  two  years,  and  in  case  of  default  the 
2oli.  to  be  forfeited.  And  such  as  have  forfeited  their  bonds,  do, 
before  the  first  parliament  in  next  term,  pay  to  the  treasurer  20/2. 
each,  to  be  forfeited  in  case  they  do  not  purchase  chambers  within  a 
year. 

Order  that  the  sub-treasurer  and  chief  butler  give  an  account 
what  strangers  lodge  in  this  society,  and  particularly  what  women. 

Upon  reading  the  report  of  the  committee  that  was  appointed  to 
inspect  the  demeanour  of  the  officers  and  watchmen  of  this  House 
this  last  vacation,  and  particularly  in  the  time  of  the  late  fire  which 
happened  in  Sir  Thomas  Robinson's  Building,  it  is  ordered  that  the 
two  butlers,  Berry  and  Smith,  who  were  out  of  town,  without  leave, 
shall  lose  their  board  wages  and  the  other  officers  and  watchmen 
shall  have  their  board  wages  and  wages  as  formerly.  And  Rowland 
Morgan,  the  turnspit,  for  his  extraordinary  diligence  in  the  said  fire, 
shall  have  40^. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  25  November,  35  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1683,  before 
SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  SIR  THOMAS  JENNER,  EDWARD  HER- 
BERT, CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER, 
treasurer. 

Charles  Morgan,  Samuel  Dalton,  Whitlocke  Deane,  John 
Churchill,  Anthony  Ellesdon,  Simon  Harcourt,  John  Dike,  Henry 
Jones,  Thomas  Price,  Robert  Knowling,  James  Selby,  and  Charles 
Cooke  called  to  the  bar,  but  the  three  last  are  not  to  be  sworn  till 
next  term. 

Admission,  ad  eundem  gradum,  of  John  Nicoll  called  to  the  bar 
on  i  August,  1674,  by  certificate  from  Gray's  Inn. 

Order  that  James  Munday,  who  has  been  master  of  the  revels 

III.  D   D 


202  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1683 

for  two  years  and  still  continues  so,  may  consolidate  his  two  chambers 
in  Pettit's  Building  opposite  the  church  porch. 

Whereas  the  sufferers  in  the  late  fire  in  Sir  Thomas  Robinson's 
staircase  have  desired  leave  to  build  their  chambers,  it  is  ordered 
they  may  do  so  at  their  own  cost,  three  pair  of  stairs  high  and  no 
more,  besides  the  ground  chambers  and  cellars,  with  power  to  nomi- 
nate lives  to  the  same.  And  that  Sir  Thomas  Hanmer,  the  recorder, 
Holloway,  Edwards,  Farrington,  Selby,  and  Courtney  shall  be  a 
standing  committee  to  settle  all  differences  touching  the  building. 
The  said  builders  shall  also  have  liberty  to  make  a  gate  in  the 
Temple  wall  at  the  Thames  side,  and  to  land  and  lay  materials,  make 
mortar,  and  frame  timber  upon  the  void  ground  as  former  builders 
have  done,  making  good  the  wall  again. 

Whereas  upon  the  petition  of  the  gentlemen  that  were  lately 
burnt  out  in  the  upper  staircase  of  Serjeant  Hampson's  building,  a 
committee  composed  of  Edwards  and  Heath  was  appointed  to 
report  upon  the  holdings  in  the  said  staircase,  who  reported  that 
certain  sums  should  be  given  to  the  said  Serjeant  for  his  interest, 
it  was  agreed  that  upon  payment  of  the  said  sums  the  said  gentlemen 
should  be  builders. 

"  Whereas  the  liberty  formerly  granted  to  the  gentlemen  of  this 
society  in  the  time  of  Christmas,  intended  only  for  a  civil  and 
moderate  recreation,  hath  for  many  years  past  degenerated  into 
licentiousness  and  disorder,  to  the  great  offence  of  Almighty  God, 
the  scandal  and  dishonour  of  this  society,  the  corrupting  and  de- 
bauching of  divers  young  gentlemen,  members  of  the  same,  and 
(unless  timely  prevented  may  endanger  the  total  subversion  of  the 
good  government  thereof)  although  great  care  hath  been  taken  and 
divers  good  acts  from  time  to  time  made  for  regulating  Christmas 
commons  and  redress  of  such  shameful  disorders,  yet  they  have 
always  proved  fruitless  and  unsuccessful,  and  have  not  produced  that 
good  effect  expected  from  them.  For  the  preventing  therefore  of  so 
great  mischiefs,  inconveniences,  and  farther  growing  evils  of  this 
nature  in  time  to  come,"  it  is  ordered  that  for  Christmas  next  ensuing 
no  commons  shall  be  kept  within  this  House,  but  the  commons  of 
this  House  shall  dissolve  and  break  up  on  the  Saturday,  after  dinner 
preceding  St.  Thomas'  day  next,  and  not  begin  again  until  the  Satur- 
day night  next  ensuing  the  feast  of  the  Epiphany,  and  in  the  mean 


1683-4]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  203 

time  the  keys  and  possession  of  the  hall,  buttery,  kitchen,  and  other 
rooms  and  places  of  like  public  office  for  this  House,  shall  be  left  in 
the  custody  of  the  treasurer,  and  if  any  fellow  shall  presume  or 
endeavour  to  have  commons  kept  during  the  time  aforesaid,  such 
fellow  shall  ipso  facto  be  totally  disabled  from  being  called  to  the  bar, 
and  be  subject  to  such  other  punishment  as  the  benchers  shall  think 
fit  to  impose. 

Order  that  all  strangers  lodging  in  this  society,  and  particularly 
the  family  opposite  Denington's  chamber  in  the  staircase  next  the 
Alienation  Office,  have  notice  given  them  by  the  butler  to  remove 
within  a  fortnight. 

Order  that  such  gentlemen  as  have  paid  their  duties  required  by 
the  Act  of  24  June,  1683,  shall  have  liberty  till  next  term  to  com- 
pound their  vacations  and  amercements. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  10  February,  36  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1683-4, 
before  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  FARRER,  CHRISTOPHER 
MILTON,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Order  that  a  committee  of  the  whole  bench  or  any  three  of  them 
do  consider  of  a  set  of  watchmen  for  this  House  to  contain  in  number 
eight,  four  whereof  to  watch  every  night,  namely,  two  at  the  gate,  one 
in  the  King's  Bench  Walks  and  the  other  always  going  the  rounds, 
and  those  four  to  have  nd.  a  night.  The  same  committee  are  like- 
wise ordered  to  inspect  the  casting  in  rolls  for  commons  and  to  inquire 
as  to  chambers  and  nominations  thereto. 

Special  admission  of  Thomas  Wyat,  eldest  son,  and  Edwin 
Wyat,  second  son  of  Serjeant  Wyat,  late  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of 
their  father. 

The  petition  of  the  gentlemen  that  were  lately  burnt  out  in 
Serjeant  Hampson's  staircase  to  set  their  building  a  foot  nearer 
Whitefriars  is  referred  to  a  committee  of  the  whole  bench. 


PARLIAMENT  held  by  adjournment  from  the  lothtothe  1 4th  February, 
1683-4,  before  THOMAS  FARRER,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  CHARLES 
HOLLOWAY,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Upon  the  report  of  Holloway,  Johnson,  and  Courtney,  who  were 


204  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1684 

appointed  a  committee  to  regulate  the  watch,  it  is  ordered  that  all 
former  allowances  to  watchmen  shall  be  discharged,  and  for  the 
future  there  be  eight  watchmen  as  before  set  out.  Of  the  four  night 
watchmen,  two  are  to  watch  at  the  Gate  and  the  other  two  in  the 
King's  Bench  Walks,  one  of  whom  is  to  go  in  turns,  once  an  hour, 
the  rounds,  and  up  every  staircase,  knocking  at  every  gentleman's 
chamber  door,  and  giving  notice  of  the  hour  of  the  night.  And  if 
the  watchman  that  shall  so  go  the  rounds  shall  find  any  candle 
lighted  after  twelve  of  the  clock,  he  is  to  continue  knocking  at  the 
door  until  somebody  give  an  answer,  together  with  the  reason.  And 
the  porter,  instead  of  watching  in  term  time,  which  he  does  by 
virtue  of  his  place,  shall  constantly  every  night  see  the  watch  set, 
and  in  the  morning  the  watch  are  not  to  go  off  until  the  porter  comes 
to  relieve  them.  And  the  watch  to  be  set  in  winter  time  at  eight  of 
the  clock  at  night,  and  not  to  go  off  till  seven  of  the  clock  in  the 
morning,  and  in  summer,  at  nine  of  the  clock  at  night,  and  not  to  go 
off  till  five  in  the  morning.  And  if  the  under  treasurer  shall  find 
the  porter  remiss  in  any  part  of  his  duty,  the  said  porter  shall,  upon 
complaint  to  the  treasurer,  be  put  out  of  his  place  and  in  like  manner 
as  to  any  watchman. 

Upon  reading  the  report  of  Edwards,  Johnson,  and  Courtney, 
the  committee  appointed  to  examine  what  profits  were  taken  from 
William  Minors,  chief  butler,  by  constituting  an  under-treasurer,  it  is 
ordered  that  Minors,  in  lieu  of  his  admittance  money  (which  was  55. 
for  every  one  admitted),  profits  of  acts  of  parliament  (which  was  los. 
a  copy),  and  poundage  for  those  moneys  that  he  received,  shall  have 
three  pounds  a  term  out  of  the  treasury,  and  55.  for  every  gentleman 
at  his  first  coming  into  commons,  being  introduced  by  him  to  the 
upper  end  of  the  bar  mess. 

PARLIAMENT  held  28  April,  36  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1684,  before  SIR 
JOHN  TREVOR,  SIR  EDWARD  HERBERT,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY, 
and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Pensions  to  be  assessed  double. 
Anthony  Keck  chosen  reader. 

Special  admission  of  Leonard  Poe  Jenner,  third  son  of  Sir 
Thomas  Jenner,  serjeant  at  law  and  recorder  of  London. 


,684]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  205 

Order  that  the  casting  in  rolls  for  commons  shall  be  examined 
with  the  Buttery  Book  by  the  under  treasurer,  and  that  no  person 
nominated  for  a  second  life  in  any  chamber  shall  come  into  commons 
for  the  first  life. 

Order  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  regulate  the  extravagant 
rates  of  commons. 

Whereas  the  under  treasurer  was  to  hold  a  convenient  chamber 
in  the  House  during  the  execution  of  his  office,  and  no  convenient 
chamber  has  at  any  time  since  happened  to  fall,  it  is  ordered  that  the 
sum  of  lo/z.  a  year  be  allowed  him  for  the  rent  of  a  chamber  till  a 
convenient  one  shall  fall. 

Order  that  the  vacation  barristers  and  gentlemen  under  the  bar 
that  were  in  commons  last  Lent  vacation  and  went  out  with  the  leave 
of  the  treasurer,  be  excused  from  the  remaining  part  of  the  said 
vacation. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  11  May,  36  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1684,  before  SIR 
JOHN  TREVOR,  THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLOWAY,  RICHARD 
EDWARDS,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Hugh  Rydgate  and  Robert  Dalway  called  to  the  bar. 

Whereas  great  inconveniences  have  been  found  by  reason  of  the 
gentlemen  running  in  arrear  for  commons  to  very  great  sums, 
after  which  it  has  been  found  very  difficult  to  have  the  same  paid  in, 
and  by  such  arrears  there  is  now  due  to  the  steward  more  than 
1,500/2'.  whereupon  a  committee  was  on  28  April  last  appointed  to 
consider  of  means  to  pay  the  said  debt  who  submit  a  report  as  to 
the  payment  of  commons,  which  is  ordered  to  be  enacted  and 
confirmed. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  8  June,  36  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1684,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and  others. 
SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

William  Hughes  and  John  Dolben  called  to  the  bar. 
Orders  that  gentlemen  having  chambers  in  Paper  Buildings  shall 
give  in  their  resolution  whether  they  will  rebuild  that  building  upon 


206  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1684 

one  life  and  an  assignment  ;  and  that  the  order  of  the  bench  table 
made  about  Sir  Thomas  Foster  and  Mr.  Foster's  duties  be  continued. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  15  June,  36  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1684,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON  and 
others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Robert  Sanders  called  an  associate  to  the  bar. 

Order  that  "  Dr.  Shirlock  master  of  the  Temple  shall  be  allowed 
from  this  society  the  same  salary  that  Dr.  Ball  had,  which  was  2$li. 
a  quarter  during  the  time  that  he  shall  continue  his  place,  the  first 
payment  to  be  made  at  midsummer  next,  and  to  be  raised  in  the 
same  manner  as  the  said  Dr.  Ball's  was,  which  was  of  every  bencher, 
2.?.  6ci.  a  term,  every  barrister  that  had  a  chamber,  2S.,  every  gentle- 
man under  the  bar  that  had  a  chamber,  is.  8d.,  and  every  barrister 
that  had  no  chamber,  for  every  term  in  commons,  is.  6d.,  and  of  every 
gentleman  under  the  bar  that  had  no  chamber,  is.  every  term.  And 
it  is  further  ordered  that  the  moiety  of  the  rent  of  the  said  Dr. 
Shirlock's  house  be  paid  by  this  society  during  such  time  as  the 
doctor  continue  master  of  the  Temple." 

Order  that  the  allowance  to  the  vacation  barristers  and  gentle- 
men under  the  bar  that  shall  keep  commons,  be  left  to  the  discretion 
of  the  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Charles  Selby,  eldest  son  of  Serjeant  Selby, 
at  the  request  of  his  father. 

The  matter  relating  to  Sir  Thomas  Foster  and  his  son  Thomas 
referred  to  the  Table. 

A  committee  appointed  to  report  how  far  Sir  John  Trevor's  new 
building  in  the  Inner  Temple  Lane  may  extend  westward. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  6  November,  36  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1684,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  EDWARD  HERBERT,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY, 
RICHARD  EDWARDS,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Nicholas  Courtney  chosen  reader. 

Auditors : — Johnson,  Purley,  Blincoe,  and  Webb  for  the 
treasurer's  accounts  ;  and  Pargiter,  Hodges,  Dodd,  and  Lee  for  the 
steward's  accounts. 


,683-4]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  207 

Order  confirming  the  report  of  the  committee  that  it  is  not 
convenient  to  alter  the  last  order  as  to  the  watchmen's  allowance, 
suggesting,  however,  a  modification  in  the  time  of  the  watchmen's  duty. 

Whereas  Jervase  Berkeley,  son-in-law  of  Courtney,  of  the  bench, 
in  Easter  term,  1678,  prayed  to  be  specially  admitted  gratis,  his 
request  was  denied  as  being  contrary  to  the  orders  of  the  House,  but 
having  now  paid  3/2.  6j-.  %d.  for  the  same,  it  is  ordered  that  he  shall 
be  generally  admitted  as  of  that  time. 

Poole  Powell,  eldest  son  of  Powell  of  the  bench,  specially 
admitted  as  of  Easter  Term,  1682. 

Order  that  the  vacation  barristers  who  were  actually  in  commons 
the  last  long  vacation  and  went  out  with  the  leave  of  the  treasurer, 
shall  be  excused  for  the  remainder  of  the  vacation. 

Order  that  Mrs.  Farr,  widow,  at  the  Rainbow  Coffee  House,  do 
pay  yearly  for  enlarging  two  windows  which  look  into  the  Inner 
Temple  Lane,  the  sum  of  i  zd.  for  each  window  at  the  Feast  of  St. 
Michael  the  archangel. 

Order  that  the  chamber  of  Richard  Sackvile,  padlocked  for  duties 
owing,  be  seized  and  sold  to  the  use  of  the  House,  unless  Sackville 
show  cause  to  the  contrary. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Robert  Sawyer  continued. 


BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  30  October,  1683. 

Orders  that  no  dishes  be  sent  out  of  the  hall  on  Thursday  next, 
being  Grand  Day  for  Michaelmas  term,  without  a  note  being  given 
stating  where  the  said  dishes  are  going  ;  that  upon  petition  of  the  in- 
habitants of  the  lower  part  of  White  Friars,  the  wicket  to  the  great 
gates  leading  into  White  Friars  be  shut  at  8  p.m.  in  winter  and  9 
p.m.  in  summer,  and  opened  at  6  a.m.  in  the  winter  and  5  a.m.  in 
summer. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  3  November,  1683. 
Report  of  the  committee  as  to  the  nomination  of  lives  to  the 


208  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1683-4 

chambers  in  Serjeant  Hampson's  staircase,  which  were  casually  burnt 
on  ist  August  last,  and  adoption  of  the  same. 

Order  that  the  moiety  of  a  chamber  three  pair  of  stairs  in  the 
Inner  Temple  Lane  over  the  Statute  Office  be  let  to  Richard  Buckby, 
son  of  Serjeant  Buckby,  during  the  pleasure  of  the  House,  he  paying 
405.  a  year  and  keeping  the  same  in  good  repair. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7  November,  1683. 

Orders  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  consider  what  is  fit  to 
be  done  touching  the  depositing  of  20/2.  before  any  gentleman,  not 
having  a  chamber,  be  called  to  the  bar. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  9  November,  1683. 

Order  that  a  committee  shall  be  appointed  to  settle  the  claim  of 
the  brewer  for  beer  lost  in  the  fire  in  1678. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  10,  15,  and  23  November,  1683. 

Orders  as  to  rebuilding  chambers  and  the  addition  of  names  to 
the  committee  touching  the  neglect  of  the  officers  at  the  late  fire. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  24  November  and  i  December,  1683. 

Orders  that  Trinder  be  discharged  from  being  reader  of  Lyon's 
Inn,  and  Kemp  from  being  reader  at  Clement's  Inn;  that  Parker 
shall  be  fined  5  marks  for  not  reading  and  thereupon  discharged ; 
that  the  exercise  butler  shall  tender  the  names  for  choice  to  be  made 
of  a  reader  at  Clifford's  Inn  ;  that  Hedges  and  Pargiter  be  a  committee 
to  prepare  an  act  against  keeping  the  next  Christmas  and  public 
gaming ;  and  as  to  Sackvill's  chamber  being  padlocked,  and  Francis 
Berkeley's  composition  for  duties. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  27  January,  1683-4. 

Orders  that  the  brewer  shall  have  20/2.  in  full  compensation  for 
the  beer  lost  in  the  fire  of  1678  ;  that  the  petition  of  John  Champion 


1684]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  209 

to  be  continued  as  a  member,  be  deferred  till  the  treasurer  be  present ; 
that  the  petition  of  Minors,  the  chief  butler,  for  compensation  for  the 
profits  of  his  office  taken  away  by  the  appointment  of  a  sub-treasurer, 
be  referred  to  a  committee ;  that  the  petition  of  George  Berry  and 
Thomas  Smith,  the  two  puisne  butlers,  for  their  board  wages  during 
the  last  vacation,  which  were  taken  away  for  their  absence  for  three 
days,  during  which  a  lamentable  fire  occurred,  be  not  granted,  the 
table  being  of  opinion  that  the  butlers  were  gently  dealt  with  ;  and 
that  upon  the  petition  of  Whitlock  Deane  for  the  return  of  his  zoli. 
deposited  upon  his  call,  he  having  sold  his  chamber,  it  was  declared 
that  the  table  cannot  break  into  an  Act  of  Parliament. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  24  April,  1684. 

Order  that  Sir  Thomas  Forster  and  Thomas  Forster,  his  son, 
shall  pay  103/2.  45.  id.  owing  to  the  House,  or  in  default  their 
chambers  to  be  seized. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  i  May,  1684. 

Order  that  Rudgate  be  put  into  the  paper  to  be  called  to  the 
bar ;  and  that  the  encroachments  alleged  to  be  made  by  Widow 
Farr's  building  shall  be  referred  to  a  committee. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  3  and  6  May,  1684. 

Further  orders  that  Sir  Thomas  Foster  and  his  son  shall  pay 
their  debts  to  the  House. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  8  May,  1684. 

Orders  that  Hugh  Rudgate  and  Robert  Dalway  be  called  to  the 
bar ;  that  the  encroachment  by  Widow  Farr's  building  jettying  over 
on  to  and  obtaining  light  from  the  Inner  Temple  ground,  which  is 
acknowledged  by  her,  shall  be  referred  to  Sir  John  Trevor;  and  that 
Thomas  Forster  shall  pay  his  duties  according  to  the  report  of  the 
committee. 

III.  E  E 


A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1684 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  9  May,  1684. 

Order  that  the  petition  of  the  head  porter  and  watchmen  for  a 
further  allowance  be  referred  to  a  committee ;  that  the  porter's 
staff  be  delivered  to  the  deputy  porter ;  and  that  the  deputy  porter 
pro  hac  vice  have  a  gown  and  staff. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  29  May  and  2  June,  1684. 

Whereas  Francis  Berkley  has,  without  leave,  taken  off  the 
padlock  from  his  chamber,  it  is  ordered  that  he  attend  the  table  and 
his  chamber  be  seized. 

BENCH  TABLES  held  on  4  and  5  June,  1684. 

Upon  the  petition  of  Francis  Berkley  setting  out  that  he  had 
the  padlock  taken  off  his  chambers  from  necessity,  as  he  arrived  in 
town  late  one  evening  and  could  not  otherwise  provide  for  himself,  it 
was  ordered  that  the  order  for  seizing  his  chamber  shall  be  void,  and 
that  inquiry  be  made  into  the  damage  to  his  chamber  by  raising  the 
earth  before  his  windows. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7  June,  1684. 

Order  that  Hughes  and  Dolben  be  put  into  the  paper  for  the 
next  call  to  the  bar. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  12  June,  1684. 

Order  "  that  all  the  officers  of  this  House  be  assisting  in  ex- 
ecuting the  warrant  for  abating  the  nuisance  of  a  chimney  and  fur- 
nace for  burning  of  tobacco  pipes,  belonging  to  William  Bates  in 
White  Friars." 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  14  June,  1684. 

Order  that  the  100/2.  per  annum  be  continued  to  Dr.  Shirlock, 
the  present  minister,  so  long  as  he  continues  master  of  the  Temple, 


i684] 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


211 


and  the  moiety  of  the  rent  of  his  house  be  paid  by  this  society  ;  that 
notice  be  given  to  Edwards  that  something  will  be  moved  against 
him  in  Parliament  to-morrow  ;  and  that  Robert  Saunders  be  admitted 
at  the  next  Parliament,  an  assistant  to  the  bar. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  17  and  18  June,  1684. 

Orders  as  to  Sir  Thomas  Foster's  bench  chamber ;  that  a  com- 
mittee be  appointed  for  regulating  commons  ;  and  as  to  the  petition 
of  William  Minors,  chief  butler. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  23  October,  1684. 

Order  that  the  act  of  Parliament  made  on  1 1  May  last  concern- 
ing commons  be  fully  observed. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  31  October,  1684. 

Order  that  a  committee  shall  examine  as  to  "  the  matter  of  the 
woman  taken  in  Mr.  Berkeley's  chamber  in  the  Paper  Buildings  " 
and  as  to  the  disorders  in  Genew's  chamber  in  the  same  building. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  3  and  5  November,  1684. 

Orders  as  to  Wright  Crooke's  chamber  in  Figtree  Court  and  as 
to  padlocking  the  same ;  as  to  the  smoky  chimney  in  Hodge's 
chamber ;  and  as  to  the  defaults  in  the  roof  of  the  chambers  over 
the  Crown  office. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK.1 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  knight,  A.G.,  treasurer,  from  28 
October,  1683,  to  6  November,  1684. 


RECEIPTS. 
From  Halsey,  principal  of  Lyons  Inn,  for 

rent  of  the  inn  and  tenements  adjoining, 

lli.  13*.  ^d. 
From  Widow  Farr,  a  year's  rent  for  her 

lights  in  Hare's  Court,  6s.  8^.,  and  for 


enlarging  two  windows  in  the  Inner 
Temple  Lane,  2s.  In  all,  8s.  &d. 

Money  received  upon  the  aid  roll  for  re- 
pairs of  the  church,  $oli.  155. 

Money  received  upon  subscriptions  for 
repairs  of  the  church,  22//.  is. 


1  See  footnote  on  p.  198. 


212 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[16*4 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Alexander  Davenant  [by  appointment 
of  his  brother,  Charles  Davenant,  and 
Batterton  and  the  rest  of  the  sharers  of 
the  Duke's  house],  for  the  use  of  himself 
and  the  rest  of  the  players  who  acted  a 
play  in  the  hall  on  i  Nov.  called  "  The 
Plain  Dealer,"  2o//. 

To  Francis  Buttlin,  ironmonger,  in  full  of 
his  bill  for  ironwork  in  the  Temple 
church  [a  pair  of  hinges  and  20  screws 
for  the  pulpit,  64  "  teesses  "  for  the  top  of 
the  pews,  6  large  "  teesses  "  for  the  top  of 
the  pews,  hinges  for  the  pews,  pulpit, 
etc.],  i4&'.  13*. 

For  a  year's  fee  farm  rent  and  acquittance, 

1O/Z.    IS. 

To  Richards,  theupholsterer,  for  the  moiety 
of  his  bill  for  the  pulpit  cushion  in  the 
Temple  church  [purple  velvet,  gold 
seaming,  4  large  tassels  weighing  13^  Ib. 
etc.],  4//.  IDS. 

To  the  same,  for  other  things  for  the  church 
[18  large  cushions  of  fine  purple  cloth, 
fringe,  tassels,  feathers,  etc.],  14/1. iSs.4d. 

To  Garland,  the  painter,  for  work  done  in 
the  church  [for  gilding  the  "tipe"  of 
the  church,  gilding  the  half  of  the  fold- 
ing doors,  etc.],  qli.  $s.  6d. 

To  Playford,  the  clerk  [for  1 3  iron  candle- 
sticks for  the  church,  for  two  copies  of 
the  King's  declaration,  etc.],  zli.  \s.  $d. 

To  Long  and  Thomas  Fownes,  drapers, 
for  8  pieces  of  "  sleazey  diaper "  for 
napkins,  3//.  6s. 

To  Home,  the  bricklayer  [for  bricking  up 
part  of  one  of  the  piers  in  the  Temple 
church,  etc.],  14/1'.  qs. 

To  Dr.  Ball,  for  arrears  of  his  salary,  ioo//. 

To  Dr.  Woodroffe,  for  arrears  of  his  salary, 
4<D/z'. 

To  John  King,  mason,  for  work  done  in 
the  church  [for  1,234  ft.  of  marble  pav- 
ing at  205.  a  foot ;  for  27!  ft.  of  steps  at 
kd.  a  foot ;  for  980  ft.  of  old  stone  new 
laid  at  $d.  a  foot ;  for  polishing  down 
the  pillars  and  scaffolding ;  for  cutting  a 


hole  "  through  the  hust  for  the  type  to 
hang  to,"  ili.  ;  and  for  carrying  away  the 
lead  and  half  the  rubbish],  27^'.  95.  lod. 

To  Thomas  Merchant,  bricklayer,  the 
moiety  of  his  bill  for  repairing  the 
common  sewer  in  the  Middle  Temple 
Lane,  195.  lod. 

To  the  watermen  that  ply  at  the  Temple 
stairs,  for  repairing  the  causeway  there, 

2li. 

To  the  goldsmith  that  made  the  porter's 

staff  [for  a  bamboo,  the  silver  head  16  oz. 

8  dwt.,  the  fashion,  the  ferrule,  fastening 

and  engraving],  7/7.  is. 
To  Herne,  the  tailor,  for  the  porter's  gown, 

4& 
To  Dr.  Shirlock,  for  his  quarter's  salary, 

25#. 

To  Henry  Home  and  Edward  Sawyer  the 
moiety  of  their  bill  for  digging  and  mak- 
ing a  drain  to  the  vault  belonging  to  us 
and  the  Middle  Temple,  8/».  19.?.  6d. 

To  the  players  [Ralph  Davenant,  by  ap- 
pointment of  Charles  Davenant  and 
Batterton  and  the  rest  of  the  sharers  in 
the  Duke's  house],  for  acting  a  play  in 
the  Temple  hall  upon  All  Hallows  day 
last,  called  "  TheiFond  Husband,"  2oli. 

For  a  year's  fee  farm  rent  and  the  acquit- 
tance, iQ/i.  is. 

To  the  executrices  of  Dr.  Ball,  deceased, 
for  a  quarter's  salary  due  at  Lady  day 
last,  25//. 

To  the  executrices  of  Dr.  Ball,  for  a  moiety 
of  a  quarter's  rent  due  at  Michaelmas 
for  the  said  Dr.  Ball's  house  in  which 
Dr.  Shirlock  now  lives,  5//. 

To  Thomas  Fletcher,  the  glazier  [for 
mending  the  treasurer's  and  Courtney's 
windows  which  were  broken  in  the 
night,  etc.],  ili.  gs. 

To  Home,  the  bricklayer,  for  making  a 
burying  vault  in  the  Temple  church, 


Sum  of  the  receipts,  2,460/1.  is.  nd. 
Sum  of  the  disbursements,  i,757//.  3*. 
So  there  remains,  "]O2li.  i8s.  8d. 


,683-4]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  213 

CHRISTMAS   ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENT  held  for  Christmas,  1683. 

Officers  : — Walter  Burrell,  controller  ;  Robert  Algood,  speaker ; 
Leighton,  Anderton,  and  Warter,  stewards  ;  Sympson,  Dowdale,  and 
Hussey,  the  committee  of  music ;  Price,  Chivers,  and  Grady,  the 
auditors  ;  and  Gwillim,  clerk  of  the  Parliament. 

Orders  that  John  Warter  and  Anderton  have  leave  to  resign 
the  stewardship,  and  Jobber  and  Andrews  do  take  their  places. 

MISCELLANEA. 

1684,  June  28.  Certificate  by  John  Colins  that  he  being  an 
officer  of  the  society  was  employed  in  plotting  the  Brick  Buildings 
in  the  Inner  Temple  Lane,  erected  in  the  treasurership  of  Prideaux, 
and  of  the  passage  out  of  the  said  Lane  unto  Hare's  Court,  there 
being  no  passage  there  before.  And  he  states  that  special  care  was 
taken  for  obtaining  convenient  lights  to  every  chamber  on  the  east, 
west,  and  south  sides,  but  on  the  north  it  was  designed  that  the  Black 
Building,  when  taken  down  and  rebuilt,  should  be  joined  to  the  new 
building.  He  also  remembers  that  on  the  west  side  of  the  Black 
Building,  there  was  a  court  or  yard,  paled  in  and  appropriated  to  the 
said  Black  Building,  with  a  door  into  Hare's  Court,  which  was  used 
by  Mr.  Risden  who  held  the  Black  Building  as  his  bench  chamber. 

ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  November,  36  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1684,  before 
SIR  EDWARD  HERBERT,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  PHILIP  PARGITER, 
and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Thomas  Heath,  eldest  son  of  Serjeant 
Heath,  at  the  request  of  his  father ;  and  of  Thomas  Twisden  and 
Roger  Twisden,  sons  of  Sir  Roger  Twisden,  bart.,  and  grandchildren 
of  Mr.  Justice  Twisden,  deceased,  at  the  request  of  their  father. 


214  A  CALENDAR   OF   THE  [,684-5 

John  Champion,  who  was  expelled  on  4  February,  1682,  for 
riotous  proceedings  in  the  time  of  Christmas,  he  being  then  con- 
troller, is,  on  his  humble  petition,  re-admitted. 

Order  that  no  commons  be  held  during  the  time  of  Christmas 
next,  in  the  same  terms  as  the  order  enacted  on  25  Nov.,  1683. 

Orders  for  gentlemen  to  nominate  to  their  chambers. 

PARLIAMENT  held  by  adjournment  from  27  November,  104  December, 
36  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1684,  before  HENEAGE  FINCH,  S.G.,  SIR 
THOMAS  HANMER,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  and 
others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Whereas  divers  proposals  have  been  made,  touching  the 
demolishing  and  pulling  down  of  the  Paper  Buildings,  adjacent  to 
the  garden  of  this  House,  which  by  reason  of  their  antiquity  are  not 
coherent  and  uniform  with  the  rest  of  the  buildings,  it  is  ordered  that 
all  persons  who  have  any  chamber,  or  inhabit  the  said  buildings  do 
leave  and  depart  the  same,  and  remove  their  goods  within  a  week 
after  next  term,  that  the  building  may  be  pulled  down,  and  be 
rebuilt  by  the  several  persons  interested  therein,  in  likeness  with  the 
building,  called  Sir  Thomas  Robinson's  Buildings,  opposite  the  same, 
viz.  : — four  storeys  high,  the  ground  chambers  that  now  are  to 
descend  with  steps.  And  the  said  builders  to  enjoy  the  same  during 
the  life  of  any  one  person,  a  member  of  the  society,  and  an  assignment 
after  the  death  of  such  person,  and  after  the  death  of  the  life  upon 
assignment,  the  chamber  shall  be  at  the  disposal  of  the  House. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  3  February,  37  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1684-5,  before 
SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  SIR  EDWARD  HERBERT, 
CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  the  Hon.  Edward  Finch,  fifth  son  of 
Heneage,  late  Earl  of  Nottingham,  and  Lord  High  Chancellor, 
deceased,  at  his  own  request. 

Anthony  Belbin,  now  one  of  the  prothonotaries  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas,  is,  at  his  own  request,  discharged  from  the  office  of 
under-treasurer. 

Order,  reciting  the  order  of  6  July,  1682,  for  the  appointment  of 


84-s]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  215 

an  under-treasurer,  and  a  report  thereon,  that  the  under-treasurer 
now  to  be  appointed  shall  give  such  security  and  render  such  accounts 
of  his  receipts  as  in  the  said  act  and  the  said  report  are  mentioned,  and 
shall  have  the  benefit  of  all  such  fees  and  allowances  in  recompense 
for  his  service  as  in  the  said  act  are  set  out,  except  poundage  for  the 
reader's  money,  poundage  for  the  sale  of  chambers  fallen  to  the  House, 
poundage  for  caution  money  upon  calls  to  the  bench,  and  poundage 
for  caution  money  upon  buying  of  chambers  by  gentlemen  called  to 
the  bar.  And  it  is  further  ordered  that  he  shall  every  Easter  and 
Michaelmas  terms  prepare  a  roll  of  the  vacations  of  every  barrister  and 
gentleman  under  the  bar,  and  another  roll  of  the  amercements  of  the 
same.  And  that  duplicates  of  the  same  rolls  shall  be  handed  to  the 
treasurer  and  audited.  And  it  is  further  ordered  that  Thomas  Riggs, 
a  member  of  this  society,  shall  be  appointed  under-treasurer. 

Anthony  Belbin,  one  of  the  prothonotaries  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas,  called  an  associate  to  the  bar. 

Order  that  Trinder  and  the  rest  of  the  gentlemen  concerned  in 
the  chambers  in  the  New  West  Building  in  Hare  Court,  shall  pay 
35/z'.,  heretofore  agreed  upon,  for  a  proportionable  enlargement  of 
their  chambers. 

Courtney  declares  that  he  submits  to  the  act  to  pay  his  money  in 
lieu  of  reading. 

Order  that  Sir  Thomas  Hanmer,  and  others,  be  a  committee  to 
meet  on  Friday  at  seven  of  the  clock,  and  confer  with  the  rest  of  the 
gentlemen  of  the  Paper  Buildings,  and  adjust  all  matters  relating 
thereto. 

BENCH   TABLE    ORDERS. 
BENCH  TABLE  held  on  22  November,  1684. 

Report  of  the  head  butler  and  the  bricklayer,  regarding  the 
nuisance  in  Hodges'  chamber  from  a  smoky  chimney,  for  that  the 
wind,  when  northerly,  forced  down  the  smoke  with  such  violence 
that  it  blew  the  coals  and  ashes  out  of  the  hearth  into  his  chamber, 
which  was  occasioned  by  raising  a  single  funnel  higher  than  the  rest. 
Whereupon  it  was  ordered  that  the  single  funnel  be  taken  down  and 
all  the  chimneys  raised. 

Orders  that  Champion  shall  apply  to  the  treasurer  touching  his 


216  A   CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1684-5 

petition ;  that  Lady  Robinson  have  time  to  nominate  her  lives  to  the 
chambers,  late  Sir  Lumley  Robinson's,  in  the  New  Buildings,  and 
that  the  rest  of  the  persons  interested  in  the  said  buildings  do  the 
same. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  24  November,  1684. 

Order  that  John  Champion,  lately  expelled,  be  restored  a  member 
of  the  House ;  and  that  the  last  act,  providing  that  no  Christmas  be 
kept,  be  revived  at  the  next  parliament. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  25  November,  1684. 

Robert  Wynne  being  fined  20/2.  for  not  reading  at  Lyon's  Inn, 
is  discharged  from  such  duty  ;  Chare  is  likewise  discharged. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26  January,  1684-5. 

Orders  that  a  committee  shall  value  certain  chambers  in  the 
disposal  of  the  House  ;  and  that  the  auditors  of  the  treasurer's  account 
do  consider  the  allowance  to  be  made  to  the  succeeding  under- 
treasurer. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  27  January,  1684-5. 

Report  as  to  value  of  certain  chambers. 

Order  upon  the  report  of  a  committee  that  there  be  taken  away 
from  the  succeeding  under-treasurer  certain  fees  and  allowances  in 
the  same  terms  as  the  order  passed  at  the  parliament  held  on  3 
February,  1684-5. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  4  February,  1684-5. 

Petition  of  John  Baggot,  Thomas  Yarburgh,  Maurice  Connell, 
Samuel  Morris,  Henry  Oxburgh,  Henry  Dowdall,  and  Dennis  Egan, 
"  believing  that  continuing  in  commons  in  the  Christmas  time  has 
been  a  custom  and  tolleration  that  was  formerly  allowed  to  the 
gentlemen  under  the  bar  of  this  society,  your  petitioners  did  presume 
the  last  Christmas  to  continue  in  commons,  contrary  to  an  act  made 
by  your  masterships  prohibiting  any  such  practice  at  that  time"; 


i684-s] 


INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


217 


they  are  sensible  of  the  error  they  committed  and  pray  forgiveness 
for  the  same  and  a  remission  of  the  penalties.  Order  thereupon  that 
the  petitioners  shall  visit  the  masters  of  the  bench  and  make  an 
acknowledgment  of  their  faults,  according  to  the  ancient  orders  of 
the  House,  and  afterwards  the  table  will  consider  thereof. 

Petition  of  the  owners  of  lower  chambers  in  Paper  Buildings 
that  in  the  new  buildings  they  may  not  be  placed  under  ground, 
having  already  suffered  considerably  by  the  raising  of  earth.  The 
consideration  whereof  is  referred  to  a  committee. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  5  February,  1684-5. 

Orders  that  a  committee  shall  consider  how  to  raise  30/2.  owing 
by  gentlemen  in  Hare  Court ;  and  that  the  petition  of  Minors,  the 
chief  butler,  for  an  increase  of  salary,  be  referred  to  a  committee. 


OLD  HOUSES,  ERECTED  BEFORE  THE  GREAT  FIRE,  STILL 
STANDING  IN  MIDDLE  TEMPLE  LANE,  SIMILAR  TO 
THOSE  FORMERLY  ON  THE  WEST  SIDE  OF  HARE 
COURT. 


III. 


K  F 


T-G-J 


ACTS  OF  PARLIAMENT. 

JAMES  II. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  10  February,  i  James  II.,  A.D.  1684-5,  before 
SIR  EDWARD  HERBERT,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  CHARLES  HOLLO- 
WAY,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 


ENRY  CHAMPION,  John  Taylor,  and  John  Legg 
called  to  the  bar. 

Anthony  Belbin,  one  of  the  prothonotaries  of 
the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  and  associate  of  the 
bar,  is  called  to  sit  at  the  upper  mess  of  the  bar  table. 

Parliament  adjourned  till  Tuesday. 


PARLIAMENT  held  by  adjournment  from  10  February  to  17  February, 
i  James  II.,  A.D.  1684-5,  before  THOMAS  FARRER,  RICHARD 
EDWARDS,  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT 
SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Admission  by  certificate  of  John  Rumsey  ad  eundem  gradum, 
who  was  called  to  the  bar  at  Gray's  Inn  on  29  July,  1669. 

Orders  for  Paper  Buildings  to  be  taken  down  and  rebuilt  accord- 
ing to  the  act  of  14  December  last,  with  provisions  as  to  the  lives 
and  assignments  to  be  granted  to  those  interested  in  the  chambers 
there  ;  that  Richard  Sackville  and  Wright  Croke  shall  pay  their  duties, 


1685]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  219 

or  in  default,  their  chambers  to  be  seized  and  sold  ;  and  that  William 
Minors,  chief  butler,  be  allowed  8/z.  a  year,  additional  salary. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  17  May,  i  James  II.,  A.D.  1685,  before  THOMAS 
FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLO  WAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  and  others. 
SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Order  that  the  gentlemen  under  the  bar  who  actually  went  out 
of  commons  in  Lent  vacation  by  leave  of  the  treasurer,  shall  be 
excused  for  the  remainder  of  the  vacation. 

Sir  Edward  Herbert,  knight,  her  Majesty's  attorney  general  and 
chief  justice  of  Chester,  chosen  reader  for  Trinity  Vacation. 

Anthony  Belbin  called  an  associate  to  the  bench. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  31  May,  i  James  II.,  A.D.  1685,  before  THOMAS 
FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  and  others. 
SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Edward  Baldwin,  Henry  Trinder,  Thomas  Geeres,  and  Francis 
Bostock  Fuller  called  to  the  bench. 

Richard  Minshall,  Brereton  Bourchier,  Abell  Bradley,  Arthur 
Onslow,  John  Cotton,  John  Norton,  William  Gower,  Richard 
Middlemore,  James  Richardson,  John  Leighton,  Daniel  Nicoll,  Henry 
Sawyer,  Francis  Burton,  Charles  Poultney,  Thomas  Filmer,  Richard 
Delamer,  and  John  Wynn  called  to  the  bar. 

Admission  of  Thomas  Pitt  by  certificate  ad  eundem  gradwn,  who 
was  specially  admitted  to  the  Middle  Temple  on  25  October,  1675, 
and  called  to  the  bar  on  26  May,  1682. 

Orders  to  various  persons  as  to  the  nomination  to  or  disposal  ol 
their  chambers ;  and  that  if  John  Levett  shall  not  pay  his  debts  for 
commons  he  shall  be  expelled. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  June,  i  James  II.,  A.D.  1685,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  THOMAS  FARRER,  RICHARD 
EDWARDS,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Orders  that  Richard  Owen  be  called  to  the  bar;  that  John 
Levett's  chamber  be  seized,  and  that  the  under-treasurer  write  to  Sir 
Thomas  Foster  for  payment  of  duties. 


220  A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1685 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  9  July,  i  James  II.,  A. a  1685,  before  THOMAS 
FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOW  AY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  and  others. 
SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Lancelot  Johnson,  son  of  Lancelot  Johnson, 
at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Orders  that  50^.  a  week  be  allowed  to  the  gentlemen  keeping 
vacation  commons  ;  and  that  the  proprietors  of  Paper  Buildings  pay 
in  their  money  within  a  fortnight. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  4  November,  i  James  II.,  A.D.  1685,  before 
THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS, 
NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  FRANCIS  PURLEY,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT 
SAWYER,  treasurer. 

William  Longuevill  chosen  reader  for  Lent  vacation. 

Auditors : — Purley,  William  Farrer,  Webb,  and  Selby,  for  the 
treasurer's  accounts  ;  and  Hodges,  Pargiter,  Dodd,  and  Legh,  for  the 
steward's  accounts. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Robert  Sawyer  continued. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 
BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7  February,  1684-5. 

Petition  of  William  Gwillim  that  his  chamber  being  blown  up  in 
the  late  great  fire  in  Hilary  term,  1678,  to  prevent  further  danger, 
at  which  time  petitioner  was  at  sea  on  his  late  Majesty's  actual 
service,  he  prays  for  relief  and  satisfaction  for  the  loss  of  his 
chambers.  Which  matter  is  referred  to  a  committee. 

Petition  of  Robert  Fenwick,  vintner,  to  make  a  vault  in  Hare 
Court,  rejected. 

Order  that  John  Taylor,  Henry  Champion,  and  John  Legg  be 
put  into  the  paper  to  be  called  to  the  bar. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  n,  12,  and  17  February,  1684-5. 

Orders  that  the  petition  of  William  Gower  to  be  called  to  the 
bar,  he  not  having  performed  the  exercises  required,  be  rejected ; 


1685]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  221 

that  the  draft  of  an  Act  of  Parliament  for  rebuilding  Paper  Buildings 
be  referred  to  a  committee ;  that  Vaughan  and  Langley  be  fined  20/2. 
each  for  not  reading  at  the  Inns  of  Chancery;  that  the  sub-treasurer 
give  notice  to  Captain  Sandys  to  repair  his  chamber ;  and  that  the 
report  of  the  committee  touching  Gwillim's  case  be  adjourned. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  n  May,  1685.     Present: — The  treasurer,  SIR 
EDWARD  HERBERT,  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  EDWARDS,  and  others. 

Orders  for  Serjeant  Hampson  to  turn  "  the  spout  of  his  building  " 
which  damages  the  church,  into  the  common  sewer ;  that  William 
Soares  be  porter  in  the  place  of  William  Mills,  deceased;  that  the 
linen  of  the  society  be  washed  over  the  water ;  and  that  the  sub- 
treasurer  go  (with  one  of  the  butlers  in  whom  he  can  confide)  to  the 
lodgings  of  Thomas  Foster  in  or  near  the  Mint,  in  Southwark,  and 
see  whether  he  be  living  or  dead,  and  in  what  condition  he  is. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  12  May,  1685.  Present : — The  treasurer,  SIR 
EDWARD  HERBERT,  BOWYER,  PHILLIPPS,  HOLLOWAY,  PURLEY, 
JOHNSON,  and  others. 

Petition  of  Sir  Thomas  Forster  that  he  has  been  put  to  great 
charges  in  rebuilding  his  chamber  in  Tanfield  Court,  and  has  only 
an  estate  during  the  lives  of  his  sons,  Thomas  and  Charles,  and  one 
assignment  in  the  said  chambers,  and  that  his  son  Charles  is  dead, 
he  therefore  prays  that  he  may  have  another  life  instead  of  his  son 
Charles,  and  that  he  may  change  the  life  of  his  son,  Thomas.  Re- 
ferred to  a  committee.  Orders  as  to  viewing  chambers. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  13  May,  1685. 

Order  that  the  matter  of  the  ashes  and  other  rubbish  laid  by  the 
laundresses  in  the  cellars  of  the  first  staircase  of  the  King's  Bench 
Building,  be  referred  to  a  committee ;  and  that  Anthony  Belbin,  one 
of  the  prothonotaries  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  be  called  an 
associate  of  the  bench. 


222  A   CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1685 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  14  May,  1685.  Present: — The  treasurer, 
SIR  JOHN  TREAVOR,  SIR  EDWARD  HERBERT,  EDWARDS,  HOLLO- 
WAY,  and  others. 

Orders  for  Gower  and  Pickering  to  pay  50/2.  towards  rebuilding 
their  chambers  in  Paper  Buildings ;  and  for  the  payment  of  commons 
due  to  the  steward. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  16  May,  1685.  Present : — The  treasurer,  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  HOLLOWAY,  EDWARDS,  and 
others. 

Order  touching  Richard  Croke's  chambers ;  and  that  Edward 
Perrott's  petition  as  to  the  condition  of  the  arch  by  the  Crown  office, 
damaged  by  coaches  and  weather,  be  referred  to  a  committee. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  19  May,  1685.  Present: — the  treasurer, 
FARRAR,  HOLLOWAY,  JOHNSON,  COURTNEY,  COKE,  SIR  EDWARD 
HERBERT,  EDWARDS,  BOWYER,  PURLEY,  and  BELBIN. 

Report  of  the  committee  that  the  trust  on  the  chambers  late  in 
the  possession  of  Thomas  Foster,  belongs  to  Sir  Thomas  Foster,  his 
father ;  and  order  as  to  the  payment  of  35/2".  due  from  the  proprietors 
of  chambers  in  Hare  Court. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  20  May,  1685. 

Order  that  Herring  and  Norton,  who  were  upon  the  imparlance, 
and  Minshall,  Delamar,  junior,  Traves  and  Riggs,  who  attended,  be 
excused  the  amercement,  but  the  amercement  is  doubled  upon  the 
rest  of  the  gentlemen  under  the  bar  for  failure  of  the  imparlance. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  21  May,  1685.  Present: — The  treasurer, 
SIR  EDWARD  HERBERT,  HOLLOWAY,  COURTNEY,  COOKE,  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  FARRAR,  senior,  EDWARDS,  PURLEY,  and  BELBIN. 

Orders  for  several  chambers  to  be  padlocked  and  for  committees 
to  be  appointed  as  to  chambers. 


,685]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS  223 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  23  May,  1685.  Present  :— The  treasurer, 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  HOLLOWAY,  COURTNEY,  EDWARDS,  FARRAR, 
senior,  JOHNSON,  PURLEY,  and  PARGITER. 

Orders  for  the  removal  of  the  ashes  and  rubbish  out  of  the 
cellars  of  King's  Bench  Buildings ;  for  the  defect  in  the  arch  by  the 
Crown  Office  and  the  pavement  under  the  arch  to  be  repaired  ;  that 
Levett  attend  the  table  for  striking  off  the  padlock  from  his  chamber  ; 
that  Pickering  pay  his  50/2'.  towards  rebuilding  his  chambers ;  that 
Edward  Baldwin,  Charles  Danvers,  Thomas  Stermey,  and  John 
Clendone  return  their  answers  as  to  being  called  to  the  bench  ;  and 
that  Munday  have  an  allowance  for  putting  out  a  poor  child  that  his 
wife  had  maintained  by  agreement  with  the  society. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26  May,  1685.  Present: — The  treasurer, 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  HOLLOWAY,  FARRAR,  EDWARDS,  JOHNSON, 
and  others. 

Orders  that  Henry  Trinder  be  called  to  the  bench  ;  and  that 
Levett,  for  breaking  the  padlock  off  his  chamber  and  threatening  "  to 
pistol"  the  officers  of  the  House,  be  expelled,  unless  he  attend  the 
bench  table. 

"The  petition  of  Renatus  Harris,  organ  maker,  being  this  day 
read  at  the  table,  setting  forth  that  your  petitioner  and  Mr.  Smith 
having  originally  stood  in  competition  about  the  organ  intended  for 
the  Temple  Church,  the  said  Mr.  Smith  did  himself  request  the  then 
treasurers  of  both  Houses  that  he  and  your  petitioner  might  work  by 
fortnights  alternatively,  which  being  agreed  by  your  petitioner,  the  said 
Mr.  Smith  did  then  make  choice  of  the  first  fortnight  and  concluded 
your  petitioner  should  end  with  the  last,  which  method  being  so 
agreed  upon,  both  the  treasurers  did  accordingly  order  that  the  same 
should  be  exactly  performed,  and  that  neither  the  said  Mr.  Smith 
nor  your  petitioner  should  interfere  in  each  others'  time.  That 
several  times  after  your  petitioner's  intended  last  fortnight,  the  said 
Mr.  Smith  hath  began  again  to  work  anew  and  never  yet  would 
declare  to  abide  by  any  day  to  be  concluded,  although  your  petitioner 
hath  not  for  four  months  together  in  the  last  term  and  vacation  made 


224  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1685 

use  of  any  one  day  of  his  fortnight,  but  left  the  said  Mr.  Smith  in 
possession  of  the  church  for  all  that  time  in  hopes  that  he  would  have 
finished  and  appointed  a  day  to  have  judgment  given,  till  perform- 
ance of  which  the  said  competition  will  never  be  ended. 

"  Your  petitioner  doth  humbly  request  that  Mr.  Smith  be  sent 
to  know  if  he  have  done,  and  in  case  he  require  more  time  he  may 
now  take  it  and  make  use  of  this  week  to  make  an  end  of  the  fort- 
night he  hath  began,  if  he  require  it,  and  that  thereupon  he  may 
limit  himself  to  a  day,  and  your  petitioner  will  do  the  like  so  many 
days  after ;  the  said  Mr.  Smith  hath  had  more  than  your  petitioner, 
otherwise  in  case  Mr.  Smith  will  abide  by  his  organ  now,  your  peti- 
tioner desires  next  week  to  be  appointed  for  trial,  or  if  he  will  make 
use  of  this  week  that  such  trial  be  appointed  to  be  on  the  isth,  i6th, 
1 7th,  or  1 8th  of  next  month.  And  your  petitioner  further  prays  that 
the  persons  to  be  appointed  to  give  judgment  upon  the  organs  may 
be  such  as  are  most  skilful  in  music  and  not  members  of  either 
societies,  to  prevent  any  imputations  of  partiality.  And  that  both 
workmen  take  a  voluntary  oath  that  neither,  directly  nor  indirectly, 
they  have  given  or  promised  or  will  give  or  promise  any  reward 
whatsoever  to  gain  favour  in  behalf  of  his  instrument  to  or  with  any 
of  the  persons,  who  shall  be  or  are  in  election,  to  be  appointed 
judges  for  the  same.  And  because  Mr.  Smith  do  sometimes  insist 
that  he  was  employed  by  both  Houses,  that  before  any  trial  be  made 
Mr.  Smith  shall  relinquish  any  contract  or  promise,  and  that  an  order 
may  be  made  wherein  both  societies  may  stand  by  the  determination 
of  the  judges  in  the  choice  of  the  organ." 

Whereupon  it  is  ordered  that  Holloway,  Edwards,  Johnson, 
Courtney,  Bowyer,  and  Purley,  or  any  three  of  them,  be  a  committee 
to  meet  a  like  number  of  the  Middle  Temple  to  determine  about  the 
said  organ  and  to  nominate  judges.  They  are  also  to  take  a  note 
from  each  organ  maker  of  their  prices  and  the  number  of  stops  and 
pipes  in  each  organ." 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  27,  29,  and  30  May,  1685.     Present :— The 
treasurer,  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  HOLLOWAY,  and  others. 

Orders  as  to  chambers  ;  as  to  nominations  to  the  bench  and  bar 
(see  Parliament  of  3 1  May,  with  the  addition  of  the  names  of  Richard 


1685]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  225 

Owen  and  John   Herring,  nominated  to  the  bar) ;  and  order  that 
Levett  do  stand  absolutely  expelled  unless  he  pay  all  his  duties. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  2  June,  1685.     Present  : — The  treasurer,  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  HOLLOWAY,  FARRER,  EDWARDS,  and  others. 

The  petition  of  Francis  Shirley,  panierman,  for  his  expenses 
about  the  providing  of  wine,  as  his  predecessor  Roberts  had,  is 
granted ;  and  order  that  Langley,  for  neglecting  to  perform  the 
office  of  reader  at  Clifford's  Inn,  be  fined  io/z'.,  and  do  provide  for 
the  reading  for  the  two  next  terms. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  22  June,  1685.  Present: — The  treasurer, 
HOLLOWAY,  EDWARDS,  JOHNSON,  COURTNEY,  BOWYER,  PURLEY, 
and  others. 

Communication  from  the  Middle  Temple  reciting  an  order 
made  at  their  parliament  on  2  June,  1685,  as  follows  : — "  The  masters 
of  the  bench  at  this  parliament,  taking  into  their  considerations  the 
tedious  competition  between  the  two  organ  makers,  about  their  fitting 
an  organ  to  the  Temple  Church,  and  having  in  several  terms  and  at 
several  times  compared  both  organs  now  standing  in  the  said  church, 
as  they  have  played  several  Sundays,  one  after  the  other,  and  as 
they  have  lately  played  the  same  Sunday  together,  alternatively,  at 
the  same  service,  now  at  the  suit  of  several  masters  of  the  bar  and 
students  of  this  society,  pressing  to  have  a  speedy  determination  of 
the  said  controversy,  and  in  justice  to  the  said  workmen,  as  well  as 
for  the  freeing  themselves  from  any  complaints  concerning  the  same, 
do  unanimously  in  full  parliament  resolve  and  declare  the  organ  in 
the  said  church,  made  by  Bernard  Smith,  to  be,  in  their  judgment, 
both  for  sweetness  and  fulness  of  sound  (besides  the  extraordinary 
stops,  quarter  notes,  and  other  rarities  therein),  beyond  comparison 
preferable  before  the  other  of  the  said  organs  made  by  Renatus 
Harris,  and  that  the  same  is  more  ornamental  and  substantial,  and 
both  for  depth  of  sound  and  strength,  fitter  for  the  use  of  the  said 
church,  and  therefore  upon  account  of  the  excellency  and  perfection 
of  the  said  organ  made  by  Smith,  and  for  that  he  was  the  workman 
first  treated  with  and  employed  by  the  treasurers  of  both  societies  for 

m.  G  G 


326  A  CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1685 

providing  his  organ,  and  for  that  the  organ  made  by  the  said  Harris  is 
discernably  too  low  and  too  weak  for  the  said  church,  their  masterships 
see  not  any  cause  of  further  delay  or  need  of  any  reference  to  musicians 
or  others  to  determine  the  differences,  but  do,  for  their  parts,  unani- 
mously make  choice  of  the  said  organ  made  by  Smith  for  the  use  of 
these  societies,  and  Mr.  Treasurer  is  desired  to  acquaint  the  treasurer 
and  masters  of  the  bench  of  the  Inner  Temple  with  this  declaration  of 
their  judgments,  with  all  respect  desiring  their  concurrence  herein." 

"  Upon  due  consideration  whereof  had,  their  masterships  do 
unanimously  declare  that  they  conceive  themselves  to  be  not  well 
used  therein,  that  a  resolution  and  determination  should  be  made  in 
a  matter  which  equally  concerns  both  Houses  without  a  conference 
first  had  with  their  masterships,  and  that  the  same  directly  tends  to 
a  breach  of  mutual  correspondence  which  ought  to  be  maintained  and 
preserved  between  both  societies ;  that  it  is  high  time,  and  appears 
to  be  absolutely  necessary  that  impartial  judges  (and  such  as  are  the 
best  masters  of  music)  be  forthwith  nominated  by  both  Houses  to 
determine  the  controversy  between  the  two  organ  makers,  whose 
instrument  is  the  best,  which  this  society  are  ready  to  do,  and  desire 
their  masterships  of  the  Middle  Temple  to  join  with  them  therein  in 
order  to  the  speedy  putting  an  end  to  so  troublesome  a  difference." 

Holloway,  Edwards,  Johnson,  Bowyer,  and  Purley  empowered 
to  enter  into  a  treaty  with  a  like  number  of  the  masters  of  the  bench 
of  the  Middle  Temple  in  order  to  settle  the  affair  speedily. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  24  June,  1685. 

"  A  paper  sent  from  the  Middle  Temple  in  answer  to  an  order 
of  the  bench  table  of  this  society,  made  the  22nd  instant,  being  this 
day  read,  ut  sequitur : 

"Middle  Temple  : — Bench  table,  June  23,  1685.  In  answer  to 
the  paper  sent  from  the  bench  table  of  the  Inner  Temple,  the  22nd 
instant,  the  masters  of  the  bench  of  the  Middle  Temple  now  in 
commons  say, 

"  i.  That  they  cannot  imagine  how  the  masters  of  the  Inner 
Temple  can  pretend  any  ill  usage  or  disrespect  offered  towards  them, 
either  tending  to  a  breach  of  correspondence  or  common  civility,  by 


1685]  INNER   TEMPLE  RECORDS.  227 

the  act  of  parliament  of  the  Middle  Temple  of  the  second  of  this 
instant  June,  for  that  the  masters  of  the  Middle  Temple  thereby 
only,  on  their  parts,  (with  the  concurrence  of  the  barristers  and 
students)  declare  their  judgments  and  choice  of  Smith's  organ,  not 
imposing  but  requesting,  the  concurrence  of  the  Inner  Temple 
therein  with  all  respect. 

"  2.  As  to  the  matter  of  having  the  two  organs  referred  to  the 
judgment  of  impartial  musicians,  there,  yet  appears  not  any  difference 
between  the  two  societies  concerning  the  same,  the  masters  of  the 
bench  of  the  Inner  Temple  having  not  as  yet  in  Parliament  declared 
their  judgments  and  choice  of  the  other  organ  which  if  in  their 
judgments  they  shall  think  fit  to  do,  whereby  a  difference  shall 
appear  between  the  two  societies,  then  their  said  masterships,  now 
in  commons,  believe  the  society  of  the  Middle  Temple  will  find  some 
other  expedient  for  the  determination  of  the  said  difference. 

"  3.  As  to  the  price  of  the  organs,  Smith,  the  organ  maker, 
absolutely  refuseth  to  set  any  price  upon  his  organ,  but  offers  to 
submit  the  same  to  the  judgment  of  the  treasurers  of  both  societies 
or  to  such  artists  as  they  shall  choose,  which  their  masterships  cannot 
but  think  reasonable. 

"  4.  As  to  the  numbering  the  organ  pipes  and  stops,  etc.,  their 
masterships  think  it  below  them  to  trouble  themselves  therein,  because 
the  proposal  can  have  no  other  ground  than  a  supposition  of  such  fraud 
in  the  artist  as  is  inconsistent  with  the  credit  of  his  profession." 

"  Upon  due  consideration  thereof  had,  their  masterships  do 
unanimously  declare  themselves  dissatisfied  in  the  irregular  proceed- 
ings of  the  Middle  Temple  in  this  matter,  and  therefore  firmly  adhere 
to  their  former  resolution,  viz.  : — that  there  is  no  way  to  determine 
the  controversy  between  the  two  organ  makers,  but  by  choosing 
impartial  judges  and  such  as  are  the  best  masters  of  music,  and  not 
members  of  either  society." 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26  June,  1685. 

Order  for  an  augmentation  of  6/z.  to  be  made  to  Seth  Elliott,  the 
gardener,  who  has  lost  his  sight ;  that  the  petition  of  John  Collins, 
formerly  steward,  for  payment  of  debts  alleged  to  be  owing  when  he 


228  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1685 

left  the  office  of  steward,  be  rejected ;  that  Legg  be  suspended  com- 
mons for  striking  Thomas  Smith,  the  fourth  butler  ;  and  that  Richard 
Owen,  who  was  rejected  from  being  called  to  the  bar  upon  the  sug- 
gestion that  he  was  a  practising  attorney,  be  called  nunc  pro  tune. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  30  June,  1685. 

Order  for  Edward  Baldwin  and  the  others  lately  called  to  the 
bench  to  come  up  to  the  table  before  Saturday  next. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  i,  2,  3,  4,  6,  and  7  July,  1685. 

Orders  as  to  the  rebuilding  of  four  staircases  on  the  west  side  of 
Hare  Court ;  that  Finmore's  request  to  compound  for  this  vacation  be 
denied  ;  that  his  chamber  in  Fig-tree  Court,  sold  to  Richard  Colvile, 
be  viewed ;  that  Clowes,  Clendon,  Peachey,  senior,  and  Blincow  for 
refusing  to  permit  the  table  cloth  to  be  taken  away  or  to  rise  before 
the  masters  of  the  bench,  contrary  to  the  ancient  custom  of  the 
House,  on  Sunday  last  at  dinner,  have  a  recipiatur  entered  upon 
their  heads ;  that  the  gentlemen  called  to  the  bench  have  a  further 
summons  to  come  up  to  the  table  ;  and  that  John  Vaughan's  petition 
as  to  his  chamber  be  referred  to  a  committee. 

BENCH  TABLES  held  on  8  and  9  July,  1685. 

Orders  that  Charles  Meriton's  chamber  be  viewed  ;  that  William 
Tempest's  petition,  as  to  his  chamber,  be  referred  to  a  committee; 
that  the  petition  of  James  Anderton  (who  about  seven  years  before 
was  admitted  of  Bernard's  Inn  and  transplanted  himself  to  this  Society, 
and  having  only  a  plain  admission  was  rejected  at  the  last  call), 
praying  that  he  may  be  allowed  his  standing  and  a  call  this  term,  be 
refused ;  and  that  the  five  bench  chambers  in  the  new  building  be 
wainscotted  at  the  charge  of  the  House,  and  all  other  ornaments  con- 
venient and  fitting  be  left  to  the  pleasure  of  the  treasurer. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26,  28,  31   October  and  4  November,  1685. 

Orders  that  Henry  New,  brother  in  law  of  George  Warner 
deceased,  late  steward,  be  the  new  steward ;  that  Thomas  Smith, 


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229 


fourth  butler,  do  collect  the  money  due  to  the  late  steward ;  that  the 
petition  of  George  Warner,  late  steward,  for  a  longer  term  in  the  shop 
adjoining  the  church,  be  referred  to  Holloway  and  Edwards  ;  that 
at  the  desire  of  the  Lord  Chancellor  and  in  regard  that  the  grand  day 
this  year  falls  on  a  Sunday  the  same  be  kept  on  Monday  following, 
being  All  Souls  day  ;  that  John  Blincowe  and  John  Clendon,  having 
made  their  submissions,  be  restored  into  commons  ;  and  that  the  two 
puisne  butlers  be  amerced  a  mark  each  for  not  attending  to  open  the 
pews  of  the  church  for  the  masters  of  the  bench  on  Sunday  last  in  the 
afternoon. 


GENERAL   ACCOUNT    BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  treasurer,  from  7  November,  1684, 

to  4  November,  1685. 

DISBURSEMENTS  by  Anthony  Belbin,  from  7  November,  1684,  to  3 
February  following,  on  which  day  he  was  discharged  from  the 
office  of  under-treasurer. 


To  Capt.  Hamond,  vintner,  for  wine  spent 

at  the  bench  table,  1 5/1.  i  $s. 
To  Cooke,  as  master  of  the  revels,  for  two 

nights,  viz: — 21  Nov.  and  24  Jan. 


Sum  total  of  receipts,  873//.  15^.  8d. 
Disbursements,  216/1.  i2s.  id. 
Remainder  due,  657/7.  3^.  -]d. 


MONEYS    received    by    Thomas    Riggs,    under-treasurer,    from    3 
February,  1684-5,  to  4  November,  1685. 


Of  Halse,  principal  of  Lyon's  Inn,  for  rent 
of  the  Inn,  7//.  i$s.  ^d. 

Of  Widow  Farr,  a  year's  rent  for  her  lights 
into  Hare  Court,  6s.  8d.,  and  for  enlarg- 
ing two  windows  in  the  Inner  Temple 
Lane,  zs.  In  all,  8s.  8d. 

Money  received  for  the  repair  of  the 
church,  upon  the  Aid  Roll,  $3/1.  155., 
and  by  subscriptions,  5//.  45.  6d. 

From  Langley,  being  his  uncle's  legacy  to 
the  society,  40/1. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  the  plateman  for  the  use  of  glasses, 
knives,  linen,  etc.,  on  the  Grand  day, 
2  Feb.,  2/i.  los. 


To  the  House  musicians,  their  fees  for 
Michaelmas  and  Hilary  terms,  2/1.,  and 
for  Gunpowder  Treason  day,  2/1.  In 
all,  4//. 

Salary  to  Dr.  Sherlock,  Dr.  Woodroffe, 
and  John  Stacey,  as  usual. 

To  Edmund  Duck,  receiver  of  the  New 
River  Water,  ili.  6s.  Sd. 

To  Henry  Rogers,  potter,  for  185  double 
dozen  of  earthenware  delivered  into  the 
pot  house,  at  the  accustomed  rate  of 
i^d.  the  double  dozen,  lo/i.  $s.  lod. 

To  Collins  for  9  ells  of  Holland  for  a  sur- 
plice and  making  thereof,  2/i.  i$s. 

To  Cressar,  the  moiety  for  making  the 
water  gate  at  the  Temple  Stairs,  t,li.  los. 


A   CALENDAR   OF  THE 


[,685 


Faggots  for  bonfires  on  23  April,  being 
the  King's  Coronation  ;  when  the  news 
arrived  of  the  defeat  of  the  rebels  in  the 
west ;  on  26th  July,  being  the  thanksgiv- 
ing day ;  and  on  the  King  and  Queen's 
birthday. 

To  Alexander  Sonville  for  the  figure  work 
at  the  north  end  of  the  new  building, 
according  to  agreement,  22//. 

To  Cooke,  as  master  of  the  revels,  for 
grand  day,  being  2  Nov.,  4/1. 


To  Mr.  Davenant,  for  the  use  of  himself 
and  the  rest  of  the  players  who  acted 
the  play  called  "  The  Soldier's  Fortune  " 
in  the  hall  of  this  society  on  the  last 
grand  day,  zoli. 

To  Lord  Chief  Justice  Herbert  upon  his 
being  called  a  Serjeant  and  for  a  purse, 
lo/i.  is. 

Sum  total  of  receipts,  2,456/1.  35.  3^. 
Disbursements,  6$6ti.  us. 
Remains,  i, 799/7.  125.  $d. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1684-5,  January  21.  Order  by  the  Privy  Council  for  the 
delivery  to  Ralph  Hansby  of  Tickhill  of  certain  deeds  and  writings 
which  had  been  held  by  Richard  Langhorne,  late  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  counsellor  at  law,  at  the  time  of  his  apprehension. 

Receipt  of  the  same  deeds  and  writings,  dated  13  February, 
following. 

1685,  June  5.  Receipt  by  Wright  Croke  and  Charles  Croke  for 
the  goods,  books,  writings,  etc.,  of  Serjeant  Richard  Croke. 

1685,  July  4.  Bond  by  Nathaniel  Munday  for  the  maintenance 
of  a  child  named  Benjamin  Temple. 


ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  26  November,  i  James  II.,  A.D.  1685,  before 
SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  CHRISTOPHER  MILTON,  CHARLES  HOLLO- 
WAY,  SIR  WILLIAM  POULTNEY,  WILLIAM  LONGUEVILLE,  and  others. 
SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Timothy  Geeres,  son  of  Thomas  Geeres, 
at  the  request  of  his  father ;  confirmation  of  an  order  made  at  the 
bench  table  for  allowing  30/2'.  for  finishing  four  bench  chambers ; 
and  order  to  view  Perrin's  house,  adjoining  the  Inner  Temple  Lane. 

John  Herring  called  to  the  bar. 

"  Upon  consideration  had  of  the  difference  depending  between 
this  society  and  the  Middle  Temple,  touching  the  two  organ  makers 


,68 5-6]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  231 

and  of  the  several  orders  and  acts  of  parliament  of  both  societies  in 
relation  thereto,  it  is  unanimously  ordered  and  enacted  that  the  order 
of  the  bench  table  of  this  society,  made  the  24th  of  June  last,  do 
stand  and  be  confirmed,  and  the  same  is  hereby  made  an  act  of  this 
present  parliament,  which  said  order  is  to  the  effect  following  : — 
That  upon  due  consideration  had  of  a  second  paper  sent  from  the 
Middle  Temple  in  answer  to  an  order  of  the  bench  table  of  this 
society,  made  the  two  and  twentieth  of  June,  then  instant,  their 
masterships  did  unanimously  declare  themselves  dissatisfied  in  the 
irregular  proceedings  of  the  said  Middle  Temple  in  that  matter,  and 
therefore  firmly  adhered  to  their  former  resolution,  viz.,  that  there 
is  no  way  to  determine  the  controversy  between  the  two  organ- 
makers,  but  by  choosing  impartial  judges  and  such  as  are  best 
masters  of  music,  and  not  members  of  either  society." 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  7  February,  2  James  II.,  A.D.  1685-6,  before 
THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  and 
others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

A  further  term  of  twenty-one  years  granted  to  Johanna,  widow 
of  George  Warner,  late  steward  of  the  inn,  to  a  barber's  shop  on  the 
south  side  of  the  Temple  Church. 

Orders  that  Samuel  Grant,  an  utter  barrister,  who  was  convicted 
of  common  barratry,  be  expelled  ;  and  that  an  allowance  of  los.  a 
week  be  made  to  George  Cure,  an  ancient  barrister,  "  now  fallen  to 
decay." 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  n  February,  2  James  II.,  A.D.  1685-6,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  and 
others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Order  that  William  Longueville,  chosen  reader,  having  paid 
150/2'.,  is  declared  an  absolute  and  complete  reader. 

Edward  Jenner,  son  of  Baron  Jenner,  is,  at  the  request  of  his 
father,  called  an  utter  barrister. 


232  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1686 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  2  May,  2  James  II.,  A.D.  1686,  before  CHARLES 
HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  and  others. 
SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Anthony  Bowyer  chosen  reader  for  Trinity  vacation ;  and 
pensions  assessed  double. 

Special  admissions  of  Ambrose  Phillipps,  eldest  son,  and  John 
Phillipps,  third  son  of  Sir  Ambrose  Phillipps,  serjeant  at  law,  at  the 
request  of  their  father  ;  of  Vigorous  Edwards,  second  son  of  Richard 
Edwards,  at  the  request  of  his  father  ;  and  of  Thomas  Hodges,  eldest 
son  of  John  Hodges,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Admission  of  Leonard  Diggs  by  certificate  ad  eundem  gradum, 
who  was  specially  admitted  to  the  Middle  Temple  on  28  May,  1677, 
and  called  to  the  bar  on  18  May,  1683. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  17  May,  2  James  II.,  A.D.  1686,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  NICHOLAS 
COURTNEY,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Edward  Thurland,  son  of  Edward  Thurland 
and  grandson  of  Sir  Edward  Thurland,  late  one  of  the  barons  of  the 
Exchequer. 

George  Selby,  Heath  Edwards,  George  Grainge,  Henry  Owen, 
James  Anderton,  Thomas  How,  Tobiah  Harvey,  Francis  Blower, 
John  Marriott,  Brownell  Harding,  Thomas  Caldicott,  and  Thomas 
Middleton  called  to  the  bar. 

John  Methwen,  one  of  the  masters  in  Chancery  called  an 
associate  to  the  bench. 

Order  for  gentlemen  to  pay  the  remainder  of  their  building 
money. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  15  June,  2  James  II.,  A.D.  1686,  before  THOMAS 
FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  NICHOLAS 
COURTNEY,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Fortescue  Turberville,  grandson  of  John 
Turberville. 


i685-6]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  233 

Orders  as  to  the  disposition  of  bench  chambers,  and  as  to  those 
who  are  in  arrear  for  the  charge  of  rebuilding  their  chambers. 

Sir  Samuel  Astrey,  clerk  of  the  Crown  in  the  King's  Bench, 
called  an  associate  to  the  bench. 

Anthony  Bowyer  elected  to  pay  his  money  in  lieu  of  reading. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  20  June,  2  James  II.,  A.D.  1686,  before  THOMAS 
FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  ANTHONY 
BOWYER,  FRANCIS  PURLEY,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER, 
treasurer. 

Orders  as  to  those  in  arrear  for  building  their  chambers  ;  and  as 
to  the  allowance  of  20^.  a  week  to  be  continued  to  Minors. 

* 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  4  November,  2  James  II.,  A.D.  1686,  before 
JOHN  MOSYER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  LANCELOT  JOHNSON, 
NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Order  for  pensions  to  be  assessed  double. 

Francis  Purley  chosen  reader  for  Hilary  vacation. 

Auditors  : — William  Farrer,  P.  Pargiter,  Selby,  and  Farewell, 
for  the  treasurer's  accounts,  and  Hodges,  Fuller,  Legh,  and  Niccolls, 
for  the  steward's  accounts. 

Special  admission  of  Thomas  Tyrrell,  son  and  heir  of  Sir  Peter 
Tyrrell,  and  grandson  of  Sir  Thomas  Tyrrell,  at  the  request  of  his 
father. 

Thomas  Selby,  gentleman,  brother  of  Serjeant  Selby,  formerly 
a  bencher,  called  an  associate  of  the  bar. 

Order  for  those  who  are  owners  of  chambers  in  Sir  Robert 
Sawyer's  new  buildings,  to  discharge  their  duties  owing. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Robert  Sawyer  continued. 


BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 
BENCH  TABLE  held  on  6,  14,  18,  21,  and  27  November,  1685. 

Orders  that  Isaac  Crow,  a  turnspit,  have  5/2".  given  to  him ;  that 
Nicholas  Courtney  pay  loo/z.  for  not  reading;  that  the  election  of 
bench  chambers  be  adjourned  ;  that  the  benchers  who  have  renounced 

III.  H  H 


234  A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1686 

the  benefit  of  bench  chambers  upon  payment  of  50/2.  each,  shall  be 
re-admitted  to  their  election  of  bench  chambers ;  that  Levett  shall 
visit  the  several  masters  of  the  bench  before  his  re-admission  ;  that 
the  fine  of  William  Fiennes  for  his  chamber  be  certain  not  arbitrary ; 
that  30/2.  be  allowed  towards  finishing  the  bench  chambers  in  the 
new  buildings  ;  that  Robert  Wynn  and  Hugh  Vaughan  be  fined  40/2. 
each  for  neglecting  to  read ;  and  as  to  the  election  of  bench  chambers 
in  the  new  buildings. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  28  and  29  January,  1685-6. 

Order  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  invite  the  Lord  Chan- 
cellor with  the  judges  and  Serjeants  of  this  House  to  dinner  on  grand 
day,  and  to  know  of  his  Lordship  whether  he  will  please  to  have 
a  play. 

Order  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  view  the  chambers  in 
the  new  buildings,  examine  the  complaint  of  the  carelessness  of 
the  workmen,  view  the  trees  in  the  King's  Bench  Walks,  and  report 
what  they  think  them  worth,  and  whether  they  think  it  fit  to  cut 
them  down  this  season ;  that  William  Minors,  chief  butler,  shall 
have  5/2'.,  he  having  broken  his  leg;  that  the  consideration  of  the 
petition  of  George  Cure,  an  aged  member,  for  assistance,  be  deferred. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  i  February,  1685-6. 

Order  that  Holloway,  Edwards,  Johnson,  Purley,  William  Farrer, 
and  Pargiter  be  a  committee  to  meet  a  like  number  of  the  bench  of 
the  Middle  Temple  in  the  Rounds  touching  the  organ. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  2  February,  1685-6.    Present : — The  treasurer, 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  HOLLOWAY,  JOHNSON,  EDWARDS,  and  others. 

Orders  that  los.  a  week  be  allowed  to  Cure ;  that  Edward 
Thurstyn,  a  vintner,  attend  the  table  with  a  model  of  his  building ; 
and  that  Mrs.  Warner,  upon  surrender  of  her  former  lease,  shall  have 
a  further  term  of  twenty-one  years. 

Order,  upon  the  report  of  the  committee  as  to  the  organs,  that 
there  be  communicated  to  the  committee  of  the  Middle  Temple  the 
act  of  parliament  made  in  Michaelmas  term,  and  that  their  con- 


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currence  that  indifferent  persons  be  forthwith  chosen  by  each  society 
to  determine  which  is  the  best  organ,  be  desired. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  6,  u,  and  13  February,  1685-6. 

Orders  that  the  petition  of  Christopher  Waterman,  of  the  Middle 
Temple,  as  to  his  chamber,  be  referred  to  a  committee ;  that  the 
allowance  craved  by  Mrs.  Warner  be  referred  to  a  committee ;  that 
John  Methwen's  chamber  be  viewed ;  that  Minors  have  2CW.  a 
week ;  and  that  a  committee  do  inquire  into  the  excessive  rate  of 
commons  and  other  expenses  of  the  House. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26,  27,  and  29  April,  1686. 

Orders  that  certain  gentlemen  pay  their  arrears,  otherwise  their 
chambers  to  be  padlocked ;  that  the  old  proprietors  and  new  sub- 
scribers of  chambers  in  the  new  building  do  pay  in  the  remainder 
of  their  building  money  ;  and  that  Sir  Thomas  Foster's  chamber  be 
viewed. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  i,  7,  8,  10,  n,  and  13  May,  1686. 

Orders  that  Polewheele  do  pay  his  duties  ;  that  certain  chambers 
be  viewed ;  that  the  petition  of  Brocas  Gardiner  concerning  his 
chamber,  be  referred'lto  a  committee ;  that  Dr.  Hooke  be  desired  to 
view  and  measure  the  new  buildings,  and  to  certify  "  how  many 
squares  of  building  "  there  are  in  the  same,  in  order  to  a  final  determi- 
nation of  the  controversy  ;  that  gentlemen  be  ordered  to  pay  in  their 
building  money ;  that  the  persons  named  at  the  parliament  held  on 
17  May  (with  John  Baggot  and  Demetrius  Long)  be  called  to  the 
bar,  but  that  Selby,  Edwards,  Owen,  Marriott,  and  Baggott  are  not 
to  be  sworn  till  they  have  visited  all  the  benchers  and  received  the 
sacrament ;  and  that  Caldecot,  Middleton,  and  Long  be  called,  if  they 
severally  receive  the  sacrament. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  14  May,  1686. 

Orders  for  the  viewing  of  chambers ;  for  chambers  to  be  pad- 
locked ;  for  Minors'  allowance  to  be  continued  ;  and  for  Fell  to  stop 


236  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [l686 

up  the  door  out  of  his  garden  into  the  House  garden  at  the  south  end 
of  the  new  buildings. 

Petition  of  Renatus  Harris,  organ-maker,  that  "having  expended 
great  sums  of  money  for  the  erecting  of  an  organ  in  the  church, 
which  by  reason  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Middle  Temple  hath  been 
hitherto  much  augmented  by  continued  interest  and  extraordinary 
charges  of  watchmen,  besides  the  damage  and  loss  of  time  in  attend- 
ance and  ineffectual  working,  your  petitioner  is  at  present  thereby 
rendered  under  great  straits  and  inconveniences  for  want  of  money 
to  supply  his  occasions  ;  he  therefore  prays  for  the  loan  of  looli. 
upon  his  bond  to  pay  on  demand."  Which  petition  is  granted. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  15  and  17  May,  1686. 

Orders  for  the  viewing  of  chambers  ;  petitions  of  John  Vaughan, 
Thomas  Velley,  William  Minors,  and  John  Colvile,  as  to  their 
chambers  ;  order  that  the  petition  of  Thomas  Elliott,  the  gardener,  for 
a  plot  of  land  behind  the  King's  Bench  Office  for  a  nursery  garden, 
be  rejected ;  and  that  the  gentlemen,  whose  call  to  the  bar  was 
suspended  until  they  had  received  the  sacrament,  be  this  day  con- 
firmed, it  appearing  that  they  had  accordingly  conformed  themselves 
thereto. 

BENCH  TABLES  held  on  6  and  9  June,  1686. 

Orders  for  chambers  to  be  viewed ;  for  Sir  Samuel  Astrey,  clerk 
of  the  Crown  in  the  King's  Bench,  to  be  called  an  associate  to  the 
bench ;  for  Allgood  to  attend  the  table  for  breaking  the  flower  pots 
in  the  garden ;  that  Young,  Richard  Wynn,  Henry  Hampson, 
Sheires,  Wheeler,  Fell,  Fotheringham,  and  Pitts  remove  their 
families  from  their  chambers  ;  that  Minors'  allowance  be  continued  ; 
that  the  east  window  of  the  hall,  being  in  some  danger  of  falling,  be 
viewed  ;  that  certain  chambers  be  padlocked  ;  and  that  the  bonds  of 
certain  gentlemen  be  put  in  suit. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  10  June,  1686. 

"  Upon  information  that  a  young  child  was  found  dead  last  night 
in  the  Temple  Church  porch,  it  is  ordered  that  the  under-treasurer 


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of  this  House  do  confer  with   the  under-treasurer  of  the  Middle 
House,  to  take  care  for  a  coroner  to  view  the  same  and  bury  it." 

Orders  that  Allgood  do  furnish  other  pots  of  like  fashion  and 
value  as  those  he  broke,  before  the  first  day  of  next  term,  otherwise 
that  he  be  put  out  of  commons  ;  as  to  Farrer's  bench  chamber  ;  and 
that  precedents  be  searched  touching  the  precedency  of  Baldwin  and 
the  other  associates  to  the  bench. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  n,  12,  21,  and  26  June,  1686. 

Orders,  upon  complaint  that  cellar  windows  are  made  in  the  new 
buildings,  and  in  Fig-tree  Court,  and  new  windows  are  made  in  the 
very  jambs  of  the  building,  that  the  same  be  viewed ;  that  30/2'.  be 
paid  Sir  William  Poultney  concerning  the  finishing  of  his  bench 
chamber  ;  as  to  the  disposition  of  bench  chambers  ;  that  Allgood  and 
Ellesden  attend  the  bench ;  and  that  upon  the  petition  of  Samuel 
Short,  the  fine  on  his  chamber  be  respited. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  28  October,  1686. 

Orders  that  Sir  John  Heath  and  Holloway  do  wait  on  the  lord 
chancellor,  the  judges,  formerly  of  this  House,  and  the  master  of  the 
rolls  to  invite  them  to  dinner  on  the  next  grand  day ;  that  Courtney 
and  Bowyer  do  wait  on  the  Serjeants,  formerly  of  this  House,  and 
invite  them  to  dinner  on  the  said  grand  day ;  that  the  form  of  the 
steward's  bond  be  considered ;  that  the  act  against  alterations  in 
chambers  be  screened ;  and  that  chambers  be  viewed. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  2  November,  1686. 

Orders  that  the  petition  of  Robert  Hampson,  that  the  duties 
charged  on  his  chamber  be  remitted  on  account  of  his  losses  by  the 
fire,  be  granted  on  certain  conditions  ;  that  Christopher  Sparkes  may 
enjoy  a  shed,  annexed  to  his  chamber  in  Mitre  Court  Buildings, 
which  he  erected  to  prevent  a  great  nuisance  ;  and  that  the  chambers 
of  certain  gentlemen  be  padlocked. 


238 


A   CALENDAR   OF  THE 


[1686 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  treasurer,  from  4  November.  1685, 

to  4  November,  1686. 


RECEIPTS. 
Of  Halce,   principal   of  Lyons  Inn,  for 

rent,  y/z.  135.  4^. 
Upon  the  aid  roll,  for  repairs  of  the  church 

and  upon  subscriptions,  32/2'.  105. 
Of  Mr.  Browne,  one  of  the  executors  of 

Dr.  Ball,  being  a  legacy  left  by  him  to 

this  society  for  casting  two  bells  into 

one,  loli. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  "  Frideswood  Crow  ",  being  allowed  to 

her  husband  for  his  relief,  5//. 
To  Charles  Cooke,  as  master  of  the  revels, 

in  Michaelmas  term,  on  5,  7,  14,  21,  and 

28  Nov.,  io#. 
To  William  Phillips,  the  Middle  Temple 

joiner,   the  moiety  for  making  a  long 

broad  step  ladder  for  the  church,  i  •]$.  6d. 
To  Downes,  for  one  dozen  common  prayer 

books  and  other  things,  io/z'.  6s. 
To  Smith  the  cook,  for  a  dinner  for  the 

musicians  that  played  before  the  Lord 

Chancellor  on  2  Nov.,  1685,  4//.  7^.  \\d. 
To  Francis  Purley,  executor  of  Dr.  Ball, 

for  the  moiety  of  a  year's  rent  of  Dr. 

Ball's  late  house,  now  Dr.  Sherlock's,  2  oli. 
Salaries    to   Dr.   Sherlock,   master  of  the 

Temple,    Dr.    Woodroff,   lecturer,   and 

Stacey,  the  reader. 
To  Charles  Cook,  as  master  of  the  revels 

for  grand  day,  2  Feb.,  4//. 
For  bonfires,  on  the  day  of  the  King's  ac- 
cession ;  23  April ;  29  May  ;  and  on  the 

King's  birthday. 
To  Davenant,  for  the  use  of  the  players 

that  acted  "  The  Committee  "  in  the  hall 

before  the  lord  chancellor  and  judges 

on  2  Feb.,  ao//". 
To  Robinson,  for  the  use  of  himself  and 

the  musicians,  for  their  fee  in  Michael- 


mas and  Hilary  Terms  last,  2/1'.,  and  for 
last  Gunpowder  Treason  day,  zli. 

The  moiety  of  a  bill  for  work  done  in  fit- 
ting up  Dr.  Sherlock's  house  and  garden, 
IQ/Z'.  1 6s.  <)d. 

To  James  Bartlett,  the  bell  founder,  the 
moiety  of  his  bill,  i  oli.  1 7.?. 

To  Henry  Lobb,  the  joiner,  for  wainscot- 
ting  Sir  William  Poultney's  chamber  in 
the  new  buildings,  30/2. 

To  Harris,  the  organ  maker,  upon  security 
of  his  bond,  roo/z. 

To  the  moiety  of  a  bill  of  disbursements 
on  behalf  of  both  Houses  touching  the 
child  found  dead  in  the  church  porch, 
ill.  c)s.  i\d. 

To  Scoltock,  the  ironmonger,  for  locks 
and  other  ironwork  in  Baron  Milton's 
chamber,  $K.  igs. 

To  the  three  Serjeants  that  were  lately 
called,  and  for  three  purses,  i$li.  3^. 

To  Campion,  the  herald  painter,  for  put- 
ting up  the  readers'  arms  in  the  Library, 
loli, 

To  the  servants  of  the  Insurance  Office 
and  Friendly  Society  for  their  pains  in 
preserving  the  buildings  next  the  White 
Friars  little  gate,  in  the  time  of  the  fire 
that  happened  at  Hall's  Coffee  House, 
4//.,  and  to  several  porters,  labourers, 
and  the  servants  of  the  House  for  their 
pains  at  the  said  fire,  405.  In  all,  6li. 

To  the  old  man  that  looked  after  the 
necessary  houses,  in  the  time  of  his 
sickness  and  towards  burying  of  him, 

2//.    12S.   6d. 

To  Partridge,  for  a  large  ball  of  copper  set 

on  the  clock  house,  zli.  55. 
To  Filmer,  for  a  large  mould  carved  in 

wood  for  casting  of  earthen  pots  for  the 

garden,  8//. 


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239 


To  Thomas  Holland,  the  plateman,  for 
the  loan  of  plates,  knives,  linen,  etc.,  on 
the  grand  day,  ist  Nov.  2/i.  los. 

To  Edward  Browne,  guardian  to  Mrs.  Ellen 
Ball,  for  the  moiety  of  Dr.  Sherlock's 
house  rent,  zoli. 

To  Davenant,  for  the  use  of  himself  and 
the  rest  of  the  players  for  acting  the 
play  in  the  hall  called  "  The  Scornful 
Lady,"  on  last  grand  day,  ist  Nov., 
2oli. 

To  Penn,  the  stationer,  for  paper  and 
parchment,  5//.  75.  id. 

To  William  Wensley,  for  a  year's  fee  farm 


rent  due  from  this  society  at  Michael- 
mas last,  and  is.  for  the  acquittance, 
io//'.  u. 

To  Oliver  and  Hooke,  for  measuring  the 
new  buildings  and  vaults,  three  times, 
and  expenses,  5/».  gs. 
For  drawing  the  articles  for  building  and 
writing  three  fair  copies  and  engrossing 
the  same,  and  parchment  and  attending 
Dr.  Barbon,  etc.,  about  settling  the 
prices,  etc.,  5/2". 

Sum  total  of  receipts,  3,1 72/2.  7.?.  3^. 
Disbursements,  1,603/2'.  i$s.  8*d. 
Balance,  i,568#.  i$s.  d^d. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1685-6,  March  i.  Certificate  by  H.  Norwoc  that  the  books, 
etc.,  in  William  Norwood's  late  chamber  are  the  goods  of  his  elder 
brother,  Richard  Norwood. 

1686,  May  16.  A  note  that  Heath  Edwards,  Thomas  Myddel- 
ton,  George  Selby,  and  John  Owen  had  received  the  sacrament  in 
the  Temple  Church. 

1686,  August  19.  Certificate  by  Robert  Milborne,  Francis 
Pigott,  and  Thomas  Smith,  that  the  bell  made  by  William  Wight- 
man,  bell  founder,  for  the  society,  is  a  better  bell  than  that  made  by 
James  Bartlett,  bell  founder.  Witnesses,  Thomas  Riggs,  Sa.  Jack- 
son, and  Thomas  Tompion,  the  clockmaker,  at  the  corner  of  Water 
Lane,  Fleet  Street,  London, 

1686.  Petition  of  Thomas  How,  that  having  studied  civil  law 
at  the  university  of  Cambridge  in  1676,  and  having  admitted  himself 
to  the  society,  and  been  in  commons  eight  years,  hearing  it  was  in- 
tended to  have  an  honorary  call,  he  stood  a  candidate,  but  was 
rejected,  although  he  (having  a  considerable  estate)  never  intended 
to  make  any  profit  or  advantage  thereby.  He  prays  he  may  be 
called.  Note,  that  he  was  called  on  13  May,  1686. 


A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1686-7 


ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  November,  2  James  II.,  A.D.  1686,  before 
JOHN  MOSYER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  LANCE- 
LOT JOHNSON,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  George  Bridgeman,  second  son  of  Sir 
John  Bridgeman,  bart.,  and  grandson  of  the  late  Lord  Keeper 
Bridgeman. 

Alexander  Eraser  called  to  the  bar. 

Admissions,  ad  eundem  gradum,  of  Nathaniel  Axtell,  who  was 
admitted  to  Lincoln's  Inn  on  i  December,  1677,  and  called  to  the 
bar  in  Hilary  Term,  1685  ;  and  of  John  Evelyn,  who  was  admitted 
to  the  Middle  Temple  on  2  May,  1672,  and  called  to  the  bar  on  9 
February,  1682. 

Orders  as  to  payments  in  arrear  for  chambers,  and  for  Mr. 
Stacy,  reader  of  the  Temple,  to  be  paid  loli. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  6  February,  3  James  II.,  A.D.  1686-7,  be- 
fore SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD 
EDWARDS,  LANCELOT  JOHNSON,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT 
SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Orders  as  to  chambers  and  admittances  thereto,  and  that  Francis 
Purley  be  declared  a  complete  reader  upon  payment  of  ic-o/z. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  11  February,  3  James  II.,  A.D.  1686-7,  before 
THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  and 
others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Thomas  Gardiner,  John  Richardson,  John  Keeling,  Jervas 
Berkley,  Richard  Edwards  (son  of  Edwards  of  the  bench),  Richard 
Buckby,  Charles  Baker,  William  Waddington,  George  Nott,  John 
Smith,  Thomas  Chapman,  Henry  Box,  Brocas  Gardiner,  William 
Bloome,  Martin  Hildesby,  and  William  Smythe,  called  to  the 
bar. 


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PARLIAMENT  held  on  24  April,  3  James  II.,  A.D.  1687,  before 
CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  FRANCIS  PURLEY, 
WILLIAM  FARRER,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 


Pension  assessed  double,  and  William  Farrer  chosen  reader. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  30  October,  3  James  II.,  A.D.  1687,  before  SIR 
JOHN  HEATH,  RICHARD  POWELL,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and 
others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Pension  assessed  single. 

Philip  Pargiter  chosen  reader  for  Hilary  vacation. 

Auditors : — Purley,  Farrer,  Cardrow,  and  Blincow,  for  the 
treasurer's  accounts  ;  and  Hodges,  Fuller,  Leigh,  and  D.  Nicolls  for 
the  steward's  accounts. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Robert  Sawyer  continued. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  6  November,  1686. 

Petition  of  Alexander  Fraser  that  he,  being  admitted  in  Hilary 
term,  1662,  continued  in  commons  several  years,  and  in  1670  went 
abroad  to  travel,  so  that  he  could  not  attend  the  exercise  of  the 
House;  for  three  years  he  has  been  in  England  and  studying  the 
laws  of  this  kingdom  ;  having  now  encouragement  from  the  Duke  of 
Albemarle  to  attend  him  in  his  government  of  Jamaica,  he  prays  that 
to  qualify  him  for  practise  in  that  island,  he  may  be  called  to  the  bar. 
Whereupon  it  is  ordered  that  he  be  called  to  the  bar  provided  he 
receive  the  sacrament  in  the  Temple  Church. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  15  and  22  November,  1686. 

Orders  that  Levett's  chamber  be  padlocked,  he  being  expelled  ; 

that  the  debts  to  the  steward  be  paid  ;  that  upon  the  petition  of  Elyas 

Dyer,  the  puisne  butler,  who  is  in  a  consumption,  he  be  allowed  55-. 

a  week  till  next   term  ;  that   John   Blencoe,  William  Genew,  and 

in.  i  i 


242  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1686-7 

Edward  Ward  be  nominated  readers  for  Clifford's  Inn ;  that  John 
Dawling,  Samuel  Trotman,  Thomas  Tutt,  Dodd,  Simpson,  and 
Francis  Twisden  be  nominated  readers  for  Lyon's  Inn ;  and  that 
Robert  Fagg,  Samuel  Carter,  and  Charles  Vaughan  be  nominated 
readers  for  Clement's  Inn. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26  November,  1686. 

Petition  of  John  Stacy,  clerk,  that  he  has  for  several  years  served 
the  society  by  reading  divine  service  twice  every  day  in  the  Temple 
Church,  for  which  he  received  from  each  House  the  bare  salary  of 
15/2.  a  year  (without  a  chamber  or  commons),  which  allowance  is  so 
small  (the  great  rates  of  lodgings  and  all  other  necessaries  about 
these  parts  of  the  town  considered)  that  he  cannot  pay  for  the 
ordinary  conveniences  of  life.  He  therefore  prays  for  an  advance  in 
his  allowance.  Whereupon  a  committee  was  appointed  to  meet  a 
like  committee  of  the  Middle  Temple. 

Petition  of  William  Kelyng  that  since  the  death  of  his  father, 
who  was  chief  justice,  he  has  by  fine  and  misfortune  been  reduced  to 
great  straits,  and  that  by  the  cruel  prosecution  of  a  creditor  he  is 
thrown  into  the  prison  of  Ludgate,  where  he  is  destitute  of  all  means 
of  deliverance.  He  prays  that  the  bench  will  assist  in  his  redemp- 
tion from  prison.  Whereupon  it  was  considered  that  as  he  is  not  a 
member  of  this  society  no  order  should  be  made. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  29  November,  1686  and  29  January,  1686-7. 

Orders  that  the  nuisances  in  the  new  buildings  be  viewed  ;  that 
Harris,  the  organ  maker,  be  paid  the  further  sum  of  100/2.  upon 
security  of  his  bond ;  and  that  payment  of  duties  and  commons  be 
made. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  3  and  5  February,  1686-7. 

Orders  for  Deane,  Wynne,  and  Fell  to  attend  the  table;  that 
certain  chambers  be  viewed ;  that  Brocas  Gardiner,  who  has  been 
near  four  years  in  commons,  and  rebuilt  his  chamber  in  Serjeant 
Hampson's  building  which  was  burnt  down,  be  called  to  the  bar,  he 


,687]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  243 

having  an  unexpected  opportunity  of  advantage  abroad  requiring 
that  qualification ;  that  Richard  Edwards,  son  of  Edwards  of  the 
bench,  be  called  to  the  bar  ;  that  Martin  Hildesley,  upon  his  Majesty's 
special  recommendation,  be  called  to  the  bar ;  and  that  further  pro- 
ceedings in  this  call  be  respited  till  the  last  parliament  of  this  term. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7  and  10  February,  1686-7. 

Orders  that  the  cellars  in  Sir  Robert  Sawyer's  Buildings  and  the 
new  chimneys  made  since  the  building  was  erected,  be  viewed  ;  upon 
the  petition  of  Seth  Elliott  and  Jane,  his  wife,  who  have  "been  both 
dark  for  several  years,"  that  5/2".  per  annum  be  added  to  their  salary; 
and  nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bar  at  the  parliament  held  on 
1 1  February. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  n  and  12  February,  1686-7. 

Orders  that  upon  Winne's  denying  that  there  had  been  any 
digging  under  his  ground  chamber  in  the  new  buildings,  a  second 
view  thereof  be  taken;  that  Roger  Jenyns  may  change  the  lives  in 
his  chambers ;  that  a  further  30/2.  be  allowed  the  masters  of  the 
bench,  towards  wainscotting  of  their  bench  chambers. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  22,  25,  and  26  April,  1687. 

Orders  that  55-.  a  week  be  allowed  to  Edward  Burton,  the 
second  cook,  he  being  hurt  in  his  side  by  spitting  the  chines  of  beef 
on  the  eve  of  Grand  day ;  and  as  to  Cooke's  chamber ;  and  that  the 
petition  of  John  Adams  that  his  duties  may  be  remitted,  be  referred 
to  a  committee. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7,  8,  n,  and  13  June,  1687. 

Orders  for  the  building  over  the  arch  in  the  passage  into 
Mitre  Court,  to  be  viewed ;  that  the  exercise  butler  give  notice  to 
Trinder  and  Fuller  to  attend  the  exercise  of  the  House  ;  that  Fuller 
attend  the  table  to  show  cause  why  he  did  not  attend  the  exercise ; 
that  all  judges  and  Serjeants  that  are  called  from  this  society  have 


244 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[i687 


notice  to  quit  their  chambers ;  that  John  Prinn,  for  presuming  to 
come  into  commons  without  giving  bond,  and  refusing  to  come  to  the 
upper  mess  of  the  bar,  be  suspended  commons ;  and  that  the 
chambers  of  Adams  and  Dalton  be  viewed. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26,  27,  28,  and  29  October,  1687. 

Orders  that  John  Cressett  be  appointed  master  of  the  revels  in 
the  place  of  Charles  Cooke,  deceased  ;  that  Bowyer  and  Purley  do  wait 
on  the  lord  chancellor  and  master  of  the  rolls  to  invite  them  to  dinner 
on  Grand  day  next ;  that  William  Farrer  and  Fuller  do  wait  on  the 
judges  and  Serjeants  to  invite  them  to  dinner  on  the  same  day;  that 
Chaire's  chimney  and  others  of  a  like  nature  be  viewed ;  that  Prinn 
be  restored  into  commons ;  and  that  various  chambers  be  viewed. 

Order  that  a  committee  do  treat  with  the  Middle  Temple  upon 
the  matter  of  their  pulling  up  the  rails  in  the  Temple  Lane,  erected 
for  securing  the  Crown  Office  Building,  and  to  settle  the  place  for 
the  erection  of  such  rails ;  also  as  to  a  conveyance  to  be  made  to 
trustees  of  both  Houses  of  the  ground  or  soil  of  the  Temple  ;  and  as 
to  the  number  of  new  lights  to  be  set  up  in  the  society  and  their 
places  and  prices. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  treasurer,  from  4  November,  1686, 

to  30  October,  1687. 


Money  received  upon  the  aid  roll,  for  re- 
pair of  the  church,  and  upon  the  sub- 
scriptions, 24/Z. 

Received  for  the  trees  in  the  King's  Bench 
Walks,  after  allowance  for  taking  and 
carrying,  6li. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Charles  Cook,  as  master  of  the  revels, 
for  an  allowance  on  Grand  day,  and  the 
four  following  nights  in  Michaelmas 
term,  1686,  izli. 

To    Stacey,   the    reader   of  the   Temple 


church,  allowed  to  him  by  act  of  parlia- 
ment, 10/t. 
To  Harris,  the  organ  maker,  upon  security 

of  his  bond,  ioo/z. 
To  Minors,  for  wages  and  for  Gazettes  for 

the  masters  of  the  bench,  zli, 
To  Robinson,  for  the  musician's  fee  in 

Michaelmas  term,  4//. 
To  Davenant,  for  the  use  of  the  players 

that  acted  "The  Spanish  Priest,"  the 

Grand  day,  Feb.  2,  20/2. 
To   Tompson,1  the   clockmaker,  for  the 

clock  over  the  hall,  6o//. 


1  So  in  MS.  but  possibly  a  mistake  for  Thomas  Tompion,  the  well  known  clock- 
maker,  see  p.  239. 


1686-7] 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


245 


To  Charles  Cooke,  master  of  the  revels, 

for  grand  day,  Feb.  2,  4/1". 
To  the  bell  founder,  for  the  clock-bell  over 

the  hall,  2i//. 
To   Leonard   Hancock,  for  44   load    of 

gravel  used  in  the  garden,  at  2^.  a  load, 

4/».  8s. 

To  Nicholas  Young,  the  mason,  for  repair- 
ing the  stairs  at  the  water  side  for  two 

years,  2  ft. 
To  Cressar,  the  carpenter,  for  the  moiety 

of  his   bill,  for  work  done   upon   the 

church,  2li.  175. 
To  Edward  Hodgson,  for  the  moiety  of 

his  bill,  for  mending,  and  new  hanging 

the  bell  in  the  Temple  church,  6s.  3</. 
To  Warne,   the   painter,   for   work   done 

about  the  clock  house  and  elsewhere, 


To  Bernard  Peircey,  for  the  use  of  Mr. 
Neller  (sic),  for  the  picture  of  the  Lord 
Chancellor  Jeofferies,  set  up  in  the  hall, 


To  Browne,  guardian  to  Mrs.  Ellen  Ball, 
for   a   year's    rent   for   Dr.    Sherlock's 
house,  2o/f. 
To  Silvester,  the  clerk  of  the  church,  i«". 

S*.  4d. 

To  the  receiver  of  the  Queen  dowager's 
fee  farm  rent  and  for  the  acquittance, 
loli.  is. 

To  Cressar,  the  carpenter,  for  the  clock 
case,  garden  gates  and  other  work, 
io3//.  6s. 

Sum  of  the  receipts,  1,935/2'.  155.  i^d. 
Disbursements  (total  not  given). 
Balance,  343//.  i$s.  io^d. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1686,  December  6.  Receipt  by  R.  Norwood  for  books  (a 
catalogue  of  which  is  given)  found  in  his  kinsman's  chamber. 

1686-7,  January  24.  Receipt  by  Anne  Vincent  for  certain 
deeds  relating  to  the  lordship  of  Great  Smeaton,  in  the  county  of 
York,  which  were  found  among  the  papers  of  Richard  Langhorne, 
deceased. 

ACTS   OF   PARLIAMENT. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  20  November,  3  James  II.,  A.D.  1687,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and 
others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  Peter  Holloway,  youngest  son  of  Sir 
Richard  Holloway,  one  of  the  justices  of  the  Court  of  King's  Bench. 

Order  that  Thomas  Tutt  and  William  Simpson  be  auditors  for 
the  treasurer's  accounts,  in  the  place  of  James  Cardrow  and  John 
Blencowe,  who  are  called  to  the  bench. 

James  Cardrowe,  Paul  Foley,  Sir  Nathaniel  Powell,  knight  and 
baronet,  John  Blencowe,  and  Edward  Ward  called  to  the  bench,  and 
Charles  Bludworth  called  to  the  bar. 


246  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1687-8 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  November,  3  James  II.,  A.D.  1687,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY, 
RICHARD  EDWARDS,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Order  as  to  the  payment  of  arrears  for  chambers. 

"  Whereas  the  liberty  granted  formerly  to  the  gentlemen  of  this 
society  in  the  time  of  Christmas,  intended  only  for  a  civil  and  moderate 
recreation,  hath  for  many  years  past  degenerated  into  licentiousness 
and  disorder,  to  the  great  offence  of  Almighty  God,  the  scandal  and 
dishonour  of  this  society,  the  corrupting  and  debauching  of  divers 
young  gentlemen,  members  of  the  same,  and  unless  timely  prevented 
may  endanger  the  total  subversion  of  the  good  government  thereof; 
and  although  great  care  hath  been  taken  and  divers  good  acts  from 
time  to  time  made  for  regulating  Christmas  commons  and  redress  of 
such  shameful  disorders,  yet  they  have  always  proved  fruitless  and 
unsuccessful,  and  have  not  produced  that  good  effect  expected  from 
them.  For  the  preventing  therefore  of  so  great  mischiefs,  incon- 
veniences, and  farther  growing  evils  of  this  nature  in  time  to  come, 
it  is  upon  full  debate  and  consideration  thereof  had  at  this  parlia- 
ment, enacted,  that  for  the  time  of  Christmas  now  next  ensuing,  no 
commons  shall  be  kept  within  this  House,  but  the  commons  of  this 
House  shall  dissolve  and  break  up  on  the  Saturday  preceding  St. 
Thomas'  day  next,  and  not  begin  again  until  the  Saturday  night  next 
ensuing  the  feast  of  the  Epiphany,  and  in  the  mean  time  the  keys  and 
possession  of  the  hall,  buttery,  kitchen,  and  other  rooms  and  places 
of  like  public  office  for  this  House,"  shall  be  left  with  the  treasurer. 
And  if  any  fellow  shall,  contrary  to  this  act,  presume  or  endeavour 
to  have  commons  kept  during  the  time  aforesaid,  he  shall  ipso  facto 
be  totally  disabled  from  being  called  to  the  bar,  and  be  subject  to 
such  other  punishment  as  the  bench  shall  impose. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  12  February,  4  James  II.,  A.D.  1687-8,  before 
SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and 
others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Special  admission  of  James  Cardrow,  son  of  James  Cardrow. 
Commutation  by  Philip  Pargiter,  chosen  reader,  for  his  reading. 


,688]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  247 

Order  that  the  proposals  of  the  Middle  Temple  about  the 
lecturer  be  referred  to  a  committee  ;  and  that  parliament  be  adjourned 
to  Thursday. 

PARLIAMENT  held  by  adjournment  from  the  i2th  to  the  i6th  February, 
4  James  II.,  A.D.  1687-8,  before  SIR  JOHN  HEATH,  THOMAS 
FARRAR,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER, 
treasurer. 

Order  upon  the  report  of  a  committee  that  Dr.  Woodroffe,  the 
present  lecturer,  be  discharged,  and  Dr.  Sherlock,  now  master  of  the 
Temple,  is  hereby  desired  to  take  care  for  providing  such  person  as 
he  shall  think  fit  to  preach  afternoon  sermons  until  such  time  as  the 
respective  societies  shall  make  another  order  therein,  and  that  the 
treasurer  shall  pay  to  Dr.  Sherlock  50/2'.  per  annum,  being  the  moiety 
of  \ooli.  proposed  to  the  said  Dr.  Sherlock  for  such  allowance.  And 
it  is  further  ordered  that  Dr.  Woodroffe  have  notice  o-iven  him 

o 

thereof,  and  be  discharged  the  Sunday  before  the  next  term. 

Edward  Hurst,  Richard  Blanchard,  Henry  Blake,  George  Perry, 
Nathaniel  Lucas,  Richard  Arnold,  Thomas  Dunstar,  John  Travers, 
Samuel  Short,  George  Sawyer,  Richard  Sauchy,  and  Andrew 
Phillipps  called  to  the  bar.  And  Anthony  Gwynn  called  to  be  an 
associate  to  the  bar. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  13  May,  4  James  II.,  A.D.  1688,  before  SIR  JOHN 
HEATH,  THOMAS  FARRAR,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  and  others.  SIR 
ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

The  choice  of  reader  respited  till  next  parliament. 

William  Tempest,  prothonotary  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas, 
to  be  called  an  associate  to  the  bar. 

Special  admission  of  William  Wyne,  second  son  of  John  Wyne, 
deceased. 

PARLIAMENT  held  on  27  May,  4  James  II.,  A.D.  1688,  before  THOMAS 
FARRAR,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  LANCELOT  JOHNSON,  and  others. 
SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Sir  Robert  Sawyer  chosen  reader. 


248  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [,688 

Special  admission  of  John  King,  second  son  of  Sir  John  King, 
deceased. 

Order  that  Thomas  Maningham  be  chosen  lecturer  of  this  society, 
during  pleasure,  at  50/2'.  per  annum,  pursuant  to  the  report  of 
the  committee  appointed  to  treat  with  a  committee  of  the  Middle 
Temple. 

Order  that  Francis  Piggot,  gentleman,  be  hereby  appointed 
organist  to  this  society  during  pleasure,  at  25/2.  per  annum,  pursuant 
to  the  report  of  the  said  committee,  the  said  organist  paying  for  an 
able  and  sufficient  blower. 

William  Tempest,  prothonotory,  called  to  sit  at  the  upper  mess 
of  the  bar  table. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  4  July,  4  James  II.,  A.D.  1688,  before  SIR  JOHN 
HEATH,  THOMAS  FARRER,  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  LANCELOT  JOHN- 
SON, and  others.  SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

William  Tempest,  prothonotary,  is  called  an  associate  to  the 
bench. 

Thomas  Cooper,  Tobiah  le  Gresce,  Thomas  Simpson,  Henry 
Trinder,  Robert  Algood,  and  Nathaniel  Pigott  called  to  the  bar. 


PARLIAMENT  held  on  28  October,  4  James  II.,  A.D.  1688,  before  JOHN 
MOSYER,  RICHARD  EDWARDS,  LANCELOT  JOHNSON,  and  others. 
SIR  ROBERT  SAWYER,  treasurer. 

Pensions  to  be  assessed  double,  and  John  Hodges  chosen 
reader. 

Auditors  : — Courtney,  Cardrow,  Hooper,  and  Wilkinson,  for  the 
treasurer's  accounts,  and  the  same  for  the  steward's  accounts. 

Order  that  there  be  no  public  entertainment  or  music  in  the  hall 
on  the  grand  day  of  the  term,  only  an  "  exceeding  dish  "  and  a  bottle 
of  wine  to  each  mess  throughout  the  hall. 

Upon  the  earnest  request  of  Sir  Robert  Sawyer  to  be  discharged 
from  the  place  of  treasurer,  it  is  ordered  that  John  Mosyer  be  chosen 
for  the  year  ensuing. 


1687]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  249 


BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  2  and  3  November,  1687. 


Orders  that  Charles  Bludworth  be  called  to  the  bar ;  and  that 
Nathaniel  Bond,  James  Cardrow,  Paul  Foley,  Sir  Nathaniel  Powell, 
William  Genew,  John  Blencow,  and  Edward  Ward  be  called  to  the 
bench. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  7,  8,  9,  10,  n,   16,   18,  and   19  November, 

1687. 

Orders  that  a  committee  shall  examine  what  acts  are  in  force 
touching  the  carrying  of  commons  out  of  the  hall ;  that  Thomas 
Elliott  be  admitted  gardener  in  the  room  of  Seth  Elliott,  deceased  ; 
that  several  chambers  be  padlocked ;  that  gentlemen  in  arrear  with 
commons  do  attend  the  table  ;  that  certain  chimneys  be  stopped  up 
in  the  new  buildings,  and  as  to  chambers  to  be  altered  and  viewed  ; 
that  Prinn  attend  the  table  to  answer  as  to  the  failure  of  exercise ; 
that  a  committee  report  upon  the  failure  by  Henn  to  read ;  that 
Grant  be  expelled  and  prosecuted  at  law  for  breaking  off  the  pad- 
lock from  his  chamber  door ;  that  Bond  and  Genew  be  excused 
being  called  to  the  bench ;  and  that  Soares,  the  porter,  have  a  new 
gown. 

Order  that  Thomas  Pettit  and  William  Pettit  be  called  to  the 
bench  (19  Nov.). 

Orders  that  Bowyer,  Purley,  and  William  Farrer  do  review  the 
act  against  keeping  of  Christmas,  and  if  there  need  any  alteration,  to 
prepare  the  same;  and  that  Purley  inquire  of  Justice  Milton  when  he 
intends  to  remove  out  of  his  bench  chambers. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  22,  23,  24,  and  25  November,  1687. 

Orders  that  Thomas  Velley's  petition  as  to  his  chamber  be 
referred  to  a  committee ;  that  Richard  Fagg  be  fined  ^oli.  for  not 
reading  at  Clement's  Inn  ;  that  Edward  Probys'  proposal  for  a  new 
building,  on  the  west  side  of  the  garden,  be  referred  to  a  committee  ; 
that  Francis  Twisden,  Samuel  Trotman,  Edward  Hildyard,  Richard 

III.  K  K 


250  A   CALENDAR    OF  THE  [1687-8 

Osborne,  Thomas  Gibbons,  and  Robert  Abbot  be  nominated  readers 
for  Lyon's  Inn  for  next  year  ;  that  the  petition  touching  the  chambers 
of  Abell  Bradley,  be  referred  to  a  committee ;  that  Robert  Daney, 
John  Hales,  and  Charles  Whitaker  be  appointed  readers  for  Clement's 
Inn  ;  that  the  gentlemen  called  to  the  bench  take  their  places  on 
Saturday;  that  John  Elsinn,  Charles  Baldwyn,  and  John  Dawling  be 
chosen  readers  for  Clifford's  Inn  ;  that  Lord  Chancellor  Jeffryes' 
chamber  be  viewed ;  that  the  revels  in  the  hall  be  suspended  for  this 
night  (25  Nov.)  by  reason  of  Belbin's  illness,  and  his  lodging  being 
so  near  the  hall ;  that  upon  the  petition  of  Richard  Langhorne  that 
his  father's  papers  may  be  delivered  up  to  him,  such  clients  as  have 
deeds  in  the  custody  of  the  House  can  have  the  same  on  application 
to  the  treasurer;  that  upon  the  petition  of  John  Prinn,  his  amerce- 
ment, for  not  appearing  at  an  imparlance,  do  stand  ;  and  that  it  be 
left  to  the  treasurer  to  do  as  is  accustomed  about  the  petition  of 
Martha  Reinolds,  widow,  for  the  arrest  of  Warwick  Ledgingham, 
who  owes  her  looli.  on  bond  and  refuses  to  pay  her,  threatening  to 
pump  her  and  throw  her  into  the  Thames. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26  January,  1687-8. 

Order  that  the  whole  table  or  any  three  be  added  to  the  com- 
mittee to  consider  the  proposals  of  Edward  Probees  and  partners  as 
to  building  in  the  garden. 

COMMITTEE  held  in  the  Library  26  January,  1687-8. 

Resolutions  as  to  the  proposed  buildings  on  the  west  side  of  the 
garden,  to  consist  of  four  staircases,  that  they  be  40  ft.  in  depth,  that 
the  Temple  Lane  be  the  only  passage  to  them,  that  the  builders  be 
allowed  one  life,  that  there  be  no  chimneys  in  any  cellars,  etc. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  28  January,  1687-8. 
Order  for  Leighton's  chamber  to  be  viewed. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  4,  6,  and  7  February,  1687-8. 
Orders  for  chambers  to  be  viewed ;  that  upon  the  complaint  by 


8]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  251 

William  Winn,  the  persons  inhabiting  his  chamber  have  notice  to 
remove. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  8  February,  1687-8. 

Order  that  the  consideration  of  the  treasurer's  letter  to  Sir  John 
Heath  be  deferred  till  Friday,  at  dinner. 

Order  that  the  table  be  moved  that  at  the  next  parliament  it 
may  be  enacted  for  the  future,  that,  in  the  absence  of  the  treasurer, 
it  may  be  in  his  power  to  nominate  the  next  senior  bencher  in 
commons  to  hold  a  parliament  to  prevent  a  default  of  proceeding  in 
relation  to  the  government  of  the  House. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  10  February,  1687-8. 

The  petition  of  Stacy,  setting  out  that  for  several  years  he  has 
served  the  society  by  reading  prayers  twice  every  day  in  the  Temple 
Church,  for  which  he  received  from  each  House  the  salary  of  15/2., 
without  the  advantage  of  a  chamber  or  commons,  which  allowance  is 
small,  and  the  rates  of  lodgings  and  other  necessaries  in  these  parts 
of  the  town  being  so  high  that  he  cannot  provide  and  pay  for  the 
ordinary  conveniences  of  life.  He  therefore  prays  that  his  allowance 
may  be  advanced.  Order  thereupon  that  the  under-treasurer  do 
inquire  what  the  Middle  Temple  have  done  for  Stacy. 

Orders,  upon  signification  of  his  Majesty's  pleasure  by  the  Lord 
Chancellor,  that  Ed.  Hirst,  a  member  of  this  society,  be  called 
to  the  bar ;  that  Thomas  Cooper,  upon  making  it  appear  to  the  table 
that  he  has  left  off  the  practice  of  an  attorney,  be  also  called  to  the 
bar ;  that  Richard  Blanchard  and  the  others  (except  Southey  and 
Phillipps)  named  at  the  parliament  held  on  16  Feb.,  be  called. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  13  February,  1687-8. 

Orders  that  the  projectors  of  the  new  building  give  in  their 
answers;  that  certain  chambers  be  viewed,  and  other  orders  as  to 
chambers ;  that  the  bonds  of  those  in  arrear  to  the  late  steward  be 
put  in  suit ;  and  that  the  musicians  be  paid  what  was  owing  to  them, 
when  Cook  was  master  of  the  revels. 


252  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1688 

Order  "  that  for  the  future,  in  the  absence  of  the  treasurer,  it 
may  be  in  his  power  (after  such  time  that  the  first  parliament  in  any 
term  ought  to  have  been  held)  to  nominate  the  senior  bencher  in 
commons  to  hold  a  parliament,  and  that  the  same  at  the  next  parlia- 
ment to  be  held  for  this  society,  be  enacted  as  a  standing  rule  for  the 
future." 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  14  February,  1687-8. 

Orders  as  to  chambers ;  that  upon  the  report  of  a  committee,  it 
was  enacted  that  "  whereas  it  hath  been  thought  expedient  to  dis- 
charge of  the  lecturers  of  each  society  of  the  Temple,  and  there 
having  been  offers  made  by  the  masters  of  the  Middle  Temple  unto 
the  masters  of  this  society  for  their  concurrence  therein,"  it  is 
thought  expedient,  upon  the  discharge  of  Dr.  Woodroffe,  the  pre- 
sent lecturer,  that  Dr.  Sherlocke,  now  master  of  the  Temple,  be 
desired  to  take  care  for  procuring  such  persons  as  he  shall  think  fit 
to  preach  the  afternoon  sermons,  until  such  time  as  the  respective 
societies  shall  make  other  order  therein.  And  the  treasurer  shall 
pay  Dr.  Sherlocke  for  the  maintenance  of  such  preachers  the  sum  of 
50/z.  a  year.  And  Dr.  Woodroffe  be  discharged  the  Sunday  before 
next  term. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  15  and  16  February,  1687-8. 

Orders  that  chambers  be  viewed  ;  that  widow  Elliott's  petition 
be  referred  to  a  committee ;  that  posts  be  placed  on  both  sides  of 
King's  Bench  Walks  to  keep  the  coaches  from  the  buildings  and 
vaults ;  that  widow  Elliott  be  allowed  a  room  in  the  garden  house, 
and  1 3/z.  a  year ;  that  pallisadoes  be  continued  from  the  north  end  of 
Sir  Robert  Sawyer's  Buildings  to  the  garden  gate ;  and  that  Fiennes 
be  allowed  to  make  a  new  window  to  his  chamber. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  9,  10,  12,  and  14  May,  1688. 

Orders  that  certain  chambers  be  viewed  ;  that  William  Tempest, 
one  of  the  prothonotaries  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  be  called 
an  associate  to  the  bar;  that  John  Stacy,  the  reader  of  the  Temple 


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Church,  have  loli.  paid  to  him;  that  a  committee  do  search  for  pre- 
cedents whether  Sir  Robert  Sawyer,  the  present  treasurer,  is  liable  to 
be  chosen  reader ;  that  the  petition  of  John  Belford,  chief  cook,  for  an 
addition  to  his  salary,  be  referred  to  a  committee ;  that  the  petition 
of  William  Scares,  the  porter,  for  an  allowance  while  he  is  incapaci- 
tated with  a  broken  thigh,  be  referred  to  the  treasurer  ;  and  that  the 
under-treasurer  examine  what  persons  Andrew  Archer  and  Abraham 
Dudly  are  and  when  admitted,  complaints  having  been  made  against 
them. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  16  May,  1688. 

Order  that  a  committee  do  adjust  the  proportions  upon  the 
several  chambers  and  the  Crown  Office,  except  the  upper  room 
which  by  the  rule  of  the  House  is  to  be  exempt,  in  regard  that  they 
are  at  the  charge  of  repairing  the  roof. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  24  May,  1688. 

Order  that  Mosier,  Holloway,  Edwards,  and  Johnsonn  be  a 
committee  to  treat  with  a  like  committee  of  the  Middle  Temple 
touching  the  choice  of  a  joint  lecturer,  and  to  propose  Thomas 
Manningham,  recommended  by  the  Master  of  the  Rolls.  They 
are  also  desired  to  propose  Francis  Piggot  for  organist  to  both 
societies. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  26  May,  1688. 

Order  that  various  chambers  be  viewed  ;  that  the  choice  of 
reader  and  the  case  of  Sir  Robert  Sawyer  be  adjourned  till  next  par- 
liament. 

"  The  committee  appointed  to  treat  with  a  committee  of  the 

Middle  Temple  touching  a  joint  lecturer  having  this  day  reported  to 
the  table  that  the  Middle  Temple  have  already  chosen  Mr.  Maning- 
ham  their  lecturer,  provided  this  society  did  concur  therein,  at  the 
salary  of  looli.  per  annum,  50/2'.  by  each  society.  And  they  have 
also  chosen  Mr.  Francis  Piggott  to  be  their  organist,  at  50/2.  per 
annum,  25/2'.  by  each  society,  the  said  Mr.  Piggott  finding  and  paying 


254  A   CALENDAR    OF  THE  [,688 

an  able  and  sufficient  blower,  provided  this  society  did  concur  with 
them  in  the  said  choice.  It  is  ordered  that  the  further  consideration 
thereof  be  referred  to  the  next  parliament." 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  28  May,  1688. 

Orders,  upon  the  petition  of  Elizabeth  Mills,  widow,  a  servant 
of  the  society,  that  she  be  paid  5/2'.  for  her  immediate  relief;  and  that 
the  petition  of  John  Belford  be  taken  into  consideration  next  term. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  21,  25,  26,  and  28  June,  1688. 

Order  that  the  judges,  who  were  of  this  House,  be  attended  by 
the  several  benchers  in  a  body  touching  the  choosing  of  Sir  Robert 
Sawyer,  as  reader;  that  the  consideration  "of  the  articles  proposed 
for  the  organ  maker  and  organist  to  enter  into  the  House  "  be  referred 
to  Pargiter,  Hodges,  Cardrow,  and  Blencowe ;  that  the  petition  of 
Nicholas  Baxter  touching  Fig-tree  Court,  be  referred  to  Holloway 
and  Johnsonn  ;  that  certain  chambers  be  viewed;  that  the  act  of 
parliament  for  regulating  exercises  and  restraining  the  gentlemen 
from  pressing  to  be  called  to  the  bar,  be  screened  ;  and  that  Mercy 
Wood  be  paid  3/2".  i2s.  for  medicines  for  Christmas  Temple. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  29  and  30  June,  1688. 

Order  that  Sir  Robert  Sawyer  pay  looli.  and  be  discharged 
from  being  a  reader ;  that  certain  chambers  be  viewed  ;  that  55.  a 
week  be  added  to  the  former  allowance  of  Cure  ;  that  on  the  further 
petition  of  Elizabeth  Mills,  5/2.  be  paid  her ;  and  that  Belford,  the 
cook,  have  4/2.  and  40^.  for  each  Grand  day  in  Michaelmas  and 
Hilary  terms. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  4  July,  1688. 

Order  that  the  petition  of  Mrs.  Warner,  as  to  getting  in  the 
debts  due  to  her  late  husband,  the  steward,  be  referred  to  a  committee ; 
that  the  petition  of  Robert  Fenwick,  vintner,  for  a  piece  of  land  by 
Hare  Court  for  a  vault,  be  referred  to  a  committee ;  that  the  request 


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INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


255 


of  Thomas  Foley  for  a  piece  of  land  adjoining  the  bog  houses  be 
referred  to  a  committee  ;  and  that  Thomas  Cooper,  Tobiah  le  Grosse, 
Thomas  Simpson,  Henry  Trinder,  Robert  Allgood,  and  Nathaniel 
Pigott  be  called  to  the  bar. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  5  and  7  July,  1688. 

Order  that  the  difference  between  Sir  Robert  Sawyer  and  the 
masters  of  the  bench,  as  to  the  readership,  be  referred  to  a  com- 
mittee ;  that  Serjeant  Geers'  chambers  be  viewed ;  that  the  pay- 
ment of  widow  Warner's  money  be  stayed  till  next  term ;  that  Ser- 
jeant Geeres  have  leave  to  make  a  new  window,  and  that  the  gates 
going  out  into  White  Friars  be  shut  up  from  the  end  of  the  last  seal 
day  of  this  term  till  the  first  day  of  Michaelmas  term. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  30  October,  1687,  to  28  October,  1688,  being  the  fifth 
year  of  the  treasurership  of  Sir  Robert  Sawyer. 


RECEIPTS. 

Moneys  received  upon  the  Aid  Roll  for 
repairs  of  the  Temple  Church  and  upon 
subscriptions,  $?>li.  i$s. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Davenant,  for  the  use  of  the  players 
for  acting  the  play  called  the  "  Cheat  of 
Scappin  " ]  in  the  hall,  last  Grand  day, 

NOV.    I,   2O/Z. 

To  Cressett,  the  master  of  the  revels,  for 

his  allowance  for  Michaelmas  term,  1686, 

toff, 
Dr.  Sherlock,  Dr.  Woodroffe,  and  Stacey 

for  their  salaries,  as  usual. 
Various  payments  for  nursing  foundlings. 
To  Robinson,  for  the  use  of  himself  and 

the  rest  of  the  musicians  in  Michaelmas 

and  Hilary  terms,  2/2". 
To  the  same,  ordered  by  the  bench  upon 

their  petition,  $K. 


To  John  Miller,  the  carver,  for  the  moiety 

of  his  bill,  3#.  8s. 
To  Markendale,  for  the  moiety  of  his  bill 

for  curtains  to  the  organ  in  the  Temple 

Church,  6/i.  145.  \od. 
To    Dr.   Woodroffe,   for   preaching  three 

several  sermons,  6#. 
To  Stacey,  by  order  of  the  bench,  upon 

his  petition,  io//. 

In  part  for  the  organ  in  the  church,  3OO//. 
To  Sabin,  for  work  done  in  the  Temple 

Church,  3//'.  15^. 
For  faggots  for  bonfires  at  the  birth  of  the 

Prince  of  Wales;  on  the  thanksgiving 

for  the  Queen's  delivery;  and  on  the 

King's  birthday. 
To  the  organist,  half  a  year's  salary,  12 ft. 

I  OS. 

To  the  joiner,  for  the  moiety  of  his  bill 
for  work  done  in  the  Temple  Church, 


1  The  "Cheats  of  Scapin,"  by  Otway,  founded  on  "Les  Fourberies  de  Scapin," 
by  Moliere. 


256  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1688 

To  the  clerk  of  the  church,  for  wages  and  I  For  the  moiety  of  the  charge  for  levelling 

the  churchyard,  21  It.  15^. 

For  the  Queen  Dowager's  fee  farm  rent 
and  an  acquittance,  io#.  is. 

To  Penn,  the  stationer,  4#.  $s. 

For  new  flower  pots  in  the  garden,  "jli.  6s. 


disbursements,  ili.  55.  lod. 
To  the  pavior,  the  moiety  of  his  bill  for 
work  done  in  the  Middle  Temple  Lane, 

8/1.  y-  5<*- 
For  paving  the  summer  house  in  the  gar- 


den, 6//°.  us.  '  To  the  herald  painter,  4/1. 


For  two  new  sergeants  that  went  out  and 
two  purses,  loli.  25. 


To  Maningham,  the  lecturer,  for  a  quarter's 

salary,  12 It.  los. 

For  the  porter's  gown,  5//°.  iSs.  Receipts,  2,331/1.  8s. 

To  the  executors  of  Dr.  Ball,  for  a  year's  Disbursements,  i,655//.  13$.  zd. 

rent  due  for  Dr.  Sherlocke's  house,  2oli.   \          Balance,  68 ili.  i$s.  z±d. 

MISCELLANEA. 

1688,  July  27.  Receipt  by  John  Tasburgh,  for  certain  writings 
found  in  the  chamber  of  Richard  Langhorn,  deceased. 

BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  2,  5,  7,  and  8  November,  1688. 

Orders  that  the  treasurer  be  desired  to  provide  a  quarter  cask 
of  Canary  and  a  hogshead  of  Claret  to  be  presented  to  Dr.  Sherlock, 
the  master  of  the  Temple ;  that  the  steward's  apparels  be  referred 
to  a  committee  ;  as  to  Mrs.  Warner's  petition;  as  to  Gurden's  chamber; 
as  to  treating  with  the  patentees  for  maintaining  the  lamps  now  in 
use  and  six  more ;  that  the  night  watch  be  doubled  this  term  ;  and 
that  Charles  Bludworth  and  Daniel  Man  attend  the  table  about  their 
beating  the  watch. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  10  November,  1688. 

Order  that  the  order  of  2nd  November  for  giving  a  present  to 
the  master  of  the  Temple  be  vacated,  and  that  he  be  presented  with 
a  pair  of  silver  candlesticks  engraved  with  the  arms  of  the  House,  of 
the  value  of  from  1 8/z.  to  20/2. 

BENCH  TABLE  held  on  10,  14,  and  22  November,  1688. 

Orders  that  Edwards  and  others  inspect  the  act  of  parliament 
for  a  licence  for  a  way  through  Mitre  Court,  and  the  restraint  of 


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having  public  houses  there,  and  to  send  to  such  of  the  inhabitants  as 
they  should  think  fit ;  as  to  the  qualifications  of  the  night  watch ; 
that  the  petition  of  Gwillim  be  referred  to  a  committee. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  23,  24,  and  26  November,  1688. 

Orders  that  the  case  of  Viner  be  inserted  in  the  next  parliament 
paper ;  that  posts  and  rails  be  set  up  from  the  Garden  Stairs  to  the 
rails  at  the  north  end  of  Sir  Robert  Sawyer's  buildings;  that  the 
question  of  giving  leave  for  the  making  of  steps  in  and  within  the 
cellar  wall  towards  the  Cloister,  be  referred  to  a  committee ;  that  a 
committee  consider  about  the  abating  of  the  wall  above  the  King's 
Bench  Walks,  the  disorder  of  the  pales,  and  raising  the  ground  on 
the  north  side  of  Hare  Court;  that  the  petition  of  John  Farrington 
as  to  a  chamber,  be  referred  to  a  committee  ;  and  that  the  steward's 
apparels  be  paid  out  of  the  treasury. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  13  and  15  December,  1688. 

Upon  a  thorough  search  for  strangers,  it  was  found  that  there 
are  divers  gentlemen  of  the  Middle  Temple  and  some  strangers 
lodge  in  the  House,  and  an  order  was  made  that  the  chief  butler  do  give 
notice  to  the  owners  of  chambers,  wherein  strangers  lodge,  that  they 
cause  their  chambers  to  be  speedily  cleared  of  all  such  lodgers. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  25  January,  1688-9. 

Orders  as  to  the  removal  of  dung  and  soil  behind  the  King's 
Bench  Office  ;  and  for  the  extraordinary  watch  to  be  discharged. 


BENCH  TABLE  held  on  i,  9,  n,  and  12  February,  1688-9. 

Orders  for  chambers  to  be  viewed ;  that  Buckle,  the  washpot, 
be  badge  porter,  and  William  Berry  who  is  nominated  head  porter,  to 
deliver  him  the  badge  and  chain,  and  that  a  committee  consider  the 
duties  of  the  porter ;  that  William  Fell  attend  the  table  for  making 
a  door  near  his  chamber  into  the  garden,  upon  which  he  was  dis- 

III.  L  L 


258  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.        [1688-9 

charged ;  that  Farrer's  chamber  be  wainscotted  at  the  charge  of  the 
House  ;  and  as  to  the  removal  of  rubbish  on  the  north  side  of  Hare 
Court. 

Order  (12  Feb.)  upon  consideration  of  the  unsettledness  of 
the  times,  the  table  are  of  opinion,  and  do  declare  that  vacations 
shall  not  be  required  of  the  vacation  barristers  and  gentlemen 
under  the  bar  this  Hilary  vacation,  and  they  are  discharged  thereof 
accordingly. 


THE    INNER    TEMPLE    GATEWAY    AND    THE    PRINCE'S    ARMS,    NO.     TJ,    FLEET    STREET. 


T-&-J 


ACTS  OF  PARLIAMENT. 

WILLIAM  AND  MARY. 

HE  following  are  the  names  of  the  benchers  who 
attended  the  parliaments  with  the  number  of  their 
attendances  during  the  year  : — JOHN  MOSYER,  trea- 
surer, 6;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  5,  once  as  deputy  trea- 
surer ;  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  3;  JOHN  OSBORN,  3; 
RICHARD  EDWARDS,  2 ;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  2  ; 
RICHARD  POWELL  2;  THOMAS  TREVOR,  2;  PHILIP  PARGITER,  i;  and 
THOMAS  FARRER,  i. 

1688-9. 

FEB.  10. — Orders  that  40^.  be  paid  to  Rowland  Morgan,  one  of 
the  turnspits,  and  that  "  the  remainder  of  the  wainscot  be  finished 
according  to  what  is  already  done." 

1689. 

APRIL  21. — Pensions  to  be  assessed  double. 

Special  admission  of  Henry  Pollexfen,  son  and  heir  apparent  of 
Sir  Henry  Pollexfen,  the  King's  attorney  general ;  of  John  Blencow, 
son  and  heir  apparent  of  John  Blencow ;  and  of  John  Bridgeman, 
son  and  heir  apparent  of  Sir  John  Bridgeman,  and  grandson  of  Sir 
Orlando  Bridgeman,  knt.  and  bart.,  late  lord  keeper  of  the  Great  Seal. 


160  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [t689 

Thomas  Trevor,  attorney  general  to  the  %Queen,  and  John 
Osborn,  K.C.,  called  to  the  bench. 

APRIL  28. — Whereas  Nathaniel  Bond  and  John  Powell  have  re- 
ceived writs  to  call  them  to  the  degree  of  Serjeants,  according  to 
ancient  custom,  they  are  called  to  the  bench  table. 

Ralph  Grainge  called  to  the  bar. 

Special  admission  of  John  Trinder,  second  son  of  Henry  Trinder, 
Serjeant  at  law. 

The  choice  of  reader  postponed. 

MAY  12. — Edward  Baldwin  chosen  reader. 

Ralph  Rowland,  James  Woodhouse,  Heneage  Bearing,  William 
Woodward,  Henry  Remfry,  Richard  Adderley,  John  Warter,  the 
elder,  John  Prinn,  Henry  Holloway,  Godfrey  Hellier,  Edward  Cooke, 
Richard  Baldwin,  John  Fulham,  John  Stevensonn,  Thomas  Webb, 
William  Dudley,  William  Farrer,  the  younger,  William  H anbury, 
Leonard  Powell,  James  Newton,  Edward  Bostock  Fuller,  Maurice 
Kellett,  Richard  Edwards,  the  younger,  John  Owen,  and  John 
Trenchard  called  to  the  bar. 

Order  that  the  under-treasurer  do  procure  the  Communion 
Book  at  the  bench  table  and  examine  which  of  the  afore-mentioned 
gentlemen  have  received  the  sacraments  before  they  are  sworn  at 
the  table,  and  that  John  Hodges,  reader  for  Lent  vacation,  do  pay 
loo/z.  in  discharge  of  his  reading. 

JUNE  9. — Arthur  Weavor,  Thomas  Petyt,  John  Clendon,  and  Wil- 
liam Petyt  are  called  to  the  bench,  paying  50/2'.  each  to  the  treasury. 

JUNE  1 8. — Special  admission  of  John  Weaver,  son  and  heir 
apparent  of  Arthur  Weaver. 

Authority  given  to  the  treasurer  to  issue  out  of  the  treasury 
50/2.  towards  the  relief  of  the  poor  distressed  Protestants,  lately  come 
from  Ireland. 

Upon  consideration  of  a  letter  sent  from  the  lords  of  the 
Treasury  to  the  Attorney  General,  and  by  him  communicated  to 
this  society,  touching  the  Poll  Bill,  it  is  ordered  that  the  considera- 
tion thereof  be  referred  to  the  table  to-morrow. 

Order  for  the  adjournment  of  this  parliament.  Memorandum 
that  no  parliament  was  held  according  to  the  adjournment. 

OCT  27. — Pensions  assessed  double. 

James  Cardrow  chosen  reader  for  Hilary  vacation. 


1689]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  261 

Auditors  : — Johnsonn,  Cardrow,    Hooper,  and   Leman   for  the 
treasurer's  accounts,  and  the  same  for  the  steward's  accounts. 
Treasurer : — Thomas  Trevor,  A.  G.  of  the  Queen. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

APRIL  19,  20,  25,  and  26. — Orders  for  the  admission  of  the  son 
of  Sir  Henry  Pollexfen ;  that  no  more  be  done  regarding  Smith, 
who  made  the  organ,  till  he  has  attended  the  committee  and  answered 
their  objections ;  for  certain  chambers  to  be  viewed  ;  that  Thomas 
Trevor,  K.C.,  attorney  general  to  the  Queen,  and  John  Osborn,  K.C., 
be  presented  to  be  called  to  the  bench  (20  April) ;  that  the  petition 
of  Mercy  Wood,  widow,  be  referred  to  a  committee  ;  and  that  Ralph 
Grainge  be  proposed  at  the  next  parliament  to  be  called  to  the  bar. 

MAY  2. — Orders  that  Trevor  and  others  be  "a  committee  to 
consider  the  rates  now  paid  for  burials  in  the  Temple  Church,  the 
rounds,  and  back  churchyard,  and  what  rates  they  think  convenient 
to  be  paid  for  burials  in  the  new  built  vaults,  and  to  confer  with  a 
committee  of  the  Middle  Temple  concerning  the  same"  ;  and  for  a 
chamber  to  be  viewed. 

MAY  6. — Orders  that  Trenchard,  Baldwin,  son  of  Baldwin  of 
the  bench,  and  Powell,  son  of  Sir  Nathaniel  Powell  of  the  bench,  be 
put  in  the  paper  for  the  call  to  the  bar ;  that  the  vintner  at  the  Star 
Tavern  at  Temple  Gate  "  attend  the  table  on  Thursday,  about  the 
annoyance  of  his  bar  bells,  etc."  ;  that  a  committee  do  search  for 
precedents  touching  the  special  admission,  gratis,  of  the  sons  of  asso- 
ciates to  the  bench ;  and  that  Trevor  and  others  be  a  committee  to 
consider  of  the  dead  wall  lately  pulled  down  between  the  Alienation 
Office  and  Sir  Robert  Sawyer's  chambers,  and  what  may  be  fit  to 
be  further  done  in  relation  to  the  ground  above  and  below,  and  to 
consult  the  draft  of  the  said  ground  made  by  Mr.  Hooke. 

MAY  8,  9,  10,  and  1 1. — Orders  for  chambers  to  be  viewed  ;  that 
the  gentlemen  named  at  the  parliament  held  on  1 2  May  (except 
Henry  Remfry  and  Richard  Edwards  and  with  the  addition  of  Adrian 
Scrope  and  Edward  Noell)  be  proposed  to  be  called  to  the  bar : ; 

1  In  the  margin  of  this  entry,  is  written  in  a  later  hand  "soldiers." 


262  A  CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1689 

that  the  master  of  the  Star  Tavern,  upon  his  promising  respect  to 
the  society,  be  dismissed ;  that  last  term's  rolls  for  casting  into  com- 
mons be  paid  out  of  the  treasury ;  that  those  who  have  been  called  to 
the  bar  within  two  years,  and  have  not  taken  the  oaths  of  allegiance 
and  supremacy,  and  received  the  sacrament  according  to  the  orders 
of  the  House,  shall  attend  the  table  ;  that  the  petition  of  Grant  be 
referred  to  a  committee ;  and  that  the  petition  of  Dolben  be  con- 
sidered, when  he  is  admitted  to  the  chamber. 

JUNK  3. — Orders  that  Richard  Barthrup,  the  puisne  butler,  do 
cease  to  keep  an  alehouse  in  White  Friars  ;  that  certain  chambers  be 
viewed ;  that  those  who  were  called  to  the  bar  and  have  not  taken 
the  oaths  of  allegiance  and  supremacy  shall  do  so  within  six  days ; 
that  the  steps  going  out  of  the  church  porch  into  the  Inner  Temple 
Lane  be  new  laid  and  otherwise  altered,  and  that  iron  rails  be  placed 
there  if  the  treasurer  shall  think  fit. 

JUNE  7. — Orders  as  to  the  petition  of  Grant  about  his  chamber, 
and  as  to  the  petition  of  Mercy  Wood  for  an  allowance ;  that  there 
be  two  new  silver  bowls  and  half  a  dozen  new  spoons  provided  for 
the  use  of  the  Bench  table,  to  be  paid  out  of  the  treasury ;  that  Mr. 
Attorney  Trevor  and  others  be  a  committee  to  treat  with  a  like 
committee  of  the  Middle  Temple,  touching  the  brief  on  behalf  of  the 
Irish  protestants  ;  that  the  gentlemen  called  to  the  bench  on  9  June, 
with  the  addition  of  Sir  Thomas  Littleton  be  proposed  ;  and  that 
John  Elsum  be  fined  for  not  reading  at  Clifford's  Inn. 

JUNE  10  and  1 1. — Orders  that  the  work  of  levelling  the  ground 
by  Finche's  Buildings  do  proceed  ;  that  the  porter  do  bring  the  keys 
of  the  great  gate  going  into  White  Friars  to  the  treasurer  or  senior 
bencher,  then  in  the  House,  at  10  o'clock,  from  Lady  day  to 
Michaelmas,  and  from  Michaelmas  to  Lady  day  at  8  o'clock,  and 
the  keys  of  the  little  door  always  an  hour  sooner ;  that  a  key  of  the 
Water  Gate  be  provided  for  the  porter  ;  that  a  pair  of  light  gates  be 
made  where  the  old  gates  were  at  the  Crown  Office ;  that  another 
light  gate  be  made  between  Fig-tree  Court  and  Elm  Court ;  that 
another  be  made  at  the  south  west  corner  of  the  Cloister ;  that  the 
prices  of  the  chambers  in  Sir  Robert  Sawyer's  Buildings  be  left  to 
the  treasurer ;  that  the  matter  of  Serjeant  Hampson's  chambers  be 
referred  to  a  committee ;  and  that  the  gentlemen  who  were  called 
to  the  bench,  do  take  their  places  at  the  bench  table. 


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JUNE  12,  14,  and  15. — Orders  for  chambers  to  be  viewed,  pad- 
locked, etc. ;  that  loli.  be  presented  to  Stacy,  the  reader  of  the 
Temple  Church,  as  a  benevolence ;  that  the  treasurers  of  both 
Houses  do  meet  touching  the  paving  of  the  south  churchyard,  near 
the  Cloisters ;  that  those  who  were  called  to  the  bench  and  cannot 
comply  with  the  order  for  the  payment  of  50/2'.,  do  give  bonds  for 
the  same  ;  that  5/2.  be  paid  to  Paul  Walthall  towards  the  burial  of 
Cure ;  that  the  petition  of  John  Warter  be  referred  to  a  committee 
that  John  Prinne's  amercement  for  failure  of  exercise  do  stand  ;  that 
upon  the  report  of  the  committee,  parliament  be  moved  to  enable  the 
treasurer  to  issue  50/2'.  towards  the  relief  of  the  protestants  who  have 
lately  come  from  Ireland  ;  and  that  Dolben's  case  be  referred  to  a 
committee. 

JUNE  17. — Order  "that  the  windows  in  the  building  belonging 
to  Farr's  Coffee  House,  next  to  Sir  John  Trevor's  Buildings,  in  the 
Inner  Temple  Lane,  be  continued  as  they  formerly  were  with  lattices 
only  towards  the  Temple  Lane,  and  the  ground  rooms  to  be  used 
and  employed  for  cellars  only  as  formerly." 

JUNE  1 8. — Orders  upon  the  report  of  the  committee  that  the 
price  to  be  set  upon  burials  in  the  new  built  vault  be  3/2.  for  a 
member  of  this  society,  and  4/2.  los.  for  a  stranger,  "in  consideration 
that  the  master  is  debarred  from  burying  any  person  in  the  chancel 
or  body  of  the  church."  Orders  as  to  chambers,  and  that  the  letter 
from  the  Lords  of  the  Treasury  to  the  attorney  general,  touching 
the  Poll  Bill,  be  referred  to  the  next  parliament. 

JUNE  19,  20,  and  21. — Orders  that  Holloway  and  others  be  a 
committee  to  confer  with  the  Middle  Temple  about  the  Poll  Bill  ;  that 
at  the  next  parliament  the  act  calling  several  gentlemen  to  the  bench, 
shall  be  made  void  (except  as  regards  Weaver)  upon  their  neglect 
to  come  up  to  the  table;  that  a  dial  be  made  for  the  clock  in  the 
hall  ;  and  orders  as  to  chambers. 

OCT.  25  and  26. — Orders  that  all  the  masters  of  the  bench  have 
notice  to  be  in  the  hall  at  dinner  upon  Monday  next ;  that  Baldwin's 
letter,  the  admission  of  Mr.  Prothonotary  Cooke's  son,  and  Minors' 
petition  be  considered  when  the  table  is  full,  and  the  petition  of 
William  Clarke,  the  second  butler,  as  to  building,  be  referred  to  a 
committee. 


264 


A   CALENDAR   OF  THE 


[1689 


GENERAL   ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  28  October,  1688,  to  27  October,  1689,  being  in  the 
treasurership  of  John  Mosyer. 


RECEIPTS. 

Admissions  to  the  House,  i6i/i.  6s.  8d. 
Admittances  to  chambers,  169/1. 
Admittance  to  a  House  chamber,  100/1. 
Rents  belonging  to  the  House,  33#.  145. 
Caution  money  upon  calls  to  the  bench, 

200/1. 

Pensions  and  Preachers'  duties  upon  calls 

to  the  bench,  48/1.  35.  zd. 
Vacations  and  amercements  upon  calls  to 

the  bench,  23/1.  us.  4d. 
Caution  money  for  vacations  upon  calls  to 

the  bar,  88/z'. 
Caution  money  for  buying  chambers  upon 

calls  to  the  bar,  200/1. 
Pensions  and  Preachers'  duties  upon  calls 

to  the  bar,  6-j/i.  13^. 
Vacations  and  amercements  upon  call  to 

the  bar,  jiii.  los. 
Pensions  and  Preachers'  duties  from  other 

gentlemen,  121/1.  i$s.  6d. 
Vacations   and  amercements  from    other 

gentlemen,  6$/i.  8s.  A,d. 
Upon   the   Aid    Roll   and   subscriptions, 

i8#. 
Receipts  under  no  particular  head,  J2/!. 

ly.  5<f. 
Received  from  proprietors  in  Hare  Court 

for  their  melioration  money,  IT/I.  145.  ?>d. 
Debts  of  last  year  received,  20/1. 
Balance  from  last   year,  68  i/i.    i$s. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

Dec.  3.  To  William  Gardiner  for  silver 
candlesticks  [weighing  64  oz.  at  65.  zd. 
the  ounce,  and  engraving  them]  pre- 
sented to  Dr.  Sherlock  by  order  of  the 
bench  table,  20/1'. 

Faggots  for  bonfires  [on  the  King's  return 
from  Rochester,  on  the  arrival  of  the 
Prince  of  Orange,  on  the  day  of  Thanks- 


giving, on  the  arrival  of  the  Princess  of 
Orange,  on  the  proclaiming  of  the  King 
and  Queen,  on  the  coronation  of  the 
King  and  Queen,  on  the  Queen's  birth- 
day, and  on  the  birth  of  the  Duke  of 
Gloucester]. 

Salaries  to  Dr.  Sherlock,  master  of  the 
Temple  at  loo/f.  a  year,  to  Manning- 
ham,  the  lecturer,  at  $o/i.  a  year,  and 
to  Stacey,  the  reader,  at  i  s/z".  a  year. 

For  nursing  foundlings,  as  before. 

To  the  gardener,  for  the  new  plantation  in 
the  King's  Bench  Walks  [for  horse  chest- 
nut and  lime  trees,  etc.],  24/1.  135.  6d. 

To  the  musicians,  fees  in  Michaelmas  Term, 

2li. 

To  Henry  Miland,  the  smith,  the  moiety 

of  his  bill  for  work  done  in  the  church, 

ds.  f)d. 
To  Gabriel  Collins,  the  moiety  of  his  bill 

for  a  surplice  for  Dr.  Sherlock,  1/2.  j  2S.  6d. 
To  Butlin,  the  ironmonger,  the  moiety  of 

his  bill  for  locks  used  in  the  Temple 

Church,  us.  3</. 
To  the  four  new  Serjeants  and  four  purses, 

2oli.  45. 

To  the  master  of  the  revels,  for  his  allow- 
ance on  the  grand  day  and  other  nights 

in  Hilary  Term,  1688,  8/i. 
To    the    vintner   for  wine   [Canary  and 

Claret]   spent  at   the   bench   table   in 

Michaelmas  term,  1688,  14/1.  is. 
To  the  gardener,  the  moiety  of  his  bill  for 

gravelling  the  back  churchyard,  19^.  $d. 
For   pulling   down    the   dead   wall    near 

Finch's  building,  T,li.  55. 
To  Paul  Walthall,  by  order  of  the  table, 

towards  the  burial  of  George  Cure,  an 

ancient  barrister,  s//. 
To  Stacey,  by  order  of  the  table,  10/1. 
To  the  gardener,  for  disbursements  ["for 

sallating  the  hall  in  Grasse  weeke,"  for 


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INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS. 


265 


"bough  pots,"  for  strewing  the  hall  in 
Easterand  Trinity  terms,  etc.],  ili.  ios.6d. 

To  the  vintner,  for  wine  [Canary,  Sherry, 
and  Claret]  spent  at  the  bench  table  in 
Easter  term,  23/2".  175.  8</. 

To  Piggott,  the  organist,  12/1.  los. 

To  the  clerk  of  the  church  [to  the  sexton 
for  going  about  with  the  bell,  for  wash- 
ing surplices,  cleaning  the  plate,  for 
hassocks,  for  10  prayer  books  for  a 
blessing  on  their  Majesties'  forces  by 
sea  and  land  against  the  French  king, 
etc.],  i/z°.  125.  lod. 

To  the  goldsmith  [for  two  bowls  weighing 
12  oz.  5  dwt.  at  5.;.  zd.  per  oz.  and  6s. 
each  making ;  6  spoons,  weighing  9  oz. 

1  dwt.  at   $s.   zd.,   and    15.   6d.   each 
making;  a  salt,   weighing   18  oz.   less 

2  dwt.,  at   6s.    zd.    per   oz. ;    and   for 
'boiling   up"  an    old   salt   and  bowl, 
is.  6d.~\,  izli.  T,S. 


To  the  carpenter,  for  making  a  pair  of 
gates  for  the  Crown  Office,  etc.,  5/1'. 
2s.  6d. 

To  the  mason,  for  marble  chimney  pieces 
used  in  Pargiter's  bench  chamber  in  the 
new  building,  gii. 

To  the  upholsterer,  for  green  silk  curtains 
for  the  music  room,  $li.  25. 

To  the  joiner,  for  work  done  in  the  cham- 
ber over  against  Pargiter's,  35/2". 

To  the  painter,  for  work  done  in  the 
chamber  of  Pargiter,  1 9/1. 

To  the  joiner,  for  work  done  at  Pargiter's 
chambers,  57/z.  2s.  zd. 

To  the  Irish  Protestants,  by  order  of  the 
table,  50/1. 

Receipts,  2,160/1.  y.  ^\d. 
Disbursements,  1,616/7.  gs.  gd. 
Balance  after  certain  disallowances, 
549//.  35.  6 Id. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1688-9,  FEB.  8. — Copy  of  an  act  of  parliament  of  the  Middle 
Temple,  that  from  henceforward  no  member,  not  being  the  King's 
Attorney  General  or  Solicitor  General,  shall  be  elected  to  be  reader, 
or  be  treasurer,  or  choose  a  bench  chamber,  but  in  order  of  his 
seniority  from  his  being  called  to  the  bench. 


ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  benchers  who  attended  the 
parliaments,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  during  the  year  : 
THOMAS  TREVOR,  treasurer,  4 ;  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  4 ;  WILLIAM 
FARRER,  3,  once  as  deputy  treasurer;  THOMAS  FARRER,  3;  JOHN 
OSBORN,  2,  once  as  deputy  treasurer  ;  and  SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL,  i. 

1689. 

Nov.  24. — Special  admissions  of  Samuel  Leving,  grandson  of 
Timothy  Leving,  serjeant  at  law  ;  and  of  Henry  Powell,  fifth  son  of 
Sir  Nathaniel  Powell,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

III.  M  M 


266  A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1689-90 

Nathaniel  Pigott,  lately  called  to  the  bar,  is  suspended  commons 
for  refusing  to  take  the  oaths  required  by  law,  which  were  tendered 
to  him  at  the  bench  table,  and  his  call  is  declared  null  and  void. 

Order  as  to  the  dimensions  of  the  proposed  building  of  William 
Clark,  the  second  butler. 

Parliament  adjourned  till  Thursday. 

Nov.  28. — Admittance  of  John  Hodges  to  a  chamber. 

1689-90. 

FEB.  9. — Orders  as  to  admittances  to  chambers,  and  the  com- 
pounding for  vacations  and  vacation  amercements ;  and  for  parliament 
to  be  adjourned. 

FEB.  13. — Special  admission  of  William  Longueville,  second 
son  of  William  Longueville,  master  of  the  bench. 

Order  that  if  John  Hodges  do  not  pay  the  balance  of  the 
loo/z.  due  for  his  reading,  that  James  Cardrow,  the  present  reader, 
shall  have  his  bench  chamber. 

"  Whereas  in  and  by  an  order  of  the  bench  table  made  the  3ist 
day  of  January  last,  Thomas  Yarbrough,  gentleman,  and  others 
therein  mentioned,  for  keeping  a  riotous  and  disorderly  Christmas, 
contrary  to  the  rules  and  customs  of  this  House,  were  ordered  to  be 
expelled  this  society  "  which  order  as  regards  Thomas  Yarbrough 
and  John  Aston  is  confirmed,  but  the  case  of  Edward  Floyd  is 
respited  till  the  first  parliament  of  next  Term. 

1690. 

JUNE  i. — Parliament  adjourned  without  proceeding  to  any  busi- 
ness. 

JUNE  2. — Pension  assessed  double. 

Paul  Foley  chosen  reader. 

Adrian  Scrope,  Edmund  Gibbon,  Henry  Stevens,  Edward 
Noell,  Charles  Ventris,  Anthony  Gwynn,  Henry  Vernon,  Matthew 
Whitchcote,  Richard  Graham,  Robert  King,  Robert  Wynn,  Edward 
Repington,  James  Harrington,  John  Hill,  Shadrack  Blundell, 
William  Ellis,  James  Bonwick,  Francis  Annesley,  Edward  Vaudrey, 
and  Francis  Page  called  to  the  bar. 

The  expulsion  of  John  Aston  is  annulled. 

OCT.  26. — Order  confirming  an  order  of  the  bench  table  that 


!689-9oJ  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  267 

the  Trinity  vacation  commons  be  discharged,  because  it  appears  that 
the  Lords  Commissioners  of  the  Great  Seal  did  sit  in  the  hall  of 
this  society  some  part  of  the  said  vacation. 

Auditors : — Cardrow,  William  Pettit,  Hooper,  and  Tucker  for 
the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts. 

Edward  Ward,  chosen  reader. 

Treasurer  : — William  Farrer,  her  Majesty's  solicitor  general. 

BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 

1689. 

OCT.  28. — Orders  that  Holloway,  Edwards,  and  Johnson  be  a 
committee  "to  treat  with  a  committee  of  the  Middle  Temple  touching 
the  assessment  of  the  societies  and  to  report  their  own  opinions  and 
the  opinion  of  the  committee  of  the  Middle  Temple  thereupon,  to 
the  table ; "  and  that  the  excuse  tendered  by  Baldwin  touching  his 
being  chosen  reader,  be  disallowed. 

OCT.  30. — Order  that  Edwards  and  others  be  a  committee  to 
treat  for  setting  up  and  keeping  of  lights  in  such  places  as  they  shall 
think  requisite. 

OCT.  31. — Orders  for  the  under  treasurer  to  give  the  names  of 
those  gentlemen  who  have  been  sued ;  upon  the  report  of  the 
committee  touching  the  assessment,  that  the  further  debate  on  the 
matter  be  adjourned,  and  that  Courtney  and  Thomas  Petit  "  be 
appointed  a  committee  to  inspect  former  acts  of  parliament  to  see  by 
what  words  this  society  hath  been  made  liable  to  payment  of  taxes 
and  to  report  their  opinions  by  Tuesday  next "  ;  and  that  the  considera- 
tion of  the  petition  of  William  Clark,  second  butler,  be  adjourned. 

Nov.  4. — Orders  that  Gwillim  attend  the  table  as  to  the  payment 
of  his  commons;  and  "that  the  principal  and  ancients  of  Clement's 
Inn  be  summoned  to  attend  the  table  on  Wednesday  next  to  show 
cause  why  that  society  is  not  in  commons." 

Nov.  5,  6,  and  7. — Orders  that  Carpender,  the  brewer,  attend  to 
show  cause  why  he  does  not  supply  the  House  with  better  drink, 
and  that  he  lay  in  good,  wholesome,  well  brewed  beer,  that  is  not 
bitter ;  further  order  for  the  attendance  of  the  principal  and  ancients 
of  Clement's  Inn ;  as  to  Clark's  petition ;  that  Gwillim's  case  as  to 
making  a  cellar  be  referred  to  a  committee ;  that  Nathaniel  Pigott, 


268  A  CALENDAR    OF   THE  [i689-9o 

Martin  Kildesley,  and  Richard  Delamer  do  attend  the  table  ;  and  that 
upon  Pigott's  refusal  to  take  the  oaths  according  to  law,  his  call  is 
vacated,  and  he  be  suspended  commons  for  coming  into  hall  as  a 
barrister  without  having  taken  the  oaths. 

Nov.  8. — Orders  for  the  attendance  of  Wynne  and  Pickering, 
touching  their  endangering  the  new  buildings  by  digging  under  the 
foundations,  and  that  Clarke  be  permitted  to  build  on  the  waste 
ground  by  the  necessary  houses. 

Nov.  9  and  13. — Orders  that  Wynne  be  put  out  of  commons 
for  contempt  in  not  attending  the  table ;  that  the  principal  and 
ancients  of  Clement's  Inn  appearing,  be  dismissed  ;  and  that  the  pro- 
secution of  the  gentlemen  sued  for  commons,  be  stayed. 

Nov.  21,  22,  23,  25,  26,  and  28. — Orders  as  to  the  viewing  and 
disposal  of  certain  chambers. 

Orders  (22  Nov.)  that  Thomas  Gybbons,  chosen  reader  for 
Lyon's  Inn,  be  fined  4o/z.  for  neglecting  his  duties,  but  if  he  pay 
20/2.  before  the  end  of  next  term,  he  shall  be  discharged ;  that 
Richard  Andrews,  Edward  Hildyard,  John  Acourt,  Charles  Whittacre, 
Edward  Clarke,  and  Richard  Osborne  be  appointed  readers  for 
Lyon's  Inn  ;  that  Samuel  Trottman,  Francis  Berkley,  and  Thomas 
Taylor  be  appointed  readers  for  Clifford's  Inn  ;  and  that  John  Hales, 
Samuel  Carter,  and  Edward  Jennings  be  appointed  readers  for 
Clement's  Inn. 

1689-90. 

JAN.  27. — Order  "  that  the  several  commissioners  appointed  for 
the  society  by  the  late  Act  of  Parliament  made  for  granting  an  aid 
to  their  Majesties  of  25.  in  the  pound  for  one  year,  be  desired  to  be 
at  the  table  on  Wednesday  next  at  dinner  in  order  to  consider  of 
putting  the  said  Act  in  execution." 

JAN.  28. — Orders  "  that  the  table  to-morrow  do  consider  of  what 
hath  been  proposed  to  them  by  the  Middle  Temple  touching  the 
proceedings  upon  the  Act  of  Parliament  for  granting  an  aid  to  their 
Majesties  of  2s.  in  the  pound  for  one  year ; "  and  that  Yarbrough 
and  the  others  concerned  in  the  last  Christmas  do  attend  the  table. 

JAN.  29. — Orders  "  that  three  of  the  commissioners  appointed  for 
this  society  by  the  act  for  granting  an  aid  to  their  Majesties  of  2s.  in 
the  pound  for  one  year,  do  meet  a  like  number  of  the  commissioners 


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of  the  Middle  Temple  on  Monday  next,  and  that  notice  be  given  to 
the  Middle  Temple  thereof  accordingly  ; "  and  that  the  treasurer  and 
Mr.  Solicitor  Farrer  do  on  Friday  next  invite  the  judges  to  dinner 
on  the  grand  day,  and  Clendon  and  William  Petyt  to  invite  the 
sergeants. 

JAN.  31. — Orders  that  there  be  no  grand  day  or  invitation  of  the 
judges ;  that  Thomas  Yarbrough,  Edward  Robey,  John  Aston,  and 
Edward  Floyd,  concerned  in  the  last  Christmas,  be  expelled  the 
society;  that  "the  treasurer  and  Mr.  Solicitor  Farrer  do  attend  the 
lord  chief  justice  and  pray  his  aid  against  the  said  Mr.  Yarbrough, 
etc.,  and  also  against  Mr.  Goodrich,  John  Money,  stationer,  and 
others  that  assisted  the  said  Mr.  Yarbrough  in  keeping  a  riotous  and 
disorderly  Christmas,  contrary  to  the  rules  and  orders  of  the  House, 
whereby  strangers  were  introduced  and  gentlemen  of  the  House 
excluded  and  the  officers  and  servants  of  the  House  abused." 

FEB.  i,  5,  and  6. — Orders  that  on  the  petition  of  John  Money,  the 
stationer,  his  submission  be  accepted  and  his  name  be  left  out  of  the 
order  ;  that  the  steward's  poundage  for  wine  be  cast  into  commons  ; 
upon  complaint  of  Sir  Charles  Porter  that  some  persons  from  Sir  John 
Edwards'  chamber  have  broken  his  windows  several  times,  that  Sir 
John  Edwards  do  attend  the  table  ;  that  Sir  Robert  Sawyer's  patent 
does  not  extend  to  give  him  precedency  in  the  hall  of  this  society  ; 
and  as  to  the  disposal  of  a  bench  chamber. 

FEB.  7. — Orders  that  "the  upper  mess  of  the  bench  table  have 
an  allowance  at  nights  of  one  exceeding  dish  of  the  value  of  is.  and 
no  more,  to  be  put  in  the  '  Ouilibett  Book,'  and  no  other  exceed- 
ings  at  the  other  messes  of  the  table  "  ;  that  the  uppermost  mess  "  have 
two  bottles  of  sack  and  two  of  claret  each  meal,  and  that  every  other 
mess  have  a  pint  of  sack  and  one  bottle  of  claret,  and  so  in  propor- 
tion through  the  table"  ;  and  upon  the  petition  of  Richard  Robinson, 
on  behalf  of  himself  and  the  rest  of  the  music,  that  they  have  405-.  for 
their  attendance  in  Hilary  last  in  full  satisfaction  of  all  demands. 

Orders  upon  the  petition  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  bar  and  under 
the  bar  on  behalf  of  the  gentlemen  that  kept  Christmas,  that  the 
same  be  rejected  ;  that  Robey  attend  the  table  and  make  good  the 
suggestions  of  his  petition  ;  that  such  of  Sir  John  Edward's  sons  as 
lie  in  their  father's  chambers  in  Hare  Court  do  attend  the  table  ; 
and  that  Thomas  Velley's  chamber  be  viewed. 


270  A   CALENDAR   OF    THE  [1689-90 

FEB.  8. — Orders  as  to  Sandy's  composition  for  vacations  and 
amercements ;  that  Robey,  distinguishing  his  case  from  the  others 
concerned  in  the  late  Christmas,  have  his  expulsion  taken  off  and 
he  be  restored  into  commons  ;  that  Gwillim's  petition  be  considered  ; 
and  that  Edward  Floyd's  expulsion  be  stayed  for  the  present. 

FEB.  10,  12,  and  15. — Orders  that  the  two  butlers,  Berry  and 
Smith,  be  the  persons  to  summon  the  gentlemen  concerned  in 
keeping  the  late  disorderly  Christmas,  as  the  lord  chief  justice  shall 
require,  and  the  under  treasurer  do  receive  his  lordship's  commands 
for  summoning  Goodrich  of  the  Middle  Temple,  who  is  concerned 
therein;  as  to  a  conference  with  the  Middle  Temple  regarding 
Jackson's  petition ;  and  as  to  viewing,  etc.,  of  chambers. 

1690. 

MAY  9,  14,  23,  27,  and  31. — Orders  that  the  commissioners  for 
the  last  Poll  Tax  meet,  in  order  to  put  the  act  in  execution  ;  that 
a  committee  be  appointed  to  inquire  why  the  accounts  were  not 
examined  and  signed  by  the  auditors ;  that  Edward  Floyd  tender 
his  40^.  according  to  ancient  custom  ;  that  Holloway,  Thomas  Petyt, 
and  Clendon  be  added  as  assistants  to  the  auditors ;  that  certain 
chambers  be  viewed  and  repaired  ;  that  Aston  be  restored  into 
commons  upon  paying  his  duties  and  tendering  405. ;  and  nomination 
of  those  called  to  the  bar  at  the  parliament  held  on  2  June,  1690. 

JUNE  21,  26,  and  30. — Orders  that  the  petition  of  John  Brom- 
field  be  referred  to  a  committee  ;  that  Pigott  cannot  apply  to  have 
liberty  to  dispose  of  his  chamber  till  he  has  made  his  application  to 
the  masters  of  the  bench  and  be  actually  restored  into  commons ; 
that  the  commons  be  set  as  before;  that  the  gardener  no  longer 
keep  an  ale  house  or  sell  drink  ;  and  that  the  door  out  of  the  gardener's 
lodge  towards  the  Watergate  be  bricked  up. 

JULY  3. — -Orders  for  Thomas  Petyt  to  pay  the  50/2'.  due  on  his 
call  to  the  bench  on  pain  of  suspension  ;  and  that  on  the  petition  of 
the  gardener,  a  committee  be  appointed  to  consider  the  question  of 
making  him  some  recompense  by  augmenting  his  salary  or  other- 
wise, but  the  former  order  for  bricking  up  his  door  to  be  executed. 

JULY  5,  9,  n,  and  12. — Orders  that  Sir  Nathaniel  Powell  and 
others  be  a  committee  to  confer  with  a  committee  of  the  Middle 
Temple  to  consider  what  is  fit  to  be  allowed  Stacey,  the  reader  of 


1690] 


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271 


the  church,  beyond  his  salary ;  that  commons  be  discharged  and  the 
vacation  barristers  and  gentlemen  under  the  bar  be  excused  the  next 
Trinity  vacation ;  that  Minors  be  allowed  4/2.  a  year  for  the  Gazette 
and  newspapers,  etc.  ;  that  George  Shyers'  petition  as  to  a  building 
be  rejected  ;  and  orders  as  to  chambers. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  27  October,  1689,  to  26  October,  1690,  being  in  the 
treasurership  of  Thomas  Trevor. 


RECEIPTS. 

From  Richard  Margrave  at  the  Rainbow 
Coffee  House  for  a  year's  rent  for  the 
lights  into  Hare  Court,  6s.  &d.,  and  for 
enlarging  two  windows  in  the  Inner 
Temple  Lane,  zs.  In  all,  after  allowance 
for  the  35.  tax,  7*.  $d. 

From  Mrs.  Warner,  the  late  steward's 
widow,  for  a  year's  rent  for  the  house  in 
the  churchyard,  after  allowance  for  the 
tax  of  3-c.  per  pound,  $s.  8d. 

Money  received  in  the  aid  roll  and  sub- 
scriptions, 8//.  $s. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Ralph  Davenant  [for  the  use  of  Better- 
ton  and  the  rest  of  their  Majesties' 
players]  for  the  play  acted  in  the  hall 
called  "  The  Squire  of  Alsatia "  on  i 

NOV.,    1689,    2O//. 

To  the  woodmonger  for  faggots  for  bon- 
fires [on  his  Majesty's  birthday,  on 
Gunpowder  Treason,  and  Queen  Eliza- 
beth's birthday],  2 It.  $s. 

To  Richard  Robinson,  for  himself  and 
partners  [the  music  for  Michaelmas  and 
Hilary  terms  and  for  Gunpowder 
Treason],  4//'. 

To  Joseph  Wooton  for  1,225 tons  of  gravel 
at  35.  a  ton,  used  in  the  Great  Walk,  1 8o//. 

To  the  pavior  [for  the  new  kennel  on  the 
east  side  of  the  Great  Walk],  23/2'.  los. 

To  the  painter,  for  painting  the  Crown 
Office  Gates,  los. 


For  wine  [Canary  and  Claret]  spent  by  the 
Bench  Table  in  Michaelmas  term,  36/1. 
8s. 

To  Smith,  the  organ  maker,  in  further  part 
for  his  organ,  ioo//. 

To  the  tinman  for  putting  up  the  lights  in 
the  Temple  [4  large  great  lights  in  the 
Great  Court,  a  large  square  light  for  the 
treasurer,  a  large  square  light  for  Mitre 
Court,  lamps  with  three  glasses  for 
Tanfield  Court,  Hare  Court,  Figtree 
Court,  and  at  the  end  of  the  Cloisters], 
47//. 

To  the  gardener,  the  moiety  of  his  bill  for 
work  done  in  the  north  churchyard 
between  both  Houses,  7^-. 

To  the  oilman  for  oil  for  the  lamps,  8//. 

1OS. 

To  the  clerk  of  the  church  [for  holly,  ivy, 
and  rosemary  for  the  church  at  Christ- 
mas, for  candles  for  the  church  the  last 
winter,  to  the  sexton  going  about  with 
the  bell,  prayer  books  for  the  fast  day, 
etc.],  4/i.  55. 

To  the  woodmonger  for  faggots  for  bon- 
fires [on  the  day  the  King  and  Queen 
were  proclaimed,  the  King  and  Queen's 
coronation  day,  the  Queen's  birthday, 
and  the  birthday  and  return  of  King 
Charles  II.],  3//. 

To  the  woodmonger  for  faggots  for  bonfires 
[for  his  Majesty's  good  success  in  Ireland 
and  for  the  surrendering  of  Drogheda], 
2#.  S.T, 


272 


A    CALENDAR    OF    THE 


[1690 


To  Browne,  the  watchman,  for  burying  the 
old  man  that  kept  the  bog-houses,  i6s. 
6d. 

To  William  Minors,  chief  butler,  for  board 
wages,  news  letters,  gazettes,  etc.,  for  the 
bench,  gli.  -js.  6d. 

To  the  potter  for  a  large  pot  made  for  the 
garden,  painted  in  oil,  ili.  53. 

To  the  gardener  [for  wages,  "  sallating  for 
the  hall  in  Grass  week,"  for  strewings 
and  "  bow  pots  "  for  the  hall  in  Easter 
and  Trinity  terms,  etc.],  6/z'. 

To  the  woodmonger  [for  a  load  of  Kentish 
faggots  for  a  bonfire  on  the  King's  happy 
return  from  Ireland,  and  another  for  a 
bonfire  on  the  Thanksgiving  day  for  his 
Majesty's  good  success  in  Ireland], 

lit.    I  OS. 

To  the  plasterer  [for  whitening  the  two 
staircases  going  into  the  hall,  the 
Cloisters,  the  passage  by  Tanfield  Court, 
and  the  piece  of  fretwork  in  the  Cloisters, 
etc.],  ili.  15*. 

To  the  puisne  butler  for  disbursements 
for  candles,  etc.  [for  13  doz.  candles  at 
6s.  a  doz.,  for  looking  after  the  clock, 
etc.],  6/1.  is.  5</. 

To  Browne,  guardian  to  Mrs.  Ball,  for  a 
year's  rent  for  Dr.  Sherlock's  house, 
after  allowance  for  the  tax,  14/1. 

To  Duncombe,  a  year's  rent  due  to  her 
Majesty,  theQueen  Dowager,  at  Michael- 
mas, after  allowance  for  the  tax,  8//.  i  n. 

To  the  smith  [for  a  smooth  filed  hook  and 
staples  for  Mr.  Speaker's  "  mase  "  in  the 
church,  keys  for  the  church  pews,  for 
pales  in  the  cross  lane  in  the  Inner 
Temple  Lane,  for  iron  work  for  the  bar 
in  the  hall,  etc.],  $i/i. 

To   the    bricklayer   [for   making   up   the 


Thames  wall  that  was  opened  to  bring 
up  gravel,  turning  an  arch  over  the  well 
in  the  walks  by  Finche's  Building,  etc.], 
2  2  It. 

To  the  carpenter  [for  work,  stuff,  and  nails 
used  in  the  church  rounds,  "  for  work, 
stuff,  and  nails  to  make  the  degree  and 
all  the  chancery  bars  in  the  hall"],  2\li. 

To  William  Clarke,  the  second  butler,  for 
making  the  porter's  gown  and  disburse- 
ments [5-5-  yards  of  Spanish  cloth,  16 
doz.  loops  and  tufts,  9  doz.  of  tufted 
buttons,  2i  yards  of  orange  hair  plush, 
2  yards  of  "Padesway  serge,"  for  silk 
and  galloon,  and  for  making  the  gown,  for 
tobacco  and  glazed  pipes  for  the  use  of 
the  commoners,  for  2  sacks  of  charcoal 
for  the  same,  for  coach  hire  to  invite 
judges,  and  for  staves  and  wands],  9/2. 

To  the  mason  [for  25ft.  of  old  Purbeck 
laid  to  mend  the  passage  by  the  old 
steps  in  the  passage  by  the  church],  15/1". 

To  the  under  treasurer  [for  the  venison 
presented  by  Lord  Commissioner  Keck 
to  Hooke,  the  surveyor,  for  his  pains 
directing  the  workmen  and  settling  their 
bills  that  secured  the  foundation  of  the 
new  buildings,  for  coach  hire  on  several 
occasions  in  receiving  of  money  and  for 
postage  of  letters,  etc.],  io/z'.  6s.  6d. 

To  the  master  of  the  revels  for  Michaelmas 
and  Hilary  terms  [4/z'.  on  i  Nov.,  being 
grand  day,  on  five  Saturday  nights, 
King  William's  birthday,  and  Gunpowder 
Treason,  2/z'.  each],  i8/z. 

For  the  first  payment  of  the  tax  of  $s.  per 
pound,  75/z'. 

The  receipts,  1,9747*'.  19^. 
Disbursements,  1,452/1'.  i$ 
Balance,  5  2  2/z'.  45.  2\d. 


ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  benchers  who  attended  the 
parliaments,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  during  the  year : 
WILLIAM  FARRER,  treasurer,  12;  CHARLES  HOLLOW  AY,  n;  SIR 
NATHANIEL  POWELL,  10  ;  LANCELOT  JOHNSON,  6  ;  RICHARD  POWELL,  3  ; 


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NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  2  ;  JOHN  MOSYER,  i  ;   RICHARD  EDWARDS,  i ; 
THOMAS  FARRER,  i  ;  and  SIR  THOMAS  TREVOR,  i. 

1690. 

Nov.  9. — Orders  that  Berkley  may  make  a  new  pair  of  stairs 
from  his  chamber  door  upward  ;  that  the  expulsion  of  Wynn,  an  utter 
barrister,  be  confirmed ;  and  that  the  report  of  the  committee  con- 
cerning the  Crown  Office  be  adopted. 

Nov.  23. — Orders  as  to  admittances  to  and  assignments  of 
chambers  ;  and  that  Edward  Baldwin,  who  was  chosen  reader  on 
12  May,  1689,  and  neglected  to  pay  his  reading  money,  be  disbenched 
and  fined  loo/z. 

Nov.  23,  by  adjournment. — Order  "that  the  sum  of  50/2'.  be 
paid  into  the  hands  of  Dr.  William  Sherlock,  master  of  the  Temple, 
to  the  end  the  said  master  may  therewith  satisfy  the  persons  who,  by 
his  procurement,  preached  in  the  Temple  Church  during  the  time  of 
the  said  Dr.  Sherlocke's  deprivation,  in  full  discharge  of  the  salary 
or  stipend  allowed  unto  the  said  Dr.  Sherlock  for  Easter  and  Trinity 
terms  last.  And  it  is  further  ordered  that  the  said  Dr.  Sherlock  be 
paid  for  this  present  term  and  the  terms  following  according  to  former 
allowances,  till  further  order  to  the  contrary." 

1690-91. 

FEB.  n. —  Special  admissions  of  Selden  Vaughan,  second  son 
of  Edward  Vaughan  and  grandson  of  the  late  Lord  Chief  Justice 
Vaughan ;  of  Francis  Bostock  Fuller,  youngest  son  of  Francis 
Bostock  Fuller,  serjeant  at  law,  at  the  request  of  his  father ;  and  of 
Thomas  Clendon,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  John  Clendon,  at  the 
request  of  his  father. 

1691. 

MAY  22. — Thomas  Trevor  is  chosen  reader  for  Trinity  vacation. 

MAY  24. — Special  admission  of  John  Cooke,  son  of  John  Cooke, 
chief  prothonotary  of  the  court  of  Common  Pleas  and  an  associate  of 
the  bench,  as  of  Michaelmas  term,  1689,  at  the  request  of  his  father, 
and  not  of  right. 

The  election  of  a  bench  chamber,  heretofore  Mr.  Grant's,  and 
forfeited  to  the  House  by  his  expulsion,  is  adjourned  to  the  table. 

III.  N  N 


274  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1691 

Samuel  Crispe,  John  Clayton,  Francis  Eyton,  Richard  Lydall, 
Thomas  Parker,  William  Adams,  Edward  Floyd,  Oliver  Tench, 
John  Beresford,  William  Gamull,  William  Eyton,  John  Isham, 
William  Lightfoote,  and  Roger  Acherley  called  to  the  bar,  and  the 
said  Beresford,  Gamull,  William  Eyton,  Lightfoote,  and  Acherley 
are  not  to  be  sworn  till  they  are  of  full  standing. 

Order  that  the  matter  be  respited  touching  the  vacation  barristers 
and  gentlemen  under  the  bar,  who  were  in  commons  last  Hilary  vaca- 
tion, and  went  out  of  commons  with  the  leave  of  the  treasurer. 

JUNE  21. — John  Beresford,  William  Gamull,  William  Eyton, 
William  Lightfoote,  and  Roger  Acherley  called  to  the  bar,  notwith- 
standing the  act  of  parliament  of  24  May  last  to  the  contrary. 

JUNE  29. — "Whereas  it  hath  been  found  by  experience  of  this 
society  and  other  societies  of  the  Law  that  the  yearly  constituting  of 
a  new  treasurer  in  the  term  of  St.  Michael  or  at  the  death  or  removal 
of  the  present  treasurer,  doth  much  conduce  to  the  ascertaining  the 
revenue  and  other  benefits  of  the  society,  Be  it  therefore  enacted  by 
this  present  parliament  that  no  treasurer  of  this  society  shall  continue 
in  the  office  of  treasurer  longer  than  for  the  space  of  one  whole  year, 
and  that  a  new  treasurer  shall  be  every  year  constituted  and  made 
at  the  second  parliament  in  Michaelmas  term  (except  the  next 
immediate  treasurer,  who  shall  be  constituted  and  made  at  the  last 
parliament  to  be  held  for  this  society  in  Michaelmas  term  next,  and 
not  before).  And  be  it  further  enacted  that  the  said  office  of 
treasurer  shall  be  executed  by  all  the  benchers  of  this  society  that 
have  been  or  are  liable  to  be  readers,  successively  and  in  their  turn, 
according  to  their  respective  seniority  at  the  bench,  and  that  no 
counsel  of  their  present  Majesties  or  their  successors  or  any  other 
person  whatsoever,  shall  hereafter  be  constituted  or  made  treasurer 
but  according  to  their  seniority  in  time  at  the  bench  of  this  society, 
except 1  such  of  their  majesties'  counsel  as  are  now  at  the  bench,  and 
such  as  shall  be  hereafter  attorney  general  or  solicitor  general  to  their 
Majesties  or  their  successors,  who  shall  and  are  hereby  intended  to 
be  capable  of  the  said  office  of  treasurer  of  this  society  (for  one  year 
and  no  longer),  according  to  their  precedence  without  regard  had  to 
their  seniority,  anything  in  this  act  before  contained  to  the  contrary 
notwithstanding. 

1  Marginal  note.     Repealed  by  an  act  of  parliament  made  8th  February,  1771. 


,691]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  275 

"  Provided  in  case  of  the  death  or  removal  of  a  treasurer  in  his 
year  the  next  bencher  capable,  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  constituted 
treasurer  at  the  next  parliament  held  for  the  said  society,  which 
treasurer  shall  hold  the  same  for  the  said  remaining  part  of  the  year 
instead  of  the  said  treasurer  so  dead  or  removed,  and  be  continued 
for  the  year  next  ensuing  at  the  second  parliament  in  Michaelmas 
term. 

"  And  for  the  encouragement  of  the  treasurer  of  this  society, 
hereafter  to  be  yearly  constituted  and  made,  as  aforesaid,  in  the 
careful  attending  and  executing  the  said  office,  forasmuch  as  every 
treasurer  of  this  society  is  by  virtue  of  his  said  office  obliged  to  his 
constant  attendance  upon  the  service  of  this  House  during  the  whole 
terms,  and  for  perusing  the  several  acts  and  orders  of  this  House 
before  they  are  entered,  and  in  receiving  and  taking  the  several 
accounts  of  all  sums  of  money  received  and  paid  out  for  the  use  of 
the  said  society,  and  for  divers  other  matters  relating  to  the  said 
office  (as  is  hereby  declared  he  ought  to  do),  Be  it  therefore  enacted 
that  the  present  treasurer  and  every  other  treasurer  hereafter  so  to 
be  yearly  constituted  and  made,  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  allowed  upon 
his  account  the  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds  and  so  proportionably  for 
the  time  of  his  service  in  the  said  office,  and  that  no  treasurer  shall 
claim  any  further  or  other  recompense  or  allowance  for  or  by  reason 
of  his  service  in  the  said  office. 

"  Provided  also  that  no  bencher  of  this  society  shall  be  capable 
of  the  said  office  of  treasurer  until  he  hath  been  at  the  bench  for  the 
space  of  three  years  at  the  least,  except  the  attorney  and  solicitor 
general.  Provided  also  that  no  bencher  of  this  society  whatsoever, 
shall  be  constituted  and  made  treasurer  a  second  time,  until  all  other 
the  benchers,  who  are  or  shall  be  capable  thereof  according  to  the 
true  intent  and  meaning  of  this  Act,  shall  have  first  held  and  served 
in  the  said  office,  except  in  the  case  of  death  or  removal,  as  afore- 
said. Provided  always  and  it  is  hereby  declared  and  enacted  that  no 
treasurer  of  this  society  ought  or  shall  pay  or  dispose  of  any  sum  of 
money  exceeding  the  sum  of  five  pounds,  without  the  order  of  the 
table  first  had  and  made  for  that  purpose,  and  that  no  surrender  to 
the  treasurer  of  any  chamber  or  interest  in  any  chamber  in  this 
society  shall  be  available,  unless  the  surrenderer  be  in  life  at  the  time 
of  the  admittance  of  the  surrenderee." 


276  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1691 

"  Whereas  several  questions  have  arisen  concerning  benchers 
taking  place  at  the  bench  table  of  this  society  and  their  elections  of 
bench  chambers,  Be  it  enacted  that  every  king's  counsel  that  shall 
hereafter  be  called  to  the  bench  of  this  society  shall  take  his  place  at 
the  bench  table  and  in  all  other  public  places  of  this  society  according 
to  the  seniority  and  time  of  being  called  to  the  bench  and  not  other- 
wise, except  in  the  case  of  their  Majesty's  attorneys  and  solicitors 
general  who  are  to  take  place  of  all  other  benchers  of  this  society 
next  to  the  treasurer  and  not  otherwise,  and  that  no  king's  counsel 
shall  hereafter  have  election  of  bench  chambers  that  shall  fall  in  this 
society  but  according  to  such  their  seniority  and  place  at  the  bench 
table,  as  aforesaid,  (except  such  of  their  Majesties'  counsel  as  are  now 
at  the  bench  and  such  as  shall  hereafter  be  attorney  or  solicitor 
general)  who  are  hereby  declared  shall  have  priority  of  election  of 
bench  chambers  as  the  same  shall  fall,  according  to  their  place  of 
sitting  at  the  table." 

Order  for  the  adjournment  of  parliament. 

JULY  i. — Confirmation  of  an  order  of  the  bench  table  giving 
license  to  William  Clarke,  second  butler,  to  build  a  shop  on  the 
waste  ground  by  the  bog-houses. 

Nov.  6. — John  Osborn,  K.C.,  chosen  reader. 
Special  admission  of  Edward  Ward,  son  and  heir  apparent  of 
Edward  Ward,  bencher  and  reader,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Nov.  19. — "  Whereas  by  the  usage  and  custom  of  this  society  the 
choice  of  chambers  by  the  masters  of  the  bench  hath  always  been  and 
ought  to  be  according  to  their  seniority  and  priority  of  sitting  at  the 
bench  table,  beginning  first  with  the  treasurer  and  then  the  next  to 
him,  and  so  downwards,  and  whereas  it  hath  been  observed  that  some 
masters  of  the  bench  do  from  term  to  term  absent  themselves  from 
the  bench  table  and  do  not  give  their  due  assistance  in  the  debating 
and  ordering  the  affairs  of  the  House  and  upholding  the  exercise 
thereof,  and  yet  nevertheless  will  come  and  be  present  at  parliaments 
held  for  this  society  and  expect  to  vote  and  have  their  choice  and 
election  of  chambers  there,  according  to  such  their  seniority,  equally 
with  those  that  are  frequent  in  commons  and  do  duly  attend  the 
business  and  exercise  of  the  House,  by  reason  and  means  whereof 
the  business  of  the  House  hath  been  often  neglected  and  the  exercise 
failed,  to  the  great  prejudice  and  dishonour  of  this  society."  It  is 


,690-1]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  277 

therefore  ordered  that  no  bencher  shall  have  a  vote  or  election  of  a 
chamber  at  any  parliament  unless  he  shall  have  been  personally 
present  at  the  bench  table  and  in  commons  two  several  days  at  least 
in  each  of  the  two  preceding  terms  before  such  parliament,  except 
upon  reasonable  excuse.  Provided  that  this  act  shall  not  bar  the 
king's  counsel  now  at  the  bench,  nor  any  attorney  or  solicitor 
general  hereafter  at  the  bench,  nor  any  master  of  the  bench  that 
now  is  or  hereafter  shall  be  a  member  of  the  national  Parliament,  but 
that  they  and  every  of  them  shall  and  may  have  their  vote  and  elec- 
tion of  chambers  at  the  parliament,  notwithstanding  their  absence 
from  the  bench  table. 

Nov.  27. — Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : 
— Clendon  and  W.  Petyt  of  the  bench,  and  Tucker  and  Whitacre  of 
the  bar. 

Special  admission  of  John  Trevor,  second  son  of  Sir  John 
Trevor,  speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons,  first  Lord  Commissioner 
of  the  Great  Seal  and  one  of  their  Majesties'  most  honourable  Privy 
Council,  and  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Treasurer: — Sir  Nathaniel  Powell,  knt.  and  bart.,  K.C. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

1690. 

OCT.  28  and  29. — Orders  as  to  repairs  and  admittances  to 
chambers  ;  and  as  to  the  expulsion  of  Wynn  for  digging  in  the  cellar 
under  his  chamber. 

Nov.  3,  5,  and  6. — Orders  that  Regnier  be  put  out  of  commons 
for  digging  in  his  chambers  ;  that  Wynn  be  expelled  ;  that  the  repair 
of  the  Crown  Office  and  the  chambers  in  that  staircase  be  referred  to 
a  committee  ;  that  Sir  Samuel  Astrey  make  an  account  between  him 
and  the  House  in  relation  to  the  repair  of  the  Crown  Office  ;  that  a 
parliament  be  held  on  Sunday  next ;  that  Holloway  and  others  in- 
quire what  foreigners  lodge  in  the  society  ;  that  notice  be  given  to 
the  masters  of  the  bench  that  they  are  desired  to  be  at  the  table  on 
Tuesday  at  dinner ;  and  that  the  debts  to  the  steward  and  the  late 
steward,  for  commons,  be  collected. 

Nov.  7. — Order,  on  a  motion  made,  that  one  of  the  parliament 


278  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [,69o 

books  may  be  made  use  of  at  a  trial  at  Guildhall,  that  the  under  trea- 
surer attend  with  the  book  as  desired  ;  as  to  the  charge  for  the  repair 
of  the  Crown  Office ;  that  Pigott's  suspension  be  taken  off ;  that  the 
great  gate  next  to  Whitefriars  be  locked  up  and  the  porter  do  open 
the  same  at  his  discretion  for  the  convenience  of  coaches  passing,  and 
that  wicket  gates  in  the  same  be  stopped  up  by  an  iron  bar  or  other- 
wise, so  as  to  prevent  burthens  passing  that  way  but  not  persons ; 
and  that  Fairclough  attend  the  table. 

Nov.  13. — Order  that  George  Abbott  and  Nicholas  Wilmott,who 
have  taken  up  the  imparlance  and  made  default,  be  amerced ;  that  Fair- 
clough be  suspended  commons  for  lodging  his  laundress  and  other 
strangers  in  his  chamber ;  that  Wynn's  chamber  be  padlocked  and 
he  be  expelled ;  that  Johnson  and  others  be  a  committee  to  consider 
of  an  adequate  compensation  for  the  trouble  of  the  treasurer,  and  that 
a  new  treasurer  be  yearly  elected  according  as  the  committee  shall 
find  agreeable  to  the  ancient  usage  of  the  House,  and  that  they 
prepare  an  act  for  presentation  to  the  table. 

Nov.  i4and  15. — Orders  that  a  payment  be  made  to  the  panier- 
man  ;  that  Riggs,  the  under-treasurer,  and  William  Clark,  the  butler, 
be  suspended  commons  for  not  seeing  to  the  padlocking  of  Wynn's 
chamber. 

Nov.  17. — Orders  that  Riggs  and  Clark  be  restored  into  com- 
mons ;  as  to  the  collection  of  debts  due  to  the  steward ;  as  to  Sir 
John  Heath's  chamber  ;  that  the  great  gate  leading  into  Mitre  Court 
be  forthwith  locked  till  further  order ;  upon  the  petition  of  several 
gentlemen  of  Clement's  Inn,  that  Edward  Gerrard  and  Michael 
Wrightson  attend  the  table  ;  and  that  certain  chambers  be  viewed 
and  padlocked. 

Nov.  22. — Orders  that  Prinn  and  Gamull  sign  the  rolls  of  com- 
mons ;  that  Edward  Baldwin,  who  was  chosen  reader  and  neglected 
to  pay  his  money  for  the  same,  be  disbenched  and  fined  100/2. ; 
that  Edward  Gerrard  and  Michael  Wrightson  and  the  petitioners  of 
Clement's  Inn  appearing,  the  said  Gerrard  do  clear  and  discharge  his 
accounts  for  the  seven  years  he  was  principal  of  that  inn  before  the 
first  day  of  next  term  ;  which  account  is  to  be  audited  by  two  ancients 
nominated  by  the  principal  of  the  said  society,  and  that  Thomas 
Callow  attend  the  auditors  to  show  them  from  what  he  made  the 
abstract  entitled  "  the  abstract  of  Mr.  Edward  Gerrard's  whole  re- 


1690-1]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  279 

ceipts  and  disbursements  for  the  time  he  was  principal,"  and  in  case 
Gerrard  should  make  default,  the  petitioners  shall  apply  themselves 
to  the  bench  of  this  society  the  first  week  in  next  term,  who  will 
take  such  further  order  as  shall  be  meet,  and  that  the  petitioners 
apply  themselves  to  the  principal  and  ancients  of  the  same  House 
touching  the  accounts  of  Michael  Wrightson. 

Nov.  24. — The  readers  appointed  to  be  sent  to  Clement's  Inn 
are  Charles  Whittaker,  Samuel  Carter,  and  Richard  Osborn ;  and 
John  Hales,  the  last  reader,  is  discharged. 

Order  that  the  principal  and  rules  of  Clifford's  Inn  attend  the 
table  to  show  cause  why  they  did  not  elect  a  reader  for  the  last  year, 
and  that  they  elect  a  reader  for  the  year  ensuing  out  of  the  list 
formerly  sent  them. 

Order  that  the  sub-treasurer  shall  prepare  an  act  of  parliament 
touching  certain  payments  to  be  made  to  Dr.  Sherlock,  the  master  of 
the  Temple  (see  Parliament  held  on  23  Nov.,  1690). 

Nov.  25,  26,  and  27.— Orders  for  chambers  to  be  viewed  ;  that 
the  tax  on  the  shops  of  Thomas  Silvester,  the  clerk,  which  are  allowed 
him  for  his  wages,  be  paid  by  the  society  ;  that  the  petition  of  the 
inhabitants  of  Mitre  Court  be  referred  to  a  committee.  Informa- 
tion of  John  Money,  one  of  the  petitioners,  that  Minors,  the  chief 
butler,  had  told  him  that  the  gate  leading  into  Mitre  Court  might 
be  opened,  if  the  inhabitants  would  give  the  said  Minors  and  the 
treasurer's  clerk  40^.  each.  Orders  that  the  petition  of  John  Brown, 
the  under  porter,  for  a  convenient  place  for  the  lamps  be  considered 
next  term;  and  that  Richard  King  of  Chiswell  Street  be  appointed 
brewer  to  the  society. 

1690-1. 

JAN.  29  and  31. — Orders  that  Fairclough  do  attend  the  table 
and  remove  the  lodgers  from  and  repair  his  chamber ;  that  Sir 
Nathaniel  Powell,  Clendon,  and  William  Petyt  be  a  committee  "to 
consider  an  act  of  parliament  for  the  better  and  more  methodical 
proceedings  in  drawing  and  passing  of  the  acts  of  parliament  of  this 
society,  which  shall  be  enacted  for  the  future  ;  that  the  persons  whose 
chambers  were  padlocked  do  pay  their  commons  or  show  cause  why 
they  should  not  be  expelled  ;  that  commons  be  paid  ;  and  that  the 


z8o  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1690-1 

chamber  of  Robert  Wynn,  who  was  expelled,  be  padlocked  with  all 
security  imaginable,  he  having  broken  off  the  padlock. 

FEB.  3. — Orders  as  to  viewing  and  padlocking  chambers  ;  that 
Cardrow  and  others  be  a  committee  to  sit  weekly  and  inquire  into  all 
things  that  are  prejudicial  to  the  honour  or  interest  of  the  House, 
and  any  other  bencher  may  have  a  voice  in  the  said  committee  ;  that 
the  gardener's  salary  be  increased  to  30/2'.  ;  as  to  the  collection  of 
commons  ;  that  the  case  of  Whitaker  be  referred  to  a  committee  ;  as 
to  Sir  Nathaniel  Powell's  chamber  being  turned  into  a  bench  chamber ; 
that  Fairclough  be  restored  into  commons ;  that  Wynn,  upon  paying 
all  the  charges  of  the  House,  be  received  to  petition  in  such  manner 
as  becomes  him  ;  and  that  Gerrard,  not  having  performed  the  order 
of  22  November,  1690,  shall  discharge  his  accounts  before  2ist  inst., 
the  principal  appointing  a  day,  before  such  date,  for  auditing  the 
same,  and  if  Gerrard  should  make  default,  the  petitioners  shall  apply 
themselves  to  the  bench  of  this  society. 

FEB.  7. — Orders  that  Wynn  be  admitted  to  petition  the  table; 
that  the  under  porter's  petition  as  to  the  lamps  be  referred  to  a 
committee  ;  that  the  sub-treasurer  be  suspended  commons  and  fined 
5/z.  ;  that  Regnier  be  restored  into  commons ;  and  that  certain 
chambers  be  viewed. 

FEB.  9. —Orders  as  to  payment  of  commons,  and  viewing  of 
chambers ;  that  the  sub-treasurer  be  restored  into  commons  and  his 
fine  discharged  ;  that  Whitaker's  case  be  adjourned  sine  die ;  that 
Sir  Nathaniel  Powell's  proposals  for  making  his  chamber  a  bench 
chamber  be  laid  aside  ;  that  the  case  of  Godfrey  Hellier  be  respited  ; 
that,  on  the  petition  of  Thomas  Silvester,  clerk  of  the  Temple  Church, 
John  Blyth,  sexton,  William  Berry  and  others,  "  bearers,"  the  same 
fees  be  paid  them  as  formerly  ;  that  certain  chambers  be  padlocked  ; 
and  the  bonds  of  certain  members  be  put  in  suit. 

FEB.  n. — Orders  that  the  lamps  be  set  in  the  chamber  late 
of  Tyrer,  that  the  petition  of  Stacy,  the  reader  of  the  Temple 
Church,  be  referred  to  Thomas  Farrer,  Holloway,  Bowyer,  and 
Hodges. 

FEB.  12  and  13. — Order  that  the  case  of  Edward  Hildyard, 
who  was  reader  of  Lyon's  Inn  last  year,  be  considered  ;  as  to  the 
payment  of  bills ;  and  that  a  list  of  chambers  be  brought  to  the  table 
showing  the  names  of  the  proprietors  and  the  lodgers  in  the  same  > 


,691]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  281 

and  (13  Feb.)  that   Hildyard,   upon  payment  of  10/2.  and  all  his 
duties,  be  discharged  from  the  readership  of  Lyon's  Inn. 

"  Whereas  Mr.  Renatus  Harris  did  heretofore  make  an  organ 
for  the  use  of  the  two  societies  of  the  Inner  and  Middle  Temple, 
and  during  the  contest  between  him  and  Mr.  Bernard  Smyth  (who 
likewise  made  an  organ  for  the  same  purpose)  the  said  Mr.  Harris 
did,  by  virtue  of  an  order  of  the  bench  table  of  this  society  made  the 
I4th  day  of  May,  1686,  receive  the  sum  of  loo/z.  upon  the  security 
of  his  own  bond,  and  by  virtue  of  another  order  made  the  24th  day 
of  November,  1686,  did  receive  the  further  sum  of  100/2.  upon  giving 
his  own  bond  for  the  same,  it  is  ordered  that  the  aforesaid  bonds  be 
delivered  up,  provided  the  said  Mr.  Harris  do  seal  and  execute  a 
general  release  to  the  society." 


1691. 

MAY  4,  5,  7,  and  9.— Orders  as  to  the  payments  of  duties, 
amercements,  and  debts  ;  that  all  the  bench  be  summoned  for  next 
Thursday  at  dinner ;  that  the  demands  of  the  brewer  be  referred  to  a 
committee  ;  that  John  Prinn  attend  the  table  ;  and  that  the  committee 
appointed  touching  Whitaker's  case,  be  revived. 

Order  (7  May)  that  no  consideration  be  had  or  taken  of  the  case 
of  Bernard  Smith,  the  organ  maker,  till  he  has  sealed  and  executed 
a  release  to  the  society  for  the  money  paid  for  the  said  organ. 

MAY  n,  12,  13,  and  15. — Orders  as  to  Chapman's  and  Grant's 
chambers  ;  that  Prinn  be  put  out  of  commons  for  presuming  to  enter 
an  order  upon  the  steward's  rolls  for  commons,  and  thereby  imposing 
upon  the  bench  table ;  that  certain  chambers  be  viewed  and  lodgers 
searched  for  ;  that  there  be  a  call  to  the  bar  this  term  ;  that  Whitaker 
stand  reader  of  Clement's  Inn  whereto  he  was  chosen  ;  that  a  par- 
liament be  held  on  Friday  ;  that  those  who  stand  for  the  call  to  the 
bar,  be  presented  to  the  table  ;  and  that  the  sub-treasurer  prepare  a 
list  of  benchers  now  in  commons. 

MAY  1 8,  19,  and  20. — Orders  that  Grant's  chamber  be  forfeited 
for  his  life  only ;  that  a  reader  shall  renounce  a  bench  chamber  at 
this  table  and  not  elsewhere  ;  that  the  brewer  be  paid  for  the  beer 
he  delivered  before  Christmas,  but  he  be  left  to  his  remedy  against 
those  who  assumed  to  themselves  the  power  of  keeping  Christmas ; 

III.  O  O 


282  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1691 

that  notice  be  given  of  the  disposition  of  bench  chambers ;  and  that 
two  of  the  butlers  be  suspended  commons. 

MAY  22. — Order  that  George  Berry  and  Thomas  Smyth,  two  of 
the  butlers,  be  restored  into  commons,  and  nomination  of  those  called 
to  the  bar  at  the  parliament  held  on  24  May,  1691. 

Order  that  Gerrard,  heretofore  principal  of  Clement's  Inn,  do 
attend  this  table  to-morrow  to  show  cause  why  he  doth  not  pay  the 
money  due  upon  his  account,  and  that  the  auditors  and  the  principal 
of  the  said  inn,  attend  this  table  at  the  same  time. 

MAY  23. — Order  for  the  special  admission  of  John  Cooke,  son 
of  John  Cooke,  chief  prothonotary  of  the  Common  Pleas. 

Order  that  the  accounts  of  Edward  Gerrard  of  Clement's  Inn, 
be  referred  back  to  the  auditors  nominated  by  virtue  of  the  last 
order  and  to  Gibson  and  Power  of  the  same  society,  and  that  they 
proceed  firstly  upon  the  book  or  books  of  commons,  secondly  upon 
the  pension  roll,  thirdly  upon  the  roll  of  nient  in  co\munes  ?], 
fourthly  upon  the  essoign  roll,  and  to  make  their  report  to  this  table. 

MAY  25  and  26. — Orders  that  the  gardener  may  have  a  lay- 
stall behind  the  King's  Bench  Office ;  that  Nathaniel  Lucas  attend 
the  table ;  that  the  bonds  of  certain  persons  be  put  in  execution  ; 
that  Lucas  be  discharged  from  further  attendance  ;  and  that  the 
building  by  Clark,  the  second  butler,  be  referred  to  a  committee. 

JUNK  13,  19,  and  20. — Orders  for  the  viewing,  etc.,  of  chambers; 
that  Duncomb  attend  the  table  ;  that  the  butlers  attend  and  state 
who  broke  open  the  cellar  door  and  consumed  32  barrels  of  beer; 
that  Duncombe  (20  June)  be  amerced  for  his  wilful  failure  of  an 
exercise  ;  that  Robert  Daniell,  the  under  cook,  attend  the  table  ; 
that  the  words  "  and  to  make  proposals  in  writing  for  such  regula- 
tions as  to  the  said  committee  shall  seem  expedient,"  be  added  to 
the  order  of  5  February  last  appointing  a  committee  to  inquire  into 
all  things  prejudicial  to  the  honour  and  interest  of  the  House. 

JUNE  23. — Orders  that  Edward  Lloyd  pay  505.,  his  proportion 
for  32  barrels  of  beer,  drunk  at  Christmas,  1689,  before  being  sworn; 
that  the  matter  of  the  fees  for  persons  dying  here  and  buried  else- 
where be  referred  to  the  standing  committee ;  that  the  little  gate 
into  Whitefriars  be  bricked  up  ;  and  that  the  falling  post  or  stump 
by  the  garden  gate  leading  into  King's  Bench  Walks  be  removed 
and  a  new  standing  post  or  stump  erected  to  prevent  coaches  coming 
into  the  said  Walks. 


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JUNE  25. — The  draughts  of  the  two  acts  prepared  by  the  standing 
committee  concerning  the  treasurer's  precedence  at  the  bench  table 
and  the  election  of  bench  chambers,  being  read  and  agreed  to,  are 
ordered  to  be  presented  at  the  next  parliament. 

Orders  that  Johnson,  having  paid  the  full  sum  of  150/2.  as  a 
bencher  and  reader,  shall  have  quiet  possession  of  his  bench  chamber  ; 
and  that  the  table  agrees  to  the  report  touching  the  building  of 
William  Clark,  the  second  butler. 

JUNE  26. — The  auditors  of  Gerrard's  accounts  attending  the 
table  and  delivering  their  report,  it  is  ordered  that  Gerrard  have  a 
copy  of  his  charge,  and  that  he  and  the  auditors  attend  the  table, 
and  also  that  he  give  a  positive  answer  in  writing  to  the  charge 
exhibited  against  him.  And  order  that  Home,  the  bricklayer,  shall 
pay  for  certain  bricks  carried  away  without  leave. 

JUNE  27  and  29. — Orders  to  view  chambers  ;  that  Prinn  upon 
paying  arrears  and  attending  the  benchers  be  heard  at  the  table  in 
order  for  his  being  restored  into  commons  ;  that  lodgers,  not  admitted 
to  the  society,  depart  before  Tuesday,  or  the  chambers  in  which  they 
lodge  to  be  padlocked  ;  and  (29  June)  that  the  principal  of  Clement's 
Inn,  Thomas  Callow,  and  the  auditors,  attend  the  table  with  all  the 
house  books,  rolls,  and  abstracts,  relating  to  Gerrard's  accounts. 

JUNE  30. — -Order  for  the  general  admission  of  John  Llewellin 
as  of  Hilary  term,  1688,  he  having  paid  his  fees  to  Minors;  that 
certain  chambers  be  viewed ;  that  a  special  admission  for  William 
Degg,  grandson  of  Sir  Simon  Degg,  be  denied,  because  the  said  Sir 
Simon  was  disbenched  and  fined  200/2.  for  refusing  to  read. 

The  principal  of  Clement's  Inn,  Callow,  and  the  auditors,  attend- 
ing the  table  with  the  house  books,  rolls,  and  abstracts  relating  to 
Gerrard's  accounts,  the  debate  thereof  is  adjourned. 

JULY  i  and  3. — Order  that  the  matter  concerning  Gerrard,  prin- 
cipal of  Clement's  Inn,  be  referred  to  Johnson,  Bowyer,  and  William 
Petyt ;  that  Johnson  and  others  be  a  committee  to  consider  what 
bills  are  fit  for  the  treasurer  to  sign ;  as  to  the  increase  of  salary 
to  Minors  ;  that  Powell's  chamber  be  viewed  ;  that  Grant's  goods  be 
moved  from  his  chamber ;  that  Anthony  Gwynn  attend  the  table  ; 
that  the  steward's  accounts  for  Hilary  vacation,  1690,  be  referred  to 
Legrosse  and  others  ;  that  Cressar,  the  carpenter,  be  forthwith  dis- 
charged ;  that  the  Whitefriars  little  gate  be  bricked  up  again  ;  that 


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John  Warter's  petition  be  referred  to  a  committee ;  that  Minors' 
salary  be  30/2. ;  that  the  wall  next  the  Thames  behind  the  King's 
Bench  Office  be  abated  and  brought  to  a  level  with  the  garden  wall ; 
and  that  the  bricks  taken  therefrom  be  used  for  building  a  green 
house  to  be  held  by  the  gardener  during  the  pleasure  of  the  bench. 

OCT.  29. — Orders  that  the  treasurer  provide  a  preacher  for  next 
Sunday  afternoon  and  the  preacher  to  have  40$. ;  that  the  committee 
touching  Gerrard's  accounts  make  their  report  on  Monday  ;  and  that 
a  chamber  be  viewed. 

Nov.  3. — Order  that  the  committee  appointed  in  and  by  an 
order  of  the  table  made  i  July  last  "  to  consider  and  report  the 
balance  of  Mr.  Gerrard's  accounts  (formerly  principal  of  Clement's 
Inn)  be  enabled  to  hear  and  examine  both  the  charge  and  discharge, 
and  to  summon  the  said  Mr.  Gerrard  and  the  other  persons  concerned 
for  Clement's  Inn  in  order  to  their  satisfaction,  and  to  appoint  an 
auditor  for  the  said  accounts,  if  they  see  cause,  and  such  of  the 
masters  of  the  bench  as  please  may  be  of  the  said  committee  and 
have  voice  there."  Order  for  the  viewing  of  a  chamber. 

Nov.  5  and  6. — Orders  as  to  the  chambers  of  John  Warton, 
junior,  and  the  viewing  of  chambers  ;  that  a  committee  do  inquire  by 
what  authority  the  door  leading  through  Legh's  chamber  into  White- 
friars,  was  first  made  ;  that  all  the  masters  of  the  bench  be  desired 
to  come  to  the  table  on  Monday  ;  and  that  John  Legh,  John  Hoyle, 
and  Matthew  Lant  attend  the  table. 

Nov.  7. — Orders  that  the  petition  of  Gershom  Herrick  be  re- 
ferred to  a  committee;  that  the  "under  treasurer  signify  to  Sir 
Samuel  Astrey,  knight,  master  of  the  Crown  Office,  that  it  is  the 
pleasure  of  this  table  to  demand  and  reserve  1 5/2".  per  annum  for  the 
rooms  wherein  the  office  of  Pleas  of  the  Crown  is  kept,  to  which 
demand,  if  the  said  Sir  Samuel  Astrey  doth  not  agree  and  satisfy  this 
table  how  and  in  what  manner  he  will  answer  and  pay  the  said  rent 
of  1 5/z.  per  annum,  that  the  rooms  wherein  the  said  office  is  kept  be 
padlocked  up  ten  days  next  after  the  date  hereof." 

Nov.  9  and  10. — Orders  as  to  chambers;  that  the  matter  of 
Leigh,  Hoyle,  and  Lant  be  adjourned  sine  die;  that  the  under- 
treasurer  do  cause  Holloway's  windows  to  be  amended  at  the  public 
charge  of  the  House ;  that  the  order  for  increasing  the  rent  of  the 
office  where  the  Pleas  of  the  Crown  are  kept,  be  reversed,  and  the 


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office  be  held  at  the  yearly  rent  of  12/2.  5$.  ;  that  Hodges  and  others 
be  a  committee  to  prepare  an  act  for  the  better  regulating  of  election 
of  bench  chambers  and  keeping  up  the  exercises  of  the  House  by 
this  table  ;  that  the  butlers  give  in  the  names  of  those  who  were  in 
commons  in  last  Trinity  vacation,  when  several  orders  were  made  by 
the  bar  both  for  the  restoring  of  Prinn  into  commons  and  for  re- 
moving the  "stump"  set  down  by  order  of  the  bench  table  in  the 
term  preceding. 

Nov.  ii. — Orders  that  the  vacation  barristers  who  sat  at  the 
upper  end  of  the  mess  on  6  July  last,  when  Prinn  was  readmitted  into 
commons,  be  summoned  to  attend  the  table  ;  that  the  vacation  bar- 
risters who  were  at  the  upper  end  of  the  mess  and  ordered  the  removal 
of  the  "stump,"  and  those  who  reversed  that  order  and  repealed  the 
reversing  order  also  attend  ;  and  that  an  order  for  the  better  regu- 
lating of  debates  at  the  bench  table  be  referred  to  Hodges  and 
others. 

Nov.  12  and  13. — Orders  that  the  under-treasurer  pay  the 
brewer  for  the  32  barrels  of  beer  used  by  the  Christmas  gentlemen 
in  1689,  and  to  remind  the  table  of  the  same  whensoever  Yarbrough 
shall  pray  to  be  restored  into  commons  ;  that  Drue  Dean  and  Robey 
attend  the  table  ;  that  the  committee  for  regulating  the  election  of 
bench  chambers,  etc.,  be  continued,  and  that  the  act  prepared  by 
them  be  presented  to  parliament ;  that  the  falling  post  near  the 
garden  gate  be  removed  and  a  fixed  post  or  stump  be  set  down  in 
the  room  thereof;  that  the  orders  made  by  the  vacation  barristers  as 
to  displacing  and  placing  of  the  standing  post  or  stump  be  expunged 
from  the  buttery  books,  and  the  consideration  of  their  order  for 
readmitting  Prinn  be  respited. 

Nov.  1 6. — Orders  that  when  Thomas  Yarbrough  has  satisfied 
the  table  for  the  32  barrels  of  beer  entered  upon  by  those  who  kept 
Christmas,  1689,  his  restoration  into  commons  be  considered  ;  that  if 
Sir  Thomas  Bludworth  does  not  admit  himself  before  the  last  par- 
liament of  the  present  term,  his  chamber  be  padlocked  ;  and  that  the 
chief  butler  return  the  names  of  all  persons  inhabiting  chambers 
who  are  not  admitted  to  the  society. 

Nov.  1 8. — Order  that  the  falling  post  with  lock  and  key  be  set 
down  for  the  convenience  of  coaches  to  pass  into  the  King's  Bench 
Walks ;  that  Grant's  case  be  referred  to  a  committee ;  and  that  the 


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[1691 


fees  for  burial  in  the  chapel  and  vaults  of  the  society  be  referred  to 
the  same  committee. 

Nov.  19,  20,  21,  24,  26,  and  27. — Orders  for  viewing  and  pad- 
locking chambers ;  for  the  payment  of  debts  owing  to  the  House ; 
that  the  question  of  foreign  lodgers  be  referred  to  a  committee  ;  that 
the  committee  as  to  the  fees  for  burial  in  the  vault  make  their  report ; 
that  the  40^.  which  should  have  been  paid  to  the  music  be  not  cast 
into  commons  ;  as  to  the  disposal  of  the  money  received  for  bar 
bonds  ;  that  upon  payment  of  Sir  William  Pulteney's  and  Charles 
Pulteney's  duties,  the  sum  of  40^.  be  paid  to  the  said  Charles ;  that 
the  consideration  of  the  petition  of  the  inhabitants  of  Whitefriars  be 
adjourned ;  as  to  the  payment  of  several  workmen  and  officers ; 
that  the  case  of  John  Rugg,  touching  the  purchase  of  a  chamber,  be 
referred  to  a  committee. 


GENERAL    ACCOUNT    BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from   26   October,    1690,   to  27   November,    1691,  in  the 
treasurership  of  William  Farrer. 


RECEIPTS. 

Money  received  upon  the  aid  roll  for  the 
repair  of  the  church  and  upon  subscrip- 
tions, i  ilf.  5.?. 

From  Edward  Lloyd  in  part  of  the  32 
barrels  of  drink  consumed  by  the  Christ- 
mas gentlemen  in  1689,  2/1.  los. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  the  vintner  for  wine  spent  by  the  bench 
table  in  Michaelmas  term  [Canary, 
Claret,  and  Sherry],  28/1.  8s.  i-V. 

To  Ralph  Davenant  [for  himself  and  the 
rest  of  his  Majesty's  players]  for  the  play 
called  "  Amphitryon  or  the  two  Sofias," 
acted  in  the  hall  of  this  society  on  i 

NOV.,    1690,    2O//. 

Salaries  to  Dr.  Sherlock,  Manningham,  and 
Stacey  as  before. 

Payments  for  nursing  foundlings. 

To  the  musicians,  for  their  fees  for  Gun- 
powder Treason  and  for  Michaelmas  and 
Hilary  terms,  4/1. 


Faggots  for  bonfires  [on  the  King's  birth- 
day, Gunpowder  Treason,  and  Queen 
Elizabeth's  birthday],  zli.  $s. 

To  the  vintner,  for  wine  spent  at  the  bench 
table  in  Hilary  term  [Canary  and  Claret], 

To  the  clerk  of  the  church  [for  holly,  ivy, 
rosemary,  and  bay,  for  prayer  books  for 
the  Fast  days,  etc.],  4/i.  is.  6d. 

To  the  gardener  for  disbursements  [for 
nails  and  "  halt  parings  for  the  jessa- 
mines ",  etc.],  5//.  5J. 

To  the  vintner,  for  wine  spent  at  the  bench 
table  in  Easter  term  [Canary,  Claret,  and 
Old  Hock],  i9#.  i8s.  $d. 

To  him  more  for  Trinity  term  [Canary, 
Claret,  and  i  quart  of  Old  Hock],  i5//. 
i8s.  (>d. 

To  the  woodmonger  for  Kentish  faggots 
for  bonfires  [on  their  Majesties'  corona- 
tion day,  the  King's  safe  return  from 
Ireland,  the  Queen's  birthday  and  King 
Charles'  birth  and  return],  3/2. 


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INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS. 


287 


For  watching  at  the  little  gate  leading  into 
Whitefriars  when  it  was  ordered  to  be 
bricked  up,  ili.  115. 

To  the  smith  [for  repairs  to  a  chest  in  the 
church,  etc.],  "j/i.  us.  id. 

To  the  herald  painter  [for  gilding,  painting, 
and  writing  the  arms  of  Hodges,  Ward, 
Foley,  Cardrow,  and  Trevor],  ili.  los. 

To  the  Queen  dowager,  a  year's  fee  farm 
rent,  loli.  is. 

To  the  Company  of  the  New  River  water 
for  half  a  year's  rent  for  the  said  water, 
ili.  6s.  T,d. 

To  the  gardener  [for  cockle  shells  for  the 
walks,  for  6  peaches  and  nectrons,  2 
cherries  and  one  plum],  4//.  IQJ. 

To  the  woodmonger  for  faggots  for  bon- 
fires [on  the  surrender  of  Limerick,  on 
his  Majesty's  safe  return  from  Flanders, 
on  the  King's  birthday,  on  Gunpowder 
Treason,  on  Queen  Elizabeth's  birthday, 
on  the  Thanksgiving  day],  4/1.  los. 

To  the  vintner  for  wine  spent  at  the  bench 
table  in  Michaelmas  term,  1691  [for 
Canary  and  Claret],  34//.  9^.  4</. 

To  the  bricklayer  [for  mending  the  tiling   ; 
on  the  old  buildings  in  the  Temple  Lane 
that  was  broken  by  the  fall  of  the  gable 
ends,  by  the  great  wind  etc.],  22/1. 

To  the  under-treasurer  [to  Morgan  and 
another  person  for  going  into  South wark 
to  inquire  concerning  suspicious  persons 
found  in  the  Temple  ;  for  a  warrant  to 
search  for  the  mother  of  a  child  left  in 
Figtree  Court  by  name  Heneage  ;  to  the 
beadles  and  constables  ;  to  the  grave 
maker  for  the  grave  of  the  said  child  ; 
to  the  person  who  secured  the  smith, 
who  was  filing  the  bars,  and  his  attend- 
ance with  me  the  next  day  at  Sir  William 
Turner's  ;  to  a  messenger  to  find  out  the 


sheriff  the  first  time ;  for  victuals  and 
drink  for  the  servants  when  they  attended 
the  Whitefriars  business ;  for  bread, 
cheese,  tobacco,  etc.,  for  the  workmen 
and  labourers  the  first  time  the  door  was 
made  up  ;  for  drink,  tobacco,  etc.,  for  the 
workmen  that  I  kept  together  till  the 
tumult  was  over  the  second  time ;  for 
bread,  cheese,  candles,  etc.,  for  the 
workmen  and  labourers  who  worked 
up  the  wall  the  last  time,  it  being 
almost  one  of  the  clock  on  Sunday 
morning,  the  weather  hot  and  the  place 
close  and  dark ;  to  a  messenger  to 
find  out  the  sheriff  a  second  time  • 
expenses  at  the  tavern  with  the  sheriffs, 
etc.,  that  night,  in  which  several  persons 
were  secured ;  to  the  servants  and 
officers  of  the  House  and  others  who 
came  to  give  information  against  the 
rioters,  the  first  time  ;  to  Harbottle,  the 
sheriff's  porter,  for  his  extraordinary 
diligence  in  this  business ;  at  Guildhall 
for  the  servants  a  second  time  attending 
the  sheriffs ;  to  a  poor  workman  for  a 
trowel,  plumet  line,  and  cutting  hammer 
taken  away  by  the  Alsatians  the  first 
time  :  to  two  workmen  and  a  labourer 
whose  heads  were  then  broken  and 
otherwise  hurt  (zs.  fid.);  to  Berry,  the 
porter,  for  his  expenses  at  the  Red  Lion 
in  Fleet  Street,  twice,  when  he  and  the 
rest  of  the  officers  attended  the  sheriff 
and  coroner  upon  tine  same  account ; 
and  to  a  person  for  watching  a  woman 
that  I  suspected  would  lay  a  child  in  the 
Temple,  etc.],  ii/i.  y.  $d. 

Receipts,  1,940/1.  os.  g'^d. 

Disbursements,  1,286/1.  gs.  f>J. 

Balance,  65 3//.  n.r.  j,±d. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1690-1,  FEB.  20.     Release  by  Renatus  Harris  of  the  parish  of 
St.  Bride's,  London,  to  the  society  of  the  Inner  Temple. 


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ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  benchers  who  attended  the 
parliaments  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances : 
SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL,  treasurer,  6 ;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  6,  once  as 
deputy  treasurer;  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  4  ;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  3  ; 
RICHARD  POWELL,  3  ;  ANTHONY  BOWYER,  3 ;  JOHN  MOSYER,  2 ;  THOMAS 
FARRER,  i  ;  LAUNCELOT  JOHNSON,  i ;  and  THOMAS  PETIT,  i. 

1691-2. 

JAN.  29. — Thomas  Powell,  brother  of  Sir  John  Powell,  baron 
of  the  Exchequer,  and  Thomas  White  called  to  the  bar. 

FEB.  ii. — Special  admission  of  John  Sherlock,  youngest  son  of 
the  Rev.  William  Sherlock,  D.D.,  dean  of  St.  Paul's  and  master 
of  the  Temple,  out  of  particular  respect  to  and  at  the  request  of  his 
father. 

1692. 

APRIL  21. — -Arthur  Weaver  chosen  reader  for  Trinity  vacation. 

Charles  Whitaker,  Thomas  Walker,  Samuel  Trottman,  Joseph 
Girdler,  John  Hales,  Thomas  Tutt,  and  Nathan  Wright  called  to  the 
bench,  each  of  them  paying  50/2.  to  the  treasurer. 

Whereas  by  act  of  parliament  of  13  February,  1689-90,  Thomas 
Yarbrough  and  John  Aston  were  expelled  for  keeping  a  riotous 
Christmas,  it  is  ordered  that  the  said  Yarbrough  be  restored. 

MAY  9. — Special  admissions  of  William  Tempest,  son  and  heir 
of  William  Tempest,  one  of  the  prothonotaries  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas  and  an  associate  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his 
father  (and  not  of  right)  ;  and  of  Charles  Whitaker,  son  and  heir  of 
Charles  Whitaker,  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Nathaniel  Manlove,  Thomas  Northmore,  Edward  Gosnell,  Drue 
Deane,  William  Drake,  Daniel  Tainturier,  Robert  Thompson, 
Thomas  Boycott,  and  Simon  Aris  called  to  the  bar. 

JUNE  6. — Orders  for  admissions  to  chambers. 

Nov.  6. — Pensions  for  the  last  half  year  to  be  assessed  double, 
and  Sir  Nathaniel  Powell  chosen  reader. 

Special  admission   of  Joseph  Girdler,  son  and  heir  of  Joseph 


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Girdler,  serjeant-at-law,  and  late  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request 
of  his  father. 

Nov.  17. — Special  admissions  of  Nathaniel,  James,  and  Christo- 
pher Powell,  grandsons  of  Sir  Nathaniel  Powell,  treasurer,  at  the  re- 
quest of  their  grandfather ;  and  of  Thomas  Whitaker,  second  son  of 
Charles  Whitaker,  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

John  Milbourne,  William  Millman,  and  Benedict  Browne  called 
associates  to  the  bench. 

Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : — Clendon 
and  Whitaker,  of  the  bench,  and  Hildyard  and  Blaney,  of  the  bar. 

Treasurer  : — Charles  Holloway. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

1691. 

Nov.  28. — Orders  that  Hildyard,  chosen  reader  of  Lyon's  Inn 
last  year,  be  discharged  ;  that  the  treasurer  have  leave  to  make  a  door 
out  of  the  ground  chamber  of  Waters  in  Ram  Alley  Building  into  the 
Great  Walk  ;  that  the  master  of  the  revels  be  allowed  40^.  for  the  first 
night  of  the  revels  in  Michaelmas  term  ;  that  Courtney's  chamber  be 
padlocked  ;  that  Stone's  petition  be  deferred  ;  that  Richard  Andrews, 
Richard  Osborne,  Charles  Vaughan,  William  Simpson,  James  Fare- 
well, and  Samuel  Powell  be  appointed  readers  to  be  sent  to  Lyon's 
Inn ;  that  Henry  Crispe,  Charles  Baldwyn,  and  Sir  John  Edwardes 
be  appointed  readers  to  be  sent  to  Clement's  Inn. 

1691-2. 

JAN.  29. — Orders  as  to  viewing  chambers ;  nomination  of  Thomas 
Powell,  brother  of  Sir  John  Powell,  and  Thomas  White  for  call  to  the 
bar ;  that  all  the  masters  of  the  bench  attend  about  the  opening  of  the 
Whitefriars  gates  ;  as  to  the  deposit  on  a  chamber  by  Francis  Eyton  ; 
that  Yarbrough  upon  payment  of  duties  and  charges  and  visiting  the 
masters  of  the  bench,  be  restored ;  that  the  sub-treasurer  and  the 
collectors  of  the  tax  on  the  society,  do  give  an  account  to  the  table, 
how  the  matter  stands. 

FEB.  i. — Order  that  Samuel  Trottman,  who  was  chosen  reader  of 
Clifford's  Inn,  be  discharged  paying  his  duties;  that  Samuel  Carter 

in.  P  P 


290  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [i691-2 

William  Barnesley,  aad  Walter  Savage  be  appointed  readers  for 
Clifford's  Inn ;  and  that  the  petitioners  of  Whitefriars  may  attend 
the  table. 

FEB.  10. — Orders  that  certain  chambers  be  viewed  ;  that  the  acts 
of  parliament  concerning  buildings  be  inspected  ;  that  lo/z.  be  paid  to 
the  widow  of  the  person  that  was  killed  in  the  late  tumult  in  White- 
friars  ;  that  Holloway  and  others  be  a  committee  to  draw  up  reasons 
for  the  not  opening  of  the  Whitefriars  gates  in  answer  to  the  Lord 
Nottingham's  letter. 

FEB.  ii. — Orders  that  the  under-treasurer  pay  Mrs.  Minors 
22/z.  3.5-.  4</.  per  annum,  part  of  her  husband's  salary;  for  the  ad- 
mission of  John  Sherlock ;  that  Samuel  Baldwin  and  John  Waters 
have  leave  to  set  up  palisado  pales  against  their  chambers  in  Ram 
Alley  Building,  fronting  the  Great  Walk,  and  may  make  doors  into 
the  same  walk,  answerable  to  the  building  on  the  other  side  of  the 
arch ;  that  Bowyer  and  Thomas  Petit  be  a  committee  to  wait  on  the 
Earl  of  Nottingham  touching  the  affair  of  the  little  Whitefriars  gate  ; 
that  the  mason's  petition  be  referred  to  the  treasurer  ;  and  that  con- 
cerning the  petition  of  Edmund  Jenneys,  that  he  be  left  to  take  his 
course  at  law. 

1692. 

APRIL  19,  21,  and  23. — Nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bench 
at  the  parliament  held  on  2 1  April ;  orders  that  certain  chambers  be 
viewed  ;  that  Johnson  and  Courtney  do  attend  the  execution  of  the 
Poll  Act  for  the  ensuing  week  ;  that  the  arrears  for  commons  be 
paid  ;  that  the  rolls  of  chambers  be  screened  ;  that  the  debate  on 
the  opening  of  Whitefriars  gate  be  adjourned  ;  and  that  John  Hoyle 
be  called  to  the  bench  table. 

APRIL  30. — Order  as  to  viewing  a  chamber. 

MAY  2. — Orders  as  to  chambers ;  that  all  committees  of  this 
society  be  from  henceforth  dissolved  ;  that  Trottman,  who  was  called 
to  the  bench,  be  excused ;  that  the  consideration  of  the  petition  of 
Thomas  Warne,  painter,  be  referred  to  a  committee. 

Orders  that  there  be  but  one  passage  permitted  out  of  this 
society  into  Whitefriars,  and  that  at  the  desire  and  request  of  Daniel, 
Earl  of  Nottingham,  signified  by  his  letter  to  the  treasurer,  dated 
26  January  last,  and  "  upon  the  humble  petitions  and  earnest  suppli- 


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291 


cations  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  said  Whitefriars  that  the  upper 
passage,  now  bricked  up,  be  opened  and  a  gate  placed  there  with  a 
wicket  to  be  opened  and  shut  at  such  times  and  seasons  as  this  table 
shall  from  time  to  time  direct  and  appoint,  and  not  otherwise."  Pro- 
vided the  said  inhabitants  pay  the  charge  the  society  has  been  at  in 
asserting  their  right  to  the  said  passage  and  gate  there,  and  also  such 
further  charges  as  the  society  shall  be  at  in  opening  the  said  passage 
and  setting  up  a  new  gate,  as  aforesaid.  And  it  is  further  ordered 
that  the  wicket  in  the  great  gate  of  the  lower  passage  into  White- 
friars  be  shut  up  during  the  pleasure  of  this  table. 

MAY  6  and  7. — Orders  for  chambers  to  be  viewed ;  that  upon 
the  petition  of  the  inhabitants  of  Whitefriars,  the  charges  of  the  new 
gate  be  computed  and  the  money  deposited  in  the  hands  of  the 
under-treasurer,  and  the  said  gate  be  finished  by  the  under-treasurer's 
directions. 

Nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bar  at  the  parliament  held  on 
9  May,  1692,  with  the  addition  of  the  names  of  Samuel  Duncomb, 
Matthew  Lant,  Thomas  Yarbrough,  John  Rawlins,  Robert  Oneby, 
Henry  Fendall,  Daniel  Man,  Richard  James,  Fortescue  Turbervile, 
John  Dodd,  Thomas  Algood,  and  John  Tilly. 

MAY  9. — Orders  that  two  calls  to  the  bench  in  one  term  are 
irregular  and  therefore  that  the  call  of  Hoyle  on  23  April,  be  set 
aside  ;  that  the  gentlemen  proposed  to  be  called  to  the  bar  and  have 
no  chambers  shall  pay  zoli.  caution  money,  and  such  as  have 
chambers  shall  pay  their  duties. 

Order  "  that  upon  making  any  order  of  this  table,  the  sub- 
treasurer  for  the  time  being  (who  by  virtue  of  his  office  is  to  attend 
this  table),  shall,  in  a  book  kept  for  the  entry  of  the  bench  table 
orders,  particularly  enter  the  names  of  all  such  benchers  who  shall  be 
present  at  the  making  of  any  bench  table  order.  And  it  is  further 
ordered  that  if  any  bencher  there  present  shall  dissent  to  any  order 
then  proposed  to  be  made,  every  such  bencher  shall  and  may  at  that 
time  be  at  liberty  to  enter  his  disassent  or  protestation  thereunto." 

MAY  28  and  31. — Orders  that  William  Barnesley,  Nicholas  Veel, 
John  Marriott,  William  Fell,  Simon  Harcourt,  Henry  Byne,  John 
Hill,  Edward  Jenner,  and  Thomas  Heath  be  summoned  to  attend  the 
table;  that  (31  May)  the  treasurer  "do  at  the  desire  of  this  table 
request  the  master  of  the  Temple  to  cause  his  most  pious  and  loyal 


292  A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [169* 

sermon,  preached  on  Sunday  morning  last,  to  be  printed  "  ;  and  that 
the  chamber  of  William  Ellis  against  the  church  door  be  viewed. 

JUNE  i,  3,  7,  9,  and  n. — Orders  as  to  Samuel  Grant's  petition 
concerning  his  chamber  and  duties ;  that  the  under-treasurer  pro- 
duce his  security  for  the  treasure  of  the  House;  as  to  padlocking 
chambers  ;  that  the  duties  from  Robert  Bennett,  deceased,  be  referred 
to  the  treasurer ;  that  the  steward  bring  in  an  account  of  the  debts 
for  commons  ;  that  Grant  be  restored  into  commons ;  and  that  at 
the  request  of  William  Tempest,  one  of  the  prothonotaries  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  and  an  associate,  his  chamber  be  pad- 
locked. 

JUNE  13. — Orders  that  William  Petyt  remind  the  table  of  the 
better  way  to  regulate  the  taking  of  the  steward's  accounts'  in  relation 
to  commons ;  for  bonds  relating  to  duties  to  be  put  in  suit ;  that 
arrears  for  commons  be  paid  ;  that  the  stewards  give  security  of 
iooo/z'.  for  paying  all  tradesmen;  as  to  the  debts  due  to  Johanna 
Warner,  executrix  of  George  Warner,  late  steward,  and  the  bills 
of  the  oilman,  woodmonger,  and  engine  man. 

OCT.  29. — Order  that  there  be  a  grand  day,  and  Mr.  Solicitor  to 
the  Queen  and  Johnson  do  write  to  Lord  Commissioner  Trevor  and 
the  judges  formerly  of  this  society  and  invite  them  to  dinner  in  the 
said  grand  day,  and  the  two  junior  benchers  wait  on  the  Serjeants. 

Nov.  7  and  8. — Order  as  to  inquiry  to  be  made  regarding  foreign 
lodgers  and  women  in  the  House ;  that  the  report  in  Grant's  case  be 
sent  in  ;  and  that  the  little  gate  leading  into  Whitefriars  be  opened 
from  7  a.m.  and  closed  from  1 2  till  2  p.m. 

Nov.  10. — A  perusal  made  of  a  list  of  debts  due  to  the  steward 
from  several  gentlemen  of  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland  who  have  dis- 
continued commons  for  above  four  years,  and  others  who  are  dead 
and  desperate,  viz.  : — 

Irish  : — Joseph  Blake,  Martin  Blake,  Oliver  Bourke,  Jeffery 
Browne,  Ulisses  Browne,  Cornelius  Callahan,  Owen  Callanan, 
Charles  Carroll,  Thomas  Dalton,  Thadeus  Fitz  Patrick,  Geoffrey 
French,  James  Hackett,  Hugh  Hare,  Matthew  Hore,  David  Jonine, 
John  Kering,  Thomas  Lardner,  Henry  Lynch,  Peirce  Meagher, 
Richard  Morris,  Morgan  Obrian,  Walter  Rawleigh,  John  Reading, 
Richard  Reddy,  Robert  Revell,  Richard  Sankey,  Henry  Seagrave, 
John  Seagrave,  Robert  Shee,  William  Sheild,  and  James  Stanton. 


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1692] 


INNER    TEMPLE  RECORDS. 


293 


Dead  and  desperate  : — Sir  Anthony  Keck,  Anthony  Belbin, 
Aspenwall,  Richard  Blackall,  Thomas  Burroughs,  John  Colvile, 
Alexander  Frazer,  Gataker,  John  Heames,  Henry  Jones,  John  Jones, 
Owen  Norton,  Philip  Owen,  Richard  Roberts,  John  Shaw,  William 
Waddington,  and  Rowland  Wynn. 

It  is  ordered  that  the  steward  be  paid  the  said  debts  amounting 
to  1 1  i/z.  igs.  Sal.  out  of  the  treasury,  and  a  committee  be  appointed 
to  examine  the  best  way  to  re-imburse.  the  House. 

Order  that  the  petition  of  Richard  Barthrup,  the  puisne  butler, 
be  referred  to  a  committee. 

Nov.  14,  15,  1 6,  and  17. — Orders  as  to  chambers  ;  that  (14  Nov.) 
John  Milbourn  and  William  Millman,  members  of  this  society,  be 
called  associates  to  the  bar ;  that  Thomas  Petit  and  others  be  a  com- 
mittee to  inquire  what  regulations  ought  for  the  future  to  be  observed 
in  relation  to  calls  to  the  bar  and  associates  thereunto;  that  (16 
Nov.)  Benedict  Brown,  a  member  of  this  society,  be  called  an  asso- 
ciate to  the  bar ;  that  Grant  pay  29/2'.  $s.  4</.  before  the  table  take 
his  case  into  their  consideration  ;  and  that  the  petition  of  Henry 
Box  be  referred  to  a  committee. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  27  November,  1691,  to  17  November,   1692,  being 
the  treasurership  of  Sir  Nathaniel  Powell. 


RECEIPTS. 
From  Clarke,  treasurer  of  Lyon's  Inn,  for 

a  year's  rent  of  the  said  Inn  and  for  two 

tenements  adjoining,  -jli.  i$s.  $d. 
From  Thorneton,  for  a  year's  rent,  for  his 

shop  at  the  Temple  Gate,  zli. 
From  Sir  John  Powell,  for  his  melioration 

money,  zli.  125. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  the  widow  of  John  Chandler  who  was 
killed  in  the  late  riot  in  Whitefriars,  by 
order  of  the  bench  table,  io//. 

Payments,  for  nursing  foundlings. 


Salaries  to  Dr.  Sherlock,  Stacey,  and  the 

organist,  as  before. 
To  Stacey,  for  three  sermons  preached  in 

the  Temple  Church,  6//. 
To  each  of  the  new  sergeants,  according 

to  the  custom  of  the  House,  and  for 

three  purses,  i^li.  y. 
To  the  smith,  for  work  done  at  the  little 

gate  leading  into  Whitefriars,  zli.  los. 
To  the  carpenter,  for  making  a  new  gate 

into  Whitefriars,  i//'.  icw. 
To  the  woodmonger,  for  faggots  for  bon- 
fires, 5//. 
To  the  engine  maker,  for  a  new  branch 

and  fitting  up  the  engine,  6//'.  los. 


II 


294  A    CALENDAR    OF    THE  [1691-* 


To  Minors,  for  news  and  gazettes,  iff. 

To  Widow  Warner,  pursuant  to  an  order 
of  the  table,  in  full  discharge  of  debts 
due  to  her  late  husband  George  Warner, 

I5I//.    115. 


ance  on  the  grand  day,  on  i  Nov.,  and 
4os.  for  Saturday,  6  Nov.,  6/1. 
For    preaching    several   sermons    in   the 
Temple  Church,  from  15  Nov.  last  to 
17  of  this  instant  Nov.,  56/z. 


To  the  executors  of  Dr.  Ball,  for  a  year's  j  To  the  players,  for  acting  a  play  in  the 
rent  for  the  house  Dr.  Sherlock  lives  in,          hall  on  i  Nov.  last,  zoli. 


20/i. 


Receipts,  2,ot)-]li.  IT,S. 


To  the  receiver  of  the  Queen  Dowager's  '  Disbursements,  1,287/1.  8s. 

fee  farm  rent,  lo/i.  is.  Balance,  8io/z.  55.  *]\d. 

To  the  master  of  the  revels,  for  his  attend- 


MISCELLANEA. 

[1691  ?]  An  account  of  the  rents  belonging  to  the  Society  of  the 
Inner  Temple.  The  Crown  Office,  held  at  the  pleasure  of  the  House, 
i2/z.  5.?.  The  Fine  Office,  io/z'.  An  ancient  rent  for  Lyon's  Inn, 
\li. ;  and  two  tenements  belonging  thereunto,  3/2.  1 y.  ^d.  Four 
shops  in  Tanfiekl  Court,  6li.  Lord  Fanshawe  for  the  Exchequer 
Office,  2/7'.  Thornton,  the  milliner,  at  the  gate,  for  a  shop,  at  pleasure, 
2/z.  Clarke,  chief  butler,  for  the  ground  upon  which  he  has  built  two 
shops  near  the  bog-houses,  \li.  Clarke  hath  liberty  to  build  another 
shop  by  the  bog-houses,  los.  Widow  Warner  for  the  barber's  shop 
and  rooms  belonging  thereto  by  the  church,  6s.  &d.  Hargrave  of  the 
Rainbow  Coffee  House  for  his  lights  into  Hare  Court  and  for  enlarg- 
ing two  windows  in  the  Temple,  8s.  Sparks  for  a  shed  by  Mitre 
Court  Buildings,  5^.  Roberts  for  two  shops  in  Tanfield  Court,  55. 
Robert  Warter  for  a  chamber  under  the  King's  Bench  Office,  25/2. 
Ten  inhabitants  of  Mitre  Court  for  the  use  of  the  drain,  each  3^.  ^d. 
The  turnspits  hold  Jones,  the  watchmaker's  shop,  at  pleasure,  ^d. 
Penn's  and  Clark's  shop,  held  as  a  perquisite  by  the  clerk  of  the 
church.  Roundthwaite  to  build  a  room  for  the  water  engine,  and 
over  a  shop,  all  at  his  own  costs,  to  hold  to  him  and  his  assigns  at 
pleasure  in  rent.  Dixon  of  the  Fountain  Tavern  to  pay  yearly  for 
his  lights  into  the  Temple  Lane,  2s.  6d. 


i69*-3]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  295 


ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  benchers  who  attended  the  parliaments 
with  the  number  of  their  attendances  during  the  year  :  CHARLES 
HOLLOWAY,  treasurer,  8 ;  SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL,  5 ;  NICHOLAS 
COURTNEY,  3 ;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  3 ;  THOMAS  PETIT,  3 ;  THOMAS 
FARRER,  2 ;  ANTHONY  BOWYER,  2  ;  JOHN  MOSYER,  i  ;  LAUNCELOT 
JOHNSON,  i  ;  PHILIP  PARGITER,  i  ;  ARTHUR  WEAVER,  i  ;  and  SIR 
EDWARD  WARD,  i. 

1692. 

Nov.  27. — Special  admission  of  Wright,  eldest  son  of  Nathan 
Wright,  serjeant  at  law,  late  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of 
his  father. 

Admission  ad eundem  gradum  of  Roger  Jenyns,  admitted  to  the 
Middle  Temple  2  July,  1681,  and  called  on  25  May,  1688. 

The  question  of  admission  upon  an  assignment  of  the  Corporation 
of  the  Great  Level  of  the  Fens,  called  Bedford  Level,  to  a  chamber  in 
Serjeant  Hampson's  Buildings,  is  adjourned. 

1692-3. 

FEB.  5. — Special  admission  of  Charles  Longuevile,  eldest  son  of 
William  Longuevile,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Nomination  by  the  Corporation  of  the  Great  Level  of  the  Fens, 
called  the  Bedford  Level,  of  Roger  Jenyns,  junior,  and  admission 
of  the  said  Jenyns  to  the  ground  chamber  on  the  right  hand  in 
Serjeant  Hampson's  Building  in  Tanfield  Court,  in  trust  for  the 
corporation. 

FEB.  13. — Order,  after  reciting  the  act  of  parliament  of  9  June, 
33  Charles  II.,  as  to  payments  upon  a  call  to  the  bench,  that  every 
bencher  hereafter  to  be  nominated  reader  who  shall,  upon  his  first 
coming  to  the  table,  have  paid  the  sum  of  50/2'.,  shall  pay  the  treasurer 
the  further  sum  of  50/2'.  and  no  more,  by  reason  of  his  being  so  chosen 
reader,  or  upon  any  other  account.  And  further  order  reciting  the 
act  of  parliament  of  29  June,  1691,  as  to  the  allowance  of  loo/z.  to 
each  treasurer,  that  every  bencher  hereafter  nominated  reader  or 


296  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1692-3 

shall  have  paid  upon  such  nomination  the  sum  of  50/2'.,  shall,  in  case 
he  shall  be  made  treasurer,  be  allowed  upon  his  accounts  the  sum  of 
50/2.  and  no  more,  and  so  proportionably  for  the  time  of  his  service 
in  that  office.  And  whereas  several  benchers  now  at  the  table  have 
paid  their  moneys  according  to  the  said  first  recited  act  of  parliament, 
and  have  not  yet  been  treasurers  nor  taken  benefit  by  the  second 
recited  act,  it  is  therefore  enacted  that  every  such  bencher  that  has 
been  reader  and  paid  the  sum  of  100/2.  and  disclaimed  the  benefit  of 
a  bench  chamber,  or  has  paid  the  sum  of  1 50/2'.  and  made  his  election 
to  a  bench  chamber,  shall,  when  he  is  made  treasurer,  be  allowed 
lOO/z.,  and  so  proportionably  for  the  time  he  shall  serve  in  that 
office. 

MAY  17. — Order  that  pensions  for  the  last  half  year  be  assessed 
double. 

Special  admissions  of  William  Twisden,  third  son  of  Sir  Roger 
Twisden,  bart.,  and  grandson  of  Sir  Thomas  Twisden,  knt.,  Justice 
of  the  Court  of  King's  Bench  ;  and  of  Benjamin  Jenner,  fourth  son 
of  Sir  Thomas  Jenner,  serjeant-at-law,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Thomas  Petit  chosen  reader. 

MAY  29. — Whereas  at  the  parliament  held  on  7  February,  1685, 
Samuel  Grant,  an  utter  barrister,  was  expelled,  it  is  ordered  that  he 
be  restored. 

Edward  Hawke,  Thomas  Cuthbert,  Dutton  Seaman,  Henry 
Ashurst,  Edward  Pleydell,  Jonathan  Collins,  Henry  Baldwyn,  James 
Fortrey,  Samuel  Mills,  RoscarrockeDonking,  Thomas  Collet,  Maurice 
Abbot,  Jacob  Regnier,  William  Wickham,  Robert  Chaplin,  William 
Levinz,  and  Richard  Shelton  called  to  the  bar,  and  Nicholas  Veele 
and  William  Melmeth  likewise  called  to  the  bar,  provided  they  first 
take  the  oaths  to  the  government. 

JUNE  29. — Order  that  Nicholas  Veele  be  called  in  accordance 
with  the  act  of  the  last  parliament. 

Special  admission  of  Paul  Foley,  second  son  of  Paul  Foley, 
master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Nov.  6. — John  Clendon  chosen  reader  for  Hilary  vacation. 

Special  admission  of  Thomas  Ward,  second  son,  William  Ward, 
third  son,  and  Philip  Ward,  fourth  son  of  Sir  Edward  Ward,  attorney 
general. 

NOv.  19. — Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  :— 


,69zJ  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  297 

Charles  Whitaker  and  John  Hales  of  the  bench,  and  Robert  Blaney 
and  William  Barnesby  of  the  bar. 

Treasurer:  Sir  Edward  Ward,  knt.,  attorney-general. 

BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  :  CHARLES 
HOLLO  WAY,  treasurer,  53  ;  CLENDON,  44  ;  SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL,  41  ; 
TUTT,  40 ;  WILLIAM  PETIT,  38  ;  MR.  SOLICITOR  TO  THE  QUEEN,  36  ; 
COURTNEY,  33 ;  WHITAKER,  33  ;  THOMAS  PETIT,  28 ;  JOHNSON,  24 ; 
BOWYER,  21  ;  THOMAS  FARRER,  19;  WEAVER,  17;  PARGITER,  16; 
HALES,  16  ;  MOSYER,  4;  CARDROW,  3  ;  TEMPEST,  2  ;  LONGUEVILE,  i  ; 
and  WARD,  i. 

1692. 

Nov.  1 8. — The  petition  of  the  inhabitants  residing  in  the  upper 
and  lower  part  of  White  Friars  referred  to  a  committee. 

Nov.  21. — "  Ordered  that  it  be  referred  to  the  treasurer  of  the 
Inner  Temple  to  confer  with  the  treasurer  of  the  Middle  Temple  in 
order  to  transfer  the  interest  of  both  Temples  to  trustees  of  both 
societies,  and  Mr.  Treasurer  is  desired  to  make  his  report  to  the  table 
on  or  before  Friday  next." 

Orders  that  a  list  of  the  vacation  barristers  be  brought  up  to  the 
table,  and  that  the  under-treasurer  do  bring  up,  the  first  full  week  in 
every  term,  the  abstract  of  all  the  orders  of  the  table  made  in  the  pre- 
cedent term. 

Nov.  22. — Order  that  it  be  referred  to  Clendon  and  others  to 
consider  whether  there  be  any  sum  of  money  and  what,  to  be  allowed 
to  any  of  the  masters  of  the  bench  for  their  necessary  expenses  in 
and  about  their  bench  chambers,  and  to  inspect  what  allowances 
have  been  given  to  any  of  the  bench  towards  such  their  expenses, 
and  make  their  report  to  the  table  before  the  next  parliament. 

The  committee  appointed  to  inquire  into  all  foreign  lodgers 
and  women  residing  in  the  society  having  made  their  report  to  the 
table,  the  same  is  "re-referred"  to  the  same  committee  to  make  such 
further  report  therein  as  they  shall  think  fitting,  viz.,  who  are  proper 
persons  to  be  first  removed. 

in.  Q  Q 


298  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1692-3 

Nov.  23. — Upon  reading  a  letter  from  William,  Earl  of  Bed- 
ford, as  to  the  office  of  the  Corporation  of  the  Great  Level  of  the 
Fen,  the  matter  is  referred  to  Cardrow  and  others  to  consider  whether 
an  act  of  parliament  or  order  against  renewing  the  estate  be  made ; 
and  the  corporation  is  to  nominate  a  life  to  be  admitted  upon  the 
assignment  in  and  to  the  said  chamber. 

Nov.  24. — Orders  that  the  little  gate  into  Whitefriars  be  open 
from  8  a.m,  to  6  p.m.  ;  that  W.  Simpson,  who  was  chosen  reader  for 
Lyon's  Inn  last  year,  having  attended  the  table  with  six  names,  was 
discharged  upon  paying  his  duties  ;  the  names  presented  for  readers 
for  Lyon's  Inn  were  William  Finch,  Ralph  Hough,  Edward  Jennings, 
Charles  Vaughan,  Robert  Payne,  and  John  Pottenger;  and  order 
that  all  benchers,  that  shall  be  chosen  readers,  shall  pay  50/2'.  each 
and  no  more,  and  shall  receive  but  50/2.  when  they  come  to  be 
treasurer,  but  those  who  have  formerly  paid  loo/z.  in  lieu  of  reading, 
or  did  actually  read,  shall  receive  100/2.  when  they  come  to  be 
treasurer,  and  an  act  be  prepared  as  to  this. 

Nov.  25. — Order  for  the  attendance  of  the  gentlemen,  owners 
of  the  chambers  being  built  in  the  Inner  Temple  Lane,  called  Lord 
Coventry's  Buildings. 

Nov.  26. — Further  time  given  to  certain  committees  to  report. 


1692-3. 

JAN.  23. — Order  that  the  masters  of  the  bench  have  keys  of  the 
little  garden  behind  the  King's  Bench  office,  at  the  charge  of  the 
House ;  that  Robert  Penneston  have  notice  to  remove  himself  and 
his  family  out  of  the  chambers  of  Sir  James  Fuller  in  the  Inner 
Temple  Lane  ;  and  that  Sir  James  Fuller  do  attend  the  table. 

JAN.  24. — Order  that  the  under-treasurer  give  notice  to  Robert 
Ingram  to  attend  the  table. 

FEB.  i. — A  committee  appointed  to  receive  proposals  in  writing 
touching  the  rebuilding  of  Lord  Coventry's  Buildings ;  order  for 
George  Sawyer  to  attend  the  table ;  that  Samuel  Grant,  upon  ex- 
ecuting such  releases  to  the  officers  of  the  House  as  the  treasurer 
shall  think  fit,  shall  have  the  rest  of  his  goods  and  shall  be  restored 
to  the  House ;  and  that  the  petition  of  Richard  Barthrupp,  the 
puisne  butler,  be  referred  to  a  committee. 


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FEB.  3  and  8. — Orders  as  to  chambers. 

FEB.  10. — Order  that  the  act  prepared  as  to  the  commutation  of 
readers  be  presented  to  the  parliament;  that  in  the  report  of  the 
committee  touching  the  expenses  of  benchers  upon  their  chambers, 
the  sums  hereafter  mentioned  be  paid  to  the  persons  following,  viz., 
the  Treasurer,  60/2".,  Sir  Nathaniel  Powell,  6o/z'.,  Johnson,  30/2'.,  and 
Courtney,  30/2'. ;  and  that  Thomas  Petit's  case  be  referred  back  to 
the  committee  to  examine  what  he  has  laid  out  upon  his  bench 
chamber. 

FEB.  ii. — Order  for  the  collection  of  commons  in  arrear. 

FEB.  13. — Order  that  Mrs.  Wynn's  case  be  adjourned,  and  that 
the  report  of  the  committee  touching  future  calls  to  the  bar  be  re- 
ferred back. 

FEB.  15. — Order  as  to  padlocking  Sir  James  Fuller's  chamber, 
and  that  neither  William  Rycroft  nor  Robert  Penneston  be  admitted 
without  particular  direction  of  the  treasurer  ;  that  the  under-treasurer 
shall  not  admit  any  attorney  in  the  vacation  time  without  the  consent 
of  the  treasurer ;  and  that  Minors,  the  chief  butler,  shall  make  up 
the  rolls. 

1693. 

MAY  8,  9,  and  n. — Orders  as  to  the  payment  of  duties;  that 
Grant  be  restored  into  the  society  ;  and  that  the  under-treasurer  shall 
not  present  the  names  of  gentlemen  to  be  called  to  the  bar  till  they 
have  paid  all  duties. 

MAY  12. — Upon  witnesses  being  heard  touching  the  robbery  of 
John  Legh,  it  is  ordered  that  John  Browne,  the  under-porter,  be 
immediately  put  out  of  his  place,  and  that  William  Berry,  the  head 
porter,  do  bring  the  said  Browne's  staff  to  the  treasurer. 

MAY  13,  15,  and  16. — Orders  that  the  four  great  elm  trees,  that 
now  stand  in  the  North  Walk  of  the  garden  and  hinder  the  breadth 
of  the  same  and  are  dangerous  to  the  buildings  adjacent,  be  cut 
down  and  the  walk  made  its  full  breadth ;  and  that  a  new  row  of  elms 
be  planted  in  the  green  walks  ;  that  the  gardener  have  a  door,  new 
made,  to  the  lane  to  keep  the  garden  more  private ;  and  that  pales  be 
set  up  in  the  garden  near  his  house. 

MAY  1 8. — Order  in  accordance  with  the  report  of  the  committee 
that  notice  be  given  or  left  at  the  chambers  of  the  proprietors  of 


300  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1693 

chambers  that  the  inhabitants,  being  foreigners,  do  depart  the  society 
before  Tuesday  next,  otherwise  the  chambers  to  be  padlocked.  There 
are  fourteen  names  in  all  in  the  list  which  follows,  amongst  them  John 
Green  and  family  in  John  Meeres'  chamber,  John  Elstobb  in  John 
Bellamy's  chamber,  Collins,  "the  graver,"  in  Edward  Frank's  chamber, 
Humphrey  Levermeere  in  Henry  Crispe's  chamber,  Sir  John  Platt 
and  family  in  William  Minors'  chamber,  Philip  Vernattee  in  George 
Shyres'  chamber,  and  Newton  in  Thomas  Ange's  chamber. 

MAY  20,  22,  and  23. — Orders  that  Prynn  be  expelled  for  con- 
tempt ;  that  the  cutler  keeping  a  shop  under  the  church  in  Tanfield 
Court  do  remove  by  Friday,  and  that  certain  chambers  be  padlocked 
in  accordance  with  the  order  of  18  May;  and  nomination  of  those 
called  to  the  bar  at  the  parliament  held  on  29  May. 

MAY  24,  26,  27,  and  29. — Orders  that  the  los.  to  be  weekly 
paid  to  John  Richardson  be  cast  into  commons  ;  that  John  Prinn's 
petition  be  rejected  ;  that  a  stop  be  put  to  the  wages  of  Browne,  the 
late  under-porter  ;  that  Clendon  be  added  to  the  committee  touching 
the  case  of  Serjeant  Purley  ;  that  certain  chambers  be  viewed  ;  that 
a  new  house  of  office  be  made ;  and  that  every  master  of  the  bench 
that  sends  for  his  commons  and  is  not  actually  in  the  hall,  shall  be 
cast  into  the  quilibet. 

JUNE  1 6. — Orders  that  William  Gamull  do  attend  the  table,  and 
that  Thomas  Smith  and  Richard  Barthrupp,  two  of  the  butlers,  "  do 
not  admit  Sir  Thomas  Robinson's  housekeeper,  Mrs.  Green,  the 
glazier's  granddaughter,  nor  any  inferior  person  into  the  ladies'  seats 
in  the  Temple  church  for  the  future,  at  their  perils." 

JUNE  17,  19,  and  21. — Orders  that  Rutter  be  permitted  to  remove 
his  papers,  periwig,  and  wearing  apparel  out  of  Farrington's  chamber, 
and  that  the  chamber  be  re-padlocked ;  that  Thomas  Smith,  the 
butler,  be  suspended  commons  for  a  false  report  against  William 
Gamull ;  that  the  petition  of  Samuel  Grant  be  referred  to  a  com- 
mittee ;  and  that  Thomas  Smith  be  restored  into  commons. 

JUNE  23,  26,  and  27.— Orders  for  the  attendance  of  Richard 
Edwards,  junior,  son  of  Sir  John  Edwards,  and  for  his  discharge  on 
such  attendance ;  that  certain  workmen  be  paid ;  and  that  the  chamber, 
fallen  to  the  House  by  the  death  of  Charles  Pindar,  be  disposed  of. 

JULY  i,  3,  4  and  5. — Orders  that  the  case  of  Shelton  touching 
the  payment  of  his  vacations  be  referred  to  a  committee  ;  that  Prinne, 


,69s]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  301 

having  paid  his  duties  and  40$.  according  to  custom,  be  restored  into 
commons,  and  that  the  under-treasurer  have  leave  to  sue  him  ;  that 
Sir  Godfrey  Copley  do  attend  the  table,  and  the  case  of  Le  Grosse  in 
relation  to  him  be  referred  to  a  committee  ;  that  Clendon,  Whitaker, 
and  Tutt  do  discourse  with  the  two  prothonotaries  as  to  the  terms 
upon  which  they  wish  to  be  made  complete  benchers  ;  and  that  the 
roof  of  the  greenhouse  be  taken  off  and  a  new  one  made,  which  is  to 
be  covered  with  lead  and  wainscotted  at  the  charge  of  the  House. 

JULY  5. — Orders  that  the  gate  going  into  the  garden  by  the 
water  stairs  be  locked  up,  and  the  gardener  have  a  door  made  into 
the  lane  out  of  his  house  as  formerly ;  that  upon  the  report  of  the 
committee  touching  the  charge  that  Petit  has  been  at  in  finishing 
his  bench  chamber,  that  he  be  paid  38/2'.  in  full  discharge  of  his 
expenses. 

OCT.  27,  30,  and  31. — Orders  "that  the  committee  to  remove 
families  be  revived,  and  that  they  make  their  report  this  term  ;  "  that 
the  gardener  keep  clean  the  house  leading  to  the  private  garden  and 
the  houses  of  office  ;  that  the  great  gateway  into  Whitefriars  be  shut 
up;  and  that  the  gardener  deliver  the  key  of  the  pallisadoes  in  the 
garden  to  the  treasurer. 

Nov.  6,  8,  9,  and  13. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  debts  owing 
to  the  House ;  that  the  business  of  Berry,  the  exercise  butler,  be 
adjourned ;  that  the  nuisances  in  Mitre  Court  and  Ram  Alley  be 
referred  to  a  committee ;  that  Beresford,  Gamull,  Deane,  Boycott, 
Northmore.Collett,  Baldwyn,  Seaman,  Regnier,  Tench,  Veele,  Shelton, 
Cuthbert,  James,  Lydall,  Tainturier,  and  White  do  attend  the  table ; 
and  that  certain  chambers  be  padlocked. 

Nov.  14. — Whereas  by  an  order  of  the  table  of  9  November  last, 
John  Beresford  and  others,  vacation  barristers,  were  ordered  to  attend 
the  table,  and  upon  their  attendance  this  day  they  insist  that  it  was 
the  fundamental  right  of  the  vacation  barristers  during  the  vacations, 
to  order  all  things  relating  to  the  society  and  government  of  the 
House,  even  to  the  alteration  and  reversal  of  orders  made  by  the 
bench  in  term  time,  excepting  only  what  relates  to  the  treasury  and 
revenue  of  the  House.  Whereupon  the  matter  is  adjourned  and  a 
copy  of  what  the  gentlemen  insist  upon  be  delivered  to  all  the  masters 
of  the  bench. 

Nov.  15,  1 6,  and  17. — Orders  that  Francis  Kellett's  petition  be 


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[1693 


respited  till  the  families  be  removed  that  are  in  the  chambers  ;  that 
Henry  Crispe,  Walter  Savage,  and  Robert  Payne  attend  the  table ; 
that  a  committee  examine  the  tradesmen's  bills  ;  and  that  Thomas 
Petit  be  desired  to  attend  the  table. 

Nov.  1 8. — Orders  that  the  treasurer  of  Lyon's  Inn  do  attend 
this  table  on  Monday  next  to  show  cause  why  that  society  did  not 
attend  Robert  Payne,  their  last  reader ;  that  Walter  Savage,  who 
was  chosen  reader  of  Clifford's  Inn,  be  fined  30/2'.  for  his  failure 
therein  ;  that  Henry  Crispe,  who  was  chosen  reader  of  Clement's 
Inn,  be  fined  30/2'.  in  like  manner;  that  William  Finch,  Michael 
Newman,  and  William  Barnesley  be  appointed  readers  for  Clifford's 
Inn ;  and  Edward  Jennings,  John  Legh,  and  John  Goodfellow,  readers 
for  Clement's  Inn ;  and  Richard  Osborne,  James  Farewell,  Philip 
Neve,  William  Pudsey,  James  Grove,  and  Hugh  Barker  for  Lyon's 
Inn. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  17  November,   1692,  to  19  November,    1693,  being 
the  treasurership  of  Charles  Holloway. 


RECEIPTS. 

From  money  for  a  year's  rent  for  the  shops 
in  Tanfield  Court,  after  allowance  of 
i&s.  for  taxes,  $li.  zs. 

From  Clarke,  treasurer  of  Lyon's  Inn,  for 
a  year's  rent,  4/1'.,  and  for  two  tene- 
ments adjoining,  $li.  ly.  ^d.  In  all, 
7//.  iy.  4d. 

From  Thorneton,  for  a  year's  rent  for  the 
shop  at  the  Temple  Gate,  2li. 

From  Whitton,  the  carpenter,  for  the  trees 
cut  down  in  the  garden,  g//. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Gilbert  Lawrence  for  nursing  of  Gilbert 

Temple  and  "  for  her  passage  up  and 

down,"  4/1.  y. 
To  the  goldsmith  for  bowls  for  the  bench 

table,  io&".  13^.  4</. 
To  Minors  for  news  letters,  gazettes,  etc., 

for  the  bench  table  in  Michaelmas  and 

Hilary  terms,  zli. 


To  the  music  for  their  fees  in  Michaelmas 
and  Hilary  terms  and  for  Gunpowder 
Treason  day,  4/1. 

To  the  goldsmith  for  altering  the  porter's 
staff  and  "  horse,"  4/1.  14.?. 

To  Gillingham,  the  reader,  for  salary  due 
at  Midsummer,  3//.  15$. 

To  the  herald  painter  for  painting  the 
House  arms,  and  also  for  the  coats  of 
arms  of  three  readers,  4/1.  1 55. 

To  the  woodmonger  for  faggots  for  bon- 
fires, 3//.  15^. 

To  the  painter  for  painting  the  pallisadoes 
in  the  Inner  Temple  Lane,  2/i. 

Salaries  to  the  master,  reader,  and  organist 
of  the  Temple  church,  as  before. 

To  the  executors  of  Dr.  Ball  for  a  year's 
rent  for  the  house  Dr.  Sherlock  lives  in, 
after  allowance  of  4/1.  for  taxes,  1 6/». 

To  the  woodmonger  for  faggots  for  bon- 
fires, 5/z'.  55. 

To  the  bricklayer  for  work  done  in  and 
about  the  greenhouse,  2$li. 


1693-4]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  303 


To  the  joiner  for  work  done  in  the  same 

place,  53#. 
For  preaching  twenty-nine  several  sermons 

in  the  whole  year,  58/2. 


Receipts,  1,7  70/1.  3^. 


Disbursements,  1,597^'.  os.  gd., 
whereof  .42 7//.  13^.  nd.  has  not 
been  paid. 

Balance,  6oo#.  i6s.  $d. 


MISCELLANEA. 


1692-3,  March  24.  —  General  release  by  Samuel  Grant  of  the 
Inner  Temple  to  Thomas  Riggs,  under-treasurer,  George  Downes, 
citizen  and  stationer  of  London,  William  Minors,  William  Clarke, 
George  Berry,  Thomas  Smyth,  and  Richard  Barthrup,  butlers  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  and  others  of  all  actions,  suits,  bills,  bonds,  etc. 

1693,  May  20.  —  Like  release  by  the  same  to  John  Hodges  and 
Richard  Young  of  the  Inner  Temple. 

ACTS    OF   PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  benchers  who  attended 
the  parliaments  during  the  year  with  the  number  of  their  attend- 
ances :  —  SIR  EDWARD  WARD,  treasurer,  7  ;  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  6  ; 
SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL,  5  ;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  4,  once  as  deputy 
treasurer  ;  JOHN  MOSYER,  4,  once  as  deputy  treasurer  ;  THOMAS 
FARRER,  3  ;  LANCELOT  JOHNSON,  3  ;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  3  ;  and 
THOMAS  PETIT,  i. 

1693. 

Nov.  26.  —  The  petition  of  Thomas  Manning  and  Robert  Fish 
be  referred  back  to  the  Table. 

1693-4. 

FEB.  4.  —  Special  admissions  of  Orlando  Bridgeman,  youngest 
son  of  Sir  John  Bridgeman,  bart.,  and  grandson  of  Sir  Orlando 
Bridgeman,  knt.  and  bart.,  lord  keeper  of  the  Great  Seal;  and  of 
John  Wyne,  son  and  heir  of  John  Wyne,  deceased,  a  master  of  the 
bench. 

Special  admission,  ex  gratia  but  not  ex  debito,  of  George  Cook, 
fourth  son  of  John  Cook,  chief  prothonotary  of  the  Common  Pleas, 
an  associate  of  the  bench. 

Feb.  1  1  .  —  Admittances  to  chambers  only. 


304  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1694 

1694. 

MAY  6. — Order  for  the  wages  of  the  watchmen  to  be  suspended, 
and  choice  of  William  Petyt  as  reader  for  Trinity  vacation. 

MAY  20. — William  Clarke,  second  butler,  is  appointed  chief 
butler  in  the  room  of  William  Minors,  deceased. 

Bartholomew  Beal,  Phineas  Andrews,  Henry  Longueville, 
Thomas  Rowney,  Christopher  Gunman,  Roger  Comberbach,  Henry 
Beeston,  Anthony  Keck,  Lawrence  Carter,  William  Snelling,  Thomas 
Southowse,  Robert  Ingram,  John  Leadbeater  called  to  the  bar. 
Snelling  not  to  be  sworn  till  his  duties  are  paid. 

The  discharging  of  Riggs,  the  under-treasurer,  from  his  place, 
for  the  manifold  defaults  of  which  he  is  found  guilty,  is  adjourned. 

JUNE  20. — Order  that  Thomas  Riggs,  the  under-treasurer,  be 
discharged  from  his  office,  pursuant  to  an  order  of  the  bench  table, 
and  George  Wheeler  is  appointed  under-treasurer  upon  giving 
sufficient  security. 

JUNE  27. — Order  that  the  watchmen  be  allowed  \id.  each  night 
they  watched,  and  i  id.  each  day  they  warded. 

Nov.  4. — Charles  Whitaker  chosen  reader. 

Special  admission  of  Edward  Weaver,  second  son,  and  Arthur 
Weaver,  third  son  of  Arthur  Weaver,  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of 
their  father. 

Orders  as  to  nominations  to  chambers. 

Nov.  23. — Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : — 
John  Hales  and  Thomas  Walker  of  the  bench,  and  William  Barnesley 
and  John  Dalby  of  the  bar. 

Treasurer :— Nicholas  Courtney. 

Order  "  that  the  thanks  of  the  House  be  given  to  Sir  Edward 
Ward,  the  last  treasurer,  for  his  great  care  and  most  frequent  attend- 
ances at  the  bench  table,  and  respect  to  the  affairs  and  interest  of 
this  society."  And  that  Hales  and  Tutt  wait  on  him  to  signify 
the  same. 

BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  :  SIR 


1693]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  305 

EDWARD  WARD,  treasurer,  23  ;  CLENDON,  39 ;  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY, 
37  ;  WHITAKER,  37  ;  TUTT,  36 ;  MR.  SOLICITOR  TO  THE  QUEEN,  32  ; 
WILLIAM  PETIT,  31  ;  HALES,  30;  COURTNEY,  28  ;  THOMAS  PETIT,  28 ; 
JOHNSON,  26 ;  BOWYER,  2 1  ;  WALKER,  20 ;  SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL, 
16;  WEAVER,  15;  THOMAS  FARRER,  9;  CARDROW,  8;  PARGITER, 
7;  MOSYER,  4;  and  LONGUEVILE,  i. 

1693. 

Nov.  20. — The  treasurer  of  Lyon's  Inn  attending  in  pursuance 
of  the  order  of  i8th  inst.,  it  is  ordered  that  he  be  discharged.  It  is 
also  ordered  that  Robert  Payne,  who  failed  in  his  duty  as  reader  of 
Lyon's  Inn,  be  fined  20/2. 

Order  that  Johnson  and  others  be  a  committee  to  consider  how 
far  the  bar  or  the  gentlemen  under  the  bar  shall  be  amerced  for  the 
want  of  the  number  in  each  to  attend  the  imparlance. 

Nov.  21. — Orders  that  the  order  entered  by  the  last  vacation 
barristers,  "  referring  to  any  other  matters  and  things  than  what 
concerns  the  exercise,  hall,  buttery,  and  kitchen,  be  expunged  out  of 
the  Buttery  Book  as  irregular  and  contrary  to  the  constitutions  of  the 
House,  and  this  resolved  nemine  contradicente,  except  Sir  Nathaniel 
Powell  to  the  order  relating  to  the  church  only  and  no  other  "  ;  that 
John  Beresford,  William  Gamull,  Drue  Deane,  Thomas  Boycott, 
Thomas  Northmore,  Thomas  Collett,  Henry  Baldwyn,  Jacob 
Regnier,  Oliver  Tench,  Nicholas  Veele,  Richard  Shelton,  Thomas 
Cuthbert,  Richard  James,  Richard  Lydall,  Daniel  Tainturier,  and 
Thomas  White,  who  were  present  at  the  pretended  parliaments  held 
on  1 7th  and  i8th  July,  be  put  out  of  commons  ;  and  that  the  chambers 
of  those  of  them  who  owe  5/2.  be  padlocked. 

Nov.  23,  25,  and  27. — Orders  that  Dutton  Seaman's  name  be 
struck  out  of  the  list  of  those  put  out  of  commons  at  the  last  bench 
table  ;  that  George  Cooke,  son  of  John  Cooke,  be  admitted  at  the 
next  parliament ;  that  the  nuisance  beside  the  gate  that  leads  to 
Mitre  Court  and  Serjeant's  Inn  be  taken  away,  and  the  vault  or 
common  sewer  that  runs  under  the  arch  be  amended  ;  and  orders  as 
to  chambers. 

Nov.  28. — Orders  that  Minors  have  40^.  allowed  him  for  his 
news  and  papers  brought  to  the  table  this  term  ;  and  that  Beresford 
and  the  other  vacation  barristers  be  re-admitted  into  commons,  for  it 

III.  R  R 


3°6  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1693-4 

is  the  opinion  of  the  table  that  they  were  misguided  in  what  they  did, 
by  some  late  pretended  and  mistaken  precedent. 

1693-4. 

JAN.  25  and  31. — Orders  for  the  viewing  of  chambers  and  the 
attendance  of  the  under-treasurer. 

FEB.  i  and  3. — Orders  for  the  attendance  of  John  Clayton, 
touching  a  disturbance  created  by  a  "blackmore"  belonging  to 
Harcourt  Goodrick,  lodging  in  Clayton's  chambers,  and  for  the 
removal  of  Goodrick. 

FEB.  7  and  8. — Orders  that  the  consideration  of  the  roll  of 
chambers  be  referred  to  a  committee ;  that  a  duplicate  of  the  rolls 
for  pensions  and  preachers'  duties  and  the  roll  of  amercements  be 
delivered  to  the  treasurer ;  that  Whitaker  be  added  to  the  committee 
touching  the  amercements  for  failure  of  exercise ;  and  that  Baron 
Powell  be  asked  to  give  further  time  concerning  Grant's  business. 

FEB.  9. — Order  for  the  revival  of  the  committee  touching  the 
terms  upon  which  prothonotaries  desire  to  be  made  complete 
benchers. 

Order  that  the  treasurer  "  declare  to  Lord  Jeffryes  that,  at  his 
lordship's  desire,  the  House  do  make  a  present  to  his  lordship  of  his 
father's  picture,  now  in  Mr.  Holloway's  chamber,  who  is  desired  to 
deliver  the  same  to  his  lordship  or  his  order,  by  direction  of  Mr. 
Treasurer." 

FEB.  10. — Order  that  the  under-treasurer  be  suspended  from 
receiving  the  money  due  to  the  society  till  his  accounts  are  allowed 
by  the  auditors,  and  that  the  treasurer  appoint  a  receiver. 

1694. 

APRIL  26.— Orders  that  William  Petit  and  Tutt  attend  Baron 
Powell  and  acquaint  him  that  the  table  being  very  thin  they  desire 
till  next  week  touching  Grant's  appeal ;  and  that  the  lock  on  the 
pump  in  Hare  Court  be  altered  and  new  keys  to  be  given  to  the 
masters  of  the  bench. 

MAY  i .  —Orders  that  Grant's  appeal  be  referred  to  Weaver  and 
others  ;  that  Riggs  forbear  to  meddle  in  the  receipt  of  money  ;  that 
Major's  case  touching  Goodenough's  chamber  be  referred  to  Weaver 
and  others ;  that  the  houses  of  office  be  left  open  ;  and  that  Weaver 


i694]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  307 

and  others  do  treat  with  Cooke  and  Tempest,  two  associates  to  the 
bench,  as  to  the  terms  for  making  them  full  and  complete  benchers. 

MAY  2,  3,  4,  5,  and  7. — Orders  as  to  viewing  chambers  ;  that 
Whitaker  be  added  to  Grant's  committee ;  that  the  petition  of 
William  Minors  and  William  Clarke,  the  second  butler,  be  taken  on 
Tuesday  next ;  that  Mace  be  summoned  to  attend  the  table ;  and 
that  Riggs'  petition  be  referred  to  the  auditors. 

MAY  8. — Orders  that  Clendon  and  others  do  examine  in  whom 
the  right  of  nomination  of  chief  butler,  during  a  vacation,  lies  by  the 
ancient  usage  of  the  House;  and  to  consider  Mrs.  Minors'  petition 
concerning  her  son,  Thomas  ;  that  Mace,  who  was  served  with  a  notice 
to  attend  the  table  at  his  father's  house  in  the  Old  Bailey,  be  served 
at  his  chambers  ;  that  upon  the  report  of  the  terms  offered  by  Cooke 
and  Tempest  to  be  complete  benchers,  viz. : — that  they  were  to  keep 
their  present  places,  be  excused  from  reading,  have  chambers,  and 
be  treasurers  in  turn,  then  to  pay  50/2.  each  only,  the  table  would  do 
nothing  in  it ;  and  that  Dod  and  Legh,  senior,  two  of  the  upper  mess, 
having  this  day  withdrawn  themselves  before  the  usual  time,  leaving 
only  two  of  the  upper  house  till  the  usual  term  of  rising,  do  attend 
the  table. 

MAY  9. — Orders  that  Mace  remove  from  his  chamber  Brunskill, 
his  wife,  brother,  and  servants,  being  strangers  ;  that  Dod  and  Legh 
having  attended  the  table,  be  dismissed;  that  Holloway,  Bowyer,  and 
Hales  be  added  to  Grant's  committee  ;  that  the  treasurer  deliver  to 
Riggs  his  account  book ;  that  a  lease  be  taken  from  the  New  River 
Company  in  the  steward's  name  ;  and  that  Sir  Thomas  Trevor  be 
desired  to  send  to  the  treasurer  the  bond  given  by  Riggs,  the  under- 
treasurer. 

MAY  10. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  arrears  of  commons  ;  and 
that  the  matter  touching  a  nomination  of  two  lives  to  a  chamber,  and 
other  matters  be  referred  to  Clendon  and  others. 

Bowyer  produced  a  paper  stating  the  case  between  the  House 
and  Grant. 

MAY  12. — Orders  that  Major  be  admitted  to  a  chamber  ;  upon 
the  report  of  the  committee  touching  the  appointment  of  a  chief 
butler  it  was  the  opinion  of  the  table  that  William  Clarke  be  chief 
butler  in  the  room  of  William  Minors,  deceased  ;  that  the  chambers, 
fallen  to  the  House,  be  screened  up ;  that  the  person  interested  in 


308  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1694 

chambers  where  the  life  in  possession  is  dead,  have  notice  to  pay  the 
duties  and  nominate  another  life,  being  a  member  of  this  society,  to 
be  admitted,  otherwise  the  chamber  to  be  padlocked  up ;  that  the 
time  for  the  report  of  the  committee  touching  the  accounts  be 
enlarged  till  Wednesday,  when  the  sub-treasurer  is  to  pay  the  balance 
of  his  account  upon  pain  of  dismissal ;  and  that  the  petition  of  the 
inhabitants  of  Whitefriars  be  rejected. 

MAY  14,  1 6,  and  18. — Orders  for  chambers  to  be  viewed;  that 
the  matter  relating  to  Levett  be  referred  to  a  committee ;  that  the 
matter  of  Robert  Ellis,  the  steward's  man,  touching  the  puisne  butler's 
place,  be  deferred  ;  nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bar  at  the  par- 
liament held  on  20  May  ;  report  that  Riggs  had  not  cleared  his 
account ;  and  request  by  Tutt  for  time  to  pay. 

MAY  19. — The  under-treasurer  for  his  manifold  defaults  is  dis- 
charged from  his  place. 

MAY  21. — Order,  upon  the  petition  of  John  Clayton,  touching 
the  fine  for  his  chamber  ;  that  Weaver  and  others  go  with  the  under- 
treasurer  to  his  chambers  and  take  into  their  custody  all  books, 
bonds,  papers,  and  other  things  relating  to  this  society,  and  to  con- 
sider the  best  means  of  recovering  the  money  due  from  Thomas 
Riggs ;  and  that  a  committee  do  discuss  with  Cooke  and  Tempest, 
associates  to  the  bench,  as  to  their  pretences  in  taking  place  at  the 
bench  table,  above  readers. 

JUNE  12. — Orders  as  to  the  payment  of  certain  workmen's  bills, 
and  that  240/2.  received  from  the  three  inns  of  Chancery  for  the  tax, 
be  demanded  from  Riggs. 

JUNE  13. — Declaration  by  the  bench  that  the  right  of  nominating 
to  the  office  of  puisne  butler,  now  vacant,  belongs  to  the  treasurer, 
and  the  treasurer  doth  appoint  Matthew  Johnson. 

JUNE  15. — Orders  that  the  nuisance,  complained  of  by  the 
reader,  in  the  cellars  under  the  chambers,  by  several  laundresses,  be 
removed  at  the  charge  of  the  proprietors  ;  that  such  as  were  ready 
yesterday  to  take  up  the  exercise  be  excused  from  amercement  for  that 
failure  ;  that  Riggs,  the  under-treasurer,  be  turned  out  of  his  office  at 
the  next  parliament ;  and  that  William  Wylde's  petition  be  referred 
to  a  committee. 

JUNE  1 6  and  19.  Orders  as  to  alterations  to  chambers;  that 
Riggs  be  put  out  of  his  place  as  under-treasurer,  and  that  Wheeler 


,694]  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS.  309 

by  the  majority  of  the  table  is  nominated  to  be  under-treasurer ;  the 
minor  part  reserving  power  to  nominate  at  the  next  parliament. 

JUNE  20. — Order  that  the  treasurer  make  the  payments  due  to  a 
woman  who  nurses  two  bastard  children. 

JUNE  22. — Order  that  the  security  offered  for  Wheeler,  the  newly 
elected  under-treasurer,  be  referred  to  a  committee  ;  that  Riggs  be 
summoned  to  attend  the  table  as  to  the  money  owing  by  him  ;  and  that 
the  debts  for  chambers  be  delivered  by  the  steward  to  the  treasurer. 

JUNE  23.  Orders  that  the  petition  of  several  workmen  be 
referred  to  a  committee  ;  that  Riggs  deliver  an  account  of  several 
sums  received  by  him  ;  that  William  Petit  and  others  do  search  for 
precedents  touching  the  charity  allowed  Richardson  ;  that  25/2.  of 
duties  paid,  be  refunded  to  William  Wylde  upon  production  of  a  cer- 
tificate that  he  has  taken  the  oaths  to  the  government ;  approval  of 
the  security  of  2,000/2.  offered  by  Wheeler,  the  new  sub-treasurer ; 
that  Mrs.  Minors  be  paid  what  is  due  ;  and  that  the  watchman  who 
furnishes  the  lamps  be  paid. 

"  The  question  being  put  whether  Mr.  Treasurer  shall  provide 
the  King's  and  Queen's  pictures,  to  be  set  up  in  the  hall  or  not,  it  is 
ordered  that  Mr.  Treasurer  provide  them  this  vacation  accordingly, 
and  pay  the  money  out  of  the  treasury." 

JUNE  26. — Report  by  the  committee  for  Richardson's  case  that 
they  find  that  Cure's  first  allowance  and  afterwards  his  increase 
granted  by  this  society,  was  paid  "  being  coloured  by  casting  the 
same  into  commons." 

Order  that  Wheeler's  bond  remain  as  altered. 

JUNE  30. — Orders  that  the  treasurer  pay  the  steward  ioo/z.,  part 
of  a  greater  sum  due  for  apparels  ;  and  that  the  treasurer  take 
measures  for  the  recovery  of  the  debts  due  from  Riggs. 

OCT.  26. — Order  that  the  petition  of  William  Arnold,  the  chief 
cook,  be  referred  to  Johnson  and  others,  and  the  petition  of  the  in- 
habitants of  the  lower  part  of  Whitefriars  be  respited. 

OCT.  31. — Orders  that  Johnson  and  others  look  into  the  work- 
men's bills  ;  and  that  the  charges  in  the  suit  commenced  against 
Holloway  by  Weld  for  what  he  did  as  treasurer  be  defrayed  by  the 
House. 

Nov.  2,  8,  and  9. — Orders  that  the  consideration  of  certain 
petitions  be  adjourned  ;  that  the  petition  of  the  watermen  plying  at 


3io 


A  CALENDAR  OF  THE 


[1694 


the  Temple  Stairs,  be  suspended  till  it  be  known  what  the  Middle 
Temple  has  done. 

Nov.  1 3. — -Orders  that  it  be  referred  to  Thomas  Petit,  Whitaker, 
and  Hales  to  consider  of  the  frames  for  the  judge's  pictures,  and  to 
make  their  report  on  Friday  next :  and  the  chief  cook's  petition  be 
referred  to  the  same  committee. 

Nov.  14.— Orders  that  the  petition  of  the  inhabitants  of  the 
lower  part  of  Whitefriars  be  dismissed ;  and  that  Thomas  Petit  and 
others  be  a  committee  to  inspect  the  orders  of  the  House  about 
commons  sent  out  of  the  kitchen  or  buttery. 

Nov.  1 6. — Upon  the  report  of  the  committee  appointed  to  con- 
sider of  the  frames  for  the  judge's  pictures,  it  is  ordered  that  the  said 
committee  do  agree  with  some  person  for  the  frames  of  the  said 
judges'  pictures. 

Nov.  19. — Orders  that  the  petitions  of  Clarke  and  Mrs.  Minors 
be  referred  to  Thomas  Petit  and  others. 

Nov.  20,  21,  and  23. — Orders  that  the  petitions  of  Francis  Kellet 
and  John  Tench  be  referred  to  committees,  and  that  a  chamber  be 
viewed. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  of  Thomas  Riggs  from  19  November,  1693,  to  12  February, 
1693-4,  in  the  treasurership  of  Sir  Edward  Ward. 


To  several  preachers,  34/2'. 
Receipts,  931/2'.  135. 
Disbursements,  189/2'.  8s.  2d. 
Balance,  742/2'.  4.$-. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  the  Dean  for  a  quarter's  salary,  25/2'. 
To  the  New  River  Water  half  a  year's 

rent,  1/2'.  6.y.  8d. 
For  a  fine  upon  granting  a  new  lease,  and 

for  charges,  3/2.  105. 


ACCOUNT  of  Thomas  Dummer  from    12    February,   1693-4,  m 
treasurership  of  Sir  Edward  Ward. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  Mrs.  Minors  the  remainder  of  what 

was  due  to  her  late  husband  as  chief 

butler,  9/2'. 
To   Piggott,  the   organist,  half  a    year's 

salary,  12/2.  los. 
To  Sir  Godfrey  Kneller,  for  the  King's  and 

Queen's  pictures  and  the  frames,  60/2. 


To  Sir  Edward  Ward,  for  his  treasurership, 

100/2'. 
To  the  preachers  for  their  sermons,  6//. 

Receipts,  786/2.  i8j.  6d. 

Disbursements,  759/2.  4-r.  $d. 

Balance,  27/2'.  14^.  j,d. 


—/M&esi,  ^,//Y// 


,694]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  311 

ACCOUNT  of  George  Wheeler  from  20  June,  1694,  to  23  November, 
in  the  treasurership  of  Sir  Edward  Ward. 

fee  farm  rents,  due  at  Michaelmas  after 


RECEIPTS. 

From  the  turnspits  for  a  year's  rent  for  the 
watchmaker's  shop  in  the  Inner  Temple 


Lane, 


DISBURSEMENTS. 


To  the  jeceiver  of  the  Queen  Dowager's 


allowance  for  taxes,  8#.  is. 
For  a  year's   repairing    of    the   Temple 
stairs,  i//'. 

Receipts,  io$li.  i$s.  2d. 

Disbursements,  gj/i.  i$s.  iid. 

Balance,  6//.  O.T.  $d. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1693-4,  MARCH  17. — Order,  headed  Inner  Temple,  by  their 
Majesties'  commissioners  for  putting  in  execution  an  Act  of  Parlia- 
ment for  granting  an  aid  of  4$.  in  the  pound  for  one  year,  for  carrying 
on  a  vigorous  war  against  France,  that  the  treasurer  and  ancients  of 
Lyon's  Inn  do  inquire  what  reputed  papists  or  "  non  jurats"  are 
residing  or  have  chambers  in  the  said  society,  and  return  their  names 
to  the  commissioners  at  their  next  sitting  on  Saturday  next,  24th 
inst,  in  the  Library  of  the  Inner  Temple. 

1694,  JULY  2. — Conditions  of  the  bond  given  by  G.  Wheeler 
upon  his  appointment  as  under-treasurer  of  the  Inner  Temple. 

[1694?] — Petition  by  Joseph  Sherwood  for  his  charges  in  de- 
fending Nicholas  Courtney  in  two  suits  brought  against  him  by 
Buckingham  and  Peirson,  concerning  repairs  to  the  Temple  Church. 

ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  benchers  who  attended  the 
parliament  during  the  year  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : 
NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  treasurer,  8  ;  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  4  ;  JOHN 
CLENDON,  4 ;  WILLIAM  PETIT,  4 ;  CHARLES  WHITAKER,  4 ;  THOMAS 
TUTT,  4  ;  ARTHUR  WEAVER,  3 ;  THOMAS  WALKER,  3 ;  JOHN  HALES, 
3  ;  JOHN  MOSYER,  2  ;  THOMAS  PETIT,  2  ;  JOHN  HODGES,  2  ;  WIL- 
LIAM LONGUEVILLE,  2  ',  WlLLIAM  FARRER,  I  ;  THOMAS  FARRER,  I  ; 

and  SIR  THOMAS  TREVOR,  i. 

1694. 

Nov.  27. — The  order  of  the  bench  table  as  to  John  Richardson 
is  confirmed. 


312  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1694-5 

1694-5. 

FEB.  12. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  pensions  and  preachers' 
duties ;  and  as  to  the  nomination  to  chambers. 

1695. 

APRIL  28. — Thomas  Walker  chosen  reader. 

MAY  5. — Timothy  Robinson,  Benjamin  Berwick,  Roger  Harris, 
the  Honourable  William  Berkeley,  John  Suffeild,  Thomas  Tuder, 
Thomas  Morley,  Isaac  Hawkins,  John  Canham,  Nicholas  Wilmott, 
Thomas  Jaggard,  John  Belfield,  Robert  Hotchkiss,  Thomas  Hughes, 
and  Joseph  Major  called  to  the  bar. 

JUNE  2. — Orders  as  to  allowances  to  watchmen  and  admittance  to 
chambers. 

JUNE  12. — Admission,  ad  eundem  gradum,  of  Edward  Sayer, 
admitted  to  the  Middle  Temple  on  31  October,  1689,  and  called  on 
8  June,  1694. 

Order  for  the  collection  of  pensions  and  preachers'  duties. 

Order  that  there  be  no  greater  number  than  twenty  bench 
chambers,  and  for  the  future  no  master  of  the  bench  shall  make 
choice  of  any  chamber  up  three  pair  of  stairs. 

"  Whereas  several  questions  and  debates  have  arose  concerning 
the  respective  right  of  the  treasurer  and  the  bench  table  in  appoint- 
ing the  officers  and  servants  of  this  society  upon  vacancies,  and  for 
settling  and  confirming  as  well  the  right  and  power  of  the  treasurer 
as  of  the  bench  table  for  the  future,  it  is  at  this  parliament,  pursuant 
to  an  order  of  the  table  made  the  sixth  instant,  ordered  and  enacted 
as  followeth,  that  for  the  future  the  offices  of  under-treasurer,  steward, 
chief  butler,  and  head  cook  of  this  society  be  appointed  by  the  bench 
table  and  confirmed  by  act  of  parliament  of  the  same  society.  It  is 
likewise  ordered  and  enacted  that  all  other  officers  and  servants  of 
this  society  for  the  future,  if  they  happen  to  fall  or  become  void  in 
term  time,  shall  be  appointed  by  the  bench  table  of  the  said  society, 
but  if  they  happen  to  fall  or  become  void  in  the  vacation  time,  the 
same  shall  be  appointed  and  placed  in  by  the  treasurer  for  the  time 
being,  any  former  act  of  parliament  or  usage  of  this  society  to  the 
contrary,  notwithstanding.  It  is  likewise  ordered  and  enacted  that 
for  the  future  all  officers  and  servants  of  this  society  that  shall  be 


i694-s]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  313 

placed  into  any  of  the  offices  or  services  belonging  to  the  same  by 
the  treasurer  or  bench  table,  shall  be  accordingly  entered  into  the 
House  books  belonging  to  the  said  society." 

Nov.  3. — Pensions  for  the  last  half  year  to  be  assessed  double. 
John  Hales  chosen  reader  for  next  Lent  vacation. 

Nov.  20. — Order  that  the  order  for  compounding  for  vacations 
and  amercements  be  enlarged  till  the  last  parliament  in  next  term. 

Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : — Thomas 
Petyt  and  John  Hales,  of  the  bench,  and  Michael  Newnham  and 
John  Dalby,  of  the  bar. 

Treasurer: — William  Longuevile. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances :  THE 
TREASURER,  45  ;  CLENDON,  44;  TUTT,  42;  WILLIAM  PETIT,  40; 
WHITAKER,  32;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  30;  CHARLES  HOLLOWAY,  25; 
THOMAS  PETIT,  24;  WALKER,  22  ;  HALES,  22  ;  WEAVER  19;  HODGES, 
17;  BOWYER,  l6;  LONGUEVILLE,  13;  THOMAS  FARRER,  13;  CARD- 
ROW,  1 1 ;  SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL,  7  ;  MR.  SOLICITOR  TO  THE  QUEEN, 
4 ;  and  MOSYER,  2. 

1694. 

Nov.  24. — Order  that  Richard  Barthrup,  one  of  the  puisne 
butlers,  do  this  afternoon  bring  into  the  library  all  the  old  common 
prayer  books  which  were  bought  in  the  time  of  Sir  Robert  Sawyer's 
treasurership,  and  that  they  be  delivered  out,  one  to  each  of  the 
masters  of  the  bench  in  commons ;  and  that  the  chamber  lately  en- 
joyed by  William  Minors,  late  chief  butler,  in  the  Crown  Office  stair- 
case, be  put  in  the  paper  for  William  Clarke,  the  present  chief  butler. 

Nov.  26. — Orders  that  the  petitions  of  certain  workmen  and  of 
"  Frydaysweed  "  Crow  be  respited;  that  the  petition  of  Tench  as  to 
a  chamber,  be  not  countenanced ;  and  that  the  table  cannot  take 
notice  of  the  case  of  Young,  a  gentleman  of  the  bar,  fallen  into  dis- 
tress, by  motion,  or  otherwise  than  by  petition. 

Nov.  27. — Order  that  the  allowance  to  John  Richardson  be  put 
in  the  paper  for  confirmation  ;  and  that  upon  the  petition  of  several 
m.  s  s 


3i4  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1694-5 

workmen,  Tutt,  who  stands  security  for  Riggs,  the  late  under- 
treasurer,  who  ought  to  have  paid  the  workmen,  be  acquainted  by 
Hailes  with  such  debts,  and  that  he  take  care  to  answer  the  peti- 
tioners proportionably. 

Nov.  28. — Orders  that  Johnson's  goods  be  not  removed  before 
his  debts  and  duties  are  paid ;  that  the  under-treasurer  prepare  a 
book  for  the  treasurer  for  entry  of  the  under-treasurer's  receipts  and 
payments  ;  and  that  the  under-treasurer  give  the  widow  Crow  20$. 
for  the  relief  of  Pennifeather  Crow,  her  son,  a  sick  servant. 

Nov.  30. — Orders  that  the  under-treasurer  give  Young,  a 
member  of  the  society,  50^.  as  a  present  from  the  bench ;  and  the 
goods  in  the  chamber  of  Cottens,  deceased,  be  not  removed  till  his 
duties  have  been  paid. 

DEC.  i. — Order  that  the  family  and  strangers  in  Major's  chamber 
be  removed  before  the  end  of  next  week ;  and  that  the  family  in 
Dod's  chamber  be  removed. 


1694-5. 

JAN.  29  and  31. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  duties;  that  a 
committee  (31  Jan.)  of  the  whole  table,  or  any  four  of  them,  meet 
every  Friday  afternoon,  as  long  as  the  bench  shall  be  in  commons, 
to  consider  of  the  state  and  affairs  of  the  society,  and  to  report  to  the 
table  what  they  shall  think  fit  for  the  consideration  of  the  table  and 
good  of  the  House ;  and  that  Finch  and  Goodfellow  be  summoned 
to  attend  the  table  to  answer  wherefore  they  did  not  perform  their 
offices  of  reader  to  the  Inns  of  Chancery. 

FEB.  4. — Orders  that  Goodfellow  and  Finch  be  fined  20/2.  each 
for  not  reading  at  Clement's  Inn  and  Clifford's  Inn  respectively. 

FEB.  6. — Order,  in  pursuance  of  the  order  of  31  Jan.,  that  the 
committee  then  appointed  do  meet  on  Friday  in  the  Library,  and  by 
adjournment  to  continue  their  meetings  from  day  to  day  so  long  as 
the  bench  shall  be  in  commons,  and  in  default  of  adjournments  to 
meet  the  Friday  following,  to  consider  of  all  inconveniences  that 
press  upon  the  government  of  the  society,  and  report  their  thoughts 
for  regulating  the  same. 

FEB.  7. — Order  that  the  bond  given  by  Riggs,  the  late  under- 
treasurer,  be  put  in  suit. 


1694-5]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  315 

FEB.  8. — Orders  that  Clendon  and  others  do  hear  what  Berkeley, 
master  of  the  revels,  has  expended,  and  how  long  he  has  executed 
that  office;  and  that  the  under-treasurer  pay  8/z.  to  Driver,  the 
picture  frame  maker,  for  the  frames  of  Judge  Littleton's  and  Lord 
Chief  Justice  Cook's  pictures. 

FEB.  9. — Orders  for  the  collection  of  duties  ;  and  that  the  grand 
committee  do  view  the  drain  near  Paper  Buildings  and  the  cellars  of 
Fell. 

FEB.  1 1  and  1 2. — Orders  that  the  under-treasurer  pay  40^.  to  Young 
for  his  subsistence ;  that  debts  for  commons  be  paid  ;  as  to  the  dis- 
posal of  the  chamber  of  William  Gwillim,  deceased ;  that  upon  the 
undertaking  by  Tutt  to  discharge  the  workmen's  bills,  the  prosecution 
of  his  bond  be  suspended  ;  and  that  Riggs  be  allowed  for  drawing 
orders  and  acts  of  parliament  after  Dummer  was  employed,  and 
Dummer  be  allowed  poundage. 

FEB.  1 6. — Orders  for  deduction  from  money  deposited  for  duties 
of  Gwillim's  chambers ;  that  pensions  and  preacher's  duties  be  col- 
lected, and  that  the  head  butler  be  paid  40^.  by  the  under-treasurer 
for  news  letters  and  books  since  Michaelmas  term. 

1695. 

APRIL  19. — Order  that  Thomas  Dummer  be  admitted  gratis 
a  fellow  for  his  service  to  the  House  in  the  time  of  the  last 
treasurer. 

APRIL  23  and  27. — Order  for  the  collection  of  debts  ;  upon  com- 
plaint made  by  Barthrupp,  the  fourth  butler,  of  his  being  beaten  and 
his  head  broken  in  the  execution  of  his  office  as  collector  of  the 
assessment,  by  Carter,  that  Carter  be  summoned  to  the  table ;  that 
the  petition  of  John  Reilly  be  referred  to  Weaver  and  others  ;  that 
the  under-porter  be  paid  8/z.  for  looking  after  the  lamps  ;  that  the 
gardener  and  porter  attend  the  table ;  and  that  Weaver  and  others 
inspect  the  act  for  the  treasurer's  allowance. 

APRIL  29. — The  matter  of  Carter's  assault  on  the  butler  ad- 
iourned. 

MAY  i.— It  is  agreed  that  the  place  of  head  porter  falling  void 
in  term  time  is  disposable  by  the  table,  and  that  Thomas  Day  be 
appointed  to  that  office  in  the  place  of  William  Berry,  deceased. 

Order  that  the  names  of  the  benchers  present  be  set  down  in  the 


316  A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [,695 

head  of  the  entry  into  the  book  of  every  succeeding  parliament; 
that  Farrer  and  others  be  a  committee  to  search  how  many  benchers 
were  requisite  to  hold  a  parliament,  and  what  days  in  the  term 
were  usual  for  holding  parliaments,  and  also  to  consider  if  it  be  the 
right  of  the  treasurer  to  place  anyone  in  an  inferior  office  upon  a 
vacancy  in  term  time. 

MAY  3,  4,  and  6. — Nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bar  at 
the  parliament  held  on  5  May.  Orders  that  Henry  Fairclough,  a 
gentleman  of  this  society,  shall  have  till  the  last  parliament  of 
next  term  to  sell  his  chamber,  and  he  be  expelled  for  keeping 
scandalous  and  disorderly  persons  in  his  chamber,  who  it  is  "violently 
presumed  "  robbed  the  chamber  of  Buckle  ;  that  Samuel  Lawrence 
be  paid  9/2".  in  full  of  what  is  due  to  him ;  that  the  gentlemen 
agreed  to  be  called  to  the  bar  this  term  and  want  time,  shall  not 
be  sworn  till  they  have  been  their  full  standing ;  that  Willis,  the 
tailor,  restore  White  his  clothes  upon  pain  of  being  put  out  of  the 
House ;  and  that  the  gardener  have  2os.  a  term  for  his  care  of  the 
benchers'  garden  and  the  room  there. 

MAY  30. — Orders  for  payment  for  commons  ;  and  Hales  and 
Walker  to  inspect  and  allow  tradesmen's  bills  due. 

JUNE  3. — Orders  that  the  locks  of  Whitefriars  great  gate  and 
"  wicker  "  be  altered,  and  the  porter  have  possession  of  the  porter's 
lodge  by  Saturday ;  that  the  debts  of  the  House  be  collected  ;  that 
all  such  sums  of  money  as  were  received  by  Riggs  for  the  King's 
taxes  of  our  Inns  of  Chancery,  and  not  paid  into  the  Exchequer,  be 
paid  and  discharged,  and  the  commissioners  who  signed  the  warrants 
for  payment  of  the  said  taxes  to  Riggs  as  receiver  be  indemnified 
by  the  House  ;  that  Riggs  have  notice  to  pay  the  taxes  under  pain 
of  expulsion  ;  that  the  readers  of  the  Inns  of  Chancery  in  default, 
pay  their  duties  and  fines  ;  that  there  be  no  greater  number  than 
twenty  bench  chambers,  and  that,  for  the  future,  no  master  of  the 
bench  make  choice  of  any  chamber  up  three  pair  of  stairs. 

JUNE  4  and  5. — Orders  that  the  vintner's  bill  be  referred  to 
Walker  and  Tutt ;  that  the  rolls  for  commons  be  signed  by  the 
auditors  at  the  bottom  and  top  of  the  rolls ;  and  that  (5  June)  "  a 
conference  be  desired  with  the  Middle  Temple  touching  the  lodg- 
ing of  the  freehold  of  both  Houses  in  an  equal  number  of  each 
House." 


1695]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS  317 

JUNE  6. — Orders  that  George  Mellish  be  under-porter ;  that 
Manwaring  Davis  be  discharged  from  reading  at  Clement's  Inn  upon 
paying  a  fine  of  2oli. 

Upon  report  of  the  committee  touching  the  right  of  the  treasurer 
in  placing  officers,  it  is  ordered  that  the  head  cook  be  always  put  in 
solely  by  the  treasurer,  whether  the  place  fall  vacant  in  term  time  or 
vacation,  except  in  the  time  of  an  actual  grand  reading,  and  then  by 
the  grand  reader ;  that  the  under-treasurer,  steward,  and  head  butler 
be  put  in  by  act  of  parliament  of  this  society  ;  that  the  under  butlers 
and  all  other  officers  and  servants,  if  they  fall  in  the  term  time,  are 
to  be  put  in  by  the  bench  table,  and  if  in  the  vacation,  then  by  the 
treasurer  ;  that  all  officers  and  servants  of  this  House  placed  in 
any  office  shall  be  entered  in  the  House  books  belonging  to  the 
society ;  and  that  the  above  orders  be  put  in  the  paper  for  the  next 
parliament. 

JUNE  8. — Order  for  Holloway  and  Thomas  Petit  ''to  inspect 
the  usage  touching  the  doubling  of  amercements  where  a  per- 
formance of  exercise  has  been  before  the  second  failure  "  ;  that  the 
under-treasurer  pay  Young,  a  gentleman  of  the  bar  in  distress,  40^.,  and 
55.  a  week  till  next  term  ;  that  Edward  Sayer,  lately  admitted  here  by 
certificate  from  the  Middle  Temple,  whereby  it  appears  he  was  there 
called  to  the  bar  and  paid  for  his  vacations,  do  stand  discharged 
thereof  in  this  society,  and  not  be  obliged  to  keep  or  pay  the  same 
here;  that  the  bonds  of  those  owing  above  5/2'.  for  commons  be  put 
in  suit ;  and  that  the  regulating  of  the  calls  to  the  bar  be  referred  to 
the  grand  committee. 

JUNE  10. — Orders  as  to  the  drain  near  Ram  Alley  and  Mitre 
Court,  and  locks  being  put  on  all  the  houses  of  office ;  that  acts  be 
prepared  for  regulating  the  exercise  of  the  society,  calls  to  the  bar, 
and  the  appointment  of  officers  and  servants. 

JUNE  12. — Order  that  54/2'.  be  allowed  Whitaker  for  the  fur- 
nishing of  his  bench  chamber  ;  that  Tutt's  bond,  as  security  for 
Riggs,  be  put  in  execution,  unless  he  show  cause  to  the  contrary  to- 
morrow. 

JUNE  13.— Orders  that  Riggs  and  Levett  attend  the  table. 

JUNE  15.— Orders  that  Thomas  Petit  and  Tutt  call  the  laun- 
dresses and  their  maids  before  them  and  let  them  know  that  if  any 
of  them  for  the  future  lay  ashes  in  the  cellars  of  William  Petit's 


318  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1695 

staircase,  they  are  to  be  turned  out  of  the  House ;  that  the  matter  of 
Tutt's  bond  be  suspended ;  that  at  the  admission  of  every  treasurer 
the  under-treasurer  deliver  a  particular  in  alphabetical  manner  of  all 
the  bonds  in  his  custody ;  that  all  the  plate,  all  the  linen  and  things 
in  the  buttery,  all  the  brass,  pewter,  and  utensils  in  the  kitchen,  all 
the  books  wherein  the  acts  and  orders  of  this  society  are  entered, 
and  all  other  the  goods  belonging  to  this  society  be  viewed  and  in- 
ventoried, and  the  inventory  delivered  to  the  new  treasurer  ;  that 
a  duplicate  be  made  of  all  the  acts  of  parliament  and  an  abridge- 
ment of  the  same,  and  that  the  original  books  be  placed  in  the 
library  under  lock,  the  key  to  be  placed  with  the  treasurer,  and 
a  duplicate  of  the  books  of  fines  on  chambers  to  be  made ;  that 
a  check  roll  be  prepared  of  the  standing  revenue  and  of  all  the  casual 
profits  of  the  House ;  and  that  all  persons  residing  in  this  society, 
not  being  of  the  society,  nor  of  any  society  of  law,  be  warned  to 
remove  by  24  August,  and  that  in  case  they  do  not,  the  chambers  to 
be  padlocked,  and  that  such  as  do  not  remove  to  be  put  out  of  the 
House  by  the  officers  ;  and  that  no  stranger  be  hereafter  permitted 
to  lodge  in  any  chamber  without  leave  from  the  table  in  term  time, 
or  from  the  treasurer  or  senior  bencher  resident  in  the  vacation. 

OCT.  28. — Order  that  40^.  be  paid  to  the  under  cook's  wife  and 
five  children. 

OCT.  31. — Orders  that  a  duplicate  of  the  rolls  of  pensions  and 
preacher's  duties  be  left  with  the  treasurer  and  the  same  collected, 
and  the  collector  to  have  6d.  per  pound  for  collection ;  that  it  be 
referred  to  the  standing  committee  to  consider  and  report  to  the 
table  the  proper  methods  for  purging  the  House  of  all  strangers,  and 
reduce  the  same  to  the  ancient  constitution  ;  that  William  Finch  be 
discharged  of  his  reading  fine  and  duties,  upon  paying  50/2'.  ;  that 
there  be  a  balloting  box  prepared  to  be  used  in  all  matters  relating 
to  calls  to  the  bench,  and  that  the  grand  committee  settle  the 
method ;  and  that  the  repairs  in  Fig-tree  Court  be  referred  to  a 
committee. 

Nov.  2  and  4. — Orders  that  Manning's  petition  be  referred  to 
Thomas  Petyt  and  Tutt ;  and  that  the  cook  do  not  trust  any 
laundress  or  others  with  any  pewter  to  carry  commons  to  any 
chamber. 

Nov.  6. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  commons ;    that  at  the 


1695]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  319 

blowing  of  the  horn,  the  back  door  of  the  kitchen  be  locked  up  and 
the  keys  brought  to  the  bench  table ;  and  that  the  lower  gate  of 
Whitefriars  be  forthwith  shut  up. 

Nov.  7,  9,  and  n. — Orders  as  to  putting  the  bonds  of  those 
owing  duties  in  suit ;  that  $s.  a  week  allowance  to  Young  be  con- 
tinued ;  that  Tutt  give  his  answer  touching  the  tradesmen's  petition  ; 
that  the  under-treasurer  give  an  account  of  what  new  work  has  been 
done  in  Fig-tree  Court ;  that  the  difference  between  Kellet  and 
Manning  be  referred  to  Weaver  and  others  ;  and  the  steward  attend 
with  his  account. 

Nov.  12  and  13. — Orders  for  Robert  Ellis  to  be  one  of  the 
butlers  in  the  place  of  Thomas  Smith,  deceased  ;  that  the  arrears  of 
commons  be  paid  by  Maurice  Abbot  and  very  many  others ;  and 
that  William  Wild  attend  the  bench  touching  the  damage  caused  by 
the  alteration  to  his  chamber. 

Nov.  14  and  15. — Orders  that  Mrs.  Warner's  petition  be  re- 
ferred to  the  standing  committee,  who  are  to  consider  former  orders 
touching  Whitefriars  gate  ;  that  the  work  done  in  support  of  the 
buildings  in  Fig-tree  Court  be  surveyed,  that  the  chambers  in  which 
any  strangers  inhabit,  who  have  had  notice  to  depart,  be  padlocked  ; 
and  that  the  chambers  where  the  padlocks  have  been  struck  off  with- 
out leave  be  seized  and  the  inhabitants  turned  out. 

Nov.  1 6. — Agreement  with  the  report  from  the  committee  to 
settle  the  ballot ;  order  that  Mrs.  Warner's  petition  be  rejected. 

Nov.  1 8. — Orders  as  to  an  agreement  between  Kellet  and  Man- 
ning ;  that  Clendon,  William  Petyt,  and  Whitaker  do  peruse  all  the 
acts  of  parliament  and  orders  as  to  the  government  of  the  House, 
and  have  them  transcribed  into  a  book  to  lie  at  the  upper  end  of  the 
bench  table  when  the  bench  is  in  commons,  and  at  the  upper  end  of 
the  bar  table  when  the  bench  is  out  of  commons  ;  and  order  as  to 
Kellet's  chamber. 

Nov.  19  and  20. — Orders  that  the  buildings  over  the  great  gate 
going  into  the  Middle  Temple  Lane  be  surveyed ;  that  the  order  for 
the  compositions  of  amercements  and  vacations  be  enlarged ;  and 
that  it  be  referred  to  the  Friday  committee  to  consider  whether  it 
be  fit  to  call  Methwen  and  Tempest  to  be  complete  benchers. 


320 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[1695 


GENERAL   ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from   23   November,  1694,  to  20  November,  1695,  in  the 
treasurership  of  Nicholas  Courtney. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Widow  "  Fridaysweed "  Crow,  for  the 
relief  of  her  son,  "Pennifeather"  Crow, 
a  sick  servant,  ili. 

To  the  same,  towards  burying  her  son, 
iff. 

To  Dryver,  for  the  frames  of  the  two 
judges'  pictures  in  the  hall,  pursuant  to 
an  order  of  the  table  of  8th  February, 
8ff. 

To  Barthrupp,  for  disbursements  and  for 
looking  after  the  clock,  $li.  14^.  $d. 

To  Clarke,  the  chief  butler,  for  news  since 
Michaelmas  last,  2/i. 

To  the  clerk  of  the  church,  for  disburse- 
ments for  half  a  year  [for  holly,  ivy, 
rosemary,  and  bay  for  the  church,  for 
candles,  the  sexton  going  about  with 
the  bell,  for  the  bills  of  mortality,  and 
books  of  prayer  and  thanksgiving  for 
the  king],  4/1.  is.  tod. 

To  Giles  Campion,  for  painting  the  arms 
of  Thomas  Petyt,  John  Clendon,  and 
William  Petyt,  and  altering  the  arms  of 
Arthur  Weaver,  175.  6d. 

To  William  Haynes,  for  the  proportion  of 
this  society  [for  one  steel  sanguined 
candlestick  with  joints  and  double  stays, 
and  gilt  with  gold,  for  the  pulpit  in  the 
Temple  Church],  zli.  \^s. 

To  Whitton,  the  carpenter,  for  work  done 
in  the  Temple  Church  [oak  and  elm 
boards  and  for  time],  3//.  6</. 

To  Sabin,  for  smith's  work  there  [work  on 
the  bell  and  the  roof],  $li.  19^.  6d. 

To  John  Evans,  for  paving  work  done  [in 
the  Middle  Temple  Lane]  between  both 
societies,  $li.  2$.  6d. 

To  Hardy,  the  remainder  of  a  bill  for  wine 
due  in  Holloway's  treasurership,  and 


for  wine  spent  at  the  bench  table  in 
Michaelmas  and  Hilary  terms  [for 
Canary  and  Claret],  $oli.  "js. 

To  the  smith  [for  mending  the  locks  of 
the  pews  in  the  church,  for  keys,  and 
fastening  the  clapper  of  the  church  bell, 
for  bolts  to  the  little  library  door,  for 
mending  the  lock  of  the  library  door, 
for  hasps  and  staples  to  the  presses  in 
the  library,  for  hooks  and  rings  with 
plates,  screws,  and  nails,  and  putting  up 
the  pictures  in  the  hall,  and  for  lines 
for  the  same],  13/2.  los. 

To  the  carpenter  [for  mending  the  case 
"of  the  cock"],  loff. 

To  the  joiner  [for  fastening  the  benches 
and  desks  in  the  church,  and  pins  for 
hats,  and  easing  the  doors,  for  work 
about  the  old  bench  in  the  garden,  and 
for  a  bench  in  the  church],  3/r. 

For  joiner's,  smith's,  and  plumber's  work 
in  the  Temple  Church  between  both 
societies  [for  putting  shutters  to  the 
organ,  and  raising  the  reader's  desk], 
I4//'.  6s.  8d. 

To  the  stationer  [for  an  almanack,  pens, 
pencils,  paper,  ink,  etc.],  5/2.  15^. 

To  the  woodmonger,  for  faggots  for  bon- 
fires [for  King  William's  birthday,  Gun- 
powder Treason,  King  William's  safe 
return  from  Flanders,  and  Queen  Eliza- 
beth's birthday],  3/1. 

To  Wynne,  for  a  dial  in  the  privy  garden 
and  fitting  the  same  in  the  stone,  ili. 

y- 

To  the  clerk  of  the  church,  for  disburse- 
ments [for  prayer  books  for  the  fast  day, 
for  a  register  book  for  marriages  and 
burials  (the  moiety),  prayer  books  of 
thanksgiving,  and  two  single  prayers], 
iff.  135.  6d. 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


321 


To  the  master  of  the  revels,  for  2nd,  gth, 
and  1 6th  Nov.,  6/z. 

To  the  Queen  dowager,  for  fee  farm  rents, 
8//.  is. 

To  the  mason,  in  part  for  the  repairs  of 
the  church,  5#. 

To  the  gardener  [for  cockle  shells  for  the 
privy  garden,  for  "sallating"  for  the 
hall,  for  "  bough  potts  and  strewings  " 
for  the  hall,  for  three  peach  trees  for 
the  privy  garden,  for  nails  and  list  for 
the  jessamine  trees],  4#.  4.?. 

To  the  panierman,  for  wine  for  the  com- 
missioners [for  Sack,  Claret,  Cider,  and 
bread],  4/6'.  los. 

To  the  bricklayers  [for  mending  the  slat- 
ing on  the  Paper  Buildings,  building  a 
wall  behind  the  King's  Bench  office  and 
the  privy  garden],  i6li. 

To  the  smith  [Jan.  25,  for  putting  up  the 
judges'  pictures  in  the  hall,  hinges  for 
the  bench  pews],  i8//. 

To  the  woodmonger,  for  faggots  for  bon- 
fires [on  19  Dec.,  13  Feb.,  n  April, 


30  April,  29  May,  29  July,  29  Aug., 
9  Sep.,  ii  Oct.,  4  Nov.,  5  Nov.,  and  17 
Nov.],  9/7. 

To  the  joiner  [for  raising  the  desks  in  the 
church  and  brackets  to  hold  the  books, 
nails,  locks,  etc.],  4#. 

To  the  under-treasurer  [to  16  watermen 
and  others  for  their  labour  in  Fig-tree 
Court  when  the  chimney  was  on  fire  in 
Serjeant  Wright's  staircase,  for  watch- 
ing in  Dodd's  staircase  when  the  clip- 
per's tools  were  seized ;  to  Biggs,  the 
surveyor,  for  measuring  the  work  in 
Fig-tree  Court ;  and  for  a  bill  of  costs  in 
the  cause  of  Holloway  ads.  Weld],  2  ~]li. 
igs.  "[d. 

For  thirty-eight  sermons  in  Courtney's 
treasurership,  56//. 

To  Sir  Edward  Ward,  on  his  being  called 
serjeant,  and  for  a  purse,  loli.  is. 
Receipts,  1,663/1.  135.  "jd. 
Disbursements,  1,706/7.  igs.  nd. 
Balance  due  to  the  treasurer,  43/7.  6s. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1694-5,  FEB-  7- — Letter  from  the  treasurer  and  ancients  of 
Gray's  Inn  to  Nicholas  Courtney,  treasurer  of  the  Inner  Temple,  as 
to  William  Clerke,  who  was  lately  made  one  of  the  King's  counsel, 
concerning  whom  there  was  a  controversy  with  the  bench  of  Gray's 
Inn,  then  likely  to  come  under  judgment  of  Lord  Chief  Justice  Holt 
and  other  judges  of  that  House.  The  treasurer  and  ancients  desire 
to  be  informed  when  the  said  Clerke,  who  was  admitted  to  the 
Inner  Temple,  was  called  to  the  bar  and  whether  he  had  paid  all 
duties,  etc. 

With  the  letter  is  a  memorandum  dated  25  January,  1689-90,  of 
an  appeal  brought  by  John  Fry,  an  ancient  of  Gray's  Inn,  before  the 
judges  that  had  been  members  of  that  inn,  suggesting  that  he  had  been 
pretermitted  in  two  calls  to  the  bench,  wherein  several  of  his  puisnes 
had  been  called,  and  had  thereupon  petitioned  in  pension  for  his  call, 
and  his  petition  rejected,  so  that  he  was  only  relievable  before  the 
III.  T  T 


322  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1694-5 

judges.  Whereupon  Lord  Chief  Justice  Holt,  Baron  Nevill,  Mr. 
Justice  Gregory,  and  Baron  Turton,  being  assembled  at  the  lord 
chief  justice's  chamber  in  Serjeant's  Inn  in  Chancery  Lane,  the 
benchers  insisted  that  it  was  an  inherent  right  of  the  bench  to  judge 
who  were  fitting  to  be  called  to  the  bench  and  who  not.  The 
appellant  read  the  orders  of  pension,  and  after  long  debate  the 
appellant  insisted  that  cause  should  be  assigned  against  his  call,  and 
the  benchers  had  refused  to  assign  any  cause,  alleging  they  were 
themselves  the  judges  who  were  fitting  to  be  called  to  the  bench. 
The  lord  chief  justice  declared  "that  the  call  to  the  bench  was  no 
matter  of  right  in  any  person  but  was  in  point  of  government  only, 
and  that  it  was  discretionary,  and  both  persons  and  time  ought  to  be 
left  to  the  judgment  of  the  bench  in  whom  the  government  of  the 
society  resided;  and  that  unless  the  appellant  had  been  called  and 
then  disbenched,  no  cause  need  be  assigned  why  the  bench  refused 
the  appellant.  And  then  the  rest  of  the  judges  seriatim  delivered 
their  opinion  to  the  like  effect,  and  thereupon  the  said  appeal  was 
dismissed  and  the  benchers  did  absolutely  refuse  to  call  him,  the  said 
appellant,  to  the  bench." 

FEB.  7. — Inner  Temple.  Reply  by  Nicholas  Courtney,  treasurer, 
to  the  above  letter  from  the  treasurer  and  ancients  of  Gray's  Inn, 
stating  that  William  Clerke  of  Tymworth  '  in  the  County  of  South- 
ampton was  admitted  on  25  March,  1672,  called  to  the  bar  in  Hilary, 
1679,  and  sworn  in  Trinity,  1680,  that  it  is  against  the  rules  of  the 
society  to  say  with  what  duties  he  stands  charged. 


ACTS   OF   PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  benchers  who  attended  the 
parliaments  during  the  year  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : — 
WILLIAM  LONGUEVILE,  treasurer,  8 ;  CHARLES  WHITAKER,  8 ;  JOHN 
HALES,  7  ;  THOMAS  PETIT,  6 ;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  5  ;  JOHN 
CLENDON,  5  ;  WILLIAM  PETIT,  5  ;  SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL,  4 ;  JOHN 
HODGES,  4 ;  ARTHUR  WEAVER,  4 ;  THOMAS  TUTT,  4 ;  WILLIAM 
FARRER,  2  ;  THOMAS  WALKER,  2  ;  and  WILLIAM  TEMPEST,  i. 

1   Possibly  for  Tunworth  near  Basingstoke, 


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1695. 

Nov.  27. — Special  admission  of  Dennis  Bond,  son  and  heir 
apparent  of  Nathaniel  Bond,  serjeant  at  law,  at  the  request  of  his 
father. 

1695-6. 

FEB.  6. — Whereas  there  are  great  arrears  due  for  pensions  and 
preachers'  duties  and  other  casual  profits  which  are  paid  very  un- 
certainly, so  that  the  present  receipts  of  the  revenue  are  not  sufficient 
to  balance  the  salaries,  apparels,  and  other  necessary  payments,  it  is 
therefore  ordered  that  no  master  of  the  bench  be  allowed,  out  of  the 
treasury,  above  the  sum  of  5/2.  for  the  repair  of  any  bench  chamber, 
until  the  debts  owing  by  the  society  are  paid.  And  likewise  that  no 
chamber  that  shall  fall  to  the  House  shall  be  claimed  as  a  bench 
chamber  (other  than  such  as  are  now  bench  chambers)  till  the  said 
debts  be  paid. 

FEB.  12. — Special  admission  of  Edward  Girdler,  second  son  of 
Joseph  Girdler,  serjeant  at  law,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Order  that  the  order  for  compounding  vacations,  etc.,  be 
enlarged. 

1696. 

MAY  17. — Pensions  for  the  last  half  year  to  be  double. 

Thomas  Tutt  chosen  reader  for  the  summer  vacation. 

Order  that  William  Tempest,  one  of  the  prothonotaries  of  the 
Common  Pleas,  an  associate  of  the  bench,  be  called  to  be  one  of  the 
masters  of  the  bench,  paying  the  sum  of  100/2. ;  in  consideration  of 
which  he  shall  be  discharged  from  reading  when  it  shall  come  to  his 
turn,  and  shall  enjoy  a  bench  chamber  as  other  benchers,  and  have 
all  other  rights  as  if  he  had  actually  performed  the  office  of  a  grand 
reader,  provided  always  that  if  John  Methwin,  an  associate  of  the 
bench,  shall  desire  to  be  called  a  complete  bencher,  the  said  Tempest 
shall  give  precedency  to  him. 

MAY  24. — Henry  Tomkins,  Michael  Woodhull,  Edward  Clarke, 
Thomas  Allen,  William  Morley,  Samuel  Baldwyn,  Bulkeley  Price, 
Robert  Hicks,  Samuel  Strickson,  Thomas  Deane,  and  Knightley 
Danvers  called  to  the  bar. 

JUNE  21. — Admission,  ad  eundem  gradum,  of  John  Hoo,  who 


324  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1695-6 

was  admitted  of  the  Middle  Temple  on  31  May,  1679,  and  called 
29  May,  1685  ;  and  of  John  Cheshyre,  who  was  admitted  of  Gray's 
Inn  on  23  October,  1682,  and  called  in  Michaelmas  term,  1689. 

Oct.  29. — Order  that  pensions  be  assessed  single. 

Nov.  8. — Confirmation  of  appointment  of  Ezekiel  Charke  as 
steward. 

Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts : — Thomas 
Petit  and  John  Hales,  of  the  bench,  and  William  Barnesley  and 
Richard  Webb,  of  the  bar. 

Treasurer  : — Anthony  Bowyer. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances : — 
WILLIAM  LONGUEVILE,  treasurer,  36 ;  CLENDON,  36 ;  HODGES,  33 ; 
WILLIAM  PETIT,  31  ;  COURTNEY,  29  ;  THOMAS  PETIT,  27  ;  TUTT,  26; 
WILLIAM  FARRER,  24;  HALES,  23  ;  WHITAKER,  23;  SIR  NATHANIEL 
POWELL,  1 6  ;  WALKER,  1 5  ;  BOWYER,  1 5  ;  WEAVER,  1 1  ;  CARDROW,  9  ; 
TEMPEST,  6;  and  MOSYER,  2. 

1695- 

Nov.  21,  22,  23,  and  26. — Orders  as  to  payments  to  be  made 
by  Reyly,  administrator  of  Gwillim  ;  as  to  the  owners  of  chambers 
in  which  strangers  lodge  ;  that  the  Crown  Office  building  be  shored 
up  ;  that  the  matter  concerning  Levet  be  referred  to  a  committee ; 
that  Veale  become  tenant  to  the  House  at  the  rent  of  7/2'.  ;  that  the 
petitions  of  Mrs.  Berry,  the  late  porter's  widow,  and  John  Blyth, 
be  referred  to  a  committee. 

Nov.  27  and  29. — Orders  that  the  petition  of  Thomas  Sylvester 
as  to  an  allowance  be  referred  to  Thomas  Petyt  and  others ;  and  the 
tradesmens'  bills  of  Courtney's  treasurership  be  referred  to  the 
auditors. 

1695-6. 

JAN.  28. — Orders  that  the  steward's  accounts  be  referred  to  the 
Friday  committee  ;  and  that  the  petition  of  Richard  Hargrave  to 


1695-6]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  325 

"jet "  out  one  of  his  windows  next  the  Inner  Temple  Lane  be  re- 
ferred to  William  Petyt  and  Whitaker. 

JAN.  31. — Thomas  Jobber,  John  Dalby,  Robert  Gilmore,  Wil- 
liam Pudsey,  James  Grove,  and  Hugh  Barker,  appointed  for  selection 
of  a  reader  for  Lyon's  Inn. 

James  Farewell,  William  Barnesley,  and  John  Pottenger  ap- 
pointed in  like  manner  for  Clifford's  Inn. 

John  Spenser,  William  Wilkinson,  and  Samuel  Powell,  for 
Clement's  Inn. 

The  petition  of  Barker  to  make  a  door  through  the  wall  oppo- 
site Mitre  Court  Building  is  referred  to  Clendon  and  Hales. 

FEB.  i.— Orders  that  no  master  of  the  bench  be  allowed  above 
5/z.  out  of  the  treasury  for  finishing  his  bench  chamber  till  the  debts 
owing  to  the  House  are  fully  satisfied  ;  that  no  chamber  hereafter 
falling  to  the  House,  shall  be  claimed  as  a  bench  chamber  till  the 
debts  of  the  society  are  paid  ;  that  it  be  referred  to  the  Friday  com- 
mittee to  treat  with  Broome  as  to  building  four  staircases  on  the 
west  side  of  the  garden  ;  that  the  butlers  shall  not  deliver  out  any 
beer  to  any  servant  of  any  gentleman  but  such  as  are  in  commons 
and  not  actually  in  the  hall,  and  none  that  are  in  commons  to  have 
more  than  four  loaves  and  two  bottles  of  beer  ;  and  that  50/2'.  be 
paid  out  of  the  treasury  to  the  steward  towards  the  apparels. 

FEB.  3  and  4. — Orders  as  to  chambers  ;  that  William  Abell  be 
fined  2o/z.  for  not  reading  at  Lyon's  Inn  ;  that  the  butlers  bring  in  a 
list  of  foreigners  in  the  Inner  Temple;  that  William  Squire  be  ad- 
mitted panierman  ;  and  that  Hargrave's  petition  be  rejected. 

FEB.  6. — Orders  that  5/2.  be  paid  to  Richard  Barthrupp,  a  butler, 
for  his  relief  in  his  sickness. 

FEB.  7. — Orders  that  Thomas  Price  attend  the  table  to  show 
cause  why  he  will  not  deliver  possession  of  William  Petyt's  bench 
chamber  ;  that  the  strangers  that  lodge  in  the  chambers  of  Thomas 
Minors,  Auditor  Bridges,  Thompson,  Jolliffe,  Meriton,  Kellett, 
Major,  Adderley,  Samuel  Dodd,  William  Minors,  Berkeley,  and 
Beresford  have  notice  to  remove ;  and  that  the  baker's  petition  be 
rejected. 

FEB.  8  and  10. — Orders  for  the  removal  of  Thomas  Price  out 
of  William  Petyt's  chamber  ;  and  that  Legender,  Baynes,  Sir  Samuel 
Husbands,  Bellamy,  Capt.  Probee,  Dr.  Diggs,  Brumskill,  Farewell, 


326  A    CALENDAR    OF    THE  [1696 

Bonfoy,  Parker,  and  Proudfoot,  being  strangers,  are  to  remove  out 
of  the  House;  that  Swaine  be  paid  5/z.  i2s.  for  the  engine  pipe. 

FEB.  1 i. — Upon  information  from  the  under-treasurer  that  he 
has  in  his  hands  114  guineas  received  at  $os.  each  for  the  King's 
Tax,  which  he  offered  at  the  Exchequer  as  he  received  them,  and 
which  were  refused,  it  is  ordered  that  the  House  bear  any  loss 
that  shall  happen  to  the  under-treasurer  by  the  fall  of  the  said 
guineas. 

FEB.  12. — Orders  that  the  under-treasurer  may  receive  guineas 
at  30^.  each  ;  that  the  order  for  the  paying  and  the  compounding  of 
duties  be  enlarged ;  as  to  the  repairs  in  Fig-tree  Court ;  and  that 
Snowe's  bill  for  charges  in  Chancery  for  William  Farrer,  as  treasurer, 
ads.  Deane,  be  paid. 

1696. 

MAY  6. — Order  that  the  tender  made  by  the  gentlemen  under 
the  bar  for  attending  the  bar  mess  without  caps  be  quashed  ;  that 
the  petition  of  the  inhabitants  of  Mitre  Court  and  Ram  Alley  desir- 
ing to  be  excused  paying  the  stone  cutter  any  proportion  for  the 
work  done  in  the  passage  leading  to  their  Courts,  be  referred  to 
Clendon  and  Whitaker. 

MAY  9  and  1 1. — Orders  as  to  bringing  in  the  rolls  of  pensions 
and  other  rolls  ;  that  an  abstract  be  made  of  the  book  of  orders  ;  and 
that  no  one  have  his  commons  out  of  the  hall  till  he  has  been  in 
commons  actually  one  day  in  each  week. 

MAY  12. — Orders  that  the  name  and  salvo  written  by  Nicholas 
Courtney,  a  bencher,  in  the  Association  of  this  society,  be  razed  out 
thereof;  and  that  notice  be  given  that  the  Association  will  lie  ready 
on  the  table  after  dinner  on  Tuesday  for  such  gentlemen  as  please  to 
subscribe  the  same. 

MAY  13. — Orders  as  to  the  care  of  the  bread  in  the  buttery; 
that  no  gentleman  of  the  House  may  eat  commons  in  any  of  the 
officers'  rooms  ;  that  no  one  go  into  the  buttery  but  gentlemen  of  this 
society  and  such  as  are  introduced  by  them  ;  the  Friday  committee 
to  consider  of  the  office  of  steward  ;  and  that  four  persons  be  called 
to  the  bench,  who  shall  be  chosen  by  way  of  ballot,  according  to 
the  order  of  the  table  made  in  Michaelmas  term  last,  and  that  in 
order  to  such  call,  the  under-treasurer  prepare  and  give  by  Friday 


i696]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  327 

next  to  each  of  the  masters  of  the  bench  a  list  of  the  names  of  twelve 
of  the  ancient  barristers. 

MAY  14  and  15. — Orders  that  Tempest  be  called  to  be  a  com- 
plete bencher,  paying  to  the  treasury  ioo/z.,  whereby  he  is  excused 
reading,  but  he  is  to  give  precedency  to  John  Methwin,  an  associate 
of  the  bench,  if  he  desires  "to  be  called  complete";  and  that  Prin 
attend  the  table  to  answer  the  complaint  of  Matthew  Johnson,  the 
fourth  butler. 

MAY  1 6  and  20. — Orders  that  Thomas  Pettit  direct  the  method 
of  providing  commons  for  next  week  by  such  officers  as  he  shall  think 
fit ;  that  Sir  John  Edward's  letter,  praying  to  have  his  commons  out 
of  the  House,  be  rejected  ;  that  upon  Prin  acknowledging  his  fault  in 
striking  Johnson,  the  butler,  he  was  excused  the  censure ;  that  no 
commons  be  delivered  out  of  the  kitchen  save  in  the  hall  and  to  such 
only  as  shall  be  in  the  inner  buttery,  coming  late  from  Westminster ; 
and  that  no  money  be  paid  for  commons  to  the  late  steward. 

MAY  18. — Orders  that  there  be  clean  table  cloths  daily;  that 
Nicholas  Pitt  be  an  associate  of  the  bar  ;  and  that  there  be  a  call  to 
the  bar. 

MAY  22  and  23. — Nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bar  at  the 
parliament  held  on  24  May,  with  the  addition  of  the  name  of  Christian 
Minard;  and  that  all  the  money  received  by  Ellis  for  commons  shall 
be  applied  to  the  payment  of  creditors. 

JUNE  15,  1 6,  and  19. — Orders  as  to  viewing  chambers,  the  Crown 
Office  and  the  houses  of  office  ;  and  that  the  petition  of  the  gentlemen 
having  chambers  against  the  garden  wall,  that  pallisadoes  may  be  set 
in  the  place  where  the  garden  wall  stands,  in  regard  the  same  is 
likely  to  fall,  be  referred  to  Bowyer  and  others. 

JUNE  20,  23,  and  27. — Orders  as  to  viewing  and  padlocking 
chambers  ;  that  widow  Berry  give  the  key  of  the  seat  in  the  church 
where  she  sat,  to  Thomas  Dry,  the  present  porter ;  and  that  the 
gardener,  porter,  and  badge  porter  attend  the  table. 

JUNE  29  and  30.  —  The  duties  of  the  steward  of  the  society  are 
set  out : — he  is  to  collect  the  money  for  and  pay  the  bills  of  the 
commons,  to  take  account  of  the  meat  and  what  messes  the  cook 
cuts,  to  take  an  account  how  many  messes  and  what  bread,  beer, 
candles,  etc.,  are  consumed  in  the  hall,  to  take  an  account  of  the 
plate,  linen,  etc.,  to  take  charge  of  the  coals,  candles,  pots,  and 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[1696 


candlesticks,  to  attend  the  audits,  etc.,  and  he  is  to  be  allowed  a 
salary  of  6oli.  and  i2al.  in  the  pound  out  of  all  money  collected 
by  him. 

Appointment  of  Ezekiel  Charke  to  be  steward. 

OCT.  26,  27,  29,  30,  and  31. — Orders  for  viewing  of  chambers; 
that  Whitaker  and  Hales  consider  what  is  fit  to  be  allowed  for  putting 
the  bench  garden  in  order ;  that  the  Friday  committee  consider  the 
tradesmen's  bills,  that  Daniell,  the  second  cook,  have  lo/z.  a  year  ;  that 
no  strangers  be  permitted  to  lodge  in  this  House  during  vacation,  with- 
out the  treasurer's  leave,  nor  in  term  time  without  the  leave  of  the 
bench  table  ;  that  certain  gentlemen  pay  their  arrears  upon  pain  of 
their  chambers  being  padlocked. 

Nov.  3. — Orders  that  the  order  as  to  strangers  be  screened  and 
notice  be  given  to  the  strangers  to  remove  ;  that  Mills  attend  to- 
morrow ;  that  Ellis  get  ready  the  tradesmen's  bills  ;  that  candles  be 
used  instead  of  lamps  ;  that  no  wine  be  brought  into  the  account  of 
the  House  save  only  what  is  spent  at  the  bench  table ;  that  the  under- 
treasurer  give  an  account  of  the  bastards  that  are  kept  by  the 
House,  and  of  their  age  and  sex,  on  Friday  next  at  the  committee; 
that  there  be  a  call  to  the  bench ;  that  no  newspapers  be  brought  to 
the  bench  table;  and  that  the  organist's  salary  cease  at  Michaelmas 
last. 

Nov.  4,  5,  7,  9,  10,  and  1 1. — Orders  for  viewing  of  chambers,  and 
the  collection  of  arrears  for  commons,  pensions,  preachers,  and  other 
duties. 


GENERAL   ACCOUNT    BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  20   November,  1695,  to  8   November,  1696,  in  the 
treasurership  of  William  Longuevile. 


RECEIPTS. 

Received  of  the  father  of  William  Temple, 
for  money  delivered  out  for  clothes, 
nursing,  and  for  the  Recorder's  warrant, 

3& 

DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  Shirley,  for  wine  [Canary  and  Claret] 

spent  at  the  bench  table  the  latter  part 

of  last  term,  g/i.  2S.  6d. 
Salaries   to  Dr.  Sherlock,  the   master  of 


the  Temple,  Gillingham,  the  reader, 
Silvester,  the  clerk,  and  Pigott,  the 
organist,  as  before. 

To  Swaine,  for  a  new  engine  pipe  and 
repairs,  $li.  i2s. 

To  be  allowed  the  loss  of  114  guineas,  re- 
ceived for  the  taxes  at  305.  a  piece,  by 
order  of  the  table,  the  nth  February 
last,  55.  per  guinea  lost,  comes  to  45/». 

I2S. 


l696-7] 


INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


329 


"To  be  allowed  8s.  per  guinea  for  25 
guineas  received  at  305.  for  house 
duties,  by  order  of  the  bench  table,  1 2 
February  last,  which  at  8s.  per  guinea 
comes  to  ioli." 

To  be  allowed  for  6  guineas  and  a  half 
received  at  30.?.,  and  paid  away  at  265., 
which  at  45.  a  guinea  lost  comes  to 
i//.  6s. 

For  wine  [Canary  and  Claret]  spent  at  the 
Bench  Table. 

To  [Major  News,  the  late  steward,  for 
wages,  etc.,  and  for  suppers  upon  the 
treasurer's  accounts,  and  for  the  com- 
missioners of  the  tax],  ly//.  165.  lod. 

To  Barthrupp,  towards  his  relief  in  his 
illness,  8//. 

To  the  under-treasurer,  his  bill  of  dis- 
bursements, [to  the  master  of  the  revels, 
for  23  Nov.,  1695;  to  tne  watchmen, 


for  cleaning  the  engine ;  to  Downes, 
for  nursing  William  Temple  1 2  weeks ; 
for  expenses  in  apprehending  and  carry- 
ing the  father  and  mother  of  that  child 
before  the  Recorder;  to  a  person  un- 
known, for  discovery  of  the  father  and 
mother;  to  the  watchmen,  for  playing 
the  engine ;  to  the  sexton,  for  digging  a 
grave  for  Mary  Temple  ;  to  Such  for  his 
bill  of  costs  in  Farrer  v.  Deane  ;  for  the 
illness  and  burial  of  Christmas  Temple  ; 
for  apprehending  the  felon  that  stole 
the  Temple  pewter  and  for  the  beadle  ; 
for  20  dozen  trenchers ;  and  for  coach 
hire  to  Westminster  several  times  to  pay 
the  taxes,  etc.],  soli.  105.  A,d. 
For  27  sermons,  54^'. 

Receipts,  985/1.  ic/s.  yd. 

Disbursements,  1033/7.  55.  $d- 

Balance,  47//.  55.  6d. 


ACTS  OF   PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  benchers  who  attended  the 
parliament  during  the  year  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : — 
ANTHONY  BOWYER,  treasurer,  8  ;  CHARLES  WHITAKER,  8  ;  JOHN 
HODGES,  6 ;  WILLIAM  PETIT,  5  ;  THOMAS  TUTT,  5  ;  WILLIAM  FARRER, 
4 ;  JOHN  MOSYER,  4 ;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  4  ;  THOMAS  PETIT,  4 ; 
SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL,  3  ;  JOHN  CLENDON,  3  ;  THOMAS  WALKER,  2  ; 
WILLIAM  LONGUEVILE,  2  ;  WILLIAM  BARNESLEY,  2  ;  ARTHUR  WEAVER, 
i  ;  and  JOHN  HALES,  i. 

1696. 

Nov.  24.— William  Finch,  Edward  Hildyard,  Edward  Jennings, 
Michael  Newnham,  John  Legh,  and  James  Farewell  called  to  the 
bench,  paying  50/2'.  each  to  the  treasurer. 

1696-7. 

JAN.  31. — Peter  Weston's  call  to  the  bar  respited. 

FEB.  9. — Order  that  the  call  to  the  bench  of  Edward  Hilyard, 
Michael  Newnham,  John  Legh,  William  Simpson,  and  James  Fare- 
well, of  last  term,  and  the  act  of  parliament  for  the  confirmation 
thereof,  be  repealed,  they  having  neglected  to  come  up  to  the  table, 
in.  u  u 


330  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1697 

John  Methwin,  Robert  Payne,  William  Barnesley,  Henry  Crispe, 
and  John  Goodfellow  called  to  the  bench,  paying  50/2".  each  to  the 
treasurer,  and  Peter  Weston  called  to  the  bar. 

In  respect  of  the  honour  his  Majesty  hath  been  pleased  to 
confer  upon  William  Broderick,  esq.,  a  member  of  this  society,  in 
constituting  him  his  Attorney-General  and  Judge  of  the  Admiralty  for 
the  Island  of  Jamaica,  he,  the  said  Mr.  Broderick,  is  at  this  par- 
liament called  to  the  bar,  and  to  be  an  utter  barrister  of  this  society. 

William  Finch  chosen  reader. 

1697. 

MAY  2. — Edward  Jennings  chosen  reader  for  the  summer  vaca- 
tion. 

MAY  17. — Special  admission  of  John  Bond,  second  son  of  Na- 
thaniel Bond,  serjeant  at  law,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

JUNE  13. — Allowance  to  officers  and  watchmen  in  the  last  vaca- 
tion, as  usual. 

JUNE  22. — Nicholas  Harding,  William  Milman,  John  Lloyd, 
Thomas  Woodward,  John  Blencowe,  John  Weaver,  Henry  Andrews, 
John  Peeres,  Leonard  Gale,  William  Triggs,  and  Thomas  Brand 
called  to  the  bar. 

Nov.  10. — The  election  of  reader  adjourned. 

Whereas  the  not  frequenting  of  commons  by  the  masters  of  the 
bench  has  been  found  very  inconvenient  and  of  ill  consequence,  and 
the  exercise  and  good  government  of  the  House  thereby  neglected, 
and  whereas  Philip  Pargiter,  one  of  the  masters  of  the  bench,  who 
according  to  the  present  rules  and  orders  of  this  House  is  next  in 
course  to  be  elected  treasurer,  has  been  long  absent  and  is  not  yet 
come  to  town,  and  the  time  of  such  election  drawing  nigh,  it  is 
necessary  some  provision  be  made  in  case  the  said  Pargiter  shall 
not  appear  at  the  time  of  election  ;  and  whereas  John  Hodges,  one 
of  the  masters  of  the  bench,  who  is  next  in  turn  to  be  chosen 
treasurer  in  case  the  said  Pargiter  does  not  appear,  may  not  by 
reason  of  some  particular  circumstances  he  lyeth  under  be  capable 
of  constantly  attending  the  duties  of  the  said  office,  and  yet  never- 
theless, he  having  borne  all  the  usual  charges  of  the  House  to  qualify 
him  for  that  office,  it  is  thought  just  that  he  should  have  the  benefit 
of  the  said  office  for  his  year,  if  any  bencher  will  undertake  to 


1697]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  331 

execute  the  said  office  for  him  gratis,  which  Anthony  Bowyer,  the 
present  treasurer,  has,  at  the  request  of  the  table  and  in  respect  to 
the  said  Hodges,  consented  to  do.  And  whereas  by  act  of  par- 
liament of  29  June,  1691,  it  is  enacted  that  no  treasurer  shall 
continue  in  office  longer  than  one  year,  by  which  it  was  intended 
that  no  treasurer  should  so  continue  in  his  own  right,  and  that  no 
treasurer  should  receive  the  profits  of  that  office  longer  than  one 
year,  it  is  enacted  that  in  case  the  said  Pargiter  does  not  appear  at 
the  next  parliament,  he  shall  have  forfeited  his  right  and  turn  of 
being  chosen  treasurer,  and  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  present  treasurer 
to  be  continued,  so  that  the  salary  or  payment  of  ioo/z.(  usually 
allowed  to  the  treasurer,  shall  be  paid  to  Hodges  as  if  he  had  per- 
sonally executed  the  office.  And  it  is  further  enacted  that  no 
bencher  shall  hereafter  be  chosen  treasurer  unless  he  shall  have 
been  in  commons  two  whole  weeks  in  each  of  the  two  precedent 
terms  before  such  election,  and  shall  have  been  personally  present  at 
the  bench  table  two  several  days  at  the  least  in  each  of  the  said 
terms,  except  upon  reasonable  excuse. 

Nov.  17. — Order  that  William  Simpson,  being  made  puisne 
baron  of  the  Exchequer,  be  called  to  the  bench,  and  he  shall  take 
place  next  to  the  treasurer,  according  to  the  dignity  of  such  baron ; 
he  shall,  nevertheless,  be  chosen  reader  "  and  shall  sit  upon  exercise 
in  his  turn,"  according  to  his  seniority  in  being  called  to  the  bench, 
and  shall  have  the  choice  of  chambers,  be  chosen  treasurer  in  his 
turn,  and  pay  into  the  treasury  50/2'. 

The  election  of  reader  adjourned. 

Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : — John 
Hales  and  William  Barnesley,  of  the  bench,  and  Richard  Webb  and 
Richard  Baldwyn,  of  the  bar. 

Treasurer  : — Anthony  Bowyer  chosen  in  accordance  with  the 
act  of  parliament  of  10  November  instant. 

BENCH   TABLE   ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances : — 
ANTHONY  BOWYER,  treasurer,  59  ;  CLENDON,  59  ;  HODGES,  49;  WILLIAM 
FARRER,  44;  COURTNEY,  44;  WHITAKER,  41  ;  WILLIAM  PETIT,  41  ; 


332 


A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1696-7 


TUTT,  41;  HALES,  36;  THOMAS  PETIT,  33;  LONGUEVILE,  25;  SIR 
NATHANIEL  POWELL,  24;  TEMPEST,  17;  WEAVER,  16;  WALKER,  13; 
BARNESLEY,  10;  JENNINGS,  5;  CARD  ROW,  4;  MOSYER,  4;  BARON 
SIMPSON,  4 ;  and  PAYNE,  3. 

1696. 

Nov.  13. — Orders  that  the  order  of  16  Nov.,  1695,  for  the 
balloting  boxes  be  not  repealed ;  and  that  the  calls  to  the  bench  be 
adjourned. 

Nov.  14. — Orders  for  the  removal  of  all  foreign  lodgers,  and  that 
the  little  gate  leading  into  Whitefriars  after  it  is  locked  at  night 
shall  remain  so  locked  till  further  order. 

Nov.  1 6. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  arrears;  that  all  orders 
concerning  the  balloting  box  be  repealed  ;  nomination  of  those  called 
to  the  bench  at  the  parliament  held  on  24  Nov.,  with  the  addition  of 
the  name  of  William  Simpson  ;  and  that  the  benchers  in  town  attend 
on  Tuesday,  and  the  others  in  the  first  week  of  next  term. 

Nov.  21. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  arrears  of  commons  and 
other  duties  ;  and  that  John  Methwen  be  called  to  the  bench. 

Nov.  23. — Order  that  the  order  as  to  Methwen's  call  be 
repealed. 

Nov.  24. — Orders  that  the  bills  for  the  repairs  to  the  church  and 
the  Bibles  ordered  by  Courtney  in  his  treasurership,  be  referred  to 
Thomas  Petit  and  others  ;  and  that  the  butlers  assist  the  steward  in 
collecting  the  commons. 

Nov.  26  and  27. — Order  that  James  Farewell  be  fined  20/2'.  for 
not  reading  at  Clifford's  Inn  ;  that  John  Spencer  be  fined  20/2.  for 
not  reading  at  Clement's  Inn  ;  that  upon  the  petition  of  Francis 
Pigott,  the  organist,  his  salary  be  continued  ;  that  William  Pudsey, 
James  Grove,  and  Hugh  Barker  be  named  for  selection  for  reader  for 
Clifford's  Inn  ;  and  that  Tanfeild  Leman,  Francis  Lane,  and  Robert 
Price  be  in  like  manner  named  for  Clement's  Inn. 

1696-7. 

JAN.  27  and  29. — Orders  that  the  bench  be  desired  to  be  at  the 
table  on  Friday  next  to  consider  the  means  to  enforce  the  House 
duties  ;  that  the  masters  of  the  bench  be  desired  to  pay  their  arrears ; 
and  that  Peter  Weston  be  called  to  the  bar. 


i697|  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  333 

FEB.  i. — Orders  that  Hales  may  have  a  passage  leading  into 
Whitefriars  under  Rutter's  chamber  for  a  cellar,  walling  up  the  gate 
against  Whitefriars  and  the  door  towards  Rutter ;  that  there  be  a 
new  call  to  the  bench  on  Thursday ;  and  for  the  collection  of 
arrears. 

FEB.  3  and  4. — Orders  that  the  dispute  between  Courtney  and 
Buckingham,  the  mason,  be  referred  to  Clendon  and  others  ;  and  as 
to  the  payment  of  arrears. 

FEB.  9. — Order  that  William  Broderick,  in  respect  of  his  being 
his  Majesty's  Attorney-General  and  Judge  of  the  Admiralty  in  the 
Island  of  Jamaica,  be  called  to  the  bar. 

FEB.  10. — Orders  that  Biggs,  the  surveyor,  shall  view  the  place 
where  Fettiplace  Mott  desires  a  stove  ;  and  that  ro/z.  be  given  to 
Francis  Mills  towards  his  charges  for  suing  the  gentlemen  for 
commons. 

FEB.  ii  and  13. — Orders  as  to  the  payment  of  arrears  for 
commons. 

1697. 

APRIL  22. — Order  that  Whitaker  and  Hales  consider  the  best 
way  to  bring  the  water  into  the  privy  garden. 

APRIL  26,  27,  29,  and  30. — Orders  as  to  the  payment  of  arrears 
for  commons,  vacations,  etc.  ;  that  Vincent's  chamber  be  cross  barred  ; 
and  that  Edward  Jones'  petition  for  the  butler's  place,  vacant  by  the 
death  of  Ellis,  be  considered  on  Wednesday. 

MAY  i,  3,  and  4.— Orders  for  the  removal  of  various  strangers 
lodging  in  the  chambers  of  the  inn  ;  and  for  the  payment  of  arrears 
for  commons. 

MAY  5. — Order  that  the  payment  of  the  tax  for  the  society  by 
the  collectors  for  the  present  year  be  examined  by  the  seniors  of  the 
table,  and  such  other  of  the  masters  of  the  bench  as  please  ;  that  the 
consideration  of  taxing  the  treasurer's  allowance  be  referred  to  the 
same  committee  ;  that  Edward  Jones  be  appointed  puisne  butler  ;  and 
that  certain  members  pay  their  arrears  of  pensions  and  preacher's 
duties  by  Monday. 

MAY  6. — The  committee  appointed  as  above,  considering  that 
the  treasurer  ought  not  to  have  been  taxed  for  his  allowance,  it  was 
ordered  that  an  appeal  be  made  to  the  commissioners  for  the  dis- 


334  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1697 

charge  of  the  said  assessment.  Order  for  the  payment  of  arrears  for 
duties. 

MAY  7  and  8. — Orders  for  the  removal  of  strangers  and  pay- 
ment of  arrears  of  commons ;  and  that  a  life  be  named  upon  the 
assignment  to  Farrington's  chamber. 

MAY  10  and  1 1. — Orders  that  Sir  Samuel  Husbands  have  leave 
to  stay  in  the  chamber  where  he  lodges,  for  a  fortnight ;  that  the 
request  of  Bromfeild  and  Kennett  to  be  called  associates  to  the  bar, 
be  referred  to  Clendon  and  others ;  and  that  Goodrich  pay  his 
arrears. 

MAY  14. — Orders  that  the  130/2'.  received  from  the  chamber  in 
the  Inner  Temple,  lately  sold  to  Isaac  Hawkins,  be  applied  to  pay 
Courtney's  debt  owing  for  repairs  to  the  church  ;  and  that  Gillingham's 
petition  be  referred  to  a  committee. 

MAY  15. — Order  that  the  treasurer  have  power  to  padlock 
chambers  for  non-payment  of  commons  and  other  duties,  for  families, 
foreigners,  or  any  other  occasion  ;  that  any  member  that  has  a 
chamber  in  his  own  right,  and  is  made  a  serjeant,  ought  to  dispose 
of  his  chamber  within  a  year  by  the  custom  of  the  House  ;  that 
Serjeant  Trinder  have  the  privilege  of  a  master  of  the  bench  upon 
surrendering  his  chamber  by  favour  of  the  table  ;  that  Gillingham 
have  \oli.  paid  him  for  a  gratuity  ;  and  that  Tutt  be  disbenched  if  he 
does  not  pay  for  his  reading  before  the  first  week  in  next  term. 

MAY  17. — Order  that  Bracebridge's  chamber  be  surrendered  by 
Thompson  and  padlocked. 

JUNE  7. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  arrears  for  commons  and 
duties,  and  chambers  to  be  padlocked  for  non-payment  of  the  same ; 
that  the  tax  upon  windows  be  referred  to  the  Friday  Committee  ;  and 
that  Levett,  Francis  Mills,  and  others  attend  the  table. 

JUNE  9,  10,  and  12.— Orders  that  the  request  of  Bromfeild, 
Velley,  and  Kennett  to  be  associates  to  the  bar  be  referred  to  a 
committee  ;  that  the  petition  of  the  inhabitants  of  Whitefriars  for 
opening  the  little  gate,  be  adjourned  ;  and  that  Levett  be  restored 
upon  paying  his  arrears. 

JUNE  14. — Orders  as  to  the  payment  of  arrears;  that  Clendon 
and  others  report  what  fees  were  usually  paid  upon  calls  to  the  bar  to 
the  officers  of  the  House ;  that  upon  the  report  of  the  committee  a 
sum  not  exceeding  30/2'.  be  expended  for  laying  in  water  to  the 


,697]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  335 

Bench  Garden ;   and  that  New's  petition  be  referred  to  the  Friday 
committee. 

JUNE  1 6. — Orders  as  to  the  payment  of  commons. 
An  account  of  the  fees  anciently  paid  by  every  gentleman  called 
to  the  bar,  to  the  officers  :  To  the  treasurer's  clerk  for  the  bar  bond, 
$s. ;  the  five  butlers,  each,  ili.  $s.  ;  the  chief  cook,  2s.  6d.  ;  the 
gardener,  2s.  6d.  ;  the  second  cook,  2^.  6d.  ;  the  steward's  man  2s.  6d. ', 
the  panierman,  2s.  6d. ;  the  head  porter,  2s.  6d.  •  the  under-porter,  2s.  ; 
the  two  turnspits,  3^. ;  the  two  washpots,  3^. ;  and  the  dishwasher, 
is.  6d.  In  all  zli.  14$.  6d. 

Upon  the  report  of  the  committee,  it  is  ordered  that  these  fees 
be  confirmed  as  the  standing  fees  payable  by  all  gentlemen  called  to 
the  bar  and  to  be  associates  to  the  bar  over  and  above  los.  to  the 
under-treasurer  for  the  act  of  parliament,  and  that  the  same  be  paid 
before  any  call. 

JUNE  1 8. — Orders  that  the  chambers  of  James  Mundy  and  Lee 
Warner  be  padlocked  ;  that  James  Selby  be  put  out  of  commons  for 
his  misbehaviour  in  the  hall  yesterday  ;  that  gentlemen  called  asso- 
ciates and  who  have  chambers  shall  pay,  over  and  above  arrears 
and  other  duties,  io/z.,  and  that  those  who  have  no  chambers 
shall  pay  2O/z. ;  that  all  associates  now  of  the  bar  that  shall  here- 
after be  called  to  be  barristers,  shall  pay  io/z.  beyond  the  charges  of 
other  barristers.  Nominations  of  those  called  to  the  bar  at  the  par- 
liament held  on  22  June,  with  the  addition  of  the  name  of  William 
Thorns. 

JUNE  19. — Orders  that  Robert  Payne,  Henry  Crispe,  and  John 
Goodfellow,  called  to  the  bench  in  Hilary  term,  do  come  up  to  the 
table  on  Tuesday  peremptorily ;  and  that  Thomas  Bromfield  be  called 
an  associate  to  the  bar. 

JUNE  21. — Order  that  all  the  fellows  shall  have  the  old  commons 
of  the  House  provided,  and  no  other  provisions  in  lieu  thereof;  that 
the  lock  of  the  great  garden  be  altered,  and  none  have  keys  but  such 
as  the  treasurer  shall  think  fit ;  and  that  the  Crown  Office  Building 
be  repaired. 

JUNE  22,  23,  and  25. — Orders  that  Robert  Payne,  Henry  Crispe, 
and  John  Goodfellow,  who  were  called  to  the  bench,  do  come  up  to 
the  bench  table ;  that  the  treasurer  give  directions  for  gravelling 
Figtree  Court ;  that  Thomas  Petit  and  others  consider  what  place 


336  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1697 

Cock,  the  prothonotary,  shall  have  at  the  table ;  that  Brereton 
Boucher  have  liberty  to  compound  for  Norton's  vacations  ;  that  John 
Levett's  submission  be  accepted  ;  that  Widow  Ellis  have  5/2.  for  her 
relief;  and  that  the  payment  of  the  bill  of  Kent,  the  painter,  for  work 
done  between  both  Houses  at  the  Temple  Church  in  Courtney's 
treasurership,  be  referred  to  the  treasurer. 

OCT.  30.— Order  that  Robert  Ingram  be  master  of  the  revels. 

Nov.  8. — Order  that  Clendon  and  others  draw  up  an  act  for 
supplying  the  place  of  treasurer.  (See  Parliament  held  on  10 
Nov.) 

Nov.  10. — Order  that  Baron  Simpson  be  called  to  the  bench; 
that  if  Payne,  Crispe,  and  Goodfellow  do  not  come  up  to  the  table 
before  Saturday  that  they  be  fined  as  defaulters. 

Nov.  ii  and  12. — Orders  that  Hales  and  others  view  the 
chambers  in  the  hands  of  the  House  and  value  the  same,  and  also 
propose  a  method  for  the  sale  thereof;  that  the  treasurer  give  an 
account  of  the  chambers  that  have  been  padlocked  for  non-payment 
of  commons  and  duties,  and  of  what  acts  of  parliament  and  orders 
of  the  bench  table  have  been  copied  out  or  abridged  according  to 
former  orders. 

Nov.  15. — Order  "that  this  society  will  maintain  the  ancient 
privileges  of  the  House  and  defend  the  prosecution  against  the 
persons  concerned  in  the  pretended  rescue  of  Humphrey  Borlase, 
esquire." 

Nov.  17,  19,  20,  and  22. — Orders  for  padlocking  chambers;  for 
the  removal  of  strangers  ;  that  ioo/z'.  be  paid  New,  the  late  steward, 
for  apparels ;  that  Thomas  Downes  be  appointed  a  turnspit  and 
Margaret  Penredd,  dishwasher. 

Nov.  24. — Orders  that  the  master  of  the  revels,  Aris,  and  Reg- 
nier  attend  the  table  ;  that  the  under-treasurer  take  the  examination 
of  the  officers  of  the  House  touching  the  affray  on  Saturday  night 
last ;  that  there  be  no  more  revels  till  further  order ;  that  Lovelace 
Heircy,  Tanfield  Leman,  and  William  Pudsey  be  fined  2O/z.  each  for 
not  reading  at  the  respective  Inns  of  Chancery  for  which  they  were 
elected  readers. 

Nov.  25  and  26. — Order  that  Richard  Berenger  be  put  out  of 
commons  "  for  coming  to  the  bench  table  [while]  sitting  [in]  the 
hall,  without  leave,  in  contempt  to  the  rules  of  the  House;"  and 


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337 


nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bar  at  the  parliament  held  on 
28  Nov. 

Nov.  27. — Orders  that  the  master  of  the  revels,  Aris,  and  Reg- 
nier  be  put  out  of  commons  ;  that  the  tradesmen's  bills  be  referred 
to  Hales  and  Barnesley;  that  the  names  of  John  Winston,  James 
Grove,  Hugh  Barker,  William  Wilkinson,  Littleton  Powell,  and 
Robert  Price  be  sent  to  Lyon's  Inn  for  the  election  of  a  reader ; 
that  the  names  of  Samuel  Grant,  William  Walker,  and  Nicholas 
Pottenger  be  sent  to  Clifford's  Inn  ;  that  the  names  of  Francis  Lloyd, 
Sir  Richard  Leving,  and  William  Church  be  sent  to  Clement's  Inn; 
"that  satisfaction  may  be  entered  upon  the  judgment  recovered 
against  Brereton  Bourcher  upon  the  bond  given  by  him  for  the 
commons  and  other  duties  of  John  Norton,"  and  that  Bourcher  have 
leave  to  prosecute  Norton. 


GENERAL   ACCOUNT    BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  8   November,   1696,  to    17    November,  1697,  in  the 
treasurership  of  Anthony  Bowyer. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Thomas  Silvester,  clerk  of  the  church, 
for  disbursements  [for  prayer  books  for 
fast  days,  for  two  register  books  for  the 
gentlemen's  names  at  communion,  for  a 
great  hassock  for  the  pulpit,  for  putting 
up  a  lanthorn  in  the  Round,  and  for 
single  prayers  for  the  church,  etc.], 
i//.  15.5-.  6d. 

To  Duncomb,  a  year's  rent  due  to  the 
Queen  Dowager  at  Michaelmas,  after 
an  allowance  of  2li.  for  taxes  and 
acquittance  is.  In  all,  B/i.  is. 

To  Squire,  the  panierman,  for  wine 
[Canary  and  Claret]  spent  at  the  bench 
table  in  Trinity  term,  2 1 K. 

To  Buckingham,  the  mason,  in  part  for 
work  done  about  the  church  in  Court- 
ney's treasurership,  1 1  $li. 

For  [Sir  Henry  Furnace]  for  orange  trees 
for  the  Bench  Garden,  s//. 

To  Brewster,  for  six  large  Bibles  [4'°,  best 
III.  X 


paper,  2  vols.  each  filletted  and  gilt], 
1 2  It. 

To  Powell,  the  plasterer,  for  the  moiety 
of  his  bill,  for  work  done  in  the  Temple 
Church  in  Courtney's  treasurership, 
3#.  i  os. 

To  Fowler,  for  the  pipes,  fountain,  etc., 
in  the  Bench  Garden,  28/1. 

To  [John  Miles,  for  the  use  of  the  players 
in  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields,  who  acted  a 
play  on  i  Nov.,  1697,  called  "Love  for 
Love,"  in  the  Inner  Temple  Hall],  20/1. 

To  the  treasurer  of  Lyon's  Inn,  for  five 
years'  tax  of  the  rent  due  from  that 
society  to  this  House,  y//.  13^.  41?. 

For  cloth,  for  the  porter's  gown,  6//. 
•js.  6d. 

To  Mounsey,  for  the  use  of  a  room  and 
balcony  for  the  i6th  November,  1697, 
when  the  King  made  his  public  entry 
from  Flanders,  6/i.  i2s. 

For  27  sermons,  54/Y. 

X 


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A    CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[1697-8 


The  under-treasurer's  bill  of  disbursements 
[to  the  porter  for  fetching  the  ballotting 
box  from  Haberdasher's  Hall  and  carry- 
ing it  back ;  for  the  Recorder's  warrant, 
etc.,  for  the  woman  suspected  to  drop 
the  child  in  Hare  Court ;  for  coach  hire 
to  put  off  the  cause  of  Courtney  and 
Buckingham ;  to  Elliott,  for  buying 
young  trees;  to  a  watchman,  for  two 
nights  in  Figtree  Court  whilst  the 
shore  was  making,  35. ;  for  mops  and 
brooms  and  for  cleaning  the  green- 
house ;  to  Mrs.  Simpson,  for  an  oynt- 
ment  for  John  Temple,  he  being  lame ; 


to  eight  watermen  and  watchmen  to 
keep  the  hall  door  on  the  Grand  day ; 
to  Mounsey's  maid,  when  the  masters 
of  the  bench  were  at  his  house,  the  day 
the  King  made  his  public  entry  from 
Flanders ;  and  the  bill  of  costs  to  de- 
fend the  privileges  of  the  society  and 
quash  indictments,  etc.],  a£>li.  \os.  &d. 
To  the  master  of  the  revels,  for  the  Grand 
day,  8/». 

Receipts,  i687//°.  17^.  2d. 

Disbursements,  1694/1'.  i$s.  2^d. 

Balance  to  treasurer,  6li.  i8s.  o±d. 


ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  benchers  who  attended  the 
parliament  during  the  year  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : — 
ANTHONY  BOWYER,  treasurer,  9  ;  WILLIAM  PETTIT,  9  ;  JOHN  CLENDON, 
8  ;  CHARLES  WHITAKER,  8  ;  JOHN  HODGES,  6  ;  JOHN  HALES,  6  ;  THOMAS 
TUTT,  6  ;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  5  ;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  4 ;  THOMAS 
WALKER,  3 ;  WILLIAM  BARNESLEY,  3 ;  ARTHUR  WEAVER,  3 ;  SIR 
NATHANIEL  POWELL,  2  ;  JAMES  CARDROW,  2  ;  WILLIAM  TEMPEST,  i  ; 
EDWARD  JENNINGS,  i  ;  and  WILLIAM  LONGUEVILLE,  i. 

1697. 

Nov.  28. —  Robert  Payne  elected  reader;  and  Thomas  Lutwich, 
Charles  Selby,  Lucius  Hare,  Thomas  Peirson,  and  Orlando  Bridg- 
man  called  to  the  bar. 

1697-8. 

JAN.  30. — Orders  as  to  allowances  to  officers  and  admittances 
to  chambers. 

FEB.  10. — Special  admission  of  Thomas  Blencow,  second  son  of 
Sir  John  Blencow,  one  of  the  justices  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas 
and  late  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

1698. 

MAY  29. — William  Barnesley  chosen  reader. 

JUNE  5. — Edwyn   Wyatt,   Shreeve    Paynton,   Thomas    Knight, 


i697-8]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  339 

Fettiplace  Nott,  Edward  Barker,  Thomas  Reeve,  Richard  Carter, 
John  Tyrrell,  Richard  Mervin,  and  Geoffray  Gilbert  called  to  the 
bar. 

JULY  3. — Admission,  ad  eundem  gradum,  of  John  Ward,  called 
to  the  bar  at  Gray's  Inn  on  8  February,  1692. 

JULY   13. — Admittances  to  chambers. 

Nov.  6. — The  election  of  reader  adjourned  ;  and  special  admis- 
sion of  Nathan  Wright,  second  son  of  Sir  Nathan  Wright,  serjeant  at 
law,  late  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Nov.   20. — Henry  Crisp  chosen  reader  for  Lent  vacation. 

Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : — William 
Barnesley  and  John  Hales,  of  the  bench,  and  Richard  Webb  and 
John  Herring,  of  the  bar. 

Treasurer : — James  Cardrow. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  ;  AN- 
THONY BOWYER,  treasurer,  29;  CLENDON,  34;  WILLIAM  PETIT,  34; 
COURTNEY,  29  ;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  23  ;  CARDROW,  22  ;  HALES,  22  : 
HODGES,  20;  WHITAKER,  20;  BARON  SIMPSON,  18  ;  WEAVER,  18; 
SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL,  14;  TUTT,  14;  BARNSLEY,  12;  WALKER, 
8  ;  LONGUEVILLE,  6;  TEMPEST,  4;  PAYNE,  2  ;  CRISPE,  2;  and  JEN- 
NINGS, i. 

1697. 

Nov.  29. — Order  that  Tutt  have  an  allowance  for  a  cellar  to 
his  chamber. 

1697-8. 

JAN.  27,  28,  and  29. — Orders  as  to  the  payments  of  arrears  of 
commons,  and  duties  and  viewing  chambers. 

FEB.  5,  8,  10,  n  and  14. — -Orders  as  to  viewing  chambers,  etc., 
and  payment  of  duties  ;  that  Hodges  be  allowed  5/2".  for  painting  his 
chamber ;  that  George  Mellish,  the  under-porter,  be  allowed  8/z.  a 
year  for  lighting  the  lanthorns,  as  he  had  for  the  lamps  ;  and  that 
George  Seely  have  qos.  allowed  him  for  his  long  services. 


340  A  CALENDAR    OF   THE  [1698 


1698. 

MAY  17. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  arrears  of  commons. 

MAY  1 8. — Order  that  the  lights  of  the  Fountain  Tavern  at  the 
Inner  Temple  Gate  that  look  into  the  Temple  Lane,  be  forthwith 
stopped  up. 

MAY  23. — Order  that  Southerby  have  notice  to  attend  the 
committee  of  the  bench  at  the  Library  on  Friday  next,  to  make  out 
his  title  to  the  windows  of  the  Fountain  Tavern  that  look  into  the 
Temple,  and  that  in  the  meantime  the  order  of  the  table  for  shutting 
up  the  windows  be  suspended  till  further  order. 

MAY  28. — Order  that  Hawke  may  compound  his  vacations  at  a 
moiety. 

JUNE  i,  3,  and  4. — Orders  that  New's  account  be  examined; 
that  Lovelace  Heircy  may  compound  for  his  vacations  ;  that  the 
arrears  for  commons  be  paid ;  and  nomination  of  those  called  to  the 
bar  at  the  parliament  held  on  5  June,  with  the  additional  names  of 
Edward  Brereton  and  Charles  Payne. 

JUNE  6. — Orders  that  the  former  order  for  shutting  up  the  lights 
of  the  Fountain  Tavern  that  look  into  the  Temple  be  put  in 
execution,  unless  cause  to  the  contrary  be  shown  ;  that  the  officers 
of  the  buttery  and  kitchen  do  not  permit  the  gardener's  wife  to  come 
into  the  kitchen  or  buttery,  and  the  gardener  make  satisfaction  to 
Johnson,  the  butler,  for  his  wife's  insolence  and  rude  behaviour. 

JUNE  27,  28,  and  30.— Orders  that  Manning  attend  the  com- 
mittee ;  that  Lovelace  Hiercy  have  his  bond  delivered  up ;  and  that 
arrears  of  commons  be  paid. 

JULY  2,  4,  and  5.— Orders  for  the  payment  of  arrears  of  com- 
mons and  duties  ;  that  the  20/2.  still  owing  to  Buckingham  from 
Courtney  for  costs  be  paid  out  of  the  treasury  ;  that  the  goods  be- 
longing to  the  House  in  Berkeley's  chamber  be  brought  into  the 
Inner  Library  ;  that  the  gardener  sell  no  ale  or  other  liquors  after  2 
Aug. ;  that  the  lights  of  the  Fountain  Tavern,  next  the  Inner  Temple 
Lane,  be  shut  up  ;  and  that  the  petition  of  the  gentlemen  that  have 
chambers  opposite  the  garden  wall,  to  have  pallisadoes  in  the  place 
of  the  wall,  be  referred  to  Weaver  and  others. 

JULY  6  and  7. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  duties;  that  125/2. 


,698]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  341 

be  paid  New,  the  late  steward,  for  his  apparels ;  that  it  be  referred 
to  the  Friday  night  committee  to  examine  who  puts  in  the  reader 
and  what  stipend  and  perquisites  he  has ;  and  that  Clendon  and 
others  be  a  committee  to  receive  proposals  for  rebuilding  Lord 
Coventry's  Buildings. 

JULY  8  and  9. — Orders  that  Cardrow  and  others  state  the  late 
steward's  accounts ;  and  as  to  the  admittances  to  chambers. 

JULY  1 1. — Upon  consideration  of  the  petition  of  Edward  Dixon, 
the  vintner,  at  the  Fountain  Tavern  by  the  Temple  Gate,  whereby 
he  owns  the  right  of  this  society  in  permitting  the  lights  of  his  house 
that  are  next  the  Inner  Temple  Lane,  and  prays  that  the  obstruc- 
tion lately  put  up  may  be  taken  down,  and  that  he  will  submit  him- 
self to  such  acknowledgment  for  the  lights  as  the  table  shall  think 
fit ;  it  is  ordered  that  the  obstruction  of  the  said  lights  be  taken 
down,  and  that  the  said  Mr.  Dixon,  in  consideration  thereof,  shall 
keep  apart  for  the  use  of  the  masters  of  the  bench  of  this  society 
the  best  room  in  his  house  upon  any  public  show  or  occasion  (when 
required),  and  that  he  pay  yearly  2s.  6d.  on  the  Feast  of  St.  John 
the  Baptist  as  a  rent  and  further  acknowledgment,  and  that  he 
pay  the  charges  of  putting  up  the  blind  against  the  said  lights,  and 
subscribe  this  order  in  the  book  of  Orders  belonging  to  this  House. 

Orders  that  Henry  Crispe's  fine  of  30/2.  for  not  reading,  be 
reduced  to  20/2. ;  that  if  the  inhabitants  of  Mitre  Court  do  not  pay 
the  arrears  for  the  use  of  the  drain,  the  door  into  their  Court  be  shut 
up  and  the  drain  stopped  ;  that  the  gentlemen  who  have  chambers 
against  the  garden  wall,  may  make  pallisadoes  in  the  place  of  the 
wall ;  and  that  the  vacation  barristers  and  gentlemen  under  the  bar 
stay  in  commons  for  a  month,  before  the  treasurer  give  them  leave 
to  break  up. 

JULY  12  and  13. — Orders  that  former  orders  relating  to  lights 
be  repealed ;  that  the  treasurer  may  provide  such  lights  as  he  thinks 
convenient ;  and  as  to  viewing  chambers. 

JULY  15  and  16. — Orders  that  the  order  for  the  vacation 
barristers  and  gentlemen  under  the  bar  to  keep  in  commons  for  a 
month  in  vacation,  be  suspended  as  the  treasurer  shall  see  good,  in 
regard  to  the  approaching  election  for  members  of  parliament ;  and 
that  Edwin  Wyatt,  a  vacation  barrister,  have  leave  to  go  into  the 
country  for  his  health. 


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[1698 


OCT.  29  and  30. — Orders  that  no  grand  day  be  kept  this  term  ; 
and  that  Mrs.  Elliott,  the  gardener's  wife,  be  admitted  to  such  privi- 
leges as  belong  to  her. 

Nov.  3  and  7.  — Orders  that  John  Hill  attend  the  table  to  answer 
the  complaint  of  Johnson,  the  butler ;  that  the  books  of  the  acts  of 
parliament  and  bench  table  orders  of  this  House  be  laid  before  the 
committee  on  Friday  next ;  and  that  arrears  for  commons  and  duties 
be  paid. 

Nov.  8,  10,  and  11. — Orders  that  John  Hill  be  put  out  of 
commons  for  beating  Johnson,  the  butler,  in  observing  the  order  of 
the  bench  table  ;  that  the  former  allowance  of  8/2'.  be  made  to  George 
Mellish,  the  under-porter ;  and  that  the  cook's  bill  be  referred  to 
the  Friday  committee. 

Nov.  14. — Orders  that  Tymperon's  door  be  bricked  up  unless 
he  show  cause  to  the  contrary ;  that  the  vacationers  keep  a  month  in 
commons  after  each  "  issuable  "  term,  and  no  gentleman  be  allowed 
his  vacation  unless  he  be  actually  in  the  hall  at  dinner  at  least  two 
days  in  each  respective  week  ;  that  new  keys  be  fitted  to  the  locks  in 
the  kitchen  ;  and  as  to  seizing  and  padlocking  of  chambers. 

Nov.  15. — Orders  as  to  padlocking  chambers;  that  George 
Cook,  one  of  the  secondaries  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  be 
called  an  associate  to  the  bar ;  and  that  the  petitions  of  Kellett, 
Walthoe,  and  Thomas  Johnson,  the  badge  porter,  be  referred  to  the 
Friday  committee. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  17  November,  1697,  to  20  November,  1698,  in  the 
second  year  of  the  treasurership  of  Anthony  Bowyer. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Whelton,  the  carpenter  (Dec.  4),  for 
building  up  the  scaffold  at  the  Temple 
Gate  when  the  King  made  his  public 
entry,  ill.  175.  6d. 

To  the  glazier,  carpenter,  bricklayer, 
plasterer,  smith,  mason,  and  plumber, 
for  work  done  in  Figtree  Court. 

To  Buckingham,  a  further  part  for  mason's 


work  done  about  the  Temple  Church,  in 
Courtney's  treasurership,  i5//'. 

To  Thomas  Tutt,  for  making  a  cellar 
under  his  chamber  and  finishing  the 
chamber,  2oli. 

To  John  Miles,  for  the  players  [in  Lincoln's 
Inn  Fields],  for  the  play  called  "The 
Spanish  Friar,"  acted  in  the  hall  of  the 
society  on  2  Feb.,  1697-8,  2oli. 


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343 


To  Fowler,  for  an  addition  to  the  fountain 
in  the  Bench  Garden  and  altering  there- 
of, 5/2. 

To  Anthony  Bowyer,  his  allowance  for  his 
own  year's  treasurership,  100/2". 

To  Thomas  Marchant,  for  the  proportion 
of  this  society  for  bricklayer's  work,  [for 
repairing  and  tiling]  the  rounds  of  the 
church  in  September,  1697,  3/2.  8s. 

To  Silvester,  the  clerk  [for  wages,  for 
prayer  books  of  thanksgiving  for  the 
Peace,  etc.],  4/1.  4$. 

To  Buckenham,  the  mason  [for  further 
work  in  the  Temple  Church],  5/2". 

To  Edward  Buckingham,  in  full,  for  his 
bill  of  costs  against  Courtney  [for 
mason's  work  done  about  the  Temple 
Church],  20/1. 

To  John  Fowler,  for  alterations  and 
additions  to  the  fountain,  and  looking 
after  the  same  for  a  year,  4/1.  15*. 

To  Silvester,  for  the  burial  of  Richard 
Young,  2/2.  i2s.  4d. 

To  Smith,  the  City  butler,  for  the  use  of 
plate,  linen,  etc.,  4/1. 

To  Charles  Gardiner,  for  looking  after  the 
Bench  Garden,  3/2". 

To  Elliott  his  bill  [for  "  strewing  and  bow- 
pots  "  for  the  hall  window,  sallating  for 
the  hall,  for  nails  and  list  for  the 
"Jessamy"  wall  in  the  garden,  etc.], 

3* 

To  Charles  Whitaker,  the  remainder  of 

a   sum  allowed  him   by  order   of  the 
table,  for  finishing  his  bench  chamber, 

2  lit. 

To  John  Hodges,  his  allowance  as 
treasurer,  100/2". 

To  the  steward,  for  his  disbursements  [for 
two  suppers  (on  9  July,  1697,  and  20 
May,  1698),  at  passing  the  treasurer's 
accounts  and  disbursements,  on  10 


Nov.,  1697,  when  the  King  made  his 
public  entry],  3/2".  IQS.  id. 
To  the  herald  painter,  for  painting  the 
arms    of   several    readers   [Whitaker's, 
Walker's,  Rale's,  Tutt's,  Finche's,  Jen- 
nings', and  Payne's],  1/2".  155. 
To  the  under-treasurer,  for  his  disburse- 
ments [to  Mercy  Wood's  daughter,  to- 
wards  burying   her   mother;    to    Mrs. 
Sympson,  for  the  charge  of  the  sickness 
and  burying  of  Sarah  Temple ;  for  carrying 
Arnold's  books  out  of  Pettit's  chamber  ; 
to  Hoare,  for  the  exchange  of  50/2".  old 
money   received    of    Jennings   for   his 
reading ;  to  Gardner,  in  part  for  holly 
trees ;    for   new   binding   the   exercise 
book ;    to    Kelway,    for    10   dozen    of 
candlesticks ;  for  carrying  orange  trees 
to  Cardrow's  at  Islington  ;  for  50  bushels 
of  cockleshells  at  $d.  a  bushel ;  for  carry- 
ing 19  sacks  of  cockleshells  from  Elliot's 
to  the  Bench  Garden  ;  for  shelves,  etc., 
in  Jones'  chamber  ;  for  a  bag  for  books, 
etc.,  relating  to  the  taxes ;  for  bringing 
the   orange   trees   from    Islington ;    to 
Dumer,    for    my    Lord   Chief  Baron's 
warrant    to    stop    process    in    the    Ex- 
chequer for  not  passing  the  accounts 
for  the  taxes ;  to  Graves,  for  watching 
two  nights  when  the  garden  wall  was 
pulled  down ;   to  the  under-porter,  for 
driving  out  a  woman  that  was  likely  to 
have  dropped  a  child  ;  to  Cardrow,  for 
new  pots  for  the  orange  trees  ;  for  clean- 
ing the  greenhouse,  etc.],  18/2.  7*.  lod. 
For  28  sermons,  56/2'. 
To  the  master  of  the  revels,  for  20  Nov., 
1697,  2/2'.,  and  for  2  Feb.,  1697-8,  being 
Grand  day,  4/2". 

Receipts,  1564/2'.  65.  8</. 

Disbursements,  1550/2.  45.  o^d. 

Balance,  14/2.  2$.  i{d. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1697,  Nov.  22. — Depositions  of  Matthew  Johnson,  that  about  12 
o clock    or  after  on   Saturday  night  last,  "whilst  he  was  lighting 


344  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [,697 

candles  afresh,  up  in  the  back  library,"  the  master  of  the  revels 
came  up  to  him  and  asked  him  in  an  angry  manner  what  was  the 
cause  of  the  stink  in  the  hall,  and  at  the  same  instant  gave  him  a 
box  on  the  ear.  The  examinant  answered  he  did  not  know  the  reason 
of  the  annoyance,  unless  it  came  from  the  common  sewer  under  the 
library.  To  which  the  master  of  the  revels  replied  that  the  said 
examinant  should  go  and  see  if  that  were  the  occasion,  and  as  he  was 
going  down  the  back  stairs,  the  master  of  the  revels  kicked  him  upon 
the  back  in  a  violent  manner,  but  the  examinant  went  to  the  bottom 
of  the  stairs  and  showed  him  where  the  grate  of  the  common  sewer 
was  and  from  whence  ill  smells  frequently  came ;  and  from  thence 
the  examinant  went  up  the  stairs  again,  and  through  the  hall  into 
the  buttery,  and  some  little  time  after,  the  master  of  the  revels  came 
down  to  the  screen  and  charged  the  porters  with  permitting  a  person 
to  come  into  the  hall  that  was  said  to  bring  a  close  stool  or  bucket, 
upon  which  the  examinant  said  that  he  believed  no  servant  would 
suffer  any  such  person  to  come  into  the  hall.  The  master  of  the 
revels  thereupon  laid  hold  of  the  examinant  by  the  hair  and  knocked 
his  head  against  the  pillar  of  the  buttery  door ;  and  from  thence  led 
him  by  the  hair  to  the  screen,  where  he  gave  the  examinant  into  the 
custody  of  Regnier,  who  also  took  hold  of  him  by  the  hair.  The 
master  of  the  revels  then  went  towards  the  officers'  room,  and  called 
for  the  stocks,  and  this  examinant  hearing  blows,  which  he  appre- 
hended some  other  of  the  servants  suffered,  and  seeing  two  or  three 
swords  drawn,  he  forced  himself  out  of  Regnier's  hands  and  ran  down 
the  stairs,  Regnier  running  after  him,  crying,  "Stop,  rogue!"  The 
examinant  was  stopped  by  two  or  three  gentlemen  in  the  cloisters 
leading  into  Figtree  Court,  who  with  Regnier  lugged  him  up  the  hall 
stairs  by  the  hair ;  and  so  soon  as  they  had  brought  him  to  the 
screen,  the  master  of  the  revels  declared  he  would  make  an  example 
of  him,  and  struck  him  several  blows  with  a  cane  on  the  left  arm  and 
side,  and  then  forced  him  into  the  stocks,  and  put  his  leg  into  a  little 
hole  of  the  stocks  too  small  for  his  leg,  pressing  the  stocks  down, 
whereby  the  skin  of  his  leg  was  broken  and  the  flesh  bruised.  And 
upon  his  crying  out  they  put  his  leg  into  a  bigger  hole.  There  he 
sat  for  about  two  hours,  being  then  released  by  the  intercession  of 
Henry  Ashurst  and  Drue  Dean.  By  reason  of  the  said  kick  in  his 
back  this  examinant  is  full  of  pain  and  cannot  stand  upright,  nor  can 


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he  sit  or  stand  long  in  any  posture,  although  he  has  used  proper 
means  by  being  blooded,  taking  inward  applications  and  using  sear- 
cloths  and  bathing. 

William  Norris  and  other  servants  depose  to  a  like  effect,  all 
declaring  they  were  beaten  by  the  master  of  the  revels  and  others. 

1698,  Nov. — Agreements,  petitions,  and  other  papers  in  a 
dispute  between  Francis  Kellett,  a  member  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
and  John  Walthoe,  stationer  of  London,  on  behalf  of  his  son,  John 
Walthoe,  a  member  of  the  said  Inn,  as  to  a  chamber. 

1698,  Nov.  15. — The  petition  of  Thomas  Johnson,  badge  porter, 
for  an  allowance. 


ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  benchers  who  attended  the 
parliaments  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : 
JAMES  CARDROW,  treasurer,  9  ;  CHARLES  WHITAKER,  8  ;  JOHN  HODGES, 
7;  WILLIAM  PETTIT,  6;  JOHN  CLENDON,  5;  JOHN  HALES,  4;  ARTHUR 
WEAVER,  4  ;  WILLIAM  BARNESLEY,  3 ;  ANTHONY  BOWYER,  2 ;  THOMAS 
WALKER,  2;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  2;  THOMAS  TUTT,  2  ;  WILLIAM 
FARRER,  2 ;  WILLIAM  TEMPEST,  i  ;  ROBERT  PAYNE,  i  ;  and  WILLIAM 

LONGUEVILLE,   I. 

1698. 

Nov.  27. — Special  admission  of  Philip  Jennings,  son  and  heir 
apparent  of  Edward  Jennings,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

1698-9. 

JAN.  29. — Orders  as  to  admittances  to  chambers  and  allowances 
to  officers. 

FEB.  12. — Special  admission  of  Thomas  Girdler,  third  son  of 
Serjeant  Girdler,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

1699. 

MAY  7. — Baron  Simpson  chosen  reader. 
MAY  21. — Charles  Payne  called  to  the  bar. 
III.  Y  Y 


346  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1698-9 

JUNE  28. — Martin  Sandys,  Samuel  Bracebridge,  Tobias  Chauncy, 
Ambrose  Holbech,  Robert  Baylis,  Charles  Wicks,  Charles  Whitaker, 
Herbert  Jacob,  Joshua  Smith,  Richard  Rose,  Joseph  Girdler,  Thomas 
Betts,  and  Daniel  Warwick  called  to  the  bar. 

Order  "that  the  last  Hilary  vacation  be  disallowed  for  divers 
irregularities  done  by  the  gentlemen  that  were  then  in  commons  and 
for  that  they  have  not  reduced  the  apparels  to  the  allowance  of  the 
House,  pursuant  to  an  order  of  the  table  made  the  igth  day  of  May 
last." 

Nov.  5. — Allowance  to  officers  and  admittance  to  a  chamber. 

Nov.  19. — Order  that  the  vacation  barristers  and  gentlemen 
under  the  bar,  who  have  paid  their  proportions  to  the  aid  roll  for 
reducing  the  apparels,  and  others  who  shall  pay  before  the  last  par- 
liament in  next  term  shall  be  excused  that  vacation. 

John  Dalby,  James  Grove,  Richard  Webb,  and  William  Farrer, 
junior,  called  to  the  bench,  paying  severally  50/2. 

Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : — Hales  and 
Barnesley,  of  the  bench,  and  Roger  Acherly  and  Richard  Carter,  of 
the  bar. 

Treasurer  : — Arthur  Weaver. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  :  JAMES 
CARDROW,  treasurer,  54 ;  CLENDON,  45  ;  HODGES,  44 ;  WHITAKER, 
44  ;  COURTNEY,  37  ;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  30;  HALES,  30  ;  PETIT,  25  ; 
TUTT,  25  ;  WEAVER,  24  ;  BOWYER,  24  ;  BARNSLEY,  21  ;  BARON  SIMP- 
SON, 15;  PAYNE,  13  ;  LONGUEVILLE,  12  ;  TEMPEST,  n  ;  WALKER,  10; 
JENNINGS,  7  ;  SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL  5  ;  and  CRISPE,  i. 

1698. 

Nov.  21  and  22. — Orders  that  Sydenham  be  put  out  of  commons 
for  refusing  to  attend  the  table ;  that  Johnson,  the  butler,  have  5/2. 
for  his  diligence  in  the  affairs  of  the  House  ;  that  Tymperon's  door 
be  bricked  up  ;  and  that  the  arrears  from  Mitre  Court  be  referred  to 
Hodges  and  others. 

Nov.  23. — Orders  that  fellows  have  leave  to  compound  their 


1698-9]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  347 

vacations  ;  that  George  Wright  attend  the  table ;  and  that  Sir  Richard 
Leving,  Littleton  Powell,  and  Samuel  Grant  be  fined  20/2.  each  for 
not  reading  at  their  respective  Inns  of  Chancery. 

Nov.  24. — Orders  that  the  names  of  John  Sturmy,  Josias  Cal- 
mady,  and  John  Winson  be  sent  to  Clifford's  Inn  for  the  election  of 
a  reader ;  that  the  names  of  Hugh  Barker,  Edward  Lloyd,  and 
Edward  Barker  be  sent  in  like  manner  to  Clement's  Inn;  and  the 
names  of  Jasper  Blythman,  Ellis  Lloyd,  Thomas  Hopton,  Samuel 
Gibbs,  Robert  Price,  and  Thomas  Bolton  be  sent  as  aforesaid  to 
Lyon's  Inn. 

Nov.  26. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  commons  ;  for  allowances 
of  405.  to  the  badge  porter  for  lighting  the  lanterns,  and  $s.  a  week 
to  the  cook  for  suet  and  2os.  for  ale. 

Nov.  29. — "Whereas  by  frequent  experience  greatinconveniences 
and  disorders  have  happened  by  the  gentlemen  keeping  of  Christmas 
in  this  society,  and  in  order  to  suppress  the  same  there  have  been 
several  acts  of  parliament  of  this  House  and  orders  of  the  bench 
made,  with  penalties  upon  such  gentlemen  as  should  offend  therein, 
it  is  now  ordered  that  no  commons  shall  be  kept  in  this  House 
during  the  time  of  Christmas  next,  and  that  from  and  after  Saturday 
next  the  keys  and  possession  of  the  hall,  buttery,  kitchen,  and  other 
rooms  and  places  of  this  House  shall  be  left,  remain,  and  abide  in 
the  custody  and  disposition  of  the  treasurer  of  this  House,  to  the  end 
this  present  order  may  the  more  effectually  be  observed.  And  it  is 
further  ordered  that  if  any  fellow  or  member  of  this  society  shall  act 
contrary  to  this  order  during  the  time  aforesaid,  such  fellow  or 
member  shall  ipso  facto  for  his  offence  therein  be  totally  disabled 
from  being  called  to  the  bar  and  be  subject  to  such  other  punish- 
ment as  the  masters  of  the  bench  for  the  time  being  shall  think  fit  to 
impose.  And  it  is  also  ordered  that  this  order  during  the  time  the 
masters  of  the  bench  remain  in  commons,  be  screened  up  in  the  hall, 
and  that  afterwards  the  same  be  affixed  to  the  doors  of  the  hall." 

1698-9. 

JAN.  24  and  25. — Orders  as  to  viewing  chambers  and  payment 
of  arrears  for  commons  and  other  duties. 

JAN.  26. — "  It  is  the  opinion  of  the  table  that  the  version  of  the 
psalms  of  David,  lately  put  out  by  Mr.  Brady  and  Tate,  be  used  in 


348  A   CALENDAR   OF    THE  [1699 

the  church  of  this  society  instead  of  Sternholdand  Hopkins'  versions 
of  the  psalms." 

JAN.  27  and  28. — Orders  as  to  viewing  chambers. 

FEB.  i,  3,  and  6. — Orders  that  Sir  John  Edwards',  Kellett's, 
and  Henry  New's  petitions  be  referred  to  committees ;  that  Edward 
Perrot  pay  15/2.,  and  Henry  Byne,  5/2'.,  towards  the  repair  of  the 
Crown  Office;  that  the  order  of  14  Nov.  last  for  keeping  vacations, 
be  screened  ;  and  certain  chambers  be  viewed. 

FEB.  7,  8,  and  9. — Orders  for  certain  persons  to  attend  the 
table  ;  that  no  member  make  any  alteration  in  or  under  their 
chambers  without  leave  of  the  table. 

FEB.  ii  and  15. — Orders  that  2os.  each  be  accepted  from  the 
inhabitants  in  Mitre  Court  for  arrears,  for  the  use  of  the  drain,  and 
in  default,  the  door  into  Mitre  Court  shall  be  shut  up  ;  that  New,  the 
late  steward,  have  ioo/z'.  in  part  of  his  apparels  ;  that  Linch  attend  the 
table  ;  and  that  Kellett  be  allowed  lo/z.  for  clothes  and  maintenance. 

FEB.  1 6  and  17. — Orders  that  Linch  pay  5/2'.  regarding  the  fire 
begun  in  his  chamber  on  Sunday  last,  and  that  the  consideration  of 
his  petition  be  adjourned. 

1699. 

MAY  i,  3,  4,  5,  and  6. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  arrears  of 
commons  and  duties  ;  and  for  viewing  and  padlocking  chambers. 

MAY  8. — Order  that  the  under-treasurer  for  the  future  shall  not 
presume  to  put  into  the  paper,  which  is  to  be  presented  to  the  table 
upon  a  call  to  the  bar,  the  name  of  any  member  in  order  to  be  so 
called,  unless  he  be  of  seven  years'  standing,  and  hath  been  actually 
in  commons  sixteen  terms,  viz. : — two  weeks  in  each  of  the  said 
terms. 

MAY  13,  1 6,  and  17. — Orders  for  the  cook's  allowance  for  suet 
to  be  continued  ;  that  every  master  of  the  bench,  visus  in  villa,  shall 
be  two  weeks  in  every  term  in  commons ;  that  the  barristers  in 
commons  last  vacation  attend  the  table  for  running  the  House  into 
debt  and  other  irregularities ;  that  the  complaint  of  porters,  relating 
to  the  landing  of  coals,  be  referred  to  the  Friday  committee;  and 
that,  on  the  petition  of  Kellett,  7$.  a  week  be  allowed  him. 

MAY  19  and  20. — Orders  that  the  gentlemen  in  commons  in 
Hilary  vacation  reduce  the  apparels  ;  that  the  matter  relating  to  the 


,699]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  349 

composition  of  vacations  and  amercements  be  referred  to  the 
Friday  committee  ;  and  that  the  call  of  Charles  Payne  to  the  bar  at 
Easter,  1693,  be  confirmed,  he  having  paid  his  duties. 

MAY  22. — Orders  that  Sherwood's  bill  be  referred  to  Weaver 
and  Clendon  ;  and  that  the  commissioners  from  the  ecclesiastical 
court,  for  taking  an  inventory  and  appraisement  of  Lane's  goods,  be 
permitted  to  come  into  Lane's  chamber  at  such  time  and  in  such 
manner  as  Clendon  shall  direct. 

JUNE  13  and  14. — Orders  that  Bowyer  and  others  view  the 
breach  in  the  wall  of  Mitre  Court  Buildings ;  that  the  table  concur 
about  the  proposal  to  send  workmen  to  meet  workmen  of  the  Middle 
Temple  to  consider  the  reparation  of  the  master's  house ;  and  that 
the  dishwasher  be  paid  40^. 

JUNE  19  and  20. — Orders  that  there  be  a  call  to  the  bar;  that 
30/2.  be  accepted  from  Henry  Lloyd  for  all  duties  ;  as  to  the  payment 
for  commons  ;  that  members  give  notice  to  the  butler  when  they 
desire  to  be  put  into  commons  ;  that  the  door  of  the  inner  buttery  be 
locked  up  every  night,  so  soon  as  the  hornis  blown,  and  no  gentlemen 
be  permitted  to  be  there  except  the  masters  of  the  bench  ;  that  none 
be  admitted  to  eat  their  commons  in  the  officers'  room  but  in  their 
gowns,  and  not  bring  any  strangers  with  them  ;  and  that  the  steward 
attend  the  Friday  committee  with  the  several  inventories  of  the  pewter. 

JUNE  22  and  23. — Orders  that  New's  petition  be  referred  to 
Hales  and  others  ;  that  Gillingham,  on  his  petition,  be  allowed  lo/z. ; 
that  the  goods  be  removed  out  of  the  chamber  late  Lane's  within  a 
month ;  and  nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bar  at  the  parliament 
held  on  28  June. 

JUNE  26,  27,  28,  and  30. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  commons 
that  the  gentlemen  of  the  bar  and  under  the  bar  that  shall  keep  in 
commons  in  any  vacation,  shall  reduce  the  apparels  to  505.  a  week, 
and  none  shall  have  leave  at  or  after  the  month's  end  to  go  out  of 
commons  if  the  apparels  amount  to  more  than  such  an  allowance  ; 
that  New  be  paid  100/2.  in  further  part  of  apparels;  that  the  new- 
building  in  the  privy  garden  be  referred  to  the  treasurer  and  others  ; 
that  no  laundress  empty  her  dust  baskets,  etc.,  into  cellars  or  any  low 
rooms ;  and  that  George  Seeley  be  allowed  40^. 

JULY  i. — Orders  that  Sherwood  be  paid  5/2'.  in  full  of  his  bill; 
and  that  Walthoe  be  paid  his  principal  and  interest  due  from  Kellett ; 


3So  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1699 

that  the  7^.  per  week  allowed  to  Kellett  cease,  and  he  receive  the 
rent  in  arrear  from  Rymer. 

OCT.  25. — Upon  motion  made  for  keeping  of  a  grand  day,  it  is 
ordered  that  there  shall  be  no  grand  day  this  term ;  and  it  is  desired 
by  the  masters  of  the  bench  that  the  treasurer  will  please  to  attend  in 
his  place  at  the  table. 

OCT.  30. — Order  for  the  payment  of  commons. 

Nov.  3  and  4. — Orders  that  Mrs.  Clark  be  not  permitted  to 
come  into  the  hall  or  buttery,  nor  have  any  bread  or  beer  from 
thence,  till  she  has  given  Johnson,  the  butler,  satisfaction  ;  that  there 
be  a  call  to  the  bench  this  term  ;  that  164/2'.  izs.  6d.  be  paid  to  John 
Walthoe  out  of  the  treasury  in  full  of  his  demands  from  Kellett ;  that 
the  order  for  compounding  vacations  and  amercements  be  enlarged ; 
and  that  Mitre  Court  Gate  be  forthwith  shut  up. 

Nov.  10  and  13. — Orders  that  Lynch's  petition  to  put  pallisadoes 
before  his  windows  be  referred  to  Longueville  and  others ;  and  as  to 
the  payment  of  arrears  for  commons  and  duties. 

Nov.  14,  15,  and  16. — Order  that  unless  the  inhabitants  of  Ram 
Alley  pay  for  cleansing  the  drain,  their  gates  be  shut  up ;  that 
the  cook's  request  to  remove  a  partition  be  referred  to  Pettit  and 
others  ;  that  it  be  referred  to  Hales  to  agree  for  the  ornaments  of 
the  fountain  in  the  bench  garden  and  other  repairs  there ;  and  nomi- 
nation of  those  called  to  the  bench  at  the  parliament  held  on  19 
Nov. 

Nov.  1 8. — Orders  that  no  treasurer  shall  have  more  than  four 
fifths  of  his  allowance  till  his  accounts  be  passed  ;  that  every  gentle- 
man hereafter  called  to  the  bar  shall  be  of  full  seven  years  standing, 
sixteen  terms  actually  in  commons,  namely,  two  weeks  in  each  term, 
shall  perform  one  imparlance,  one  library  moot,  and  a  competent 
number  of  exercises  ;  and  that  the  sub-treasurer  presume  not  to 
insert  in  the  paper  any  other  but  such  ;  that  the  head-porter  and 
under-porter  each  have  3/2.  for  their  extraordinary  service ;  that  the 
gentlemen  who  have  paid  their  proportions  to  the  aid  roll  be  excused 
Hilary  vacation  ;  and  that  the  amercements  for  the  better  performing 
of  exercise  be  referred  to  the  Friday  committee. 


INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  20  November,  1698,  to   19  November,  1699,  in  the 
treasurership  of  James  Cardrowe. 


RECEIPTS. 

From  Giles  Clarke,  for  a  year's  rent  for 
Lyon's  Inn  and  two  tenements  adjoin- 
ing, after  allowance  of  is.  $d.  for  the 
taxes,  6//°.  i  os.  $d. 

From  Hargrave,  for  his  lights  in  Hare 
Court,  6s.  8</.,  and  for  enlarging  two 
windows  in  the  Temple  Lane,  8s.  8d. 

From  Widow  Warner,  a  year's  rent,  for 
her  house  in  the  churchyard,  6.?.  8d. 

From  the  turnspits,  a  year's  rent  for  the 
watchmaker's  shop  in  Temple  Lane,  A,d. 

From  Mrs.  Bowman,  assignee  of  Williams, 
for  a  year's  rent  for  a  shop  in  Tanfield 
Court,  6tf. 

From  the  inhabitants  of  Mitre  Court,  for 
arrears  for  the  use  of  the  drain,  io#. 

From  Dixon  at  the  Fountain  Tavern,  for 
a  year's  rent  due  at  Midsummer,  1699, 
for  his  lights  towards  the  Temple  Lane, 

25.  6d. 

The  assignee  of  Roberts,  the  arrears  of 
rent  for  two  shops  in  Tanfield  Court, 
i  it.  $s. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  Peirson,  for  carpenter's  work  about  the 

church  in  Courtney's  treasurership  and 

to  Gregg  for  costs  of  suit,  20#. 
To  Pigott,  the  organist,  for  half  a  year's 

salary,  ia/i. 
To  Alice  Owen,  for  glazier's  work  done  by 

her  husband  [at  the  Temple  Church], 

a& 
To   Penn,  the   stationer  [for  quills,  ink, 

paper,  ink  horn,  etc.],  4/2.  i6s. 
To  Richard  Andrews,  for  13  elm  trees  and 

8  limes,  2/i.  i2s.  6d, 
To  the  treasurer,  for  the  proprietors  of  the 

Convex  Lights,  for  lighting  the  society 

with  1 6  lamps,  for  a  year,  40/2', 


To  Clark,  for  disbursements  for  tobacco 
pipes,  7//.  $s. 

To  the  glazier  [for  old  glass  new  leaded, 
for  new  quarries,  for  sash  pieces  of 
crown  glass],  i^li. 

To  Elizabeth  Miland,  administratrix  to  her 
husband,  for  smith's  work  about  the 
repairs  of  the  church  in  Courtney's 
treasurership,  y/i.  los. 

To  Wynne,  for  a  new  dial,  7/z. 

To  the  mason  [for  13  ft.  of  new  fire  stone 
used  about  two  boiling  places  in  the 
kitchen  and  cutting  holes  through  them 
tolaytheiron  grates, forrepairingthegar- 
den.wall  next  the  Thames,  etc.],  12/1.  los. 

To  the  woodmonger,  i8//.  IQS. 

To  Sherwood,  for  costs  in  the  cause  against 
Courtney  at  the  suit  of  Buckingham  and 
Pearson,  5#. 

To  John  Walthoe,  back  what  he  paid  for 
the  admission  of  his  son,  4/1.  zd. 

To  John  Walthoe,  the  debt  due  by  Francis 
Kellettupon  the  account  of  his  chamber, 
i64//.  i2S.  6d. 

To  the  Queen  dowager's  fee  farm  rent,  after 
allowance  of  taxes,  8//.  1 8.?.  6d. 

To  the  clerk  of  the  church  [washing  sur- 
plices, for  12  hassocks  for  the  bench 
seats,  for  6  hassocks  for  the  gentle- 
women's seats,  etc.],  2//.  8.r.  \d. 

To  Swann,  for  the  repair  of  the  engine, 
4/».  los. 

To  the  chief  butler,  for  tobacco  pipes, 
gazettes,  etc.,  zli.  bs.  (td. 

To  the  steward,  a  bill  for  a  supper  in  the 
library,  i/i.  145.  6d. 

To  the  under-treasurer,  for  disbursements 
[to  Dry  and  the  under-porter  for  pur- 
suit after  a  woman  that  dropped  a  child 
and  fixing  the  child  upon  her  and  their 
expenses,  los. ;  for  sash  lines  in  the 


3S2  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [.699-1700 


summer  house ;  to  the  under-porter,  for 
preventing  the  dropping  of  a  child ;  for 
prosecuting  Caveley  for  robbery  at  Mr. 
Riggs'  chamber,  for  which  he  was  con- 
victed, T.U.  6s.  lod. ;  to  Walthoe,  for  13 
books  of  the  version  of  the  psalms  by 
Brady,  i /*'.],  2oli.  I'js.  lod. 


Salaries  to  the  master  of  the  Temple,  Gil- 
lingham,  the  reader,  and  Piggot,  the 
organist  as  before. 

Sum  of  the  receipts,  2011/1.  6s. 
Sum    of  the  disbursements,    ig8o/». 

35.  zd. 
Balance,  31/2.  35.  -j^d. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1698,  Nov.  29. — Certificate  of  the  admittance  of  George  Townes- 
end  into  a  chamber  in  Series  Court,  Lincoln's  Inn. 

1698-9,  Feb.  10. — The  petition  of  John  Canham  as  to  a 
chamber. 

1698-9,  Feb.  22. — Bond  by  William  Berdwell  for  the  main- 
tenance of  Margaret  Temple,  an  infant. 

1699,  June  19. — Letter  from    Francis   Kellett  to  James  Card- 
row,  treasurer,  as   to  his  dispute  with   Mr.  Walthoe  regarding  his 
chamber. 

1699. — A  table  of  the  attendances  of  members  at  imparlances, 
library  moots,  petty  moots,  and  clerks'  common  cases. 


ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  benchers  who  attended  the 
parliaments  during  the  year  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : 
ARTHUR  WEAVER,  treasurer,  9  ;  WILLIAM  PETIT,  8  ;  JOHN  HALES,  8  ; 
JOHN  HODGES,  7 ;  JOHN  CLENDON,  7 ;  CHARLES  WHITAKER,  6 ; 
THOMAS  TUTT,  6 ;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  5  ;  WILLIAM  BARNESLEY, 
4;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  3;  JOHN  DALBY,  3;  THOMAS  WALKER,  2; 
WILLIAM  TEMPEST,  2  ;  EDWARD  JENNINGS,  2  ;  JAMES  CARDROW,  2  ; 
WILLIAM  FARRER,  junior,  2  ;  SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL,  i  ;  and  AN- 
THONY BOWYER,  i. 

1699. 
Nov.  26. — The  election  of  reader  adjourned. 

1699-1700. 
FEB.  8. — Order  that  the  call  to  the  bench  of  John  Dalby,  James 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  353 

Grove,   Richard   Webb,  and  William   Farrer  be    repealed.     Entry 
crossed  out. 

FEB.  n. — John  Dalby  chosen  reader. 

1700. 

MAY  5. — Admittances  to  chambers. 

MAY  12. — Admittances  to  chambers. 

JUNE  2. — George  Wright,  eldest  son  of  Sir  Nathan  Wright,  lord 
keeper  of  the  Great  Seal,  called  to  the  bar. 

JUNE  1 6. — James  Grove  chosen  reader. 

John  Meres,  Henry  Smith,  and  William  Buffeild  called  to  the 
bar. 

OCT.  31. — Pensions  assessed  double. 

Thomas  Gibbons,  Philip  Neeve,  Tanfield  Leman,  Samuel  Dodd, 
Nicholas  Hooper,  James  Mundy,  John  Pratt,  James  Selby,  and 
Thomas  Carthew  called  to  the  bench,  saving  the  seniority  of 
Manwaring  Davis,  provided  he  accept  a  call  to  the  bench. 

Nov.  10. — Order  that  the  vacation  barristers  and  gentlemen 
under  the  bar,  who  were  prevented  from  keeping  the  last  Trinity 
vacation  by  reason  of  my  lord  keeper's  daily  using  the  hall,  be 
excused  the  said  vacation. 

Special  admission  of  Nicholas  Hooper,  eldest  son  of  Serjeant 
Hooper,  late  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : — Barnesley 
and  Dalby,  of  the  bench,  and  William  Wright  and  George  Sawyer, 
of  the  bar. 

Treasurer: — John  Clendon. 

Manwaring  Davis  called  to  the  bench,  and  to  have  seniority  at 
the  table  of  those  who  were  his  juniors. 

BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : — 
ARTHUR  WEAVER,  treasurer,  33  ;  HODGES,  34  ;  CLENDON,  31  ; 
WHITAKER,  28;  BOWYER,  22  ;  PETIT,  22;  COURTNEY,  21  ;  TUTT,  21  ; 
WILLIAM  FARRER,  17 ;  HALES,  17  ;  BARNESLEY,  17  ;  PAYNE,  14;  BARON 
SIMPSON,  1 2  ;  DALBY,  1 1  ;  WEBB,  9  ;  CARDROW,  9  ;  JENNINGS,  8  ; 

in.  z  z 


354  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [169, 

WALKER,  7  ;  TEMPEST,  7  ;  LONGUEVILLE,  5 ;  SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL, 
4  ;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  junior,  3  ;  and  CRISPE,  i. 

1699. 

Nov.  20,  21,  and  22. — Orders  that  it  be  referred  to  the  Friday 
committee  to  consider  what  security  is  proper  to  be  given  for  the 
future  for  repairing  the  pallisadoes  on  the  garden  wall ;  that  it  be 
referred  to  the  committee  for  the  valuation  of  Berkeley's  chamber,  to 
value  the  goods  in  it ;  that  the  pavement  from  the  Crown  Office  to 
the  Garden  gate  be  referred  to  Hodges  and  others ;  that  the  chief 
cook  be  put  out  of  commons  for  misbehaviour  ;  and  that  the  butlers' 
petition  as  to  the  Easter  roll  and  the  usual  benevolence  to  the  cook 
for  calves'  heads,  be  referred  to  the  Friday  committee. 

Nov.  23,  24,  and  25. — Orders  that  the  matter  relating  to  the 
fining  of  readers  for  the  Inns  of  Chancery,  be  adjourned;  that 
Tompion  be  paid  20^.  a  year  that  he  shall  appear  to  be  in  arrear,  for 
his  care  of  the  clock ;  that  Clendon  and  Whitaker  draw  up  an  act  of 
parliament  to  charge  the  proprietors  of  the  chamber  opposite  the 
garden  wall  with  the  repairs  of  the  pallisadoes  ;  that  upon  the  butlers' 
petition  relating  to  the  Easter  roll,  that  the  5^.  claimed  by  the  butlers 
be  paid  by  every  gentleman  of  this  society ;  that  the  cook's  allowance 
for  calves'  heads,  be  paid  ;  that  the  present  suspension  of  the  rent  due 
to  Mrs.  Ball,  be  taken  off;  that  the  chief  cook  upon  submission,  be 
restored  into  commons  ;  that  the  act  for  regulating  calls  to  the  bar, 
be  adjourned ;  and  that  the  debate  concerning  the  fining  of  readers 
be  adjourned. 

Nov.  27. — Orders  that  John  Sturmy,  Hugh  Barker,  and  Ellis 
Lloyd  be  fined  20/2'.  for  not  reading  at  the  Inns  of  Chancery ;  and 
that  Cardrow  be  paid  the  residue  of  his  allowance. 

Names  of  those  nominated  for  election  as  reader : — For  Lyon's 
Inn,  John  Hartley,  Samuel  Gibbs,  Nicholas  Pottinger,  John  Allen, 
Francis  Lloyd  and  Edward  Hopton.  For  Clifford's  Inn,  John 
Hillersden,  Charles  Musters,  and  Philip  Farewell.  For  Clement's 
Inn,  Edward  Perrott,  Edmond  Prideaux,  and  Grimbald  Paunceford. 
Nov.  28  and  29. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  commons ;  that 
Downs  be  allowed  qos.  for  his  present  necessity,  and  his  petition 
be  referred  to  Clendon  and  others. 

DEC.  i. — Order  that  the  order  made  in  Michaelmas  term  last 


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against  the  keeping  of  Christmas  be  revived  and  set  up  on  the  doors 
of  the  hall,  so  soon  as  the  bench  go  out  of  commons. 

1699-1700. 

JAN.  31. — Orders  *  that  no  barrister  sit  at  the  judges'  table  ;  that 
only  one  row  sit  upon  the  floor  within  the  forms ;  that  no  wine  be 
served  in  the  hall  but  by  the  servants  of  the  House ;  that  the  gentle- 
men waiters  carry  their  dishes  from  the  judges'  table  into  the  inner 
buttery,  and  at  their  carrying  away  the  same  a  note  to  be  given  to 
the  pewterer  to  whose  chamber  the  same  is  carried  ;  that  no  women 
be  permitted  to  be  in  the  hall  till  the  play  is  over  ;  and  that  no  gentle- 
men come  into  the  hall,  but  in  gowns. 

FEB.  3  and  5. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  commons,  etc.  ;  that 
Dalby,  Grove,  Webb,  and  Farrer,  junior,  called  to  the  bench,  have 
notice  to  come  up  to  the  table. 

FEB.  7  and  8. — Orders  that  an  information  be  exhibited  and 
presented  against  Goodrick  and  Edwards  for  assaulting  the  servants 
of  the  House,  at  the  charge  of  the  society  ;  that  Thomas  Mynor's 
petition  to  be  admitted  to  the  House,  be  rejected  ;  and  that  Crawley's 
petition  be  referred  to  the  Friday  committee. 

FEB.  15  and  17. — Orders  that  Thomas  Johnson  be  paid  ^os.  for 
lighting  the  candles  in  the  several  staircases  ;  that  no  ashes  or  other 
noisome  matter  be  laid  in  any  of  the  courts  ;  that  Weston  may  make 
a  drain  from  his  chamber ;  and  that  Downs  be  paid  40^.  more  for  his 
relief. 

1700. 

APRIL  24,  25,  and  29. — Orders  that  the  appointment  of  watch- 
men, the  disposal  of  the  ground  room  opposite  the  Crown  Office  and 
the  gardener's  house,  the  watermen's  petition  for  the  repair  of  the 
causeway,  and  the  methodizing  of  the  abstract  of  the  orders,  daily  laid 
before  the  table,  be  referred  to  the  Friday  committee  ;  that  none  but 
two  of  the  eight  persons  hereafter  named,  watch  at  the  gate  in  future, 
namely,  the  second  cook,  the  panierman,  the  head-porter,  the  under- 
porter,  the  two  turnspits,  the  washpot,  and  badge  porter  ;  that  Grove, 
Webb,  and  Farrer,  called  to  the  bench  in  Michaelmas  term,  take 
their  places  at  the  bench  table  before  9  May ;  that  Mrs.  Downes, 

These  orders  refer  to  the  play  acted  in  the  Inner  Temple  Hall  on  2nd  Feb.,  1700. 


356  A  CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1700 

widow  of  the  late  turnbroach,  be  allowed  5/z. ;  and  as  to  the  payment 
of  commons,  etc. 

APRIL  30. — Orders  that  the  estate  in  the  buildings  erected  by 
the  late  Earl  of  Nottingham,  lord  chancellor,  is  for  the  lives  of  Daniel, 
Earl  of  Nottingham,  and  Henneage  Finch,  his  sons,  with  the  benefit 
of  an  assignment. 

MAY  2,  4,  and  7. — Orders  that  the  chamber  opposite  the  Crown 
Office  be  not  sold  ;  and  for  the  payment  of  arrears  of  commons  and 
duties. 

MAY  8. — Order  that  notice  be  given  to  Richard  Goodrick  to 
depart  this  society  before  Saturday,  and  no  member  shall  give  him 
lodging  in  the  House  after  Friday  night. 

MAY  10  and  1 1. — Orders  that  the  prosecution  against  Goodrick 
and  Edwards  cease  if  the  chief  justice  consent  and  they  make  such 
satisfaction  as  is  thought  fit  ;  that  this  House  join  the  Middle  House 
in  an  allowance  to  the  watermen  towards  the  charge  of  the  repairs 
of  the  causeway  ;  that  the  petition  of  Martin  Sandys  to  surrender  his 
chamber  be  granted  ;  and  for  the  payment  of  duties. 

JUNE  i,  3,  and  4. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  commons  and 
duties  ;  and  that  the  gardener  remove  himself  and  family  out  of  the 
society  before  Michaelmas,  and  to  enable  him  to  do  so  the  House 
will  allow  him  lo/z.  a  year. 

JUNE  12,  13,  15,  and  20. — Orders  that  5/2.  be  given  to  William 
Cawley,  a  member  who  is  reduced  to  poverty  ;  that  the  question  as 
to  taxes  and  the  cook's  petition  for  a  chamber  be  adjourned  ;  that 
Gillingham,  the  reader,  on  his  petition,  be  paid  10/2.  ;  that  Grove  may 
compound  for  his  vacations  ;  that  Morgan,  who  was  suspended  for 
misbehaviour,  be  restored  ;  and  nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bar 
on  16  June. 

OCT.  29,  30,  and  31. — Order  that  there  shall  be  no  grand  day 
kept  this  term  ;  nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bench  at  the  par- 
liament held  on  31  Oct.  ;  and  order  that  Elliott,  the  gardener,  and 
his  family  be  forthwith  removed  from  their  house. 

Nov.  7  and  9. — Orders  that  Waldron's  chamber  be  padlocked 
for  suffering  strangers  to  lodge  there  ;  that  the  gardener  and  his 
family  be  removed ;  that  3  days'  notice  be  given  of  calls  to  the 
bench ;  that  the  cook's  petition  for  a  chamber  be  referred  to  Hodges 
and  others  :  and  nomination  of  Man  waring  Davis  for  call  to  the  bench. 


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357 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  19  November,  1699,  to  10  November,  1700,  in  the 
treasurership  of  Arthur  Weaver. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Thomson,1  for  his  care  in  looking 
after  the  clock  over  the  hall  and  re- 
pairing it  for  13  years,  i$li. 

To  Mrs.  Ball,  for  a  year's  rent  for  the 
Dean's  house,  2oli. 

To  the  brazier,  for  work  done  in  the  Bench 
Garden  [for  a  new  copper  scallop  shell 
for  the  fountain,  for  a  cock  and  a  lion's 
face  to  draw  water  out  of  the  fountain, 
for  keeping  the  fountain  in  repair,  etc.], 
1 2/i. 

To  [John  Miles,  on  behalf  of  the  players] 
for  a  play  called  "  The  Wanton  Wife," 
acted  in  the  hall  on  2  Feb.,  1699-1700, 

2O//. 

To  Elizabeth  Downes,  towards  the  ex- 
pense of  burying  her  husband  and  her 
own  relief,  3//. 

To  John  Wollaston,  the  City  butler,  for 
the  use  of  plate,  linen,  etc.,  on  grand 
day,  2nd  Feb.,  s//. 

To  Kellaway,  for  Temple  pots,  "jli.  T,S.  6d. 

To  New,  the  late  steward,  in  full  for  all 
apparels,  by  order  of  the  table,  187/2'.  2$. 

To  the  watermen,  towards  the  charge  of 
repairing  the  causeway  that  leads  to  the 
Temple  Stairs,  4//. 

To  the  proprietors  of  the  Convex  Light  for 
a  year,  4o//'. 

Salaries  to  the  master,  reader,  and  organist 
of  the  Temple  Church. 

Payments  for  nursing  foundlings,  as  be- 
fore. 

To  Elliott,  the  gardener  [for  "strewings 
and  bow  pots  "  for  the  hall  windows, 
for  "  sallatting  "  for  the  hall],  2/i.  75.  4</. 


To  Silvester  [for  washing  surplices,  a  dozen 
hassocks  for  gentlewomen's  seats,  etc.], 
ili.  135.  6d. 

To  the  treasurer,  for  his  allowance,  iooA'. 

To  Hoare,  the  goldsmith  [for  2  cups,  with 
22  oz.  1 8  dwt.  at  6s.  ^d.  per  oz.,  and 
for  engraving  two  coats  and  cyphers], 

To  Whitton,  the  carpenter,  for  making  a 
scaffold  to  put  up  the  dial,  etc.], 
18/2'.  8s.  6d. 

To  the  under-treasurer,  for  his  bill  of  dis- 
bursements [to  a  watchman  for  watch- 
ing at  the  privy  garden  whilst  the  basin 
was  fixed  ;  for  waterage  for  the  speaker  ; 
for  coach  hire  (22  Mar.)  to  Kensington 
to  my  lord  keeper  to  know  his  pleasure 
when  he  would  be  attended  by  the  mas- 
ters of  the  bench  ;  to  the  washpots  for 
extraordinary  labour  for  cleansing  hall 
and  library  for  the  reception  of  my 
lord  keeper ;  for  the  use  of  chairs,  por- 
terage, etc.,  when  my  lord  keeper  met 
the  judges  in  the  library  ;  for  an  hour- 
glass ;  for  coach  hire  to  "  High  Park  " 
and  St.  James's  with  my  lord  keeper's 
warrants  for  two  bucks ;  to  the  keeper, 
his  fees  for  the  two  bucks,  etc.], 
i6//.  9*.  Sd. 

For  a  velvet  carpet,  materials,  etc.,  the 
moiety,  ifli.  us.  6d. 

To  the  eight  new  Serjeants,  s//.  each,  and 
eight  purses,  4O//.  85. 

For  twenty-seven  sermons,  54//. 
Receipts,  i,8-;6/i.  2s.  $d. 
Disbursements,  i,8o9//.  195.  2d. 
Balance,  66/z.  y.  id. 


1  The  General  Account  Receipt  Book  gives  Thomas  Tompion. 


A    CALENDAR    OF    THE  [1699-1700 


MISCELLANEA. 

[1698-9,  Feb.]  The  petition  of  Henry  New,  late  steward. 
That  on  account  of  ill-health  he  had  to  leave  the  service  of  the 
society  about  three  years  since,  praying  that  he  may  be  paid 
407/2.  2s.  $d.  due  to  him  for  commons. 

Reports  as  to  the  sums  due  to  the  said  Henry  New. 


ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  benchers  who  attended  the 
parliaments  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : 
JOHN  CLENDON,  treasurer,  7  ;  JOHN  DALBY,  7  ;  JOHN  HODGES,  6  ; 
WILLIAM  PETIT,  5  ;  JOHN  HALES,  5 ;  THOMAS  TUTT,  5  ;  NICHOLAS 
COURTNEY,  4  ;  WILLIAM  TEMPEST,  4  ;  WILLIAM  BARNESLEY,  4  ;  TAN- 
FIELD  LEMON,  3  ;  SAMUEL  DODD,  3  ;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  2  ;  THOMAS 
WALKER,  2  ;  EDWARD  JENNINGS,  2  ;  ARTHUR  WEAVER,  2  ;  ROBERT 
PAYNE,  2  ;  MANWARING  DAVIS,  2  ;  and  WILLIAM  FARRER,  junior,  i. 

1700. 

Nov.  24. — James  Grove  continued  reader. 

Order  that  all  the  gentlemen  of  this  society  that  shall  be  called 
of  grace  to  the  bar  in  this  or  any  future  term  shall  pay  before  such 
call  for  each  term  they  want  of  sixteen  terms  of  being  in  commons, 
the  sum  of  y>s. 

George  Noades,  Scroggs  Goad,  John  Pugh,  Henry  Rayneford, 
John  Hancock,  Edmund  Ashenhurst,  Thomas  Pengelly,  William 
Bellamy,  Walter  Gough,  Nathaniel  Humfrey,  William  Twisden, 
Stephen  Clay,  John  Lingard,  George  Cooke,  Thomas  Wetenhall, 
Robert  Holden,  Walter  Lloyd,  Thomas  Osborne,  Abraham  Blake- 
more,  Nathaniel  Curzon,  James  Hunter,  Robert  Harvey,  Thomas 
Burroughs,  Heyrick  Athorpe,  Henry  Kayes,  Peter  Moyle,  Richard 
Roberts,  Gabriel  Wetenhall,  John  Grantham,  Martin  Bladen,  Richard 
Godfrey,  and  Leigh  Attwood  called  to  the  bar. 

Special  admissions  of  John  Pratt,  eldest  son  of  Serjeant  Pratt,  at 
the  request  of  his  father ;  of  John  Carthew,  second  son  of  Serjeant 


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Carthew,  at  the  request  of  his  father  ;  and  of  Robert  Tempest,  second 
son  of  William  Tempest,  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his 
father. 

1700-1. 

JAN.  i. — Admissions,  ad  eundem  gradum,  of  John  Bridges, 
admitted  to  the  Middle  Temple  on  23  April,  1684,  and  called  on  22 
May,  1691  ;  of  Thomas  Button,  admitted  to  Gray's  Inn  on  10  Sept., 
1688,  and  called  on  12  Nov.,  1695  ;  and  of  Henry  Berkley,  admitted 
to  the  Middle  Temple  on  4  July,  1690,  and  called  on  27  Nov.,  1696. 

John  Rabye  called  to  the  bar. 

FEB.  n. — Whereas  Johanna  Warner,  relict  and  executrix  of 
George  Warner,  late  steward,  by  an  Act  of  7  Feb.,  1685-6,  had  a 
term  of  twenty-one  years  granted  to  her  of  the  barber's  shop  and 
rooms  thereunto  belonging  situate  on  the  south  side  of  the  Temple 
Church,  and  whereas  William  Ruffle,  barber,  now  in  possession  of  the 
same  shop,  having  petitioned  to  become  tenant  of  the  same  at  the 
end  of  Mrs.  Warner's  term,  it  is  ordered  that  he  shall  then  have  a 
term  of  twenty-one  years,  paying  to  the  treasury  looli.  and  ro/z. 
yearly  ;  and  it  is  ordered  that  the  said  shop  and  rooms  shall  be 
subject  to  the  House  in  case  the  church  be  repaired  or  beautified  on 
the  outside. 

Special  admissions  of  Thomas  Gibbons,  son  and  heir  apparent 
of  Serjeant  Gibbons,  at  the  request  of  his  father ;  and  of  Thomas 
Tempest,  third  son  of  Mr.  Prothonotary  Tempest,  a  master  of  the 
bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

1701. 

MAY  25. — Orders  that  pensions  be  assessed  double,  and  for  the 
allowances  to  the  officers  and  watchmen. 

JULY  9. — Richard  Webb  chosen  reader  for  the  next  vacation. 

Special  admissions  of  Charles  Tempest,  fourth  son  of  Mr. 
Prothonotary  Tempest,  at  the  request  of  his  father ;  and  of  George 
Jennings,  fourth  son  of  Jennings,  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his 
father. 

Nov.  9. — Pensions  fbr  the  last  half  year  to  be  assessed  double. 

Order  that  Richard  Webb  be  continued  reader  for  next  Lent 
vacation. 


360  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [,700-i 

Special  admission  of  William  Blencowe,  third  son  of  Mr.  Justice 
Blencowe,  at  his  father's  request. 

Nov.  1 6. — Special  admission  of  John  Tempest,  fifth  son  of  Mr. 
Prothonotary  Tempest,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Order  that  the  vacation  barristers  and  gentlemen  under  the  bar 
who  went  out  of  commons  with  the  leave  of  the  treasurer,  be  excused 
the  remainder  of  the  vacation. 

Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : — Barnesley 
and  Dalby,  of  the  bench,  and  George  Sawyer  and  Berrisford,  of 
the  bar. 

Treasurer  : — William  Petyt. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : — JOHN 
CLENDON,  treasurer,  28;  HODGES,  17;  PETIT,  17;  DALBY,  16; 
WILLIAM  FARRER,  15;  TUTT,  14;  COURTNEY,  13;  PAYNE,  13; 
BARNESLEY,  11  ;  WEAVER,  11  ;  BOWYER,  10;  TEMPEST,  9;  HALES,  8; 
LEMON,  6  ;  WEBB,  5  ;  BARON  SIMPSON,  4  ;  GROVE,  4  ;  WILLIAM  FARRER, 
junior,  4;  DODD,  4;  LONGUEVILLE,  3;  CARDROWE,  3;  JENNINGS,  3; 
WALKER,  2  ;  DAVIS,  2  ;  and  SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL,  i. 

1700. 

Nov.  1 6. — Orders  that  Manwaring  Davis,  Tanfeild  Leman,  and 
Samuel  Dodd,  lately  called  to  the  bench,  take  their  places  at  the 
table  ;  and  that  Raby  be  added  for  a  call  to  the  bar. 

Nov.  1 8  and  20. — Orders  as  to  gentlemen  presented  to  the  table 
for  a  call  of  grace  as  in  the  parliament  held  on  24  Nov.  ;  that  there 
be  but  one  reader  for  this  society  in  a  year ;  and  that  James  Grove, 
the  present  reader,  be  continued  for  next  Lent  vacation. 

Nov.  23,  27,  29,  and  30. —  Orders  that  Philip  Farewell,  John 
Hartley,  and  Edmond  Prideaux  be  fined  2O/z.  each  for  not  reading 
at  the  respective  Inns  of  Chancery  for  which  they  were  elected  ;  that 
one,  from  John  Allen,  Francis  Lloyd,  arid  Thomas  Newport,  be 
elected  reader  for  Clifford's  Inn;  that  one,  from  Charles  Musters, 
Grimbald  Paunceford,  and  Edward  Perrott,  be  elected  reader  for 


i;oi]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  361 

Clement's  Inn;  that  one,  from  James  Sloane,  Daniel  Foucault,  Lewis 
Buckle,  Ralph  Hare,  John  Peachey,  and  Richard  Turner,  be  elected 
reader  for  Lyon's  Inn;  that  the  usual  order  to  prevent  the  keeping 
of  Christmas  be  revived ;  that  Arthur  Weaver,  the  late  treasurer,  be 
paid  loo/z.  for  his  allowance;  that  the  King's  tax  for  the  aid  this  year 
be  paid  out  of  the  treasury. 

1 700- 1 . 

JAN.  27  and  28. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  arrears  for  commons, 
etc. ;  that  it  be  referred  to  the  Friday  committee  to  consider  of  regu- 
lating the  disorders  as  to  gentlemen  coming  into  the  hall  without 
their  gowns  and  caps. 

JAN.  31. — Order  that  Dr.  Sherlock  be  allowed  40/2.  towards  the 
repairs  of  his  house. 

FEB.  10  and  n. — Orders  that  the  chamber  over  the  kitchen  be 
added  to  the  treasurer's  chamber,  so  that  he  waive  any  pre-election  to 
any  other  chamber  during  his  treasurership ;  that  the  treasurer  be 
allowed  ^oli.  to  repair  his  chambers ;  that  Warner's  shop  and  build- 
ings be  let  to  Ruffles  for  2 1  years. 

1701. 

MAY  12  and  17. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  commons,  etc.,  and 
viewing  of  chambers. 

MAY  22. — Orders  that  the  steward's  and  under-treasurer's 
accounts  be  taken  twice  a  year  in  Easter  and  Michaelmas  terms  ; 
that  the  cook  deliver  an  inventory  of  the  pewter  and  brass  that 
belong  to  the  House,  to  the  treasurer,  with  an  account  of  what  is 
wanting  to  supply  the  use  of  the  hall  except  grand  days ;  that  Jones, 
the  butler,  deliver  to  the  treasurer  a  like  account  of  the  linen  ;  and 
that  no  gentlemen  make  any  alterations  in  the  buildings  without 
leave  upon  pain  of  forfeiture. 

MAY  26. — "Whereas  the  students  of  this  society  have  frequently- 
neglected  to  attend  the  readers  at  the  Inns  of  Chancery,  which  hath 
been  a  constant  duty  incumbent  upon  them,  it  is  ordered  that  no 
gentleman  shall  pretend  to  stand  to  be  called  to  the  bar  that  hath 
had  opportunity  to  attend  that  exercise  and  hath  neglected  the 
same." 

"  Ordered  that  the  readers  of  the  Inns  of  Chancery,  so  soon  as 

in.  3  A 


362  A   CALENDAR   OF    THE  [1701 

they  are  elected,  do  forthwith  undertake  the  exercise  or  be  subject  to 
a  fine,  to  the  end  that  new  readers  may  be  nominated  the  next  term 
for  the  support  and  carrying  on  the  said  exercise." 

MAY  27  and  28. — Orders  that  the  petition  of  Smith,  the  organ- 
maker,  be  referred  to  the  Friday  committee  ;  and  that  Owen  Roberts 
be  paid  20/2'.,  part  of  the  purchase  money  received  by  this  society  for 
the  chamber  fallen  to  the  House  by  the  death  of  his  son. 

JULY  5. — Whereas  several  gentlemen  of  this  society  do  grow 
more  and  more  remiss  and  negligent  in  payment  of  their  commons 
and  other  duties,  by  reason  whereof  the  House  is  forced  to  run  into 
debt,  it  is  ordered  that  all  gentlemen  owing  5/2'.  and  upwards  do  pay 
the  same  upon  pain  of  their  chambers  being  padlocked  or  their  bonds 
being  put  in  suit. 

Orders  that  no  butler,  officer,  or  servant  keep  any  gentleman's 
gowns  ;  that  Hanbury  attend  the  table  to  show  cause  why  his 
chamber  should  not  be  padlocked  for  receiving  Goodrick,  a  stranger; 
that  the  prosecution  be  made  good  against  Goodrick  and  Edwards  ; 
that  Henry  Holloway's  bond  for  Humphrey  Smith's  commons  and 
duties  be  given  up,  and  in  case  he  returns  to  the  society  he  give  new 
security  ;  that  J2li.  $s.  6d.  be  paid  to  New's  executrix  ;  and  that 
Gillingham,  the  reader,  be  paid  loli. 

JULY  7  and  8. — Orders  that  all  the  chambers  padlocked  shall 
bear  the  cost  of  padlocking  ;  and  Thomas  Elliott,  the  gardener,  be 
dismissed,  and  a  pension  of  20/1.  a  year  be  given  to  him. 

Nov.  6,  7,  and  8. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  commons,  and  that 
Charles  Whitaker  attend  the  table  about  the  repair  of  his  chamber. 

Nov.  10,  13,  14,  and  15. — Orders  that  the  petition  of  Hazard 
and  Duning  for  leave  to  arrest  a  person  in  the  society  be  referred  to 
the  Friday  committee  ;  and  that  the  amercement  upon  the  chief  cook 
for  negligence  be  remitted. 

GENERAL   ACCOUNT    BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from   10  November,  1700,  to  16  November,    1701,  in  the 
treasurership  of  John  Clenclon. 

RECEIPTS.  From  Thornton,  for  a  year's  rent  due  for 

From  Giles  Clarke,  a  year's  rent  for  Lyon's  his  shop  at  the  Temple  Gate,  2li. 

Inn  and  two  tenements  adjoining,  after  !  From  Hargrave  for  his  lights  into  Hare 

allowance  for  i#.3.r.for  taxes,6//.  ios.$d.  Court,  6s.  8d ;  enlarging  two  windows 


INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS. 


363 


next  the  Temple  Lane,  2.T.,  then  due, 
8s.  8d. 

From  the  Fountain  Tavern,  a  year's  rent 
for  the  lights  into  the  Temple  Lane, 
2s.  6d. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  the  panierman,  his  bill  for  wine  spent 
at  the  bench  table  in  Michaelmas  term, 
52//'.  8s.  6d. 

Various  payments  for  nursing  found- 
lings. 

Salaries  to  Dr.  Sherlock  at  2$li.  a  quarter 
and  Gillingham  at  T,li.  i$s.  a  quarter. 

To  the  receiver  general,  the  year's  tax  pay- 
able by  the  society  [under  an  Act  for 
granting  an  aid  to  his  Majesty  by  sale  of 
the  forfeited  and  other  estates  and  in- 
terests in  Ireland  and  by  Land  Tax  in 
England,  Paid  in  money  g8//.  155.  $d., 
allowed  for  collecting,  \li.  45.  <)d.~\, 
looli. 

To  Dr.  Sherlock  towards  the  repair  of  his 
house,  pursuant  to  an  order  of  the  table, 
40//. 

To  the  chief  butler  for  tobacco,  pipes, 
gazettes,  etc.,  zli.  i6.y. 

To  Piggott,  the  organist,  half  a  year's 
salary,  i2//.  los. 

To  the  mason  for  work  done  in  Weaver's 
treasurership  [for  new  laying  and  fasten- 


ing  10  ft.  of  old  steps  going  up  into 
Mitre  Court,  etc.],  4/1. 

To  Cooke,  the  joiner,  for  work  done  in 
Weaver's  treasurership  [for  a  wainscot 
screen  for  the  hall,  4.$-.  ;  for  a  cupboard 
in  the  greenhouse,  etc.],  3//. 

To  the  treasurer  for  the  repairs  to  his 
chamber,  50/2'. 

To  Silvester,  a  year's  wages  and  bill  of  dis- 
bursements [for  holly,  ivy,  rosemary,  and 
bays  for  the  church,  and  for  wax  tapers 
for  the  pulpit,  etc.],  4/1.  igs. 

To  Mrs.  Ball,  a  year's  rent  for  the  Dean's 
house,  20/1. 

To  the  under-treasurer  for  his  bill  of  dis- 
bursements [for  a  coffin  for  Christian 
Temple  ;  for  the  use  of  six  candlesticks, 
30  chairs  and  sconces,  on  7  Feb.,  1 700 
[1701],  when  the  benchers  of  Gray's  Inn 
were  entertained  ;  for  carrying  a  woman 
before  a  justice  that  was  suspected  to 
drop  a  child  ;  to  Thomas  Day  for  pre- 
venting the  dropping  of  a  child,  etc.], 
2o//.  13-f.  8(/. 

To  Charles  Gardner  [for  gravel,  30  elms, 
2    standard    laurels,    4    "  perimie,"    6 
junipers,    4    hollies,    2    "perimio    box 
trees,"  etc.],  27//.  15^.  ^d. 
Receipts,  i,942//.  15.?.  T,~d. 
Disbursements,  i,g^oli.  $>s.  \d. 
Balance,  zli.  is.  z'^d. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1700-1,  Hilary  term.  The  manner  of  the  entertainment  of  the 
masters  of  the  bench  of  Gray's  Inn  by  the  masters  of  the  bench 
of  this  society. 

On  Friday,  31  Jan.,  1700-1,  the  under-treasurer,  by  order  of  the 
treasurer  and  masters  of  the  bench,  waited  on  the  treasurer  of  Gray's 
Inn  and  invited  him  and  the  masters  of  the  bench  of  that  society  to 
supper  here  on  Friday,  7  Feb.,  at  6  in  the  afternoon  ;  on  which  day, 
before  6  in  the  evening,  several  of  the  masters  of  the  bench  came 
into  the  hall  and  sent  the  head  porter  to  the  gate  next  Fleet  Street 
with  three  or  four  flambeaux  to  light  the  masters  of  Gray's  Inn  down 


364  A  CALENDAR   OF   THE  [i7oi-z 

to  the  hall,  and  the  treasurer  and  masters  of  this  society  having 
notice  of  their  coming,  met  them  at  the  foot  of  the  hall  steps,  next 
the  cloisters,  and  conducted  them  up  into  the  hall,  where  they  were 
entertained  with  Canary  for  about  half  an  hour  till  the  supper  was 
served  up  in  the  library,  and  then  were  treated  with  a  very  hand- 
some supper  and  plenty  of  Burgundy  wine,  and  stayed  till  about  12 
o'clock  that  night.  The  porter  prepared  coaches  for  the  masters  of 
Gray's  Inn  and  brought  them  to  the  hall  steps.  They  gave  two 
guineas  to  the  steward  to  be  distributed  among  the  servants. 

1700-1.     A  list  of  preachers  during  Clendon's  treasurership. 


ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  par- 
liaments during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances : 
WILLIAM  PETIT,  treasurer,  7  ;  JOHN  CLENDON,  8  ;  THOMAS  TUTT,  7  ; 
JOHN  DALBY,  7  ;  JOHN  HODGES,  6  ;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  5  ;  LEMON, 
5  ;  JOHN  HALES,  4 ;  WILLIAM  BARNESLEY,  3  ;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  3 ; 
THOMAS  WALKER,  2  ;  ARTHUR  WEAVER,  2  ;  SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL, 
2  ;  EDWARD  JENNINGS,  2  ;  WILLIAM  TEMPEST,  2  ;  SIR  SIMON  HAR- 
COURT,  2  (once  as  deputy  treasurer) ;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  junior,  i  ; 
ROBERT  PAYNE,  i ;  RICHARD  WEBB,  i  ;  MANWARING  DAVIS,  i ;  SAMUEL 
DODD,  i  ;  WILLIAM  LONGUEVILLE,  i  ;  and  JAMES  GROVE,  i. 

1701. 
Nov.   26. — Orders  as  to  admittances  to  chambers. 

1701-2. 

FEB.   i. — Orders  as  to  chambers. 

FEB.  ii. — Admission,  ad eundem  gradum,  of  John  Newdigate, 
admitted  to  Gray's  Inn  on  21  July,  1694,  and  called  on  26  Nov., 
1694  (sic)  ;  and  of  Thomas  Jackson,  admitted  to  Gray's  Inn  on  10 
July,  1680,  and  called  on  4  July,  1701. 

BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : 


i7oi-2]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  365 

WILLIAM  PETIT,  treasurer,  37;  HODGES,  36;  CLENDON,  34;  COURTNEY, 
26  ;  DALBY,  25  ;  TUTT,  23  ;  BOWYER,  22  ;  HALES,  19  ;  WALKER,  17  ; 
BARNESLEY,  17;  DODD,  16  ;  PAYNE,  15  ;  WEBB,  14  ;  WILLIAM  FARRER, 
12;  SIR  NATHANIEL  POWELL,  n;  CARDROW,  9;  TEMPEST,  9;  WEAVER, 
9;  LEMON,  7;  JENNINGS,  6;  GROVE,  5  ;  DAVIS,  5  ;  BARON  SIMPSON,  4; 
LONGUEVILLE,  4  :  and  WILLIAM  FARRER,  junior,  i. 

1701. 

Nov.  1 8  and  19. — Orders  for  the  padlocking  of  chambers  ;  for 
the  complaint  against  families  to  be  referred  to  the  Friday  com- 
mittee ;  and  that  the  notice  of  trial  upon  the  informations  against 
Goodrick  and  Edwards  be  countermanded  and  fresh  notices  given, 
and  the  consideration  of  Goodrick's  petition  be  referred  to  the 
Friday  committee. 

Nov.  22. — Orders  that  Johnson  take  an  account  of  all  families 
that  reside  in  the  House,  as  well  the  families  of  gentlemen  of  the 
House  as  of  strangers ;  and  that  if  Goodrick  and  Edwards  pay  to 
the  butler  a  guinea  and  the  other  servants  a  guinea  for  injury  done 
them,  and  pay  all  the  charges  of  the  House,  and  enter  into  a  bond 
for  100/2.  that  he  will  not  assault  or  abuse  any  officer  or  servant  of 
the  society,  the  prosecution  shall  be  stayed,  but  not  otherwise. 

Nov.  25. — Orders  that  the  bonds  of  those  readers  of  Inns  of 
Chancery  who  have  been  fined  for  not  performing  their  duties  be 
forthwith  put  in  suit ;  and  that  Francis  Lloyd,  elected  reader  for 
Clifford's  Inn,  and  James  Sloane,  elected  reader  for  Lyon's  Inn,  who 
have  not  performed  their  duties,  be  fined  20/2'.  each. 

Nov.  26  and  27. — Orders  that  Dodd  peruse  the  bill  and  answer 
between  Mrs.  Winter  and  Blundell  and  advise  what  is  fit  to  be  done  ; 
that  the  names  of  Henry  Champion,  Charles  Bawdes,  and  John 
Hawkins  be  sent  to  Clement's  Inn  for  the  election  of  a  reader. 

1701-2. 

JAN.  29. — Order  that  the  matter  of  the  repair  of  the  church  be 
referred  to  the  Friday  committee. 

JAN.  31. — Order  that  it  be  referred  to  Clendon  and  Barnsley  to 
treat  with  a  committee  of  the  Middle  House  about  the  repairs  of  the 
buttresses  (butteryces)  of  the  church  ;  that  the  petition  of  Smith,  the 


366 


INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS. 


[1701-2 


organtnaker,  be  referred  to  the  Friday  committee ;  and  that  com- 
mons be  paid. 

FEB.  7. — Orders  that  Smith,  the  organmaker,  be  paid  50/2.  in 
part  of  his  salary  for  cleaning  and  tuning  the  organ  ;  that  every 
master  of  the  bench  pay  his  arrears ;  that  upon  complaint  of  the 
failure  of  exercise  by  the  masters  of  the  bench  this  term,  four  of  the 
senior  masters  shall  attend  the  exercise  at  the  first  opening  of  the 
case,  and  afterwards  the  puisne  benchers  attend,  according  to  their 
turns,  on  pain  of  being  amerced  40^.  each. 

FEB.  9,  10,  and  12. — Orders  that  Hodges  and  Walker  have 
liberty  to  padlock  up  their  bench  chambers  in  the  Inner  Temple 
Lane ;  that  the  necessary  houses  be  repaired ;  and  that  gentlemen 
who  have  no  chambers  and  owe  a  term  for  commons  be  not  permitted 
to  come  into  commons  till  they  be  paid. 


1JOORWAY,    5,    KINGS    BENCH    WALK. 


T-&-J- 


ACTS   OF   PARLIAMENT. 

QUEEN   ANNE. 
1 702. 

AY  10. — Pensions  for  the  half  year  assessed  double. 
William  Farrer,  junior,  chosen  reader. 
George    Berry,   late  second  butler,   appointed 
chief  butler. 

JUNE    14.— Sir  Simon   Harcourt  called  to  the 
bench. 

Order  that  Thomas  Engeham  be,  at  his  own  request,  discharged 
from  the  society  and  his  bond  delivered  up. 

JUNE  22. — George  Wright,  clerk  of  the  Crown,  called  an  associate 
to  the  bench. 

Thomas  Heath,  Humphrey  Lloyd,  Michael  Burton,  John  Rudd, 
John  Cooke,  William  Norcliffe,  John  Kennett,  John  Willett,  William 
Selby,  Edward  Beecher,  John  Prowse,  John  Jermy,  William  Harris, 
Samborn  Mounsell,  John  Baynes,  William  Bunbury,  Whitlock  Bui- 
strode,  John  Wilder,  Charles  Longuevile,  and  Peter  Prideaux  called 
to  the  bar. 

Nov.  8. — Pensions  assessed  single. 

Order  that  William  Farrer,  junior,  be  continued  reader. 
Special  admissions    of  Richard  Webb,   eldest  son   of  Richard 
Webb,  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father  ;  and  of 
Crooke  Dodd,  eldest  son  of  Samuel  Dodd,  a  master  of  the  bench,  at 
the  request  of  his  father. 


368  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [170* 

Nov.  15. — Order  as  before  regarding  the  vacation  barristers. 

Order  that  George  Wright,  an  associate  of  the  bench,  clerk  of 
the  Crown,  and  eldest  son  of  the  lord  keeper,  be  called  to  be  one  of 
the  masters  of  the  bench,  paying  50/2'.,  in  consideration  whereof  he 
shall  be  discharged  from  reading  or  paying  for  the  same,  and  shall 
enjoy  a  bench  chamber  in  his  turn  and  other  rights  as  though  he  had 
performed  the  office  of  a  grand  reader. 

Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : — Barnesley 
and  Dalby,  of  the  bench,  and  George  Sawyer  and  Berrisford,  of 
the  bar. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  Simon  Harcourt,  solicitor  general. 

BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

1702. 

MAY  [?  APRIL]  29. — Order  for  viewing  a  chamber. 

MAY  2,  4,  and  6. — Orders  that  the  election  of  the  office  of  chief 
butler  vacant  by  the  death  of  Clark  be  on  Thursday  next  ;  that 
commons  be  paid  ;  and  that  the  exceedings  of  any  mess  at  the  bench 
table  shall  not  amount  to  more  than  45. 

MAY  7. — Order  that  George  Berry  be  chief  butler  and  the  rest 
of  the  butlers  succeed  in  seniority  ;  and  William  Norris  be  puisne 
butler. 

MAY  9. — Orders  that  the  question  whether  pallisadoes  be  set 
up  on  the  east  side  of  Lamb's  Buildings  be  referred  to  Hodges  and 
others  ;  that  this  society  give  leave  that  the  glass  lamp  in  the  church 
be  taken  down  and  delivered  to  the  proprietors  ;  that  the  officers' 
room  be  locked  up  every  night  and  the  key  brought  to  the  bench 
table,  but  if  none  of  the  masters  of  the  bench  are  there,  then  to  be 
left  at  the  bar  mess . 

]V[AY  1 1. — Upon  the  report  of  the  committee  to  whom  Broderick's 
request  for  setting  pallisadoes  on  the  east  side  of  Lamb's  Buildings 
was  referred,  it  is  ordered  that  Broderick  and  the  other  gentlemen  of 
that  building  have  the  consent  of  this  society  to  set  pallisadoes  as 
requested. 

MAY  12. — Orders  that  John  Hancock  attend  the  table  to  show 
cause  why  he  permits  Harcourt  Goodrick,  a  stranger,  to  lie  in  his 
chamber;  that  the  porters  and  those  that  ward  "a  days  "  drive  out 


,7o2J  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  369 

all  beggars  ;  that  no  laundress  carry  any  ashes  unless  before  sunrise 
or  after  sunset ;  that  loo/z.  be  paid  to  New's  executrix  in  part  of 
what  is  mentioned  in  her  petition ;  and  that  the  porter  have  a  new 
gown. 

MAY  13. — Order  for  the  payment  of  duties. 

MAY  1 6. — Orders  that  the  butlers  give  security  for  the  discharge 
of  their  duties  and  the  steward  perfect  his  bond ;  and  "  that  the  title 
under  the  reader's  arms  be  pro  anno." 

MAY  1 8. — Ordered  that  the  family  that  are  in  Thomas  Wheeler's 
chamber  remove  before  next  term  upon  pain  of  the  chamber  being 
padlocked. 

JUNE  n,  12,  and  13. — Orders  for  the  removal  of  the  family  in 
Thomas  Wheeler's  chamber  ;  that  there  be  a  call  of  grace  this  term, 
and  the  under-treasurer  insert  none  into  the  paper  but  those  of  seven 
years'  standing  and  sixteen  terms  in  commons,  and  such  as  are  not  so 
qualified  may  move  the  table  before  Thursday  next  to  be  inserted  ; 
and  that  the  gentlemen  who  take  up  the  imparlance,  deliver  their  case 
and  pleadings  to  the  exercise  butler  before  dinner,  and  that  the  butler 
attend  the  table  with  the  same. 

JUNE  15,  16,  17,  and  19. — Nominations  of  those  called  to  the 
bar  at  the  parliament  held  on  23  June,  together  with  the  names  of 
of  William  Goodenough,  John  Penhallow,  and  William  Courtney. 

JUNE  20. — Orders  that  John  Strickson,  administrator  of  his 
brother  Samuel  Strickson,  may  dispose  of  the  said  Samuel  Strickson's 
chamber  during  the  minority  of  his  son  ;  that  Parry,  the  porter,  be  re- 
moved ;  that  those  who  are  qualified  for  the  bar  have  seniority 
before  those  who  are  their  seniors  in  time  and  have  not  performed 
their  exercise  ;  nomination  of  George  Wright,  clerk  of  the  Crown, 
as  associate  to  the  bench  ;  and  nomination,  as  above,  of  those  called 
to  the  bar. 

JUNE  23,  25,  and  27. — Orders  as  to  padlocking  Thomas 
Wheeler's  chamber,  for  not  removing  the  family  there  ;  that  the 
repairs  to  the  church  be  referred  to  Bowyer  and  Hales  to  treat  with 
a  committee  of  the  Middle  Temple ;  and  as  to  the  payment  of 
commons. 

OCT.  27  and  31. — Orders  for  viewing  chambers  and  for  clean 
linen  to  be  prepared  for  all  the  tables  in  the  hall  every  day. 

Nov.  3,  6,  and  7. — Orders  that  the  treasurer  and  any  three  of  the 

in.  3  R 


370 


A   CALENDAR    OF   THE 


[1701-1 


masters  of  the  bench  be  a  committee  to  treat  with  a  committee  of  the 
Middle  House  about  the  repairs  to  the  church  ;  that  notice  be  given 
to  the  masters  of  the  bench  that  there  be  a  call  to  the  bench  on 
Monday ;  and  that  Blakemore's  motion  for  leave  to  heighten  the  wall 
before  his  chamber  be  referred  to  Webb  and  Dodd. 

Nov.  13. — Orders  that  Wright  be  called  a  complete  bencher, 
paying  50/2'.,  and  being  excused  reading ;  and,  upon  petition  of  the 
vacation  barristers,  that  the  last  vacation  be  excused. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from   16  November,  1701,  to  15  November,  1702,  in  the 
treasurership  of  William  Pettyt. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Smith,  the  organ-maker,  in  part  of  his 
salary,  for  cleaning  and  tuning  the 
organ,  so/*. 

To  Sir  Thomas  Cuddon,  for  the  window 
tax,  for  a  year,  i  2/1. 

To  the  proprietors  of  the  Convex  Lights, 
for  the  lamps  last  winter,  40/1. 

To  Fowler,  a  year's  repairs  of  the  fountain 
in  the  Little  Garden,  i/*'. 

For  the  moiety  of  a  pavior's  bill,  for  work 
done  [in  the  Inner  Temple  Lane],  be- 
tween both  Temples,  3/*°.  zs. 

For  the  moiety  of  a  mason's  bill  [for  work 
done  in  the  rounds  of  the  church], 
4/i.  los. 

For  the  moiety  of  a  joiner's  bill  [for  alter- 
ing the  shutters  of  the  organ,  etc.],  4/*'. 
8s.  f>d. 

To  Dry,  for  old  Graves,  towards  his  relief, 

2/i. 

To  the  under-treasurer,  for  his  bill  of  dis- 
bursements, [for  a  hoop  for  the  porter's 
staff;  expenses  at  the  Fountain  Tavern 


by  the  treasurer  and  masters  of  the 
bench  while  the  Queen  was  proclaimed, 
IQS.  ;  for  the  moiety  of  the  charge  for 
the  coroner's  inquest,  and  burying  a 
woman  cast  up  at  the  Temple  stairs ; 
paid  Dry  by  the  treasurer's  order  ;  spent 
at  the  Coronation  night,  etc. ;  paid  Mrs. 
Dry  for  cloth  for  a  child  that  was 
dropped ;  expenses  in  christening  that 
child ;  paid  the  crier  upon  the  masters 
of  the  bench  being  sworn  ;  to  Williams, 
for  the  trumpet  on  Grand  day ;  to  Lloyd, 
for  work  done  over  his  chamber  occa- 
sioned by  the  falling  of  the  steeple;  at 
the  Fountain  Tavern  (29  Oct.),  by  the 
masters  of  the  bench,  when  the  Queen 
went  to  the  Mayor's  feast ;  at  the  Foun- 
tain Tavern  (12  Nov.),  spent  this  day, 
being  Thanksgiving]. 
For  28  sermons,  56/1. 

Receipts,  1,442/1.  ly.  8|</. 

Disbursements,  1,346/1.  195.  &d. 

Balance,  95//.  14*.  o-J</. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1701-2. — A  list   of  preachers   at   the   Temple  Church  during 
Petyt's  treasurership. 


i7oz-3]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  371 

1 702,  APRIL  29. — Charges  between  both  Temples  for  burying  a 
woman  cast  up  in  the  causeway  at  the  Temple  stairs : — To  the 
coroners  for  London  and  Middlesex  for  taking  an  inquisition  on 
the  body  and  giving  a  warrant  to  bury  her,  ili.  ios.;  to  the  "head 
baily"  of  the  Duchy  for  summoning  a  jury  and  making  them  drink, 
55-. ;  for  making  a  coffin,  etc.  Accounts,  estimates,  etc. 

1702,  OCT. — Petition  of  the  vacation  barristers,  stating  that  the 
dissolution  of  the  late  and  calling  of  the  present  parliament  making  it 
necessary  for  the  petitioners  to  appear  at  the  elections  in  their 
several  counties,  before  the  time  appointed  for  their  continuance  in 
commons  had  expired,  they  pray  to  be  discharged  from  further  attend- 
ance. An  endorsement  dated  12  Oct.,  1702,  and  signed  by  W.  Petyt, 
sets  out  that  the  petition  was  granted. 

1702. — Estimates  for  the  repair  of  the  Temple  Bridge. 


ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  parlia- 
ments during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : — SIR 
SIMON  HARCOURT,  S.G.,  treasurer,  7  ;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  6  ;  JOHN 
DALBY,  6 ;  JOHN  HODGES,  5 ;  WILLIAM  BARNESLEY,  5 ;  SAMUEL 
DODD,  5  ;  JOHN  CLENDON,  4 ;  JOHN  HALES,  4  ;  LEMON,  4;  THOMAS 
TUTT,  3  ;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  2  ;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  junior,  2  ;  EDWARD 
JENNINGS,  2;  JAMES  GROVE,  2;  THOMAS  WALKER,  i  ;  and  WILLIAM 
PETIT,  i. 

1702. 

Nov.  22. — Special  admissions  of  George  Jennings,  youngest  son 
of  Edward  Jennings,  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his 
father;  and  of  George  Tempest,  youngest  son  of  Mr.  Prothonotary 
Tempest,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 


1702-3. 
JAM.  25. — Special  admissions  of  Thomas  Trevor,  eldest  son  of 


372  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1703 

Sir  Thomas  Trevor,  lord  chief  justice  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas, 
late  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father;   and  of 
Heneage  Finch,  eldest  son  of  the  Hon.  Heneage  Finch,  a  master  of 
the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 
FEB.  7. — Admissions  to  chambers. 


1703. 

MAY  3. — The  treasurer  makes  it  his  election  to  be  reader  for 
the  next  summer  vacation. 

Agreement  between  Sir  Simon  Harcourt,  treasurer,  on  behalf  of 
the  society,  and  John  Banks,  citizen  and  haberdasher  of  London, 
touching  the  building  of  three  staircases  on  the  west  side  of  the 
Temple  Garden,  dated  3  May,  1703.  The  agreement  sets  out  that 
the  said  John  Banks  shall,  before  i  Nov.  next,  build  and  tile  the 
said  staircases;  each  staircase  to  contain  50  ft.  in  front  and  27  ft.  in 
depth  ;  to  be  built  of  brick,  three  storeys  high,  besides  cellars  and 
garrets,  the  brick  walls  in  the  cellars,  front  and  rear,  and  both  ends, 
to  be  two  bricks  and  a  half  thick ;  the  first  storey  to  be  two  bricks 
thick,  the  party-walls  to  be  one  brick  and  a  half  thick,  the  two 
upper  storeys  to  be  one  brick  and  a  half  thick  ;  and  the  front  windows 
to  be  all  sash  frames  and  sashes  glazed  with  crown  glass,  etc. 

The  said  John  Banks  before  the  said  time  shall  build  two 
storeys  with  brick  and  leaded,  between  the  Crown  Office  staircase 
and  the  new  intended  building,  with  chimneys,  for  the  sole  benefit 
of  the  said  society,  and  to  contain  10  ft.  in  the  front,  the  first  storey 
with  the  summer  house  to  be  for  such  use  as  the  society  shall 
appoint,  with  a  passage  out  of  the  first  storey  into  the  garden  under 
the  paved  walk,  and  the  second  storey  to  be  equal  with  Keek's 
chamber,  and  for  such  use  likewise  as  the  said  society  shall  appoint, 
with  rails  and  ballusters  about  the  same  in  a  neat  workmanlike 
manner,  and  not  to  prejudice  the  lights  about  Keek's  chamber. 

The  said  John  Banks  also  to  build  a  wall  in  front  of  the  said 
intended  building. 

The  said  John  Banks  to  pay  the  sum  of  loo/z.  and  a  further 
sum  of  loo/z.  upon  the  sale  of  the  first  chamber  he  shall  dispose  of. 
And  the  treasurer  and  masters  of  the  bench  do  so  far  as  they  law- 
fully may  in  parliament  grant  to  the  said  John  Banks  the  said 


1702-3]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  373 

ground  150  ft.  in  front  from  north  to  south  and  27  ft.  in  depth,  for 
one  life,  with  the  benefit  of  an  assignment. 

The  said  John  Banks  shall  pull  down  the  gardener's  house  and 
have  the  materials  for  his  own  use. 

JUNE  15. — William  Fitzherbert,  Edward  Ward,  Edward  Sted- 
man,  Henry  Reynell,  Charles  Aldworth,  Dennis  Bond,  Giles  Hayne, 
Charles  Stanhope,  Robert  Snell,  John  Balguy,  Thomas  Blencowe, 
John  Sharp,  and  Isaac  Clopton  called  to  the  bar. 

George  Wheeler,  the  under-treasurer,  called  to  be  an  assistant 
to  the  bar,  gratis. 

Nov.  7. — The  treasurer  is  continued  reader  for  the  next  Lent 
vacation. 

Nov.  21. — Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  stewards'  accounts  : 
Barnesley  and  Dalby,  of  the  bench,  and  Foucault  and  Pengelly,  of 
the  bar. 

Treasurer  : — Edward  Jennings. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : — SIR 
SIMON  HARCOURT,  treasurer,  9 ;  CLENDON,  28  ;  HODGES,  27  ;  SIR 
NATHANIEL  POWELL,  26;  DALBY,  19;  HALES,  18;  BARNSLEY,  17; 
TUTT,  16 ;  PAYNE,  14;  WRIGHT,  14;  JENNINGS,  12;  CRISPE,  n; 
WEBB,  1 1  ;  GROVE,  1 1  ;  LEMON,  10  ;  FARRER,  8  ;  WALKER,  7  ;  BARON 
SIMPSON,  6  ;  PETIT,  6  ;  WEAVER,  4  ;  and  WRIGHT,  2. 

1702. 

Nov.  1 6. — Orders  for  admission. 

Nov.  1 8. — "  A  proposal  being  made  that  her  Majesty's  picture 
may  be  placed  in  the  hall  of  this  society,  it  is  unanimously  agreed 
to,  and  referred  to  Mr.  Treasurer  to  get  the  same  drawn  and  placed 
accordingly." 

Order  that  the  treasurer  consider  of  a  proper  person  to  be 
master  of  the  revels,  whereupon  the  treasurer  has  appointed  Simon 
Aris. 

Nov.  19. — Order  that  the  proprietors  of  the  chambers  in  Mitre 
Court  and  Ram  Alley  Building  attend  the  committee  on  Friday 


374  A   CALENDAR    OF   THE  [i7oz-3 

about  the  repair  of  their  building ;  and  that  the  Friday  committee 
examine  what  privileges  the  under-treasurer  has  to  hold  a  chamber 
free  from  duty. 

Nov.  21,  23,  and  26. — Orders  that  the  under-treasurer  hold  his 
chamber,  where  he  keeps  his  office,  free  from  commons  and  other 
duties ;  and  that  the  petition  of  Thomas  Cooper,  a  decayed  barrister 
of  this  society,  craving  for  the  charity  of  this  society,  be  referred  to 
the  Friday  committee. 

Nov.  27  and  28. — Orders  that  Thomas  Cooper's  petition  be 
rejected,  but  by  reason  of  his  poverty  he  be  allowed  5/2.  ;  that  Henry 
Champion,  reader  for  Clement's  Inn,  pay  a  fine  of  20/2.  for  neglect- 
ing to  perform  his  duty  in  reading;  that  Thomas  Newport,  having 
by  his  deputy  performed  the  office  of  reader  for  Lyon's  Inn,  be  dis- 
charged and  his  bond  delivered  up  ;  that  Ralph  Hare,  because  he 
hath  not  discharged  his  commons  and  duties,  be  continued  reader 
for  Clement's  Inn  for  the  year;  that  40^.  be  paid  to  "old  George 
Seely "  upon  his  petition ;  that  the  names  of  Charles  Musters, 
Richard  Turner,  Richard  Knapp,  Duncan  Dee,  Samuel  Harris,  and 
John  Taylor  be  sent  to  Lyon's  Inn  to  elect  a  reader;  and  that  the 
names  of  Richard  Minshull,  Abel  Bradley,  and  Richard  Middlemore 
be  sent  in  like  manner  to  Clement's  Inn. 

1702-3. 

JAN.   23. — Orders  as  to  chambers. 

JAN.  25. — Orders  that  there  be  a  grand  day  this  term  ;  that 
there  be  a  parliament  held  this  night  ;  that  Jennings  and  Courtney 
invite  my  Lord  Keeper,  the  Master  of  the  Rolls,  and  all  the  judges 
of  this  society  to  dine  here  on  Grand  day,  and  that  Leman  and 
Dodd  invite  all  the  Serjeants  of  this  society  to  dinner  at  the 
same  time. 

JAN.  27. — Order  that  the  buildings  next  Mitre  Court  and  Ram 
Alley,  in  danger  of  falling,  be  viewed  and  the  cost  of  repairs 
ascertained. 

FEB.  i,  4,  and  5. — Orders  that  the  buildings  next  Mitre  Court 
be  repaired ;  that  5/2.  be  allowed  to  George  Mellish,  the  under- 
porter,  for  relief  in  his  sickness  ;  and  that  the  panierman  be  amerced 
a  mark  "  for  providing  ill  oysters  "  on  Friday. 

FEB.   10. — Order  upon  the  report  of  Courtney  and  Tutt  and 


,7o3]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  375 

two  masters  of  the  Middle  Temple  about  the  repair  of  the  Temple 
Bridge,  that  the  matter  be  referred  to  Tutt,  Payne,  and  Dalby. 

FEB.  ii. — Out  of  a  list  of  names  delivered  by  Ralph  Hare, 
who  has  this  year  performed  the  office  of  reader  for  Clifford's  Inn, 
it  is  ordered  that  the  names  of  Daniel  Niccoll,  Henry  Sawyer,  and 
Charles  Poultney  be  sent  to  that  inn  from  which  the  society  is  to 
elect  a  reader. 

The  washerwoman's  petition  for  a  further  allowance  for  washing 
the  linen,  is  referred  to  the  Friday  committee. 

FEB.  13. — Orders,  upon  the  report  of  Tutt  and  Dalby,  that  the 
Temple  Bridge  be  repaired  at  the  equal  charge  of  both  Temples  ; 
that  the  Inner  Temple  wall  next  the  river  be  forthwith  repaired  ; 
that  Ralph  Hare  do  pay  his  commons  and  other  duties;  that  a 
further  5/2'.  a  year  be  allowed  the  washerwoman  ;  and  that  305.  be 
given  to  the  head  porter  in  full  satisfaction  of  what  he  suffered  in 
the  service  of  the  House. 

1703. 

APRIL  15. — Order,  upon  the  request  of  Hales,  that  his  bench 
chamber  be  padlocked  for  the  exclusion  of  a  gentleman  who  has  got 
possession  thereof;  and  that  the  part  of  Kellett's  chamber,  which 
Kitchin,  a  foreigner,  holds,  be  padlocked. 

APRIL  26. — Order  that  the  treasurer  cause  a  schedule  to  be 
made  of  all  arrears  of  commons,  and  for  preventing  the  ill  con- 
sequences which  may  happen  to  the  society  from  so  great  arrears  as 
are  now  owing,  the  treasurer  is  to  order  six  chambers  to  be  pad- 
locked, viz.,  two  of  the  benchers,  two  of  the  bar,  and  two  under  the 
bar,  who  owe  most,  and  such  as  owe  more  than  for  four  terms,  shall, 
six  days  after  a  demand  has  been  made,  have  their  chambers  pad- 
locked. 

Orders  that  the  under-treasurer  direct  Mills  to  attend  and 
bring  a  list  of  what  bonds  he  has  had  delivered  to  him  to  be  put  in 
suit;  that  an  account  of  what  is  due  for  pensions  and  preachers' 
duties  be  made  ;  and  that  three  schedules  be  hung  up  on  the  screen 
of  the  names  of  such  members  who  owe  commons  for  four  terms, 
viz.,  one  for  the  benchers,  one  for  the  bar,  and  one  for  those  under 
the  bar,  but  a  week's  time  be  allowed  before  such  schedules  are 
hung  up. 


376  A   CALENDAR    OF   THE  [1703 

MAY  i. — Orders  that  the  butler  make  a  list  of  all  families  and 
strangers  in  the  society ;  and  that  2cxy.  be  allowed  towards  burying  of 
Graves,  an  under-watchman. 

MAY  5. — Orders  that  the  masters  of  the  bench  and  others  who 
have  let  their  chambers  to  strangers  be  desired  to  attend  and  give 
an  account  of  such  persons. 

JUNE  5. — Orders  that  "all  the  cocks  be  cut  off  except  those  that 
are  for  the  use  of  the  great  and  little  garden,  kitchen,  buttery,  and 
hall ; "  that  4/2".  be  added  to  the  gardener's  salary  for  looking  after 
the  little  garden  ;  that  Wise  and  family,  Walthoe  and  family,  Watson 
and  his  wife,  Goodrick  in  Hancock's  chamber,  Henry  Jones  and 
family,  Hough  ton  and  family,  and  others,  be  forthwith  removed  ; 
that  only  gentlemen  of  seven  years'  standing  and  sixteen  terms 
in  commons,  be  put  into  the  paper  for  call  to  the  bar;  and 
that  John  Knapp's,  John  Dolben's,  John  Walkedine's,  and  Robert 
Sacheverell's  chambers  be  seized  and  sold  for  the  benefit  of  the 
House. 

JUNE  7. — Order  that  the  treasurer  and  Thomas  Farrer  have 
liberty  to  exchange  their  bench  chambers  ;  and  nomination  of  those 
called  to  the  bar  at  the  parliament  held  on  15  June. 

JUNE  10,  n,  and  12. — Order  for  the  order  as  to  the  removal  of 
strangers  to  be  suspended  ;  and  nomination  of  those  called  to  the 
bar  at  the  parliament  held  on  15  June,  and  of  George  Wheeler,  the 
under-treasurer,  to  be  an  associate  to  the  bar. 

JUNE  15. — Order  that  5/2.  be  paid  to  the  reader,  if  the  treasurer 
think  fit,  as  a  further  gratuity  above  the  5/2'.  agreed  by  the  Friday 
committee. 

Nov.  6  and  13. — Orders  that  Dolben's,  Sacheverell's,  Knapp's, 
Allen's,  and  Walkedine's  chambers  having  been  padlocked  a  year 
and  upward  be  screened  up  and  sold  ;  that  Clendon  and  Barnesley 
report  what  damage  Bynes  has  sustained  by  the  new  buildings  ;  and 
that  5/2.  be  given  to  Robert  Daniell,  second  cook,  towards  his  relief 
in  his  sickness. 

Nov.  15,  16,  and  17. — Orders  that  Barnesley  and  Webb  report 
what  is  necessary  to  be  done  for  the  repair  of  the  passage  from 
Tanfield  Court  to  Mitre  Court,  and  the  same  are  to  report  whether 
the  chimneys  made  in  the  shops  granted  to  Clark,  the  chief  butler, 
be  allowable  ;  and  that  the  Friday  committee  do  consider  and  adjust 


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the  amounts  payable  by  each  chamber  for  the  repair  of  Ram  Alley 
and  Mitre  Court  Buildings. 

Nov.  20. — Order  upon  the  report  of  the  committee  "  that  every 
person  who  shall  hereafter  be  called  to  the  bench,  shall,  at  his  being 
called  to  the  bench,  pay  to  the  treasurer  ioo/z'.,  and  50/2'.  more  when 
his  turn  is  to  read,  and  shall  have  loo/z.  repaid  when  treasurer." 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  15  November,  1702,  to  20  November,  1703,  in  the 
treasurership  of  Sir  Simon  Harcourt. 


RECEIPTS. 

For  admissions  to  the  House,  157/2'.  6s.  &d. 

For  an  admittance  into  a  House  chamber, 
ic>5//. 

Fines  for  admittances  into  chambers,  iyS//. 

Rents  belonging  to  the  House  :  Sir  Samuel 
Astrey,  for  a  year's  rent  for  the  Crown 
Office,  1 2/f.  51. ;  Storer,  for  a  year's  rent 
for  the  Fine  Office,  lo/i. ;  Day,  for  a 
year's  rent  for  a  shop  in  Tanfield  Court, 
8//. ;  Stevens,  for  the  like,  -jli.  •  Giles 
Clarke,  for  a  year's  rent  for  Lyon's  Inn 
and  two  tenements  adjoining,  after  al- 
lowance of  i//.  IQS.  for  taxes,  6/1.  35.  ^d. ; 
the  assignee  of  Williams,  for  a  year's 
rent  for  four  shops  in  Tanfield  Court, 
6//'. ;  Barker,  for  the  Exchequer  Office, 
zli. ;  Thornton,  for  a  year's  rent  for  his 
shop  at  the  Temple  Gate,  zli.  ;  Mrs. 
Clarke,  a  year's  rent  for  her  shops, 
lit.  ios.;  Hargrave,  for  his  lights  into 
Hare  Court,  6s.  8//.,  and  enlarging  two 
windows  next  the  Temple  Lane,  2*. ; 
Widow  Warner,  a  year's  rent  for  her 
house  in  the  churchyard,  6s.  8J. ;  the 
turnspits,  for  a  year's  rent  for  the  watch- 
maker's shop,  4</. ;  the  Fountain  Tavern, 
for  a  year's  rent  for  the  lights  into  Tem- 
ple Lane,  2s.  6d.  ;  and  10  inhabitants 
in  Mitre  Court  for  the  use  of  the  drain, 
i//.  135.  4</. ;  in  all,  Sy//.  19*.  lod. 

Money  received  for  readings,  ioo//. 

Caution  money  upon  a  call  to  the  bench, 
5o/z'. 

III.  -< 


Caution  money,  for  vacations  upon  a  call 
to  the  bar,  52//. 

Caution  money,  for  buying  chambers  re- 
ceived from  those  gentlemen  that  were 
called  to  the  bar  and  had  no  chambers, 
pursuant  to  the  act  of  parliament,  i6o//'. 

Money  received  for  absent  commons  of 
those  gentlemen  that  were  called  to  the 
bar  at  i//.  ios.  per  term,  pursuant  to  an 
act  of  parliament,  48/1. 

Pensions  and  preachers'  duties  received  of 
those  gentlemen  that  were  called  to  the 
bar,  40//.  Ss. 

Vacations  and  amercements  received  of 
those  gentlemen  that  were  called  to  the 
bar,  37/7.  2S. 

Pensions  and  preachers'  duties  received  of 
other  gentlemen  of  the  society,  i8o//. 

12S.    IOC/. 

Vacations  and  amercements  received  of 
other  gentlemen  of  the  society,  29/7.  i  js. 

Receipts  under  no  particular  head,  128/1. 
is.  6d. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

Paid  (28  Jan.)  Sir  Godfrey  Kneller  for  the 
Queen's  picture  [frame,  etc.,  for  the  hall 
of  the  society],  8o//. 

To  the  panierman  for  wine  spent  in  Mi- 
chaelmas term,  5o//.  12S.  6d. 

To  the  master  of  the  revels  for  his  attend- 
ance on  21  Nov.,  23  Jan.,  and  2  Feb. 
8//. 

For  the  play  acted  on  2  Feb.  last  [in  the 


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[1703 


hall  of  the  society,  by  the  players  of  the 
New  Play  House,  receipt  signed  by  John 
Miles],  2oli. 

To  Jane  Holtum,  for  nursing  Thomas 
Temple,  and  numerous  other  like  entries. 

To  the  New  River  Water,  half  a  year's 
rent  due,  zli. 

For  a  new  roller  for  the  great  garden,  and 
for  altering  an  old  one,  i/i.  8s. 

To  Dr.  Sherlock,  a  quarter's  salary,  25/1. 

To  Kellaway,  for  Temple  pots,  etc. 
10 li.  8s. 

To  Silvester,  a  year's  wages  and  bill  of 
disbursements  [for  holly,  ivy,  rosemary, 
and  bays  for  the  church,  for  the  sexton 
going  about  with  the  bell,  for  washing 
surplices,  bills  of  mortality,  white  wax 
candles  for  the  pulpit,  etc.],  4/1.  y. 

To  the  gardener  [for  o  elm  trees  in  the 
walks  in  the  room  of  some  that  were 
broke  down,  for  15  yew  trees  in  the 
great  garden  and  in  pots,  for  a  yew  tree 
in  the  bench  garden,  for  200  "jun- 
quiles,"  at  6s.  a  hundred,  for  200  tulips, 
at  5-y.  a  hundred,  for  100  yellow  Dutch 
crocus,  for  50  "  Armathagalum,"  for  4 
box  trees  for  the  grass  plots,  for  12 
striped  "  fillerayes,"  etc.],  8//'.  is. 

To  the  mason,  for  the  proportion  of  this 
society  about  the  repairs  of  the  Temple 
Bridge,  45/1. 

To  the  proprietors  of  the  Convex  Lights, 
for  the  use  of  the  lamps  last  winter, 
140/1. 

To  Warter,  by  the  treasurer's  order,  to- 
wards the  repair  of  his  chamber,  5/1'. 

To  Mrs.  Ball,  for  a  year's  rent  for  Dr.  Sher- 
lock's house,  2o/i. 


To  Silvester  [prayer  books  for  the  fast  day, 
26  May,  for  hassocks,  etc.],  i/i.  i8s. 

To  the  chief  butler,  for  disbursements  [for 
tobacco  and  pipes,  gazettes  and  other 
newspapers],  3//'.  35. 

For  a  year's  fee  farm  rent  to  the  Queen 
Dowager,  after  allowance  for  taxes  and 
acquittances,  8/i.  is. 

To  the  steward,  for  board  wages  [for  8 
weeks'  board  wages  in  Christmas  vaca- 
tion, for  8i  weeks  in  Lent  vacation,  for 
3  weeks  in  Easter  vacation,  and  for  18 
weeks  in  the  Long  vacation],  14/1.  y.  nd. 

The  panierman's  bill  of  disbursements  [for 
trencher  knives  and  forks,  for  oyster 
knives,  for  oyster  towels,  for  wine  glasses, 
etc.],  2li.  185.  6d. 

To  the  under-treasurer,  his  bill  of  dis- 
bursements [to  Dry,  for  extraordinary 
watch,  the  night  the  fire  happened  at 
Serjeant's  Inn,  6s.  ;  for  16  men  to  guard 
at  the  hall,  etc.,  being  grand  day,  2/i.; 
for  iron  work  and  mending  the  wheel  of 
the  engine  broken  at  the  fire  at  Ser- 
jeant's Inn,  los. ;  to  Hemings,  for  the 
use  of  the  "harpsical  "  on  2  Feb.,  los. ; 
to  Williams,  for  the  trumpet  on  grand 
day,  i os.  •  for  a  coach  (n  Mar.)  to  the 
Duke  of  Ormond  and  Sir  G.  Kneller's 
about  the  Queen's  picture,  25. ;  to  the 
under-porter,  for  preventing  the  drop- 
ping of  a  child,  zs.  6d. ;  for  waterage 
to  Dr.  Stratford  thrice,  3^.,  etc.],  ii/i.  9*. 
Receipts,  1,450/1.  TS.  io\d. 
Disbursements,  1,436/1.  is.  ^d. 
Balance,  14/1.  6s.  6{d. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1702-3,  FEB.  2. — The  names  of  the  sewers  and  gentlemen 
waiters. 

1703,  APRIL  23. — Bond  by  Edward  Jones  upon  his  being  ad- 
mitted to  the  office  of  a  puisne  butler,  and  draft  of  the  same. 

APRIL  23. — Like  bond  by  George  Berry  upon  his  admission  to 
the  office  of  chief  butler. 


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379 


JUNE  24. — Certificate  by  the  auditors  regarding  the  sub- 
treasurer's  account  during  the  treasurerships  of  William  Petyt  and 
John  Clendon. 


ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  parlia- 
ments during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances : 
EDWARD  JENNINGS,  Q.C.,  treasurer,  6 ;  JOHN  HODGES,  6 ;  JOHN 
CLENDON,  5  ;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  4 ;  THOMAS  WALKER,  4  ;  JOHN 
DALEY,  4;  WILLIAM  PETIT,  4;  JOHN  HALES,  3;  THOMAS  Turr,  3  ; 
WILLIAM  BARNSLEY,  3  ;  ROBERT  PAYNE,  2  ;  SIR  SIMON  HARCOURT, 
2  ;  RICHARD  WEBB,  i  ;  ARTHUR  WEAVER,  i  ;  LEMON,  i  ;  WILLIAM 
FARRER,  junior,  i  ;  MANWARING  DAVIS,  i  ;  SAMUEL  DODD,  i  ;  and 
ANTHONY  BOWYER,  i. 

1703. 

Nov.  28. — Order  that  every  member  of  this  society  that  shall 
hereafter  be  called  to  the  bench,  shall,  before  he  takes  his  place  at 
the  bench  table,  pay  into  the  treasury  ioo//.,  and  when  his  turn  is  to 
read,  the  further  sum  of  5O//. 

Order  that  every  such  member,  so  to  be  called,  shall  have  looli. 
repaid  him  out  of  the  treasury  of  this  society  when  he  shall  have  served 
the  office  of  treasurer,  any  law,  usage,  or  custom  of  this  House  to  the 
contrary  notwithstanding. 

I703-4- 
FEB.  10. — Admittances  to  chambers. 

1704. 

MAY  21. — Manwaring  Davis  chosen  reader  for  Trinity  vacation. 

JULY  2. — Thomas  Velley,  John  Sherlock,  William  Tempest, 
Godfrey  Woodward,  Edward  Weaver,  John  Hillersdon,  Edward 
Conway,  James  Straingeways,  John  Dunster,  Philip  Jennings,  Wil- 
liam Stanhope,  Thomas  Bransby,  Francis  Blyth,  Francis  Hayes, 
Draper  Donyng,  and  John  Snell  called  to  the  bar;  and  John  Borrett, 
one  of  the  prothonotaries  of  the  court  of  Common  Pleas,  called  an 
assistant  to  the  bar. 


380  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1703-4 

Nov.  12. — Manwaring  Davis  continued  reader. 

Orders  that  John  Borrett  be  called  to  sit  at  the  bar  mess  in 
order  to  be  called  an  associate  to  the  bench  ;  and  that  Francis  Berk- 
ley be  called  to  the  bar. 

Special  admissions  of  Francis  Bostock  Fuller,  grandson  of 
Serjeant  Fuller,  formerly  a  master  of  the  bench,  upon  the  special 
circumstances  of  his  case ;  and  of  William  Barnesley,  son  and  heir 
apparent  of  William  Barnesley,  a  master  of  the  bench. 

Nov.  19. — John  Borrett,  one  of  the  prothonotaries  of  the  Court 
of  Common  Pleas,  called  an  associate  to  the  bench. 

Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : — Dalby  and 
Dodd,  of  the  bench,  and  Pengelly  and  Tyrrell,  of  the  bar. 

Treasurer  : — Thomas  Walker. 


BENCH  TABLE  ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : 
EDWARD  JENNINGS,  treasurer,  22;  HODGES,  32;  COURTNEY,  26; 
CLENDON,  25;  BARNESLEY,  24;  WALKER,  23;  DALBY,  21;  DODD, 
21  ;  HALES,  18;  TUTT,  18 ;  PAYNE,  18;  GROVE,  n;  PETIT,  10 ; 
LEMON,  10;  BARON  SIMPSON,  8;  BOWYER,  7;  WEBB,  5;  WILLIAM 
FARRER,  junior,  5  ;  DAVIS,  5  ;  SIR  SIMON  HARCOURT,  5 ;  and 
WRIGHT,  2. 

1703. 

Nov.  23,  25,  and  26. — Orders  that  Whitefriars  Gate  be  locked 
up  every  night  at  10  p.m.,  and  not  to  be  opened  till  the  usual  time  in 
the  morning;  that  Charles  Musters  be  fined  20/2.  for  not  performing 
the  duty  of  reader  for  Lyon's  Inn;  and  that  Middlemore  be  fined 
5/z.  for  not  performing  the  exercise  of  reader  in  Clement's  Inn,  and 
to  be  discharged  paying  duties  and  presenting  names  for  a  reader 
for  the  year  ensuing. 

Nov.  27. — Order  setting  out  the  proportions  to  be  paid  by  the 
holders  of  chambers  in  Mitre  Court  and  Ram  Alley  Buildings 
towards  the  repair  of  their  chambers  ;  that  "  the  trees  in  the  great 
garden  be  cut  down  and  the  garden  to  be  put  in  the  same  model  as  the 
gardener  hath  proposed,"  and  the  gardener  to  have  the  trees  for  his 


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trouble  ;  that  the  treasurer  and  others  do  consider  what  sort  of  wall 
should  divide  the  new  buildings  from  the  garden  ;  that  the  amerce- 
ment pro  non  saltando  be  adjourned ;  and  that  the  usual  order  be 
screened  up  against  keeping  Christmas. 

Orders  that  the  names  of  Lewis  Buckle,  Daniel  Deligne,  and 
Duncan  Dee  be  sent  to  Clifford's  Inn  for  the  selection  of  a  reader; 
and  that  the  names  of  Edward  Perrott,  John  Hawkins,  Daniel 
Foucault,  John  Holloway,  Samuel  Harris,  and  Francis  Brown  be 
sent  in  like  manner  to  Lyon's  Inn. 

Nov.  29  and  30. — Order  that  George  Shires,  a  decayed  member, 
have  40^.  ;  and  that  the  names  of  Richard  Minshull,  Henry  Sawyer, 
and  Charles  Pultney  be  sent  to  Clement's  Inn  for  the  selection  of  a 
reader. 

1703-4- 

JAN.  23. — Order  that  the  former  orders  for  the  payment  of 
commons,  pensions,  and  preachers'  duties  be  revived  and  screened  up. 

FEB.  i. — Order  that  from  henceforth  no  bencher  be  allowed  to 
send  any  wine  out  of  the  hall  nor  be  allowed  more  than  one  pint  of 
wine  at  a  meal,  nor  to  send  the  wine  allowed  to  any  member  in  the 
hall,  and  that  the  wine  spent  in  the  library  or  elsewhere  out  of  the 
hall  shall  not  exceed  io//.  per  annum. 

Orders  that  for  the  future  the  pensions  and  preachers'  duties  be 
collected  yearly,  and  the  collecting  of  the  arrears  be  referred  to  the 
Friday  committee ;  and  that  the  chamber,  lately  fallen  to  the  House 
by  the  death  of  Kellett,  be  screened  in  order  to  be  sold  for  the  benefit 
of  the  House. 

FEB.  3,  4,  and  5. — Orders  for  viewing  chambers. 

FEB.  7. — Order  "that  this  House  will  join  with  the  Middle 
Temple  in  the  necessary  repairs  of  the  church,"  and  that  it  be  referred 
to  Hale,  Barnesley,  Webb,  and  Dodd  to  meet  a  committee  of  the 
Middle  Temple  to  consider  of  the  method  and  expense  of  such 
repairs ;  and  that  it  be  referred  to  the  same  committee  to  consider  of 
the  repairs  of  the  master's  house,  and  treat  with  a  committee  of  the 
Middle  House  about  the  same. 

Orders  that  the  amercements  of  last  term,  although  in  the 
judgment  of  the  table  duly  imposed  (pro  non  saltando),  be  for  this 
time  only  remitted,  at  the  instance  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  bar  and 
under  the  bar. 


382  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [,7o4 

Order  that  it  be  referred  to  Barnesley,  Dalby,  Leman,  and  Dodd 
to  prepare  a  draught  of  an  act  of  parliament  for  securing  the  money 
that  shall  be  advanced  by  any  member  of  the  bench  towards  pay- 
ment of  the  debts  of  the  House. 

Orders  that  the  steward's  proposal  and  the  question  whether 
Elliott's  pension  shall  be  continued,  be  referred  to  the  Friday  com- 
mittee ;  that  the  order  for  the  removal  of  several  families  be  revived  ; 
that  Richard  Buckby,  a  member  of  this  society,  having  removed  him- 
self to  Lincoln's  Inn  and  paid  all  duties,  be  at  his  own  request  dis- 
charged and  his  bond  delivered  up. 

FEB.  10  and  12. — Orders  that  the  steward's  proposals  be  re- 
ferred to  a  committee  of  the  whole  table  ;  that  Elliott's  pension  be 
continued  ;  and  as  to  the  payment  of  arrears  of  pensions  and  preacher's 
duties. 

1704. 

MAY  4  and  9. — Orders  that  the  order  of  26  January  last  for 
padlocking  chambers  be  revived  ;  that  Haughton,  a  member  of  this 
society,  be  removed  out  of  the  society  for  his  disorderly  way  of 
living  ;  and  that  the  under-cook  have  3/£  for  relief  in  his  sickness. 

Order  that  the  committee  touching  the  repairs  to  the  church 
make  its  report. 

MAY  12,  13,  and  15. — Orders  that  Aris,  the  master  of  the  revels, 
in  respect  of  his  office,  pay  only  5//.  for  a  fine  for  the  chamber 
he  lately  purchased  of  Kelyng;  and  that  certain  chambers  be 
viewed. 

MAY  19. — Order  that  Walker,  Hales,  Payne,  Barnesley,  and 
Dalby  be  desired  to  meet  a  committee  of  the  Middle  Temple  to  con- 
sider who  shall  succeed  Piggott,  the  organist,  deceased,  and  that  a 
message  be  sent  to  the  Middle  House  to  that  purpose. 

MAY  26. — Whereas  Courtney,  one  of  the  benchers,  has  been 
found  guilty  of  giving  away  wine  from  the  table,  contrary  to  the  order 
of  the  table,  it  is  ordered  that  as  a  punishment  for  the  offence  he  be 
not  allowed  any  more  wine  during  this  term. 

MAY  27. — Orders  that  the  petition  of  Henry  Owen  be  rejected  ; 
that,  upon  his  petition,  John  Pigott  do  succeed  his  father  as  organist 
of  the  Temple  Church  ;  that  the  charge  of  repairing  the  damage  to 
the  roof  of  Sir  Robert  Sawyer's  Buildings  be  borne  by  all  the 


1704]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  383 

chambers  ;  and  that  every  chamber  in  the  respective  staircases  where 
any  damage  has  happened  by  the  late  storm,  do  bear  an  equal  share 
of  the  charge  of  such  repair. 

MAY  29. — Order  that  it  be  referred  to  the  treasurer  and  others 
to  consider  further  the  steward's  proposals,  and  put  the  same  in 
execution. 

JUNE  26. — Order  that  Henry  Bone  succeed  Robert  Daniel, 
deceased,  as  second  cook. 

Order  that  the  treasurer,  Hales,  Barnesley,  Webb,  and  Dodd, 
formerly  appointed  to  consider  the  repairs  to  the  south  side  of  the 
church,  do  meet  the  treasurer  of  the  Middle  House  and  come  to  a 
final  agreement  touching  the  same. 

JUNE  27  and  30. — Order  that  Henry  Jackson,  the  reader,  on  his 
petition,  be  paid  his  additional  salary  of  loli.  per  annum  ;  and  nomi- 
nation of  those  called  to  the  bar  at  the  parliament  held  on  2  July. 

JULY  i,  3,  and  5. — Orders  that  Tutt  and  Dalby  be  added  to  the 
committee  to  consider  the  repair  of  the  Temple  Church;  that  Wharton 
be  admonished  not  to  annoy  his  neighbours  by  emptying  chamber 
pots  from  his  windows ;  and,  upon  the  petition  of  George  Sheires,  that 
40^.  be  paid  him  for  his  relief. 

JULY  7. — "  Whereas  proposals  have  been  made  by  the  steward 
to  provide  all  provisions  and  things  relating  to  the  expense  of 
commons  and  defray  all  charges  that  are  brought  to  account  upon 
the  weekly  accounts  (except  as  hereinafter  is  excepted),  and  to  accept 
what  shall  grow  due  for  commons,  in  satisfaction  thereof,  as  also  for 
his  own  salary  and  board  wages,  and  the  same  having  been  often 
debated  and  considered  by  the  masters  of  the  bench  and  thought 
convenient  that  the  society  be  at  a  certainty  in  that  affair,  it  is  ordered 
and  agreed  as  followeth  : 

"  That  the  steward  provide  and  pay  for  all  things  relating  to  the 
commons  and  all  matters  that  are  brought  to  account  upon  the  weekly 
accounts,  and  to  have  the  commons  roll  and  casting  roll  to  defray  the 
expense  thereof  without  the  assistance  of  the  treasury. 

"  That  the  commons  be  set  at  8s.  6ct.  ordinary  weeks,  private 
grand  weeks  at  us.,  public  grand  weeks  at  15^.,  casting  in  weeks,  in 
which  there  is  no  grand  day,  at  IQS. 

"  That  the  steward  be  allowed  out  of  the  treasury  for  every 
public  grand  day  a  sum  not  exceeding  20/2'.  for  apparels. 


384  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1704 

"  That  all  gentlemen  that  have  not  chambers  and  owe  405.  be 
not  admitted  into  commons  in  term  or  vacation  before  all  be  paid, 
under  penalty  of  being  turned  out  of  commons. 

"  That  all  gentlemen  that  have  chambers  and  come  into  com- 
mons, pay  their  commons  every  second  term,  and  those  that  are  cast 
in  pay  every  fourth  term. 

"  That  the  customary  commons  of  the  House  be  continued,  and 
that  the  gentlemen  mess  either  three  or  four  together  as  formerly  in 
this  society. 

"  That  the  great  expense  of  wine  be  lessened  and  none  sent  out 
of  the  hall.  That  the  expense  of  oysters  be  moderated,  and  every 
repaster  of  a  Friday  in  the  winter  terms  to  pay  off  i^d. 

"  That  no  bread,  beer,  or  commons  be  sent  out,  and  that  a 
certain  allowance  of  bread  and  beer  be  settled  for  the  turnspits  and 
dishwasher. 

"  That  all  gentlemen  be  obliged  to  give  notice  to  the  butler  that 
keeps  the  buttery  book,  at  their  coming  into  commons  and  going  out, 
which  may  prevent  many  inconveniences  that  do  often  happen. 

"  That  the  term  commons  do  not  commence  before  the  first  day 
of  the  term  nor  continue  longer  than  the  last,  except  to  end  a  half  week. 

"  That  the  gentlemen  vacationers  pay  the  charge  of  the  week's 
expense,  except  50^.  as  now. 

"  That  one  of  the  butlers  be  appointed  to  give  an  account  every 
day  to  the  steward  after  dinner  how  many  gentlemen  eat  in  the  hall, 
that  he  may  the  better  know  how  to  provide. 

"  That  the  gentlemen  sup  in  the  hall  according  to  the  order  now 
in  being,  and  not  in  the  buttery  or  officers'  room." 

Orders  that  an  account  be  taken  of  all  goods  and  utensils,  with 
the  beer  and  other  provisions ;  and  that  the  butler  and  under- 
porter  collect  the  commons  and  other  duties  in  arrear. 

Orders  that  it  be  referred  to  the  treasurer  to  treat  with  the 
treasurer  of  the  Middle  Temple  to  contract  for  the  repairs  of  the 
church  and  the  master's  house,  as  there  shall  be  occasion  ;  and  that 
the  treasurer  take  care  to  remove  all  the  nuisances  and  everything 
that  is  prejudicial  to  the  church. 

OCT.  25. — Order  that  there  be  a  grand  day  this  term,  and  that 
Mr.  Solicitor  and  Courtney  invite  the  lord  keeper,  master  of  the  Rolls, 
and  judges  ;  that  Payne  and  Dodd  invite  the  Serjeants  ;  and  that  the 


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INNER   TEMPLE  RECORDS. 


385 


orders  for  the  payment  of  commons,  pensions,  and  preachers'  duties 
be  revived. 

OCT.  30.— Order  "that  the  prayers  in  the  Temple  Church  begin 
from  this  day  at  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning,  as  well  term  as  vaca- 
tion (except  upon  Sundays  and  holy  days)." 

Nov.  9,  u,  17,  and  18. — Orders  as  to  chambers;  that  Francis 
Berkeley,  who  was  called  to  the  bar  by  the  table  last  term,  but  by 
reason  of  some  extraordinary  occasion  was  not  then  confirmed,  be 
put  in  the  paper  for  confirmation,  and  that  Prothonotary  Borrett  be 
called  an  associate. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  21   November,   1703,  to  19  November,  1704,  in  the 
treasurership  of  Edward  Jennings. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  the  receiver  general,  a  year's  window 
tax,  i2//. 

To  John  West,  for  nursing  John  Temple, 
and  a  further  sum  of  io//.  for  taking  the 
said  boy  as  an  apprentice,  u/«.  igs. 

To  William  Holtum,  for  the  same  for 
Thomas  Temple,  n/t".  igs. 

To  Henry  Bigg,  the  proportion  of  this 
society  for  carpenter's  work  on  the 
Temple  Bridge  after  the  great  storm, 
6/;'.  is.  6d. 

To  Abraham  Woster,  for  mending  five 
dozen  leather  buckets  and  for  a  leather 
jack,  3/1.  17*.  6d. 

To  Roger  West,  for  nursing  Elizabeth 
Temple,  and  loli.  for  taking  her  as  an 
apprentice,  i$li. 

To  Baron  Sympson,  by  order  of  the  table, 
for  disbursements  by  him  on  account  of 
the  late  storm  [the  proportion  for  two 
bench  chambers],  8//'.  35.  6d. 

To  Silvester,  for  wages  and  disbursements 
[for  prayer  books  for  the  fast  day,  19 
Jan.,  1 703-4,  for  prayer  books  of  Thanks- 
giving for  her  Majesty's  coming  to  the 
crown,  etc.],  4/1.  6s. 

To  Bernard  Smith,  the  organ-maker,  in 
III. 


part  of  the  arrears  of  his  salary  for  clean- 
ing and  tuning  the  organ,  2oli. 

To  the  gardener  [for  cutting  down  the  trees 
in  the  garden  that  Whitton  bought,  for 
"salletting  for  three  grass  days"  at  ios., 
etc.],  3//.  5J. 

To  Jackson,  the  reader,  a  quarter's  salary, 
3//.  15*. 

To  Moore,  for  8  common  prayer  books 
in  folio  for  the  use  of  the  church,  6#. 

To  Francis  Wilson,  for  12  dozen  of  pint 
bottles  marked  with  the  arms  of  the 
House,  i//.  i  os. 

For  the  play  called  "The  Committee," 
acted  in  the  hall  on  ist  Nov.  [received 
by  John  Miles  for  the  use  of  the  players 
of  the  New  Theatre],  zoli. 

The  Queen  Dowager's  rent,  after  allowance 
for  taxes,  8//.  is. 

To  Edward  Jennings,  his  allowance  as 
treasurer,  $oli. 

The  clerk's  bill  for  disbursements  about 
the  church  [for  prayer  books  for  the 
Thanksgiving,  for  a  dozen  great  hassocks 
for  the  bench  seats],  2li.  2s.  6d. 

To  the  bricklayer,  the  proportion  of  this 
society  towards  the  repairs  of  the  dean's 
house  occasioned  by  the  great  storm,  g//. 


I) 


A   CALENDAR   OF  THE 


[1703-4 


To  the  carpenter,  for  the  like,  4#.  IO.T. 

To  Thomas  Marchant,  the  proportion  of 
this  House  towards  the  bill  for  brick- 
layers' and  carpenters'  work  about  the 
rounds  of  the  church  and  watermen's 
shed,  3//.  195. 

To  the  master  of  the  revels  for  ist,  6th, 
and  i3th  of  November,  1703,  and  ist 
Nov.  1704  (being  public  grand  day), 


To  the  under-treasurer,  his  bill  of  disburse- 
ments [to  three  labourers  picking  up 
slates,  for  coach  to  Camberwell  about 


the  subscription,  for  repairs  to  the  vane, 
spent  by  Dry  and  Johnson,  apprehend- 
ing Elizabeth  Benting  for  dropping  a 
bastard  child ;  spent  on  Oily  at  surveying 
the  church ;  to  Lord  Guernsey's  keeper, 
his  fees  for  a  brace  of  bucks,  zli.  y. ; 
spent  at  the  Fountain  Tavern  by  the 
masters  of  the  bench,  being  Thanks- 
giving day,  2li.  6s.,  etc.],  zzli.  us.  $d. 

Receipts,  1,558/1!'.  45.  o|</. 

Payments,  i,5oi//.  95.  i,\d. 

Balance,  s6//.  15$.  od.  (sic}. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1703-4,  JAN.  i. — An  inventory  of  goods  belonging  to  the 
Inner  Temple  kitchen,  enumerating  various  pots  and  pans,  dishes, 
and  other  kitchen  utensils. 

1703-4,  JAN.  i. — An  inventory  of  goods  in  the  Inner  Temple 
buttery  :  In  plate,  i  basin  and  ewer,  i  gilt  cup  with  a  cover,  5  large 
salts,  10  great  cups  and  12  little  cups,  and  23  spoons.  A  leather 
carpet,  a  green  carpet,  a  green  baize  cloth,  an  hourglass,  the  Grace 
Book,  and  one  pair  of  scales  with  weights,  and  various  linen  cloths. 

1703-4,  FEB. — Form  of  circular  letter  to  the  absent  masters 
of  the  bench,  asking  them  to  join  with  the  other  masters  of  the 
bench  in  guaranteeing  50/2".  each,  towards  the  payment  of  the 
debts  of  the  House. 

1703-4,  FEB.  2. — Undertaking  signed  by  the  treasurer  and 
fifteen  masters  of  the  bench  promising  to  advance  50/2'.  each 
towards  discharging  the  debts  of  the  House,  to  be  repaid  without 
interest  as  the  arrears  of  commons  and  other  duties,  etc.,  shall  be 
received. 

1703-4,  FEB. — Draft  of  an  act  of  parliament  for  indemnifying 
the  masters  of  the  bench  for  advancing  money  to  pay  the  debts  of 
the  House. 

1704,  MAR.  30. — Apprenticeship  bond  by  William  Holtum  for 
Thomas  Temple,  aged  about  10  years. 

1704,  JUNE  15. — Like  bond  by  Roger  West  for  Elizabeth 
Temple,  aged  about  12  years. 


,-04-5]  INNER    TEMPLE   RECORDS.  387 

1704,  AUG.  17. — An  inventory  of  the  Inner  Temple  goods,  as 
before  set  out. 

1704,  MICHAELMAS  TERM. — An  inventory  of  the  linen,  etc. 

1704,  OCT.  28. — An  inventory  of  plates  and  dishes. 

1704,  Nov.  i. — The  names  of  the  gentlemen  sewers  and  waiters. 

1704,  Nov.  17. — Old  common  prayer  books  disposed  of:  to 
Lord  Chief  Baron  Ward,  one  ;  the  treasurer,  one  ;  Solicitor-General 
Harcourt,  one  ;  Hodges,  one ;  Hales,  one  ;  Payne,  one ;  and  senior 
bar  pews,  two. 


ACTS   OF   PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  parlia- 
ments during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  :— 
THOMAS  WALKER,  treasurer,  6  ;  JOHN  HODGES,  6  ;  NICHOLAS  COURT- 
NEY, 4;  JOHN  CLENDON,  4;  JOHN  HALES,  4;  WILLIAM  BARNESLEY, 
3 ;  THOMAS  TUTT,  2  ;  JOHN  DALEY,  2  ;  SAMUEL  DODD,  2  ;  WIL- 
LIAM PETIT,  2  ;  ROBERT  PAYNE,  i  ;  MANWARING  DAVIS,  i  ;  EDWARD 
JENNINGS,  i;  SIR  SIMON  HARCOURT,  i ;  and  SIR  WILLIAM  SIMPSON,  i. 

1704. 
Nov.  26. — Admittances  to  chambers. 

I704-5- 
FEB.  ii. — Admittances  to  chambers  and  allowances  to  officers. 

1705- 

MAY  1 8. — Samuel  Dodd  chosen  reader. 

Henry  Lloyd,  John  Hoo,  John  Cheshire,  and  Thomas  Parker 
called  to  the  bench. 

Matthew  Johnson  appointed  chief  butler,  in  the  room  of  George 
Berry,  deceased. 

JUNE  25. — Francis  Pemberton,  Richard  Hutchinson,  Benjamin 
Sparrey,  Thomas  Lysle,  John  Rolle,  William  Curzon,  Henry  Thomp- 
son, Thomas  Gardner,  Richard  Hoare,  Nicholas  Jefferyes,  John 
Greenley,  Nicholas  Williams,  Jenkins  Price,  and  Richard  Comyns 
called  to  the  bar. 


388  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [.704-5 

Order  that  the  Easter  roll  of  55.  claimed  by  the  five  butlers, 
being  an  ancient  allowance  payable  by  the  gentlemen  of  the  House, 
shall  be  paid  yearly  by  every  gentleman,  and  the  same  be  made  part 
of  their  bills  of  commons,  and  that  no  gentleman  be  disadmitted 
from  his  chamber,  called  to  any  degree,  or  have  a  certificate  till  it  be 
fully  paid. 

Nov.   1 1 . — The  pension  for  the  half  year  assessed  double. 

Samuel  Dodd  is  continued  reader. 

Nov.  1 8. — Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : — 
Dalby  and  Dodd,  of  the  bench,  and  Pengelly  and  Tyrrell,  of  the 
bar. 

Treasurer  : — John  Hales. 


BENCH   TABLE   ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : — THOMAS 
WALKER,  treasurer,  40;  HODGES,  40;  COURTNEY,  38;  CLENDON,  31 ; 
PAYNE,  31;  HALES,  26;  DALBY,  21  ;  DODD,  21  ;  BARNESLEY,  20; 
BOWYER,  1 8  ;  TUTT,  1 8  ;  GROVE,  12  ;  PETIT,  1 1  ;  JENNINGS,  9  ;  WEBB, 
8  ;  DAVIS,  7 ;  WEAVER,  7  ;  BARON  SIMPSON,  5  ;  WILLIAM  FARRER, 
junior,  5  ;  SIR  SIMON  HARCOURT,  2  ;  LEMON,  i  ;  WRIGHT,  i ;  and 
LLOYD,  i. 

1704. 

Nov.  21,  22,  23,  and  24. — Orders  as  to  viewing  chambers  ;  as 
to  the  business  of  George,  the  washpot ;  that  the  gentlemen  of  the 
bar  who  were  to  perform  the  exercise,  having  occasioned  a  failure 
by  not  sending  their  pleadings  to  the  puisne  benchers,  be  amerced, 
unless  they  show  cause  to  the  contrary. 

Nov.  25. — Order  "that  the  ancient  exercise  of  dancing  be 
revived,  and  that  it  begin  the  first  Saturday  in  next  term,  and  that 
notice  be  given  thereof  by  the  sub-treasurer  to  the  master  of  the 
revels,  and  for  non-performance  the  usual  amercements  be  imposed." 

Orders  "  that  the  usual  order  against  Christmas  keeping  be 
revived  and  posted  up  as  formerly ; "  that  the  vacationers  not  having 
kept  a  month  in  commons  last  vacation,  according  to  the  orders  of 


,704-s]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  389 

the  House,  the  vacation  shall  be  disallowed  ;  and  that  the  petition  of 
the  washpot  be  taken  next  term. 

Orders  that  the  names  of  John  Vaughan,  Joseph  Barnes,  and 
William  Martin  be  sent  to  Clifford's  Inn,  and  the  names  of  John 
Holloway,  Samuel  Harris,  and  Richard  Minshull  to  Clement's  Inn, 
out  of  whom  to  select  readers. 

Nov.  27. — Orders  that  Francis  Brown  be  fined  20/2.  for  not 
reading  at  Lyon's  Inn  ;  that  the  names  of  John  Sandys,  Thomas 
Bolton,  Richard  Leighton,  Edward  Owen,  John  Hawkins,  and  Daniel 
Foucault  be  sent  to  Lyon's  Inn,  out  of  whom  to  select  a  reader ;  that 
the  second  cook  hold  the  chamber  which  Daniel,  the  second  cook, 
had ;  that  commons  be  paid ;  and  that  the  proprietors  in  each  stair- 
case pay  equally  towards  the  charge  of  the  repairs  of  their  respective 
buildings  damaged  by  the  storm. 

Nov.  28. — Order  that  Avis  be  appointed  to  inspect  the  work- 
men's bills. 

I704-5- 

JAN.  27,  29,  and  31. — Orders  that  the  carrying  away  of  ashes, 
etc.,  from  the  laystall  be  regulated  so  that  it  may  not  be  offensive  to 
the  privy  garden  ;  as  to  the  payment  of  commons;  and  that  John 
Smith  have  possession  of  James  Bengough's  chamber,  it  having  been 
surrendered  to  him. 

FEB.  i  and  5. — Orders  that  those  who  owe  above  5/2'.  for  com- 
mons, and  shall  not  discharge  their  debt  before  the  first  day  of  next 
term,  be  not  admitted  to  come  into  commons,  and  this  order  to  be 
screened;  and  that  Courtney  be  allowed  4/2.  los.  for  mending  his 
sash  windows  broken  by  reason  of  the  storm,  he  discharging  all  he 
owes  for  commons. 

FEB.  7. — Orders  that  John  Tuke  be  put  out  of  commons  for 
abusing  Johnson,  the  butler ;  that  the  additional  expense  that  Baron 
Sympson  has  been  at  on  account  of  the  late  storm,  be  raised  pro- 
portionably  upon  each  chamber. 

FEB.  9  and  10. — Orders  that  the  petition  of  the  workmen  about 
the  repairs  of  the  roofs  occasioned  by  the  late  storm,  be  referred  to 
the  Friday  committee  ;  and  that  the  case  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  bar 
who  did  not  deliver  their  pleadings  upon  Wednesday  night  be  con- 
sidered to-morrow. 


390  A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1704-5 

FEB.  12. — Orders  that  the  gentlemen  in  the  staircases,  where 
repairs  have  been  made  on  account  of  the  late  storm,  pay  their  re- 
spective proportions  ;  that  all  gentlemen  vacationers  actually  dine  in 
the  hall  three  days  at  least  in  each  week  they  are  obliged  to  keep, 
whereof  two  of  the  days  to  be  days  of  exercise,  and  that  the  vaca- 
tions of  such  as  make  default  be  not  allowed  ;  that  the  steward  pay 
loo/z.  to  the  creditors  of  the  House  as  the  treasurer  shall  think  fit ; 
and  that  5/2'.  be  paid  to  William  Burrell,  the  badge  porter,  towards 
his  relief  in  his  sickness. 

"  Whereas  it  hath  been  thought  convenient  by  the  masters  of 
the  bench  that  a  certain  sum  be  yearly  allowed  by  the  society  for 
defraying  the  expense  of  the  several  particulars  hereafter  mentioned, 
and  the  same  having  been  considered  and  proposed  to  the  four 
junior  butlers  to  find  and  provide  the  same  at  70/2'.  per  annum,  pay- 
able half  yearly  at  Lady  day  and  Michaelmas,  and  they  having 
consented  to  find,  provide,  and  pay  for  the  same  accordingly  ;  where- 
upon it  is  ordered  that  the  said  four  junior  butlers  do  for  the  future 
find  and  provide  for  this  society,  and  pay  for  all  the  linen,  making 
and  washing  thereof,  Temple  pots  and  other  earthenware,  candles 
used  by  the  watch,  pipes,  tobacco,  wax  candles,  brooms,  mops,  corks, 
etc.,  and  all  other  disbursements  whatsoever  that  have  been  at  any 
time  heretofore  brought  into  any  bill  of  disbursements  by  any  of  the 
butlers,  and  also  from  time  to  time  wind  up  the  clock  and  pay  for  the 
washing  and  cleaning  of  the  hall,  as  hath  been  usual ;  and  that  the 
said  butlers  do  forthwith  give  Mr.  Treasurer  an  inventory  of  the 
linen,  pots,  etc.,  that  are  now  in  their  custody,  and  when  the  society 
shall  think  fit  to  determine  this  agreement,  do  leave,  for  the  use  of  the 
society,  linen,  Temple  pots,  etc.,  of  the  same  quantity  and  goodness 
as  are  now  in  their  custody.  And  it  is  further  ordered  that  the  said 
butlers  finding,  providing,  and  paying  for  the  said  several  things,  as 
aforesaid,  shall  have  and  receive  out  of  the  treasury  of  this  society 
the  sum  of  70/2'.  yearly,  to  be  paid  by  half  yearly  payments,  the  first 
payment  to  be  made  at  Lady  day  next. 

"  Whereas  it  hath  been  thought  convenient  by  the  masters  of 
the  bench  that  the  society  be  at  a  certainty  in  the  charge  of  pewter, 
brass,  and  other  utensils  and  necessaries  used  in  the  kitchen,  and  for 
the  repairs  of  the  grates  and  other  things  there,  and  whereas  the  two 
cooks  have  undertaken  the  same,  so  as  the  House  allow  them  in 


1 7oS]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  391 

hand  the  sum  of  1 2/z'.  towards  buying  in  such  stock  of  pewter  as  with 
the  present  stock  of  the  House  may  be  sufficient  for  the  use  of  the 
society  (excepting  public  grand  days)."  Whereupon1  it  is  ordered 
that  the  said  cooks  do  for  the  future  find  and  provide  for  this  society 
and  pay  for  all  the  pewter,  brass,  tin,  and  other  utensils  now  in  the 
kitchen,  to  the  end  that  the  stock  may  be  continued,  and  the  same,  in 
value  and  quantity,  left,  when  the  society  shall  see  fit  to  determine 
this  agreement. 

FEB.  13. — Orders  that  two  frames  with  glass  for  the  preserving 
of  the  pots,  etc.,  be  made  in  the  garden  ;  and  that  the  treasurer  and 
others  do  sell  and  dispose  of  the  several  chambers  in  the  hands  of 
the  House. 

1705- 

APRIL  30. — Order  that  the  election  of  chief  butler  be  upon  8 
May. 

MAY  i. — Order  as  to  viewing  Berrisford's  chamber. 

MAY  8. — Orders  that  Matthew  Johnson  be  chief  butler,  Matthew 
Brambley,  puisne  butler,  William  Burrell,  porter,  and  Richard  Cad- 
wallader,  badge  porter ;  that  the  steward  give  security  to  indemnify 
the  House  against  debts  contracted  by  him  ;  and  that  William  Squire, 
the  panierman,  in  consideration  of  his  place  having  become  of  less 
value,  and  in  recompense  of  the  constant  care  he  is  to  take  of  the 
library,  the  fountain,  and  the  summer  house,  be  allowed  5/2'.  a  year 
over  his  ancient  allowance. 

MAY  12. — Orders  that  a  bond  be  taken  from  the  steward  and 
his  son  to  indemnify  the  society  against  persons  with  whom  he  deals 
on  account  of  commons  ;  that  the  steward  give  an  account  of  what  is 
owing  for  commons  ;  that  the  family  in  Thomas  Wheeler's  chamber 
be  removed ;  that  gentlemen  who  owe  for  the  repairs  to  the  roofs 
occasioned  by  the  late  storm  pay  their  proportions ;  and  that 
Fletcher  be  surveyor,  and  that  he  inspect  and  sign  the  workmen's 
bills. 

MAY  15. — Orders  that  the  manner  of  calling  the  new  Serjeants 
to  the  table  be  considered  ;  and  that  notice  be  given  to  Benjamin 
Jones  not  to  make  any  alteration  in  his  chamber  without  leave  of 
the  table. 

1  Marginal  note,  Vide  5  May,  1716. 


392  A   CALENDAR  OF  THE  [,7oS 

MAY  1 8. — Nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bench  at  the  par- 
liament held  on  this  day ;  and  orders  for  viewing  chambers. 

MAY  21. — Orders  that  for  the  future  the  House  will  keep  in 
repair  the  garden  wall  and  pavement  there  instead  of  the  gentlemen 
who  have  chambers  there  ;  that  the  steward's  son,  after  he  has  joined 
in  the  bond  with  his  father,  be  admitted  gratis  ;  that  the  treasurer 
and  others  be  a  committee  for  rebuilding  the  old  staircase  in  the 
Temple  Lane ;  and  that  certain  payments  be  made  for  the  repairs 
necessitated  by  the  late  storm. 

JUNE  12,  14,  16,  and  19. — Orders  upon  various  gentlemen  for 
the  payment  of  arrears  of  commons  and  other  duties,  and  for  the 
repairs  to  chambers  occasioned  by  the  late  storm. 

JUNE  20. — Orders  that  Nicholas  Jefferyes  shall  be  put  into  the 
paper  for  call  to  the  bar  ;  that  the  masters  of  the  bench  may  come  in 
for  a  repast  on  Tuesday  next  at  dinner,  notwithstanding  it  is  a  grand 
week ;  that  Serjeant  Selby  and  others  pay  their  proportions  towards 
the  repairs  occasioned  by  the  late  storm  ;  that  Savage  do  remove  all 
strangers  lodging  in  his  chamber ;  and  that  the  chambers  of  certain 
gentlemen  be  padlocked  unless  they  pay  for  their  commons. 

JUNE  21,  22,  and  23. — Nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bar  at 
the  parliament  held  on  25  June  ;  that  Mrs.  Marsh  have  2oli.  given 
her  as  a  bounty ;  that  the  Easter  roll  of  55.  a  year,  claimed  by  the 
butlers,  being  an  ancient  allowance  made  them,  be  paid  by  all  gentle- 
men of  this  society  and  made  part  of  the  bills,  and  that  no  gentleman 
be  disadmitted  from  his  chamber,  called  to  the  bar,  or  have  a 
certificate  from  hence  till  the  same  be  paid ;  and  as  to  viewing 
chambers. 

JUNE  26. — Order  that  Henry  Jackson,  the  reader,  have,  upon 
his  petition,  io/z". 

JUNE  27. — Licence  to  Andrew  Parker  to  exercise  the  trade  of  a 
stationer  in  a  ground  chamber  in  Temple  Lane  belonging  to  one  of 
the  butlers,  during  the  pleasure  of  the  House,  and  to  make  a  sash 
light  in  front  of  the  said  chamber. 

JUNE  30. — Orders  that  William  Smith,  upon  paying  all  duties 
now  due  and  keeping  the  roof  of  his  chamber  in  repair,  shall  be 
excused  commons  ;  that  the  treasurer  and  others  be  a  committee  to 
treat  with  Woodhouse  and  other  proprietors  of  the  old  building  in 
Temple  Lane  for  rebuilding  the  same ;  that  Lacy's  and  Jones' 


1705] 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


393 


petitions  be  referred  to  the  same  committee  ;  that  it  be  "  referred  to 
the  same  committee  to  treat  with  a  committee  of  the  Middle  Temple 
or  treasurer  about  the  repairs  of  the  church  or  to  consider  about  the 
repairs  on  our  side  " ;  that  the  several  debts  due  to  the  tradesmen  be 
reduced  and  paid  off";  that  the  sum  to  be  laid  out  in  repairing  and 
fitting  up  the  treasurer's  bench  chamber  be  left  to  the  direction  of 
the  above  committee  ;  that  the  treasurer,  if  he  please,  give  direction 
for  a  new  gown  for  the  porter. 

OCT.  24,  25,  26,  and  31. — Orders  for  viewing,  etc.,  of  chambers  ; 
and  that  there  be  a  grand  day  on  ist  November,  and  that  Mr. 
Solicitor  and  Jennings  invite  the  master  of  the  Rolls  and  the  judges, 
and  Hales  and  Payne  invite  the  Serjeants. 

Nov.  3,  10,  and  14. — Orders  as  to  paying  commons,  and  view- 
ing of  chambers  ;  and  that  Rutter  pay  a  fine  of  5/2'.  for  admission  to 
a  chamber  on  an  assignment. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from    19  November,  1704,  to  18  November,  1705,  in  the 
treasurership  of  Thomas  Walker. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 
Salaries  to  Dr.  Sherlock  as  master  of  the 

Temple,  and  Jackson  as  reader. 
To  Aris,  for  his  attendance  as  master  of 

the  revels  on  2  Feb.,  2 It. 
To  Gilbert  Lawrence,  for  nursing  James 

Temple,  and  loli.  for  taking  him  as  an 

apprentice,  n/i.  igs. 
To  Sylvester,  for  wages  and  disbursements 

[for  holly,  etc.,  for  prayer  books  for  the 

fast  day  and  for  8  Mar.,  etc],  4/1.  55. 
To  Lime,  for  4  silver  cups  and  engraving 

[44   oz.    12   dwt.    at   6s.   4</.    an   oz.], 

i4/z.  i&s. 
To  Smith,  the  organ-maker,  more  in  part 

of  his  salary,  $o/i. 
To  Pigott,  the  organist,  a  quarter's  salary, 

6li.  $s. 
To  Walthoe,  for  the  proportion  of  this 

society  towards  a  new  large  folio  Bible 

and  Common  Prayer  Book,  \!i.  \-js.6d. 

III.  3 


To  Searle,  the  woodmonger,  for  faggots 

delivered  in  the  treasurerships  of  Weaver, 

Clendon,  Petyt,  and  the  solicitor  general, 

2i/z.  155. 

Bill  for  the  porter's  gown,  6/z".  14^. 
To  the  upholsterer,  the  remainder  of  his 

bill  [an  elbow  chair,  Turkey  work,  2/1. ; 

24  Turkey  work  chairs,  at   i$s.  each, 

etc.],  33/j.  us. 

To  Moore  for  a  leather  carpet,  2/1.  45. 
To  the  silversmith,  for  the  flying  horse  on 

the  porter's  staff  [for  the  horse  "  in  new 

starling  wayes,"  31  oz.  14  dwt.  at  5^.  5</. 

per  oz.,  the  fashion  of  it  at  is.  f)d.  per 

oz.  for  engraving  two  inscriptions  and 

the  assay],  uli.  8s.  zd. 
A  bill  for  wine,  etc.,  spent  at  the  Fountain 

Tavern  on  23  Aug.,  being  Thanksgiving 

day,  3//'.  I2S.  $d. 
To  the  carver,  for  his  work  in  the  library, 

26/1.  i os. 
To  Pistor,  for  [a  fine  large  chimney  glass 

E 


394 


A  CALENDAR  OF  THE 


[1705-6 


in  a  fine  glass  moulding  frame,  and  a 
fine  largepair  of  engraved  glass  sconces], 
9//.  iBs. 

To  Thomas  Walker,  treasurer,  his  allow- 
ance, so//. 

To  the  treasurer,  for  repairs  of  his  bench 
chamber,  4  a//.  175. 

For  the  play  acted  on  ist  Nov.,  1705, 
before  the  judges  in  the  hall  of  this 
society  [receipt  by  Zachary  Bagg  for 
the  use  of  the  players  of  the  Theatre 
Royal  in  Drury  Lane],  so//. 

To  Charles  Gardiner  [for  17  box  trees  at 
5*.,  for  "  sallett  for  the  grass  day,"  etc.], 
S//.  is  dd. 


To  the  under-treasurer,  his  bill  of  dis- 
bursements [spent  at  the  Fountain 
Tavern  on  3  Jan.,  1704-5,  by  the  masters 
of  the  bench,  the  French  standards,  etc., 
being  carried  to  Westminster,  2//.  1 6s.  6d. ; 
to  the  porters  on  23  Oct.,  by  the  trea- 
surer's order,  on  the  taking  of  Barcelona, 
2 s.  6d. ;  for  1 5  watchmen  on  grand  day, 
i//.  17^.  6d.;  to  Bass,  for  measuring  and 
valuing  the  carver's  work,  ios.,  etc.], 
22//.  5-r.  gd. 

Receipts,  2,<)62h',  35.  gd. 

Disbursements,  2,954//.  7$.  ^d. 

Balance,  "jli.  i6s.  $d. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1704-5,  MARCH  19. — Note  as  to  Collett's  admittance  to  a 
chamber. 

1705,  APRIL  24.— Apprenticeship  bond  by  Gilbert  Lawrence 
for  James  Temple,  aged  about  twelve  years. 

1705,  Nov.  22. — Receipt  by  William  Fazakerley,  receiver- 
general  within  the  city  of  London  and  county  of  Middlesex  and  Inns 
of  Court  and  Chancery  within  the  same,  of  an  aid  of  45-.  in  the  pound 
on  land,  granted  in  i  Anne  by  an  Act  for  granting  a  Land  Tax  for 
carrying  on  the  war  with  France  and  Spain,  from  the  collectors  of 
the  Inner  Temple  and  the  Inns  of  Chancery  thereunto  belonging,  the 
sum  of  400/2'.,  including  collectors'  poundage. 

Note  that  the  said  collectors  have  paid  in  money  for  subsidies 
and  duty  in  houses  and  windows,  and  duties  on  marriages,  etc. 

1705.  MICHAELMAS  TERM. — A  list  of  gentleman  sewers  and 
waiters. 


ACTS   OF   PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  par- 
liaments during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances : — 
JOHN  HALES,  treasurer,  7  ;  JOHN  CLENDON,  7  ;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY, 
6 ;  JOHN  HODGES,  6 ;  JOHN  DALBY,  5  ;  RICHARD  WEBB,  5  ;  THOMAS 
WALKER,  4 ;  SAMUEL  DODD,  4 ;  ROBERT  PAYNE,  3 ;  WILLIAM  PETIT, 


i7o5-6]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  395 

2 ;  RICHARD  WEBB,  r ;  EDWARD  JENNINGS,  Q.C.,  i  ;  SIR  SIMON 
HARCOURT,  i  ;  FRANCIS  BROWNE,  i  ;  JOHN  BORRET,  i  ;  and  RALPH 
HARE,  i. 

1705- 
Nov.  25. — Admittances  to  chambers. 

1705-6. 

FEB.  3. — John  Borrett,  one  of  the  prothonotaries  of  the  Court 
of  Common  Pleas  and  an  associate  of  the  bench,  called  to  be  a 
master  of  the  bench,  paying  100/2.  and  a  further  50/2.  when  he  shall 
be  chosen  reader. 

Charles  Squire  called  to  the  bar. 

FEB.  10. — Admittances  to  chambers. 

1706. 

MAY  5. — Pensions  assessed  double. 

George  Wright  chosen  reader  for  Trinity  vacation. 

Special  admissions  of  John  Borrett,  eldest  son  of  Mr.  Protho- 
notary  Borrett,  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father ; 
of  John  Hodges,  grandson  of  John  Hodges,  a  master  of  the  bench, 
at  the  request  of  his  grandfather;  of  John  Dodd,  second  son  of 
Samuel  Dodd,  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father  ; 
and  of  George  Parker,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  Sir  Thomas  Parker 
serjeant-at-law,  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Order  that  in  case  the  members  now  called  to  the  bench  neglect 
or  refuse  to  accept  of  this  call,  they  shall  and  are  hereby  declared 
incapable  of  ever  being  called  to  the  bench  hereafter. 

Order  that  Sir  Richard  Leving,  Charles  Musters,  Sir  Gilbert 
Dolben,  Francis  Brown,  and  Ralph  Hare  be  called  to  the  bench, 
and  notice  thereof  be  given  them  forthwith,  and  that  they  return 
their  answers  to  the  table  the  first  day  of  next  term. 

JUNE  9. — Jacob  Cliffe,  Moses  Amyrant,  William  Kinaston, 
Thomas  Jobber,  John  Webber,  John  Niccoll,  Samuel  Cruwys,  William 
Blencow,  Luke  Thompson,  and  William  Walker  called  to  the  bar. 

Nov.  10. — Admittances  to  chambers. 

_ 

Nov.  1 7. — Order  that  William  Cook  be  appointed  chief  cook  in 
the  place  of  William  Arnold,  deceased. 


396  A   CALENDAR    OF    THE  [1705-6 

Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : — Dalby  and 
Dodd,  of  the  bench,  and  Tyrell  and  Pengelly  of  the  bar. 
Treasurer. — Robert  Payne. 


BENCH  TABLE  ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances : — JOHN 
HALES,  treasurer,  20 ;  HODGES,  25  ;  CLENDON,  24 ;  DODD,  22  ; 
COURTNEY,  21;  BARNSLEY,  19;  PAYNE,  16  ;  WALKER,  15;  DALBY, 
1 1  ;  WEBB,  1 1  ;  BOWYER,  9  ;  JENNINGS,  9  ;  BORRETT,  9  ;  BARON  SIMP- 
SON, 8 ;  FARRER,  4 ;  DAVIS,  4 ;  HARCOURT,  4 ;  PAUNCEFORTH,  3 ; 
HARE,  2  ;  PETIT,  i  ;  and  WRIGHT,  i. 

1705- 

Nov.  19  and  24. — Orders  for  viewing  chambers,  and  as  to  the 
Exchequer  Office. 

Nov.  27. — Orders  that  Joseph  Barnes  and  Richard  Leighton  be 
fined  2O/z.  each  for  not  reading  respectively  at  Clifford's  Inn  and 
Lyon's  Inn,  and  that  they  be  continued  readers  till  their  fines  be. 
discharged. 

Order  that  Richard  Minshall,  having  performed  the  office  of 
reader  for  Clement's  Inn  be  discharged,  and,  out  of  the  names 
returned  by  him,  that  the  names  of  William  Gilpin,  Richard  Knapp, 
and  John  Holloway  be  sent  to  that  inn. 

1705-6. 

JAN.  24,  25,  and  29.— Orders  for  viewing  chambers,  and  that 
John  Borrett  be  called  to  the  bench. 

FEB.  i. — Orders  that  Charles  Squire  be  called  to  the  bar;  that 
"  it  he  referred  to  Walker,  Payne,  Barnesley,  and  Dodd  to  meet 
a  committee  of  the  Middle  Temple  and  to  consider  the  rights  of  the 
master,  and  to  report. 

FEB.  4. — Order  that  every  gentleman  that  shall  hereafter  be 
called  to  the  bar  shall  pay  40^.  towards  the  charge  of  the  organ. 

FEB.  7,  8,  and  n. — Orders  for  viewing  chambers,  and  that 
Mr.  Solicitor,  Jennings,  Courtney,  Bowyer,  and  Clendon  be  added  to 
the  committee  to  consider  the  rights  of  the  master. 


>7o6]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  397 


1706. 

APRIL  17. — Order  that  Joseph  Barnes  having  paid  his  fine  and 
duties,  be  discharged  from  his  reading,  and  that  the  names  of 
William  York,  Thomas  Sturt,  and  John  Vaughan  be  sent  to  Clifford's 
Inn  from  which  to  elect  a  reader. 

APRIL  22. — Order  that  notice  be  given  to  the  committee  ap- 
pointed by  the  Middle  Temple  touching  the  rights  of  the  master 
that  the  committee  of  this  society  will  meet  them  on  Wednesday  in 
the  rounds. 

APRIL  27. — Order  that  there  be  a  call  to  the  bench  this  term  ; 
and  that  the  under-treasurer  acquaint  the  deputy  remembrancer  of 
the  Exchequer  that  unless  the  rent  of  25/2'.  due  at  Lady  day  be  paid, 
and  unless  he  agree  to  take  a  lease  for  seven  or  eleven  years  at  5O//. 
a  year,  that  the  office  shall  be  taken  into  the  hands  of  the  House  and 
padlocked. 

APRIL  30. — Order  for  a  chamber  to  be  viewed. 

MAY  3  and  4. — Orders  that  if  the  members  now  called  to  the 
bench  neglect  or  refuse  to  accept  this  call,  they  shall  be  incapable  of 
ever  being  called  hereafter ;  that  Cooper,  in  respect  of  his  poverty, 
have  5/2.  given  him  ;  that  Mrs.  Young  have  lo/z.  paid  to  her ;  that 
every  officer  watch  in  his  turn,  and  if  any  officer  be  excused,  no  one  is 
to  watch  for  him  but  a  person  approved  by  the  under-treasurer  ;  that 
the  watch  go  off  at  4  a.m.  in  summer  and  7  a.m.  in  winter ;  that  no 
strange  women  be  admitted  to  come  or  go  out  of  the  House  after 
eleven  at  night ;  "  that  one  watchman  go,  from  each  place  they  stand 
at,  the  rounds,  twice  every  night,  and  wherever  they  see  a  candle  after 
twelve  to  knock  at  the  door  till  answer  and  bid  them  take  care  of 
their  lights  "  ;  and  special  admission  (May  4)  of  George  Parker,  eldest 
son  of  Sir  Thomas  Parker,  serjeant  at  law. 

MAY  24. — Order  that  Moore  give  Lee  possession  of  his  chamber 
by  Thursday. 

JUNE  3,  5,  6,  and  7. — Orders  that  the  summer  house  be  amended 
according  to  the  draught  of  the  committee;  that  Jackson  the  reader 
have  the  same  allowance  for  this  year's  service  as  he  had  for  the  last ; 
nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bar  at  the  parliament  held  on 
9  June,  together  with  Sir  John  St.  Leger,  John  Turvin,  and  Jeremy 


A  CALENDAR  OF  THE 


[1706 


Pemberton ;  and  that  Barnesley  and  Dalby  view  the  place  where 
Serjeant  Selby  desires  to  make  a  vault. 

JUNE  8. — Upon  report  of  the  committee,  it  is  ordered  that  the 
church  be  repaired,  the  stairs  of  the  Temple  Bridge  amended,  and 
the  Thames  water  laid  in  at  the  direction  of  the  treasurer. 

OCT.  24  and  25. — Order  that  i  November  be  kept  as  a  public 
grand  day  and  a  play  to  be  then  acted  ;  and  that  Mr.  Solicitor  and 
Jennings  invite  the  Master  of  the  Rolls  and  the  judges,  and  Barnesley 
and  Dodd  invite  the  Serjeants. 

Nov.  12. — Orders  that  the  petition  of  William  Russell,  the 
barber,  praying  for  a  further  term  in  his  house,  be  referred  to  Dalby 
and  others  ;  and  upon  reading  the  petition  of  William  Cook  for  the 
place  of  chief  cook,  vacant  by  the  death  of  Arnold,  that  he  be  so 
appointed. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from   18   November,  1705,  to  17  November,  1706,  in  the 
treasurership  of  John  Hales. 


RECEIPTS. 

From  Giles  Clark,  a  year's  rent  for  Lyon's 
Inn  and  two  tenements  adjoining,  after 
allowance  of  ill.  los.  for  taxes,  6/i.  $s.  ^d. 

From  the  assignee  of  Williams,  a  year's 
rent  due  for  four  shops  in  Tanfield 
Court,  6//. 

From  Hargrave,  a  year's  rent  for  his  lights 
into  Hare  Court,  6s.  8d.,  and  for  enlarg- 
ing two  windows  next  the  Temple  Lane, 
is.,  in  all  8s.  %d. 

From  Widow  Warner,  for  a  year's  rent  of 
her  shop  in  the  churchyard,  6s.  &d. 

From  the  Fountain  Tavern,  a  year's  rent 
for  lights  into  Temple  Lane,  2s.  6d. 

Money  received  towards  the  organ  from 
the  gentlemen  called  to  the  bar,  pur- 
suant to  the  order  in  that  case  made, 

22/i. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  John  Peters,  for  two  tarpaulin  cloths 

for  the  garden,  ili.  i"js. 
For  the  window  tax,  due  for  this  society 

at   Lady  day  [in  full  for  one  year  to 


the    chamberlain  of   London,  receiver 

general],  izli. 
To  Jackson,   the  reader,   for  a  quarter's 

salary,  3//.  155. 

To  Mr.  Sherlock,  a  quarter's  salary,  2$li. 
To  the  organist,  a  quarter's  salary,  6/i.  $s. 
To   Mrs.  Collins,  the  proportion  of  this 

society    towards    the     cloth    for    [the 

reader's]  surplices,  3//.  3.?.  6d. 
To   Charles  Gardener,  for  the  privy  gar- 
den [for  4  hollys  at  65.  each,  for  4  yews 

at  5-r.  each,  for  2  "  messerins  "  at  2$. 

each,  and  2  "  lorrestines  "  at  2S.  each, 

etc.],  7/«.  i2S.  6d. 
For  nursing  foundlings,  and  clothes  for  the 

same. 
To  Smith,  for  two  years  and  a  quarter  for 

cleaning  and  tuning  the  organ,  22//.  jos. 
For  the  use  of  the  convex    lights  from 

Michaelmas  to  Christmas,  20/1. 
To  Tompion,  for  his  care  of  the  clock,  six 

years  and  a  half,  6/i.  los. 
To  Squire,  for  a  year's  care  of  the  library, 

summer  house,  and  fountain,  s//. 


1706-7] 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


399 


To  Barber,  for  wine  spent  [by  the  masters 
of  the  bench]  at  the  Fountain  Tavern 
on  27  June,  being  Thanksgiving  day, 
5/z'.  iu.  nd. 

To  Berchett,  for  the  eight  figures  at  the 
end  of  Sir  Robert  Sawyer's  Building, 

2 lit.   IOS. 

To  Johnson,  for  the  use  of  the  workmen, 
for  repairs  upon  the  bench  chambers 
occasioned  by  the  great  storm,  36/2'. 

To  Mrs.  Ball,  a  year's  rent  for  the  master's 
house,  2o/i. 

To  Woollaston,  the  city  butler,  for  the  use 
of  plate,  linen,  etc.,  on  the  grand  day,  5//. 

For  the  play  acted  in  the  hall  on  i  Nov., 
1706  [to  Zachary  Bagg  for  the  players  of 
the  Theatre  Royal  in  Drury  Lane],  2o//. 


To    the    silversmith,   for    silver    spoons, 

uli.  los. 

To  the  under-treasurer,  his  bill  of  dis- 
bursements [spent  at  the  Fountain 
Tavern  on  23  April,  1706,  lit.  los. ;  to 
Dry  for  carrying  a  lewd  woman  to  Bride- 
well, 2s. ;  to  Tom  Dry  his  expenses  about 
the  boy  that  was  killed  by  the  fall  from 
the  wall  at  the  Queen's  Bench  Office, 
35.  6d. ;  for  fringe,  silk,  etc.,  for  repair 
of  the  cushions  in  the  church ;  for  the 
trumpet  on  grand  day;  to  Tom  Dry, 
for  carrying  two  other  lewd  women  to 
Bridewell,  55.  $d.,  etc.],  i^li.  $s.  &d. 

Receipts,  2,377//'.  i6.r.  yd. 

Disbursed,  1,683/1'.  os.  $d. 

Remains,  6g4//.  i6s.  $d. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1706,  Nov.  i. — A  list  of  gentlemen  sewers  and  waiters. 

ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  par- 
liaments during  the  year  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : — 
ROBERT  PAINE,  treasurer,  7  ;  JOHN  CLENDON,  7 ;  JOHN  DALBY,  7  ; 
NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  6  ;  ARTHUR  WEAVER,  6 ;  JOHN  HALES,  5  ; 
WILLIAM  BARNESLEY,  5;  JOHN  HODGES,  3;  RICHARD  WEBB,  3; 
MATTHEW  DAVIS,  3  ;  RALPH  HARE,  3  ;  THOMAS  WALKER,  2  ;  EDWARD 
JENNINGS,  Q.C.,  2  ;  JOHN  BORRET,  2;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  junior,  i  ; 
SAMUEL  DODD,  i  ;  SIR  SIMON  HARCOURT,  i  ;  ANTHONY  BOWYER,  i  ; 
BARON  SIMPSON,  i  ;  and  GEORGE  WRIGHT,  i. 

1706. 

Nov.  24. — George  Wright  continued  reader. 
Grimbald  Paunceforth  called  to  the  bench. 
Edward  Girdler,  John  Bond,  Jeremy  Pemberton,  and  Richard 
Harcourt  called  to  the  bar. 

1706-7. 

FEB.  12. — Henry  Graham  having  surrendered  his  interest  in  his 
ground  chamber  in  the  staircase  going  down  the  Inner  Temple  Lane, 


400 


A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1707 


to  the  society,  pursuant  to  the  order  of  the  table,  it  is  ordered  that 
the  said  chamber  shall  be  converted  into  a  bookseller's  shop,  and 
that  George  Grafton,  a  bookseller,  shall  enjoy  the  same  for  eleven 
years,  paying  a  fine  of  5/2.  and  a  yearly  rent  of  5/2'. 

Special  admissions  of  John  Dolben,  son  and  heir-apparent  of  Sir 
Gilbert  Dolben,  bart.,  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his 
father ;  of  Brook  Paunceforth,  son  of  Grimbald  Paunceforth,  a  master 
of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father  ;  of  Thomas  Hare,  son  and 
heir- apparent  of  Ralph  Hare,  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of 
his  father  ;  and  of  Manwaring  Davies,  son  and  heir-apparent  of  Man- 
waring  Davis  (sic),  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

1707. 

MAY  1 1. — Allowances  to  officers  and  admittances  to  chambers. 

MAY  25. — John  Borrett  chosen  reader. 

JUNE  29. — Order  that  William  Ruffle,  barber,  have  eleven  years 
added  to  his  term  in  his  shop  and  rooms  on  the  south  side  of  the 
Temple  church,  he  rebuilding  the  same  in  such  manner  as  may  be 
directed  by  the  bench  table. 

Benedict  Browne,  Sir  John  St.  Leger,  Gell  Marshall,  Joseph 
Taylor,  Robert  Knapp,  Thomas  Gabell,  Giles  Clarke,  Thomas 
Morgan,  Gilbert  Walmisley,  William  Hawkins,  John  Winstone, 
Robert  Davey,  Nicholas  Herle,  and  Joseph  Herne  called  to  the  bar. 

Order  that  Jackson,  the  reader,  by  the  special  favour  of  the 
bench,  may  have  the  chamber,  late  Cressett's,  in  King's  Bench  Build- 
ing, to  hold  during  pleasure  and  to  be  allowed  25/2'.  towards  finishing 
the  same,  but  never  to  ask  for  more  ;  and  he  is  to  reside  therein  and 
not  let  the  same. 

Nov.  9. — The  pensions  for  the  last  half  year  assessed  single. 

Nov.  1 6. — John  Borrett  continued  reader  for  Hilary  vacation. 

Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts : — Dalby 
and  Dodd,  of  the  bench,  and  Tyrrell  and  Pengelly,  of  the  bar. 

Treasurer  : — William  Barnesley. 

BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 


The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : — ROBERT 


1706-7]  INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS.  401 

PAYNE,  treasurer,  33;  CLENDON,  31;  HODGES,  27;  COURTNEY,  26; 
DALBY,  25;  BARNSLEY,  24;  BORRETT,  24;  HALES,  22;  DODD,  20; 
WEBB,  18 ;  WALKER,  14;  PAUNCEFORTH,  14;  HARE,  13;  BOWYER, 
12;  JENNINGS,  12;  KNAPP,  10;  WRIGHT,  8;  WEAVER,  4;  FARRER, 
4;  DAVIS,  3;  HARCOURT,  2  ;  LONGUEVILE,  i  ;  and  BROWN,  i. 

1706. 

Nov.  19. — Order  that  Jeremy  Pemberton,  considering  his  ex- 
ercise and  behaviour  the  last  vacation,  be  called  to  the  bar ;  "  that 
the  clause  delivered  by  the  Middle  Temple  relating  to  precedency 
be  omitted  ; "  that  George  Wright  be  continued  reader  ;  that  the 
sheets  upon  which  the  vacationers  made  their  orders  the  last  vacation 
be  taken  out  of  the  Buttery  Book  and  kept  by  the  under-treasurer, 
and  that  that  vacation  be  disallowed ;  and  that  the  treasurer  and 
others  be  a  committee  to  inspect  the  steward's  accounts. 

Nov.  21  and  22. — Nominations  of  those  called  to  the  bench  and 
bar  at  the  Parliament  held  on  24  November. 

Nov.  25. — Order  that  William  York,  having  performed  the 
office  of  reader  for  Clifford's  Inn,  be  discharged,  and  out  of  the 
names  returned  by  him  it  is  ordered  that  the  names  of  Duncan  Dee, 
Samuel  Dalton,  and  Brereton  Boucher  be  sent  to  that  inn. 

Order  that  William  Gilpin  be  fined  20/1.  for  not  reading  at 
Clement's  Inn,  and  that  the  names  of  Richard  Knapp,  William  Martin, 
and  Charles  Bawdes  be  sent  to  Clement's  Inn,  from  whom  that 
society  is  to  make  choice  of  a  reader. 

Order  that  the  names  of  John  Churchill,  Anthony  Ellesdon, 
John  Duke,  Thomas  Price,  Abell  Bradley,  and  Henry  Sawyer  be 
sent  to  Lyon's  Inn,  from  whom  that  society  is  to  make  choice  of  a 
reader. 

Nov.  28. — Order  that  3/2.  be  given  to  Eleanor  Arnold,  widow  of 
William  Arnold,  late  chief  cook. 

i 706-7. 

JAN.  28. — Order  that  the  committee  appointed  touching  the 
rights  of  the  master  of  the  Temple  meet  a  committee  of  the  Middle 
Temple. 

JAN.  31. — Upon  the  report  of  the  committee  of  both  Houses 
appointed  to  consider  the  rights  of  the  two  societies  and  the  master 

in.  3  F 


4o2  A   CALENDAR  OF  THE  [1706-7 

of  the  Temple,  it  was  ordered  that  the  said  report  be  entered  in  the 
book  of  orders  of  this  society. 

The  report  is  dated  6  June,  1706,  "We,  the  said  committees, 
having  inspected  and  perused  the  books  and  entries  of  both  the 
societies,  do  find  and  are  of  opinion  that  the  Master  by  his  patent  is 
to  find  at  his  own  charge  the  minister  or  reader  and  the  clerk  or 
sexton,  and  to  officiate  daily  by  himself  or  deputy,  and  by  his 
patent  hath  a  salary  or  pension  from  the  Crown  of  37/2.  6s.  8//.  per 
annum. 

"  We  also  find  and  are  of  opinion  that  the  soil  of  the  church  and 
churchyard  is  in  the  societies,  and  that  the  ancient  rates  for  burials 
in  respect  of  the  ground  are  as  followeth  :  In  the  round  walk  and 
elsewhere  below  the  chancel  and  aisle,  los. ;  in  the  benchers'  aisle, 
i//.  ;  in  the  gentlemen's  aisle,  155.  ;  in  the  chancel  beneath  the  steps, 
ili.  6s. ;  in  the  chancel  above  the  steps,  2/z. 

"  Which  rates  or  duties  do  belong  to  the  respective  societies  and 
have  been  formerly  collected  and  accounted  for  to  them  accordingly. 

"  We  find  that  no  stranger  is  to  be  buried  in  the  church  or 
churchyard,  without  leave  of  the  respective  treasurers. 

"  We  further  find  that  the  ancient  burying  fees  are  as  followeth, 
viz.  : — To  the  curate  for  attending  the  corpse  and  service,  5.?.  ;  to  the 
clerk  for  ringing  the  bell  and  attending,  45.  ;  to  the  grave-maker  and 
for  filling  the  grave  and  new  laying  the  stone,  3^.  ^d. 

"  But  we  do  not  find  any  sum  mentioned  to  be  payable  to  the 
master  if  he  is  pleased  to  attend  or  officiate  himself. 

"  We  find  the  rates  now  taken  for  the  ground  and  burying  fees 
to  be  as  followeth,  viz.:  for  all  burials  in  the  rounds,  for  the  soil,  ili. ; 
to  the  master,  \os.  ;  to  the  clerk,  $s.  ;  to  the  sexton,  2S.  6d. 

"  And  in  the  aisles  as  followeth,  viz.  : — The  side  aisles,  for  the 
ground,  i/z.  los. ;  for  the  master,  los.  The  middle  aisles,  for  the 
ground,  2/2'.;  for  the  master,  icw.  In  the  chancel  and  vaults,  for  the 
ground,  3/2.  ;  for  the  master,  10^. 

"  And  that  all  strangers  pay  double  for  the  ground  and  to  the 
master  and  officers,  except  in  the  chancel  and  vault,  where  strangers 
pay  4/z.  los.  for  the  ground. 

"  And  that  the  clerk  and  sexton  take  their  fees  as  above  for  all 
these  burials,  viz.,  5^.  the  clerk  and  2s.  6d.  the  sexton. 

"  And  we  further  find  that  the  late  master  did  take  and  demand 


,7o6-7]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  403 

the  fees  above  mentioned  for  the  ground  as  well  as  his  own  fees ; 
and  that  these  fees  for  the  vaults  have  been  taken  and  claimed  by 
the  master,  notwithstanding  the  vaults  were  lately  built  by  the  two 
societies. 

"  We  also  find  that  Dr.  Mittlethwaite,  who  was  master  of  the 
Temple  in  King  Charles  the  First's  time,  did  make  several  pretences 
and  demands  before  the  then  archbishop,  the  Council  Board,  and  Star 
Chamber,  and  that  several  hearings  were  thereupon  had,  and  several 
references  and  reports  were  made  thereupon,  and  his  then  Majesty's 
Council  advised  with  therein,  and  that  respective  rolls  were  ordered 
to  be  made  by  the  societies  the  igth  May,  1637,  to  charge  the 
members  of  the  societies  in  commons  with  iSd.  a  year  a  piece.  And 
afterwards,  2nd  July,  1647,  to  charge  the  masters  with  2s.,  the 
barristers  with  i%d.,  and  the  gentlemen  with  is.  apiece  every  term. 
But  that  these  were  all  limited  during  the  pleasure  of  the  societies 
by  their  respective  acts,  as  appears  to  us  by  the  entries  in  the 
books. 

"  And  we  further  find  that  afterwards,  in  the  late  troublesome 
times,  several  temporary  provisions  were  made  for  the  then  masters 
of  the  Temple,  but  that  upon  the  Restoration,  after  several  disputes, 
24th  November,  1661,  the  Inner  House  ordered  25/2.  per  quarter  to 
be  paid  to  Dr.  Ball  in  full  of  all  dues  and  demands  whatsoever,  and 
for  the  better  raising  the  same,  ordered  a  rate  to  be  made  upon  the 
respective  members,  but  this  not  to  be  a  precedent  to  any  that  should 
succeed  him.  And  that  Dr.  Ball  during  his  life  received  the  said  25/2. 
per  quarter. 

"  And  that  by  an  act  of  the  Middle  House,  3Oth  October,  1663, 
it  is  ordered  that  the  master  be  allowed  ~o/i.  per  annum  for  the 
present,  to  be  paid  half  yearly  in  lieu  of  all  chambers  and  payments 
whatsoever,  and  that  the  master  during  his  life  receive  the  said  70/2'. 
per  annum. 

"And  we  find  that  by  an  act  of  the  gth  May,  1684,  the  Middle 
Temple  ordered  Dr.  Sherlock  to  be  paid  70/2.  per  annum  by  half 
yearly  payments,  in  lieu  of  chambers  and  all  other  payments  formerly 
made  to  the  master.  And  that  the  I5th  June,  1684,  by  an  act  of 
the  Inner  House,  Dr.  Sherlocke  was  ordered  the  same  salary  as  Dr 
Ball  had,  viz.,  25/2'.  per  quarter,  to  be  raised  as  formerly  for  paying 
Dr.  Ball. 


404  A  CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1706-7 

"  Upon  the  whole  matter  we  are  of  opinion  that  the  respective 
payments  made  by  the  societies,  as  well  before  as  since  the  Restora- 
tion, were  voluntary  payments  and  not  as  of  right  or  due,  but  were 
made  to  the  respective  masters  pursuant  to  the  acts  and  orders  of 
both  the  societies,  out  of  respect  and  as  a  temporary  reasonable  pro- 
vision for  them. 

"We  do  find  that  the  master  did  formerly  lay  claim  to  the 
several  chambers  and  lodgings,  but  what  right  he  had  thereto  or 
what  in  particular  they  were  or  the  values  of  them  does  nowhere 
appear  to  us,  but  the  payments  have  been  made  ever  since  1661,  as 
above  is  mentioned. 

"Agreed — Committees  of  the  Inner  Temple:  John  Clendon, 
Tho.  Walker,  Rob1.  Payne,  W.  Barnesley,  and  Sam.  Dodd.  The 
Middle  Temple  :  Pet.  Broughton,  H.  Hetherington,  Jos.  Offley,  and 
John  Radford. 

"  And  it  is  also  ordered  that  the  further  consideration  of  the  said 
report  be  referred  to  the  Friday  Committee." 

FEB.  i,  3,  and  7.  Orders  that  Henry  Thompson  attend  the 
table  as  to  a  door  made  from  his  chamber  ;  that  the  petitions  of  the 
gentlemen  vacationers  and  Henry  Graham  be  referred  to  the  Friday 
committee. 

FEB.  8  and  1 2. — Orders  that  the  matter  of  the  lamps  be  referred 
to  Hales  and  others  ;  that  Henry  Graham,  upon  surrendering  his 
chamber,  shall  have  a  lease  for  eleven  years  at  5//.  a  year. 

1707. 

MAY  7  and  9. — Orders  for  viewing  chambers. 

MAY  10. — Orders  that  Mills  attend  the  committee  next  Friday 
with  an  account  of  the  prosecution  of  the  several  bonds  ;  that  Weaver 
and  others  be  a  committee  about  the  affair  of  my  Lady  Salisbury ; 
and  that  the  election  of  reader  be  put  off. 

MAY  1 5. — Orders  that  a  list  be  made  of  the  names  of  the  gentle- 
men that  put  themselves  out  of  commons  last  Tuesday  night,  and 
which  of  them  have  chambers ;  and  as  to  the  payment  of  commons. 

MAY  19,  20,  24,  and  26. — Orders  that  lo/z.  be  paid  to  the 
daughters  of  John  Cressett,  deceased  ;  that  Tooker's  request  to  com- 
pound for  his  vacations  be  referred  to  the  Friday  committee ;  that 
Hodges  and  Davis  each  have  lo/z.  towards  repairing  their  bench 


>7°7] 


INNER  TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


chambers  ;  and  that  Ruffles  have  eleven  years  added  to  his  term  in 
his  house  and  shop  upon  rebuilding  the  same. 

JUNE  21. — Orders  that  Dr.  Sherlock  be  allowed  40/2.  upon  the 
same  terms  as  the  Middle  Temple  make  their  allowances;  that  "it 
be  referred  to  the  treasurer  to  repair  the  east  end  of  the  church  in 
conjunction  with  the  Middle  House";  that  Jackson,  the  reader,  be 
allowed  20/2.  per  annum,  and  it  be  considered  whether  it  is  fit  that 
the  reader  be  allowed  a  chamber  ;  and  for  the  payment  of  commons. 

JUNE  23,  25,  26,  27,  28,  and  30. — Orders  that  Jennings  be 
allowed  io/z'.  towards  the  repair  of  his  bench  chamber;  that  Jackson, 
the  reader,  be  allowed  a  chamber ;  that  5/2'.  be  added  to  the  panier- 
man's  salary ;  that  William  Knight's  petition  as  to  his  chamber  be 
referred  to  the  Friday  committee ;  and  nomination  of  those  called  to 
the  bar  at  the  parliament  held  on  29  June. 

JULY  2  and  4. — Order  that  the  chief  butler  be  restored  into 
commons. 

OCT.  28  and  29. — Orders  that  there  be  a  public  grand  day  kept 
on  i  November  next,  and  that  Mr.  Attorney  and  Jennings  invite  the 
master  of  the  Rolls  and  judges,  and  that  Hare  and  Paunceforth 
invite  the  Serjeants ;  and  that  a  demand  be  made  for  commons  in 
arrear. 

Nov.  3,  7,  10,  and  13. — Orders  that  certain  chambers  be  viewed, 
and  that  William  Knight  be  fined  20/2'.  for  altering  his  chamber 
without  leave,  and  loli.  for  encroachments  upon  the  ground  of  the 
society. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  17  November,  1706,  to  16  November,  1707,  in  the 
treasurership  of  Robert  Payne. 


RECEIPTS. 
Money  received  towards  the  organ,  i,6li. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  John  White,  the  scavenger,  for  carry- 
ing off  rubbish,  etc.,  occasioned  by  the 
repairs  of  the  church,  4/2.  ST. 

To  Newnam  Taylor,  for  carriage  of  50 


loads  of  rubbish  from  the  new  well,  etc., 

3//.  JDS. 
To    Barnaby   Steward,    for    wire    work, 

i//'.   14^-. 
To  Barber,  for  wine  spent  [by  the  masters 

of  the  bench]  on  31  December,  1706, 

being  Thanksgiving  day,  (sli.  ics. 
To  Thomas  Dry,  for  taking  Sarah  Temple 

as    an    apprentice    and   providing    all 


406 


A  CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[-707 


necessaries  for  the  said  girl  so  that  the 
society  shall  be  freed  and  discharged 
from  any  further  care],  io//. 

To  William  Burnet,  the  proportion  of  this 
society  for  wire  work  at  the  church, 
lit.  45. 

For  a  year's  window  tax,  i  a/i. 

To  Chark,  for  entertainment  the  two  last 
Thanksgiving  days,  treasurer's  accounts, 
etc.,  6/i.  6s.  \d. 

To  Stanton,  the  mason,  the  full  proportion 
of  this  society  towards  his  bill  for  work 
done  at  the  Church,  etc.,  \2-jli. 

To  the  carpenter,  for  the  like  at  the 
church,  master's  house,  bridge,  and  else- 
where, IO2//.  IOS. 

To  Doogood,  the  plasterer,  for  the  like, 

doli.  i$s.  (>d. 

To  the  glaziers,  for  the  like,  43//.  i$s. 
To  the  plumbers,  for  the  like.  43/2.  los. 
To  the  painters,  for  the  like,  40/2. 
To  the  bricklayers,  for  the  like,  25/2'. 
To  the  smiths,  for  the  like,  23/2. 
To  the  joiners,  for  the  like,  loff.  6s. 
To  the  plasterers,  for  work  done  at  the 

Dean's  house,  6/i. 
The  proportion  of  this  House  for  carver's 

work,  6s. 
The  bill  of  the  charges  of  the  burial  of 

John  Cressett,  zli.  igs.  qei. 
To  Hayward,  the  part  of  this  society  for 

measuring  the  several  works  done  at  the 

repairs  of  the  church,  4//. 
To  Byne,  for  the  damage  he  sustained  by 

reason  of  the  new  buildings  stopping  up 

his  end  lights,  ioff.  15*: 
To  the  panierman,  half  a  year's  allowance 

for  his  care  of  the  library,  zli.  ics. 
To  Barber,  at  the  Fountain  Tavern,  two 

bills  for  wine,  etc.,  spent  on  island  igth 

May,  5//.  2s. 


To  Wilson,  for  a  gross  of  pint  bottles 
[marked],  iff.  los. 

To  Fowler,  for  a  year's  care  of  the  fountain, 
iff.. 

To  Took,  for  elephant  paper  and  [24] 
"  prints  for  the  dial ",  iff.  6.?.  6d. 

For  half  a  year's  rent  for  the  New  River 
Water,  2/i. 

To  Wynn,  for  two  dials,  etc.,  25/2'. 

To  George  Newland,  for  the  repair  of 
Hodge's  chamber,  icff. 

To  Jackson,  the  reader,  for  finishing  his 
chamber,  25/2'. 

To  Stevens,  for  painting  the  wall  bench 
in  the  Little  Garden,  12/2'. 

To  [Edward  Strong  for  the  pedestal  for 
the  dial  in  the  Great  Garden  steps, 
etc.],  25/2. 

To  Manwaring  Davies,  for  the  repair  of 
his  bench  chambers,  loff. 

To  the  panierman,  towards  his  expenses 
in  his  illness,  2/2.  y. 

The  under-treasurer's  bill  of  disbursements 
[to  Burrell,  for  finding  out  Fletcher  to 
measure  the  church  work ;  to  Somers, 
for  scouring  and  setting  up  the  hang- 
ings in  the  chamber  let  to  Shirley,  12*.; 
the  moiety  of  a  bill  spent  at  the  Mitre 
Tavern  at  the  adjusting  of  the  bills 
about  the  church,  125.  lod. ;  the  ex- 
penses at  the  Horn  tavern  at  the  meet- 
ing of  the  two  treasurers  about  the 
church,  &s. ;  to  Dry,  for  carrying  a  lewd 
woman  to  Bridewell,  is. ;  to  the  porters, 
for  playing  the  engine,  25. ;  for  search 
of  Pettyt's  will  and  fee,  45.  4</.,  etc.], 
2  iff.  6s.  \\d. 

Receipts,  2,346/2'.  05.  8</. 
Disbursements,  1,953/2'.  14^.  6d. 
Remains,  392/2.  6s.  2d. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1707,  JUNE  2. — An  inventory  of  the  linen,  viz. :  6  "Swingers" 
cloths,  4  officers'  cloths,  1 2  bench  cloths,  5  clerks'  cloths,  1 1  high 
hall  cloths,  etc. 


i7o7-8]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  407 

1707,  SEPT.  4. — Warrant  for  the  payment  of  44/2'.  i&s.  for  stone- 
work done  at  the  east  end  of  the  Temple  Church. 

1/07,  OCT.  1 8. — A  warrant  for  the  payment  of  the  moiety  of  the 
carpenter's  bill  for  46/2.  los.  for  scaffolding  at  the  east  end  of  the 
church,  for  guttering  at  the  west  end,  and  for  a  "  cupilow  "  on  the 
south  side  of  the  church  (31/2'.). 

1707,  OCT.  — . — An  account  for  repairing  the  gutters  and  lead  on 
the  roof  of  the  Temple  Church. 

1707,  Nov.  i. — A  list  of  gentlemen  sewers  and  waiters. 

1707. — Warrant  to  pay  the  mason's  bill  for  repairing  the  east 
and  west  ends  of  the  church,  viz.  : — for  63  ft.  "  of  coving  Cornish,"  at 
the  east  end,  22/z.  is.  ;  for  taking  the  three  gable  ends  of  coping  and 
new  setting  and  cutting  out  the  old  stones  where  decayed  and  making 
good  again,  5/2.  los.  ;  for  54  ft.  of  coping  at  the  west  end  of  the 
church,  5/z.  8s.  ;  to  the  polisher  for  new  "  glaing "  (glazing  ?)  the 
marble  font  in  the  church,  i^s. ;  for  iron  work  to  fasten  it,  is. ;  for 
plaster  of  Paris  and  setting  up,  4^. ;  for  mending  the  Knight  Templar 
and  plaster  of  Paris,  4^. 


ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  par- 
liaments during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : 
WILLIAM  BARNESLEY,  treasurer,  7  ;  JOHN  DALBY,  7  ;  JOHN  CLENDON, 
6;  JOHN  HALES,  6;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  5;  SAMUEL  DODD,  4; 
RALPH  HARE,  4;  MATTHEW  DAVIS,  3;  JOHN  BORRET,  3;  JOHN  HOL- 
LOWAY,  3  ;  WILLIAM  WRIGHT,  3  ;  JOHN  TOOKER,  3  ;  ROBERT  PAYNE, 
2 ;  EDWARD  JENNINGS,  Q.C.,  2 ;  BARON  SIMPSON,  2  ;  RICHARD 
KNAPP,  2  ;  RICHARD  WEBB,  i  ;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  junior,  i  ;  SIR 
SIMON  HARCOURT,  i  ;  and  GEORGE  WRIGHT,  i. 

1707. 
Nov.  23. — Admittances  to  chambers. 

1707-8. 

FEB.   i. — Order  that  Richard  Knapp,  John  Holloway,  William 
Wright,  and  John  Tooker  be  called  to  the  bench. 
FEB.  12. — Admittance  to  a  chamber. 


4oS  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1707-8 

1708. 

MAY.   1 6. — Sir  Gilbert  Dolben,  bart.,  chosen  reader. 

JUNE  20. — Christopher  Theed,  Charles  Weld,  Thomas  Jones, 
Thomas  Methuen,  Geoffrey  Hornby,  James  Jenyns,  William  Buckle, 
Thomas  Price,  and  Joseph  Ash  called  to  the  bar. 

Nov>  7. — Sir  Gilbert  Dolben,  knt.,  continued  reader.  Sir  Peter 
King,  recorder  of  London,  called  to  the  bench. 

NOV-  21. — Samuel  Trewell,  junior,  appointed  steward  according 
to  the  proposals  annexed  to  his  bond. 

Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : — Dalby 
and  Dodd,  of  the  bench,  and  Tyrell  and  Pengelly,  of  the  bar. 

Treasurer  : — Sir  William  Simpson,  knt.,  one  of  the  barons  of  the 
Exchequer. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : — WIL- 
LIAM BARNSLEY,  treasurer,  34 ;  HODGES,  33  ;  DALBY,  26  ;  PAYNE, 
24  ;  COURTNEY,  21  ;  BORRETT,  21  ;  BARON  SIMPSON,  20;  HALES,  20; 
HOLLOWAY,  19;  WEBB,  19;  HARE,  19;  DODD,  16 ;  W.  WRIGHT, 
15;  TOOKER,  14;  PAUNCEFORTH,  13;  KNAPP,  n;  JENNINGS,  9; 
GROVE,  9  ;  DAVIS,  5  ;  BOWYER,  4  ;  and  G.  WRIGHT,  3. 

1707. 

Nov.  18,  21,  and  22. — Orders  for  viewing  chambers;  that 
William  Knight's  petition  for  a  mitigation  of  his  fines,  be  rejected ; 
and  that  the  Act  of  Parliament  of  19  November,  1691,  ought  not  to 
hinder  Wright  from  having  a  bench  chamber. 

Nov.  25. — Orders  that  Knight's  chamber  be  padlocked  for  not 
paying  his  fines;  that  Duncan  Dee  and  John  Dyke  be  fined  20/2. 
each  for  not  reading  at  Clifford's  Inn  and  Lyon's  Inn  respectively; 
that  Charles  Bawdes  shall  discharge  all  duties  owing  by  him  or  be 
continued  reader  for  Clement's  Inn  ;  that  the  names  of  John  Peachy, 
Daniel  Deligne,  and  William  Martin  be  sent  to  Clifford's  Inn  ;  and 
the  names  of  Robert  Frampton,  Charles  Morgan,  Samuel  Dalton, 


,7o8]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  409 

John  Churchill,  Anthony  Ellesdon,  and  Brereton  Bourchier  be  sent 
to  Lyon's  Inn,  out  of  which  to  choose  a  reader. 

1707-8. 

JAN.  26,  29,  and  31. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  commons  ;  and 
nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bench  at  the  parliament  held  on 
i  February. 

FEB.  ii. — Orders  for  viewing  chambers. 

1708. 

APRIL  27. — Upon  reading  the  petition  of  Shrider,  organ-maker, 
who  desires  to  succeed  Smith,  lately  deceased,  as  to  the  repairing, 
cleaning,  and  keeping  the  organ  in  tune,  it  is  ordered  that  the  dis- 
position and  direction  thereof  be  left  to  the  treasurer. 

APRIL  29  and  30. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  commons ;  and 
that  the  gentlemen  of  the  bar  taking  up  the  imparlance,  do  for  the 
future  deliver  a  copy  of  all  the  pleadings,  before  the  bench  rise  from 
dinner,  to  the  exercise  butler,  and  any  failure  in  that  behalf  be  taken 
as  a  failure  of  the  exercise. 

MAY  4. — Order  upon  petition  of  the  second  cook  and  panierman 
that  they  may  provide  calves'  head  for  some  day  in  the  grand  week, 
but  not  on  grand  day,  and  this  to  be  no  precedent. 

MAY  7. — "  Upon  reading  the  petition  of  Mr.  Thomas  Major, 
setting  forth  that  Michael  Newnham,  esq.,  and  Mr.  Edward 
Newnham,  his  brother,  are  indebted  to  him  in  about  the  sum  of 
ioo/.,  and  that  he  hath  recovered  judgment,  and  that  the  said 
Mr.  Edward  Newnham  shelters  himself  in  this  society,  and  praying 
that  he  may  be  permitted  to  arrest  him  in  the  said  society,  being  no 
member  thereof.  Whereupon  it  is  ordered  that  the  said  Mr.  Major 
be  permitted  to  arrest  the  said  Mr.  Edward  Newnham  within  the 
said  society,  but  that  he  forthwith  have  notice  thereof." 

MAY  12,  14,  and  1 5. — Order  that  the  former  committee  about  the 
steward  be  revived ;  that  no  member  have  above  one  repast  in  any 
week,  except  the  first  in  the  term  ;  that  it  be  referred  to  the  Friday 
committee  "  to  consider  of  all  sorts  of  exercise,  viz.,  what,  on  what 
days,  and  in  what  manner  to  be  performed." 

JUNE  7. — The  masters  of  the  bar  having  applied  to  the  table 
upon  some  special  matter,  it  is  ordered  that  the  consideration  thereof 

in.  3  G 


4TO 


A    CALENDAR   OF   THE  [170? 


be  adjourned  till  Thursday  next,  and  that  the  masters  of  the  bench 
have  notice  to  be  present. 

JUNE  10. — Order  that  the  address  of  the  bar  be  considered  at 
the  table. 

JUNE  12. — Orders  that  Hales  and  others  be  added  to  the 
committee  about  the  steward's  affair ;  that  such  committee  consider 
whether  the  steward's  bond  and  contract  be  fit  to  be  altered  in  form, 
and  whether  the  bond  is  sufficient,  considering  the  matter  and 
persons  obliged,  and  the  committee  to  meet  in  the  library,  between 
8  and  9  a.m.;  that  arrears  of  commons  be  paid;  that  no  bencher 
have  any  choice  of  chamber  or  any  vote  at  the  table  or  in  parliament, 
whilst  he  owes  above  loli.  for  commons,  three  days  after  it  is 
demanded;  that  there  be  a  call  to  the  bar  this  term;  that  special 
care  be  forthwith  taken  about  entering  the  matter  about  the  master 
and  the  church,  and  that  for  such  purpose  application  be  made  to  get 
a  copy  of  what  is  entered  in  the  Middle  Temple,  for  assistance 
therein  ;  and  that  it  be  referred  to  Clendon  and  others  to  consider 
and  settle  the  forms  about  exercise,  revels,  and  the  going  out  of 
Serjeants,  and  other  ceremonies,  and  to  see  the  same  entered. 

JUNE  14. — Orders  that  Mr.  Sherlock,  master  of  the  Temple, 
may  be  at  liberty  to  take  down  the  brick  wall  and  set  up  pallisadoes 
between  his  garden  and  Tanfield  Court,  but  the  same  is  to  be  first 
viewed  by  Dalby  and  Hare ;  and  that  there  be  a  call  to  the  bar  on 
Friday. 

JUNE  1 5  and  16. — Nomination  of  those  called  to  the  bar  at  the  par- 
liament held  on  June  20;  and  that  the  matter  of  the  bar  be  adjourned. 

JUNE  17,  18,  19,  21,  and  23. —  Order  that  Payne  withdraw  his 
motion  relating  to  the  master  of  the  Temple  ;  further  nomination  of 
those  called  to  the  bar  ;  that  the  treasurer  and  others  be  a  committee 
to  consider  under  what  regulations,  restrictions,  and  limitations,  the 
gentlemen  of  the  bar  may  be  admitted  into  the  hall ;  that  the  report 
made  by  Hare,  from  the  committee  appointed  to  consider  of  the 
affairs  of  the  steward,  be  agreed  to  ;  and  a  copy  of  such  proposals  be 
given  to  the  steward. 

OCT.  25  and  29. — Orders  that  there  be  a  public  grand  day  this 
term,  and  that  Jennings  and  Courtney  invite  the  master  of  the  Rolls 
and  judges,  and  that  Paunceforth  and  Holloway  invite  the  Serjeants; 
and  that  Sir  Peter  King  be  called  to  the  bench. 


INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


411 


Nov.  4,  8,  and  9. — Orders  that  the  present  steward  continue  for 
this  term  and  no  longer,  and  that  Trowell  from  henceforth  be 
steward  ;  and  that  the  arrears  for  commons  be  paid. 

Nov.  10,  1 8,  and  20. — Orders  that  the  security  proposed  by 
Trowell,  be  approved  of;  that  the  committee  about  the  master  be 
revived ;  that  the  committee  relating  to  the  going  out  of  Serjeants, 
forms  of  exercise,  grand  day,  and  revels  be  revived,  and  report  to 
the  Friday  committee ;  and  that  the  .bonds  of  William  Busfeild  and 
William  Gilpin  be  delivered  up. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT    BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  16  November,  1707,  to  21   November,  1708,  in  the 
treasurership  of  William  Barnesley. 


RECEIPTS. 
Money  received  towards  the  organ,  from 

the  gentlemen  called  to  the  bar,  18/1. 
Of    Silvester,    for    the    ground,    etc.,    for 

several  burials,  •j/i,  i$s. 
Of  "Silvester  Petyt,  his  brother's  legacy 

to  the  society  towards  buying  books  for 

a  library,  $oli." 

DISBURSEMENTS. 
For  the  play  acted  on  i  Nov.,  1707,  in  the 

hall  [to  Zach.  Bagg,  for  the  use  of  the 

players  of  the  Theatre  Royal  in  Drury 

Lane],  2oli. 
To  Stafford,  pavior,  for  work  done  between 

both  Houses,  3/2.  14$. 
To  the  carpenters,  the  like,  for  work  done 

about  the  church,  z^fi. 
To  the  plasterers,  for  the  like,  22/1.  gs. 
To  the  plumbers,  for  the  like,  zi//. 
To  the  masons,  for  the  like,  i  "jli. 
To   the   glazier,  the    proportion    of   this 

society,  for  work  done  at  the  church,  85. 
To  Mrs.  Elliott,  a  quarter's  pension,  £//'. 
To  Home,  the  bricklayer,  the  proportion 

of  this  society,  for  work  done  about  the 

Temple  Church,  3//.  105. 
To  the  painters,  for  the  like,  2/i.  IQS. 
To     Mrs.     Newbury,     Judge     Morton's 


daughter,  as  a  bounty  of  the  House, 
i  o/i. 

For  the  window  tax,  for  one  year,  iz//. 

To  Cadwallader,  badge  porter,  for  lighting 
the  lanthorns  at  the  benchers'  staircases 
last  winter,  z//. 

To  the  panierman  in  full,  for  wine  spent 
by  the  masters  of  the  bench  in  Michael- 
mas term  last,  5i#.  13.?.  9^. 

To  Cordwell,  carpenter,  in  part  of  his 
contract  for  building  the  new  library, 
$oli. 

To  Home,  bricklayer,  for  the  like,  40/1. 

To  Sherlock,  towards  repairing  and  fitting 
up  [the  mansion  house  "set  apart  for  my 
dwelling  as  master  of  the  Temple,  and 
I  do  hereby  promise  to  put  the  said 
society  to  no  more  charge  in  or  about 
the  said  house  or  its  appurtenances, 
during  the  time  I  shall  continue  master 
of  the  Temple  "],  40/1. 

To  him,  for  a  quarter's  allowance  ["  due  to 
me  from  the  said  society,  for  chambers 
and  all  other  payments,  formerly  made 
to  the  masters  of  the  Temple,  and  end- 
ing at  Midsummer  last"],  25/1. 

To  the  chief  butler,  a  quarter's  salary  then 
due,  "jli.  ios.,  and  for  newspapers  for 
the  four  last  terms.  In  all,  g//.  $s. 


412 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[1708 


To  Rogers,  for  a  large  vellum  book  for  the 

library,  6//.  5.?. 
To  Mrs.  Alcock  [administratrix  to  her  late 

husband],  in  full  for  carver's  work,  "jli. 
To  Daniel  Delander,  for  the  clock  [stand- 
ing in  the  room  called  the  library,  with 

an  agreement  to  keep  the  same  in  repair 

during  his  life],  28/7. 
To      Osmond,     the      plumber,     towards 

plumber's  work  to  be  done  about  the 

new  library,  20/1. 

Numerous  payments,  for   nursing  found- 
lings. 
To  Cook,  the  joiner,  in  part  for  wains- 

cotting  the  new  library,  ioo//. 
To  Morton  and  Fowler,  in  part  for  the 

brass  branch  candlestick,  25/7. 
To   Mrs.  Ball,  a   year's   rent   of  Master 

Sherlock's  house,  2oli. 
To    Walthoe,    for    books    [for    the    new 

library],  i6//.  los. 
To  Rogers,  for  the  like,  i8//. 
To  Mrs.  Coggan,  for  the  like,  i8//. 
To  Took,  for  the  like,  4/1.  8s. 
To  Harper,  for  the  like,  i  7//.  55. 
To  Morton  and  Fowler,  the  remainder  for 

the  brass  branch  candlestick  [hanging 

in  the  hall],  -j/i. 
To  the  treasurer,  his  allowance  as  treasurer, 

So//. 
To  Johnson,  for  his  extraordinary  care  last 

vacation,  5//. 
To  J.  Chartier,  for  twelve  silver  spoons  and 

a  silver  cup  and  cover,  25//.  15.?. 
To  Charles  Gardner,  for  box  edging,  n//. 


To  Stevens,  for  joiner's  work  done  in  his 
study,  part  of  the  Exchequer  Office, 
ili.  5*. 

To  Dodd,  towards  the  repairs  of  his  bench 
chamber,  by  order  of  the  table,  loli. 

To  the  master  of  the  revels,  in  part  of  his 
allowance,  zli.  is.  zd. 

To  the  under-treasurer,  his  bill  of  disburse- 
ments [for  expenses  at  the  Horn  Tavern 
at  the  meeting  of  the  two  treasurers  and 
Payne,  about  settling  the  bills  for  the 
church  work  done  in  Payne's  treasurer- 
ship,  gs.  6d.  ;  Thomas  Johnson's  ex- 
penses in  carrying  a  lewd  woman  to 
Bridewell,  zs. ;  for  two  bottles  of  wine 
for  treating  the  organist,  45. ;  to  Robi- 
son  for  playing  thrice  on  the  organ, 
i//'.  i2s.  $d. ;  for  coach  hire  and  water- 
age to  Sir  Christopher  Wren's,  is.  6d. ; 
to  Box's  laundress  for  cleaning  his 
chamber,  much  rubbish  falling  down 
his  chimney,  occasioned  by  the  building 
of  the  library,  zs.  6d. ;  for  copy  of  Petyt's 
will  and  duty,  1 2 s.  6d. ;  to  the  joiner's 
men  for  drink  at  helping  down  of  the 
pictures,  is.;  expenses  upon  the  measurers 
that  measured  the  work  in  the  library,  at 
the  Horn  Tavern,  9^. ;  to  the  gentlemen 
that  brought  the  Queen's  books  at  several 
times,  in  all,  4/7.  6j.],  ig/7.  95.  nd. 
For  27  sermons,  54//. 

Receipts,  2,439/7.  is.  $d. 
Disbursements,  2, 265/7.  gs.  lid. 
Balance,  173/7.  us.  $d. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1/07,  Nov.  26. — A  note  of  the  glazier's  bill  of  \6s.  7^.,  for  work 
done  in  the  east  windows  of  the  Temple  church. 

1 708,  MAY  7. — An  account  of  the  House  goods  in  the  possession 
of  John  Clendon.  Amongst  the  items  are,  a  piece  of  tapestry  hang- 
ing in  the  dining  room  next  Figtree  Court,  "which  I  bought  with 
part  of  the  money,  formerly  allowed  me  towards  the  repair  of  my 
chambers,"  a  desk,  chairs,  and  a  garden  pot  on  the  leads. 

1708,  JUNK  23. — Memorandum  drawn  up  by  the  steward  setting 


i7o8]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  413 

out  what  had  previously  been  the  practice  of  the  House  with  regard 
to  the  payment  of  apparels  for  commons,  etc. 

1708,  JUNE  23. — Hare's  proposals  to  the  bench  about  the  office 
of  the  steward,  and  the  terms  according  to  which  it  should  be  under- 
taken by  a  fitting  and  able  person. 

1708,  JUNE  23. — The  proposals  by  Charke,  the  steward,  as  to 
providing  commons  and  for  payment  of  the  same. 

1708,  JUNE  23. — Proposals  about  the  office  of  steward  and  terms 
upon  which  it  should  be  undertaken,  by  Samuel  Trowel!,  junior. 

1708,  OCT.  27. — Consent  by  Richard  Webb,  one  of  the  trustees 
and  executors  of  the  will  of  William  Petyt,  late  treasurer  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  and  keeper  of  her  Majesty's  records  in  the  Tower  of  London, 
dated  12  July,  1705,  that  for  the  purpose  of  preserving  the  MSS. 
and  printed  books  of  law,  history,  antiquity,  and  parliamentary  pro- 
ceedings, and  keeping  them  safe  and  entire  for  public  use,  to  the 
intent  and  meaning  of  the  said  will,  they  shall  for  ever  hereafter  be 
deposited  and  kept  in  the  lately  erected  library  of  the  Inner  Temple. 

1708,  Nov.  !.• — Copy  of  a  receipt  by  George  Wheeler,  sub- 
treasurer,  to  Silvester  Petyt,  executor  of  the  will  of  William  Petyt, 
for  the  following  books.  In  manuscript: — 33  Parliament  Rolls;  46 
Journals  of  Parliament ;  38  Records,  being  abstracts  of  proceedings, 
confirmations,  and  matters  of  state  in  several  kings'  reigns  and 
parliaments,  etc.  ;  14  De  Pardonationibus,  De  moneta,  Litera 
procur'  cleri  in  Parliamento,  Theatrum  criminalium,  vol.  i,  2,  3,  4, 
5,  De  Provisionibus  papalibus,  vol.  i  and  2,  De  creatione  Nobilium 
in  parliamento  et  extra,  vol.  i  and  2,  De  cartis  concessis  civitatibus 
et  burgis,  vol.  i  and  2  ;  56  Proceedings  in  Parliament  and  Miscel- 
lanies, the  particulars  are  abstracted  ;  6  Law  common-place  books  ; 
7  Charters,  privileges,  coronations,  etc. ;  9  Placita,  etc.  Printed 
Books  : — 88  Law  books,  and  94  History  books.  All  which  are 
placed  in  the  large  new  room  built  for  a  library. 

1708,  Nov.  ii. — Bond  by  Samuel  Trowell  of  the  parish  of 
St.  James,  Clerkenwell,  to  perform  the  office  of  steward  of  the 
Inner  Temple  for  five  years,  according  to  his  proposals,  dated 
23  June,  1708. 

1708. — Mr.  Hare's  observations  relating  to  commons. 

1708. — Bond  by  John  Dunster  to  indemnify  the  House  against 
damage  by  building  a  cellar  under  his  chamber. 


4i4  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1708-9 


ACTS   OF   PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  parlia- 
ments during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances : — 
BARON  SIMPSON,  treasurer,  5  ;  RICHARD  KNAPP,  6 ;  JOHN  CLENDON, 
5  ;  JOHN  DALBY,  5  ;  JOHN  HOLLOW  AY,  5  ;  WILLIAM  WRIGHT,  5  ; 
NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  4;  JOHN  TOOKER,  4;  JOHN  HALES,  3;  EDWARD 
JENNINGS,  Q.C.,  3 ;  JOHN  BORRET,  3 ;  RALPH  HARE,  3  ;  WILLIAM 
BARNESLEY,  2  ;  SAMUEL  DODD,  2  ;  GRIMBALD  PAUNCEFORTH,  2  ;  ROBERT 
PAINE,  i  ;  and  SIR  GILBERT  DOLBEN,  bart.,  i. 

1708. 
Nov.  28. — Admittances  to  chambers. 

1708-9. 
FEB.  11. — Admittances  to  chambers  and  allowances  to  officers.1 

1709. 

MAY  22. — Ralph  Hare  chosen  reader. 

JULY  8. — Order  that  Edward  Jones,  the  second  butler,  have  a 
lease  of  the  shops  near  the  bog-houses. 

Thomas  Carthew,  Thomas  Trevor,  Richard  Brooks,  Thomas 
Browne,  Weyman  Lee,  Edward  Chapman,  John  Harding,  John 
Floyer,  and  Joseph  Davey  called  to  the  bar. 

Nov.  13. — Order  that  the  vault  made  by  Sir  William  Simpson 
in  Figtree  Court  be  added  to  the  chamber  late  of  Anthony  Bowyer. 

Nov.  20. — Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts: 
— Dodd  and  Tooker  of  the  bench,  and  Tyrrell  and  Pengelly  of  the 
bar. 

Treasurer : — John  Dalby. 

BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances : — 

1  At  the  end  of  this  parliament  is  a  note  that  "  the  act  of  parliament  relating  to 
the  Library  to  be  entered  here." 


,7o8-9]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  415 

BARON  SIMPSON,  treasurer,  24  ;  BARNESLEY,  23  ;  HALES,  22  ; 
CLENDON,  21 ;  TOOKER,  20;  DALEY,  19;  W.  WRIGHT,  19;  COURTNEY, 
18;  BORETT,  18;  WEBB,  17;  KNAPP,  15;  HOLLOW  AY,  14;  PAYNE,  13; 
DODD,  12;  HARE,  12;  JENNINGS,  8;  PAUNCEFORTH,  7;  FARRER,  4; 
SIR  PETER  KING,  3  ;  DAVIS,  2  ;  and  G.  WRIGHT,  i. 

1708. 

Nov.  24,  26,  and  27. — Orders  that  in  consideration  of  the 
services  of  Charke,  the  late  steward,  and  the  loss  he  is  like  to  be  at 
for  want  of  employment,  that  40/2'.  per  annum  be  allowed  him  during 
the  pleasure  of  the  table ;  and  that  the  pension  to  Elliot,  the  late 
gardener,  be  taken  off. 

Nov.  29. — Orders  that  Brereton  Bourchier  and  Charles  Bawdes 
be  fined  20/2.  each  for  not  reading  respectively  at  Lyon's  Inn  and 
Clement's  Inn;  that  the  names  of  Bazil  Feilding,  Charles  Morgan, 
Samuel  Dalton,  John  Churchill,  Anthony  Ellesdon,  and  Henry  Jones, 
be  sent  to  Lyon's  Inn  ;  that  the  names  of  Hugh  Ridgate,  Robert 
Dalway,  and  William  Hughs  be  sent  to  Clifford's  Inn  ;  and  the 
names  of  John  Dolben,  Abel  Bradley,  and  Henry  Sawyer  be  sent  to 
Clement's  Inn,  for  choice  of  readers. 

1708-9. 

JAN.  26  and  28. — Orders  as  to  viewing  chambers,  and  that 
the  draft  of  the  act  of  parliament,  prepared  by  Silvester  Petyt, 
relating  to  the  books,  etc.,  given  by  William  Petyt,  his  late  brother, 
deceased,  be  agreed  to  and  be  put  in  the  paper  to  pass  at  the  next 
parliament. 

FEB.  7,  8,  and  9. — Orders  for  viewing  chambers  ;  that  Charles 
Pulteney's  chamber  be  viewed,  to  see  how  much  he  is  damnified  by 
building  the  new  library  ;  and  that  the  petition  of  the  cook  be  referred 
to  the  Friday  committee. 

FEB.  ii  and  12. — Order  upon  the  report  that  Poulteney's 
chamber  is  damnified  by  the  building  of  the  library,  that  he  be 
allowed  five  guineas  in  recompense  ;  that  Dunstan  have  leave  to 
dig  a  cellar,  as  desired ;  that  Bourcher  upon  paying  his  fine  for  not 
reading  and  all  arrears,  have  his  bond  delivered  up ;  and  that 
Wheeler  have  leave  to  padlock  up  his  chamber,  his  tenement  there 
being  much  in  arrear  for  rent. 


416  A  CALENDAR    OF   THE  [,7o9 

1709. 

MAY  19  and  20. — Orders  that  the  gentlemen  of  the  bar  and 
under  the  bar  have  leave  to  come  into  the  hall  on  the  north  side 
before  dinner  in  summer  time,  but  not  higher  in  the  hall  than  the 
upper  end  of  the  lower  bar  table  ;  and  as  to  chambers. 

MAY  21. — Order  that  every  master  of  the  bench  having  a  bench 
chamber  be  obliged  to  pay  the  commons  and  other  duties  chargeable 
upon  such  chamber  yearly,  and  upon  failure,  the  said  chamber  to  be 
seized  into  the  hands  of  the  House  till  all  be  paid. 

MAY  27  and  28.  — Orders  that  the  petition  of  Edward  Jones, 
second  butler,  for  a  further  term  in  the  shop,  formerly  granted  to 
Clark,  and  the  petition  of  Elizabeth  Elliott  for  the  bounty  of  the 
House  be  referred  to  the  Friday  committee  ;  that  Elizabeth  Elliott 
have  lo/z.  to  place  her  out  to  apprentice  ;  that  all  the  garret  chambers 
in  the  hands  of  the  House  may  be  sold  to  gentlemen  in  the  same 
staircase  to  be  consolidated  to  their  chambers. 

JUNE  4. — Order  that  "  Samuel  Carter  be  library  keeper  of  this 
society,  upon  such  conditions,  and  giving  such  security  for  the 
faithful  discharge  of  his  said  office  as  shall  be  thought  reasonable  by 
a  committee  to  be  appointed  by  the  table  to  consider  of  that  matter, 
and  that  the  said  Mr.  Carter  be  allowed  a  salary  of  twenty  [pounds] 
per  annum,  payable  half  yearly." 

JULY  i. — Upon  reading  the  petition  of  William  Watkins  for 
leave  to  arrest  Henry  Rawser,  barber,  it  is  ordered  that  notice  be 
given  to  Rawser  of  the  petition,  and  if  he  does  not  pay  the  petitioner 
before  this  day  sennight,  he  shall  be  turned  out  of  the  House. 

JULY  2,  5,  6,  7,  and  8. — -Orders  as  to  viewing  chambers;  that 
Jones,  the  second  butler,  have  a  lease  of  the  shop  formerly  granted 
to  William  Clark,  for  twenty-one  years ;  and  nomination  of  those 
called  to  the  bar  at  the  parliament  held  on  8  July. 

JULY  12  and  13. — Orders  as  to  chambers,  and  that  the  society 
continue  no  longer  in  commons. 

OCT.  24. —  Order  that  notice  be  given  to  every  master  of  the 
bench  that  he  will  please  to  be  at  the  table  on  Wednesday,  to 
consider  of  some  extraordinary  business. 

OCT.  26. — Orders  that  Samuel  Carter,  the  library  keeper,  give 
two  securities  in  the  penalty  of  1000/2.  for  the  true  performance  of 


1709] 


INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS. 


417 


his  office  ;  that  the  library  keeper  attend  in  the  library  from  Lady  clay 
to  Michaelmas  from  9  a.m.  to  12,  and  from  3  p.m.  till  6  p.m.,  and 
from  Michaelmas  till  Lady  day,  from  10  a.m.  till  12,  and  from  3  p.m. 
till  5  p.m.  ;  that  there  be  a  public  grand  day,  and  that  the  manner  of 
the  entertainment  be  left  to  the  treasurer ;  that  Jennings  and  Courtney 
invite  the  master  of  the  Rolls  and  judges  ;  and  that  Paunceforth  and 
Holloway  invite  the  Serjeants. 

Nov.  12  and  18. — Orders  for  viewing  chambers. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  21   November,  1708,  to  20  November,  1709,  in  the 
treasurership  of  Sir  William  Simpson. 


RECEIPTS. 

Money  received  towards  the  organ,  from 
the  gentlemen  called  to  the  bar,  i8//'. 

Of  Webb,  towards  the  bounty  given  Mrs. 
Newbury,  in  lieu  of  his  treat,  j/i. 

Of  the  treasurer,  received  by  him  of 
Silvester  Petyt,  executor  of  his  brother 
William  Petyt,  deceased,  towards  build- 
ing the  new  library,  I5o//. 

Of  Silvester,  the  clerk,  for  ground  for 
burials,  $li. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  Warne,  the  painter,  is//. 
To  Charles  Gardiner,  towards  loss  sus- 
tained by  his  plants  being  stolen,  5//. 
To  Charles  Pulteney,  for  the  damage  he 

sustained  by  the  building  of  the  new 

library,  5 A",  -js.  6d. 
To  Mrs.  Smith,  executrix  of  Smith,  the 

organ-maker,   for  two  years'  salary  for 

tuning  the  organ,  2O//. 
For  hangings  that  were  left  in  Berisford's 

chamber  at  his  death,  to  his  executrix, 

ili.  is.  6d. 
To  the  panierman,  for  wine  spent  by  the 

masters  of  the  bench  in  Michaelmas 

term,  6i//.  3.?.  \d. 
To  Squire,  half  a  year's  wages  due  at  Lady 

day,  for  his  care  of  the  library  and  green 

house,  5/». 

in.  3 


Foroneyear's  assessment,  for  windows,  iz//. 
To  Gould,  for  measuring  the  several  works 

of  the  new  library  and  valuing  the  said 

works,  5//.  -]s.  6d. 
To  Tompion,  for  three  years'  repairs  of  the 

Temple  clock,  3//. 
To  Fowler,  for  repairs  to  the  flower  pots 

and  care  of  the  fountain,  3//. 
To  Shrider,  for  a  year's  salary  for  tuning 

and  cleaning  the  organ,  io//. 
For  half  a  year's  rent  for  the  New  River 

Water,  2//. 

To  Worrell,  for  clothes  and  taking  Eliza- 
beth Elliott,  the  late  gardener's  daughter, 

as  an  apprentice,  5//. 
To   Mrs.  Alcock  in  part  of  her  bill  for 

carver's  work,  5//. 
To  Charles  Gardner,  for  yews  and  turning 

the  walks,  etc.,  5//.  5.1. 
To  [James  Thornhill  (24  Aug.),  "  in  part  of 

my  contract  for  the  picture  to  be  placed 

at  the  upper  end  of  the  hall "],  4 5 A'. 
To  him  more  (17  Sept.),  being  in  full  for 

the  picture,  frame,  etc.,  2$li. 
To  Walton,  for  cleaning  and  varnishing 

the    old    pictures    in    the    hall    [King 

William's,  Queen  Mary's,  and  the  two 

judges'  pictures],  4//. 
To   Howard,  for   lining  the   [large]   new 

picture  in  the  hall  and  frames  for  the 

judges'  pictures,  etc.,  4//. 

H 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


[1709 


To  Fowler,  for  water  works,  etc.,  for  the 
fountain  in  the  bencher's  garden, 
8//.  i$s. 

To  Silvester,  for  disbursements  about  the 
church,  i/;'.  i6s.  • 

To  Morton,  for  cleaning  the  brass  sconce 
in  the  hall,  ili. 

To  the  under-treasurer,  his  bill  of  dis- 
bursements, 1 1  A'.  3-f.  zd. 


To  Niccoleni,  for  singing  on  the  public 
grand     day,     being     i     Nov.,     1709, 

2I/Z.    1OS. 

For  twenty  seven  sermons,  54#. 
Receipts,  1640/1.  iqs.  $d. 
Disbursements,  i654#.  <)S.  6d. 
Balance     to     under-treasurer,     i$li. 
105.  id. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1709,  MAY  2. — Authority  by  Sir  William  Simpson  to  George 
Wheeler,  under-treasurer,  to  give  a  receipt  for  the  remainder  of  the 
books  and  manuscripts,  lately  belonging  to  William  Petyt. 

1704,  JUNE  28. — Bond  by  Peter  Worrell,  citizen  and  glover 
of  London,  to  take  Elizabeth  Elliott  as  his  apprentice  for  seven 
years. 

1709. — Form  of  bond  given  by  the  library  keeper  of  the  Middle 
Temple. 

[1709]. — Act  of  Parliament  made  in  the  treasurership  of  Sir 
William  Simpson.  "  Whereas  William  Petyt,  esq.,  heretofore  trea- 
surer of  this  society  of  the  Inner  Temple  and  late  keeper  of  her 
Majesty's  records  in  the  Tower  of  London,  having  collected  a  great 
number  of  books  of  law  and  history,  antiquity  and  parliamentary 
proceedings,  did,  the  twelfth  day  of  July  in  the  fourth  year  of  her 
now  Majesty's  reign,  annoqzie  Domini  1705,  make  his  last  will  and 
testament  in  writing  and  therein  and  thereby  among  other  things 
did  give  and  devise  the  said  books  of  law,  history,  and  antiquity 
and  parliamentary  proceedings  (which  cost  him  many  years'  pains 
and  study  and  stood  him  in  much  charge  in  collecting)  to  Joseph 
Offley,  esq.,  Richard  Webb,  esq.,  Humphrey  Hetherington,  esq., 
John  Anstis,  esq.,  John  Chamberlaine,  esq.,  and  his  brother,  Silvester 
Petyt,  his  trustees,  in  trust  and  to  the  intent  and  purpose  that  they 
would  use  their  utmost  endeavours  for  preserving  and  keeping  them 
safe  and  entire  for  public  use  in  such  place  or  places  as  they,  or  the 
major  part  of  them,  or  the  survivor  or  survivors  of  them,  from  time 
to  time  should  appoint,  and  not  to  suffer  or  permit  them  to  be  em- 
bezzled or  sold  ;  for  which  purpose  he  did  give  one  hundred  and 
fifty  pounds  to  buy  or  build  a  place  and  making  it  convenient  for 


TCY & 
^/.  J.  ij 

^Sleccrvj  at  t/te 
frvrn  fhf  critf^naj painting  in  t/lf  ^ynn 


,709]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  419 

preserving  and  keeping  them,  which  is  to  be  settled  upon  his 
trustees  or  the  survivors  of  them,  or  the  heirs  of  the  survivor  of 
them  in  fee  simple  in  trust,  for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  and  in  and  by 
his  said  will  he  did  earnestly  desire  his  trustees  that  they  would  in 
convenient  time  after  his  decease  (in  justice  to  truth  and  his  memory) 
procure  such  of  his  manuscripts,  as  they  should  think  fit,  to  be 
printed,  to  remain  for  public  use  to  posterity.  And  in  and  by  his 
said  will  he  did  give  to  the  honourable  .society  of  the  Middle  Temple 
fifty  pounds  to  be  laid  out  by  his  executor  to  buy  books,  for  augment- 
ing their  library,  and  he  did  give  to  this  honourable  society  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  fifty  pounds,  to  be  laid  out  for  buying  books,  towards 
a  library,  here  to  be  erected,  and  of  his  said  will  did  make  his  said 
brother  executor,  who  hath  proved  the  same.  And  whereas  applica- 
tion hath  been  made  by  several  persons  to  the  said  trustees  touching 
the  disposing  of  and  placing  the  said  books  in  several  places  out  of 
this  society.  And  whereas  several  members  of  this  society  have 
desired  the  said  books  may  be  placed  here  and  for  that  the  said 
William  Petyt  in  his  life  time  when  keeper  of  the  said  records  in  the 
said  Tower  of  London,  did  invite  many  students  in  the  law  to  go  to 
the  Tower  to  search  and  see  the  records  there  and  take  out  of  them 
what  notes  or  abstracts  they  pleased,  gratis,  it  was  proposed  by  the 
trustees  to  such  of  the  members  of  this  society  who  desired  that  the 
said  books  might  be  placed  here,  that  if  this  society  would  provide 
a  place  for  a  library  for  placing  the  said  books  and  preserving  the 
same  for  public  use  to  all  the  purposes  as  mentioned,  in  and  accord- 
ing to  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of  the  said  will,  that  then  the  said 
trustees  would  consent  that  the  said  books  should  be  placed  in  this 
society  in  such  place  which  by  this  society  should  be  provided  for  a 
library.  And  the  said  Sylvester  Petyt  would  pay  unto  this  society  or 
such  person  or  persons  as  this  society  should  appoint,  the  said  sum  of 
one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds,  given  by  the  said  will  to  buy  or  build 
a  place  for  preserving  and  keeping  the  said  books,  which  said 
members  of  this  society  did  assure  the  said  trustees  that  the  said 
proposal  would  be  very  gratefully  accepted  by  this  society  and  per- 
formed in  all  its  parts  according  to  the  true  intent  and  meaning 
thereof  and  of  the  said  will ;  and  in  pursuance  thereof  this  society,  at 
the  proper  costs  and  charges  of  this  society  for  the  purpose  aforesaid, 
hath  erected  and  built  a  very  spacious  and  handsome  room,  wherein 


430  A   CALENDAR   OF    THE  [1709 

several  of  the  said  books  are  already  placed  and  wherein  the 
remainder  of  the  said  books  and  other  the  books  which  shall  by  this 
society  be  bought  with  the  said  fifty  pounds,  given  as  aforesaid,  are 
to  be  placed,  it  is  at  this  present  parliament  ordered  that  the  thanks 
of  this  society  shall,  by  the  treasurer  of  this  society,  be  given  to  the 
said  trustees  for  their  kindness  and  favour  in  consenting  to  and  per- 
mitting the  said  books  to  be  placed  within  the  society,  and  it  is 
enacted  that  when  the  said  books  shall  be  placed  in  the  said  library 
the  same  shall  be  preserved  and  kept  safe  and  entire  for  public  use, 
to  all  intents  and  purposes  and  according  to  the  true  intent  and 
meaning  of  the  said  will,  and  that  the  said  trustees  or  any  of  them  or 
any  person  or  persons  employed  by  them  or  the  major  part  of  them, 
shall  and  may  from  time  to  time  and  at  all  times  hereafter  take 
copies  or  make  abstracts  of  such  of  the  said  manuscripts,  as  they 
shall  think  fit,  in  order  to  be  printed,  to  remain  for  public  use  to 
posterity,  according  to  the  directions  and  true  intent  and  meaning  of 
the  said  will.  And  it  is  further  ordered  that  any  of  the  said  trustees 
shall  from  time  to  time  upon  request  made  to  the  library  keeper, 
receive  out  of  the  said  library  at  once,  any  one  of  the  said  manu- 
script books  which  he  shall  desire  to  have,  upon  the  receipt  whereof 
he  shall  give  a  note  to  the  library  keeper  to  return  and  redeliver  the 
same  safe  and  entire  within  two  months  after  the  receipt  thereof  into 
the  said  library,  to  be  placed  there,  which  the  said  library  keeper 
shall  deliver  the  same  upon  giving  such  note.1  Provided  that  none 
of  the  said  trustees  shall  have  above  one  book  at  a  time,  and  until 
such  book  be  delivered  into  and  placed  in  the  library  such  trustee 
shall  not  have  another,  and  upon  the  redelivering  of  such  books,  the 
library  keeper  shall  deliver  up  the  notes  given  for  the  delivery  of 
such  books  respectively.  And  as  to  the  payment  of  the  said  one 
hundred  and  fifty  pounds,  it  is  desired  and  hereby  appointed  that  the 
same  be  paid  to  Sir  William  Simpson,  treasurer  of  this  society,  who, 
upon  the  payment  thereof  to  him,  shall  give  such  a  receipt  for  the 
same  in  such  manner  as  the  said  Silvester  Petyt  shall  think  fit  to 
direct,  and  it  is  further  ordered  that  each  of  the  said  trustees  shall 
have  a  copy  hereof  attested  by  the  treasurer." 

1  So  in  original  MS. 


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ACTS    OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  par- 
liaments during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : 
JOHN  DALBY,  treasurer,  7;  JOHN  HOLLOWAY,  7;  JOHN  TOOKER,  7; 
NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  6  ;  WILLIAM  WRIGHT,  6  ;  JOHN  CLENDON,  5 ; 
RICHARD  KNAPP,  5;  SAMUEL  DODD,  4;  JOHN  HALES,  3;  JOHN  BORRET, 
3  ;  WILLIAM  BARNESLEY,  2  ;  RICHARD  WEBB,  i  ;  ROBERT  PAINE,  i  ; 
MATTHEW  DAVIS,  i;  EDWARD  JENNINGS,  O.C.,  i  ;  GRIMBALD  PAUNCE- 
FORTH,  i  ;  and  SIR  GILBERT  DOLBEN,  Bart.,  i. 

1709. 

Nov.  27. — Special  admissions  of  Martin  Wright,  son  and  heir 
apparent  of  William  Wright,  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of  his  father ; 
and  of  George  Knapp,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  Richard  Knapp,  a 
bencher,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

1709-10. 
JAN.  29  and  FEB.  12. — Admittances  to  chambers. 

1710. 

MAY  7.- — Grimbald  Pauncefort  chosen  reader. 

MAY  10. — Thomas  Pengelly  (being  called  to  the  degree  of 
serjeant-at-law)  is  called  to  the  bench. 

JUNE  26. — Special  admission  of  John  Finch,  second  son  of 
Heneage,  Lord  Finch,  Baron  of  Guernsey,  a  master  of  the  bench,  at 
the  request  of  his  father. 

Arthur  Slingsby,  Philip  Ward,  Samuel  Trottman,  Thomas 
Cowslade,  Hugh  Hamersley,  Edmond  Bickford,  Thomas  Abnett, 
Richard  Dawes,  Maurice  Johnson,  Thomas  Brooke,  John  Borrett, 
and  Robert  Morton  called  to  the  bar. 

Nov.  12. — Grimbald  Paunceforth  continued  reader. 

Order  that  Thomas  Lutwich,  Q.C.,  be  called  to  the  bench  on 
payment  of  ioo/z.,  and  to  take  his  place  in  the  House  accordingly, 
but  not  to  have  any  privilege  of  election  of  bench  chamber  or  of 


422  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1709-10 

being  chosen  treasurer  or  otherwise,  but  in  his  seniority  only  of 
being  called  to  the  bench. 

Simon  Harcourt,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  Sir  Simon  Harcourt, 
lent,  lord  keeper  of  the  Great  Seal,  is  called  to  the  bar. 

Special  admission  of  William  Wright,  youngest  son  of  Sir 
Nathan  Wright,  late  lord  keeper  of  the  Great  Seal,  formerly  a  master 
of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Nov.  19. — Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  : 
— Dodd  and  Tooker,  of  the  bench,  and  Tyrrell  and  Trevor  of 
the  bar. 

Treasurer  : — Richard  Webb. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : — JOHN 
DALEY,  treasurer,  28  ;  BARNESLEY,  26 ;  CLENDON,  25  ;  TOOKER,  25  ; 

HOLLOWAY,   22  ;  PAYNE,  22  ;    COURTNEY,  21  ;    DoDD,  2O  J  W.  WRIGHT, 

19;  BORRETT,  1 8  ;  HALES,  17;  KNAPP,  15;  G.  WRIGHT,  12;  JEN- 
NINGS, 10  ;  PAUNCEFORTII,  10;  SIMPSON,  9;  WEBB,  8;  SIR  GILBERT 
DOLBEN,  4;  LUTWICH,  i  ;  and  DAVIS,  i. 

1709. 

Nov.  25. — Orders  that  Robert  Dalway,  John  Dolben,  and 
Anthony  Ellesden  be  fined  20/2.  each  for  not  reading  respectively  at 
Clifford's  Inn,  Clement's  Inn,  and  Lyon's  Inn. 

Nov.  26. — Orders  that  the  names  of  Samuel  Dalton,  Thomas 
Price,  and  William  Hughes  be  sent  to  Clifford's  Inn,  that  the  names 
of  Abel  Bradley,  Henry  Sawyer,  John  Herring,  George  Selby, 
Tobiah  Harvey,  and  Thomas  Caldicott  be  sent  to  Lyon's  Inn,  and 
the  names  of  Nathaniel  Axtell,  Richard  Edwards,  and  John  Smith 
be  sent  to  Clement's  Inn  for  the  choice  of  readers. 

1709-10. 

JAN.  27  and  28. — Orders  for  viewing  chambers  and  payment  of 
commons. 

FEB.  7  and  8. — Orders  that  Aris,  at  his  request,  be  discharged 


i7ioj  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  423 

from  the  office  of  master  of  the  revels,  and  that  he  have  the 
thanks  of  the  House  for  his  good  service  in  his  said  office ;  and  that 
Stephen  Clay  be  elected  master  of  the  revels. 

FEB.  9. — Orders  that  Thomas  Carter  be  accepted  as  a  sufficient 
security  for  his  father,  Samuel  Carter,  esq.,  the  library  keeper ;  and  the 
question  being  put  whether  the  masters  of  the  bench  should  have 
keys  of  the  library  or  not,  that  every  master  have  a  key  of  the  new 
library. 

FEB.  10. — Order  that  Trowell,  the  steward,  on  his  petition  set- 
ting forth  the  dearness  of  provisions,  be  abated  50/2.  of  what  he  ought 
to  have  paid  the  society  last  year ;  that  the  petitions  of  Knight  and 
William  Cook  be  referred  to  the  Friday  committee,  that  George 
Seeley's  petition  be  referred  to  the  treasurer ;  and  that  arrears  for 
commons  be  paid. 

FEB.  ii. — Order  that  the  treasurer  and  others  be  a  committee 
to  consider  and  settle  the  order  and  method  of  performing  the  exercise 
of  the  House,  of  keeping  public  grand  days,  and  likewise  the  cere- 
monies and  orders  used  and  to  be  observed  on  calls  of  Serjeants  ;  and 
that  the  chief  cook's  salary  be  made  up  from  two  marks  to  ten 
pounds  a  year. 

1710. 

MAY  2,  3,  4,  and  5. — Orders  as  to  viewing  chambers. 

MAY  9  and  10. — Order  on  the  motion  of  Courtney  that  John 
Anstis,  son  of  Anstis,  one  of  the  executors  of  William  Petyt,  be  put 
in  the  paper  for  the  parliament  to  be  specially  admitted,  gratis. 

JUNE  14  and  16. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  commons,  and  as 
to  raising  the  roof  of  Sparke's  shed. 

JUNE  20. — "On  a  motion  being  made  and  question  put  whether 
an  order  should  be  made  against  benchers  having  more  than  one  son 
admitted  gratis,  it  passed  in  the  negative." 

JUNE  21,  22,  and  23. — Orders  for  viewing  chambers  and  nomina- 
tions of  those  called  to  the  bar  at  the  parliament  held  on  June  26. 

OCT.  26. — Orders  that  there  be  a  public  grand  day  this  term 
and  that  Courtney,  Payne,  and  Barnesley  invite  the  lord  keeper,  the 
master  of  the  Rolls,  and  the  judges ;  and  that  Paunceforth  and 
Holloway  invite  the  Serjeants. 

Nov.  6  and  8, — Orders  that  the  masters  of   the  bench  have 


424 


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[1710 


notice  to  be  at  the  table  on  Friday  next,  in  order  to  call  Lutwitch  to 
the  bench. 

NOv.  g. — Orders  that  "  such  allowances  as  are  to  be  for  repairs 
of  bench  chambers,  for  the  future  be  paid  by  the  under-treasurer  to 
the  respective  workmen  concerned  therein,  and  the  same  to  be 
allowed  in  his  accounts." 

Nov.  10  and  n. — Orders  for  the  call  to  the  bench  of  Thomas 
Lutwich  ;  for  viewing  a  chamber  ;  and  for  payment  of  commons. 

Nov.  14  and  16. — Order  that  Carter,  the  library  keeper,  deliver 
to  Anstis  the  two  first  volumes  of  her  Majesty's  books,  given  to  this 
society,  there  being  in  the  library  duplicates  thereof. 


GENERAL   ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from   16  November,  1709,  to   19  November,  1710,  in  the 
the  treasurership  of  John  Dalby. 


RECEIPTS. 
Of  Day,  a  year's  rent  due  for  his  shop 

under  the  church,  8//'. 
Of  Allen,  a  year's  rent  for  the  like,  7//. 
Of  Giles  Clarke,  a  year's  rent  for  Lyon's 

Inn  and  two  tenements  adjoining,  after 

allowance  of  \li.  los.  for  taxes,  6//.  3^.  $d. 
Of  Grafton,  a  year's  rent  for  his  shop  in 

Temple  Lane,  s//. 
Of  Thornton,  a  year's  rent  for  his  shop  at 

the  Temple  Gate,  2/1. 
Of  Hargrave,  a  year's  rent  for  his  lights 

into    Hare    Court,   and   enlarging   two 

windows  next  the  Temple  Lane,  8s.  8d. 
Of  the  Fountain  Tavern,  a  year's  rent  for 

the  lights  into  the  Temple  Lane,  zs.  6d. 
Money  received  towards  the  organ,  from 

the  gentlemen  called  to  the  bar,  24/1. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  Van  Strauten,  for  two  sashes,  etc.,  for 

the  windows  at  the  upper  end  of  the 

bench  table,  i//. 
To  Cook,  the  proportion  of  this  society 

for  joiner's  work  in  the  organ  gallery, 

15*. 
To  [John  Miles],  for  the  play  [called  "  The 


Busybody,"  acted  in  the  hall  on  i  Nov., 
1709,  for  the  use  of  the  players  of  the 
Haymarket],  2O//. 
To  the  city  butler,  for  the  use  of  plate, 
linen,  etc.,  used  in  the  hall  on  the  public 
grand  day,  5//. 

!  To  Mrs.  [Mary]  Alcock,  the  remainder 
and  in  full  of  her  bill  for  carver's  work, 

,  To  Room,  for  the  use  of  twelve  double 
silver  sconces  on  the  three  last  public 
grand  days,  ili.  IDS. 

To  Fowler,  for  a  copper  cherry-tree  for  the 
fountain,  3//. 

Numerous  items,  for  nursing  foundlings. 

To  Waldron,  for  three  poles  and  brush  for 
the  church,  i/z.  ys.  6d. 

To  Cook,  the  joiner,  the  proportion  of  this 
society  for  the  new  gates  leading  into 
the  churchyard  and  all  works,  2/1.  ijs. 

To  Jackson,  the  reader,  half  a  year's  salary, 

To  Chark,  his  bill  for  law  charges  [in 
defence  of  Dry,  the  porter,  being 
arrested  at  the  suit  of  one  Tyler  for 
doing  his  duty  in  the  service  of  the 
House],  3/».  is.  6d, 


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425 


To  Piggott,  the  organist,  a  quarter's  salary, 

6/».  ss. 
To  Shrider,  a  year's  salary  for  cleaning  and 

tuning  the  organ,  10/1. 
To  Sherlock,  a  quarter's  payment,  25/7. 
To  Cordwell,  the  carpenter,  in  part  of  his 

bills,  100/7. 
To  Stevens,  for  new  painting  the  alcove 

in  the  benchers'  garden,  3/7'. 
To  Stanton,  the  proportion  of  this  House 

for  mason's  work  in  the  Rounds,  ili.  85. 
To  Coles,  for  repairing  the  engine,  8/7'. 
To  Robinson,  for  a  chimney  glass  and 

sconces  for  the  greenhouse,  6/7.  6s.  6d. 
To  Hazard,  for  stamping  the  books  in  the 

library,  Dr.  Sacheverell's  trial,  and  Acts 

of  last  session,  etc.,  S/i. 
For  a  table  for  the  greenhouse,  1 35. 
To  Edward  Williams,  for  the  music  and 

trumpet  on   24  June  [being  a   private 

grand  day],  zli.  105. 
For  the  lamps  last  winter,  40/7". 
To  Carter,  the  library  keeper,  5/7". 
To  Squire,  for  half  a  year's  care  of  the 

library  and  greenhouse,  5/7'. 


To  Hazard,  for  eight  common  prayer 
books,  6/7.  5.?. 

To  Mrs.  Ball,  a  year's  rent  for  Mr.  Sher- 
lock's house,  2oli. 

To  Williams,  for  five  supernumerary 
musicians  on  the  last  public  grand  day, 

ill.   I$S. 

For  the  play  acted  in  the  hall  on  i  Nov., 
1710  [to  John  Miles  to  the  use  of  the 
.players  of  the  playhouse  in  Drury  Lane], 

2O/7. 

To  Buckingham,  the  moiety  of  his  bill  for 
mason's  work  done  at  the  Bridge,  be- 
tween both  Houses,  i/i.  igs. 
To  Spark  [for  a  brass  hearth,  with  creepers, 
tongs,  shovel,  bellows,  brass  pins,  candle- 
sticks, and  snuffers],  6li. 
To  Mrs.  Alcock,  for  carving  work,  ili.  35. 
To  James  Barnard,  an  old  servant  of  the 

House,  that  lies  sick,  zli. 
To  Serjeant  Pengelly,  loli.  and  a  purse,  is. 
Receipts,  i, 865/7.  us.  id. 
Disbursements,  i, 918/7.  i6,f.  $d. 
Due    to    the     under-treasurer    with 
allowances,  66//.  145.  \od. 


ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  parlia- 
ments during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  :— 
RICHARD  WEBBE,  treasurer,  7 ;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  7  ;  JOHN  DALBY, 
7  ;  JOHN  HOLLOW  AY,  7  ;  WILLIAM  WRIGHT,  6  ;  RICHARD  KNAPP,  6 ; 
JOHN  TOOKER,  4 ;  JOHN  CLENDON,  3  ;  JOHN  HALES,  3 ;  WILLIAM 
BARNESLEY,  2 ;  ROBERT  PAINE,  2 ;  MATTHEW  DAVIS,  2 ;  FRANCIS 
BROWNE,  2 ;  WILLIAM  FARRER,  i  ;  SAMUEL  DODD,  i  ;  and  SIR 
GILBERT  DOLBEN,  bart.,  i. 

1710-11. 

JAN.  28. — Special  admission  of  John  Wright,  second  son  of 
William  Wright,  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

FEB.  ii. — Special  admissions  of  James  Hales,  nephew  to  John 
Hales,  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of  his  uncle  ;  and  of  John  Dalby, 
nephew  to  John  Dalby,  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of  his  uncle. 

Robert  Pauncefort  and  Charles  Talbot  called  to  the  bar. 
in.  3  i 


426  A    CALENDAR    OF    THE  [1710-11 

I7II. 

APRIL  29. — Pensions  for  the  half  year  assessed  double. 

Richard  Knapp  chosen  reader  for  the  summer  vacation. 

MAY  13. — Admittances  to  chambers. 

JUNE  17. — John  Ward,  Q.C.,  called  to  the  bench  on  payment  of 
looli.,  but  not  to  have  any  privilege  of  election  of  bench  chamber  or 
of  being  treasurer,  except  by  seniority  of  his  call. 

Samuel  Westwood,  Charles  Martin,  William  Newland,  Caesar 
Colclough,  Ralph  Bolton,  David  Lloyd,  Ezekiah  Cox,  Richard 
Potenger,  Thomas  Venables,  William  Coleman,  and  Clement 
Weargare  called  to  the  bar. 

Nov.  n. — Richard  Knapp  continued  reader. 

Special  admissions  of  John  Ward,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  John 
Ward,  Q.C.,  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of  his  father;  of  John  Davies, 
second  son  of  Manwaring  Davies,  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of  his 
father ;  and  of  Edward  Lutwych,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  Thomas 
Lutwych,  Q.C.,  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

Nov.  1 8. — Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts: 
— Dodd  and  Tooker,  of  the  bench,  and  Tyrrell  and  Trevor,  of  the 
bar. 

Treasurer  : — William  Farrer. 


BENCH    TABLE    ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances : — 
RICHARD  WEBB,  treasurer,  22;  BARNESLEY,  17;  HOLLOWAY,  16;  W. 
WRIGHT,  15;  DALBY,  14;  CLENDON,  13;  HALES,  13;  KNAPP,  12; 
COURTNEY,  12;  TOOKER,  10;  BORRETT,  10;  SIMPSON,  8 ;  G.WRIGHT, 
8;  PAYNE,  8;  PAUNCEFORTH,  8  ;  DODD,  6;  JENNINGS,  4;  FARRER,  3 ; 
WARD,  2;  SIR  GILBERT  DOLBEN,  2;  LUTWICH,  i;  and  DAVIS,  i. 

1710. 

Nov.  21. — Order  that  it  be  referred  to  Clendon  and  others  to 
consider  of  the  making  of  a  pump  in  Figtree  Court. 

Nov.    25. — Order  for  the  repair  of  Savage's  chamber  at  the 


. 7io-i i]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  427 

charge  of  the  House,  and  that  the  padlock  be  not  taken  off  till  those 
repairs  and  all  duties  be  paid  ;  that  Lucye's  chamber  be  padlocked  ; 
that  Richard  Edwards  and  William  Hughes  be  fined  each  20/2.  for 
not  reading  at  Clement's  Inn  and  Clifford's  Inn,  respectively;  that 
the  names  of  Nathaniel  Axtell,  John  Smith,  and  Thomas  Chapman 
be  sent  to  Clifford's  Inn,  the  names  of  Henry  Box,  William  Smith, 
and  Thomas  Dunster  be  sent  to  Clement's  Inn,  and  the  names  of 
Samuel  Dalton,  Thomas  Price,  Abel  Bradley,  Henry  Sawyer,  George 
Selby  and  Tobiah  Harvey  be  sent  to  Lyon's  Inn  for  the  choice  of 
readers. 

1710-11. 

JAN.  26  and  31. — Orders  as  to  chambers  and  the  addition  of 
certain  members  to  the  committee  touching  the  pump  in  Figtree 
Court. 

FEB.  5,  7,  8,  9,  and  10. — Orders  that  Charles  Talbot,  eldest  son 
of  the  Bishop  of  Oxford,  and  Robert  Paunceforth,  eldest  son  of 
Grimbald  Paunceforth,  be  put  in  the  paper  for  call  to  the  bar  ;  as  to 
altering  the  head  of  Baron  Simpson's  vault ;  upon  the  petition  of 
Trowell,  the  steward,  setting  forth  the  dearness  of  provisions,  that 
he  be  abated  loo/z.  of  what  he  ought  to  have  paid  to  the  society  for 
last  year;  that  John  Legg,  a  decayed  barrister,  on  his  petition,  be 
paid  loli.  ;  that  widow  Seeley  be  allowed  2s.  6d.  per  week  till 
further  order ;  and  that  the  Crown  Office  Buildings  be  repaired  as 
soon  as  possible. 

1711. 

APRIL  27. — Orders  for  viewing  chambers. 

MAY  2,  n,  and  12. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  commons  and 
duties ;  that  William  Silvester,  on  his  petition,  have  the  place  of 
sexton,  vacant  by  the  death  of  John  Blyth ;  and  that  the  chamber, 
lately  fallen  to  the  House  by  the  death  of  Charles  Whitaker,  be  sold 
for  the  best  price  that  can  be  got,  but  not  for  less  than  30/2'. 

JUNE  4,  8,  and  12. — Orders  for  the  payment  of  commons,  and 
that  chambers  be  padlocked  on  account  of  the  non-payment  of 
the  same ;  and  that  notice  be  given  of  the  call  of  John  Ward  to  the 
bench. 

JUNE  13,  15,  and  16. — Orders  for  the  names  of  those  called  to 


428 


A   CALENDAR   OF  THE 


the  bar  at  the  parliament  held  on  17  June  be  put  into  the  paper 
for  a  call ;  that  John  Ward,  Q.C.,  be  called  to  the  bench  in  the 
same  manner  as  the  queen's  counsel,  lately  called  ;  and  that  the  cer- 
tificate for  the  removal  of  David  Lloyd  to  Gray's  Inn  be  considered 
on  Tuesday. 

Nov.  6,  8,  and  16. — Orders  for  the  viewing  of  chambers  and  the 
admission  of  those  specially  admitted  at  the  parliament  held  on 
1 1  Nov. 


GENERAL   ACCOUNT    BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from   19  November,  1710,  to  18  November,  1711,  in  the 
treasurership  of  Richard  Webb. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Hazard,  for  eight  common  prayer  books, 
large  paper,  and  psalms,  ruled  and  gilt, 
i  zli. 

For  cloth,  materials,  and  making  the  por- 
ter's gown,  6li.  y. 

To  the  widow  of  George  Seely,  for  the 
charge  of  burying  her  husband  and 
towards  her  support,  2/2'. 

To  Johnson,  for  candles  for  the  benchers' 
staircases,  news,  etc.,  3/2".  os.  8d. 

To  Fowler,  for  branches  for  the  cherry 
tree  in  the  benchers'  garden,  gilding 
the  horse  [and  painting  the  tree],  ili. 
155. 


To  the  master  of  the  music,  for  playing 
when  Nicoleni  sung  in  the  hall  on  i 
Nov.,  1709,  4/2.  65. 

For  six  stoves  for  the  kitchen,  ili.  i$s. 
To    Squire,  half  a  year's   allowance   for 
cleaning  the  two  libraries   and  green- 
house, 6//.  IQS. 

To  Carter,  the  library  keeper,  towards  his 
salary,  5/2'. 

Receipts,  1,375/2".  IO.T.  $d. 
Disbursements,  1,493/2".  125.  5*2*. 
Due  to  the  under-treasurer,  118/2'.  2s. 
id. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1711. — An  inventory  of  the  goods  in  the  chambers  late  of 
Charles  Wycks.  The  chamber  appears  to  have  consisted  of  a 
dining  room,  containing  a  looking  glass,  curtains,  two  tables,  eight 
chairs,  etc.  ;  a  bed  chamber,  containing  a  bedstead,  bedding,  and 
a  chair  ;  a  study,  containing  curtains,  a  chair,  and  a  nest  for  papers  ; 
and  a  little  dark  room  in  the  passage,  containing  a  bedstead  and 
bedding  for  a  servant. 


•7"-"]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  429 


ACTS  OF   PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  par- 
liaments during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : 
WILLIAM  FARRER,  treasurer,  6 ;  JOHN  CLENDON,  6  ;  JOHN  DALBY, 
5  ;  WILLIAM  WRIGHT,  5  ;  RICHARD  KNAPP,  5  ;  JOHN  TOOKER,  5  ; 
JOHN  HALES,  4  ;  JOHN  HOLLOWAY,  4 ;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  3 ; 
SAMUEL  DODD,  3  ;  WILLIAM  BARNESLEY,  i  ;  RICHARD  WEBB,  i  ; 
ROBERT  PAINE,  i  ;  EDWARD  JENNINGS,  Q.C.,  i  ;  and  SIR  GILBERT 
DOLBEN,  Bart.,  i. 

1711. 
Nov.  25. — Admittance  of  Samuel  Walkey  to  a  chamber. 

171 1-12. 
FEB.   1 2. — Admittances  to  chambers  and  allowances  to  officers. 

1712. 

JUNE  i. — John  Holloway  chosen  reader  for  the  summer  vacation. 

JULY  6. — Richard  Lloyd,  Richard  Levett,  Samuel  Walkey,  John 
Pocklington,  Stephen  Holme,  Richard  Lardner,  James  Samson, 
William  Jones,  Shilston  Calmady,  Thomas  Mansfield,  Francis 
Browne,  and  John  Wright  called  to  the  bar,  and  John  Smith  called 
an  associate  to  the  bar. 

Nov.  9. — John  Holloway  continued  reader. 

Special  admission  of  John  Trevor,  second  son  of  Thomas,  Lord 
Trevor,  Baron  of  Bromham,  lord  chief  justice  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas,  and  late  a  master  of  the  bench,  at  the  request  of 
his  father. 

Nov.  1 6. — Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts: 
— Dodd  and  Tooker,  of  the  bench,  and  Tyrrell  and  Trevor  of  the  bar. 

Treasurer  : — Samuel  Dodd. 


BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with   the  number   of  their   attendances : — 


43o  A   CALENDAR   OF   THE  [1711-12 

WILLIAM  FARRER,  treasurer,  17;  CLENDON,  18  ;  HOLLOWAY,  16  ; 
W.  WRIGHT,  13;  BORETT,  13;  TOOKER,  12;  HALES,  12;  BARNESLEV, 
12;  DALBY,  n;  WEBB,  11;  PAYNE,  10;  COURTNEY,  9;  DODD,  8; 
KNAPP,  7  ;  SIMPSON,  6  ;  G.  WRIGHT,  5  ;  PAUNCEFORTH,  5  ;  WARD,  3  ; 
SIR  PETER  KING,  2 ;  JENNINGS,  2  ;  LUTWICH,  i ;  and  DAVIS,  i. 

1711. 

Nov.  19. — Order  that  copies  of  the  paper  relating  to  the  term 
exercise  be  delivered  to  the  masters  of  the  bench  now  in  commons, 
and  the  matter  be  taken  into  consideration  by  the  Friday  committee. 

Nov.  22  and  24. — Orders  as  to  Robert  Harvey's  title  to  a 
chamber  next  door  to  the  north  door  of  the  hall,  over  the  new 
cloister,  with  a  cellar  belonging  thereto  ;  that  Tobiah  Harvey,  having 
by  his  deputy  performed  the  office  of  reader  for  Lyon's  Inn,  be  dis- 
charged thereof,  and  at  his  request  he  be  discharged  from  the  society ; 
that  John  Smith  and  Henry  Box  be  fined  20/2'.  each,  for  not  reading  at 
Clifford's  Inn  and  Clement's  Inn  respectively;  that  the  names  of  the 
following  gentlemen  be  sent  to  the  Inns  of  Chancery  for  the  election 
therefrom  of  readers  : — Clifford's  Inn,  Charles  Morgan,  Samuel 
Dalton,  and  Henry  Sawyer;  Clement's  Inn,  William  Smith,  Thomas 
Dunster,  and  George  Sawyer;  and  Lyon's  Inn,  James  Woodhouse, 
William  Woodward,  William  Hanbury,  Maurice  Kellett,  John 
Trenchard,  and  Henry  Stevens. 

Orders  that  all  laundresses  and  others  that  empty  close  stools, 
etc.,  carry  the  same  to  the  pump  at  the  bog  houses,  and  that  no  ashes 
or  other  noisome  matter  be  laid  in  any  of  the  courts,  passages,  or 
places  about  this  House,  but  that  the  same  be  carried  to  the  laystall 
belonging  to  this  society.  Further  that  no  laundress  or  other  person 
presume  to  empty  out  of  any  window  any  chamber  pot,  basin,  or 
other  thing,  and  that  every  person  offending  against  this  order  shall 
forfeit  4os.,  according  to  the  ancient  usage  of  this  House,  and  that 
any  servant  of  this  House  or  other  person  that  shall  discover  any 
offender  herein,  shall  be  rewarded  by  the  treasurer.  And  this  order 
to  be  screened  up  in  the  hall  and  put  up  at  the  pumps  belonging  to 
this  society. 

1711-12. 

JAN.  29. — Order  as  to  viewing  a  chamber. 

FEB.  4  and  8. — Orders  as  to  chambers   and  the  payment  of 


i7'i-i<]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  431 

commons ;  that  the  steward's  petition  be  referred  to  Barnesley  and 
others ;  that  the  petition  of  the  two  cooks  be  referred  to  the  Friday 
committee ;  and  that  the  arrears  owing  to  William  Charke,  executor 
of  his  father,  late  steward,  be  collected. 

FEB.  9. — "  Whereas,  according  to  the  ancient  usage  of  this 
House,  those  who  have  actually  performed  the  exercise  called  the 
imparlance  have  sometimes  been  amerced  for  the  non-performance 
thereof,  and  also  that  those  who  do  actually  attend  the  performance 
of  the  said  exercise  are,  for  want  of  number,  equally  amerciable  with 
those  that  are  absent,  which  hath  been  thought  a  discouragement  to 
gentlemen  being  in  commons  and  taking  up  the  said  exercise.  The 
masters  of  the  bench  having  taken  this  matter  into  consideration, 
and  being  more  desirous  to  have  the  exercise  performed  than  the 
non-performance  punished,  have  thought  fit  to  order  and  do  hereby 
order  as  followeth,  viz. : — 

"  i.  That  no  gentleman  under  the  bar  that  shall  have  duly  per- 
formed the  said  exercise  for  any  one  term,  shall  from  thenceforth  be 
amerced  for  any  future  non-performance  thereof. 

"  2.  That  no  gentleman  at  the  bar  that  hath  duly  performed  the 
said  exercise  for  any  one  term,  shall  from  thenceforth  be  amerced  for 
any  future  non-performance  thereof. 

"  3.  That  no  gentleman  at  the  bar  or  under  the  bar  that  is 
present  and  attends  the  performance  of  the  said  exercise,  shall  be 
amerced  for  want  of  number,  but  those  only  that  are  absent  shall  be 
amerced,  whether  of  the  bar  or  under  the  bar,  respectively,  according 
as  the  failure  is  on  the  one  part  or  on  the  other. 

"  Provided  that  nothing  in  this  order  contained  shall  be  construed 
to  excuse  the  masters  of  the  bar  mess,  when  the  exercise  is  tendered 
by  the  gentlemen  under  the  bar  and  taken  up  by  the  bar,  from  any 
default  of  going  down  into  the  Rounds,  or  about  breaking  the  case 
there,  or  giving  due  commencement  to  the  said  exercise,  according 
to  the  usage  of  the  House. 

"  Provided  also  that  nothing  herein  contained  be  construed  to 
excuse  any  gentleman  of  the  bar  or  under  the  bar,  who  shall  have 
actually  performed  the  said  exercise,  from  his  attendance  upon  the 
performance  thereof  by  others,  according  to  the  usage  of  the  House 
in  such  manner,  as  if  this  order  had  not  been  made. 

"  Lastly  that  it  may  not  be  in  the  power  of  the  bar,  by  their 


432 


A    CALENDAR    OF   THE  [i7« 


default,  to  prevent  the  gentlemen  under  the  bar  from  the  benefit  of 
this  exercise,  it  is  further  ordered  that  in  case  the  exercise  be  taken 
up  in  due  time  by  the  gentlemen  under  the  bar,  and  they  continue  to 
tender  during  the  terms,  and  the  exercise  be  not  taken  up  by  the 
bar,  or  if  it  be  taken  up  by  the  bar,  and  they  make  default,  and  there 
be  no  default  or  failure  on  the  part  of  the  gentlemen  under  the  bar, 
this  shall  be  allowed  to  such  gentlemen  under  the  bar  for  an  exercise 
duly  performed." 

Orders  that  no  brass,  pewter,  copper,  iron,  or  tin  vessels,  dishes, 
or  plates  be  carried  from  the  hall,  buttery,  or  kitchen. 

FEB.  1 1. — Order  for  viewing  Newnham's  chamber. 

1712. 

MAY  13,  28,  and  30. — Orders  that  John  Roll,  having  paid  his 
duties,  be  discharged  from  this  society  and  his  bond  delivered  up ; 
and  that  certain  chambers  be  viewed. 

JUNE  23  and  30. — Orders  that  certain  chambers  be  viewed  and 
others  padlocked  ;  and  that  the  names  of  those  called  to  the  bar  at 
the  parliament  held  on  6  July,  be  put  into  the  paper  for  a  call. 

JULY  4  and  5. — Orders  for  certain  chambers  to  be  viewed ; 
and  that  Richard  Lloyd  and  the  others  called  on  6  July  be  called 
to  the  bar. 

Nov.  4,  7,  10,  13,  and  15. — Orders  that  certain  chambers  be 
viewed  and  others  padlocked  ;  that  the  arrears  of  commons  be  paid  ; 
and  that  inquiry  be  made  as  to  the  improvement  of  the  Crown  Office 
Buildings. 

GENERAL   ACCOUNT   BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  18  November,  1711,  to   16  November,  1712,  in  the 
treasurership  of  William  Farrer. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

To    Mary  Williams,  for    nursing    Bertha 
Temple,  2/1.  ios.,  and  many  other  like 


entries. 


For  the  charge  of  burying  James  Barnard, 
an  old  servant  of  the  House,  and  the 
relief  of  his  widow,  2/i. 

To  the  proprietors  of  the  Conic  Lights  for 
their  lamps  last  winter,  40/1. 


To    William    Farrer,    his    allowance    as 

treasurer,  $oli. 
For  a  year's  rent  of  the  New  River  water, 

4& 

To  Mrs.  Ball,  a  year's  rent  for  Mr.  Sher- 
lock's house,  zoli. 

Receipts,  1,7  50/1.  18$.  6d. 
Disbursements,  i,&2$ti.  6s.  "]d. 


Due  to  theunder-treasurer,  72#.  8s.  id. 


i7i*-'?]  INNER  TEMPLE    RECORDS.  433 

MISCELLANEA. 
1712,  Nov.  i.  —  A  list  of  gentlemen  sewers  and  waiters. 

ACTS   OF    PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  parlia- 
ment during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  :  — 
SAMUEL  DODD,  treasurer,  5  ;  JOHN  DALBY,  7  ;  JOHN  CLENDON,  6  ; 
RICHARD  KNAPP,  6  ;  JOHN  HOLLOWAY,  5  ;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  4 
(once  as  deputy  treasurer)  ;  CHARLES  PULTENEY,  4  ;  WILLIAM 
WRIGHT,  4  ;  JOHN  TOOKER,  3  ;  WILLIAM  BARNESLEY,  2  ;  RICHARD 
WEBBE,  2  ;  JOHN  HALES,  i  ;  EDWARD  JENNINGS,  Q.C.,  deputy 
treasurer,  i  ;  BARON  SIMPSON,  i  ;  and  GEORGE  WRIGHT,  i. 

1712. 

Nov.  23.  —  Admittances  to  chambers. 

1712-13. 

FEB.  8.  —  Henry  Sawyer,  Richard  Edwards,  Henry  Box,  and 
Francis  Annesley  called  to  the  bench. 


MAY  27.  —  William  Wright  chosen  reader  for  the  summer 
vacation. 

Charles  Pulteney  and  Francis  Page  called  to  the  bench. 

Special  admission  of  Braborne  Grove,  son  of  Serjeant  Grove, 
late  a  bencher,  at  the  request  of  his  father. 

JUNE  21.  —  Robert  Keck,  Gibbons  Bagnall,  Robert  Lucas, 
Edmond  Sawyer,  John  Hoo,  Dennis  Payne,  Thomas  Abney, 
Thomas  Bridges,  Richard  Waller,  Thomas  Bootle,  Henry  Gollopp, 
John  Whistler,  William  Lloyd,  and  Robert  Martyn  called  to  the  bar. 

JUNE  25.  —  Order  that  no  more  concurrent  lives  be  moved  for, 
without  a  precedent  act  of  parliament. 

Parliament  adjourned  till  Saturday  next  at  2  p.m. 

Nov.  8.  —  William  Wright  continued  reader. 

Nov.  15.  —  Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  :  — 
Tooker  and  Box,  of  the  bench,  and  Tyrrell  and  Trevor,  of  the  bar, 

Treasurer  :  —  George  Wright. 
in.  3  K 


434  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [«7«-i3 


BENCH    TABLE   ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  : — SAMUEL 
DODD,  treasurer,  20;  CLENDON,  20;  HOLLOW  AY,  18;  BARNESLEY,  18; 
BORRETT,  18;  HALES,  15  ;  PAYNE,  15  ;  SIMPSON,  14;  W.WRIGHT,  14; 
KNAPP,  1 2  ;  WEBB,  1 1  ;  COURTNEY,  9  ;  DALBY,  9  ;  TOOKER,  9  ; 
PAUNCEFORTH,  8  ;  JENNINGS,  7  ;  G.  WRIGHT,  6;  PULTNEY,  6 ;  FARRER, 
5  ;  Box,  5  ;  LUTWICH,  3  ;  WARD,  3 ;  SIR  GILBERT  DOLBEN,  2  ;  and 
ANNESLEY,  2. 

1712. 

Nov.  22  and  24. — Orders  for  the  viewing  of  chambers;  that 
Samuel  Dalton  be  fined  2o/z.  for  not  reading  at  Clifford's  Inn  ;  that 
William  Smith  and  William  Woodward,  having  read  respectively  at 
Clement's  Inn  and  Lyon's  Inn,  and  paid  all  duties,  be  discharged; 
and  that  the  names  of  the  following  gentlemen  be  sent  to  the  Inns 
of  Chancery  for  electing  a  reader  for  the  ensuing  year : — Clifford's 
Inn,  Charles  Morgan,  Henry  Sawyer,  and  Edward  Noell ;  Clement's 
Inn,  Thomas  Dunster,  George  Sawyer,  and  Charles  Ventris  ;  and 
Lyon's  Inn,  James  Woodhouse,  William  Hanbury,  Maurice  Kellett, 
John  Trenchard,  Henry  Stevenson  and  Richard  Graham. 

1712-13. 

JAN.  26. — Orders  that  there  be  a  public  grand  day  this  term,  and 
that  Jennings  and  Lutwich  invite  my  Lord  Keeper,  the  Master  of 
the  Rolls,  and  the  judges,  and  that  Paunceforth  and  Tooker  invite 
the  Serjeants  ;  that  the  orders  lately  made  for  enforcing  the  payment 
of  commons  be  renewed  ;  and  that  the  salary  of  Carter,  the  library 
keeper,  commence  from  Michaelmas,  1709,  being  the  time  he  had  the 
key  of  the  library  delivered  to  him. 

JAN.  27  and  29. — Orders  that  all  business  be  done  in  the  grand 
weeks  of  each  issuable  term  in  like  manner  as  in  other  weeks  in  a 
full  term  ;  and  that  Sawyer,  Edwards,  Box,  and  Annesley  be  called 
to  the  bench. 

FEB.  5  and  7. — Orders  that  this  House  will  sell  concurrent  lives 
to  any  that  desire  to  purchase,  so  as  the  same  be  done  before  the  last 


1713]  INNER   TEMPLE    RECORDS.  435 

parliament  in  Easter  term  next,  and  the  contract  maae  and  fine  set 
at  the  bench  table  ;  that  the  masters  of  the  bench,  the  masters  of  the 
bar,  and  gentlemen  under  the  bar  who  shall  desire  to  exceed  on 
Saturdays  at  dinner,  may  so  do  and  bespeak  such  exceedings,  either 
in  fish  or  flesh,  as  they  shall  think  fit,  paying  for  the  same,  but  the 
same  to  be  eaten  after  the  usual  commons  of  the  House  for  that  day 
are  served  out. 


APRIL  27.  —  Orders  for  viewing  chambers. 

MAY  4.  —  Orders  for  padlocking  and  viewing  chambers  ;  and  that 
the  workmen  open  and  view  the  shore  coming  from  Mitre  Court  and 
amend  the  same. 

MAY  5.  —  The  Peace  proclaimed.  —  Order  that  in  respect  of  the 
day,  the  exercise  be  dispensed  with  for  this  night  ;  and  that  the 
gentlemen  called  to  the  table  and  not  yet  attending,  be  discharged, 
unless  they  signify  their  intentions  to  come  by  Friday  next  before 
noon,  and  that  the  table  proceed  to  a  further  election. 

MAY  6  and  u.  —  Whereas  Saturday  having  been  appointed  to 
consider  as  to  a  call  to  the  table,  but  by  some  extraordinary  business 
the  treasurer  was  not  present,  it  is  ordered  that  all  the  masters  of  the 
bench  be  summoned  for  Wednesday  next  to  nominate  gentlemen  to 
be  called  to  the  bench,  and  this  matter  is  specially  ordered  for  the 
reason  aforesaid,  although  business  is  not  done  in  a  grand  week  in 
Easter  and  Michaelmas  terms,  except  only  matters  of  course  and 
necessity. 

MAY  13,  15,  and  16.  —  Order  that  Charles  Pulteney  and  Francis 
Page  be  called  to  the  bench,  and  orders  as  to  chambers. 

JUNE  12.  —  Orders  that  Hales  and  others  shall  inspect  and  settle 
the  workmen's  bills  ;  that  the  repairs  made  at  the  Crown  Office  be 
viewed  ;  and  that  the  order  for  the  purchase  of  concurrent  lives  be 
continued. 

JUNE  1  6  and  17.  —  Orders  that  Mansell  attend  the  table  ;  that  the 
names  of  those  called  at  the  parliament,  held  on  21  June,  be  put  in 
the  paper  for  a  call  ;  that  Samuel  Carter's  bond  as  library  keeper,  be 
delivered  up  ;  and  that  Sparkes'  petition  for  enlarging  his  shed  be 
referred  to  Payne  and  others. 

JUNE  1  8,  20,  and  23.—  Orders  that  the  gentlemen  under  the  bar 


436 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


['7'S 


who  made  default  on  Monday,  Tuesday,  and  Wednesday  be  amerced, 
excusing  those  that  have  actually  done  the  exercise  one  term  and  did 
attend ;  that  Mansell  be  discharged  from  further  attendance ;  and 
that  Silvester  be  appointed  sexton,  during  pleasure. 

OCT.  26  and  30. — Orders  that  Payne  and  Barnesley  view  the 
shop  where  the  late  fire  was,  near  the  church,  and  the  chimneys  in 
the  rest  of  the  shops  there  ;  and  that  certain  chambers  be  padlocked. 

Nov.  7,  10,  and  14. — Orders  as  to  viewing  and  padlocking 
chambers ;  that  the  matter  of  the  imparlance  be  referred  to  the 
Friday  committee ;  and  that  the  matter  of  regulating  the  watchmen 
be  then  considered. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  16  November,  1712,  to  15  November,  1713,  in  the 
treasurership  of  Samuel  Dodd. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

For  the  play  acted  in  the  hall  on  2  Nov., 
1712  [to  John  Miles,  for  the  use  of 
the  masters  of  the  playhouse  in  Drury 
Lane],  20/1'. 

To  Giles  Clark,  towards  the  charge  of 
prosecuting  Betty  Price,  who  had 
robbed  several  chambers  in  this  society 
and  since  executed,  2/1.  3^. 

To  the  panierman,  for  wine  spent  by  the 
masters  of  the  bench  in  Michaelmas 
and  Hilary  terms,  1712,  and  Easter  and 
Trinity  terms,  1713,  I76//.  45.  id. 

To  Home,  the  bricklayer, 


To  Cook,  the  joiner,  loo/z. 

To  Cordwell,  the  carpenter,  i65//. 

To  Searle,  the  woodmonger,  for  faggots, 

30/1. 

To    the    steward,   for   a   dinner    for   the 
masters   of  the  bench  at  settling  the 
tradesmen's  bills,  zli.  qs.  $d. 
To  Moor,  for  a  leather  damask  carpet, 

3tf.  55. 

To  William  Burrell,  towards  his  relief  in 
his  illness,  2/1. 

Receipts,  2,254/1.  75.  6d. 
Disbursements,  2,224/1.  145.  lod. 
Balance,  2Q//.  125.  8d. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1712-13,  FEB.  2. — A  list  of  gentlemen  sewers  and  waiters. 
1713,  JUNE  13. — A  note  of  chambers  seized  and  padlocked,  in  the 
possession  of  officers,  etc. 

1713,  SEPT.  13.— An  inventory  of  the  Inner  Temple  linen. 


,7i3-i4]  INNER    TEMPLE    RECORDS.  437 

ACTS  OF  PARLIAMENT. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  parlia- 
ment during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  :  —  GEORGE 
WRIGHT,  treasurer,  6  ;  JOHN  CLENDON,  6  ;  CHARLES  PULTENEY,  6  ; 
JOHN  HOLLOWAY,  6;  NICHOLAS  COURTNEY,  4;  JOHN  DALBY,  4; 
RICHARD  KNAPP,  4  ;  JOHN  TOOKER,  4  ;  JOHN  BORRET,  3  ;  WILLIAM 
WRIGHT,  3  ;  WILLIAM  BARNESLEY,  2  ;  HENRY  Box,  i  ;  JOHN  HALES, 
i  ;  ROBERT  PAINE,  i  ;  SAMUEL  DODD,  i  ;  BARON  SIMPSON,  i  ;  and 
GRIMBALD  PAUNCEFORTH,  i. 


Nov.  26.  —  Admittances  to  chambers. 


FEB.  ii.  —  Admittances  to  chambers  and  allowances  to  officers. 

1714. 

MAY  9.  —  John  Tooker  chosen  reader. 

JUNE  13.  —  Richard  Hampton,  Richard  Abell,  James  Hanmer, 
William  Roberts,  James  Partherich,  Henry  Wood,  Richard  West, 
Edward  Milles,  Robert  Whatley,  and  Charles  Herne  called  to  the 
bar. 

Nov.  7.  —  John  Tooker  continued  reader. 

Nov.  14.  —  Auditors  for  the  treasurer's  and  steward's  accounts  :  — 
Tooker  and  Box,  of  the  bench,  and  Tyrrell  and  Trevor,  of  the  bar. 

Treasurer  :  —  John  Borrett. 

BENCH   TABLE   ORDERS. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  attended  the  bench 
table  during  the  year,  with  the  number  of  their  attendances  :— 
GEORGE  WRIGHT,  treasurer,  28;  CLENDON,  25;  DALBY,  24;  HOLLO- 
WAY,  21  ;  W.WRIGHT,  18;  BORRETT,  18;  KNAPP,  17;  PULTNEY,  17; 
COURTNEY,  15;  HALES,  15;  SIMPSON,  13;  PAYNE,  n;  FARRER,  n; 
TOOKER,  II;WEBB,  10;  DODD,  10;  PAUNCEFORTH,  10;  Box,  10; 
BARNESLEY,  9  ;  JENNINGS,  5  ;  ANNESLEY,  5  ;  SIR  GILBERT  DOLBEN,  4  ; 
WARD,  3;  PAGE,  2;  and  LUTWICH,  i. 


438  A   CALENDAR   OF  THE  [1713-14 


Nov.  1  6,  20,  24,  25,  and  26.  —  Orders  for  viewing  chambers,  and 
that  Dalbyand  Holloway  "  view  the  ground  chambers  (No.  3)  against 
the  garden  wall." 

Nov.  27.  —  Orders  that  Charles  Morgan  be  fined  20/2.  for  not 
reading  at  Clifford's  Inn  ;  that  George  Sawyer  and  James  Wood- 
house,  having  read  at  Clement's  Inn  and  Lyon's  Inn,  respectively, 
and  paid  all  their  duties,  be  discharged  ;  that  the  names  of  William 
Lightfoot,  Roger  Acherley,  and  Daniel  Tainturier  be  sent  to  Clif- 
ford's Inn  for  choice  of  a  reader;  that  the  names  of  Matthew  Lant, 
Dutton  Seaman,  and  James  Fertrey  be  sent  to  Clement's  Inn 
for  choice  of  a  reader  ;  and  that  the  names  of  Edward  Gosnell, 
Henry  Fendall,  Edward  Pleydell,  Henry  Longueville,  Thomas 
Southouse,  and  Henry  Beeston  be  sent  to  Lyon's  Inn  for  choice  of 
a  reader. 

Nov.  28.  —  Orders  that  the  committee  formerly  appointed  to 
inspect  the  steward's  accounts,  together  with  the  treasurer,  Payne, 
and  Box,  shall  proceed  to  examine  the  said  accounts  and  afterwards 
make  such  contract  with  the  present  steward  or  any  other  person  as 
they  or  the  major  part  of  them  shall  agree  upon  ;  that  no  more 
money  be  paid  to  the  steward  than  such  as  he  shall  direct  for  the 
satisfaction  of  his  debts;  that  Joshua  Blew,  the  fourth  butler,  "do 
attend  and  keep  the  library  open  at  library  hours  till  further  order"; 
and  that  the  treasurer  for  the  time  being  do  lay  out  20/2.  yearly 
out  of  the  treasury  in  purchasing  of  books  for  the  library. 


JAN.  26  and  29.—  Orders  for  viewing  chambers  ;  that  the 
chamber  lately  fallen  to  the  House  by  the  death  of  Anthony  Keck, 
worth  250/2.,  be  sold  for  the  benefit  of  the  House,  but  not  under 
that  sum  ;  and  that  the  chamber  fallen  to  the  House  by  the  death 
of  Charles  Weld,  worth  200/2.,  be  sold  for  the  benefit  of  the  House, 
but  not  under  that  sum. 

FEB.  3.  —  Order  that  Lord  Chief  Justice  Parker  be  accommo- 
dated with  a  key  of  the  library.  „ 

1  This  is  the  first  instance  of  a  chamber  in  the  Inn  being  numbered. 


1714]  INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS.  439 

FEB.  8. — Orders  that  John  Isham,  upon  paying  his  duties,  shall 
have  his  bond  delivered  up  to  him,  and  that  he  be  discharged  from 
the  society;  and  that  "the  land  tax  payable  by  this  House  for  the 
year  1713,  be  paid  out  of  the  treasury  of  this  society." 

FEB.  10  and  1 1. — Orders  that  the  order  lately  made  about  pay- 
ing money  to  the  steward,  be  so  far  relaxed  so  that  the  treasurer 
may  order  such  sum  to  be  paid  to  the  steward  as  may  be  thought 
necessary  for  the  vacation  commons  ;  that  Samuel  Marriott's  chamber, 
at  his  own  request,  be  padlocked  ;  and  that  John  Crowder,  the 
second  butler,  may  receive  the  moiety  of  the  rent  of  Lloyd's  shop, 
held  of  both  societies,  and  which  was  enjoyed  by  Jones,  the  last 
second  butler. 

APRIL  19  and  21. — Orders  for  padlocking  chambers  and  pay- 
ment of  commons  ;  that  William  Farlow  be  appointed  chief  porter  in 
the  room  of  Thomas  Dry,  and  that  he  have  a  new  gown,  the  old 
gown  being  given  to  Dry's  widow. 

APRIL  24,  26,  29,  and  30. — Orders  that  lo/z.  be  given  to  Dry's 
widow,  but  that  she  forthwith  leave  the  House  ;  that  the  vacation 
barristers  and  gentlemen  of  the  bar  that  were  in  commons  last  vaca- 
tion have  notice  that  unless  they  pay  each  95.  per  week,  the  vacation 
will  not  be  allowed  them  ;  and  that  certain  chambers  and  the  garden 
walk  be  repaired. 

MAY  5,  7,  and  8. — Orders  for  viewing  chambers. 

JUNE  2. — Orders  "  that  Dr.  Sherlock,  master  of  the  Temple,  be 
allowed  towards  the  repair  of  his  floor,  lately  fallen,  one  moiety  of 
the  charge  of  repairing  the  same,  the  said  moiety  not  exceeding  the 
sum  of  10/2."  ;  and  that  the  arrears  of  commons  owing  to  Chark,  the 
late  steward,  be  paid  to  his  executor. 

JUNE  7  and  10. — Order  that  the  names  of  those  who  were  called 
to  the  bar  at  the  parliament  held  on  13  June  be  put  into  the  paper 
for  a  call  to  the  bar. 

JUNE  12  and  16. — Orders  that  the  present  rent  of  25/2.  for  the 
Crown  Office  be  continued,  and  that  Simon  Harcourt,  clerk  of  the 
Crown,  have  notice  thereof ;  and  that  the  vacationers  confine  the 
cost  of  commons  to  the  usual  allowance,  otherwise  their  vacation 
shall  not  be  allowed. 

Nov.  6,  12,  and  13. — Orders  that  10/2.  be  paid  to  Joshua  Blew 
for  his  looking  after  the  library  and  his  attendance  there  in  library 


440 


A   CALENDAR   OF   THE 


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hours  for  one  year  ending  at  Michaelmas  next ;  that  all  the  parties 
concerned  attend  the  masters  in  the  library,  touching  the  petition  of 
Cliffe  for  leave  to  remove  his  goods  out  of  Lloyd's  chamber ;  and 
that  certain  chambers  be  padlocked. 


GENERAL  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

ACCOUNT  from  15  November,  1713,  to  14  November,  1714,  in  the 
treasurership  of  George  Wrighte. 


RECEIPTS. 

Admissions  to  the  House,  i47/*'.  6s.  %d. 
Admittances  to  chambers,  547//'.  ios. 
Fines   and    admittances    into   chambers, 


Rents  belonging  to  the  House  :  —  Rents 
for  the  Exchequer  Office,  the  Crown 
Office,  the  Fine  Office,  and  certain  shops 
and  chambers.  From  Giles  Clark  for 
Lyon's  Inn  and  two  tenements  adjoin- 
ing, after  allowance  of  1  55.  \d.  for  taxes, 
6li.  i&s.  lod.  From  Hargrave,  for  his 
lights  into  Hare  Court,  6s.  8d.,  and  for 
enlarging  two  windows  next  Temple 
Lane,  2s.  From  Stevens,  for  a  year's 
rent  of  his  shed  in  Mitre  Court,  5.?. 
From  the  Fountain  Tavern,  for  the  lights 
into  Temple  Lane,  25.  6d.  From  the 
turnspits,  for  the  watchmaker's  shop,  4*?. 
From  ten  inhabitants  in  Mitre  Court, 
for  the  use  of  the  drain,  ili.  135.  4<f. 
From  Mrs.  Jones,  for  her  shop  by  the 
bog-houses,  6//.,  etc.  In  all,  223/2.  15,?. 
4rf. 

From  William  Wright,  for  his  reading, 
50/1. 

Caution  money  received  for  vacations  upon 
a  call  to  the  bar,  40/2'. 

Caution  money  for  buying  chambers,  re- 
ceived of  those  gentlemen  that  were 
called  to  the  bar  and  had  no  chambers, 
pursuant  to  an  act  of  parliament,  1  6o#. 

Money  received  for  absent  commons  of 
those  gentlemen  that  were  called  to  the 
bar,  at  ili.  ios.  per  term,  pursuant  to 
an  act  of  parliament, 


Money  received  towards  the  organ,  of  the 

gentlemen  called  to  the  bar,  zoK. 
Pensions  and  preacher's  duties  received 

of  the   gentlemen   called   to  the   bar, 

26/1.  is.  (>d. 
Vacations  and  amercements  received  of 

the  gentlemen  called  to  the  bar,  36/1. 

I2S. 

Pensions  and  preachers'  duties  received 
of  other  gentlemen  of  the  society,  2o8//. 
55.  6d. 

Vacations  and  amercements  received  of 
other  gentlemen  of  the  society,  8/z'.  145. 

Receipts  under   no  particular  head,  gli. 

25.  6d. 

DISBURSEMENTS. 
To  Joan  Clark,  for  nursing  Martha  Temple 

and  Susan  Temple,  3/1.  185.     (Numer- 
ous other  similar  entries.) 
To  Jackson,  a  quarter's  salary,  5/1. 
To  Johnson,  a  quarter's  salary,  -jli.  los. 
To  the   scavenger,  a  quarter's  payment, 

ili.  $s. 
To  Burrell,  towards  the  charge  of  his  late 

illness,  2/i. 
To   Dr.    Sherlock,  a  quarter's  payment, 

a  5 // • 
To    Piggott   [the    organist],   a    quarter's 

salary,  6/i.  $s. 
To  Squire,  for  wine  spent  at  auditing  the 

steward's  accounts,  ili.  185.  id. 
To  the  panierman,  for  wine  spent  by  the 

masters  of  the  bench  in  Michaelmas 

term,  "jili.  bs.  $d. 
To  [Thomas]  Williams,  for  the  music  on 

6  Feb.,  1713-14,  2/1. 


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INNER   TEMPLE   RECORDS. 


441 


To  the  four  junior  butlers,  half  a  year's 
allowance  for  linen,  washing  Temple 
pots,  etc.,  35#. 

To  the  panierman,  half  a  year's  allowance 
for  the  care  of  the  two  libraries,  green- 
house, etc.,  7//'.  105. 

To  the  badge  porter,  for  lighting  the  lant- 
horns  at  the  benchers'  staircases  last 
winter,  2li. 

To  Shrider,  a  year's  salary  for  cleaning 
and  tuning  the  organ,  lo/i. 

For  making  a  gown  for  the  head  porter, 
6li.  55.  i  \d. 

To  Johnson,  disbursed  by  him  for  news- 
papers for  the  last  term,  \li.  \s.  ^d. 

The  land  tax  for  the  year  1713  for  this 
society,  pursuant  to  the  orders  of  the 
table  of  8  Feb.  last,  i  oo//. 

To  Scott,  the  mason,  in  part  towards  the 
repairs  of  the  garden  wall  next  the 
river,  3O//. 

The  window  tax  for  this  society  for  a  year, 
i  zli. 

For  wine  spent  at  the  Fountain  Tavern, 


the  day  the  king  made  his  public  entry 

and  for  disbursements  by  Johnson,  jji. 

175. 
To  Scott,  the  mason,  for   repair  of  the 

garden  wall,  $oli. 
To  John  Hooke,   bookseller,  for  several 

books  of  Reports  and  others,  delivered 

into  the  library,  20/1. 
To  Mrs.  Ball,  the  proportion  of  this  society 

of  a  year's  rent  for  Dr.  Sherlock's  house, 

after  allowance  of  2/2'.  for  taxes,  i8//. 
To  the  treasurer,  for  the  payment  due  to 

him  as  treasurer,  50/1. 
To  Blew,  for  a  year's  care  of  the  library, 

io//. 
To  Sir  Peter  King  and  Sir  Samuel  Dodd, 

upon  their  being  called  Serjeants,  and 

for  purses,  loli.  2S. 
To  the  under-treasurer,  for  a  year's  salary 

and  chamber  rent,  3o//. 
Receipts,  i,747//.  os.  id. 
Disbursements,  1,446/1'.  $s.  id. 
Balance,  3oo//.  145-.  id. 


MISCELLANEA. 

1713-14,  JAN.  7. — Proposals  about  the  office  of  steward  and  the 
terms  according  to  which  it  shall  be  undertaken  by  Samuel  Trowell, 
junior.  [Similar  to  those  dated  23rd  June,  1708.] 

1713-14,  JAN.  7. — -Bond  by  Samuel  Trowell  for  the  performance 
of  the  said  proposals. 

1713-14,  JAN.  8. — Warrant  by  the  treasurer  to  pay  Matthew 
Brambly,  4/2'.  4.?.  for  his  trouble  in  informing  the  masters  of  the  bench 
as  to  the  steward's  accounts. 

1714. — Authority  by  G.  Wright,  treasurer,  to  the  under- 
treasurer  to  pay  for  the  following  books  delivered  into  the  library, 
viz.  : — Coke's  Reports,  1 1  parts,  best  edition,  5/2.  ;  Coke's  Reports, 
3  vols.,  best  edition,  4/2".  \os.  ;  Dyer's  Reports,  best  edition,  folio, 
i6s.  ;  Leonard's  Reports,  fol.,  best  edition,  2/2.  10^.  ;  D'Anvers' 
Abridgment,  2nd  vol.,  fol.,  ili.  5^.;  Modern  Reports,  5th  part,  fol., 
185-.  ;  Modern  Cases,  fol.,  12.5-.  ;  Gibson's  Codex,  2  vols.,  fol.,  calf, 
3/z.  ;  for  a  set  of  Acts,  1713,  gs.  6d.  ;  for  a  set  of  Acts,  1714,  14^. 
for  lettering  the  books  above,  4^.  8^.  In  all  20/2. 

in.  3  L 


442 


A  CALENDAR  OF  THE  INNER  TEMPLE  RECORDS. 


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Temp.  Queen  Anne. — An  inventory  of  the  furuiture  in  the 
fore  library :  a  carpet,  chairs,  hearth,  sconces,  etc.  In  the  back 
library  :  2  tables,  chairs,  a  hearth,  a  map  of  England,  a  map  of 
London,  and  an  iron  candlestick.  In  the  hall :  5  pictures,  viz.,  the 
Queen,  the  late  King  William  and  Queen  Mary,  the  judges  Cooke 
and  Littleton  ;  curtains  for  the  music  room,  cushions,  candlesticks, 
forms,  23  trestles  to  support  the  tables,  one  wicker  screen.  Without 
the  screen,  a  form,  a  table,  70  buckets,  and  a  picture  of  the  flying 
horse.  In  the  inner  buttery,  plate,  viz.  : — one  silver  bowl,  gilt,  with  a 
cover,  a  basin  and  ewer,  5  salts,  10  great  bowls,  12  small  bowls,  and 
2  doz.  silver  spoons, — brass  candlesticks,  3  pewter  standishes,  a  Bible, 
and  Grace  Book,  a  fender,  an  hour  glass,  etc.  In  the  officers' room,  a 
table,  form,  etc.  In  the  kitchen  [blank].  In  the  cellar  :  a  bottle  rack, 
etc.  In  the  summer  house:  two  tables,  chairs,  cushions,  curtains, 
hearth,  candlesticks,  etc.  In  the  little  garden  :  a  copper  basin,  a 
stone  roller,  and  a  small  brass  dial  fixed  upon  the  wall.  In  the  great 
garden  [blank].  In  Mr.  Johnson's  warehouse:  15  globe  lanthorns, 
6  wall  lanthorns,  a  cover  for  the  new  dial  in  the  great  garden,  etc. 
In  the  engine  room  :  the  engine,  old  lamps,  etc. 


DOORWAY,  4,  KING'S  BENCH  WALK. 


APPENDIX    No.    I. 


REGISTER  OF   BURIALS  AT  THE  TEMPLE  CHURCH 


(1660  to  1715). 
CONTINUED  FROM  VOL.  II.,  P.  368. 


GREGORIE  COLE,  Esq.,  an  ancient  bar- 
Tester  of  the  Midle  Temple  was  buried  in 
the  north  isle  near  the  Benchers  seats  on 
Fryday  night,  December  the  28th,  1660. 

WELBECK  STOW  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  belonging  to  the  Temple 
Church,  Jan.  2ith,  1660-1. 

DAVID  LEWES,  the  gravemaker  for  the 
Temple  church  was  buried  in  the  church- 
yard on  Sunday  night  the  ninth  of  Decem- 
ber, 1660. 

SIR  JAMES  BRIDGMAN,  kt,  was  buried  in 
the  body  of  the  Temple  Church  on  the  Inner 
Temple  side  upon  Wedensday  night  being 
the  2oth  of  February,  i66o-i.1 

WILLIAM  GAUDY,  Esq.,  was  buried  in 
the  body  of  the  Temple  church,  on  the  Inner 
side,  uppon  Fryday  night,  February  the  two 
and  twenteth,  1660-1. 

BASHINGHAM  GAUDY  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  body  of  the 
Temple  church,  on  Munday  night  being  the 
twenty  fifth  of  February,  1660-1. 

JOHN  DOLLING  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke  upon 
Teusday  night  the  26th  of  February, 
1660-1. 

FRAMLINGHAM  GAUDY  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the  body  of 
the  Temple  church  upon  Wedensday  night 
being  the  seaventh  of  February,  1660-1. 

CHARLES  Cox  an  infant  sonne  of 
William  Cox  of  the  Midle  Temple,  esq., 
was  buried  in  the  round  walke,  March  the 
second,  1660-1. 

WILLIAM  WOLLEY  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke  on 
Munday  night,  March  nth,  1660-1. 

MARY  LENNORD,  widow,  was  buried  in 
south  isle  neare  the  Benchers  seats  under 
Mr.  Williams'  moniment  on  Fryday,  May 
the  tenth,  1661. 


THOMAS  BROWNE,  an  ancient  barber 
dwelling  in  the  Midle  Temple,  was  buried 
in  the  belfery  neare  the  font  on  Fryday  the 
1 7th  day  of  May,  1661. 

WILLIAM  HOPKINS  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gentellman,  was  buried  in  the  body  of  the 
church  neare  the  crosse  passage  upon  Teus- 
day, May  28th,  1661. 

EDWARD  JOHNSON  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  chancell  neare  the 
pulpitt  on  the  south  side  on  Wedensday 
night  being  the  fifth  of  June,  1661. 

JOSEPH  BRADSHAW,  gent.,  was  buried 
in  the  round  walke  on  the  east  side  of 
the  iron  grate  upon  Satterday  night  being 
the  eight  and  twentyeth  day  of  June, 
1661. 

JOHN  GILBERT,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the 
round  walke  of  the  Temple  church  at  the  east 
side  of  the  iron  grate  on  Thursday,  July  the 
loth,  1661. 

PETTER  PORTER  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke  on  the 
south  side  on  Teusday  night  being  July 
i6th,  1661. 

NATHANIEL  BENNETT  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round 
walke  of  the  Temple  church  on  Satterday, 
July  the  twentieth,  1661. 

ROBERT  WHITCHCOTE,  an  infant  sonne 
of  Robert  Whitchcote,  clerke,  was  buried 
at  the  entrance  into  the  south  isle  of  the 
Temple  church  on  Wedensday  night  being 
the  24th  of  July,  1661. 

JOHN  PAY  of  the  Midle  Temple,  gent., 
was  buried  in  the  long  walke  next  the  round 
upon  Wedensday  night  being  the  i4th  of 
August,  1 66 1. 

SEATH  ELIOTT,  an  infant  sonne  of  Seath 
Eliot,  gardner  of  the  Inner  Temple,  was 
buried  in  the  litle  churchyard  the  i4th  of 
August,  1 66 1. 


1  Opposite  this  is  written  "  Dr.  Ball." 


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APPENDIX   NO.    I. 


HENRY  ANETT,  cheife  porter  of  the 
Midle  Temple,  was  buried  in  the  litle 
churchyard  on  Saterday  the  i;th  day  of 
August,  1 66 1.  • 

JOHN  PULISTON  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  north  side  of  the 
round  walke  on  Thursday  the  5th  of  Sep- 
tember, 1 66 1. 

TOBIAS  NEWCOURT  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  side  isle  within 
the  Temple  church  on  Teusday  the  tenth  of 
September,  1661. 

RICHARD  BAKER  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  body  of  the  church 
under  Mr.  Winns'  stone  near  the  baristers1 
seates  on  Thursdsday  night  the  26th  of 
September,  1661. 

ANNE  STONNER,  wife  of  Mr.  Angell 
Stonner  of  the  Inner  Temple,  gent,  was 
buried  in  the  body  of  the  church  on  Wed- 
ensday  night  being  the  2nd  of  October, 
1661. 

JOHN  PAYNE,  sonne  of  John  Payne  of 
the  Inner  Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  at  the 
high  alter  on  the  south  side  of  Barron  Gate's 
stone  on  Thursday,  October  the  3rd,  1661. 

JAMES  SCUDAMORE  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  ///  the  body  of  the  church 
on  Fryday  night  October  the  4th,  1661. 

EDWARD  VAUGHAN,  one  of  the  masters 
of  the  bench  of  the  Inner  Temple,  was 
buried  neare  Mr.  Selderis  grave-stone  in  the 
round  on  Teusday  being  the  eight  day  of 
October,  1661. 

FRANCES  SWAINTON  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  in  the  north  isle  of 
the  body  of  the  church  on  Saterday  night, 
November  23th,  1661. 

OLIVER  LORD,  servant  to  the  worshipfull 
William  Yorke,  esq.,  one  of  the  masters  of 
the  bench  of  the  Inner  Temple,  was  buried 
in  the  round  walke  neare  tlie  south  doore, 
November  24th,  1661. 

WILLIAM  ROBERTS,  gent.,  was  buried  in 
the  longe  walke  neare  Mr.  Martin's  tombe 
on  Munday  night  the  second  of  December, 
1661. 

GEORGE  ALISTREE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  neare  Dogett's  doore  on 
Teusday  night  the  third  of  December, 
1661. 

THOMAS  HEYHOE  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  north  isle  on 
Wedensday  night  the  fourth  of  December, 
1661. 

MARY  CANTRILL  was  buried  in  the  side 
isle  on  the  inner  side  neare  Mr.  Nashe's 
stone  on  Munday  night,  December  2oth, 
1661. 


DAVID  EVANS,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyard,  December  27  th,  1661. 

LAWRANCE  MADWELL,  Esq.,  one  of  the 
six  clarkes  in  Chancery,  was  buried  in  the 
longe  walke,  neare  Mr.  Martyn's  tombe, 
one  Satterday  night  the  nth  of  January, 
1661-2. 

FRANCIS  BOOKER,  servant  to  Mr.  Thur- 
land  of  the  bench  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
was  buried  in  the  round  walke,  February 
17th,  1661-2. 

GEORGE  ALESTREE,  senior,  was  buried 
in  the  side  isle  on  the  Inner  side  neare  the 
Dogett  doore,  on  Thursday  night,  February 
27th,  1661-2. 

WILLIAM  ELTONHEAD  of  the  Midle 
Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the  body  of 
the  church  near  unto  the  darkens  seat,  March 
i7th,  1661. 

GRIFFITH  CUFFIN  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke  on 
Teusday  night  being  the  first  of  Aprill, 
1662. 

JOHN  MAYNARD,  esq.,  eldest  sonne  of 
the  worshipfull  John  Maynard,  sergeant-at- 
law,  dyed  at  his  chamber  in  the  Midle 
Temple  the  28th  of  May,  1662,  and  was 
carried  into  the  country  to  be  buried,  yett 
payd  the  fees  to  the  minister  and  officers 
of  the  Temple. 

WILLIAM  HOVILL  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent,  and  one  of  the  clarkes  of  the  Fine 
Office,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke  of  the 
Temple  church  the  sixth  day  of  June,  1662. 

MARY  COLINS,  wife  of  Anthony  Colins 
of  the  Middle  Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in 
the  body  of  the  Temple  church  nere  the, 
Clarke's  seat  under  the  long  stone  on  Teus- 
day night  being  the  tenth  of  June,  1662. 

THOMAS  CHAFE,  esq.,  one  of  the  masters 
of  the  bench  of  the  honourable  societie  of 
the  Midle  Temple,  was  buried  in  the  north 
isle  neare  the  Benchers'  seates  the  third  day 
of  July,  1662. 

WILLIAM  BAYNHAM  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke, 
6th  of  June,  1662. 

WILLIAM  CELY,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the 
round  walke  Midle  side,  the  twentieth  day 
of  July,  1662. 

JOHN  ELTONHEAD,  esq.,  sergant-at-law, 
was  buried  in  the  body  of  the  church  neare 
the  pulpit  on  the  Midle  side,  the  thirtieth 
day  of  July,  1662. 

THOMAS  TYFIN  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke  the 
twenty  fourth  day  of  August,  1662. 

EDWARD  WALDRON  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  neare  the  benchers' 


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seates  on  the  twenty  third  day  of  October, 
1662. 

HUGH  AUDLEY  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  at  uper  end  of  the  south 
isle  where  the  vestry  now  standeth,  the  one 
and  twentith  day  of  November,  1662. 

ANNE  WHITE  of  the  countie  of  Dorsett, 
gentlewoman,  was  buried  in  the  round 
walke  on  the  Midle  side  November  23th, 
1662. 

SAMUELL  LUDDINGTON  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the  body  of  the 
church  the  twenty-ninth  day  of  January, 
1662-3. 

RICHARD  KING  of  the  countie  of  Chester, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  roundwalke  in  the 
Midle  side  the  eight  day  of  February, 
1662-3. 

GRACE  CATER,  wife  of  Mr.  Henry  Cater 
of  the  Inner  Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  in 
the  long  walke  February  the  I4th,  1662-3. 

HENRY  LANMAN  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke  the 
fifth  day  of  March,  1662-3. 

SIR  CHENNY  CULPEPER  of  the  Midle 
Temple,  baronet,  was  buried  at  the  enter- 
ance  into  the  north  is/e,  the  second  of 
Aprill,  1663. 

GABRILL  LIVESAY,  gent.,  was  buried  in 
the  churchyard  the  eighteenth  of  Aprill, 
1663. 

JANE  BARTON,  wife  of  John  Barton  of 
the  Midle  Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the 
north  isle  near  the  benchers'  seats  on  the 
twenty-eight  day  of  Aprill,  1663. 

JOHN  WOODWARD  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke  the 
second  day  of  May,  1663. 

HENRY  LUCAS  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  high  chance/I  under 
sergeant  Turner's  moniment  the  one  and 
twentieth  day  of  July,  1663. 

EDWARD  ACTON,  an  infant,  was  buried 
neare  the  pulpit  on  the  Midle  side  the  third 
day  of  August,  1663. 

DANIELL  LISLE  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke  the 
twentieth  of  August,  1663. 

LUCY  PECK,  an  infant  daughter  of  Tho. 
Peck  of  the  Inner  Temple,  gent.,  was 
buried  in  the  round  walke  the  second  day 
of  September,  1663. 

MILES  COOKE,  an  infant  sonne  of  Miles 
Cooke  of  the  Midle  Temple,  esq.,  was 
buried  in  the  round  walke  the  thirteenth 
day  of  September,  1663. 

JOHN  WATSON  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke  the 
27th  of  October,  1663. 


NATHANIELL  BROOKE  of  the  Midle 
Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round 
walke  on  the  eighteenth  day  of  November, 
1663. 

LENNORD  CHAMBERLYNE  of  the  Midle 
Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round 
walke  on  the  Midle  side  the  thirteenth  day 
of  January,  1663-4. 

JOHN  SPATHURST  of  the  countie  of 
Yorke,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the  long  walke 
of  the  Temple  church  the  twenty  eighth  of 
January,  1663-4. 

ROBERT  MELOR  of  the  countie  of 
Dorsett,  Esq.,  was  buried  in  the  body  of 
the  church  on  the  Midle  side,  the  twentieth 
day  of  February,  1663-4. 

ANNE  STONNER,  daughter  of  Angell 
Stonner  of  the  Inner  Temple,  gent.,  was 
buried  in  ye  body  of  the  church  ye  eleventh 
day  of  March,  1663-4. 

BENJAMAN  TOMLINS  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round 
walke  the  twenty  sixth  day  of  Aprill, 
1664. 

WILLIAM  JONES  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  /;/  the  high  chancell behind 
the  pulpit  the  twenty  sixth  of  May,  1664. 

EDWARD  S.u.LOWAYof  the  InnerTemple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke  neare 
St.  Anne's  chapel  doore  the  iyth  of  June, 
1664. 

EDWARD  LITLETON  of  the  InnerTemple, 
gent.,  was  buried  ///  the  long  walke,  June 
the  1 7th,  1664. 

RICHARD  WEST  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  roundwalke  July 
the  7th,  1664. 

FRANCIS  FORTESCUE,  an  infant,  buried 
in  the  roundwalke,  Inner  side,  August  loth, 
1664. 

ANDREW  SEARLE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke,  25  of 
August,  1664. 

ROBERT  BAKER  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walk,  the 
eleventh  of  November,  1664. 

WILLIAM  SWAVNK  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke,  ye 
14  of  November,  1664. 

NICOLAS  YARBOROUGH  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the  long  walke 
the  fifth  day  of  February,  1664-5. 

ROBERT  PRANNELL,  curate  in  the 
Temple,  was  buried  in  the  churchyard, 
Feb.  24,  1664-5. 

RALPH  BANISTER,  turnebroch  of  the 
Midle  Temple,  was  buried  in  the  church- 
yard the  28th  of  March,  1665. 

RICHARD  ABUREY,  an  ancient  gent.,  was 


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buried  in  the  round  walke  the  twentith  day 
of  Aprill,  1665. 

SIR  THOMAS  BIRD,  one  of  the  masters 
of  the  Chancery,  was  buried  in  the  south 
isle  near  the  stone  moniment  of  the  Abott, 
Inner  side,  the  tenth  day  of  June,  1665. 

JOSEPH  NANTON,  servant  to  Sir  Bui- 
strode  Whitlocke  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
was  buried  in  the  churchyard,  June  i4th, 
1665. 

ROWLAND  jEWKESof  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  a  valt,  prepared  at  his 
charge,  neare  Mr.  Selden's  moniment,  the 
fifth  of  July,  1665. 

ELIZABETH  WATKINS,  widdow,  was 
buried  in  the  round  walke  the  26th  of  July, 
1665. 

NATHANKLL  PALGRAVK  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the  Inner 
churchyard  neare  the  north  east  corner  of 
the  church,  August  ye  8th,  1665,  Of  the 
plague. 

ZACHREY  WATKINS,  assistant  of  the 
clarke  of  the  Temple  church,  was  buried 
in  the  churchyard  the  ninth  day  of  August, 
1665.  Of  the  plague. 

BEARE,    servant   to  Mr.   William 

Noyes  of  the  Midle  Temple,  gent.,  was 
buried  in  the  churchyard  the  22th  day  of 
August,  1665.  Of  the  plague. 

BOOTH,  servant  to  Mr.  William  Bag- 
nail  of  the  Inner  Temple,  gent.,  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  churchyard  the  27th  day  of 
August,  1665.  Of  the  plague. 

servant  to  Mr.  Bradford  of 

the  Midle  Temple,  gent.,  buried  in  ye 
churchyard,  August  24th,  1665.  Of  the 
plague. 

MISTRESS PEARE  and  MR.  RICHARD 

PEARE,  her  sonne,  belonging  to  Mr.  Peare, 
a  barister  of  the  Midle  Temple,  were  both 
buried  in  the  churchyard,  September  the 
first,  1665.  Of  the  plague. 

THOMAS  NORTHWKLL,    servant  to  Mr. 

—  Draper  of  the  Midle  Temple,  was 
buried  in  the  churchyard,  September  the 
i2th,  1665.  Of  the  plague. 

LANCOLETT  SYMONDS  of  the  Midle 
Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round 
walke,  September  29th,  1665. 

CAPT. GYFFORD,   a  stranger  who 

dyed  at  Mr.  Gyfford's  chamber  in  the 
Midle  Temple  lane,  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard,  September  3oth,  1665.  Of 
the  plague. 

MR.  JOHN  BUNCOMBE,  gent.,  was  buried 
in  the  churchyard  from  Mr.  Cave's  cham- 
ber in  the  Inner  Temple  the  second  day 
of  October,  1665.  Of  the  plague. 


-  MUSGRAVE,  gent.,  a  stranger  who 
dyed  at  Mr.  Munday's  chamber  in  Essex 
Court,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church- 
yard, October  i2th,  1665.     Of  the  plague. 

HENRY  CHILTON,  steward  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  was  buried  in  the  churchyard, 
1 7th  of  November,  1665.  Of  the  plague. 

ROBERT  BURFORD,  panierman  of  the 
Middle  Temple,  buried  in  the  churchyard, 
December  gth,  1665. 

MARTHA  MARSHALL,  wife  of  Mr.  John 
Marshall  of  the  Inner  Temple,  gent.,  was 
buried  near  the  saintes  bell  neare  the  doure 
going  into  the  church  the  eight  day  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1665-6. 

THOMAS  ADKINSON,  an  infant,  buried 
in  the  churchyard  March  27,  1666;  paid 
no  fees. 

WILLIAM  ROCHESTER  of  the  Midle 
Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the  body  of  the 
church  the  twenty-seventh  day  of  June, 
1666. 

HENRY  PAGE,  servant  to  Mr.  Perriottof 
the  Midle  Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  in  ye 
churchyard  July  the  25th,  1666. 

ANNE  PORTER,  wife  of  Charles  Porter 
of  the  Midle  esq.,  was  buried  in  the  long 
wa/ke  near  Recorder  Martin's  tombe  on 
Saterday  night  being  the  first  of  Septem- 
ber, 1666. 

SIR  ANTHONY  JACKSON,  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  kt.,  was  buried  in  the  round  near 
the  iron  graft  the  I4th  day  of  October,  1666. 

-  LUCAS,  cheife  porter  of  the  Midle 
Temple,   was   buried  in  the  round  ivalke 
neare  the  font  the  seventh  of  November, 
1666  ;  paid  no  fees. 

JAMES  HOWELL,  esq.,  historygraficar  to 
his  Majestic  Charles  the  Second,  was 
buried  /;;  the  long  walke  neare  the  doore 
which  goes  up  the  steeple,  November  the 
third,  1666. 

THOMAS  WESTBROOKE,  attourny  at  law, 
was  buried  in  the  round  under  the  north 
window,  the  twenty  ninth  day  of  Novem- 
ber, 1666. 

HENRY  MASSENBURG  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the  side  isle 
next  to  Mr.  Nash's  grave-stone  upon  Mun- 
day  the  twenty  sixth  day  of  November, 
1666. 

WILLIAM  YORKE,  esq.,  bencher  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  was  buried  in  the  passage 
between  the  benchers'  seates  and  the  vestry 
upon  Thursday  the  twenty  ninth  day  of 
November,  1666. 

WILLIAM  TARLTON,  servant  to  the  Earle 
of  Cleavland,  was  buried  in  the  church- 
yard, the  1 4th  day  of  January,  1666. 


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447 


ROBERT  BACKHOUSE  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  neare  the  stepps  by  the 
Saints  bell  on  Munday  the  fourtenth  day 
of  January,  1666-7. 

ANTHONY  WILLMORE  was  buried  from 
Mr.  Thomas'  chamber  in  the  Paper  build- 
ings, in  the  churchyard,  the  27  of  April, 
1667. 

ROGER  HILL,  esq.,  sergant-at-law  and 
bencher  of  the  Inner  Temple  was  buried 
under  the  great  chest  by  ttie  vestry  on  Teus- 
day  the  three  and  twenteth  day  of  Aprill, 
1667. 

HENRY  SALMON  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  side  isle  neare  Mr. 
Heyhoe 's  grave-stone  on  Teusday  the  twenty 
eyght  day  of  May,  1667. 

MARMADUKE  MOORE  of  the  Midle 
Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the  midle  isle 
neare  the  pulpett,  July  i2th,  1667. 

SIR  EDMOND  PEARCE,  kt.,  and  one  of 
the  masters  of  the  Chancery,  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  church  at  the  north  east  end 
neare  to  Mr.  Plowden's  moniment,  upon 
the  tenth  day  of  August,  1667. 

HUMPHREY  WATTS  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  on  the  east  side  of  the 
iron  graft  in  the  round  walke  the  23th  oi 
September,  1667. 

THO.  WOODFORD,  servant  to  Mr.  Pau- 
lett  of  the  Midle  Temple,  was  buried  in 
the  churchyard  the  24th  of  September, 
1667. 

THOMAS  FRENCH,  servant  to  the  steward 
of  the  Midle  Temple,  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  the  3d  day  of  October,  1667. 

THOMAS  YOUNG  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  on  the  east  side  of  the  iron 
grate  in  the  round  the  i8th  day  of  October, 
1667. 

MISTRESS  ELIZABETH  JOHNSON,  wid- 
dow,  wife  of  the  late  Edward  Johnson, 
esq.,  of  the  Inner  Temple,  bencher,  was 
buried  neare  the pulpitt  on  Satterday  night 
being  the  23th  of  November,  1667. 

ABEL  GOWER  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  on  the  east 
side  of  the  iron  grate  the  291)1  of  November, 
1667. 

GEORGE  ELPHICK  of  Grays  Inn,  esq., 
was  buried  in  the  longe  walke  neare  Mr. 
Martin's  moniment  on  the  Midle  Temple 
side,  December  i/vth,  1667. 

FRANCIS  WILLIAMSON  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round 
walke  of  the  Temple  church,  January  24th, 
1667-8. 

MISTRESS  ANNE  FOWKES,  widdow,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  churchyard  under  the 


north  window,  the  I5th  day  of  February, 
1667-8. 

WILLIAM  JOHNSON  of  the  Middle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke 
of  the  Temple  church  the  2oth  day  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1667-8. 

MISTRESS  SUSANN  BALL,  wife  of  the  rev. 
Dr.  Richard  Ball,  master  of  the  Temple, 
was  buried  in  the  Temple  church  at  the 
entrance  into  the  midle  quire  doore  the  i8th 
day  of  March,  1667-8. 

ELIZABETH  HEY  a  poore  widdow,  was 
buried  in  the  churchyard  the  6th  of  Aprill, 
1668. 

JOHN  BARNABY  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke  the 
8th  of  May,  1668. 

RICHARD  PEARE  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  long  walke  the  I5th 
of  May,  1668. 

EDWARD  LATTYMER,  servant  to  Mr. 
Barry,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church- 
yard, 2Qth  of  May,  1668. 

HENRY  RUSSELL  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke,  May 
25th,  1668. 

JOHN  BARRY  of  the  Inner  Temple,  esq., 
was  buried  /;/  the  round  walke  the  igth 
day  of  June,  1668. 

EDWARD  LEE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke  the 
1 5th  day  of  Jully,  1668. 

FRANCIS  JERMEY  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  tlie  long  walke  the  gth 
of  October,  1668. 

JOHN  BERRINGER  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  body  of  the  church 
neare  the  pulpitt  the  i6th  day  of  Novem- 
ber, 1668. 

JOHN  MORTON  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  south  isle  under  the 
window  neare  Dogett's  doore  the  26th  day 
of  November,  1668. 

MR.  JOHN  MARSHALL  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  an  attourney,  was  buried  in  the 
long  walke  and  the  entrance  into  the  south 
doore  the  23rd  day  of  December,  1668. 

MISTRESS  ANNE  FARMER,  wife  of  George 
Farmer  of  the  Inner  Temple,  esq.,  was 
buried  at  the  east  end  of  the  church  under 
the  Communion  table,  December  29th, 
1668. 

MISTRESS  ANNE  MORTON,  wife  of  the 
Hon.  Judge  Morton  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, was  buried  in  the  south  isle  nere 
Dogett's  doore  upon  the  7th  of  January, 
1668-9. 

MR.  JOHANNATHAN  COLINS  of  the  Midle 
Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the  long  walke 


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APPENDIX   NO.  I. 


neare  Mr.  Martyris  moniment,  January  the 
igth,  1668-9. 

SAMUELL  BUCKE,  servant  to  Mr.  Leach- 
mere  of  the  bench  of  the  Midle  Temple 
was  buried  in  the  Temple  churchyard  the 
nth  day  of  February,  1668-9. 

SIR  JOHN  WILLIAMS  of  Minster  Court 
in  the  Isle  of  Tenett,  a  member  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  was  buried  in  the  church 
under  Mr.  Den's  moniment  neare  the  saints 
bell  the  26  of  March,  1669. 

ELIZABETH  MILLS,  wife  of  Mr.  William 
Mills,  the  cheife  porter  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple was  buried  at  the  east  side  of  the  font 
of  the  Temple  church  the  sixth  day  of  May, 
1669. 

GEORGE  STREET  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  neare  Mr. 
Se/den's  moniment,  June  the  seventh,  1669. 

FRANCIS  WISEMAN,  a  scrivner,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  churchyard  the 
seventh  of  July,  1669. 

ANNE  MACHELL,  widdow,  was  buried 
///  the  south  isle  of  the  Temple  church  upon 
Fryday  the  241(1  of  September,  1669. 

THOMAS  MANN  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  long  walke  neare 
Mr.  Whitby's  stone,  November  ad,  1669. 

JOHN  FITZ  JAMES  of  the  Midle  Temple 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  long  walke  next 
to  Mr.  Jeremy's  stone,  December  igth, 
1669. 

EDWARD  SEARLE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the  Temple 
church  neare  the  font  upon  Fryday  the 
twenty  fourth  of  December,  1669. 

TYMOTHY  POLLARD  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  f/ie 
Temple  church,  January  the  first,  1669; 
paid  no  fees. 

BARBARA  LEE,  wife  of  George  Lee  of 
the  Inner  Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the 
body  of  the  church  near  the  crossc  passage 
upon  the  i5th  of  January,  1669-70. 

WILLIAM  CLARKE,  servant  to  Mr.  Arch- 
bold  of  the  Midle  Temple  was  buried  in 
the  churchyard  the  26th  day  of  January, 
1669-70. 

TIMOTHY  TWIFORD,  stationer,  in  the 
Inner  Temple  Lane  was  buried  in  the 
round  of  the  church  February  gth,  1669-70. 

JOHN  MARTIN,  servant  to  Sir  Edward 
Thurland  on  of  the  masters  of  the  bench 
of  the  Inner  Temple  was  buried  in  the 
round  of  the  church,  April  ist,  1670. 

FRANCIS  BARTON  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  north  isle  neare 
P/owden's  moniment  on  Teusday  night  be- 
ing the  3d  of  May,  1670. 


FRANCIS  FOSTER  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  long  walke  nere  the 
south  doore  on  Sunday  night  being  the 
i5th  of  May,  1670. 

JOHN  JERSON  of  the  Inner  Temple  was 
buried  in  the  round  of  the  church  on 
Wedensday  night  being  the  25  of  May, 
1670. 

ARTHUR  HARRIS  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the  church 
upon  Sunday  night  being  the  5th  of  June, 
1670. 

CHRISTOPHER  COLSON  of  the  Midle 
Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of 
the  church  upon  Thursday  night  being  the 
8th  of  June,  1670. 

HESTER  HILL,  an  infant  daughter  of 
William  Hill  of  the  Inner  Temple,  gent., 
was  buried  near  the  vestry  doore  the  24  of 
August,  1670. 

RICHARD  ALDER,  a  poore  man  that 
dyed  in  the  Midle  Temple  lane  was  buried 
in  the  churchyard  the  I7th  of  August, 
1670. 

JOHN  MOYLE  of  the  Inner  Temple,  esq., 
was  buried  in  the  body  of  the  church  upon 
Saterday  night  being  the  3d  of  September, 
1670. 

THOMAS  CHAMPION  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  in  the  south  isle  neat 
the  south  door  on  Saterday  night  being  the 
1 2th  of  September,  1670. 

BURNELL  BALL,  sonne  of  Dr.  Ball, 
master  of  the  Temple  was  buried  at  the 
entrance  into  the  midle  isle  the  I3th  of 
September,  1670. 

ELIZABETH  TOMLINS,  widdow,  was 
buried  in  the  south  isle  of  the  church  upon 
Wedensday  night  being  the  2ith  of  Sep- 
tember, 1670. 

THOMAS  GIBBES  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
an  ancient  barrister  was  buried  in  the 
round  of  the  church  upon  Friday  night 
October  2ith,  1670. 

ANTHONY  COLINS  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  body  of  the  church 
upon  Teusday  night  being  the  22th  of  No- 
vember, 1670. 

RICHARD  RUDYARD  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  north  isle  on 
Wedensday  night  being  the  28th  of  Decem- 
ber, 1670. 

SAMUELL  ROYLE  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  Feb.  23th, 
1670. 

HENRY  FREEMAN,  cheife  porter  of  the 
Midle  Temple  was  buried  in  the  round, 
May  loth,  1671. 

JOHN  PAYNE  of  the  Inner  Temple,  gent., 


APPENDIX   NO.    I. 


449 


and  attourny  in  the  Exchequer  was  buried 
in  the  high  chancell  behind  the  pulpitt  the 
i6th  of  May,  1671. 

WILLIAM  NICOLAS  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  long  walke  June  the 
3d,  1671. 

HENRY  WINN  of  the  Inner  Temple,  esq., 
was  buried  in  the  round  neare  Mr.  Selden's 
tomb  the  twenty  ninth  day  of  July,  1671. 

THOMAS  JOLLY  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  i6th 
day  of  September,  1671. 

MARY  GAUDY  was  buried  in  the  body  of 
the  church  on  the  Inner  side,  the  I3th  of 
October,  1671. 

MAURICE  TRESHAM  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  in  the  side  isle  the  6th 
of  November,  1671. 

THOMAS  KECK  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
esq.,  and  one  of  the  masters  of  the  bench, 
was  buried  in  the  long  walke  under  Mr. 
HowelFs  moniment  the  sixth  day  of  Novem- 
ber, 1671. 

CHARLES  SYDNHAM,  esq.,  buried  in  the 
round  neare  Mr.Jewks  moniment  the  24th 
of  November,  1671. 

JOHN  HERBERT  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  near  the  Docket  doore 
November  24th,  1671. 

OLIVER  PLAYDELL  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  December 
1 3th,  1671. 

RICHARD  PYBAS,  servant  to  Mr.  How- 
kins,  attourny  of  the  Midle  Temple,  was 
buried  in  the  churchyard  the  22th  of  De- 
cember, 1671. 

JAMES  BARRETT  on  of  the  washpotts 
of  the  Midle  Temple,  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  January  7th,  1671. 

THOMAS  HIGGS  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  north  isle  February 
the  i8th,  1671. 

THOMAS  BRADFORD  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  Febru- 
ary 2ith,  1671-2. 

JOSEPH  WESTLY,  servant  to  Mr.  John 
Stephens  of  the  Midle  Temple,  was  buried 
in  the  round,  February  23th,  1671-2. 

HANMORE  LEWIS,  servant  to  Mr.  Serjant 
Brampston  of  the  Midle  Temple  was  buried 
in  the  round,  April  loth,  1672. 

THOMAS  MUNDEY,  esq.,  one  of  the 
masters  of  the  bench  of  the  Midle  Temple 
was  buried  near  the  benchers'  seates  the  2gth 
of  June,  1672. 

SIR  WILLIAM  MORTON,  one  of  the  judges 
of  the  Kings  Bench,  was  buried  under  his 
moniment  in  the  Inner  side,  October  the 
first,  1672. 

HI,  3 


EDWARD  SHELTON  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  high  chancell  behind 
the  pulpitt  the  second  of  November,  1672. 

RICHARD  ADKINSON,  one  of  the  buttlers 
to  the  Inner  Temple,  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  the  I4th  of  October,  1672. 

WALLIS  LOWE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  south  isle  the  26th 
of  November,  1672. 

MARY  CLARKE,  widdow,  late  wife  of  Sir 
Thomas  Clarke  of  the  Midle  Temple,  was 
buried  by  her  husband  in  the  round,  Decem- 
ber the  roth,  1672. 

JOHN  CAVE  of  the  Inner  Temple,  esq., 
was  buried  in  the  body  of  the  church  the 
1 8th  of  January,  1672-3. 

ARTHUR  CALTHORPE  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  valt  near 
Plowden's  tombe,  February  2ith,  1672-3. 

MOSES  BROMLEY  buried  in  the  church- 
yard, March  loth,  1672-3. 

ANNE  PEARSON,  wife  of  Dr.  John  Pear- 
son, lord  bishop  of  Chester,  was  buried  at 
the  entrance  into  the  body  of  the  church,  1672. 

WILLIAM  DRAYTON  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, attourny,  was  buried  in  the  churchyard 
the  first  of  Aprill,  1673. 
I       MARY    PRICE,    widdow,  buried    in  the 
|  churchyard,  dishwasher  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
!  pie,  the  27th  of  April,  1673. 

JOHN  CHALENOR,  butler  of  the  Midle 
Temple,  buried  in  the  churchyard  the  4th 
of  May,  1673. 

JAMES  HALES,  one  of  the  clerks  of  the 
Crown  Office,  was  buried  in  the  round, 
Inner  side,  May  the  sixth,  1673. 

RALPH  BANCROFT,  second  cook  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  was  buried  in  the  church- 
yard, May  1 7th,  1673. 

MARY  CHAPMAN,  wife  of  Mr.  William 
Chapman,  cheife  butler  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, buried  in  the  north  isle  upon  the  eight 
of  June,  1673. 

RICHARD  CURST  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  gth  of 
August,  1673. 

RICHARD  DRAPER,  gent.,  buried  in  the 
round  on  the  Inner  Temple  side,  September 
ye  sixth,  1673. 

GEORGE  KEKWITH  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round,  September 
ye  sixth,  1673. 

THOMAS  AGER,  gent.,  and  dark  of  the 
Crown  Office,  was  buried  out  of  the  Midle 
Temple  in  the  long  walke  the  fourth  of 
November,  1673. 

THOMAS  NORTHOVER  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  Novem- 
ber ye  28th,  1673. 
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45° 


APPENDIX   NO.    I. 


RICHARD  HYDER  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  long  walke  the  i6th 
of  December,  1673. 

JOHN  SMITH,  cheife  cooke  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  26th 
of  July,  1673. 

SIR  NATHANIELL  HUBERT,  kt.,  one  of 
the  masters  of  chancery,  was  buried  in  the 
body  of  the  church  Midle  Temple  side  the 
2ith  of  February,  1673-4. 

THOMAS  BENTLY  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  long  walk  ye  loth 
of  March,  1673-4. 

JOHN  BUTTS  of  the  Inner  Temple,  esq., 
was  buried  in  the  long  walke  near  Mr. 
Selden's  moniment  ye  i8th  of  Aprill,  1674. 

FRANCIS  HUBERT,  daughter  of  the  late 
Sir  Nath.  Hubert,  etc.,  was  buried  by  her 
father  ye  28th  Aprill,  1674. 

JOHN  SAMPSON  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  ye  loth  of 
May,  1674. 

WALTER  BLUNT  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  4th  of 
August,  1674. 

EDWARD  STEPHENS  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  in  ye  long  walk  ye 
sixth  of  August,  1674. 

ISAIAH  WARD,  doctor  of  phisick,  who 
dyed  in  the  Midle  Temple,  was  buried  in 
the  round  the  fiftenth  of  August,  1674. 

FRANCIS  FITZ  JAMES,  buried  under  her 
brother's  gravestone  /;/  the  long  walke,  In- 
ner Temple  side,  the  26th  of  August,  1674. 

ROSA  MARIA  TRESHAM,  buried  /;/  the 
north  isle  by  her  brother,  the  3d  of  Septem- 
ber, 1674. 

SEYMOR  PAUI.KT,  clerk  to  Mr.  Tillman 
of  the  Midle  Temple,  was  buried  in  ye 
round,  October  I7th,  1674. 

THOMAS  HUSSEY  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round,  November 
the  loth,  1674. 

POPE  NORTH,  an  infant  sonne  of  the 
hon.  Sir  Francis  North,  attorny  general!, 
was  buried  in  ye  ckance/fthe  4th  of  Novem- 
ber, 1674. 

RICHARD  ORYLYBAR  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  ye  round,  Decem- 
ber I2th,  1674. 

GEORGE  WELCOME,  clarke  to  Mr.  John 
Skegness  of  the  Midle  Temple,  was  buried 
in  the  round  March  ye  27th,  1675. 

GEORGE  DUKE  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  i6th  of 
June,  1675. 

FETTER  BALL,  doctor  of  phisick,  sonne 
of  the  worshipfull  Sir  Fetter  Ball,  one  of 
the  masters  of  the  bench  of  the  honourable 


societie  of  the  Medle  Temple,  was  buried 
in  the  round  of  the  Temple  church,  July 
2oth,  1675. 

WILLIAM  MOLE,  gent.,  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the 
Temple  church,  July  the  27th,  1675. 

WILLIAM  DIKE  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the  Temple 
church,  August  I2th,  1675. 

FETTER  ROYLE,  gent.,  belonging  to  the 
chancery,  was  buried  in  the  round  on  the 
Midle  Temple  side,  by  his  brother,  the  2oth 
of  August,  1675. 

SIR  RICHARD  SAMFORD  of  the  county  of 
Northumberland,  barronet,  was  buried  in 
the  round  of  the  Temple  church  on  the  Inner 
Temple  side  near  the  iron  grafts,  the  east 
side,  September  the  nth,  1675. 

GEORGE  MASSON,  a  poore  gentleman, 
was  buried  in  the  north  churchyard,  Octo- 
ber 1 4th,  1675. 

WILLIAM  DICKENSON  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  near  the 
Midle  Passage  into  the  long  walke,  the  27th 
of  November,  1675. 

DAVID  WILLIAMS  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  long  walke  the  17th 
of  December,  1675. 

WILLIAM  LUDLOW  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  body  of  the  church, 
26th  of  January,  1675-6. 

FRANCIS  ADAMS  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  high  chancell  behind 
the pulpitt  the  8th  of  March,  1675-6. 

CHARLES  PORTER,  an  infant  sonne  of 
Charles  Porter  of  the  Midle  Temple,  esq., 
was  buried  in  the  round  the  gth  of  July, 
1676. 

WILLIAM  ROBERTS  was  buried  in  ye 
churchyard  2oth  of  August,  1676. 

SUTTON  CONNY,  gent.,  a  stranger,  was 
buried  in  ye  long  walke  on  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple side,  October  ye  6th,  1676. 

ANTHONY  DEANE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  buried  near  Sir  John  Williams  moni- 
ment in  the  long  walke  the  7th  of  October, 
1676. 

JOHN  HEARNE  of  the  Midle  Temple,  an 
attourny,  was  buried  in  the  churchyard, 
November  ye  isth,  1676. 

WILLIAM  PARSLOWE  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  body  of  the 
church  ye  gth  of  December,  1676. 

CHARLES  CRU~MPTON,  esq.,  a  stranger, 
buried  in  the  belfery  near  the  font,  1 7th 
of  December,  1676. 

THOMAS  BENTLEY  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  the  lyth  of  December,  1676. 

WILLIAM  KING  of  the  Midle  Temple 


APPENDIX   NO.  I. 


esq.,    was   buried  in   the   round  nere  the 
Knights,  27th  of  December,  1676. 

WILLIAM  MASSON,  baker  to  the  Midle 
Temple,  was  buried  in  the  churchyard, 
Jan.  7th,  1676-7. 

ROBERT  HUNT  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  long  walke,  Febru- 
ary 27th,  1676-7. 

SIR  FREDERICK  HIDE,  sergant  at  law, 
was  buried  neare  Mr.  Plowden's  moniment, 
May  3d,  1677. 

EMANUELL  THOMAS,  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, attourny,  was  buried  in  the  round, 
May  loth,  1677. 

SIR  ALEXANDER  WALDRON,  kt,  was 
buried  in  the  long  walke  on  the  south  side 
of  Mr.  Litleton's  stone,  being  the  Inner  side, 
May  the  I4th,  1677. 

JOHN  BLUNT  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke,  May 
i6th,  1677. 

ROBERT  BEARE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke,  June 
i2th,  1677. 

JOHN  EDWARDS,  a  barber  in  the  Inner 
Temple,  was  buried  in  the  churchyard, 
June  3d,  1677. 

THOMAS  PARADINE,  a  taylor,  was  buried 
in  the  churchyard,  June  i5th,  1677. 

WILLIAM  RICHARDS  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple was  buried  ///  the  round  walke  June 
1 8th,  1677. 

SIR  JOHN  KING,  kt.,  one  of  his  Majesties 
councell  and  bencher  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, was  buried  in  the  round  near  to  Mr. 
Jewkes'  stone,  July  4th,  1677. 

THOMAS  BOWEN  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  out  of  Hare  Court,  August 
igth,  1677. 

HOPTON  SHUTER,  esq.,  one  of  the 
benchers  of  the  Inner  Temple,  was  buried 
in  the  middle  of  f  he  body  of  the  church,  Sep- 
tember the  igth,  1677. 

ELLENOR  CHILTON,  widdow,  was  buried 
in  the  churchyard,  the  2ith  of  March, 
1676-7. 

EDMOND  GIBBON  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  long  walke  Octo- 
ber 2d,  1677. 

JAMES  WALKER,  an  infant  son  of  Tho. 
Walker  of  the  Inner  Temple,  esq.,  was 
buried  near  unto  Mr  Selden's  moniment 
the  3d  of  November,  1677. 

RICHARD  ROBERTS,  pannierman  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  was  buried  in  the  church- 
yard, 1 2th  of  November,  1677. 

JOHN  JACKSON  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  walke,  June 
the  2gth,  1677. 


RICHARD  WARBURTON,  gent.,  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  churchyard,  i2th  January, 
1677. 

HENRY  GAUDY  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  midle  isle,  the  I5th 
of  January,  1677-8. 

SUSSAN  KEERREY,  daughter  of  Danell 
Keerrey,  was  buried  in  the  churchyard, 
February  nth,  1677-8. 

MARY  GILBORROW,  widdow,  was  burried 
in  the  middle  isle  near  the  pulpit  the  8th  of 
March,  1677-8. 

FRANCIS  NORTH,  daughter  of  Sir  Francis 
North,  lord  cheife  justice,  was  buried 
near  Plowden's  tombe  the  gth  of  Aprill, 
1678. 

HERBERT  PERROTT  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  near  the 
font,  the  1 6th  of  Aprill,  1678. 

FRANCIS  BULLER  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  midle  isle  near  the 
pulpitt  the  9th  of  May,  1678. 

RICHARD  PARADINE,  under  cook  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
churchyard,  i2thofMay,  1678. 

SIR  JAMES  BOYER,  kt.,  was  buried  in 
the  long  walke  on  the  Midle  Temple  side, 
the  24th  of  May,  1678. 

CHARLES  DOUGHTY  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  near 
the  font,  the  28th  of  June,  1678. 

MR.  JOHN  ROSSE,  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  near  the 
font,  the  i4th  of  October,  1678. 

CHRISTOPHER  DORREI.L  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round, 
the  1 8th  of  October,  1678. 

WILLIAM  TUBBING,  gent.,  was  buried 
///  the  round  on  the  Midle  Temple  side  the 
9th  of  November,  1678. 

ROGER  MOSTYN  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  i2th  of 
December,  1678. 

WILLIAM  TRIST  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buryed  in  the  round  walk  next  to 
Grampian's  stone  1678. 

JOHN  WADMAN  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  nth  of 
February,  1678-9. 

GEORGE  BYNION,  gent.,  was  buried  in 
the  round  on  ttie  Midle  Temple  side,  Feb- 
ruary i3th,  1678-9. 

SIR  TYMOTHY  LITLETON,  kt.,  one  of 
the  barrens  of  the  Exchequer,  was  buried 
in  tJie  long  walke,  Inner  Temple  side,  the 
2d  of  Aprill,  1679. 

ROBERT  WESTON  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  5th  of 
Aprill,  1679. 


452 


APPENDIX   NO.  I. 


JOHN  BALL,  son  of  Dr.  Ball,  master  of 
the  Temple  was  buried  in  the  enterance 
into  the  midle  isle  the  28th  of  Aprill,  1679. 

JOHN  WATTERS  of  the  Inner  Temple 
and  principall  attourny  of  the  King's 
Bench,  was  buried  in  the  body  of  the  church 
upon  Fryday  the  gth  of  May,  1679. 

WILLIAM  CHAPMAN,  gent.,  was  buried 
in  the  side  isle  on  the  Midle  Temple  side 
upon  Satterday  the  loth  of  May,  1679. 

JOSEPH  TROTMAN,  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  upon  Mun- 
day  the  i2th  of  May,  1679. 

WILLIAM  TIGH  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  ye  round  the  i8th  of 
May,  1679. 

EDWARD  ACTON,  esq.,  was  buried  in 
the  body  of  the  church  by  Mr.  Buck's  pew 
on  the  Midle  Temple  side  Munday  ye  i4th 
of  July,  1679. 

GEORGE  PALMER  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  near  the 
font,  ye  i7th  of  July,  1679. 

GEORGE  BRIDGER  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  28th  of 
July,  1679. 

GEORGE  WILDE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  near  Setden's 
moniment  on  Fryday  the  first  of  August, 
1679. 

THOMAS  TURNER,  esq.,  was  buried  in 
the  south  isle  under  his  father  in  law  Judge 
Mortons  moniment  the  22th  of  July,  1679. 

GEORGE  ENT  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  5th  of 
September,  1679. 

THOMAS  KNIGHTLY  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  September  8th,  1679. 

BERCKLY  HANSON  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  gth 
of  November,  1679. 

JUDITH  ADAMS,  widdow,  late  wife  of 
William  Adams,  deceased,  some  time  a 
bencher  of  the  Midle  Temple,  was  buried 
in  the  chancell  neare  the  slone  moniment  the 
gth  of  November,  1679. 

SIR  WILLIAM  WILD,  kt.,  one  of  the 
judges  of  the  King's  Bench,  was  buried  in 
the  long  walke,  Inner  Temple  side,  the  2d 
of  December,  1679. 

HUGH  OSBORNE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  i  gth  of 
February,  1679-80. 

HENRY  KEMP  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  nth  of 
February,  1679-80. 

THOMAS  FINCHAM  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  south  isle  the  igth 
of  March,  1679-80. 


THOMAS  HICKES  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  i6th  of 
March,  1679-80. 

JOHN  COLE  was  buried  in  ye  churchyard 
the  yth  of  July,  1680. 

MARY  BROWNE,  buried  in  ye  church- 
yard 27th  of  June,  1680. 

OLIVER  AYLETT,  gent,  buried  in  ye 
churchyard  i4th  of  June,  1680. 

WILLIAM  CLARK,  infant,  buried  in  the 
churchyard  ist  of  August,  1680. 

EDWARD  WOOD,  turnspitt,  buried  in 
churchyard  20  of  September,  1680. 

FRAN.  MILLS,  widdow,  buried  in  ye 
churchyard  6th  of  October,  1680. 

WILLIAM  FREEMAN,  gent.,  buried  in 
the  round  3oth  of  October,  1680. 

SIR  JOHN  WILLIAMS,  kt,  buried  under 
his  uncle's  moniment  in  the  south  isle  the 
i4th  of  November,  1680. 

ELIZABETH  WATTERS,  widow,  was  buried 
in  the  midle  isle,  Inner  side,  the  2  7th  of  De- 
cember, 1680. 

MARY  BLYTH,  wife  of  John  Blyth, 
sexton  of  Temple  church,  was  buried  in 
the  churchyard  2  gth  of  December,  1680. 

RICHARD  NORMAN  of  Whitfriers  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  churchyard  the  i6th 
of  February,  1 680. 

JOHN  PAYNE  of  the  Midle  Temple,  gent, 
was  buried  in  the  round  February  22th, 
1680-1. 

VERE  BARTUE  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
sergant  at  law  and  one  of  the  barrens  of 
ye  Exchequer,  was  buried  at  the  east  end 
of  the  church  near  Plowdens  moniment  5th 
day  of  March,  1680-1. 

WILLIAM  JOLLIFF  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  7th  of 
March,  1680-1. 

JOHN  HELE  of  the  Midle  Temple,  gent, 
was  buried  in  tlie  round  the  7th  of  May, 
1681. 

AYMONDISHAM  PAINE,  an  infant,  was 
buried  in  t/ie  round  on  the  Midle  Temple 
[side]  the  3oth  of  May,  1681. 

ROBERT  SANDERSON  of  Lincolnshire, 
gent,  was  buried  in  the  round  on  the  Inner 
side  the  3d  of  June,  1681. 

PETER  D'  LA  HAY  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  i6th  of 
June,  1 68 1. 

THOMAS  GREENWOOD,  servant  to  Francis 
Woodward  of  the  Midle  Temple,  esq., 
was  buried  in  the  round  the  2oth  of  June, 
1681. 

RICHARD  LAPTHORNE,  an  infant,  was 
buried  in  the  round,  Middle  Temple  side, 
the  2oth  of  June,  1681. 


APPENDIX    NO.  I. 


453 


WILLIAM  DIKE  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent,  was  buried  in  tlie  round  the  2oth 
of  July,  1  68  1. 

HUGH  GROVE  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  north  isle  near  the 
Bencher?  seates  the  2ith  of  July,  1681. 

ROGER  FOWKE  of  the  Inner  Temple 
was  buried  in  t/ie  round  the  I4th  of  July, 
1681. 

ELLENOR  BALL,  wife  of  Dr.  Richard  Ball, 
master  of  the  Temple,  was  buried  in  the 
body  of  the  church  near  the  midle  doore  the 
1  6th  of  August,  1  68  1. 

MARY,  the  wife  of  John  MAJOR,  stationer, 
was  buried  in  the  side  isle  near  her  mother, 
Mrs.  Mary  Chapman,  on  the  Midle  side  the 
z6th  of  November,  1681. 

THOMAS  BALL,  gent.,  sonne  of  Dr. 
Richard  Ball,  master  of  the  Temple,  was 
buried  at  the  lower  end  of  the  body  of  the 
church,  December  the  3d,  1681. 

WILLIAM  BROWNE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  tlie  long  walke  near 
Judge  Vagharfs  stone  the  yth  of  December, 
1681. 

THOMAS  WEEK  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  I2th 
of  December,  1681. 

SIR  JOHN  SIMPSON  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, kt,  sergant  at  law,  was  buried  in  the 
round  next  Sir  John  King  the  i6th  of 
December,  1681. 

ROBERT  BROWNE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  body  of  the  church 
near  the  barr  seat  the  27th  of  December, 
1681. 

LUKE  MERRVDALE,  a  stranger,  was 
buried  out  of  the  Fryers  in  the  Temple 
churchyard,  January  4th,  1681-2. 

CHRISTOPHER  DARELL,  esq.,  was  buried 
in  the  round  on  the  Inner  Temple  side, 


February  lyth,  1681-2. 

VALENTINE  JOVNER  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  2d 
of  March,  1681-2. 

JOHN  PARSONS  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  6th  of 
March,  1681-2. 

SAMUELL  DEVERAUX,  servant  to  Mr. 
Holton  of  the  Midle  Temple,  was  buried 
in  ye  churchyard  the  22th  of  March, 
1681-2. 

WILLIAM  BALL,  son  of  the  master,  Dr. 
Ball,  was  buried  at  the  lower  end  of  the 
midle  isle  February  igth,  1681-2. 

EDWARD  BuTTLERofthe  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  carried  into  the  country  to  be 
buried,  but  paid  the  dutys  to  the  Temple 
church,  Aprill  22th,  1682. 


JOHN  KEELING  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  I4th  of 
May,  1682. 

MISTRESS  SUSANNA  SKEGNES,  wife  of 
Mr.  John  Skegneys  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
was  buried  in  the  round,  October  3oth, 
1682. 

ROGER  EDDOWS  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
was  buried  in  the  round  the  roth  of  No- 
vember, 1682. 

WILLIAM  CHAPMAN,  cheife  butler  of  the 
Midle  Temple,  was  buried  in  the  round, 
November  i8th,  1682. 

ELEZABETH  MERADETH,  widdow,  was 
buried  out  of  the  Fryers  in  the  Temple 
churchyard,  26  of  November,  1682. 

MARIANA   LAPTHORNE,  an  infant,  was 
j  buried  in  the  round  on  tlie  Midle  Temple 
side,  January  26th,  1682-3. 

MARY  PORTER,  an  infant  daughter  of 
Charles  Porter,  of  the  Midle  Temple,  esq., 
was  buried  in  ye  round  24th  of  March, 
1682-3. 

JOHN  DANIEI.L,  a  barber,  was  buried  in 
the  north  churchyard  of  the  Temple,  the 
25111  of  March,  1683. 

GORING  BALL  of  the  Midle  Temple,  esq., 
was  buried  in  the  round  Aprill  2ith,  1683. 

SAMUELL  CURST  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  i6th  of 
May,  1683. 

ARTHUR  POLLARD  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  roumithc  loth 
of  June,  1683. 

SIR  EDMOND  SANDERS,  kt.,  lord  cheife 
justice  of  his  Majesties  court  of  King's 
Bench,  was  buried  at  the  cast  end  of  the 
north  isle  near  Ploivdoifs  tombe  the  28th 
of  June,  1683. 

SIR  SAMUELL  BALDWIN,  kt.,  sergant  at 
law,  was  buried  ///  the  round  under  Sir  John 
King's  tombe  on  ye  Inner  side  the  lyth  of 
July,  1683. 

SIR  THOMAS  ROBINSON,  kt.,  tresurer  of 
the  Inner  Temple,  was  buried  at  the  upper 
end  of  the  south  isle  the  7th  of  August, 
1683. 

NICOLAS  WELCH  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  i2th 
of  September,  1683. 

JOHN  SCARCE,  servant  to  Mr.  Norice  of 
the  Midle  Temple,  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard,  28th  of  Sep.,  1683. 

SAMUELL  HOWLAND  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the 
3d  of  October,  1683. 

JOHN  ALMERY  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  north  churchyard, 
October  i7th,  1683. 


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APPENDIX    NO.  I. 


WILLIAM  LONG  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  October 
2ith,  1683. 

WILLIAM  TOMPSON,  an  infant  son  of 
Mr.  Tompson,  of  the  Midle  Temple,  was 
buried  in  ye  round  November  i5th, 
1683. 

DANIELL  KEERY  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the  lyth  of 
November,  1683. 

SOUTHWARK  BALL  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the 
Temple  church  upon  Sunday  night  being 
the  30th  of  December,  1683. 

WILLIAM  GRIGGS  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the 
church  the  1 8th  of  February,  1 683-4. 

THOMAS  BALES  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
esq,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the  church 
ye  27th  of  February,  1683-4. 

ANN  LITTLTON  (sic),  wife  of  the  late  Sir 
Timothy  Littlton,  one  of  the  barrens  of 
the  Exchequer,  was  buried  under  her 
husband's  gravestone  within  the  skreen  the 
1 8th  of  March,  1683-4. 

RICHARD  BALL,  doctor  in  divinity  and 
master  of  the  Temple,  was  buried  in  the 
new  vestrey  on  the  south  side  of  the  church 
ye  gth  of  Aprill,  1684. 

CHRISTOPHER  FLETCHER  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the  church- 
yard ye  24th  of  June,  1684. 

GEORGE  LEE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  churchyard  ye 
24th  of  June,  1684. 

FRANCIS  WOOD  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the.  round  July  the 
2d,  1684. 

RICHARD  LAPTHORNE,  an  infant,  buried 
in  ye  round  on  ye  Midle  side,  the  loth  of 
July,  1684. 

GEORGE  ROBINSON  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  the 
30th  of  July,  1684. 

SAMUELL  BURRELL  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  ye 
28th  of  August,  1684. 

CHARLES  MACKERTY  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  ye 
nth  of  October,  1684. 

ANN  CURE,  the  wife  of  George  Cure  of 
the  Inner  Temple,  Esq.,  was  buried  in  the 
round  the.  23th  of  November,  1684. 

ABRAHAM  JACOB  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  ye  gth  of 
December,  1684. 

JOHN  NICOLAS  was  buried  in  the  church- 
yard the  3ith  of  January,  1684-5. 

HENRY  KEMPE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 


gent.,  buried  in  t/ie   round  the   2ith  of 
January,  1684-5. 

JANE  COBB,  wife  of  Jeffery  Cobb  late  of 
the  Inner  Temple,  gent.,  buried  in  the 
round  Feb.  gth,  1684-5. 

HENRY  FAIRCLOUGH,  doctor  of  phisick, 
dyed  at  his  son's  chamber  in  ye  Midle 
Temple  and  buried  in  the  round  Feb.  i3th, 
1684-5. 

CHARLES  PORTER  infant  son  of  William 
Porter  of  the  Midle  Temple,  gent.,  was 
buried  in  the  round  Feb.  26th,  1684-5. 

MARY  KEMPE,  wife  of  Henry  Kempe 
late  of  the  Inner  Temple,  gent.,  was 
buried  in  the  round  Aprill  i8th,  1685. 

JOHN  GLASS  of  the  Inner  Temple,  gent., 
buried  in  the  round  June  i6th,  1685. 

NICOLAS  BURLASSE  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  buried  in  the  round  June  23th, 
1685. 

DENIS  MACKERTY  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  in  the  round]une  25th,  1685. 

SIR  JOHN  PETTUS,  kt,  member  of  the 
honourable  societie  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
buried  in  the  round  July  I2th,  1685. 

JOHN  NOURSE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent,  buried  in  ye  round  Dec.  4,  1685. 

PETER  HONYWOOD  of  ye  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  in  ye  round  Dec.  12,  1685. 

JOHN  THACHAM  of  ye  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  in  ye  round  December  18, 
1685. 

MARY  KERRY,  ye  wife  of  Daniel  Kerry, 
esq.,  of  ye  Midle  Temple,  was  buried  in 
ye  round  Dec.  28  1685. 

JOHN  FIDYES,  barber  in  ye  Midle  Tem- 
ple, buried  in  ye  north  churchyard,  Jan. 
1 4th,  1685-6. 

RICHARD  MARSH  of  ye  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  ye  rounds  Feb.  lyth, 
1685-6. 

JOHN  PRATT  of  ye  Midle  Temple,  gent., 
was  buried  in  ye  round  Feb.  19,  1685-6. 

JOHN  LONG  of  ye  Inner  Temple,  gent., 
buried  in  the  round  March  26,  1686. 

GILBERT  NORTH,  of  ye  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  in  ye  churchyard  March 
31,  1686. 

FRANCIS  HOBLYN,  esq.,  buried  in  ye 
Temple  church  April  26,  1686. 

ANN  DOBSON,  widdow,  buried  in  ye 
churchyard  April  29,  1686. 

JOHN  ELLIS  of  ye  Inner  Temple,  gent., 
buried  in  ye  rounds  May  20,  1686. 

FRANCIS  WOODWARD  of  ye  Midle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  buried  in  ye  round  May  21, 
1686. 

WILLIAM  CATER  of  ye  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  in  ye  round  June  14,  1686. 


APPENDIX   NO.  I. 


455 


JOSEPH  MADDING  of  ye  Middle  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  in  ye  round  June  17,  1686. 

SAMUEL  HOLDEN  of  ye  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  in  ye  round  June  23,  1686. 

JOHN  EARLE  of  ye  Midle  Temple, 
esq.,  buried  in  ye  round  October  13,  1686. 

EDWARD  CHICHESTER  of  ye  Inner  Tem- 
ple, gent,  buried  in  ye  round,  Nov.  17,1686. 

RICHARD  LLOYD  buried  in  ye  round, 
Nov.  27,  1686. 

ST.  LEGER  SCROOPE  buried  in  ye  round 
Jan.  13,  1686-7. 

ROBERT  JOHNSON,  esq.,  of  ye  Inner 
Temple,  buried  in  ye  round  Jan.  20,  1686-7. 

EDMOND  HERNE,  a  taylor,  buried  in  ye 
churchyard  Feb.  17,  1686-7. 

JOSEPH  TULLY  of  ye  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  in  ye  rounds  March  18, 
1686-7. 

WILLIAM  BAGNAL  of  ye  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  in  ye  rounds  April  23,  1687. 

RICHARD  HALL  of  ye  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  in  ye  rounds  May  3,  1687. 

MACRINA  LAPTHORN,  an  infant,  buried 
in  ye  rounds,  May  5,  1687. 

THOMAS  BRANDON,  gent.,  of  ye  Inner 
Temple,  buried  in  ye  rounds  May  15,  1687. 

EDWARD  EATON  buried  in  ye  rounds  of 
ye  Temple  church  May  18,  1687. 

WILLIAM  PEACHY,  esq.,  of  ye  Inner 
Temple,  buried  in  ye  rounds  May  21,  1687. 

CHARLES  COOKE,  esq.,  of  ye  Inner 
Temple,  was  buried  in  ye  rounds  June  3, 
1687. 

JOHN  ROOTS  buried  in  ye  rounds  of  ye 
Temple  church  Nov.  25,  1687. 

SIR  THOMAS  HANMER,  bencher  of  ye 
Inner  Temple,  buried  /;/  ye  rounds  Feb. 
17,  1687-8. 

THE  LADY  JOYCE  KING  buried  ///  ye 
Temple  church  ye  2oth  of  April,  1688. 

WILLIAM  LAWRENCE  buried  /;/  ye  Tem- 
ple church,  April  28,  1688. 

ANTHONY  KECK,  son  to  Mr.  Anthony 
Keck,  buried  in  ye  round  May  28,  1688. 

ROBERT  FORTISCUE  of  ye  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  June  24,  1688. 

JOHN  How,  buried  in  the  Temple  church, 
Oct.  25  1688. 

SAMUEL  HINDE  buried  in  the  Temple 
church,  Nov.  n,  1688. 

JOHN  WATERS,  gent.,  buried  in  ye 
Temple  church  March  15,  1688-9. 

ROBERT  HAMPSON,  serjeant  at  law, 
buried  in  Temple  church  Dec.  6,  1689. 

THOMAS  MOSSE,  stationer  in  ye  Temple, 
buried  in  ye  churchyard  Jan.  3,  1 688-9. 

JOHN  GLYNN  of  ye  Midle  Temple,  gent., 
buried  in  ye  vault  April  4,  1689. 


NATHANIEL  HEXT  of  ye  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  in  Temple  church  May  28, 
1689. 

JOHN  SPARRY  of  ye  Midle  Temple,  gent., 
buried  in  Temple  church  June  9,  1689. 

JOHN  NORMAN  buried  in  the  churchyard 
Aug.  23,  1689. 

ELIZABETH  STEPHENS  buried  in  ye  Tem- 
ple church  Aug.  30,  1689. 

FRANCIS  DAVIS  of  ye  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  in  ye  Temple  church  Oct.  5, 
1689. 

THOMAS  JOBBER  of  ye  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  buried  in  ye  rounds  May  26,  1688, 
forgot  to  be  entred  in  ye  due  place. 

THOMAS  VAUGHAN,  esq.,  a  stranger, 
buried  in  ye  vault  of  ye  Inner  Temple,  i 
Nov.  1689. 

SIR  JOHN  WITHAM  of  ye  Inner  Temple 
buried  in  ye  vault  Nov.  28,  1689. 

SIR  WILLIAM  WREN  of  ye  Midle  Temple 
buried  in  ye  vault  Jan.  i,  1689-90. 

CHARLES  BARTON,  esq.,  of  ye  Midle 
Temple  buried  in  ye  vault  Jan.  6,  1689-90. 

MR.  JOHN  WHEELER  of  ye  Inner  Tem- 
ple buried  in  ye  round  Jan.  28,  1689-90. 

WILLIAM  GUAVERS,  esq.,  of  ye  Midle 
Temple  buried///^  round,  Febr.  i,  1689-90. 

JOHN  SAUNDERS,  esq.,  buried  in  the 
round,  March  6,  1689-90. 

JOHN  HOULTON  of  ye  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  in  ye  churchyard  March 
13,  1689-90. 

WILLIAM  STOKES,  esq.,  of  ye  Middle 
Temple  buried  in  yc  vault,  May  18,  1690. 

CHRISTOPHER  TURNER,  esq.,  buried  in 
the  round,  June  23,  1690. 

WILLIAM  TAYLOR,  esq.,  buried  in  the 
round  Sept.  13,  1690. 

WILLIAM  BALL,  esq.,  of  ye  Middle 
Temple  buried  in  ye  round,  Oct.  22,  1690. 

THOMAS  TAVERNER,  esq.,  buried  in 
ye  rounds  of  ye  Temple  church  Febr.  26, 
1690-1. 

SIR  JOHN  TATE,  kt,  and  Serjeant  at  law, 
buried  in  ye  Middle  Temple  vault,  March 
17,  1690-1. 

THOMAS  RIDGEWAY,  esq.,  of  ye  Middle 
Temple,  was  buried  in  ye  Middle  Temple 
vault  May  31,  1691. 

GRACIOUS  CROOKE,  wife  to  Unton 
Crooke,  esq.,  of  ye  Inner  Temple,  buried 
in  ye  vault,  June  8,  1691. 

SUSANNA  LEE  buried  in  ye  Temple  church 
in  ye  vault  of  ye  Inner  Temple  November 
ye  gth,  1691. 

THO.  BRIGSTOCK,  esq.,  of  ye  Midle 
Temple  buried  in  yc  vault  December  ye 
gth,  1691. 


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APPENDIX   NO.  I. 


ANN  BRIDGEMAN  buried  in  the  vault  of 
t/te  Inner  Temple  January  ye  2gth,  1691-2. 

JOHN  HARHEY,  esq.,  buried  in  ye  vault 
of  the  Inner  Temple  February  ye  8th 
1691-2. 

HENRY  BROWN  gent.,  of  the  Inner 
Temple  buried  in  the  vault  March  ye  25th, 
1692. 

SAMUELL  GWILLIM,  esq.,  buried  in  the 
Inner  Temple  vault  Aprill  ye  i3th,  1692. 

JANE  WATERS,  wife  of  John  Waters,  was 
buried  in  ye  round  Aprill  ye  3oth,  1692. 

JOHN  Row,  esq.,  of  the  Midle  Tem- 
ple, was  buried  in  the  vault  May  ye  7th, 
1692. 

EDMOND  POLLEXFON  buried  in  the  Midle 
Temple  vault  May  the  24th,  1692. 

JOHN  HOVLE,  esq.,  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple was  buried  in  the  vault  May  ye  29, 
1692. 

JOHN  WATKINS  of  the  Midle  Temple, 
gent.,  buried  in  the  round  July  ye  3d, 
1692. 

JOHN  FRANCIS,  esq.,  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple buried  in  the  vault  October  ye  i4th, 
1692. 

EDMUND  HUSKY  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  vault  November 
the  2d,  1692. 

NICHOLAS  ARCHISOI.D,  esq.,  of  the  Midle 
Temple,  was  buried  ye  24th  of  Janeuary, 
1692-3,  in  ye  vault. 

HENRY  WARBERTON  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  the  24th  of  Janeuary,  1692-3. 

RICHARD  CROOKE  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyard  February  the  8th, 
1692-3. 

WILLIAM  ROI.FE  of  ye  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  ye  vault  March  ye 
ist,  1692-3. 

JOHN  MOORE  of  ye  Inner  Temple,  gent., 
was  buried  in  ye  vault  Aprill  ye  24th, 
1693. 

JOHN  TAYLURE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  ye  vault  August  ye 
1 2th,  1693. 

RALPH  SUCKLEY,  gent,,  was  buried 
in  the  vault  of  ye  Temple  church  October 
ye  25th,  1693. 

RICHARD  ASHFELD,  esq.,  was  buried 
in  the  vault  of  ye  Temple  church  De- 
cember ye  3ist,  1693. 

HANAH  KECK  was  buried  in  the  vault 
of  the  Temple  church  January  the  27th, 
1693-4. 

WM.  DOLBYN,  kt.,  one  of  ye  judges  of 
ye  King's  Bench,  buried  in  ye  south  isle 
January  ye  29th,  1693-4. 

JOHN   TREMEINE,  kt.,  serjant  at   law, 


was  buried  in  the  north  isle  February  ye 
23th,  1693-4. 

JOSEPH  WASHINGTON,  esq.,  was  buried 
in  the  vault  of  ye  Temple  church  February 
28th,  1693-4. 

UNTON  CROKE,  esq.,  of  ye  Inner  Tem- 
ple was  buried  in  the  vault  March  ye  2d, 
1693-4. 

JOHN  CHOLMLEY  of  ye  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  ye  vault  March  ye 
2d,  1693-4. 

WILLIAM  MINERS,  cheif  buttler  of  ye 
Inner  Temple  was  buried  in  the  round 
March  ye  25th,  1694. 

RICHARD  GAMES,  esq.,  of  ye  Inner 
Temple,  was  buried  in  the  vault  March  ye 
29th,  1694. 

JOHN  KING,  gent.,  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple was  buried  in  the  round  Aprill  ye  5th, 
1694. 

ROBERT  KNOWLING,  esq.,  of  the  Inner 
Temple  was  buried  in  the  vault  June 
the  I4th,  1694. 

FRANCIS  EATON,  esq.,  of  the  Inner 
Temple  was  buried  in  the  vault  July  the 
27111,  1694. 

JOHN  JOLLYFFE,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the 
vault  on  the  Middle  Temple  side  September 
the  2ist,  1694. 

GEORGE  BARWICK,  esq.,  of  the  Middle 
Temple  was  buried  in  the  vault  the  2oth 
of  October,  1694. 

THOMAS  HANCOCK  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  vault  the  24th 
of  October,  1694. 

THOMAS  INGRAM  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  the  i6th  of  January,  1694-5. 

SIR  WILLIAM  THOMPSON,  Serjeant  at 
law,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church  the 
25th  of  January,  1694-5,  on  Die  Midle 
Temple  side. 

WM.  BERRY,  cheif  porter  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  was  buried  in  the  churchyard  ye 
3d  of  May,  1695. 

ELIZABETH,  the  daughter  of  Richard 
Baxter,  was  buried  in  the  churchyard  the 
3d  of  May,  1695. 

ANN  TEMPLE,  an  infant  found  in  ye 
Midle  Temple  was  buried  in  the  church- 
yard the  2ist  of  May,  1695. 

HUTTON  BYERLEY,  esq.,  of  the  Middle 
Temple  was  buried  in  the  vault  the  25th 
of  May,  1695. 

CHICHESTER  YOUNGE,  esq.,  of  the  Mid- 
dle Temple,  was  buried  in  the  vault  the 
5th  of  August,  1695. 

WILLIAM  DYKE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  vault  the  nth 
day  of  August,  1695. 


APPENDIX    NO.    I. 


457 


STEPHEN  CRESSER  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyard  the  2gth  of  Septem- 
ber, 1695. 

THOMAS  SMYTH,  buttler  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  was  buried  the  isth  of  Novem- 
ber, 1693,  in  ye  churchyard. 

MR.  HENRY  MANSFEILD,  a  stranger, 
was  buried  in  the  Temple  churchyard  the 
1 6th  of  December,  1695. 

FRANCIS  SHERLEY,  panyerman  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  buried  ye  3151  of  January, 
1695-6,  in  ye  churchyard. 

RODGER  GILLINGHAM  of  ye  Middle 
Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  ye  vault  ye 
3d  of  Janeuary,  1695-6. 

WILLIAM  BUCKLE,  messenger  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  was  buried  in  ye  church- 
yard igth  of  February,  1695-6. 

ANDREW  BARRY,  a  stranger,  was  buried 
in  the  vault  of  ye  church  2Oth  of  February, 
1695-6. 

ROBERT  DANIELL,  a  child,  was  buried 
in  the  churchyard  the  24th  of  February, 
1695-6. 

THOMAS  BAKER  of  the  Inner  Temple 
was  buried  in  ye  churchyard  ye  24th  of 
February,  1695-6. 

JOHN  BARTROP,  a  child,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyard  ye  25th  of  Febru- 
ary, 1695-6. 

HUMPHREY  COURTNEY,  of  ye  Inner 
Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  ye  vault  the 
25th  day  of  March,,  1696. 

ANN  ARCH  BOLD,  wife  of  Nicholas  Arch- 
bold,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the  vault  ye  ist 
day  of  Aprill,  1696. 

JOHN  VAUGHAN,  esq.,  was  buried  in 
the  vault  of  the  Temple  church  the  I5th  of 
June,  1696. 

MARY  SILVESTER,  a  child,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyard  August  ye  nth, 
1696. 

ELIZABETH  BERRY  was  hurried  in  the 
Temple  churchyard  October  the  6th,  1696. 

GEORGE  GILBERT  PEARCE  of  ye  Mid- 
dle Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  ye  vault 
November  ye  aoth,  1696. 

LAURENCE  FERONE,  a  stranger,  was 
buried  in  ye  churchyard  December  the 
20th,  1696. 

HUMPHREY  READ,  servant  to  Sir  Francis 
Wythens  was  buried  in  the  churchyard 
January  ye  3d,  1696-7. 

JOHN  ORLEBAR,  esq.,  bencher  of  the 
Middle  Temple  was  buried  in  ye  vault 
January  ye  i6th,  1696-7. 

JOHN  WHEELER,  esq.,  of  the  Middle 
Temple,  was  buried  in  the  vault  January 
the  1 9th,  1696-7. 

in.  3 


ELIZABETH  VEEL  was  buried  in  the  vault 
of  the  Temple  church  February  the  14, 
1696-7. 

MR.  ROBERT  FIDO  of  ye  Middle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  vault  March 
24,  1696-7. 

MR.  NATHANIELL  STEVENS  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  church  March  29,  1697. 

KATHERINE  DANIELL  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyard  Aprill  the  5th, 
1697. 

WILLIAM  JONES,  an  infant,  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  churchyard  Aprill  the  I4th, 
1697. 

ROBERT  ELLIS  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyard  the  24th  of  Aprill,  1697. 

ROGER  GILLINGHAM  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyard  June  the  2d,  1697. 

MARY  JONES,  wife  of  Edward  Jones, 
was  buried  in  the  Temple  churchyard  July 
the  8th,  1697. 

WILLIAM  LOYDE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent,  was  buried  in  the  vault  the  15  of 
July,  1697. 

MR.  DANIELL  OSBORNE  of  the  Inner 
Temple  was  buried  in  the  vault  the  31  of 
July,  1697. 

ANN  MACHON  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyard  the  3d  day  of  August, 
1697. 

JOHN  MOVSER,  esq.,  one  of  the  masters 
of  the  bench,  was  buried  in  the  vault  of  ye 
Temple  August  ye  13,  1697. 

RICHARD  WALLOP,  esq.,  one  of  ye 
masters  of  ye  bench  of  ye  Middle  Temple 
and  barren  of  the  checke  was  buried  in 
ye  round  of  the  Temple  church,  August  26th, 
1697. 

WILLIAM  HOBLYN,  gent.,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyard  the  27  day  of 
August,  1697. 

JOHN  BARTLETT  of  the  Middle  Temple 
was  buried  in  the  churchyard  the  gth  of 
September,  1697. 

MR.  EDWARD  Rous  of  the  Middle 
Temple  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the 
Temple  ye  28  of  December,  1697. 

MR.  LOVETT  GORING  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple was  buried  in  the  round  of  the  church 
the  29  of  December,  1697. 

MR.  BULSTRAT  WHITELOCK.  of  ye  Mid- 
dle Temple  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church 
January  the  7th,  1697-8. 

MADAME  JANE  ETTERICKE  was  buried 
in  the  round  of  the  Temple  church  the  27 
of  February,  1697-8. 

MARY  SILVESTER  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyard  March  the  ist,  1697-8. 

RICHARD  GARLAND  of  the  Inner  Tern 
N 


458 


APPENDIX   NO.  I. 


pie,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  March 
the  1 8,  1697-8. 

JOHN  TEMPLE,  a  foundling,  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  churchyard  March  22d, 
1697-8. 

MR.  JOHN  BELLAMY,  a  stranger,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  church  March  the  29, 
1698. 

MRS.  MARY  LYDALL  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  church  July  the  7th  day  1698. 

MR.  RICHARD  YOUNG  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple was  buried  in  the  vault  August  the 
1 3th,  1698. 

JOHN  THOMAS  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyard  November  the  4th, 
1698. 

MR.  JOHN  BOYCE  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  church  November  the  gth,  1698. 

ROBERT  DANIELL,  a  child,  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  churchyard  November  the 
27th,  1698. 

JOHN  WEBB,  chiefe  cooke  of  ye  Middle 
Temple  was  buried  in  the  churchyard 
December  the  i3th,  1698. 

JOHN  LEATHWICK,  gardiner,  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  churchyard  December  the 
291(1,  1698. 

THOMAS  DiCKiNSofthe  Middle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  ///  the  Temple  church 
December  ye  3oth,  1698. 

JOHN  HOGHTON  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church 
February  the  23d,  1698-9. 

THOMAS  COOKE,  a  barbar,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyard  March  the  aoth, 
1698-9. 

THOMAS  NURSE  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church- 
yard Aprill  the  20th,  1699. 

JAMES  BARNES,  a  stranger,  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  churchyard  Aprill  the  23d, 
1699. 

JOHN  PALGRAVE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church 
Aprill  ye  25th,  1699. 

JOSEPH  THOMAS  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyard  June  the  i2th,  1699. 

SAMUELL  BAYLEY  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church, 
June  ye  igth,  1699. 

PATIANCE  DOUNES,  an  infant,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  churchyard  July  the 
nth,  1699. 

MRS.  ELIZABETH  BATTELEY  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  churchyard  August  the  I4th, 
1699. 

SARAH  WOOD,  a  stranger,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyard  August  the  2oth, 
1699. 


WILLIAM  POTTLE  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church 
August  the  2ith,  1699. 

THOMAS  HODGES  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  ye  vault  of  ye  Temple 
church  September  ye  6th,  1699. 

EDWARD  HoRNEBYof  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church 
September  the  izth  1699. 

ELIZABETH  COGGIN,  an  infant,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  churchyard  Septem- 
ber the  1 3th,  1699. 

JOHN  GILLINGHAM,  a  stranger,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  churchyard  Septem- 
ber the  26th,  1699. 

MRS.  ANN  ARMEGER  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyard  November  the  24th, 
1699. 

SARAH  WELBELOVED,  a  stranger,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  churchyard  Decem- 
ber the  1 6th,  1699. 

MR.  THOMAS  MIDDLETON  of  New  Inn 
was  buried  in  the  Temple  church  January 
the  25th,  1699-1700. 

WILLIAM  SQUIRE,  a  child,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyard  January  the  22d, 
1699-1  700. 

URSULLA  CROE,  a  stranger,  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  churchyard  February  the 
6th,  1699-1700. 

THOMAS  DOUNES,  turnbroach  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
churchyard  February  ye  26th,  1699-1700. 

Lucius  HARE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  vault  of  the  Temple 
church  February  ye  2gth  1699-1700. 

ELIZABETH  SILVESTER,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyard  July  the  3d,  1700. 

ANN  SILVESTER  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyard  July  the  loth,  1700. 

JOHN  KELBY  of  the  Inner  Temple,  gent., 
was  buried  in  the  vault  August  the  7th, 
1700. 

SIR  BENJAMIN  GOODWIN  of  the  Middle 
Temple  was  buried  ///  the  Temple  church 
September  the  I2th,  1700. 

MATTHEW  JOHNSON,  an  infant,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  churchyard,  Novem- 
ber the  7th,  1700. 

FRANCES  TEMPLE,  an  infant,  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  churchyard  November  the 
16,  1700. 

CHARLES  BAKER  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church 
December  the  gth,  1700. 

SIR  GEORGE  TREYBY,  kt.,  lord  chief 
justice  of  ye  Common  Please,  buried  in  the 
chancel,  December  16,  1700. 

ANDREW  CASTEELE  was  buried  in  the 


APPENDIX    NO.  I. 


459 


Temple    churchyard    January   the 
1700-1. 

THOMAS  FILLMOORE  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  in  the  vault  January 
the  24th,  1700-1. 

TIMS  DICKENS  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple church  March  the  29th,  1701. 

MARY  WALLOP  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple church  June  the  27th,  1701. 

WILLIAM  FREEMAN,  esq.,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  church,  August  the  8th,  1701. 

SAMUEL  CORBET  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  church  August  the 
1 7th,  1701. 

MARY  TEMPLE,  an  infant,  was  buried  in 
the  churchyard,  August  the  25th,  1701. 

ANN  GILLINGHAM  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  October  i6th,  1701. 

RICHARD  WILLKINSON  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  /';/  the  vault 
November  26,  1701. 

JANE  DANIEI.L  was  buried  in  the  church- 
yard December  the  16,  1701. 

JOHN  COGGIN  was  buried  in  ye  church- 
yard December  the  21,  1701. 

WILLIAM  CLARKE  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  the  22  of  February,  1701-2. 

WILLIAM  PHILLIPS  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  Aprill  the  igth,  1702. 

PAUL  MYNERS  was  buried  in  the  church- 
yard April  27th,  1702. 

RICHARD  COOKE  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  church  July  i8th, 
1702. 

WILLIAM  SQUIRE  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  July  the  291)1,  1702. 

MARTHA  ROBIN  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  September  the  5th,  1702. 

MRS.  ELLENOR  FREEMAN  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  church  October  the  roth,  1702. 

NICHOLAS  PAGE  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church 
November  loth,  1702. 

BARTHOLOMEW  VERMUIDEN  was  buried 
in  the  churchyard  December  24th,  1702. 

ELIZABETH  WARDE  was  buried  /;/  the 
Temple  church  December  the  25th,  1702. 

RICHARD  MERYMAN  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  January  the  gth,  1702-3. 

KATHERINE  WARDE  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  church  January  the  3oth,  1702-3. 

JOHN  CHILDE  of  ye  Middle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  t/te  vault  February  1 6th, 
1702. 

GEORGE  MELLISH  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  the  24th  February,  1702. 

MARY  BRETTON  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  March  the  5th,  1702-3. 

FRANCIS    HARVEY    was   buried   in  the 


Temple  church  Aprill  the  3oth,  1 703,  on  the 
Middle  Temple  side. 

MARY  ALBROOKE  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyard  May  the  23,  1703. 

EDMUND  CHADWELL  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  church  June  the  2d,  1703. 

JOHN  BURGES  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
churchyard  July  the  I3th,  1703. 

ANN  DANIELL  was  buried  in  ye  Temple 
churchyard  August  the  3ist,  1703. 

EDWARD  MORE  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple, churchyard  October  I7th,  1703. 

THOMAS  STANLEY  of  the  Middle  Temple 
was  buried  in  the  church  October  31,  1703. 

THOMAS  LECHMERE  of  the  Middle  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  in  the  vault,  Novem- 
ber ist,  1703. 

WILLIAM  WEST  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyard  January  21,  1703-4. 

ELIZABETH  CROWDER  was  buried  in  the 
churchyard  February  the  8th,  1703-4. 

MARMADUKE  LLOYD  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church 
February  the  i4th,  1703-4. 

ANN  WARD  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
church  the  2oth  of  February,  1 703-4. 

FRANCIS  LLOYD  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  Temp/c  churcJi 
March  i3th,  1703-4. 

JOHN  COGGAN,  a  child,  was  buried  in  ye 
Temple  churchyard  March  25,  1704. 

MARY  JOHNSON,  a  child,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyard,  Aprill  i6th,  1704. 

WILLIAM  SWAIXE,  esq.,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  church  May  the  21,  1704. 

ROBERT  DANYELL  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyard  May  22,  1704. 

WILLIAM  HAMLYN  of  the  Middle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  vault  June 
roth,  1704. 

THOMAS  SILVESTER  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyard  June  the  i8th,  1704. 

THOMAS  CARTHEW,  serjant  -  at  -  law, 
>  buried  in  the  Temple  church  July  i2th, 

|   1704- 

WILLIAM  KlLLiNGWORTH,  serjant-at-law, 
i  buried  in  the  Middle  Temple  vault  August 
,  30th,  1704. 

JAMES  SLONE  of  the  Inner  Temple,  esq., 
was  buried  in  t/ic  vault  November  the  gth, 
1704. 

MARGARET  CROWDER  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyard  November  the  17, 
1704. 

MRS.  CATHERINE  BUCK  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  church  December  the  29th, 
1704. 

JOHN  CROWDER,  an  infant,  buried  in 
the  churchyard  January  the  2d,  1704-5. 


460 


APPENDIX   NO.    I. 


JOHN  BERESFORD  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church  the 
1 3th  of  February,  1704-5,  forme  the  parish 
of  St.  Cleament  Deanes. 

JOAN  GARDINER,  wife  of  John  Gardiner, 
was  buried  in  the  Temple  churchyard  the 
5th  of  March,  1704-5,  frome  her  house  in 
the  Inner  Temple. 

GEORGE  BERRY,  cheife  butler  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
churchyard  the  loth  day  of  March,  1704-5. 

WILLIAM  MARSH  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church  the 
1 2th  day  of  Aprill,  1705. 

JAMES  JEFFS  of  the  Middle  Temple,  esq., 
was  buried  in  the  Temple  church  the  24th 
day  of  Aprill,  1705,  frome  the  parish  of  St. 
Giles,  Criplegate,  London. 

JOHN  KENNETT  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church  the 
30th  day  of  May,  1 705. 

ANN  TEMPLE,  a  child  found  in  the 
Temple,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church- 
yeard  the  25th  of  July,  1705. 

ANN  GARDINER  of  the  parish  of  St. 
Clement's  Deanes  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyeard  the  nth  day  of  November, 

1705- 

HENRY  SILVESTER,  son  of  John  Silvester 
of  Whitefryers,  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
churchyeard  the  2oth  of  November,  1705. 

MR.  RICHARD  WARD,  son  of  John  Ward, 
esq.,  of  the  Inner  Temple,  was  buried  the 
5th  of  February,  i  705-6,  /;/  the  round  of 
the  Temple  church. 

JOHN  LEVITT  of  the  Inner  Temple,  gent., 
was  buried  /'//  the  Temple  church  the  5th 
day  of  March,  1705-6,  from  his  chamber 
in  the  Inner  Temple. 

JOHN  LLOYD  of  the  Inner  Temple,  esq., 
son  of  the  late  Bishop  of  Norwich,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  church  the  loth  day 
of  March,  1705-6,  from  Exeter  Change  in 
St.  Clement's  parish. 

MARY  JOHNSON,  daughter  of  Matthew 
Johnson,  cheife  butler  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, was  buried  in  the  churchyeard  March 
I4th,  1705-6,  frome  his  house  in  White- 
fryers. 

ROBERT  NORRIS,  the  son  of  William 
Norris,  butler  of  the  Inner  Temple,  was 
buried  in  the  churchyerd  the  2d  of  Aprill, 
1706,  frome  his  house  in  Whitefryers. 

ANN  FORD,  a  infant  found  in  the  Inner 
Temple,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church- 
yeard the  sth  of  Aprill,  1 706. 


ROBERT  BRITTON  of  the  precinct  of 
Whitefryers,  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
church  the  I4th  of  Aprill,  1706.' 

HENRY  PURBRICK,  servant  to  Mr.  Pem- 
berton  of  the  Inner  Temple,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyeard  the  22th  of  July, 
1706. 

WILLIAM  NORRIS,  son  of  William  Norris, 
butler  of  the  Inner  Temple,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyeard  the  6th  day  of 
August,  1706. 

ELIZABETH  NORRIS,  daughter  of  William 
Norris,  butler  of  the  Inner  Temple,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  churchyeard  the  i6th 
day  of  August,  1706. 

DEBORAH  NORRIS,  daughter  of  William 
Norris,  butler  of  the  Inner  Temple,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  churchyeard  the  24 
of  August,  1706. 

MATTHEW  JOHNSON,  son  of  Matthew 
Johnson,  butler  of  the  Inner  Temple,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  churchyeard  the  6th 
day  of  October,  1706. 

NICHOLAS  WiLLMOTTof  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the 
Temple  church  the  1 4th  of  December,  1706. 

WILLIAM  SPENCER,  esq.,  a  stranger,  was 
buried  in  the  vault  of  the  Temple  church 
upon  Sunday  the  igth  of  January,  1706-7, 
Middle  Temple  side. 

HENRY  MORDAUNT,  of  the  parish  of  St. 
Ciiles  in  the  Feilds  in  the  county  of 
Middlesex,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church 
the  4th  day  of  February,  1706-7. 

JOHN  CRESSETT  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  churchyeard 
the  22th  of  February,  1706-7. 

THE  LADY  ELIZABETH  MORDAUNT  was 
buried  in  the  round  of  the  Temple  church 
upon  Thursday  the  6th  of  March,  1706-7. 

JOHN  MORRIS  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the  Tem- 
ple church  the  22th  of  March,  1706-7. 

WILLIAM  PENDRED  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyeard  the  2d  of  Aprill,  1 707 . 

CATHERINE  DUMEANE,  wife  of  Anthony 
Dumeane,  the  under-porter  of  the  Middle 
Temple,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church- 
yeard, the  2d  of  May,  1707. 

ALEXANDER  STAPLES,  esq.,  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  church  the  7th  day  of  June, 
1707. 

JOHN  BERRY,  servant  to  Mr.  Robert 
Podmore,  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
churchyeard  the  i4th  day  of  June,  1707. 

MARGERET  CRESSER.the  wife  of  Stephen 


1  Marginal  note  here  as  follows : — Mr.  Britton  was  the  first  that  was  buried  after 
Mr.  Sherlocke  was  made  master  of  the  Temple. 


APPENDIX   NO.    I. 


461 


Cresser,  was  buried  in  the  churchyeard  the 
i5thof  July,  1707. 

CRISTOPHER  WILKINSON  was  buried  in 
Temple  churchyeard  the  i6th  of  July, 
1707. 

MARY  WISE,  the  wife  of  Francis  Wise 
of  the  Inner  Temple,  gent,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyeard  the  i7th  of  Sep- 
tember, 1707. 

WILLIAM  PETYT,  esq.,  bencher  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  was  buried  in  the  Ttmple  (sic) 
upon  Thursday  the  gth  of  October,  1707. 

WILLIAM  MASEMORE  of  the  Middle 
Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
church  in  the  valt  of  the  Middle  Temple  side 
upon  Thursday,  the  2oth  of  November, 
1707. 

ELIZABETH  BARNARD  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyeard  tne  7th  of  Aprill, 
1708. 

THE  RIGHT  HONBLE.  HENRY  RIDGWAY, 
LORD  GALLON,  was  buried  in  the  vault  of 
the  Temple  church  of  the  Middle  Temple 
side  the  loth  day  of  Aprill,  1708. 

WILLIAM  DAVIES,  servant  to  Walter 
Williams,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
churchyard  the  igth  of  May,  1708. 

MR.  THOMAS  ELWYN  of  the  Middle 
Temple,  gent.,  was  buried  in  tlie  vault  of 
the  Temple  church  upon  Thursday  the  i5th 
of  July,  1708. 

WALTER  WILLIAMS  of  the  Middle  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the 
Temple  church  upon  Wednesday  the  1 5th 
of  September,  1708. 

ELIZABETH  ELLIOTT  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyeard  the  22th  of  Sep- 
tember, 1708. 

NICHOLAS  VEEL  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  vault  of  the  Temple 
church  the  i5th  of  October,  1708,  on  the 
Inner  Temple  side. 

ROBERT  NORRIS,  the  steward  of  the 
Inner  Temple  man  (sif),  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyeard  the  igth  of  October, 
1708. 

THOMAS  CLEAVE  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  tlie  Tem- 
ple church  the  5th  of  November,  1708. 

WILLIAM  DRAGE  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the  Tem- 
ple church  the  i8th  of  November,  1708,  on 
the  Middle  Temple  side. 

MARY  WALTHO  was  buried  in  the  Tern 
pie  churchyard  the  28th  of  November, 
1708. 

MARGERY  EVANS,  meade  servant  to  Mr. 
Skiner,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church- 
yeard the  1 4th  of  December,  1708. 


THOMAS  GAMON  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyard  the  igth  of  December, 
1708. 

MRS.  DOROTHY  TOWSE  was  buried  in 
the  round  of  the  Temple  church  upon  Tues- 
day the  nth  of  January,  1708-9. 

JOHN  RADOCKE,  servant  to  Mr.  Pem- 
berton,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church- 
yeard the  25th  of  January,  1708-9,  by  Mr. 
Jackson. 

ANTHONY  DEMAINE,  under-porter  to 
the  honble.  societie  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
was  buried  in  the  Temple  churchyeard  the 
25th  of  February,  1708-9. 

WILLIAM  NORRIS,  butler  of  the  honble. 
societie  of  the  Inner  Temple,  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  churchyeard  the  i7th  of 
March,  1 708-9. 

MARY  GIBBONS  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyeard  the  7th  day  of  Aprill,  1 709. 

JOHN  RICHARDSON  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church- 
yeard the  1 6th  of  Aprill,  1709. 

MARGARET  PENDRED,  dishwasher  to  the 
honble.  societie  of  the  Inner  Temple,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  churchyeard  the  igth 
day  of  Aprill,  1 709. 

JOHN  CHURCHILL  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  /'//  tlie  round  part  of  the 
Temple  church  the  2yth  day  of  May,  1709. 

DAME  MARY  THOMPSON  was  buried  in 
tlie  Temple  church  the  i6th  of  August, 
1 709,  in  her  husband 's grave  in  the  north  isle. 

JOSHUA  GODFRY,  clarke  to  Mr.  Dummer, 
was  buried  in  the  Temple  churchyeard  the 
1 3th  of  September,  1709. 

THOMAS  HALK  was  buried  in  tlie  vault 
of  the  Temple  church  on  the  Middle  Temple 
side  the  28th  of  September,  1709. 

THOMAS  HASTINGS  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyard  the  5th  of  March, 
1709-10. 

DRAPER  DUNYNC;  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the  Temple 
church  on  the  Inner  Temple  side  the  24th 
of  March,  1709-10. 

SARAH  BLOCKSOM  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyeard  the  3oth  of  Aprill, 
1710. 

SARAH  CLAYTON  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyeard  the  second  day  of  May, 
1710. 

MATHEW  BRAMLEV  AND  ELIZABEATH 
BRAMLEY  was  (sif)  buried  in  the  Temple 
churchyard  the  second  day  of  May,  1710, 
both  in  one  coffin. 

MATHEW  COCKE  of  the  Middle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the 
Temple  church  the  27th  of  June,  1710. 


462 


APPENDIX   NO.    I. 


ALEXANDER  WEBBER  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  vault  of  the 
Temple  church  of  the  Inner  Temple  side  the 
nth  of  August,  1710. 

GEORGE  WENVEVE  of  the  Middle  Tem- 
ple, esq.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church- 
yeard  the  i8th  of  August,  1710. 

ADAM  MORTESHELL  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the 
Temple  Church  upon  Sunday  the  2oth  of 
August,  1710. 

FRANCIS  SAM  BROOK  of  the  Middle  Tem- 
ple, gent.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
churchyeard  the  i8th  of  October,  1710. 

THOMAS  WARD,  a  young  childe,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  churchyeard  the 
25th  of  December,  1710. 

GEORGE  SEELEYwas  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyeard  the  3ith  day  of  December, 
1710. 

JOANE  CLARKE  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyeard  the  6th  day  of  February, 
1710-11. 

CATHERINE  ALLIN  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyeard  the  27th  day  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1710-11. 

JAMES  BUCK  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the  Temple 
church  the  ist  day  of  March,  1710-11. 

JOHN  SANDERS  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of  the  Temple 
church  the  7th  day  of  March,  1710-11. 

SUSAN  SMYTH  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
churchyard  the  i4th  day  of  March,  1710- 
ii. 

WALTER  JEFFREYS  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyeard  the  27th  of  March, 
1711. 

JOHN  BLYTH  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
churchyeard  the  i6th  of  Aprill,  1711. 

THOMAS  LAKE  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  /;/  the  vault  of  the  Temple 
church  on  the  Middle  Temple  side  upon 
Sunday  the  271)1  of  May,  1711. 

FRANCES  HODDER,  a  child,  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  churchyeard  August  the 
30th,  1711. 

ALEXANDER  GARDINER,  a  child,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  churchyeard  the  Qth 
of  December,  1711. 

FRANCIS  ST.  AUBIN,  a  stranger,  was 
buried  in  the  Temple  church  upon  the  1 5th 
day  of  December,  1711. 

MARY  COCK  was  buried  in  the  round  of 
the  Temple  church  upon  the  iQth  day  of 
January,  1711-12. 

JAMES  BARNETT  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyeard  the  2oth  day  of  January, 
171 1-12. 


NICHOLAS  HIDE  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
gent.,  was  buried  in  the  vault  of  the  Temple 
church  on  the  Middle  Temple  side  the  i6th 
of  February,  1711-12. 

SARAH  WOLTHO,  a  child,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyard  the  ist  day  of 
Aprill,  1712. 

WILLIAM  MORGAN  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  church  the  6th  of  June,  1712. 

THOMAS  STURMY  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  vault  of  the  Temple 
church  upon  Sunday  the  I7th  of  August, 
1712. 

THOMAS  MACHON,  butler  of  the  Middle 
Temple,  was  buried  in  tne  Temple  church- 
yeard the  2  gth  of  August,  1712. 

CROKE  DOUD  of  the  Inner  Temple,  gent, 
was  buried  in  the  vault  of  tJie  Temple  church 
the  3ith  of  October,  1712. 

ASTEN  RODES,  a  child,  was  buried  in  the 
churchyeard  the  7th  of  November,  1712. 

THOMAS  AINSWORTH,  butler  of  the 
Middle  Temple,  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
churchyerd  the  24  of  December,  1712. 

SUSANA  DUNING  was  buried  in  the  round 
of  the  Temple  church  the  5th  of  February, 
1712-13,  on  the  Inner  Temple  side. 

SAMUEI.L  CARTER  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  intlie  round  of  the  Temple 
church  the  8th  day  of  March,  1712-13. 

THOMAS  WARD,  a  child,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyeard  the  3  1  th  of  March, 


THOMAS  GRIFFIN  was  buried  in  the 
round  of  t  lie  Temple  church  the  i6th  day  of 
May,  1713. 

RICHARD  VAUGHAN,  a  child,  was  buried 
in  the  Temple  churchyeard  the  2oth  of 
May,  1713. 

JOHN  GRESHAM  was  buried  in  the  Tem- 
ple churchyeard  the  2ith  of  May,  1713. 

WILLIAM  HAYES  was  buried  in  round  of 
the  Temple  church  the  i8th  day  of  June, 

1713- 

JOHN  WOLLASTON,  esq.,  was  buried  in 
the  round  of  the  Temple  church  the  2ith  of 

July,  1713- 

SARAH  CORDETT,  a  stranger,  was  buried 
in  the  round  of  the  Temple  church  the  24th 
of  July,  1713. 

THOMAS  JOHNSON  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyeard  the  2ith  of  July, 

1713- 

EDWARD  JONES,  butler,  was  buried  in 
the  Temple  churchyard  the  1  2  of  August, 


JOHN  BARNARD  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  Temple  churchyard 
the  22d  of  September,  1713. 


APPENDIX   NO.    II. 


463 


ANTHONY  KECK  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
esq.,  was  buried  in  the  vault  of  the  Temple 
church  the  7th  of  January,  1713-14. 

JOHN  GREENE  was  buried  in  the  Temple 
churchyeard  the  8th  day  of  January,  1713- 
14. 

CHRISTOPHER  CONSTANTINE  of  the 
Middle  Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the 
rounds  of  the  Temple  church  the  28th  day  of 
January,  1713-14. 

BARNABASE  TONSTALL  of  the  Middle 
Temple,  esq.,  was  buried  in  the  round  of 
the  Temple  church  the  21  of  March,  1713- 
14. 

HENRY  HATSELL,  esq.,  barren  of  the 
Exchequar,  was  buried  in  the  vault  of  the 
Temple  church  the  i  oth  day  of  April],  1714. 


FRANCIS  WISE,  gent.,  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyard  the  7th  day  of  May, 
1714. 

SARAH  FARI.OW,  a  child,  was  buried  in 
the  churchyard  September  ist,  1714. 

MRS.  ANNE  ROSSERE  was  buried  in 
churchyard  24  day  October,  1714. 

JOHN  LEADBEATTER,  esq.,  of  the  Inner 
Temple  was  buried  in  the  Temple  church- 
yard on  the  24  of  November,  1714. 

ROGER  DUNCOMB  out  of  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple-was buried  in  the  round  of  the  Temple 
church  on  the  i5th  day  of  December,  1714. 

FRANCIS  RHODES  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  churchyard  the  19  day  of  Decem- 
ber, 1714. 


APPENDIX    No.    II. 

ARGUMENT    BY  SIR    HENEAGE    FINCH 

AS   TO    THE    TEMPLE    BEING   WITHOUT   THE 

JURISDICTION  OF  THE  CITY  OF  LONDON.     A.D.  1669. 

Inner  Temple  Library,  Petyt  MSS.,  ATo.  538,  vol.  \7,fol.  388. 

In1  this  question  between  the  Temple  and  the  City  there  are 
two  things  considerable, 

1.  The  right  pratended  to  on  each  side. 

2.  The  way  and  means  of  asserting  that  right. 

i.  As  to  the  point  of  right  these  things  may  be  fitt  to  be 
consider'd. 

1.  What  is  not  the  Question. 

2.  What  the  grounds  are  upon  which  the  Temple  claym  to 

be  exempted  from  the  jurisdiction  of  the  City. 

3.  Upon  what  grounds  the  City  do  oppose  that  clayme. 

4.  The  great  inconveniences  if  the  priviledge  of  the  Temple 

be  not  in  some  measure  continued. 

5.  The  no  inconvenience  to  the  City  by  the  continuance  of 

it. 

I.  First  then  it  is  not  the  question  whether  the  Temple  be  in 
London,  that  is  confest  of  all  hands,  much  less  is  it  a  question  of 
personall  respect  or  disrespect  to  the  Lord  Maior  and  Aldermen  that 
now  are,  for  never  was  the  City  governed  by  a  maior  and  aldermen 
more  known  and  better  respected  then  every  one  of  these  are.  But 

1  At  the  top  right-hand  corner  of   MS.   is  written   "Finch's  Argum'  Jfoshua] 
B[lew]." 


464  APPENDIX   NO.    II. 

the  true  question  is  whether  the  Temple,  though  in  London,  be  not 
a  place  exempted  from  their  jurisdiction  as  many  other  places  in 
London  heretofore  were,  and  as  at  this  day  some  are,  viz : — St. 
Martins  le  Grand,  etc. 

II.  Now  the  Temple  conceive  themselves  to  be  exempted  upon 
these  grounds. 

1.  They  doubt  not  to  prove  that  the  soyl  whereupon  the 

Inner  Temple  and  most  part  of  the  Middle  Temple 
stands,  was  antiently  exempted  when  it  was  in  the 
possession  of  the  Knights  Templars. 

2.  That  by  their  dissolution  it  came  to  Thomas,  Earle  of 

Lancaster  and  Leycester,  as  belonging  to  the  Honour 
of  Leycester  and  continued  exempted  till  by  Act  of 
Parliament,  it  was  settled  on  the  Hospitellers,  who  held 
it  exempted  till  the  dissolution. 

3.  That  by  the  dissolution  of  monasterys  it  came  to  the 

Crown  and  continued  there  as  a  separate  Franchise  till 
the  pattent  of  6th  Jacobi. 

4.  That  by  the  pattent  of  King  James  the  soyl  is  granted 

away  with  generall  words  sufficient  to  revive  and 
continue  all  antient  priviledges. 

5.  That  accordingly  the  Temple  hath  enjoyed  ye  priviledge 

ever  since  the  dissolution  of  monasterys,  though  all 
occasions  of  bringing  this  point  into  question  have  been 
avoyded  on  both  sides,  as  much  as  might  be. 

6.  That  in  the  late  times  when  the  government  was  by  an 

army  and  great  courtship  made  to  the  City,  yet  they 
were  never  suffered  to  exercise  any  kind  of  authority 
in  the  Temple. 

III.  The  reasonablnes  of  this  will  better  appear  if  it  be  con- 
sidered  upon  what  grounds  the  City  claime  a  jurisdiction   in  the 
Temple,  which  are  very  weak.     For 

1.  The  City  have  no  Charter  which  by  any  express  words 

puts  this  place  under  their  power,  and  the  meer  scitua- 
tion  in  London  will  not  do  it  if  there  be  a  right  of 
exemption. 

2.  They  have  expresse  words  in  the  charter  granted  by 

King  James  by  which  Coleherbert,  Smithfield,  Black- 
friers,  and  White-friers  are  added  to  their  jurisdiction 
which  shews  that  without  these  speciall  words  the 
exemptions,  which  the  antient  monasterys  enjoyed,  had 
still  continued. 

3.  That  which  is  yet  more  remarkable  is,  That  the  pattent 

granted  by  King  James  to  the  City  of  London  bears 
date  14  dayes  after  the  Grant  made  to  the  Temple,  and 
therefore  no  generall  words  in  the  City  Charter  can 
subject  yc  Temple  which  was  exempted  before. 


APPENDIX   NO.    II.  465 

IV.  The  inconveniences  were  insupportable  if  there  should  be  a 
right  in  the  City  of  jurisdiction  in  the  Temple, 

1.  Where  the  City  hath  a  right  of  jurisdiction,  they  may  by 

Act  of  Comon  Councell  impose  taxes,  make  parish 
Officers,  Scavengers,  etc. 

2.  If  the  City  have  jurisdiction  in  the  Temple,  a  pleint 

entered  in  the  Counter,  without  his  Majesties  writ,  will 
be  a  sufficient  warant  to  arrest  any  man  in  the  Temple, 
Then  can  no  debtor  in  a  long  vacation  come  to  a 
lawyer's  chamber  for  counsell. 

3.  No  lawyer  can  sit  safe  in  his  study  for  he  by  his  profes- 

sion is  bound  to  keep  his  chamber  doors  open,  and  then 
any  City  officer  may  come  in  and  fetch  him  out  of  his 
study  and  carry  him  to  prison. 

4.  Many  lawyers  are  trusted  with  keeping  of  the  evidences 

of  divers  gentlemen,  but  if  the  City  have  a  jurisdiction 
they  may  by  a  pretended  execution  in  a  long  vacation, 
take  all  the  books  and  trunks  in  a  lawyer's  chamber, 
and  so  many  may  come  to  loose  their  evidences. 

5.  This  at  last  must  dissolve  the  societyes  of  the  Temples 

and  cause  all  students  to  admitt  themselves  of  Lincoln's 
Inn  or  Gray's  Inn  out  of  my  Lord  Maior's  reach. 

V.  The  City  suffers  no  inconvenience  by  the  continuance  of  this 
priviledge.     For 

1.  'Tis  not  a  priviledge  against  his  Majtys  writts  nor  against 

any  commands  of  the  Great  Seal  but  onely  against  ye 
sergeants,  bailiffs  and  officers  of  the  Counter. 

2.  Even  in  these  cases  it  is  familiar  upon  due  application 

made  and  leave  obtained  to  connive  at  the  proceedings. 

3.  Where  leave  cannot  be  had  to  do  that,  yet  a  process  of 

outlary  is  never  resisted,  for  that  is  his  Matys  suit  and 
contains  in  itselfe  a  Non  omittas  propter  aliquant  liber- 
tatem  so  the  creditor  is  at  no  great  delay. 

4.  If  it  be  said  that  sometimes  bankrupts  are  sheltered  here, 

that  may  be  said  as  well  against  the  Libertie  of  S' 
Martin's  le  Grand,  and  indeed  against  all  liberties.  But 
'tis  denyed  that  ever  there  were  three  cases  of  that 
nature,  for  upon  information  to  the  benchers  that  they 
are  no  members  of  this  society,  they  are  usually 
delivered  up. 

So  'tis  conceived  upon  the  whole  matter  that  the  claims  made  by 
the  Temple  to  this  priviledge  are  either  very  justifiable  or  at  least 
very  excusable. 

In  the  last  place  as  to  the  wayes  and  meanes  which  have  been 
used  in  asserting  this  right  it  is  humbly  prayed. 

i .  That  the  right  it  selfe  may  not  receive  any  prejudice  or 
diminution  by  any  ill  circumstance  in  the  defence  of  it, 
in.  3  o 


466  APPENDIX   NO.    II. 

2.  If  anything  have  been  done  against  ye  lawes  of  hospitality 

or  good  manners  they  beg  pardon  for  it  with  all  the 
submissions  that  can  be.  But  they  hope  the  contrary 
will  appear,  and  that  my  Lord  Maior  had  notice  the 
ceremony  was  not  adjusted  and  was  desired  to  stay 
away. 

3.  Most  of  the  persons  who  are  now  sommoned  are  perfectly 

innocent,  knew  nothing  of  the  matter  before  it  begun, 
did  little  or  nothing  in  it  when  it  was  begun,  and  are 
onely  guilty  of  not  taking  part  against  a  collegia! 
society  into  which  they  stand  so  lately  admitted. 

4.  All  of  them  do  most  humbly  cast  themselves  at  his 

Malies  feet  and  pray  they  may  not  be  lookt  on  as  con- 
temners  of  his  authority  in  defence  of  which  they  are 
ready  to  sacrifice  their  lives. 


APPENDIX    NO.    III. 

A    BOOK    OF  THE    EVIDENCES   AND   OTHER 
WRITINGS   CONCERNING   THE    INNER   TEMPLE. 

Inner  Temple  Muniments. 

28  Charles  II.,  A.D.  1675-6,  Feb.  29.  Indenture  made  between 
Francis,  Lord  Hawley,  Sir  Charles  Harbord,  knt.,  his  Majesty's 
surveyor  general,  Sir  William  Haward  of  Tannridge  in  the  county 
of  Surrey,  knt.,  Sir  John  Talbott  of  Lacock  in  the  county  of  Wilts, 
knt,  and  William  Harbord  of  Grafton  Park  in  the  county  of  North- 
ampton, esq.,  surviving  trustees  for  the  sale  of  fee  farm  rents  and 
other  rents,  of  the  first  part,  John  Lindsay  of  London,  goldsmith,  of 
the  second  part,  and  the  hon.  Daniel  Finch,  Heneage  Finch,  and 
William  Finch,  esquires,  sons  of  Heneage,  Lord  Finch,  baron  of 
Daventry  and  lord  high  chancellor  of  England,  of  the  third  part, 
Reciting  that  whereas  by  several  Acts  of  Parliament  and  Letters 
Patent  divers  fee  farm  and  other  rents  were  vested  in  the  said  Francis 
Lord  Hawley  and  others  amongst  which  rents  was  all  that  annual  or 
fee  farm  rent  of  ten  pounds  reserved  out  of  all  that  inn,  capital 
messuage,  and  building,  called  the  Inner  Temple,  London,  within 
Temple  Bar,  granted  by  Letters  Patent  of  13  August,  6  James  I,  to 
Sir  Julius  Caesar  and  others  under  the  said  yearly  rent  of  ten  pounds. 
And  whereas  the  said  rent  of  ten  pounds  was  amongst  other  things 
settled  in  the  King's  consort  Queen  Katherine  for  life  as  parcel  of 
her  jointure,  and  whereas  John  Lindsay  had  contracted  for  the 
purchase  of  the  said  rent,  but  in  consideration  of  the  sum  of  four 
score  pounds,  paid  by  the  said  Daniel  Finch,  Heneage  Finch,  and 


APPENDIX   NO.    IV.  467 

William  Finch  out  of  the  treasury  of  the  Inner  Temple  has  directed 
the  said  trustees  to  convey  the  said  rent  to  the  saU  Daniel  Finch, 
Heneage  Finch,  and  William  Finch.  The  indenture  witnesses  that 
the  said  Francis,  Lord  Hawley  and  others  of  the  first  part,  in  con- 
sideration of  seventy-eight  pounds  one  shilling  and  eleven  pence  and 
by  the  direction  of  the  said  John  Lindsay  have  granted  bargained 
and  sold  to  the  said  Daniel  Finch,  Heneage  Finch  and  William 
Finch  and  their  heirs  all  the  said  annual  rent  or  fee  farm  rent  of  ten 
pounds  reserved  out  of  the  Inner  Temple,  London,  situate  and  being 
in  the  suburbs  of  the  city  of  London  within  Temple  Bar,  and  the 
reversion  and  remainder  of  the  said  rent,  to  hold  the  same  for  ever, 
provided  always  that  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  Queen,  her  officers, 
and  assigns,  during  the  term  of  her  life,  to  receive  the  said  rent  as 
beneficially  as  she  might  have  done  before  the  making  of  these 
presents. 


APPENDIX    NO.    IV. 
INNER  TEMPLE    GRACE    BOOK. 

We  find  by  the  table  of  contents,  that  this  volume  formerly  con- 
tained, amongst  other  things,  certain  graces  which  are  now  lost ;  there 
are,  however,  two  graces,  inserted  in  a  later  hand,  to  which  reference 
is  made  later  on.  The  folios  of  this  book  are  of  parchment ;  many 
of  them  are  now  missing,  and  some  of  those  that  remain  are  stained 
with  galls  and  other  liquids  and  are  rubbed,  probably  from  constant 
use  in  the  hall.  Unfortunately  in  the  process  of  the  numerous  re- 
bindings  which  the  work  has  undergone,  the  margins  have  been  cut 
down  so  that  the  MS.  has  been  in  places  destroyed.  It  is  in  the 
writing  of  two  hands,  both  probably  of  about  1505,  the  date  of  the 
death  of  John  Nethersole,  in  memory  of  whom  the  book,  accord- 
ing to  a  note  hereafter  referred  to,  was  provided.  The  earlier  part, 
containing  introductory  explanations  of  the  tables  and  kalendars 
which  follow,  judging  from  the  English  used,  was  probably  copied 
from  an  earlier  MS.  The  handwriting  of  this  portion  is  regular  and 
good,  in  the  rest  of  the  book  it  is  ordinary.  In  the  introductory  ex- 
planations there  is  one  four  line  initial  letter  in  dark  blue,  with  good 
penwork  in  red,  and  with  a  penwork  ornament  in  red  and  blue 
running  down  the  left  hand  side  of  the  page.  There  are  four  two- 
line  initial  letters  in  blue  with  penwork  in  red.  The  letters  KL.,  for 
Kalenda  for  each  month  in  the  kalendar,  are  in  blue  with  red  penwork, 
all  of  them  being  of  the  same  design. 

The  following   is  a  copy  of  the   Table  of  Contents;    against 


468  APPENDIX    NO.    IV. 

such  entries   as   are  now  entirely  missing  an   asterisk  has  been 
placed : ' 

Primo  regula  ad  declarandum  kalendare  sequens  per  quod 
poteris  cognoscere  numerum  dierum,  initium  surgentis  aurore,  ortus 
solis,  gradus  signorum  horas  planetarum,  et  diversa  alia,  ut  apparet 
in  dicto  kalendario,  folio  i. 

Item  post  dictum  kalendare,  tabula  ad  cognoscendum  conjunc- 
tiones  et  oppositiones  lune,  dominicalem  literam  per  spacium  xiiij 
anno[rum]  proximum  futurum,  folio  xvij. 

*  I  tern  generalis  regula  ad  cognoscendum  conjunctiones  et  oppo- 
sitiones lune   et    principium  Quadragesime    et  festum  Pasche,   dies 
Rogationum  et  Pentecoste,  folio  xx°. 

*Item  quinque  specialia  memoranda,  folio  xxiiij0. 

*Item  speciale  memorandum  pro  anima  Johannis  Nethersale, 
folio  xxiiij0. 

*Item  Coronatio  Beate  Marie  cum  omnibus  spiritibus  Deum 
laudantibus,  folio  xxv°. 

*  I  tern  diverse  gracie  in  refectionibus  dicende  per  totum  annum, 
folio  xxvj°. 

Item  leges  quas  Rex  Alfridus  de  veteri  testamento  scribi  fecit, 
folio  xxxij0. 

Item  diversa  memoranda  extracta  de  libro  Domini  Fortescu 
quondam  Capitalis  Jusdciarius,  videlicet,  differentia  inter  regem 
regaliter  regnantem  et  regem  regaliter  et  policiter  regnantem  .... 
ibidem  quomodo  Rex  Anglic  regnat  et  de  .  .  .  .  justiciariorum,  folio 
xxxvij0. 

Item  punitio  regis  non  recte  regnantis,  folio  xxxviij0. 

Item  differentia  legis  nature  et  humane,  folio  xxxix. 

Item  laus  regis  regaliter  et  politice  regnantis,  folio  xxxix. 

Item  consilium  regi  regnanti  regaliter,  folio  xl. 

Item  diverse  casus  in  quibus  convenit  regi  regaliter  regnare, 
folio  xlj. 

Item  punitio  regis  non  bene  et  recte  regnantis,  folio  xliij. 

Item  epilogatio  disputationis  inter  legem  nature  et  humane, 
folio  xlv. 

Item  differentia  inter  jus  et  legem,  folio  xlvj. 

Item  diversa  memoranda  abstracta  de  Egidio  de  Regimine 
Principum,  videlicet,  de  triplia  vita  hominis,  scilicet,  de  vita  bestiale 
vita  hominis  et  vita  angeli.  Et  de  prudente  rege  et  de  liberalitate 
et  de  recto  usu  pecunie.  Et  differentia  inter  liberalitatem  et  avariciam. 
Et  differentia  inter  regem  et  tyrannum  etc.,  folio  1. 

Item  differentia  bona  corporis  et  anime.  Et  ibidem  que  est 
causa  pacis  et  belli.  Item  de  bonitate  regis.  Et  quod  aliqui  sunt 


1  The  following  folios  are  now  missing,  10  to  15,  19  to  28,  31,  36,  63,  67  to  82, 
85,  and  90,  all  inclusive. 


APPENDIX   NO.    IV.  469 

naturaliter  domini  et  aliqui  servi.     Et  de  intentione  legislator-is  con- 
dendo  leges,  folio  Ij. 

Item  que  requiruntur  ad  rectani  gubernationem  et  que  necessaria 
sunt  bono  regi.     Et  differentia  inter  regem  et  tyrannum,  folio  lij. 
Item  diverse  cautele  in  intentionem  tyranni,  folio  liij. 

Item  que  sunt  necessaria  admanutenendum  regem  et  suos  heredes 
in  regno  etc.,  folio  liiij. 

Item  memoranda  abstracta  de  legibus  Platonis.  Et  primo 
quomodo  leges  inspirate  fuerunt.  Et  de  punitione  legis.  Et  de 
necessitate  legis.  Et  de  educatione  puerorum.  Et  que  sunt  necessaria 
regi.  Et  de  lege  non  dominante.  Et  differentia  inter  justiciam  et 
injusticiam,  folio  lvj°. 

Item  quod  lex  est  qui  judicat  et  non  judex.  Et  de  lege  lites 
dissolvente.  Et  de  officio  Justi.  Et  quomodo  justicia  ordinal  ad 
Deum  et  de  quatuor  speciebus  legis.  Et  de  errore  legislatoris.  Et 
quid  lex  est.  Et  de  conditoribus  legis,  folio  lvij°. 

Itemde  officio  legis  latoris  secundum  Platonem.  Et  de  guber- 
natoribus  civitatis  notabile  dictum  Platonis.  Et  de  errore  sapientis. 
Et  differentia  inter  legis  latorem,  medicum  et  mercatorem,  folio 
Iviij0. 

Item  que  requiruntur  ad  bonam  legem.  Et  differentia  inter 
legem  divinam,  naturalem,  et  humanam.  Et  diffinitio  legis  nature  et 
humane.  Et  de  circumspectione  regis.  Et  de  prudentia  regis  et 
concordia  sapientis  et  potentia  et  eorum  differentia.  Et  de  justicia 
regis.  Et  de  remedio  doloris,  folio  lix. 

Item  de  patientia  et  bonum  exemplum  quomodo  honorissimi  ex- 
cellerent  alios  in  sapientia  et  virtute.  Et  memoranda  abstracta  de  libro 
vocato  Anima  Fidelis.  Et  primo  de  officio  legis  latoris.  Et  quomodo 
lex  potest  despensare.  Et  utrum  judex  potest  rex  relaxari  penam 
infixam  per  legem.  Et  de  auctoritate  judicis,  folio  Ix. 

Item  que  requiruntur  ad  judicem.  Et  de  judicio  suspicioso, 
folio  Ixj. 

Item  diffinitio  justicie.     Et  diversa  notabilia  de  justicia,  folio  Ixij. 

Item  utrum  licitum  est  vendere  magis  care  propter  tempus, 
folio  Ixiiij. 

Item  bonum  dictum  Boicii.  Et  quid  virtus  est.  Et  que  sunt 
necessaria  judici,  folio  Ixv. 

*Item  de  avaricia  regis.  Et  exemplum  de  iniquo  judice.  Et 
differentia  inter  precepta  affirmativa  et  negativa.  Et  differentia  de 
repuplica  et  singulari,  folio  Ixvij. 

*Item  initium  servitutis  et  declaratio  vanitatis  omnium  vanitatum. 
Et  differentia  boni  et  mali  hominis.  Et  bonum  memorandum  pro 
hominibus  iniquis,  folio  Ixvij. 

*Item  de  vij  etatibus  mundi,  folio  iiijxx. 

*Item  tractatus  de  iiijor  elementis  et  de  iiijor  temporibus  anni. 
Et  qualis  dieta  in  illis  utenda  est,  Et  de  diebus  tavicularibus, 
folio  — . 


470  APPENDIX    NO.    IV. 

*Et  bonum  memorandum  ante  prandium,  folio  iiijxx  j. 

*  I  tern  de  tribus  habitaculis  quo  Deus  creavit  et  eorum  differentia. 
Et  .  .  .  oratione  benedictum,  folio  iiij1"  xij. 

*Item  ad  cognoscendum  tempus  limitationis  in  lege  terre  et 
ejusdem  abusus,  folio  — .  Et  nota  bene  de  rege  non  bene  regente, 
folio  iiijxx  xij. 

Regna  regum  Anglic  a  Rege  Edgaro  usque  Henricum  Septi- 
mum,  folio  iiijxx  iij. 

Que  sunt  idonei  et  quis  est  Justus  gracie  et  fortune,  differentia 
regula  ad  beatam  vitam  cause  tribulationis  mos  stultorum  bona  de 
eruditione,  folio  iiijxx  xij. 

De  tribus  tabernaculis  Dei,  folio  iiijxx  xij. 

De  tempore  limitationis  in  nostra  lege,  iiijxx  xiij. 

Sapientie  humane  et  divine  differentia,  iiijxx  xiiij. 

Legis  et  justicie  bona  differentia,  iiijxx  xiiij. 

Justicia  que  homo  debet  Deo  proximo  et  seipso. 

Nota  de  lege  Anglic  et  punitione  mali  judicis  sapientie  et 
fortune  differentia,  folio  iiijxx  xiiij. 

Deum  quis  diliget.  Quomodo  regnum  Dei  impetravis.  Dei 
desideratio.  Bona  materia  de  amore,  iiijxx  xv. 

Conditiones  amantis,  iiijxx  xvj. 

Quo  tempore  vetera  statuta  fuerunt  facta,  iiijxx  xvj°. 

The  tables  and  kalendar  remaining  are  curious  and  interesting, 
and  are  as  follows  :  (i)  A  table  showing  how  to  distinguish  between 
the  "Angrym"  or  Arabic  and  Latin  or  Roman  numerals.  (2)  A 
table  to  find  the  Sunday  Letter  and  movable  feasts.  (3)  A  kalendar 
giving  in  columns  the  day  of  the  month,  the  time  of  dawn,  the  time 
of  sunrise,  the  signs  of  the  Zodiac,  the  meridian,  the  Roman  kalendar, 
the  saints  days  apparently  according  to  the  Sarum  use,  conjunctions 
of  the  planets,  the  phases  of  the  moon,  sunset,  and  time  that  twilight 
ends.  (4,  5,  and  6)  Certain  astronomical  tables.  Below  the  kalendar 
for  the  months  are  some  curious  rhymes  in  Latin,  which  are  as 
follows  : 

JANUARIUS 

In  Jano  claris  calidis  que  cibis  pociaris 
Atque  decens  potus  post  fercula  sit  tibi  notus 
Ledit  enim  medo  tune  potus  uti  bene  credo 
Balnea  tute  intres  et  venam  scindere  curres 

FEBRUARIUS 

Nascitur  occulta  febris  Februerio  multa 
Potibus  et  escis  si  caute  imunere  velis 
Tune  cave  frigora  de  pollice  funde  cruorem 
Suge  mellis  favum  pectoris  qui  morbos  curabit 


APPENDIX    NO.    IV.  471 

MARCIUS 

Marcius  humores  gignit  variosque  dolores 
Sume  cibum  pure  cocturas  si  placet  ure 
Balnea  sunt  sana  sed  que  superflua  vana 
Vena  nee  abdenda  nee  pocio  sit  tribuenda 

APRILIS 

Hie  probat  in  vere  vires  Aprilis  habere 
Cuncta  renascuntur  pori  tune  aperiuntur 
In  quo  scalpescit  corpus  sanguis  quoque  crescet 
Ergo  solvatur  venter  cruorque  minuatur 

MAYUS 

Mayo  secure  laxari  sit  tibi  cure 
Scindatur  vena  sed  balnea  dantur  amena 
Cum  calidis  rebus  sint  fercula  seu  speciebus 
Potibus  astricta  sit  salvia  cum  benedicta 


JUNIUS 

In  Junio  gentes  potabit  medo  bibentes 
Atque  novellarum  fuge  potus  cervisiarum 
Ne  noceat  colera  valet  hec  refectio  vera 
Lactuce  frondes  ede  jejunus  bibe  fontes 


JULIUS 

Qui  vult  solamen  Julio  probat  medicamen 
Venam  non  scindat  nee  ventrem  pocio  ledat 
Sompnum  compescat  et  balnea  cuncta  pavescat 
Prodest  recens  unda  allium  cum  salvia  munda 


AUGUSTUS 

Quisquis  sub  Augusto  vivit  medicamine  justo 
Raro  dormitet  essum  coitum  quoque  vitet 
Balnea  non  curet  nee  multum  comestio  duret 
Nemo  laxari  debet  vel  fleubotomari 


SEPTEMBIR 

Fructus  maturi  Septembris  sunt  valituri 

Et  pira  cum  vino  panis  cum  lacte  caprirto 

Aqua  de  urtica  tibi  pocio  fertur  arnica 

Tune  venam  pandas  species  cum  semine  mandas 


472 


APPENDIX    NO.    IV. 


OCTOBER 

October  vina  prebet  cum  carne  ferina 
Nee  non  aucina  caro  valet  et  volucrina 
Quamvis  sint  sana  tamen  est  replecio  vana 
Quantum  vis  comede  sed  non  precordia  lede. 

NOVEMBER 

Hoc  scire  tibi  datur  quod  reuma  Novembris  curatur 
Que  nociva  vita  tua  sint  preciosa  dicta 
Balnea  cum  venere  tune  nullum  constat  habere 
Pocio  sit  sana  atque  minutio  bona 

DECEMBIR. 

Sane  sunt  membris  res  calide  mense  Decembris 
Frigus  vitetur  capitalis  vena  scindatur 
Locio  sit  vana  sed  vasis  potacio  cara 
Sit  tepidus  potus  frigoris  contrarius  totus 

After  the  kalendar  and  tables  is  the  following  note  in  the  hand- 
writing of  Joshua  Blew,  butler  of  the  Inner  Temple  during  the  early 
part  of  the  eighteenth  century  : 

"  Provided  that  on  festival  dayes  whenne  it  shall  happen  the 
mayster  of  the  Temple  to  be  present  that  then  the  Grace  to  be  re- 
ferred to  his  seying. 

"And  if  the  Grace  Book  be  not  sett  on  the  borde  that  then  the 
botelers  to  forfeit  every  oon  of  them  a  penny  to  be  paid  incontinent 
to  hym  being  present  that  shulde  say  grace  whereof  id.  shall  be 
geven  to  a  poor  man  to  pray  for  the  soule  of  the  seyde  John  Nether- 
sole,  etc. 

"  According  to  the  ordinaunce  thys  present  boke  is  made  for  a 
remembrance  the  xxjst  yere  of  King  Henry  VIIth  and  the  year  of  our 
Lorde  1505  as  above." 

On  a  slip  of  paper  pasted  into  the  book  are  two  graces  in  the 
same  hand.  They  are  here  given  as  spelt  by  Blew. 

"  Sit  nomen  Domini  benedictum. 

"  Blessed  be  yc  name  of  ye  Lord. 

"  Ante  prandium  dicatur  sic. 

"  Benedicite  Dominus. 

"  Oculi  omnium  in  te  spectant,  Domine,  et  tu  das  escam  illorum 
in  tempore  opportuno.  Apertis  tu  manum  tuam  et  imples  omne 
animal  benedictione  tua. 

"  Gloria  Patri  et  Filio  et  Spititui  Sancto. 

"  Sicut  erat  in  principio,  et  nunc,  et  semper,  et  in  secula  seculo- 
rum,  Amen. 

"  Curieleyson,  Christeleyson  Curieleyson. 


APPENDIX   NO.    IV.  473 

"  Pater  noster :  Et  ne  nos  inducas  in  tentationem  sed  libera  nos 
a  malo. 

"  OREMUS. 

"  Benedic,  Domine,  nos,  et  dona  tua,  quae  de  tua  largitate  sumus 
sumpturi  per  Christum  Dominum  nostrum,  Amen. 

"  POST  PRANDIUM. 

"  Deus  pacis  et  dilectionis  maneat  semper  nobiscum — tu  autem 
Domine  miserere  nostri — Deo  Gratias." 

This  volume  was  superseded  by  the  present  Grace  Book  in 
Hilary  term,  1830. 


in.  3  p 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


THE  following  abbreviations  have  been  adopted  in  the  Index : — adm.  for  admission ;  att.  at  parl.  for 
attendance  at  Parliament ;  att.  on  reader  for  attendant  on  reader ;  bur.  for  burial ;  and  seri.  for 
Serjeant.—  W.  P. 


BBOTT,   Geo.,   278  ;    call  to 
bar,  35. 

,  Maurice,   319;   call  to 

bar,  296. 
-,  Rob.,  134,  148,  155  (2), 


250  ;  call  to  bar,  90. 
— , ,  monument  to,  446. 


ABDY,  Chris.,  call  to  bar,  3. 

ABELL,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  437. 

,  Will.,  119,  130,  325;  call  to  bar, 

105. 

ABNETT,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  421. 

ABNEY,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  433. 

ABURY,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  445. 

ACCOUNTS,  cast  up  by  counters,  92  ;  com- 
mittee to  examine,  10. 

ACHERLEY,  Roger,  438 ;  auditor  for  treas., 
346  ;  call  to  bar,  274. 

ACOURT,  John  ;  call  to  bar,  90  ;  reader  for 
Lyon's  Inn,  268. 

ACTON,  Edw.,  bur.  of,  452. 

,  Edw.,  an  infant,  bur.  of,  445. 

ACTORS.     See  Players. 

ACTS  OF  PARLIAMENT,  Books  of,  38,  185, 
278,  279,  318,  342;  orders  as  to  draft- 
ing and  entering,  279,  318,  319. 

ADAMS,  Francis,  bur.  of,  450. 

— ,  John,  163,  243,  244;  call  to  bar, 
158;  map  of  England  by,  125,  127. 

,  Judith,  widow  of  Will.,  bur.  of,  452. 

,  Will.,  274,  452. 


ADDERLEY,  Rich.,  325  ;  call  to  bar,  260. 
ADKINSON.     See  ATKINSON. 
ADMISSIONS    TO    THE     INNER    TEMPLE 
\wereoftwokinds,  viz. : — General,  which 


carried  ivith  them  no  exemption  from  t/ie 
fees  and  duties  imposed  by  the  Inn  ;  and 
Special,  ivhich  were  allowed  to  sons  of 
benchers  and  others,  tJie  only  privilege  it 
apparently  carried  during  t/ie  latter  part 
of  the  sixteenth  century  was  a  reduction 
in  the  fees.  Admission  by  Certificate  was 
the  transfer  of  a  member  of  one  Inn  of 
Court  to  another,  by  which  the  member 
transferred  continued  the  grade  he  had 
obtai?ied  in  the  inn  from  which  he  came], 
bonds  of,  172  ;  books  of,  82,  152,  194; 
by  certificate  or  ad  eundem  gradum,  91, 
178,  295,  312,  317,  323,  339,  359; 
receipts  from,  n,  16,  26,  264. 

ADMITTANCES  TO  CHAMBERS,  orders  as  to, 
no,  181 ;  book  of,  185  ;  receipts  from, 
n,  16,  25,  264. 

AGAR, ,55. 

ACER,  Thorn.,  clerk  of  the  Crown  Office, 
bur.  of,  449. 

AID  ROLLS,  185,  238,  244,  255,  264,  286. 
AILESBURY,  Rob.,  Earl  of,  adm.,  75. 
AINSWORTH,  Thorn.,  butler,  bur.  of,  462. 
ALBEMARLE,  Duke  of,  184,  185,  241. 
ALBROOKE,  Mary,  bur.  of,  459. 
ALCHORNE,  John,  called  to  bar,  9. 

ALCOCK,  Mrs.  Mary,  for  carving,  412,  417, 
424,  425. 

ALDER,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  448. 

ALDRIDGE, ,  73. 

ALDWORTH,  Charles,  call  to  bar,  373. 

ALESTREE,  AI.ISTREE,  Geo.,  bur.  of,  444. 
,  Geo.,  senior,  bur.  of,  444. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


ALIENATION  OFFICE,  xiii,  xviii,  Ixxix,  45, 
50,  203,  261;  garden,  xviii,  48,  50. 

ALLEN,  ALLIN,  Cath.,  bur.  of,  462. 

—  ,  John,   187,  354,   360,  call  to  bar, 


,  Thorn.,  butler,  29,  36,  39,  53,  64. 
,  Thorn.,  called  to  bar,  323. 
,  -  ,  82,  376,  424. 


ALLGOOD,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  248,  255; 

speaker  for  Xmas,  213. 

— ,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  291. 

, ,  236,  237. 

ALLINGTON, ,  145. 

ALMANACKS,  320. 

ALMORY,  ALMERY,  John,  bur.  of,  453. 
— , ,  65,  79- 

ALSATIANS,  the  [persons  living  in  Alsatia 
or  Whitefriars\  287. 

ALSTON,  Sir   Edvv.,   steward  for   reader's 
dinner,  94. 

— ,  John,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 
77- 


-,  Will.,  call   to  bar,   9 ;   steward  for 
reader's  dinner,  94. 
— , ,  131 ;    master   of   the   revels, 


119. 

AMBASSADORS  TO  THE  MIDDLE  TEMPLE, 
55,  56,  57,  58- 

AMERCEMENT  ROLLS,  185,  306;  com- 
pounding for,  312. 

AMYRANT,  Moses,  called  to  bar,  395. 
ANCHOVIES,  54,  128. 
ANCRAM,  Earl  of,  102. 

ANDERTON,  James,  213;  called  to  bar, 
232;  petition  of,  228;  steward  for  Xmas, 
213. 

ANDERTON'S  HOTEL,  Ixxx. 

ANDREWS,  Hen.,  called  to  bar,  330. 

,  John,  called  to  bar,  3. 

,  Phineas,  call  to  bar,  304. 

— ,  Rich.,  351  ;  call  to  bar,  79;  reader 
for  Lyons  Inn,  268,  289 ;  steward  for 
Xmas,  213. 

ANETT,  Hen.,  chief  porter  Middle  Temple, 
bur.  of,  444. 

ANGE,  Thorn,  300. 

ANNESLEY,  Francis,  attendance  at  parl.  or 
bench,  434,  437  ;  call  to  bar,  266 ;  call 
to  bench,  433,  434. 

ANSELL,  Nich.,  call  to  bar,  172. 
ANSTIS,  John,  418,  423,  424. 


ANSTIS,  John  son  of  John,  423. 

APPARELS  [in  this  volume  the  balance  on 
the  debt  side  of  an  account],  5,  36,  53, 
64,  105,  325,  336,  341,  348,  349,  412. 

APPLEFORD, ,  133,  159,  166,  174. 

APOLLO,    THE,    ROOM    IN    THE    DEVIL 

TAVERN,  xxxiii. 

APPRENTICES  AT  LAW,  order  as  to,  30. 
ARCHBOLD,  Anne,  wife  of  Nich.,  bur.  of, 

457- 
,  Nich.,  457;  bur.  of,  456. 

ARCHER,  Andrew,  253. 
,  James,  33. 

ARGALL,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  9. 

ARIS,  Simon,  336 ;  call  to  bar,  288 ;  att. 
at  parl.  and  bench,  373 ;  put  out  of 
commons,  337 ;  master  of  the  revels, 
382,  393,  422. 

ARLINGTON,  Earl  of,  96. 

ARMIGER,  Mrs.  Anne,  bur.  of,  458. 

,  Gabriel,  179;  called  assoc.  of  the  bar, 

172. 

,  Will.,  called  to  bar,  35. 

, ,  133- 


ARNOLD,  Eleanor,  widow  of  Will.,  401. 

— ,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  247. 

— ,  Will.,  chief  cook,  309,  395,  398,  401. 

, ,  343- 

ARUNDEL,  Will.,  56. 

ASH,  Joseph,  call  to  bar,  408. 

,  Sam.,  steward  for  reader's  dinner,  94. 

ASHENHURST,  Edm.,  call  to  bar,  358. 

ASHFIELD,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  456. 

ASHHURST,  Hen.,  344 ;  call  to  bar,  296. 

ASHMOLE,  Elias,  xxxvi. 

ASPENWALL,  Gilb.,  call  to  bar,  90. 

, ,  293- 

ASSOCIATES  OR  ASSISTANTS  AT  THE  BAR 
[those  who  had  the  privileges  of  member- 
ship of  the  outer  bar  without  having  to 
attend  the  exercises  or  readings,  and  with- 
out having  any  voice  in  the  management 
of  the  Inn.  They  took  ancienty  below  the 
puisne  of  the  bar  for  the  time  being\  call 
of,  21,  49,  50,  69,  119,  122,  148,  154, 

172,   206,   211,    215,   2l8,   219,   221,   233, 

247(2),  252,  293,  342,  373,  379,  385, 
429  ;  orders  as  to  call  to,  293,  334(2). 

ASSOCIATES  OR  ASSISTANTS  OF  THE  BENCH 
[those  who  had  the  privileges  of  member- 
ship of  the  bench  but  were  freed  from 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


477 


readings  and  other  duties.  They  could 
neither  vote  in  the  parliament  of  the  Inn 
nor  take  ancienty  above  any  reader  ex- 
cept by  special  order],  call  of,  49,  51,  63, 
69,  160,  200,  232,  233,  248,  289,  367, 
380;  orders  as  to,  218,  237;  order  as 
to  adm.  of  sons  of,  261 ;  sons  of,  adm., 
of  grace  but  not  of  right,  288,  303. 

ASSOCIATION,  THE  [a  combination  of  per- 
sons (in  imitation  of  the  Declaration  of 
loyalty  and  association  of  Queen  Eliza- 
beths reign)  to  protect  King  William  III. 
after  the  attempt  upon  his  life  by  Sir 
John  Fenwick  and  others  in  1696.  The 
signing  of  the  association  was  afterwards 
made  imperative  on  all  holders  of  civil 
and  military  appointment  s\  326. 

ASTON,  John,  266,  269,  270,  288;  ex- 
pelled, 266. 

ASTREY,  Sir  Samuel,  master  of  the  Crown 
Office,  233,  277,  284,  377  ;  assoc.  of  the 
bar,  119;  assoc.  of  the  bench,  122,  236. 

ATHORPE,  Heyrick,  call  to  bar,  358. 

ATKINS,  Edward,  33. 
,  Justice,  115. 

ATKINSON,  ADKINSON,  Rich.,  25  ;  bur.  of, 

449- 
,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  446. 

ATTENDANTS  ON  READER,  election  of,  2, 
3(2)>  9(2),  10,  13(2),  15,  23,  24,  36,  39, 
40,  42,  45,  47,  50,  52,  61,  69,  70,  71, 

75.  83,  87.  91,  93,  96,  99,   IOI>   I05> 
106,  109,  no,  118. 

ATTORNEY  GENERAL,  orders  as  to,  274, 
276,  277.  See  Finch,  Sir  Heneage ; 
North,  Sir  Francis  ;  Sawyer,  Sir  Rob. ; 
Pollexfen,  Sir  Hen. ;  Treby,  Sir  Geo.  ; 
Ward,  Sir  Edw. ;  Trevor,  Sir  Thorn. ; 
Northey,  Sir  Edw.;  Harcourt,  Sir  Simon. 

ATTORNEY  GENERAL  OF  THE  DUCHY  OF 
LANCASTER.  See  Sir  John  Heath. 

ATTORNEYS,  30,  251;  not  to  be  admitted 
to  Inn,  xii,  30,  299.  Sec  Solicitors. 

ATTWOOD,  Leigh,  call  to  bar,  358. 
, ,  death  of,  117. 

AUDITORS  FOR  CHRISTMAS  ACCOUNTS, 
18  (2),  19,  20,  27,  28,  55  (2),  58,  200. 

AUDITORS  FOR  POLL  TAX,  270. 

AUDITORS  FOR  STEWARD'S  ACCOUNTS, 
ELECTION  OF,  4,  10,  15,  24,  36,  41,47, 
52,  63,  71,  79,  87,  92,  97,  102,  107, 
in,  124,  129,  137,  150,  162,  177,  192, 
206,  220,  233,  241. 


AUDITORS  FOR  TREASURER'S  ACCOUNTS, 
ELECTION  OF,  4,  10,  15,  24,  39,  41,  47, 
S2,  63,  ?i,  79,  83,  87,  92,  97.  I02, 107, 
I24>  J37,  JS0,  l62>  J77>  I92,  206,  220, 
233,  241.  245,  277- 

AUDITORS  FOR  STEWARD'S  AND  TREA- 
SURER'S ACCOUNTS,  248,  261,  267,  277, 
289,  296,  304,  313,  324,  331,  339,  346, 
353,  36o,  368,  373,  380,  388,  396,  400, 
408,  414,  422,  426,  429,  433,  437  ; 
supper  for,  16,  98. 

AUDLEY,  Hugh,  bur.  of,  445. 

,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  21. 

,  ,  gives  money  to  the  Inn,  16. 

Avis,  ,  389. 

AXTELL,  Nath.,  422,  427  ;  adm.  from 
Line.  Inn,  240. 

AYLETT,  Oliver,  bur.  of,  452. 
AYLIFFE, ,  80. 

BACKHOUSE,  Rob.,  bur.  of,  447. 
BACKWELL,  John,  call  to  bar,  158. 


— , ,  129- 

BAGG,  Zachary,  399,  411. 

BAGGOTT,  John,  187,   193,  200,  216,  235 

(2). 

BAGNALL,  Gibbons,  call  to  bar,  433. 
,  Will.,  446;  bur.  of,  455. 

,  ,  7°,  72,  !52>  !75- 

BAGSHAW,  Hen.,  preacher,  26. 

BAKER,  The,  orders  as  to,  195. 

BAKER,  Charles,  son  of  John,  adm.,  146; 
bur.  of,  458 ;  call  to  bar,  240. 
-,  John,  9,  146. 


-,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  444. 
-,  Rob.,  bur.  of,  445. 
-,  Thorn.,  bur  of,  451. 
-, ,  funeral  of,  38. 


BALDWIN,  Charles,  son  of  Sam.,  250,  289  ; 
adm.,  37  ;  call  to  bar,  99. 

,  Edward,  223,  228,  237,   261,  263, 

301  ;   call  to  bar,   35  ;   call  to   bench, 
219  ;  reader,  260,  267,  273,  278. 
— ,  Edwin,  call  to  bar,  90. 
— ,  Hen.,  305  ;  call  to  bar,  296. 

,  Martin,  call  to  bar,  119. 

,  Rich.,  auditor  for  treas.  and  steward, 

331  ;  call  to  bar,  260. 
— ,  Sam.,  40,  42,  59,  61  ;  all  at  parl., 
47  ;  att.  on  reader,  61  ;  auditor  for 
steward,  4  ;  auditor  for  treasurer,  47  ; 
bur.  of,  453  ;  call  to  bench,  12  ;  reader, 
62  ;  serjeant-at-law,  62,  65,  73,  77. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


BALDWIN,  Sam.,  290;  call  to  bar,  323. 

,  Will,  adm.,  22. 

, ,  call  to  bar,  261. 

BALES,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  454. 
BALGNY,  John,  call  to  bar,  373. 

BALL,  Burnell,  son  of  Dr.  Rich.,  bur.  of, 

448. 
,  Mrs.  Ellen,  or  Ellenor,  wife  of  Dr. 

Rich.,  239,  245,  bur.  of,  453. 

— ,  Goring,  bur.  of,  453. 

— ,  John,  son  of  Dr.  Rich.,  bur.  of,  452. 

— ,  Peter,   son  of  Sir  Peter,  doctor  of 

physic,  bur.  of,  450. 
-,  Dr.  Rich.,  [master  of  the   Temple, 


chaplain  to   Charles  //.,  prebendary  of 
Lincoln  and  Ely,  and  rector  of  Bluntis- 
ham,    Hunts.],    xvi,    xvii,   xlix,    Ixxxvi, 
Ixxxviii,  8,  n,   16,  23,  25,  34,  35,  38, 
4i,  44,  48,  S3,  65,  73,  76,  81,  82,  83, 
89,  93,  98,  i°4,  i°8,  114,  i45>  J57,  J69, 
183,  199,  206,  212,  238,  256,  294,  302, 
403,  447,  448,  452,  453;  appointment 
as  master,  5  ;  bur.  of,  454  ;  legacy  from, 
238  ;  trial  of,  xlix,  89. 
— ,  Southwark,  bur.  of,  454. 
,  Susan,  wife  of  Dr.  Rich.,  bur.  of, 


447- 


-,  Thorn.,  son  of  Dr.   Rich.,  bur.  of, 


453- 


-,  Will.,  son  of  Dr.  Rich.,  bur  of,  453. 
— ,  Will,  bur.  of,  455. 
— ,   -   — ,  Mrs.,  widow  of  Dr.    Rich., 

272,  354,  357,  363,  378,  399,  412,  425, 
432,  441. 

BALLOT  AND  BALLOTING  BOXES,  318,  319, 
326,  332  (2),  338. 

BANCROFT,  Ralph,  cook,  81  ;  bur.  of,  93, 

449- 

BANFIKLD,  Edw.,  son  of  Will.,  52. 
,  Will.,  52. 

BANISTER,  Ralph,  bur.  of,  445. 
BANKS,  John,  372,  373. 

BAR,  INNER,  see  Barristers,  Inner,  and 
Students. 

BAR,  UTTER  OR  OUTER  [composed  of  these 
ivho  had  been  called  to  the  bar  or  to  be 
barristers-at-law\,  calls  to,  4,  9,  21,  35, 
39,  40,  42  (2),  44,  49  (2),  50,  59,  69, 

74,  79,  9°,  94,  99,  IO5>  Io6>  II0,  IZ9, 
131,  146,  147,  149,  154,  158,  172,  174, 
179,  186,  189,  190,  194,  201,  205,  209, 
210,  218,  219  (2),  220  (2),  230,  231, 
232,  235,  240,  241,  242,  243,  245,  247, 
248,  249,  251,  255,  260  (2),  261  (3), 
264,  266,  270,  274  (2),  282,  288,  289, 


291,  296,  304,  308,  312,  316,  323,  330 
(2),  333,  335,  338  (2),  339,  340,  345, 
346,  349,  350,  353,  356,  358,  359,  360, 
367,  369,  373,  379,  380,  385,  387,  392, 
395,  396>  397,  399,  4°o,  4°i,  4°8,  410, 
414,  421,  422,  425  (2),  428,  432,  433, 
437,  439  J  calls  of  grace,  358,  359,  369  ; 
calls  at  request  of  King  James  II.,  243, 
251  ;  honorary  calls  to,  239,  240;  call 
of  Roman  Catholics,  liii ;  call  void  on 
refusal  to  take  the  oaths,  266,  268  ;  calls 
to  be  made  in  Michaelmas  term  only, 
187  ;  call  immediately  after  admission, 
154;  caution  money  at  call,  25,  377, 
440;  fees  and  receipts  on  call,  n,  334, 
335,  377,  44°;  entertainment  at  call  to, 
32  ;  none  to  be  called  under  seven 
years'  standing,  187  ;  none  to  be  called 
without  a  chamber,  191,  192  ;  orders  as 
to  call,  liv,  3,  21,  31,  32,  35,  36,  79, 
186,  187,  200,  208,  228,  254,  262,  281, 
291,  299,  317  (2),  348,  350,  354,  358, 
359,  361,  369,  376,  396-  See  Barristers, 
Utter. 

BAR  MESS  OR  TABLE,  orders,  etc.,  as  to, 
51,  326,  431. 

BARBER, ,  399,  405,  406. 

BARBON,  BAIRBONE,  Dr.  Nich.,  xxxiii,  132, 

164,  239. 
,  Praise  God,  xxxiii. 

BARD,  Chris.,  call  to  bar,  40. 

BARKER,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  119. 

— ,  Edw.,  347  ;  'call  to  bar,  339. 

— ,    Hugh,   302,    325,   332,   337,   347, 

354;  call  to  bar,  no. 
, ,  377- 


BARNABY,  John,  bur.  of,  447. 

BARNARD,  Eliz.,  bur.  of,  461. 
— ,  James,  425,  432. 
— ,  John,  bur.  of,  462. 

BARNARD'S  INN,  228. 

BARNARDISTON,  Arthur,  105;  steward  for 

reader's  dinner,  96,  100,  105. 

— ,  Sir  Thorn.,  steward  for  Xmas,  4,  10, 

J5- 
BARNES,  Gabriel,  call  to  bar,  59. 

— ,  James,  bur.  of,  458. 
,  Joseph,  389,  396,  397 ;  call  to  bar, 


— ,  controller  for  Xmas,  26. 
BARNET,  James,  bur.  of,  462. 

BARNSLEY,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  379. 
— ,  Will.,  119,  290,  291,  302,  325,  337, 
365,  376  (2),  380,  381,  382,  383,  396, 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


479 


397,  404,  411,  414,  423,  431,  436;  att. 
at  parl.  and  bench,  329,  332,  338,  339, 
345.  346,  352,  353.  358,  360,  364,  365, 
3?i,  373,  379,  387,  388,  396,  399,  401, 
407,  408,  415,  421,  422,  425,  426,  429, 
43°,  433,  434,  437;  auditor  for  steward 
and  treasurer,  177,  297,  304,  324,  331, 
339,  346,  353,  360,  373 ;  call  to  bar, 
105  ;  call  to  bench,  320  ;  reader,  388  ; 
treasurer,  400. 
,  Will.,  son  of  Will.,  adm.,  380. 


BARRET,  James,  bur.  of,  449. 

BARRISTERS,  INNER  OR  UNDER  [students  or 
members  of  the  Inner  Bar\,  8,  361,  431, 
432.  See  STUDENTS. 

BARRISTERS,  UTTER  [See  Bar,  Outer  or 
Utter},  apparel  of,  31,  64,  361,  362; 
grievances  of,  168;  orders  as  to,  8,  30, 
51,  175,  410,  431. 

BARRY,  Andrew,  bur.  of,  457. 

— ,  John,  bur.  of,  447. 
,  Mrs.,  Ixxii. 

— ,  447- 

BARTHRUPP,  John,  bur.  of,  457. 

— ,  Rich.,  butler,  262,   293,  298,  300, 

3°3,  313,  315,  320,  325,  329. 
BARTLETT,  James,  bell  founder,  xli,  238, 

239- 
,  John,  bur.  of,  457. 

BARTON,  Charles,  bur.  of,  455. 

— ,  Francis,  bur.  of,  448. 
,  Jane,  wife  of  John,  bur.  of,  445. 

— ,  John,  445. 
BARWICK,  Geo.,  bur.  of,  456. 

BASS, ,  394. 

BAT,  BATT,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  49. 

— , ,  70,  72. 

BATEMAN,  alderman,  145. 
BATES,  Will.,  210. 

, ,  66. 

BATTELEY,  Eliz.,  bur.  of,  458. 
BATTHURST,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  35. 

BAWDES,  Charles,  182,  365,  401,  408,  415; 
call  to  bar,  189,  194. 

BAXTER,  Eliz.,  dau.  of  Rich.,  456. 

— ,  Nich.,  132,  134,  135,  141,  163,  254; 
call  to  bar,  131. 
— ,  Rich.,  456. 

BAYLEY,  Sam.,  bur.  of,  458. 
BAYLIS,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  346. 

BAYNES,  John,  77,  127,  155;  call  to  bar, 
79- 


BAYNES,  John,  call  to  bar,  367. 

, ,  325- 

BAYNHAM,  Will.,  bur.  of,  444. 
BEAL,  Barthol,  call  to  bar,  304. 

BEARE,  Rob.,  bur.  of,  451. 
, ,  bur.  of,  446. 

BEAUMONT,  Francis,  playwright,  Iviii,  lix, 

lx,  Ixviii,  Ixx,  Ixxii,  Ixxiv. 
,  ,  treasurer  of  Lyon's  Inn,  104, 

108,  127,  145,  157. 

BEDFORD,  Will.,  Earl  of,  298. 

BEDFORD  LEVEL,  Corporation  of  the,  295, 
298. 

BEDLOE, ,  li,  liii. 

BEDLOWES,  Serj.,  xv. 

BEECHER,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  367. 

BEER,  81,  129;  not  to  be  bitter,  267; 
used  for  quenching  fire,  xxxii. 

BEESTON,  Hen.,  438  ;  call  to  bar,  304. 
BEGGARS  not  allowed  in  Inn,  94. 
BEHN,  Mrs.  Aphra,  Ixviii,  Ixxiii. 

BELBIN,  Anth.,  218,  229,  293;  att.  at 
bench,  222(2);  called  assoc.  of  the  bar, 
215;  called  assoc.  of  the  bench,  219; 
illness  of,  250;  prothonotary,  214,  215, 
221  ;  sub.  or  under  treasurer,  176,  177, 
185;  treasurer's  clerk,  181. 

BELFIELD,  John,  call  to  bar,  312. 
BELFORD,  John,  cook,  98,  114,   183,  253, 

254- 
BELLAMY,  John,  300,  325 ;  bur.  of,  458. 

— ,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  358. 

BELLFOUNDERS.  See  Bartlett,  James,  and 
Wightman,  Will. 

BELLINGHAM,  Roger,  Ixxxv. 

BENCH  [far  explanation  see  Introduction, 
vol.  i.,  p.  xxxi],  calls  to,  i,  4,  12,  13,  33, 
49,  74,  84,  91,  99,  100,  109,  112,  118, 
120,  148,  174,  178,  189,  190,  194,  219, 
223,  228,  245  (2),  249  (2),  260,  261, 
264,  3!9,  323,  S2?,  329,  33°,  331,  332> 
333,  335,  353,  355,  36o>  367,  368,  37°, 
387,  392,  395,  399,  4°i,  4°7,  408,  409, 
421,  426,  428,  433,  434,  435;  call  by 
ballot,  318,  328  ;  discharge  from  call  to, 
181,  332,  352,  353;  orders  as  to  call, 
31,  160,  223,  250,  263,  270,  291,  295, 

296,  3°6,  3°7  (2),  321,  322,  377,  378, 
395  ;  payment  at  call  to,  8,  16;  refusal 
to  come  to,  13,  49,  51,  63,  69,  186,  187, 
189,  193,  228;  terms  for  coming  to, 
301. 


480 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


BENCH  CHAMBERS,  280,  301,  316;  allow- 
ances for,  230,  237,  243,  325,  394,  412; 
candles  for  staircases  of,  428 ;  orders  as 
to,  160,  261,  273,  276  (2),  277,  285, 
297,  299.  323.  4o8,  416. 

BENCHERS,  invited  to  dinner  at  Xmas,  19, 
27  ;  before  the  judges  at  Serjeant's  Inn, 
98;  orders  as  to,  12,  295,  296;  puisne, 
to  attend  the  exercises,  366;  refusing 
to  read,  13,  14,  15,85,  273,  283;  senior, 
to  take  the  place  of  treasurer  in  his 
absence,  251,  252. 

BENCH  TABLE,  attendance  at  to  be  noted, 
126,  291,  315,  316;  to  appoint  officers 
and  servants,  317;  coming  to  without 
leave,  336  ;  orders  of,  342  ;  precedency 
at,  275;  procedure  at,  291  ;  unable  to 
break  an  act  of  parl.,  209  ;  upper  mess 
of,  142. 

BENCH  TABLE,  cloth  for,  25,  170;  oak 
forms  for,  169. 

BENGOUGH,  James,  389. 

BENNETT,  John,  xv. 
— ,  Nath,  bur.  of,  443. 
— ,  Rob.,  292  ;  call  to  bar,  158. 

BENSON,  Dr.,  Ixxxvii. 
BENTING,  Eliz.,  386. 
BENTLEY,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  450. 
BENTON,  Barbara,  25. 

BERCHETT, ,  399. 

BERDWELL,  Will.,  352. 

BERKELEY,  Francis,  187,  191,  208,  210, 
211,  268,  273,  325,  340,  385;  call  to 
bar,  90  ;  master  of  the  revels,  315. 

,  Francis,  call  to  bar,  380. 

— ,  Hen.,  adm.  from  Middle  Temple, 

359- 

— ,    Jervase,    son-in-law    to    Courtney, 

207  ;  call  to  bar,  240. 

— ,  John,  Lord,  102  ;  adm.,  10. 

— ,  Hon.  Will.,  call  to  bar,  312. 

— , ,  chamber  of,  354. 

BERRE, ,  the  musician,  53. 

BERRINGER,  John,  bur.  of,  447. 

— ,  Rich.,  336  ;  steward  for  reader  s  din- 
ner, 24. 

,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  3. 

BERRINGTON,  Will.,  107. 

BERRISFORD,  BERESFORD,  John,  301,  305, 
325,  391,  417  ;  auditor  for  treasurer  and 
steward,  360,  368  ;  bur.  of,  460  ;  call  to 
bar,  274. 


BERRY,  Eliz.,  bur.  of,  457. 

,  Geo.,  butler,  138,    144,    182,   201, 

209,  270,  282,  301,  303,  367,  368,  378, 

387  ;  bur.  of,  460. 

— ,  John,  bur.  of,  460, 
,  Will.,  porter,  48,  257,  280,  287,  299, 

315;  bur.  of,  456. 
,  Mrs.,  324,  327. 


BERTIE,  BARTUE,  Vere,  Baron,  115;  bur. 
of,  452. 

BETTERTON,  BATTERTON,  Thorn,  [actor], 
Ixiv,  Ixxii,  Ixxiii,  212,  271. 

BETTS,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  346. 
BICKFORD,  Edm.,  call  to  bar,  421. 
BIGG,  Hen.,  385. 

BIGGS,  John,  call  to  bar,  3. 

,  Sir  John,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 


, ,  surveyor,  321,  333. 

BILLS  OF  MORTALITY,  320. 

BINION,  BYNION,  Geo.,  bur.  of,  451. 
— ,  Sam.,  144. 

BIRD,  Sir  Thorn.,  master  in  Chancery,  bur. 
of,  446. 

BIRDWHISTLE,  Thorn.,  14. 

BIRKETT,  Hen.,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 
89. 

BLACK  BUILDINGS,  25,  213. 
BLACK  JACK,  184. 
BLACKALL,  Rich.,  293. 

BLADEN,  Martin,  call  to  bar,  358. 
— ,  Nath.,  call  to  bar,  94. 

BLAKE,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  247. 
— ,  Joseph,  292. 

,  Martin,  292. 

, ,  plumber,  41. 

BLAKEMORE,  Abraham,  call  to  bar,  358. 

, ,  369- 

BLANCHARD,  Rich.,  251 ;  call  to  bar,  247. 
— , ,  goldsmith,  xxviii,  121. 

BLANEY,  Rob.,  161,  168;  auditor  for 
treasurer  and  steward,  289,  297  ;  called 
to  bar,  131. 

BLENCOWE,  BLINCOE,  Sir  John,  88,  197, 
228,  229,  241,  254,  259;  att.  at  bench, 
126  ;  auditor,  55  ;  auditor  for  treasurer, 
192,  206,  241  ;  auditor  for  steward,  124, 
137  ;  call  to  bar,  74  ;  call  to  bench,  245, 
249 ;  justice  of  Common  Pleas,  338, 
360. 

— ,  John,  son  of  Sir  John,  adm.,  259 ; 
call  to  bar,  330. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


481 


BLENCOWE,  BLINCOE,  Thorn.,  son  of  Sir 
John,  adm.,  338 ;  call  to  bar,  373. 

,  Will.,  son  of  Sir  John,  adm.,  360 ; 

call  to  bar,  395. 

BLEW,  Joshua,  438,  439,  441. 
BLOCKSOM,  Sarah,  bur.  of,  461. 

BLOMLEY,  Laur.,  auditor  for  steward,  92 ; 
call  to  bar,  9. 

BLOOME,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  240. 
, ,  98. 

BLOUNT,  Thorn.,  steward  for  reader's 
dinner,  46. 

BLOW,  Dr.,  xlv,  199. 

BLOWER,  Francis,  call  to  bar,  232. 

BLUDWORTH,   Charles,  256  ;   call  to  bar, 

249. 
,  Sir  Thorn.,  285. 

BLUNDELL,  BLONDELL,  John,  93. 

,  Rich.,  son  of  John,  adm.,  93. 

,  Shadrack,  call  to  bar,  266. 

. ,  365- 

BLUNT,  John,  bur.  of,  451. 
— ,  Walt.,  bur.  of,  450. 

BLYTHE,  Francis,  call  to  bar,  379. 

,  John,  sexton,  105,   109,  280,  324, 

427,  452>  462. 

— ,  Mary,  wife  of  John,  bur.  of,  452. 

BLYTHMAN,  Jasper,  347  ;  call  to  bar,  119. 

BOEVEYS, ,  113. 

BOLD,  Arthur,  reader,  13. 
BOLDERO,  Arthur,  104. 
BOLL, ,  att.  on  reader,  10. 

BOLTON,  Ralph,  call  to  bar,  426. 

— ,  Thorn.,  347,  389;  call  to  bar,  119. 

BOND,  Dennis,  son  of  Nath.,  adm.,  323  ; 
call  to  bar,  373. 
— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  119. 
— ,  John,  son  of  Nath.,  adm.,  330  ;  call 
to  bar,  399. 

— ,  Nath.,  249,  323,  330;  call  to  bar, 
3 ;  call  to  bench,  249 ;  called  Serjeant, 
260. 
— ,  Sam.,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 


77- 
BONDS,  orders  as  to,  185,  317. 

BONE,  Hen.,  383. 

BONFIRES,  ix,  liii,  5,  n,  16,  25,  38,  41,  53, 
65,   89,  98,   115,  128,   199,   200,   293, 
302  (2),  321  ;  on  Charles  II.  and  Duke 
of  York   corning   to   town,    183,    184;  j 
on  birthday  of  Charles  II.,   183,   184, 

in. 


271,  286  ;  on  return  of  Charles  II.,  271, 
286  ;  on  birthday  of  Duke  of  York,  183, 
184  ;  on  defeat  of  the  rebels  in  the  west, 
230  ;  on  coronation  of  James  II.,  230  ; 
on  Thanksgiving  day,  230,  264,  287  ; 
on  birthday  of  James  II.  and  his  Queen, 
23°.  238,255;  on  accession  of  James  II., 
238  ;  on  birth  of  Prince  of  Wales,  255  ; 
on  thanksgiving  on  queen's  recovery, 
255 ;  on  James  II.'s  return  from  Ro- 
chester, Ivii,  264 ;  on  arrival  of  Prince 
of  Orange,  264 ;  on  proclaiming  of 
William  and  Mary,  264,  271 ;  on  queen's 
birthday,  264,  271,  286;  on  birth  of 
Duke  of  Gloucester,  264  :  on  king's 
success  and  surrender  of  Drogheda,  271, 
272;  on  gunpowder  treason  day,  271, 

286,  287,   320;    on  Queen  Elizabeth's 
birthday,  271,  286,  287,  320;  on  King 
William's  return  from  Ireland,  272,  286  ; 
on  King  William's  birthday,  286,  287; 
on  surrenderof  Limerick,  287  ;  on  King 
William's   safe   return    from    Flanders, 

287,  320. 


-,  326. 


BONFOY, 

BONWICK,  James,  call  to  bar,  266. 

BOOK  OF  ADMISSIONS,  185,  194. 

BOOK  OF  EVIDENCES,  128. 

BOOKER,  Francis,  bur.  of,  444. 

BOOKS.     See  Library. 

BOONE, ,  auditor  for  Xmas,  18,  19. 

BOOTH,  Sir  Geo.,  butler  for  Xmas,  4,  10, 
IS- 

— ,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  433. 
— ,  bur.  of,  446. 

BORLASE,  Humph.,  Ixxxix,  xc,  336.     See 
Burlasse. 

BORRETT,  John  [adm.,  1680,  called  to  bench 
1705,  a prothonotary  of  Common  fleas, 
ol>.  1739],  att.  at  par!,  and  bench,  395, 
399,  401,  407,  408,  414,  415,  421,  422, 
426,  430,  434,  437  ;  called  to  sit  at  bar 
mess,  380;  called  assoc.  to  bar,  379, 
380,  385  ;  call  to  bench,  395,  396 ; 
reader,  400  (2) ;  treasurer,  437. 
— ,  John,  son  of  John,  adm.,  395  ;  call 
to  bar,  421. 

BORWICK,  Benj.,  call  to  bar,  312. 

BOTTLES,  glass,  marked  with  the  arms  of 
the  Inn,  82,  171,  385. 

BOUCICAULT,  Dion,  Ixiv. 

BOURCHIER,  Brereton,  336,  337  (2),  401 

409,  415  ;  call  to  bar,  219. 
Q 


482 


INDEX  AND   GLOSSARY. 


BOURKE,  Oliver,  292. 

Bow  OR  BOUGH  POTS  {flower  pots],  and  j 
strewings  for  the  hall,  265,  272,  321,  i 
343.  357- 

BOWEN,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  451. 

BOWMAN,  Mrs.,  351. 

BOWYER,  Anth.,  186  (2),  187,  224,  226,   j 
233,  237,  244,  249.  28°.  283>  29°.  3°7.  i 
327,  337,  342,  343,  349,  369,396,414;  { 
att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  221,  222,  225,   | 
233,  288,  295,  297,  305,  313,  324,  329,  j 
331,  338,  339,  342,  345,  346,  352,  353, 
360,  365,  379,  380,  388,  396,  399,  401, 
408 ;  call  to  bar,  3  ;  call  to  bench,  1 74, 
193  ;  reader,  232  ;  treasurer,  324,  331. 

Box,  Hen.,  153,  293,  427,  430,  438;  att. 
at  parl.  and  bench,  434,  437  ;  auditor 
for  treasurer  and  steward,  433,  437 ; 
call  to  bar,  240 ;  call  to  bench,  433, 
434- 
— , ,  laundress,  412. 

Box  KEEPERS  AT  XiuAs,  57,  58,  130.     See 
Gambling. 

BOYCE,  John,  bur.  of,  458. 

BOYCOTT,  Thorn.,  301,  305  ;  call  to  bar, 
288. 

BOYER,  Sir  James,  bur.  of,  451. 

BOYNTON,  John,  69 ;  call  to  bench,  49  ; 
steward  for  reader's  dinner,  77. 

— ,  Sir  John,  call  to  bench,  148;  serj., 

157- 
BRACEBRIDGE,  Sam.,  call  to  bar,  346. 

— , ,  334- 

BRACKLEY,  John,  Viscount,  adm.,  90. 
BRADFORD,  Thomas,  bur.  of,  449. 

— , ,  446. 

BRADLEY,  Abel,  250,  374,  401,  415,  422, 

427  ;  call  to  bar,  219. 

BRADSHAW,  Joseph,  bur.  of,  443. 
BRADY, ,  352. 

BRAMBLEY,  Eliz.,  wife  of  Matth.,  bur.  of, 
461. 
— ,  Matth.,  butler,  391,  441,  461. 

BRAMSTON,  Serj.,  449. 

BRAND,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  330. 

BRANDON,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  455. 

BRENT, ,  108. 

BRERETON,  Edw.,  340. 
BRETTON,  Mary,  bur.  of,  459. 
BREWER,  The,  orders  as  to,  208,  279. 


BREWSTER, 


337- 


BRICK  BUILDINGS,  213. 
BRICK  COURT,  xxix,  xxx. 

BRICKWOOD, ,  the  pavior,  115,  184. 

BRIDEWELL,  The,  399,  406,  412. 

BRIDGEMAN,  Anne,  bur.  of,  456. 

,  Geo.,  son  of  Sir  John,  adm.,  240. 

,  Sir  James,  bur.  of,  443. 

,  Sir  John,  son  of  Sir  Orlando,  240, 

259,  3°3- 

,  John,  son  of  Sir  John,  adm.,  259. 

,  Sir  Orlando,  Lord  Keeper,  x,  240, 

259,  3°3- 

,  Orlando,  33 ;  call  to  bar,  69. 

-,  Orlando,  son  of  Sir  John,  303  ;  call 


to  bar,  338. 
BRIDGER,  Geo.,  bur.  of,  452. 
BRIDGES,  John,  adm.  from  Middle  Temple, 

359- 

,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  433. 

,  ,  127,  325. 

BRIDGEWATER,  Earl  of.     See  Egerton. 
BRIGSTOCK,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  455. 

BRITTON,  Rob.,  carpenter,  41 ;  bur.  of, 
460. 

BRODERICK,  Will.,  attorney  general  and 
judge  of  Admiralty  for  Jamaica,  330, 
333,  368;  call  to  bar,  330. 

BROMFEILD,  John,  270. 

— ,  Thorn.,  334 ;  called  assoc.  of  the 
bar,  335. 

BROMLEY,  Moses,  bur.  of,  449. 

BROOKE,  Nath.,  bur.  of,  445. 
,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  421. 

BROOKES,  Joseph,  104. 
,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  414. 


BROOME, 


325- 


BROUGHTON,  Andrew,  call  to  bar,  3. 
— ,  Peter,  404. 

BROWN,  BROWNE,  Benedict,  called  assoc. 

of  bar,  293  ;  called  assoc.  of  bench,  289 ; 

call  to  bar,  400. 

,  Edw.,  239. 

,  Francis,  381,  389,  395;  adm.  from 

Gray's  Inn,  178  ;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench, 

395,  401,  425 ;  call  to  bench,  395. 

,  Francis,  called  assoc.  of  bar,  429. 

,  Hen.,  bur.  of,  456. 

,  Jeffrey,  292. 

,  John,  porter,  272,  279,  299,  300. 

-,  Mary,  bur.  of,  452. 


-,  Sir  Rich.,  xxii. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


483 


BROWN,  BROWNE,  Rob.,  bur.  of,  453  ;  call 
to  bar,  79. 

Rob.,  call  to  bar,  131. 

Sam.,  33. 

Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  414. 

Thorn.,  barber,  bur.  of,  443. 

Ulisses,  292. 

Will.,  bur.  of,  453. 

,  executor  to  Dr.  Ball,  238,  272. 

,  Iviii,  16,  79,  133,  245. 


BROWNLOW,  Sir  John,  107. 

,  Rich.,    prothonotary    of    Common 

Pleas,  1 1 8. 

BRUNSKILL,  - 


3°7,  325- 


BUCK,  Mrs.  Kath.,  bur.  of,  459. 

,  James,  bur.  of,  462. 

,  Sam.,  bur.  of,  448. 

— ,  pew  of,  452. 

BUCKBY,  Rich.,  son  of  Will,  208,  382  ; 
adm.,  134;  call  to  bar,  240. 
— ,  Will.,    94,    134,    143;    auditor   for 
treasurer,  87,  92;  call  to  bench,   112; 
serjeant,  157,  173,  174,  193,  194,  208. 

BUCKINGHAM,  Edw.,  the  mason,  311,  333, 
337,  338,  34°,  342,  343,  351,  425. 

BUCKINGHAM,  Geo.,  Duke  of,  23. 
, ,  Duke  of,  xi,  adm.,  4. 

BUCKLE,  Lewis,  361,  381 ;  call  to  bar,  158. 

,  Will.,  bur.  of,  457  ;  call  to  bar,  408. 

— , ,  i32,  i36,  HO,  i5r>  257,  3l6- 

BUDGELL,  Eustacius,  call  to  bar,  90. 
BUDWORTH,  Charles,  call  to  bar,  245. 
BUFFIELD,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  353. 

BUGGIN,  BUGGINS,  ,  2o  ;  auditor  for 

steward,  63,  71,  79;  auditor  for  trea- 
surer, 10,  41  ;  master  of  the  revels,  89, 
94,  108. 

BUILDINGS,  NEW,  orders  and  proposals, 
etc.,  as  to,  xxviii,  40,  42,  43,  44,  45,  49, 
5°,  Si,  59,  6°,  6i>'7°,  72,  73,  84,  85,  88, 
119,  120,  121,  122,  123,  124,  125,  131, 
132,  134,  135,  i36,  !37>  i39>  14°,  148, 
153,  *S6>  r57,  i58>  I<58>  205,  235,  249, 
250  (2),  251,  267,  298,  341,  372. 

BULLER,  Francis,  bur.  of,  451. 

BULLOCK,    Edw.,    steward    for    reader's 

dinner,  120. 
, ,  142. 

BULSTROD,  Rich.,  33. 

,  Thorn.,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 

14. 
,  Whitlocke,  son  of  Rich.,  adm.,  33 ; 

call  to  bar,  367. 


BUNBURY,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  367. 

BURBAGE, ,  Ixii,  Ixix. 

BURDETT,  Walt.,  197 ;  call  to  bar,  99. 
BURE,  Dr.,  called  assoc.  of  bench,  i. 
BURFORD,  Rob.,  panierman,  bur.  of,  446. 
BURGESS,  John,  bur.  of,  459. 

BURLASSE,    Nich.,    bur.     of,    451.      See 
Borlase. 

BURLINGTON,  the  Earl  of,  95. 
BURNET,  Will.,  406. 
BURRELL,  Sam.,  bur.  of,  454. 
,  Timothy,  call  to  bar,  69. 

— ,  Walt.,  controller  for  Xmas,  213. 

— ,  Will.,  porter,  390,  391,  436. 

— , ,  4,  4°6,  44°. 

BURROUGHS,  John,  187. 

,  Thorn.,  293  ;  call  to  bar,  358. 

BURT,  Will.,  144. 

BURTON,  Edw.,  cook,  243. 
— ,  Francis,  call  to  bar,  219. 

,  Mich.,  call  to  bar,  367. 

BUSBY,  Dr.,  liv. 
BUSFEILD,  Will.,  411. 

BUTLER,  Ambrose,  call  to  bar,  40. 

— ,  Edw.,  bur.  of,  453. 

— , ,  7o,  72. 

BUTLERS  FOR  THE  HOUSE,  accounts  of, 

94,  1 66;  allowance  to,  388,  441  ;  to  use 
court  hand,  xxiv,  92  ;  fees  to,  335  ;  orders 
as  to,  22,  47,  163,  384,  432;  right  to 
nominate,  307  (2),  308;  rolls  or  book, 

95,  100,  187. 

— ,  Chief  or  Head,  appointment  of,  by 
pad.  and  bench,  312,  317,  367,  368; 
orders  as  to,  21,  71,  151,  161,  164,  167, 
187,  188,  201,  209,  217,  219,  405. 

,  Exercise,  301,  369,  409;  orders  as 

to,  178. 

— ,  Second,  167. 
-,  Puisne   or    junior,    169,    229   (2); 


appointment  of,  333  ;  bond  for  perform- 
ance of  duties,  185;  duties  of,  390; 
orders  as  to,  209 ;  not  to  keep  an  ale 
house,  262. 

BUTLER  FOR  CHRISTMAS,  4,  10,  15,  27. 
BUTLIN,  Francis,  ironmonger,  212,  264. 

BUTTERED  ALE  [ale  boiled  with  lump  sugar, 
buffer  and  spice],  1 84. 

BUTTERY,  xxxiv,  105,  135,  136,  318,  347, 
376,  386,  442;  baskets,  171;  boys  at 
Xmas,  55  ;  buildings  over,  136 ;  inner, 
349,  442  ;  inventory  of,  386,  442  ; 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


expenses  of,  174  ;  extravagance  in,  167  ; 
orders  as  to,  7,  88  ;  standing  committee 
for,  119. 

BUTTERY  BOOK,  5,  82,  94,  185,  205,  305, 

401. 

BUTTS,  John,  bur.  of,  450. 
BYERLEY,  Hulton,  bur.  of,  456. 
BYNE,  Hen.,  291,  348. 

, ,  376,  4°6. 

BYRON,  Lord,  96. 

CADWALLADER,  Rich.,  badge  porter,  391, 

411. 

O:SAR,  Sir  Julius,  466. 
CALDICOTT,  CALDECOT,  Thorn..  232,  235, 

422. 
CALLAHAN,  Cornelius,  292. 

— ,  Owen,  292. 
CALLOW,  THOM.,  278,  283. 
CALMADY,  Josias,  347;  call  to  bar,  109. 

— ,  Shilston,  call  to  bar,  429. 

CALTHOKPK,  Arthur,,  bur.  of,  449. 

CAMPION,  Giles,  herald  painter,  238,  320. 

CANARY.     See  Wine. 

CANDLES,  at  Gate,  98. 

CANDLESTICKS,  brass,  5. 

CANHAM,  John,  call  to  bar,  312;  petition 
of,  352- 

CANTRILL,  Mary,  bur.  of,  444. 

CAPELL,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  90. 

CAPERS,  128. 

CAPS,  order  as  to  wearing,  64. 

CARBERWELL, ,  386. 

CARDROWE,  James,  246,  254,  280,  298, 
34',  343>  354;  arms  of,  287;  att.  at 
parl.  and  bench,  297,  305,  313,  324, 

332,  338>  339-  346,  352>  353>  36°.  365; 
auditor  for  treasurer  and  steward,  241, 
248,  261,  267  ;  call  to  bar,  59;  call  to 
bench,  245,  249 ;  reader,  260,  266 ; 
reader  of  Inn  of  Chan.,  153  ;  treasurer, 

339.  345.  351.  352- 

— ,  James,  son  of  James,  adm.  of,  246. 

CAREW,  Sir  Thorn.,  10,  36;  auditor  for 
treasurer,  15;  call  to  bench,  49,  69; 
steward  for  reader's  dinner,  91. 

CARNESEW,  John,  call  to  bar,  21. 

CARPENTER, ,  brewer,  267. 

CARPETS,  leather,  25,  41,  73,  393,  436. 


CARRAWAYS  and  Varges,  128. 

CARRELL,  CARROLL,  CHARLES,  292. 

,  John,  steward  for  reader's  dinner,  37, 

39,  42,  46,  53. 

CARTER,  John,  adm.,  36. 
— ,  Laur.,  call  to  bar,  304. 
— ,  Rich.,  346 ;  call  to  bar,  339. 
— ,  Sam.,  242,  268,  279,  289;  call  to 
bar,  94. 
-,  Sam.,  library  keeper,  xcii,  416,  423, 


424,  425,  428,  434,  435. 

,  Sam.,  bur  of,  462. 

— ,  Thorn.,  144. 

— ,  Thorn.,  son  of  Sam.,  423. 

— , ,133.  3!5- 

CARTHEW,  John,  son  of  Thorn.,  358,  359. 
,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  459 ;   call  to  bar, 


414  ;  call  to  bench,  353  ;  Serjeant,  359, 
459- 
CARTWRIGHT,  Thorn.,  the  mason,  n. 

CARVER,  Thorn.,  198. 

CARVERS'  WORK,  394,  412,  417,  424,  425. 
See  Alcock,  Carver,  and  Miller. 

CASE,  breaking  the  [the  declaration  of  the 
case  to  be  argued  as  an  exercise],  431. 

CASTEELE,  Andrew,  bur.  of,  458. 
CASTING  BOXES,  128,  184.'  See  Gambling. 

CATER,  Grace,  wife  of  Hen.,  bur.  of,  445. 

— ,  Hen.,  445. 
,  Will.,  bur.  of,  454. 


CAUSEWAY   at   Temple  Stairs,  repair  of, 

356.  357- 
CAUTION  MONEY,  151,  152. 

CAVE,  John,  10,  14;  att.  on  reader,  13; 

bur.  of,  449. 

— ,  -  — ,  446. 
CAVELEY, ,  352. 


CAWLEY,  Will.,  356 ;  steward  for  reader's 
dinner,  in. 

CELLAR,  The,  174,  257,  442, 
CELY,  Will,  bur.  of,  444. 
CHADWELL,  Edm.,  bur.  of,  459. 
CHAFE,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  444. 

CHAIRE,  CHARE,  Alban,  call  to  bar,  44. 
— , ,  216,  244. 

CHAIRS  OF  TURKEY  WORK,  393. 

CHALONOR,  John,  butler  of  Middle  Tem- 
ple, bur.,  449. 

CHALTON, ,  steward,  64. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


485 


CHAMBERLAINE,  CHAMBELYN,  John,  418 ; 

call  to  bar,  49. 
,  Leonard,  bur.  of,  445. 

CHAMBERS,  orders,  etc.,  as  to,  Ixxvii,  30, 45, 
70,  71.  73.  75,86,95,110,  r".  112,148, 
149,  155,  162,  165,  166,  173,  181,  186, 
211,  228,  233,  234,  249,  250,  307,  308, 
312,356,  377;  orders  against  alteration 
to,  277,  308,  361 ;  orders  as  to  bench 
chambers,  228,  233,  234;  orders  as  to 
rebuilding  burnt  chambers,  etc.,  4,  9, 
167,  186;  consolidation  of,  162,  173; 
inventory  of,  428  ;  nominations  to,  148, 
149,  165,  166,  186,  307,  308;  not  to  be 
held  by  judges  or  Serjeants,  243,  249, 
334;  padlocking,  in,  113,  155  ;  seized, 
24. 

CHAMPAGNE,  199. 

CHAMPION,  Hen.,  365,  374 ;  call  to  bar, 

218,  220. 
,  John,  1 88,  190,  208,  215  ;  controller 

for  Xmas,  200;  misbehaviour  of,   187; 

restored,  214,  216;  suspended  commons, 


193 


,  Thorn.,  bur.   of,  448  ;  call  to  bar, 


CHANCELLOR,  Lord,  127,  128,  139,  154, 
158,  170,  229,  238,  251  ;  invited  to 
dinner,  234,  237,  244  ;  orders  by,  30. 
See  Clarendon,  Earl  of;  Bridgeman,  Sir 
Orlando  ;  Finch,  Sir  Heneage ;  North, 
Sir  Francis ;  Jeffreys,  Sir  Geo.  ;  Wright, 
Sir  Nathan  ;  Harcourt,  Sir  Simon. 

CHANCERY,  Inns  of.  See  Inns  of  Chan- 
cery. 

CHANCERY  LANE,  322. 
CHANCERY  PRACTISERS,  142. 
CHANDLER,  John,  293. 

,  Rich.,  grandson  of  Rich.  Goddard, 

adm.,  4. 

CHAPLIN,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  296. 

CHAPMAN,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  414. 

,  Mary,  wife  of  Will.,  453  ;  bur.  of, 

449- 
,  Thorn.,  427  ;  call  to  bar,  240. 

— ,  Will.,  chief  butler,  449,  452,  453. 
,  ,  chamber  of,  281. 

CHARCOAL,  use  of,  80,  98,  123. 

CHARE.     See  Chaire. 

CHARKE,  Ezekiel,  steward,  324,  328,  406, 

413,  415,  424,  439. 

_,  Will.,  431. 
CHARLES  II.,  address  to,  183,  199,  coro- 


nation of,  ix,  82  ;  petition  to,  104  ;  visit 
to  Inner  Temple,  x,  xi. 

CHARNOCK,  Sir  Geo.,  call  to  bar,  59. 
CHARTIER,  J.,  412. 

CHAUNCEY,  Sir  Hen.,  xli. 

,  Tobias,  call  to  bar,  346. 

CHAUNTLER,  Edw.,  165. 

CHEEKE,  Francis,  treasurer  of  Lyon's  Inn, 

4,  25- 
CHESHIRE,  John,  adm.  from  Gray's  Inn, 

324;  called  to  bench,  387. 

CHESTER,  John  Pearson,  bishop  of,  449. 

CHICHESTER,  Edw.,  bur.  of,  455. 

— ,  Hen.,  son  of  Sir  John,  petition,  194. 
— ,  Sir  John,  deceased,  194. 

CHICKEN'S  PEEPERS,  128. 

CHILDE,  John,  bur.  of,  459. 

, ,  82. 

CHILD'S  BANK,  Ixxxi. 
CHILD'S  PLACE,  Ixxxi. 

CHILTON,  Alice,  41. 

— ,  Eleanor,  bur.  of,  451. 

— ,  Hen.,  steward,  5,  8,  16,  36,  39,  41, 

7 1  ;  death  from  plague,  bur.  of,  446. 

CHIMNEY  MONEY  [money  raised  by  the 
Hearth  Tax],  53,  89,  171. 

CHIVERS, ,  auditor  for  Xmas,  213. 

CHOCOLATE,  184. 

|  CHOLMELEY,  Sir  Hen.,  butler  for  Xmas,  4. 
— ,  John,  bur.  of,  456. 

CHREIGHTON,  Dr.,  preacher,  55. 

CHRISTMAS,  Feasts  and  Revels  at  [lasted 
either  three  or  four  weeks  and  varied  in 
the  date  of  commencement^  3,  6,  10,  15  ; 
accounts  of,  17,  26,  54,  129,  184,  200; 
committee  of  thirteen  at,  17,  18;  dis- 
orders at,  6,  187,  188,  190,  193,  202, 
214,  216,  246,  266,  268,  269,  270,  281, 
282,  288;  fare  at,  29,  128;  guards  at, 
130;  livery  coats  for,  184;  night  lights, 
184;  orders  against  keeping,  7,  208,  214, 
216,  249,  347,  355,  36i,  381,  388;  re- 
pasts at,  1 8.  See  Auditors  for  Xmas, 
Butler,  Commons,  Controller,  Gamb- 
ling, Guards,  Lord  of  Temple,  Marshal, 
Speaker,  Steward,  and  Revels. 

CHRISTMAS  PARLIAMENTS,  17,  26,  54, 130, 
200,  213. 

CHURCH,  John,  call  to  bar,  44. 
,  Will.,  337  ;  call  to  bar,  131. 


486 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


CHURCHILL,  John,  401,  409,  415  ;  bur.  of, 
461 ;  call  to  bar,  201. 

CHURCHMAN,  Sir  John,  steward  for  reader's 
dinner,  49. 

CIDER,  184,  321. 

CLARE,  CLEARE,  Will.,  the  surveyor,  157, 
170,  198,  199. 

CLARENDON,  Earl  of,  lord  chancellor,  33. 
CLARET.     See  Wine. 

CLARK,  CLARKE,  CLERK,  Edm.,  5. 

,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  90 ;   reader  for 

Lyon's  Inn,  268. 

,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  323. 

,  Geo.,  107. 

— ,  Giles,  351,  362,  377,  398,  424,  436, 

440  ;  call  to  bar,  400. 

— ,  Joan,  440 ;  bur.  of,  462. 
• 1  John,  53. 

— ,  Mary,  widow  of  Sir  Thorn.,  bur.  of, 

449- 

— ,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  35. 
• — ,  Sir  Thorn.,  449. 

— ,  Will.,  butler,  8 7,  92, 138,  144,171  (2), 
174,  i?S.  l85.  263>  266,  267,  268,  272, 
276,  278,  282,  283,  294  (2),  303,  304  (2), 
307  (2),  310,  313,  320,  351,  368,  376, 
416. 

— ,  Will.,  321,  322  ;  call  to  bar,   147, 
322;  King's  Counsel,  321. 
-,  Will.,  bur.  of,  448. 


— ,  Will.,  bur.  of,  459. 
,  Will.,  an  infant,  bur.  of,  452. 

— ,  Lord  Keeper,  98. 

— ,  Mrs.,  350,  377. 
, ,  attorney,  16. 

— , ,  treasurer  of  Lyon's  Inn,  293, 

302. 

CLAY,  Steph.,  423  ;  call  to  bar,  358. 

CLAYTON,  John,   306,  308;    call  to  bar, 
274. 

— ,  Sir  John,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 
101. 

— ,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  94. 
— ,  Sarah,  bur.  of,  461. 
— ,  Seth,  call  to  bar,  172. 


CLEARE,  see  Clare. 

CLEMENT'S  INN,  102,  164,  169,  179,  208, 
249,  267,  268,  278,  283,  284,415;  moot 
at>.  53;  principal  of,  138,  267,  268,  283; 
principal  and  ancients  summoned  before 
Inner  Temple,  Ixxvii,  267,  268,  278, 
283,  284;  principal  of,  see  Gerrard ; 
reader  of,  lv,  102,  130,  242,  278,  281, 
289,  S02,  3H,  31?,  324,  325>  332.  337, 
347,  36°,  365>  376,  38°>  3Sl,  389>  396> 


401,  408,  422,  427,  430,  434  ;  recusants 
in,  138. 

CLENDON,  John,  Ixxvii,  55,  163,  223,  228, 
229,  269,  279,  297,  300,  307,  315,  319, 
325>  326,  333,  334,  336,  341,  349,  354, 
362,  364,  365,  376,  379,  393,  396,  404, 
410,  412,  426;  arms  of,  320;  assistant 
to  auditor,  270 ;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench, 
297,  3°S>  3"i  313,  322>  324,  329>  33', 
338,  339,  345,  346,  352>  353,  36°,  364, 
365,  37i,  373,  379,  380,  387,  388,  394, 
396>  399,  4°i,  4°7,  4i4,  4i5,  421.  422, 
425,  426,  429,  430,  433,  434,  437  (2); 
auditor  for  Xmas,  55,  58;  auditor  for 
steward,  150, 162,  177,  277,  289;  auditor 
for  treasurer,  277,  289 ;  call  to  bar,  49; 
call  to  bench,  260 ;  reader,  296 ;  treas- 
urer, 353,  358. 

,  Thorn.,  son  of  John,  adm.,  273. 

CLERK.     See  Clark. 

CLERK  OF  THE  CROWN,  236.  See  Astrey, 
Sir  Sam. 

CLERK  OF  CHRISTMAS  AND  VACATION 
PARLIAMENTS,  161,  200,  213. 

CLERK  OF  THE  TEMPLE  CHURCH,  n,  16, 
256,  271,  294;  to  be  found  by  the 
master,  402.  See  Playford. 

CLERK  OF  THE  WARRANTS,  138. 

CLERKS'  COMMONS,  cloths  for,  170 ;  tables, 
39,  112. 

CLERKS'  COMMONS  CASES,  36,  187,  352. 
CLEVELAND,  Earl  of,  10,  446. 

CLIFFE,  Jacob,  call  to  bar,  395. 
— , ,  440. 

CLIFFORD,  Lord,  95. 
— , ,  184,  185. 

CLIFFORD'S  INN,  102,  114,  115,  116(4), 
117,  118,  124,  125,  157,  189,  196,  208, 
262,  279,  289,  290,  365,  401,  415; 
moot  at,  53  ;  principal  and  rules  of,  1 14, 
115,  116,  117,  118,  138,  279;  jurisdic- 
tion of  Inner  Temple  over,  Ixxviii,  114, 
115,  116,  1 17,  118,  279;  readers  at,  102, 
153,  225,  242,  302,  314,  324,  325,  332, 

337,  347,  354,  36°,  375,  381,  389>  396> 
397,  401,  408,  422,  427,  430,  434,  438; 
recusants  in,  138. 

CLIPPERS  OF  COINS,  tools  of,  found  in 
Inner  Temple,  321. 

CLOCK  OVER  HALL,  244,  245,  263,  272, 
32°,  354,  357,  398>  4i7J  copper  ball 
for,  238. 

CLOCK  IN  LIBRARY,  412. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


487 


CLOCKMAKER.     See  Tompion,  Thorn. 

CLOISTERS,  the,  xiv,  xxx,  xxxi,  xxxiv,  xxxv, 
68,  138,  147,  148,  154,  158,  170  (2), 
171,  173,  184  (3),  199,  257,  262,  263, 
271,  272  (2),  344,  364;  chambers  in, 
195  ;  fretwork  in,  272  ;  the  new,  430  ; 
to  be  continued  in  same  place,  132  ; 
pillar  of  pulled  down,  156,  157,  158, 
163,  164,  171;  rebuilding,  xxxiv,  xxxv, 
J32>  r53,  X54,  IS8.  l66- 

CLOPTON,  Isaac,  call  to  bar,  373. 

CLOWES,  Rob.,  call  to  bench,   1 74 ;  dis- 
charged from  bench,  181. 
, ,  228. 

COACH-HIRE,  109,  127,  128  (2),  145,  158, 
171,  183,  184. 

COALS,  SEA,  orders  as  to,  65,  80,  98,  123. 
COATS,  order  against  wearing,  64. 
COBB,  Jane,  wife  of  Jeffrey,  bur.  of,  454. 
COCK,  The,  mending  the  case  of,  320. 
COCK,  The,  Tavern,  Ixxxi. 

COCK,  Mary,  bur.  of,  462. 

,  Matth.,  bur.  of,  461. 

, ,  prothonotary,  336. 

, ,  widow,  14. 

.  ,  17- 

COCKEYNE,  Viscount,  steward  for  Xmas,  4. 

CODDINGTON,  James,  10,  20;  called  to 
bar,  21 ;  committee  for  Xmas,  20. 

COFFEE,  184. 

COGGAN,  COGGIN,  Eliz.,  bur.  of,  458. 

,  John,  bur.  of,  459. 

,  Mrs.,  412. 

COKE,  COOKE,  Edw.,  called  to  bar,  49. 
,  Edw.,  son  of  Sir  Edw.  and  great 

grandson  of  Sir  Edw.  C.  J.,  adm.,  52; 

call  to  bar,  260. 
,  Sir  Edw.,  C.  J.,  Ixxxii,  books  of,  1 1 ; 

portrait  of,  315  ;  Reports  of,  441. 
,  Rich,  son  of  Will.,   79 ;  adm.,  86  ; 

bur.  of,  459.     See  Cook,  Cooke. 

COLCLOUGH,  Caesar,  call  to  bar,  426. 

COLE,  Gregory,  bur.,  443. 

,  John,  bur.  of,  452. 

,  Rich.,  Ixxxiii. 

GOLEM  AN,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  119. 
,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  426. 

COLES, ,  425. 

COLLETT,  Thorn.,  301,  305,  394  ;  call  to  j 
bar,  296. 


COLLINS,  COLINS,  Anth.,  444,  448. 
Gabriel,  264. 
John,  213,  227. 

Jonathan,  bur.,  477  ;  call  to  bar,  296. 
Mary,  wife  of  Anth.,  bur.  of,  444. 
Rich.,  24. 
Mrs.,  398. 

,  the  engraver,  300. 

-,  89,  140,  229. 


COLLWALL, 

COLSON,  CHRIS.,  bur.  of,  448. 

COLVILE,  John,  236,  293. 
,  Rich.,  228. 

COMBERBACH,  Roger,  call  to  bar,  304. 
COMMISSION  BOOK,  138. 

COMMISSIONERS    FOR    TAXES,  supper  to, 

329- 
COMMITTEE  FOR  Music  AT  XMAS,  17,  19, 

26,  28,  54,  58,  59,  129,  200.  213. 

COMMITTEE  OF  THIRTEEN  AT  XMAS,  17, 
1 8,  19. 

COMMITTEE  FOR  INSPECTING  BILLS,  102. 

COMMON,  Doll,  actress,  Ixxi. 

COMMON  PRAYER  BOOKS,  given  to  benchers, 

COMMONS,  allowance  for  vacation,  179, 
1 90  ;  blowing  the  horn  for,  112;  clean 
table  cloths  at,  327;  collection  of  and 
arrears,  81,  190,  205,  222,  249,  299, 
332,  333,  S62,  375,439;  committee  for 
regulating,  107,  211,  249;  discontinu- 
ance of  or  broken  up,  38,  163  ;  extra- 
vagant rates  of,  90,  205,  235;  not  to  be 
eaten  in  officers'  room,  326;  not  to  be 
taken  away,  164,  249,  300,  310,  325, 
326;  orders  as  to,  7,  36,  39,  71,  72,  86, 
88,  90,  95,  107,  123,  126,  127,  167,  168, 
178,  182,  186,  190,  207,  219,  220,  267, 
3°°,  327,  33°,  335-  339,  34°,  34i,  342, 
355,  389,  393,  423,  427,  439  ;  orders  as 
to  casting  in,  no,  163;  orders  as  to 
messes  in,  383,  384;  rolls  of,  112,  113, 
163,  178,  205,  278;  suspension  from, 
228;  upper  mess  of,  122,  244,  307. 
See  Vacation  Commons. 

— ,  at  Christmas,  xii,  xxxii,  33,  54 ; 
allowance  for,  34,  129;  ball  at,  188; 
daily  fare  at,  29  ;  disorders  at,  6,  187, 
188,  190,  193,  202,  214,  215,  246,  266, 
268,  269,  270,  281,  282,  288  ;  expulsion 
from,  17,  20;  held  against  order,  217  ; 
orders  as  to,  2,  17,  26,  27,  29,  129, 
216;  orders  as  to  guests  at,  130;  pri- 
vate commons,  2,  12;  public,  129; 


488 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


regulating  of,  202.  See  Christmas,  feast 
and  revels  at. 

COMMUNION  BOOK,  260. 
COMYNS,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  387. 
CONDE,  John,  call  to  bar,  44. 

CONGREVE,  -  :,  Ix. 

CONIC  LIGHTS,  Ixxxiii,  432. 
CONNELL,  Maurice,  216. 
CONNY,  Sutton,  bur.  of,  450. 
CONSTANTINE,  Chris.,  bur.  of,  463. 
CONTROLLER  FOR  XMAS,   17,  18,  19,  26, 

27,  28  (2),  54,  59,  129,  13°.  2°°, 
213;  allowance  to,  56;  dinner  of,  56; 
feathers,  184,  200;  guards  of,  184; 
orders  as  to,  56  ;  table  of,  55. 

CONVEX  LIGHTS.   Ixxxiii,  351,  357,  370, 

378,  398. 

CONWAY,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  379. 
Coo,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  9. 
COODE,    GOOD,    Will.,    187;    call  to  bar, 


,  COOKE,  Charles,  182,  bur.  of,  455  ; 
call  to  bar,  201  ;  deceased,  244  ;  master 
of  the  revels,  229,  230,  238,  244,  245, 

251- 

,  Geo.,  144. 

,  Geo.,  secondary  of   the  Common 


Pleas,  assoc.  of  the  bar,  342. 

,  Geo.,  son  of  John,  305  ;  adm.,  303  ; 
called  to  bar,  358. 
-,  John,  prothonotary  of  the  Common 


Pleas,  162,  263,  273,  282,  303,  305,  307, 

308  ;  call  assoc.  of  bar,  69 ;  call  assoc. 

of  bench,  200  ;  call  to  sit  at  upper  mess, 

192. 

— ,  John,  son  of  John,  adm.,  273,  282  ; 

call  to  bar,  367. 

— ,  Miles,  son  of  Miles,  bur.  of,  445. 

— ,  Thorn.,  barber,  bur.  of,  458. 

— ,  Will.,  86. 

— ,  Will.,  chief  cook,  395,  398,  423. 

— ,  ,  son  of  John,  adm.,  263. 

-,    the  joiner,   363,    412,   424, 


436- 


, ,  19,  2°,  25,  57,  243,424;  att., 

222  ;  committee  of  music,  54  ;  speaker 
at  Xmas,  20.     See  Coke. 

COOK,  The,  orders  as  to,  72,  390,  391 ; 
chief,  164,  327,  335,  354,  362,  395, 
398,  401  ;  appointed  by  bench  table, 
312;  appointed  by  treasurer,  317;  calves' 
heads  supplied  by,  354(2);  second  or 


under,  80,  328,  335,  382,  383,  389, 
409. 

COOPER,  Francis,  auditor  for  treas.,  24 ; 

steward  for  reader's  dinner,  12. 
,  Thorn.,  251,  255,  374,  397  ;  call  to 

bar,  248. 
, ,  upholsterers,  171. 

COPLEY,  Sir  Godfrey,  173,  301. 

CORBET,  Sam.,  bur.  of,  459. 
— ,  Sarah,  bur.  of,  462. 

CORDWELL,    ,   carpenter,    411,    425, 

436- 
COREY,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  no. 

CORONER,  office  of,  236,  237. 
COROR,  Mrs.,  Ixxii. 

COSMOGRAPHER,  the  King's,  see  Morgan, 
Will. 

COTTENS,  ,  314. 

COTTON,  John,  call  to  the  bar,  219. 
COUNTERS  FOR  USE  OF  HOUSE,  5. 
COURT-HAND,  use  of,  xxiv,  92. 

COURTHOP,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  119. 
, ,  150,  153,  155. 

COURTNEY,  Humph,  bur.  of,  457. 

— ,  Nich,  Ixxxv,  1 1 9,  1 20,  1 34,  1 54,  1 56, 
157,  192,  202,  203,  204,  207,  215,  224, 
233,  237,  267,  289,  290,  297,  299,  311, 
320,  321,  322,  324,  326,  333,  334,  336, 
337,  338,  340,  342,  343,  351.  374,  382, 
384,  389>  396>  4io,  417,  423;  att.  at 
parl.  and  bench,  218,  220,  222  (2),  223, 
225,  232,  233,  259,  273,  288,  295,  303, 
3°5,  3".  3J3>  322,  324,  329,  331,  338, 
339,  345>  346,  352,  353,  358,  360,  364, 
365,  37i,  379,  380,  387,  388,  394,  396, 
399,  401,  407,  408,  414,  415,  421,  422, 
425,  426,  429,  430,  433,  434,  437; 
auditor  for  treas.  and  steward,  97,  150, 
162,  248;  call  to  bench,  112  ;  guilty  of 
giving  away  wine  of  Inn,  382  ;  reader, 
206  ;  treas,  304  ;  windows  broken,  212. 

,  Will,  369. 

COVENTRY,  Francis,  steward  for  Xmas,  10, 


COVENTRY'S  BUILDINGS,  298  (2),  341. 

Cow  PER, ,  70.     See  Cooper. 

COWSLADE,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  421. 

Cox,  Charles,  son  of  Will.,  bur.,  443. 
,  Ezekiel,  call  to  bar,  426. 

COYSH,  John,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 
37,  39,  42- 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


489 


COZENS,  Sam.,  157. 
CRAFORD,  John,  41. 
"CRAMBED  CHICKENS,"  128. 

CRAVEN,  the  Earl  of,  xxxii.  184;  adm.  of, 
90. 

CRAWLEY, ,  petition  of,  355. 

CRESSER,  Mary,  wife  of  Steven,  bur.  of, 
460. 


-,  Steph.,  carpenter,  xxv,  53,  73,  81, 
127,  144(2),  157,  164,  165,  178,  1 80, 
199,  229,  245  (2),  283,  460;  bur.  of, 
457- 

CRESSETT,  John,  400  ;  bur.  of,  406,  460  ; 

call  to  bar,  119;  deceased,  404 ;  master 

of  the  revels,  244,  255. 
, ,  80. 

CRISPE,  Hen.,  107,  119,  300,  302,  336, 
346 ;  att.  at  pad.  and  bench,  339,  354, 
373;  call  to  bar,  109;  call  to  bench, 
33°.  335  J  reader,  339,  34! ;  reader  for 
Clement's  Inn,  289,  302. 

,  Sam.,  call  to  bar,  274. 

,  Dr.,  xlix,  Iv,  55. 

CROE,  Ursula,  bur.  of,  458. 

CROFTS,  Will.,  adm.  of,  70 ;  call  to  bar, 
119. 

CROKE,  CROOKE,  Charles,  son  of  Rich., 

230;  adm.  of,  87  ;  call  to  bar,  172. 
,  Geo.  bro.  of  Rich.  159  ;  call  to  bar, 

35- 
,  Sir  Geo.,  adm.  of,  90. 

— ,  Gracious  wife  of  Unton,  bur.  of,  455. 

— ,  Hen.,  son  of  Sir  Rob.,  adm.  of,  i. 
,  John,  call  to  bar,  21. 

— ,  Justice,  grandson  of,  85. 

— ,  Rich.,  xli,  40,  45,  47,  52,  59,  63,  69, 

80,  84,  87,  93,  143,  157,  159,  230;  att. 

at  parl.  and  bench,  85,  96,  99 ;  att.  on 

reader,  62,  69,  71  ;  auditor  for  steward, 

41;  auditor  for  treas.,  10,  47,  52,   79; 

bur.  of,  456;  call  to  bench,  12;  chambers 

of,  222  ;  gift  towards  repairs  since  fire, 

143  ;  reader,  70. 
,  Rich.,  son  of  Geo.,  adm.  of,  159. 

— ,  Rich.,  son  of  Rich.,  adm.  of,  40. 

— ,  Rob.,  i  ;  call  to  bar,  3. 
• ,  Unton,  grandson  of  Serjeant,  455 ; 

adm.  of,  63 ;  bur.  of,  456. 

,  Will.,  neph.  of  Serjeant  West,  161. 

-,  Wright,  son  of  Rich.,  211,  218,  230; 


adm.,  84 ;  call  to  bar,  146. 
CROMPTON,  Lovett,  call  to  bar,  131. 


-,  See  Crumpton. 


CROPLEY,  Luke,  196  (2),  197. 
CROSSE,  Anne,  89. 

,  John,  brewer,  xxxii. 

CROUCH, ,  144. 

CROW,  Fridaysweed,  238,  313,  320. 

,  Isaac,  turnspit,  233. 

,  Pennifeather,  314. 

CROWDER,  Eliz.,  bur.  of,  459. 

— ,  John,  439,  459. 
,  Marg.,  bur.  of,  459. 

CROWLES,  Rog.,  119. 

CROWN  OFFICE,  4,  43,  211,  222,  223,  244, 
253,  262,  264,  271,  273,  277,  278,  294, 
3i3.  324,  327,  335,  348,  354,  355,  35^, 
372,  377,  427,  432,  435,  439,  44°- 

CRUMPTON,  Charles,  bur.  of,  450.  See 
Crompton. 

CRUWYS,  Sam.,  call  to  bar,  395. 
CUDDON,  Sir  Thorn.,  370. 
CUFFIN,  Griffith,  bur.  of,  444. 

CULPEPPER,  Sir  Cherry  or  Chenny,  bur. 
of,  445  ;  call  to  bar,  49. 

CURE,  Anne,  wife  of  Geo.,  bur.  of,  454. 
— ,  Geo.,  13,  155,  163,  234,  254,  300, 
454;  allowance  to,  231;  auditor  for 
steward,  79,  87,  92;  bur.  of,  263,  264  ; 
call  to  bench,  12;  steward  for  reader's 
dinner,  37,  39,  42,  46. 

CURST,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  449. 
— ,  Sam.,  bur.  of,  453. 

CURTIS,  Magdelin,  widow  of  Will.,  22. 

CURZON,  John,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 
91. 

,  Nath.,  call  to  bar,  358. 

,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  387. 

CUST,  Sir  Rich.,  121. 

— ,  Sam.,  son  of  Sir  Rich.,  adm.,  121. 

CUTHBERT,  Thorn.,  301,  305  ;  call  to  bar, 

396. 
CUTLER, ,26. 

DALBY,  Edw.,  60  ;  auditor  for  steward,  i  o  ; 
auditor  for  treasurer,  24. 
— ,  John,  son  of  Edw.,  325,  375,  382, 
383,  397,  410,  424,  425,  438  ;  adm.,  60  ; 
att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  352,  753,  358, 
360,  364,  365,  371,  373,  379,  387,  388, 

394,  396,  399,  4°i>  4°7>  4°8,  4*4,  4*5, 
421,  422,  425,  426,  429,  430,  433,  434, 
437  ;  auditor  for  treasurer  and  steward, 
304,  313,  353,  360,  368,  373,  380,  388, 
396,  400,  408  ;  call  to  bar,  109  ;  call  to 


III. 


49° 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


bench,  352,  355  ;  reader,  353  ;  treasurer, 
414. 

DALBY,  John,  call  to  bar,  346. 

,  John,  nephew  of  John,  adm.,  425. 


DALLOW, 


171. 


DALTON,  Sam.,  244,  401,  408,  415,  422, 

427,  430,  434;  call  to  bar,  201. 
,  Thorn.,  292. 

DALWAY,  Rob.,  415,  422  ;  call  to  bar,  205, 

209. 
DANCING,  orders  as  to,  Ixxxix,  55,  381  (2), 

388. 

DANDY,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  69. 
DANEY,  Rob.,  250. 

DANIELL,  Anne,  bur.  of,  459. 

— ,  Jane,  bur.  of,  459. 

— ,  John,  barber,  bur.  of,  453. 

— ,  Kath.,  bur.  of,  457. 

— ,  Rob.,  cook,  282,  328,  376,  383,  389  ; 

bur.  of,  459. 

,  Rob.,  bur.  of,  457,  458. 

, ,  Iviii. 


DANVERS,  Charles,  223;  call  to  bar,  35. 

— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  3. 

— ,  Knightley,  call  to  bar,  323. 
, ,  127  ;  Steward  for  Xmas,  26. 

D'ANVERS  ABRIDGMENT,  441. 

DARRELL,  Chris.,  bur.  of,  453. 
— , ,  129. 

DAVENANT,  Alex.,  Ixxii,  212. 
— ,  Charles,  Ixxii,  212. 
— ,  Ralph,  212,  271,  286. 
— , ,  230,  238,  239,  244,  255. 

DAVENTRY,      Baron      of.       See      Finch, 
Heneage. 

DAVEY,  DAVY,  Joseph,  call  to  bar,  414. 
— ,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  90. 
— ,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  400.     See  Daney. 
Rob. 

DAVIS,  DAVIES,  Francis,  bur.  of,  455. 
,  John,  son  of  Manwaring,  adm.,  426. 

— ,  Manwaring,  317,  400,  404,  406,  426  ; 

att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  358,  360,  364, 

365>  379,  380,  387,  388,  396,  399,  401, 

407,  408,  415,  421,  422,  425,  426,  430  ; 

call  to  bar,  119;  call  to  bench,  353,  356, 

360 ;  reader,  379,  380. 
,  Manwaring,  son  of  Manwaring,  adm., 

400. 


Matth.  [mistake  for  Manwaring],  att. 
at  parl.  and  bench,  399,  407,  421,  425. 
-,  Will.,  bur.  of,  461. 


> .  the  glazier,  144,  171,  199. 


DAWES,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  421. 

DAWLING,  John,  242,  250;  call  to  bar,  69. 
— ,  Mrs.,  133. 

DAY,  Thorn.,  315,  363,  377,  424. 

DEAN,  DEANE,  Anth.,  bur.  of,  450;  call 

to  bar,  69. 
,  Drue,  285,  305,  344 ;  call  to  bar, 

288. 

,  Edw.,  195,  196. 

,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  323. 

,  Whitlocke,  159,  195,  196  (2),  209; 

call  to  bar,  201. 

— ,  ,  242,  301,  326,  329. 

DEAN,  The.     See  Sherlock,  Dr.  Will. 

DEBTS  TO  THE  INN,  orders  as  to,  292,  293, 
382,  386. 

DEE,  Duncan,  374,  401,  408;  call  to  bar, 
172. 

DEGG,  Sir  Simon,  70,  82,  84,  87,  99,  104, 
283  (2);  att.  on  reader,  91,  93  ;  call  to 
bench,  63,  69 ;  reader,  95,  97  ;  steward 
for  reader's  dinner,  59. 

— — ,  Simon,  son  of  Sir  Simon,  adm.,  70. 

,  Will.,  grandson  of  Sir  Simon,  adm., 

283. 

DE  LA  HAY,  Peter,  bur.  of,  452. 
DELAMER,  Rich.,  liv,  268  ;  call  to  bar,  219. 


222. 


DELANDER,  Dan.,  412. 
DELAWAR,  Lord,  75. 

DELIGNE,   Dan.,   185,  381,  408  ;   call  to 
bar,  172. 

DEMAINE,  DUMAINE,  Anth.,  porter,  bur. 
of,  461. 

,  Cath.,  wife  of  Anth.,  bur.  of,  460. 

DEN, ,  monument  to,  448. 

DENNINGTON,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  3. 

,  S3,  203. 

DENNIS,   Nich.,  call  to  bench,   12;    dis- 

benched,  63. 

— , ,  att.  on  reader,  52. 

DENTON, ,  preacher,  26. 

DERING,  DEARING,  Heneage,  call  to  bar, 

260. 

,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  9. 

,  Hen.,  adm.,  48  ;  call  to  bar,  94. 

, ,  auditor  for  treasurer,  63,  71, 

87. 
DEVEREUX,  Sam.,  bur.  of,  453. 

DEVIL  TAVERN,  xxx,  xxxiii,  xxxiv,   Ixix, 

Ixxx,  132,  134,  141,  198. 
,  The  New,  Ixxxii. 


INDEX   AND    GLOSSARY. 


DEVIL  TAVERN,  The  Old,  Ixxxi. 

DIAL,  351,  357,  406,  442 ;  in  the  church, 

53  ;  pedestal  for,  406. 
DICE  AND  CASTING  BOXES,  29,  129,  130, 

184.     See  Gambling. 

DICKENS,  Tims,  bur.  of,  459. 

,  Thorn.,  adm.,  96  ;  bur.  of,  458. 

DICKENSON,  Will,  bur.  of,  450. 

, ,  92  (2)- 

DICK'S  COFFEE  HOUSE,  Ixxxi. 
DIGGS,  Dr.,  325. 

,  Leonard,  adm.,  from  Middle  Tem- 
ple, 232. 

DIKE,  DYKE,  John,  408  ;  call  to  bar,  201. 
,  Will.,  51  ;  bur.  of,  450,  453,  456. 

DINNER,   39;  private  in  hall,   129;   time 
of,  18. 

DlSH  WASHER,  335. 

DISNEY,  Dan.,  call  to  bar,  147. 

DIXON,  the   vintner  of  the   "  Fountain " 
Tavern,  294,  341,  351. 

DOBSON,  Anne,  bur.  of,  454. 

DODD,  Croke,  son  of  Sir  Sam.,  367;  bur. 

of,  454. 
,  John,  son  of  Sir  Sam.,  adm.,  395  ; 

call  to  bar,  291. 
-,  Sir  Sam.,  119,  130,  242,  307,  314, 


321,  325,  36S-  367,  37°,  374,  381,  382, 
383,  384,  395.  396,  398,  404,  412,  4H. 
441  ;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  358,  360, 
364,  365,  371,  379,  380,  387,  388,  394, 

396>  399,  401,  407,  4°8,  4!5>  42i,  422, 
425,  426,  429,  430,  433,  434,  437 ; 
auditor  for  steward,  162,  177,  192,  206, 
220  ;  auditor  for  treasurer  and  steward, 
380,  388,  400,  408,  414,  422,  426,429; 
call  to  bar,  119;  call  to  bench,  353, 
360 ;  reader,  387,  388  ;  treasurer,  429, 

436- 
DODSWORTH,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  158. 

DOLBEN,  Sir  Gilb.,  400,  414  ;  att.  at  parl. 
and  bench,  421,  422,  425,  426,  429, 
434,  437  ;  bur.  of,  456  ;  call  to  bar,  158; 
call  to  bench,  395  ;  reader,  408. 

,  John,  son  of  the  Bishop  of  Ro- 
chester, 195,376,  415,  422  ;  adm.,  in  ; 
call  to  bar,  172,  205,  210. 

,  John,  son  of  Sir  Gilbert,  400. 

,  Sir  Will.,  87,  91,  92,  93,  97,  100, 

103,  104,  107,  in,  112,  157;  att.  on 
reader,  106,  109;  auditor  for  treasurer, 
47>  52,  63,  97,  102  ;  call  to  bench,  84  ; 
reader,  no. 


DOLBEN, ,  262,  263 

DOLLING,  John,  bur.  of,  443. 
DONKING,  Roscarrocke,  call  to  bar,  296. 

DONYNG,  DUNING,  Draper,  263 ;  bur.  of, 

462  ;  call  to  bar,  379. 
,  Susana,  bur.  of,  462. 

DOOGOOD, ,  the  plasterer,  406. 

DORMER, ,  the  painter,  89. 

DORRELL,  Chris.,  bur.  of,  451. 
DORSET,  Earl  of,  xi.;  adm.,  4. 
DORSET  GARDEN,  Theatre  at,  Ixxi. 
DOUGHTY,  Charles,  bur.  of,  451. 
DOWDALE,  Hen.,  213,  216. 

DOWNES,  Eliz.,  355,  357. 

,  Geo.,  303. 

,  Patience,  bur.  of,  458. 

,  Stephen,  call  to  bar,  119. 

,  Thorn.,  turnspit,  336  ;  bur.  of,  458. 

, ,  102,  238,  329,  354,  355. 


DRAGE,  Will.,  bur.  of,  461. 
DRAGHI,    Giovanni    Battista,   organist  to 
Queen  Catherine,  xlv. 

DRAINAGE,  14. 

DRAKE,    Sir  Will.,  4,   148;   call   to  bar, 
288. 

, ,  call  to  bar,  288. 

,  ,  upholsterer,  16,  41,  73. 


DRAPER,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  449. 
, ,  446. 


DRAYTON,  Will.,  bur.  of,  449. 
DRESS,  orders  as  to,  64,  361,  362. 

DRINKWATER, ,  speaker,  54. 

DRIVER,  -  — ,  frame  maker,  Ixxxii,  315, 
320. 

DRUM  AND  TRUMPETS  AT  XMAS.,  27, 
129,  184. 

DRURY  LANE,  playhouse  at,  425,  436. 

DRY,  Thorn.,  porter,  327,  351,  370,  378, 
386,  399,  405,  406,  424,  439. 
— , ,  porter's  wife,  370,  439. 

DRYDEN,  John,  Ixii.,  Ixiv.,  Ixvi.,  Ixvii,  Ixxiii. 

DUCHY  OF  LANCASTER,  42;  head  bailiff 
of,  371 ;  attorney  general  of.  See  Heath, 
John. 

DUCK,  Edm.,  229. 

DUDLEY,  Abraham,  253. 
,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  260. 

DUES,  orders  as  to  payment  of,  8,  86,  88, 
95,  96,  191,  152. 


492 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


DUKE,  Geo.,  bur.  of,  450. 
,  John,  401. 

DUKE'S  HOUSE,  players  of.     See  Players. 
DUMMER,  Thorn.,  acting  under-treasurer, 

31°,  3i5.  343.  46i;  adm.,  315. 
DUNCAN,  D.,  381. 

DUNCOMB,  Sir  Francis,   73  ;  steward  for 

reader's  dinner,  62. 

,  Giles,  155  ;  call  to  bar,  79. 

,  John,  bur.  of,  446. 

— ,  Roger,  bur.  of,  463. 
,  Sam.,  call  to  bar,  291. 

— , ,  Queen's  receiver,  144,  170. 

, ,  272,  282,  337. 

DUNING.     See  Donyng. 

DUNSTAN, ,  415. 

DUNSTAN  AND  DEVIL,  The,  Ixxxi. 
DUNSTER,  John,  413  ;  call  to  bar,  379. 
-Thorn.,  427,  430,  434;  call  to  bar, 

247. 

DURKEY,  T.,  Ixxiil. 

DUTCH  FLEET  IN  THE  THAMES,  48. 
DUTTON,  Rich.,  glass  painter,   104,    127, 

iS7,  199- 
DVER,  Elias,  butler,  185,  195,  241. 

DYER'S  REPORTS,  441. 

EARLK,  John,  bur.  of,  455. 
EASTER  ROLL,  354(2),  388. 

EATON,  Edw.,  bur.  of,  455. 
,  Francis,  bur.  of,  456. 

ECCLESIASTICAL  COURTS,  Commissioners 

of,  349. 

EDDE,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  40. 
EDDOWS,  Rog.,  bur.  of,  453. 
EDEN,  Tobias,  assoc.  of  the  bar,  1 1 9. 
EDGE,  John,  Si. 

Enisi'.URY,  John,  steward  for  reader's  din- 
ner, 9. 

EDKINS,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  9. 
EDRINGTON, ,  103,  104. 

EDWARDS,   Heath,    188,   190,   193,    239 ; 

call  to  bar,  232  ;  suspended  commons, 

193  ;  speaker  at  Xmas,  200. 

— ,  Sir  John,   269,  289,  300,327,348; 

sons  of,  269,  300. 

,  John,  barber,  bur.  of,  451. 

,  Rich.,  97,  103,  113,121,123,124(2) 

128,    132,    135,    139,    140,    141,    148, 

150,    152,    154,    155,    157,    171,    173, 


174,    i7S»    T79,    '87,    I98.   202,   2°4, 

205,  206,  211,  214,  224,  226,  229, 
234,  235,  240,  243,  253,  256,  267, 

355,  S62,  365  ;  att-  at  parl.  ar>d  bench, 
139,  149(2),  155,  156,  159,  (2),  167, 
172  (3),  177,  186,  191,  213,  218,  219(3), 

220,  221,  222  (4),  223  (2),  225  (2),  231, 
232,  234,  240  (3),  241,  246,  248,  259, 

273  ;  att.  on  reader,  109,  no,  auditor 
for  steward,  47,  102,  107  ;  auditor  for 
treasurer,  71,  79;  call  to  bench,  91; 
reader,  118,  120,  121;  steward  for 
Xmas,  200. 

EDWARDS,  Rich.,  son  of  Sir  John,  300. 
,  Rich.,  son  of  Rich,  adm.,  124;  call 

to  bar,  240,  243,  260,  261  ;  call  to  the 

bench,  433,  434. 

,  Rich.,  422,  427. 

,  Thorn.,  auditor   for    treasurer,  79, 

deceased,  83. 

— — ,  Vigorous  son  of  Rich.,  adm.,  232. 
, ,  linendraper,  53. 


EGAN,  Dennis,  216. 

EGERTON,    Charles,  son  of  the   Earl   of 
Bridgewater,  adm.,  90. 

,  Stuart,  son  of  the  Earl  of  Bridge 

water,  adm.,  90. 

,  Thorn.,  son  of  the  Earl  of  Bridge- 
water,  adm.,  90. 
-,  Will.,  son  of  the  Earl  of  Bridgewater, 


adm.,  90. 
ELIZABETH,  Queen,  arms  of,  x. 

ELLESDON,  Anth.,  237,  401,  409,  415,  422; 
call  to  bar,  201. 

ELLIOT,  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Thorn.,   416, 

417,  418,  461. 
,  Jane,  wife  of  Seth,  60,  170,  243. 

— ,  Thorn.,  gardener,  236,  249,  252,  338, 

343,  356>  357,  36a>  415- 
-,  Seth,  11,  25,  227,  249,  382,  443. 


— — ,  Seth,  son  of  Seth,  443. 
— ,  Mrs.,  411. 

ELLIS,  James,  steward,  8. 

,  John,  bur.  of,  454. 

,  Rob.,  butler,  308,  319  ;  bur.  of,  457, 

,  Will.,  292  ;  call  to  bar,  266. 

, ,  widow,  336. 

, ,  327,  328,  333- 

ELM  TREE  COURT,  ELM  COURT,  xxx,  xxxi, 
173,  262. 

ELPHICK,  Geo.,  bur.  of,  447. 

ELSINN,  John,  250. 

ELSOM,  ELSUM,  John,  262  ;  call  to  bar,  94. 

ELSTOBH,  John,  300. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


ELTON,  Anthony,  n,  16. 
,  Frances,  widow,  16. 

ELTONHEAD,  John,  serj.,  bur.  of,  444. 
,  Will.,  bur.  of,  444. 

ELWES,  Hen.,  134;   steward  for  reader's 
dinner,  24. 

ELWYN,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  461. 

EMMOTT,  EMMETT,  Morice,  53. 
, ,  the  carver,  169. 

ENGEHAM,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  186;  call 
to  bench,  367. 

ENGINE  HOUSE,  126,  141,  165,  351. 
ENGLAND,  map  of,  127,  442. 
ENT,  Geo.,  bur.  of,  452. 
ESSEX  BUILDINGS,  198. 
ESSEX  COURT,  446. 
ESSEX,  Earl  of,  76. 

ESSINGTON, ,  144. 

ESSOIGN  ROLL,  282. 

ETHERIDGE,  Sir  Geo.,  Ixiv. 
,  James,  call  to  bar,  172. 

ETHERINGTON,  Lewis,  call  to  bar,  35. 

,  Rich  ,  2,  51,  103  ;  att.  at  par!.,  96  ; 

att.  on  reader,  36,  39,  40,  45,  47,  60, 
61 ;  call  to  bench,  i  ;  reader,  50. 

,  Thorn.,  adm.,  90.  See  Hethering- 

ton. 

ETKINS, ,  135. 


ETTKRICKE,  Jane,  bur.  of,  451. 
EVANS,  David,  bur.  of,  444. 

,  John,  320. 

— ,  Marg.,  bur.  of,  461. 
— , ,  the  pavior,  184,  170. 

EVELYN,  John,  adm.,  from  Middle  Temple, 
240. 

EVERARD, ,   155. 

EXCEEDJNGS  AND  EXCEEDING  DISH  [disflM 

supplied  at  commons,  beyond  those  given 
in  the  usual  courses],  27,  28,  46,  248,  269. 

EXCHEQUER,  38,  316,  326. 

EXCHEQUER,  Barons  of,  30,  115.  See 
Simpson,  Sir  W.  M.;  office,  xxix,  4,  37, 
48,  88,  121,  294,  377,  396,  412,  440; 
Remembrancer  of,  397. 

EXERCISES  OF  LEARNING.     See  Learning. 

EXETER,  Bishop  of,  Master  of  the  Temple, 
salary  of,  5. 

EXIGENTER  OF  LONDON,  74.  See  Petyt, 
Will. 


493 

EXPULSION  OF  MEMBERS,  94,  146,  162, 
188,  223,  225,  231,  241,  249,  269,  270, 
273,  278,  280,  296,  300,  316,  382; 
orders  as  to,  7. 

EYTON,  Francis,  289;  call  to  bar,  274. 

,  Kenricke,  92,  187  ;  call  to  bar,  35; 

steward  for  reader's  dinner,  21. 

,  Will.,  102  ;  call  to  bar,  274. 

FAGG,  Rich.,  reader  for  Clement's  Inn, 
249. 

,  Rob.,  242  ;  call  to  bar,  79. 

FAGGOTS.     See  Bonfires. 

FAIRCLOUGH,   Hen.,    278,  279,  280;   ex- 
pelled, 316. 
— ,  Hen.,  doctor  of  physic,  bur.,  454. 

FANSHAW,  Sir  Thorn.,  4-  call    assoc.  of 

bench,  i. 

— ,  Viscount,  4,  37,  294;  adm.  of,  37. 
FARKY,  Edm.,  5. 
FARLOW,  Sarah,  bur.  of,  463. 

TTT'tl  ,.„  *       ~         *J 


-,  Will.,  chief  porter,  439. 

FARMER,  Anne,  wife  of  Geo.,  447. 
— ,  Geo.,  447. 

— ,  Thorn.,  153,  155,  I57  .  caii  to  jjar 
59- 

FARR,  James,  Ixxxi,  14,  101  (3). 

•,  Widow,  207,  209  (2),  211,  229. 

FARR'S  COFFEE  HOUSE,  101,  209,  263. 

FARRER,  Thorn.,  63,  64,  70,  71,  79,  80  (2), 
103,  104,  113,  121,  123,  124(2),  132, 
'34,  138,  154,  155,  157,  167,  171,  174, 
187,  196,  240;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench, 
77,  86,  91,  92,  93  (2),  95  (2),  99,  102, 

I05  IS))  I°6,  HO,  III,  121,  122,  131 
(2),  135  (2),  146  (2),  I47,  148  (3),  149 

(3),  15°,  151,  i56,  i59  (3),  i73  (2), 
174  (2),  175,  177,  186  (4),  189,  190, 

191,  203  (2),  205,  2l8,  219  (3),  220  (2), 
222  (2),  223  (2),  22S,  23I,  232,  233, 
245,  246  (2),  247  (3),  248,  259,  265, 
273,  280,  288,  295,  297,  303,  305,  3II, 

3J3;  3/6;  att.  on  reader,  61,  62,  70; 
auditor  for  treas.,  63  ;  call  to  bench,  12; 
reader,  69;  treasurer,  137. 
— ,  Will.,  [solicitor  to  Queen],  186,  187, 
I9°>  !93.  234,  237,  244,  249,  258,  269, 
292,  3l6,  329;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench, 
241,  272,  286,  288,  295,  297,  305,  311, 
312,  313,  322,  324,  329,  331,  338,  339, 
345,  346,  352,  353,  36o,  364,  365,  371, 
373,  396>  4°i  ',  auditor  for  steward  and 
treas.,  220,  233,  241;  call  to  bench. 


494 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


174;  deputy  treas.,  259,  265,  303; 
reader,  241 ;  treasurer,  267. 

FARRER,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  9 ;  call  to  bench, 
174. 

,  Will.,  son  of  Will.,  adm.,  44  ;  call  to 

bar,  1 1 9. 

,  Will.,  son  of  Will.,  358,  432  ;  adm., 

190;  allowance  as  treas.,  432;  att.  at 
parl.  and  bench,  352,  354,  358,  360, 
364,  365.  371.  379,  380,  388,  399,  407, 
415.  425.  426,  43°.  434,  437J  call  to 
bar,  260;  call  to  bench,  346,  355  ;  call 
to  bench  repealed,  353 ;  reader,  367 
(2) ;  treasurer,  426. 

,  Will.,  call  assoc.  of  bar,  172. 


FARRINGTON,  FARRINGDON,  Anth.,  103, 
107,  113,  124,  132,  142,  143  (2),  150, 
154,  157,  160,  173,  174,  175,  179,  202 
257,  300,  334;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench, 
149,  !55>  'S6  (2)>  l67;  auditor  for 
steward,  107,  in,  124;  auditor  for 
treas.,  137,  150;  call  to  bench,  too; 
reader,  190;  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 

74- 

— ,  John,  son  of  Anth.,  adm.  of,  160. 

FARWELL,  FAREWELL,  Geo.,  steward   for 

reader's  dinner,  14,  21,  120. 

— ,  James,  289,  302,  325,  352;  auditor 

for  treasurer,  233  ;  call  to  bar,  99 ;  call 

to  bench,  329. 
• ,  John,  10;  call  to  bench,  i. 

— ,  Philip,  354,  360 ;  call  to  bar,  147. 


FAUCONBERG,  FAUCONBRIDGE,  Thorn.,  Vis- 
count, adm.  of,  75. 
— ,  Lady,  67. 

FAVERSHAM,  Earl  of,  xxxii. 

FAZAKERLEY,  Will.,  receiver  general  in  city 
of  London,  394. 

FEE  FARM  RENT  FOR  INNER  TEMPLE, 
16,  25,  38,  41,  53,  82,  115,  170,  183, 
212,  239,  245,  256,  272,  287,  294,  311, 
321,  337,  35',  385  '>  order  as  to  payment 
of,  52  ;  purchase  of,  xxiii,  92,  108,  109, 
466. 

FEILDING,  Basil,  415;  call  to  bar,  190, 
196. 

FELL,  Will.,  235,  236,  242,  257,  291,  315. 

FENDALL,  Hen.,  438  ;  call  to  bar,  291. 

FENWICK,  Rob.,  Vintner,  194,  220,  254. 

FEROME,  Laur.,  451. 

FERTREY,  James,  438. 

FIDO,  Rob.,  bur.  of,  437. 

FIDYES,  John,  barber,  bur.  of,  454, 


FIELDFARES,  129. 

FIELDING.     See  Feilding. 

FIELDS,  -  ,  82. 

FIENNES,  Will.,  234,  252  ;  call  to  bar,  172. 

FIFIELD,  Rich.,  butler,  4,  n,  16,  25,  38, 
39,  4i  (2),  48,  S3,  54,  65,  73,  78. 

FIGTREE  COURT,  xiv,  xvii,  4,  42,  62,  97, 

"5,  X3S  (3),  I3*>  HI,  143,  146,  211, 
228,  237,  254,  262,  271,  287,  318,  319 
(2),  321,  326,  335,  338,  342,  344,  412, 
414,  426,  427. 
-  ,  cloister  leading  to,  97. 

FILMER,  FILLMORE,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  459  ; 
call  to  bar,  219. 


FINCH,  Daniel,  Earl  of  Nottingham,  son 
of  Sir  Heneage,  109,  290,  356,  466, 
467. 

-  ,  Sir     Heneage,     Lord     Chancellor, 
Baron  Finch  and  Earl  of  Nottingham, 
ix,  x,  xi,  xviii,  xxii,  xxxiii,  xxxiv,  Ixxi,  1  1, 
16,  21,  26,  34,  38,  73,  76,  78,  81,  89, 
i°9,  15°,  !57,  214,  356,  466,  467  ;  arms 
°f,    343  >    att:-   a'  parl.  or  bench,   i,   2 
(3),  3  (3),  6,  8  (2),  9  (3),  10  (2),  12(3), 
13  (2),  14  (3),  21  (2),  22,  23,  24,  25,  33, 
34,  35,  36,  37,  38>  39,  4°  (4),  4i,  42,  44, 
45,  46,  48,  49,  5°,  51,  52,  53,  59,  6o>  61, 
62,  63,  64,  69,  70  (3),  71,  74,  75,  77  (2), 
79  (2),  83  (3),  84  (2),  85,  86,  87,  89,  90, 
91   (2),   92,  93;   gift   toward   building 
library,  etc.,  60  ;  reader,  2  ;  treasurer,  4, 
io,  15,  24,  39,  4i,  47,  S2,  63,  71,  79, 
87. 

-  ,  Edw.,  son  of  Sir  Heneage,  adm., 
214. 

—  ,  Heneage,  son  of  Sir  Heneage,  109, 
l83,  356,  372,  421,  466,  467;  adm.,  12; 
att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  126,  214;  call 
to  bar,  94  ;  call  to  bench,  112;  reader, 
174. 

-  ,  Heneage,  son   of  Hon.    Heneage; 
adm.,  372. 

-  ,  John,   son    of   Heneage,   Baron   of 
Guernsey,  386;  adm.,  421. 

-  ,  Will.,  son  of  Sir  Heneage,  109,  298, 
302,  314,  318,  466,  467;  adm.,  12  ;  call 
to  bar,  94;  call  to  bench,  329;  reader, 

33°- 

-  ,  Windsor,  call  to  bar,  172. 

-  ,  -  ,  "5- 

FINCH'S  BUILDINGS,  262,  264,  272. 

FINCHAM,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  147. 

-  ,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  452. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


495 


FINE  OFFICE,  xxxvi,  xxxviii,  4,  138,  148, 
294,  377,  440;  records  of,  burnt,  xxxvi. 

FINMORE, ,  228. 

FIRES  IN  INNER  TEMPLE,  xii,  xiii,  xvii, 
xxv,  xxvi,  xxvii,  xxviii,  xxix,  xli,  41, 
48,  50,  61,  70,  75,  101,  114,  115,  119, 
128,  i3J>  J32,  r38,  143.  M4,  145,  156, 

171,    174,   192,    198,   200,    201,   202,    208, 

209,  220,  329,  348;  prevention  of,  fire 
engines,  buckets,  etc.,  xxv,  xxvi,  xxvii, 
5,  112,  113,  114,  115,  127,  144,  170 
(2),  199,  200,  293,  321,  378,  385,  406, 
425,  442  ;  orders  as  to  building  after, 
xvii,  120,  125  (2),  137,  149. 

FIRES  IN  MIDDLE  TEMPLE,  xxix,  200. 
FIRES  AT  HALL'S  COFFEE  HOUSE,  238. 
FISH,  Rob.,  303. 

FITTON,  Alex.,  call  to  bar,  9. 

,  Arthur,  nephew  of  Arthur  Trevor, 

adm.,  40. 

FITZHERBERT,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  373. 

FITZ  JAMES,  Francis,  bur.  of,  450. 
,  John,  bur.  of,  448. 

FITZ  PATRICK,  Thadeus,  292. 

FITZ  WILLIAM,  ,  steward   for  Xmas, 

26. 

FLANDERS,  King's  Entry  from,  337,  338. 

FLATMAN,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  9. 

FLEET  STREET,  xiii,  xiv,  xv,  xxxvi,  77,  101, 
r33,  IS6,  !6S,  170,  239,  287,  363;  dis- 
orders in,  77.  See  Farr. 

FLETCHER,  Chris.,  bur.  of,  454. 
— ,  John,  playwright,  lix,  Ixxiv. 

,  Thorn.,  glazier,  212. 

, ,  391,  406. 

FLOYD,  Edw.,  270;  call  to  bar,  274;  ex- 
pelled, 269. 

FLOYER,  Edw.,  266. 

— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  414. 
,  Sam.,  called  assoc.  of  bar,  148. 

— , ,  154. 

FOLEY,  Paul,  296  ;  arms  of,  287  ;  call  to 
bar,  59  ;  call  to  bench,  245,  249  ;  reader, 
266. 

,  Paul,  son  of  Paul,  adm.,  296. 

,  Thorn.,  255. 

FOORD, ,  arrest  of,  82. 

FOOTER, -,  65. 

FORD,  Anne,  bur.  of,  460. 

,  Edw.,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 

TO- 


FOREJUDGING  FROM  THE  COURT  [the  dis- 
qualifying of  an  attorney  or  officer  of  a 
court  from  practising,  for  an  offence  com- 
mitted by  Aim],  30,  125. 

FORTESCUE,  Francis,  bur,  of,  445. 

,  John,  call  to  bar,  94. 

,  Rob.,  bur.  of,  455. 

FORTREY,  James,  call  to  bar,  296. 

FOSTER,  Charles,  son  of  Sir  Thorn.,  41, 
221. 

— ,  Francis,  son  of  Sir  Thorn.,  (?)  adm., 
13;  bur.  of,  448. 

— ,  Rob.,  Chief  Justice  of  King's  Bench, 
grandson  of,  23. 

— ,  Sir  Thorn.,  Chief  Justice  of  the 
King's  Bench,  35  (2),  36,  40,  41,  60, 

"4,  J24,  i32.  141.  152,  iS4,  185,  206 
(2),  209  (2),  211,  219,  222,  235  ;  att.  at 
parl.  and  bench,  40,  42,  44,  45,  46,  50, 
51  (2),  52.  59.  60,  61  (2),  62,  63,  69 
(2),  7°,  74  (3),  75.  79  (2),  83,  87,  89, 
9°,  92,  93  (2),  96,  97,  99  (2),  100,  107, 
109,  no,  in,  122,  131,  132  (2);  att. 
on  reader,  15,  47,  106;  auditor  for 
steward,  41  ;  auditor  for  treab.,  24 ; 
petition  of,  221;  reader,  23,  24;  trea- 
surer, 107. 

,  Thorn.,  son  of  Sir  Thorn.,  94,  152, 

187,  206,  209  (2),  221  (2),  222  ;  adm., 
2  ;  call  to  bar,  59. 

,  Will,  call  to  bar,  109. 


FOTHERINGHAM,  ,   236. 

FOUCAULT,  Daniel,  161,  162,  168,  361, 
381,  389;  auditor  for  steward,  373  ;  call 
to  bar,  158. 

FOUNDLINGS  OR  BASTARDS,  n,  16,  25,  41, 
89,  104,  105,  108,  109,  115,  139,  159, 
169,  184,  223,  230,  255,  264,  286,  287, 
3°2,  3°9,  328,  329,  351,  357,  363,  370, 
398,  412,  424;  orders  as  to,  139,  223. 

FOUNTAIN  TAVERN,  Ixxx,  294,  340,  341, 
35  !>  363,  37°,  377,  386,  393,  394,  398, 
399  (2),  4°6,  424,  44°,  441- 

FOUNTAINS, ,  133,  153,  154. 

FOUNTEYNE,  James,  call  to  bar,  9. 

FOWKE,  John,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 

69. 
,  Roger,  bur.  of,  453. 

FOWKES,  Anne,  bur.  of,  447. 

FOWLER,  John,  343. 

— , ,  337,  343.  37o,  4°6,  412,  417, 

418,  424,  428. 

FOWNES,  Thorn.,  draper,  212. 


496 


INDEX   AND    GLOSSARY. 


Fox,  Daniel,  56. 
,  Marg.,  1 6. 

FOXCROFT,  Isaac,  call  to  bar,  40. 
, ,  102. 

FRAMPTON,  Rob.,  408  ;  call  to  bar,  186. 
FRANCIS,  John,  bur.  of,  456. 
FRANK,  Edw.,  300. 

FRASER,   FRAZER,   Alex.,  liv,    241,    293  ; 
call  to  bar,  240. 

FREKMAN,  Ellenor,  bur.  of,  459. 

,  Hen.,  chief  porter,  Middle  Temple, 

bur.  of,  448. 

,  Will.,  bur.  of,  452,  459. 


FRENCH,  Geoffrey,  292. 

,    John,    grandson   of  Chief  Justice 

Foster,  adm.,  43. 


23- 


FRENCH  STANDARDS  CARRIED  TO  WEST- 
MINSTER, 394. 

FREWEN,  Thorn.,  steward  for  reader's 
dinner,  74. 

, ,  5- 

FRIDAY  COMMITTEE,  72,  143,  280,  282, 
3J4,  3!9,  324,  325,  326>  334,  34°,  34*, 
342  (2),  349,  35°,  354,  355,  361,  362, 
365,  366,  373,  374,  375,. 376,  3»9,  404, 
405,  415,  416,  436  ;  duties  of,  280,  282, 

314. 

FROWD,  Philip,  adm.,  10. 

FRY,  John,  321. 
— ,  Will.,  Ixxviii. 

FULHAM,  John,  call  to  bar,  260. 
FULLER,  Edw.  Bostock,  call  to  bar,  260. 

— ,  Francis,   102,    134,   142,   153,  189; 
call  to  bar,  40. 

— ,  Francis  Bostock,  243,   244  ;  auditor 
for  steward,    233,   241  ;  call  to  bench, 
219  :  serjeant-at-law,  273,  380. 
— ,    Francis    Bostock,    son   of  Serjeant 
Francis  Bostock,  adm.,  273. 
-,  Francis  Bostock,  grandson  of  Ser- 


jeant Fuller,  adm.,  380. 
— ,  Sir  James,  298,  299. 


FULLER'S  BUILDINGS,  37. 
FURNACE,  Sir  Hen.,  337. 

GABELL,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  400. 

GALE,  Leonard,  call  to  bar,  330. 
,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  59. 

GAMBLING,  dice,  etc.,  Iviii,  18,  26,  28,  29, 
54,  55,  57,  S8,  I2§,  129,  130,  184,  208. 


GAMES,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  456. 
GAMON,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  461. 

GAMULL,  Will.,  278,  300,  301,  305  ;  call 
to  bar,  274. 

GARBRAND,  John,  call  to  bar,  94. 

GARDEN,  Great,  Ixxix,  81,  301,  376,  380, 
385,  442  ;  armathagalum  for,  378  ;  box 
edging  for,  412;  box  trees  for,  363, 
378,  394;  buildings  on  west  side  of, 
372;  cherry  trees  for,  287;  cockleshells 
for  walks,  287,  343  ;  crocus  for,  378  ; 
dial  for,  442;  elm  trees  for,  299,  351, 
363,  378  ;  fillerays  for,  378  ;  holly  trees 
for,  343 ;  jessamine  for,  286,  343 ;  jon- 
quils for.  378;  frames  for,  391  ;  laurels 
for,  363  ;  lime  trees,  351  ;  nectrons  in, 
287  ;  nursery,  236;  orange  trees  in,  343  ; 
peaches,  287  ;  plums,  287 ;  pots  for,  236, 

237,  238,  256,  272,  343,  417  ;  stairs  or 
steps  in,  257,  406;  tarpaulin  cloths  for, 
398;  tulips  in,  378;  walks,  271,  287, 
289,  290,  343,  439 ;  walls  of,  354,  441 ; 
yew  trees  in,  378,  417. 
— ,  Benchers',  Little,  Private,  or  Privy, 
Ixxix,  301,  316,  328,  335,  337,  343,  349, 
357,  37°,  376,  389,  4°6  ;  alcove  in,  425 ; 
cockle  shells  for,  321  ;  copper  basin  in, 
357,  442  ;  copper  cherry  tree  for  foun- 
tain, 424,  428  ;  dial  for,  320,  442 ; 
fountain  in,  337,  343,  350,  357,  370, 
391,  398,  406,  417,  418,  428;  orange 
trees  in,  337  ;  plants  for,  321,  398; 
summer-house  in,  Ixxv,  256,  352,  398, 
442,  491  ;  water  brought  to,  333,  335. 

GARDENER,  The,  5,  249,  280,  327,  335, 
34°,  343,  356>  S62;  dismissed,  362; 
forbidden  to  sell  ale,  270,  340;  house 
of,  39,  85,  270  ;  house  of  pulled  down, 
373;  plants  of  stolen,  417. 

GARDENER,  Alex.,  bur.  of,  462. 
,  Anne,  bur.  of,  460. 

— ,  Brocas,  call  to  bar,  240,  242 ;  petition 

of,  235. 
,  Charles,  343,  363,  394,  398,  412, 


417. 


69. 


-,  James,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 


-,  Joan,  wife  of  John,  460. 


— ,  John,  460 ;  auditor  for  steward,  47, 

52,  87. 

,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  240. 

,  Will.,  264. 

— ,  ,  114,  136. 


GARDNER,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  387. 
GARLAND,  Rich,  bur.  of,  457. 


INDEX  AND   GLOSSARY. 


497 


GARLAND, 
199,  212. 

GATACRE,  - 


-,   the  painter,   157,  171, 


-.  293- 

GATE,  Baron,  tombstone  of,  444. 
GAUDEN,  Dr.,  Bishop  of  Exeter,  xlix. 

GAUDY,  Bashingham,  bur.  of,  443. 

,  Framlingham,  bur.  of,  443. 

,  Hen.,   119;   bur.  of,  451;  call  to 

bar,  109. 

,  Mary,  bur.  of,  449. 

,  Will.,  bur.  of,  443. 


GAZETTES,  244,  271,  272,  351,  363,  378. 

GEERS,  Thorn.,  230,  255  ;  call  to  bar,  59; 

call  to  bench,  219. 
,  Timothy,  son  of  Thorn.,  230. 

GENEW,  Will.,  241,  249;  call  to  bar,  69; 
call  to  bench,  249  ;  disorders  by,  211. 

GENTLEMEN  WAITERS,  355. 

GEORGE, ,  washpot,  388. 

GEORGE  I.,  public  entry  of,  441. 

GERRARD,  Edw.,  principal  of  Clement's 
Inn,  Ixxvii,  278,  279,  280,  282,  283, 
284. 

GIBBES,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  448. 

GIBBONS,  Edm.,  call  to  bar,  266. 

,  Edw.,  bur.  of,  451. 

,  Grinling,  xlii,  xcii. 

,  Mary,  bur.  of,  461. 

,  Thorn.,  250,  268,  359;  call  to  bar, 

90;  call  to  bench,  353  ;  serjeant-at-law, 

359- 
,  Thorn.,  son  of  Thorn.,  adm.,  359. 

GIBBS,  Sam.,  347,  354;  call  to  bar,  119. 

GIBSON, ,  282. 

GIBSON'S  CODEX,  441. 

GILBERT,  Geoff.,  call  to  bar,  339. 
,  John,  bur.  of,  443. 

GILBORROW,  Mary,  bur.  of,  451. 

GILLINGHAM,  Anne,  bur.  of,  459. 

,  John,  bur.  of,  458. 

,  Roger,  bur.  of,  457. 

,  ,  reader  in   Temple   Church, 

3°2.  328,  334,  349,  352,  356,  362,  363. 

GILLMORE,  GILMORE,  Rob.,  325 ;  call  to 
bar,  105. 

> »  132,  134.  i3S,  141- 

GILPIN,  Will.,  396,  401,  411 ;  call  to  bar, 
172. 

GlLTHORP,  GlLTHROP,  John,   19,    2O  ;  Call 

to  bar,  35. 
HI. 


GIRDLER,  Edw.,  son  of  Joseph,  adm.,  323 : 

call  to  bar,  399. 
,  Joseph,  call  to  bar,  90;  call  to  bench, 

288 ;  serjeant-at-law,  289,  323,  345. 
,  Joseph,  son  of  Joseph,  288  ;  call  to 

bar,  346. 

,  Thorn,,  son  of  Joseph,  adm.,  345. 

GLASS,  John,  bur.  of,  454;  call  to  bar,  59. 

GLASSES,  flint,  184. 

CLEAVE,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  461. 

GLYNN,  John,  bur.  of,  455. 

GOAD,  Scroggs,  call  to  bar,  358. 

GODDARD,  Rich.,  4 ;  att.  at  pad.  i,  2  (3), 
3(3),  10(2),  12  (3),  13,  14(3),  2I)  23) 
24,  37.  4o;  att.  on  reader,  9;  auditor 
for  steward,  10  ;  treasurer,  ix. 

GODFREY,  Joshua,  bur.  of,  461. 
,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  358. 

GOLDEN  KEY,  The,  in  Fleet  Street,  170. 
GOLLOPP,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  433. 

GOODENOUGH,  Will.,  306,  369. 

GOODFELLOW,  Chris.,  xx.,  lv.,  40,  45,  49, 
51,  60,  61,   65,  79;    att.  at   parl.,  45, 
47,  6 1  ;  att.  on  reader,  47,  50  ;  auditor 
for  treasurer,  41,  124,   137,   ISO,   162; 
call  to  bench,  i  ;  reader,  52,  62. 
— ,  Chris.,  son  of  Chris.,  adm.,  79. 
— ,  John,  son  of  Chris.,  302,  314,  336  ; 
adm.    45  ;    call    to    bar,   109 ;    call    to 
bench,  330,  335. 

,  Matthias,  adm.,  61. 


GOODRICK,  Harcourt,  306,  368. 

>  Rich.,  356. 

— , ,  269,  270,  334,  355,  362,  365, 

376. 

GOODWIN,  GOODWYN,  Sir  Benj.,  bur.   of, 
458. 
— ,  Hodges,  call  to  bar,  59. 

,  John,   16;    att.  on  reader,  2;   dis- 

benched,  4. 

,  John,  grandson  of  John,  adm.,  2. 

-,  Thorn.,  linen  draper,  170. 


GORE,  John,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 
106. 

GORGES,  Sam.,  call  to  bar,  21. 
GORING,  Lovett,  bur.  of,  457. 
GOSNELL,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  288,  438. 
GOUGH,  Walter,  call  to  bar,  358. 

GOULD, ,  417. 

GOWER,  Abel,  bur.  of,  447. 

,  Will.,  168,   187,  194,  222  ;  call  to 

bar,  219,  220. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


GOWNS  AND  CAPS,  orders  as  to  wearing, 
64,  361,  362. 

GRACE     BOOK,    xciii,    386,     442,    467 ; 
rebound,  82. 

GRADY,  John,  189. 

, ,  213. 

GRAFTON,  Geo.,  bookseller,  400,  424. 
,  Hen.,  Duke  of,  102. 

GRAHAM,  Hen.,  399,  404. 

,  John,  bur.  of,  462. 

,  Rich.,  434 ;  call  to  bar,  266. 

— ,  -   — ,   principal  of  Clifford's  Inn, 
114,  116. 


,          ,  5  • 

GRAINGE,  Geo.,  call  to  bar,  232. 
•,  Ralph,  call  to  bar,  260,  261, 

» -i  r33- 

GRAND  CHRISTMAS,  Ivii,  Iviii.  See  Christ- 
mas. 

GRAND  COMMITTEE,  317,  318.  See  Friday 
Committee. 

GRAND  DAY,  Iviii,  Ixxxviii,  82,  207,  229, 
23°,  234,  237,  238,  239,  243,  244,  245, 
254,  255,  264,  269,  272,  292,  294,  338, 
35°,  355.  356.  361,  374,  378,  383,  384, 
386,  391,  393,  394,  399,  4">  424; 
glasses  used  at,  229;  orders  as  to,  72, 
178,  207,  248,  254,  423  ;  play  at,  244  ; 
private,  425  ;  public,  398,  405,  417,  423, 
425,  434;  singing  at,  418;  tobacco 
and  pipes  at,  115;  trumpet  at,  399, 
425;  wands  for,  115,  145. 

GRAND  READINGS,  187. 

GRAND  WEEK,  409,  434 ;  order  as  to, 
126. 

GRANT,  Sam.,  in,  113,  119,  249,  262, 
281,  283,  285,  292,  293,  298,  303,  306, 
3°7  (2),  337,  347J  convicted  of  bar- 
ratry and  expelled,  231,  273;  restored, 
296,  299. 

, ,  the  younger,  steward  for  Xmas, 

130. 

GRANTHAM,  John,  call  to  bar,  358. 

GRASS  WEEK.  [Rogation  Week,  so  called 
in  tJie  Inns  of  Court  and  Chancery  be- 
cause the  commons  consisted  then  chiefly 
of  sallads  with  hard  eggs,  green  sauce, 
etc.],  264,  272,  385,  394;  sallating  for 
hall  in,  264,  272,  385,  394.  See  Sallat- 
ing. 

GRAVES, ,  343,  370;  bur.  of,  376. 

GRAY'S  INN,  liii,  79,  82,  131,  178,  322, 
428;  adm.  from,  91,  201,  218,  324, 


339,  359>  364  J  adm.  to  without  leave, 
79 ;  entertainment  of  benchers  of,  Ixxviii, 
363  ;  letter  from  treasurer,  321. 

GREAT  LEVEL  OF  THE  FENS,  Corporation 
of.     See  Bedford  Level. 

GREEN,  Charles,  call  to  bar,  172. 

,  John,  bur.  of,  463. 

,  Thorn.,  102. 

,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  21. 

,   Mrs.,  the  glazier's   granddaughter, 

Ixxxv,  300. 

GREEN  FISH  [Cod~\  AND  WHITING,  54. 

GREENHOUSE,  301,  302,  303,  338,  417, 
425,  428. 

GREENLEY,  John,  call  to  bar,  387. 
GREEN  PLOVERS,  129. 

GREENVILE,    Rich.,    steward  for  reader's 
dinner,  9. 

GREENWOOD,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  452. 

GREGG, ,  351. 

GREGORY,  Justice,  Ixxviii,  322. 

GREY,  Charles  Lord,  of  Rolleston,  107. 
,  Edw.,  102. 

GRIFFIN,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  462. 

GRIFFITH,  Dr.,    lecturer   in   the   Temple 

Church,  5,  8,  n,  16,  25,  38. 
.  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  119. 

GRIGGS,  Will.,  bur.  of,  454. 

GRIMBALD, ,  speaker,  161. 

GROOM, ,  gardener,  127. 

GROVE,  Braborne,  son  of  James,   adm. 

433- 
,  Hugh,  bur.  of,  453. 

,  James,  302,  325,  332,  337,  356,  360 ; 

att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  360,  364,  365, 
37i,  373,  38°-  388,  408;  call  to  bar, 
109;  call  to  bench,  353,  355;  reader, 
353,  358  ;  serjeant,  433. 

,  James,  call  to  bar,  346. 


GUARDS  AT  CHRISTMAS,  188. 
GUAVERS,  Will.,  bur.  of,  455. 
GUILDFORD,  Lord.     See  North. 
GUILDHALL,  The,  66,  278,  287. 

GUILLIM,  SAM.,  bur.  of,  456. 

-Will.,  127,  130,  156,  184,  185,  193, 
221,  257,  267,  270;  clerk  of  the  parl. 
at  Xmas,  200,  213;  chamber  of,  blown 
up,  220;  deceased,  315;  steward  for 
Xmas,  129. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


499 


GUINEAS,  fall  in  value  of,  326,  328,  329. 
GUNMAN,  Chris.,  call  to  bar,  304. 

GUNPOWDER  TREASON  DAY,  229,  238,  271, 
286. 

GURDEN,  GURDON,  ,  155,  256. 

GWYNN,  GWINN,  Anthony,    283  ;  call  to 
bar,  247,  266. 

,  Nell,  sweetmeats  for,  Ixv,  Ixix,  184. 

,  Rich.,  14. 

GYFFORD,  Capt.,  bur.  of,  446. 

HABERDASHERS'  HALL,  338. 
HACKETT,  James,  292. 

HALE,  Hen.,  53. 

— ,  Matth.,  33. 

,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  461. 

, ,  343>  38i- 

HALES,  James,  nephew  of  John,  adm.,  425. 
,  James,  clerk  of  the  Crown  Office, 

bur.  of,  449. 
-,  John,  54,  107,   250,  268,  279,  304, 


3°7,  3IO>  3'4,  3l6.  325,  333.  33^,  337, 
349,  35°,  353,  369,  375,  382>  383,  3»7, 
393,  398>  4°4,  41°,  425,  435  J  att-  at 
parl.  and  bench,  126,  297,  305,  311, 
313,  322,  324,  329,  331,  332,  338,  339, 
345,  346,  352,  358,  36°,  364,  365,  37i, 
373,  379,  380,  387,  388,  396,  399,  4°i, 
407,  408,  414,  415,  421,  422,  425,  426, 
429,  430,  433,  434,  437  J  auditor  for 
treasurer  and  steward,  296,  304,  313, 
324,  331,  339,  346;  call  to  bar,  90; 
call  to  bench,  288;  reader,  313;  treas- 
urer, 388,  394. 

HALL,  Hen.,  potter,  16,  38,  108. 

,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  455. 

,  Sam.,  41,  48. 

— , ,  glass  painter,  38. 

, ,  "•  133- 

HALL'S  COFFEE  HOUSE,  fire  at,  Ixxx,  238. 

HALL,  the,  x,  xiv,  xxxi,  65,  82,  89,  104, 108, 
112,  144,  171,  184,  199,  248,  344,  347, 
357,  361,  376;  arms  in  windows  of,  n, 
38,  170,  171;  brass  sconces  in,  170,  418  ; 
brass  candlesticks  in,  412  ;  bars  in,  272; 
carving  king's  arms  in,  165,  169  ;  clean- 
ing, 109,  115,  171,  369  ;  clock  for,  244, 
245,  263,  417,  see  Clocks;  dinner  in, 
129,  390;  east  window  of,  unsafe,  236  ; 
fire  at,  43,  65  ;  firing  of,  183 ;  hearth  in, 
105  ;  gentlemen  to  sup  in,  384  ;  locked 
up  at  Xmas,  203,  246 ;  north  door  of, 
430 ;  lower  bar,  table  in,  416  :  orders 
as  to,  i,  416, 432  ;  pictures  in,  309,  320, 


417;  play  acted  in,  73,  81,  238,  271, 
286,  294,  337,  342,  357,  385,  394,  399, 
425;  place  where  clerks  sit  in,  169; 
repairs  of,  144,  159;  riotous  behaviour 
in,  1 88  ;  screen  in,  184,  363,  see  Screen; 
staircase  to,  170,  272;  surveying,  199; 
towelling  for,  170;  tiling,  169;  used  by 
lord  keeper,  353  ;  wainscot  for,  169. 

HALSEY,  — ^-,  principal  of  Lyons  Inn, 
183,  198,  211,  229,  238. 

HAM,  Westphalian,  54. 

HAMBDEN, ,  113. 

HAMERSLEY,  Hugh,  call  to  bar,  421. 
HAMLYN,  Will.,  bur.  of,  459. 
HAMMOND,  Capt.,  vintner,  144,  229. 

HAMPSON,  Hen.,  236. 

— ,  Rob.,  [adm.  1643;  call  to  bar  1659; 
called  to  bench  1667;  serj.  at  law,  1680; 
ob.,  1688],  36,  47,  51,  52,  61,  63,  64, 
69>  74,  76,  77,  So,  83,  84,  85,  86,  87, 
91,  92,  93,  96>  97,  98,  ioo,  103,  104, 
112,  113,  115,  116,  119,  120,  121,  123, 

124,  13°,  134,  135,  J38,  14°,  142,  143, 
147,  148,  149,  150,  152,  195,  203,  237  ; 
att.  at  parl.  and  bench.  121,  135,  139, 
151  ;  att.  on  reader,  71,  75,  87  ;  auditor 
for  steward,  24,  41,  52,  63,  71  ;  auditor 
for  treasurer,  87,  92  ;  bur.  of,  455  ;  call 
to  bench,  49;  reader,  79;  serj.  at  law, 

155,  iS7,  l63,  !7°,  l83,  i96,  198,  202, 
203,  208,  221,  242,  262,  295,  455. 

HAMPSON'S  BUILDINGS,  xxiv. 

HAMPTON,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  437. 

, ,  88. 

HANBURY,  Will.,  430,  434 ;  call  to  bar, 
260. 

HANCOCK,  John,  368 ;  call  to  bar,  358. 

,  Leon,  245. 

,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  456. 

,  ,  155,  376. 

HANMER,  James,  call  to  bar,  260. 

— ,  Sir  Thorn.,  133,  139,  143,  146,  150, 
152,  154,  157,  160,  166,  167,  169,  183, 
202;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  in,  118, 

121,    122,    126,    131,    132,    134,    135,    139, 

146,  147,  148,  149,  150,  156,  158,  159, 

161,  162,  163,  172,  173,  174,  175,  186, 
189,  190,  192,  200,  201,  214,  215,  219, 
230 ;  auditor  for  treasurer,  97,  102 ; 
bur.  of,  455  ;  call  to  bar,  94;  call  to 
bench,  109;  reader,  159;  treasurer, 
124. 

HANSBY,  Ralph,  230. 
i  HANSON,  Berldy,  bur.,  45  2 ;  call  to  bar,  90. 


INDEX   AND    GLOSSARY. 


HARBEY,  Sir  Erasmus,  92. 
,  John,  bur.  of,  456. 

HARBORD,  Sir  Charles,  109,  466. 
HARBOTTLE,  ,  287. 

HARCOURT,  Sir  Philip,  106. 

,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  399. 

,  Sir  Simon,  Lord  Keeper,  Lord  Chan- 
cellor, Viscount  Harcourt,  Ixxix,  Ixxxviii, 
29i.  371,  372.  377.  387.  4°5.  422,  439  ; 
adm.,  1 06;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  364, 

373,  379.  380,  387,  388,  395,  39^,  399, 
401,  407 ;  call  to  bar,  201  ;  call  to 
bench,  367;  reader,  373;  treasurer,  368; 
to  arrange  for  Queen  Anne's  portrait, 

373- 

— ,  Simon,  son  of  Sir  Simon,  call  to  bar, 


422. 

HARDING,  Brownell,  call  to  bar,  232. 

— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  414. 
,  Nich.,  call  to  bar,  330. 


HARDY, 


320. 


HARE,  Hugh,  292. 
— ,  Lucius,  bur.,  458;  call  to  bar,  338. 

,  Ralph,  17,  20,  361,  374,  375,  400, 

405,  410,  413,  414;  att.  at  parl.  and 
bench,  395,  396,  399,  401,  407,  408, 
414,  415  ;  call  to  bar,  172  ;  call  to  bench, 

395- 
,  Thorn.,  son  Ralph,  adm.  400. 

HARE  COURT,  xxx,  xxxiii,  xxxiv,  48,  101, 
127,  228,  229,  131,  132,  134.  135,  138, 
140,  141,  147,  148,  149,  153,  154,  159, 
161,  163,  164,  165,  167,  168,  171,  174, 

194,    211,    213,    217,    220,    222,    254,   257, 

258, 264, 269, 271, 294,  306, 338, 351, 

362,  377,  398,  424,  44°;  new  buildings 
in>  !33,  i36,  139,  r46,  166,  219;  fire 
at,  133,  156;  pump  in,  65,  trees  in,  127; 
well  in,  109. 

HARE  PLACE,  xviii. 

HARGRAVE,  Rich.,  of  the  Rainbow  coffee 
house,  271,  294,  324,  325,  351,  362, 
377,  398,  424,  44°- 

HARMER,  John,  104. 

,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  172. 

HARPER,  The,  at  Xmas,  29,  54,  184. 
HARPER, ,412. 

HARPHAM,  Will.,  called  assoc.  of  the  bar, 

49. 

HARRINGTON,  James,  call  to  bar,  266. 
1 ,  the  thief  taker,  183. 

HARRIS,  Arthur,  bur.  of,  448. 


HARRIS,  John,  10,  20;  auditor  for  Xmas, 

18,  19,  58  ;  call  to  bar,  21. 
,  Renatus,  organ-maker,  xlv,  xlvi,  xlvii, 

194,  197,  223,  225,  226,  236,  238,  242, 

244,  281,  287. 

,  Rich.,  20  ;  call  to  bar,  3. 

,  Roger,  call  to  bar,  312. 

-,   Sam.,  374,  381,  389;  call  to  bar, 


172 


•,  Thorn.,  call  to  bench,  49 ;  fined  for 


not  coming  to  the  bench,  49,  69. 

,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  90. 

,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  367. 


HART,  Chris.,  104. 
, ,  200. 

HARTLEY,  John,   354,   360;  call  to  bar, 
119. 

HARVEY,  Francis,  bur.  of,  459. 

,  John,  steward  for  reader's  dinner,  70. 

,  Rob.,  430;  call  to  bar,  358. 

,  Tobiah,  422,  427,  430;  call  to  bar, 

232. 

HARWOOD,  Oxenbridge,  92. 

, ,  184- 

HASTINGS,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  461. 
HATCH  KEEPER  AT  XMAS,  58. 
HATS,  orders  as  to  wearing,  64. 

HATSELL,  Hen.,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer, 
bur.  of,  463. 

HATTON,  Charles,  son  of  Sir  Chris.,  adm., 

33- 
,  Sir  Chris,  33. 

HAUGHFELL,  John,  adm.,  59. 
HAUGHFEN,  John,  call  to  bar,  109. 

HAUGHTON, ,  382. 

HAWKE,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  296. 
> >  34°- 

HAWKINS,  Isaac,  334  ;  call  to  bar,  312. 

,  John,  365,  381,  389;  call  to  bar, 

147. 

,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  400. 

HAWLEY,  Francis,  Lord,  109,  466. 

HAYES,  Francis,  call  to  bar,  379. 
,  Will.,  bur.  of,  462. 

HAYNE,  Giles,  call  to  bar,  373. 
HAYNES,  Will.,  320. 

HAYWARD, ,  406. 

HAZARD, ,  362,  425,  428. 

HAZARD  TABLES,  18,  26,  28,  54,  184.    See 
Gambling. 

HEAMES,  John,  293,  call  to  bar,  119. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


HEARNE,  Anth.,  bur.  of,  450. 

HEARTH  TAX  OR  CHIMNEY  MONEY,  109, 
171. 

HEATH,  James,  35. 

,  Sir  John,  attorney  general  of  the 

Duchy  of  Lancaster,  3,  40,  42,  49,  52, 

60,  98,   136,   137,  140,  142,  150,  154, 
i?3»  !75>  l83>  186,  190,  192,  219,  237, 
251,  278;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  i,  3, 
6,  8,  9,  10  (2),   12,   13,   14(3)   21  (a), 
24  (2),  34,  35,  37,  38>  39,  4°  (4)1  44,  4S> 
46,  49  (3),  5°,  S1  (3),  52,  59  (2),  60(2), 

61,  62  (3),  63,  69,    70(3),  71,   74(3), 

75,  77,  79,  83>  89>  9°,  92,  93,  94,  95, 
96(3)>  97,  99,  I0°  (3),  i°i,  1 06  (2), 
107,  109,  no  (3),  116  (2),  n8,  120, 
122,  123,  131,  132  (2),  134  (2),  135, 
139,  148,  15°,  i58,  159,  161,  162,  163, 
175,  l85>  l89  (2),  191,  J92>  200,  203, 

205,   206,   221,    222,    223,    225,   232,   234, 

241,  245,  246,  247  (2),  248  ;  auditor  for 

steward,  24 ;  excused  from  reading,  9  ; 

treasurer,  92,  224. 
,  Rich,  94,  143  (2),  157,  213  ;  call  to 

bench,  112. 
,  Rob.,  son  of  Sir  John,  adm.,  52. 

— ,  Roger,  att.  on  reader,  2. 
,  Thorn.,  son  of  Rich.,  391;  adm.,  213; 

call  to  bar,  367. 

— , ,  5,  JI>  120>  I2I>  J32,  140,  154, 

156,  168,  171,  173,  198,  202;  auditor 
for  steward,  124,  137,  150;  auditor  for 
treasurer,  92,  162,  177,  192. 

HEDGES, ,  208. 

HEIRCY,  Lovelace,  no,  336,  340. 

HELE,  John,  bur.  of,  452. 

HELLIER,  Godfrey,  280 ;  call  to  bar,  260. 

HEMINGS, ,  378. 

HENEAGE, ,  287. 

HENLEY,  Sir  Rob.,  prothonotory  of  King's 
Bench,  4,  11,  23. 

HENNE,  HENE,  Hen.,  52,  60,  63,  64,  249 ; 
auditor  for  steward,  10.  24  ;  auditor  for 
treasurer,  41  ;  call  to  bench,  49;  dis- 
benched,  85. 

HENSHAW,  Thorn.,  steward  for  reader's 
dinner,  74. 

HERBERT,  Sir  Edw.,  son  of  Sir  Edw., 
attorney  to  the  Duke  of  York,  attorney 
general  to  the  Queen,  chief  justice  of 
King's  Bench,  and  chief  justice  of  Com- 
mon Pleas,  197  ;  adm.,  44 ;  att.  at  parl. 
and  bench,  200,  201,  204,  206,  213, 
214,  218,  221  (2),  222  (3)  ;  call  to  bar, 


105;  call  to  bench,  178;  called  serj., 
230 ;  reader,  219. 

HERBERT,  John,  grandson  of  Chief  Justice 
Vaughan,  adm.,  74 ;  bur.  of,  449. 

HERCULES  PILLARS,  The,  Ixxx. 
HERLE,  Nich.,  call  to  bar,  400. 

HERNE,  Charles,  call  to  bar,  437. 

,  Edm.,  bur.  of,  455. 

,  Joseph,  call  to  bar,  400. 

>  >  55,  212. 

HERRICK,  Gershom,  284. 

HERRING  John,  222,  225,  422;  auditor 
for  treasurer  and  steward,  339  ;  call  to 
bar,  230. 

HETHERINGTON,  Humph.,  404,  418. 
HEXT,  Nath.,  bur.  of,  455. 
HEY,  Eliz.,  bur.  of,  447. 

HEYHOE,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  444  ;  gravestone, 

447- 

HICKS,  Fabian,  35. 
,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  323. 

— ,  Thorn.,   bur.  of,  452;  call  to  bar, 

172. 

HIDE,  HYDE,  Sir  Fred.,  bur.  of,  451. 

,  Nich.,  bur.  of,  462. 

-,  Rob.,  33. 

HIGDEN,  John,  196. 
HIGGS,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  449. 

HILDESLEY,  HILDESBY,  Martin,  liii,  liv ; 
call  to  bar,  240,  243. 

HILDYARD,  Edw.,  249,  268,  280,  281,  289  ; 
auditor  for  treasurer  and  steward,  289  ; 
call  to  bar,  94;  call  to  bench,  329. 

HILL,  Hester,  dau.  of  Will.,  448. 

— ,  John,  291.  342  ;  call  to  bar,  266. 
,  Sir  Roger,  109  ;  bur.  of,  447  ;  call  to 

bar,  39. 
,  Will.,  448. 


HILLERSDEN,  John,  187  ;  call  to  bar,  146. 
— ,  John,  354 ;  call  to  bar,  379. 

HILLIARE, ,  the  painter,  108. 

HINDE,  Sam.,  bur.  of,  455. 
HIRST,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  251. 

HOARE,  Matth.,  292. 

,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  387. 

—i  • ,  goldsmith,  343,  357. 

HOBLYN,  Francis,  bur.  of,  454 ;   call  to 

bar,  9. 
,  Will.,  bur.  of,  457. 

HOBSON,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  35. 


5oa 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


-,  for  reading  prayers,  48, 


HOCKETT, 
53,  65. 
HODDER,  Francis,  bur.  of,  462. 

HODGES,  John,  xxi,  66  (2),  68  (2).  186  (2), 
189,  196,  211,  215,  232,  254,  266,  280, 
285,  3°3,  33°,  331,  339,  346,  354,  356, 
366,  368,  387,  396,  399,  404,  406; 
allowance  as  treasurer,  343 ;  arms  of, 
287  ;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  311,  313, 
322,  324,  329,  331,  338,  339,  345,  346, 

352>  353,  358>  36°,  364,  37',  373,  379, 

380,    387,   388,    394,    399,   401,    408; 

auditor   for   treasurer,    102,    107,   in; 

auditor  for  steward,  206,  220,  233,  241 ; 

call   to   bar,    21;   call  to   bench,    174; 

fined  for  not  coming  to   bench,   193 ; 

reader,  248,  260 ;  unable  to  attend  the 

duties  of  treasurer,  330. 

— ,  John,  grandson  of  John,  adm.,  395. 
,  Thorn.,    son    of  John,   adm.,  232  ; 

bur.  of,  458. 
,  ,  alderman  of  London,  66. 

HODGSON,  Edw.,  245. 
HOGHTON,  John,  bur.  of,  458. 

HOLBECH,  Ambrose,  call  to  bar,  346. 
— ,  Matth.,  13;  att.  on  reader,  9,   10; 
call  to  bar,  74. 

HOLBORN,  xiii. 

HOLDF.N,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  358. 
— ,  Sam.,  bur.  of,  455. 

HOLLAND,  John,  5. 

,  Thorn.,  239. 

,  Timothy,  102,  108. 

,  ,  the  reader,  115. 

, ,  82. 

HOLLOWAY,  Charles,  2  ;  treasurer,  4. 

,  Charles,  47,  76,  77,  Si,  87,  92,  96, 

103,  112,  113,  143,  175,  203,  224,  226, 
229,  234,  237,  253,  254,  263,  267,  270, 
277,  280,  284,  306,  307,  309,  317,  320, 
321,  410;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  107, 
121,  137,  148(2),  149,  155,  167,  173, 
177,  185,  186  (3),  189,  190  (2),  191  (2), 
204,  205  (2),  206,  214,  218,  219  (2), 

220(2),    221,    222,     223,     225,     230,     231 

(2)>  232  (3),  233,  234,  240,  241,  245, 
246,  247  (3),  248,  259,  265,  272,  288, 
295,  297,  299,  3°2,  3°3,  3°5>  3",  3i2, 
4°8,  415,  417  !  att.  on  reader,  87,  91,  96, 
99,  101  ;  auditor  for  steward,  87,  92,  97, 
102  ;  call  to  bench,  63  ;  reader,  93,  97  ; 
treasurer,  289. 

,  Hen.,  son  of  Sir  Rich.,  36^ ;  adm., 

173;  call  to  bar,  360. 

,  John,  call  to  bar,  35. 


HOLLOWAY,  John,  son  of  Sir  Rich.,  161, 
38l>  389,  3965  adm->  I05  J  att.  at  parl. 
and  bench,  407,  408,  414,  415,  417, 
421,  422,  425,  426,  429,  430,  433,  434, 
437;  call  to  bar,  172;  call  to  bench, 
407  ;  reader,  429. 

,  Peter,  son  of  Sir  Rich.,  adm.,  245. 

,  Sir  Rich.,  47,  76,  81,  91,  100,  103, 

108,  112,  121,  161,  173,  245;  call  to 
bench,  74  ;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  106  ; 
att.  on  reader,  93,  96,  101,  106 ;  auditor 
for  steward,  97 ;  auditor  for  treasurer, 
52,  107;  reader,  99,  102,  105. 

,  Rich.,  son  of  Rich.,  adm.,  121. 

-, ,  80,   104,  113,  121,   124,  138, 


148,  154,  156,  174,  179,  187,  192,  195, 

196,   202,   203,417,  423,  438. 

HOLME,  Steph.,  call  to  bar,  429. 

HOLT,  Sir  John,  Chief  Justice,  Ixxv,  Ixxviii, 

321,  322. 
,  Sir  Rob.,  96. 

HOLTON, ,  453. 

HOLTUM,  Jane,  378. 
,  Will.,  385,  386. 

HONYWOOD,  Peter,  bur.  of,  454. 

Hoo,  John,  adm.  from  Middle  Temple, 

323  ;  call  to  bench,  387. 
,  John,  call  to  bar,  433. 

HOOKE,  John,  441. 

, ,  235,  261,  272. 

HOOPER,  Sir  Nich.  \adrn.,  1671  ;  called  to 
bar,  1678;  serj.  and  called  to  bench, 
1700;  ob.,  1731],  353;  att.  atpari.  126; 
auditor  for  treasurer  and  steward,  129, 
248,  261,  267  ;  call  to  bar,  131  ;  call  to 
bench,  133;  serj.,  353. 

,  Nich.,  son  of  Sir  Nich.,  adm.,  353. 

,  Walt.,  call  to  bar,  21. 

HOPKINS,  Sir  Rich.,  8,  18,  19,  34,  35,  36, 

60  (2),  105  ;  att.  on  reader,  15,  23,  50; 

reader,  24;  serj.  105;  treasurer,  65. 
,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  35. 

— ,  Sam.,  son  of  Sir  Rich.,  adm.,  8. 

— ,  Thorn.,  son  of  Sir  Rich.,  adm.,  60. 
,  Will.,  bur.  of,  443. 

— , ,  psalms  by,  348. 

HOPTON,  Edw.,  354;  call  to  bar,  131. 
,  Rich.,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 


94- 


-,  Thorn.,  347 ;  call  to  bar,  119. 
-,  42. 


HORN,  a  new,  98  ;  orders,  etc.,  as  to  blow- 
ing for  commons,  etc.,  54,  112,  129, 
161,  319. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


HORN  TAVERN,  The,  Ixxxi,  185,  406,  412. 

HORNBY,  HORNEBY,  Edw.,  bur.  of,  458. 

-  ,  Geoff.,  call  to  bar,  408. 

HORNE,  -  ,  bricklayer,  169,  171,  199, 
212,  283,  411,  436. 

-  ,  Hen.,  212. 
HORWOOD,  —  —  •,  184. 

HOSKINS,  John,  17  ;  call  to  bar,  69. 

-  ,  serj.,  25. 

HOTCHKISS,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  312. 
HOUGH,  Ralph,  298;  call  to  bar,  94. 
HOULTON,  John,  bur.  of,  455. 
HOUR  GLASS  and  half  hour  glass,  48. 
HOUSE  OF  LORDS,  order  by,  145. 

HOVILL,  Will.,  clerk  in  the  Fine  office,  bur. 
of,  444. 

How,  John,  bur.  of,  455. 

-  ,  Thorn.,  239  ;  call  to  bar,  232. 

HOWARD,  Bernard,  adm.  of,  10. 

-  ,  Hen.,  adm.,  10. 

-  ,  Sir  Rob.,  Ixviii. 

-  ,  Will.,  son  of  Sir  Will.,  22. 


HOWELL,  James,  historiographer  to 
Charles  II.,  bur.  of,  446;  monument 
to,  449. 

HOWES,  Edm.,  chronicle  of,  68. 
HOWKINS,  -  ,  449. 

Howland,  John,  187. 

-  ,  Ralph,  call  to  bar,  260. 

-  ,  Sam.,    187;   bur.  of,  453;   call   to 
bar,  146. 

—  ,  --  ,  134,  155- 

HOYLE,  John,  131,  239,  291  ;  bur.  of,  456; 
call  to  bench,  290. 

HUBERT,  Francis,  dau.  of  Sir  Nath.,  bur. 
of,  450. 

-  ,  Sir  Nath.,  450  ;  bur.  of,  450. 

HUDDLESTON,  Hen.,  adm.,  24. 
HUDSON,  John,  89,  98. 

HUGHES,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  312. 

-  ,  Will.,  415,  422,  427;   call  to  bar, 
205,  210. 

HULTON,  Thorn.,  adm.  from  Gray's  Inn, 

359- 
HUMPHREY,  HUMFREY,  Nath.,  call  to  bar, 

358. 

-  ,  Raphael,  call  to  bar,  69. 

-  ,  -  ,  88,  119. 

HUMPHRIES,  -  ,  auditor  for  Xmas,  58. 
HUNT,  Rob.,  bur.  of,  451. 


HUNTER,  James,  call  to  bar,  358. 
HUNTINGDON,  Theoph.,  Earl  of,  adm.,  75. 
HURST,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  247. 

, ,  133- 

HUSBAND,  Edw.,  14. 
HUSBANDS,  Sir  Sam.,  325,  334. 

HUSSEY,  Edm.,  bur.  of,  456. 

,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  450. 

,  ,  213. 

HUTCHINSON,  Rich.,  call  to  lar,  387. 
HYDE  PARK,  bucks  from,  357. 
HYDER,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  450. 

IMPARLANCE  \the  argument  or  pleading 
upon  an  imaginary  case  given  at  the  ex- 
ercises of  learning  of  the  fan],  36,  187, 
222,  278,  305,  350,  352,  369,  409,  431, 
436. 

INCE, ,  125. 

INGOLDSBY,  Sir  Rich.,  son  of  Sir  Rich., 
adm.,  85,  90. 

INGRAM,  Rob.,  298 ;  call  to  bar,  304 ; 
master  of  the  revels,  336. 

,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  456 

— , ,117- 

INNER  TEMPLE,  appointment  of  officers  of, 
312  ;  book  of  deeds  of,  185  ;  coiners  in, 
183  ;  disputes  settled  by  judges,  162  ; 
disturbances  in,  66,  161,  162,  171; 
drafts  of  the  grounds  of,  145;  inventories 
of,  387,  436 ;  jurisdiction  of  City  of  Lon- 
don in,  463  ;  jurisdiction  over  Clements 
Inn,  116;  lighting  of,  Ixxxiii,  16,  213, 
244,  267,  271,  339,  341,  347,  370;  pri- 
vileges and  right  to  arrest  in,  xix,  xxii, 
xc,  74,  106,  250,  336,  338,  362,  409,  416, 
463  ;  soil  of,  title  and  conveyance  of, 
61,  83,  151,  153,464;  suspicious  and 
disorderly  persons  in,  78,  82,  90,  94,  287 ; 
relief  to  members  and  servants,  234, 
254,  3°9,  356  ;  rents  belonging  to,  377  ; 
robbery  in,  25,  299,  316,  329. 

INNER  TEMPLE  GATE,  xiv,  xv,  78,  80,  340, 
342  ;  bonfires  at,  200 ;  shops  at,  4,  82, 
362  ;  times  of  closing,  78,  80,  262. 

INNER  TEMPLE  LANE,  xiv,  Ixxx,  14,  39,  78, 
132,  150,  169,  170,  173,  174,  193,  206, 
207,  208,  211,  213,  229,  230,  250,  262, 
263,  271,  272,  294,  298,  302,  311,  325, 
34o,  34i,  351,  363.  3^6,  370,  392,  398, 
399,  424,  440;  cross  lane  in,  272. 

INNS  OF  CHANCERY,  88,  176,  221,  308, 

3*4,  3l6»  336.  354,  36l>  394,  434,  ex- 
ercises   in,    22,    32,    189;    harbouring 


5<>4 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


dangerous  persons,  30 ;  orders  as  to, 
30;  readers  of,  71,  316,  354;  readings 
discontinued  in,  22.  See  Clements  Inn, 
Cliffords  Inn,  and  Lyons  Inn. 

INNS  OF  COURT,  116,  160,  394  ;  excercises 
in,  32 ;  harbouring  dangerous  persons 
in,  30 :  orders  as  to,  30 ;  readings  at, 
6,  86.  '  See  Inner  Temple,  Middle  Tem- 
ple, Gray's  Inn,  and  Lincoln's  Inn. 

INSURANCE  OFFICE  AND  FRIENDLY 
SOCIETY,  238. 

INWATCH,  truncheons  and  thongs  for,  184. 

IRELAND,  Dan.,  glazier,  xli,  65,  89,  108, 
157- 

IRISH  MEMBERS,  indebted  to  the  House, 
292. 

IRISH  PROTESTANTS,  relief  of,  260,  262, 
263,  265. 

ISHAM,  John,  439;  call  to  bar,  274. 

ISSUABLE  TERM  [Hilary  and  Trinity  Terms 
were  so  called]  342,  434. 

IVORY, ,  130;  steward  for  Xmas,  129. 

JACKSON,  Sir  Anth.,  bur.  of,  446. 

— ,  Hen.,  reader  at  Temple  Church,  383, 

385,  392,  393,  397,  398>  4°°,  4°5>  4°6, 

424. 

,  John,  bur.  of,  451. 

,  Sam.,  239. 

,  Thorn.,  adm.  from  Gray's  Inn,  364. 

, ,  44°- 


JACOB,  Abraham,  bur  of,  454 ;  call  to  bar, 

94- 
,  Herbert,  346. 

JAGGARD,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  312. 

JAMAICA,  attorney  general  of.  See  Bro- 
derick,  Will. 

JAMES  I.,  x. 

— ,  Rich.,  305  ;  call  to  bar,  291. 

, >  301- 

JANE,  • — — ,  the  minister,  129. 

JEFFRYES,  Sir  George,  recorder  of  London, 
lord  chancellor,  and  baron  Jeffreys  of 
Wem,  xix,  xx,  xxi,  xlvi,  liv,  Iv,  Ixxxii,  55, 
66,67,  i°2,  IS1,^,  '53,  l65>  169,170, 
197,  245,  250  ;  att.  at  par.  and  bench, 
121,  131,  146;  call  to  bar,  59;  call  to 
bench,  120;  picture  of,  306. 

,  Jeffery,  call  to  bar,  no. 

,  John,  son  of  SirGeo.,  adm.,  Iv,  131, 

153- 

,  Nich.,  call  to  bar,  387,  391. 

,  Sir  Thorn.,  Ivi. 

,  Walt.,  bur.  of,  462. 


JEFFS,  James,  bur.  of,  460. 

JEKILL,   ,   133;  auditor  for  steward, 

129. 

JENKINSON,  Sir  Rob.,  steward  for  reader's 

dinner,  91. 

JENNER,  Benj.,  son  of  Sir  Thorn.,  296. 
,  Edw.,  son  of  Sir  Thomas,  291;  call 

to  bar,  231. 
,  Leonard  Poe,  son   of   Sir  Thorn., 

adm.,  204. 
-,  Thorn.,  119,   124,  204,  232;  att.  at 


parl ,  192,  200,  201  :  call  to  bar,  21  ; 
call  to  bench,  189,  194;  serj.,  296. 

JENNEY,  Edm.,  290 ;  call  to  bar,  109. 
JENNINGS,  Edw.,  268,  298,  302,  343,  345, 

359,  371,  374,  385,  393,  396,  398,  405, 
410,  416,  434;  allowance  as  to  trea- 
surer, 385  ;  arms  of,  343  ;  att.  at  parl. 
and  bench,  334,  338,  339,  346,  352, 

353,  358>  36°,  364,  365,  37i,  373,  379, 
380,  387,  388,  395,  396,  399,  401,  407, 
408,  414,  415,  421,  422,  426,  429,  430, 
433,  434,  437;  call  to  bar,  94;  call 
to  bench,  329;  reader,  330;  treasurer, 

373- 

,  Geo.,  son  of  Edw.,  359;  adm.,  371. 

,  James,  call  to  bar,  408. 

,  Philip,  son  of  Edw.,  adm.,  345  ;  call 

to  bar,  379. 
,   Ralph,  steward  for  reader's  dinner 

in. 

,  Roger,  243. 

-,  Roger,  junior,  adm.    from    Middle 


Temple,  295. 
Will.,  call  to  bar,  172. 

JEREMY, ,  tombstone  of,  448. 

JERMEY,  Francis,  bur.  of.,  447. 
,  John,  call  to  bar,  367. 


JERSON,  John,  bur.  of,  448. 

JEWKES,  Rowland,  arrest  of,  106  ;  bur.  of, 
446 ;  call  to  bench,  99,  100 ;  monu- 
ment to,  449,  45 1 ;  steward  for  reader's 
dinner,  3. 

JEX,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  90. 

JlGGETTE    [gigot]   OF    MUTTON,    1 28. 

JOBBER,  Thorn,  213,  325;  auditor  for 
Xmas,  200 ;  bur.  of,  455  ;  call  to  bar, 
109. 

,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  395. 

JODDERELL,  ,   solicitor  in  chancery, 

199. 

JOHN,  Edw.,  23. 

JOHNSON,  Edw.,  8,  234,  447 ;  att.  on 
reader,  2,  3,  10,  118;  att.  at  parl.  and 
bench,  i,  2,  3,  6,  8,  9,  10,  12,  13,  14, 


INDEX    AND    GLOSSARY. 


505 


21,  23,  24,  33,  34,  35,  36,  38  J  bur.  of, 
443- 

JOHNSON,  Eliz.,  widow  of  Edw.,  bur.  of, 
447- 

,  Geo.,  13,  16  ;  call  to  bench,  12. 

,  Eliz.,  widow  of  Edw.,  bur.  of,  447. 

,  Lancelot,  101,  177,  220,  267,  283; 

att.  at  pad.  and  bench,  167,  221,  223, 
225,  233,  234,  240,  248,  272,  288,  295, 
297>  3°3»  3°5  >  auditor  for  treasurer 
and  steward,  in,  177,  201,  206;  call 
to  bench,  99,  100  •  reader,  177  ;  steward 
for  reader's  dinner,  34,  100. 
-,  Lancelot,  son  of  Lancelot,  adm  , 


220. 


-  ,  Mary,  dau.  of  Matth.,  bur.  of,  460. 

-  ,  Mary,  bur.,  459. 

-  ,  Matth.,  butler,  308,  327,  340,  342, 
343,    346,    35°,    387,  389,    39i,  460; 
assault  on,    343,    344  ;    warehouse   of, 
442. 

-  ,  Matth.,  son  of  Matth.,  bur.  of,  460. 

-  ,  Matth.,  an  infant,  458. 

-  ,  Maurice,  call  to  bar,  421. 

-  ,  Rob.,  son  of  Edw.,  adm.,  8. 

-  ,  Rob.,  adm.,  23. 

-  ,  Rob.,  bur.  of,  455. 

—  —  ,  Thorn.,  porter,  342,  345,  355,  4i2; 
bur.  of,  462. 

-  ,  Will.,  bur.  of,  447. 

—  ,  --  ,  120,  123,  154,  157,  192,  203, 

204,    222,    224,   226,    253,    254,    278,   283, 
290,   292,    299,   305,   309,   314,   369,   386, 

399,  412,  428,  440,  441. 

JOLLIFFE,  JOLLYFFE,  John,   bur.  of,  456. 

-  ,  Will.,  bur.  of,  452. 

—  ,  -  ,  323- 

JOLLY,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  449. 
JONAS,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  131. 
JONES,  Benj.,  391. 

,  Edw.,  butler,  333(2),  361,  378,414, 
i6|  457  J  bur.  of,  462. 
,  Hen.,  293,  376,  415;  call  to  bar, 
201. 

,  John,  293  •  call  to  bar,  172. 


,         . 
,  Mary,  wife  of  Edw.,  bur.  of,  457. 

-  ,  Mrs.,  440. 

-  ,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  408. 

-  ,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  429. 

-  ,  Will.,  bur.  of,  445,  457. 
~'  -  >  294,  343,  392. 

JONINE,  David,  292. 

JONSON,  Benj.,  Iviii,  lix. 

JORDAN,  John,  48. 

JOYNER,  Valentine,  bur.  of,  453. 

JUDGES,  invited  to  dinner,  234,  237,  244, 

in. 


269  (2),  292,  398,  405,  4io,  417,  423, 

434  ;  mess   of,  98  •  orders  by,   30  ;  to 
quit  chambers  in  Inn,  243. 

KAYES,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  358. 

KECK,  Anth.,  61,  154,  IS7)  272)  293)  3?2> 
438,  455;  bur.  of,  463;  call  to  bar, 
304;  call  to  bench,  112;  reader,  204; 
steward  for  reader's  dinner,  89. 

-  ,  Anth.,  son  of  Anth.,  bur.  of,  455. 

•  -  ,  Hannah,  bur.  of,  456. 

—  ,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  433. 

—  ,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  449. 
KEELING,  James,  33. 

—  ,  John,    120,    12!,    135,    I4I>    I42)    I43) 

150  ;  arms  of,  38  ;  bur.  of,  453  ;  auditor 
for  treasurer,  I24,  137  ;  call  to  bench, 
112  ;  Serjeant,  157. 

•  -  ,  John,  son  of  John,  adm.,  121  ;  call 

to  bar,  240. 

-  ,  Will,  son  of  John,  242. 


KELBY,  John,  bur.  of,  458. 

KEKWITH,  Geo.,  bur.  of,  44g. 

KEI.LF.TT,   Francis,   195,   301,   310,    319, 

325,  342,  345,  348,  349,  35°,  35',  352, 

375,  381. 

—  ,  Maurice,  430,  434  ;  call  to  bar,  260. 

KELWAY,  KELLAWAY,  ---  ,  343,  357,  378  ; 
auditor  for  Xmas,  200. 

KEMP,  Kdw.,  call  to  bar,  69. 

—  ,   Hen.,  454  ;  bur    of,   452  ;   steward 
for  reader's  dinner,  96,  100. 

—  ,  Mary,  wife  of  Hen.,  bur.  of,  454. 

—  ,  94,  208. 
KEN,  Dr.,  xlix,  58. 
KENNETT,  John,  bur.  of,  460. 

,          ,  334- 

KENT,  --  -,  painter,  336. 
KENWICK,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  44. 
KERING,  John,  292. 

KERRY,  KEEREY,  Dan.,  451,  454. 

—  ,  Mary,  wife  of  Dan.,  bur.  of,  454. 

—  ,  Susan,  bur.  of,  451. 

KILDESLEY,  Martin,  268. 
KILLINGWORTH,  Will,  serj.,  bur.  of,  459. 

KINASTON,  KYNASTON,  Edw.,  102. 
-  ,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  395. 

KING,  Sir  John,  108,  127,  1  86;  att.  at  par!. 
and  bench,  100,  101,  102,  105,  106,  107, 
109,  no;  bur.  of,  451  ;  deceased,  248; 
call  to  bar,  49  ;  call  to  bench,  99  ;  tomb- 
stone of,  453  (2)  ;  treasurer,  102. 


INDEX    AND    GLOSSARY. 


KING,  John,  son  of  Sir  John,  adm.,  248 ; 

bur.  of,  456. 

,  John,  mason,  198,  199,  212. 

,  Lady,  Joyce,  186;  bur.  of,  455. 

,  Sir  Peter,  441 ;    att.  at   parl.  and 

bench,  415,  430;   call  to  bench,  408, 

410. 
-,  Rich.,  279;  bur.  of,  445. 


,     -  ,  -j  ,      ~  ,     -f-Tj. 

,  Rob.,  son  of  Sir  John,  adm.,  186  ; 

call  to  bar,  266. 
,  Will.,  bur.  of,  450. 

KING'S  ARMS,  170.  See  Temple  Church 
and  Hall. 

KING'S  BENCH  BUILDINGS,  xvii,  44,  65, 
77,  83>  "9.  120,  122,  123,  124,  125, 
127,  128,  137,  141,  146,  155,  221,  223, 
400. 

KING'S  BENCH  OFFICE,  xxix,  4,  u,  23, 
120,  121,  122,  126,  127,  144,  153,  157, 
164,  165,  183,  184,  185,  195,  236,  257, 
282,  284,  294,  298,  321. 

KING'S  BENCH  PRISON,  65. 

KING'S  BENCH  WALKS,  xiii,  xiv,  xviii, 
xxviii,  xxix,  Ixxix,  62,  203,  204,  234, 
244,  252,  257,  264,  282,  285. 

KING'S  COUNSEL,  orders  as  to,  31,  276, 
321. 

KING'S  COURT,  The,  entertainment  of,  81. 

KING'S  DECLARATION,  212. 

KING'S  DRUMMERS,  129. 

KING'S  TRUMPETERS,  54. 

KINGSTON,  a  soldier  of,  41. 

KIRBY,  Rich.,  72. 

KITCHEN, ,  375. 

KITCHEN,  170,  318,  342,  347,  376,  386, 
442  ;  hearths  for  sea  coal  in,  80 ;  in- 
ventory of,  386;  new  grates  for,  351; 
orders  as  to,  7,  432  ;  standing  committee 
for,  119  ;  stoves  for,  428. 

KNAPP,  Geo.,  son  of  Rich.,  adm.,  421. 
— ,  John,  376. 

,  Rich.,  374,  396,  401,  421;  att.  at 

parl.  or  bench,  401,  407,  408,  414,  415, 
421,  422,  425,  426,  429,  430,  433,  434) 
437;  call  to  bar,  172;  call  to  bench, 
407  ;  reader,  426. 

,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  400. 

KNELLER,  Sir  Godfrey,  Ixxxii,  Ixxxviii,  245 

31°,  377,  378. 
KNEPP,  Mrs.,  Ixviii,  Ixxi. 
KNIGHT,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar, 

ii-'ii  * 

,  Will.,  405,  408. 

, ,  408,  423. 


KNIGHTLY,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  452. 

KNOWLING,  Rob.,  bur.  of,  456 ;   call  to 
bar,  201. 

KYNASTON.     See  Kinaston. 


LACY, 


392. 


LADD,  John,  48. 

LAKE,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  462. 

LAMBERT, ,  198. 

LAMBETH  ALE,  82. 
LAMB'S  BUILDINGS,  13,  31,  368. 
LAMPS,  256,  442.     See  Lighting. 
LAND  TAX.     See  Tax. 

LANE,  Francis,  332  ;  call  to  bar,  119. 
— ,  John,  steward  for  reader's  dinner,  8. 
— ,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  35  ;  steward  for 
reader's  dinner,  9. 

— , ,  17,  26,  94,  349;  auditor  for 

Xmas,  18;  steward  for  Xmas,  26. 

LANGHORNE,  Eliz.,  widow  of  Rich.,  150, 
183. 

— ,  Rich.,  51,  52,  171,  183,  230,  245, 
250,   256;   chamber  of,   127,  128,  143, 
145,  150;  goods  of,  144;   steward  for 
reader's  dinner,  49. 
— ,  Sir  Will.,  143,  150. 

LANGLEY,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  74. 

— , ,    128,    170,    184,    198,   221,   225, 

229. 

LANGON,  -  — ,  51. 
LANGTON,  Joseph,  call  to  bar,  59. 
LANMAN,  Hen.,  bur.  of,  445. 
LANT,  Matth.,  284,  291,  438. 

LAPTHORNE,  Macrina,  bur.  of,  453,  455. 
— ,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  452,  454. 

LARDNER,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  429. 
— ,  Thorn.,  292. 

LASH  LEY,  Mary,  14. 
LATHWELL,  Rob.,  127. 
LATTYMERE,  Edw.,  bur.  of,  447. 

LAUNDRESSES,     misbehaviour    of,    150; 
orders  as  to,  430 ;  petition  of,  60. 

LAVER,  breaking  the  statute  at  the,  46. 
[The  breaking  or  giving  of  notice,  by  the 
reader,  of  the  statute  upon  which  he 
proposed  to  discourse.  This  was  ap- 
parently done  near  the  entrance  to  the 
hall  (Dugdale,  Origines,  159)  where 
in  monastic  arrangement  was  situated 
the  laver  or  lavatorium.  Compare 
Line.  Inn,  Black  Books,  I.,  289,  317.] 


INDEX   AND    GLOSSARY. 


5°7 


LAW, ,  1 8. 

LAW  CHARGES  IN  DEFENDING  SUIT  AGAINST 
THE  INN,  424. 

LAWRENCE,  Gilb.,  302,  316,  393,  394. 

,  Sir  John,  68. 

-,  Will,  455. 

LEACHMERE,  Thorn,  bur.  of,  459. 
— , ,  bur.  of,  446,  448. 

LEADBEATER,  John,  bur.  of,  463 ;  call  to 
bar,  304. 

LEARNING,  exercises  of,  orders  as  to,  3,  21, 
22,  32»  33.  35.  36,  46,  in,  "2,  123, 
131,  141,  146,  147,  152,  182,  187,  190, 
201,  220,  243,  249,  254,  269,  276,  285, 
317  (2),  343,  350,  361,  362,  390,  409, 
410,411,423,430,431,435,436.  See 
Imparlances,  Moots. 

LEATHWICK,  John,  bur.  of,  458. 

LEAVETTS, ,  155. 

LECTURER  of  the  Temple  Church,  8,  253 ; 
lodgings  of,  104;  orders  as  to,  141,  247. 
See  Griffith,  Maningham,  Rogers,  Stil- 
lingfleet,  Woodrofe. 

LEDGINGHAM,  Warwick,  250. 

, ,  17,  18,  20,  26. 

LEDSOM, ,  plumber,  198. 

LEE,  Barbara,  wife  of  Geo,  bur.  of,  448. 
Edw,  bur.  of,  447. 
Geo,  448 ;  bur.  of,  454. 
John,  155,  197. 
Susanna,  bur.  of,  455. 
Weyman,  call  to  bar,  414. 

-,  102,  103,  142,  397;  auditor 


for  steward,  4,  206. 

LEGENDER, ,  325. 

LEGG,  John,  228,  427;  call  to  bar,  218, 

220. 
LEGH,  LEIGH,  John,  302  ;  call  to  bar,  94; 

call  to  bench,  329  ;  robbery  of,  299. 
,  ,   142,   284,   307;   auditor  for 

steward,  192,  220,  233,  241. 
LE  GRESCE,  LEGROSSE,  Tobias,  283,  301; 

call  to  bar,  248,  255. 

LEIGHTON,  John,  call  to  bar,  219. 

,  Rich,  389,  396;  call  to  bar,  147. 

, ,  250;  steward  for  Xmas,  213. 

LEMAN,  Tanfield,  54,  332,  336,  374,  382  ; 
att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  358,  360,  364, 
365,  37i,  373-  379,  38°,  388;  auditor 
for  treasurer  and  steward,  261 ;  call  to 
tar,  119;  call  to  bench,  353,  360. 

LENNORD,  Mary,  bur.  of,  443. 

LEONARD'S  Reports,  441. 


LETTERS,  charges  for,  109. 
LEVERMEERE,  Humph,  300. 

LEVETT,  John,  219,  335  ;  bur.  of,  460. 

,  Rich,  call  to  bar,  429. 

> ,  I27,  !55,  223,  225,  234,  241, 

308,  324,  334.     See  Leavetts. 

LEVING,  Sir  Rich,  337,  347 ;  call  to  bar, 
131 ;  call  to  bench,  395. 

,  Sam,  grandson  of  Timothy,  265. 

,  Timothy,  serj,  265. 

,  Will,  call  to  bar,  296. 

LEWIS,  David,  gravemaker,  bur.  of,  443. 

,  Hanmore,  bur.  of,  449. 

,  Thorn,   108;   steward  for  reader's 


dinner,  105. 

LIBRARY,  xci,  xcii,  10,  14,  18;  arms  in, 
73,  80(2),  127,  138,  145,  154,  156,  164, 
165,  167,  168,  170,  171,  238,  313,  318, 
320,  340,  357,  381,  398,  406,  410,  412, 
418,  419,  420,  423,  428,  434,  439,  440  ; 
the  back,  344,  442  ;  books  in,  73,  144, 
412,  424,  425,  438,  441;  building  or 
rebuilding,  35,  48,  60,  153,  157,  411, 
412,  415.  417;  care  of,  441;  carvers' 
work  in,  35,  393;  cleaning,  105,  109, 
115,  171;  clock  in,  412;  the  fore,  442  ; 
furniture  in,  98,  105,  115,  171  ;  gaming 
in,  54  ;  herbs  and  flowers  for,  109  ;  the 
inner,  340  ;  keeper,  bond  of,  418  (see 
Blew  and  Carter) ;  keys  of,  168  ;  legacy 
for  building,  417;  the  little,  31,  320; 
map  in,  127;  moots  in,  350,  352;  orders 
as  to,  416,417,438;  painting,  53,  157; 
panierman  to  take  charge  of,  391  ;  sup- 
per in,  351  ;  the  two,  428;  the  upper, 
18,  34,  63;  wainscotting,  53,  157,  169, 
412. 

LIGHTFOOT,  Will,  438;  call  to  bar,  274. 

LIME, ,  393. 

LIME  TREES,  199.     See  Garden. 

LIMERICK,  surrender  of,  287. 

LINCH, ,  348. 

LINCOLN, ,  scrivener,  5. 

LINCOLN'S  INN,  Iviii,  170,  240,  352,  382. 

LINCOLN'S  INN  FIELDS,  337. 

LINDON,  Thorn,  104. 

LINDSAY,  LYNDSAY,  John,  23,  108,  109, 
466,  467. 

LINEN,  221 ;  inventory  of,  436. 

LINGARD,  John,  call  to  bar,  358. 

LISLE,  Dan,  bur.  of,  445. 

LISTER,  Benj,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 
in. 


508 


INDEX    AND   GLOSSARY. 


LISTER,  Hugh,  adm.,  70. 

,  Matth,  90. 

,  Rob.,  son  of  Will.,  adm.,  36. 

,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  90. 

,  Will,  17,  42,  45,  49,   61,  70,  99; 

att.  at.  parl.,  77  ;  att.  on  reader,  69,  70, 
75 ;  auditor  for  steward,  47  ;  call  to 
bench,  13  ;  reader,  62,  71. 

,  Will.,  son  of  Will.,  adm.,  99. 

LITTLETON,  Anne,  widow  of  Sir  Timothy, 

bur.  of,  454. 
,  Sir  Edw.,  portrait  of,  315. 

— ,  Edw.,  bur.  of,  445. 

— ,  Lady,  xli ;  gift  for  church,  143. 

,  Philip,  auditor  for  Xmas.,  27. 

,  Sir  Timothy,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer, 

115  ;  bur.  of,  451,  454. 
,  Sir  Thorn.,  son  of  Sir  Edw.,  Ixxxii, 

2,  21,  183;  262;  marshal  for  Xmas,  3, 

10,  15;  speaker  for  Xmas.,  26,  54. 
,  Thorn.,  son  of  Sir  Thomas,  adm.,  2, 

39  ;  call  to  bar,  79. 

— ,  Walt.,  call  to  bar,  21. 
, ,  19,  21,  26,  54,  56,  79,  66,  451. 


LIVESEY,  Charles,  son  of  Will.,  185. 

,  Gabriel,  bur.,  445. 

— ,  John,  son  of  Will,  185. 
— ,  Will.,  62,  123,  185. 

— ,   ,    29,    121,    122,    126. 

LLEWELLIN,  John,  adm.,  283. 

LLOYD,  David,  428. 

— ,  Davis,  call  to  bar,  426. 
,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  9. 

— ,  Edw.,  282,  286,  347 ;  call  to  bar, 

119. 

— ,  Ellis,  347,  354;  call  to  bar,  119. 

— ,  Francis,  337,  354,  360,  365;  bur.  of, 

459;  call  to  bar,  131. 

— ,  Griffith,  call  to  bar,  119. 

— ,  Hen.,  349  ;  call  to  bar,  172  ;  call  to 

bench,  387. 

— ,  Humph.,  call  to  bar,  367. 

— ,  John,  son  of  Bishop  of  Norwich, 

bur.  of,  460. 

,  John,  call  to  bar,  172. 

,  John,  call  to  bar,  330. 

— ,  Marmaduke,  bur.  of,  459. 

— ,  Piers,  call  to  bar,  172. 
,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  455  ;  call  to  bar,  429, 

432- 

— ,  Walt.,  call  to  bar,  358. 

— ,  Will.,  bur.  of,  457  ;  call  to  bar,  433. 

— ,  ,  37°;  att.  at  parl.,  388;  cham- 
ber of,  440  ;  shop  of,  439. 

LOBB,  Hen.,  the  joiner,  238. 

LODDINGTON,  Sam.,  call  to  bar,  90.     See 
Luddincton. 


LOGGIN,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  146. 
LOMBARD  STREET,  16. 

LONDON,  fire  of,  75  ;  maps  of,  180,  183, 
442  ;  watchmen  of,  78. 

LONDON,  Lord  Mayor  of,  19,  20,  31,  185, 
370,  463  ;  jurisdiction  of,  463 ;  riot  at 
pulling  down  sword  of,  xix,  xx,  66,  67, 
68,  69,  78 ;  chamberlain  of,  398. 

LONG,  Demetrius,  call  to  bar,  235. 

— ,  John,  bur.  of,  454. 

— ,  Will.,  bur.  of,  454. 

— , ,  draper,  212. 

— , ,  call  to  bar,  235. 

LONGLEY, ,  158. 

LONGUEVILLE,  Charles,  son  of  Will.,  adm., 
295  ;  call  to  bar,  367. 
— ,  Hen.,  438  ;  call  to  bar,  304. 
— ,  Will.,  134,  157,  166,   230,  266,  295, 
350 ;   att.    at    parl.    and    bench,    297, 
3".    3*3.    322.   324,    329.    332,    338> 
339.    345.    346,    354.    36°.   364,   365. 
401  ;  auditor  for  steward,  150,  162,  177; 
called  assoc.  of  bench,  63 ;  call  to  bench, 
112;  reader,  220,  231;  treasurer,  313, 
328. 
— ,  Will..,  son  of  Will.,  adm.,  266. 

LORD,  Oliver,  bur.  of,  444. 

LORD  KEEPER,  invited  to  dinner,  374; 
chair  for,  98. 

LORD  CHIEF  JUSTICE,  members  of  the 
Inn  summoned  before,  269,  270. 

LORD  OF  MISRULE,  orders  as  to,  130(2). 
LORD  OF  THE  TEMPLE,  19,  20,  27,  28,  29. 
LOVEDAY,  Matth.,  call  to  bar,  94. 
LOWE,  Wallis,  bur.  of,  449. 
LOWTHER,  Sir  John,  119. 

LUCAS,  Hen.,  bur.  of,  445. 
— ,  Lord,  96. 

— ,  Nath.,  282  ;  call  to  bar,  247. 
— ,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  433. 

— , ,  bur.  of,  446 ;  chamber  of,  79, 

103. 

LUCY,  Geo.,  call  to  bar,  131. 
— , ,  chamber,  427. 

LUDDINGTON,  Sam.,  bur.  of,  445.  See 
Loddington. 

LUDFORD,  John,  call  to  bar,  158. 
LUDGATE  PRISON,  242. 
LUDLOW,  Will,  bur  of,  450. 
LUKE,  John,  assoc.  of  the  bar,  119. 
LUMSDEN,  David,  grocer,  170. 
LtmvirH,  Edw.,  son  of  Thorn.,  adm.,  426. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


509 


LUTWICH,  Thorn.,  424,  426,  434;  att.  a 
parl.  and  bench,  422,  426,  430,  434 
437;  call  to  bar,  338;  call  to  bench 
421,  424. 

LYDALL,  Mary,  bur.  of,  458. 

— ,  Rich.,  301,  305  •  call  to  bar,  274. 
LYEE,  John,  37. 

— ,  Robert,  37. 
LYNCH,  Hen.,  292. 

— • .  35°- 

LYNDUS, ,  Ixxxiii. 

LYON'S  INN,  76,  78,  80,  91,  102,  104,  157, 

185,  198,  208,  211,  2l6,  229,  238,  250, 
280,  289,  293,  298,311,325,351,362, 

3°5,  39°,  4°9,  415,  424,  440;  building 
ln>  75  >  principal  and  ancients  of,  75, 
138,  2ii  ;  recusants  in,  Ixxviii,  138; 
reader  of,  102,  242,  281,  289,  298,  325, 
396,  401,  408;  treasurer  of,  4,  25,  75, 
145,  293,  3°2,  3°5,  325,  337,  347,  354, 
36i,  365,  374,  380,  381,  389,  409,  422, 
427,  430,  434,  438.  See  Beaumont  and 
Halsey. 

LYSLE,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  387. 

MACE, ,  307. 

MACE  FOR  SPEAKER,  272. 
MACHELL,  Anne,  bur.  of,  448. 

— ,    John,    1 08 ;    steward   for   reader's 

dinner,  89. 

MACHON,  Anne,  bur.  of,  457. 

— ,  Thorn.,  butler,  bur.  of,  462. 
MACKERTY,  Charles,  bur.  of,  454. 

— ,  Dennis,  bur.  of,  454. 
MADDING,  Joseph,  bur.  of,  455. 

MADWELL,  Laur.,  one  of  six  clerks  in 
Chancery,  bur.  of,  444. 

MAJOR,  John,  stationer,  453. 
— ,  Joseph,  call  to  bar,  312. 
— ,  Mary,  wife  of  John,  453. 
— ,  Thorn.,  409. 

— > '  3°6,  3°7,  3M,  325,  409- 

MAN,  MANN,  Dan.,  256  ;  call  to  bar,  291. 
— ,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  448  ;  call  to  bar, 
44- 

MANLEY,  Cornelius,  son  of  Sir  Francis, 
adm.,  149,  154. 

— ,  Sir  Francis,  serj.  at  law,  call  to  bar, 
40  ;  call  to  bench,  148  •  serj.,  154, 157. 

MANLOVE,  Nath.,  call  to  bar,  288. 
MANNING,  Thorn.,  303,  318,  319,  340. 

MANNINGHAM,  Thorn.,  lecturer  at  Temple 
church,  248,  253,  256,  264,  286. 


MANSELL, ,  43S,  436. 

MANSFIELD,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  457. 
— ,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  429. 

MAPS  of  England,  127,  442;  of  London, 
180,  183,  442. 

MARE, ,  the  surveyor,  199. 

MARKENDALE, ,  255. 

MARRIAGES,  duty  on,  394. 

MARRIOTT,  John,   235,   291  ;  call  to  bar, 

232. 

— ,  Sam.,  439. 
MARSH,  Mrs.,  392. 

— ,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  454. 

— ,  Will,  bur.  of,  460. 

MARSHAL  for  XMAS,  Iviii,   3,   10,   15,   18, 
26,  29,  184. 

MARSHALL,  Cell.,  call  to  bar,  400. 
— ,  John,  446  ;  bur.  of,  447. 
— ,  Martha,  wife  of  John,  bur.  of,  446. 

MARTIN,  Charles,  call  to  bar,  426. 
— ,  John,  bur.  of,  448. 
— ,  Rich.,  recorder  of  London,  tomb  of, 
444  (2),  446. 

— ,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  433. 
— ,   Will.,  389,  401,  408;  call  to  bar, 
172. 

— , ,  lord  of  the  Inner  Temple  at 

Xmas,  20. 

MASEMORE,  Will.,  bur.  of,  461. 
MASON,  Sir  Rich.,  174. 

— ,  Rich.,  son  of  Sir  Rich.,  call  to  bar, 

174. 

MASQUE,  The,  Ivii. 
MASSENBURG,  Hen.,  bur.  of,  446. 
MASSON,  Geo.,  bur.  of,  450. 
— ,  Will.,  bur.  of,  551. 

MASTER  OF  THE  REVELS,  Iviii,  5,  16,  38, 
48,  53,  73,  93,  94,  98,  108,  no,  115, 
"9,  145,  183  (2),  201,  229,  244,  245, 
264,  272,  289,  294,  315,  321,  329,  336, 
337,  338,  343,  344,  373,  377,  386,  388, 
412,  423  ;  appointed  by  treasurer,  373  ; 
assault  committed  by,  344  ;  discharged 
from  being,  83,  119,  423  ;  order  as  to, 
94.  See  Aris,  Berkeley,  Buggins,  Cooke, 
Cressett  and  Warner. 

MASTER  OF  THE  ROLLS,  253,  374,  434  ; 
invited  to  dinner  at  the  Inner  Temple, 
244  (2),  398,  417,  434. 

MASTER  OF  THE  TEMPLE,  xlix,  Ixxxvi, 
Ixxxvii,  5,  291,  352,  410,  411  ;  rights  of, 
396,  397,  4°i,  402;  salary  of,  orders, 
etc.,  as  to,  8,  141,  206,  210,  403,  404. 


5'° 


INDEX   AND    GLOSSARY. 


See  Ball,  Dr.  Rich.;  Sherlock,  Dr. 
Thorn. ;  Sherlock,  Dr.  Will. 

MASTER  OF  THE  TEMPLE,  house  of,  xvi, 

23,  25,  34,  35,  44,  76>  8l>  83,  238>  239, 
245,  272,  294,  349,  357,  363,  378,  381, 
384,  406,  411,  412,  425,  441;  burnt, 
44  ;  garden  of,  25,  238  ;  lights  of,  76  ; 
rebuilt,  44;  repairs  to,  363,  381,  384, 
406. 

MATTHEW,  Anne,  41. 
— , ,  butler,  460. 

MAUDETT,  Arthur,  called  to  bar,  109. 
MAYNARD,  John  son  of  John,  serj.,  adm., 

444- 
MECKLENBURGH,  Christienlaus,  Duke  of, 

107. 
MEERES,  John,  300  :  call  to  bar,  353. 

— ,  Thorn.,  son  of  Sir  Thorn.,  134. 

MELIORATION  MONEY,  264,  293. 
MELLISH,  Geo.,  porter,  317,  339,  342,  374, 

459- 
,  Sam.,  call  to  bench,  100;  steward 

for  reader's  dinner,  83. 
MELMETH,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  396. 
MELOR,  Rob.,  bur.  of,  445. 
MERCHANT,  MARCHANT,  Thorn.,  199,  212, 

343,  386. 
MEREDKTH,    MERADETH,    Eliz.,    bur.   of, 

453- 

— ,  Thorn.,  170. 

MERITON,  Charles,  173,  228,  325. 
MERRYDAI.E,  Luke,  bur.  of,  453. 
MERRYMAN,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  450. 
MERVIN,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  339. 

METHWIN,  John,  235  ;    call  to   bar,  99 ; 

called  assoc.  of  bench,  232,  323,  327; 

call  to  bench,  330,  332  ;  call  to  bench 

repealed,  332. 

— ,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  408. 

— , ,  123,  319. 

MICKLETON,  James,  call  to  bar,  21. 

MlCKLETHWAITE,     MlTTLETHWAITE,     Dr., 

master  of  the  Temple,  Ixxxvi,  403. 

MIDDLE  TEMPLE  OR  MIDDLE  HOUSE,  xiv, 
xxxii,  xxxiii,  Iviii,  23,  34,  55,  56,  74,  76, 
81,  89,  92,  103,  131,  135,  138,  140,  141, 

142,  143,  H9>  1S3>  1S5>  I57,  1S8>  l66> 
170,  171,  173,  177,  196,  199,  212,  224, 
225,  234,  235,  236,  240,  242,  244,  247, 
248,  251,  252,  253,  257,  261,  262,  263, 
265,  267,  268,  269,  270,  281,  310,  316, 
317,  349,  356,  365,  369,  375,  38i,  382, 
383,  384,  393,  396,  397,  401,  403,  404, 


405,  410,  418,  419;  admissions  from, 
74,  219,  232,  295,  312,  324,  359  ;  agree- 
ment with,  163;  ambassadors  to,  26,  57; 
chancery  bill  filed  against,  145  ;  convey- 
ance from,  138,  140,  153,  157  ;  disputes 
with,  55,  56,  149,  155,  158,  166,  226, 
227,  230,  231  ;  fire  engine  of,  200;  pad. 
of,  57  ;  precedency  of,  401  ;  treasurer 
of,  145,  297- 

MIDDLE  TEMPLE  LANE,  xxx,  41,  132,  133, 
139,  l63,  l64>  212,  244,  256,  319,  320; 
gateway,  Ixxxi,  319. 

MlDDLEMORE,    Rich.,   133,   156,  374,  380; 

call  to  bar,  219. 

— , ,  134,  150,  153,  380. 

MIDDLETON,  Sir  Hugh,  Ixxxiii. 

— ,  Thorn.,  239 ;  bur.  of,  458 ;  call  to 

bar,  232. 

— , ,  Iviii,  235. 

MILAND,  Hen  ,  the  smith,  5,  38,  264. 
— ,  Eliz.,  351. 

MILBORNE,  MILBOURNE,  John,  call  to  bar, 

293  ;  call  to  bench,  289. 

— ,  Ralph,  call  to  bar,  109. 

— ,  Rob.,  239. 
,  Will.,  82. 

MILES,  John,    337,  342,   357,  378,    385, 

424,  436- 
MILLER,  John,  carver,  255. 

MILLS,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  172,  437. 

— ,  Eliz.,  wife  of  Will.,  254;    bur.  of, 

448. 

— ,  Francis,  333,  334. 

— ,  Sam.,  call  to  bar,  296. 

— ,  Will.,  porter,  25,  73,  98,  144,  145, 

221,  448,  452. 

— , ,  328,  375,  4°4- 

MILMAN,  MILLMAN,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  330. 

— ,  Will.,  called  assoc.  of  bench,  289, 

293- 
MILTON,  Chris.,  bro.  of  John,  Baron  of  the 

Exchequer  and  Justice  of  the  Common 

Pleas,   Ivi,  Ivii,  3,   49,  53,  59,  65,  74, 

103,  104,  121,  124,  146,  151,  152,  159, 

174,  175,   l87>  !96>  238,  249;  att.  at 
parl.  and  bench,  51,  84,  94,  95,  96,  100, 
101,  102,  105,  106,  no,  in,  122,  123, 
131,  '32,  i37,  161,  162,  163,  173,  174, 

175,  185,  186,  201,  203,  206,218,230; 
att.  on  reader,  23,  24,  52  ;  call  to  bench, 
i  ;  reader,  36,  39,  40,  45  ;  to  remove 
from  his  chamber,  249. 

— ,  Chris.,  son  of  Chris.,  adm.,  3 ;  call 
to  bar,  21,  49. 

— ,  John,  bro.  of  Chris.,  the  poet,  Ivi. 
,  Rich.,  adm.,  49;  call  to  bar,  109. 


INDEX   AND    GLOSSARY. 


MILTON,  Thorn.,  119;  adm.,  74;  call  to 
bar,  119. 

MINARD,  Christian,  327. 

MINORS,  Will.,  butler,  71,  82,  89,  93,  98, 
104,  108,  114,  115,  119,  121,  123,  124, 
126,  127,  133,  135,  138,  145,  146,  148, 
149,  157,  161,  163,  164,  171,  172,  179, 
181,  182,  192,  194,  196,  204,  209,  211, 
217,  219,  233,  234,  235,  236,  244,  263, 
271,  272,  279,  283,  284,  290,  294,  299, 
300,  302,  303,  304,  305,  307,  313,  325  ; 
bur.  of,  456. 

,  Mrs.,  307,  309,  310. 

— ,  Paul,  bur.  of,  459. 
— ,  Thorn.,  307,  325,  355. 

MlNSHALL,  Rich.,  219,  222,  374,  381,  389, 
396. 

MINT,  the,  in  Southwark,  221. 

MITRE  COURT,  xiii,  xiv,  95,  103,  104,  143, 
i57.  243,  256.  271,  278,  279,  294,  301, 
3°5.  31?,  326,  341,  346,  348,  35°.  3S1. 
363>  373.  374-  376»  377.  38°.  434,  44° ; 
inhabitants  of,  294,  341,  351. 

MITRE  COURT  BUILDINGS,  237,  294,  325, 

349>  377- 

MITRE  TAVERN,  Ixxx,  406. 
"  MODERN  CASES,"  441. 
"  MODERN  REPORTS,"  441. 
MOLE,  Will.,  adm.,  70  ;  bur.  of,  450. 
MoufcRE,  J.  B.  P.,  Ixxiii,  255. 
MONEY,  John,  stationer,  269,  279. 
MONEY  BOXES,  tin,  129. 
MONMOUTH,  Duke  of,  xxxii,  Iv,  145. 
MONTAGUE,  Lord  Chief  Baron,  115. 

MOOR,  MOORE,  John,  104 ;  bur.  of,  456. 
— ,  Marmaduke,  bur.  of,  447. 
— ,  Thorn.,  35. 

, ,  385,  393,  397,  436. 

MOOTS  [exercises  of  learning  in  which 
points  of  law  were  argued  before  one  or 
more  benchers.  The  point  for  argument, 
termed  the  case,  was  started  by  an  inner 
barrister  or  student,  who  acted  as  counsel 
for  an  imaginary  plaintiff,  to  whom 
another  inner  barrister  answered.  The 
case  was  argued  by  two  utter  barristers, 
and  the  decision  given  by  the  benchers'}, 
xii,  xviii ;  chamber  rebuilt,  xviii,  53,  60  ; 
grand,  orders  as  to,  22,  36,  187  ;  library, 
186,  350,  352;  orders  as  to,  32,  53; 
petty,  orders  as  to,  22,  352. 

MORDAUNT,  Hen.,  bur.  of,  460. 

,  Lady  Eliz.,  bur.  of,  460. 


MORE,  Edw.,  bur.  of,  459. 

MORGAN,  Charles,  408,  415,  430,  434,  438; 
call  to  bar,  201. 

— ,  Rowland,  turnspit,  201,  259. 
— ,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  400. 
— ,  Will.,  cosmographer,  180,  181  ;  bur. 
of,  462  ;  map  of  London  by,  183. 
— , ,  xxi,  66,  287,  356. 

MORICE, ,  reader  of  prayers  in  Tem- 
ple church,  65. 

MORLEY,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  312. 
— ,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  323. 

MORRIS,  John,  bur.  of,  460. 
— ,  Rich.,  292. 
— ,  Secretary,  xi.,  adm.,  4. 
— ,  Sam.,  216. 

MORTESHELL,  Adam,  bur.  of,  462. 

MORTIMER,  Jonas,  65. 

MORTON,  Anne,  wife  of  Sir  Will.,  bur.  of, 

447- 

— ,  James,  son  of  Will.,  adm.,  47. 

— ,  John,  bur.  of,  447. 

— ,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  421. 

— ,  Sir  Will.,  Judge  of  King's   Bench, 

47,   4u,   447,   452   (2),   bur.   of,  449; 

monument  to,  449,  452. 

— , ,  412,  418. 

MOSIER.     See  Mosyer. 
MOSSE,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  455. 

MOSTYN,  MosrhN,  Roger,  57;  auditor  of 
accounts,  55  ;  bur.  of,  451  ;  call  to  bar, 
59- 

MOSYER,  MOSIER,  John,  69,  77,  So,  84, 

87,  93,  97,  148,  154,  iS5,  '57,  166,  174, 
189,  253;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  148, 
149,  233,  240,  248,  259,  273,  288,  295, 

297,  3°3,  3°S,  3ii,  3i3,  324,  329,  332  J 
att.  on  reader,  83,  87,  93  ;  auditor  for 
steward,  79,  92,  93;  bur.  of,  457  ;  call 
to  bench,  63  ;  deputy  treasurer,  303  ; 
reader,  90;  treasurer,  264. 

MOTT,  Fettiplace,  333. 

MOUNSELL,  Samborn,  call  to  bar,  367. 

MOUNSEY, ,  337,  338. 

MOWERS,  Francis,  73. 

MOWRE, ,  herald  painter,  52. 

MOYLE,  John,  bur.  of,  448  ;  call  to  bar,  44. 
— ,  Peter,  call  to  bar,  358. 
— ,  Walt.,  call  to  bar,  3. 

MUDEFORD, ,  19,  20. 

MUM  ALE,  199. 

MUNDAY,  MUNDY,  James,  68,  136,  223, 
335;  call  to  bar,  131  call  to  bench, 


512 


INDEX    AND    GLOSSARY. 


353;   master  of  the  revels,   183,  201; 
speaker  for  Xmas,  129. 

MUNDAY,  MUNDY,  Nath.,  230. 
—  ,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  449. 


MUSGRAVE,  --  ,  bur.  of,  446. 

Music,  MUSICIANS,  5,  n,  54,  57,  65,  82, 
89,  108,  115,  184,  199,  229,  238,  244, 
251,  255,  269,  271,  286,  302,  425,  428, 
440. 

Music  ROOM,  114,  115,  169,  183,  265,442. 

MUSTERS,  Charles.,  354,  360,  374,  380  ;  call 
to  bar,  146  ;  call  to  bench,  395. 

NANTON,  Joseph,  bur.  of,  446. 
NAPKINS,  orders  as  to,  54,  170. 
NASH,  --  ,  144  ;  tombstone  of,  444,  446. 
NEEDHAM,  lord  of  the  Temple,  28. 

NEEVE,  Phil.,  119,  172,  302;  call  to  bar, 

109  ;  call  to  bench,  353. 
NETHERSOLE,  John,  xciv,  467,  472. 

—  ,  Will.,  xcv. 

NEVILL,  Baron,  Ixxviii,  322. 

NEW,  Hen.,  steward,  199,  228.  335,  336, 

34°,  34i,  348,  349,  357,  3S8>  362-    See 
News. 

—  ,  Simon,  65. 

NEW  INN,  194. 
NEWBURY,  Mrs.  411,  417. 
NEWCOURT,  Tobias,  bur.  of,  444. 
NEWDIGATE,  John,  adm.  from  Gray's  Inn, 

354- 
NEWLAND,  Geo.,  406. 

—  ,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  426. 

NEWMAN,  Thorn.,    bricklayer,    104,    115, 

i32,  J36,  142,  !44,  147,  15°,  161,  l63, 
164,  1  66. 

NEWHALL,  --  ,  184. 

NEWNHAM,  NEWNAM,  Edw.,  409. 

—  ,  Mich.,    148,    153,    154,    302,    409; 
auditor  for  treasurer  and  steward,  313; 
call  to  bar,  94  ;  call  to  bench,  329. 

—  ,  --  ,34;    buildings  of,   148,   158; 
chamber  of,  138,  156,  432. 

NEWPORT,  Francis  Lord,  marshal  for 
Xmas,  3,  10,  15. 

—  ,  Thorn.,  360,  374  ;  call  to  bar,  131. 
NEW   RIVER  WATER   COMPANY,   5,   108, 

144,  229,  260,  287,  307,  310,  378,  406, 
4i7,  432. 

NEWS,  Major,  steward,  329,  369.  See 
New. 


NEWS,  payments  for,  171,  294. 
NEWSLETTERS,  272. 

NEWSPAPERS,  271,  305,  320,  328,  378,  411, 
428,  441. 

NEW  THEATRE,  The,  385. 

NICCOLENI, ,  for  singing,  418,  428. 

NICHOLAS,  Sir  John,  xxi,  66. 
— ,  Will.,  bur.  of,  449. 

NICHOLSON,  John,   186;  call  to  bar,  21; 
call  to  bench,  174,  193. 

NICOLL,  Dan.,  375;  auditor  for  steward, 
233,  241 ;  call  to  bar,  219. 
— ,  John,  adm.,  from  Gray's  Inn,  201 ; 
bur.  of,  454 ;  call  to  bar,  395. 

"NiENT  INCOMUNES,"  Roll  of  {Roll  of  those 
who  were  not  in  commons],  282. 

NOADES,  Geo.,  call  to  bar,  21. 
— ,  Geo.,  call  to  bar,  358. 

NOELL,  Edw.,  434;  call  to  bar,  261,  266. 
NORBORNE,  Walt.,  son  of  Walt.,  adm.,  70. 
NORCLIFFE,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  367. 

NORICE, ,  453.      See  Norrice. 

NORMAN,  John,  bur.  of,  455. 
,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  452. 

NORRICE,  Deborah,  dau.  of  Will.,  bur.  of, 

460. 
,  Eliz.,  dau.  of  Will.,  bur.  of,  460. 

— ,  Rob.,  son  of  Will.,  bur.  of,  460. 

,  Rob.,  461. 

,  Will.,  butler,  345,  368,  460;   bur. 

of,  461. 
NORTH,  Sir  Francis,  Lord  Guildford,  xlvi, 

liii,  115,  450,  451. 
,  Frances,  dau.  of  Sir  Francis,  bur.  of, 

451- 

,  Gilb.,  bur.  of,  454. 

,  Pope,  son  of  Sir  Francis,  bur.  of, 


450 


,  Roger,  xxix,  xxxiv,  xxxv,  xxxvi. 


NORTH  WALK,  The,  299. 
NORTHAMPTON,  Earl  of,  102. 

NORTHEY,  ,  92,   140. 

NORTHMORE,  Thorn.,   301,  305;   call  to 

bar,  288. 

NORTHOVER,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  449. 
NORTHUMBERLAND,  Geo.,  Earl  of,  102. 
NORTHWELL,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  446. 

NORTON,  Brett,  91. 

,  Graveley,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 

3- 

— -,  John,  337  ;  call  to  bar,  219. 


INDEX  AND    GLOSSARY. 


NORTON,  Owen,  son  of  Brett,  293  ;  adm., 
91;  call  to  bar,  147. 

,  ,   222,   336. 

NORWICH,  Bishop  of,  460. 

NORWOOD,  H.,  239. 

,  Rich.,  239,  245. 

,  Will.,  239. 

NOSWORTHY,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  59. 

NOTT,  Fettiplace,  call  to  bar,  339. 
,  Geo.,  call  to  bar,  240. 

NOTTINGHAM,  Earl  of.     See  Finch. 

NOURSE,  John,  bur.  of,  454 ;  steward  for 

reader's  dinner,  62. 
,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  49. 

NOYES,  Will.,  446. 

NURSE,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  456. 

NURSERY  GARDEN,  236. 

GATES,  Titus,  li,  Hi,  liii. 

O'BRIAN,  Morgan,  292. 

OFFICERS  OF  THE  INN,  allowance  to,  12, 
!3>  34,  38>  39,  4°,  42. 

OFFLEY,  Joseph,  135,  404,  418. 

OGILBY'S  MAP  OF  LONDON,  xiii,  xiv. 

OLD  BAILEY,  the,  307. 

OLIVER,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  147. 

, ,  239- 

OLLY, ,  386. 

ONEEY,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  291. 

ONSLOW,  Arth.,  call  to  bar,  219. 

ORANGES,  54,  128. 

ORGAN  IN  TEMPLE  CHURCH,  xliv,  xlv, 
xlvi,  xlvii,  xlviii,  191,  194,  195,  196,  197, 
199,  223,  224,  225,  226,  227,  230,  234, 
236,  254,  255,  261,  281,  302,  320,  370, 
396,  398,  405,  411,  417,  424,  440; 
blower  for,  254  ;  cleaning  and  tuning, 
370;  case  for,  xlv  ;  contribution  towards, 
396  ;  curtains  for,  255  ;  gallery  or  loft 
for,  199,  424 ;  shutters  to,  370.  See 
Harris  and  Shrider. 

ORGANIST,  appointment  of,  382  ;  salary  of, 
255,  328.  See  Piggott. 

ORLEBAR,  Orylybar,  John,  bur.  of,  457. 
— ,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  45. 

ORMOND,  Duke  of,  378. 

OSBALDISTON,  Sir  Littleton,  call  to  bench, 
100;  steward  for  reader's  dinner,  100. 

OSBORNE,  Dan.,  bur.  of,  457. 
— ,  Hugh,  bur.  of,  452. 

HI.  3 


OSBORNE,  John,  att.  at  parl.,  259,   265  ; 

call  to  bench,  260,  261  ;  reader,  276. 
--  ,  Rich.,  250,  268,  279,  289,  302  ;  call 

to  bar,  94. 

—  ,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  358. 
OTWAY,  Thorn.,  Ixxiii,  Ixxv. 

OSMOND,  --  ,  412. 
OUTWATCH  AT  XMAS,  184. 

OWEN,  Alice,  351. 

—  Edw.,  187,  389  ;  call  to  bar,  147. 

—  Hen.,  382  ;  call  to  bar,  232. 

—  John,  239  ;  call  to  bar,  260. 

—  Phil.,  293;  call  to  bar,  186. 

—  Rich.,  225,  228;  call  to  bar,  219. 
-----  ,  235- 

OXBURGH,  Hen.,  216. 
OxENimiDGE,  Harward,  adm.,  79. 
OXFORD,  John  of,  38. 

_  _     „  Q0 

>         ,  °y- 

-  ,  Bishop  of,  96,  427. 

—  ,  All  Souls  Coll.,  Wren's  drawings  at, 
xlviii. 

OXHENHAM,  John,  call  to  bar,  no. 

OYSTER,  cloths,   128  ;    expenses  of,  384  ; 
knives,  378. 


PAGE,  P'rancis,  att.  at  parl.,  437  ;  call  to 
bar,  266  ;  call  to  bench,  433,  435. 

—  ,  Hen.,  bur.  of,  446. 

—  ,  Nich.,  bur.  of,  459. 

PAGETT,  Hen.,  adm.,  8. 

—  ,  Thorn.,  adm.,  8. 

PAINE,  Aymondisham,  bur.  of,  452.     See 

Payne. 
PAKEMAN,  Dan.,  Ixxxii. 

PALGRAVE,  John,  53;  bur.  of,  458;  steward 
for  reader's  dinner,  100. 

—  ,  Nath.,  bur.  of,  died  of  plague,  446. 

—  ,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  40. 

—  ,  -   —  ,    113;    auditor    for  treasurer, 

15- 

PALLISADOE  PALES,  163,  252,  290,  301, 
327,  340,  341,  350,  354,  368,  410. 

PALMER,  Geo.,  bur.  of,  452;  call  to  bar,  21. 
PALSGRAVE  HEAD,  The,  Ixxxi. 

PANIERMAN  [an  officer  of  the  House  who 
•waited  at  table,  summoned  the  members 
to  meals  by  blowing  the  horn,  provided 
mustard,  pepper,  wine,  etc.,  looked  after 
the  library  and  greenhouse,  and  received 
certain  perquisites},  325,  335,  355,  406, 
409  ;  fined  for  providing  ill  oysters,  374  ; 
for  care  of  libraries  and  greenhouse,  441  ; 

U 


INDEX    AND   GLOSSARY. 


order  as  to,   225  ;  for  wine,  363,  377, 
411,417,  436.  440- 

PAPER  BUILDINGS,  xiv,  xxix,  no,  158, 168, 
175,  180,  183,  184,  191,  205,  211,  214, 
215,  217,  220,  315,  321 ;  rebuilding  of, 

126,    154,    197,   2l8,   221,   222. 

PARADINE,  Rich.,  cook,  bur.  of,  451. 
— ,  Thorn.,  tailor,  bur.  of,  451. 

PARGITER,  Phil,  18,  20,  195,  208,  223, 
234,  254,  265,  330,  331  ;  att.  at  parl. 
and  bench,  213,  259,  295,  297,  305  ; 
auditor  for  steward,  192,  206,  220; 
auditor  for  treasurer,  233 ;  call  to  bar, 
21  ;  call  to  bench,  174,  193;  reader, 
241,  246;  steward  for  Xmas,  17,  19. 

PARKER,  And.,  392. 

— ,  Geo.,  son  of  Sir  Thorn.,  395,  397. 

— ,  Hen.,  86 ;  call  to  bar,  40. 

— ,  Sir  Thorn.,  395;  call  to  bar,  274; 

call  to  bench,  387  ;  lord  chief  justice, 

438;  serj.,  395,  397. 

— ,  -  — ,  20,    208,  326  ;    steward   for 

Xmas,  17,  19. 
PARLIAMENT,    High    Court,    election    of 

members,  341,  371. 
PARLIAMENT    OF    INNER    TEMPLE,  as  to 

quorum  and  usual  days  of  holding,  316. 
PARLIAMENT    CHAMBER,    xiv,    27,     125; 

bench  table  held  in,  126. 
PARNELL, ,  reader  in  Temple  church, 

25,  38. 

PARRINGDON,  Rich.,  cook,  80. 
PARRY,  Griffith,  187. 

— , ,  65,  369- 

PARSLOWE,  Will.,  bur.  of,  450. 

PARSONS,  Sir  John,  142. 
— ,  John,  bur.  of,  453. 
PARSON'S  COURT,  5,  34,  37. 
PARTHERICH,  James,  call  to  bar,  437. 
PARTIZAN,  gilt,  184. 

PARTRIDGE, ,  238. 

PAUL,  Chris.,  call  to  bar,  69. 

PAULETT,  Seymour,  bur.  of,  450. 
— , ,  164,  447. 

PAUNCEFORTH,  PAUNCEFORD,  Brook,  son 
of  Grimbald,  adm.,  400. 
— ,  Grimbald,   162,  168,  354,  360,  400, 

405,  41°,  4H,  4i7.  423,  427.  434;  att. 
at  parl.  and  bench,  396,  401,  408,  415, 
421,  422,  426,  430,  434,  437 ;  call  to  bar, 
147  ;  call  to  bench,  399;  reader,  421. 
— ,  Rob.,  son  of  Grimbald,  call  to  bar, 
425.427. 


PAY,  John,  bur.  of,  443. 

PAYNE,  Charles,  340;   call  to  bar,  345, 

349- 

— — ,  Dennis,  call  to  bar,  433. 

— ,  John,  son  of  John,  bur.  of,  444, 
448. 

,  John,  bur.  of,  452. 

— ,  Rob.,  298,  302,  305,  336,  375,  382, 
384,  387,  393.  396,  405,  410,  4i2,  414, 
423,  435.  436.  438 ;  arms  of.  343  >  att- 
at  parl.  and  bench,  332,  339,  345,  346, 

353.  358,  36°.  364,  365.  373,  379,  380, 
387,  388,  394,  396,  399,  401,  404,  407, 
408,  415,  421,  422,  425,  426,  429,  430, 
434,  437  5  call  to  bar,  105 ;  call  to 
bench,  330,  335;  reader,  338  ;  treasurer, 
396.  See  Paine. 

PEACHY,  John,  the  elder,  228 ;  att.  at 
bench,  126;  auditor  for  steward,  97, 
137,  150  ;  call  to  bar,  74  ;  expelled  and 
restored,  94. 

— ,  John,  the  younger,  361,  408  ;  call 
to  bar,  172. 

,  Will.,  bur.  of,  455. 

PEARCE,  Sir  Edm.,  bur.  of,  447. 

,  Geo.  Gilb.,  bur.  of,  457.    See  Pierce. 

PEARE,  Mistress,  bur.,  446. 

— ,  Rich.,  son  of  Rich.,  bur.  of,  446. 

PEARSON,  Anne,  wife  of  Dr.  John,  bur.  of, 
449. 

— ,  Dr.  John,  Bishop  of  Chester,  449. 
See  Peirson. 

PECK,  Edw.,  40,  42,  51,  59,  61,  62,  69, 
81,  92  ;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  61,  71, 
77,  83,  84,  86,  87,  91,  93,  94,  95,  9^, 
97,  99,  too  ;  att.  on  reader,  50,  52,  69  ; 
auditor  for  steward,  15 ;  auditor  for 
treasurer,  4,  52,  63,  71  ;  call  to  bench, 
i  ;  discharged  from  reading,  62,  63 ; 
reader,  61  ;  Serjeant,  100,  162. 
— ,  Edw.,  son  of  Edw.,  adm.,  12  ;  call 
to  bar,  90. 

— ,  Lucy,  dau.  of  Thorn.,  445. 
— ,  Thorn.,  445  ;  call  to  bar,  35. 
— ,  Will.,  son  of  Edw.,  179;  adm.,  2; 
call  to  bar,  79. 
— ,  Will.,  butler,  88. 

PEERES,  John,  call  to  bar,  330. 
PEGG,  Chris.,  call  to  bar,  59. 

PEIRCE, ,  134,  142.     See  Pearce. 

PEIRSON,  PEARSON,  Thorn.,  call  to   bar, 

338. 

— , ,311,  351.     See  Pearson. 

PEKE,  - — ,  40.     See  Peck. 


INDEX   AND    GLOSSARY. 


PEMBERTON,  Sir  Francis,  att.  on  reader, 
96;   call    to  bench,  74;    chief  justice, 
162,   188;  reader,  99;    serj.,   99,    148, 
155  ;  steward  for  reader's  dinner,  69. 
— ,  Francis,  son  of  Sir  Francis,  adm., 
148  ;  call  to  bar,  387. 
— ,  Jeremy,  397  ;  call  to  bar,  399,  401. 
— , ,  460,  461. 

PENDRED,  Marg.,  dishwasher,  bur.  of,  461. 
— — ,  Will,  bur.  of,  460. 

PENGELLY,  Thorn.,  auditor  for  treasurer 
and  steward,  373,  380,  388,  396,  400, 
408,  414 ;  call  to  bar,  358;  call  to  bench, 
421 ;  Serjeant,  425. 

PENGRY,  — — ,  minister,  130. 

PENHALLOW,  John,  369. 

PENNE,  John,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 

Si- 
,  -  — ,  stationer,  38,  128,  239,  256, 

294,  35i- 

PENNESTON,  Rob.,  298,  299. 
PENREDD,  Marg.,  dishwasher,  336. 

PENSION  \thecontribution  assessed  by  parlia- 
ment upon  the  members  of  the  Inn  to- 
wards the  general  expenses  of  the  society], 
39,  S2,  63 ;  assessed  double,  232,  233, 
241,  248,  260,  266,  288,  296,  312,  323, 

353,  359.  367,  388,  395.  425  ;  assessed 
single,  in,  204,  324,  400. 

PENSIONS  AND  PREACHERS  ROLLS,  185, 
264,  306,  312,  318,  323,  326,  377,  381, 
440. 

PEPYS,  Sam,  xxii,  xxiii. 
PERCY,  Lord  Joscelyn,  10.     See  Piercy. 
PERKINS,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  90. 
PERRIN,  Chris.,  14. 

— . ,  230. 

PERRIOT, ,  446. 

PERROT,  Edw.,  173,  222,  348,  354,  360, 
381  ;  call  to  bar,  146. 
— ,  Herbert,  bur.  of,  451. 

PERRY,  Geo.,  call  to  bar,  247. 

PESCODD,  Rob.,  19;  called  assoc.  of  the 
bar,  21. 

PETERS,  John,  398. 

PETIT,  PETYT,  Silvester,  xciii,  411,  413, 
4i5.  4i7,  4i8,  420. 
— -,  Thorn.,    119,   267,    270,   288,   290, 

299.  3°2,  3IO>  31?,  318.  324,  327,  335  J 
arms  of,  320 ;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench, 

295.  297.  3°3»  3°5.  3"t  312,  322,  324, 
329,  332;  assistant  to  auditor,  270; 
auditor  for  treasurer  and  steward,  in, 


3r3,  324 ;  call  to  bar,  35  ;  call  to  bench, 
249,  260;  reader,  296. 

PETYT,  Will,  xci,  xciii,  23,  66,  267,  269, 
279,  283,  292,  306,  309,  317,  319,  325, 
37°,  37i,  379.  393,  413,  415,  4i7,  418, 
419,  423;  arms  of,  320;  att.  at  parl. 
and  bench,  297,  305,  311,  313,  322,  324, 
329,  33i,  338,  339,  345,  346,  352,  353, 
358,  360,  364,  365,  371,  373,  379)  380, 
387,  388,  394,  396;  auditor  for  treasurer 
and  steward,  in,  124,  277;  bur.  of, 
461 ;  call  to  bar,  74 ;  call  to  bench,  249, 
260 ;  chamber  of,  136,  202,  325,  343  ; 
exigenter  of  London,  74;  legacy  for 
buying  books,  411;  reader,  304;  trea- 
surer, 360,  370;  will  of,  406,  412. 
— ,  Will.,  MSS.,  orders  etc.  as  to,  xci, 
xcii,  413,  415,  418,  419,  420. 
— >  ~  — ,  65,  156,  164,  301  ;  auditor, 
27,  28,  124. 

PETTUS,  Sir  John,  bur.  of,  454. 
— , ,  xxi,  66. 

PETTY,  Mrs.,  Ixxii. 

PEWTER,  orders  etc.  as  to,  179,  193,  361. 

PHILLIPS,  Sir  Ambrose,  189;  call  to  bar, 
35  ;  call  to  bench,  190,  194  ;  serj.  232. 
— ,  Ambrose,  son  of  Sir  Ambrose,  adm., 
232. 

— ,  Andrew,  call  to  bar,  247. 
— ,  Francis,  xvii,  xviii,  36,  49,  60,  69, 
89,  95,  96,  120;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench, 
9,  '5,  21,  23,  34,35,  42,  44,49,  59,  62, 
70,  89,  90,  91,  92,  94;  att.  on  reader, 
3  ;    auditor  of  the  exchequer,  66,  94 ; 
auditor  for  Xmas,  28  ;  auditor  for  treas- 
urer,  21,   24;  auditor  for  steward,   10; 
buildings  and  chambers  of,  43,  60,  61, 
64,  68,  69,  70,  72,  84,  102;  reader,  86. 
— ,  Francis,  son  of  Francis,  60,  89. 
— ,  John,  son  of  Ambrose,  adm.,  232. 
— ,  John,  son  of  Francis,  60 ;    called 
assoc.  of  bar,  69. 
— ,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  3. 
— ,  Sam.,  treasurer's  clerk,  98. 
— ,  Will.,  191,  238,  459. 
— , ,  xlv,  251. 

PICK,  Will.,  5. 

PlCKE, ,  89. 

PICKERING, ,  222,  223,  268. 

PICTURES,  Ixxxii,  412  ;  in  hall,  xxxv,  320, 
417;  of  Queen  Anne,  373,  377,  378, 
442  ;  of  King  William  and  Queen  Mary, 
309,  310,  417,  442  ;  of  the  judges  Coke 
and  Littleton,  Ixxxviii,  n,  310,  315,  320, 
321,417,442;  Judge  Jeffryes,  245,306; 


INDEX  AND   GLOSSARY. 


of  Will.  Petyt,  xcii ;  of  the  Flying  Horse, 

Ixxxvii,  442. 

PIERCY,  Bernard,  245.     See  Percy. 
PIGOTT,   Francis,  organist,  47,  239,   248, 

252,  265,  310,  328,  332,  351,  352,  363, 

382. 
,  John,  son  of  Francis,  organist,  382, 

393,  425,  440. 
,  Nath.,  liv,  267,  270,  278;   call  to 

bar,  248,  255,  266. 
PINCKNEY,  Will,  14. 
PINDAR,  Charles,  300;  call  to  bar,  172. 
PIPES,  glazed,  for  tobacco,  272.     See  To- 
bacco. 
PISTOR, ,  393. 

PITT,  Geo.,  195. 

,  Nich.,  327. 

,  Thorn.,  adm.  from  Middle  Temple, 

219. 
,  Will.,  son  of  Geo.,  195. 

PITTS, ,  236. 

PLAGUE,  xii,  37,  39,  40,  63,  95,  446. 

PLATE,  185;  engraving,  82,  357;  hire  of, 
5>  82.  343.  357.  399.  424;  bowls,  5, 
262,  265,  302,  442  ;  cups,  357,  386, 
412  ;  ewers  and  basins,  386,  442  ;  salts, 
265,  386,  442;  spoons,  262,  265,  386, 
399, 4 1 2, 442 ;  presented  to  Dr.  Sherlock, 
256;  orders  as  to,  318.  See  Temple 
Church. 

PLATT,  Sir  John,  300. 

PLAYS,  Iviii,  lix,  Ix,  Lxi,  16,  25(2),  81,  104, 
128,  234,  355,  377  ;  Amphitryon  or  the 
two  Sofias,  286;  The  Brothers,  Ixi,  16; 
The  Busybody,  424;  The  Cheat  of  Scap- 
pin,  Iv,  Ixxv,  255;  The  Committee,  xi, 
Iv,  Ixvii,  Si,  238,  385  ;  The  Fond  Hus- 
band, Ixxiii,  255  ;  The  Little  French 
Lawyer,  Ixvi,  73  ;  The  London  Cuckold, 
Ixxi,  183  ;  Love  fcr  Love,  337  ;  Love  in 
a  Tub,  Ixiv,  65  ;  Love  in  a  Maze,  Ixiv, 
38 ;  The  Mayden  Queen,  Ixiv,  65 ; 
Phillaster,  Ixviii,  89  ;  The  Plain  Dealer, 
Ixxii,  212;  Rule  a  Wife  and  have  a  Wife, 
Ixxii,  183;  The  Scornful  .Lady,  Iv,  Ixx, 
1 08,  239  ;  The  Silent  Woman,  Ixi,  25  ; 
Sir  Martin  Mar-all,  Ixvi,  73  ;  The  Sol- 
dier's Fortune,  Ixxiii,  230  ;  The  Spanish 
Curate,  Ixx,  Ixxiv,  108;  The  Spanish 
Friar,  Ixxiii,  342  ;  The  Spanish  Priest, 
244;  The  Squire  of  Alsatia,  271;  The 
Little  Thief,  Ixiii,  357;  The  Wanton 
Wife,  357. 

PLAYERS,  Actors,  98,  104,  108,  114,  127, 
230,  238,  244,  255,  271,  286,  294,  357, 


378 ;  Davenant's,  239  ;  from  the  Duke's 
House,  Ix,  Ixiv,  Ixxi,  Ixxii,  n,  65,  73, 
183  (2),  212  (2);  from  Drury  Lane 
Theatre,  394,  399,  411,  425,  43.6;  from 
the  Haymarket,  424;  The  King's,  xi, 
Ix,  Ixii,  Ixiv,  Ixvi,  Ixviii,  Ixx,  16,  25,  38, 
65,  73,  81  (2),  89,  98,  108  (2),  127; 
from  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields,  337,  342; 
from  the  New  Play  House  or  Theatre, 
378,  385  ;  coach  hire  for,  98. 

PLAYDELL,  Oliver,  bur.  of,  449.  See  Pley- 
dell. 

PLAYFORD,  John,  clerk  of  the  church,  xl, 
xli,  5,  n,  16,  38,  41,  48,  65,  73,  81,  103, 
1 08,  127,  144,  169,  171,  183,  184,  199, 

212. 

PLEYDELL,  Edw.,  438 ;  call  to  bar,  296. 
See  Playdell. 

PLOWDEN,  -  — ,  monument  to  in  Temple 
Church,  447,  448,  449,  451  (2),  452, 
453- 

POCKLINGTON,  John,  called  assoc.  of  the 
bar,  429. 

PODMORE,  Rob.,  460. 

POLEWHEELE,  -  • — ,  235. 

POLL  TAX,  orders,  etc.,  as  to,  260,  263, 
270,  290.  See  Tax, 

POLLARD,  Timothy,  bur.  of,  448. 

— , ,  bur  of,  453  ;  funeral  of,  73. 

POLLEXFEN,  Edm.,  bur.  of,  456  ;  call  to 
bench,  100;  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 
no, 

— ,  Sir  Hen.,   157,  259,  261  ;    call  to 
bench,  100  ;  reader,  192. 
— ,  Hen.,  son  of  Sir  Hen.,  259. 

— , ,17,   112,   119,   124,   138,  154, 

156  ;  auditor  for  steward,  27,  102,  107, 
in,  124. 

POMEROY,  -  — ,  reader  in  the  Temple 
Church,  38,  41,  48. 

PORTER,  Anne,  wife  of  Charles,  bur.  of, 
446. 
— ,  Charles,  son    of   Charles,  bur.    of, 

45°- 

— ,  Charles,  son  of  Will.,  bur.  of,  454. 

— ,  Charles,  446,  450,  453. 

— ,  Sir  Charles,  269. 

— ,  Mary,  daughter  of  Charles,  453. 

— ,  Peter,  bur.  of,  443. 

—  ,  Thorn.,  41,  65. 

-Will,  454. 

PORTER  OF  THE  HOUSE,  4,  5,  183,  257 ; 
the  head,  210,  221,  257,  315,  335,  355  ; 
the  badge,  327,  342,  345,  347,  355, 


INDEX    AND    GLOSSARY. 


390,  391;  deputy,  210;  expenses  of, 
16;  gown,  210,  212,  249,  256,  272, 
337,  369,  393  (2),  428,  439,  441 ;  lodge 
of,  pulled  down,  127,  158;  order  as  to, 
327;  shop  of,  4;  staff  of,  210,  212, 
299,  3°2,  37°.  393;  under,  317,  335, 
355- 

POT  WOMAN,  167,  168. 

POTE,  Leon,  call  to  bar,  3. 

POTTENGER,  John,  298,  325  ;  call  to  bar, 
105. 

,  Nich.,  131,  337,  354. 

,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  426. 

POTTLE,  Will.,  bur.  of,  458. 

POULTNEY,  Charles,  son  of  Sir  William, 
375  ;  adm.,  137,  158  ;  call  to  bar,  219. 

,  John,  son  of  Sir  Will.,  adm,  106  ; 

call  to  bar,  172. 

— ,  Sir  Will.,   106,   107,    119,  120,  121, 

137,  154,   158,  230,   237,   238;  att.  on 
reader,  99,  101,  105,  109,  118;  auditor 
for  treasurer,   in;  call  to  banch,    74; 
reader,  106. 

— ,  Will.,  son  of  Sir  Will.,  adm.,  106. 
, ,  133.     See  Pulteney. 

POWELL,  Chris.,  grandson  of   Sir  Nath., 

adm.,  289. 

— ,  Hen.,  son  of  Sir  Nath.,  265. 
— — ,  James,  grandson  of  Sir  Nath.,  adm., 

289. 
,  Sir  John,  119,   133,  288,  289,  293; 

att.  at  bench,  126  ;  call  to  bar,  79  ;  call 

to  bench,  269. 
,  Leonard,  call  to  bar,  260. 

— ,  Littleton,   337,   347  ;    call    to    bar, 

119. 
— -,  Sir  Nath.,  113,  115,  164,  169,  264, 

265,  270,  279,  280,  299,  305,  346  ;  att. 

at  parl.  and  bench,  265,  270,  288,  295, 

297,  3°3,  3°S,  3J3>  322,  324,  329,  332, 

338>  339>  352>  354,  36°,  364,  365,  373  > 

call  to  bar,  69  ;  call  to  bench,  245,  249  ; 

treasurer,  277,  289,  293. 
,  Nath.,  grandson  of  Sir  Nath.,  adm., 

289. 

— ,  Poole,  son  of  Rich.,  adm.,  207. 

— ,  Rich.,  20,  35,  36,  40,  42,  45,  47, 

51,  52,  60,  61,  64,  69,  74,  77,  80,  81, 

84,  86,    87,    88,    89,  91,  93,  97,  100, 

101,  103,  104,  113,  115,  116,  119,  126, 

138,  141,  142,  144,  145,  151,  306;  att. 
at    parl.,    85,   96,   105,   106,   119,   121, 
122,  123,  131,  241,  259,  272,  288;  att. 
on    reader,    70,    71,    83;    auditor    for 
steward,  47,  52 ;  auditor  for  treasurer, 
7i.  79,  87  ;  reader,  75  ;  treasurer,  112, 
118,  120,  121,  124,  127. 


POWELL,  Rich.,  son  of  Rich.,  adm.,  45 

call  to  bar,  no. 

— ,  Sam.,  289  ;  call  to  bar,  106. 

— ,  Thorn.,  bro.  of  Sir  John,  call  to  bar, 

288,  289. 

— ,  Will.,  call  to  bench,  13. 

— , ,  son  of  Sir  Nath.,  call  to  bar, 

261. 

— , ,  207,  283,325. 

—i ,  plasterer,  337. 

POWER,  — — ,  25,  282. 
Powis,  Lord,  145. 

PRANNELL,  Rob. ,curateof  Temple  Church, 
bur.  of,  445. 

PRATT,  Sir  John,  175;  call  to  bar,  172; 

call  to  bench,  353  ;  serj.  358. 

— ,  John,  son  of  Serjeant,  adm.,  358. 
,  John,  bur.  of,  454. 

PRAYER  BOOKS,  265,  387. 

PREACHER'S    ROLLS.     See   Pensions   and 
Preacher's  Rolls. 

PRECEDENCY,  269. 

PRICE,  Betty,  436. 

— ,  Bulkeley,  call  to  bar,  323. 

— ,  Jenkins,  call  to  bar,  387. 

— ,  Mary,  bur.  of,  449. 
,  Rob.,  332,  337,  347;  call  to  bar,  119. 

— ,   Thorn.,    189,   325,  401,  408,  422, 

427;  call  to  bar,  201. 

— , ,  auditor  for  Xmas,  200,  213. 

PRIDEAUX,  Edm.,  will  of,  109. 

— ,  Edm.,  fined  for  not  reading,  360. 

— ,  Edw.,  354  ;  call  to  bar,  147. 

— ,  Peter,  call  to  bar,  367. 

— , ,  129,  130,  155,  213. 

PRIMATT,  Steph.,  82,  104;  expelled,  79. 

PRINCE,  Rich.,  129;  call  to  bar,  131. 

PRINCE'S  ARMS,  xv,  Ixxx. 

PRINCE'S  COUNCIL,  The,  31. 

PRINN,  PRIN,   PRYNNE,   John,  244,  249, 

250,  263,  278,  281,  283,  285,  300,  327  ; 

call  to  bar,  260. 
PRIVY  COUNCIL,  230. 
PROBEE,  Capt.,  325. 
PROBEES,  PROBY,  Edw.,  249,  250. 

PROUDFOOT, ,  326. 

PROWSE,  John,  call  to  bar,  367. 

PUDSEY,  Will.,  302,  325,  332,  336 ;  auditor 

for  treasurer,  162,  177,  192;  call  to  bar, 

109. 

PUGH,  John,  call  to  bar,  358. 
PULISTON,  John,  bur.  of,  441. 


INDEX   AND    GLOSSARY. 


PULTENEY,  Charles,  286,  381,  415,  417; 
att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  433,  434,  437  ; 
call  to  bench,  433,  435. 
-,  Sir  Will.,  286. 
— , .129.     See  Poulteney. 

PUMP  COURT,  xxx,  xxxiii,  132,  133,  135, 
138,  161. 

PURBRIE,  Hen.,  bur.  of,  460. 

PURCELL,  ,  xlv. 

PURLEY,  Francis,  163,  186,  187,  223,  224, 
226,  234,  238,  240,  244,  249;  att.  at 
parl.  and  bench,  220,  221,  222,  225, 
233,  241 ;  auditor  for  treasurer,  107, 
206,  220,  241;  call  to  bar,  3;  call  to 
bench,  174,  193;  reader,  233;  serj.,  300. 

PYBAS,  Ric.,  bur.  of,  449. 

PYERS,  Will.,  122 ;  call  to  bar,  94. 

QUEEN  DOWAGER,  for  fee  farm  rent.  See 
Fee  Farm  Rent. 

QUEEN'S  BENCH  OFFICE.  See  King's  Bench 
Office. 

QUEEN'S  HEAD  TAVERN,  opposite  the 
Temple,  199. 

QUILIBET  BOOK  \apparentlyan  account  book 
in  which  the  exceedings  or  extra  expenses 
of  members  were  separately  entered},  269, 
300. 

RABY, ,  360. 

RADFORD,  John,  404. 
RADOCKE,  John,  bur.  of,  461. 

RAINBOW  TAVERN,  xxxi,  Ixxx,  Ixxxii,  207, 
271,  294. 

RAINSFORD,  RAYNSFORD,  Lady,  xli,  143. 
— ,  Sir   Rich.,   chief  justice   of   King's 
Bench,  106,  115. 

RAM  ALLEY,  xiv,  xvii,  xviii,  xxi,  45,  49, 
61,  71,  80,  88,  150,  289,  290,  301,  317, 
326,  350,  373,  374,  377,  380. 

RAMSDEN,  John,  call  to  bar,  49. 
,  Rich.,  33. 

— , ,  27,  54,  187  ;  steward  for  Xmas, 

54,  56- 
RAVENSCROFT, ,  steward  for  reader's 

dinner,  8. 

RAWLEIGH,  Walter,  292. 

RAWLINS,   John,    reader   in   the  Temple 
Church,  65,. 73,  82,  89,  93,  98,  104. 
— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  291. 

RAWSER,  Hen.,  barber,  416. 
RAYNEFORD,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  358. 


READ,  Humph.,  bur.  of,  457. 
READEINGE,  Nath.,  expelled,  146. 

READERS  IN  THE  INNER  TEMPLE  [for 
description  of  office,  see  vol.  /.,  Introduc- 
tion, p.  xxxiiJ],  67,  no;  admissions  by, 
95,  107  ;  allowance  to,  46 ;  appointment 
of  head  cook  by,  317  ;  arms  of,  80,  82, 
89>  93,  98>  !04,  108,  115,  128,  369; 
discharged  from  being,  9,  86,  169,  183, 
23r»  233  (2)>  254»  289;  discharged  on 
account  of  plague,  37,  39,  40 ;  election 
of,  2,  3,  9,  10,  13, 15,  23,  24,  36,  39,  40, 
45>  47,  5°,  52  ;  6l>  69>  7°,  7i,  75,  79,  84, 
87,  9°,  93,  95,  97,  99  (2),  i°°,  102,  106, 
107,  118,  121,  149,  158,  161,  172,  174, 
177,  190,  192,  204,  206,  219,  220,  231, 
232,  233,  241,  247,  248,  260  (2),  266, 
267,  273,  276,  288,  296,  304(2),  312, 
323,  330  (2),  338  (2),  339,  345,  353,  358, 
359  (2),  360,  367,  373,  379,  380,  387, 
388,  395,  399,  400,  408,  414,  421,  425, 
429,  433,  437  ;  election  respited,  247  ; 
failure  of,  97,  249  (2);  feast  or  dinner 
of,  x,  xi,  xii,  6,  31,  46,  66;  liability  of 
treasurer  to  be,  253,  254,  255  ;  not  held 
for  some  years,  189  ;  orders  as  to,  6,  30, 

3i,  S2,  45,  46,  72,  99,  II2>  iS9i  l6o> 
265,  274,  298,  299;  refusals  to  read,  4, 
31,  85,  99,  278. 

READERS  IN  TEMPLE  CHURCH,  xlix,  240, 
25T>  35 2  j  petition  of,  251;  salary  of, 
25,  251;  to  be  found  by  the  master, 
402.  See  Gillingham,  Heath,  Jackson, 
Rawlings  and  Stacey. 

READERS  IN  INNS  OF  CHANCERY  [were 
appointed  by  the  Inns  of  Court  to  perform 
in  the  Inns  of  Chancery  attached  to  them 
respectively  the  duties  which  a  reader  of 
an  Inn  of  Court  performed  in  his  own 
/««],  32,  221,  225;  discharged  from 
office  of,  153,  157,  164,  208,  216;  neg- 
ligence in  performing,  179;  orders  as 
to,  88.  See  Clement's  Inn,  Clifford's 
Inn  and  Lyon's  Inn. 

READING,  John,  292. 

— , ,  144.     See  Readeing. 

READING,  commutation  for,  246,  260;  ex- 
cessive charges  at,  31  ;  put  off,  86. 

RECIPIATUR  [probably  the  same  as  ne  re- 
cipiatur,  a  form  of  order  against  receiving 
into  commons  a  member  who  has  com- 
mitted a  misdemeanour],  228. 

RECORDER  OF  LONDON,  66,  139,  144,  329. 

RECORDS,  inventory  of,  185 ;  press  for, 
82. 

RED  LION,  The,  in  Fleet  Street,  287. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


REDDY,  Rich.,  292. 

REEVE,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  339. 

REEVES, ,  Ixxxiii. 

REGICIDES,  The,  ix. 

REGNIER,  Jacob,  277,  280,  301,  305,  336, 

337.  344  J  call  to  bar,  296. 
REILLY,  John,  315. 
REINOLDS,  Martha,  250. 
REMFREY,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  260,  261. 
RENNETT,  John,  call  to  bar,  367. 
RENTON,  Barbara,  16. 

REPASTS  AND  REPASTERS,  [members  who 
were  not  continuously  in  commons,  but 
took  a  repast  or  meal  occasionally  in  the 
Hall],  54,  129,  384,  409. 

REPINGTON,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  266. 

REVELL,  Rob.,  292. 

REVELS,  Iviii,  73,  82  ;  at  All  Hallows  day, 
5  ;  at  Candlemas,  5  ;  at  King  William's 
birthday,  272;  at  Gunpowder  Treason, 
272;  discontinued,  250,336;  disorders 
at,  64  ;  orders  as  to,  410,  411  ;  wand, 
staves  and  tobacco  for,  5,  109  ;  watch- 
men at,  5.  See  Christmas. 

REYLEY, ,  324. 

REYNELL,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  373. 

RHODES,  Francis,  bur.  of,  463. 

RICH,  Sheriff,  200. 

RICHARDS,  Will.,  bur.  of,  451. 
— , ,  upholsterer,  212. 

RICHARDSON,  Francis,  call  to  bar,  172. 

— ,  James,  call  to  bar,  2 1 9. 

— ,  John,  20,  300,  309,   313  ;   att.   at 

parl.,    311;    auditor   for   steward,    27; 

bur.  of,  461  ;  call  to  bar,  21. 

— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  240. 
RICHMOND,  Charles,  Duke  of,  adm.,  2. 
RIDGATE,  Hugh,  415. 

RIDGEWAY,  Hen.,  Lord  Gallon,  bur.   of, 
461. 
— ,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  455. 

RIGGS,  Thorn.,  under-treasurer,  215,  222, 
229,  239,  278,  303,  304,  306,  307,  308, 

3°9.  31°,  3i4,  3r5»  3l6,  3r7,  352;  dis- 
missed, 304,  309. 

RlSDEN, ,  213. 

ROBERTS,  Owen,  362. 

— ,  Rich.,  panierman,  25,  77,  8 1,  82,  89, 
98,  108,  113,   114,  136,  151,  225,  294, 
351  ;  bur.  of,  45!. 
— ,  Rich.,  293 ;  call  to  bar,  358. 


ROBERTS,  Will.,  bur.  of,  444,  450 ;  call  to 
bar,  437. 

ROBEY,  Edw.,  269,  270,  285. 
ROBIN,  Martha,  bur.  of,  459. 

ROBINSON,  Geo.,  bur.  of,  454. 
— ,  Lady,  216. 

,  Lumley,  son  of  Sir  Thorn.,  119,  161, 

216;  adm.,  i ;  call  to  bar,  90. 

,  Rich.,  269,  271. 

,  Timothy,  call  to  bar,  312. 

,  Sir  Thorn.,  prothonotary  of  Common 

Pleas,  xxxix,  xlv,  4,  83,  84,  86,  96,  101, 
103,  106,  119,  120,  121,  125,  126,  133, 
'34,  137,  138,  139,  HO,  141,  143,  153, 
IS4,  157,  161,  162,  163,  166,  169,  175, 
I77,  J83,  185,  190,  191,  198,  238,  244, 
2  55.  3°°;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  121, 
126,  132,  134,  135,  139,  146,  147,  149, 
!5°,  151,  iSS.  i56>  158,  159,  160,  167, 
T72,  173.  J74,  177.  !85,  186,  189;  bur. 
of>  453;  gives  money  to  the  Inn,  118, 
177;  treasurer,  150,  172,  177. 

,  Sir  Thorn.,  Buildings,  85,  91,   148, 

192,  201,  202,  214;  fire  at,  128,  192. 

,  Thorn.,  son  of  Lumley,  adm.,  161. 

-,  Will.,   steward  for  reader's  dinner, 


106. 


-,  28,  412,  425. 


ROCHESTER,  The  Bishop  of,  96,  in,  199. 
,  Will.,  bur.  of,  446. 

ROCK,  ,  187. 

RODES,  Aston,  bur.  of,  462. 
ROE,  Mrs.,  65.     See  Row. 

ROGERS,  Hen.,  the  potter,  38,  53,  229. 
,  ,  lecturer  or  reader  at  the  Tem- 
ple Church,  145,  157,  169. 
, ,  412. 


ROLFE,  Will.,  bur.  of,  456. 

ROLL,    ROLLE,    Sir  Francis,    steward  for 
reader's  dinner,  83. 
— ,  John,  432 ;  call  to  bar,  387. 

ROMAN  CATHOLICS,  138;  call  to  bar  of,  liii. 

ROOM, ,  424. 

ROOTH,  Rich.,  193. 
ROOTS,  John,  bur.  of,  455. 
ROSE,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  346. 

ROSE  WATER,    128. 

ROSSE,  John,  bur.  of,  451. 

. .  S3,  65- 

ROSSERE,  Anne,  bur.  of,  463. 
ROUNDS.     See  Temple  Church. 

ROUNTHWAITE,  Will.,  joiner,  53,  122,  157, 
169,  184,  199,  294. 


520 


INDEX    AND   GLOSSARY. 


Rous,  Edw.,  bur.  of,  457. 

Row,  Isaac,  painter,  53. 

,  John,  bur.  of,  456. 

,  Rich.,  mariner,  42,  48.     See  Roe. 

ROWNEY,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  304. 

ROWTH, ,  steward  for  Xmas,  200.    See 

ROOTH. 

ROYLE,  Peter,  bur.  of,  450. 
,  Sam.,  bur.  of,  448. 

RUDD,  John,  call  to  bar,  367. 

RUDGATE, ,  call  to  bar,  209. 

RUDYARD,  Rich.,  34 ;  bur.  of,  448. 
RUFFLE,  Will.,  barber,  359,  400. 

RUFFLES, ,  361,  405. 

RUGO,  John,  285. 

"RULES,"  in   Clifford's   Inn   [members  of 

the  Inn  wfio,  with  the  principal,  governed 

the  society],  117. 
RUMSEY,   John,   adm.,  from  Gray's   Inn, 

218. 

RUPERT,  Prince,  adm.,  10. 
RUSSELL,  Hen.,  bur.  of,  447  ;  call  to  bar, 

44. 

— ,  Will.,  barber,  398. 

RUTH,  Rich.,  187.     See  Rooth,  Rowth. 
RUTHBRIDE,  in  Ireland,  37. 

RUTTER, ,  300,  333,  393. 

RYCROFT,  Will.,  299. 

RYDGATE,   Hugh,  call  to  bar,  205.      See 
Rudgate. 

RYLEY,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  35. 

RYMER, ,  350. 

RYTHER,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  112. 

SAP.INE,  Edw.,  the  smith,   170,  184,  199, 

255,  32°- 
SACHEVERELL,  Dr.  Hen.,  trial  of,  425. 

— ,  Rob.,  376. 

SACK,  269. 

SACKVILLE,  Rich.,    155,    187,    207,    218; 
call  to  bar,  99. 

SACRAMENT,  orders  as  to  taking  the,  liii, 

h'v>  79,  99.  "9,  137,  i38.  Hi.  MS,  235> 
236,  239,  241,  260,  262,  337  ;  certifi- 
cates, 138,  239. 

SADLER,  Lady,  books  and  pictures  from, 
11. 

ST.  AUBIN,  Francis,  bur.  of,  462. 

ST.    BRIDE'S   PARISH,    fire    engine   from, 
xxviii,  114,  200. 


ST.  DUNSTAN'S  PARISH,  fire  engine  from, 
xxviii,  114,  115,  200. 

ST.  GILES'  PARISH,  fire  engine  from,  200. 
ST.  JOHN,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  59. 
ST.  LEGER,  Sir  John,  397 ;  call  to  bar,  400. 
SALISBURY,  Lady,  404. 

SALLATING  FOR  THE  HALL  AT  GRASS  WEEK 
OR  GRASS  DAYS  [salads  for  Grass  week, 
see  Grass  week],  264,  321,  343,  357,  385, 
394- 

SALLOWAY,  Edw.,  bur.  of,  445. 

SALMON,  Hen.,  bur.  of,  447. 
— ,  54,  129. 

SAMBROOK,  Francis,  bur.  of,  462. 

SAMFORD,  Sir  Rich.,  bur.  of,  450. 

SAMPHIRE,  128. 

SAMPSON,  John,  bur.  of,  450 ;  call  to  bar, 
94- 

SAMSON,  James,  called  assoc.  of  bar,  429. 

SANDERS,    SAUNDERS,    Sir    Edm.,    Chief 

Justice,  bur.  of,  453. 

— ,  Eleanor,  widow  of  John,  23. 

— ,  John,  58,  70,  72  ;  bur.  of,  455  ;  call 

to  bar,  105. 

— ,  John,  bur.  of,  462. 

— ,  John,  cook,  23. 

— ,   Rob.,   210;    called  assoc.  of  bar, 

206. 

— ,  Thorn.,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 

70. 
SANDF.RSON,  Rob.,  bur.  of,  452. 

SANDS, ,  133. 

SANDY, ,  270. 

SANDYS,  John,  389  ;  call  to  bar,  146. 
— ,  Martin,  356  ;  call  to  bar,  346. 
— ,  Capt.,  221. 

SANK.EY,  Rich.,  292. 
SAUNDERFIELD, ,  140. 

SAVAGE,  SAVADGE,  Walt.,  290,  302,  392, 
426 ;  call  to  bar,  105  ;  call  to  bench, 

434- 

— , ,  widow,  104. 

SAWYER,  Abel,  415. 

— ,  Edm.,  call  to  bar,  433. 

— ,  Edw.,  212. 

— ,  Geo.,   298,  430,  434,  438 ;  auditor 

for  treasurer  and  steward,  353,  360,  368: 

call  to  bar,  247. 

— ,  Hen.,  375,  381,  401,  415,  422,427, 

430,  434 ;  call  to  bar,  219;  call  to  bench, 

433- 

— ,  Sir  Rob.,  xxxiii,  xli,    17,   28,    119, 


INDEX   AND    GLOSSARY. 


521 


120,  124,  134,  135,  140,  145,  146,  150, 
I54>  iS7.  '73.  l83»  2°6>  2II>  229,  238, 
244.  2S3.  254,  2S5.  26l>  269,  3'3;  att. 
at  parl.  and  bench,  120,  134,  159,  160, 
172,  200,  201,  203,  204,  205,  213,  214, 
218,  219,  220,  223,  225,  230,  231,  232, 
233.  234,  24°,  24',  245»  M,  247,  248 ; 
call  to  bar,  3 ;  call  to  bench,  112;  dis- 
charged from  treasurership,  248;  reader, 
247,  2S4;  treasurer,  192,  207,  220,  233, 
241. 

SAWYER,  Sir  Rob.,  buildings  of,  243,  252, 

257,  262,  S82,  399- 
SAYER,   Edw.,  317;    adm.   from   Middle 

Temple,  312. 
,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  74. 

SCARCE,  John,  bur.  of,  453. 

SCOLTOCK, ,  238. 

SCOTT, ,441. 

SCREEN  IN  HALL,  184,  363 ;  carving  of,  169; 
orders  affixed  to,  81,  161  ;  setting  up 
of,  169. 

SCROGGS,  Chief  Justice,  liii,  115. 
SCROOPE,  St.  Leger,  bur.  of,  455. 
SCROPE,  Adrian,  call  to  bar,  261,  266. 
SCUDAMORE,  James,  bur.  of,  444. 
SEAGRAVE,  Hen.,  292. 
— ,  John,  292. 

SEAL  DAY,  255. 

SEAMAN,  Dutton,  301,  305,  438  ;  call  to 
bar,  296. 

SEARLE,  Andrew,  bur.  of,  445. 

— ,  Edw.,  bur.  of,    448  ;    steward   for 

reader's  dinner,  34. 

— , ,  woodmonger,  393,  436. 

SEELEY,  Geo.,  339,  349,  374,  423,  427, 
428  ;  bur.  of,  462. 

SELBY,  Charles,  son  of  Hen.,  adm.,  206 ; 

call  to  bar,  338. 
,  Geo.,   239,  422,  427;  call  to  bar, 

*32,  23S- 
,  Hen.,  121,  133,  138,  140,  154,  157, 

168,  175,  195,  202  ;  att.  at  bench,  167  ; 

auditor  for  steward,  137, 162,  177,  192; 

auditor  for  treasurer,  220,  233;  call  to 

bench,  112;  serj.,  206,  233,  392. 
,  James,  335  ;  call  to  bar,  201  ;  call 

to  bench,  353. 
,  Thorn.,  bro.  of  Hen.,  call  to  bar, 

233- 
,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  367. 

SELDEN,  John,  xiv ;  chamber  of,  2  ;  tomb 
of,  444,  446,  448,  449,  450,  451,  452. 

HI.  3 


SERJEANTS-AT-LAW,  call  of,  x,  3,  99,  115, 
260,  391,  410,  411,  423;  gratuity  and 
purses  for,  53,  65,  89,  104,  157,  230, 
238,  264,  293,  321,  357,  425,  44i  ;  in- 
vited to  dinner,  19,  27,  234,  237,  244, 
269  (2),  292,  398,  405,  410,  417,  423, 
434  J  to  quit  chambers  in  the  Inner 
Temple,  15,  243,  334;  to  read,  62. 

SERJEANT'S  INN,  xiv,  xv,  xxxii,  89,  98, 168, 
17°i  3°5,  322J  fire  at,  378;  hall  and 
chapel  at,  xv. 

SERJEANTS  INN  IN  CHANCERY  LANE,  xv. 
"5- 

SERLES  COURT,  Lincoln's  Inn,  352. 
SEWERS,  gentlemen,  387,  394,  399,  407, 

433,  436. 
SEXTON,  427;  going  about  with  the  bell, 

265,  320  ;  to  be  found  by  the  Master  of 

the  Temple,  402. 

SHADWELL, ,  lx. 

SHAKESPEAR,  Will.,  lix,  lx. 

SHALCROSSE,  Francis,  51. 

SHANN,  SHANE,  John,  54,  55,  56,  57,  58, 
66,  79  ;  ambassador  to  the  Middle  Tem- 
ple, 55  ;  call  to  bar,  79. 

SHARP,  John,  call  to  bar,  373. 
SHAW,  John,  293. 

—       V  V 1 
,  ,     AAl. 

SHKK,  Rob.,  292. 
SHEILD,  Will.,  292. 

SHEIRES,  SHIERES,  Geo.,  son  of  Rob.,  236, 
271,  300,  381,  383;  adm.,  8. 
— ,  Rob.,  45,  55,  56  ;  att.  on  reader,  24, 
36,  39,  40,  45  ;  auditor  for  treasurer, 
15;  call  to  bench,  i  ;  reader,  47,  52; 
steward  for  Xmas,  56. 

SHELBURY, ,  70,  72,  113. 

SHELTON,   Edw.,  49,  51;  bur.,  449;  call 

to  bench,  49. 
.t  John,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 

24. 

_  Rich.,  305  ;  call  to  bar,  296. 

, ,  3°°»  301- 

SHEPHERD,  SHEPPARD,  Peter,  55,  56,  57  ; 

ambassador  to  Middle  Temple,  55  ;  call 

to  bar,  79. 
SHERLOCK,  John,  son  of  Dr.  Will.,  adm., 

288,  290;  call  to  bar,  379. 
_(  Ur.  Thorn.,  son  of  Dr.  Will.,  master 

of  the  Temple,  li,  Ixxxvi,  Ixxxvii,  398, 

410,  411,  412,  425,  432,  440,  441. 
,   Dr.  Will,  master  of  the  Temple, 

Dean  of  St.   Paul's,  xlix,  1,  li,  Ixxxii, 


INDEX    AND    GLOSSARY, 


Ixxxvii,2o6,  210,  212,  229,  238,  245,247, 

252, 255, 256, 264, 279, 286, 288, 293, 

294,  3°2,  3IO>  328.  363.  3?8,  393.  4°3, 
4°5>  439)  allowance  to,  361  ;  depriva- 
tion of,  1,  273  ;  house  of,  238,  239,  272  ; 
silver  candlestick  for,  264. 
SHERRINGTON,  91. 

SHERWOOD,  Jos.,  311,  349,  351. 

— ,  the  minister  of  the  Temple  church, 
48. 

SHIRLEY,   SHERLEY,   Francis,   panierman, 
225,  328,  406;  bur.  of,  457. 
— ,  James,  Ixi. 

SHOPS  IN  THE  TEMPLE,  xxxvii,  4,  5,  77, 
82,  101,  122,  276,  279,  294;  414,  416; 
at  Temple  Church,  229,  231,  300,  359, 
400,  424;  at  gate,  4,  82,  294,  362; 
barber's,  16,  33,  231,  359;  booksellers, 
400 ;  stationers,  392 ;  watchmakers, 
311;  at  Tanfield  Court,  77,  82,  168, 

294,  3°°>  302>  35  !>  377.  398 ;  orders 
as  to,  60. 

SHORT,  Sam.,  237  ;  call  to  bar,  247. 
-, ,  182. 

SHREEVE,  Paynton,  call  to  bar,  338. 

SHRIDER, ,  organ-maker,     409,    417, 

425,  441. 

SHURLAND, ,  155. 

SHUTER,  Hopton,  4,  42,  83,  87,  88,  91,  93, 
97,  ioo,  103,  104;  att.  on  reader,  105, 
106,  no;  auditor  for  steward,  15,  52, 
63,  71  ;  auditor  for  treasurer,  4  ;  bur.  of, 
451  ;  call  to  bench,  84;  reader,  107. 

SIDE  BAR,  The,  125. 

SILVER,  Thorn.,  144. 

SILESIA  DIAPER,  170. 

SILVESTER,  Anne,  bur.  of,  458. 
— ,  Eliz.,  bur.  of,  458. 
— ,  Hen.,  son  of  John,  bur.  of,  460. 
— ,  Mary,  bur.  of,  457  (2). 
— ,  Thorn.,  clerk  of  the  Temple  Church, 
245,  279,  280,  324,  328,  337,  343,  357, 

363.  378,  385.  393.  4ii,  417.  4i8 ;  bur. 

of,  459. 

— ,  Will.,  sexton,  427,  436. 

SIMPSON,  Sir  John,  King's  Serjeant,  126, 
146;  att.  on  reader,  no;  auditor  for 
treasurer,  137;  bur.  of,  453;  call  to 
bench,  91. 

,  Mrs.,  338,  343. 

,  Thorn.,  son  of  Sir  John,  146  ;  call  to 

bar,  248,  255. 

,  Will.,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  119, 

313,  242,  289,  298,  329,  332,  385,  389, 


414,  415,  417,  418,  427  ;  att.  at  parl.  and 
bench,  332,  339,  346,  353,  360,  365, 
373,  380,  387,  388,  396,  399,  407,  4°8, 
422,  426,  430,  433,  434,  437  ;  auditor 
for  treasurer,  245  ;  call  to  bar,  99 ;  call 
to  bench,  331,  336;  reader,  345; 
treasurer,  408,  420. 

SKEGNESS,  John,  450,  453. 

— ,  Susanna,  wife  of  John,  bur.  of,  453. 

SKINER, ,  461. 

SKINNER,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  172. 

SLEIGHTON, ,    reader '   in     Temple 

Church,  25. 

SLINGSBY,  Arthur,  call  to  bar,  421. 

SLOANE,  James,  361,  365;  bur.  of,  459; 
call  to  bar,  147. 

SMEATON,  Great,  Lordship  of,  245. 

SMITH,  Anth.,  steward,  39,  64,  65,  71,  88, 
,56. 

— ,  Bernard,  the  King's  organ  maker, 
xlv,  xlvii,  194,  197,  223,  224,  225,  226, 
227,  261,  271,  281,  362,  365,  366,  370, 

385-  393,  398,  4°9,  4i7- 

— ,  Edw.,  140. 

— ,  Francis,  65. 

— ,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  353. 

— ,  Humph.,  362. 

— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  21. 

— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  240. 

— ,  John,  called  assoc.  of  the  bar,  429. 

— ,  John,  389,  422,  427,  430. 

— ,  John,  the  cook,  65,  238,  450. 

— ,  Joshua,  call  to  bar,  346. 

— ,  Mrs.,  417. 

— ,  Nich.,  call  to  bar,  44. 

— ,  Philip,  steward  for  reader's  dinner,  8. 

— ,  Susan,  bur.  of,  462. 

— ,  Thorn.,  butler,  139,  140,  171,  195, 

201,  209,  228,  239,  270,  282,  300,  303, 

3!9>  343,  45 1- 

— ,  Will.,  392,  427,  430,  434;  call  to 

bar,  240. 

— , ,  herald  painter,  83. 

— , ,  76,  8 1. 

SMITHSON,  Barnard,  call  to  bar,  119. 

SNELL,  John,  call  to  bar,  379. 
— ,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  373. 

SMELLING,  Will.,  call  to  the  bar,  304. 
SNOW,  great  fall  of,  98. 
SNOWE, ,  326. 

SOARES,  Francis,  104,  115,  127. 

,  Will.,  the  porter,  143,  144,  169,  221, 

249,  253. 


INDEX   AND    GLOSSARY. 


523 


SOLICITORS,  orders  as  to,  30.  See  Attor- 
neys. 

SOLICITOR  GENERAL,  384,  393,  396,  398  > 
orders  as  to,  274,  276,  277.  See  Finch, 
Sir  Heneage. 

SOLICITOR  GENERAL  TO  THE  QUEEN.  See 
Hanmer,  Sir  Thorn.,  Farrer,  Will. 

SOMERS,  SOMMERS,  -  ,  115,  406.  See 
Summers. 

SONVILLE,  Alex.,  230. 

SORRELL,  Thorn.,  the  butler,  169,  170. 

SOUTH,  Dr.,  xlix.,  55. 


SOUTHAMPTON,  Charles,  Duke  of,  102. 

SOUTHERBY,  --  ,  340. 

SOUTHEY,  Rich.,  251  ;  call  to  bar,  247. 
SOUTHOUSE,    Thorn.,    438  ;    call   to   bar, 
3°4- 

SOUTHWARK,   221,   287. 

SPARKES,  SPARKS,  Arthur,  adm.  from  Mid- 
dle Temple,  74. 

—  ,  Chris.,  146,  150,  237. 

—  .  --  .  58>  294,  423,  425,  435- 
SPARREY,  SPARRY,  Benj.,  call  to  bar,  387. 

—  ,  John,  bur.  of,  455. 

SPARROW,  Sir  John,  70,  72,  83,  84,  86; 
call  to  bar,  44;  steward  for  reader's 
dinner,  34. 

—  ,  Sir  John,  buildings  of,  77,  84,  85,  87, 
93- 

SPATHURST,  John,  bur.  of,  445. 

SPEAKER  FOR  XMAS.,  17,  18,  20,  26,  28, 
54,  58>  59,  I29,  200,  213;  mace  of, 
272. 

SPEED,  Sam.,  14. 

SPENCER,  John,  325,  332  ;  call  to  bar, 
105. 

—  ,  Will.,  bur.  of,  460. 

SPIER,  --  ,  grocer,  41. 
SPOONER,  --  ,  143. 

SQUIRE,  Charles,  call  to  bar,  395,  396. 

—  ,  Will.,   panierman,    325,    337,  391, 
398,  417,  425,  428,  440  ;  bur.  of,  459. 

—  ,  Will.,  a  child,  bur.  of,  458. 


STACEY,  John,  readerin  the  Temple  Church, 
183,  199,  229,  238,  240,  242,  244,  251, 
252,  255,  262,  264,  270,  280,  293. 

STAFFORD, ,  411. 

STANBROOKE,  John,  142,  143,  155,  161, 
167,  196. 

STANDISH,  ink,  and  pens,  128. 


STANHOPE,  Alex.,  186 ;  call  to  bar,  9 ;  call 

to  bench,  174,  193. 
,  Charles,  call  to  bar,  373. 

— ,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  379. 

STANLEY,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  459. 
STANTON,  James,  292. 

— , ,  157,  4°6,  425. 

STANTON  HARCOURT,  106. 
STAPLES,  Alex.,  bur.  of,  460. 

— , ,  14°- 

STAPLETON'S  BUILDINGS,  77. 

STAR  TAVERN  AT  TEMPLE  GATE,  Ixxx, 
261,  262. 

STARKEY, ,  73,  196. 

STATUTE  OFFICE,  208. 

STATUTE,  breaking  the,  at  the  laver,  46. 
See  Laver. 

STAVELY,  Thomas,  105,  108. 
STAVES,  53,  82,  272. 
STEDMAN,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  373. 
STEEL,  Rich.,  Ixxii. 
STEEPLE,  fall  of,  370. 

STEPHENS,  Edw.,  bur.  of,  450. 
— ,  Eliz.,  bur.  of,  455. 
— ,  James,  call  to  bar,  119. 

STERMY.     See  Sturmy. 
STERNHOLD, ,  psalms  by,  348. 

STEVENS,  Hen.,  430 ;  call  to  bar,  266. 

— ,  J-,  449- 

— ,  Nath.,  bur.  of,  457. 

— ,  Rich.,  179  ;  called  assoc.  of  the  bar, 

172. 

— , ,  377,  406,  412,  425,  440. 

STEVENSON,  Hen.,  434. 

— ,  John,  261 ;  call  to  bar,  260. 

STEWARD,  STEWART,  Barnaby,  405. 
• — ,  Charles,  42. 

STEWARDS  OF  THE  HOUSE,  12,  39,  53,  335  ; 
apparels,  257;  appointment  of,  324,  328, 
408,  411;  appointed  by  the  bench  table, 
312;  appointed  by  par!.,  317;  duties 
of,  327,  361  ;  orders  as  to,  36,  47,  71, 
80,  328,  410,  411,  413,  415,427,438, 
439  ;  proposals  of,  Ixxix,  382,  383,  384, 
413,  441;  rolls  of,  95,  185,  281.  See 
Chark. 

STEWARDS  FOR  READERS'  DINNER,  2,  3,  8, 
9,  ii  (2),  12,  14,  21,  24,  34,  36,  37, 
39,  40,  42,  46,  49,  51,  59,  62  (2),  69, 
7°,  74,  77,  81,  83,  89,  91,  94,  96,  100  (2), 
loi,  105  (2),  106,  ilo,  120. 


524 


INDEX  AND   GLOSSARY. 


STEWARDS  FOR  XMAS.,  3,  10,  15,  17,  19, 
26,  28,  29,  54,  ss,  56,  59,  129,  130,  200, 
"3- 

STICK,  Humph,  157. 

STILE,  Will.,  steward  for  reader's  dinner,  2. 

STILLINGFLEET,  Dr.,  48,  53,  65,  73,  82, 
87,  89. 

STOCKS,  in  Temple,  344. 

STOKES,  Will.,  bur.  of,  455. 

STONE, ,  289. 

STONNER,  Angel,  444,  445. 
— ,  Anne,  wife  of  Angel,  444. 
— ,  Anne,  dau.  of  Angel,  445. 

STORER,  Dan.,  108,  127,  377. 

STORM,  GREAT,  Ixxxv,  385,  386,  389,  390, 

391,  392.     See  Snow. 
STRAINGEWAYS,  James,  call  to  bar,  379. 

STRANGERS,  OR  FOREIGN  LODGERS,  Ixxxviii, 
269,  278,  280,  281,  283,  286,  292,  297, 
298,  300,  307,  314,  318,  319,  324,  325 

(2),  S^8.  332.  333.  334,  336,  349,  356(2), 
362,  365,  368,  369,  375,  376,  382,  392; 
orders  against  lodging,  46,  54,  80,  90, 
159,  '95  (2)>  J96  (3),  !97.  201,  203, 
257,  277,  301  (2)- 
STRATFORD,  Dr.,  378. 

STREET,  STREAT,  Geo.,  bur.,  of,  448. 
— ,    Thorn.,    call    to    bench,    63,    69; 
steward  for  reader's  dinner,  62. 

STREWINGS  for  the  hall,  265,  272,  343,  357. 

STRICKSON,  John,  369. 

— ,  Sam.,  369 ;  call  to  bar,  323. 

STRONG,  Edw.,  406. 

STROUD,  Sir  Nich.,  call  to  bench,  49 ; 
steward  for  reader's  dinner,  106. 

STUART, ,  the  plasterer,  198. 

STUBBS,  John,  call  to  bar,  3. 

STUDENTS,  orders  as  to,  6,  22,  30,  35,  36, 
45;  cloths  for,  170.  See  Barristers, 
Inner. 

STURMY,  STERMY,  John,  70,  72,  347,  354; 
call  to  bar,  109. 

— ,  Thorn.,  223 ;  bur.  of,  462  ;  call  to 
bar,  44. 

STURT,  Thorn.,  397  ;  call  to  bar,  147. 

SUB-TREASURER  OR  UNDER-TREASURER, 
Ixxvi,  190,  201,  253,  260,  267,  278,  279, 
291,  297,  298,  299,  304,  306,  307,  308, 
319,  320,  357,  375,  397,  418,  441 ;  ap- 
pointment of,  175,  176,  182,  209,  309; 
appointed  by  bench  table,  312;  appointed 
by  par!.,  317;  chamber  of,  205:  duties, 


176,  178,  182,  215;  orders  as  to,  176, 

214,    215,    2l6,   219,    221  (2),    291,    292, 

318,  348,  350,  361 ;  records  delivered 
to,  185.  See  Dummer,  Riggs,  and 
Wheeler. 

SUCH, ,  329. 

SUCKLEY,  Ralph,  bur.  of,  456. 
SUFFEILD,  John,  call  to  bar,  312. 
SUMMER,  Ralph,  butler,  92. 

SUMMERS, ,  114.     See  Somers. 

SUMNER, ,  133. 

SUNDIAL,  purchase  of,  16. 

SUPPERS,  46,  54,  65;  for  auditors  of  trea- 
surer's and  steward's  accounts,  98;  pri- 
vate, 54;  time  for,  18. 

SUXBERRY,  Anthony,  call  to  bar,  172. 
SWAINE,  Will.,  bur.  of,  445,  459. 

— ,  326,  328. 

SWAINTON,  Francis,  bur.  of,  444. 

SWANN,  -  — ,  351. 

SWEETMEATS,  184. 

SWINGERS,  table  and  cloths  of  the,  104, 
109,  170,  406. 

SWORDS,  orders  as  to  wearing,  64. 

SYDENHAM,  Charles,  bur.  of,  449. 

— • ,  346. 

SYMMES,  Joan,  potwoman,  170. 

SYMONDS,  Lancelot,  bur.  of,  446. 

TAINTURIER,  Dan.,  301,  305,  438;  call  to 
bar,  288. 

TALBOT,  Charles,  son  of  the  Bishop  of 
Oxford,  call  to  bar,  425,  427. 
— ,  Sir  John,  466. 

TALLIES,  xxiv,  xxv. 

TANFIELD  COURT,  xiii,  xvii,  xxxi,  xxxvii, 
24,  42,  60,  77,  82,  114,  149,  168,  221, 
271,  272,  294,  295,  300,  302,  351,  376, 
377,  378,  410. 

TAPESTRY,  412. 

TARLTON,  Will.,  bur.  of,  446. 

TASBURGH,  John,  256. 

TATE,  Sir  John,  serj.,  bur.  of,  455. 

TATE  AND  BRADY'S  PSALMS,  347. 

TAVERNER,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  455. 
j  TAXES,  180,  267,  268,  272,  279,289,311, 

3 '5,  333,  343,  3^3,  394,  439  J  com- 
missioners for,  268,  311,  333  ;  from  Inns 
of  Chancery,  308,  316,  337;  King's 


INDEX  AND  GLOSSARY. 


525 


tax,  308,  316,  326,361 ;  land,  363,  394, 
439,  441 ;  liability  to  pay,  267  ;  paid 
by  treasurer,  361,  439;  window,  334, 
37°.  385,  394,  4°6,  411,  417,  441.  See 
Poll  Tax  and  Hearth  Tax. 

TAYLOR,  John,  call  to  bar,  35. 

— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  218,  220. 

,  John,  bur.  of,  456. 

,  John,  374. 

— ,  Joseph,  call  to  bar,  400. 
-,  Newman,  405. 


,  Thorn.,  268  ;  call  to  bar,  94. 

,  Will.,  bur.  of,  455. 

~       >  ,  I32>  r34- 

, ,  the  surveyor,  128. 

TEA,  184. 

TEMPEST,  Charles,  son  of  Will.,  359. 

Geo.,  son  of  Will.,  371. 

John,  son  of  Will.,  360. 

• Rob.,  son  of  Will.,  359. 

—  Thorn.,  son  of  Will.,  359. 

• Will.,    prothonotary    of     Common 

Pleas,  228,  248,  288,  307,  308,  319, 
359,  360,  371 ;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench, 
297,  322,  324,  332,  338,  339,  345,  346, 

352.  354,  358,  36o>  364,  365;  called 
assoc.  of  bar,  247,  252  ;  called  assoc.  of 
bench,  248 ;  called  complete  bencher, 

323,  327- 

— ,  Will.,  son  of  Will.,  288  ;  call  to  bar, 

379- 
TEMPLE,  Abraham,  108,  127. 

— ,  Ahurst,  1 08. 

• ,  Anne,  bur.  of,  456,  460. 

,  Benj.,  108,  184,  230. 

— ,  Bertha,  432. 

,  Christian,  363. 

• ,  Christmas,  254,  369. 

— ,  Eliz.,  385,  386. 

— ,  Francis,  bur.  of,  458. 
,  Gilb.,  302. 

— ,  James,  393,  394. 

— ,  John,  108,  338,  385,  458. 

— ,  Marg.,  127,  139,  352. 

— ,  Martha,  440. 

— ,  Mary,  108,  127,  329,  459. 
,  Sarah,  345,  405. 

— ,  Susan,  440. 

— ,  Thorn.,  184,  378,  385,  386. 
,    Will.,    prothonotary   of    Common 

Pleas,  292,  328,  329. 

— ,  Will.,  son  of  Will.,  288. 

TEMPLE,  charter  of,  464,  466 ;  conveyance 
of  soil  of,  147,  154,  157,  244,  297,  316. 

TEMPLE  BAR,  121. 

TEMPLE  BRIDGE,  n,  98,  375,  385,  398, 


406;  repairs  to,  n,  16,  21,  371,  375, 
378,  398. 

TEMPLE  CHURCH,  xxx,  xxxvii,  xxxix,  xl,  xli, 
xlii,  xlix,  Ixxxv,  16,  23,  48,  65,  108,  141, 
J45,  I57>  J99,  212,  239,  241,  242,  252, 
264,  336,  347,  35i,  357,  37°,  382,  383, 
385,  411,  412,  424;  aisles  of,  198,  443- 
463,  passim ;  altar  in,  444  ;  altar  piece 
in,  199  ;  arms  in,  5,  41,  104,  157,  199  ; 
belfry  in,  443,  449  ;  bells  of,  xl,  xli,  103, 
238,  245,  32°;  bibles  in,  127,  332,  337; 
buildings  about,  139;  burial  fees  at,  261, 
263,  280,  285,  402;  carvings  in,  198; 
chancel  of,  445,  449  (2),  450  (2),  452, 
458;  colouring  in,  198;  chapel  of  St. 
Anne  at,  xxxviii,  xliv,  445 ;  cross  passage 
in,  443;  crucifix  in,  98;  cupola,  198, 
407  ;  cushion  for,  399  ;  daily  prayers  in, 
250;  decoration,  holly,  ivy,  rosemary 
and  bay  for,  271,  286,  320,  378,  386; 
dials  in,  53;  Dogget's  door,  444  (2), 
447,  449 ;  filling  up  aisle  and  nave  for 
marble  stones,  198;  folding  doors  in, 
212  ;  font  in,  407,  443,  446,  448,  450, 
451,  452;  hust  in,  212;  iron  grate  in, 
443,  446,  447,  450  ;  knights  templars 
in,  407,  451  ;  ladies'  seats  in,  300,  351, 
357i  lamp  in,  337,  368;  long  stone, 
the,  in,  444  ;  long  walk  in,  443,  445, 

446,  447,  448,  449,  45°,  451,  452,  453  \ 
marble  used  in,  199,  212,  272,  407; 
nuisances  to  be  removed  from,  384 ; 
pews  and  seats  in,  xl,  xli,  xlix,  113, 
124,  128,  177,  180,  195,  198,  199,  212, 
229,  272,  320,  351,  357,  387,443,444; 
piers  in,  212;  plate  of,  103;  porch, 
xxxvii,  202,  236,  238 ;  prayer  books 
for,  238,  271,  286,  320,  337,  342,  378, 

385,  393,  425,  428;  preachers  and  ser- 
mons in,   26,  55  (2),  57,  58,  199,  247, 
252,  273,  284,  293,  294,  303,  310,  321  ; 
psalms,  347,  352,  428;  pulpit,  xlii,  xliv, 
103,  180,  199,  212,  320,  337,  363,  378, 
443,  445  (2),  447  (3),  449  (3),  45°,  45'; 
reader's  desk  in,   199,  320,   321,  444; 
registers  in,  320 ;  repairs,  xli,  5, 4 1 , 89, 1 03, 
124,  173,  177,  180,  181,  198,  199,  211, 
229,  238,  244,  245,  255,  264,  311,  321, 
332,  342,  343,  351,  365,  369,  370,  381, 
382,  383,  384,  393,  398,  405,  406,  407, 
411,  412;  roof  of,  198,  320;  round  of, 
65,  81,   140,   198,  234,  272,  337,  370, 

386,  397,  425,   431,   443-463  passim; 
saints  bell  in,  446,  447 ;  sacrament  books 
for,  337;   screen  in,  xlii,  103,  199  (2), 
454 ;  services  in,  250,  385  ;  Sir  Chris. 
Wren's  orders  as  to,  173,  198;  soil  of, 
402  ;  south  door  in,  444,  448  ;  speaker's 
mace,  place  for  in,    272  ;   surplice  for, 


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INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


104,  114,  229,  351,  357;  teeses  in, 
212;  type  in,  199,  212;  vault  in,  xliii, 
212,  403,  454-463  passim;  vestry,  445, 
446;  vestments  of,  103;  windows  of, 
xli,  143,  144,  157,  198,  199,  412. 

TEMPLE  CHURCHYARD,  81,  153,  159,  165, 
170,  256,  271  ;  burials  in,  443-463  pas- 
sim ;  chambers  and  shops  in,  5,  35,  82, 
101,  229,  231,  271,  300,  359;  inner 
churchyard,  446;  paving,  u,  170,  263. 

TEMPLE  GATE,  204,  261,  293,  362,  372, 
424;  bonfire  at,  199;  candles  burnt  at, 
73,  J57  i  scaffolding  at  for  processions, 
5,  342  ;  shops  at,  4,  302. 

TEMPLE  LANE,  244,  263,  287,  351,  377. 
See  Inner  Temple  Lane  and  Middle 
Temple  Lane. 

TEMPLE  POTS,   16,  25,  38,  165,  170,  183, 

229,  357,  44i- 
TEMPLE  STAIRS,  212,  229,  310,  311,  357, 

37°,  37i- 
TEMPLE  WALL,  144,  202. 

TENCH,  JOHN,  310. 

— ,  Oliver,  305  ;  call  to  bar,  274. 

— , ,  3°i,  3r3- 

TERRELL.     See  Tyrrell. 

THAMES,  River,  14,  43,  48,  82,  84,  85,  87, 
121,  149,  202,  272,  284,  355,  398; 
Dutch  fleet  in,  xix,  48  ;  landing  place, 
85;  wall,  272,  284. 

THIEF-TAKER,  183. 

THOMAS,  Emanuel,  bur.  of,  451. 

— ,  John,  bur.  of,  458. 

— ,  Joseph,  bur.  of,  458. 

— , ,  447- 

THOMPSON,  Hen.,  404  ;  call  to  bar,  387. 

— ,  Luke,  call  to  bar,  395. 

— ,  Mary,  bur.  of,  461. 

— ,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  288. 

— ,  Sir  Will.,  serj.,  bur.  of,  456. 

— , ,325,  334- 

THOMS,  Will.,  335. 

THORNBURY, ,  xxx. 

THORNHILL,  Sir  James,  painter,  Ixxxviii, 
417. 

THORNTON,  THORNETON,  -  — ,  the  mil- 
liner, 293,  294,  302,  362,  377,  424. 

THREE  TUNS,  The,  198. 

THROCKMORTON,  Sir  Bainham,  butler  for 
Xmas,  4,  10,  15. 

THURLAND,  Sir  Edw.,  Baron  of  the  Ex- 
chequer, 10,  40,  42,  45,  60,  61,  89, 
"5.  »87,  232.  444,  448  ;  att.  at  parl.,  9, 


22,  23,  33.  36.  37,  38,  39,  4°  (4),  42 
(3),  44,  45  (2),  46,  47,  49  (3),  5°,  51  (3), 
S2,  59  (2),  60  (2),  61  (3),  62,  63,  69,  70, 

7i,  74  (3),  75,  77  (2),  79  (2),  83  (3), 
84  (2),  85,  86,  87  ;  att.  on  reader,  3,  24 ; 
auditor  for  steward,  107,  in;  auditor 
for  treasurer,  4,  10,  15,  41;  King's 
counsel,  42  ;  reader,  9. 

THURLAND,  Edw.,  son  of  Sir  Edw.,  187, 
232  ;  call  to  bar,  59. 
— ,  Edw.,  son  of  Edw.,  adm.,  232. 

THURSTYN,  Edw.,  a  vintner,  234. 

TICKHILL, ,  230. 

TIGH,  Will.,  bur.  of,  452. 

TlLLMAN, ,  450. 

TILLY,  John,  call  to  bar,  291. 
TILSON,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  59. 

TIPPING,  Geo.,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 
1 10. 

TIRER,  TYRER,  Thorn.,  20,  134,  173,  280; 
call  to  bar,  2 1 ;  steward  for  Xmas,  1 7, 
19. 

TlVERTON,  93. 

TOBACCO  AND  PIPES,  73,  82,  89,  109,  115, 
184,  199,  200,  210,  272,  287,  351,  363, 
378,  390  ;  manufactory  of  pipes  in 
Whitefriars,  210. 

TOMKINS,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  323. 

TOMLINSON,  Benj.,  bur.  of,  445. 
— ,  Eliz.,  bur.  of,  448. 
— , ,  milliner,  4,  82. 

TOMPION,  THOMSON,  Thorn.,  clockmaker, 

239,  244,  354,  357,  398,  4i7- 
TOMPSON,  TOMSON,  Will.,  bur.  of,  454. 

TONGE, ,   129. 

TONGUE,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  105. 

TONSTALL,  Barnabas,  bur.  of,  463. 

TOOKE,  Charles,  call  to  bar,  21. 
— , ,  4°6. 

TOOKER,  Tucker,  John,  404,  434 ;  att.  at 
parl.  and  bench,  407,  408,  414,  415, 
421,  422,  425,  426,  429,  430,  433,  434, 
437  ;  call  to  bar,  186  ;  call  to  bench, 
407  ;  auditor  for  treasurer  and  steward, 
267,  277,  414,  422,  426,  429,  433,  437  ; 
reader,  437. 

TOWELS,  53. 

TOWER  OF  LONDON,  records  at,  413,  418, 
419. 

TOWNLEY,  Nich.,  call  to  bar,  21. 
TOWNESEND,  Geo.,  352. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


TOWSE,  Dorothy,  bur.  of,  461. 
TRACHAM,  John,  bur  of,  454. 
TRADESCANT  COLLECTION,  The,  xxxvi. 

TRAFFORD,    John,    steward    for    reader's 
dinner,  2. 

TRAPPS,  Edw.,  17,  26;  call  to  bar,  44. 
TRAVERS,  John,  call  to  bar,  247. 

TRAVES, ,222.     See  Treves. 

TREACLE,  John,  119. 

TREASURER  [for  duties  of,  etc.,  see  vol.  i., 
Introduction,  p.  xxxii\,  Ixxvi,  appoint- 
ment or  election  of,  4,  10,  15,  24,  39,  4I) 
47,  52,  63,  71,  79,  87,  92,  97,  102,  107, 
112,  124,  137,  150,  172,  177,  192,  207, 
220,  233,  241,  248,  261,  267,  277,  289, 
297,  3°4,  313,  324,  33i,  339,  346,  353, 
360,  368,  373,  380,  388,  396,  400,  408, 
414,  422,  426,  429,  433,  437;  allowance 
to,  275  310,  343,  350,  357,  361,  394> 
441  ;  chamber  of,  Ixxvi,  146,  361,  363  ; 
not  to  continue  in  office  more  than  a 
year,  94,  274,  278,  298,  318;  orders  as 
to  election  of,  in,  118,  265,  274,  330, 
331;  order  in  case  of  absence,  251,  252  ; 
precedence  at  bench  table,  283;  request 
to  be  discharged,  248;  rights  of,  312  ; 
right  to  appoint  officers,  317;  to  be  of 
three  years  standing  on  the  bench,  275  • 
whether  liable  to  be  called  reader,  253, 
254- 

TREHEARNE,  Will,  104. 

TREMANE,  TREMEINE,  John,  sen.,  138, 
456. 

TRENCHARD,  John,  430,  434 ;  call  to  bar, 
260,  261. 

TRENCHER  KNIVES,  378. 

TRESHAM,  Maurice,  bur.  of,  449. 
— ,  Rosa  Maria,  bur.  of,  450. 

TREVES,  John,  call  to  bar,  131.  See 
Traves. 

TREVOR,  Arthur,  att.  at  parl.,  6,  8,  9,  21, 
22,  23,  24  (3),  36,  40;  reader,  3;  att. 
on  reader,  23. 

— ,  Sir  John,  Speaker  of  the  House  of 
Commons,  Master  of  the  Rolls,  com- 
missioner of  the  Great  Seal,  26,  88,  104, 
118,  120,  122,  123,  134,  I54,  155,  IS8, 
174,  206,  209,  263,  269,  277,  292;  att. 
at  parl.,  91,  96,  97,  99  (4),  i00,  101, 
102,  105,  109,  no,  in,  120,  122,  123, 
13I>  134,  186,  204,  205,  206,  214,  222; 
att.  on  reader,  105;  auditor  for  Xmas, 
38;  call  to  bar,  3;  call  to  bench  91  ; 


527 

discharged  being  master  of  the  revels, 
83;  reader,  100;  treasurer,  97,  102. 

TREVOR,  John,  son  of  Thorn.,  Lord  Trevor 
adm.,  429. 

— ,  Sir  Thorn.,  solicitor  general,  attorney 
general,  Chief  Justice  Common  Pleas, 
commissioner    for    Great    Seal,    Baron 
Trevor,  150,  262,  271,  307,  372,429; 
att.  at  parl.,  259,  265,  273,  311  ;  call  to 
bench,   259,    261;    marshal  for  Xmas, 
3,  1°,  15;  reader,  273;  treasurer,  261. 
— ,  Thorn.,  son  of  Sir  Thorn.,  371,  372  ; 
call  to  bar,  414. 
— ,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  158. 

, ,37i  arms  of,  287;  auditor  for 

steward,  4,  15,  129;  auditor  for  treasurer 
and  steward,  422,  426,  429,  433,  437. 

TREVBY,  Sir  Geo.,  Chief  Justice  Common 
Pleas,  bur.  of,  458. 

TRIGGS,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  330. 
TRINDER,  Hen.,  serj.  at  law,  208,  260,  334; 

call  to  bar,  49;  call  to  bench,  219,  223. 

— ,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  248,  255. 

— ,  John,  son  of  Will.,  adm.,  260. 

— > >  27,  133,  181,  215,  243. 

TRIST,  Will.,  bur.  of,  451. 

TROLLOP,  Jacob,  140;  call  to  bar,  74. 

TROTMAN,  Joseph,  bur.  of,  452. 

— ,  Sam.,  242,  249,  268,  289;  call  to 

bar,  79;  call  to  bench,  288,  290;  steward 

for  reader's  dinner,  3. 

— ,  Sam.,  call  to  bar,  421. 

— , ,  79,  532,  14°- 

TROWELL,  Sam.,  steward,  408,  411,  413, 

423,  427,  441. 

TRUMPETER,  the  King's,  27,  54;  the  Duke 
of  Albermarle's,  184. 

TUBBING,  Will.,  bur.  of.,  451. 
TUCKER.     See  Tooker. 
TUDER,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  312. 
TUKE,  John,  389. 
TULLY,  Joseph,  bur.  of,  455. 

TURBERVILE,  Fortescue,  grandson  of  John, 
adm.,  232  ;  call  to  bar,  291. 
— ,  Geo.,  call  to  bar,  42. 
— ,  John,   101,  in,  232;  att.  at  parl., 
33;    att.    on   reader,    13,    33,  42,   45; 
reader,  15. 
— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  40. 

TURNBROACH.     See  Turnspit. 
TURNER,  Chris.,  33 ;  bur.  of,  455. 

— ,   Sir   Edward,   treasurer   of  Middle 

Temple,  21. 

— ,  Rich.,  361,  374;  call  .to  bar,  172. 


5*8 


INDEX  AND  GLOSSARY. 


TURNER,  Thorn.,  barber,  5,  33,  34. 

,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  452. 

— — ,  Sir  Will.,  Lord  Mayor,  xix,  xx,  287. 
, ,  16,  68. 

TURNSPITS,  TURNBROACHES,  81,  233,  335, 
355,  356,  384;  order  as  to,  233;  shops 
of,  5,  82,  294. 

TURTON,  Baron,  Ixxviii,  322. 
TURVIN,  John,  397. 

TUTT,  Thorn.,  242,  301,  304,  306,  308, 
314,  315,  316,  317,  318,  319,  334,  339, 
342,  374,  375,  383  ;  att.  at  par!.,  297, 
305,  311,  313,  322,  324,  329,  332,  338, 
339,  345,  346,  352>  353,  358>  36°,  3^4, 
365>  371,  373,  379,  38°>  387,  388  ;  arms 
of,  343  ;  auditor  for  treasurer,  245  ;  call 
to  bar,  90  ;  call  to  bench,  288  ;  reader, 
323- 

TWEED,  Chris.,  call  to  bar,  408. 

TWELFTH  DAY,  Revels  at,  19. 

TWICKENHAM,  127. 

TWIFORD,  Timothy,  bur.  of,  448. 

TWISDEN,  Francis,  son  of  Sir  Thorn.,  242, 
249  ;  adm.,  41  ;  call  to  bar,  90;  called 
assoc.  of  bench,  172. 
— ,  Sir  Roger,  son  of  Sir  Thorn.,  xviii, 
51,  213,  296. 

— ,  Roger,  son  of  Sir  Roger,  adm.,  213. 
— ,  Sir  Thorn.,  Justice  King's  Bench, 
33,  4i,  US,  '46,  213,  296. 
— ,  Thorn.,  son  of  Sir  Roger,  adm.,  213. 
— ,  Will.,  son  of  Sir  Roger,  adm.,  296  ; 
call  to  bar,  358. 

TWISDEN'S  BUILDINGS,  x. 
TVFIN,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  444. 

TYLER, ,  424. 

TYMPERNON, ,  342,  346. 

TYRRELL,  James,  son  of  Sir  Thorn.,  Chief 
Justice  Common  Pleas,  adm.,  63. 
— ,  James,  call  to  bar,  40. 
— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  339. 
— ,  Sir  Peter,  son  of  Sir  Thorn.,  233 ; 
steward  for  reader's  dinner,  59. 
— ,  Theophilus,  104. 
— ,  Sir  Thorn.,  Justice  Common  Pleas, 
20,  26,  33,  63  ;  auditor  for  steward  at 
Xmas,  27. 

— ,  Thorn.,  son  of  Sir  Peter,  adm.,  233. 
— ,  -  — ,  auditor  for  treasurer  and 
steward,  246,  380,  388,  396,  400,  408, 
414,  422,  429,  433,  437 ;  speaker  for 
Xmas,  17. 

UNDER-COOK,  rent  of  shops  of,  5. 


UNDER- PORTER,  relief  to,  374. 

UNDER-TREASURER.     See  Sub-treasurer. 

UNDER- WATCHMAN,  376. 

UNDERWOOD,  John,  5,  48,  65. 

USHER,  bag  and  staff  of,  129. 

USHER  AT  XMAS,  29. 

UTTER  BARRISTER.     See  Barrister,  Utter. 

VACATION  COMMONS,  32,  94 ;  com- 
pounding for,  12,  95,  266,  312,  340; 
disallowed,  401  ;  disorders  at,  305,  346  ; 
not  kept  on  account  of  plague,  37,  39, 
40  ;  not  kept  on  account  of  unsettled 
times,  258  ;  orders  as  to,  35,  36,  72, 
94,  95,  96>  I23>  !4<5,  201,  305,  390; 
rolls,  185.  See  Commons  and  Christ- 
mas. 

VACATION  BARRISTERS,  63,  274,  297,  301, 

34',  353,  371;  leave  to  g°  >nto  tne 
country,  341  :  orders  as  to,  22,  305, 
342,  346,  360,  368  ;  rights  of,  301. 

VANE, ,  155. 

VANE,  The,  repairs  to,  386. 

VAN  STRAUTEN, ,  424. 

VASSALLO,  Anth.,  114. 
VAUDREY,  Edw.,  call  to  bar,  266. 

VAUGHAN,  Charles,  242,  289,  298  ;  call  to 
bar,  94. 

— ,  Edw.,  burial  of,  444. 
— ,    Francis,   88 ;    steward  for  reader's 
dinner,  105. 

— ,  Hugh,  234  ;  called  to  bar,  59. 
— ,   Sir  John,   Chief  Justice  Common 
Pleas,  33,  53,  74,  453. 
— ,  John,  228,  236,  389,  397;  bur.  of, 
457  ;  call  to  bar,  158. 
— ,  Rich.,  a  child,  bur.  of,  462. 
— •,  Selden,  son  of  Edw.,  adm.  of,  273. 
— ,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  455. 

^.^ I)  r\  » 

,  ,    * «  !• 

VEEL,  VEALE,  Eliz.,  bur.  of,  457. 

— ,  Nich.,  291,  301,  305,  324;  bur.  of, 
461;  call  to  bar,  296. 

VELLEY,  Thorn.,  236,  249,  269 ;  called 
assoc.  to  the  bar,  334  ;  call  to  bar,  379. 

VENABLES,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  426. 
VENTRIS,  Charles,  434  ;  call  to  bar,  266. 
VERMUIDER,  Barthol.,  bur.  of,  459. 
VERNATTEE,  Philip,  300. 
VERNON,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  266. 
VKRNATTY, ,  Ixxxiii. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


VINCENT,  Anne,  245. 
— ,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  99. 
— ,  John,  59,  62. 
— ,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  no. 
— i ,  chamber  of,  333. 

VINE  COURT,  xxx,  xxxiii,   135,  I38,  130, 
140,  141,  142. 

VlNER, ,  257. 

VINTNER,  the,  264,  265. 

Visus  IN  VILLA  [an  order  whereby  those 
who  were  seen  in  London  or  the  suburbs, 
and  should  be  in  commons,  were  cast  in 
or  charged  with  commons},  69,  72,  no,   ! 
348  ;  orders  as  to,  126. 


529 


— ,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  395. 
WALKEY,  Sam.,  call  to  bar,  429. 
WALLER,  Ric.,  call  to  bar,  433. 
WALLIS,  John,  call  to  bar,  109. 
WALLOP  Mary  bur.  of,  459. 
,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  457. 

WALMISLEY,  Gilbert,  call  to  bar,  400. 
WALTER,   Sir  Will,  steward  for  Xmas,  4, 
10,  15- 
III. 


WADDINGTON,  Will.,  293;  call  to  bar,  240.  \ 

WADMAN,  John,  bur.  of,  451  ;  call  to  bar, 
9- 
— ,  Robert,  adm.,  48  ;  call  to  bar,  105. 

WAITERS,  gentlemen,  387,  394,  399,  407, 

433,  436. 
WAKEMAN,  Sir  George,  52. 

WAKER,    WALKER,    Sam.,    painter     and 
herald,  xviii,  80,  81. 

WALDEN,  Lionel,  call  to  bar,  172. 

WALDRON,  Sir  Alex.,  bur.  of,  451. 
— ,  Edward,  444. 
— , ,  424. 

WALKEDINES,  John,  376. 

WALKINGDEN, ,  134,  142. 

WALKER,  Geo.,  call  to  bar,  9. 
— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  49. 
— ,  Thorn.,  xcii,  150,  187,  316,  366,  382, 
393,  396 ;  allowance  to,  394 ;  arms  of, 
343  J  att.  at  pad.  and  bench,  311,  312, 
322,  324,  329,  332,  338,  339,  345,  346, 
352,  354,  358,  360,  364,  365,  371,  373, 
379,  380,  387,  388,  394,  396,  399,  401  ; 
auditor  for  treasurer  and  steward,  304  ; 
bur.   of,  451  ;   call  to  bar,  69  ;  call  to 
bench,   288;  controller  for  Xmas,  54; 
reader,  312  ;  treasurer,  380. 
-,  Will.,  337  ;  call  to  bar,  131. 


WALTHALL,  Paul,  264,  268. 

WALTHO,    WALTHOE,   John,    stationer  of 
London,  345,  350,  351. 
— ,  Mary,  bur.  of,  461. 

~'          '  342,  349,  3S2>  393>  412,  417. 
WANDS,  89,  115,  I4S. 

WANDESFORD,  Chris.,  adm.,  77. 
WARBERTON,  WARBURTON,  Hen.,  bur    of 

45i,  456- 
WARD,  Anne,  bur.  of,  459. 

— ,  Sir  Edw.,  87,  94,  119,  155,  242,  296, 

3°4,  3°6,  31°,  311,  387  ;  arms  of,  287  ; 

att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  295,  297,  303, 

305;  auditor  for  steward,  97,  102,  107; 

call  to  bar,  74 ;  call  to  bench,  245,  249  ; 

reader,  267  ;  serj.,  321  ;  treasurer,  297. 
-— ,  Edw.,  son  of  Sir  Edward,  adm.,  276; 

call  to  bar,  373. 

— ,  Eliz.,  bur.  of,  459. 

— ,  Isaiah,  doctor  of  physic,  bur.  of,  450. 

— ,  Kath.,  bur.  of,  459. 

— ,  John,  Q.C.,  426,  427,  460;  att.  at 

parl.  and  bench,  426,  430,   434,  437  ; 

call  to  bench,  426,  428. 

— ,  John,  son  of  John,  Q.C.,  adm.,  426. 

— ,  John,  adm.  from  Gray's  Inn,  339. 

— ,  Philip,  son  of  Sir  Edw.,  adm.,  296  ; 

call  to  bar,  421. 

— ,  Rich.,  son  of  John,  bur.  of,  460. 

— ,  Thorn.,  son  of  Sir  Edw.,  adm.,  296 

— ,  Thorn.,  a  child,  bur.  of,  462. 

— ,  Will.,  son  of  Sir  Edw.,  adm.,  296. 

WARDNER,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  44. 

— , ,  73- 

WARNE,  Thorn.,  the  painter,  245,  290,  417. 

WARNER,  Geo.,  steward,  98,  101,  108,  228, 
229,  231,  292,  294,  359,  361. 
— ,  John,  33. 

— ,  Johanna,  widow  of  Geo.,  234,  235, 
2S4,  255,  256,  271,  292,  294,  319,  351, 

359,  377,  398. 

— -,  Lee,  335;  call  to  bar,  119. 
-, ,  master  of  the  revels,  1 89. 


WARRANT  OFFICE,  rent  of,  4. 
WARREN, ,  184. 

WARTER,  John,  200,  213,  263,  284;  stew- 
ard for  Xmas,  213. 
— ,  John,  the  elder,  call  to  bar,  260. 
— ,  Rob.,  294. 
-  -  -,  378. 

WARTON,  John,  284. 

WARWICK,  Dan.,  call  to  bar,  346. 

WASHERWOMAN,  petition  of,  375. 

WASHINGTON,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  456. 

Y 


53° 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


WASHPOT,  114,  335,  355,  389. 
WATCH  NIGHT,  256,  257. 
WATCHING,  order  as  to,  397. 

WATCHMEN,  29,  54,  56;  coats  for,  21,  29; 
orders  as  to,  2,  207,  210,  212,  304,  312. 

WATER  ENGINE,  294. 
WATERAGE,  357. 

WATER  GATE  AT  TEMPLE  STAIRS,  16,  81, 
229,  262,  270. 

WATER  LANE,  239. 

WATERMAN,  Chris.,  235. 

WATERMEN,  81,  104,  114,  309,  310,  355. 

WATERS,  Jane,  wife  of  John,  bur.,  456. 
— ,  John,  290,  455,  456. 
_ ,  289. 

WATKINS,  Eliz.,  bur.  of,  446. 
— ,  John,  bur.  of,  456. 
— ,  Will.,  416. 
— ,  Zach.,  bur.  of,  446. 

WATSON,  John,  bur.  of,  445. 
— , ,  and  his  wife,  376. 

WATTERS,  Eliz.,  bur.  of,  452. 
— ,  John,  bur.  of,  452. 

WATTS,  Humph.,  bur.  of,  447. 
— ,  John,  1 08. 

— ,  —  — ,  Queen's  receiver,  xxiii,  52,  53, 
82. 

WAYTE,  John,  104. 

WEARGARE,  Clement,  call  to  bar,  426. 

WEAVOR,  WEAVER,  Arthur,  142,  260,  263, 

3°4,  3°6»  3°8>  3'5>  3 '9-  34°,  349.  356, 
361.  363.  393.  404;  arms  of,  320;  att. 
at  parl.  and  bench,  295,  297,  305,  311, 

313,  322.  324,  329,  332,  338,  339.  345. 

346,  352.  353,  358,  36o,  364,  365,  373, 

379.  388>  399.  4°i  ;  call  to  bench,  99 ; 

reader,  288  ;  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 

no;  treasurer,  346. 

— ,  Arthur,  son  of  Arthur,  adm.,  304. 

— ,  Arthur,  call  to  bench,  260. 

— ,  Edw.,  son  of  Arthur,  adm.,  304;  call 

to  bar,  379. 

— ,  John,  son  of  Arthur,  adm.,  260;  call 

to  bar,  330. 

WEBB,  John,  cook,  bur.  of,  458. 

— ,  Rich.,  133,  367,  370,  376,  381,  383, 
413,  417,  418  ;  att.  at  parl.  and  bench, 
353,  360,  364,  365,  373,  379,  380,  388, 

394,  395,  396,  399,  4°'.  4°7.  4°8,  415, 
421,  422,  425,  426,  429,  430,  433,  434, 
437  ;  auditor  for  treasurer  and  steward, 
206,  220,  324,  331,  339;  call  to  bar, 


no;  call  to  bench,  353,  355;  reader, 
359;  treasurer,  422. 

WEBB,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  346. 

— ,  Rich,  son  of  Rich.,  adm.,  367. 

— ,  Thorn,  bur.   of,  453  ;   call  to  bar, 

260. 

WEBBER,  Alex.,  bur.  of,  462. 
— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  395. 

WEBLING,  Thorn.,  150. 

WEEDON,  Cavendish,  196;  call  to  bar,  189, 

194. 

WEELY,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  50. 
WELBECK,  Stow,  bur.  of,  443. 
WELLBELOVED,  Sarah,  bur.  of,  458. 
WELCH,  Nich.,  bur.  of,  453. 
WELCOME,  Geo.,  bur.  of,  450. 
WELD,  Charles,  438  ;  call  to  bar,  408. 

— , ,  3°9,  321- 

WENTWORTH, ,  155. 

WENSLEY,  Will.,  239. 

WENYEVE,  Geo.,  bur.  of,  462. 

WEST,  Charles,  son  of  Lord  Delawar,  adm., 

75- 

— ,  Edm.,  or  Edw.,  Serjeant  at  law,  47, 

52,  59,  60,  61,  63,  64,  69,  74,  77,  80, 

83,  87,  93,  96>  97,  i°i>  Io8,  II2>  "9, 
121,  124,  132,  134,  135,  138,  140,  142, 
143,  147,  148,  151,  156,  157,  161  ;  att. 
at  parl.,  137,  139;  att.  on  reader,  75, 
91  ;  auditor  for  steward,  15,  41  63,  71, 
79,  97 ;  auditor  for  treasurer,  47,  93  ; 
call  to  bench,  49  ;  reader,  84,  86,  87, 
90. 

— ,  John,  385. 

— ,  Rich.,  112  ;  call  to  bar,  437. 

— ,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  445. 

— ,  Roger,  385,  386. 

— ,  Will,  bur.  of,  459. 

WESTBROOKE,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  446.  • 
— ,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  21. 

WESTBY,  Joseph,  bur.  of,  449. 
WESTMINSTER,  154,  327. 
WESTMINSTER  ABBEY  ORGAN,  xlv. 

WESTON,  Peter,  call  to  bar,  320,  329,  332. 

— ,  Robt.,  bur.  of,  451. 

— , ,  25,  355  ;  controller  for  Xmas., 

129. 
WESTWOOD,  Sam.,  call  to  bar,  426. 

WETENHALL,  Gabriel,  call  to  bar,  358. 
— ,  Thorn,  call  to  bar,  358. 

WEXTON,  widow,  70. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


WHARTON, ,  383. 

WHATLEY,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  437. 
WHEELER,  Geo.,  under  treasurer,  304,  309, 

3">  373.  376.  4i3>  4i8;  called  assoc. 

of  the  bar,  373,  376. 

— ,  John,  165 ;  bur.  of,  455,  457. 

— ,  Thorn.,  369,  391. 

— » .  148,  152,  154,  iSS.  236,  3°8, 

3«>9.  4i5- 

WHELTON, ,  carpenter,  342. 

WHETHAM,  Nath.,  call  to  bar,  35. 
WHISTLER,  John,  call  to  bar,  433. 

WHITAKER,  Charles,  250,  268,  279,  280, 
281,  288,  289,  301,  306,  307,  310,  317, 
319.  325.  326,  333,  343,  354;  adm. 
from  Gray's  Inn,  91 ;  arms  of,  343 ; 
att.  at  parl.  and  bench,  297,  305,  311, 
313,  322,  324,  329,  331,  338,  339,  345, 
346,  352,  353.  362;  auditor  for  trea- 
surer and  steward,  277,  289,  297  ;  call 
to  bar,  91;  call  to  bench,  288;  de- 
ceased, 427;  reader,  304. 
— ,  Charles,  son  of  Charles,  adm.,  288  ; 
call  to  bar,  346. 
— ,  Thorn,  son  of  Charles,  adm.,  289. 

WHITBY, ,  tombstone  of,  448. 

WHITCHCOTE,  Sir  Jeremy,  steward  for 
reader's  dinner,  12. 

— ,  Matth.,  call  to  bar,  266. 

— ,  Rob.,  son  of  Rob.,  bur.  of,  443. 

WHITCOME,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  40. 

WHITE,  Anne,  bur.  of,  445. 
— ,  John,  scavinger,  405. 
— ,  Thorn.,  301,  305,  316;  call  to  bar, 
288,  289. 

WHITEFRIARS,  xiii,  75,  84,  86,  104,  119, 
120,  124,  125,  126,  128,  135,  142,  147, 
156,  180,  183,  203,  207,  210,  255,  262, 
284,  286,  287,  310  ;  inhabitants  of,  308, 
334 ;  manufactory  of  tobacco  pipes  in, 
210;  tumult  in,  290;  upper  and  lower 
parts  of,  297,  309;  wall  of,  82. 

WHITEFRIARS  GATE,  76,  184,  238,  262, 
278,  282,  283,  287,  289,  290,  292,  293, 
301,  316,  319,  332,  334,  380;  riot  at, 
287,  290,  293,  298. 

WHITEHALL,  WHITEHALGH,  John,  26,  27, 
55  ;  call  to  bar,  59 ;  steward  for  Xmas, 
54,  56. 

WHITEHALL,  184. 

WHITLOCK,  Sir  Bulstrode,  446. 

— ,  Bulstrode,  bur.  of,  457. 
, ,  14°. 


WHITTON, ,  carpenter,  302,  320,  357, 

385- 
WHORWOOD,  Broome,  adm.,  90. 

WICHERLEY,  Dan.,  17,  20;  call  to  bar,  74. 
See  Wycherley. 

WICKHAM,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  296. 
WICKS,  WYCKS,  Charles,  428 ;  call  to  bar, 

WIGAN,  Alfred,  Ixiv. 

WIGHTMAN,  Will.,  bell  founder,  239. 

WIGHTWICK,       WHIGHTWICK,       Francis, 
steward  for  reader's  dinner,  120. 
— ,  John,  182  ;  call  to  bar,  172. 
— , ,  4- 

WII.UK,  WYLD,  Edm.,  steward  for  reader's 

dinner,  12. 

— ,  Geo.,  bur.  of,  452. 

-—,  Lady,  xli,  143. 

— ,  Sir  Will.,   chief  justice    of   King's 

Bench,  70,  100,  115,  319;  bur.  of,  452. 

— ,  Will.,   son  of  Sir  Will.,   308,  309 ; 

adm.,  100  •  call  to  bar,  172. 
WILDER,  John,  call  to  bar,  367. 
WILKINSON,  Chris.,  bur.  of,  461. 

— ,  John,  130  ;  call  to  bar,  40. 

— ,  Rich.,  bur.  of,  459. 

— ,  Will.,  325,  337  ;  call  to  bar,  no. 

— , ,  auditor     for     treasurer     and 

steward,  248. 

WUJ.KTT,  John,  call  to  bar,  367. 

WILLIAMS,  David,  bur.  of,  450. 
— ,  Kdw.,  425. 
— ,  Holland,  call  to  bar,  59. 
— ,  Sir  John,  bur.  of,  448 ;  monument 
to,  450,  452. 
— ,  Lister,  51. 
— ,  Mary,  432. 
— ,  Nich.,  call  to  bar,  387. 
— ,  Thorn.,  60,  149,  168,  440. 
— ,  Walt,  bur.  of,  461. 
—i ,  82,  351,  370.  377,  378,  398. 

WILLIAMSON,  Francis,  bur.  of,  447;  steward 
for  reader's  dinner,  14,  21. 

WILLIS, ,  185,  316. 

WILLMORE,  Anth.,  bur.  of,  447. 

WILMOTT,  Nich.,  278;  bur.  of,  460;  call 
to  bar,  312. 

WILSON,  Francis,  385. 

— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  109;  steward  for 
reader's  dinner,  96,  100. 


WINDHAM.     See  Wyndham. 
WINDSOR,  Lord,  102. 


532 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


WINDSOR,  183. 

WINDOW  TAX.    See  Taxes. 

WINE,  John,  call  to  bar,  21. 

WINE,  108,  114,  229;  allowance  of,  381; 
Burgundy,  364;  Canary,  129,  199,  256, 

264,  265,  271,  286,  320,  328,  329,  337; 
Champagne,  199 ;  Claret,  128,  256,  264, 

265,  269,  271,  286,  320,  321,  328,  337 ; 
expense  of  lessened,  384 ;   Old  Hock, 
286;  Sack,  269,  321;  Sherry,  265,  286. 

WINFORD,  WYNFORD,  Hen.,  call  to  bar, 
59 ;  steward  for  Xmas,  54,  56. 

WINNE.     See  Wynne. 
WINSON,  John,  347. 

WINSTON,  John,  call  to  bar,  109. 
— ,  John,  337 ;  call  to  bar,  400. 

WINTER,  Mrs.,  365. 

WIRLEV,  Humph.,  prothonotary  of  Com- 
mon Pleas,  51,  84,  151  ;  att.  at  par!., 
151;  call  to  bar,  50;  called  assoc.  of 
bench,  51. 

WISE,  Francis,  461,  463. 

— ,  Mary,  wife  of  Francis,  bur.  of,  461. 
— , ,  plumber,  154,  199. 

,     ~  ,     37". 

WISEMAN,  Francis,  bur.  of,  448. 
WITHAM,  Sir  John,  bur.  of,  455. 

WITHENS,  Sir  Francis,  treasurer  of  Middle 
Temple,  xlv. 

WOLLASTON,  John,  357,  399,  462. 

— ,  Will.,  steward  for  reader's  dinner,  83. 

WOLLEY,  Leonard,  barber,  168. 
— ,  Mrs.,  105. 
— ,  Will.,  bur.  of,  443. 

WOLSTENHOLME,  John,  adm.,  49. 
WOLTHO,  Sarah,  bur.  of,  462. 

WOMEN  not  to  be  admitted  to  Inn,  297, 

397- 
WOOD,  Edw.,  bur.  of,  452. 

— ,  Francis,  bur.  of,  454. 

— ,  Hen.,  call  to  bar,  437. 

— ,  Mercy,  254,  261,  262  ;  bur.  of,  343. 

— ,  Sarah,  bur.  of,  458. 

WOODFORD,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  447. 

WOODHOUSE,  James,  392,  430,  434,  438; 
call  to  bar,  260. 

WOODHULL,  Michael,  call  to  bar,  323. 

WOODROFFE,  Dr.,  lecturer  at  Temple 
Church,  87,  93,  98,  104,  114,  115,  145, 
157,  169,  183,  212,  229,  238,  247,  252, 
255- 


WOODWARD,  Francis,  452  ;  bur.  of,  454. 
— ,  Godfrey,  call  to  bar,  379. 
— ,  John,  bur.  of,  445. 
— ,  Thorn.,  call  to  bar,  330. 
— ,  Will.,  430,  434 ;  call  to  bar,  260. 

WOOLLFRESTON,  Francis,  call  to  bar,  44. 
WOOSELEY,  Rich.,  1 6. 
WOOTON,  Joseph,  271. 
WORRELL,  Peter,  418. 

— » ,4i7- 

WOSTER,  Abraham,  385. 

WREN,  Sir  Chris.,  or  Dr.,  xviii,  xxxiv,  xli, 
xliv,  xlvii,  xlviii,  72,  73,  171,  173,  177, 
198,  412. 

— — ,  Sir  Will.,  xlix ;  bur.  of,  455. 

WRIGHT,  Geo.,  son  of  Sir  Nathan,  clerk  of 
the  Crown,  347,  395,  440,  441 ;  att.  at 
parl.  and  bench,  373,  380,  388,  396, 
399,  401,  407,  408,  415,  422,  426,  430, 
433,  434,  437  ;  call  to  bar,  353;  called 
assoc.  of  bench,  367,  368,  369;  call  to 
bench,  370;  reader,  395,  399,  401; 
treasurer,  434. 

— ,  John,  son  of  Will,  adm.,  425;  called 
assoc.  of  bar,  429. 
— ,  Martin,  son  of  Will.,  adm.,  421. 
— ,  Sir  Nathan,  serj.,  lord  keeper,  295, 
321,  339,  353,  422;   call  to  bar,  119; 
call  to  bench,  288. 

— ,  Nathan,  son  of  Sir  Nathan,  adm , 


339- 


-,  Will.,  421,  425,  440;  att.  at  parl. 
and  bench,  407,  408,  414,  415,  421, 
422,  425,  426,  429,  430,  433,  434,  437  • 
auditor  for  treasurer  and  steward,  353 ; 
call  to  bar,  186  ;  call  to  bench,  407  ; 
reader,  433. 

-,  Will.,  son  of  Sir  Nathan,  adm.,  422. 


— , ,  son  of  Sir  Nathan,  adm.,  295. 

— ,   -    — ,    ii,    163,  408;   auditor  for 
treasurer,  150. 

WRIGHTSON,  Mich.,  278,  279. 

WROTH,  Thorn.,  xx,  Iv,  10,  66  ;  call  to  bar, 
40. 

I  WYATT,  Edwin,  serj.,  120,  121,  132,  141, 
157,  160,  174,  175,  183,  196,  203;  att. 
at  parl.  and  bench,  159,  177,  186,  191; 
att.  on  reader,  1 1 8 ;  auditor  for  treasurer, 
192 ;  reader,  161. 

— ,  Edwin,  son  of  Edwin,  341  ;  adm., 
203  ;  call  to  bar,  338. 
— ,  Thorn.,  son  of  Edwin,  adm.,  203. 
See  Wyott. 

WYCH  STREET,  91. 


INDEX   AND   GLOSSARY. 


533 


WYCHERLEY,  Dan.,  Ixxiii. 
—  Will.,  lx,  Ixxii. 

WYNDHAM,  Will.,  33. 
— , ,  Justice,  115. 

WYNNE,  WINN,  Hen.,  bur.  of,  449;  steward 
for  reader's  dinner,  2. 
— ,  Sir  John,  steward  for  reader's  dinner, 
49- 

— ,  John,  247,  303  ;  call  to  bench,  189, 
194. 

— ,  John,  call  to  bar,  219. 
— ,  John,  son  of  John,  adm.,  303. 
— ,  Mrs.,  299. 
— ,  Rich.,  call  to  bar,  172. 
— ,  Rob.,  xx,  57,  66,  68,  102,  149,  216, 
234,  236»  242,  243,  268,  273,  277,  278, 
280  ;  call  to  bar,  79. 
— ,  Rob.,  call  to  bar,  266. 
— ,  Rowland,  293  ;  call  to  bar,  172. 
— ,  Will.,  son  of  John,  250  ;  adm.,  247. 
-, ,  53.  320,  351,  406. 

WYOTT,  Edm.,  136, 154,  156  ;  att.  at  parl., 
167  ;  call  to  bench,  99,  100.    See  Wyatt. 

WYTHENS,  Sir  Francis,  457. 


YARBOROUGH,  YARBURGH,  Nich.,  bur.  of, 

445- 
,  Thorn.,  266,  268,  285  ;  call  to  bar, 

291;  expelled,  269;   petition  of,  216; 

restored,  288,  289. 

YEOMEN'S  TABLE,  112  ;  cloths  for,  170. 

YORK,  James,  Duke  of,  x,  xi,  xiii,  u,  108  ; 
call  to  bar,  4. 

— ,  Will.,  2,  16,  36,  42  ;  att.  at  par!., 
22,  39,  40;  att.  on  reader,  3,  9,  36,  39, 
40  ;  auditor  for  steward,  4,  24  ;  auditor 
for  treasurer,  10  ;  bur.  of,  446  ;  reader, 
10. 

— ,  Will.,  nephew  of  Will.,  197,  397,  401  ; 
adm.,  13;  call  to  bar,  147. 

YOUNG,  Chichester,  bur.  of,  456. 

— ,  John,  mason,  16,  21,  147. 

— ,  Mrs.,  397. 

— ,  Nich.,  son  of  John,  mason,  21,  98, 

147,  170,  245. 
,  Rich.,  236,  303,  313,  314,  315,  317, 

319  ;  bur.  of,  343,  458  ;  call  to  bar,  21  ; 

lord  of  the  Inner  Temple,  19. 
,  Thorn.,  bur.  of,  447. 

— ,  Will.,  call  to  bar,  109. 


ERRATA   AND   CORRIGENDA. 

P.  52,  1.  21,  for  Sir  Henry  Finch,  read  Sir  Heneage  Finch. 
P.  164,  1.  26,  for  26//.,  read  2oli. 

P.  173,  1.  u,  for  Sir  Charles  Robinson,  read  Sir  Thomas  Robinson. 
P.  399,  1.  1 1  ab  inf. ;  p.  407,  1.  1 1  ab  inf. ;  p.  421,  1.  8 ;  and  p.  425,  1.  10  ab  inf., 
for  Matthew  Davis,  read  Manwaring  Davis. 


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