Full text of "The records of the honorable society of Lincoln's Inn. The Black books"

THE

RECORDS OF THE HONORABLE SOCIETY

THE BLACK BOOKS

VOL. III.

FROM

A.D. l66o tO A.D. 17/5

LINCOLN'S INN.

1899.

PREFACE

[HIS Volume begins with 1660, the year of the Restoration of
Charles II. and finishes with the accounts of Mr. John Coxe,
junior, Treasurer from Jan. 23, 1775, to Jan. 23, 1776.
The materials are, as before, the Black Books and the Red Books with
the addition of the Serle's Court Book, begun by order of the Bench in p. 188
1694, "to contain all orders relating to Serle's Court and the admittances

ERRATA IN PREFACE TO VOL. II.

Page xii.,/0r " Sir Henry Minshall " read " Sir Richard," passim.

Page xxiv., in lines 11, 13 and 18 from bottom, for "1641" read "1614."

Page xxxix., line 6 from bottom, for "June 29th" read "August 22nd."

ADMISSION.

The terms of admission were the subject of several orders, but the terms
finally settled on in 1768 were that every person should be admitted by a p. 393
Bencher without manucaptors, and before entering into commons should
enter into a Bond with sufficient security for payment of dues under a
penalty of 40 ; a form of this Bond is inserted in the Minutes. The fee p. 432
payable on admission in 1775 was $ 33. 4d.

Many instances occur of admissions ad eundem : the terms generally
being that the person admitted should be allowed all privileges and advantages p. 187
he was justly entitled to at his original Inn of Court. Towards the close of
this volume it was the practice for Law Officers who had entered at other
Inns to be admitted to the fellowship of Lincoln's Inn. Among them were
Sir R. Raymond, afterwards Lord Raymond ; Sir Philip Yorke, afterwards
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PREFACE

|HIS Volume begins with 1660, the year of the Restoration of
Charles II. and finishes with the accounts of Mr. John Coxe,
junior, Treasurer from Jan. 23, 1775, to Jan. 23, 1776.

The materials are, as before, the Black Books and the Red Books with
the addition of the Serle's Court Book, begun by order of the Bench in p. 188
1694, "to contain all orders relating to Serle's Court and the admittances
thereto," and still continued in relation to New Square, the present name of
Serle's Court.

A MSS. in the Steward's office containing a selection of the Principal p
Orders down to 1770 is the only previous attempt to carry out what has
been done more fully by the present series of volumes. Mr. Henry Gibbs,
clerk to Mr. J. Coxe, junior, a Master of the Bench, seems to have extracted
and indexed such orders of Council as he thought important, under the
supervision of Mr. Coxe, and was rewarded with ten guineas by the Bench.
The MSS. is known as Coxe's Digest.

The arrangement of the Buildings of the Inn will be fully treated of in
the next volume, where a detailed and chronological account will be given
as complete as the evidence permits.

ADMISSION.

The terms of admission were the subject of several orders, but the terms
finally settled on in 1768 were that every person should be admitted by a p. 393
Bencher without manucaptors, and before entering into commons should
enter into a Bond with sufficient security for payment of dues under a
penalty of 4.0 ; a form of this Bond is inserted in the Minutes. The fee p. 432
payable on admission in 1775 was 3 35. 4d.

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Lord Chancellor Hardwicke ; Sir Fletcher Norton, afterwards Speaker of the
House of Commons, and William de Grey. The primary cause of their
admission in each case appears to have been a desire .for Chambers in
Lincoln's Inn or in Serle's Court, otherwise New Square ; according to the
regulations then in force none but a member of the Society could hold
chambers in either of those places.

Special admissions very much diminish in number. The Reader's

p. 115 privilege was cut down : no Reader having power to admit specially any
person whatsoever a member of the Society under the degree of a Lord,
except such person were a Foreign Minister. In compensation for the loss

p. 1 1 5 of his privilege, every Reader was allowed 30. Subject to the Reader's
privilege no person could after Nov. 15, 1677 be specially admitted but by
a Special Order of Council.

p. 330 A Bencher had the liberty or privilege of admitting gratis one son, and

no more " which hath always been the usage of this Society."

Dispensation for absence after admission was early granted to a Judge's
or a Bencher's son only : but in 1680 University students were granted the
privilege of remaining at the University for one year after admission : for
some reason this privilege was taken away in 1741. Presumably under the
former order the University student was excused payment of all dues ;
under the latter order he remained liable for dues, including absent Commons,
like an ordinary Student.

EXERCISES.
The Bench in the first year of the Restoration ordered that the exercises

p. 4 of Moots, Pleadings and Bolts should be performed by the Barristers and
Students of the Society as theretofore : and in the next year lamented " that
express information hath been made to the Bench (which they are unwilling

p. 8 to believe) that there is. a consent and combination entertained and owned
by some at least of the gentlemen of the Bar to abet and justify such
defaults as have already been made and to encourage and countenance the
like in the future." They appointed a Committee to consider and report, and
declared that in the meantime no call either to the Bench or the Bar should
be made of any member who had not complied with the ancient Rules.

The exercises appear to have continued in their former shape up to the

p. 39 end of this volume. Benchers who were not Double Readers had to

p. 1 8 attend exercises as before. Barristers of under three years from the date
of their Bar moot were directed to serve vacations and perform Exercises at

p. 62 Readings as of old ; and those invited to the Bench, or called to the Bar, had
to give security for the due performance of their exercises. It was necessary

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for each student to perform four Bolts and four Moots before call to
the Bar.

No Bar moot was allowed to be brought in upon a discontinued exercise ;
the notices in the text do not explain what a discontinued exercise was: p. 152
but it may be that the object of the rule was to secure that the moot should
have a day to itself and riot follow on a previous exercise.

Facilities were given for attendance at moots. Any gentleman of the
Inn not in Commons might take a repast in Hall on Bar moot nights, or,
when the term began or ended on a Wednesday, on that day only. p. 323

CALL.

The orders affecting the Call of Students to the Bar are numerous, but,
each successive order adding to the qualification, it will be sufficient to sum
them up and thus show the necessary qualification before the agreement
of 1672: (l.) The Student had to be of seven years' continuance, i.e., of p. 13
seven years' standing from the date of his admission, and to have kept all
exercises and under-Bar vacations and been frequently in Commons during p. 447
the seven years. In practice some part of this period was not unfrequently
remitted, as in the case of those intending to practice out of England, with pp. 192,
the proviso that they should not practice in England until the seven years 199, 251
had expired. In the case of Cartwright, who intended to practice in p. 142
England, his call was not published until he had performed the two exercises
required to make up the number due from him. (ll.) Payment of all dues to
the Society, including the Preacher's Roll and Pensions, which were not as
a rule collected until Call, up to the day of Call. Watts, who had been called p. 126
apparently by an oversight, found his Call " absolutely discharged," as he
had not paid the arrears due from him. (ni.) Having taken the
Sacrament in the Chapel of the Society. Rogers, who was of " full standing p. 153
and had behaved himself nicely," was unable to take the Sacrament in the
Chapel, because it was then under repair ; but brought a certificate of
reception at St. Dunstan's. He was ordered, before he was published, to
bring an affidavit of his having received the Sacrament in that Church.
Dunch was called without a certificate, several Masters "having satisfied the p. 173
rest he was a good Protestant." Two were called without a certificate on
condition of depositing, the one 4.05., and the other ,5, with the Chief pp. 199-
Butler, as security for their taking the Sacrament on the next Sacrament 244
day in the Chapel. (IV.) Having taken the oaths of Allegiance and
Supremacy : these, however, were administered only to such persons as were
known Papists or suspected to be Recusants. Newton's call was vacated p. 125
on the ground, amongst others, that he had not taken the oaths, p. 143

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But other, perhaps more grievous, matters were charged against him :
that he had presumed to wear a bar gown and to practice as a
barrister, though he had not performed his moot : and it was thought right
to inform the judges that last went the Northern Circuit (on which
apparently he practiced) of the decision of the Bench, (v.) Having taken

p. 287 chambers in the Inn of the value of 20, or depositing with the Chief

p. 302 Butler in default of a qualification chamber 20, with .1 for the Treasurer's
fee, I os. for the Butler's fee, and 45. 6d. for the petition and order, making
21 145. 6d. (vi.) Having entered into a Bond with two sureties under a

p. 102 penalty of 40 for payment of commons and dues and performance of
vacations and exercises.

p. 374 These conditions were to some extent modified by a joint agreement of

the Four Inns in 1672 to this effect. The standing for. the Bar was to be
five years from admission ; none to be called under the age of 21 years :
12 terms Commons were to be actually kept : Masters of Arts and Bachelors
of Laws in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, were to be dispensed
two years' standing, but not any Commons : no exceptions were to be
allowed with regard to Ireland or the West Indies.

Calls were made in only two terms of the year, Easter and Michaelmas

p. 383 terms : the call took place in open Council in term time ; three or more
Masters of the Bench meeting in the Council Chamber or Buttery * were

p. 395 made a sufficient Council for calling any gentleman : the quorum was

summoned by the Quatuor in Hall on the application of any gentleman

p. 332 desiring to be called to the Bar. The Masters were attended by the Chief

Butler with the Books of Admission, and by the second Butler with the

p. 393 Book of Exercises. Each Master was entitled to a service of sweetmeats.

value 55. and a bottle of wine from each gentleman.

p. 315 The cost of call was in one case 35 los. : in another 34 8s., made up

of Absent Commons 18; Vacation Commons 6; Pensions i 6s. 8d. ;
Call 5 ; Library money 135. 4d. ; Eating Commons i8s.; Preacher's Roll,
2 i os.

p. 315 To these amounts must be added the "treating the Hall," which, it

seems, took place on the candidate "moving his Bar moot." Treating was
forbidden by No. 16 of the Judges' Orders of 1664, but, as usual in internal
affairs, the Judges' Orders seem to have been ignored by the Society. For

p. 323,4 not until 1741 Bar moot treats were taken away," and every person called
to the Bar paid 5 to the use of the Library in lieu of the 135. 4 d. formerly
paid.

HaU. *" M ^"^ ^ ilU * withd ~ n ** the Lord Chancellor

BARRISTER.

Besides the many orders dealt with elsewhere directing the Utter
Barristers to keep all the Moots and Bolts, wherewith they were charged,
and to have chambers in the Inn, there is not much that deserves mention.
According to ancient usage "the degree and dignity of Barrister-at-Law " 9.82
is conferred on a member of the Society who was made one of the
Prothonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas. Members of the Bar
appointed to the dignity of King's or Queen's or Prince's Counsel were,
when serving the office of Reader, exempted from the sumptuary regulations p. 41
which bound other Readers, not so honoured. Sir Francis Goodricke, "one
of His Majesty's learned Counsel-at-Law and Solicitor-General to his Royal
Highness the Duke of York," who entertained the King and Court at dinner
in 1672, is the first K.C. recorded. Sir Francis, as theK.C.s who followed him, p. 75
were appointed to that dignity before call to the Bench. During the 120 years
covered by this volume, twenty-six barristers only are described as King's
or Queen's Counsel. In the minutes the description of K.C. or Q.C. is never
attached to the name of any law officer of the Crown, but it is to the name p. 92
of the Queen's Solicitor, and that of the Solicitor-General to the Prince of p. 247
Wales. Possibly this practice was in accordance with some rule of etiquette
then in force.

The offences committed by the Bar were not very serious. Doddington
is suspended for using opprobrious and misbecoming language to a Bencher, p. 28-9
One summoned to the Council is described in the margin of the Book, p. 95
" Tom of Lincoln, a bastard child born in his chamber and ballads of it."
One entry shows the Society, as of old, waiving immunity for a member.
One Clarke, a barrister, having outrageously beaten the chief Porter, then p. 129
doing the duty of his place, was expelled the Society ; the Porter being at
liberty to take his best remedy at law for the wrong done him.

THE BENCH.

Four Committees appointed between 1660-1664 to deal with financial
matters, had a short existence. But the first mess at the Bench table,
consisting of the four senior Benchers who happened to be dining in
Hall, under the name of "the Quatuor of the Bench sitting in Mess,"
developes into a permanent Executive Committee. It is first mentioned by
name in this volume, though it may well have been the body that
discharged so many functions " at the Board's End," or " the Bench Table,"
in the previous volumes. It deals with petitions for increase of wages ;
:ompels payment of arrears of Commons ; calls to account the Reader of
Furnival's Inn, who it will be remembered was a Fellow of the Society ;

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is the body to whom notices summoning Councils are communicated ;

p. 1 1 1 directs the disposal of Col. Fairfax's manuscripts ; supplies a quorum for

p. 152 purposes of Call to the Bar ; deals with the repairs of the Chapel, and the
disorder upon the Steward ; and begins in 17 39 the system, still in force,
of receiving every day from the Butler after the cloth is drawn an account
of the wine spent at the Bench and in Hall.

Incidentally we learn two well-established customs of the Bench : the

p. 259 one that the Councils were held after dinner in 1720, and that no Bencher was
admitted to Council, unless he had previously dined in Hall. The other custom

p. 330 authorised each Bencher to have one son admitted gratis to the Society.

A very happy expression appears in a minute recording the complaint
of Sir Edward Bish that two other Benchers had falsely reported he

p. 22 had been expelled the House. " The Bench " it states " being tender of the
reputation of Sir E. Bish and the other gentleman " proceed to appoint a
Committee to examine and report It would be difficult to find a phrase
more neutral and at the same time more satisfactory to the parties concerned.
In the paragraphs dealing with the Readership an account is given of
the unwillingness of the Bar to accept invitations to the Bench so long as an
acceptance entailed the distasteful performance of the Reader's duties. Mr.
Stedman, the last Reader, read in the Autumn of 1677 and was Treasurer
for 1678, 1679 and 1680. In the last year, the Benchers resolved to read in
their turn when there were Readings at the other Inns of Court, under
penalty of disbenching on refusal so to read. The probability of the revival
of Readings seems to have been considered small, as for the next twenty
years no refusal of an invitation to the Bench is recorded. Yet for a reason
which is not apparent, possibly from the discontinuance of several Benchers,

p. 205 the number of the Bench in 1700 must have fallen very low. For in that
year the Bench resolve that after the present Benchers had served all the
offices, the Senior Benchers should serve again. The contemplated
contingency did not occur, and the next invitation in 1704 is of four
Benchers only. In the following years there are some but not many
refusals. In 1758, out of twelve invitations, four only accept, and in 1772
fifteen invitations result in six new Benchers.

Mention must now be made of the life and habits of the Bench. It
happens that the Treasurer's Rolls contain some of the articles bought for the
Bench table beyond the ordinary fare or bought for the comfort of the Bench.
The first appearance of an article in the Rolls probably marks the date when
the fashion of using it reached the class of society in which the Benchers
moved. Again a study of the liquor bill will show how the tastes of the Bench
changed during the period covered by this volume. Add to this, that the

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prices affixed enable a comparison to be made between the cost in those
days and in the present, and interest may be found in what must be a
disconnected statement.

In 1668, White Salts are bought for the Bench Table. In 1673, Tobacco
is bought at 35. and 35. 6d. a lb., and sugar at lod. a Ib. Mum, said to be a
species of fat ale,* is bought at 6d. a quart. Lemons and oranges appear in
the Roll for 1677, strawberries and lemons in that of 1693. " Cyder" to the
moderate value of 2s. was drunk in 1685. In 1695, 6d. is charged for coffee.
Under 1705 is found the first of the series of wines White Lisbon at 245. a
dozen, followed in 1715 by 2s. 6d. for a bottle of French wine. In 1718
there is a purchase of Rose water and glasses : also of sugar and lemons for
the Grace Cup and French wine. There is also an entry of wine "at" the p. 252
Blue Posts : this particular entry may refer to a potation at the Blue Posts,
but later entries occur of wine bought from the Fountain in the Strand, the
Anchor, Linwood's, the Rummer in Chancery Lane, Fisher's, the Golden Lyon
in Fleet Street, and the BedfordHead. It is pretty evident from this list of
names and from a minute which appears hereafter that in these days the
Bench kept no cellar, and bought their wine, guided by the experience of
some of their members, when and as they wanted it. To return to the
Rolls, wax candles at 2s. 6d. a lb. were bought in 1719; chicken and
" aspparagrase," a cool tankard at 6s. 9d. for the adjourned Council, French
white wine at is. 3d. a pint, Sack at is. 3d., jelly at 6d. a glass, mince pies at
is., and white wine for the Grace Cup at is. 6d. a quart ; lemons at 2s. 6d.
a dozen, brandy and sugar for punch swell the list for the same year.
It will be noticed that this is the first mention of brandy punch. In 1725
Red "Clarrott" is mentioned at 55. a bottle, and in 1727 43. is paid to
Mr. Hart for fine pale ale. The next year shows more white wine for the
Grace Cup and cool tankards for the July adjourned Council, Canary at
is. 3d. a pint, and the first mention of Port, bought probably at the price set
down in 1729, of is. 3d. a bottle. An order of the Bench of 1731 marks
the introduction of a new drink. " Grace cups in Hall and Tankards at
adjourned Councils are for the future to be filled with arrack punch." In
1732, Burgundy at 243. a dozen, arrack at 43. a quart, and Sack complete the
list. A barrel of Colchester oysters costs in 1735 35., and in 1740
i 145. 8d. is spent on two Westphalian hams. In the next year a
Committee on Grievances, extravagant expenses, and other mismanagements,
recommend, presumably as an economical reform, " That French wines be
drunk in the Hall, Council Chamber, and Buttery only on Grand or holy
days for the future at the expense of the House, and that all port wines used

* A Hanoverian form of beer, made of wheat malt. Ex, auct. Mr. C. I. Elton, Q.C.

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in the House for the future be bought at the best hand and of a Merchant, not
exceeding one guinea a dozen, which ought to contain three gallons." This
order was followed in 1743 by another, for which though no motive is assigned,
perhaps one may well be inferred," That no morepunchbehenceforth introduced
into the Hall or Council Chamber." In 1745 Port for one year at 43 35.
(probably about 41 dozen), one guinea for three gallons of Red Port and
I2s. 6d. for Madeira. Four years later two guineas are paid for six gallons
of Mountain (said to be a species of Malaga). Coffee and Tea are given at
the Bencher's Treat of March 5, 1764, and "shampain" bought at 985. a
dozen makes its first appearance in the Treasurer's Roll for 1775.
p. 392 The two dinners of which details are given were on the occasion of

p. 397 adjourned Councils, and consist of fish, chicken and egg sauce, roast beef,
bacon and greens.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.

During the reigns of Elizabeth, James I. and Charles I., the normal order
in which the offices of the Society were held after invitation to the Bench,
was Lent Reader, Keeper of the Black Book, Treasurer and then Autumn
Reader. All members of the Bench did not in their turn fill all the offices :
death, discontinuance or promotion to the degree of Serjeant closed the
careers of many members ; further the offices were sometimes filled in a
different order for reasons which have not been handed down. But the Lent
Reader was head of the Society for, as it seems, his year of office ; though
always a junior, if not the puisne, Bencher. After his year was over, as the
last volume shows, he was generally appointed Black Book, and then
Treasurer, or, as in the period of this volume, at once Treasurer. The
Treasurer in truth had only the precedence of his antiquity at the Bench :
he is always so placed in the list of Benchers present at a Council, and did not
take the chair at the Council meeting. The offices of Dean of Chapel and
Master of the Library were filled by Benchers who had served the office of
Treasurer. The Reader or the Treasurer not unfrequently held the office
of Marshal in addition to his own. The relative position of the offices may
be inferred, from the order in which the elections appear in the Black Books,
to be Lent Reader, Autumn Reader, Dean of Chapel, Master of the Library,
Treasurer, Black Book, Marshal, Pensioner.

After 1641 the Treasurer and Black Book alone are regularly mentioned,
and for the first three years of Charles II's reign are the only offices: the
Marshal and Pensioner have disappeared and so had the Steward of the
Reader's Dinner, but the fine or composition for the last office was still paid.
The Dean of Chapel, Master of the Library and Master of the Walks were

appointed for undefined periods and only appear in the lists from
time to time. When the volume begins, the Treasurer and Black
Book alone appear for three years. From 1663 onwards the Lent and
Autumn Readers, or the one of them appointed, are added to the list ; and
so long as Readers continued, one of the Readers became Treasurer the year
after his Readership. In 1678, Stedman, the last Reader, became Treasurer,
and from that date to 1692, the Treasurer and Black Book are again the
only officers, with the exception of two Masters of the Walks, one Dean of
Chapel and one Master of the Library. The cessation of the Readership
left the Society without a Head, the Treasurer being only primus inter pares,
and it is interesting to note how gradual was the rise of the Treasurer to the
position now occupied by that officer. With 1693 begins a regular series of
Black Book, Treasurer, Dean of Chapel, and Master of the Library. The Black
Book of one year becomes Treasurer of the next year, and in the two
succeeding years Dean of Chapel and Master or Keeper of the Library.

The orderly progress from Black Book upwards was not unfrequently
interrupted. It had long been the custom that the Attorney-General and
Solicitor-General should be appointed Treasurer for the year after which
either of them had attained that dignity, and the officers of the Crown from
time to time step in before the other members of the Bench : but the
Solicitor-General ceased to have this privilege in 1772: no preference was p. 411
given for the future, except in the case of the Attorney-General for the time
being.

The King's Counsel for a time obtained the like privilege. Sir James
Butler, K.C., the first K.C. in the History of the Society, was made Treasurer in
1675. Mr. Thomas Jones, lately made one of the King's Counsel, is therefore
called to the Bench in 1683. He took his seat at the next Council, and his
name is recorded first of all who were present. He is chosen Treasurer for
1685, though obviously junior to most of the Bench. So John Hawles,
who was invited to the Bench in 1692, appears as Mr. J. Hawles, Q.C.,
Treasurer, in 1695. But by 1737, the Bench, the majority of whom must
have been stuff gownsmen, carried a resolution that none of the K.C.s who
should be called to the Bench thereafter, should be appointed Treasurer, but
in the order he had been called to the Bench. In 1754, a batch of five K.C.s
were intended to be invited, and the order of 1737 was repealed, the Hon.
William Noel, K.C., with two other K.C.s, accepted the invitation of the
Bench and was elected Treasurer for 1754. Seven years later the former
order was revived, but without prejudice to Charles Ambler, K.C., who was
made Treasurer for 1755. The right to the Treasurership then stood on
the order of 1772, and the Senior Bencher who had served the other
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offices was entitled to be Treasurer, subject to the privilege of the Attorney-
General.

Returning to the position of the Treasurer on the abolition of the
Readerships, Stedman, the last Reader, in 1677 duly put up his coat of arms
in the Chapel, and sufficient proof of the position of the Treasurer towards
the rest of the Bench, is furnished by the fact that a quarter of a century
elapsed before the Bench formally authorised the placing of the arms of
the Treasurers, since Stedman, in the East window of the Chapel.

For some years after, his precedence was not settled : for between 1748
and 1762 the Master of the Library is frequently elected before the Treasurer
on the election of offices. He did not attain his present position until 1770,
when it was ordered that for the future the Treasurer for the time being
should take place of all other the Masters of the Bench in the Hall, at
Dinner, at the Council and in the Chapel.

The Treasurer, the Dean of Chapel and the Keeper of the Black Book
p. 388 appear in 1767 to be entitled to certain fees which were received for them

by the Steward and accounted for regularly in Hilary Term.

p. 383 The elections of the Preacher, Chaplain, or any other officer or servant

of the Society, were in 1765 ordered to be determined by " Ballotte " : Each
Bencher was to write the name of his choice on a bit of paper, and hand the
paper to the Chairman of the Council.

TREASURER.

p. 1 8 A Committee of the Treasury appointed in 1662 to relieve the

Treasurer of the admissions to Chambers and the management of the

p. 23 trees in the garden, was discharged in 1664, when an "Attendant on the
Treasurer," in the person of the late Steward, was appointed as to all such
matters of account, reparations, and other affairs of the House, as he should
be directed by the Treasurer. This officer, like the Sub-Treasurer in the

p. 42 last volume, is no more heard of. The Treasurer, in 1665, was directed to

have all the plate in the possession of the Steward placed in the Hall on the

- next Grand Day, " for the honour of the Society " ; and was enjoined, when

Grand Day was past, to keep the House Plate until further order, " as he

would keep his own."

The Treasurers of 1674 and 1675, two years of trouble, were thanked
at the close of their services for their care and prudence in the " managery "

p. 241 of the Treasurer's place to the great advantage of the Society. The
Treasurer was forbidden to lay out or expend above 5 without a special
order of Council, saving only for "the settled and constant expense." This rule
was brought to bear thirty years later on the accounts of a Treasurer, who

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had bought without leave prints of the Judges to be hung up in the Council p. 330
Chamber to the amount of 16 53. ; the Treasurer however was in the end
repaid by the Society.

The Treasurer's Feast had in 1716 apparently ceased to be given.
Spencer Cowper, who was Treasurer in that year, commuted his feast by the
payment of six guineas, an example followed by seven of the Treasurers
who followed him.

A new system of accounts in English by way of Debtor and Creditor p. 295
was devised in 1730, and ordered to be kept in a Book and not in a Roll
as formerly. The Treasurer in 1767 was entitled to fees which were received
for him by the Steward, on admission to the Society, on call, and on
admission to certain chambers.

THE READER.

The close of the last volume showed the appointment of Readers who
did not read, and the cessation of exercises arising from disinclination of the
seniors to read, and of the juniors to attend and study. The wave of
reaction, which brought about the Restoration, is traceable in the policy of
the Society. Within a year of the Proclamation of Charles II, attempts
were made to restore the system of education which " had been interrupted
and wholly omitted by the space of nineteen years past." The Judges put
forward proposals concerning Readings, which were considered by the Inns
of Court, Mr. Prynne and three others being appointed a Committee to meet
and confer with the Benchers of the other Inns. The Council of its own
motion ordered that Moots, Pleadings and Bolts should be performed as
formerly.

A struggle of seventeen years then began between those Benchers who
were bent on bringing back the old forms of Education and the rest of
the Society. The former, who were in the majority, did their best to secure
Readers who would do their duty. While limiting the expenditure of the
Reader, they shortened the period of his Reading, thus making the office
less burdensome : on the other hand, they fined those who refused to read in "
their turn, and in extreme cases expelled them from the Bench or the
Society. Some of those, thus fined or expelled, were members or Associates
of the Bench ; others were Barristers, who from their professional position
must have been in frequent contact with the dominant majority : and the
minutes show some signs of the hot temper and ill feeling that such strong
measures must have aroused.

There were close divisions at the Council, and motions once passed
were brought up again and challenged at subsequent meetings, showing the

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existence of a protesting minority. Barrister after Barrister refused to accept
an invitation to the Bench : but the majority continued to have their
triumphant way until the minutes of 1677 lack the usual notice of the election
of a Reader, and \ve find the office has ceased to exist.

Mr. J. Howell (who had been called to the Bench in 1659) was the first
chosen to hold a Summer Reading, with all the allowances and privileges
any previous Summer Reader had enjoyed. He was to read but one week ;
there were to be two cases argued, one on Monday, the other on Friday :
his repetition was to be made and his Reading finished on the Friday.
Furthermore, there were to be no suppers, more than ordinary commons,
during the whole reading. Mr. Howell failed to read, and Mr. Prynne, at
the request of the House, read in the Lent Vacation of 1662. Mr. Howell
was again appointed for the summer of 1662, and again failed to read. This
second failure of a Reading was taken up seriously by the Council.
Mr. Richard Escourt, " though it was his turn to read," was passed over, and
Sir Edward Bish, Knight, was chosen Lent Reader, with the privileges of a
Double Reader, and summoned, "according to the duty of his place," to be
present at the next Grand Day.

Sir Edward Bish was a person of some distinction ; he had been made
Clarenceux King of Arms in 1661, and offered the Treasurership of 1662.
He was, therefore, an unexceptionable man for the post of Reader, and when
he appeared at the November Council of 1663 and declared his resolution
not to read next Lent, issue seems to have joined without hesitation.
p. 32 " Whereupon," runs the minute, "and upon the date of his refusal and the
questions put first, whether any penalty shall be imposed upon him
therefor; secondly, whether any fine; thirdly, whether two hundred pounds;
or fourthly, whether one hundred pounds. As to the two first questions,
they were carried in the affirmative, the third in the negative, and as to the
last question, the Council then being but twelve in number, besides the said
Sir Edward Bish himself, they were equally divided. And so nothing
resolved ; thereupon and the said matter not then further debated or pro-
ceeded with." At the next Council Sir Edward Bish was excused from
Reading. It was " left to his ingenuity to return his answer next Council
what retribution he would be pleased voluntarily to make in respect of the
indulgence aforesaid." The end was, that Sir Edward was excused from
reading, gave up his Chamber (which he valued at 35 and the Bench relet
at 120) and remained a Bencher. The vacancy had to be filled ; and after
several refusals, Mr. George Day consented to read in the next Lent term ;
he was rewarded with the option of selling his Chamber and being admitted
to the first Bench Chamber that fell vacant. Reader Day preferred to keep

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his chamber and receive ^100 from the Society towards the charges of his
Reading.

The Black Books only record the Resolutions passed at Council, but the
struggle must have been carried on elsewhere. In 1664 the Judges call for
a delegation from the Bench to attend them at Serjeant's Inn and discuss the
orders they were about to put out in the course of the year.

Later in the year a Bencher refusing to Read was deprived " of the
privilege of a Bencher," and the names of those who had refused to read
were entered in the Black Book. Orders were screened " for retrenching and
moderating the excessive expences " of Readings. A reference to them will p. 41
show what inordinate treating custom had imposed on the Readers. A Lent
Reader fulfilled his duty, and Francis Butler was chosen Summer Reader in
spite of his well known infirmities. Then the Plague began to show itself,
and with the consent of the Chancellor and Judges there was no Reading in
the Society that autumn, or in the Lent following.

Francis Butler, who had been chosen Reader, was excused in 1667, and
was allowed to continue a Bencher. The term of Reading was shortened
by two days and an Autumn Reader was appointed : two Benchers being
fined ;ioo each for refusing to read. In 1668 others were fined 100
and 40, and the order was renewed that any Bencher refusing to read was p. 60
to lose all benefit and privilege of a Bencher. From 1668 to 1671, two
Readers were chosen every year, and in the latter year a custom came
in of officially thanking the Reader for his performance. In 1672, Sir
Francis Goodricke, being of the King's Counsel, elected to read in Lent.
Next year Reed and Page who had failed to read after being chosen, were
fined 100 a piece and " suspended the Bench " until payment : subsequently
Foxwist, Reed and Page were discharged the Bench for not reading in their
turn and were " Associated." The Judges of the House were attended
" touching settling Readings," and their advice appears later on. For 1674
Thomas Carpenter was appointed both Lent and Summer Reader, but when
the time came he failed to read on either occasion, and was fined .200 : he was
further disbenched and ordered not to come into Commons or the Hall till
further order ; his chamber was seized to the use of the House, and a padlock
put on his study door. No Lent Reader was appointed for 1675, and a
Master invited to the Bench, " declared himself not provided to be a Reader,"
and therefore refused to come to the Bench. In November, the Judges p. 103
of the House at a Council Meeting laid down that persons, called
to the Bench and refusing, ought to lose and forfeit their Chambers,
and be proceeded against "even to expulsion itself." In 1676, Sir James
Butler was desired to withdraw his election of being Reader for the next

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autumn " by reason of the great necessity of the present repair of the
Chapel": and in 1677 it was thought expedient, " in regard that several
barristers of antient standing had refused to come to the Bench, and
considering how few there were likely to succeed those that lately came up,
that there should be but one Reading from thenceforth in every year, and
but one Reader chosen." This was in May, 1677 ; and Mr. James Stedman
was chosen the only Reader for the year. He duly read and was thanked
for his Reading. By the month of May in the next year the four Inns of
p. 1 20. Court had agreed in passing rules for carrying out the pleasure of His
Majesty, that no Reader, not being of His Majesty's Counsel or Recorder of
London, should expend above ,300 in his Reading. The rules are sufficiently
minute to be interesting. The Bench made the agreement of the Four Inns
an order of Council and at that date, presumably, contemplated the
appointment of Readers in the future. Yet no subsequent Reader to
the Society was appointed. Considering the detail with which proceedings
affecting the .Readership had been given, it is remarkable that no order for
the abolition of the office is recorded. Possibly the party which had
hitherto ruled had lost its majority, and did not venture to move the
election of a Reader. But whatever the cause, thus disappeared from the
Society the name and functions of the Reader, the first in precedence and
perhaps the oldest of its officers. With its disappearance ceased the series
of Readers' arms in the Chapel, and it was not until 1703 that the arms of
the Treasurers were ordered to be put up in the eastern window, beginning
with that of the Treasurer after James Stedman, the last Reader. The
blank left by the disappearance of the Readership is thus well shown by
the fact that five-and-twenty years elapsed before the Treasurer advanced
to take the Reader's place and become the acknowledged head of the
Society.

THE SERVANTS OF THE SOCIETY.

A list of the Servants with the Salaries paid them in 1767 will be found
at p. 390, and the table of precedence of the Household Staff at the same
date on p. 389.

The Steward by the same date had become the chief Servant of the
Society, and his duties, with those of the Chief Butler (who now took the
second place) are set out on pages 388, 9.

The place of " washpot," of considerable antiquity in the Society, had
its name changed to that of Fifth Butler.

p. 21 5 The Chief Porter of Lincoln's Inn in 1703 bore a staff with a silver head

on which were engraved the Arms of the House, purchased at a cost of not

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more than $. The Head Porter of Serle's Court was presented with a p. 190
gown and staff similar to that of the Chief Porter of Lincoln's Inn. Each p. 331
had a long staff for common use in the day time to walk about with.

The Badge Porters appear to have existed before 1660; but in that
year several persons were " allowed and continued " Porters to the Society ;
they wore at their breasts for badges, the arms of Lincoln's Inn, provided
by the Steward at a cost of 8s. a badge, unless any porter at his own charge
was willing to " enlarge " his badge. They had orders to turn out beggars p. 260
and idle boys; not to permit persons to cry or expose to sell clothes or p. 317
goods in the Inn, and to prevent the exercising or showing for sale of
horses in the Inn.

FINANCE.

Want of money weighed heavily on the Society for the most part of the
period covered by this volume, and the domestic history can only be under-
stood when viewed in connection with the efforts of the Bench to raise the
income of the Society to the necessary amount.

The Treasurer's Rolls from 1941-1658 have now been printed in the
Appendix, and show the strain put on the Society by the Civil War. The
silver of the Inn was sold with the exception of the spoons [Vol. II., p. 364,
et seq\ for 132 8s. 4d., and the Society appear to have borrowed
from first to last about 2,000, which they were some time in paying.
They however, felt themselves at liberty in 1652 to abolish all Rolls
but the Preacher's, leaving a yearly income which varied from 700 to
1,000, and yielded a balance at the end of the year. The income
was derived from admissions to the Society, fines and admissions to
chambers, the Preacher's Roll, pensions, absent commons and composition
for absent commons, and such fines as were inflicted on members of
the Society. It was obvious the income could be increased by accession
of members in larger numbers, who would pay admission fees to
the Society, and to chambers, and in time pay or compound for absent
commons. It followed that to house more members more buildings must be
erected, and that the rule of the Society against underletting and the
holding of chambers by strangers and Serjeants must be strictly enforced ;
thus making room for members of the Inn. This is amply apparent from
the minutes. In 1661 an invitation was issued for gentlemen to undertake p. 10
the erection of new buildings ; the great scarcity and want of chambers
was regretted ; the Serjeants residing in the Inn were politely requested
to leave, and all persons who did not hold directly from the Society
were publicly warned to " avoid " the chambers of which they were

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occupiers. In 1662, offers were made of building leases for thirty-one

p. 20 years, and the orders against lodgers repeated. The Benchers who had
discontinued were requested to come into residence and keep commons,
and those who would not undertake to read in their turn were desired to
surrender their chambers. The Benchers in residence, considering the debts
of the House, and the want of money to defray the present and growing

p. 21 charges of the House, surrendered their claim to Bench Chambers until the
House should be out of debt. Three years later, the Rolls, which had been

p. 44 suspended in 1652 for music, coals, library and gardener, were resumed. In
1665, "the present and pressing necessities of the Society, occasioned
principally by the backwardness of those indebted to the House and
Steward," compelled the advance by every member, including the Masters,
of one Grand Week's Commons at the rate of ten shillings for the Grand
Week ; and the stress was so great that the advance of gs. was, a few days
later, ordered for the next week. The absent commons were fixed at a
fortnight's commons, of which the Grand Week was to be one, making a
liability of 195. per term on every gentleman visus in villa, which appears
to mean in the town of Westminster, London being always spoken of as
the City of London. The object was to hit all those who were practicing
at Westminster, and yet not in Commons. More will be heard of
this practice later on. Then came the Plague. No Councils were held
between June I3th, 1665, and February 8th, 1666, and the life of the
Inn seems to have revived in May, 1666. Unfortunately, the accounts
for 1665 are not in existence, but loans which were repaid in 1667

p. 50 probably were contracted in the former year. Divers gentlemen, it appears,
had chambers, and used them solely to accommodate others, who neither
came into Commons, nor paid duties, nor performed exercises, whereby not
only the profit, but also the reputation and honor of the Society were
lessened ; and the Bench ordered that a gentleman must either use his
chamber himself or sell the same to such a person as was capable of being
admitted according to the Orders of the House. The arrears of chimney
money and the Preacher's Roll were directed to be got in.

In 1668, efforts were made to get in the arrears of the Steward's Roll

p. 58 and of commons and dues, by seizing and padlocking the chambers of
Fellows in arrear. The names of lodgers and dwellers in any chambers who
had not been admitted thereto, were sent to the Bench. Benchers, it is to

p. 68 be regretted, were among those who let or privately disposed of their
chambers.

p. 74 The arrears of commons and dues still continued and the Butler

was allowed 6d. in the for collecting them. His pertinacity seems

to have succeeded in making many offer compositions, which the Bench p. 76
accepted, provided they were paid before the next Council. The sum paid for
vacation commons did not defray the cost, and the price was ultimately p. 77
fixed at 6s. 66. a week. With the year 1673 the amount of arrears had
reached 620, and the Bench took the strong measure of seizing and
threatening the sale of the chambers of 26 fellows whose dues were
in arrear, and in the following year actually sold the chambers of 20
gentlemen who had not been in Commons or paid their dues for three years.
Mr. Aid worth, who was Treasurer from November, 1673, to November, 1674, p. 97
succeeded in paying off ^528 and was formally thanked for his great care
and prudence in the " managery " of the Treasurer's place to the great
advantage of the House. But some of the gentlemen thus evicted were
moved to violence. One Asgill was suspended for his contempt in breaking
off the padlock placed on his door. Berrisford's chamber was seized for non-
payment of arrears. He was keeper of the Exchequer Records, and notice
was given to the Lord Chief Baron, with a request that he would appoint pp. 85, 6
some other place for his Records. Berrisford did not pay, and at the close
of the time of grace, the Chief Butler and Porter were ordered forthwith to
padlock and seize his Chamber for the use of the Society and to take care
that no one broke or entered without leave. If any person should be " so
hardy and adventurous," Sir James Butler, a Justice of the Peace for
Middlesex, was desired to bind over the offender to appear at the next
General Sessions and in the meantime to keep the peace.

Having thus got rid of many lodgers and persons who were useless to
the Society, a step was taken to fill the vacant chambers, which has had
important results.

In 1674, the Council caused a list to be made out of such of the p. 95
Barristers as practiced but had no chambers in the House, showing the
Courts and Places where they practiced, with the view of presenting it to
the Judges of the House at the next Grand Day, in February, 1675, and of
requesting them, " as well in their own Courts, as by speaking to the Judges
of the other Courts, to use effectual means that those Barristers should
return to the House and take chambers there."

The list was prepared and ultimately laid before a Council held in
November, 1675, to which had been invited the Lord Privy Seal and three
Judges, sometime members of the Society ; the words of the minute, so
far as they affect the matter in hand, are worthy of being set out at some
length. The Council finds that the Society is " in great want of Benchers p. 103
and Readers and attendance at exercises and coming into Commons and the
House, which is occasioned by those of the Bar that keep no Chambers and

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residence in the House, nor continue in Commons, but practice abroad to the
great disparagement of the Profession, and as well of the decay of learning
therein, as of the Society itself: For the redress thereof according to the
ancient orders and customs for the government of this Society, the Council
do all of them unanimously declare : (4) that for such Barristers of this
House (whose names are now presented to this Council) that do practice
and yet have no chambers or continue in Commons, as they ought to do,
that the Bench do forthwith order them to be put into Commons, and also
summon them forthwith to attend the Bench to give Bonds to pay their
Commons and perform their vacations, and that they with all convenient
speed buy themselves chambers, and reside and practice in the House.
Otherwise in the case of any defaulter, or any called to the Bench, or that
shall be, which shall refuse and not conforme as aforesaid, that their names
be given to the Judges to the end they may not practice or be heard at the
Barr or in the Circuit, nor have any other privileges of their profession until
they conforme."

p. 1 16 Two years later a similar list was ordered to be made out and, after

p. 118 being scrutinized by seven Masters, was in 1678 presented on Grand
Day to the Lord Chief Justice and the other Judges of the House, and
by the Master of the Rolls to the Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor
with the request " to take such effectual course with the gentlemen
mentioned that they return to this House." The subject is not again
mentioned until 1690, when the Council advocate joint action by the
Four Inns " for promoting keeping up of Commons and for the practicing
Barristers to have chambers in their respective Societies." It does not
appear that joint action was taken : the tone of the minute is far removed from
the wail of that of November, 1675, and perhaps joint action was unnecessary.
In Lincoln's Inn, at any rate, the Readership had come to an end, and the
Bar were no longer liable to have their chambers seized for refusing to read.
It is also reasonable to suppose that the declaration made by the Privy Seal
and the three Judges was in harmony with the feelings of the rest of the
Judicial body, and that pressure, direct or indirect, was brought to bear on
the Bar generally. It is significant that the Sgciety, which continued in
want of money for fifteen years afterwards should not have availed itself
of the powers offered by the Judges, if there had been an appreciable
number of delinquents. On the whole we may conclude that the tendency
to dispersion was checked, and the private life of the Bar concentrated in the
Inns of Court.

These worthies built better than they knew. They had in view only
the prosperity of the Society, but the association thus enforced on the

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members of the profession developed and fostered special habits of mind and
action which are still the heritage of their successors. The other Bars of this
Kingdom have attained excellence without altogether similar advantages.
To what extent these habits can be created under circumstances not quite
similar can only be stated by those familiar with the past and present of the
Scotch and Irish Bars ; but to the writer, it seems that the Bar of England
owes much of its position, its corporate spirit and its code of morality and
practice to the policy laid down in the Declaration of November, 1675.

The principle that every member should have a chamber in the Inn was
later on enforced by making possession of a chamber or part of a chamber p. 287
of the value of 20 or the deposit of 20, in the hands of the Treasurer, a
condition precedent to Call to the Bar.

Returning to 1676, the practice of sub-letting chambers was again p. 105
declared to entail forfeiture and seizure of the chambers so let out; every p. 118
Fellow visus in villa, whether he had a chamber or not, was taxed 2s. 6d. a
term for the Preacher, and was compelled to be in Commons as he that had
a chamber. An example is made of a Bencher and an Associate who had p. 121
no chambers, lodged in their sons' chambers, and were in arrear on the
Preacher's Roll.

The Bench now hit upon another way of increasing the return for
admissions to Chambers. Under the Orders of 1664, persons who did not p. 446
receive the Communion in the Society were liable to expulsion, and the p. 123
Treasurer, and as many Benchers as pleased, were directed to search the
House for Popish Recusants, either by virtue of those Orders or the Acts
enforcing the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. The next Council, "taking p. 125
notice of the advantage accruing to the Society by the late search in the
Chambers of the Society whereby several Popish Recusants were discovered/'
ordered that the like searches be repeated. In the Spring of the next year, p. 454
the House of Lords ordered the Treasurers of the Inns of Court to return a
list of the Papists, and to expel all Recusants. The return was made and
showed six Papists still remaining on April 3, 1679 in Lincoln's Inn.

In the next year, it seems probable that complaints had been made to p.i3O
the Bench of the payments for Vacation Commons, and the form of the minute
suggests that feelings ran high both above and below the Bar. It runs "That
it is destructive to the Society to alter the method of paying for Vacation
Commons." This was passed on the 26th June (probably a Saturday, the
Council day) ; on the Monday following disorders were committed in Hall ; p. 1 3 1
and the Bench summoned the Lord Privy Seal and the Master of the Rolls
and several of the Judges " to give advice for composing and settling the
Rules of the House." At the Council meeting, "after great debate nothing

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was concluded," but to meet again. At the next Council the rioters
apologised and as no punishment was given, it may be supposed that the
Bench were not unanimous on the merits of the order about Vacation
Commons.

p. 159 In 1687, the Chapel had been repaired mainly by borrowed money and

pressure was used to collect the arrears of the Preacher's Roll and the absent
Commons. Nine gentlemen who lodged in other gentlemen's Chambers

p. 160 were summoned before the Council, and Middleton is summoned for letting
out his Chamber at a yearly rent. In this year a practice began of

p. 159 consolidating each chamber: that is of allowing each member to have the
whole of a chamber to himself, probably at an increase of fine. The
Masters of the Bench who had not read and were in possession of Bench
Chambers were ordered to lend 100 marks, which was to be repaid when the
House got out of debt or they read, which ever happened first.

These measures roused dissatisfaction in the Barristers and Students,

p. 163 and probably in some of the Bench. On one Thursday in May, 1688, a
paper was delivered to the Benchers in Hall by several gentlemen of the
Society, desiring liberty to inspect the accounts of the House, and requesting
an answer to the matters contained in the paper. The Bench in Council
refused to give an answer in writing to the paper, " having never been
in precedent"; but, desiring to give all reasonable satisfaction to the
gentlemen, appointed four Masters of the Bench to meet four of the Bar
and four under the Bar, and to go into the accounts with them. The
petitioners wished to examine the Black Books and the accounts of absent
Commons due from any member of the Society. The Bench conceded
examination of the accounts, and desired the Black Book Keeper to attend
the Committee, with instructions to their delegates to satisfy the petitioners
of the matters contained in the paper, and added that as " the exigencies of
the House for defraying the debts thereof are pressing," the Committee
should set to work without delay, and, if possible, make an end before the
last day of term. In July, the gentlemen were reported to the Council as
" insisting upon several orders made touching Bench Chambers and several
other things." The Bench adjourned the Council of July without decision;
the long vacation came on ; William of Orange landed at Torbay in
November, and in the excitement of the Revolution no more was heard
of the petition.

p. 181 But the income of the Society did not improve: and though in 1692

the Council considered " building on the dead wall next Chancery Lane or
of any other way to put the House out of debt," no relief followed, and the
accounts show continual borrowings by the Bench. In 1700, the situation

must have appeared desperate. There was a "slender" appearance of
Barristers as well as Students in Commons every Term ; several gentlemen p. 206
had run into arrear for vast sums for absent commons ; the charges for
servants' wages and the dearness of provisions had loaded the Society with
debt ; and members were totally deserting Commons in the hope of
abatement for what they never had : the Council therefore ordered that no
abatement be made of Vacation or absent Commons in the future.

In 1703 the Treasurer brought forward a list of debts to the Society for
vacation and absent Commons and Preacher's Roll, amounting to above 1,800, p. 217
and in 1706 the Society owed ,1,200. From that date the fortunes of the Society
began to mend, because each head of income began to yield a better
return. The fines on admissions to chambers and the payments for absent
Commons both largely increased. Probably much of the arrears was got
in, and the compositions for absent commons were paid with greater
regularity. Borrowing ceased to appear in the accounts, and in 1714
bonds to the amount of 1,000 were paid off. Five years later the Society
had a surplus which was profitably invested in South Sea Bonds. From
that time to the close of this volume the Society were always in prosperous
circumstances, and the figures in 1659 of Gross Receipts 1,123, and
Gross Payments 749, were represented in 1773 by Receipts 3,610 and
Payments 3,474.

THE CHAPEL.

A Cross forming part of the Chapel was taken down in 1646. Whether
this was an outburst of Puritan feeling, or because the cross had decayed
does not appear. Certainly in 1671 (forty-eight years after its erection), the
Chapel had begun to show signs of decay. In 1680, " it was ruinous and p. 130
decayed and in the judgment of judicious workmen, architects and others in
a dangerous condition, so that some of the Society and other persons of quality,
formerly resorting thereto, are deterred from coming and refrain to repair
thereto." An order was made to repair it with all convenient speed. From
want of funds nothing was done until 1684, when the walls and roof were ordered
to be forthwith repaired. In the next year, Mr. Christopher Wren (then a
member of the Society) was invited to peruse draughts of articles with the
freemason and the bricklayer ; and in June the Chapel was shored up at a
cost of 10. The Society borrowed in that year to pay 600 to the mason
and 460 to the bricklayer. In 1730 the windows were taken down, cleaned,
new leaded, and "renailed"; the Creed, the Commandments, and the Lord's
Prayer were put up on the East wall and the East window repaired. In
1/55 the windows were again taken down and repaired and the Chapel was

" beautified." Two years aftenvards the roof was covered with copper at a
cost of 213 us., and in 1760 the Staircase was ornamented with a Tuscan
block " cornish."

The Treasurer's Roll for the year ending November, 1661, shows an entry

of 28 i6s. id. for vestments at the feast of All Saints. Unless these were

for use in the Chapel, it is hard to explain the expenditure of so large a sum ;

but in 1663, on the passing of the Act of Uniformity, surplices and hoods

were provided for the Preacher and Chaplain. In 1676 Tollemache Duke

p. 1 80 presented two silver candlesticks, now gilt and used in the Chapel. Mr. Long

p. 1 88 and his widow, Mrs. Dionesse Long, after Long's death, presented velvet

cloths with gold fringes for the pulpit and communion table.

In 1700 a proposal by Mr. Cavendish Weedon to set up an organ loft
was rejected ; but another proposal by him was approved, " to admit into
use in the Chapel, the new version of the Psalms by Mr. Tate, His Majesty's
Poet Laureate, and the Rev. Mr. Brady, one of H.M.'s Chaplains-in-
Ordinary, Mr. Weedon furnishing at his own charge two copies for each of
the Bench and Bar Seats." Another proposal by Mr. Weedon to erect an
organ loft in the West End of the Chapel was declined in 1 707 ; and a
like fate befel the offer of Mr. Fellows to erect an organ loft and give an
organ in 1721.

The "Uppermost" seats were those nearest the Communion Table.
Two of these, that is, the two of the first row, were reserved for the Judges,
Serjeants, and King's Counsel ; the next three rows for the Benchers, and
the two last rows for the Barristers ; no other allotment was made. During
the plague of 1665, none but persons of quality were admitted to the
Chapel ; but usually, " ordinary persons or tradesmen " might be let into
the pews after the first lesson had begun. In 1717, the wives of the
Benchers complained that the seats were not convenient, *>., for the hooped
petticoats in use; but by 1730 the Chapel had become attractive to the
ladies, for the Bench were compelled to order that ladies should not be
admitted to the seats below the pulpit.

The Preachers of the Society must now be mentioned. Greenfield, who
was Preacher at the close of the last volume, resigned in 1663 and was
followed by the " Rev. John Tilletson." This divine became Dean of
Canterbury in 1672, and continued to hold the Preachership and the Deanery
p. 34 until he was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1691. The terms of his
service, which, with one modification, were those of all his successors in this
volume, were 100 a year, 24 more for vacation Commons, Commons for
himself and man in term time, and a chamber : he was to preach twice every
Lord's Day in term time and next before and next after every term and in

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Reading time, and once every Lord's Day in Vacation and as other occasion
should require : to administer the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper with the
Chaplain in every term and vacation : to reside constantly in the Society,
and not absent himself without leave : this last clause was modified in 1670,
and leave was given him to be absent, taking care his place was well
supplied. He held the Preachership during the Great Plague of 1665, and
was given with the Chaplain leave of absence from June 13, 1665 to the first
Sunday in Easter Term, 1686. It is fair to add that the House was
tactically shut up during that period. On his resignation, a claim was put p. 178
forward by several Barristers and Students " pretending right to the election
of a Preacher " ; but the Bench, on a search of the Book of Orders, resolved
that the right of election of a Preacher was and always had been in the
Masters of the Bench only, and not in the gentlemen of the Society under
the Bench. " Dr. Maynard " was the next Preacher. He resigned in 1699
and was presented with a piece of Plate, which he bequeathed to Magdalen
College, Oxford. He was followed by " Francis Gastrell, B.D." to whom also
a piece of plate was presented on his being made Bishop of Chester in 1714.
" Dr. Lupton," his successor, was followed by the " Rev. Mr. Thomas Herring,
B.D.," who resigned after becoming Dean of Rochester in 1732. His
successors were "Dr. Crank, and, Dr. Watts." Next came the "Rev. William
Warburton, M.A.," who was Preacher from 1746 to 1761, when he was made
Bishop of Gloucester and resigned. In 1768 he founded a Lecture in the pp. 395,
form of sermons " for proving the truth of the Christian Religion from the 396
completion of those prophecies in the Old and New Testaments which relate
to the Christian Church, especially to the apostacy of the Church of
Rome," to be preached on three named Sunday mornings in the
Lincoln's Inn Chapel. These are still continued under the name of the
Warburtonian Lectures. Dr. Warburton was succeeded by Dr. Ashton,
who was followed by the " Rev. Dr. Hurd," shortly after made Bishop
of Lichfield and Coventry. p. 406

The remuneration of the Chaplain, or Reader or Lecturer in Divinity, p. 36
was 303. a week, commons in term and vacation and a chamber. His
duties were (in 1664) to read prayers twice- every day in term and in p. 37
vacation, if commons held ; if commons did not hold, twice every Lord's
Day, Wednesdays and Fridays in every week in term and constant
preaching once every Lord's Day in vacation. To this was added, in 1757,
that he should perform his duty personally except for two months in the
" Long Vacation." He was to pay the Society all moneys received for
marriages and burials. Of the Chaplains, the only one necessary to mention p. 238
is Mr. Browne, who was called upon to answer a complaint relating to a

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p. 263 clandestine marriage in the Chapel. The sequel was an order that the
Chaplain should give the Dean of the Chapel a note of the Christian and
Surnames of all persons married by him, with their additions ; these
particulars were to be entered in a book. This was in 171 1 ; but the earliest
extant Register begins in May, 1695.

Another officer connected with the Chapel was the person who set or
began the Psalm, also called "the Psalm-raiser." The Chaplain and one
of the Butlers are mentioned as holding this office. It was filled in 1715 by
Henry Carey, author of " Sally in our Alley," and reputed author of " God
Save the Queen." He held it only two years, and was summarily dismissed,
for reasons which he relates in an interesting letter to the Earl of Oxford,
set out in the Appendix p. 468.

p. 324 The Chapel Clerk was appointed in 1741 at a salary of $ a year and a

gown when necessary. His duties were to attend the Chapel every Sunday,
and at the monthly sermons, and all Holy and Saints' Days, and all Epistle
and Gospel Days ; and to be present at all marriages and funerals. The

p. 179 monthly sermons appear to have been preached on the monthly fast days,
and had their origin in the will of Henry Colfer (Vol. ii., p. 427), by which a
sum of 20 shillings was left for ever for a lecture sermon to be preached in
Lincoln's Inn Chapel by " some suffering, yet sound and learned Divine " on
one Wednesday in every month throughout every year for ever.

The Dean of the Chapel was appointed from time to time by the Bench
out of their number as the office was vacated.

p. 309 The hours of service were on Sunday morning not before 10.30 a.m.,

and on Sacrament Sunday afternoons at 3.30 p.m. : on week days the
afternoon prayers were held at times, varying from 2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m., as
successive Councils thought fit to order. The order for prayers at 4 p.m.
provides that no candles be used at these times, save at the Desk.

p. 228 Collections were made on Sacrament Sundays, which were the first

p. 266 Sunday in each month. The Chaplain made a note of the amount of the
collection, and paid it to the Butler. A distribution was made four times a
year among persons nominated by the Benchers and Associates. The
servants of the Society were excluded from the number of possible
recipients.

p. 328 Marriages and Christenings, but not Churchings, were allowed to be

performed in the Chapel.

p. 266 The Servants of the Society in 1723 were wont in company with

gentlemen's servants to leave the Chapel in the time of Divine Service, send
for drink and behave themselves " disorderly." Thereupon an order was
made of which the effect may still be seen on any Sunday morning : the

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two Chief Porters were to attend in their proper habits with their Porters'
Staves all the time of Divine Service, and two Badge Porters were
to attend at tne Chapel stairs to keep away beggars and prevent disorderly
practices.

The two earliest coats of arms in the Chapel at the present time appear
to be those of Thomas Spencer, who purchased discharge from Reading in
1586, and of Anthony Irby, Autumn Reader in 1590. These are the first of
a series of Readers, ending with James Stedman, the last of the Readers of
the Society, who read in the Autumn of 1677. In the present West windows,
besides the arms of the Readers, are to be found those of a few Benchers of p. 213
later date. But in the East windows are found the arms of the Treasurers
from 1680 to the present time. The arms of Luke Astry, the first of the
series, were put up in 1703, pursuant to an order that the coats of arms of
every Treasurer since the last Reader should be put up in the East window
and in no other place. James Stedman, after putting up his arms as
Reader, served as Treasurer for three years, and Luke Astry, having in 1680
succeeded him as Treasurer, fitly heads the series.

An entry in the Treasurer's Roll for 1718-19 of a payment of 53. to the
silversmith for studs and fastening the silver on the Common Prayer Book
"that lies on the Communion Table," refers to the Prayer Book now
exhibited in the Library.

Burials continued to take place in the ground under the Chapel of p. 137'
persons who died in the service of the Society and of Fellows who had
been in Commons within 12 months of their death. Armorial bearings
were put up on the walls over some of the graves. The charge for opening p. 294
the grave was i.

The arches under the Chapel became ths resort after sunset of bad
characters of both sexes, who gave much trouble to the Society. Women
left children whom they could not support. The entry in the Treasurer's
Roll of 1731-2 " 2s. 6d. to a woman that keept a child that was dropped
under the Chapel " is the first of many to the like effect ; finishing with that,
on the last page of this volume, of the purchase of a pair of stays for George
Lincoln, a pair of shoes and three frocks and payments for his board at 43.
a week, and of a payment to the apothecaries for the cure of the foundling
boy, George Lincoln.

THE HALL.

Externally the Hall remained unaltered throughout this period, except p. 303
that two buttresses on the west side were worked up to support the roof, and
an arch turned on each side of the passage door. The turret and roof were

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repaired in 1770, and a stone was inserted with the date and the Treasurer's
initials.

p. 305 Internally, some alterations were made. Folding doors (? screens with

leaves) were made to fit the arches into the Hall : the interior and doors

p. 140 were gilded at a cost of 1 1 ; and the arms of distinguished members
were set up. It was the courteous practice of the Bench to obtain the
permission of the member whom they wished to honour, before setting up
his arms.

p. 148 In 1614 a concession was made to a generation not so hardy as their

predecessors. " Whereas," says the minute, " heretofore fires have not been
allowed at Commons in the term of St. Michael, until the eve of All
Saints : and whereas, very few of the gentlemen do come into Commons the
beginning of the said term, the season being then very cold and fires
needful," fires should be forthwith made at meals in the Hall in that and
every succeeding Michaelmas term, so long as Commons continued. This
minute is dated at a Council held October 25, at which time it would seem

p. 317 Term at that date had begun. The fire was in the centre of the Hall, for
with a view to economy in using coal the Bench in 1738 considered "of
making one or more chimnies in the Hall for coal fires," and in due course

p. 327 provided sea coal for the Hall and Buttery.

The allowance in 1684 of four clean table cloths a week, instead of
three as theretofore, was advanced in 1717 to clean linen throughout the
Hall on every day in term time and on every day to the Bench table.
Hollow trenchers were in use at the Reader's Dinner in 1665, and the

p. 282 Treasurer buys round and square trenchers in 1727. The use of gowns was
made imperative by the Judges' Orders of 1666: and in addition the Bench in
p. 59 1668 put out a most stringent edict: "Whereas, by the Constitutions and
Orders of this Society, no Member ought to come into the Hall at the time of
dinner, supper, or exercise, without a gown : and for offending therein divers
persons in former times have been expelled this House : and yet some few
young gentlemen (being ignorant hereof) have of late, in the vacation time,
adventured to come into the Hall with coats and swords, without their gowns,
to the great scandal and subversion of the government of this Society,"
offenders were to lose a week's Commons, and not to be called to the Bar
or allowed to sell their Chamber until payment. As may be inferred from the
style, this order was composed to be screened in the Hall. The penalty of 8s. 6d.
(the price of a week's Commons in term) for not wearing a gown in Hall
during vacation was re-affirmed in 1677. Later on a state of things is shown,

p. 249 not unfamiliar to Members of the Universities. " Notice having been taken
that several gentlemen appear in Hall either without gowns, or with only

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pieces of gowns, contrary to the known Rules of the Society, no gentlemen
shall in future appear but in "a decent gown." Again in 1732 no gentleman
was allowed to come into Hall, but " in his proper gown " nor " come in nor go
out with his hat on." Perhaps the proper gown has reference to a practice
pursued in 1737 by Moloney " who has frequently appeared in the Hall in a
Bar Gown, though on enquiry it does not appear to the Council that he was p. 251
ever called to the Bar." Moloney was summoned before the Council,
but the result is not stated. On two occasions Members of the Bar left Hall
before Grace had been said and were reprehended.

The taking or sending Commons out of Hall continued to be strictly
forbidden and constantly done. The Clerks of the Benchers ceased to have
Commons allowed them in 1737.

The only recorded offence in Hall is that of a Barrister who, contrary p. 256
to the Order brought a dog into Hall at dinnertime. When the Porter
attempted to remove the dog, the Barrister offered to fling a pot at the
Porter's head and threatened to knock him down : " whereby the Porter

intimidated and unable to execute the order."

The Hall was used for divine service while the Chapel was being
repaired. It was also used as a Court of Justice for many years. In 1717, p. 251
Sir J. Jekyll, M.R., at the invitation of the Bench sat in the Hall, while the
Lolls House was being rebuilt, the Society spending i 2s. 6d. in a green
:loth to cover the Bench while he sat. Sixteen years later, also at the p. 305
invitation of the Bench, Lord Talbot, then Chancellor, sat in the Hall, at a p. 312
cost to the Society of 1 6s. for candles had in court. Lord Hardwicke* who
succeeded him held his first sitting there, as Chancellor, in 1736-7. Incidentally
we learn that his sitting produced in 1740 profits, which " except the Hat
money," the Porter was bidden to share with the Pannyerman. In 1770 the p. 321
Chancellor of the day still held his Court in the Hall, and the Buttery, which
in 1739 had been fitted up for the then Chancellor, had gained the more
honourable name of the Withdrawing Room.

The Serjeants' Feast of 1688 was held in the Hall, as was that of 1756.
On the latter occasion members of the Society were of the number of newly-
appointed Serjeants.

When any member of the Society was presented with the Coif, he was p. 373
received by the Masters of the Bench in the Council Chamber, from which
he proceeded to the Hall where the members of the Society awaited him, p. 392
gowned and ready to hear the public speeches delivered by a Bencher on p. 409
behalf of the Society and by the outgoing Serjeant

* A picture of Lord Hardwicke sitting in the Hall of Lincoln's Inn is in the National Portrait
Gallery.

LIBRARY.

p. 77 The fund for the general support of the Library in 1672 appears to have

p. 1 1 1 been the 135. 4d. paid with that object on Call : and the fines for failures of

p. 85 exercises at Moots and Bolts of 2Os. for a Bencher, 1 35. 4d. for a Barrister,

6s.8d.for Gentlemen under the bar. When the Bar Moots treats were suppressed

p. 324 in 1741 the payment on Call was raised from 135. 4d. to $. The Keeper of

Library was a Bencher and appointed, it would seem, for indefinite periods.

The under Library Keeper attended in 1736, through the whole year from

nine to one in the forenoon, and from Ladyday to Michaelmas from four to

p. 345 seven in the afternoon : he was also the 2nd Butler and received 6d. a term

p. 378 from every member attending the Library, if he could get it The locks and

keys of the Library were frequently altered ; probably this was for greater

security, as the Library contained most of the valuable property of the

p. 1 14 Society (except the plate) : the Hale Manuscripts which were kept in

p. no "archives" or presses specially erected for them ; the Fairfax Manuscripts

also a bequest by a member of the Society, of which two only now can

p. 2ji be identified: the Books bought with the 100 left to the use of the

p. 255 Society by Sir John Franklyn; a picture of L.GJ. Rainsford, also a

bequest ; and the chest of evidences or title deeds of the property of the.

Society.

It was decided by the Bench to lay out the 50 or 100 left by
Mr. Franklyn, (both sums are mentioned) on books of the Civil Canon
p. 234. and Feudal Law. The Master of the Library, Crawford, happened to
be a Scotchman, and made application " to the most learned Civilian,
Mr. Alex. Cunningham (Professor of Civil Law in the University
of Edinburgh) for his recommendation of a useful collection of the
Books above mentioned," and received a catalogue on which the Bench
acted. Lady Franklyn obtained leave, to hang up an inscription in
memory of her husband, " a great benefactor to the Society." A portrait
of Sir J. Franklin, is in the Benchers' Room and it seems possible (in
the absence of any evidence how this came into the Society's possession)
that Lady Franklyn presented it in lieu of the inscription above
mentioned.

p. 265 The sale is recorded of a duplicate copy of Rymer's Fcedera, by consent

of the donor, for 105, in 1722. The globes in the Library were repaired
p. 289 in 1729. The keeper was authorised to buy the Statutes as they came out,
p. 296 and all law Books licensed by the Judges. A catalogue was made of the
p. 334 Library by Mr. Bellamy, a member of the Society, in 1744, and another of
p. 343 the Manuscripts in 1749.

CHAMBERS.

The description given in the Introduction to Vol. II, p. xv, of the
mode in which the chambers were used and occupied, is confirmed by the p. 234
petition of William Dunch to the Bench. From this it is clear that the lobby p. 37
or anteroom between the studies was used by the clerks of the co-tenants,
each clerk having a table and stool, and being entitled to the access of light
from one of the windows in the wainscotting.

The custom, however, was coming in of the whole chamber being taken
or bought by one man, and the chamber being thus, as the phrase went,
" consolidated." The first instance was in 1670, and the example once set p. 67
was quickly followed. The admission to a whole chamber cost 130, 350, p. 290
,450, as the case might be ; a fine had to be paid for each chamber, t.e., half p. 344
chamber so consolidated. p. 285

In 1763 it seems to have occurred to the Bench that it would be more
profitable to let chambers at a yearly rent instead of, as theretofore, admitting a
tenant for life on payment of a sum down. An estimate was obtained of the
probable yearly rental obtainable from the ground and first floors in each of the
several staircases in Old Buildings : and in 1775 a resolution was come to
that for the future the chambers which fell into the Society should be let, not
for lives, but from year to year at a rack rent.

Tenants were still restrained from breaking out windows without leave.
The keeping of dogs in chambers was forbidden in 1775- The name of Mr.
John Stone must be rescued from oblivion. The Bench give him leave in
1771 at his own expense to make (what is the first mentioned) water closet, p. 408
and lay on New River water for the same, and to make a " Buzaguloe Stove,"
It is to be regretted that no account is given of the derivation of the name,
or of the merits of this stove ; but, from the tenor of the minute, it seems to
have been then a well-recognised make. The minutes for the years 1774
and 1775 set out the arrangements for the erection of Stone Buildings, and
the negotiations which resulted in the erection of the Buildings for the
Accountant General and Deputy Registers of the High Court of Chancery,
and the building for the Gentlemen of the Six Clerks' Office. These together
made up the block of buildings fronting on Chancery Lane, now used as
chambers and as the School of Arms for the Inns of Court R. V.

The erection of Serle's Court, now known as New Square, takes up some
part of this volume. A Committee was appointed in 1680 to receive such
proposals as should be made by Mr. Serle and Mr. Clarke concerning
Fickett's Fields, with the result that in 1682 an agreement (which is set
out in the Appendix) was entered into between the Society and Henry p. 458

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Serle, also a member of the Society, for the erection by Serle of three

ranges of buildings in Little Lincoln's Inn Fields or Fickett's Fields, to

be called Serle's Court. Other persons were interested with Serle or

p. 461 claimed to be so. One action of Clerk v. Serle was decided by the House

p. 463 of Lords in Serle's favour in 1685, and another action of Serle v. Clerke, in

which Lord Chancellor Jeffreys played a part, was also given in Serle's

favour in 1689. Serle died shortly after this decision, and an Act of

Parliament was carried in 1690 for the selling of Serle's estate and

recognising the agreement between the Society and Serle. In the next

p. 176 year, Lord Chandos, Henry Vincent, and Dr. Barbon came before the

Masters and it was agreed that Dr. Barbon should carry out Serle's

agreement with the Society. From a subsequent mention of a Bill in

p. 182 Chancery against Dr. Barbon and others it may be inferred there w ? ere

p. 185 differences between the contracting parties ; and in 1693, Sir Thomas Cooke

appears to have taken over the burden of Serle's agreement and to be

p. 1 86 engaged in a suit with the Society. By this time some of the buildings

p. 185 were erected, for 16 inhabitants of Serle's Court were called on to show cause

why they had not been admitted to their chambers by the Society, and

those of them not admitted to the House why they were not so admitted.

p. 1 88 A Book was provided for Serle's Court in which were to be entered the

Articles between the Society and Serle, and all past and future orders relating

p. 198 to the Court. The first instance of reference to chambers by numbers, is on

the admission of James Wittewrong, to No. 10, Serle's Court, recorded in the

p. 200 Serle Court Book. " The New Court, called Serle Court," as a minute

recites, having been made by agreement part of the House and subject to

the Rules thereof, the Bench repeatedly exacted admission into chambers at

the hands of the Society, and compelled every person in residence to become

a member of the Society. Under these rules, Sir Philip Yorke, A.G.,

inhabiting Serle's Court, was compelled to seek admission to the Society in

p. 212 1724. An attempt was unsuccessfully made to obtain for Serle's Court, the

p. 216 exemption from Rating which Lincoln's Inn at that time enjoyed. At the

p. 272 request of the proprietors of Serle's Court, the title deeds of the Court were

deposited in the Library : and, later on, the House undertook the gravelling

and paving of the area of the New Square, in consideration of a payment by

the Proprietors. The index will shew many details, for which space cannot

be found here.

COMMONS.

The charge for Commons to the Bar and Students was in 1661 8s. 6d.
for every week except Grand Week for which the charge was IDS. Every
member was required to pay a minimum sum in respect of Commons for

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each term. This, called absent Commons, was fixed for a resident in the
country in 1661 at a week's Commons and later on at a fortnight's Commons
or i/s. ; but any one visus in villa was "cast into Grand Week" at 153.,
which brought his payment up to 235. 6d. a term ; Benchers and Associates
paid 143. a week, whether absent or present : a Bencher, whose clerk was in
Commons, paid i6s. a week for himself and his clerk. Any Member had the p. 1 1
privilege of coming in and taking a repast at the price of is. 4d. (raised to
is. 6d.) for each repast. An attempt was made to limit this privilege to
Bar Moot days only and to Wednesdays, when Term began or ended on that
day. As this restriction did not long remain in force, the privilege of taking
repasts must have been of value to some members : it probably enabled them
to attend the Moots and Bolts which were held in Vacation without paying
Vacation Commons.

Vacation Commons were a convenience both to Students and Barristers
who had to keep exercises in vacation. Mr. Prynne's Committee in 1660
reported in favour of the system. The charge was 6s. 6d. a week provided
30 Barristers and gentlemen were in Commons. In 1672 there was no reading,
and the Bench refused to supply Commons, unless 20 gentlemen remained
and paid their Commons beforehand. The "disorder" of 1680 has
been dealt with under the head of Finance. Nine years later the Steward p. 170
complains that there are no vacation Commons, no Readings, few Grand
Days, and very few gentlemen in Commons in the Term Time. In 1725 the p. 203
Jar and Students complain that having a right to keep Vacation Commons,
icy were refused liberty to keep them according to the usage of the Society,
id yet were obliged to pay a fine for not keeping them, which was not in
icir power to do. Leave was therefore given for Vacation Commons, if there
fere a subscription of 21 gentlemen for that purpose, and if gowns were
mm in Hall. The charge was to be is. 6d. towards the cost of bread,
jr, and charcoal, &c., and 53. for other expenses.

The food was the subject of much consideration. In 1693 the practice
of keeping Ember weeks and fish days other than Fridays and Saturdays in
2very week was abandoned because " several gentlemen put themselves out
)f Commons and deserted the Hall, being unwilling to be tied to eat such
mwholesome diet as salt fish and ling in the summer season to the great
>rejudice of their healths." A few years later the gentlemen petitioned that
the dinner and supper might be reduced into one. This was granted by
le Bench and dinner hour fixed at 2 p.m. A schedule of dinners was p. 237
Irawn up ; the food was to be boiled beef; roast loins of mutton (for some
iason legs of mutton had not been supplied up to this date) and fish. Beer
it i os. a barrel, but no more ale at the cost of the house. The price paid by

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the Inn was 2s. for each mess, showing that then, as now, the amount paid
for the dinners in Hall did not meet the cost of them.

pp. 260-1 In 1721 salt fish which had been the diet for each Friday in Easter and
Trinity Terms and fish for every other Friday were discontinued, their place
being taken by fish or flesh as the Quatuor should order.

p. 322 A Committee in 1741 inquired into all the grievances, extravagant

and seq. expenses, and other mismanagements of the Society. They cut down the
number of dishes on Grand Day, and made recommendations as to the
purchase and consumption of wine, and reported that the cook was
appropriating nearly half the mutton under the form of perquisites.
Another schedule of dinners was promulgated in 1762, in which the first

p. 375 item of dinners on Fridays in Michaelmas and Trinity Terms is " Oysters as
usual."

p. 421 The hour of weekday dinners in 1751 was 3 p.m., and on Sundays

at 2 p.m. ; but in 1774 was put forward to 4 p.m. during term time.

p. 331 Wine was supplied in Hall to those who desired it, and the profits of

the wine sold divided between the Head Porter and the Pannyerman.

The beer pots, salt-cellars and candlesticks used in the Hall appear to
have been of pottery, and bought by the load; .11 75. is charged for two
loads in 1692. Thirteen dozen candlesticks were bought for 6s. 6d. in 1715,
and i is. 3d. paid for pots bought at the Temple in 1727.

AMUSEMENTS.

Of the four Grand days (Vol. II., p. 235) only two are mentioned in
this volume, that in Michaelmas Term held first on November 1st, and later
on on the second Thursday in the Term, and that held on Candlemas Day.
No Grand Day was held in 1679, because of the sad condition of the Temples,
occasioned by the late dreadful fire, and (secondly) because the Feast of the
Purification fell on the Lord's Day. The same course was followed in 1684
during the Great Frost, and sums of money were given to the poor of the
two adjacent parishes and the poor prisoners of the Fleet, King's Bench, and
Marshallsea Prisons.

Appen- Revels were held in Michaelmas and Hilary Terms. Those attended by
dix. Charles II. were on January 3rd and 28th and in November. The gentlemen
pp. 137, were encouraged " to capacitate themselves to be Revellers" ; the Book of
227 the Revels for 1662 contains the Programme of a very successful entertain-
ment. The Master was usually of standing : Sir John Lee was made an
Associate in the year of his office ; Mr. Rich another Master of the Revels
was Lent Reader in the second year after he was Master. Mr. Rich's Bill
p. 76 for musick and lights for the year 1671 when Charles II. was present was

prefect*

taxed down to 7 195. 8d. The penalty for refusing to serve was for the
most part 20.

The Master of the Bench of Gray's Inn dined with the Society in 1660 : p. 15
on another occasion the ancient custom of a compotation with the Middle
Temple was revived.

THAVIES INN.

The Summer Reading of the year 1664 failed through the fault of the
Inn ; as this happened only a few months after the issue of the Judges'
Orders, which specially enjoined continuance of Readings, the Society fined
Thavies Inn twenty nobles and pressed for the money.

Seven years later the rent was in arrear. As the lease had run out
the Society brought an action of ejectment ; Thavies Inn acknowledged the
title of the Society and prayed for a new lease. Terms were agreed, but
the Inn delayed taking up the lease ; in the end a lease for 41 years was p. 90
granted and accepted, and the Inn was in occupation in 1677, having in p. 112
the meantime erected new buildings and a new Hall.

In 1713 the Inn, on the ground of the vast expenses they had been at p. 241
in repairing their premises, prayed for a new lease. Two years later the Inn
is reported to be in a very flourishing condition, and the Society consider the
question of a new lease. There is no further mention of the Inn until p. 393
1768, when an order is made for the appointment of a caretaker, and for the p. 393
issue of an advertisement for letting the Inn. Advertisements in the Daily
Advertiser and Gazatteer failed to produce a tenant, and in January, 1769,
Thavies Inn was advertised to be " sold and not let." In May, the Bench p. 398
declared that Mr. Middleton, of Lincoln's- Inn, was "the best bidder for the
absolute purchase of Thavies Inn, at the sum of 4,100," and the sale was
completed in July, 1772.

In accordance with a resolution of the Bench, the money produced by p. 399
the sale was applied wholly or in part to the building of Stone Buildings.

FURNIVAL'S INN.

Eland's Buildings had been completed in 1660, and a prolonged
negotiation between the Society and Furnival's Inn resulted in a lease by p. 20
the Society at a rent of 8 a year with a present fine of 150 for a term of
50 years. A new lease was granted of Furnival's Inn in 1718 at the old rent p. 253
on payment of 50 fine for 60 years ; this was renewed in 1756 for 61 years
at a rent of S a year with a covenant against assigning without leave or p. 361
demising any portion to any person who did not practice or profess the law.

The procedure in the election of a Reader (of which part appears in
Vol. I., pp. 336-363) is now fully shown. It was the duty of the outgoing
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p. 23 Reader to submit a list of members of Lincoln's Inn qualified to read to the
Bench ; out of this list the Bench chose three whose names were put before
Furnival's Inn, and that Inn elected one of the three Readers for the ensuing
year. The accident of a challenged election induced the Bench acting in the

pp. 98, spirit of the Orders of 1664 to frame regulations for elections in future. The
99 first of these, describing the voting body of Furnival's Inn as " Ancients and
others," proceeds to legislate on that basis. As the Principal and Ancients
were the governing body, " the others " can only mean the other members of
the Inn, and it follows that the voting body was all the members of the Inn.
This conclusion supports the theory that the Inns of Chancery had a more
popular form of government than the Inns of Court.

There is no protest against the rule of Lincoln's Inn during the whole
of this period. Probably this unprecedented peace is due to the reassertion
in the Judges' Orders of 1664 of the complete subordination of an Inn of
Chancery to the Inn of Court whose property it was.

ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS.

The Orders of 1664 lay down that from thenceforth no Common
Attorney or Solicitor be admitted of any of the four Inns of Court, repeating
the Orders of 1614 and 1630 on the matter. But this injunction seems to

p. 59 have been disregarded : for in 1668 the names of all Attorneys, Solicitors and
Clerks who had been lately admitted into the House were to be delivered to

p. 60 the next Council, and for the future none were to be admitted without the
leave of the Council : and none, who had been admitted and practised, should
be admitted into any chambers, so long as they continued such employment,

p. 70 unless for good cause shown. Two years later the Bench refuse to allow the
sale of a chamber to " a practising Clerk," and take like action in 1677. In
1772 the Attorneys and Solicitors are called on to pay their arrears for
Commons and other dues on pain of being expelled the Society ; and an
Attorney is in the next year expelled for non-payment of dues.

Attorneys and Solicitors still remained Members of the Society. It was

p. 126 found necessary in 1679 to order that thenceforward no practising Attorney or
Solicitor of the House should be called to the Bar : and Mr. Warkhouse, one

p. 1 34 of the Fellows, being desirous of call to the Bar, discontinued the practice
of an Attorney and put himself out of the Roll of Attorneys : he then
applied himself to the study of the law and performed all his exercises and
" civilly behaved himself by the space of seven years in the Society." The
Bench called him to the Bar in 1681. Mr. Strode took the like course in 1687.

p. 374 The Four Inns agreed in 1762 that no Attorney or Solicitor, Clerk in

Chancery or Exchequer, should be called until they had discontinued

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practising as such for two years. Before the close of this volume in 1776
two solicitors, members of the House had been called to the Bar under those
conditions.

The Solicitor, who was a member of the House, became subject to the p. 106
rule forbidding litigation by a member of the House against the House or
any other member. Mr. Martin, a member of the Society, misbehaved
himself in being a common solicitor and particularly in soliciting a cause
against the Society. Summoned before the Council, "on reproof by the
Masters given him for this offence he so misdemeaned himself as he gave
them a further just cause against him." Mr. Martin was put out of Commons,
but on apology was readmitted.

Here may be set down the employment of a " private," and not a
" common " solicitor by the Society. Mr. Goodricke, the Reader of Divinity, p. 102
was desired, in 1675, to manage and solicit the business for recovery of the
Charity or pious use given by the last Will of Henry Colfer Esq., late one
of the Fellows of this Society, and was to be reimbursed his expences, out of
the money recovered. This employment ceased the next year; but in 1685, p. 150
prosecution of the same suit, was directed, and Mr. Goodricke " was employed
to solicit the same," another instance, is that of Morse, in 1693. p. 186

CHRONICLE.

The Restoration leaves a marvellously small mark on the Records of
the Society.

Within one month from the return of Charles. II, two gentlemen, whose p. 2
chambers had been disposed of during their suspension from the Society by
colour of an Ordinance of Parliament for their adhering to the late King
Charles of blessed memory and serving him in his wars, petitioned for a
compensation. At the same Council eighteen Benchers " did solemnly take
the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy," and those Masters absent were
ordered to follow their example within a convenient time. The Principals
of Thavies Inn and Furnival's Inn are recorded to have taken the oaths at
the Bench Table End.

After the Long Vacation, came the expulsion from the Society of p. 4
Millington, Corbett, Love, and Garland, Fellows of the Society, and every
other person "that had any hand in that horrid and treacherous act of
murdering our late Sovereign Lord K. Charles I of blessed memory or are, by
his Majesty and now Parliament excepted out of their late gracious Act of
Oblivion." These four had sat as Judges on the trial of Charles I, and all but
Love signed the death warrant. Mr. Oliver St. John had the privilege of a stair
case into the garden and a back door into Chancery Lane ; and this was taken

away for reasons, which, considering the part he had played, may have been
political, or may well have been based on the supposed interests of the Inn.
Seven gentlemen only receive compensation for the loss of their chambers,
p. 7 Two others whose call had been delayed by their opposition to the Parliament
were called : of these Mr. Robert Clarke is an instance, having been admitted a
student " about twelve years since, but by reason of the late usurpation in
Government having withdrawn himself for many years, and thereby lost his
opportunity, as many others have done, of being called to the Bar in course
and according to his time : and he being a person very well known to be
rightly affected to the King's Majesty and Kingly Government," is ordered
to be called to the Bar.

But the Royalist party did not have their own way in all matters. The
Society had become possessed of " the King's Majesty's picture, and had hung
p. 25 it in the Council Chamber ; it was placed in the Hall temporarily and while
there was removed and taken away from the Hall by the means of some
of the Fellows of the Society with an intent (as was conceived) to obstruct
the order and direction of the Masters of the Bench." The Bench order that
the picture be produced and delivered to the Chief Butler. As nothing is
now known of any such picture it may be assumed that those who took it
away never returned it. This incident closes the record of the Restoration
in the Society's Books.

p. 440 Charles I I.'s first visit to Lincoln's Inn was on January 3rd, 1662. He

came to see the Revels ; fortunately a copy of the Book of the Revels has

been preserved in the Library ; its contents are reprinted in the Appendix.

p. 24 The Society this year spent 2 175. 6d. for wine, ale and faggots for the

fire at the Queen's coming.
pp. 46-9 In 1665 comes the first notice of the Great Plague. Strangers were
ordered out of the Inn, and none but persons of quality were admitted to the
Chapel during the time of infection. There was no autumn Reading ; the
Preacher and Chaplain were given leave of absence until May, 1666, and
watchers were appointed to guard the Inn. The mortality among the lawyers
must have been considerable, for according to the memoirs of the Verney
Family (Vol. IV., p. 130), Jefferies Verney, a lad in his teens, profiting by the
havoc the plague had wrought among the lawyers, " put a gown on his back
and began to plead before he had been called to the Bar." Upon the Plague
followed the Fire ; and compensation is paid to the vintner at the St. John's
Head Tavern in Chancery Lane for damage sustained by pulling- down that
house for the preservation of the Society in case the " late dreadful fire
had approached so near to it." The limit of the fire is described in a
letter printed in the Memoirs of the Verney Family (Vol. IV., pp. 139-140):

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Sir Nathaniel Hobart's house in Chancery Lane escaped, " but the fire was
near them (the Hobart's) behind the Rolls where it got a great check." The
fire however approached so close that, as a precaution, some of the goods of
the Inn were moved at a cost of 2os.

In 1666, Sir Thomas Beverley was a Master of the Bench, and also
Master of Requests. Sir Thomas was the holder of a Bench Chamber, and p. 58
not having read in his turn, was ordered either to pay for his Chamber 200
marks, or leave it to the use of those Masters who had read, and wanted
chambers, or who were about to read. He, it seems, appealed to the King, p. 449
who, on the iQth November, wrote to " Our trusty and well beloved Masters
of the Bench of Lincoln's Inn," signifying his pleasure, that the Bench should
remit the fine, and allow him exemption so long as he continued Master of
Requests, on the ground that the Master of Requests was one of the Royal
Household Servants. A Committee of the Bench was appointed to wait
upon his Majesty, and explain the situation. What passed at the interview,
if one took place, does not appear ; but a Minute of May 24th, 1669, dis-
charges Sir Thomas of Readings, and of fines imposed on him for not Reading;
" this is done " it adds " in obedience to the Command of the King's Letter."

King Charles' second visit to the Revels of Lincoln's Inn was in January,
1670-1. The Admission Register shows the admission of the Duke of App.
Somerset, the Duke of Richmond and Lennox, and the Marquis of Worcester, p. 45 1

His third visit was on the occasion of his dining with the Reader, Sir p. 79
Francis Goodricke in February, 1671-2. The signatures of his suite form the
frontispiece to this Volume.

" A memorial of the King's high favour to the Society " was drawn up p. 79
by Sir Robert Atkyns and written in the same book wherein the King and
several of the nobility are admitted."

In the same year an application was made to the Bench touching a
contribution for the redeeming of the Algiers captives. To this, directed to p. 84
the Lord Keeper and recommended by him to the Society, an answer was
made somewhat notable : Firstly, that the Society was not a corporation ;
secondly, that briefs had not been sent to any Inn of Court ; and thirdly,
that the greatest part of this Society, having habitations in the country,
would contribute where they lived, and that the other part were young
gentlemen and had only exhibitions (i.e., allowances) to live on.

In 1678-9 the House of Lords required a return from all Inns of Court App.
and Chancery " of the Irishmen and of the Papists or reputed Papists." p. 454
Lincoln's Inn returns two Irishmen, and altogether six Papists. Thavies
Inn and FurnivaPs Inn have neither Irishmen nor Papists, as the Principals
return.

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p. 457 The Moorish Ambassador dined with the Bench in 1682 and left his

signature in the Royal Book. This is given in the Appendix.

In 1685 came the Revocation of the Treaty of Nantes, and the issue

p. 157-8 under the Great Seal of a Brief for a collection for the French Protestants : a

systematic visitation from Chamber to Chamber, by the Chief Butler,

produced a sum which was paid into the Chamber of London in accordance

with His Majesty's proclamation.

James II. by the year 1686 had made up his mind to open the Bar to

p. 158 Roman Catholics: and His Majesty's Solicitor-General, Sir Thomas Powys,

in 1686 intimated to the Bench H.M.'s pleasure, that six members of the

Inn should be called to the Bar : the Bench obeyed, and on July 4, 1618, on

a similar intimation called Mr. Brown and Mr. Collett William Ill's

landing at Torquay became known in London on November 6th. On

November 8th, Mr. Brown and Mr. Collett were called on to show cause

why the order for their call to the Bar should not be vacated. Subsequently

Mr. Collett's call was published ; but there is no record of the fate of

p. 166-7 Mr. Brown. The change of Kings is marked by an absence of entries in

the Black Book between November 8th, 1688, and February 7th, 1689.
pp. In 1701, Sir Richard Holford, one of the Masters, discovered that the

267-8-9 Coat of Arms used by the Society was not properly depicted, and he was
directed to obtain an authentic certificate from the Heralds' College.
Mr. Gregory King, Lancaster Herald, at the request of the Society, had the
arms " depainted," and placed in a frame ; this painting still exists,
showing the coat to be " azure, sem de fer de moline or, on a dexter canton
or, a lion rampant purpure."

The great storm of November 26th, 1703 (alluded to by Addison in his
" Campaign ") which caused such great damage in London and the Country
did not leave Lincoln's Inn untouched. The entry of June 22nd, 1704, is
sufficiently eloquent. " The bricklayer's bill now offered in Council by Mr.
Treasurer amounting to a great sum of money, occasioned by the late great
tempestuous wind shall be considered."

The Coronation of George II put the Society to an expense of 8s. for
watching about the Inn on October 11, 1727.

The accounts for the years 1759-63* show the purchase by the Bench for
use in the Chapel of forms of prayer marking the progress of the British
Arms in those years. A general fast on February i6th, and a Thanksgiving
on February i8th ; the latter, probably for the taking of Goree by Commander
Keppel ; a thanksgiving on November 29th for the taking of Quebec, and a

* Sir H. Walpole writes in November, 1759, " Indeed one is forced to ask every morning what
victory there is for fear of missing one. "

form of prayer on Admiral Hawke's defeating the French fleet at Quiberon ;
in 1761 forms of prayer on the surrender of Pondicherry, Bellisle, Dominica
and the late success in Germany (at Fillingshausen) precede a thanksgiving
for the taking of Cuba. The conclusion of the Peace of Paris is marked by
thanksgiving in 1763. The birth of George IV. and of the Duke of York
were also acknowledged by thanksgiving in the Chapel.

Some casual notices of matters in the Inn may here be gathered together, p. 1 1
W'omen were forbidden to lodge in the Inn. Public dancing was forbidden p. 203
with strangers, either in the Hall, Buttery, or Council Chamber. No coaches p. 35
in 1688 were allowed to come into the Courts of the House, but such as were p. 162
"Noblemen's, Judges', and the King's Council," unless by special direction from
any Master of the Bench. No coaches at all were admitted within gates p. 206
after 10 p.m., at which hour the Keys of the Great Gates were deposited in
the Chamber of the Keeper of the Black Book for the night. This was in
1700; by 1772 Sedan Chairs must have been in general use; and the Great
Gate in Serle's Court was open for the admittance and going out of Sedan
Chairs. In the next year "carriages," which apparently had superseded
" coaches," are forbidden entrance by the Chancery Lane Gate during
Sundays from 12 to I o'clock.

Efforts were made for the decoration of the Inn by the erection of dials p. 275
and seats, a pillar with a clock on it, statues, one of which was a mermaid, and
the making of basins of water in the Benchers' Garden and elsewhere ; the p. 193
water being supplied by the New River Company at 10 per annum from p. 140
their mains near the Terrace Wall in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Protection was taken against fire and robbery by the construction of a p. 254
reservoir, the purchase of a fire engine by Newsham, and the patrolling of p. 334
the Inn by night watchmen. Gentlemen on any of the staircases were p. 313
forbidden to light any but globular lamps. There were fires in 1730 and
1735, but a great fire broke out in 1752 ; an account of it taken from the p. 473
Gentleman's Magazine appears in the Appendix.

The centre of New Square was laid down in gravel, and seems to have
been used for showing off horses ; an order of the Bench prohibits any p. 303
person riding any horse or mare " within the Society " (sic), in order for sale,
)r bringing any horse or mare but what belonged to a member. Probably in
the same place Sir J. Fleet, Alderman of London and Colonel of the Red p. 212
Regiment drew up his Regiment for two hours, one Lord Mayor's Day, when
Queen Anne had arranged to dine at the Guild Hall. The Masters were
pleased to give him leave, upon promise that no guns should be fired, nor no
drums beaten, but what were necessary for their marching in and out.

The Society are recognised from time to time to have a voice in the user

xi lireface,

and laying out of Lincoln's Inn Fields : they successfully protest against the

p. 217 erection of booths and watchmen's boxes and only consent to a roadway

p. 308 being made in the Fields next to the "Terrass" wall, on condition that no

coachway be made at any time from Great Turnstile into Lincoln's Inn

Fields.

Many of the pictures and prints in the possession of the Society are

mentioned in this volume. The picture of L.C.J. Hale was ordered to

p. 114 be prepared for and hung up in the Library in 1677. No entry of payment

for the picture appears in the accounts for that date, and in 1681 the Bench

order that the picture of the late L.C.J. be very well drawn and set up in

the Library at the charge thereof. The original order evidently was not

carried out, and the execution of the second was deferred. For in T 720 is a

p. 258 payment of 14 2s. 6d. to Mr. Rayner for a picture of "Justice H-..le." In

1768 the picture of L.C.J. Hale, then in the Library, is copied for the

Hon. Charles Yorke. At present there is but one picture of Hale in the

possession of the Society, traditionally ascribed to Michael Wright. Whether

the picture ordered in 1677 was not painted till 1720, and whether Rayner

and not Wright is painter of the picture now in the Drawing room are

questions which await solution. Sir J. Franklyn's picture probably was

p. 235 the present of Lady Franklyn in lieu of the inscription authorised to be

set up in the Library in 1709.

p. 329 Of the prints, 20 were bought of John Bunce at 8s. a piece, and seventeen

p. 330 more, at los. 6d. each. The Treasurer of the next year, 1743, was desired to buy

as many more prints as would make the set of Judges complete, and

p. 349 hang them in the Council Room. Five guineas were paid to Mr. Virtue,

p. 343 for the print of the Chapel in 1752. The prints of Lord Chancellor Talbot,

Lord Northington, Lord Mansfield, and Lord Camden, were ordered to be

bought in 1768, and the cost of Lord Northington and Lord Camden with

frames, was 8s. 6d. each from Mr. Agar ; los. 6d. was paid to Mr. Boydell,

p. 401 for Lord Camden's print.

How the Wyndham Legacy of 200 was spent in a picture by Hogarth
to be placed at the upper end of the Hall is to be found at pp. 339 and 347.
The Picture now stands in the Benchers' Vestibule and original letters from
Hogarth are on the Drawing Room walls.

p. 228 Serjeant Green is noted " for the continuance of himself and his

ancestors in the Society for one hundred years." A modern instance of as
long a connection may be found in the note.*

* Cecil H. Russell (adm. 1853, and a present Master of the Bench) is the son of Georg- Lake
Russell (adm. 1823, and Judge of County Courts), who was the son of Henry Russell (adm 1768,
afterwards Chief Justice of Bengal, a Privy Councillor and a Baronet).

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One entry, full of mystery, may well close the preface to this volume.
It is in the accounts of 1727. "Five shillings paid to William Redington
to encourage him to burn the charm and looking after the people in
the Kitchen."

Mr. W. P. Baildon, F.S.A., prepared all of this volume, except the
Preface, bringing to his labour knowledge of the past and veneration for the
Inn of which he is a member.

JAMES DOUGLAS WALKER,

A Master of the Bench.

Lincoln's Inn,
October,

THE BLACK BOOKS

LINCOLN'S INN

Officers for 1660.* 1660.

Treasurer: M r Richard Raynsford.
Keeper of the Black Book: Mr. Thomas Beverley.

Council held on May 3ist, 1660, 12 Charles II. f BOOK VIII,

Present: fo. 669.

John Harrison, William Foxwist,

Thomas Williams, George Day,

Richard Rainsford, Edward Rich,

Richard Estcourt, Richard Reed,

Thomas Beverley, John Wentworth,

William Glascock, Richard Graves,

Esquires.

M r Page, M r Rich and M r Wentworth shall proceed in
preparing a Bill in Chancery for proving M r Golfer's will in per-
petuam rei memoriam, according to a former order.

The question of the trees in the walks felled by the Pannier-
man shall be inquired into, and reported on at the next Council.

* The Readings had been discontinued since the Autumn Reading of 1642;
the office of the Marshal ceased at the same date; and the office of Pensioner had
been abolished, or allowed to drop, (see Vol. II, pp. 361, 393). The appointment
of the Master of the Revels ceases to be formally recorded, and the Stewardship of
the Reader's Dinner is at this time always compounded for. The Dean of the
Chapel, the Master of the Walks and the Keeper of the Library, were not at this
time officers for a year only, but were, as will appear, appointed for indefinite
periods from time to time.

f Charles was proclaimed king on May 8th, landed at Dover on the 26th,
arriving in London on the 2Qth. His regnal year was calculated from Jan.
3oth, 1649.

VOL. in. H

JSlacfe fcoofeg of fUncoIn'g 3tnm

fo. 670. Call to the Bench :

M r Thomas Jones, with a salvo of his antiquity.

" That Walter Carwarden, Christopher Hatch, John Healey,
Richard Bateman, John Kirby, Anthony Hall, John Warfield,
James Pemberton, John Sidney, Edward Coddington, Thomas
Wake and Charles London, and no others, be allowed and con-
tinued Porters to this Societie ; and that they weare at their
brests for badges, the Armes of Lincolne's Inne, the provision
whereof at the charge of the House is referred to the Steward,
but he is not to exceed the price of eight shillings a peice, unlesse
the said Porters or anie of them are willing at their owne charge
to enlarge the said badges."

Council held on June 28th, 1660.
Nineteen Benchers present.

fo. 671. "That the severall peticions of M r William Griffith and

M r George Blundell, two of the gent, of this Society, whose
chambers have been disposed of by the House during their sus-
pention from the Society by colour of an Ordinance of Parliament
for their adheereing to the late King Charles of blessed memory, and
serving him in his warrs, be referred to M r Dunvill, M r Wentworth,
M r Howell, M r Day, M r Manby and M r Charlton, or any three of
them." They are to report whether the statements made in the
petitions are correct, to whom the chambers were sold, what
money was received for them, and what dues were owing by the
petitioners at the time of their suspension.

Call to the Bar :

Julius Glanvill and Edward Rich. M r Rich's publication is
suspended because he "hath not performed the compleate number
of exercises formerly ordered by the Masters of the Bench to be
performed by those who shall be called to the Barre."

Ambrose Betts and Michael Thomas are admitted into the
number of the Porters, upon their petitions showing that they
have acted as Porters for many years. The Steward shall provide
them with badges.

At this Council eighteen Benchers "did solempnly take the
Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy; and it was then ordered
that such of the Masters of the said Bench who were then absent,
shall within convenient time take the same Oathes, and that for
the future none shall be admitted to or be Associates at the Bench
or Barre till they have taken the said Oathes of Allegiance and
Supremacy, in such manner as hath been formerly accustomed in
this Society before the late Warrs."

ISlacfe 2$oofes of

Council held on July 5th, 1660. fo. 672.

Fourteen Benchers present.

" Upon the petition of M r Adam Cusack, shewing that he is
a native of the Kingdome of Ireland and that his extraordinary
occasions call him thither, and the Masters of the Bench, takeing
notice of the many exercises he hath performed, and there having
)een severall presidents for calling students of this Society, being
natives of that Kingdome, to the Barre upon their returne into
their own cuntry before seaven yeares accomplished from their
idmission, have thought fitt and doe order the said M r Cusack
to be called to the Barre and published the next moot ; but he is
lot to practice in England till he be of full seaven yeares standing
)f this Society ; and this Order is not to be a president for calling
my of the natives of this Kingdome to the Barre before the
iccustomed time."

" That the Pannyerman, when the seazon of the yeare serves,
loe at his own charge plant twenty trees in the Walkes, and
lake good that number in case any of the plants shall happen
to dye ; and that he doe not for the future presume to medle with
the felling any trees without licence from the Master of the
7 alkes, upon paine of being turned out of his office."

" Memorandum that the Principalls of the severall Inns of
'hancery belonging to this Society have taken the Oathes of
Jlegiance and Supremacy, at the Bench table end."

James Fewtrill, a servant in the kitchen, is appointed one of
the Porters; the Steward shall provide him with a badge. The
Steward must take order that the badges be returned to him in
case of death or removal from the Society.

" That the Steward deliver the thanks of the Masters of the fo. 673.
Bench, and 405. as a gratuity to M r Bloome, if he thinke fitt to
accept thereof, for the booke by him presented to the Society at
this Counsel!."*

The Wages of Thomas N orris, the gardener, are increased
to 16 a year. The Steward shall take order for the erection of
a pump in the Garden this Long Vacation.

Council held on November 5th, 1660.
Twelve Benchers present.

Mistress Winsper shall be tenant of the stationer's shop under
the Gate upon the like terms as her late husband had it.

Abstenius Pardey is appointed a Porter ; he shall have a
badge. No more shall be appointed until a vacancy occurs.

* See post, p. 6.

ISlacfe JSoofeg of Etncoln'g

fo. 674. The Keeper of the Black Book shall write to Thomas Weld,
Esq., touching his Reading in next Lent Vacation.* If he refuse,
then M r Williams, the next in turn to Read, shall be spoken to
about it.

"That M r Prin, M r Ashton, M r Beverley and M r Glas-
cocke, . . . doe meet and conferre with the Benchers of the
rest of the Innes of Courts concerning Reading in Lent, and
resolve upon some answer to be made to the Judges' proposalls
concerning Readings."

Every gentleman in commons or seen in town any time within
that week shall pay 155. for the said Grand Week's commons.

Council held on November iQth, 1660.

" Ordered that Gilbert Millington, Miles Corbett, Nicholas
Love, and Augustine Garland, Fellowes of this Society, f and all
and every other person or persons whatsoever of this Society that
had any hand in that horrid and trecherous act of murdering our
late Sovereign Lord, King Charles the First, of blessed memory, or
that are by his Majesty and his now Parliament excepted out of
their late gratious Act of Oblivion, be expelled this Society of
Lincoln's Inne abovesaid ; and that the respective chambers
of onely the said persons be forfeited and seised upon to the use.
of this House. And that this said Order be forthwith screened
in the Hall of the said House, in the usuall place for such things."
fo. 675. " That the exercise of Mootes, Pleadings and Bolts be per-

formed by the Barresters and students of this Society, as formerly
and accustomably they have been performed, and under the same
penalties in case of fayler of Exercise; any pretence or allegation
to the contrary notwithstanding."

M r Goodricke is pardoned the failure of the exercise charged
on him, because he was employed about the affairs of his country
in Parliament, and also because no notice was given and no case
brought to him.

Council held on November 27th, 1660.

Twelve Benchers present.

fo. 676. The Treasurer shall forthwith pay ^45 to M r Roger King in

full recompense for his chamber; all house duties owing by

M r King are remitted.

M r George Blundell shall receive 20 for the like.

* See Vol. II, pp. 381, 393, 422, 432. Weld had not read.

t All four had sat as Judges on the trial of Charles I, and all but Love signed
the death warrant. Love escaped, and died in Switzerland in 1682 ; Garland and
Millington were both condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted.
Corbet was executed in 1662. See Diet. Nat. Biog.

ISlacfe

of Uittcoln's

The Treasurer shall pay to M r Oglandby 10, as a gratuity
for the Bible he presented to the Society.*

"That M r James, f haveing been admitted student of this
Society above thirteen yeares since, and many of his time haveing
been called to the Barre without performance of exercise, the
discontinuance whereof was occacioned by the late Warrs for
severall yeares both before and after the said M r James had time
to be called to the Barre, and he declining his right thereunto att
that time by reason of the ingagement^ for a Comonwealth against
Kingly government, required of all persons to be admitted to the
profession and practice of the Law, and he being a person known
to be rightly affected to the present government and opposite to
the late usurped powers, It is therefore ordered that the said
M r James, paying all house dutyes, be called to the Barre, and his
antiquity saved unto him." Not to be a precedent.

Call to the Bar:

Samuel Roper, Richard Silverlocke, and Roger Clavell.

"That M r Treasurer doe pay unto M r Deane Reives twenty fo. 677.
pounds for this Terme, setled upon him by former Order ; and
that from henceforth the payment of twenty pounds termely to the
said M r Deane is to cease, and the Order whereby the same was
setled upon him is vacated."

A Committee is appointed to report on the lease of the house
in Newgate Market to the Steward, and as to the rent payable to
this Society for the yard of ground at the upper end of the garden
wall, towards Holborn.

Ordered " That Oliver S^ohn, Esq., be desired to take
downe his staircase into the garden, and to walle up his back doore
into Chancery Lane, before the next terme."

Ordered "that the coppy of the letter sent to the Masters of fo. 678.
the Bench by Sir Harbotle Grimston, Speaker to the House of
Comons in Parliament assembled, be screened, and the names of
all gent, of this Society and strangers lodging in the House be

* This volume, a ponderous folio, has the following printed on the fly-leaf :
" To the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inne, this Book, the Holy Bible, of the
fairest edition, last cmd best translation ; addorn'd with chorographicall sculpture,
presents, their most obedient and humble servant, John Ogilby." For an account
of Ogilby, see Diet. Nat. Biog.

t Thomas James, adm. Nov. 15, 1647. \ See Vol. II, p. 383.

See Vol. II, pp. 414, 419. The title of Dean seems to identify him with Bruno
Ryves ; he had been appointed Dean of Chichester in 1646, but was not installed
until July i2th, 1660 ; he was appointed Dean of Windsor in August of the same
year, and Registrar of the Order of the Garter shortly afterwards. He died
July i3th, 1677. He was the Author of " Mercurius Rusticus; or the Countries
Complaint of the Barbarous Outrages committed by the Sectaries of this late
flourishing Kingdom." See Diet. Nat. Biog.

J&acfe iSoofes of IMncoln's Enn

delivered to M r Daye and M r Graves, to whome it is referred to
proceed as they shall thinke fitte for giveing satisfaction touching
the businesse of Poll Mony, as is required by the contents of the
said letter." *

M r Holcroft is fined 10 for default as one of the Readers of
the Inns of Chancery.

fAccounts of Richard Rainsford, Serjeant at Law, the
Treasurer, from Nov. 22nd, 1659, to Nov. 27th, 1660.

Receipts : ,1,213 is. od. Including ^555 2s. balance from
the last account ; , 1 28 35. 4d. for general admissions ; ^250 1 35. 4d.
for admissions to chambers and chamber fines ; ^25 (^5 each)
for discharge from the office of Steward of the Reader's Dinner ;
$ from Luke Constable, Principal of Furnival's Inn, for a year's
rent ; $ 6s. 8d. from Hatton Earners, Principal of Thavies Inn,
for the like ; ^160 from Keilway Guidott, received by him on
the Preacher's Roll ; ,4 35. 4d. found under the Chapel ; .27 IDS.
from Mr. Colfer's executors, for sermons preached at the Inn.

Payments: ^749 145. 4d. Including ,100 to M r Greenfield,
[the Preacher], for his stipend, and ^24 for his vacation commons ;
80 to Dean Ryves ; <\o to M r Ashley, [the Chaplain], for his
stipend ; ^24 to M r Greenfield for sermons; 2os. to Richard
Provender, the Chief Butler, and 2os. to John Whatley, from
M r Colfer's legacy; 225. lod. to M r Henry Fauntleroy, attorney,
for law expenses in connection with the building in Lincoln's Inn
Fields ; 6 to John Atkinson for music at the Feast of the
Purification, 125. for candles, and 425. for wine ; ^8 for velvet for
the pulpit, 505. for a fringe for it, 155. for making it, and 6 IDS.
for embroidering it ; 405. to Mr. Boucher for a sermon on the day
of Thanksgiving; j IDS. for 15 badges for the Porters ; 405. to
Richard Bloome for the Heralds' Book \_pro libro caduceatorum\ ;\
8s. 8d. to the Clerk of S. Andrew's for the Bills of Mortality ;
,18 to Sir Richard Browne, Knight, for music at the Revels
[? ; diebus iococis~\\ 10 each to Richard Rainsford, Wadham
Windham and Job Charleton, Serjeants at Law, $ for gloves
and 35. for purses; IDS. for candles at the Revels [? ; iocosis noctibus.~\

Balance : ^463 6s. Sd.

* The Poll Tax was imposed by Stat. 12 Car. II, cap. ix ; "An Act for the
speedy provision of money for disbanding and paying off the forces of this kingdom
both by land and sea." The details of the assessment will be found in The Royal
Treasury of England, 1725, p. 303. Serjeants at Law paid ^50; Barristers were
not rated as such ; perhaps they were included under Advocates, who paid ^5.
Attorneys paid ^3.

t These accounts, and some others which will appear in their proper places,
are taken from the original Rolls preserved in the Steward's office.

\ Blome published the 4th edition of Guillim's Display of Heraldrie in 1660,
See Diet. Nat. Biog.

Officers for 1661. 1661.

Treasurer: M r Robert Ashton.
Keeper of the Black Book: M r Edward Harris.

M r Edward Bysshe.

Council held on January 3ist, 13 Charles II, 1661.
Eleven Benchers present.

M r Edward Bysshe is now elected Keeperof the Black Book, he fo. 679.
being ancient both to M r William Glascock and Mr. Edward Harris.

The Chief Butler shall before Saturday night next furnish
a list of all the Serjeants, Benchers, Barristers, and gentlemen of
the Society, now in commons, and of all others that lodge within
the House, to Sir Lancelot Lake, Baronet, and to M r George
Day and M r Edward Rich, two Benchers, Commissioners for the
Poll Money for the County of Middlesex.

M r William Helyar petitions for restitution to his chamber.

" Memorandum that M r Cooper, being present at this fo. 680.
Counsell, did voluntarily consent and agree that in case the walls
of the walks belonging to this House, next the Feilds, do suffer
any prejudice by his levelling of the Feilds, or any otherwise by
his meanes, that he will repaire the same att his owne charge." *

M r Prynn, M r Foxwist, M r Goddard and M r Howell, are to
consider the petition of Richard Provender and James Hargrave
to be repaid their expenditure for "provision of diett for the
officers of this House for the space of five weekes during the last
vacation." They are also "to examine the disorders that were in
the House last Christmas, occasioned by play or otherwise."

Ordered "that M r Robert Clerk, having been admitted a fo. 68 1.
student of this Society about twelve yeeres since, but by reason of
the late usurpacion in government having withdrawen himselfe for
many yeeres, and thereby lost his opportunity, as many others
have done, of being called to the Barre in course and according to
his time ; and he being a person very well knowne to be rightly
affected to the King's Majesty and kingly government ; It is
therefore Ordered that the said M r Clarke, paying all house dutyes,
be called to the Barre, and his antiquity is saved unto him, but he
is to performe one exercise before he be published." Not to be
a precedent.

Council held on February nth, 1661.
Sixteen Benchers present.
M r Whiting shall have 20 in full satisfaction for the seizure
of his chamber ; all house duties owing by him are remitted.

See Vol. II, passim.

Black J3onU$ of Utncoltt'g I-nn.

Whereas the Barristers of this Society have lately neglected
the exercises, notwithstanding many admonitions and frequent
notices ; "And for as much as expresse informacion hath bin made
to the Masters of the Bench (which they are unwilling to beleeve)
that there is a consent and combinacion interteined and owned by
some at least of the gentlemen of the Barr to abett and justify
such defaults as have already bin made, and to incourage and
countenance the like for the future." A Committee of seven
Benchers is appointed to inquire and report. In the meantime no
Call, either to Bar or Bench, shall be made of any member of
this Society who has not complied with the ancient Rules and
Orders of the House for the performance of Exercises.
fo. 682. M r Holcroft's fine is reduced to 6 153. 4d.*

M r William Page, a Bencher shall have " the lower part of
the little new brick building late built by M r Franklynn, adjoyning
to M r Page's chamber, and now used with the Buttery, to be
annexed to the said M r Page's Chamber, and used with it."

fo. 683. Council held on May 23rd, 1661.

Sixteen Benchers present.

"A note of all the Chambers, Studyes and Roomes in Bland's
Buildings, [Furnival's Inn].

,, ^ i ( M r Griffith, two studyes, and a little bed roome.
i , < M r Palgrave, a little chamber, two studyes, small

( ones.

{A chamber, empty, with one study, one little
bedroome.
And a study upon the house building.
M r Wasse, 2 studyes and a little chamber.
{M r Lee, a little chamber, 2 studyes.
M r Buck, one chamber, a little bed roome, one
study.
And a study built on the house buildings.

" Three paire) ^ . ,

s is j- 1 wo garretts, empty, with 2 studyes a peece.

" Such as will take any of the said chambers are to apply
themselves to the Masters of the Bench of this House."

M r Helyar shall have ^30 in full satisfaction for the seizure
of his chamber; he must pay all dutyes owing up to such seizure.

M r William Page may build a chimney to the little room by

the Buttery, lately annexed to his chamber.

fo. 684. Ordered "that the Report of M r Beverley, touching

M r Golfer's legacy of xx 8 yeereley, be .entred into the Black

* See ante p. 6.

Macfe ISoofes of Uincoln's

Booke and confirmed, which Report followeth in these words,
vizt: ' By virtue of an Order of the xi th of February last, having
perused M r Golfer's will, I conceive the legacy of xx s yeerely
thereby given to Richard Provender, and such other as should
succeed in his place, was for encouragement and reward of his and
their paines and attendance in the Chappell, and perticularly att
the monthly sermons appointed by the said will, and was intended
lim as second Butler, whose office is also to attend in the Chappell :
And the will bearing no date as to the month, but being dated in
the yeere 1658, during the greater part whereof Richard Provender
second Butler, and the other part thereof Cheife Butler, after
the death of Samuell Taylor, who dyed in the same yeere, I
conceive the will was written in that part of the yeere wherein
Richard Provender was second Butler; and that by his preferment
to the place of Cheife Butler his attendance in the Chappell ceasing,
so also the legacy as to him ought to cease, and accrew to Nicholas
Smith, his successor in the office of second Butler and attendance
in the Chappell. And doe accordingly adjudge and determine the
said legacy to belong to the said Nicholas Smith during his
:ontinuance in the said office of second Butler.

THO: BEVERLEY.' '

Ordered " that an informacion be forthwith exhibited against
[ r Cooper and his tennants in the new buildings in Lincolne's Inn
^eilds, for the nusances done there; and an accion is to be
>rosecuted against the said M r Cooper, with all rigour, for his
>reach of covenants with this House."

That the Treasurer pay to M r Csesar Saunderson 2.0 in full
satisfaction for all his right, title, claim or demand to any part of
my chamber within this House.

That M r Benjamin Harrington shall have 20 in full satis- fo. 685.
faction for the seizure of his chamber.

That M r William Griffith shall have 26 for the like, and all
lis House duties are remitted.

* M r William Lenthall, a Bencher, is admitted to part of a
:hamber in Garden Row, late M r Nicholas Love's, he paying ^50.

t On the motion of M r Harrison, It is Ordered that Sir
Richard Browne, Knight, late Master of the Revels and Common
>erjeant for the City of London, be associated to the Masters of
the Bench, paying therefore 20.

t " Whereas the grand exercise of Readings within this
House, by reason of the late distraccions of the times and the
lisorders occasioned thereby, have bin interrupted and totally

* Red Book I, fo. 264.

\ Ibid., fo. 265.

III.

10 i)e &lacfe 2$oofeg of ^Lincoln's Emt.

omitted by the space of almost nyneteene yeeres last past, in
which time many of the now Masters of the Bench have bin
called thereunto, who by their seniority and antiquity in this
House should have performed their Single^ and some of them
their Double, Readings before this time, and ought to enjoy their
priviledges accordingly. And whereas M r Serjeant Charleton,*
one of the late Masters of the Bench, hath bin lately called by his
Majestye's writt to the degree of a Serjeant at Lawe. It being
now taken into serious consideracion how the said exercise of
Readings might be revived and sett up againe for the honour
of this House, and with the least inconvenience and prejudice that
it might be. Thereupon at this Counsell John Howell, Esq r , one
of the Masters of the Bench, being the next and immediate puisne
at the Bench to the said Serjeant Charleton, was unanimously
chosen to be Reader of this House for the next Sommer Reading,
and to have all allowances, respects and priviledges as other Single
Readers for Sommer have usually had. And it is further ordered
that he shall Read but one weeke, being the first weeke of the
Reading in ordinary course ; and in that weeke there shalbe
but two cases argued, the one upon Munday, the other upon
Wednesday ; and to make his repetition and finish his Reading
on Fryday following. And that there be no Suppers more then
for ordinary commons during the whole Reading."

Council held on June 25th, 1661.
Fourteen Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Robert Wright, Humphrey Griffith, and Samuel Eyre; all of
seven years' standing, and having duly observed the Orders and
performed the exercises; to be published at the next moot, on
payment of all dues.f

Also William Wymondesold, of seven years' standing in terms;
to be published at the first moot next term.

fo. 686. On the petition of the gentlemen of the House, the officers'

commons for last Christmas shall be paid by the Treasurer up to
the sum of 16. Not to be a precedent.

Ordered " that the former Order for erecting buildings in this
House be skreened in the Hall, and such gentlemen as will come
in as builders may apply themselves to the Committee for that
purpose."

* Job Charleton. The call of Serjeants was in Michaelmas Term, 1660. Foss.
\ This is the common form.

2$lack

of ^Lincoln's Emu

1 1

" That the former Order, for the lodging of no women in the
night time within this House, be skreened in the Hall, and duly
observed by all the gentlemen of this Society under the penalty of
forfeiture of the chamber of every person or persons that shall
transgresse the said Order."

" At this Counsell M r Prynn brought in a Report from the
Committee for Commons, which Report is as followeth, viz 1 :

" Lincolne's Inn. Att a Committee for Commons, the
24th June, 1661.

" Wee thinke fitt that it be reported to the Councill of this
Society

" That vacacion commons shalbe constantly kept as in former
tymes, provided there be thirty Barristers and Gentlemen in
commons.

"That ordinary House commons (except only in grand
weeks) shalbe eight shillings six pence, and no more.

" That every member of the Society, as well Benchers as
others, shall pay one full weekes commons to the use of the
House, without any abatement or excuse, for every terme he
shalbe absent or out of commons, and likewise if visits in villa
shalbe cast into commons in the grand weeke of every terme.

" That all Benchers, Barristers and Students of this Society
shalbe bound to keepe their vacacion and vacacion exercises as
formerly, under the antient penaltyes imposed on defaulters by
former Orders of this House.

" That the first and second cooke shall constantly attend in
the kitchen, morning and evening, both to spit and dresse the
meate provided for the Society, under the paine of being displaced.

" That the Steward of this House shall provide Benchers'
and Associates' commons and exceedings after the rate of fourteene
shillings a weeke, which all of them in commons are to pay,
whether absent or present ; and those Benchers that have clerks
in commons are to pay sixteene shillings a weeke to the Steward
for themselves and their clerks.

" That all members of this Society shall duly pay their
commons to the Steward once every month, and that he shall
present the name of all such as are defaulters, who do not
accordingly pay the same, to the Benchers at the table every
terme ; to the end they may be proceeded against and enforced to
pay the same, as in former tymes.

"That the Steward shall be allowed for himselfe and his
servants fifty pounds for what is past, and fifty pounds per annum
for the time to come.

" That the arrears of the fortnight's commons and Preacher's
Roll shall be all speedily and duly collected.

12 !K Macfe ISoofeg of Eincoln'g

"Which Report is ordered to be confirm'd, and is confirm'd
accordingly."

* M r Richard Wynn, Utter Barrister, is admitted into the
chamber of Sir William Domvill, Attorney General of Ireland, in
Field Gate Court, on payment of ^10,

t M r Ewer, a gentleman of the House, is admitted to M r John
Thurlow's chamber and garret, on payment of ^10.

Council held on July 2nd, 1661.

Twelve Benchers present.

The Committee for Buildings shall consider the question of
the removal of the house of office in the Walks, and where it may
most conveniently be placed. Also they shall send to M r Cooper
a copy of his own voluntary agreement to repair and build up the
walls of the House next the Fields at his own charges, and give
him notice to perform the same.

fo. 687. Council held on November 7th, 1661.

Eleven Benchers present.

M r Cooper shall be summoned to appear at the next Council.

M r John Raleigh, lately admitted, has leave to continue his

studies at the University of Cambridge for one year. He must

pay the Preacher's Roll, and keep his vacations after he comes to

continue.

Call to the Bar: Giles Eyre.

fo. 688. M r Thomas Weld is elected Lent Reader,| with all the usual

privileges. " He shall Read but one weeke, being the first weeke
of the Readinge in ordinary course, and in that weeke there shalbe
but two cases argued, the one upon Munday, the other upon
Wednesday, and to make repeticion and finish his Reading on the
Fryday following ; and that there be no Suppers more then for
ordinary commons during the whole Reading."

Council held on November iQth, 1661.

Thirteen Benchers present.

Ordered "that M r Cooper, one of the gent, of this Society,
for his disrespectfull demeanour at this Counsell and his uncivil!
refleccions upon the Masters of the Bench, and slighting of their
Orders, be and is hereby suspended from being a member of this

* Red Book I, fo. 266. Domville was appointed June 23, 1660. At the next
Council Wynn was ordered to pay Domville's arrears of Pensions and the Preacher's
Roll before being admitted.

t Ibid. At the next Council Ewer was ordered to pay Thurlow's arrears before
being admitted.

J He had evidently not read before. See anfe, p. 4.

asiacfe

of Hituoltt's

Society until further Order. And that the consideracion of pre-
ferring an Informacion and prosequuting an accion against him be
no longer delayd, but stand referred to the former Committee
appointed for that businesse, to prosequute the same with effect."

All arrears for the Preacher's Roll must be paid before the
first Council of next term. The chambers of defaulters shall be
seized and sold.

M r Howell is requested to state at the next Council whether
he will Read next Summer on the terms propounded to him by
the late Order.*

Ordered "that according to the antient Orders of this House
there shalbe in any one yeere only two Calls to the Barre, and
that of such persons only as be at least of seaven yeeres' con-
tinuance, and have kept their exercises duly both within this
House and abroad in Inns of Chancery."

"At this Counsell it is declared that if any of the Masters of fo. 689.
the Bench be a Master in Chancery, eyther in ordinary or extra-
ordinary, yet he is not priviledged by such dignity or office from
performing the usuall exercises of this House, as other Benchers
doe. And therefore it is ordered that Sir William Glascock, one
of the Masters of the Bench and a Master in Chancery, have
notice hereof, and that he be desired tositt at the Moote tomorrow
night, being Wednesday, according to his course and the antient
Orders of this House."

Council held on November 26th, 1661.
Nine Benchers present.

The Committee for Buildings are "desired to treate with the
proprieters and owners of the ground nere adjoyning to the south
wall of the Walks, for the inheritance thereof."

M r Weld has written praying to be excused from Reading at
present, " by reason of his long continued weaknesse and infirmity
of body." The matter is adjourned till next term. In the mean-
time M r Weld shall be written to, asking him to permit the Bench
to dispose of his chamber during his absence, "setting forth the
greate scarcity of chambers within this House, and that many of
the Masters of the Bench are very ill provided."

" At this Counsell, considering the greate scarcity and want
of chambers for the Benchers and other gentlemen of this Society,
and that many of the chambers of this House are taken up and
held by diverse Serjeants at Lawe, contrary to the antient Orders

* See ante, p. 10. It would seem from this that he had not read in the
Autumn of 1660.

ISoofeg of lLtncoln'0

fo. 690. and usage of this House ; It is therefore ordered that the Steward
or Cheife Butler of this House doe forthwith acquaint the said
Serjeants with the said antient Orders in that matter, and to desire
the said Serjeants that they would please to leave their chambers
here before the next terme, to be disposed of by the Masters of
the Bench, according to the said antient Orders."

"At this Counsel!, M r Goddard, one of the Masters of the
Bench, and Administrator with the will annexed of John Greene,
Esq., late Recorder of the Citty of London, deceased, presented
one peece of plate, being a Colledge Pott of silver of about tenne
pounds value, which was bequeathed as a legacy to this Society by
the said John Greene ; And the same was thankfully accepted,
and ordered to be delivered into the hands of M r Guydott. the
Subtreasurer of this House, to be carefully kept for the use of this
Society, as a memoriall of the hearty good affeccion and kindnesse
of the donor to this Society."*

Sir Harbottle Grimston, Master of the Rolls, presented "the
first part of M r Justice Croke's Reports, though last published.''^

M r John Bedingfield is chosen Reader for next Lent, on the
terms previously laid down.j

Council held on November 28th, 1661.

Fourteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that all persons whatsoever who lodge in or use
any of the chambers of this House to which they are not admitted,
or to which they have not any right in themselves, according to
the antient Orders of this House, have notice to avoyd the sayd
Chambers, or to shew cause to the contrary at the first Counsell
of the next terme."

fo. 691. "That the Treasurer's account be allowed, and that it be

entered in the Blacke Booke, as formerly."

M r Thomas Weld desiring to be excused from Reading next
Lent, and M r John Beddingfield (who is M r Weld's immediate
puisne) having discontinued for a long time, this Council, con-
sidering "what a great prejudice and dishonor would fall upon
this House in case there should be another fayler of that exercise
in Lent as there was the last Summer," has requested M r William
Prynn, the next ancient of the Benchers, to Read next Lent.

* This cup has on one side the arms of Green, with the inscription Legahim
fo/i'is Greene, Ar., Recordat. Lond., and on the other side the arms then used by
the Inn, a lion rampant, with the inscription Hospit. Lincolniensi.

t Not now in the Library. See Vol. II, p. 418.

+ See ante, p. 12.

This was not done.

* M r Justice Wyndham relinquishes his chamber in the Back
Court, one story high, to the House; his son, M r John Wyndham,
is admitted thereto on payment of 60.

t Accounts of Robert Ashton, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Nov. 27th, 1660, to Nov. 28th, 1661.

Receipts : ,1,366 145. 2d. Including 5 from M r John
Skynner, Principal of Furnival's Inn, for a year's rent ; 150 from
the Preacher's Roll ; 20 from the executors of Henry Golfer,
deceased.

Payments : 858 os. 7d. Including 10 to M r Ogleby fora
Bible; 123. to John Tooke for a Prayer Book; 555. paid to the
Steward for extras in the Hall and 373. 6d. for wine on Ascension
Day ; 485. for food for the Masters of the Bench of Gray's Inn,
and 22s. 6d. for wine ; 375. for bread and ale for the inhabitants of
S. Andrew's on the day of the perambulation ; 28 i6s. id. to
Kielway Guidot for vestments \^pro vestibus\ at the feast of All
Saints ; 8s. Sd. to the Parish Clerk of S. Andrew's for the Bills
of Mortality.

Balance : 508 135. 7d.

Officers for 1662.

Treasurer : M r Richard Estcourt.

Keeper of the Black Book : Sir William Glascock.

Council held on February 6th, 14 Charles II, 1662.
Twelve Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Henry Holmes, William Jenney, John Doddington and
William Coward ; to be published at the next moot.

Also John Fountaine, to be published when he has performed
all his exercises.

M r James Cooper, who was lately suspended, is restored on
his petition and humble submission, and on payment of ^20
towards the building and repairing of the walls next to Lincoln's
Inn Fields.

Sir John Lort, Knight, is associated to the Masters of the
Bench, gratis ; "but from henceforth this is n^t to be drawn into
example."

M r John Halsey, an ancient Utter Barrister, is associated to
the Masters of the Bench, paying therefore ^2O.|

* Red Book I, fo. 268. f From the original roll.

| This must be the John Halsey who was called to the Bench in 1659,
(Vol. II, p. 431) ; it would appear, therefore, that he had not accepted that Call.

1662.

fo. 692.

1 6 ftiK iftacfe JSoofes of Lincoln's

Ordered " that the antient Orders concerning the seates of
the Chappell be confirmed by this Counsel!, and are ordered to be
skreened up in the Hall for publique notice. And the officers and
wayters in the Chappell are strictly injoyned and required to
observe the same."

fo. 693. "That the repaireing the old wall next the Feilds, the

removing the particion wall betweene the Garden and the Walks,*
the erecting of a new wall from the garden gate next M r Churchill's
chamber to the wall next the Feilds, the felling downe and
disposing of such trees as are convenient to be feld, and the laying
out and ordering of the Walks," is referred to a Committee of five
Benchers. They are requested to have the work completed before
next term.

t M r Robert Hale and M r Mathew Hale are admitted into a
chamber in Garden Court, Garden Row, now vacant "by the
remove of my Lord Chief Baron, their father," paying ^60.
They may continue at the University for another year on the
usual terms.

Council held on February loth, 1662.
Fifteen Benchers present.

"At this Counsell, John Robinson and (Anne his wife,) Thomas
Plumstead, Esq rs (and Rebecca his wife, and Elizabeth Glover,)!
executors of the last will and testament of John Wynnyffe, Esq r ,
deceased, late one of the Utter Barristers of this House, did
present unto this Society one faire guilt flagon and one faire guilt
cup, which were given as a legacy by the said John Wynnyffe in
testimony of his hearty good will and affeccion to this Society;
which were thankfully received and ordered to be preserved by
the Steward amongst the rest of the plate belonging to this
House."

M r George Day, M r Goddard and M r Manby are appointed a
Committee " to manage the place and office of Treasurer" until
further Order.

Ordered "that several letters be written to M r Weld, M r
Beddingfeild, M r Richard Estcourt, M r William Jones, M r Thomas
Jones, M r Richard Graves, M r John Sadler and M r Richard Read,
all Masters of the Bench, but have of late discontinued the same,
to desire their continuance and attendance upon the service of this

* See Vol. II, pp. 99, 103.
t Red Book I, fo. 269.
I The words in brackets are interlined*

'1 he cup only remains. It is inscribed Ex dono Johannis Wynnyffe^ and has
a shield charged with a chevron invected.

Macfe Boofes of Utncoln's

House, and that they would please to declare their resolucions
concerning their undertakings of Readings (which are now revived
in this House), according to the antient Orders, against the first
Counsell of the next terme."

M r John Fountain, whose publication to the Bar was suspended
at the last Council, shall be published with the others of that Call
at the next moot.

He complains that the officers of the House have not duly
entered up his exercises. To prevent any mistakes in future, it
is Ordered :

r. "That upon every Moote performed in terme, the Bayliffe
of the Moote at the end of the exercise shall bring a booke
wherein shalbe entered the names of the gentlemen performing as fo. 694.
well the Moots as Pleadings of that Exercise ; which entry shalbe
attested by one of the Benchers sitting at every such Exercise, by
subscribing his hand thereunto.

2. "That all Moots performed by any gentlemen of this
House at any Inne of Chancery be likewise entred into a Booke,
with the names of the gentlemen performing the same attested by
the Reader of the Inns of Chancery, where this House sendeth
out Readers, and by the Bayliffe of the Moots in all other Houses.

3. "That all other Moots, Bolts, and House Exercises what-
soever, be likewise duly entred as before, and attested by one of
the Baristers sitting at every such Exercise^

" And in regard diverse faylers of Exercise have bin lately had
upon severall pretences of priviledge and exemption from the same,
It is ordered that consideracion be thereof had at next Counsell."

" Memorandum, it was informed at this Counsell by M r
Harrison, the antientest Master of the Bench,* and the only con-
tining Reader of this House, to be the custome in former times,
before the late disorders, that the Readers did upon the last day
of the terme immediatly before their Readings, together with the
other Benchers of the House, attend only upon such of the Judges,
at their chambers in Serjeants' Inn, as had bin before members of
this House, to acquaint them with what law and stattute they did
intend to Read upon, and upon none other of the Judges that had
)in of other Houses. Which custome was approved of, and
lought fit to be now revived."

Council held on February I2th, 1662.
Nine Benchers present.

" It is further ordered that the estates to be made to the
>uilders of chambers upon the proposicions now on foote for the

* John Harrison, called to the Bench 1630, Lent Reader 1633.

1 8 &* Blacfe ISoofeg of ^Lincoln's Inn*

new intended buildings within this House, shall not exceed the
terme of one and thirty yeeres, to commence from the finishing of
the said new buildings ; and that the said new chambers, and the
takers of them, and all clayming under their estate, shalbe subject
and lyable to all the Orders and dutyes of this House as other
chambers and persons are, and shall not be transferred or assigned
over, but by order and license of this House. And if the estate
in any of the said chambers shall during the said terme fall or
come to any executor, administrator or legatee, such executor,
administrator or legatee, if he be a gent, of this House he shalbe
admitted into the same, as upon any other alienacion, the next
terme after their tytle accrued ; and if such executor, administrator
or legatee be not a gent, of this Society, they shall convey their
interest in the said chamber to some gent, that shalbe of this
Society, within a yeere after their tytle so accrued, or otherwise
this House shall dispose thereof in their own right, as forfeited to
this House."

All admittances to chambers heretofore of the Treasurer's
admittance shall be signed and made by the " Committee of the
Treasury."

fo. 695. "That all Barristers of this House who are not full three

yeeres standing at the Barre from the time of the bringing in of
their Barre Mootes, shall serve their vacacions and attend and
performe their Exercises at Readings and other tymes, as heretofore
hath bin used."

Council held on May ist, 1662.
Eleven Benchers present.

The Steward shall be required to perform his contract "con-
cerning his finding of the table and dyett for the Masters of the
Bench and their clerks."

" M r Ashley, the Chapleine of this House, having received
many former admonicions from the Masters of the Bench concern-
ing many former neglects of his duty, both in the Chappell and in
the Hall, and having made a fayler in the Chappell lately, It is
therefore Ordered that he, the said M r Ashley, shall loose and
forfeite to the use of the House the summe of five shillings for the
said fayler ; the same to be deducted by the Committee of the
Treasury out of his salary at his next payment. And it is further
Ordered that for every neglect hereafter, eyther in the Chappell or
in the Hall, without just cause shewen, he, the said M r Ashley,
shall forfeite the like summe, to be deducted as aforesaid."

of Etncoln's

M r [John] Howell is appointed Summer Reader upon the
terms previously set out.*

" That they who from henceforth shalbe called to the Bench fo. 696.
shall agree to the Orders already made for Readings, and that
they shall reade as Single Readers every Sommer next after this
Reading now next ensuing."

Call to the Bar:

Gabriel Goodman, Francis Sadler and John Bridall; to be
published at the next Moot, " and to bring in their Barre Moote
within twelve months after their publication, or to take no benefitt
of their Call."

Council held on May 6th, 1662.

Thirteen Benchers present.

The Chief Butler and the Porter shall notify any defaults
made by M r Ashley, the Chaplain, in pursuance of the Order
made at the last Council.

Council held on May i2th, 1662. fo. 697.

Ten Benchers present.

Joseph Herne, one of the Utter Barristers of this Society,
and Reader of Furnival's Inn this year, is fined 10 for default
in Lent last. If he does not perform the Reading in Summer,
either by himself or by a sufficient deputy, he shall be fined 20
and suspended this House.

t M r Howell, the Reader elect, shall have a convenient
Bench chamber assigned to him before the end of next term.
M r Weld shall be written to and asked to resign his Bench
chamber for that purpose. If M r Weld will return to the House
and Read, he shall have the chamber back again.

Council held on June 5th, 1662. fo. 698.

Twelve Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

M r Nicholas Pedley, Sir Robert Atkins, Knight of the Bath,
and M r John Churchill ; saving antiquity to all their ancients.

* See ante, p. 10. Evidently he did not read in Autumn, 1661.
f Red Book I, fo. 271.

20 CfK iSlacfe 3$ookg; of lUncolit'*

Council held on June loth, 1662.
Eleven Benchers present.

The Call to the Bench at the last Council is respited.

fo. 699. The Committee of the Treasury shall pay to M r Prynn, the

last Lent Reader, all such duties and allowances as have been
usually made by the House to Readers.

All discontinuing Benchers shall be speedily written to, desir-
ing their continuance, coming into and keeping in commons, and
performing exercises and other duties of the House. They shall
also be asked to state in writing whether they will undertake to
Read in their courses. And since divers continuing Benchers are
destitute of convenient chambers, such of the discontinuers as will
not undertake to Read shall be desired to give up their Bench
chambers to the House.

Council held on June i8th, 1662.

Ten Benchers present.

Upon the petition of the Principal and Ancients of Furnival's
Inn, It is ordered that they shall have a lease from this House
of Eland's Buildings for the remainder of the time unexpired of
their lease of Furnival's Inn, they paying ^50 fine and ^5 yearly
rent.

Call to the Bench:

Sir Robert Atkins, Knight of the Bath and Queen's Solicitor.

"That the Cheife Cooke, or second Cooke, or one of them,

he alwayes present at the spittinge of the meate, and all the tyme

that the meate is at the fyer or in dressing, upon payne of losse

of their places."

fo. 700. M r Daye reports that all the officers of the House are married,

except the head butler. The Keeper of the Black Book is re-
quested to look out the former Orders on the subject.

Council held on October 28th, 1662.

Eleven Benchers present.

M r John Beddingfeild is chosen Lent Reader. An express
messenger shall be sent to him with a letter informing him thereof.
fo. 701. "Whereas at this Councell it was informed that diverse

strangers lodge in this House, contrary to the antient usage and
Orders of the Society, It is ordered that noe person whoe is or
shall bee admitted to any chamber within this House shall permitt
or suffer any stranger to have the use thereof or to lodge therein ;
and all such strangers are to have notice of this Order, and to
avoid the said chambers before the next Councell."

of ^Lincoln's:

Upon the pewterer's petition, it is ordered that he shall be
allowed for the use of pewter on Grand Days 405. for each Grand
Day past, and the like in future until further order.

Council held on November 6th, 1662.
Twelve Benchers present.

M r Thomas Weld writes " setting forth (in his excuse for not
Reading) his long sicknes, sharpe paines, and great and constant
infirmities of body, which have rendred him unfitt for that service.
And this Bench, being fully satisfyed of and sadly affected with the
trueth thereof," do excuse him from Reading. But as he now
" wholly discontinues," he must give up his Bench chamber, and
remove his books and other goods before Christmas. He shall
be paid the value "of that parte of the chamber which he left to
the House."

M r John Beddingfeild has sent a letter, " which is in effect fo. 702.
cleer refusall to Read " next Lent. The question of his fine is
^served till the next Council.

Council held on November iith, 1662.
Ten Benchers present.

" At this Councell consideracion being had of the debts of this
House and the want of money to defray the present and groweing
charges of the House, It is agreed that all the Benchers of this
House, other then the Reader, will for the present, and till the
House be out of debt, decline their priviledges as to the claime of
Bench chambers, and that the Bench chambers, which are fallen
or duering that time shall fall to the House shall bee sould and
disposed of for the best advantage of this House. Which is
ordered accordingly."

Sir Edward Bish, Knight, "being lately called to an office fo. 703.
and public imployment* which required great attendance, soe as
hee could not continue in commons in this Society, nor intend the
duties incumbent on the Benchers of this House," freely offered to
leave the Bench and to give up his Bench chamber on being
repaid the ,35 which the House made of his former chamber.
Ordered accordingly.

* Bysshe had been appointed Garter King of Arms by the Parliament about
1643. He resigned or was removed on the Restoration, and was appointed
"larenceux in 1661, Diet, Nat. Biog. He continued to attend the Councils for
some time,

22 Cfce 3$lacfe iSoofeg of Ufncoln's

Council held on November i3th, 1662.
Fourteen Benchers present.

M r John Beddingfeild is suspended the Bench for refusing to
Read.

The Order made at the last Council as to Sir Edward Bish is
suspended. On his complaint at this Council "that it was falsely
reported by two of the Masters of this Bench that he was expelled
this House, this Bench, being tender of the reputation of Sir
Edward Bish and of the other gent," appoint a committee to
examine and report.

Council held on November 2oth, 1662.
Fourteen Benchers present, including Harbottle
Grimston, M.R.

Call to the Bar:

Thomas Thetford, Edward Ashton,* Richard Capell, John
Mingey, Henry Window and Mathias Taylor ; to be published
at the next Moot,

" This Councell taking into their consideracion that Sir John
Eustace, Knight, Sir Maurice Eustace, Knight, and M r Henry
Warren, natives of the Kingdom of Ireland, being comanded by
the Right Hon ble the Lord Chancellor of Ireland t forthwith torepaire
thither, and being by his Lordshipp and other hon ble persons there
recommended to receive from this Bench the degree of Utter
Barrister, as a marke of honor conferred by this Society, and the
Bench takeing notice that they have been hard students here, and
performed many exercises, and demeaned themselves very civilly
and orderly ever since they were admitted of this House, have
thought fitt and doe order that they the said Sir John Eustace, Sir
Maurice Eustace and M r Henry W T arren be all called to the Barre,
although they bee not of full standing of seaven years, and that
fo. 704. they be published at the next moote (paying first all dutyes to the
House), and then they are to bring in their [Bar] Moote if they
please ; but they are not to practize the law in England till they
bee full seaven yeares standing in this Society." Not to be a
precedent.

Council held on November 25th, 1662.
Thirteen Benchers present.

* Aston on admittance.

f Sir Maurice Eustace, appointed Oct., 1660. He also was of Lincoln's Inn,
admitted 1619, called to the Bar 1625. It does not appear whether he was related
to the two newly-called Barristers, who are described on their admission as sons of
William Eustace of Dublin.

Macs 3$oofes of Hincoln's #nm 23

M r Robert Ashton is chosen Lent Reader, and it is ordered
that he shall then Read in the quality of a Double Reader and
have all privileges, respects and allowances of a Double Reader.

Vacation commons shall be kept at 6s. 6d. a week if thirty
gentlemen continue. All those, both of the Bar and under the
Bar, liable to keep their vacations, shall be cast into commons and
keep their vacations. None shall be called to the Bar but such
as have performed their vacation exercises.

* Nicholas Steward pays ^70 for admission to a chamber in
Garden Court, in the second staircase, one story high, vacant by
the death of M r William Lenthall, late a Bencher.

Council held November 27th, 1662. fo. 705.

Ten Benchers present.

The workmen, masons and carpenters of this House are to
survey Bland's Buildings in Furnival's Inn, and to estimate and
report what repairs are necessary.

M r Joseph Herne, an Utter Barrister, who was elected
Reader of Furnival's Inn the last year, is continued Reader for
next year, because he neglected to perform the said exercise, and
also because he did not present other names this terme, "whereby,
accordinge to former usage and custome, a new Reader might
have beene chosen in his roome."

* Ordered " that M r Gwidott, the Steward, doe with all con-
enient speede acquaynt Sir John Lort, Knight, one of the
Associates of the Bench, that the moneys due to the said Steward
for the beere spent att the Christmas kept by hym last yeare, are
expected to bee paid by the said Sir John Lort, as being his
proper debt ; and that this Society is nott lyable to the payment
thereof; and that the same hath beene refused to bee allowed upon
the accompts brought in for this last yeare past, and soe the House
nott to bee charged therewith, butt the said Sir John Lort, to
whome he is to apply hymselfe for satisfaccion therein."

Ordered " that the Commissioners of the Treasury or any two fo. 706.
of them bee and are impowered to conclude and agree, as they shall
thinke fitt, with gardiner or gardiners and other workmen con-
cerninge the modellinge of the Garden and Walkes, and the
fellinge and loppinge of the trees therein, and the perfectinge of
the plattforme and other worke necessary thereunto, and to sell
the trees felled ; it being expected and nott doubted but that they
will bee as good husbands for the Society in what they are
intrusted as they canne, and that the worke bee effected and

* Red Book I, fo. 273.

24 ftfte Black 3$oofes of fLincotn'g

dispatched with all convenient speed,- and as the season of the
yeare shall permitt and require."

The petitions of the Chief Cook to be restored to his place
and of the Butlers and Pannierman for vacation allowances and
increase of wages, are referred "to the quatuor of the Bench
sittinge in messe when this order is presented to them, to- doe
therein and thereupon what they shall see meete."

Accounts of George Day, Guibon Goddard and Thomas
Manby, Esquires, the Treasurers, from Nov. 28th, 1661, to Nov.
28th, 1662.

Receipts: ,1,441 is. id. Including ,387 i6s. 8d. for
admissions to chambers and chamber fines; ^5 from M r Henry
Farrour, Principal of Furnival's Inn, for a year's rent.

Payments: ,1,292 35. 3d. Including ^36 to William Prynne,
Reader in Lent last; 53. 6d. for the Lord Chancellor's coach;
2 175. 6d. for wine and ale and faggots for the fire at the
Queen's coming; ^"4 175. for food at the Bench table for Sir
John Lort, Knight, and 20 for the banquet to him; 160 to
Anthony Baskerville, the bricklayer.

Balance: ^148 175. lod.

1663. Officers for 1663.

Lent Reader : Mr. Robert Ashton.

Autumn Reader : No Reading.

Treasurer : Sir Edward Bish, Knight, according to his
antiquity. As he is not present, he shall have until the
next Council to decide whether he will act or not.

Keeper of the Black Book : M r William Foxwist.

fo. 707. Council held on February 4th, 15 Charles II, 1663.

Fifteen Benchers present.

" At this Councell it is ordered upon the mocion of
M r Harrison, ancientest M r of the Bench, by and with the
unanimous favour and consent of the other Masters of the Bench
present, that Sir Robert Atkyns, one other of the Masters of
the Bench, shall henceforward (in respect of his dignity as Knight
of the Bath and of his beinge Queene's Sollicitor) take place
and have priority and precedency of all other of the Masters
nowe of the Bench, excepting the Master of the Rolls* and the
Earl of Anglesey." f

Sir Edward Bish requests further time until the next Council
to declare his determination regarding the Treasurership.

* Sir Harbottle Grimstone. f Arthur Annesley, ist Earl.

Macfe ISoofes of ^Lincoln's nm 25

" Att this Councell notice beinge taken that the King's
Majestie's picture hath beene removed from the Councell chamber,
where it was formerly placed by Order of the Masters of the Bench,
and since placed in the Hall, and intended and ordered by them
to bee replaced att the Councell Chamber aforesaid, (beinge con-
ceived by the sayd Masters of the Bench to bee the more proper
place for it then the Hall), hath beene since likewise removed and
taken away from the Hall by the meanes of some of the Fellowes
of this Society, with an intent (as is conceived) to obstruct the
execucion of the Order and direccion of the Masters of the
Bench, It is now ordered and required that the said picture bee
forthwith produced and delivered to the Cheife Butler, that the
same may be replaced in the Councell Chamber ; And in defalt of
obedience to the Order, it is declared that the contemners thereof,
whome it may concerne, shall incurre the censure of the Councell."
This Order to be screened.*

t M r Nicholas Pedley, Utter Barrister, and M r James Pedley,
his son, are severally admitted into several moieties of the ground
chamber in " the Buildinge of the Sunne Dyall," lately M r Thomas
Weld's chamber, and now in the disposition of the House by M r
Weld's voluntary surrender thereof; they paying ^100.

I Council held on February loth, 1663. fo. 708.

Twelve Benchers present.
" The petition, intituled ' The humble Petition of the gentle-
en and members of this Society,' presented att this Councell for
the injoyneinge of the use of the surplice in the Chappell, and
other matters therein prayed to bee reformed, was nowe read,"
and adjourned to the next Council.

The Principal and Ancients of Furnival's Inn shall have a
lease of Eland's Buildings for the remainder of the term of their
lease of Furnival's Inn, paying a fine of ^40 and a yearly rent

of A-

Council held on February i2th, 1663.

Twelve Benchers present.
" It is att this Councell ordered, (in obedience and conformity fo. 709.
), as alsoe in pursuance of, the Lawes in that behalfe made and
nowe in force j), that there shall bee surplices and hoodes provided
with all convenient speede for the Preacher and Chapleyne to this
~ociety for the tyme beinge and their respective successors, to bee

* The portrait here referred to does not appear to be now in the possession of
ie Society.

t Red Book I, fo. 275.

\ No doubt referring to the Act of Uniformity of 1662, 13 & 14 Car. II, c. iv.

JL. III. E

26 &* Ulacfe ISoofeg of Etncoln'g

used by them henceforward in the celebration of Divyne Service
within the Chappell belonging to this Society, as by the sayd
lawes are injoyned and required, and under the penaltyes therein
conteyned." M r Harrison, Dean of the Chapel, is requested to
see to it.

" It is alsoe further ordered that the Preacher for the t'yme
beinge, and his successors, shall henceforward {in tearme tyme
accordinge to the dutyes of theire place and the former usage of
theire predecessors), togeither with the Chapleyne nowe beinge,
and such as shall succeed hym, administer the Sacrament of the
Lord's Supper within the Chappell aforesaid." The Preacher
and the Chaplain shall have copies of this Order.

Whereas the Benchers have observed that the divers good
orders heretofore made for the good government of this Society
have (partly through ignorance thereof, and partly through their
" obsoletnesse ") been much neglected and transgressed, "to the
fo. 710. greate scandall of this Society and the danger of the subvercion
of the ancient and laudable governement thereof." It is therefore
ordered that M r Prynne, M r Foxwist, M r Page, M r Day and
M r Goddard, or any two of them, shall peruse the Black Books,
and extract such orders relating to the maintenance and regulation
of exercises, commons, vacations, admittances, chambers, and
other things concerning the good government of the Society and
the members and officers thereof ; and also to draft such further
Orders as they shall think meet ; and to report at the first Council
next term.

The Principal and Ancients of Furnival's Inn have in person
at this Council refused the lease of Eland's Buildings on the terms
offered. A Committee is appointed to interview all tenants and
occupiers in the Buildings, and to demand from them all arrears
of rent due since the expiration of Eland's lease, and to agree
with such tenants or any other person or persons for a lease of
the Buildings on the most advantageous terms they can get. In
case of refusal to pay the arrears, steps shall be taken to compel
payment.

fo. 711. Council held on May 2ist, 1663.

Twelve Benchers present.

The report of the Committee on Orders for the government
of the House is postponed till next term.

M r Greenfield, the Preacher, has leave of absence this term
on account of his ill-health.

M r [Francis] Charleton, son of Sir Job Charleton, Serjeant
at Law and Chief Justice of Chester, has leave of absence for one
year, while he is at the University.

Mack ISoofes of ^Lincoln's Inn.

" This Counsel! is contynued and adjorned to and untill
Wednesday next."

Council continued on May 27th, 1663. fo. 712.

Twelve Benchers present.

M r John Howell is appointed Summer Reader; he shall have
all the privileges of a Single Reader.*

Upon the petition of M r Thomas Langston [?]and M r Richard
Hillyard, vintners, acknowledging their offences with sorrow and
promising reformation for the future, It is ordered that the proceed-
ings in the Exchequer by way of information exhibited against
them by John Whateley as informer, by orders of the Bench, shall
be stayed, but they must pay the costs.

On the petition of those Fellows who kept commons last
Christmas, It is ordered that 10 shall be allowed and paid
towards the officers' commons at that time. "And yett itt is
declared by this Counsell that noe such allowance shall bee hereafter
made if (as att last Christmas) commons bee continued longer then
usuall, or any disorders used (as then were) by dicinge or gaminge,
against the good governement and Orders of the House."

Call to the Bar :

John Millington, Robert Dawges, Robert Ecleston and
William Davis ; to be published at the next Moot, and to bring in
their Bar Moots within twelve months of their publication.

Council held on June 25th, 1663. fo. 713.

Thirteen Benchers present.

M r Greenfield, the Preacher, is requested to attend the next
Council, and to say if he wishes to resign, so that " another able
orthodox minister" may be appointed to succeed him.

"Att this Counsell, as well in pursuance of ancient and
moderne Orders of the House, as in obedience to the Kinge's
moast excellent Majestye's pleasure, signified in his late letter to
the Right Hon ble Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord High
Chanceller of England, (a coppye whereof, sent to the Masters of
the Bench, was now read), Itt is ordered that the Cheife Buttler
of this House shall forthwith repayre to such persons as are not
naturall and proper members of this Society and yett doe reside
and inhabitte in any chamber or chambers therein, or any parte
thereof, either as formerly in theyre owne rightes, or now in the

* It is clear from this that he had not Read on the two previous occasions
irhen he was elected. See ante, pp. 10, 19.

2 g CiK asiacfe Eoofeg of ILincoltt'0 Enn*

rightes of any others of the Fellowes of this Society, and give
them warninge and notice to quitte and departe from thence with
all reasonable and convenient speed, sometymes this terme, or
within a moneth next after at furthest, and that they are noe longer
to reside or inhabite here." For default, the" chambers shall be
seized and forfeited.

Complaint has been made of the frequent disorders and
nuisances perpetrated by the residents in M r Norfolk's chamber in
Garden Row. The Chief Butler shall give them notice to forbear
all such disorders in future, and to attend at the next Council to
answer the said complaints.

fo. 714. Complaint has been made that M r Doddington, an Utter

Barrister, has uncivilly affronted M r Wentworth, a Bencher, in
his own chamber, " with opprobrious and misbecominge language."
Summoned for the next Council.

M r Thomas Knowles claims to have a term of fifteen years
yet unexpired in Bland's Buildings, and prays that a further term
may be granted to him. Referred to the Commissioners of the
Treasury.

M r John Bennet, brother and administrator to M r Thomas
Bennett, sometime Steward of this Society, claims 6 is. 2d.
which he says is due from the House in respect of the Steward's
accounts for 1 638. Referred to the Commissioners of the Treasury.
fo. 715. "Whereas the severall househoulders and inhabitantes of the

severall houses and buildings in Holborne next adjoyninge and
adjacente to the garden brick wall of this Societye, have incroached
and committed nusances upon the three foote of ground beyond
the said wall belonging to this House, and are in arreares for
many yeares the severall rentes they ought severally to pay to this
Societye for the use and benefitt they have made and doe make ot
the ground aforesaid, which ought to bee without any annoyance
to this House, accordinge to former agreament betweene the
Masters of the Bench and them or theyre predecessors or lande-
lordes, Itt is ordered that the Commissioners of the Treasurye
and M r Wentworth, Masters of the Bench, or any two of them, bee
and are hereby desyred to viewe the ground aforesaid, and see
what nusances are thereupon committed, and to cause the same to
bee forthwith abated, and to convent before them the said in-
habitantes, and to require them to make payment of the arreares
of rent due from them as aforesaid," and to report.

*M r John Bigg is admitted to the chamber and garret in the
Gate House Court, up the Chapel Stairs, now in the possession
of M r John Jesson, on payment of ^10 as a fine.

* Red Book I, fo. 279.

ISlacfe 2$oofes of

Council held on July 2nd, 1663.
Ten Benchers present.

M r Greenfield, the Preacher, attended at this Council, and
expressed his desire to resign on account of his ill-health. The
Masters of the Bench earnestly besought him not to do so, but,
on his persisting, they very unwillingly accepted his resignation.
The Commissioners of the Treasury shall pay him all arrears of
his salary. "And whereas hee now moved for some allowance
to bee made him for the commons which his servant might have
hadd and taken ever since his cominge to this Society, but did
not take, Itt is further ordered that (notwithstandinge the
allowance made and payd to the said M r Greenfield for vacatione
commons when absent hence in the country) that the said
Commissioners likewise pay him tenn poundes more in lieu and
satisfactione of his present demand, and withall present him with
tenn poundes over and above, as a gratuity from the Masters of
the Bench, and as an expressione in parte of theyre love and
respectes towards him." *

M r Doddington is suspended for his "miscarriage and ill fo. 716.

>ehaviour towardes M r Wentworth by opprobrious and mis-

>ecominge language."

Call to the Bench :

M r Thomas Powis and M r Nicholas Pedley, two ancient
Barristers, saving the antiquity of their ancients ; to be published
it the first part of the next moot this term.

Associates to the Bench :

Sir John Shaw and Sir Francis Gooderick, Knights, two
indent Barristers, on paying 20 each.

M r Page reports that M r Guidott, the Steward, after several
complaints made as to the loss sustained by him by reason of his
>rovision made for the Bench table, which he then affirmed to be
to the value of ^"30 per annum, said "in expresse wordes that
they might bee ashamed thereof, or in wordes to that effect."
The Steward must attend the next Council.

Council held on July yth, 1663. fo. 717.

Thirteen Benchers present.

" Whereas the Masters of the Bench observe that M r Ashley,
the present Chaplayne to this Societye, hath and doeth frequently
icglecte the performance of the dutyes belonginge to his place,
md beinge frindly and civilly of late tould thereof by M r Harrison,

* Nothing further seems to be known of Greenfield. See Memoirs of William
Mmoth, p. 255.

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one of the Masters of the Bench, seemed much to slight itt, Itt
is thereupon ordered that Sir Robert Atkins [and three other
Benchers] bee and are hereby desyred to convent before them the
said M r Ashley, and, as they see cause, either to contynue or
remove him from his place, and to take care (in case he bee
removed) to provide another sufficient and orthodox minister to
supply his place for the ensuinge vacatione and longer, till further
Order to bee therein taken by the Masters of the Bench. They
are likewise desyred to take the like care for the providinge of one
or more persons of the ministry, able, pious and orthodox, for to
supplye M r Greenefield's place, shortly voyd, in preachinge."

fo. 719. Council held on October 29th, 1663.

Twelve Benchers present.

Upon report of the Committee, M r Ashley, the Chaplain, is,
according to his desire, discharged of his place. The former
Committee shall treat with M r Garrett, who last vacation filled the
offices both of Chaplain and Preacher, and still continues to do so,
and he shall be paid what the Committee thinks reasonable.

M r Richard Escourt shall not be chosen Lent Reader,
although it is his turn.

The failure of M r Howell to Read last summer, shall be con-
sidered at the next Council.

Sir Edward Bysh, Knight, is chosen Lent Reader, with all
the privileges of a Double Reader. A copy of this Order shall
be forthwith sent to him to give him notice, and so that he may,
according to the duty of his place, be present at the next Grand
Day.

* M r William Abraham petitions for leave to dispose of his
part of a chamber. The consideration thereof is postponed to
the next Council, for it is stated that M r Abraham lies in extremis,
" and soe ought not by the custome of the House bee suffered soe
to doe."

fo. 720. Council held on November 6th, 1663.

Thirteen Benchers present.

The Committee report that they have agreed with one M r
John Bennett to be the new Steward, and settled terms with him ;
which agreement, it is now ordered, shall be sealed and executed
forthwith. "And in the interim, Itt is ordered, in pursuance of
the agreement aforesaid, that all persons to bee henceforward
admitted as Fellowes of this Society, shall upon such theyre

* Red Book I, fo. 281.

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admittances give sufficient security, by way of bond or cautione
money, for payment of theyre commons and other dutyes from
time to time ; and that none shall bee allowed or accepted as
manucaptors for any of the Fellowes of this Society but such as
are soe themselves and that have chambers in the House." The
penalty and conditions of the bond, how long it shall continue in
force, and what sum shall be deposited for caution money, are
referred back to the Committee.

M r Bennett, the Steward, presented and nominated (according
to the agreement with him) one Thomas Farmer to be Chief Cook,
who is thereupon appointed during the pleasure of the Bench.
James Hargrave, the former Cook, is discharged

It is agreed that, so far as anything is alleged to the contrary, fo. 721.
there is no sufficient or reasonable cause to exempt Sir Edward
Bish from Reading next Lent; but as he is not here at this
Council, the matter is postponed until the next Council,

Nothing further shall be done with regard to M r Ho well's
failure of Reading.

* M r Richard Graves, Bencher, is admitted to part of a
chamber in Garden Court, Chancery Lane Row, in the disposition
of the House by the death of M r William Abraham, on payment
of

I Council held on November i2th, 1663.

Fourteen Benchers present.
The Order for the giving of bonds upon admittances to the
House is suspended until further Order.

Call to the Bar: fo. 722.

Luke Astrey, George Bennett, John Gyles, Walter Evance,
Richard Seys, Frederic Cornwallis, and John Babington. Gyles,
Evance and Cornwallis shall be published upon payment of all
dues; "but the publicatione of the other gentlemen called is
respited till they and every of them shall receive the Sacrament of
the Lord's Supper att the Chappell in this House, they haveinge
not allready done the same since theyre admittances unto this
House, for anything appeares to this Counsell."

Call to the Bench :

M r John Churchill, an ancient Barrister, saving the antiquity
of his ancients; to be published at the next moot.

The Keeper of the Black Book is requested to search for a
precedent whether a Bencher who is also Master of Requests has

* Red Book 1, fo. 282.

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any special precedence. If so, Sir Thomas Beverley, Master of
Requests, shall have the same position.

M r John Todd, clerk, petitions for the post of Chaplain. M r
Harrison, Dean of the Chapel, is requested to inform him that he
will be expected to read Prayers and preach once in the Chapel,
and to treat with him, and to report.

fo. 723. Council held on November i/th, 1663.

Fourteen Benchers present.

fo. 724. M r Garrett, the minister, shall have 305. a week for the time

during which he has acted as Preacher and Chaplain, and so long
as he shall continue to do so.

M r Todd is not appointed Chaplain.

Sir Edward Bish appeared at this Council, and declared his
resolution not to Read next Lent. " Whereupon, and upon the
debate of his refusall, and the questions putt, first, whether any
penultye shall bee imposed upon him therefore ; secondlye, whether
any fine ; thirdly, whether two hundred poundes ; or fourthly,
whether one hundred pounds, as to the two first questions, they
were carryed in the affirmative ; the third in the negative ; and as
to the last questione, the Counsell then beinge but twelve in
number, besydes the said Sir Edward Bysh himselfe, they were
equally devyded. And soe nothinge resolved thereupon, and the
said matter then not further debated or proceeded in."

Council held on November igth, 1663.
Nineteen Benchers present.

As to the precedence of Sir Thomas Beverley as one of the
Masters of Requests, Sir Edward Bysh, [Clarenceux] King of
Heralds, is requested to certify the same.

Sir Edward Bysh is excused from Reading. It is "left to
his ingenuity to returne his answer next Counsell what retributione
hee will bee pleased voluntarily to make in respecte of the in-
dulgence aforesaid."

fo. 725. " Att this Counsell serious consideratione beinge taken for pre-

ventione of fayler of Readinge next Lente ; and, upon perusall
of the Booke of Admittances, itt beinge found that the next
Bencher to Reade in course after Sir Edward Bysh is Sir Thomas
Beverley ; but hee beinge (att present) not here, and knowne to
bee one of the Masters of Requests to the Kinge's Ma tie , and
otherwise imployed in his Magistie's affayres, itt was thought fitt
to passe him by att present, and to proceed to the next anciente
in course, who appeared to bee Sir William Glascocke, one of the
Masters of the Chauncery in Ordinary. Who being present, itt
was proposed to him and he was desyred to undertake the said

Readinge, but hee insistinge upon his priviledge as Master of the
'hauncerey, and offeringe some other reasons for his excuse, hee
was likewise past by.

" And the proposall and desyre aforesaid was made to his
lext ancient in course, M r William Foxwist, who likewise humbly
offered severall reasons for his excuse, and declared his resolutione
upon this surprise not to Reade.

" And then the same proposall and desyre was made to
[ r William Page, the next ancient in course to the said M r
r oxwist ; who, beinge alsoe now present, humbly offered severall
reasons for his excuse, and likewise declared his resolutione upon
this surprise not to Reade.

_" The next ancient in course beinge M r Francis Boteler, and
hee not present, and alledged to bee in the country sicke, hee was
past by.

"And the proposall and desyre aforesaid continued to M r
George Day, the next ancient in course to M r Boteler ; who
prayed time till next Counsell to returne his answer ; which is
granted him."

Council held on November 24th, 1663.
Sixteen Benchers present.

Ordered that Sir Thomas Beverley, Knight, Master of
equests, shall have place and precedency at the Bench next to
the Honorable Sir Harbottle Grimston, Baronet, Master of
he Rolls.

Sir Edward Bish is discharged of the Bench, but shall remain
as an Associate thereunto, with his present antiquity, so as he re-
linquish his Bench chamber and leave it at the disposal of the
House.

Sir William Glascock is excused from Reading and all other fo. 726.
xercises. It is left to his own discretion what compensation he
will make for this indulgence and favour.

Call to the Bench:

M r John Gouldsmyth, an ancient Barrister, with a saving of
antiquity to himself, and also to his ancients hereafter to be called
to the Bench.

M r George Day declares his willingness to Read next Lent,
T hich the Benchers do gratefully accept. He shall have all the
priviledges and allowances enjoyed either by M r Prynn or M r
Ashton, the two last Readers, or any others who have Read as
Double Readers. He shall also have the disposal of his present
:hamber, and the choice of a Bench chamber when one falls vacant.

OL. Ill F

34 &"!) Macfe iSoofeg of ^Lincoln's

Council held on November 26th, 1663.
Nineteen Benchers present.
fo. 727. The Order of the last Council discharging Sir Edward Bish

of the Bench is now annulled ; and he shall remain a Bencher.
He is excused from Reading, and, as an acknowledgment, he
voluntarily resigns his Bench chamber.

M r George Day, Reader elect, who by order of the last
Council was to have the disposal of his present chamber and the
choice of a Bench chamber when any fell to the House, now
declares his desire to retain his present chamber and to have the
disposal thereof, and also his willingness to waive the choice of
any Bench chamber " Itt is in respect thereof now Ordered that
the said M r Day shall bee presented with a hundred poundes as
the voluntarie gift and respect of this Societye to him, and that
the same bee payd him out of the Treasurye of the House,
towardes his charges att his Readinge."

" Att this Counsell M r John Tillotson, a learned devine,
is chosen to bee Minister and Preacher to this Society ; and
itt is ordered that hee shall have the same yearely exhibitione
and allowances which M r Greenfield, the last Preacher to this
Societye, hadde, too witt, one hundred poundes exhibitione,
payable att the end of every tearme by equall portions, the
first payment to begin att the end of the next tearme, and
twentye four poundes more for vacatione commons, and to have
commons for himselfe and his man in tearme tyme, and chamber ;
And Sir Robert Atkins, M r Harrison, Deane of the Chappell,
M r Foxwist, M r Manby and M r Churchill, five of the Masters of
the Bench, or any two of them, are appoynted a Committee to
acquainte the said M r Tillotson with the electione of him as
aforesaid, and to treate with him aboute such things as the
Masters of the Bench expects performance from him off in case
hee accepts of the place, too witt, to preach twice every Lord's
Day in tearme tyme and next before and after every tearme, and
in Readinge time, and once every Lord's Day in vacatione, and
as other occasione shall require, and to administer the Sacrament
of the Lord's Supper together with the Chaplayne of this House
every tearme and vacatione, and alsoe to resyde constantly in the
Society, and not to absent himselfe thence without leave first
therefore obteyned from the Masters of the Bench in Counsell,
or the Quatuors in the Hall."

Council held on November 27th, 1663.

" Att this Counsell notice beinge taken of the manifold
inconveniencyes and ill consequences usually attendinge publicke
gaminge att cardes or dice in this and other Societyes, and how

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that former Orders of Counsel!, made for the suppressinge
thereof, have not hadde the effect desyred : Now for the revivinge fo. 728.
and reinforceing thereof, and for the future preventione of the
evills and mischiefes that have hereby heretofore happened to
the greate dishonor of God, debauchinge and corruptinge of
youth, and oftentimes the undoinge and impoverishinge of many
persons in theyre estates, as alsoe the scandall of the governmente
of this Societye : Itt is thought fitt and Ordered that none
of the Fellowes of this Societye shall henceforward in Christmasse
time, or any other times, play att any cardes or dice with any
strangers, either in the Hall, Butterye, or Counsell Chamber,
upon payne of expulsione from the House, nor that any strangers
be permitted or suffered amongst themselves to play there, as
aforesaid." The officers are strictly charged to prevent strangers
from resorting to the House for the purposes aforesaid. Christmas
commons shall not be held for more than three weeks, according
to ancient Orders. This Order shall be screened.

The Commissioners of the Treasury report that the Treasury
is nearly exhausted, and that a supply of money is urgently needed.
Also that considerable sums are due to the House for arrears of
fortnight's commons and other duties from several Fellows, vizi-
Sir Thomas Escourt, Knight, Associate to the Bench, M r Ansell
and M r Norfolk, two Utter Barristers, and many more. Notice
shall be given to all in arrears to appear before Sir Robert Atkins
[and five other Benchers], appointed a Committee for the Survey
of Chambers, at such time and place as they shall appoint, and
then make payment of all arrears, or such composition as the
Committee shall think reasonable. The chambers of defaulters
shall be seized as forfeited.

The election of the new Black Book Keeper is postponed, fo. 729.
M r Foxwist shall continue to act in the meantime.

*M r Edwin Rich, an Associate of the Bench, is admitted to
chamber in the Garden Court and Row, now in the disposal of
the House by the resignation of Sir Edward Bish, who held it as
~5ench Chamber, on payment of ^120.

Officers for 1664: 1664.

Lent Reader : M r George Day.
Autumn Reader : Sir Robert Atkyns.
Treasurer : Sir Robert Atkyns.
Keeper of the Black Book : M r William Foxwist.

* Red Book I, fo. 284.

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Council held on February 4th, 16 Charles II, 1664.

Fifteen Benchers present.

fo. 730. None shall in future be called to the Bar, but such as have

duly kept their under-Bar vacations. The second Butler shall
note on the paper of names for a Call to the Bar those who have
and have not kept their said vacations. This Order to be
screened.

M r Prynn, M r Ashton, M r Boteler, M r Day, M r Manby and
M r Powis are appointed a Committee " to consider of some
proposalls (as they shall thinke fitt) for the regulatinge, ordering
and retrenchinge of expences att Grand Readinges in the House,
soe that the same may not be soe expensefull and wastfull as in
former times, but reduced to moderacione ; and they are desyred
to present the same to the Counsell."

A bond, dated November 7th last, in the penalty of ^600,
entered into by M r John Bennett, the Steward, together with M r
Richard Cornewall of Warwick Lane, London, gentleman,
Rowland Stead of Beare Bynder Lane, confectioner, and Philip
Bennett of Gray's Inn Lane, innholder, for the Steward's dis-
charge of his duties according to his agreement, is handed in, and
ordered to be placed with the other writings of the House.

Council held on February nth, 1664.
Nine Benchers present.

fo. 731. "Upon the Readinge of a letter from the Right Hono ble

Edward, Earle of Manchester,* Lord Chamberlyne of His Ma t!e>s
Household, intimatinge M r Bray, one of the Utter Barristers of
this Societye, to bee a sworne meniall servant of his Ma tles Privy
Chamber in ordinarye," and asking that he might therefore be
excused from the payment of fortnight's commons, Ordered that
it be referred to the Committee for the Survey of Chambers.

The present Cook, who was brought in by the Steward
according to his agreement, shall not have commons at the charges
of the House.

" Ordered that Mr. Garrett bee and is hereby chosen to bee
Chaplyne to this Society, and to have the yearly exhibitione and
salery of fiftie poundes, payable att the latter end of every tearme,
as heretofore to his predecessors, besydes the benefitt of M r Golfer's
Monethly Lecture, f (M r Tilletson, the present Preacher to this
Societye, consenting thereunto) ; and for the arreares due to him
hitherto for supplyinge the Chaplyne and Preacher's place hee is
to have his former allowance of thirtye shillings a weeke ; and
further to bee allowed his commons in tearme and vacatione,

* Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl. f See Vol. II, p. 426.

Macfe

of ^Lincoln's 3htn,

(if the same bee kept in the House), and the Chamber belonginge

to the Chaplyne, which beinge att present (as informed) somethinge

out of repayre, M r Treasurer is desyred to cause the same to bee

)utt into convenient and necessary repayre both within and with-

>ut, for the better accomodacione of the said M r Garrett, and

all to pay him his exhibitione and other moneys aforesaid as fo. 732.
the same shall prove due or allready due to him. In respect
thereof the said M r Garrett is faythfully and carefully to performe
the dutyes of his place, by publicke prayer and preachinge in
tearme and vacatione, in manner followinge, that is to say, prayer
twice every day (as usuall) in tearme, and vacatione tyme if
;ommons hold; if not, twice on every Lord's Day, Wednesdayes
ind Frydayes in every weeke; and constant preaching once every
Lord's Day in vacatione tyme; and otherwise as used by his
>redecessors."

" Ordered that Sir Robert Atkins, the present Treasurer,*
[and six other Benchers], are hereby appoynted a Committee to
treate and agree (as to them shall seeme meete for the profitt and
idvantage of the Societye) with any person or persons concerninge
)uildinges to bee erected and made att the further north end of
the Garden towards Holborne, without any annoyance to itt or to
the House ; as alsoe to consider of and conclude any other buildinge
idditionall to the House, soe that if possible the same may be gon
ibout with all convenient speed." And to report at the first
Council next term.

According to the former usage and ancient Orders of the fo. 733.
[ouse, the three puisne Benchers and the two last Single Readers
lust attend M r Reader at the next Lent Reading, under a penalty
)f five marks apiece. Also such Barristers as are vacationers,
mder a penalty of 405. apiece.

At this Council the Commissioners of the Treasury, M r Day,
Goddard and M r Manby, are discharged from their office, and
>ir Robert Atkins is chosen Treasurer for the year ensuing.

M r William Page is chosen Keeper of the Black Book.

fOn the petition of M r Thomas Washer, " complayninge of
rrong done him by his chamber-fellow, M r Richard Abbott, in
lisposseinge [? dispossessing] his clarke of the clarke's seate
>elonging to him in that parte of the chamber hee now houldeth
in this House." Referred to the Committee for Survey of
Chambers.

* He was elected at this Council, post.
\ Red Book I, fo. 286.

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Council held on May loth, 1664.
Eleven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

fo. 734. Edmond Weld, gentleman, Thomas Lake, esquire, Richard

Catlin, gentleman, and Richard Rainsford, gentleman ; to be
published at the next moot.

M r Ashton, M r Day and M r Fox wist are appointed to
examine the Book of Admittances, and to convent before them
such Fellows as have been admitted by manucaptors not having
chambers, and to -require them within some reasonable time to
procure other manucaptors to be approved of by the Committee.

All Fellows to be admitted in future must find two
manucaptors, one of whom must have a chamber in the House,
or else give a bond.
fo. 735. Robert Ball is appointed gardener, at a wage of ,26 a year.

Council held on May i7th, 1664.

Twelve Benchers present.
fo. 736. Sir Thomas Beverley, Knight, Master of Requests, is excusec

from Reading this summer, as he is now engaged on the King's
service in Ireland.

Sir Robert Atkins undertook to Read this summer, although
not his turn, being requested to do so by the rest of the Bench.

" Ordered that the Committee for buildings begunn at the
upper end of the Garden, (and now stayed by Order of Reference
from his Majestic), or any two of them, doe attend the two Cheife
Justices,* with Sir John Denham, to whom the said reference is
made," and to report.

M r Tillotson's opinion shall be asked as to the clause in M r
Golfer's will in which both he and M r Garrett are concerned.

The accounts for each week's commons shall be audited by
the Masters of the Bench, in their turns, at the end of each week,
according to the ancient course.

" Ordered that the Gardiner shall not permitt any but knowne
persons of quality to enter into the Garden at any time whatsoever;
and that noe person whatsoever (other then such as are members
of this Society) are to be permitted to walke therein after the
beginning of any dinner time untill three a'clocke in the afternoone,
nor after after the beginning of any supper time in the Hall untill
eight a'clocke in the evening in tearme time."

* Sir Robert Hyde and Sir Orlando Bridgman.

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Council held on June i6th, 1664. fo. 737.

Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

John Sabyn, Richard Jaques and Henry Longe ; to be pub-
lished at the next Moot. M r Sabyn, being of eleven years'
standing, shall have seniority of those called last Easter.

Sir Robert Atkins, M r Prinn and M r Day are to attend the
Judges on Saturday next at Serjeants' Inn.*

A Committee is appointed to report "what allowances and
priveledges have beene belonging unto Readers in this Society
formerlie."

On the motion of Sir Robert Atkins, Knight of the Bath,
the absence of his son, Sir Robert Atkins, Knight, is excused from
the time of his admittance until Michaelmas Term next, by reason
of his continuance at the University.!

" Ordered that M r Keilway Guidott, the late Steward, be
henceforward Attendant upon the Treasurer for the time being, as
to all such matters of accompts, reparacions and other affaires of
the House, as he shall be directed to or imploied in by the
Treasurer as aforesaid : And that the said M r Guidott shall, during
his said imployment, enjoy the chamber which he now hath
within this House, and alsoe have such other encouragements as
to the Masters of the Bench from time to time shall seeme
meete."

Sir Robert Atkins, Reader elect, shall have all allowances fo. 738.
and privileges that Single Readers have had formerly.

" Ordered that noe Bencher of this Society, other then in the
capacity of a Double Reader, be excused from doeing of exercise,
without speciall Order of the Councell."

Council held on June 28th, 1664.

Eleven Benchers present.

"Ordered, upon the petition of Anne Lever, widdow, the fo. 739.
relict of Richard Leaver, sometimes Chaplin of this House, setting
forth hir greate charge and weake estate, and thereupon praying
releife, that forty shillings be paid unto hir by M r Treasurer."

* Doubtless in connection with the Judges' orders. See Appendix.

f Sir Robert, the son, was knighted on Sept. 5th, 1663, on the occasion of
Charles II's visit to Bristol, of which city Sir Robert, the father, was then Recorder.
He was born in 1647, so wa s only 16 years old at the time. Author of The Ancient
and Present State of Glocestershire, 1712.

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Council held on October 28th, 1664.
Thirteen Benchers present.

fo. 740. Sir Thomas Beverley, Knight, being made Master of

Requests, is excused from Reading and all other exercises.

M r William Foxwist and M r William Page are excused from
Reading in this Society.

Council held on November loth, 1664.
Twelve Benchers present.

fo. 741. " Ordered that a fine of twenty nobles be and hereby is

imposed upon Thavies Inne for theire fayler of Reading the last
sommer ; and that notice be given them of the payment thereof."
The gentlemen's petition concerning a Library Keeper is
deferred till the next Council.

Council held on November i5th, 1664.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Edward Littleton, Thomas Adderley Eyre,* William Kent,
Thomas Pedley, Richard Seys, Henry Newcomen, Henry Temple,
and Owen Winne, gentlemen ; to be published at the next moot.

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Lord Chief Justice of the Common
Bench, shall be attended by M r Prynne and M r Day in reference
to the new buildings.
fo. 742. The Steward states that ^175 195. 3d. is due to him for

apparels, and that he is therefore unable to pay the brewer and
baker, to whom he owes great sums. The Treasurer shall pay
^60 to the brewer and baker, if so much be due to them.

M r Day is desired to take care that M r Golfer's legacy be
paid; and to that end to confer with M r Guidott, who is able to
give him information concerning the same.

" Ordered that any Bencher of this Society, refusing to Reade
and having not already Read, shall not havef the priveledge of a
Bencher."

Council held on November i8th, 1664.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that noe dispensacion for absence after admittance

be for the future granted to any Fellow of this Society other then

a Judge's or a Bencher's sonne."

* Called Thomas Eyre Adderley on admission,
f Thereby forfeit, struck out.

of fltacoln'*

Every Bencher who shall on summons fail to attend the
Councils in this Society, shall forfeit 6s. 8d.

The Order as to Benchers refusing to Read is hereby fo. 743.
confirmed.

M r Bedingfield, M r Richard Estcourt, Sir Edward Byshe,
Sir William Glascock, M r Foxwist and M r Page, are the Benchers
who have refused to Read.

M r Edward Rich is elected Lent Reader. He shall have
the next Bench chamber falling vacant and liberty to dispose of
his present chamber, and all usual privileges.

The Rules for regulating the expenses of Readings, read and
agreed upon at this Council, are as follows :

" Orders for retrenching and moderating the excessive
expences of Readings.

1. "That noe Reader shall supp nor give any wine or
exceedings in the Hall at suppers.

2. " That at all tables, except his owne, he shall give but one
dish of exceedings to each messe at dinners, during his Reading ;
the Grand Day excepted, wherein he shall not exceed three dishes
each messe.

3. " That before his lectures he shall have only butter and
eggs at breakfasts in Lent, and bisketts and wine in Autume.

4. " That he shall have noe second course at his ow r ne table,
but only on the Grand Day ; nor any strangers, but on his Grand
and Petty-Grand Day, and those onely of the Long Robe and
others to whome he hath speciall relacion.

5. " That every Reader, (except he be of the King's, Queene's,
or Prince's Councell, or Recorder of the Citty of London), who
shall transgresse or exceed these Orders, shall forfeit the summe
of two hundred pounds, the one moity to the House, the other to
the next Reader, and bee suspended the Bench till payment thereof.

6. " That noe Member of the Society shall presume to take
iway any dish of meate in carrying to, or take or send any dish
from the Reader's table, without his leave or direccion, under paine
)f being suspended the House."

Council held on November 28th, 1664.

Nine Benchers present.

The above Orders for Readings shall be screened. fo. 744.

5 gs. 4d. is paid to William Drew, freemason, for paving
the Stone Pace Walk in Gate House Court.

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42 f)c 3$lacfe iSoofeg of Utnroln's

* M r James Rudyard is admitted to M r William Greenhill's
part of a chamber in Gate House Court, Hall End Row, over the
kitchen, on payment of ^5.

Accounts of Robert Atkyns, Knight of the Bath, Solicitor
General to the Queen, the Treasurer, from Feb. nth to Nov.
29th, 1664.

Receipts: ^706 155. od. Including ^19 for the rent of
buildings newly erected in Furnival's Inn; ^"37 from M r Manby,
one of the Treasurers last year; ^24 45. 4d. from M r Day for the
like.

Payments: ^706 155. od. Including ^36 each to George
Day and Sir Robert Atkyns, the Readers this year; ^124 to M r
John Tillotson, the Preacher, for his salary; ^50 to William Drew,
the mason, and ^50 to Anthony Baskerville, the bricklayer; ^60
to Richard Cooper, architect; 3 175. 4d. to Christopher Wren,
lath maker \scandularius\\ ^18 i8s. nd. to the said Richard
Cooper; 16 for music.

Balance: None.

1665. Officers for 1665.

Lent Reader: M r Edward Rich.

Autumn Reader: No Reading.

Treasurer: M r George Day.

Keeper of the Black Book: M r Francis Boteler.

fo. 745. Council held on January 3ist, 17 Charles II, 1665.

Twelve Benchers present.

Sir Robert Atkins is requested to confer with M r Gooderick,
who is desirous of being appointed Chaplain in the room of
M r Garrett.

M r Keilway Guidott, the late Steward, petitions that his term
of years yet to come in the house in Newgate Market may be
extended to 21 years, t A Committee is appointed to report
generally.

fo. 746. " Ordered that M r Treasurer [Day] doe take care to veiw all

the severall peices of plate belonging to the House, now in the
possession of the Steward, and to have them placed in the Hall
upon the Grand Day, for the honor of the Society."

" Ordered that M r Richard Adams, being chosen Reader of
Thavies Inn for the yeare ensueing, doe performe the said Reading,
either by himselfe or his deputy, at his perill."

* Red Book I, fo. 289. f See Vol. II, p. 346.

Macfe 3$oofe$ of Utncoln's Emu 43

" Ordered that the Roll or Rolls heretofore used in this House
for the collecting of moneys for Musick, Coles, Library and
Gardiner, be renewed ; and the moneyes henceforth to become
due thereupon be collected accordingly." *

Council held on February 7th, 1665.
Eight Benchers present.

M r Goodericke is appointed Chaplain in the room of M r fo. 747.
Garrett. He shall have ^"40 a year, chamber and diet, "and
other usuall accomodacions, as M r Ashley enjoyed them."

The Treasurer [Day] is to keep the House plate until further
Order, "as he would keepe his owne."

A committee is again to attend the two Chief Justices " in
reference to the proceeding of the new building at the upper end
)f the Garden."

Council held on February loth, 1665. fo. 748.

Ten Benchers present.

" Upon the Steward's peticion, praying to have care taken of
him, who (as he saith) left the King's service to serve this Society,
It is ordered that his security be looked into " and reported on.

M r Keilway Guidott must attend the next Council " to give
informacion what persons are now chargeable with the arreares of
M r Golfer's legacy."

" Ordered that M r Goodericke doe supply the monthly lecture
sermon, according to M r Golfer's will, until] M r Tillotson shall
appoint another to preach the said sermon, oruntill further Order."

Council held on February I3th, 1665. fo. 749

I Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that if any gentleman of this Society from and after
next Wednesday dinner, during the time of the Reading, shall
eate any one meale's meate in the Hall, he shall not be a repaster,
but in commons for the halfe weeke wherein he shall take that
meale." This Order to be screened.!

James Butler, William Barry, Richard Barry junior, and
Robert Dixon, natives of the Kingdom of Ireland, being in arrear
for commons, must pay or give satisfaction to the Steward within
me week; in default, they shall be suspended from taking any
:ommons. In future, Irishmen, having no chambers nor manu-

* All Rolls, save the Preacher's, were abolished in 1652. See Vol. II, p. 393.
f The marginal note says "Noe repast to be taken in the Hall during the
le of the Reading."

44 f)e Blacfe asoofeg of Eincoln'g

captors of whom one has a chamber, must give security for the
payment of their commons and dues.

Ordered that forty shillings be paid to Richard Brownley,
Chief Butler, for his extraordinary pains in making up of divers
rolls for the better management of businesses in this House.

Council held on April 2Oth, 1665.
Nine Benchers present.

fo. 750. M r Bennett, the late Steward, must bring in a list of those

who owe him money for commons.

Richard Brownley, the Chief Butler, shall have 6d. in the
on all moneys collected by him.

M r Francis Boteler is elected Summer Reader.

fo. 751. Council held on April 2/th, 1665.

Thirteen Benchers present.

M r Francis Boteler, who had been elected Autumn Reader
in his absence, did now desire with much earnestness to be ex-
cused, " having formerly given notice of his resolucion therein in
regard of many infirmities and an indisposicion of health, which
have continued upon him for many yeares ; which occasioned
him long since to decline all practice of the law, and consequently
all benefitt and profitt arising from thence." The Bench urged
him to reconsider his decision, pointing out that if he refused to
undertake the Reading there would be danger of a total fail. "He
thereupon did make this offer, viz*, that if his Reading from
Munday untill Fryday might be accepted, he would then adventure
to undertake it ; yett neverthelesse upon this condicion, that if a
fitt of sicknesse or other disturbance should interpose, whereby
his proceedings therein should be obstructed, contrary to his
intention or desires, that in such case a failer of Reading should
not be charged upon him." His offer is accepted. And it is
ordered that he shall have the next Bench chamber happening to
fall to the House, free liberty to dispose of his present chamber,
" and alsoe all allowances and priviledges whatsoever, belonging
to any Reader in this Society."

"In regard of the present and pressing necessities of this
Society in this juncture of time," principally occasioned by the
backwardness of those who are indebted to the House and Steward
for commons and other duties, " It is ordered that every member
of this Society doe advance one Grand Weeke's commons, at the
rate of tenn shillings per weeke, and pay the same upon Saterday
next into the hands of such person or persons as the Ouatuor then
sitting at the Bench table shall appoint, for the Grand Weeke
beginning on Saturday night next ; which advance the Masters

Macfe ISoofes of mncoln's nn* 45

of the Bench themselves will at that time particularly make, and
rest confident that there is not one gentleman within the whole
Society who will not with all readinesse doe the same." To be
screened.

All arrears must be paid forthwith, on pain of seizure of fo. 752.
chambers.

The house in Newgate Market, now leased to M r Guidott,
must be well repaired, according to the covenants in the lease,
before any treaty be had with him for a new lease.

Council held on May 5th, 1665.

Nine Benchers present.

The Order made at the last Council for the payment in
advance of the following week's commons, is repeated in all points
for the week now ensuing, at the rate of gs. a week, which is to be
paid on Saturday next.

Call to the Bar: fo. 753.

M r Mathew Price; to be published at the next moot.

" Ordered, upon the peticion of Thomas Holland, that M r
Treasurer be desired to pay for soe many dozen of the hollow
trenchers, furnished at Sir Robert Atkyns his Reading, as shall be
produced at the time of the demand of the mony to be paid for
them."

A committee is appointed "to inquire from, the time of the
institution of fortnight's commons whether they have duely accrued
to and bene ymployed for the benefitt of the House or not; and
to that purpose to call before them all persons concerned therein,"
and to report.

" Ordered that Sir Thomas Beverley, Knight, Master of
Requests to the King's Majestic, Sir Robert Atkins, Knight of
the Bath, [and four other Benchers], be desired in the name and
on the behalfe of this Society to make such applicacion unto his
Majestic, the Lord Chancellor, and the Master of the Rolls, or
any other of his Majestie's Councell, or other his officers, as to
them shall seeme meete, for the better removeing of all
obstruccions and procuring of license from his Majestic, whereby
the Society may be enabled to proceed in the erecting of such
buildings upon their owne ground, as they shall resolve on, to the
honour and benefitt of the Society."

Every Member of this Society shall be charged with a
fortnight's commons, whereof the Grand Week to be one, every
term if visits in villa.

46 CJt 2$lacfe ISoofes of fUtuoln'*

*M r Cranmore Harris is admitted into part of a chamber in
Chancery Lane Court, Chancery Lane Row, late belonging to
Sir William Bowyer, Knight, and forfeited by him for default of
payment of commons and other duties, exceeding the value of the
said part of a chamber. M r Herris must pay ^40.

fo. 754. Council held on May 8th, 1665.

Nine Benchers present.

The Steward is allowed gs. a week for commons, from the
beginning of this term.

Council held on May 26th, 1665.
Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Cheife Butler and Porter doe give notice
unto each gentleman of the Society having strangers lodging in
his chamber, that he doe forthwith cause them to remove out of
the said chamber, under paine of forfeiting thereof; and in the
absence of the owner of the chamber, during the time of the
infection,! the said officers are commanded to see that strangers
be removed accordingly. And the Masters of the Bench will use
theire best endeavours, and give theire assistance therein."

The Pannierman must see that the locks of the several doors
of the house of office are altered, so that none of the former keys
will open them, and shall provide new keys. "And at his perill
doe not suffer any one, except he be a member of the Society, to
keepe a key to open either of the said lockes soe altered, during
the time of the infeccion, without acquainting some one at the
least of the Masters of the Bench therewith. And this to continue
untill further Order."

"Ordered that every Lord's Day, and alsoe upon other
speciall dayes, during the time of divine service or sermon, both
the backgates of this House shall be safely locked up by the Porter
of the House, who alsoe is to see that the foregate be shutt before
service time on those dayes, to the end that none but persons of
quality may be admitted to come unto the Chappell during the
time of the infeccion. And to that end it is further ordered that
the rest of the officers of the House be active and assistant in the
keeping of the said gates soe shutt up upon those dayes, untill
further Order."

A sufficient lock is to be provided for the west gate, and keys
for the Masters of the Bench only. Any unauthorised key must
be at once reported.

* Red Book I, fo. 292. fThe plague commenced in Dec. 1664.

Black ISoofes of Utncoln's Enm 47

Council held on June 2nd, 1665. fa. 755.

Ten Benchers present.

Commons must be paid for at the end of every week, repasts
when taken. This Order to be screened.

" Ordered that noe gentleman be admitted a member of this
Socity without two manucaptors, either of them having a chamber
in the House; and that none having a chamber be permitted to
parte therewith untill he have given satisfaccion to the House and
Steward thereof, as well for the commons and other duties of every
such gentleman for whome he is manucaptor, as for his owne
commons and duties, the discharge whereof is to appeare by a
certificate under the hand of the Cheife Butler before any licence
to be given to any gentleman to dispose of his chamber."

Three Benchers are appointed to accompany the Benchers of fo. 756.
the other Inns to wait on the Lord Chancellor and the Judges, to
know their pleasures concerning the holding of Readings this
Autumn.

The dead trees in the walks shall be felled.

Council held on June i3th, 1665.

Ten Benchers present.

If M r Guidott pays ^220 within a week, he shall have a lease
of the house in Newgate Market for 21 years from midsummer
next, upon the terms of his present lease, which must be delivered
up to be cancelled.

A Committee is appointed to consider the safety of the House
during the infection. They shall arrange with some persons to
remain in the House.

"That in regard of the present greate contagion there be noe
Reading in this Society the next Autumne."

The Preacher and the Chaplain have leave of absence until
the Sunday before next term. Twenty pounds shall be given to
Tillotson " in testimony of the respects and favour had unto
lim by the Masters of the Bench."

The Orders for the time of infection : fo. 757.

" Orders to be diligently observed and kept by the persons
lereafter named, who are hereby appointed to keepe watch and
/ard in this House untill further Order, viz*, Richard Brownley,
'heife Butler, John Whatley, Porter of the Gate, Richard Provender,
fourth Butler, John Durfey, Stacioner at the Gate, John Anderton,
the Gardiner, John Davies and Joseph Stannynott, as followeth:

48 ftfy ISlacfe ISoofes of ILtncoln's

1. "Two of them, by tornes now to be agreed on, to keepe
watch every night, and two other of them to waite at and guard
the fore gate every day. The Watchers by night are to goe up
every story in each staire case twice every night, and the Warders
by day to doe the same twice every day, that all chambers may be
safe, and the dores kept locked. And one of the Warders is to
accompany all strangers, desiring to speake with any person in
the House, unto the chamber which he or they inquire for.

2. " Noe strangers to be permitted to lodge in the House,
according to former Orders, and the penaltyes therein expressed
to be undergone by every one who shall not carefully looke unto
his charge, and act accordingly.

3. " None of the Watchers or Warders to lodge or dyett out
of the House, or otherwise to neglect his dutye in any particular
whatsoever, under paine of being removed from his place or
attendance.

4. " Noe gentleman of the Society or other person after tenn
a'clocke at night (when the fore gate is peremtorily to be shutt
upp, and to be opened noe more untill the next morning) shall
expect to have the gate opened for him."

" The allowances following are made unto the severall persons
before named, to be paid them weekely by the weeke, beginning on
the third day of July; and they, performing theire respective
duties, soe to continue untill further Order. Viz 4 , unto Richard
Brownley, Cheife Butler, vjs. ; unto John Whatley, Porter of the
Gate, Richard Provender, fourth Butler, John Davies, washpott,
and Joseph Stannynott, vs. apeice ; unto John Durfey, Stacioner
at the Gate, and John Anderton, Gardiner, 45. apeice.

" They are to be furnished with small beere out of the
cellar, for theire diett and other ordinary occasions, for which noe
payment to be made, untill further Order.

" It is alsoe thought fitt that Thomas Smyth, third Butler,
lying very lame and ill of a broken legge, have the weekely
allowance of vs. untill further Order. And the Cheife Butler and
Porter to take care for ordering thereof for his use accordingly.
And that the turnspitt have 2s. a weeke allowed him."

1666. Officers for 1666.

Lent Reader : No Reading.

Autumn Reader : No Reading.

Treasurer : M r George Day.

Keeper of the Black^Book : M r William Page.

Macfe ISoofeg of fLtncoln'g nm 49

Council held on February 8th, 18 Charles II, 1666.
Nine Benchers present.

" This was the next Councell after the thirteenth day of June
last." \Margin\f

" Ordered that the severall allowances mencioned in the
Orders of the last Councell of Trinity Tearme, to be paid to the
persons therein named, be continued unto each of them who is
yett in being, untill further Order."

" Ordered that whosoever shall be Porter of this House
shall permitt and suffer Amy Josselyn, widdowe, to make use of
the bench and place under the Gate, as formerly she hath donne,
freely and without any interrupcion."

John Davyes, the wash-pot, is appointed to the Porter's fo. 758.
place, void by the death of John Whatley.

Council held on February i2th, 1666.
Nine Benchers present.

M r Tillotson, the Preacher, has leave of absence until the
usual time next term.

The preaching of the monthly sermon, established by the
gift of M r Colfer, is respited until next term.

" The consideracion of the wall towards Little Lincolne's
Inne Feilds is referred to M r Treasurer."

* M r James Hayes, "being on the sodaine engaged to attend
Prince Rupert in the quality of a secretary," has leave to dispose
of his chamber.

t Sir Richard Browne, Knight, one of the Associates of the
Bench, shall be admitted to the Chamber late M r James Acton's
in Chancery Lane Court, Chancery Lane Row, on payment of 60.

Council held on May I2th, 1666.

Eleven Benchers present.

Sir Thomas Beverley and the other Benchers who have
given bonds for the repayment of ^200, borrowed from M r
Erasmus Moyse for the use of the House, shall be indemnified.
The Treasurer shall pay the interest.

Call to the Bar : fo. 759-

Edward Bettenson, John Duckett, Arthur Jegon, Thomas
Syms, Isaac Preston, Nicholas Martin, John Browne, Hugh
Hodges, James Hinton and Timothy Felton ; to be published at
the next moot.

* Red Book I, fo. 294. f Red Book I, fo. 295.

VOL. III. H

50 Cije 3$lacfe JSoofes of ILfncoln'*

M r Manby is requested to ascertain the name of the tenant
of those lands, late in the occupation of Nathaniel Wright, in
Thunderley and Wimbish, in the county of Essex, charged with
the payment of 20 per annum given by M r Golfer.* He is to
apply for payment of all arrears, and in case of refusal to enforce
payment by distress or otherwise.

The monthly sermon is respited until next term.

The Treasurer shall take steps for bringing water into the
Garden, and also shall see that the earth laid under the wall of
the House in Little Lincoln's Inn Fields be removed.

Council held on May 28th, 1666.

Ten Benchers present.

fo. 760. A Committee is appointed " aswell to consider of the fashion

and all other circumstances of the buildings to be erected in the
walkes below the Garden, as alsoe to treate with the inhabitants
of Hoi borne in relacion to theire building of a wall and leaving of
three foote of the ground belonging to this House beyond the wall
towards Holborne to remaine unused by the said inhabitants."

" Ordered that a faire Register Booke be forthwith provided
by the appointment of M r Treasurer for the registring of the
names of all persons dying and henceforth to be buried in this
House; and the said booke to be kept in the Chappell and an
entry therein to be made by the Chaplaine for the time being in
the presence of the Deane of the Chappell, if he shall be here, or,
otherwise, in the presence of some one of the rest of the Masters
of the Bench, whose name, together with the Chaplaine's name,
are both to be subscribed to the said Booke upon each particular
occasion. "f

Council held on June 28th, 1666.
Ten Benchers present.

"Whereas divers gentlemen of this Society, whose names in
writeing are presented to the Masters of the Bench, have chambers
in the House and make little or none other use of the same but to
accommodate others, who neither come into commons, nor pay
duties, nor performe exercises, contrary to the Orders of the
House ; whereby not only the profitt, but alsoe the reputacion and
honour of the Society is much lessened ;

"At this Councell it is ordered that noe member of this Society
having a chamber in the House shall permitt or suffer any person

* See Vol. II, p. 427.

t There had been a previous Register, see Vol. II, pp. 293, 297, 404. The
earliest Burial Register extant begins in 1695 ; the entries are not signed.

who at the present time shall not be lyable to be cast into
commons, to pay duties to the House, and to performe his
exercises in course, (servants onely excepted), to lodge in his
chamber in his absence ; but shall either make use of his chamber
himselfe, or sell the same to such a person as is capable, according
to the Orders of the House." To be screened.

M r Goodricke shall continue to officiate [as Chaplain] this
next vacation ; he shall be allowed 93. a week when there are no
vacation commons.

"Ordered that a brick wall of tenn foot high at the least fo. 761,
above the ground, besides the coping, with an answerable founda-
cion, be built at the upper end of the Garden towards Hoi borne,
with fower seates to be conveniently placed therein."

No member of this Society who is still indebted to M r Keilway
Guidott, the former Steward, for commons, shall be permitted to
sell his chamber, or shall be called to the Bar, until he has paid
M r Guidott as well as the House dues.

The like Order for M r Bennett, another late Steward.

Two Benchers are appointed to look after the arrears of the
Preacher's Roll and the Chimney money. 1 *

Call to the Bar :
Richard Winch, with a salvo of his antiquity as to all called
last Easter Term.

Council held on July 3rd, 1666.
Eight Benchers present.

M r William Aston, one of the Fellows of this Society, is
suspended for his insolency in striking M r Eden, a Barrister of
the House, within the walls of this Society.

Council held on November i3th, 1666. fo. 762.

Eight Benchers present.

"The Masters of the Bench, having taken into theire con-
sideracion M r Guidott's peticion concerning his losse susteined
in Newgate Markett by the late dreadfull fyer,t being sencible
thereof and willing to shew him favour therein, have nominated
and appointed Sir Thomas Beverley " [and five other Benchers]
to consider and report.

" The Hearth Tax imposed in 1662 by 13 and 14 Car. II, cap. 10.
f This, the " Great Fire," broke out on Sept. 2nd, and raged till Sept. 5th. It
spread as far west as Fetter Lane.

52 C|)e &lac& Books of ILincoIit'g

Cail to the Bar :

Edmond Lenthall, Richard Carwardine, Robert Bagott, Isaac
Ewer, and Robert Cage.

" Ordered upon the peticion of John Henthorne and Mary
his wife, vintener at the S l John's Heade Taverne in Chancery
Lane, that one hundred pounds, viz 1 , fifty pounds the next terme
and fifty pounds more in Trinity Tearme following, be paid unto
them by M r Treasurer,* in full consideracion of theire damage
losse and hinderance susteined by pulling downe theire house for
the preservacion of this Society in case the late dreadfull fyer had
approached soe neere unto it. And M r Treasurer is desired to
take care that in the rebuilding of the said house this Society may
in noe wise be injured or encroached upon."

Call to the Bench :
M r Robert Milward. saving the antiquity of his ancients.

Council held on November 22nd, 1666.
Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Philip Jones, being nearly of seven years' standing here, and
being admitted of Gray's Inn before his admittance here.f

Also Richard Barry, a native of Ireland, of seven years
standing or very near it.

| M r William Domvill is admitted into M r Richard Wynne's
chamber in Field Gate Court, Library Row, on payment of
20 nobles as a fine, and all sums due for the Preacher's Roll and
chimney money.

Accounts of George Daye, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Nov. 2oth, 1664, to Nov. 2oth, 1666.

Receipts : "2,050 is. 9d. Including ,407 for admissions to
chambers and chamber fines; ,10 from M r Place, Principal of
Furnival's Inn for 2 years' rent ; 32 55. from Baskerville for
brick walls ; 220 from Kellway Guidott, a fine for the lease of
the house in Newgate Market; 325 155. received on the
Preacher's Roll.

Allowances : ,1,869 IDS. Including 36 to M r Edward
Rich, the Lent Reader, 1665 ; ,3 33. for lattices for the Chapel
windows; ,291 6s. 6d. paid for Bennett, the Steward; ,52 to

* George Day continued to act this year.

f Admitted at Gray's Inn, Oct. 29, 1657 ; admitted here, Feb. 9, 1660.

J Red Book I, fo. 297.

Mack Books of ^Lincoln's $nn* 53

William Drew, mason ; ^239 to Anthony Baskerville, bricklayer ;
4 8s. for curtains for the Chapel windows; ^10 to M r
Dugdale for a book*; ^"5 155. for " bonefires "f and beer; 205. to
those who carried the goods of the Inn at the time of the fire;
16 6s. 6d. to M r Bucknell for excise for two years; ^"62 to
Baskerville; ^75 to him for the garden wall.
Balance: ^180 us. 9d.

Officers for 1667. 1667.

Lent Reader : No Reading.
Autumn Reader: M r Thomas Powis.
Treasurer: M r Edward Rich.
Keeper of the Black Book: M r Guibon Goddard.

Council held on February 7th, 19 Charles II, 1667. fo. 763.

Twelve Benchers present.

" Ordered that the ground in Newgate Margett \sic\ belong-
ing to this House, whereupon the old house did stand, now
consumed by fier, for the renewing of the lease whereof M r
Guidott paid the summe of two hundred and twenty pounds, be
viewed and measured."

" Ordered that the shopps without the Gate be built with
brick."

Council held on February i2th, 1667. fo. 764.

Ten Benchers present.

Edward Rich, Esq., is elected Treasurer.

M r Prynne must pass his accounts as Keeper of the Library.

"Ordered that M r Keilway Guidott, surrendering his lease
now in being of the house and ground in Newgate Markett
belonging unto this House, shall have a new lease, under the
same rent and covenants, for one and forty years of the said
ground, whereupon he is to build a new house att his owne proper
costs and charges."

Three Benchers are " to consider what is fitt to be done and
allowed for and towards the probate in Chancery of the will of
M r Colfer deceased, and to report."

" Ordered that M r Goodericke be considered and rewarded
out of the arreares due upon the legacy given by M r Colfer, when
they shall be receaved."

* Doubtless the first edition of Origines Juridiriales, published in 1 666.

f These were probably on account of the Plague. Public bonfires were
ordered in many parts of London (Defoe's Journal}, and it is not unlikely that the
Inn had fires of its own.

54 $e ISlacfe &oofeg of Uincolu'g

M r Guybon Goddard is appointed Keeper of the Black
Book in place of M r William Page, who has held that office for
three years.

fo. 765. Council held on April 3Oth, 1667.

Thirteen Benchers present.

M r Guidott's lease shall be for 61 years, commencing Lady
Day last. The "modell " of the new house must be approved of
by the Bench before it is begun.

Council held on May loth, 1667.
Fourteen Benchers present.

M r Francis Boteler, who was elected Reader above two
years ago, writes to be excused, alleging " his age, accompanyed
with extraordinary weaknesse of body and indisposicion of health,
which have utterly disabled him from that service." As the facts
are well known to most of the Benchers, he is discharged from all
Readings, but shall nevertheless continue a Master of the
Bench.

M r Thomas Powis is elected Autumn Reader, "and that he
be dispensed with Reading from Monday till Monday."

fo. 766. Council held on June 2oth, 1667.

Ten Benchers present.

fo. 767. Call to the Bench:

M r Richard Stote, an ancient Utter Barrister.

Call to the Bar:
Edward Bide, Thomas Browne, Robert Bendysh, and Nathan
Knight.

* M r William Whither is admitted into M r James Cooper's
chamber in Chancery Lane Court, Stone Pace Row, on payment
of 5-

Council held on June 26th, 1667.

Twelve Benchers present.

" Ordered that untill satisfaccion be given to this House by

the vintner at the S l John's Head Taverne for the nusances he

hath made to severall chambers of this House by obstructing

their lights by his new building, no money shall be paid him by

the Treasurer of this House, notwithstanding any former Order

to the contrary."

Red Book I, fo. 302.

Blacfe 2$oofcs of ^Lincoln's Inn. 55

" Ordered upon the petition of M r John Jones, one of the
Fellowes of the Society of Grey's Inn, and the severall certificates
thereunto annexed, that he the said M r Jones be admitted a
Fellow of this Society and have allowance here of his tyme and
his exercises performed in Grey's Inn ; which being compleated
according to the rules of Grey's Inn, It is further ordered that the
said M r Jones be and is hereby called to the Barre, and that he
be published and bring in his moote with the first oportunity."

Council held on November I2th, 1667. fo. 768.

Ten Benchers present.

The chambers of all those who owe $ or more for any
duties, shall be seized until payment.

On the petition of M r [Henry] Newcomen, It is ordered that
his former call to the Bar be confirmed, and that he bring in his
Bar Moot with all expedition.*

Call to the Bar :

M r Botelerf and John Greene.

D r Tillotson, the Minister [Preacher], shall have ^50 a term
in lieu of all allowance from the House.

\ M r William Cheiveley is admitted into part of a chamber in
Kitchen Court, Kitchen Garden Row, in the disposition of the
House by the death of M r Richard Robins, paying ^14 for a fine.

Council held on November iQth, 1667. fo. 769.

Eight Benchers present.

" The draught of a modell of the new buildings to be erected
in this House, together with a draught of the lease and the
proposalls," are referred to a Committee.

Call to the Bar : M r Dumvile, with his antiquity saved.
D r Tillotson shall continue to have his commons in term and

feading time.
Council held on November 26th, 1667. fo. 770.

Twelve Benchers present.

M r Edward Atkyns is desired to demand the arrears of the
annuity given by M r Golfer's will.

* See ante, p. 40.

f Query, James Butler, adm. Oct. 27, 1660.

I Red Book I, fo. 304

Probably William Domvill, adm. Jan. 16, 1660.

56 J)c Blacft ISoofes of Eincoln'g

" Upon the peticion of M r Goodrick, it is ordered that the
Treasurer doe pay to the sayd M r Goodrick the summe of nyne
pounds for performing the office of Chaplaine for the space of
nyne months last past; and also the summe of three pounds for
setting the Psalms in the Chappell for the space of a yeare and a
halfe; but that nothing be payd to him for the future till the rent
due upon M r Golfer's estate be payd."

Resolved that the choice of a Reader for next Lent do begin
from M r Bedingfeild.

"This Counsell being satisfyed that M r Bedingfeild hath
made a refusall to take upon him the office and exercise of
Reading in this Society, It is ordered that the summe of one
hundred pounds be imposed on him for a fyne for the same
refusall. "

The like order as to M r Richard Estcourt.

fo. 771. Call to the Bar :

John Franklyn, John Pollen, and John Edwards.

1668. Officers for 1668.

Lent Reader : No Reading.

Autumn Reader : M r Gibbon Goddard.

Treasurer : M r Edward Rich.

Keeper of the Black Book : M r Richard Graves.

Council held on January 28th, 19 Charles II, 1668.
Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : [Edward] Manning.
" It is resolved upon the question, and so ordered, that sucl
Members of the Bench as have not yet Read in their course of
antiquity, and shall declare that they will not Read, shall have n<
voyce in the eleccion of Readers for this House ; And that those
Masters of the Bench who are in Towne or shalbe in Towne at
the next Counsell, and shall not then declare that they will Read
if they be chosen according to their antiquity, this Counsell will
consider how to proceed towards them and towards the eleccion
of a Reader for the next Lent, and likewise what to doe ii
reference to such Masters of the Bench as shalbe then absent
And that the eleccion of the next Reader shall begin with th<
next puisne to M r Richard Estcourt, and so forwards according t(
every one's antiquity. But it is ordered that the Earle of
Anglesey and the Master of the Rolls* are not intended to be
comprehended within any part of this Order. "

* Harbottle Grimston.

ISlacfe 23oofcs of ILttuoltt's Inn* 57

Council held on February nth, 20 Charles II, 1668. fo. 772.
Seven Benchers present.

M r William Ashton, one of the Fellows of the Society, is
expelled the Society " for diverse misdemeanours by him committed
within this Society and to some of the members of it."

The gentlemen of this Society, both at and under the Bar, fo. 773.
must perform their exercises at the Inns of Chancery this Lent
Vacation, notwithstanding there is no Reading in this Society.
M r Richard Graves is chosen Keeper of the Black Book.

Council held on April i4th, 1668.
Nine Benchers present.

The Treasurer shall forthwith provide a new book " made up
)f fine Dutch paper, to be covered with black leather, and about
lalfe the thicknes of the Black Booke now used for entring
rders made at Councill, and to be alsoe of a broader and longer

seize then that is."

Call to the Bar : BOOK IX.

Samuel Percivall, John Polewheele, John Venables, Sir p. 2.*
Robert Atkins, Knight, John Windham and Johnf Fountayne.

Council held on April 28th, 1668.

Eleven Benchers present, including John Howell, Recorder
of London.

The Rolls of M r Bennett, late Steward, shall be delivered to /. 3.
the present Steward for collection of all arrears ; the money col-
lected shall be used in paying Bennett's creditors. All who refuse
to pay "shall be sent for up before the Quatuor, and, not giving
satisfaccion, their chambers shall be seized."

" Ordered that M r [Robert] Ashton, one of the Masters of
the Bench, doe at the next Councill give satisfaccion for his
passionate and inconsiderate expressions at this Councill to some
of the Masters of the Bench now present ; and that a coppy of
this Order be sent to him forthwith."

\ Sir William Glyn, one of the Fellows, is desired to show
cause why he should not surrender the chambers to which he was
admitted at the desire of his father, M r Serjeant Glyn, on being
repaid what his father paid for them ; "to the end the said chambers
may be disposed of (as alwayes they were) to some of the
Masters of the Bench, the same being the principall Bench
Chamber of this House, and never before in the possession of any
but Benchers."

* The first few leaves of this volume are numbered in pages instead of folios,
t Apparently an error for Thomas. J Red Book I, fo. 309.

)L. III. I

5 8 CJe Macfe ISoofes of Hfnroln'0

Council held on April 3Oth, 1668.
Ten Benchers present.

p, 4. " Upon consideracion had of those of the Masters of the

Bench who have not as yet Read when it came to their courses,
and notwithstanding, some of them enjoy Bench-chambers
Ordered that Sir Thomas Beverley, Knight, [Master of Requests],
being one of them, doe either pay for his Bench-chamber the sum
of ij c marks, or that he leave the same for the use of such
Masters of the Bench who either have or shall Read and want
Bench-chambers." :

M r William Foxwist is fined ^40 for not Reading when it
came to his course.

M r William Page and M r Francis Butler are fined ^100
each for the like.

"And it is further ordered that none of the sayd persons
shall have any voice in -cruising Readers for the time to come."

" Ordered that notice be given to all the said Masters of
the Bench of these Orders."

M r Gibbon Goddard is chosen Autumn Reader, "it coming
now regularly in course " to him.

"Ordered that M r Robert Ashton, one of the Masters of the
Bench, be suspended from the Bench for his non-attendance
according to former Order, untill he give satisfaccion according to
that Order."

M r Steward, one of the Fellows, has promised his assistance
in getting the arrears of M r Golfer's annuity from those who
ought to pay it. The Treasurer shall let him know th<
amount due.

/. 5. Council held on May 4th, 1668.

Nine Benchers present.

All Masters of the Bench junior to M r Goddard must at the
next Council declare whether they will Read in their turns or not
" to the end ther may be noe failer for time to come."

The house of office shall be removed into the further corne
of the Pump Close.

p. 6. Council held on May 28th, 1668.

Eight Benchers present.

/. 7. The above Order as to Reading is continued to the

Council.

" Ordered that the draught of M r Treasurer's lease (now rea<
and approved of) be engrost, and that the ground towards tl

* See Appendix, and/0tf, pp. 61, 64.

iSlacfe ISoofes of fLtncoln'0 3hm* 59

Feilds (which he is to build upon pursuant to that lease) be set
out to-morrow."

" Wheras by the Constitucions and Orders of this Society
noe Member therof ought in any wise to come into the Hall at
tyme of dinner, supper, or exercize, without a gowne ; and for
offending therin divers persons in former tymes have bin expelled
this House ; and yet some few young gentlemen (being ignorant
hereof) have of late in the vacation tyme adventured to come into
the Hall with coates and swords, without their gownes, to the
great scandall and subversion of the government of this Society."
Every offender in future shall lose one whole week's commons at
the then current rate, and shall not be called to the Bar or allowed
to dispose of his chamber until payment ; and if the offender is in
commons, he shall not be allowed to go out of commons until
payment. The Chief Butler is to note all breaches of this Order,
which shall be forthwith screened.

Council held on June 4th, 1668. p. 8.

Ten Benchers present.

The chambers of all Fellows who have not paid their
commons and duties, in accordance with the recent Orders, shall
be seized and padlocked.

"Ordered that the names of all Atturnys, Sollicitors and
Clarks, who have bin lately admitted into this House, be delivered
in at the next Councell; and that for the future noe such be
admitted without first acquainting the Councell therwith, and
leave obtained from them for their recepcion and admittance into
this Society."

The Butlers and Porters shall deliver to the Quatuor on p. 9.
Monday next at dinner the names of all lodgers and dwellers in
ny chambers, who are not admitted thereinto.

" Ordered that the intended new buildings be made and
rected in the Pumpe Close, on that side therof which is next
owards Fickett's Feilds, and to range along with the Portugall
"owe of houses."* ^1000 shall be borrowed for the work, on
he security of such Benchers as are not already bound for loans
o the House. The gentlemen of the House shall also be treated
ith for the advance of money.

Council held on June loth, 1668. P> IO -

Eight Benchers present.

Every vacationer at the Bench must attend M r Reader
_Goddard] at the next Reading, on pain of ^10.

* This scheme was not carried out. Portugal Row was the name of the south
lide of Lincoln's Inn Fields.

6o C&e Elacfe ISoofeg of Eincoln's

" Ordered that such persons who have bin admitted into this
House, and doe practise as Atturneys, Clarkes, or Sollicitors,
shall not be admitted into any chambers in this House soe long
as they continue such imployment, unless they can shew good
cause to the contrary."

p. n. "Order'd that M r Prynne, M r Day, M r Treasurer and M r

Graves, doe treat with those persons who have the legall interest
of the feild towards Sheire Lane, for a peice of ground to goe
range with Portugall Row of buildings from the Kitchen Garden
belonging to this House."

Council held on October 29th, 1668.
Nine Benchers present.

" The former Order to treat with the persons interessed in
the ground which hath bin lately taken in with the new wall and
gate next Sheire Lane Feild, he continued untill the next
Council!."*

t " Ordered that M r Treasurer doe proceed in the levelling
of the outward walkes, planting of trees ther (as the Benchers
shall approve of), and to finish the new house of office ; as also to
take down the old house of office in convenient time and to
convert the materialls therof to other uses for the benifit of the
Society. And it is further Ordered that for the time to come noe
Treasurers shall take upon them to pluck downe walls, alter
windowes, or doe any other thing concerning building, forming,
or changing any part of the House, gates, gardens, and walks,
without Order of the Councell for doing therof; unles it be things
of absolute necessity, as repayres, where need shall be."

/. 12. Council held on November loth, 1668.

Ten Benchers present.
M r Richard Graves is chosen Lent Reader.
" Ordered that for time to come noe Bencher shall be excused
from Reading; and whosoever shall refuse to Read, when it comes
to his turne soe to doe, shall loose all benifit and priviledge of a
Bencher, (saving as to keeping of exercises in the Hall, when it
comes to his course)."

Every person hereafter associated to the Bench shall pay

50-

/. 13. Upon the motion and earnest desire of M r Manby, all former

Orders for the suspension of M r Ashton from the Bench, are
discharged. |

* This item is crossed through, and marked vacat. \ Red Book I, fo. 312.

| See ante, p. 58.

ISlacfe Boofes of Etncoln's $ntu 61

The accounts of M r Rich, the present Treasurer, shall be
forthwith taken.*

The Black Books are to be searched for precedents as to the
precedency of Sir Robert Atkins, the Queen's Solicitor, and Sir
John Howell, Recorder of London.

Council held on November i7th, 1668. p. 14

Eleven Benchers present.

A search has been made in the Black Books, " and for that
noe precidents can be found wher a Queene's Sollicitor hath taken
place of a Recorder of London, Ordered, therefore, and desired
that Sir Robert Atkins, the now Queene's Sollicitor, be present at
the next Councell to be heard therin."

M r Thomas Drury is associated to the Bench, paying ,50. p. 15.

Council held on November 26th, 1668.
Twelve Benchers present.

Sir Robert Atkyns, K.B., Sir John Howell, Knt., M r Prynne
and M r Goddard, are appointed a Committee to attend the King
in answer to his letter sent to the Bench on behalf of Sir Thomas
Beverley, Knt, one of the Masters of Requests. The Keeper of
the Black Book shall furnish them with an account of all Orders
made concerning Sir Thomas, t

"It is at this Councell declared to be the ancient Orders of p. 16.
this House (although for some late yeares past it hath not bin put
in practice) that all Baristers should keepe such moots and bolts,
wherwith they shall be charged, untill they be coated | of the Bench."

" Order'd upon the peticion of Thomas Jones, Esq r , an Utter
Barister of Gray's Inne, and upon the reading of a certificate to
the said peticion annext, that the said M r Jones be admitted a
Fellow of this Society, and have an allowance here of his time and
exercises performed in Gray's Inne."

Accounts of Edward Rich, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Feb. 1 2th, 1667, to Nov. 26th, 1668.

Receipts: ,2,204 IIS - 9^. Including ^537 6s. 8d. for
admissions to chambers and chamber fines; ^318 195. from the
Preacher's Roll ; ,3 6s. 8d. from M r Clarke, Principal of Thavies
Inn, for a years rent.

Payments: ,2,210 175. yd. Including ,200 to Erasmus
Moyse, due on a bond, and 8 153. for interest thereon for 8
months and 3 weeks ; ,100 to M r Robert Wilkinson, due on a

* He had served for two years. f See Appendix, andflosf, p. 64.

J Meaning doubtful ; most likely an obsolete form of " quoted " (see
IV. E. Z>.), and here equivalent to "published."

62 CJe Blacfe iSoofeg of Utmoln's

bond, and ^i I2S. for interest thereon for 3 months and 10 days ;
^389 6s. 2d. to bricklayer; ,36 to M r Powis, Autumn Reader,
1667, and the like to M r Goddard, Autumn Reader, 1668; ^49
6s. to the executors of William Drew, freemason ; ^5 95. icd. for
trees; 4. i8s. to M r Edwards, the glass painter; 25. for "white
salts" for the Bench table; 160 i8s. 7fd. for apparels up to
All Saints, 1667, and ^169 i6s. 8fd. for the like up to All Saints,
1668; \6 95. for work done in the Walks; ^72 to M r John
Goodrick, the Divinity Reader, his salary for a year and a half.*
Balance due to the Treasurer : 6 6s.

1669. Officers for 1669.

Lent Reader : M r Richard Graves.

Autumn Reader : Sir John Howell.

Treasurer : M r Gibbon Goddard.

Keeper of the Black Book : M r Thomas Manby.

Council held on February 4th, 21 Charles II, 1669.
p. 1 8. Eight Benchers present.

M r George Lee, one of the Fellows, is fined 20, for
neglecting to perform the office of Master of the Revels, to which
he was elected last term.

/. 19. Call to the Bar:

George Lowe, Francis Hill, Robert Bewicke, George Saville,
David Lloyd, George Wallis, and Richard Dereham; to be
published at the next moot.

Council held on February iith, 1669.

Nine Benchers present.

p. 20. All those called to the Bar at the last Council must before the

first Council of next term give bonds to insure their performance
of vacation duties and exercises; if any fail, their call shall be
vacated.

" Ordered that whosoever shalbee hereafter called to the
Bench do give bond of C//. for keeping his Bench vacations, or
else deposite in the hands of the Treasurer of this Society for the
time being the sum of fifty pounds, to bee repayd upon his Reading
and keeping such vacacions."

* In addition to the payment to the bricklayer, considerable sums amounting
altogether to ;i68 35. 6d. were paid to carpenters, plasterers, plumbers, smiths
and glaziers. In the accounts for 1668-9 (P osf ) similar items, including payments
to bricklayers, amount to 186 73., and in 1669-70 to ^856 195. 4& As no new
chambers were built, so far as appears from the Black and Red Books, this ex-
penditure is difficult to explain. Trie new garden walls and the rebuilding of the
shops by the Gate, hardly seem to account for it.

Macfe ISoofes of Uttuoltt's Emu 63

The Treasurer shall pay 12 to George Bridges and the rest p. 21.
of the musicians, in full satisfaction of what is due to them.

The persons who have erected houses of office and other
sheds adjoining the garden wall towards Holborn, shall be warned
to remove them ; and the rent for the three feet of ground beyond
the wall shall be demanded from those houses which were late
part of the Antelope.

" Ordered that the forty shillings per annum allowed to /. 22.
M r Goodrick, the Reader, for beginning the Psalme, bee continued
to him."

Council held on May nth, 1669,
Twelve Benchers present.

M r George Lee, for his contemptuous carriage and non-pay-
ment of the fine of ^20, is suspended the House, aud a padlock
shall be put upon his study door, until payment.

Sir John Howell is appointed Summer Reader. p. 23.

" Ordered that the admittance of [William] Martin, servant p. 24.
of Sir Justinian Lewin,* bee referred to the Quatuor of the Bench
table, to bee examined and vacated ; and what the said Martin
paid to the late Readerf for his admittance, to bee restored by the
Treasurer."

Council held on May igth, 1669.
Eight Benchers present.

M r Richard Stote, a Master of the Bench, must pay the ^30,
forfeited by him for not keeping his Bench vacations, before
Friday noon. In default, he shall be suspended the House, and
his chamber shall be seized.

The Treasurer shall view the sheds, etc., which have been p. 25
erected on the three feet of ground beyond the north wall of the
garden, and also demand the rents for the same, and report.

\ " Ordered that M r Thompson do pay the five marks as
Reader's Steward, hee not haveing declared his speciall admittance
before the last Reading. Nevertheles the said speciall admittance
to bee allowed him as to all other dutyes for which the same
ought to bee allowed."

Council held on May 24th, 1669. /. 26.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : p- 27.

Ellis Lloyd and Richard Middleton ; to be published at the
next moot.

A Master in Chancery. f Richard Graves. \ Red Book I, fo. 316.

64 Je 2$lacfc 2$oofe$ of fLincoln'g Inn*

Sir Thomas Beverley, Master of Requests, is discharged of
Reading and of all fines imposed on him for not Reading ; this is
done in obedience to the command of the Kin's letter.*

/. 28. Council held on June i5th, 1669.

Nine Benchers present.

The Order made " for giveing of bonds for keeping of
Barristers' vacations shall extend to such onely as have no
chambers in the House ; and onely two shillings to bee payd for
the making such bond, and no more."

fo. 29. " Ordered that M r Treasurer do take care and cause the armes

of such as have been late Readers of this Society to bee emblasoned
and sett up, as those of other former Readers have been."

M r Thomas Manby, one of the Masters of the Bench, is
exempted from Reading, "upon consideracion how the said M r
Manby alreddy hath been and may bee hereafter further serviceable
to the publique and this Society."

Council held on June 23rd, 1669.
Nine Benchers present.

The question of precedency between Sir Robert Atkins and
Sir John Howell coming to debate, M r Manby, the Keeper of
the Black Book, is requested to search, and report at the next
Council.f

fo. 30. Council held on July ist, 1669.

Nine Benchers present.

" Upon report made by the Keeper of the Black Booke in
pursuance of an Order made at the last Councell, and upon
reading a former order of refference and search, and view of the
entries in the said Bookes, touching the place of the Recorder of
London, The Councell are of opinion and do declare that the
Recorder of London hath precedency before the Queen's Sollicitor
in this House." f

fo. 31. M r Luke Astrey, Utter Barrister, and Reader of Thaives Inn,

shall have his antiquity saved and allowed him in case he perform
his Reading there this next summer vacation; otherwise not.

" Upon intimacion given by one of the Masters of the Bench,
and also by M r Justice Rainsford, of some reflexion upon the
Benchers of this House, publiquely at the Bar of the King's
Bench at Westminster, this present terme, in matters relating to
M r George Lee, a Barrister of this House, but now suspended
the Society for refusing to take upon him the office of the Master

* See Appendix. f See ante, p. 61.

of Efncoln's Enm 65

of the Revells the last yeere It is Ordered that M r Prynne,
M r Daye and M r Powis, three of the Masters of the Bench, are
desired to attend the Lord Cheif Justice of his Majestie's said
Bench,* and acquaint his Lordship with the proceedings of this
Bench against the said M r Lee, and of his contemptuous words
and carryage towards the Masters of the Bench and government
of this House (to the ill example of others), and in order to
assert the rights and priviledges of the Masters of the Bench in
the government of this Society."

Call to the Bar :

At the special request of and out of respect for Sir John
Howell, Serjeant elect and Summer Reader, his nephew, Neville
Cradocke, although of only six and a half years standing, is called
to the Bar, saving the antiquity of his ancients ; to be published
it the first exercise of the Reading. Not to be a precedent.

"This Counsell, taking into consideracion the many Orders
that have been made for the vindicating the rights of the House
to the three foot of ground behind the north side of the garden wall,
ind the small effect they have produced for redres of the encroach-

icnts by the tenants of the houses in Holborne, and the rents
formerly paid for the said three foot of ground, by reason of the
t of convenient passage to view and redres such encroach-

lents and annoyances as are there made, have ordered, and it
is ordered, that M r Treasurer do forthwith cause a posterne
to be made in some convenient place of the said garden wall, for
>assage to view and passe to and upon the said 3 foot of ground,
ind to remove such annoyances and nuisances as are or shall at
my time hereafter bee found upon the same." The door shall
lave two locks, of which the Treasurer and the Keeper of the

lack Book shall keep the respective keys.

Council held on October 27th, 1669. fo. 32.

Eight Benchers present, including Guibon Goddard and
'homas Powys, Serjeants elect, f

M r Luke Astree and M r John Eldred must attend the next
Council to answer for their defaults as Readers in the Inns of
Chancery.

" Upon the report of one of the Masters of the Bench
appointed to attend the Lord Cheif Justice Keeling in the business
of M r George Lee It is ordered that the former Orders for

* Sir John Kelyng.

f The other Serjeants from Lincoln's Inn at this Call were Sir John Howell

\\T: 11: T

and William Jones.

66 Cfje Blarfe asoofes of Eincoin's Emu

suspending of M r Lee of this Society and seising his chamber, bee
confirmed and executed."

fo. 33. The inhabitants of the houses in Holborn shall be admitted

to compound for the arears of the rent due for the three feet of
ground beyond the garden wall.

M r Nicholas Pedley is chosen Lent Reader.
* John Mingey and Thomas Syms are admitted to the
chamber in Garden Court, Garden Row, two stories high, vacant
by the death of M r Pryn,f on paying ^80 each.

Council held on November i8th, 1669.
Eleven Benchers present.

fo. 34. Call to the Bar :

Richard Sprainger, Mathew Hale,| William Cumins, Henry
Appleton, Thomas Hale,J and William Hancocke ; to be
published at the next moot.

M r John Eldred and M r Luke Astree are each fined five
marks for default as Readers of Inns of Chancery.

Lord Chief Justice Keeling having intimated his intention of
rehearing M r George Lee's business after the end of this term,
all orders relating thereto are suspended until the first Council
next term.

Call to the Bench :

M r Robert Aldworth, M r Robert Stewart, M r George Bray,
M r John Clerke, M r John Norrice, M r George Strode, M 1
Thomas Carpenter, and M r Edward Atkins ; to be published at
the first part of the next moot. Each of them must deposit ^50
with the Treasurer before publication, which sum shall be returned
with interest, to every one who shall Read on being elected, or to
the executors or administrators of any dying either before election
or between election and the Reading time. In case of failure to
Read if elected, the ^50 shall be forfeited.

fo. 35. Council held on November 29th, 1669.

Eleven Benchers present.

Ordered that only four (to be chosen at the next Council)

be called to the Bench, and that the Order for depositing ^50 be

vacated.

* Red Book I, fo. 320.

f Prynne died in his chamber in Garden Court on Oct. 24, 1669, and was
buried under the Chapel. He bequeathed his MSS. and certain specified books
to the Inn. See Camden Soc., vol. xviii (new series), p. 97.

Sons of Sir Mathew, who was then C.B.E., and afterwards C.J.K.B.

See ante, pp. 62, 63, 64, 65.

Macfe 3$oofe of Eincoln's Emu 6;

* M r William Withes, " shewing that hee is forthwith to
attend the Lord Ambassador sent by his Majesty to the Republick
of Venice," has license to travel for a year and to nominate a
Fellow of the House to occupy his chamber.

Accounts of Guybon Goddard, Esquire, Serjeant at Law,
the Treasurer, from Nov. i8th, 1668, to Nov. 29th, 1669.

Receipts: ,1,206 145. od.

Payments: .1,056 95. 4d. Including ,42 55. for work done
in the Walks; ig 55. for gravel; ,135 7s. 6d. for apparels;
,42 35. 6d. to Sir John Howell, Guybon Goddard, Thomas
Powys, and William Jones, the Serjeants at Law, and for four
purses; ,5 35. to M r Button, the glass painter. f

Balance: ,15045. 8d.

Officers for 1670. 1670.

Lent Reader: M r Nicholas Pedley.
Autumn Reader: M r John Churchill.
Treasurer: M r Nicholas Pedley.
Keeper of the Black Book: M r John Churchill.

Council held on February loth, 22 Charles II, 1670. fo. 36.

Ten Benchers present.

"The Earle of Anglesey's two sonnes| to have leave to goe
to Oxford for a yeare, discharged of all dutyes for absence."

Call to the Bench :

M r Wolmor, M r Joseph Clerke, || M r [Robert] Aldworth
and M r Robert Steward ; to be published tomorrow, and the
others next term if they accept, saving their antiquity.

M r Francis Darrell is admitted into a whole chamber in
Garden Court, Garden Row, vacant by the death of M r Prynne,
on payment of .130.

M r William Batten, a member of this Society, is discharged
of all commons and duties, and has leave to dispose of his chamber,

* Red Book I, fo. 322 (i). Thomas Belasyse, Viscount Fauconberg,
Ambassador to Venice, sailed towards the end of January, 1670.

t See note, p. 62.

t Altham and Richard Annesley, 2nd and 3rd sons of Arthur, ist Earl of
Anglesey, were admitted on Jan. i3th, 1670.

The name has been altered, and is not quite certain. Apparently Mathew
Wolmer is intended, who was called to the Bar June n, 1646 ; Vol. II, p. 370.

|| In the previous list (p. 66) a John Clerke is mentioned, but not a Joseph.
"here may be a error, but as &John Clarke was called to the Bench on May i6th,
671, perhaps Joseph is right. The only Joseph Clerke at this time was called to
ie Bar June 21, 1642 ; vol. II, p. 363.

68 Cibe 3$ladt JSoofcs of fUncoln'g Inn*

in consideration "that he for severall yeares hath cast up the
accounts of the House and tooke upon him the duty of an Uncler-
Treasurer, upon promise of a gratuity from the House." His
manucaptors are discharged.

Call to the Bar:

William Turner and [John] Hawles; to be published at the
next moot.

fo. 37. Council held on April 28th, 1670.

Sixteen Benchers present.

Fifty pounds, the moiety of the money received for M r
Goldsmith's chamber, shall be paid to M r Pedley, the late Reader,
in lieu of a Bench chamber. He may dispose of his present whole
chamber in Dial Row or dispose of it, at his pleasure.
M r John Churchill is chosen Summer Reader.*
f M r John Thurloe is admitted to M r Isaac Ewre's chamber
and garret in Dial Court, Dial Row, on payment of ^10.

fo. 38. Council held on May i3th, 1670.

Seventeen Benchers present.

A Committee is appointed " to take an inspection what
Bench chambers have beene disposed of since the Kinge's returne
otherwise then by sale."

Call to the Bar :

Thomas Glynne, John Huxley, William Lacon-Child, John
Felton, George Doe, William Dobbins, John Squibb, Robert
Foulkes, and Abraham Bayley ; to be published at the next moot.

^200 shall be borrowed.

fo. 39. " Ordered that there be a lease lett to M r Harris of five

foote and three inches in breadth and twenty foot in length of the
ground on the north side of the garden wall next Chancery Lane,
and that there be reserved on the said lease the yearly rent of
one shilling and six pence, payable to this House."

Joseph Stanninott, the washpot, shall have ^4 a year for
keeping and looking after the clock.

* A page and a half are left blank here, as though the minutes had not beer
fully entered up.

f Red Book I, fo. 322 (3). Thurloe was the eldest son of Cromwell's
Secretary of State. The chamber was that formerly occupied by the Secretary,
who is said to have died there on Feb. 2ist, 1668, but inasmuch as Ewre was
admitted to the chamber in June, 1661, on Thurloe's surrender (anfe, p. 12), the
statement of the death taking place there seems doubtful.

Macfe &oofe$ of fLincoltt'g nn* 69

Council held on June Qth, 1670.
Sixteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that leave be graunted for Doctor Tillotson to be
absent soe long as his occasions shall call him out of towne, taking
care that his place be well supplyed in his absence."

Upon the petition of Nicholas Smith, second Butler, and
Thomas Smith, third Butler, " understanding that the Worshipfull
the Bench did intend to have two shopps erected within the Backe
Gate, and to lett out the ground to be built upon, and praying
that they may have the building of them "-Ordered accordingly.
The Treasurer shall settle the terms.

Council held on June 2Oth, 1670. fo. 40.

Seventeen Benchers present.

"It is ordered that noe Barr Moote shall be brought in at a
discontinued exercise, nor at any Reading." To be screened.

" That noe gentleman be called to the Barre hereafter but in
Easter and Michaelmas Terme.

"That M r Treasurer pay five pounds to M r Ogleby, as a
gratuity for one volume of his Atlas, presented to this House."*

Call to the Bench :

Sir Francis Goodrick: to be published at the exercise this
night.

Council held on June 22nd, 1670.

Seventeen Benchers present, including Sir Francis

Goodrick, King's Counsel.

" That M r W m Batten be desyred to take care of the House
accounts, and to supervise all the officers and workmen belonging
to the House, as he shall be desired by the Treasurer for the
tyme being." His allowance to be considered.

Call to the Bar, August 5th, 1670: fo. 41.

Samuel Grimston and John Shaw, Esquires, at the request of
John Churchill, Esq., now Reader, and with the consent of Sir
Thomas Beverley, M r Pedley and M r Manby, then present ; to be
published this night.

* "Africa; being an accurate description of ^Egypt, Barbary, Lybia, and
Billedulgerid . . . adorn'd with peculiar maps, and proper sculptures, by John
Ogilby, Esq; Master of His Majestie's Revels in the Kingdom of Ireland; " London,
1670. "To the Honorable Society of Lincolns Inn, this first volume of English
Atlas is humbly presented and dedicated by John Ogilby." Now in the Library.

70 ^e JSlacfe 2$oofes of Eincoln'g

Council held on October 27th, 1670.
Ten Benchers present.

fo. 42. " Sir John Churchill shall have the same allowance from the

House for venison as hath beene formerly accustomed to have
been allowed for other Readers."

" M r Underwood, the glasier, may lett the shoppe at the
Gate to any tradesman whose trade will not anoy the House
or the neighbouring chambers by any noyse, or otherwise."

Upon reading M r Robinson's petition [stationer, margin\,
and considering his service done to the Society in conveying the
letters to the post-house, It is ordered that the persons who built
the two new shops at the Back Gate shall be restrained from
letting to any stationer or bookseller.

Council held on November loth, 1670.
Eleven Benchers present.

fo. 43. Call to the Bar :

[Thomas] Asgill ; to be published forthwith.

* " It is ordered that Sir Richard Browne's chamber, being

a single chamber, bee not sold to M r Amhurst, because he is a

practising clarke."

Council held on November 22nd, 1670.

Thirteen Benchers present.

None shall hereafter be called to the Bar unless they shall

have performed their Vacation Moots, according to the ancient

usage and order. To be screened.

fo. 44. Call to the Bench :

M r [George] Bray; to be published at the next moot.

" Ordered that the persons hereafter named, viz*, George
Osney, Henry Bish, John Norris, George Stroude, William
Darwyn, Sir Richard Browne, Thomas Carpenter, and Edward
Atkins, Esquires, bee conferred with by M r Treasurer and M r
Day, and the first two that are in towne and will accept of it, bee
called to the Bench."

Call to the Bar:
Peter Crutchfeild and William Lamberd; "and upon pay-
ment of all dutyes due to the House, and (if they have noe
chambers in the House) upon giving bond to M r Treasurer for
keepeing their vacation commons, they are to be published. "f

* Red Book I, fo. 326. f This seems to be the common form at this time.

Macfe ISoofes of Hittcoln'g Enm 71

On the petition of Thomas and Hephzibah Smyth, showing
that they were at great charges in building the shop at the Back
Gate, and that they were forbidden to let it to any stationer, which
was very disadvantageous to them, It is ordered that they may
let it to a milliner, stationer, or watchmaker.

Council held on November 28th, 1670,
Eleven Benchers present.
M r [Christopher] Howard is chosen Steward.

Call to the Bar :' fo. 45.

William Adderley and Joachim Matthews.

The Committee on the allowances to M r Batten, the
Sub-Treasurer, recommend as follows : that for his trouble up
to the present time he be allowed his commons and the duties of
his chamber ; and that for the future he receive from every
person admitted to the House 35. 4d., from every person admitted
to a chamber los. and to a half chamber IDS. [sic], for drawing
and engrossing the Treasurer's accounts and petitions to the
Council to have the former allowances, and for every person
called to the Bar 6s. 8d. The report is confirmed, except only as
to the last item.

Accounts of Nicholas Pedley, Esquire, Treasurer, from
Nov. 29th, 1669, to Nov. 3Oth, 1670.

Receipts : ,2,075 Is - 2< ^- Including 776 for admissions to
chambers and chamber fines ; 270 2s. for the Preacher's Roll.

Payments: ,2,068 2s. 3d. Including $ i6s. 6d. for levelling
the walks; 38 45. 6d. to Ball, the gardener; "57 125. 8d. to
Anderton, the gardener; 133. 4d. for "watch lights;" 2s. 6d. for
coach-hire for inviting the guests on Grand Day; 203. to Amy
Josling, widow, for cleaning the Library for one year; .154 8s.
2-g-d. for apparels.*

Balance: 6 i8s. nd.

Officers for 1671. 1671.

Lent Reader : M r Richard Stote.
Autumn Reader : M r Robert Aldworth.
Treasurer : Sir John Churchill.
Keeper of the Black Book : M r Nicholas Pedley.

See note, p. 62.

72 Tj)e iSlacfe iSoofes of

fo. 46. Council held on January 26th, 22 Charles II, 1671.

Nine Benchers present.

' Upon the peticion of Heph-zibah Smith, widdow and relict
of Nicholas Smith, late one of the Buttlers, shewing that her
husband, Nicholas Smith, held as Buttler a shop under the said
Inne in Chancery Lane, which was pulled downe by order of the
said Society in the tyme of the late dreadfull fire in London ; and
that her said husband rebuilt the same some tyme after att his
owne charge, but dyed before he reimbursed himselfe the
charge by reception of the rents ; and the peticioner desired some
satisfaccion." Referred to a Committee.

fo. 47. Call to the Bar, March i7th, 1671 :

Harrington Fountaine,* at the request of Richard Stote, Esq.
now Reader, and with the consent of four Benchers then present;
to be published this night.

Council held on May i6th, 1671.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

M r John Clarke, M r William Darwin, M r George Stroode
and M r Edward Atkins; to be published at the next exercise, and
to have their antiquity according to their call.

fo. 48. Call to the Bar:

[Richard] Abbott, [Benjamin] Syddon, and Littleton Powys.

Also Robert Stillingfleet, of five years standing in this House
and five years at Furnival's Inn, having conformed to the Orders
of this House and performed more than ordinary exercises; to be
published upon payment of all duties.

Council held on May 23rd, 1671.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :
M r George Stroode, M r Thomas Carpenter, and M r Edward
Atkins; to be published tomorrow.

fo. 49. The publication to the Bench of M r William Darwin and

M r John Clarke is suspended till further Order.

* Adm. June 30, 1666.

Blacfc iSoofes of Htncoltt'g

Council held on June ist, 1671.
Twelve Benchers present.

The Committee as to Furnival's Inn is "not to treate for
under ^200 fine and 2os. increase of rent for fifty yeares."

" Itt is ordered that the antients of Thavis Inne attende this
Board on Munday next, to shew cause why they doe not pay
theire rent, and how long theire terme is, and that they be
summoned by M r Treasurer."

" Itt is ordered that none be called to the Barre from henceforth
untill they be of full seaven yeares standing." To be screened.

Call to the Bar:

[George] Kingsmell, [Edmund] Gardner, [Henry] Searle, and
[Robert] Cooke ; the first two to be published next term, and the
others in Michaelmas Term.

Council held on June 5th, 1671.
Eleven Benchers present.

A Committee is appointed "to inspect the bills brought in for fo. 50.
the last Revells as to the M r of the Revells."

"To the Hon ble the M rs of the Bench of the Hon ble
Society of Lincolne's Inne.

"The humble Petition of the Principall and Antients of
Furnivall's Inne,

" Sheweth:

"That upon your Pet rs exhibiteing theire humble petition to
this Councell in Michaelmas Term last* for renewing their leases,
you were pleased by your Order to appoint a Comittee to treate
with your Pet rs thereabout. But the matter not receiving soe
spedy a conclusion as was expected, you have since in favor to
your Pet rs given the said Order severall continuances, which in-
dulgence to your Pet rs they doe with most humble thankfulnes
acknowledge. And now your Pet rs having notice given them of
your last Order, whereby your said Comittee are directed not to
grant your Pet rs any longer terme then fivety yeares from hence-
forth, and that terme not under two hundred pounds fine and
eight pounds per annum rent, your Pet 13 humbly conceive those
terms to be too hard.

"Your Pet rs therefore humbly pray that you would vouchsafe
to moderate the said fine to ^150 and the rent to 6 per annum,
the payment whereof your Pet rs are ready to make good att such
tymes as you shall thinke fitt to appoynt.

" And your Pet rs shall ever pray."

* This former petition was not entered in the Black Book.

VOL. III.

74 fcTfie 9$lacfe JSoofes of Hmcoln'g Emt,

On the above petition it is ordered that the fine be reduced
to ^150, but that the rent remain at 8; the lease for 50 years
to begin at Michaelmas next.

M r Ashton, the Keeper of the Library, is desired to deliver
the keys to the Committee appointed to search the evidences of
Thavies Inn.

Council held on June 27th, 1671.
Ten Benchers present.

fo. 51. The chamber of M r [Richard] Read, a Bencher, and his son,

shall be seized unless their commons and other duties be cleared
by the next Council.

" Itt is ordered that M r Reader* have the thanks of the
Society, and the moneys due from the House paid to him, and
likewise have a chamber."

Council held on July 4th, 1671.

Eleven Benchers present.

"It is ordered that the last M r of the Revells be allowed

f 195. 8d. for musick and wax lights, but not to be drawne into

example for the future."

All Benchers must pay their arrears before the next Council.

The names of all Fellows who are more than 20 in arrear must

be presented to the Bench tomorrow.

fo. 52. "Ordered that none be called to the Barre but in open

Councell in terme tyme."

Council held on July loth, 1671.
Nine Benchers present.

" That the Cheife Butler attende Sir Thomas Escourt that
he may signifie what tearmes he attended the House of Lords,
that he may be considered as to his absent commons for
that tyme."

The Butlers are to be allowed 6d. in the for collecting the
arrears due to the House.

" Itt is ordered that the Order of 5 to Eliz.f be revived and put
in execution, with this alteration only, that the presentment o
such as make defaulte of payment shall be made to the Bencl
or Ancients on Munday and not on Sunday dinnar ; and this, witl
the said Order, to be screened."

* The Lent Reader apparently, Richard Stote.

t As to arrears of commons, June 24, 1563. See Vol. I, p. 339.

ISlacfe a$oofes of ?Uncoltt'$ Him, 75

Council held on July i2th, 1671. fo. 53.

Eleven Benchers present.

M r Peter Hussey is admitted an Associate of the Bench, at
the request of Robert Aldworth, Esq., Reader-elect, paying ^"50.

Sir John Churchill, M r Stote, M r Foxwist, and M r Page are
ordered to attend the Reader at the next Reading.

Council held on October 26th, 1671.
Ten Benchers present.

No married person shall henceforth be chosen as servant to
this Society.

" Ordered that M r Speak, M r Charlton and M r Ellyott, late
Stewards to Sir John Churchill when he was Reader, doe forth-
with pay him five marks apeice, being the constant due."

' Ordered that it be referred to M r Treasurer, M r Day, M r
Pedley and M r Bray, or any two of them, to take care that the
pinacles of the Chappell be veiwed and reported, in order to the
security of the House."

" Sir Francis Gooderick, being of the King's Councell, hath
made his choice to Read this next Lent."

" Ordered that noe gentleman of this House that practises the
law be admitted as an Associate to the Bench before he first lend
^200 to the House gratis, to be repaid when he Reads."

" Ordered that Alexander Croome, one of the Porters at the fo. 54.
Gate, have the proffitt of selling apples and other fruit under the
Gate added to the imployment he hath of sweeping and cleaning
the Court; and no other to sell apples or other fruit there."

Council held on November 2ist, 1671.
Fifteen Benchers present.

Ordered "that the fine of 20 apeice be sett upon M r Julius
Glanville and M r Alexander Roper for not Reading att the Innes
of Chancery this yeare last past, and not to come into comons till
they have paid the same."

" Ordered that none be hereafter admitted to the Barr that
doe not att the end of every terme pay their respective dutys of
the House. And this Order be screened."

Call to the Bar : fo. 55

John Clarke, Thomas Kendall and Nathaniel Syddon.
The call of Edmund Griffith and William Phyllips is respited

till the next Council, " because it doth not appeare that they have

received the Sacrament."

" Ordered that M r John Fountaine be fined twenty nobles

for not executing the Master of the Revell's place."

76 JK 3$Iacfe ISoofeg of ^Lincoln's Jtun*

When arrears of absent commons or other duties are
compounded for, the composition must be paid before the next
Council, or the same shall be void.

[A list of fines for failures of exercises ; twelve at the Bar,
fined 2os. each, and four under the Bar, fined 135. 4d. each.
Two of the last failures were at Lyons Inn and Staple Inn
respectively.] *

fo. 56. Council held on November 23rd, 1671.

" Itt is informed by M r Harrison, one of the Masters of the
Bench, that Sir Edwin Rich, Knight, one of the Associates of the
Bench, doth intend out of his respects to this Society to place two
statues of good value in the outward Walks, att his own charge,
if the Masters of the Bench shall accept of it. Itt is now ordered
that M r Harrison declare to Sir Edwin Rich that they very
kindly accept of his proposal!, and that the thanks of this Councell
be given him for the same."t

Sir Robert Atkins may for his own convenience make a door
out of the bay window of his son's chamber next the Garden,
into the street.

fo. 57. A Committee is appointed to " consider about delivering

declaracions of ejectment to those of Thavis Inne."

The fine of ^100 set upon M r [Francis] Butler for not
Reading in his turn, is reduced to ^20, " in regard he fully
intended and was prepared to have Read, but was prevented by
the sicknesse or fire in London."

Council held on November 28th, 1671.
Ten Benchers present.
"Itt is ordered that Sir Edward Rich, Knt., late Master
of the Revells, be allowed the charge of wax candles, being

I OS."

Council held on November 29th, 1671.
Eleven Benchers present.
Ordered " that the first admission of M r William Martyn
doe stand, without any suspencion or other disallowance." J
fo. 58. " Wheareas this House hath run into great debts by reason

of the apparrells of vacacion commons, It is therefore ordered that
vacacion commons shall be att the same weekly rates with the
terme, that is to say, 8s. 6d. by the weeke, as it was lately. And
this Order to be screened."

* It would appear from this that the education at these Inns was in some way
under the control of Lincoln's Inn at this time.

f See Appendix. J See ante, p. 63.

Macfe 2$oo&s of ^Lincoln's 3?nnu 77

Call to the Bar :

Edmund Griffith,* William Phyllips, and Daniel Gurny.

M r Ogilby to be presented with $ for the gift of his book.f

The Porters must prevent all persons carrying burdens from
)assing through the House. They must also every day in their
turns sweep before the Gate as far as the S. John's Head Tavern.

A Committee is appointed to consider the question of
'havies Inn, and, if they think it advisable, to commence
>roceedings in ejectment.

Officers for 1672. 1672.

Lent Reader: Sir Francis Goodrick.
Autumn Reader : No Reading.
Treasurer: Sir Richard Stote.
Keeper of the Black Book: M r Nicholas Pedley.

Council held on January 29th, 23rd Charles II, 1672. fo. 59.
Eight Benchers present.

All gentlemen having chambers "are desired to take some
speedy care for the sweeping of theire chimneys in theire chambers,
in respect of the frequent fires that have lately hapned and of the
danger that might have hapned in Lincolne's Inne."

Sir John Churchill shall be allowed ^50 in lieu of his Bench
Chamber as 'Reader.

The Barristers are requested to choose four of their number,
and the gentlemen under the Bar the like, to meet a Committee of
the Bench in the Council Chamber, "to treate about settlement
off and payment for comons, performing of exercise, taking
accounts," etc.

The Treasurer and others are desired " to meet and prepare fo. 60.
M r Domvill's chamber for the reception of M r Reader's guests."
M r Domvill shall have 10 m exchange for his chamber.

Council held on February 6th, 24 Charles II, 1672.
Eleven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the mony to be paid by gentlemen when
they are called to the Barr, towards buying books for the Library,
be paid into the Keeper of the Library's hands, and that [it be]
imployed accordingly ; and this Order screened."

" It is ordered that, according to the desire of the gentlemen,
vacation commons be reduced to 6s. 6d. per weeke, but terme
commons to continue at 8s- 6d. per weeke till further' Order."

* Called Griffin on admission,
f See ante, p. 69.

7 8 Cf)e ISlacfe iSoofeg of Eincoln'g Inn,

Commons must be paid weekly ; the names of defaulters shall
be presented to the Quatuor at the Bench table at the beginning
of every week.

" That M r Swaine receive the Sacrament before he be called
to the Barre."

fo. 61. A Committee to report "what suspitious persons doe lie in

this House, and who keepe families here."

Council held on February i2th, 1672.

Eleven Benchers present.

George Townesend, Esq., a Fellow of this Society, is admitted
to be an Associate to the Bench, paying 20 fine only in respect
of his office of one of the Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas.

Call to the Bar:

[Thomas] Swaine, "as of the last terme, but not to be
published till next terme."

fo. 62. Council held on February 29th, 1672.

Nine Benchers present.

" Itt is ordered that it be referred to Sir Robert Atkyns, one
of the M rs of the Bench, to draw up a memoriall of the King's
high favour to this Society upon this daye, in vouchsafing to dine
with Sir Francis Gooderick, Reader of this Society, to the intent
the same may be recorded."

" M d that it was drawne up accordingly, and is written in the
same booke wherein the King and severall of the nobilitye are
admitted, being a guilt booke in which are the names of severall
benefactors."

*"A Narrative of the King's Majestie's recepcion and
enterteynment att Lincolne's Inne, the nyne and
twentieth day of February, one thousand, six
hundred, seaventy one [two].

" Sir Francis Goodericke, Kn', one of his Ma tie ' 8 learned
Councell att Law, and Sollicitor Generall to his Royall Highnesse
the Duke of Yorke, being Reader of this Society of Lincolne's

* A volume lettered "Admission Book &c. 1671 to 1673," and. having this
title, " The Admittance Booke of Lincolne's Inne, whearin his most excellent
Majestic, his Royall Highnesse the Duke of Yorke, his Highnesse Prince Rupert,
and many Lords and honorable Persons, have entred theire names with theire owne
hands, the nine and twentieth day of February, Anno Dni, 1671." The con-
temporary binding of black morocco is elaborately tooled and gilt, having the royal
arms and the initials C.R. in panels on the sides. The silver clasps and mounts
are modern; London hall mark, 1866-7.

Macfe 2$oofe.$ of Hmcoltt'g Ettiu 79

Inne for the Lent Reading in the yeare one thousand, six hundred,
seaventy one [two], haveing invited the King, his Royall High-
nesse and Prince Rupert, and diverse of the Nobilitie to dine in
Lincolne's Inne Hall on such day of his Reading as his Ma tie
should make choice off, His Majestic was pleased to appoint
Thursday, the nyne and twentieth of February, one thousand, six
hundred, seaventy one; And accordingly, that day his Ma tlc , to-
gether with his said Royall Highnesse and his Highnesse Prince
Rupert, being also attended by the Duke of Monmouth, the Duke
of Richmond, the Earles of Manchester, Bath and Anglesey, the
Lord Viscount Halifax, Lord Bishop of Ely, Lord Newport, Lord
Henry Howard, and diverse others of great qualitie, came to
Lincolne's Inne. His Ma tie made his entrance through the Garden
at the great Gate opening into Chancery Lane next Holborne,*

I where M r Reader and the rest of the Benchers and Associates
waited his comeing, and attended his Majestic up to the Terras
Walke next the Feild, and soe through the Garden; the Trumpetts
and Kettle Drums from the leads over the highest bay window, in
the middle of the Garden Buildings, sounding all the while.

" And from the Garden his Ma tie went to the new Councell
Chamber, the Barristers and Students in theire gownes standing
in a rowe on each side, betweene the Garden and the Councell
Chamber. After a little rest, his Ma tie veiwed the Chappell,
returning agayne to the Councell Chamber.

" From thence, as soone his table (being placed upon the
assent att the upper end of the Hall, and railed in) was furnished,
his Majestic was brought into the Hall, where his Majestic sate
under his Canopy of State, being served by the Reader as Sewer
upon his knee, with the towell, before he did eate, his Royall
Highnesse sitting att the end of the table on his right hand, and
Prince Rupert att the other end. The Dukes and Lords, and
other his Majestie's attendants of qualitie, after some short
tyme of waiting, had leave from his Majestic to sitt downe
to dinnar att tables prepared for them on each side of the
Hall.

" The Reader and some of the Benchers, to witt, Sir Thomas
Beverley, Master of Requests to his Majestic, Sir Robert Atkins,
Knight of the Bath, all the tyme of his Majestie's dineing waiteing
neere his Majestie's chaire ; and foure other of the Benchers,
M r Day, M r Pedley, M r Stote and M r Manby, with white staffes,
waited as Controlers of the Hall to keepe good order ; and above
fifty of the Barristers and Students, the most parte of them

* Clearly not the Gate House, but a more northerly gate, opening direct into
the Garden.

8o Cf)t ISlacfe #oofeg of fLincoln's

attending as waiters and carrieing up his Majestie's meate, whiche
was served upon the knee ; the rest of the Barristers and Students
waiting upon the Lords att theire table. The three courses
wherein were exceeding great plenty and variety of dishes, and
after them a most liberal! banquett was served up by the said
Barristers and Students, and delivered by them upon theire knees
att the King's table. The Musick, consisting of his Majestie's
violins, playing all the tyme of dinnar in the Gallery at the lower
end of the Hall.

"Towards the end of dinnar, his Majestic, to doe a
Transcendant Hono r and Grace to this Society, and to expresse
his most gratious acceptance of theire humble duty and affeccion
towards him, was pleased to comaund the Booke of Admittances
to be brought to him, and with his owne hand entred his Royall
Name therein, most gratiously condiscending to make himselfe a
Member thereof, which high and extraordinary favour was instantly
acknowledged by all the Members of this Society then attending
on his Majestic with all possible joy, and received with the
greatest and most humble expressions of gratitude, itt being
an example not presidented by any former King of this Realme.

"His Royall Highnesse [the Duke of York] and Prince
Rupert followed this great and highest example, as also the Dukes
and other Lords, who, before his Majestie's riseing from dinnar,
borrowed gownes of the Students, and put them on, and in those
gownes waited on his Majestic, with which his Majestic was much
delighted.

"And his Majestic, through his owne most obligeing favour
vouchsafed to it, haveing made himselfe more neerely and
intimately concern'd for the good of this Society, was pleased
himselfe to begin a Health to the welfare thereof, and to cause
itt to be pledg'd in his owne presence, immediately gave the
Reader leave to drinke his Majestie's health, and to begin to hh
Royall Highnesse.

" Then riseing from dinnar, he was agayne attended to the
new Councell Chamber, where he conferr'd the hono r of Knighthood
on M r Nicholas Pedley and M r Richard Stote, two of th(
Benchers who had in theire turns beene Readers of this House,
as also upon M r James Buttler, one of the Barristers, and M r
Francis Dayrell, one of the Students ; that soe each degree and
order of the Society might have a Signall Testimony of his
Majestie's high favour.

"His Majestic, upon his departure, made large expressions
of his most gratious acceptance of the enterteynment, and return'c
his thanks to the Reader, and was pleased to signifie the gre;
respect and esteeme he should ever have for the Societie.

ISoofcg of IUncoln'3 mt 81

" The Gentlemen of the Horse Guards, Yeomen of the
Guard, and other inferior attendants, were bountifully enterteyned
att the costs and charges also of the Reader. The Gentlemen of
the Horse Guards dined in the old Councell Chamber, the
Yeomen of the Guard in M r Day's chamber, and the coachmen
and lacques in the Gardiner's house, to all theire contentment.

" On Saturday following-, M r Reader, Sir Robert Attkins,
Sir Nicholas Pedley and Sir Richard Stote, Benchers and Readers
of Lincoln's Inne, waited on his Majestic att Whitehall, being
conducted to his Majestie's presence by the Earl of Bath, and
gave most humble thanks for that high and Transcendant Honour
he had beene pleased to vouchsafe to this Society, which was
gratiously received by his Majestic, and did the said Benchers the
Hono r to Kisse his Hand."

Council held on May 9th, 1672. fo. 62.

Ten Benchers present,

Call to the Bar :

[Robert] Holford and William Wither. Also [John] Thurloe,*
on receiving the Sacrament.

" Itt is ordered that the Library lock be altered, and noe
person to have any keys but the Benchers and Associates and
Preacher and Chapleyne; and the second Buttler to attende theire
att the usuall houres, and to have the usuall allowance for his
sallerie."

M r [Richard] Read is elected Summer Reader. fo. 63.

" Itt is ordered that M r Dave, Sir Nicholas Pedley, Sir
Richard Stote, doe returne theire humble thanks to M r Justice
Atkins f for the favour he hath done this Society in drawing up a
rnemoriall of his Majesty's late favour to this Society in dining
with Sir Francis Goodericke, the late Reader."

" M d , this memoriall is entred in a guilt booke, in which the
King is admitted."

" Itt is ordered that the honour Sir Francis Gooderick hath
lone to this Society by his last Reading, be taken into consideracion
in reference to his extraordinary charge therein."

| Moved by Sir Francis Goodrick, and carried item, con., that

Earl of Anglesey, a Bencher of this Society, "should be

* Eldest son of Cromwell's Secretary of State.

t Sir Robert Atkyns was made a judge of the Common Pleas on April 15, 1672.

t Red Book I, fo. 335.

POL. III.

82 CJe 9$lacfe ISoofeg of Etncoln's

dispenced with as to payment of absent commons, and that his
son, the Honourable Altham Annesley, Esq r ," should be admitted
into the Earl's chamber on payment of 20 nobles.

Council held on May i4th, 1672.
Ten Benchers present.

fo. 64. M r Silverlock is fined 20 for not Reading at the Inns of

Chancery at the last Reading.

* Robert Aldworth, Esq., a Bencher and late Reader, shall
have the old Council chamber, in lieu of a Bench chamber. He
must leave his present half chamber to the House, and shall have
10 out of the money received for it.

Council held on May 2Oth, 1672.
Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Thurloe pay his dutys and receive the
Sacrament the first Sacrament Day of the next term, else his call
to the Barre be discharged."

M r Treasurer is ordered to proceed to a trial at law for the
effectual recovery of Thavies Inn.

fo. 65. Council held on June i8th, 1672.

Eleven Benchers present.

" Ordered that such Attorneys and Sollicitors, as are in
arreare for commons and other dutys, have notice given them
that unlesse they pay theire dutys in arreare before the next
Councell, that theire chambers be seised and forthwith disposed
of, and they expelled from being members of this House."

fo. 66. "Ordered that Whatyoupleas Hill's petition be referred to

Sir Nicholas Pedley [and others] to consider of itt, and to discourse
with the gentlemen who have chambers neere the place where he
intends to build, and to report next Councell."

Council held on June igth, 1672.

Eight Benchers present.
fo. 67. " Whearas itt hath beene the usage of the Masters of the

Bench of this Society, and of other Innes of Court, to conferre the
degree and dignitie of Barrester att Law upon such of the
Prothonotarys of the Court of Common Pleas as have beene
members respectively of theire severall Houses; "- Ordered that
George Townsend, Esq., one of the Prothonotaries of the said
Court, a member and Associate to the Bench of this Society, be
and is hereby called to the Bar, and declared to be a Barrister at
Law without further publication.

* Red Book I, fo. 335.

Macfe ISoofes of Eincoln'g Entu 83

" Upon the peticion of Whatyoupleas Hill, shewing that he
hath a small peice of ground, whereon he intends to erect a small
tenement, on the backside of his house in Chancery Lane, neere
Lincolne's Inne, and to build from east to west 27 foote, from
north to south 12, in height one roome and a garrett over the
ground roome, making no lights towards Lincolne's Inne,
desireing leave of the Masters of the Bench to goe on in erecting
the same : Itt is ordered that he shall have liberty to erect the
said tenement, building itt according to his peticion."

"Att this Councell came Francis Clarke, Esq., Prindpall of
Thavies Inne, with more of theire Ancients and diverse other
members of that Society, and presented a Peticion, which follows,
in these words, viz. :

" To the right Worshipfull, the Readers and Benchers of
of the Honourable Society of Lincolne's Inne.

" The humble peticion of the Principall and Ancients

of Thavies Inne, on the behalfe of themselves

and the rest of the said Society, sheweth :

" That your peticioners and theire predecessors have for

many yeares last past beene in possession, and have had and

enjoyed the said messuage called Thavies Inne, under a yearely

rent payable to the Honourable Society of Lincolne's Inne ; your

peticioners doe hereby acknowledge that the fee and inheritance

of the said messuage of Thavies Inne, with the appurtenances,

doth belong and apperteyne unto the said Society of Lincolne's

Inne, and therefore your peticioners submitt to take a lease

thereof from your Worshipps.

" May it therefore please your Worshipps to graunt
your petiticioners a lease of the said messuage with
th'appurtinances, upon such reasonable fine and
rent and under such reasonable termes as to your
wonted favour to your peticioners and theire Society
shall seeme meet.
" And your peticioners shall pray, &c."

In consideration "that great summes of money have beene
laid out in new building a great part of the said house called
Thavies Inn alias Davies Inne," Ordered that a lease shall be
granted for 41 years from the feast of the Annunciation of the
Blessed Virgin Mary last past, at a yearly rent of ,5 ; 20 "for
an income or fine" to be first paid. "And also that the said
Ancients doe first give satisfaccion to M r Stampe for continuance
and enjoyment of his new buildings, and apportioning theire fine
and rent upon him ; and if any difference arise betweene them,
then it be referred to the Masters of this Bench."

84 CJ)e Maefe 2$oofeg of Ufncoln'*

y"0. 68. Council held on June 26th, 1672.

Ten Benchers present.

Attorneys suspended \jnargin\. M r John Edwards, M r John
Daniell, M r Samuel \Vhile and M r William Harris shall be
suspended and their chambers shut up, unless they pay their
commons and duties within a week, according to former Order.

As there is no Reading this vacation, commons shall not be
kept unless twenty gentlemen remain and pay their commons
weekly beforehand.

" Ordered that M r Goodrick, the Lecturer, preach the monthly
sermon according to M r Golfer's last will ; and that he have
liberty to preach in the morning, according to his desire."
fo. 69. M r Foxwist's fine for not Reading shall be reduced to ;io

if paid forthwith.

Council held on June 27th, 1672.

Eleven Benchers present.

" Ordered that Sir Francis Goodericke, M r Day, Sir Nicholas
Pedley, or any two of them, wait upon the Lord Keeper to
returne an answer to a letter directed to the said Lord Keeper
from the Lords of the Councell, and recomended by him to the
Masters of the Bench of this Society, touching a contribucion for
the redeeming of the Algier captives ;* the effect of which answer
to be, ist, That wee are noe Corporacion ; 2ly, That Breifs have
not beene sent to this Society, or any Inns of Court ; 3ly, That
the greatest part of this Society, having habitacions in the
country, have or shall contribute to the same there, and the other
part of this Society are young gentlemen, and have only
exhibitions to live upon."

fo. 70. Council held on November 7th, 1672.

Ten Benchers present.

A Committee appointed " to receive any informacion touching
the cooke's imbeselling of the coales of the House."

M r Manby is to inspect the Statute Law upon which M r
Squibb's warrant [for paving, margin] is grounded, and to report. t

Anderton, the gardener, to have $ a year extra, until
further Order, "in respect of the new garden."

"Ordered that Sir John Churchill have the thanks of the
House for his guift of a new Dyall in the garden, which he
att his owne charge hath bestowed upon this House."

fo. 7 1 - Council held on November 8th, 1672.

Nine Benchers present.

* See State Papers, passim. \ See post, p. 85.

Macfe 2$oofes of ILfiuoln'g Inn, 85

M r Edward Bide is fined 20 for refusing to act as Master
of the Revels on election.

" Ordered that the exercises of the House be carried on by
an Antient and Puisne att the Bench in commons, and soe to
begin in the subsequent terme where it ended the terme precedent."

" Ordered that Sir Nicholas Pedley, M r Day, M r Manby,
and M r Atkins, or any two of them, be a Comittee to attend the
Lord Chiefe Justice of England in order to the printing of the
manuscript of Edward the Second, now remaineing in the Library ;
and to treate with the Booksellers in relacion to the printing of
the said manuscript."*

Fines for failures of exercises at moots and bolts : Benchers,
2os. ; Barristers, 133. 4d ; gentlemen under the Bar, 6s. 8d.
" Provided always that this Order doe not extend to failers in
tyme of Readings or att Inns of Chancery, and that the mony to
be received upon such failers to be imployed towards buying
of bookes for the Library."

Council held on November i4th, 1672.
Nine Benchers present.

M r Manby and M r Strode are to advise and consider upon
M r Squibb's warrant and convictment against Hugh Pattle, the
Porter. [Porter convicted for not paving. Margin.~\ t

"Ordered that all the head workmen that shall hereafter fo. 72.
worke about this House shall att every weeke's end, or sooner,
give an account to the Treasurer of all such men as worke
severally with them."

Council held on November 2ist, 1672.
Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: fo. 73.

William Eldred and John Dorrington.

M r Tempest is allowed to compound for absent commons and
other arrears of duties for 10, he having been absent beyond
seas in the King's service for five years.

Council held on November 3Oth, 1672. fo. 75.

Nine Benchers present.
M r Aisgill is suspended for not paying his commons and

* Probably the Placita for his reign, MS. CXXXVII (2). Hunter (Catalogue,
p. 138.) says that this is a different MS. from that used by Serjeant Maynard for
his edition of the Year Books in 1678.

f The proceedings were probably taken under Stat. 22 & 23 Car. II., cap. 17 ;
" An Act for the better Paving and Cleansing the Streets and Sewers in and about
the City of London."

86 Wfyt ifrlack JSoofeg of Utncoln'g

duties, and for his contempt in breaking off the padlock placed on
his chamber door by Order.

Sir Francis Goodrick is elected Treasurer, " itt being
debated and agreed, in regard there have beene former presidents,
that the Treasurership goes by presedency and not by antiquity ;
and this to be without prejudice to M r Aldworth, and M r Manby
is desired to impart this to him."

All the Black Books which require it are to be rebound.

Accounts of Richard Stote, Knight, the Treasurer, from
Nov. 28th, 1671, to Nov. 28th, 1672.*

Receipts : ,1,419 93. od. Including ^"10 from M r William
Foxwist for not Reading ; 20 from M r George Townsend for
his Association to the Bench.

Payments: ,1,400 i6s. 9d. Including ,90 to William
Edwards, carpenter, and ^"52 to John Pearson, carpenter ; 10 133.
for music in Hilary Term, and 1% 135. 4d. in Michaelmas
Term; 4 i8s. lod. to Hugh Pattle for the costs of his suit;f
i 175. 6d. for 3 halberts ; 52 los. to the "upholster" for
hangings and carpets for the Council Chamber |; $ to M r
Ogleby for his "Africa"; $ 55. for putting up the arms of
5 Readers ; 10 i6s. 6d. to M r Justice Atkyns, in gold, with a
purse || ; ,223 6s. 9d. to Christopher Howard, [the Steward], for
apparels.

Balance i& 35. id. [sic].

1673. Officers for 1673.

Lent Reader: M r Richard Read. No Reading.
Autumn Reader: M r George Strode.
Treasurer: Sir Francis Goodrick.
Keeper of the Black Book: Sir Nicholas Pedley.

M r William Page.

fo. 76. Council held on January 28th, 24 Charles II, 1673.

Eight Benchers present.

M r Manby and M r Atkins are to attend the Lord Chief Baron,

and to inform him that M r Berresford refuses to pay his duties in

arrear, and to request permission to seize and padlock his office

chamber, [called in the margin " the office of Pleas "].

* The roll is headed Nov., 24 Charles II, to Nov., 25 Charles II, whict
would be 1672 and 1673. A reference to the Black Book, Red Book, and
Admission Register proves the error.

f See ante, p. 85.

J Doubtless for the King's reception.

See ante, p. 69.

|| Sir Robert Atkyns was appointed a Judge of the Common Pleas, April i;
1672. He was made a Serjeant after Feb. 29.

of Eincoln's nm 87

" Whearas itt hath beene accounted the greatest respect fo. 77.
which this Societie can expresse to persons of greatest honour,
members of this Societie, to call them to be Masters of the Bench,
wee therefore doe nominate and declare the right honourable
Anthony, Earle of Shaftsbury, Lord High Chancellor of England,
a most honourable member of this Societie,* to be one of the
Masters of the Bench of this Societie of Lincolne's Inne, and doe
appoynt Sir Francis Gooderick, M r Daye, Sir Nicholas Pedley
and Sir John Churchill, or any two of them, to acquaint his Lord-
shippe therewith, and humbly intreat his acceptance thereof."

Council held on January 3Oth, 25 Charles II, 1673.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

M r [John] Norris, M r John Clerke, M r Bernard Turny,
M r John Wyndham, 'M r John Eldred, M r Thomas Strode,
and M r James Stedman ; the two last to be published at the
moot tomorrow, "saving seniority to the rest, if they accept of
theire Call before the second Counsell in the next terme."

Council held on February 5th, 1673.

Nine Benchers present. .

M r Arden may pay 6 in discharge of his absent commons; fo. 78.
"and itt is afferredf soe lowe in regard of the service performed
to the House in manageing the suite against Thavis Inne; but
this not to extend to the Preacher's Role, or any other duties."

Council held on February 7th, 1673.
Nine Benchers present.

<l Ordered that D r Castle be presented with ten guinneys for
his Lexicon in two volumns, sent and given by him to this
Society." \

" Ordered that these two bookes be put into the Library, and
chained up."

Council held on February i2th, i673- fo. 79-

Ten Benchers present, including Sir Francis Goodrick,
Attorney General to H.R.H. James, Duke of York.
[Orders were made for the seizure and sale of the chambers fo. 80.

* Anthony Ashley Cooper, adm. Feb. 18, 1638.

f Assessed or fixed ; see JV. E. D.

\ The Lexicon Heptaglotton of Edmund Castell, D.D., published in 1669. See
Diet. Nat. Biog. Guineas were first coined in 1663.

M r William Page's name appears at the top of this folio as Keeper of the
Black Book.

88 C&e ISlacfe Boofes of Ufncoln'*

of twenty six Fellows of the Society, unless their arrears for
commons, etc., were paid within eight days. The arrears
amounted to over ^620, the highest item being ^52. In one
case, where the debtor had no chamber of his own, but lodged
in the chamber of his brother, who was his manucaptor, the Order
was made as to the manucaptor's chamber.]

fo. 82. " Upon observacion of some disorder lately appearing in the

ill management of the seates in the Chappell," a Committee
is appointed " to consider how the like disorder may be prevented,
and the seates better regulated for the future."

fo. 83. Council held on April 24th, 1673.

Nine Benchers present.

The Steward is to deliver to the Quatuor at dinner tomorrow
a note of the names of such as were most acting in the late
disorder upon him.

Call to the Bar :

Thomas Powis, William Rogers, George Briscoe and Jasper
Chapman. They must receive the Sacrament in the Chapel
before publication.

" Itt is ordered that for the future all gentlemen of this
Society shall receive the Sacrament in the Chappell of this
Society before they shalbe called to the Barr."
fo. 84. [Thirteen chambers ordered to be sold.]

Council held on April 29th, 1673.

Sir James Buttler, Knight, a Barrister of this Society, is
called to be an Associate to the Bench paying ^50. He has
engaged " to come to the Bench when called in turne, and to
Read in course."

M r Richard Reed is fined ^100 for neglecting to Read. He
shall be suspended the Bench until payment.

M r Page has not paid his fine of ^100 for not Reading; he
shall be suspended the Bench until payment.

M r Manby is to be here at the Council on Thursday night to
show cause why he should not Read.

fo. 85. Council held on May ist, 1673.

Thirteen Benchers present.
The former Order made discharging M r Manby from Reading,
is to stand good.

' Itt being put to the question att this Councell whether M r
George Strode be Reader for this Societie next Autumne, there
was six votes in the affirmative that he should be Reader, whereof

ISIacfe iSoofcs of Uincoln's nm 89

M r Thomas Manby was one, and there was five in the negative,
and noe more."

Council held on May 7th, 1673.
Eleven Benchers present.

"Ordered that M r Manby att the last Councell had no right-
full vote to choose a Reader."

" Ordered and declared that the Order made 1664,* to exempt
M r Page from Reading by reason of his then sicknesse, was and is
but temporary, and not totally to exempt him from Reading."

Council held on June 3rd, 1673.
Thirteen Benchers present.

" Ordered upon the question that the Order made the seaventh
day of May last past, disinabling M r Manby to give his vote for
chooseing a Reader, be discharged."

Ordered that M r George Strode was duly elected Reader on
May ist last.

Ordered that " M r William Foxwist shalbe discharged the fo. 86.
Bench for not Reading in his turne, and be Associated."

M r Richard Reed the like.

M r William Page the like.

M r Thomas Manby requested a like Order for himself, but it
was refused.

Council held on June icth, 1673.
Thirteen Benchers present.

" The question being put whether the Order made att the
last Councell for confirming M r Manby's voice in chooseing
a Reader, the voices were equall."

" Ordered that the Judges of this House be attended touching
the said former Order, and settling Readings ; and that Sir
Nicholas Pedley, Sir Richard Stote, M r Carpenter and M r Atkins
be desired to attende the Judges herein."

Council held on June i8th, 1673. fo. 87.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :
Edward Webb ; not to be published until next term.f

Council held on June 23rd, 1673.
Eight Benchers present.

* Ante, p. 40.

f His seven years were not complete until November.

VOL. III. N

9 o ftfie Ulacfe Uoofeis of ftincoln'*

Unless the trustees named in the lease of Thavies Inn do,
before the first Council next term, pay the fine of 20, the arrears
of rent, and the costs of the suit, and accept the lease, this House
will proceed to treat with M r Stamp for a lease to him.
fo. 88. M r Thomas Manby is now made an Associate instead of a

Bencher, at his own request.

" Ordered that if there be any former Order made to suspend
M r Ashton, one of the Masters of the Bench, from the Bench, and
itt hath not beene reversed, itt is hereby reversed and made
void."*

Council held on November 5th, 1673.
Nine Benchers present.

An officer of the House is to attend the Principal of Thavies
Inn, giving him until the next Council to take up the lease.

" M r Atkins, one of the Masters of the Bench, reported to the
Councell that he attended the Reader t att the last Reading, and
that he discharged the office of Reader with good learning and all
things becomeing him. Whereupon itt is ordered that he have
the thanks of this House for the same."

M r Robert Aldworth is chosen Treasurer for this term.

fo. 89. Council held on November i8th, 1673.

Eight Benchers present.

M r John Clarke, M r William Darwin, M r Barnard Turney,
M r Thomas Lee and M r John Eldred are fined ^40 apiece for
refusing to come to the Bench j. M r John Wyndham to be
spoken to.

Council held on November 25th, 1673.
Eight Benchers present.

If the Principal and Ancients of Thavies Inn do not take up
their lease by the next Council, then the treaty with M r Stampe
shall be concluded, and he shall have a lease.

" Ordered that two new Common Prayer Bookes and
candlestickes be bought for the Chappell."
fo. 90. " Ordered that seven of the Bench doe make a Councell."

" Ordered that none be called to the Barre but those that
have theyre chambers in the House, or they that shall give
security by bond to keep the vacacion commons and to doe and
performe the other dutyes of the House."

" M r [Richard] Bromley according to a former Order haveing
been spoken withall by M r Treasurer [Aldworth] and others of

* See ante, pp. 58, 60. f George Strode. J See ante, pp. 72, 87.

of Hincoln's nm 91

the Bench about his undertakeing for this House, ist, to take
inventoryes of all goods belonging to the House ; 2\y, to buy all
utensills for the kitchin ; 3ly, to see the expence of fewell there
and the rates thereof made, to see the charcoal e, seacole and
billetts delivered out for some time, and that the same be layd
in att convenient seasons ; 4-ly, to looke after the weighing of the
bread and the buttery expence ; 5ly, termely to satisfy the Bench
what pewter and other thinges be lost in the kitchin ; 6ly, the like
in the buttery ; 7ly, to see the stores laid in for repayres, and
survey the workemen, and alsoe that they doe nothing without
direccion ; Sly, to pay the workemen weekely, and to keep the
keyes of the storehouses ; gly, to take an account from the Butler
of all receipts of money, and to pay the officers theyre wages and
other allowances ; loly, to examine the Preacher's, Pencions,
Vacacions, Fortnight's Comons, and Chimney Rolles, and to have
duplicates thereof; uly, to examine all bills (or make out all
bills) for dutyes, and that bonds be given upon calls to the Barre,
according to Order ; 12, to auditt the accounts weekly ; 13, to see
the sale of chambers ; 14, to have the comand of all the keyes ;
15, to have the use of the Councell Chamber or litle place made
up in the lobby adjoyning to the Councell Chamber; 16, that all
the Rolles of the House and other bookes be brought thither ;
upon the report of M r Treasurer that he will accept the same,
and referre himselfe wholely to the Bench as to what he shall
deserve, It is Ordered that he be entertained and impowered to
manage the above said perticulars accordingly, and the House at
the yeare's end will consider him according to his meritt."

M r Samuel While, an Attorney at Law, who has been
suspended and had his chamber seized for non-payment of
commons and other duties, is expelled the Society.

* M r George Townsend, an Associate of the Bench, is
admitted into a whole chamber in Gate House Court, Chancery
Lane Row, late M r Roger Twisden's, without paying any fine,
" in respect of the great bounty of the said M r Townsend in setting
up at his owne charge a statue in the Garden, and other kindnesses
by him showne to this Society."

Council held on November 28th, 1673.

Nine Benchers present.

"Ordered that M r Joseph Clarke and M r John Symons be fo. 91.
called to the Bench, and that they have sudden notice thereof."
W John Clarke, M r Bernard Turney, M r John Windham

*Red Book I. fo. 346. The statue was of Mark Anthony; see List of
Benefactors, Appendix.

92 flTfce ISlacfe ISoofeg of fLincoln'g $mt.

and M r John Eldred, refuse to be called to the Bench, as they
will not Read. Precedents are to be searched for, to ascertain
what fines or other penalties have been inflicted in the like cases.

Call to the Bar:

M r Thomas Cox; he has promised to get a chamber in the
House as soon as he can."

Council held on November 29th, 1673.

" On the peticion of M r Litleton Powys and M r Phipps,
Fellowes of this Society, sheweing that all the gentlemen who
have ground chambers towards the backside of the Saint John's
Head Taverne, are in great danger of haveing them robd, by
reason of the lownesse and weakenesse of the windowes;" the
Tresurer is requested to see to it.

"Ordered that Sir James Butler, being made the Queen's
Sollicitor and of the King's Councell, be and is hereby called to
the Bench, he haveing undertaken to Read and doe other excercises
of the House, as other Benchers are to doe that are under Reading
or have Read. And this, being in respect of his office, is not to
exempt or quote any of his antients of this Society from being
called to the Bench, or exclude any of the Barre from theyre
excercises in respect of theyre antiquity."

Accounts of Francis Goodrick, Knight, the Treasurer, from
Feb. 4th, 1673, to Oct. 23rd, 1673.*

Receipts: ,1,254 145. gd. Including ^519 135. 4d. for
admissions to chambers and chamber fines.

Payments: ,1,255 2S - 3^- Including ,200 repaid to Owen
Crofts, and ^100 to William Glyn, Knight; 95. to the porter for
watching on Grand Day; 33. 6d. for "tobaccoe"; 35. for 6 quarts
of mum;f ^no for apparels; 2S. for 4 quarts of mum; 35. 6d. for
i Ib. of tobacco.

Balance due to the Treasurer: 75. 6d.

1674. Officers for 1674.

Lent Reader: M r Thomas Carpenter.
Autumn Reader: M r Thomas Carpenter. J
Treasurer: M r Robert Aid worth.
Keeper of the Black Book: Sir Richard Stote.

* The heading of the roll says from Feb. 4th, 24 Charles II, which would be
1672, and make the account run for a year and more than eight months. The
Admission Book shows that the period covered is as given in the text. See
Goodrick's election, ante, p. 86.

f " A species of fat ale, brewed from wheat and bitter herbs." Scott,
Antiquary, xi.

\ He failed to read on both occasions ; see /<?.?/, p. 96.

iSIacfe ISoofeg of Utttcoltt's Etttt. 93

Council held on January 23rd, 25 Charles II, 1674. fo. 92.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that noe Bencher or any other of this Society have
any of the House bread or beere, save in the Hall onely, on
penalty of the Butlers loosing theyre places; and that this Order
be sckreened."

Council held on January 26th, 1674.
Eight Benchers present.
M r Joseph Clarke and M r John Simonds must give their fo. 93.
answers whether they accept their former call to the Bench or not.*
" Ordered that Sir James Butler [and others] be desired to
wayte on the Master of the Rollesf, to give him thankes for the
favour of the statue he hath declared he will give the Society, and
to invite him to dinner on the Grand Day."!

Council held on February loth, 1674.
Six Benchers present.

" M r Dearie of Canterburye's chamber" is to be viewed, fo. 94.
and all necessary repairs done.

Council held on May 6th, 1674. fo. 95.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that all such of this Society that for the future
shall be called to the Barre have chambers in the House at the
time of such their call, and that they keep, pay and performe all
their vacacions and other duties and exercises of the House; and
that this Order be sckreened."

Council held on May i2th, 1674.
Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that Sir Nicholas Pedley [and others] be a fo. 96.
Committee to attend the Master of the Rolles and M r Justice
Windham to give them thankes for the statues by them bestowed
on the garden." ||

" Ordered that M r Manby have the thankes of the Bench
given him by Sir James Butler for the bookes bestowed by him
on the Benchers of this Society."

Council held on May I9th, 1674.
Ten Benchers present.

The Dean's chamber has been viewed, and found to be in
great decay. It shall be forthwith amended and repaired. 1 !

* See ante, p. 67. f Harbottle Grimstone. + See p. 94.

D r Tillotson was admitted Dean, Nov. 4th, 1672.

|| The statues were Julius Caesar and Augustus. See List of Benefactors,
Appendix. U Dr. Tillotson's chamber ; see above.

94 &e iSlacfe &oofe$ of Unuoln'*

y~0. 97. Call to the Bar : William Browne.

Also John Raw ; but he is not to be published " untill that
he hath first bought and be admitted into a chamber or part of a
chamber in this Society."

" Ordered that M rs Roundall have speedy notice and a bill
of what is due to this House from her late husband ; and if shee
please to pay itt, the said M r Roundall's goods in his late chamber
are presently to be delivered unto her ; but in case shee refuse to
pay what is due, that then the Cheife Butler breake open the
study doore, and other places in the said chamber where any of
them are lockt up, and seise such goods and bookes of the said
M r Roundall's as are there, and detaine them for the use of this
Society till the Counsell shall give further Order ; and Sir
Richard Stote is desired to be present, and order that the said
goods be rightly inventoryed. And the said chamber and study
are to be forthwith cleaned for M r Duke to come into the same."

M r Richard Brownlow* is appointed Steward and Surveyor ;
he is to perform the duties already laid down for himt; he shall
have a servant to assist him in collecting the moneys and in
serving the Hall, for whom he shall be answerable, and who must
be approved of by the Council ; ^5 a year shall be allowed for
the servant's wages, who shall have commons with the rest of the
servants ; such servant to be instead of those two servants that
now serve the Hall ; M r Brownlow shall have ^"30 a year salary,
and shall be in his old chamber with the Head Butler.^

fo. 98. Council held on May 26th, 1674.

Twelve Benchers present.

The Black Books and Account Books, except the two last,
are to be kept in a press in the Council Chamber ; the Keeper
of the Black Book or his deputy shall keep the key.

" Ordered that M rs Roundell haveing had notice of the last
Order, and not haveing paid the money due to the House from
her husband, that his bookes be scheduled and secured."
fo. 99. [An Order was made for the seizure and sale of the chambers

of twenty gentlemen of the Society, who had not been in commons
for three years last past, nor paid their duties.]

Call to the Bar :
Edward Coleman, saving the antiquity of his ancients.

fo. 100. Council held on June ist, 1674.

Eleven Benchers present.

* Previously called Brownley and Bromley.

| Ante, p. 91. J He had been Chief Butler previously, see p. 44.

of ^Lincoln's nm 95

" Ordered that Sir Robert Holborne's armes, being a Reader
of this Society, be sett in the Chappell window, according to his
antiquity or seniority."*

" Ordered that M r Day and M r Atkins, two of the Masters of fo. 101.
the Bench, doe attend M r Justice Windham and M r Justice Atkins,
to acquaint them with the disobedience and refractorinesse of M r
Samuell Whylef, one of the Fellowes of this Society, to the Orders
and government of this House."

M r Thomas Middleton, one of the Fellows, must attend at
the first Council next term to answer such things as shall then be
objected against him. \Margin. "Tom of Lincoln. A bastard
childe borne in his chamber, and ballads of it."]

Council held on June 25th, 1674.
Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Lady Kempe or her agent payeing to M r
Treasurer the money arreare and oweing by M r Golfer's will to
the House, that his receipt shall be a good discharge for so much
as shall be so paid."

Two Benchers shall attend the Lord Privy Seal|, Lord Chief fo. 102.
Justice Hale, the Master of the Rolls, Justice Rainsford, Justice
Windham, and Justice Atkins, Trustees of this Society, to obtain
their execution of the lease of Thavies Inn.

Council held on July 2nd, 1674.
Eight Benchers present.

M r [John] Eldred, formerly called to the Bench, shall be
published at the next moot.

Council held on July nth, 1674.
Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Cove have liberty to build a house, one fo. 103.
story high, in Lincolne's Inne Fields, neare the kitchen garden."

Council held on October 27th, 1674.
Eight Benchers present.

M r Day is requested "to make out a list of such of the
Barresters of this House as do practice, and have noe chambers
in the House; and put the same in a proper order and method
with referrence to the Courts and places where they practice;
which is ordered to be presented to the Honorable the Judges of
this House on the Grand Day, requesting them, as well in their

* He read in Lent, 1642. % The Earl of Anglesey.

f See ante, p. 84. Harbottle Grimstone.

9 6

Macfe ISoofcg of ILuuoln'0

fo. 104.

fo. 105.

owne Courts as by speaking to the Judges of other Courts, to use
such effectual meanes that those Barresters may returne to this
House, and take chambers theire, for and towards the sustentacion
and honour of the House and profession of the law, as they in
their wisdome shall think fitt."

* Jasper Edwards, Esq., Utter Barrister, is admitted to part
of a ground chamber in Garden Court and Garden Row, now void
and in the disposition of the House by the death of M r John
Harrisonf, a Bencher, on payment of ^70. " Which grant is
made unto him in respect of his being an ancient of this House to
M r Robert Wright, who likewise petitioned at this Councell for
the same parte of the said chamber."

Council held on November 3rd, 1674.
Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :
William Cooke and John Gibbs ; Cooke shall not be
published until he is admitted to a chamber and has paid the fine.

Council held on November 6th, 1674.

Seven Benchers present.
M r Carpenter, having had due notice of his election as
Reader, and having neglected and refused to Read, is fined ^200.
Ordered further " that he be disbencht, and not to come into
Commons or the Hall till further Order, and his chamber seised
to the use of the House, and a padlock to be put on his study
doore."

Council held on November 2Oth, 1674.

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : William York.

" Ordered that M r Gudderick, [the Chaplain], is to take

care of M r Coleford's [Golfer's] affaire, and give an accompt to the

Councell from time to time as there shall be occasion."

Council held on November 26th, 1674.
Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Beningj, at the request of the

Master of the Rolls; saving the antiquity of all others.

* Red Book I, fo. 355.

f Harrison must have been a great age; he was admitted March 2, 1606,
called to the Bar in 1613, and to the Bench in 1630.
t Qy., Nicholas Penning, see/<w/, p. 98.

Macfe ISoofcs of Uttuoln's Enm 97

" Ordered that the Reading of M r Reader for next Lent
[Edward Atkins*] be dispenced withall till next August, and he
then to Read, and not before."

Call to the Bar : William Charleton. Also Roger

Twisden, having a considerable office, and desiring the favour
of the Bench to be called ; on giving a bond of ^30 to perform
his vacations.

Council held on November 28th, 1674.
Eight Benchers present.

"Ordered that M r Day and M r Thomas Strode doe waite fo. 106.
upon the Lord Cheife Justice Hale, to acquaint him with the
arreares that are due to the House from M r Thomas Hale, the
said M r Hales [sic] first having notice hereof."

Sir James Butler is chosen Treasurer, being one of the King's
Counsel.

" Ordered that M r Aid worth have thankes returned him by
this Councell for his great care and prudence in the managery of
the Treasurer's place, to the great advantage of this House, for
the year last past. And which was given him accordingly."

M r Robert Ashton is chosen Dean of the Chapel.

Accounts of Robert Aldworth, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Nov. ist, 1673, to Nov. 28th, 1674.

Receipts: .1,678 193. 9d. Including ^904 6s. 8d. for
admissions to chambers and chamber fines; 3 6s. 8d. from
Francis Clerke, Principal of Thavies Inn, for a year's rent due at
Michaelmas, 1672; ^5 from the same for a year's rent due at
Michaelmas, 1673; ^20 from the same for a fine.

Payments: ,1,684 s - T id- Including 35. for i Ib. of tobacco;
is. 8d. for 2 Ibs of sugar; ^207 to John Bateman due on a bond,
with interest; ^321 IDS. to Nicholas Pedley, due on a bond, with
interest; 36 to Robert Aldworth for his Reading, [Autumn,

] ; ^36 to George Strode for the like, [Autumn, 1673] ;

Balance due to the Treasurer:

Officers for 1675. 1675

Lent Reader : M r Edward Atkins. No Reading.
Autumn Reader : M r Edward Atkyns.
Treasurer : Sir James Butler, K.C.
Keeper of the Black Book : M r Robert Aldworth.

* Elected on Nov. 6th.

VOL. III.

98 CJe Black iSoofeg of Uincoln'g

Council held on January 29th, 26 Charles II, 1675.

Eleven Benchers present.

" Ordered, upon the speciall mocion of Sir John Churchill
and request of the Master of the Rolls, that M r Penning be
at liberty in the Grand Weeke to bring his moote, if hee canne
gett two of the gentlemen of the Bench to sitt." [" Done,"

M r George Strode, a Bencher who has Read, and who has
not had any part of a chamber nor ^50 in lieu thereof, shall be
paid ^"50.

M r Robert Ashton, who is in the same position, shall have
half a chamber granted to one of his sons.

fo. 107. Council held on February nth, 27 Charles II, 1675.

Nine Benchers present.

fo. 1 08. " Ordered, on the petition of some of the members of the

Society of Furnivall's Inne, and on hearing of them and of the
Principall and Ancients of the said House, that the elleccion of the
Reader for this time doe stand confirmed; and that Sir Nicholas
Pedley [and other Benchers] propound an Order and method for
the eleccion of Readers there for the future."

" On the peticion of M r Canef on the behalfe of the children
of M r Hillyard, his now wive's former husband, for the ^50,
residue of the ^100 this House was pleased to promise him for
pulling downe of the S l John's Head Taverne in the tyme of the
late fire, It is ordered that this House will consider of payment
thereof as soone as conveniently they cann." +

Council held on April 22nd, 1675.
Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

Eldred Lancelot Lee, William Heigham, and Theodorus
Bathurst.

" Ordered, the [? that] five Benchers make a Councell."
fo. 109. " Ordered that none be buryed under the Chappell of this

House but only such as att such tyme of their deceases have
chambers in the House and have beene usually in commons ; and
not to be done without leave of the Bench in terme time, and of
such of the Bench as are in the town in the vacacion time."

Ordered, upon the petition of several of the housekeepers in
Chancery Lane, over against the Garden, and near the house of

* See ante, p. 96. \ Or Caue. % See ante, pp. 52, 54.

The last paragraph is interlined, and very difficult to read.

Blacfc Boofcs of ^Lincoln's 3mm 99

M r Thomas Harris there, formerly called " The Castle," that
unless M r Harris by the next Council removes Thomas White,
his tenant in part of the said house, where he carries on the trade
of a smith to the great annoyance of the neighbours and of the
Garden, or else agrees to pay to the Society a yearly rent of ^9
(being the rent that White pays him), then the wall shall be
pulled down, so far as it is built upon the Society's ground.*

" For as much as Sir Edwin Rich, Knight, one of the
Associates to the Bench of this House, hath been a member of
this Society for above sixty three yeares last past, and an
Associate about forty yeares, and hath not only beene constantly
resident and in commons in this House, and likely soe to continue,
but a great benefactor to the same ;t and doth alsoe very well
knowe the customes and governement thereof, being about eighty
yeares of age, and by his constant residency and good example
may be of great advantage and use to this House in being made
and chosen one of the Benchers thereof ; and it is conceived by
this Councell that they are bound for the honour of the Society
to make the said Sir Edwin Rich a Bencher, as a testimony of
their gratefull acknowledgement of his great respect and munificence
expressed to this Society. It is thereupon ordered that the said
Sir Edwyn Rich be and is hereby chosen one of the Benchers
of this House, and is freed and excused from all exercises and
attendances thereon."

Council held on April 27th, 1675.
Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that Sir James Butler, [and others], doe waite upon
the Lord Cheife Justice Hale, to condole the losse of his sonn,
M r Thomas Hale, deceased, late one of the Fellows of this Society,
and that they offer the attendance of the Bench att his funerall;
and likewise that they offer the chamber of his said sonn to be att
his Lordshipp's pleasure for any other of his sonns."

M r Robert Ashton, one of the Masters of the Bench, is fo. 110.
elected Keeper of the Library for the year next ensuing. Sir
Nicholas Pedley, late a Bencher and Keeper of the Library, is
requested to deliver up the keys.^

Sir Edwin Rich is chosen Master of the Walks.

Whereas there have been controversies and disputes as to the
election of M r Symms as Reader of Furnival's Inn for this year,

* See ante. p. 68.

f See List of Benefactors, Appendix.

\ Sir Nicholas Pedley, George Strode and Richard Stote, were called Serjeants
earlier in the year between Feb. nth and April 22nd.

IOO

iSIacfe &oofe$ of ILtncolit'g

which election has already been confirmed,* the following rules are
now laid down for the regulation of such elections in future :

1. No member of Furnival's Inn, either Ancients or others,
shall, at the election of any Reader hereafter, subscribe for any
absent member, but for himself only.

2. And that to be done only in open Hall at the time of
dinner, and before grace said.

3. The election shall take place at the next dinner time after
the three names for the Readers shall be sent from this House to
Furnival's Inn.

4. Notice of the election shall be given in their Hall at supper
time the night before, before grace said.

5. If the three names shall be received after supper and
grace said, then notice shall be given at supper the next day, and
the election shall take place at dinner on the day following.

6. Any thing done contrary to these rules shall be absolutely
void, any former custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

fo. iii. Council held on April 29th, 1675.

Call to the Bar : Barnard Strode.

Sir John Churchill, M r Ashton and M r Atkyns, are requested
to give their opinions as to M r Golfer's legacy.

M r Maundy, the bricklayer, is to attend the next Council, to
answer "for his unhandsome carriage towards one of the Masters
of the Bench."

Council held on May 4th, 1675.
Five Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Samuel Carter, George Duke, and Thomas Shappcott.

fo. 1 1 2. [The chambers of seven Fellows are declared to be forfeited,

and ordered to be disposed of, for non-payment of commons and

other duties. The chambers of other seven, whose arrears amount

to ,149 95. 6d., shall also be seized and sold, unless the arrears

are paid by the next Council.]

Council held on May I2th, 1675.

Seven Benchers present.
fo. 113. M r Maundy, the bricklayer, shall not be any more employed

on the work of this House, until he apologise to M r Thomas
Strode, a Bencher.

* See ante, p. 98.

Macfe iSoofeg of Eiiuoln's Inm 101

Council held on May i7th, 1675.

Six Benchers present.

" It is ordered, upon the request of M r Justice Atkyns on
the behalfe of M r Joseph Hull, who hath beene a reveller and
constantly in commons, to give him an honorary call to the Barr,
(hee resolveing not to practice), that the said M r Hull be called
to the Barr," etc.

Council held on June i5th, 1675. fo. 114.

Five Benchers present.

"Ordered that the thankes of this House be returned to M r
[Peter] Hussey, one of the Associates to the Bench, for the statue
hee hath bestowed upon and lately caused to be erected in the
Garden of this House ; and that his name be entered amongst the
benefactors of this Society."

* M r Richard Reed not having paid his fine of ^100 imposed
upon him for not Reading ; Ordered that his chamber be seized
and sold for the payment thereof and other arrears.

Council held on June 23rd, 1675.
Seven Benchers present.

M r George Masters is desired to be present at the next fo. 115.
Council, in order to his being called to the Bench."

M r Day is desired to speak with M r Luke Astery, M r Jasper
Edwards, M r Henry Benningfeild and M r William Cotton, to the
like effect.

Council held on October 27th, 1675.
Six Benchers present.

M r George Masters now appeared, and " declared himselfe
not provided to be a Reader ; and therefore refused to come to
the Bench."

" Whereas Sir James Butler reported that he attended M r
Edward Atkyns. the Reader, at the last Reading, and that hee
performed the office of a Reader with good learneing and all
thinges belonging thereto It is ordered that he have the
thankes of this House for the same, which was now given him
accordingly."

Joseph Colfe, a cutler, petitions for leave to continue in part
of M rs Appleby's shop, which he now occupies by arrangement
with her. The application is refused on account of the great
annoyance and disturbance to the Society. He must remove in
a month, and not work there in the meantime.

* Red Book I, fo. 363. William Charleton, was admitted to the chamber,
Oct. ayth following, on payment of ^60. Ibid., fo. 364. See ante, p. 88.

102 Cfie iSlacfe ISoofes of Etncoln'* JEnn,

fo. 116. Council held on November 5th, 1675.

Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bench : M r Luke Astry. ' And this not to
exempt or quote any of his Ancients of this Society from being
called to the Bench, or exclude any of the Barr from their
exercises in respect of being called to the Barr before him, except
such only as were admitted before him."

Call to the Bar : Barnard Turney.

The study of the late William Darwin, Esq., late a Barrister
of this Society, is to be broken open, in order to obtain his will; at
the request of the executors.

M r Goodricke is desired "to manage and sollicit the
busynesse for recovery of the charity or pious use given by the
last will and testament of Henry Colfer, Esquire, late one of the
Fellows of this Society; and is to be satisfyed and reimbursed
what money hee shall expend in and about the recovery thereof,
out of the money that shall be recovered." *

Council held on November 9th, 1675.
Six Benchers present.

fo. 1 1 7. Call to the Bench : M r William Cotton.

" At his desire hee is not to be published till Easter terme
next, hee haveing not at the present a convenient chamber
befitting a Bencher, as hee alleadged."

Council held on November I5th, 1675.
Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

Sir Edward Rich and M r Robert Wright; to be published at
the next moot. [Clause of non-exemption, as above.]

Every gentleman in arrear for his commons one whole term,
shall, as regards his call to the Bar, be postponed one term for
every term in which he shall make default.

Every Fellow hereafter called to the Bar, and every gentleman
hereafter admitted to the Society, shall give a bond of ,40 penalty,
with two sureties, to insure payment of commons and performance
of vacations and exercises.

"Ordered that the former Order of Councell for restraineing
the Reader elect to give any entertainment the last day of the
terme precedent to his Reading, be revived, and stand in force."

* On the subject of "private," as opposed to "common," solicitors, see
Christian, Hist, of Solicitors, 81.

Blacfe &oofe$ of fLmcoln'g Entu 103

Council held on November i8th, 1675.
Seven Benchers present, also the following:

The Right Hon. Arthur, Lord Privy Scale, and Earle of
Anglesey, M r Justice Rainsford, M r Justice Windham, and M r
Justice Atkyns.

"And the said Lord Privy Scale and the said Lords the fo. 118.
Judges, findeing the said Society to be in great want of Benchers
and Readers, and attendance at Exercises and comeing into
commons and the House by those of the Barr, which is occasioned
by the refusall of those to come to the Bench that are fitt for itt
and are called thereunto, and by those of the Barr that keepe noe
chambers and residence in the House, nor continue in commons,
but practice abroad, to the great disparagment of the profession,
and as well of the decay of learning therein, as of the Society
itselfe : For redresse thereof, according to the ancient Orders and
customes for the government of the said Society, doe all of them
unanimously declare :

" i. That if a practiceing lawyer be called to be an Associate
to the Bench, it neither cann nor ought to exempt or priviledge
him from being after called to the Bench and to be a Reader, as
if he had not beene an Associate. But for Associates that are
soe made by reason of their Offices or great quallityes, haveing
beene formelely \sic\ of the House, that being only an honarary
call, it ought to be otherwise.

" 2. And they further declare that for such persons (whose
names are now presented to this Councell) as are fitt to be called
to the Bench, and accordingly have beene or shall be soe called,
and which thereupon shall refuse the same, they are utterly unfitt
to be afterward made Associates.

" 3. And they further declare that for such persons, as are
or shall be called to the Bench and yett refuse, they ought to
loose and forfeite their chambers, and be otherwise proceeded
against as farr as may be by any of the ancient Orders and
usages of the House, even to expulsion itselfe.

"4. And they further declare that for such Barristers of this
House (whose names are now presented to this Councell) that doe
practice and yett have noe chambers or continue in commons, as
they ought to doe, that the Bench doe forthwith order them to be
putt into commons, and alsoe summon them forthwith to attend
the Bench to give bonds to pay their commons and performe their
vaccacions, and that they with all convenient speede buy themselves
chambers, and reside and practice in the House. Otherwise, in
case of any defaulter, or any called to the Bench, or that shall be,
which shall refuse and not conforme, as aforesaid, that their names
be given to the Judges, to the end they may not practice or be

104 ^f)* Marfe ISoofcs of fncoln'0

heard at the Barr or in the Circuitt, nor have any other priviledges
of their profession till they conforme, as aforesaid."

Call to the Bench :

M r Samuel Eyre and M r Giles Eyre; to be published at the
next moot, saving to others their antiquity. Clause of non-
exemption.

M r William Guydott, one of the Ancient Barristers, having
been formerly desired to come to the Bench, has until the first
Council of next term to give a definite answer. If he accept the
call, his seniority shall be saved.

Council held on November 25th, 1675.
Twelve Benchers present.

M r Thomas Symms, having been formerly appointed Reader
of Furnival's Inn, and not having given any account thereof
to the Quatuor, is continued Reader of the said Inn till further
Order.

fo. 119. " Upon M r Missit, one of the Fellows of this Society, putting

in a paper at this Councell to be called to the Barr, being by
the Councell thought not fitt to be called, It is ordered it be
denyed."

"Ordered that noe surrender of any chamber or part of a
chamber be hereafter made but only by such persons who are and
shall bee then personally present."

Council held on November 29th, 1675.
Nine Benchers present.

fo. 1 20. " Ordered that the ancient way of taking the weekly accompts

of the House (by the two Masters of the Bench and the two
Barresters which sate upon the immediate preceding moote, upon
every Saturday) be revived and put in execucion, and that they
take up the said accompts every Saturday accordingly."

" Ordered that Sir James Butler, Knight, being one of the
King's Councell and one of the Masters of the Bench, have thanks
returned him by this Councell for his great care and prudence in
the managery of the Treasurer's place, to the greate advantage of
this House for the yeare last past."

1676. Officers for 1676.

Lent Reader: M r Thomas Strode.

Autumn Reader: Sir James Butler.

Treasurer: M r Edward Atkins.

Keeper of the Black Book: M r Thomas Strode.

f)e iSlacfe Boofes of Etttcoln's Enm 105

Council held on January 27th, 27 Charles II, 1676.
Twelve Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

M r Robert Dormer, of nearly seven years standing; at the
request of the Lord Privy Seal, [the Earl of Anglesey].

Sir Samuel Clarke, Knight,* a Barrister of this House, is
called to be an Associate to the Bench, on payment of ^50.

Council held on February 3rd, 28 Charles II, 1676.
Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : William Goldsborough.

A Committee is appointed " to attend my Lord Cheife
Justice Hales to scale M r Stampe's lease," [of Thavies Inn.
Margin .]

M r [William] Jackson is appointed Steward. fo. 121.

Council held on February loth, 1676.

Eight Benchers present.

A Committee is appointed to consider the title of the Inn
" to the three foote of ground without the garden wall," and to
report.

Council held on February I2th, 1676.

Six Benchers present.

A Committee is appointed " to attend my Lord Privy Scale
to give my Lord Privy Scale thankes for his greate bounty to this
House." f

"Ordered that noe Fellowe of this Society shall let out his fo. 122.
chamber to any person, or suffer any other person not being a
member of this Society to lodge in it, under the paine of seisure
of their respective chambers for offending, as forfeited to the use
of the House; and this Order to be screened, to the end all persons
may take notice thereof."

Council held on February i6th, 1676.
Ten Benchers present.

M r John Clerke's fine for not coming to the Bench is reduced
to 20 marks.;};

* One of the Masters in Chancery.

t He had presented a massive silver dish and ewer. Both are engraved with
the Earl's arms, and the dish has this inscription : "This Bason with the Ewre is
Given to the Hon ble Society of Lincolnes Inn by the Right Hon ble Arthur, Earle
of Anglesey, a Member thereof, and Lord Keeper of his Ma tie>s Privy Scale.
Febr: 2 d - 1675. v

J See ante, p. 90.

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io6 i)e 3$lacfe 2$oofeg of fLfncoln'0

Council held on April I4th, 1676.
Nine Benchers present.

M r Goodrick is to bring in a bill of his expenses in the suit
against M r Golfer's heirs.

fo. 123. Council held on April 2Oth, 1676.

Eight Benchers present.

M r Day, one of the Masters of the Bench, reports "that he
attended M r Thomas Strode, the Reader this last Lent vacation,
at his Reading, and that he performed the office of a Reader with
good learning and all things belonging thereto, to the honor and
credit both of the House and himselfe." M r Strode is to have all
" profitts, priviledges, advantages and preheminences given him
that any Reader before him ever had " ; and also the thanks of the
House.

" Whereas M r William Martin,* a member of this Society,
misbehaving himselfe in being a common sollicitor, and
particularly solliciting a cause against this Society of Lincolne's
Inn, and on the reproofe by the Maisters of the Bench given
him for the same, he so misdeameaned himselfe as he gave them
a further just cause of offence against him." Ordered that he
be put out of commons till further Order.

Call to the Bench:

M r William Guidott; to be published at the next moot, witl
his seniority saved.

M r William Cotton, who has already been called, t shall be
published at the same time. Clause of non-exemption.

Sir James Butler, K.C., Attorney General to the Queei
is chosen Autumn Reader.

Council held on April 28th, 1676.
Thirteen Benchers present.
The Treasurer is desired to commence an action, as he shal
be advised, against M r Monteath, "concerning the three foote
ground on the north side of the garden wall."

fo. 124. M r William Martin, acknowledging his offence, is admitt(

again into commons.

Council held on May 3rd, 1676.
Eight Benchers present.

M r Henry Holmes desires to be excused from being called
the Bench.

* See ante, p. 76. f See ante, p. 102.

Macfe ISoo&s; of ^Lincoln's Inn, 107

Call to the Bar : Robert Corbet.

Council held on May 8th, 1676.
Ten Benchers present.

M r Corbet's call to the Bar is vacated.

Sir James Butler " is desired to withdraw his eleccion of
being Reader for the next Autumne, by reason of the greate
necessity of the present repaire of the Chappell." Four Benchers
are desired "to attend my Lord Chancellor,* and acquaint him
therewith."

A Committee is appointed " to state the accounts of Sir
Francis Goodricke, and report on just defalcacions f what remains
due," that it may be paid to his widow and executrix, Dame
Hester Goodricke.

Council held on May 29th, 1676. fo. 125.

Ten Benchers present.
The Order as to the Reading is vacated.

Council held on June 5th, 1676.
Ten Benchers present.

The chambers of all members of the Society who are ^10 in
arrear shall be forthwith padlocked.

The Treasurer shall pay Lady Goodricke ^55 in full of all
demands.

Ordered that Hugh Pattle, the Head Porter, shall have
" the place of sitteing and selling fruit at the foregate, by the guift
of the Bench," during pleasure; "and that Croome's wife have
liberty till Michaelmas Terme to remove."

Three Benchers "are desired to treate with the Lady Kemp, fo. 126.
and all persons concerned for her, about M r Colfier's legasy; and
allsoe to treat with M r Martin, in order to bring the cause now
depending in Chancery to a hearing, and to get the decree of the
said Court, either amicably or otherwaies, as they shall think fit,
for the payment of the said legasy."

Council held on June i2th, 1676.
Ten Benchers present.

M r Richard Berrisford's chamber shall be seized for non-
payment of arrears. The Lord Chief Baron [William Montagu]

* Sir Heneage Finch, afterwards Earl of Nottingham. This is the first
occasion on which notice of the postponement of a Reading is stated to have been
| given to the Chancellor. The reason for so doing is not very clear, as he was of
the Inner Temple, and not an ex-Fellow of Lincoln's Inn.

f Deductions, see N. E. D.

io8 6* Macfe i&oofes of Ettuoln'g

is to be informed, and requested to appoint some other place for
the Exchequer records.

[Fourteen chambers are ordered to be padlocked.]

fo. 127. Council held on June i5th, 1676.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: Robert Corbet.

fo. 128. Council held on August 9th, 1676.

Seven Benchers present.

" Upon the request of the Right Honourable Arthur, Earle
of Anglesey, Lord Privy Scale, and one of the Masters of the
Bench of this Society, and a person that by many benefaccions
hath obliged this Society, that M r Altham Anslow \_sc. Annesley],
his second son, one of the Fellowes of this Society, might be
called to the Bar " ; Ordered accordingly.

" Ordered that M r Ptolimache [Tollemache] Duke have the
thanks of the Bench for the presents he hath made to this Society,
being a large payer of silver candlesticks ; and that his name be
registred amongst the benefactors of this Society." *

Council held on October 25th, 1676.

Nine Benchers present.

Upon hearing what M r Richard Berrisford had to say why
he should not pay his arrears due to the Society It is ordered
that unless he pay all his arrears before the next Council, his
chamber shall be forthwith seized and sold.

The chambers of all members who are $ in arrear for
absent commons, shall be padlocked, unless they pay within a
fortnight.

fo. 129. Council held on October 3Oth, 1676.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

Samuel Shaw, "haveing been admitted and civilly behaved
himselfe seven yeares in the said Society."

M r Asgill must show cause at the next Council why he has
dug a cellar under his chamber, without leave of the Bench, and
why he does not remove the earth cast out in digging the same;
and also why he has broken down the wall and widened his
windows without leave.

* These candlesticks, now gilt, are still used in the Chapel. They ai
inscribed Ex dono Tollemach Duke, gen. 1676.

ISlacfe &oofe$ of Huuoin's Enn* 109

M r Richard Berrisford has not paid his arrears. It is
therefore ordered that the Chief Butler and Porter do forthwith
padlock and seize his chamber for the use of the Society ; and
they shall take care that no one break into or enter the said
chamber without leave of the Bench. If any person shall be so
hardy and adventurous as to do so, Sir James Butler, one of the
Bench, who is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex,
is desired to bind over the offender to appear at the next General
Sessions for Middlesex, and in the meantime to keep the peace.
A copy of this Order shall be fastened on the door of the
chamber.

Council held on November 2nd, 1676. fo. 130.

Nine Benchers present.

M r Goodricke, the Chaplain, shall have 20 towards the
arrears of M r Collier's lecture, which sum shall be deducted when
the moneys are received out of the land given by M r Colfier
for that use.

Call to the Bar : Edward Atkyns junior.

Council held on November 2ist, 1676.
Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : George Musgrave.

"Upon the informacion of Sir Edward Rich, one of the fo. 131
Masters of the Bench, that he had made a condicional agreement
with the Commissioners of Scotland Yard * to open a way out of
Chancery Lane into Lincolne's Inne Feilds It is ordered that
the Masters of the Bench doe veiw the same on Saturday next
after dinner, to see what prejudice it may be to this Society." t

Council held on December ist, 1676. fo. 132.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Edward Strode be and heareby is
appointed to solicitte for this Society against the Lady Kempe for
the recovery of the annuity given to the use of this Society by
M r Colfier ; and he is to make breviats of the case to attend Sir
John Churchill, M r Stedman and M r Guidott with the present
proceedings, and take their further direccion therein ; and
they are heareby requested from time to time to advise him
therein."

* Probably the Office of Works.

f There had been a previous scheme in 1664, as to which see Appendix.

no f)e ISlacfe iSoofeg of !Uncoln'g 5tm,

Accounts of Edward Atkins, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. loth to Nov. 2Qth, 1676.

Receipts: ,1,068 is. 6d. Including $ 55. gd. from Sir
James Butler, the late Treasurer; ^13 6s. 8d, from M r John
Clerke, senior, his fine for not coming to the Bench.

Payments: ,1,043 6s. 3^- Including 6 to William Edwards,
architect, in part payment; ^49 i8s. to John Longland, architect;
los. to Sir Christopher Wren's servant; 2 IDS. to Stephen
Heath, the clocksmith.

Balance: ^24 145. 3d. [sic].

1677. Officers for 1677.
Lent Reader:

Autumn Reader: M r James Stedman.
Treasurer: M r Thomas Strode.
Keeper of the Black Book: M r James Stedman.

fo. 133. Council held on January 24th, 28 Charles II, 1677.

Eleven Benchers present.

John Sawyer, carpenter, who has taken " the corner house at
the east end of Lincolne's Inne Feilds," petitions for leave to
convert the ground rooms into shops, according to the proposals
sent by him to this Council. He has leave granted to him, " soe
as he doe it in a decent manner, and without any prejudice to the
Garden and Walkes of Lincolne's Inne,"

fo. 134. Gowns must be worn in Hall in vacation time at dinner and

supper, on pain of paying 8s. 6d. a week for commons.

" Ordered that it be and hereby is referred to M r Treasurer
[and others] to speake with M r Deane of Canterbury [Tillotson]
touching M r Fairefaxe's Manuscripts " ; to report at the next
Council.*

Council held on January 30, 29 Charles II, 1677.
Eight Benchers present.

All those in arrear for absent commons, Preacher's Roll or
Chimney Money, to the amount of 403. must pay before the next
Council, or their chambers will be padlocked.

Sir James Butler [and others] are appointed a Committee

* Charles Fairfax of Lincoln's Inn and Menston, Yorkshire, died Dec. 1673.
By his will, dated 1672, be bequeathed valuable MSS. to the Inn, according, as he
says, to a promise made 'to my late dear friend D r Samuel Browne, Knt, one of
the Justices of the Common Pleas, . . . the said books to remain as my gift
and legacy in the public library of the said House, of which I formerly had the
honour to be a member.' Diet. Nat. Biog. Only two MSS. now in the Library
can be identified as the gift of Fairfax.

Blacfe ISoofes of Eituoltt'g

"to treat with Sir Richard Ford and the Governors of the
Hospitall* about the three foot of ground without the garden wall."

Council held on February 8th, 1677. fo. 135.

Seven Benchers present.

All fines for failures of exercises must be paid before the
next Council ; the chambers of defaulters shall be padlocked.
" The moneys thereby to be raised to be imployed for and towards
the beautyfying of the Library and buying books to be kept
therein."

" Ordered that Coll. Fairfaxe's Manuscripts be and are
hereby ordered to be brought to the Bench table on Satturday
next att dinner tyme, or Munday after at dinner, to be disposed of
as shall be then ordered by the Quatuor."f

Council held on February i2th, 1677. fo. 136.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that Coll. Fairfaxe his name be and is hereby to
be registred amongst the benefactors of this Society."

" Ordered that the Cheife Butler doe and is hereby ordered
to attend M r Samuell Eyre, one of the Masters of the Bench, att
the house of the late Lord Cheife Justice Haile, in order to
receive and convey upp his legacy of bookes by him given to
this Society ; the said M r Samuell Eyre being desired on the
behalfe of this Society to receive and convey up to this House
the said legacy." \

Council held on February i6th, 1677.

" Ordered that M r Astrey and M r Samuell Eyre, two of the fo. 137.
Masters of the Bench, be and are hereby chosen a Committee to
treate with the Executors of the late Lord Cheife Justice Hale
concerning the gifts given by him to this Society."

No one Bencher shall have power to admit any person to
this Society while any Benchers are in commons. It is therefore
ordered that M r John Smythe's admittance is hereby vacated,
"hee being admitted out of the Hall whilst the Masters of the
Bench were in commons, and after they had refused to grant
him his admittance in the Hall." His fine shall be returned
to him.

* Probably S. Bartholomew's Hospital; see reference in 1664, Appendix.

f See ante, p. no.

j Sir Matthew Hale, C.J.K.B., died on Dec. 25, 1676. The clause in his
will bequeathing certain MSS. to Lincoln's Inn, and the Schedule thereof drawn
up by Hale himself, are printed in full in Hunter's Catalogue.

j)e Macfe ISoofeg of Eineoln'g

Council held on May 8th, 1677.
Eleven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

Granado Piggott, John Keene, Marmaduke Darcy and
Thomas Pudsey.

fo. 138. M r John Smyth's admittance is hereby allowed, and so much

of the former Order of Feb. i6th as relates to the same is hereby
annulled. But the former part of the Order is hereby confirmed.

" Ordered that a letter be sent to the widow of the late Lord
Cheife Justice Hales in the name of this Societie, that her LadiP
would be pleased to order that the bookes that his Lord p P has by
his will given to this Societie, may be delivered to their servant,
which they have sent on purpose to see them safely brought up;
and that Sir Robert Atkins the younger, a member of this Society,
and neighbor to the said Lady,* be alsoe written to, and desired
to wayt on the Lady Hales, and order the books, on her delivery
thereof, to be sent up to this Societie."

Council held on May i5th, 1677.

Eleven Benchers present.
fo. 139. A Committe is appointed "to see what hath beene already

expended and laid out in the new buildings and building of the
Hall of Thavies Inne," and to consider proposals from the Ancients
touching any further new buildings.

" In regard severall Barristers of this Society of antient
standing have refused to come to the Bench, and considering how
few there are likely to succeede those that lately came upp, it is
thought very expedient, and for the service of this Society, that
there be but one Reading from henceforth in every yeare, and
likewise but one Reader chosen in each yeare, for this Society.
Which is ordered accordingly."

Council held on May i8th, 1677.

Fifteen Benchers present ; including the Earl of Anglesey,

Lord Privy Seal.

"The Right Hono l)le the Lord Privy Scale, the Lord Cheife
Justice of the King's Bench, f M r Justice Windham, M r Justice
Atkyns, and M r Justice Jones, haveing fully heard as well Sir
Humphrey Doleman and M r John Strode, who by Order of

* Lady Hale was probably at Alderley, where Sir Mathew died ; Sir Robert
Atkyns lived at Sapperton. Both seats are in Gloucestershire, and some 15 miles
apart.

t Sir Richard Rainsford, appointed April 12, 1676.

Macfe &oo&$ of Etncoltt's nn, u,

Councell stoode suspended this House, as severall Barristers
and gentlemen of this House on their behalfe"; and on Doleman
and Strode submitting themselves and promising good behaviour
in future, the Order of suspension is cancelled.

Council held on May 23rd, 1677. fo. 140.

Nine Benchers present.

The Principal and Ancients of Furnival's Inn, on their
petition, have leave to assign, for any term not exceeding the
remainder of their own lease, " that part of their garden next
Leather Lane, extending from the end of the Chequer Stable to
Brooke Garden wall, being about six score foote in length and
forty two foote in bredth," for the building of new chambers for
the members of their Society, and not otherwise.

The evidences of the House are to be inspected, " in order to
prepare for the tryall, the next terme, for the ground without the
great garden wall."

A Committee is appointed " to consider and report to the
Councell what is fitt to be done about new building or repaireing
of the Chappell or any part of it, and for the most speedy and
cheape way."

Council held on May 28th, 1677.

Eight Benchers present.

M r Webb and M r Lee, two of the Barristers of this Society, fo. 141.
must attend at the first Council next term, " to shew cause why
they should not pay a fyne for riseing from the Barr before grace
was said."

Council held on June I5th, 1677.
Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that the executors of the late Lord Cheife Justice
Hale be and are hereby to be defended in the suite commenced in
the High and Hono ble Court of Chancery against them by M r
Stephens,* at the sole charge of this Society; and also that a dis-
charge shall be given to the said executors for all such bookes as
have been received by this Society."

" Ordered that M r Treasurer pay to M r Allen, late servant
to the late Lord Cheife Justice Hale, ^"10, as the guift of this
Society for his paynes and travell in and about the said bookes
and the delivery thereof."

* Hale's eldest daughter married one Edward Stephens for her second husband.
Burnet's Life, p. 183.

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n 4 ClK iSlacft iSoofes of ^Lincoln's

" Ordered that M r Treasurer doe with all speede, safety and
beauty prepare archives * in the Library for the bookes given to
this Society by the late Lord Cheife Justice Hale."

" Ordered that the picture of the late Lord Cheife Justice
Hale be and is hereby to be prepared for and hung upp in the
Library of this House, and that M r Treasurer be desired to see
it done." t

fo. 142. Council held on June 22nd, 1677.

Six Benchers present.

Sir John Francklyn, Knight, a Master of the Chancery and
a Barrister of this Society, is called to be an Associate to the
Bench, paying ^50 and all arrears. \

The clerks or servants to Associates to the Bench called
after the beginning of this term, shall not have commons with the
Benchers' clerks.

fo. 143. " Ordered that M r Goodricke have the ^"30 paid to him by

M r Treasurer, which was lately paid by M r Golfer's heire, of his
arreares for preaching the lecture."

fo. 144. Council held on July 6th, 1677.

Eleven Benchers present.

Sir John Thompson must forthwith cause the windows of his
chamber in this House to be glazed and his chamber door to be
repaired.

Sir James Butler, Knight, a Bencher, shall have 5 marks
paid to him by the Treasurer out of the arrears due to the House
from M r Daston, "for soe much the said M r Daston was to pay
for being one of his Stewards att his Reading."

fo. 145. Council held on July i3th, 1677.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Order for M r Edward Stroud's admittance
into the whole chamber over the Gate, being one of the best
chambers in the House, and the sayd Edward Stroude being an
atturney and but of three years' standing in this House, be
suspended."

Council held on August 6th, 1677.
Four Benchers present.

* Probably presses or bookcases; see Ducange, s. v., Archivnm.
f This portrait now hangs in the Drawing Room, and is said to be by
Michael Wright.

I His portrait hangs in the Drawing Room.

ISlacfe iSoofes of !Uttcoltt's Inn* 115

Call to the Bar : George Raynsford, at the request of his
father, Lord Chief Justice Raynsford, ''that was of this Society
and a person that much obliged the same." Not to exempt his
seniors from doing exercises.

Council held on October 3<Dth, 1677. fo. 146.

Ten Benchers present.

Sir James Butler, one of the Readers of this House, has
elected to take ^50 in lieu of a Bench chamber.

Call to the Bar : James Wittewronge, saving seniority to his
seniors; not to exempt his juniors from doing exercises.*

M r James Stedman is thanked for his Reading. f fo. 147.

Council held on November 8th, 1677.
Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that M rs Mary Bayly have liberty to build a shedd
upon a peece of ground lying next Lincolne's Inne Garden wall,
on entering into Turnestyle Alley, leased to her by one M r Cooper,
shee paying therefore to this House the summe of tenne groates
per annum, by quarterly paiments. And that she continue the
said shedd dureing the pleasure of the Bench."

Call to the Bar :

Michael Styles, and Christopher Brayne.J

Absent commons shall be gathered every Term. fo. 148.

The old Order for auditing the accounts of the House once
a week shall be revived.

A Committee is appointed to " examine what leave or
interest the Earle of Clare gave this House for useing of the
common shoare in the Feilds, that the Lord Cheife Baron j
may have the liberty he desires of makeing from his now dwelling
house of a gutter thereunto, that it may not prejudice this House
in the respect of the said leave or grants from the said Earle of
Clare."

Council held on November i5th, 1677.
Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that from henceforth noe Reader of this House
have power to admit spetially any person whatsoever a member fo. 149.
of this Society under the degree of a Lord, except he be some
forreign Minister. And that every Reader from henceforth

* This clause seems to have become common form.

f See the form, ante, p. 106. No more Readers were appointed.

J Query, Christopher Bryan, adm. Feb. n, 1662.

A sewer. || William Montagu.

u6 &JK ISlacfe #oofes of ILincoln'*

to be chosen, in lieu of that priviledge, bee allowed ^30 out of
the Treasury of this Society. And that noe person be henceforth
spetially admitted (except before excepted) but by a spetiall Order
of Councell. And that if such Reader aforesaid admitt any
person generally to bee a member of this Society, that the Cheife
Butler receive all moneys paiable for such admittance, and
account for the same to this Society."

" Ordered that M r Charles Egerton, one of the sonnes of the
Right Honorable the Earle of Bridgewater, shall be admitted
a member of this Society, and have his time allowed him here
for soe longe as he hath been admitted of the Middle Temple."

M r Hill is fined 20 for refusing to act as Master of the
Revels, having been duly chosen.

" Ordered that the Butler give the names at the next
Councell of the respective Readers of the Innes of Chancery
belonging to this House, that have been chosen for the two
yeares last past, and that they give an account whether they have
performed their duty there. And alsoe give the names of the
severall vacation Barristers of this House that did not attend the
last Reading and the Reading next before."

fo. 151. Council held on November 22nd, 1677.

Eight Benchers present.

M r Knight and M r Corwarden are each fined 20 for not
performing their duties as Readers of the Inns of Chancery.

M r Cage 5 marks for the like.

" Ordered that the respective vacation Barristers that have not
attended in their respective vacations be and are hereby fined
405. apeece for each vacation in which they have soe neglected to
attend."

"Ordered that M r Astrey and M r Samuell Eyres, two of the
Masters of the Bench, take an account of such of the bookes of
my Lord Cheife Justice Hale as are delivered, and cause a
catalogue to be made, and a writeing of an acknowledgment of the
receipt of them, to which the -Masters of the Bench will set their
hands."

"Ordered, in pursuance of former Orders of Councell, that
M r Day and M r Astry, two of the Masters of the Bench, doe
prepare and make a list of the names of all such Barristers of this
fo. 152. House as doe practice as Barristers, and have noe chambers in
this House, to be presented to the Right Honorable the Lord
High Chancellor* and the Lords the Judges where and before
whom they respectively practise, that their Lordshipps would be

* Heneage Finch.

Black Books of ^Lincoln's Jmu 117

pleased to admonish them forthwith to retorne to the said House,
gett chambers, and keepe in commons."

All those who have not been in commons, otherwise than at
Readings, for the last twelve months, are suspended the Hall.

" Ordered that M r Allen be permitted to repaire [to] the
Library at Library hours, there to finish the copy of the Reportary
of the Records of the Tower,* for the use of my Lord Chancellor."

Call to the Bar : Nicholas Pedley.

Council held on November 28th, 1677. fo. 153.

Ten Benchers present.

M r Robert Power, a member of the Middle Temple, is fo. 154.
admitted a member of this Society, with his seniority.

M r [William] Page, an Associate to the Bench, must show
cause why he should not pay his fine of ^100 for not Reading. f

Council held on December ist, 1677.
Nine Benchers present.

Those vacation Barristers, " who have not attended and done fo. 155.
theire dutyes at Readings," must pay their fines. All defaulters
must attend the first Council next term. [A list of 25 names
follows, with fines affixed varying from 2 to ^8.]

It now appears, from a copy of the admission, that M r Robert fo. 156.
Power was admitted to the Middle Temple on October ist, 1675.
His time shall be allowed him in this Society from that date.

Accounts of Thomas Strode, Esquire, Serjeant at Law, the
Treasurer, from Feb. 2nd to Oct. 3Oth, 1677.

Receipts : ^964 25. 4d. Including ,50 from M r John Jones
for M r Golfer's legacy.

Payments : ^934 135. 6d. Including ,36 to himself for his
Reading in Lent, 1675-6 ; ^4 to Richard Button, the glass-
painter ; i 1 6s. to Humphrey Londfoote for 12 " lether
bucketts " J ; gd. for tobacco; 2s. id. for sugar; 7d. for lemons
and " oringes " ; 8d. for lemons; 10 i8s. 6d. each to Thomas
Strode and John Shaw, the Serjeants at Law, including [? gloves
and] purses.

Balance : ^29 8s. icd.

* There are several MSS. in the Hale Collection answering to this description,
f Page was called to the Bench in 1659, and was made an Associate in 1673,
on his refusing to Read. See ante, p. 58.
+ Query, fire buckets.

u8 t!T!)e &lacfc ISooitg of Uincoln'*

1678. Officers for 1678.

Treasurer : M r James Stedman.

Keeper of the Black Book : M r Luke Astry.

fo. 157. Council held on January 25th, 29 Charles II, 1678.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : John Strode.

George Farthing, stationer, has leave to assign his shop at
the back gate of the House to a barber.

Robert Smeeton, barber, may take the shop and follow his
calling there, for the remainder of the lease, if he shall so long
remain unmarried and behave himself well and inoffensively ;
" but he shall not hang out any pole or basins, according to the
common custom of barbers."

fo. 158. "Ordered that Wednesday, after supper, being the fast day

for the late King's murder, be sett apart to consider the buisnesse
of repaireing the Chappell, outlyeing Barristers, and concerneing
severall fines."

Council held on January 3ist, 1678.
Eleven Benchers present.

fo. 159. On hearing the petition of Henry Ward, barber, the Order

made at the last Council in favour of Robert Smeeton is vacated.

" Ordered that the Chappell of this Societye be repaired by
voluntary contribucion, and that all persons members of this
Societye promote the same."

" Ordered upon the report of seaven Masters of the Bench
that the names of the severall Barristers of this House that
practize in the Courts at Westminster or in the Circuits, and yet
have no chambers or parts of chambers in this House, to the
great decay thereof, be, in pursuance of former Orders of Councell,
presented to the Lord Chiefe Justice and other Judges that were
of this House, on the Grand Day, being on Saturday next ; and
that their Lordshipps be desired to take such effectuall course
with them that they returne to this House ; and that the Master
of the Rolls [Grimston] be desired to present the same to the
Right Honorable the Lord Chancelour " [Finch].

Twelve Barristers are to be sued on their bonds, in respect
of the fines owing by them for failure of exercise, unless the same
be paid this term.

fo. 1 60. Council held on February 5th, 30 Charles II, 1678.

Seven Benchers present.

All Fellows of the Society visi in villa, whether they have
chambers in the House or not, shall be taxed 2s. 6d. a term for

Black Boofcs of ^Lincoln's; Htm* n 9

the payment of the Preacher ; they must also be in commons, as
those that have chambers.

All chambers that are now padlocked for various defaults,
shall be forthwith seized to the use of the Society.

Council held on February i2th, 1678.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Astry and M r Samuel Eyre, or any other fo. 161.
of the Masters of the Bench, be desired to peruse the late Lord
Chief Justice Hale his books and manuscripts, given to this
Societye ; and to consider in what method and manner they shall
be placed and bound, whereby they may be rendered more usefull,
and be secured."

Council held on April igth, 1678. fo. 162.

Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : [Samuel] Somerford.

On the report of a Committee as to what chambers are fit to
be Bench chambers, giving a list of 15 Fellows whose chambers
as fit for Bench chambers, " It is ordered that when any of the
said chambers . . . fall into the disposicion of this House, that
they be disposed of to no other members of this Society but
to the Benchers of the same ; and that the chambers that are
Bench chambers be continued such."

Council held on April 24th, 1678. fo. 163.

Twelve Benchers present.

M r Nathaniel Knight is fined 20 for not Reading at
Thavies Inn last year.

Call to the Bar : George Huxley.

Council held on April 3Oth 1678.
Seven Benchers present.

M r Seys is fined 2os. for breaking out a window without an
Order of the Council. M r Warburton is fined 305. for the like,
it being in the front of the House. fo. 164.

" Ordered that the Lord Chief Justice Hales his bookes be
forthwith bound and chayned ; and it is referred to M r Astry and
M r Samuel Eyre, who putt them in order, to direct further what
shall be necessary to be done concerneing them."

" Ordered that M r Treasurer be allowed the charge of the
habeas corpus sued out for John Golding, the head cooke, now
prisoner in the Fleete."

120 C6t Blacfe &oofc$ of Utncoln'g

Council held on May 6th, 1678.

Ten Benchers present.

fo. 165. " Whereas his Majestic hath bin pleased to take into his royall

consideracion the greate expence of Readers in the severall Innes
of Court; and, for the regulacion therof by his Lord Chancelour
and Judges, hath signified his pleasure to be that no Reader, not
being of his Majestie's Councell or Recorder of London, should
expend above three hundred pounds, to the end the same may be
reduced to a conformity therein.

" It is by a generall consent of the foure Innes of Court agreed
as followeth:

1. " That no Reader give liverye to any above the number of
twoe, and those to attend his person.

2. "That no publique entertainment or exceedeings be given
on Munday, on which [day], and not before, the Readeing shall
beginne; save onely wine and bisketts on Sunday morneing, before
he goes to church.

3. "That every Readeing doe determine on the Friday next,
at eleaven of the clock; and that dureing the Readeing there be
but twoe Grand Dayes, unlesse when the Readeing beginns before
Circuitts, and not to exceede twoe courses upon any Grand Day.

4. " That on other dayes no person be permitted to dine in
the Hall, save onelye members of the Societye in theire gownes,
and then to have but one course at the Reader's table, and neither
breakefast nor supper at the Reader's charge dureing the Readeing.

5. " That no wine be permitted to be brought into the Hall
in bottles dureing the Readeing, nor drinkeing glasses used in the
Hall, save at the Reader's table; and the Reader's sellers to be
shutt when he riseth from dinner.

6. "That the exceedings in the Hall shall be such as the
Benchers of the respective Houses shall direct and apoynt.

" Upon readeing the agreement aforesaid at this present
Councell, It is ordered that the said agreement be made an Order
of Councell, and that if any shall transgresse this Order, that the
person so transgressing have no benefitt of a Reader allowed him
by this Societye."

Council held on May gth, 1678.
Six Benchers present.
M r Hildesley is fined a mark for breaking out a door in his
chamber wall, without leave. His fine would have been greater,
but that it seems there was formerly a door in the same place.

The Treasurer shall pay $ towards the enlargement of Johi
Goulding, the head cook, out of prison.

" Ordered that a decree be endeavored to be obteyned ii

Mack ISoofes of Htncoln's Inn,

121

Michaelmas Terme next, for setling M r Golfer's gift to this
Societye "

" Ordered that it be referred to M r Treasurer and M r Astry
to prepare a letter or letters to such persons as shall be desired to
contribute to-the repayreing of the Chappell, and that a list of the
names of such persons be by them brought in next Councell."

Council held on May i3th, 1678. fo. 166.

Seven Benchers present.

"Ordered that the gardner of this Societye keepe the grasse
plotts constantly cutt close in the summer tyme, and that he
beginne to mowe the grasse plotts of the lower ground on
Wednesday next."

Council held on May i6th, 1678.
Six Benchers present.
Sir James Butler is to have ^36 for his Reading.*

Council held on June I2th, 1678. fo. 167.

Six Benchers present.

Charles Egerton, Esq., lately admitted of this Society, shall
be counted as having been admitted on April 2Oth, 1673, the date
when he was admitted to the Inner Temple.

Council held on June iQth, 1678.
Six Benchers present.

M r Day, a Bencher, and M r Manby, an Associate to the fo. 168.
Bench, who have no chambers, but lodge in their sons' chambers,
and who are in arrear for the Preacher's Roll, and have several times
refused to pay such arrears, are suspended the Hall until payment.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer pay the bookbinder for bindeing
the bookes of the Lord Chiefe Justice Hale, according to the
agreement with him made."

It now appears that Charles Egertonf, Esq , son of the Right
Honorable the Earle of Bridgwater, was specially admitted into
the Inner Temple ; Ordered that he shall be specially admitted
into this Society.

Council held on June 27th, 1678.

Five Benchers present.

M r Thomas Winford, has leave to enlarge the windows of
his chamber in Chapel Court, Dial Row. The plan must be
approved by two Benchers.

* In Autumn, 1676.

t He was 4th son of John, 2nd Earl, grandson of Lord Chancellor Egerton.
Collins' Peerage, iii, 1 98.

VOL. III.

122 Cfte ISlacfc 3$oofe0 of fLfncoln's

Council held on July 3rd, 1678.
Six Benchers present.

fo. 169. "Ordered that M r Treasurer pay to Thomas Greene, Chief

Butler, $ for his paynes in transcribing names out of the
Bookes of Admittances, in order to the repaireing of the Chappell."

Council held on October 3<Dth, 1678.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :
John Weddall and William Seys.

Council held on November 6th, 1678.
Eight Benchers present.

M r Goodrick, [Divinity] Reader of this Society, shall be
forthwith paid ^30, on account of the sum of ^45, due to him
for preaching M r Golfer's lecture.

The Steward presents a list of 15 gentlemen who are indebted
to him for " eaten commons." *

All those who have been already complained of shall be
screened ; the others must attend the Ouatuor to show cause why
they do not pay. In default, the manucaptors of those who have
no chambers shall be summoned to the Ouatuor, in like manner.

" Ordered that the executors of the late Lord Chiefe Justice
Hale have a discharge for the bookes and manuscripts by him
given to this Societye and by the said Society receaved."

Robert Smeeton, barber, petitions for leave to exercise his
trade in a shop at the Back Gate of the House, " sheweing that
he is now made free of the Cittye of London and Company of
Barber Chyrugions," by redemption, as appears by the certificate
annexed. Referred to three Benchers to report.

fo. 170. Council held on November I4th, 1678.

Eight Benchers present.
M r Appleton, a Barrister of this House, is fined 20 for
refusing to act as Master of the Revels.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer, [and five other Benchers], and
as many more of the Masters of the Bench as please, doe search
this House for popish recusants, at such tyme as they shall
thinke fitt."t

Council held on November 2ist, 1678.
Six Benchers present.

* That is, for food actually consumed, as opposed to "absent commons,"
which was in the nature of a fine for not keeping commons,
t See Appendix,

Macfe iSoofes of Eincoln's 5nn, 123

Call to the Bar : Henry Watts.

"This Councell, takeing notice of the advantage accrewing
to this Societye by a late search made in the chambers of this
Societye, whereby severall Romish Recusants were discovered,
doe order the like search to be made quarterly, or oftener, as
occasion requireth."

" Forasmuch as of late it hath appeared that few or no mootes
are performed by gentlemen that peticion to be called to the Barr,
It is ordered that no gentleman hereafter be called to the Barr
unles, according to the old course and custome of this Societye,
he have performed foure mootes at least. And that this Order
be screened."

" There being now brought to this Councell an account of
^608 i os. yd. by the Chief Butler, which is said to be the whole
debt of this Societye, ^400 whereof is by bond, M r Treasurer
is desired to discharge the same as soon as may be."

John Jackler, " who officiates in the Chappell as Clarke,
shall have 205."

Call to the Bar : M r Thomas Winforth, lately admitted,
and now one of the Prothonotaries of the Court of Common
Pleas ; he must pay the usual fees.

* M r Playters Lucy is admitted to M r John Thurlo's chamber
in Dial Court, Chapel Row.

Council held on November 23rd, 1678. fo. 171.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered, upon the peticion of the Principal! and Ancients
of Furnifall's Inne, that M r Day, M r Atkyns and M r Treasurer be
desired to assist the said Societye, by such ways and meanes as to
them shall seeme best, to discharge the said Societye from findeing
two foot souldiers, which, by theire peticion is informed, they are
required to doe."t

Council held on November 28th, 1678.
Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: Joshua Lomax.
M r Serjeant Shaw is requested to give up the keys of his

* Red Book I, fo. 383.

f This was no doubt in connection with the proposed French war. Several
statutes had been passed for making special levies, 29 Car. II, cap. i ; 29 & 30 Car.
II, cap. i ; &c. ; the assessment of Furnival's Inn was probably under one of these.
Evelyn mentions "the new-rais'd army, designed against France," encamped on
Hounslow Heath in June, 1678. Diary, i. 497.

124 &i)* JJlarfe JSoofcs of ILinroln's

chamber, which now belongs to this Society on his being created
Serjeant at Law.

"Ordered that M r Goodrick, Chaplaine of this Societye, have
$ out of M r Golfer's charitye, in lieue of the mony deducted out
of his sallary towards the charges of suite, expended in recoveringe
the said charitye."

" Ordered that M r Edward Strode's bill of charges as Attorney
and Solicitor for this Societye be referred to M r Guydott and M r
Townsend ... to report how they finde the same, and what
is become of the costs recovered."

M r Stedman is continued Treasurer until the last Council of
next term.

fo. 172. Council held on December 4th, 1678.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that two watchmen onely watch every night with
the Cheife Porter of this Societye, and that they beginne theire
watch at tenne a'clock at night, and continue it untill 6 in the
morneing the last day of January, and after that untill 5."

" Ordered that M r Treasurer pay for the chaines and loops
for the use of the Library that are unpaid for." *

" Ordered that M r Treasurer doe conferr with the Deane of
Canterbury [Tillotson], and consider whether that ^5 formerly
ordered to be paid to D r Rolls out of M r Golfer's charitye be fitt
to be paid or no, in regard the said D r is represented not to be
indigent."

1679. Officers for 1679: ,

Treasurer : M r James Stedman.

Keeper of the Black Book : M r Luke Astry.

Council held on January 29th, 30 Charles II, 1679.
Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : Peter Warburton.

M r Lomax's call to the Bar shall be vacated unless he take
the Sacrament and buy a chamber before the last Council
this term.

' The Masters of the Bench of this Societye in Councell,
takeing into theire consideracion the present sad condicion of the
two Societyes of the Inner and Middle Temples, occasioned by
a dreadfull fire that hath bin latelye there, and that the Feast
of the Purificacion doth now fall upon the Lord's Day, and for

* See ante, p. 119.

Macfe ISoofes of mncoln's Enm 125

other reasons them moveing, doe thinke fitt and order that the
said feast day shall not be solempnized in this Societye at this
tyme by revelling and feasting, as formerly hath bin used."*

"Whereas his Majestic hath bin graciously pleased to direct
a Commission under the Great Scale to the Treasurer and Masters
of the Bench of this Societye, requiring and impowering them to fo. 173.
administer the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacye to such
members of this Societye as are knowne papists or suspected to
be popish recusants: It is at this Councell ordered that the said
Oaths shall be tendered and administered onely to such persons
as are knowne or reputed to be Roman Catholicks."f

Council held on February 6th, 31 Charles II, 1679.
Seven Benchers present.

The fine of ^40, imposed on M r Thomas Lee, an ancient
Barrister, for refusing to come to the Bench, is reduced to 20
marks.

Call to the Bar:

Tollemach Duke, who has been nearly seven years in this
Society and was previously three years at Gray's Inn; "and it is
remembered that the said M r Duke hath bin a considerable
benefactor to this Societye, and very civilly demesned himself
therein."|

The names of all gentlemen in arrear for the Preacher's Roll
and Chimney Money shall be screened, and if they do not pay
before Monday next their chambers shall be padlocked.

" Ordered that M r Gibbon, one of the executors of the late
Lord Chiefe Justice Hale, be paid by M r Treasurer such charges
as M r Guydott, one of the Masters of the Bench, shall allow, in a
suite in Chancerye against the said executors by one M r Stephens,
for bookes given this Societye by the said late Chiefe Justice."

Council held on February i2th, 1679.

Eleven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the hatch at the buttery dore be kept shutt,
and that no person but a gentleman of this Societye, or a person
introduced by such gentleman, be suffered to come into the buttery;
and that no breade or beere be carried out of the Hall or buttery
to any chamber whatsoever, nor be delivered to any person but as
aforesaid, unless to one of the Butlers of the House."

* See Strype's Stowe, B. 3, p. 276 ; Foss, Judges, vii, 42. The fire broke out
on Jan. 26th, in Pump Court. Luttrell states that owing to the scarcity of water,
the Thames being frozen, "the engines plaid away many barrells of beer."
Diary, i, 7.

t See Appendix. J See ante, p. 108.

T2 6 Cfie ISlacfe JSoofeg of lUncoln'g

" Ordered that the back dore of the kitchen be forthwith
locked up; and that the Chief Butler keepe the key, and see that
the said dore continue locked."

M r Treasurer and " M r Blackbookkeeper " are continued until
the end of Michaelmas Terme next.

" Ordered that M r Jo n Adams, who presented a new contrived
mapp of England to this Societye, have five guynyes presented
to him from this Societye, or have his mapp againe, at his
eleccion."*

fo. 174. Council held on May i3th, 1679. t

Seven Benchers present.

M r Watts' order for call to the Bar is now absolutely dis-
charged, as he has not paid his arrears.

fo. 175. Call to the Bar: John Hely.

Council held on May 2oth, 1679.

Five Benchers present.
fo. 177. Call to the Bar: Sir Humphrey Doleman, Knight.

fo. 179. Council held on June 2nd, 1679.

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : Henry Penton.
" Ordered that henceforth noe practizeirig Attorny or Solicitor
of this House be called to the Barre."

Council held on July ist, 1679.
Seven Benchers present.

fo. 1 80. Call to the Bar : Richard Browne and Daniel Proctor.

Council held on July 9th, 1679.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :
Thomas Butler, Henry Turner, and Thomas Winford, one
of the Prothonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas.

* The map does not appear to be now in the Library, so perhaps Adams tool
it back See Diet. Nat. Biog.

f The entries prior to this Council are in the handwriting of Mr. Astry, the
Black Book Keeper ; the writing then changes, Mr. Astry being ill, and Mr.
Stedman acting as his deputy. On June 24th, Mr. Astry makes a note of his
return ; and continues to make the entries himself as long as he holds the office of
Black Book Keeper, /. e. to the end of 1680.

Macfe 2$oofe$ of fLincoln's nm 127

" Upon the arfirmacion of Thomas Lee senior, Esq., one of
the ancient Barristers of this Societye, that his puisnies in
admission into this Societye were actuallye at the Bench of this
Societye before he, the said M r Lee, was invited or called to the
Bench It is ordered that a former Order, whereby the said
M r Lee was fined for not comeing to the Bench, be and is hereby
discharged."*

Council held on October 28th, 1679. fo. 181.

Five Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Robert Price, of nearly seven years' standing, " the Masters
of the Bench haveing observed the constant attendance of the
said M r Price at exercises, in commons, and in the Chappell, and
otherwise upon all occasions."

Council held on November 2Oth, 1679. fo. 182.

Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : William Greenehill junior.

Council held on November 25th, 1679.
Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : William Carpender.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer doe forthwith endeavour to
obteyne a decree for settlement of the charitable guift by M r
Colfer to this Societye."

Council held on November 28th, 1679. fo. 183.

Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : Robert Clarke.

Accounts of James Stedman, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 9th to Nov. 28th, 1679.

Receipts : .1,087 i8s. 8d. Including 91 155. gd. balance
from last year ; 402 1 35. 4d. for admissions to chambers and
chamber fines ; ,30 from William Farmerie, Principal of Thavies
Inn, in full for all arrears of rent up to Michaelmas, 1678.

Payments : .1,036 33. od. Including "198 to William
Jackson, the Steward, for apparels; 10 175. 8d. to Edward
Atkins, Serjeant at Law, in gold and a purse.

Balance: 51 155. 8d.

* See ante, p. 125.

128 Cfie l&lacfe iSoofes of Eincoln'g

1680. Officers for 1680.

Treasurer : M r James Stedman.

Keeper of the Black Book : M r Luke Astry.

Council held on January 28th, 31 Charles II, 1680.
Seven Benchers present.

fo. 184. The consideration of "the request made on behalf of

M r Cole, a captive in Algier," is postponed.

" Upon the mocion of M r Treasurer, It is ordered that M r
Moyne Townley, an Irish gent., first buying a chamber or giveing
security to the value of ^"50, be admitted a Fellow of this Societye."

" Ordered that the carpenter and freemason be forthwith
sent for to consider what may be done to the Chappell to prevent
all danger;" and five Benchers are appointed "to consider of
the reparacions of the Chappell."

Council held on February 4th, 1680.

Five Benchers present.

M r William Carpender's order for call to the Bar is vacated.
fo. 185. " Whereas by the auntient Rules and Orders of this Societye,

no woman ought to come into or have a seate in the Chappie o
this Societye, yet the Chappell hath of late bin much frequented
by them, to the disturbance of this Societye ; And whereas the
third Butler hath, contrary to his dutye, latelye admitted many
women and strangers into the pewes in the middle of the said
Chappell, whereby the gentlemen that are members of the
Societye have bin disapointed of convenient seates ; All which
hath by gentlemen on the behalf of themselves and others,
members of the Societye, bin represented and complayned of
to the Masters of the Bench of this Societye in Councell. It
is now by the said Masters ordered that the key formerly
used by the said third Butler, Joseph Stannenough, in the
said Chappell be delivered to Charles Bellamy, another Butler
of this Societye, to be by him there used dureing the pleasure of
the Masters of the Bench; and that the said Charles Bellamy, and
all other officers of this Societye officiateing in the said Chappie,
take care that no woman be admitted to sitt in any of the said
middle pewes; and that hereafter in the said pewes, and all other
parts of the said Chappie, convenient seates be preserved for the
use of the members of this Societye."

Call to the Bar : Sir Richard Stephens, Knight, " haveing
paid all his arreares, according to former Orders, having bin above
twenty yeares of this Societye."*

* Adm. June 19, 1658.

2$Iacfe &OD&S of fLincoln's Emt, 129

Council held on April 3Oth, 1680. fo. 186.

Seven Benchers present.

. Call to the Bar :

Thomas Knight and Edmund Bridges.

Another lock shall be put upon the chest of writings in the
Library, and the key thereof kept by the Keeper of the Black
Book, as formerly ; " and the other by the Master of the Library,
as at present."

"Whereas Robert Wright, Esq., one of the Masters of the
Bench of this Societye, and now elected to be a Serjeant at Law,
hath at this Councell made knowne that he had long before such
his election contracted with and sold to William Wrenn, Esq., an
Associate of this Societye, the chamber in this Societye in which
he at present resides ; and that not four years since he gave
a great summe of mony for the same to this Societye, and was
at great expence for the repaires thereof, and hath enjoyed the
same but a very short tyme ; hopeing and desireing that the
Masters of the Bench will not inforce any strict rule of this
Societye upon him for the forfeiture of his said chamber, but
desireing the said sale to the said M r Wren may be approved
and perfected under such fine as they shall impose. The said
request haveing received a large debate," it was adjourned.

Council held on May i2th, 1680. fo. 187.

Eight Benchers present.

M r Coward, M r Wymondsall and M r Millington, ancient
Barristers of this Society, are to be treated with about their
coming to the Bench.

Council held on May i8th, 1680.
Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Robert Clerke, a Barrister of this Societye,
haveing outrageously beaten the Chief Porter, then doeing the
duty of his place, be expelled out of this Societye; and that the
said Porter be at libertye to take his best remedy at law for the
wrong donne to him by the said M r Clarke."

" Ordered that Sir James Butler [and others] be a Committee
to receave such proposalls as shall be made by M r Serle and M r
Clerke, concerneing Ficketts Fields, as by theire peticion presented
at the last Counsell was desired." *

Call to the Bar : Henry Mitton. fo. 188.

* This is the inception of the scheme which resulted in the building of New
Square.
VOL. in. s

130 !)t &lacfe #ooks of ILincoln'*

Also Francis Hawden; but he must perform two more
exercises before publication.

" Ordered that no member of this Societye shall from
henceforth be called to the Bench of this Societye unles he have
a chamber in this Societye, or deposite into the hands of the
Treasurer of this Societye the summe of ^100 before he be
published to the Bench."

Council held on May 24th, 1680.
Eight Benchers present.

fo. 189. "Whereas the Chappell of this Societye is at present very

ruinous and decayed, and in the judgment of judicious workemen,
architects and others, in a dangerous condicion, so that some
of the Societye, and other persons of qualitye formerly resorting
thereto, are deterred from comeing and refrayne to repayre
thereunto: It is ordered that the said Chappell be with all
convenient speed repaired."

Call to the Bar :

Hugh Wyndham, and Thomas Jacob.

The chambers of all Fellows of the Society who, having
been specially admitted, have not been in commons for three
years, shall be seized and sold.

Council held on May 26th, 1680.
Six Benchers present.

The proposal made at this Council by M r Treasurer for the
building of a Register's Office in the Base Court, is postponed.

kyns,
23rd,

this

fo. 190. Council held on June i5th, 1680.

. Six Benchers present.

The stairs into the garden, made by Sir Robert Atkyns,
K.B., in accordance with an Order made on November
1671, shall be removed by the Treasurer.*

fo. 191. "Ordered that M r Robert Clarke, formerly expelled thi

Societye, visiting each Master of the Bench, and acknowledging
his offence, and desireing to be restored, be thereupon restore
to be a Fellowe of this Societye."

Council held on June 26th, 1680.

Nine Benchers present, including William Cowarc

Esquire.f

" It is declared that it is destructive to this Societye to altt
the method of payeing for vacacion commons."

* See ante, p. 76.

f His appointment is not recorded; this is the first Council he attended.

Macfc ISoofeg of ILfncoIn'* Emt, 131

" It is declared that the Benchers are resolved to Reade in
theire turnes when there shall be Readeings at the other Innes of
Court, and that the Bencher that shall refuse so to doe shall be
disbenched."

Council held on June 3Oth, 1680. fo. 192.

Nine Benchers present. <

" Ordered that a true narrative of the fact of the late disorders,
committed in the Hall on Munday last, be drawne up " ; a
Committee is appointed to see to it."*

" Sir James Butler and M r Day, two of the Masters of the
Bench, are desired to attend the Lord Privy Scale t and the
Master of the RollsJ and to desire theire presence, assistance and
advice, for composeing and selling the Orders of the House."

Council held on July ist, 1680.

Present: Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, Lord Privy
Seal; Hugh Wyndham, Knight, J.C.B. ; Thomas Jones,
Knight, J.K.B.; Edward Atkyns, Knight, B.E.; Job
Charleton, Knight, J.C.B. ; and ten Benchers.
" At this meeteing, after greate debate, nothing was concluded,
but to meete againe on Tuesday, the 6th of July instant."

Council held on July 6th, 1680.

Present: as at the last Council.

" M d that all the Barristers and gentlemen, attending this day
upon the Lords the Judges, touching the matters in controversie
between them and the Masters of the Bench, did acknowledge the
disorders lately committed in the Hall of this Societye, upon the
28th day of June last past, is not to be justefied, and that they are
sorry for the same."

Council held on October 28th, 1680.
Six Benchers present

" Ordered that no Order be hereafter granted to any member fo. 193.
of this Societye to stay at the Universitye above one yeare."

Council held on November nth, 1680.

Five Benchers present.

" Upon the informacion of M r Treasurer to this Councell
that one M r John Marshall, one of the Fellowes of this Societye,
hath a chamber in the Inner Temple fallen to him, and that the

* The report was not entered in the Black Book.

f Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesey. \ Sir Harbottle Grimston.

ISlacfe iSoofes of ftincoln's 5nn.

said M r Marshall is desirous to remove to the said Societye, and
desireth in order thereunto a certificate of his admittance into
this Societye and his good abeareance therein : It is ordered that
M r Treasurer be desired to make such certificate, the said
M r Marshall payeing dutyes to this Society." " M r Marshall
bene decessit" [Margin J]

Council held on November iQth, 1680.
Five Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

William Hastings ; to be published forthwith, on payment
of all arrears.

fo. 194. Council held on November 25th, 1680.

Five Benchers present.

Gall to the Bar: John Daniell junior; not to be published
until next term, when he will be of full seven years' standing. His
petition for call states that he " hath bin instrumentall in preserveing
this House from fire, and otherwise serviceable thereunto."

Council held on November 29th, 1680.
Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: Hugh Speake; to be published upon
completion of his exercises and payment of all arrears.

1681. Officers for 1681.

Treasurer: M r Luke Astry.*

Keeper of the Black Book : M r William Guidott.

fo. 195. Council held on January 27th, 32 Charles II, 1681.

Seven Benchers present.

" Upon the mocion of M r Astry, Treasurer of this Societie,
shewing that M r Edward Rich, one of the Masters of the Bench,
hath occasion to make use of a deed by him brought in, touching
Little Lincolne's Inne Feilds: Itt is ordered that the Cheife Butler
attend the said M r Rich or his Councell with the said deed, to bee
perused by him or his Councell, as occasion shall require."

" Ordered that William Wymondsall, Esq., one of the
Barristers of this Societie, bee called to the Bench; but, before

* His arms are the earliest in the fine series of Treasurers' arms in the East
window of the Chapel. See the list up to 1822 in the 4th ed. of Lane's Student\
Guide through Lincoln's Inn.

of SLincoln's 3Jnn* 133

hee is to bee published a Bencher, hee is to buy a whole chamber
in this House, or to deposite with the Treasurer thereof, for the
use of the Society, the summe of ^100, as a pledge for the
performance of such dutyes and exercises as are or shalbee in-
cumbent on him as a Bencher. But upon his buying a chamber
as aforesaid, the said summe of ^"100 is to bee repaid unto him,"

Council held on February 3rd, 33 Charles II, 1681.
Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: Joshua Lomax.* fo. 196.

Council held on March 3rd, 1681. fo. 198.

Five Benchers present.

" Upon due consideracion had of the request made to the
Masters of the Bench of this Society by many worthy persons
inhabiteing round about the Lower Feild belonging to this
Society, comonly called Ficketts Feild, thankfully acknowledgeing
the benefit! they and their familyes receive by the frequent use
they have of the Walkes of this Societie and the freedom of the
aire by the opennes of the said Feild, desireing to have the leave
of this Society to lay the said Feild in good order, by raileinge
in and gravelling the same ; Itt is ordered that the said inhabitants
have leave to lay the said Feild in good order, consulting such
Masters of the Bench of this Societie as shalbee in town when
the said worke shalbee begun ; and this Society wilbee assistant
to the said inhabitants in that soe publick and beneficiall a
worke."

Council held on April 26th, 1681.
Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Library locke bee altered, and that new
keyes be delivered to the respective Masters of the Bench and the
Deane of Canterbury."

Two new locks are to be put upon the evidence chest, and
the keys kept by the Master of the Library and the Black Book
Keeper respectively.

Council held on May 3rd, 1681. fo. 199-

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:
Robert Ashton, and Danvers Hodges.

* Apparently the same person as was called in 1678 ; see ante, p. 124.

134 ^f)* ttlztk iSoofeg of iUncoln'*

fo. 200. Council held on May igth, 1681.

Six Benchers present.

" Memorandum that M r Shrewsbury, the Stationer, that had
the printinge of the bookes made and sett forth by the late Lord
Cheife Justice Hales, hath presented to this Society one of the
severall sortes of the said bookes, for which he had the thankes of
this House."

fo. 20 1. Council held on June 7th, 1681.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that it bee referred to M l Stedman, M r Treasurer,
and M r Gyles Eyre, three of the Masters of the Bench, to treate
with and heare such proposalls as M r Searle and M r Clerke shall
make concerneing Fickett's Feilds."

* M r Edward Horsman is admitted into M r John Thurloe's
" little garrett chamber in Dyall Court and Chappell Row, three
storyes high," on payment of 6 135. 4d.

fo. 205. Council held on November 5th, 1681.

Five Benchers present.

"Ordered that the picture of the late Lord Cheife Justice
Hale bee very well drawne, and sett upp in the Library of this
Society, att the charge thereof."!

" Ordered that M r Searle bee desired to prepare a draught of
the new buildinges designed to bee erected in Little Lincolne's
Inne Feilds, and to produce the same before the next Councell."

M r Richard Berresford, W John Mingey, M r Francis Hill
and M r Richard Seys, are to be treated with, about their coming
to the Bench.

fo. 206. Council held on November i2th, 1681.

Five Benchers present.

" Forasmuch as M r John Warkhouse, one of the Fellowes of
this Societye, hath for sometyme discontinued the practice of an
Attorney, and putt himselfe out of the Roll of Attornyes, as
appeares to us by a certificat, and applyed himselfe to the study
of the law, and performed all his exercises, and civilly behaved
himselfe by the space of seaven yeares in this Society ; " Ordered
that he be called to the Bar.

Council held on November 2.8th, 1681.
Five Benchers present.

* Red Book I, fo. 394. See Vol. II, p. 425 .
t See ante, p. 114.

Eiacfe iSoofes of Htncoltt's Enm 135

Call to the Bar : Joshua Lomax.*

" Ordered that if any building bee attempted to be erected
in Little Lincolnes Inne Feilds alias Ficketts Feilds this vacacion,
Sir James Butler, and other of the Masters of the Bench who
shall bee then in towne, bee desired to use all lawfull meanes to
obstruct and hinder the same."

" Ordered that M r Treasurer bee desired to give the late
Lord Cheife Justice Male's bookseller thankes for the bookes
presented by him to this Societye."

" Ordered that the back doore of the old Council Chamber
bee stopt upp."

Council held on December ist, 1681.
Five Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : [Joseph] Tyly.

Call to the Bench : Francis Hill, Esq., to be published fo. 209.
at the next moot. Before publication he must pay the fine of $
formerly laid upon him for not discharging the office of Master
of the Revels, t

" Forasmuch as the office of Magister Amb2t,lacrorum
belonging to this Society hath byn very ancient, and is now
vacant, and hath byn alwayes entrusted in a Bencher or an
Associate of this Society ; and the Masters of the Bench haveing
taken particular notice of the many good offices and kindnesses
already done to this Society by George Townesend, Esq., one of
the Associates to the Bench, and of his readiness still to doe the
same ; and for that the beauty of this House with the Walkes
thereof is much scene and preserved in the well-ordering and
conserveing the Walkes thereunto, which without such cheife
officer may not bee soe well done ; Itt is therefore ordered that
the said M r George Townesend be and is hereby chosen
Magister Ambulacrorum, and that the gardiner and other the
officers of this House be attendant and subservient to him therein
accordingly."

Accounts of Luke Astry, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 22nd, to Nov. 28th, 1681.

Receipts: ,1,361 195. 3d. Including ,573 for admissions
to chambers and chamber fines ; 6 ics. from Margaret
Hardwin for a year's rent of the house in Newgate Market ;
2 from the executors of Henry Colfer, Esq., on account of his
bequest.

* Apparently he has been called twice already. See ante, pp. 124, 1 33.
f See ante, p. 1 1 6.

136 ftfyt 3$lacfe asookg of ILtncoIn** JEnn*

Payments: ,1,263 us. od. Including ^200 due to Francis
Lucy, Esq., on a bond, and the like sum due on another bond;
;i22 i os. to William Jackson, the Steward, for apparels; 2 IDS.
for a new lock and 12 keys for the Library door.

Balance: ,98 8s. 3<i

1682. Officers for 1682.

Treasurer: M r Luke Astry.

Keeper of the Black Book: M r William Guidott.

Council held on January 26th, 33 Charles II, 1682.
Five Benchers present.

fo. 210. "Ordered that Sir James Butler, Sir John Churchill, M l

Stedman and M r Treasurer, . . . doe treate with the Masters
of the Bench of the other Innes of Court, to know their intention
concerneing the keepeing a publique Grand Day on Thursday
next;* itt being the resolucion of this Councell to doe therein as
the said other Innes of Court doe."

" Ordered that all the Masters of the Bench and M r Townesend,
or any two of them, whereof M r Townesend to be one, doe treate
with M r Gillingham concerneing the bringing in the New River
water into the Garden of this Society, and erecting a fountaine
there."

John Polwheele, George Doe, Abraham Bayly, Nathaniel
Knight, John Venables, William Dobbins and Robert Foulkes,
Esquires, are fined 20 apiece for neglect of their duties, having
been formerly chosen Readers for the Inns of Chancery.

Council held on February ist, 34 Charles II, 1682.
Seven Benchers present.

fo. 211. " Ordered that Francis Hill, Esq., a Barrister of this Societye,

bee published a Bencher att the next exercise."

"Ordered that three of the Masters of the Bench, whereof
M r Treasurer to bee one, doe make proposalls att the next
Councell, concerneing repaireing of the Chappell."

Every gentleman who has refused to execute the office
of Master of the Revels shall be fined 20.

Council held on February 9th, 1682.
Nine Benchers present.
"Ordered that ^"8 be paid to the musick by the Treasurer
of this Societye."

* Feb. znd. The Feast of the Purification, or Candlemas Day, was the day
of the Post Revels in the Inn from the earliest times, on this occasion possibly a
joint Revel of all the Inns was in contemplation.

Macfc &oofe$ of Htncoln's Emu 137

Council held on February I3th, 1682. fo. 212.

Nine Benchers present.

"Ordered that any three of the Masters of the Bench, fo. 213.
whereof M r Treasurer is to be one, doe consider of a method to
gather and receive the benevolence of such persons as shalbee
willing to give anything considerable towards the repaires of the
Chappell belonging to this Societye."

" Ordered that the matter relateing to M r Golfer's charity
bee prosecuted, in order to the getting of a decree concerneing
the same next terme."

Council held on February I7th, 1682.
Seven Benchers present.

The Head Porter is to make a list of all those who have
broken out any windows in their chambers within the last two years.

"Ordered that the Head Porter of this Societye doe not
breake the ground under the Chappell for the interringe any
gentleman, except he be a Fellowe of this Societye, and hath byn
in commons within twelve moneths before his death."

"Whereas the festivall dayes in Michaelmas and Hillary
Termes, formerly solempnized in this Societye, have not of late
soe byn, whereby the gentlemen of this Societye are discouraged
to capacitate themselves to be revellers; The Masters of the
Bench of this Society in Councell, takeing the same into con-
sideracion for the encouragement of gentlemen for the future,
doe declare that such gentlemen as will fitt themselves for that
exercise, and will give in their names to the Cheife Butler that
they will be revellers upon occasion, and shall performe the same,
shall have all priviledges and other encouragements that revellers
in this Societye formerly had. And itt is ordered that this Order
be twice at least skreened in the next terme."

Council held on May nth, 1682. fo. 214.

Five Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : Lewis Owen.

Also Francis Shapcote. He is not of seven years' standing,
but is called as he is forthwith to go into Ireland. " Ordered that
the said M r Shapcote, before such his publicacion, doe enter into
a bond to the Treasurer of this Society not to practice in
England as a Barrister untill the said seaven yeares bee fully
expired."

Council held on May I7th, 1682.
Six Benchers present.

VOL. III. T

138 fK ISlacfe iSoofes of ILincoln'g

M r William Jones, upon payment of his arrears amounting to
,18, shall have from the Treasurer "a certificate of the tyme of
his standing in this House, and likewise of his exercises performed
and civill deportment therein."

Call to the Bar: [John] Gape.

fo. 215. Council held on May 26th, 1682.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: Charles Hutton; not to be published
until June i8th next or after.*

Council held on May 29th, 1682.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: Marmaduke Beke. He has not per-
formed all his exercises; this must be done before he is published.
fo. 216. The like as to Richard Mitton.

Council held on June 2Oth, 1682.
Five Benchers present.

The Treasurer shall pay William Edwards, the carpenter,
$ ios., "for setting upp the wall that now standeth in the
Base Court."

" Ordered that all the Masters of the Bench, or any three
of them, bee appointed a Committee to treate with M r Searle
about Ficketts Feilds."

fo. 217. Council held on June 26th, 1682.

Five Benchers present.

[There are many Orders about this time giving leave to alter
chamber windows.]

" Ordered that the Head Porter doe give notice to the
severall strangers mencioned in a list now presented to this
Councell (who lodge in severall chambers of this House) to leave
the said chambers."

"At the request of Ellis Lloyd, Esq., a Barrister of this
Societye, now made to the Masters of the Bench, in order to his
buriall under the Chappell, It is ordered that liberty bee granted
him to have his body interred att his death under the Chappell of
this Societye, in case his friends and relacions shall desire
the same."

* He was admitted June i8th, 1675.

2Slacfe Boofes of Utncoln'g Inn, 139

Council held on July ist, 1682.
Five Benchers present.

On payment of his arrears, M r John Weaver shall have from fo. 218.
the Treasurer "a certificate of the tyme of his standinge in this
House, and likewise of his civill deportment therein, and of his
exercises performed."

"Ordered that Sir James Butler be desired to waite on the
Right Hon ble the Lord Chancellor of England* to informe him of
the arreares of the Register's Office due to this House, and take
his direccion therein."

Council held on July 5th, 1682.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that Henry Searle, Esq., have six assignments in
the respective chambers which are to be built upon the House
ground; and that the Articles concerneing the buildings in Little
Lincolne's Inne Feilds, now produced, be forthwith ingrossed, and
everie of the Masters of the Bench doe signe and scale the
same."f

Council held on October 3Oth, 1682. fo. 219.

Seven Benchers present.

" Whereas, by the ancient Orders of this Society, if any
chymney bee fired, the owner thereof is to pay 405. to the use of
this House; Itt is ordered that the gentlemen of this Society
who have chambers therein be desired to take some speedy care
for the sweeping of the chymneys in their respective chambers, in
respect of the frequent fires that have happened, and the danger
that may ensue; and this Order is to be skreened."

" Ordered that M r Moorehouse and M r Redman of Chitterne
bee two of the parsons that shall partake of the charity of M r
Cofer's [sic] guift."

" Ordered that Sir James Butler and M r Stedman bee desired
to attend the Master of the Rolls, \ and acquaint him of the
arreares of the Register's Office due to this House, and take his
direccion therein."

Council held on November I4th, 1682.
Six Benchers present.

"Ordered that the Order lately made concerneing the
repaireing of the Chappell bee revived."

* Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham.

t See Appendix.

+ Sir Harbottle Grimston.

fo. 2 20. All arrears due from and incumbent on the Register's Office

must be paid before Friday next at noon ; in default the Office
shall be padlocked.

[Twenty six gentlemen were presented by the Steward as
being in arrear to him ; they must attend the Quatuor.]

" Ordered that all the Masters of the Bench of this Society
who have not performed the office of a Reader, shall, when they
enjoy any chamber in this House as a Bench chamber, give
bonds respectively of the penalty of ,200 to performe the office
of Readers when other Innes of Court doe the same and they
shalbee thereunto required. And the said bonds are to bee
entred into to such of the Masters of the Bench as have already
Read, in trust for the said Society."

Council held on November 2ist, 1682.
Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : Willoughby Bradford.

fo. 221. "Ordered that the sume of 25 be paid to M rs Cane, in part

of the ,50 formerly ordered her towards her loss by the late
dreadfull fire." *

Council held on November 28th, 1682.

Seven Benchers present.

[Twelve gentlemen are fined 20 apiece for neglecting to
perform their duties as Readers at the Inns of Chancery. Seven
gentlemen are fined 20 apiece for neglecting to perform the
duties of Master of the Revels.]

Accounts of Luke Astry, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Dec. 8th, 1 68 1, to Nov. 28th, 1682.

Receipts: ,1,642 45. 6d. Including ,740 6s. 8d. foi
admissions to chambers and chamber fines; 5 from Francis Hill,
Esq., for not having been Master of the Revels; 20 from M'
John Jones in part payment of Henry Golfer's annuity.

Payments: ,1,442 45. od. Including 10 for gilding the
Hall; 2os. for gilding the doors of the Hall; 2os. for 4 " draughts "
[? plans or drawings] for the new gate for the Garden ; ,132 2s. 2d.
for apparels.

Balance: 200 [sic].

1683. Officers for 1683.

Treasurer: M r William Guidott.

Keeper of the Black Book: M r John Eldrecl.

* See ante, pp. 52, 54, 98.

ISIacfc iSoofes of Uituoln'* nm 141

Council held on January 3Oth, 35 Charles II, 1683. fo. 222.

Five Benchers present.

"It is ordered that the Treasurer be desired to lend the
Steward the summe of ^10, untill his petition for releife in respect
of his losse and spoyle of his meat in the late commotion be further
considered."

" Ordered that Thomas Jones, Esq., a Barrister of this Society,
lately made one of the King's Councill, be therfore called to the
Bench, and published att the next moote."*

The gardener must not lop or prune the great elms or any fo. 223.
other trees in the gardens or walks without leave of three Benchers.

Council held on February 8th, 1663.
Nine Benchers present.

"Whereas severall strangers hereinafter named do lodge fo. 224.
in this Society, viz 4 , M r Potts in M r Thornicroft's chamber,
M r Guy in M r Fellows' chamber, M r Tremblett in M r Procter's
chamber, and M r Mildmay in .M r Mingaye's chamber: It is
ordered that the said chambers be padlockt if the said strangers
respectively doe not remove within one weeke. The Head
Porter is required to give notice of this Order att the said severall
chambers, that the said strangers remove accordingly."

Council held on February 12th, 1683.
Eight Benchers present.

John Goulding, the chief cook, shall have ,5 " in satisfaccion
of his losses susteyned in the late commocion."

Call to the Bar :
James Bennett and William Baber.

Council held on May 3rd, 1683. fo. 225

Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Thomas Wither, and Fleetwood Dormer.

" Ordered that the Councell Chamber be decently paled in,
and that M r Treasurer do take care therein."

"Ordered that the Chappell be repaired the next Long fo. 226.
Vacation, and that M r Treasurer to forthwith prepare a booke
wherin to write the subscripcions of such persons as shall think fitt
to contribute towards the reparacion thereof."

* He took his seat at the next Council, when his name appears first on the list.
On May 3rd of this year, his name comes after those of Sir James Butler and Sir
John Churchill, who were already King's Counsel.

142 vTlK IMnck J5oofc$ of ILuuoln's; I-nn.

Council held on May loth, 1683.
Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Edmund Pitman, "who hath performed all his exercises and
behaved himselfe civilly in this Society by the space of six years
or thereabouts, and in one of the Inns of Chancerye by the space
of three yeares."

Also William Grey.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer do inspect the accounts of
M r Golfer's charitable gift, and report how much mony of the said
gift is now in the Treasury at the next Councell, when Order
shall be taken for the distribucion therof. And the Deane of
Canterbury [Tillotson] is desired to declare to the Keeper of
the Black Booke the names of those indigent persons, formerly
recommended by him to partake of the said gift."

*" Ordered that Samuel Eyre, Esq., one of the Masters of the
Bench, be admitted into the chamber late of Sir George Raynsford,
deceased, to injoy it as a Bench chamber ; he, the said M r Eyre,
first giveing a bond of ^200 penalty, according to an Order in
that behalfe made att a Councell held here upon the fourteenth
day of November now last past. And it is ordered that the said
M r Eyre have leave to inclose a small peice of ground in the
corner on the west side of the Hall, next the Butteryes, to hold
and injoy the said peice of ground so inclosed, with the said
chamber, as belonging thereunto. And it is further ordered that
the said M r Eyre have leave to alter the windows of the said
chamber as he shall think fitt."

Council held on May i6th, 1683.
Eight Benchers present.

fo. 227. Call to the Bar :

George Cartwright ; he is two exercises short, and therefore
shall not be published until he has performed them.

Council held on May 2ist, 1683.
Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :
Joseph Newton ; he is not to be published until he has
completed his exercises.

Red Book I, fo. 405.

Macfe Boofes of Ettuoln's Htm. 143

Council held on June i3th, 1683.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: fo. 228.

John Hildesley; he is two exercises short, and therefore shall
not be published until he has performed them.

Thirty-seven gentlemen are screened for non-payment of
eaten commons; if not paid forthwith their chambers are to be
padlocked.

" Whereas in pursuance of an Order made the fourteenth day
of November now last past, requireing that all the Masters of the
Bench who have not performed the office of a Reader should,
when admitted to a Bench Chamber, give such bonds as therein is
directed: Luke Astry, Esq., one of the Masters of the Bench, did
att this Councell deliver a draught of a bond and the condicion
thereof; which, being read, this Councell do approve of, and allow
the same to be made according to the said Order; which said
writeing is left in the hands of the Keeper of the Black Booke."

Samuel Eyre, Esq., another of the Masters of the Bench,
the like.

Council held on June 2ist, 1683.
Eight Benchers present.

The bonds of Luke Astry and Samuel Eyre, Esquires, shall fo. 229.
be sealed before the next Council.

Council held on June 27th, 1683.
Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : Richard Price.

Council held on October 27th, 1683. fo. 230.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that an Order made at a Councill here held the
one and twentyeth day of May now last past, for the calling of
M r Joseph Newton, one of the Fellowes of this Societye, to the
Barr, be vacated, because the said M r Newton hath presumed
to wear a Bar gowne and to practice as a Barrister, altho he hath
not performed his Bar Moot and taken the Oaths of Allegiance
and Supremacy, as he ought to have done." To be screened.

M r Millington, M r Wymondsell and M r Seys must attend the
next Council, to show cause why they refuse to come to the Bench.

Call to the Bench :
M r Henry Long, M r John Duckett, and M r Owen Wynn.

Macfe 3$oofe0 of Utncoln's

M r Edmund Giles,* an ancient Barrister, is called to be an
Associate to the Bench ; he first paying thirty guineas and procuring
himself to be admitted into a chamber.

The Treasurer shall provide a new gown for Hugh Pattle,
the Head Porter.

Council held on November 5th, 1683.
Nine Benchers present.

fo. 231. The Treasurer shall pay 2 IDS. every term to M r Samuel
Gookyn, an ancient Barrister, until further Order, " for and towards
his meintenance and the releife of his necessityes."

Edmund Giles, Esq., in addition to paying thirty guineas,
must give a bond of ^100 for the payment and discharge of his
duties henceforth to become due.

" Ordered that the Judges that last went the Northern Circuit
be attended, and acquainted with the Order made att the last
Councell concerning M r Newton."

" M*" Richard Seys appeared, and alledged severall reasons
why he desired to be excused from comeing to the Bench; which
were allowed of." M r Owen Wynn also desired to be excused,
" unlesse the Councell would admitt him to be a Bencher altho he
had not parte of a chamber in this House; which this Councell
did not think fitt to grant."

Council held on November i2th, 1683.
Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

fo. 232. Anthony Upton; he must perform one more exercise before

publication.

" Ordered that it be debated and setled at the next Councill
what shall be taken for a complete exercise."

Thomas Winford, Esq., a Barrister of this House, and
one of the Prothonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas, is
admitted an Associate to the Bench ; he first paying ^50 and
giving a bond of ^100 for the payment of all duties.

Henry Long, Esq., shall be published a Bencher at the next
exercise.

" Ordered that uppon petitions for chambers in the disposicion
of the House, the senior Barrister, or who was first called to the
Bar, shall be preferred before such Barrister as was called to the
Bar after him, altho such after-called Barrister be senior to the
other as to his admission into this Society."

* Apparently the same person as the Edmund Giles called to be an Associate
in 1656; see Vol. II, p. 414.

of ^Lincoln's Emu 145

Council held on November I7th, 1683.
Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bench: f 0t 233.

Henry Beddingfeild, Esq., " but without any saveing or
allowance of his seniority; and the said M r Beddingfeild is to take
his place att the Bench as of this present terme, and not before.
And it's further ordered that he bee published a Bencher att the
next exercise." *

Call to the Bar, November 23rd, 1683 : Thomas Dolman, t

Council held on November 28th, 1683.
Eleven Benchers present.

The Treasurer is desired to buy an iron chest " for to keep fo. 234.
therein the monyes belonging to this Society."

Accounts of William Guidott, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Dec. 1 2th, 1682, to Nov. 28th, 1683.

Receipts : ,1,340 i6s. 2d. Including ^403 133. 4 d. for
admissions to chambers and chamber fines ; 1 each from Sir
Thomas Estcourt, M r Harrington Fountaine and M' Francis Hill
junior, for ground for their interments under the Chapel ; ^20 from
the executors of Henry Colfer.

Payments : ^877 35. 7d. Including is. for oysters ; 95. for
tobacco.

Balance: ^463 125. 7d.

Officers for 1684. 1684.

Treasurer : M r William Guydott.
Keeper of the Black Book : M r John Eldred.

Council held on January 29th, 35 Charles II, 1684.
Eight Benchers present.

" Upon consideracion had at this Councell concerneing the
keepeing of Candlemas Day next as a Grand Day, as in this
Societye is usuall, it was then offered that by reason of the great
and severe frost, which hath long continued,]: provisions of all

* He was admitted in 1650, before a considerable number of the then
Benchers.

t In future, when a Call to the Bar is the only matter of interest at any
Council, it will be printed in this form.

% There is a good deal about this frost in Evelyn's Diary. As early as
Dec. 23rd he states that the Thames was frozen ; by Jan. ist streets of booths were
set upon the river. Coaches, carts and horses crossed regularly, and (under
Jan. 24th) " coaches plied from Westminster to the Temple, and from several other
staires, to and fro, as in the streetes." The river was still frozen on Feb. 8th,
when the thaw set in.
VOL. in \v

146 ftje Macfe &oofeg of ^Lincoln's

sorts, fitt for such an entertainment, are very scarce, or not to be
had ; and that the Chiefe Butler of this Societye is now sicke,
and not able to performe his office ; and likewise that the
necessityes of the poore in prisons and elcewhere are very
extraordinary and pressing ; It is therefore ordered that no
Grand Day be kept as usuall upon the said day, but onely such
entertaynement be made as hath bin accustomed upon the Feasts
of the Ascension and S l John Baptist ; and that M r Treasurer
doe issue out of the treasure of this Societye the summe of 20
for the use of the poore, viz 1 , $ to the poore prisoners in the
Fleete, the like summe to the poore in the prison of the King's
Bench, the like summe to the poore of the parish of S* Giles in
the Fields, and the like summe to the poore of the parish of
S l Andrew Holborn ; and that M r Stedman and M r Astry be
desired to attend the Deane of the Chappell for some further
charitye out of the offering mony, to be distributed to the poore
prisoners of the Marshallsea and King's Bench prisons."

The motion of M r Long, that there may be clean tablecloths
in the Hall every day, is adjourned.

fo. 235. Council held on February 5th, 36 Charles II, 1684.

Eight Benchers present.

"Ordered that the next term four cleane table-cloaths, that is

to say, one more than heretofore, be weekly laid upon every table

in the Hall below the Bench table* for the use of the gentlemen

that shall be in commons."

" Ordered that M 1 Treasurer do forthwith proceed to take the
subscriptions of such persons as shall contribute towards the
repayre of the Chappell." A Committee is also appointed to
consult and agree with workmen and to provide materials, so that
the repairs may be completed before the end of the summer.

Council held on February I2th, 1684.

Nine Benchers present.
fo. 236. M r Edward Strode must bring in all writings concerning

M r Golfer's charity; and also his bill of costs in the suit relating
thereto, " to be perused and allowed " by the Treasurer.

Call to the Bar: John Oades.
Danvers Hodges, Esq., a Barrister of this Society, who is
removing to the Middle Temple, may have the usual certificate.

These words are struck out.

ISIacfc 2$oofeg of ^Lincoln's $mt* 147

Council held on April 22nd, 1684. fo. 237.

Eight Benchers present.

The consideration of the repairs to the Chapel is again
referred to a Committee; they are to treat with M r Maundy,
" upon the proposalls by him now made."

Call to the Bar, May ist, 1684: Thomas Cheveley. fo. 238.

Council held on May I2th, 1684. fo. 239.

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : Godeman Jenkine.

" Ordered that hereafter it shall and may be lawfull for any
gentleman, though absent, to be admitted a Fellow of this Society,
by the approbacion of any two of the Masters of the Bench ; but
the said Masters are desired carefully to enquire into the quality
and fittness of the person to be admitted ; and the Cheife Butler
is not to enter any name in the Booke of Admittance untill two
Masters are satisfied of the quality of the person so to be admitted,
and two manucaptors found ; and the Cheife Butler is to show
this Order upon every such admission."

" Ordered that the Cheife Butler do attend the four
Searjants,* late of this Society, that were last called, and acquaint
them with the Order made at a Councill here held the
24th day of January, in the 6th year of the reigne of King James, f
concerning the Library ; and to desire them respectively to pay
the summe of 205. apeice thereby ordered. Which hath bin
observed."

Call to the Bar, June 3rd, 1684 : Charles Cox. fo. 240.

Council held on June loth, 1684.

Ten Benchers present.

"Whereas the ancient office of Magister Ambulacrorum
belonging to this Society is now void by the death of George
Townsend, Esq., late one of the Associates to the Bench ; And
whereas the splendour and beauty of this House is much
concerned in the well ordering of the garden and walks thereunto
belonging, which, without such an officer, cannot be so well
done ;" Edmund Giles, Esq., one of the Associates to the
Bench, is appointed.

* Two of them were Henry Beddingfield and Owen Wynne ; the other two
were probably John Wyndham and John Millington.
f See Vol. II, p. 117.

i 4 8 {K ISlacfe i$oofe# of ILtnroln'0

fo. 241. Council held on June i8th, 1684.

Nine Benchers present.

A Committee is appointed to inquire into M r Golfer's charity
and the suit relating thereto, and to give their opinions " what is
further to be done for the secureing of the said charitye."

" Ordered that the walls, buttresses and battlements, together
with the roofe, of the Chappell be forthwith repay red." A
Committee is appointed to agree with M r Thompson and M r Edge
as to the same.

Council held on October 25th, 1684.
Six Benchers present.
fo. 242. " Ordered that there be a Grand Day kept on Saturday next." :

" Whereas heretofore fires have not beene allowed at commons
in the Term of S' Michael until the Eve of All Saints; and
whereas very few of the gentlemen do come into commons the
begining of the said terme, the season being then very cold, and
fires needfull; It is therefore ordered that forthwith this present
term fires be made at meales in the Hall, and that afterwards they
be made and continued in every succeeding Michaelmas Terme,
from the beginning thereof, as long as commons continue. And
this Order is to be screened."

The Porter is to make a list of all gentlemen who have
"broken the walls of this House since the last terme, for altering
theire windowes."

" Ordered that all the moneyes in the House stock, except the
summe of ;ioo or thereabouts, be wholly appropriated to the
repairing of the Chappell."

" Ordered that the Pannierman do take greate care that noe
landresses or others do empty their chamber-potts or other things
that are noisome, any where but in the back yard of this House
appointed to that purpose." He must inform against all offenders

Council held on October 27th, 1684.

Seven Benchers present.
Francis Larkin is appointed Steward in place of Williai
Jackson, who is now, or was lately, in prison for his own debt
All moneys owing to Jackson must be paid at once.

fo. 243. Council held on November i7th, 1684.

Nine Benchers present.

fo. 244. Call to the Bar : William Brome.

" Ordered that ,500 of the monyes belonging to this Societ)

* November ist.

Mack 2$oofe$ of ^Lincoln's Hum 149

be appropriated and set apart for and towards the repaireing of
the Chappell ; and that noe part thereof be disposed of but
by Order of the Councill."

M r Edward Strode, who is removing to some other House,
shall have the usual certificate.

" Wheras by articles beareing date the iith day of July,
1682, made betweene the Masters of the Bench and Henry Serle,
Esq., one of the Fellowes of this Society, the said Henry Searle
did covenant within three yeares next after the date thereof to
build three ranges of building in such part of Little Lincolne's
Inne Feilds as is therein mencioned ; And the said Henry Searle
now coming before the Councill, and alledging that he had beene
very much obstructed in the said building and performing the said
articles by reason of some interest claimed by Sir Robert Clark,
Knight, one other of the Fellowes of this Society, and others
claiming under him, which pretences he could not get quieted
untill August last past; and that he did now intend to sett about fo. 245.
the said buildings in performance of the said articles, but could
not prevaile with any persons to contract with him to build the
same, by reason of the shortness of the said time in which he was
to sett up the said buildings; And did humbly request that he
might have the time, prefixed in the said articles, enlarged for the
building of the said Feilds;

" Whereupon, and upon consideracion of the allegacions of
the said M r Serle, the truth whereof being known to many of the
Masters of the Bench now present in Councill, by reason of a suite
that had beene depending betweene the said M r Serle and the said
Sir Robert Clarke, and others, in the Court of Chancery,
concerning the said Feilds, which was but lately determined; It
is ordered that one yeare more be added to the time agreed on by
the said articles for the said M r Serle to build the said Feilds ;
and that in the meanetime [neither] the said M r Serle, nor any
claimeing under him, shall be presecuted for not performing the
said articles and agreements, made with this Society, in building
the said Feilds by the time aforesaid."

Call to the Bar, November 24th, 1684 :
William Wyndham.

Council held on November 28th, 1684. fo. 246.

Eight Benchers present.

The Honourable the Lord Altham, a Barrister of this
Society, is admitted an Associate to the Bench, first paying ^"50.*

* Altham Annesley, 2nd son of Arthur, ist Earl of Anglesey, was raised to the
peerage as Baron Altham, Feb. 14, 1680-1.

150 JK 3$lacfe &oofe$ of Utncoln's

Council held on December 2nd, 1684.
Nine Benchers present.

fo. 247. "Ordered that Edmond Giles, Esq., Master of the Walkes

of this Societye, be desired to consider of the preservacion of the
trees in the Walkes, and what is fitt to be donne to avoyd the
offence given by the smoake comeing from the glazier's shop."

" The consideracion of adding a pendulum to the clock " is
referred to a Committee.

1685. Officers for 1685.

Treasurer : M r Thomas Jones.

Keeper of the Black Book : M r Samuel Eyre.

Council held on January 27th, 36 Charles II, 1685.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the former Orders concerning M r Golfer's
charity be revived and confirmed, and that M r Astry, M r Guydott
and M r Giles Eyre, the Committee formerly appointed, doe direct
the prosecution of the suit thereupon, and take a speedy care to
obtaine a decree ; and that M r Goodrick, the [Divinity] Reader
of this Society, be imployed to sollicit the same." *

Call to the Bar :

Thomas Lee the younger, and Edward Thornicroft.

fo. 248. " Ordered that M r Astry and M r Guydott doe plead to the

severall actions brought against them by the late brewer of this
Society."

Council held on January 29th, 1685.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that a Grand Day be kept on Candlemasse Day
next, and M r Samuel Eyre and M r Coward are desired to invite
the company to dinner."

Call to the Bar: the Hon. M r Charles Egerton.f

Council held on February 5th, 37 Charles II, 1685.
Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : Timothy Parker.

fo. 249. " Whereas by the ancient Rules and Orders of this Society,

the Fellows of this Society ought to take theire comons in the

Hall, and not elswhere ; and the Masters of the Bench at this

* He had been appointed solicitor ad hoc in 1675, (P I02 ) '> Edward
Strode, an attorney, (p. 114), was appointed in 1676, (p. 109). Goodrick's
re-appointment was doubtless due to Strode's removal to another Inn (p. 149).

f See ante, pp. 116, 121.

Macfe #oofes of fLtttcoln's tm* 151

Councill being informed that severall gentlemen of this Society
have lately sent for theire comons to theire chambers, contrary
to the said ancient Orders ; It is ordered that the cookes of this
Society or either of them do not deliver any comons out of the
kitchin to any persons but the officers of this Society, and that
the said officers doe not deliver the same to any persons but the
Fellows of this Society in the Hall." To be screened.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer doe issue out 20, for the
defence and prosecution of the severall suites brought by M r
Bucknall, the late brewer of this Society, and M r Vincent, one of
the suretyes of M r Jackson, the late Steward, and against the
said M r Vincent and M r Jackson." *

Council held on May i3th, i James II, 1685.1 f> 2 5

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that Sir James Butler and M r Samuell Eyre, two of
the Masters of the Bench, be desired to attend Sir Christopher
Wrenn with the draughts of the articles with M r Thompson and
M r Edge about the repaire of the Chappell, and to desire him to
peruse the same." J

"Ordered that [five Benchers] doe attend such of the Judges fo. 251.
as formerly were of this Society, to acquaint them with the
Articles of Agreement made with M r Serle about building Little
Lincoln's Inne Feilds, as also with the grounds and reasons of
entring into the said Articles, and the advantages that are like
to accrew to this Society thereby ; and to pray theire advice and
assistance against those who oppose the said building."

Council held on May 2Oth, 1685.
Eight Benchers present.

" The Masters of the Bench at this Councill, being informed fo. 252.
that the inhabitants neare Little Lincoln's Inne Feilds and others,
who have as relators in the Atturney Generall's name exhibitted
an Informacion in Chancery against M r Serle, in order to prevent
his building there, according to agreement with this Society, are
willing to referr the said matter in controversy to the determinacion
of such of the Judges who have been members of this Society. It
is now resolved by the Masters of the Bench at this Councill that
in case the said inhabitants and the said M r Serle shall thinke fitt
to referr the said matter to the said Judges, that they the said
Masters will likewise leave the same to the said Judges, to

* These were evidently cross actions,
f Charles II. died on Feb. 6th, 1685.
J Wren had been admitted to the Inn, April 25th, 1676.

1 52 Cfte 33lacfe iSoofeg of mncoln'g

accomodate the same. And the Masters of the Bench now in
Council, disclaimeing the said Informacion to be brought by
theire Order or consent, doe further Order that theire disclaimer
be drawne up and signed accordingly."

Council held on May 27th, 1685.
Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: Loftus Brightwell.

M r Samuel Gookin shall be allowed ^3 2s. 6d. a term, until
further Order.*

fo. 253. Call to the Bar, June ist, 1685:

[Nathaniel] Axtell, and William Yate.

Council held on June 23rd, 1685.
Six Benchers present.
fo. 254. "Ordered that the Hall be made use of on every Sunday

instead of the Chappell, dureing this terme and three Sundays
after; and that the Cheife Butler provide a pulpitt and desk for
that purpose."

"Ordered that M r Treasurer doe imediatly pay 12 to M r
Edge for shoreing the Chappell.''

Council held on June 3Oth, 1685.
Ten Benchers present.

In consideration of " the great charge and expence that this
Society will be at in the repaire of the Chappell," it is ordered that
all arrears of ^10 and upwards shall be at once demanded.

"The Masters of the Bench takeing notice of the great confusion
and disorder by reason of the admitting of gentlemen who are
called to the Bar to bringe in theire mootes upon discontinued
exercises, contrary to the ancient usage of this Society; It is
ordered that noe gentleman of this Society for time to come be
admitted to bring in his mote upon a discontinued exercise." To
be screened.

" Ordered that M r Edge doe attend the Quatuor in the Hall
after dinner tomorrow, and then give his positive answere whether
or noe he will proceed in secureing the roofe of the Chappell
according to his former undertakeing."

fo. 255. Call to the Bar, July 8th, 1685:

Thomas Lomax.

* See ante, p. 144.

Eiacfe 2$oofeg of Etiuoltt's Enn, i 53

Council held on October 29th, 1685.
Eight Benchers present.

^200 is to be borrowed for the payment of the workmen fo. 256.
about the Chapel.

M r Nicholas Martyn, M r Hugh Hodges, and W John Greene,
three Utter Barristers of this Society, are to be invited to come to
the Bench.

Council held on November 5th, 1685. fo. 257.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

M r Nicholas Martin and M r John Greene; to be published at
the first part of the next moot, saving the seniority of M r Hugh
Hodges.

Call to the Bar:

William Rogers, " who is full standing in this Society, and
hath behaved himselfe nicely in the same. . . . But inasmuch
as by reason of the .repaireing of the Chappell the said M' Rogers
could not receave the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper there, and
hath brought only a certificate of his receiving thereof at the
Parish Church of S l Dunstan's, without oath thereof; It is farther
ordered that before he be published he bring affidavit in writing
that he did receave the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, according
to the usage of the Church of England, in the said Parish Church."

Council held on November i2th, 1685. fo. 258.

Nine Benchers present.

The Steward is allowed ,28 145. 3^d. "in consideracion of
the extraordinary price of beefe and mutton in the two last termes."

In view of the great expense of repairing the Chapel, it is
ordered that no abatement shall be made to any one "upon the
account of his arreares of absent commons, vacations, pentions,
Preacher's Rolle, Chimney Money, Fines or Penaltyes, or any
other dutyes whatsoever to this Society, until the said Society
shall be out of debt."

"Ordered that the severall buildings upon and against the fo. 259.
north wall of the Garden be throwne downe, unlesse the severall
partyes concerned therein doe remove the same, or shew good
cause to the contrary at the next Councill."

The invitation to the Bench has been conveyed to M r Hugh
Hodges, "but he expressed himself dissatisfied therewith. The
Masters of the Bench doe therein acquiesce."

VOL. III. X

154 OH)* JSlacfe a$ookg of ^Lincoln's $nm

Council held on November I9th, 1685.
Ten Benchers present.

The Steward is allowed .10 ics. 5d. in consideration of the
dearness of fish the two last terms.

Call to the Bench :

M r Hugh Hodges, upon his acquainting the Council that,
notwithstanding his former dissatisfaction, he now desired to be
called ; to be published "at the next first part of a moote."

fo. 260. Call to the Bar, November 25th, 1685 :

Roger Mompesson.

Council held on November 28th, 1685.
Eight Benchers present.

A further sum of .200 is to be borrowed for the payment
of the workmen about the Chapel.

Sixteen gentlemen are fined ^"20 each " for neglecting to
Read at the Inns of Chancery, haveing been duly elected for that
purpose."

fo. 261. Nine gentlemen are fined .20 each for neglecting to execute

the office of Master of the Revels.

A new deed of feoffment is to be prepared immediately.

Accounts of Thomas Jones, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Feb. 4th to Nov. 28th, 1685.

Receipts: .2,073 T ^ s - II( ^- Including .109 75. id. from
William Guidott, the late Treasurer ; .500 borrowed by order of
the Council ; .200 the like; .200 the like t ; ,422 6s. 8d. for
admissions to chambers and chamber fines ; i from Edward
Pile for ground for his interment under the Chapel.

Payments : .2,01 8 is. lod. Including .600 to Johi
Thompson, the mason, and .460 to William Edge, the bricklayer
for repairs to the Chapel.; 2s. for " syder " ; 9d. for tobacco
35. 6d. for coach-hire to Whitehall with an address ; * 55. fc
engrossing the address ; los. to Thomas Greene, the Chief Butler
for procuring the hands of gentlemen to the address; IDS. fc
pressing, dressing and mending the curtains of the Chapel.

Balance : ,55 175. id.

* An address to James II on his accession. " Addresses have been presenU
to his Majestic from . . . members of the Society of Lincoln's Inn, condoling the
death of his late Majestic, and congratulating his present Majestie's succession to
the Crown, . . . and promising to assist him with their lives and fortunes. "-
Luttrell, Diary, i, 329.

t See ante, pp. 148, 153, and supra.

Macfe fcoofeg of tLtiuoln's: Enn. 155

Officers for 1686. 1686.

Treasurer : M r John Eldred.
Keeper of the Black Book : M r Giles Eyre.

Council held on January 28th, i James II, 1686.
Eleven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Grand Day bee kept ; and M r Coward fo. 262.
and M r Greene, two of the Masters of the Bench, are desired to
invite such persons to dine then in this Societic whose names
shall be delivered to them."

A further ^200 must be borrowed for the repairs to the
Chapel.

M r Henry Watts, who was formerly called to the Bar, but
whose call was afterwards vacated, petitions " that he may have
libertie to goe out att the Barre, and bee published att the second
parte of a moote." Ordered accordingly, he shall be published
on Friday next, if he first pay his arrears and buy a chamber.

Council held on February 4th, 1686. fo. 263.

Nine Benchers present.

The new feoffment shall be made to Thomas Greene, Chief
Butler, and his heirs, to the use of the Masters of the Bench and
their heirs.

Council held on February Qth, 2 James II, 1686.
Thirteen Benchers present.

M r Samuel Gookin is admitted into a chamber in the Chapel fo. 264.
Stairs, three stories high, during the pleasure of the Bench.

Council held on February i2th, 1686. fo. 265.

Nine Benchers present.

A further .200 must be borrowed for the work on the
Chapel.

Council held on February i/th, 1686. fo. 266.

Twelve Benchers present.

A further sum of ^200 must be borrowed for the work on
the Chapel.

"Ordered that any Master of the Bench of this Societie who fo. 267.
hath not performed the office of Reader, haveing bought a chamber
in this House, shall have libertye, as well as any Master who hath
Read, to sell the same at any tyme dureing his life, hee giveing a
bond of ^300 penalty to the rest of the Masters of the Bench who
have performed the office of Reader, in trust for this Societie, to
performe the office of a Reader when other Innes of Court doe

156 fje JSlacfc &oofeg of ^Lincoln's

the same and hee shall bee thereunto required, and paying all his
arreeres and dutyes then due from him to this Societye."

This Council is adjourned to the Buttery, on Monday next,
at 2 p.m.

Council held on April 2/th, 1686.
Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:
Jo. 268. [Thomas] Barker and William Bellingham.

"Ordered that Henry Serle, Esq., one of the Fellowes of
this Societie, have one yeare more allowed him from midsomer
next, being the tyme added to the tyme agreed on by his Articles
with the Masters of the Bench for building the Feilds."

"Ordered that Sir Thomas Powis, Knight, His Majestie's
Sollicitor Generall,* being an Utter Barister of this Societie, be(
called to the Bench, and that hee bee published on Wednesday
next, being the last parte of the moote."

Council held on May 4th, 1686.

Six Benchers present.

fo. 209. "Ordered that M r Ayloffe have leave att his owne charge t(

set upp his ancestor's armes in the window of the Chappell, when

they formerly were."

" Ordered that noe person other then a member of this
Societie bee permitted to goe into the Archives, without th(
consent first had of Sir James Butler, M r Astry, M r Samuell Eyre
and M r Martyn, Masters of the Bench, or any three of them."

Council held on May nth, 1686.

Five Benchers present.
" Ordered that a colleccion be made for the French Pro-
testants,! and that the Cheife Butler doe provide a booke for th;
purpose, in which he is to enter the names of the severall member
of this Societye ; and on Thursday next, being the Grand Day ii
the Hall, doe take the subscripcions of each member then present,
what he thinks fit to give towards the said colleccion ; and that
he alsoe attend such of the members of this Societie who shall not
bee then present in the Hall, att their chambers, and take their
severall subscripcions. thereunto."

* Appointed the day before, April 26th. He attended his first Council
May lyth, when his name heads the list of Benchers present.

f The Edict of Nantes was revoked on Oct. 18, 1685. "The Breif for the
collection for the French Protestants hath past the Great Seal, and accordingly the
have begun to collect for them, and many persons give very largely." Luttrel
Diary, i, 374.

JSlacfe 2$oofe$ of Hincoln's nm 157

Call to the Bar, May i;th, 1686:
William Clayton.

Council held on June i7th, 1686. fo. 271.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Senior Butler doe require M r Edge, from fo. 272.
the Masters of the Bench, before the middle of August next
to white the Chappell according to his articles ; and that hee bee
payd noe more money till hee hath performed the same."

" Ordered that M r Astrey, one of the Masters of the Bench,
bee Master of the Library in the roome of M r Ashton, one other
of the Masters of the Bench, being very aged and infirme, and
desireous to bee eased of the said office."

" Ordered that M r Stedman bee Deane of the Chappell in
the roome of the said M r Ashton, being alsoe desireous to bee
eased of the said office."

Council held on June 23rd, 1686. fo. 273.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that the moneyes collected of the severall members
of this Societie for releife of the French Protestants, bee p; : d into
the Chamber of London, pursuant to his Majestie's Proclamacion."*
A further sum of ^200 must be borrowed for the Chapel.

Council held on November 4th, 1686. fo. 274.

Eleven Benchers present.

"Ordered that M r Treasurer doe make enquiry who tooke
downe the wainscoate or any other things fixed in the chamber
late M r Asgill's, and who were the abettors of it."

Call to the Bar:
William Fellowes and William Wynne.

Council held on November nth, 1686. fo. 275.

Eleven Benchers present.

M r Stedman is to report how the pleadings and proceedings
stand in the cause depending concerning M r Golfer's Charity,
"that the same if possible may bee brought to a heareing this
terme."

Council held on November 29th, 1686. fo. 277.

Nine Benchers present.

"Whereas the antient office of Magister Ambulacrorum
belonging to this Societie is now void by the death of Edmund

* The Proclamation was dated March 5, 1686, and authorised the issue of the
Brief mentioned in the previous note (p. 156). The Chamber of London is the
Chamberlain's Office, or Treasury, of the City. See Proc. of the Huguenot Soc., v, 344.

158 Cfie 3$lacfc iSoofes of fLincoln'0 Jim*

Gyles, Esquire, late one of the Associates to the Bench; and
whereas the splendor and beauty of this House is much concerned
in the well ordering of the Garden and Walkes thereunto
belonging, which, without such an officer, canot bee soe well
done;"- Sir Samuel Clerke, Knight, one of the Associates of the
Bench, is appointed.

Call to the Bar:

Henry Smith, "upon the intimacion of Sir Thomas Powis,
Knt., his Majestie's Soll r Generall, that it is his Majestie's
pleasure."

Also Edward Strode, who " hath quitted the practice of an
Attorney, and applyed himselfe to the study of the law, and
performed all his exercises. " t

Also William Hempson.

1687. Officers for 1687.

Treasurer : Sir Thomas Powis, Solicitor General.
Keeper of the Black Book : M r William Coward.

fo. 278. Call to the Bar, January 29th, 2 James II, 1687:

[Nicholas] Corsellis.

Council held on February 5th, 1687.
Ten Benchers present.

fo. 279. Call to the Bar :

Sir Thomas Manby, Knight, and Martyn Judd,j "upon the
intimacion of Sir Thomas Powis, Knight, his Majestye's Sollicitor
Generall, that it is his Majestye's pleasure."

Also John Weaver.

fo. 280. Call to the Bar, April 2Oth, 1687 :

Edward Horseman and Gilbert Horseman.

fo. 281. Council held on April 26th, 1687.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer be desired to give IDS. between*

the pewterer and his jurneyman who were instrumental! in th<

discovery and getting back of the pewter which was lately stolen

and imbezilled from this Society."

* " 1686, Nov. Orders have been sent to the Inns of Court for calling several
Roman Catholicks to the Barr; and accordingly 6 have been called at Graies Inn,
2 at Lincoln's Inn, and i of the Inner house." Luttrell, Diary, i, 388.

f See ante, p. 149.

\ Apparently a mistake for Jitbbes or Jubbs.

Macfe iSoofes of Hftuoltt's Enm 1 59

Council held on May 4th, 1687.
Nine Benchers present.

The arrears for the Parson's Roll and for absent commons fo. 282.
must be paid at once, " forasmuch as the House is become greatly
indebted by the extraordenary expence and charge of the late
building and repaire of the Chappell of this Society, whereunto
none of the gentlemen of this House, or any others, have been
any way contributory."

* Eldred Lancelot Lee, Esq., Barrister, has leave to dispose
of his part of a chamber in Gate House Court, Stone Pace Row,
to Thomas Lee junior, Esq., Barrister, who has the other part
of the chamber, which is to be consolidated. "In regard the
said M r Thomas Lee hath offerred to make a present of a
considerable number of bookes of the Civell Law to the Library,"
he shall be admitted on payment of a fine of ^5, he first
delivering the said books to the Master of the Library.

* On the motion of M r Astry, "It is ordered att the desire
of Sir Samuel Clerke, Kn*, Master of the Walkes, that M r
Egerton,t one of the Barristers of this House, in respect of his
quality may, att his owne charge, have a key of the private
garden of this Society delivered unto him for his owne use. And
the said M r Egerton, as alsoe the Masters and Associats of the
Bench, who have or shall have any key or keys of the said private
garden, are desired not to parte with theire said keys out of theire
respective custodyes, to any person or persons. And the said
Master of the Walks is desired that if he shall find any of the
keys of the said private garden to be lent out or made use of,
contrary to the intencion of this Order, to admonish the defaulters
thereof, and to acquaint the Masters of the Bench therewith."

Council held on May Qth, 1687.
Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : Richard Williams.

J"Upon debate and consideracion had of the businesse
concerninge Benchers' chambers of this House, who have not
been Readers, It is declared that it is reasonable that as well
those Benchers who have not Read that have chambers gratis
from this House, as those Benchers who have not chambers
gratis, should, in respect of the great debts and present exigences
of this House, wave the priviledge and benefitt of haveing any
Bench chambers gratis from the House, untill the debts and
engagements of the House be paid and discharged."

* Red Book I, fo. 426. f See ante, pp. 116, 121, 150. J Red Book I, fo. 427.

160 CJe &lacfe iSoofes of Utncoln'*

fo. 283. Council held on June 2nd, 1687.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that the bill of charges brought in by M r Goodrick *
att this Councell, touching the charges of the suite in Chancery
and decree concerninge M r Golfer's Charity," be referred to a
Committee for examination.

Council held on June 8th, 1687.
Eight Benchers present.

"Ordered that the bill of charges touching the decree
concerning M r Golfer's Charity, amounting to ^23 i6s., be paid
out of the Charity money ; and that the bill be kept with the coppy
of the decree."

" It is ordered that M r Francklyn, one of the Fellowes of this
Society, have leave, at his owne charges, to sett up two dyalls
and a seat, at the places in this House he desires."

fo. 284. Council held on October 28th, 1687.

Ten Benchers present.

Grand Day shall be kept; M r Hill and M r Greene are desired
to invite such persons to dine then whose names shall be delivered
to them.

Council held on November loth, 1687.

Nine Benchers present.

Theodore Bathurst, Barrister, is fined ^20 for not executing

the office of Master of the Revels, to which he had been appointed

by the Masters of the Bench.

fo. 285. Nine persons [names given], members of this Society, having

no chambers in the House, do lodge in other gentlemen's chambers,

contrary to Order. They must attend the next Council.

fo. 286. Council held on November i7th, 1687.

Eleven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Barre Moot exercises of this Society bee
for the future performed by the Masters of the Bench in theire
course and turne, as the other moots and exercises of the House
are."

" Ordered that the severall gentlemen of this House who
permitt severall straingers to lodge in theire chambers, not being
members of this Society, doe attend att the next Councell to show
cause why they doe not remove them; and in default theireof,
that theire respective chambers bee padlockd."

* See ante, p. 150.

Eiacfe asoofes of mncoln'g JFnm 161

"Whereas this Councell is informed that M r Middleton, one
of the members of this Society, doe lett out his chamber in this
House att an yearely rent, contrary to the Orders and Rules of
this House." He must attend the next Council to show cause
why his chamber should not be seized.

Council held on November 28th, 1687. fo. 287.

Twelve Benchers present.

Call to" the Bar:

Thomas Wyndham and John Hungerford, who have performed
all their exercises but two; they must each perform two more
before publication.

" Ordered that the Masters of the Bench who have not been fo. 288.
Readers of this Society and that have had or shall have any Bench
chamber or chambers, doe pay 100 markes apiece for theire
respective chambers to the Treasurer of this House before the
first Councell of next terme; which is to be repaid or otherwise
allowed unto them by this House as soone as this House shall gett
out of debt, or that the respective Masters of the Bench, who have
not Read, shall bee Readers of this Society, which shall first
happen."

Council held on December 2nd, 1687.
Nine Benchers present.

M r George Morley is removing from this House to another
Society, "and therefore desires the bene decessit of this House."
He may have it on payment of 12 for the use of the House.

John Smith, the Cook, complains "that the proffitts of his
place is much lessened by the Steward's buying in of necks of
mutton and loynes without rumps for the commons of this House,
and that he hath been att greater charges then formerly, by hireing
cookes to assist on Grand Dayes."

Accounts of Thomas Powis, Knight, Solicitor General, from
Dec. 23rd, 1686, to Nov. 28th, 1687.

Receipts: ^989 is. 6d. Including ^35 from the executors of
Henry Colfer.

Payments: ^"961 93. 2d. Including ^"60 75. for apparels.

Balance: ,27 123. 4d.

Officers for 1688. 1688<

Treasurer: M r Samuel Eyre.
Keeper of the Black Book: M r Francis Hill.

VOL. III. Y

1 62 Cfje ISIacfe iSoofcs of ILtncoIn's

Council held on January 26th, 3 James II, 1688.

Five Benchers present.

fo. 289. " Whereas by an old Order, made in Councell, no commons

were to be carried out of the kitchin to any of the gentlemen's
chambers of this Society, It is ordered that the said ancient Order
be revived and screened up."

fo. 290. Council held on February 7th, 1688.

Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

fo. 291. John Chappell, " M r Atturney Generall haveing signified his

Majestie's pleasure to some of the Masters of the Bench " that he
should be called.*

fo. 293. Council held on February i3th, 1688.

Seven Benchers present.

fo. 294. Call to the Bar :

Richard Atkins and [Charles] Shaw.

" Ordered that the Porter permit no coaches to come into the
courts of this House, but such as are Noblemen's, Judges', and
the King's Councell, unlesse the said Porter hath particular
direccion from some of the Masters of the Bench to lett in any
other coach."

fo. 295. Council held on May 9th, 1688.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Searle, one of the gentlemen of this
Society, be desired to attend the next Councell, and to shew
cause why he doth not proceed on his Articles formerly made with
the Masters of the Bench. "f

Council held on May 2ist, 1688.

Eight Benchers present.

fo. 296. "Ordered that the 20 guineas offered by Furnivall's Inne for

the renewall of their lease, be accepted of by the Treasurer of this
Society ; and that upon payment thereof, and surrendred their
old lease, a new lease to be made unto them for three score
yeares, under the same rent and covenant."

" Ordered that the Treasurer doe treat with M r Rossinton
for making of shops under the Tarrase Walk in the Great Garden,
and to make the best agreement he can with him for the benefit
of the House."

* See ante, p. 158. f See ante, pp. 139, 149, 156.

iSIacfe Boofcs of Lincoln's nm 163

* With regard to the late Order as to Benchers' chambers,!
It is ordered that only so much as relates to the payment of the
100 marks shall stand; "And that the said Masters who have
not Read, and have or shall have such Bench chambers, shall
hold the same in the same manner as other chambers in the
House are held, and not as Bench chambers. Subject neverthe-
lesse to this provisoe, that in case the Masters of the Bench shall
think fit to repay, and doe pay unto any such Master who have
or shall have such chamber, the sum of 100 markes before he
shall dispose of his said chamber, in order to leavyng this Society,
that then the said chamber shall become and be held as a Bench
chamber againe. And it is further Ordered that the severall
bonds of ^200 a piece penalty, entred into by M r Astry and
M r Samuell Eyre upon their severall admissions into their Bench
chambers, condicioned for their Reading when they shall be
required soe to doe, shall be delivered up ; and that in case the
Masters of the Bench shall think fit to repay such sume of
100 markes to such Master who shall have paid the same, that
then, at the time of payment of such money, such Master shall
enter into such bond as aforesaid, in case he hath not before
that time Read."

Council held on May 28th, 1688.

Fourteen Benchers present.

"The Masters of the Bench, haveing taken into considera-
cion the paper delivered unto them by severall of the gentlemen
of this Society in the Hall, on Thursday last, and the matters
therein contained, and severall of the said gentlemen attending the
Bench in Councell on Saturday last, and desiring liberty to inspect
the accompts of the House, and to have an answer in writing
delivered them from the Masters of the Bench to the matters
contained in the said paper by them delivered ; the Masters have
thought fitt, and soe declared in Councell, that no answer in writing
be given to the said paper, haveing never been in president, but all
reasonable satisfaccion be given to the said gentlemen touching the
matters contained in the said paper, doe appoint that four Masters
of the Bench . . . doe meet in the Councell Chamber with four of
the gentlemen that are at the Barre and four that are under the
Barre, to be chosen by the said gentlemen, to discourse with them
of the matters by them set forth in the said paper, and to produce
the said accompts, in order to their satisfaccion."

M r Searle is desired to attend the first Council next term, fo. 297.

* Red Book I, fo. 433. f See ante, p. 161.

1 64 Cfje ISlarfe #oofe$ of Ufncoln's

when the Articles between himself and the Masters of the Bench
shall be produced.

" Ordered that M r [Adam] Brown, who hath officiated in the
Chappell for severall monethes last past, be and is hereby
appointed and chosen Reader in the Chappell [i.e. Chaplain] for
this Society, in the room of M r Goodrick."

Council held on June 2ist, 1688.

Eight Benchers present.

" Upon the report of Sir James Butler, M r Luke Astry, M r
Samuell Eyre and M r Gyles Eyre, four of the Masters of the
Bench, (by a former Order appointed to be a Committee to meet
the Fellows of this Society in order to treat with them concerning
the matters contained in the paper delivered by the Fellows of
this Society unto the Masters of the Bench), that they had mett
M r John Hawles, M r Ben: Siddon, M r Sam: Somerford, M r
fo. 298. Edward Strode, M r Thomas Wyndham and M r Edmund Pittman,
Barristers, M r Edward Forde, M r Thomas Pemberton, M r Cha:
Button, M 1 ' Har: Roynons, M r Thomas Eyre and M r William
Dunch, Students; and that, upon debate of the said matters, the
said Barristers and Students did desire that they might have leave
to peruse and examine all the Treasurers' accompts (who yet
remaine members of this Society) which have att any time hereto-
fore been delivered unto the Masters of the Bench, and that they
may also have leave to examine and peruse the Black Bookes
belonging to this Society, and also to examine and state all the
absent commons due from any member of this Society; and that
in regard the said Barristers' and Students' occasions were such
that they could not themselves constantly attend the peruseing
and examining the said accompts and bookes, they did desire that
they might be at liberty to name six Barristers and six Students,
Fellows of this Society, and that any number of the said twelve
persons, soe to be named, not exceeding eight or lesse then two
persons, might have leave from time to time to meet to peruse
and examine the said accompts and books, and to take the state
of the said absent commons.

"Whereupon, and upon debate of the said matter, the said
Masters of the Bench doe think fit and Order that the said
accounts and bookes and rolls of absent commons be shewne unto
the said Fellows of this Society, and that they have liberty to
examine and peruse the same, and to take an account of the said
absent commons; and that the said M r Hawles, M r Siddon, M r
Somerford, M r Strode, M 1 Wyndham, M r Pittman, M r Ford, M r
Pemberton, M r Button, M r Roynons, M r Eyre and M r Dunch,
have such liberty as is desired to name such twelve Fellows of

ISIacfe &oofeg of Uincoln's Inn* 165

this Society, and that any number of them not exceeding eight or
lesse then two may from time to time meet in the Councell
Chamber for the purpose aforesaid.

"And doe likewise Order that one of the Masters of the
Bench, beginning with the junior Master, and soe takeing the
same in turne to the senior, be always present at the Councell
Chamber whilst any Fellows of the said Society, of the number
aforesaid, are present to peruse the said accompts and bookes.

" And by reason that the exigencies of the House, for
defraying the debts thereof, are pressing, It is further Ordered
that the said Fellows of this Society doe forthwith meet to satisfy
themselves in the said accompts, bookes and absent commons;
and that the Black-Book Keeper be added to the said Committee;
and that the said Committee doe from time to time meet the said
Fellows of this Society, in order to debate and satisfy them of the
matters contained in the said paper ; and doe from time to time
report their actings in the said matters to the Masters of the
Bench in Counsell; and, if possible, finally to end the same before
the last day of this present terme."

" Upon the peticion of M rs Gookin, shewing what great
necessity she is reduced to by reason of the poverty of her late
husband; It is ordered that M r Treasurer doe give unto her the
sume of ^3."

" Whereas the Lord Chief Justice Wright,* Chiefe Baron, f fo. 299.
and the Serjeants of the last Call,| have desired the use of the
Hall to keep their Feast in, on Tuesday next ; -It is thereupon
>rdered that the said new Serjeants shall or may keep their
Feast in the said Hall on Tuesday next ; and that the gentlemen
)f this Society, in regard they cannot dine in the Hall that day,
shall in Hew thereof have exceedings on Wednesday, the next day
following."

Council held on June 28th, 1688.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Gookin's funerall charges, being i 8s. 6d.,
)e deducted out of the ^3 lately ordered to be given by the
Treasurer to M rs Gooking, his late wife."

* Robert Wright, C.J.K.B.

f Edward Atkyns.

j Foss gives a list of nine Serjeants called in 1688, none of whom were of
Lincoln's Inn.

1688, June 26th. "The new Serjeants mett at Lincoln's Inn, and counted
there, and thence walkt to Westminster in their party-coloured robes to the
Common Pleas barr, and counted, . . . and afterwards entertained the Lord
Chancellor, Judges, Serjeants at Law, and other persons of quality, at a dinner at
Lincoln's Inn." Luttrell, Diary, i 446.

1 66 Cfje 9BIacfe #oo&0 of

" Ordered that the coates of arms of the Lord Chiefe Justice
Wright and the Lord Chiefe Baron Atkyns be sett up in one of
the windowes in the Hall."

fo. 300. Council held on July 4th, 1688.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

" Upon produceing two letters att this Councell by Sir James
Butler, the one from my Lord Sunderland to my Lord Chancellour,
the other from my Lord Chancellor to M r Atturney Generall,
both declaring his Majestye's pleasure that M r [John] Browne
and M r [Henry] Collett, two of the gent, of this Society, should
be called to the Barre." Ordered accordingly, with a saving of
seniority to all others.*

" Upon the report made att this Councell by some of the
Committee appointed to treat with the gent, of this Society
touching severall matters contained in a paper by them delivered
to the Masters of the Bench, and haveing lately mett in the
Councell Chamber, and debating the matters with the said gent. ;
and the gent, insisting much upon severall Orders formerly made
touching Bench chambers, which the Committee had not then
time to inspect and examine ; and the said gent, insisting also
upon severall other things." Adjourned.

fo, 302. Council held on November 8th, 1688.

Six Benchers present.

M r Collet and M r Brown must show cause at the next Council
why the Order lately made for their being called to the Bar
should not be vacated.!

Call to the Bar : John Eyre.

[NOTE. No further Councils were held until Feb. 2nd,
1689. James II fled on Dec. 22nd of this year;
William and Mary were proclaimed on Feb. I3th,
1689.]

Accounts of Samuel Eyre, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
December 2ist, 1687, to November 28th, 1688.

Receipts: ,1,117 1 % S - od. Including ,470 133. 4d. for
admissions to chambers and chamber fines ; i each from

* See ante, p. 158, and below.

t See above. William of Orange landed at Torbay on Nov. 5th, and the
fact was known in London on the following day. The first opportunity seems to
have been taken to question the Calls made on July 4th.

of fLtncoln'g l r nm 167

Serjeant Wynne and John Norden for ground for their interments
under the Chapel ; 20 from M r Richard Spurr for M r Golfer's
legacy.

Payments: ,1,091 33. 8d. Including ^200 each repaid to
Thomas Holder, Esq., and Dame Elizabeth Butler.

Balance: 26 143. 4d.

Officers for 1689. 1689.

Treasurer : M r Samuel Eyre.

M r William Coward.
Keeper of the Black Book : M r Francis Hill.

Call to the Bar, February 2nd, 4 James II, 1689 : fo. 303.

William Martyn.

Council held on February /th, 1689.*
Five Benchers present.

M r Collett shall be published tomorrow night, if he pays all
his arrears and duties in the mean time.f

Council held on April 3Oth, in the ist year of the reign fo. 304.

of William and Mary, King and Queen of England,

A.D. 1689.
Eleven Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

M r [Isaac] Ewre, M r [Edward] Bide, and M r Thomas
Fountaine ; to be published at the next exercise.

" Whereas it hath beene a usage for diverse yeares last fo. 305.
past in this Societye, that when any Master of the Bench or
gentleman of the Societye hath by writt beene called to bee a
Serjeant at Lawe, that by such call hee was debarred from
surrendring his chamber which hee held within this Howse ; but
ought after one full yeare, to bee accompted from the takeing on
him such degree, to leave his chamber to bee taken for the benefitt
of this Societye. And finding the same to bee very prejudicial!
to the Societye, and a great discouragement to all the Fellows and
members thereof to take upon them the said degree; It is there-
fore att this Councell ordered that every Master of the Bench,
Fellow, or member of this Society for the time being, which from
henceforth shall bee called to the degree of a Serjeant att Lawe,

* No regnal year is given. There was an interregnum until Feb. i3th.
See note on p. 166.
f See ante, p. 166.

i68 J)e iSIarfe iSoofcs of ILtncoIn'g Inn*

being att the time of such his call possessed of one whole or more
chambers, or of a moietye of a chamber, in this Society, which hee
bought and purchased with his owne money, shall and may, in
such case only, have liberty to surrender the same att any time
within one yeare, to bee accompted from the time of his being
sworne a Serjeant att Lawe; any Order, custome or usage of the
Societye to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
But in default thereof within the time aforesaid, hee and they are
absolutely to loose and forfeite the said chambers and parts of
chambers to the use of the said Societye."

* Call to the Bench :

M r Richard Holford, if he pay his arrears before the next
Council.

Council held on May 7th, 1689.

Seven Benchers present.

fo. 306. " Whereas by the auntient Orders of this Societye, noe gentle-

man is to have his commons anywhere but in the Hall; and
whereas greate inconveniencies have lately come to this Societye
by reason that sometimes the Cooke, and sometimes the Steward,
have sent the gentlemen's commons to their chambers, or delivered
them to their laundresses or servants to be carried to their masters'
chambers and other places, whereby the pewter of the House is
lost, and other damage have arisen to the House: It is therefore
ordered that if either the Cooke or Steward of this Societye shall
send, or deliver out to bee sent, any gentleman's commons to any
person to bee sent to the gentleman's chamber, or any other place,
other then the gentleman himselfe in the Hall, then the said
Cooke or Steward soe offending shall be suspended, or turned out
of his or their respective place or places for soe doeing. And this
Order to bee screened."

fo. 307. Council held on May i3th, 1689.

Nine Benchers present.

"Ordered that the Master of the Rolls f bee called to the
Bench, and that M r Stedman and the Treasurer to wayte on him
to acquaint him therewith."

fo. 308. Council held on May i6th, 1689.

Seven Benchers present.

M r Robert Holford, having paid his arrears, shall be published
to the Bench at the next exercise.

* Red Book I, fo. 435.

t Sir Henry Powle of Lincoln's Inn, appointed March i3th, 1689.

Macfe ISoofeg of Hincoln's Ettm 169

Council held on June 6th, 1689. fo. 309.

Eleven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : fo. 310.

" Upon the mocion of M r Sam : Eyre, Treasurer of this
Societye, on the behalfe of John Lindon, Esq., one of the Fellows
of this Societye, and upon consideracion had of the present
condicion of the said M r Lindon, who was admitted a gentleman
of this Societye above thirty yeares since *, and haveing spent
much of his time in the Kingdome of Ireland, being there one of
the late King Charles the Second's Serjeants at Lawe ; and
afterwards, in the yeare 1682, one of the Judges of the King's
Bench there ; and, by reason of the present troubles and
commocions in that Kingdome, was forced with his wife and
family to leave the said Kingdome, and to come into England,
sustaineing the losse of all his goods, plate and estate in that
Kingdome ; and desireing to bee called to the Barr." Ordered
accordingly ; to be published at the next exercise.

Council held on June I2th, 1689.
Twelve Benchers present.

M r Samuel Eyre, the Treasurer, having now served that fo. 311.
office for one year and three terms, desires to be discharged.

Council held on June i9th, 1689,
Eight Benchers present.

" Upon consideracion had of M r Searle's building, and of his fo. 312.
request for longer time to finish the same, It is ordered that the
said M r Searle haveing consented to pay 405. for the first
admission for every chamber built and to bee built upon his owne
ground, and that the howse of office shall bee built in such place
of the Base Court as the Masters of the Bench shall direct and
appointe, and that the passage thereunto is to bee made upon
or through his owne ground Ordered that the said M r Searle
hath time allowed him to finish his buildings untill the last day
of Michaelmas Terme which will be in the yeare of our
Lord 1690."

M r William Coward is chosen Treasurer.

Council held on October 29th, 1689. fo. 313.

Eleven Benchers present.
Robert Drye is appointed Steward.
Ordered that Friday next be kept as the Grand Day.

* Adm. Aug. 8th, 1657.

VOL. III. 7.

1 7 o !)e iSlacfe iSoofeg of Utncoln's

fo. 314. Council held on November 6th, 1689.

Ten Benchers present.

The Steward petitions for consideration, "setting forth the
dearenesse of provisions, and the greate losses hee hath and doth
still sustaine thereby,* and there being noe vacacion commons,
noe Readings, few Grand Days, and but very few gentlemen in
commons in the terme time." Referred to a Committee.

fo. 316. Council held on November 25th, 1689.

Nine Benchers present,

Call to the Bar:

Martin Button, to be published next term; and Joseph
Browne, to be published in Easter Term.

fo. 317. M r Littleton Powis is called to be an Associate to the Bench;

he must give a bond to the Treasurer in the penal sum of ^200
for the payment of ^100 in case he shall refuse to come to the
Bench, if called.

M r Thomas Clutterbuck may have a bene decessit from the
Treasurer, on payment of all arrears and duties.

fo. 318. Council held on November 28th, 1689.

Ten Benchers present.

fo. 319. " Upon reading the peticion of the gentlemen of Furnivall's

Inne, and debateing the matters therein contained, It is ordered
that a coppy of the said peticion bee delivered to M r Coleman,
therein named, within tenn dayes now next ensueing, and that
thereupon, and upon reasonable demand, the said M r Coleman doe
deliver to some one of the peticioners a true coppy of the poll
taken upon the last eleccion of the Principall ; and that the
peticioners doe, within one weeke after, bring in a perticuler
charge of the irregularities in the said eleccion, to the Treasurer
of this Howse, And the petitioners and the said M r Coleman are
to bee heard thereupon on the second Councill in the next terme."

1690. Officers for 1690.

Treasurer : M r William Coward.

Keeper of the Black Book : M r Nicholas Martyn.

Council held on January 3ist, I William and Mary, 1690.
Twelve Benchers present.

fo. 320. Upon hearing M r Edward Coleman, recently elected Principal

of Furnival's Inn, and very many gentlemen of the Inn who

* He had been acting as Steward for some little time previous to his formal
appointment.

ISIacfe 3$oofes of Etncoln's 5mu 171

attended on his behalf, and others who had petitioned against his
said election, alleging some irregularity therein : It is ordered
that the petition, being groundless, be dismissed, and M r Coleman's
election confirmed.

Council held on February 3rd, 1690.

Nine Benchers present.

"Upon the peticion of M r Adam Browne, shewing that he fo. 321.
had preached M r Henry Golfer's lecture sermon ever since the
first Wednesday in May, 1688, and praying that he might be
paid what moneys the Treasurer of this Society had in his hands
of M r Golfer's gift, and due to the said M r Browne for that
service ; It is ordered that the Treasurer doe for the present pay
the said M r Browne 6. And that it be further referred to the
said M r Treasurer to examine what arreares of the said gift are
due unto and from this Society."

Council held on February 7th, 1690.
Five Benchers present.

The Treasurer is "to inspect and report the charge which fo. 322.
this Society hath bin at concerning M r Golfer's charity, to the end
the Society may be reimbursed the same."

All gentlemen lying in chambers not their own must remove
forthwith.

"Whereas upon Tuesday, the fourth of this month, by Order
of the Commissioners for the County of Middlesex for putting in
execution therein the Act for granting to their Majesties of an
Aide of twelve pence in the pound for one yeare, &c. ; * Reciting
that M r Astrey and M r Coward, appointed by the said Com-
missioners Assessors for this Society, M r Hill, who was appointed
one other Assessor, being sick; and that as therein is recited to
be alleged the Society was not charged in the Act in 1676; and
that Doctors' Commons, being then assessed, was excused; and
that their predecessors were not charged; and that M r Coward,
being a Member of Parliament, pleaded he ought not to be made
an Assessor, and M r Hill, being sick, was disabled by the Act of
God; it was ordered that M r Coward's fine be not estreated, but
that the rest be estreated, according to former Orders; It is
ordered that the said M r Astrey and M r Hill be indemnified by
this Society."

Council held on February i2th, 1690.
Five Benchers present.

* Probably Stat. i W. & M., Sess. 2, cap. 5.

1 72 Cfte #lacfe JSoofeg of fUncoln'* Inn*

fo. 323. Call to the Bar: Robert Eyre.

" Ordered that they who are to receve M r Golfer's charity doe
make a proporcionable abatement for the charges this House hath
bin at for the recovery thereof; the which M r Treasurer is desired
to see done accordingly."

" Ordered that as well the gentlemen that lye in other
gentlemen's chambers within this House, as alsoe the owners
of the same chambers, doe, in default of the removall of the same
gentlemen soe lying in other gentlemen's chambers before the
next adjourned Councill, attend at the same adjourned Councill ;
or otherwise the chambers of such as disobey this Order to be
padlocked. And that the Porter doe give notice hereof."

Council held on February i7th, 1690.
Nine Benchers present.

fo. 324. M r Samuel Wade may have a dene decessit from the Treasurer,

on payment of all arrears and duties.

Council held on May 9th, 1690.
Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Searle, at his costs and charges, taking
down the west wall of the kitchen garden, and erecting a new
brick wall of the same height, from the south west corner of
M r Windham's chambers, in a streight line, to joyne with the
north west corner of his the said M r Searle's intended new
building, the said M r Searle may have liberty to lay his
foundation, for the whole breadth of the north end of his new
intended building, where the south wall of the kitchen garden
now standeth." *

t " Upon the peticion of the Lord Altham, one of the
Associates of the Bench, shewing that he hath one whole
chamber in Gate House Court, and Stone Pace Rowe, two story
high, and which he is willing to leave to M r John Rolfe, one of
the Fellows of this Society, and praying that the said M r Rolfe
may be admitted thereunto, paying a reasonable fine. The
Masters of the Bench, having taken into consideracion the
unhappy circumstances of the said Lord Altham hapning-by
means of the present troubles in Ireland, It is ordered that the
said Lord Altham paying to the Treasurer before the next
Councill .30 only, in full of all his arrears, and the said M r Rolfe

* On the north wall of No. i, New Square, is a stone tablet, with the lion
then used as the arms of the Inn (see ante, p. 14, note), the initials of John
Greene, Treasurer, 1692, and this inscription: "This wall is built upon the
ground of Lincoln's Inn. No windows are to be broken out without leave."

\ Red Book I, fo. 442.

ISlacfe iSoofes of fUiuoln'g Knit. 173

paying before the next Council! & for his fine, he, the said
M r Rolfe, be admitted into the said chamber."

Council held on May i5th, 1690.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Searle may make a terace walk in the
private garden, to joyn the old terace walke in the Great Garden,
upon such termes and in such manner as shall be agreed upon
between the Masters of the Bench and him; and that he may
have liberty to proceed therein forthwith." *

Call to the Bar: John Comyns. fo. 325.

Also William Dunch; several of the Masters of the Bench
having satisfied the rest that he is "a very good Protestant, not-
withstanding that it is not certified on his behalfe that he hath
received the Sacrament at the Chappell of this House according
to the usage of the Church of England."

Council held on May 2Oth, 1690.
Eleven Benchers present.

" Whereas it hath bin proposed that the Terace should be
continued through the Benchers' Garden, and that whereas by
reason of the great debt upon this Society there is no probable
prospect that the charge thereof can in any convenient time be
defrayed out of the House stock. And whereas M r Searle hath
consented for the continuing the said Terace walk, to fill up and
shape the same, and to make halfe the inside wall and all the
palisadoes to be sett upon the east side of the same walk in the
Benchers' Garden, and moreover to contribute double so much
money as any other gentleman of this Society shall please to
contribute towards the further charge of the said walk. It is
ordered that M r Manby doe survey the upper walk in the
Benchers' Garden, and bring in an estimate, at the next Councill,
of the remainder of the charge relating to the said walk, above
what M r Searle hath consented to beare, to the end the same
may be communicated to the gentlemen of this Society. And
that it be proposed to them to subscribe, and pay at the time
of such their subscription, what they shall please to contribute
toward the charge of the said walk ; and that the Order made
at the last Councill touching the said Terrace walk be suspended."

" Ordered that M r Manby doe bring to the next Councill
a draught of a five foot passage to be taken out of the kitchen

* On the north wall of No. n, New Square, is a stone tablet with this
inscription: "This Terrace Walk was finished and compleated in the year of
our Lord, 1694. Edward Byde, Esq., Treasurer."

ISoofeg of Utncoln'g

garden at the south west part, and for a wall to be erected by
M r Searle at his charge, of such height and in such manner
to inclose the remainder of the kitchen garden on the south side
thereof, as the Masters of the Bench shall think fitt."

Council held on May 23rd, 1690.

Six Benchers present.

fo. 326. "Whereas in pursuance of an Order made at the last

Councell touching the continuing of the Terace walk through the
Bencher's Garden, a computation hath bin taken of the remainder
of the charge thereof over and above what M r Serle hath
proposed to beare ; and that upon such computation, the said
remainder of the charge is conceived to amount to the summe of
^150, and upwards ; And whereas by reason of the present debt
upon the House there is no prospect of defraying the same out
of the House stock in any reasonable time ; It is ordered that
it be proposed to the Masters of the Bench, Associates, Barristers,
and other gentlemen of this Society, to make subscriptions, as
they shall think fitt, of what moneys they will please to contribute
towards the remaining charge of continuing the said Terace walk,
above what M r Searle hath proposed to beare, and to pay in to
the Treasurer the severall summes to be by them subscribed
within a short time."

Council held on June 2nd, 1690.
Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that those Barristers that brought in their Bar
Moots on days of discontinuance in this terme, doe performe their
moot exercises in the next terme ; and that those who first
brought in their moots upon such days of discontinuance, doe
perform the first moot the next terme."

fo. 327. Call to the Bar, July ist, 1690 :

William Phillips, and William Wardour.

fo. 329. Council held on November 7th, 1690.

Six Benchers present.

fo. 330. "Whereas it hath bin proposed at this Councill that the

Honourable Charles Egerton, Esq., being a descendant from the
Lord Chancellour Egerton, (who was likewise of this Society), and
the son and brother of an Earle and Peer of this Realme, and
being likewise an Utter Barrister of this Society, wherein he hath
honourably and worthily demeaned himselfe, is willing to pay ^40
so that he may be associated to the Bench and be discharged of
all his arreares to this time; It is thereupon, and upon con-
sideracion of the present exigencies of this House for money,

Macfe 2$oofeg of Uincoln'g Emt, 175

ordered that the said M r Charles Egerton, first paying the said
^40 to the Treasurer, be called to be an Associate of the Bench,
and be discharged of all his arreares to this House untill
this time."

Council held on November i8th, 1690.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer, M r Astry, and M r Ewer,
three of the Masters of the Bench, or any two of them, doe
draw up some proposalls to be communicated to the Masters of
the Bench in other Societyes, in order to be offered to the Judges,
for the promoting the keeping up of commons in the severall
Innes of Court, and for practising Barristers to have chambers
in their respective Societyes ; or to consider of any other
proposalls to be soe communicated as may tend to the generall
good of the four Innes of Court."

Council held on November 25th, 1690. fo. 331.

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: John Rolfe.

A Committee is appointed "to watch and consider the Bill
depending in Parliament concerning M r Searle's estate."*

Council held on November 28th, 1690. fo. 332.

Eleven Benchers present.

M r Francis Read is admitted to "that whole ground chamber
under the Chappell " t vacant by the death of M r Basil More,
paying ^55 for such admittance.

M r [Henry] Appleton and M r [William] Dobbins are to be
invited to come to the Bench.

The lock of the Library door shall be altered, and the
Benchers' keys fitted thereto.

" Upon intimacion given at this Councill by one of the fo. 333.
Masters of the Bench, of the Deane of S* Paul's \ intentions of
leaving this Society; and upon consideracion of the debts and
difficultyes under which this Society labours, It is ordered that
whenever M r Deane shall please to leave this Society, the salary
shall be reduced to his successors, Preachers to this Society, to
^100 per annum, being the ancient salary."

*See Appendix. Searle died this year.
f'Probably under the stairs or vestibule.
+_Dr. Tillotson was so appointed Nov. igth, 1689.

i 7 6 Cf)e #lacfe fcoofeg of

*Accounts of William Coward, Esquire, the Treasurer.

Receipts: Including ^65 135. id. from Samuel

Eyre, the late Treasurer ; ^40 from Charles Egerton, Esq.,
for his Association to the Bench ; 9 from the Principal of
Thavies Inn for two years' rent ending Michaelmas, 1690.

1691. Officers for 1691.

Treasurer: M r Henry Long.

Keeper of the Black Book: M r John Greene.

Council held on January 27th, 2 William and Mary, 1691.
Fourteen Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: Thomas Hobart.

fo. 334. " Whereas proposalls in writing were made at this Councell

by the Right Honourable the Lord Chandois,f Henry Vincent,
Esq., and D r Barbon, J relating to Fickettfeilds and late M r Serle's
buildings there; It is ordered that a Committee of all the Benchers
of this Society, or of as many as please to attend, doe meet in the
Councell Chamber at seaven of the clock in the evening on Fryday
next; and that in the meantime M r Guydott and M r Martyn doe
please to attend M r Justice Eyre with the said proposalls, by
reason the said M r Justice Eyre was one of the then Benchers
who signed the Articles made between the said Benchers and M r
Serle concerning the same."

Council held on February 3rd, 1691.

Nine Benchers present.

/<> 335- " Whereas a Comittee of the Masters of the Bench was

held on Fryday, the 3Oth of January last past, to consider of the
propositions made then by the Right Honourable the Lord
Chandois, Henry Vincent, Esq., and D r Barbon, relating to
Picket Feilds and late M r Serle's buildings there ; And whereas
at the said Comittee it was offerd that the said D r Barbon
would waive the said propositions made the last Councell for
private buildings, and agree to build according to the Articles
formerly made between the Masters of the Bench and the said
M r Serle concerning the said buildings in Fickettfeilds, to which
the said Comittee did agree; It is now resolved that this

* An imperfect roll.

f James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos of Sudeley.

\ Nicholas Barbon, M.D., a considerable speculator and builder after the Fire.
See Diet. Nat. Biog.

Macfe 2$oofcs of fLincoln's mt, 177

Councell doth agree with the Comittee, so farr as may be
consistent with the said Articles, with other the agreements
of M r Serle at subsequent Councells, and with the rights of this
House."

Council held on February 9th, 1691.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that D r Barbon's proposition to build an office for
the Six Clerks in the middle of M r Serle's square, be wholly
rejected."

Council held on February i2th, 1691. fo. 336.

Nine Benchers present.

" Memorand. D r Barbon did appear at this Councell, and
agree to proceed upon the buildings in Fickettfeilds according to
the Articles with M r Searle."

Council held on February i/th, 1691.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that D r Barbon be permitted and have leave to
make the passage eight foot wide to the Bog-house intended to be
built for the use of this Society."

" Wheras D r Barbon did now propose to raise the Terrace
walk in the Benchers' or Lower Garden, equal to the Terrace
walk in the Upper Garden and as high, and to continue the same
the length of both the said Gardens, and gravell the same; and
also to support, uphold and make good the wall upon the west
side of the said Benchers' or Lower Garden next Great Lincoln's
Inne Feilds, as also to put land tyes if there be occasion; and
farther, to make and build a low brick wall on the east side of the
said Terrace walk so to be raised, answerable all along to that in fo. 337.
the said Upper or Great Garden ; And moreover to make and sett
up a palizado pale between the Terrace walk to be made and [the]
Lower or Bench Garden; and lastly to cope with stone the said
wall on the west side of the said Benchers' Garden all along,
answerable to the coping in the Great or Upper Garden. And
all this D r Barbon did here in Councell propose to doe and finish
before Michaelmas next come twelve month, so that he may have
leave and be permitted to carry and lay the earth there which he
is obliged to dig and carry off in Fickett feilds in order to finish
his buildings there; and have ^100 from this Society when the
said Terrace walk shall be so finished, as above said." Ordered
accordingly.

Council held on May 13th, 1691. fo. 338.

Seven Benchers present.

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178 Cfie #tac& 2$oofeg of fLfncoln'g

Call to the Bench:

" Ordered that M r Dobbins, first paying the one half of his
absent commons and the whole of all other dutyes, be publish'd
a Bencher at the next exercise, on Fryday next."

BOOK X. Council held on May 25th, 1691.

fo. i. Ten Benchers present.

The Treasurer is to pay ^50 to the Archbishop of Canterbury

elect, for his salary as Preacher up to the end of Hilary Term last.*

M r Brown, the [Divinity] Reader, shall receive 12. "in

part for his preaching M r Golfer's Lecture, out of the first moneys

shall be received out of that charity."

fo. 3-t Council held on June 29th, 1691.

Fourteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that two new keys be made to two locks of the
Archives,^ and the two locks altered forthwith, and that the keys
be delivered to M r Treasurer and the Blackbook Keeper."

" M r Turner and M r Strode, two Barristers of this Society,
attended at this Councell with a paper subscrib'd by themselfs and
seaverall other Barristers and students of this House, pretending
right to the election of a Preacher to this Society in the room of
D r Tillotson, Dean of Paul's, lately promoted to the Archbishoprick
of Canterbury. The said M r Turner and M r Strode being
withdrawn, this Councell took into consideration the [manner] of
election ; and upon search of the Books of Orders of this House,
and presidents therein, It is unanimously agreed and resolved
that the right of election of a Preacher is and always hath been
in the Masters of the Bench only, and not in the gentlemen of
this Society under the Bench."

Council held on July ist, 1691.

Fourteen Benchers present.

fo. 2.t " Ordered at this Councell that the Masters of the Bench doe

in seniority, one after another, nominate a fit person to preach
every Sunday in the Chappell of this House untill a Preacher shall
be chosen ; and that in case any one of the Masters of the Bench
shall faile to nominate a fit person, so to preach as aforesaid, in
his turn, that then M r Brown, the Chaplain to this Society, having
eight days' notice, shall provide a Preacher for that turn. And
M r Treasurer is also order'd to pay one ginney to every person
that shall so preach, untill a Preacher shall be elected to this
Society."

* Dr. Tillotson was elected Archbishop of Canterbury on May i6th, and
consecrated on the 3151.

f This folio is misplaced. J See ante p. 114.

Macfe iSoofeg of fLituoln'g Enn, 179

"Whereas it hath been reported to the Masters of the Bench
at this Councell that D r Barbon and such as claim under M r Searle
doe intend to place the new Bog-house, to be built for this Society,
nearer or adjoyning to the Kitchen Garden wall then he or they
ought to doe, and which, if done, will be to the great annoyance
of the inhabitants of those chambers adjoyning to the said Kitchen
Garden; and that he or they doe propose and intend to erect
seaverall buildings in the void place between the east row of the
new buildings and Chichester's Rents, and elsewhere, to the
stopping of the air, contrary to the Articles and Agreements, and
also in opposition to subsequent Orders of this Councell which the
said M r Searle had agreed unto in his lifetime, and which were in
part executed. -It is now ordered at this Councell that Sir James
Butler [and other Benchers] be and are appointed a Committee to
consider and take care how best to prevent the said Bog-house
and other buildings from being erected and built, or any other
thing done, contrary to the said Articles and Agreements, to the
prejudice of this Society. And it is farther ordered that the said
Committee doe use all means to prevent and hinder the same."

Council held on July 3rd, 1691.
Six Benchers present.

M r Brown, the Chaplain, is to provide fit persons to preach
on the several monthly fast days till next term.

Council held on October 29th, 1691.
Eleven Benchers present.

Ordered that " the passage in the new buildings towards
Sheer Lane be kept open as a passage to Lincoln's Inn."

Council held on November 6th, 1691. fo. 4.

Eleven Benchers present.

A Committee is appointed " to inspect and consider of the
ground, wayes, and passages belonging to this Society without
the Back Gate, in or neare Ficketts Feild ; and that the said
ground, wayes and passages be measured, in order to discourse
with D r Barbon concerning the same."

Council held on November i3th, 1691.

Fifteen Benchers present, including Henry Powle,

Master of the Rolls.

"Ordered that M r Edward Maynard* be and is chosen
Preacher to this Society in the place of the Archbishop of
Canterbury."

* See Diet, of Nat. Biog.

i So Cfie Mack iSoofe* of Etncoltt's firm*

Council held on November i8th, 1691.
Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

John Isaackson ; to be published at the second part of the
next moot.

fo. 5. Henry Long, Esq., the present Treasurer, has lately given

a velvet cloth and cushion for the pulpit in the Chapel. His
name shall be entered among the Benefactors.

" Ordered that M r Maynard, chosen Preacher to this Society,
have the same exhibition and allowances that the Arch Bishop
had when he was chosen Preacher, and that the same duty and
attendance be expected from him." *

fo. 6. Call to the Bar, November 28th, 1691 :

Thomas Washer; to take the Sacrament before publication.

Council held on December 4th, 1691.
Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

Richard Abbot, James Whitrong and John Hawles, Esquires.

On a petition signed by twenty-seven Barristers and Students
asking for the keeping of vacation commons, Ordered accordingly,
if twenty-one gentlemen will bind themselves to keep the same.

1692. Officers for 1692 :

Treasurer: M r Nicholas Martyn.

Keeper of the Black Book: M r Isaac Ewer.

fo. 6 (2). Council held on February 4th, 3 William and Mary, 1692.

Twelve Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: Henry Martin.

" Ordered that all Offices exercised by any of the Masters of
the Bench be from henceforth made annuall as well as those of
the Treasurer and Black- Book-Keeper; and that the said Officers
exerciseing the same be respectively accountable at the end of the
year they leave the same." All Officers who have not accounted,
must do so before the last Council this term.

Council held on February 8th, 1692.
Eight Benchers present.

fo. 7. " Ordered that the railes of the Lower or Bench Garden be

forthwith repaired; and if the charge of such repaires be not paid

* See ante, p. 34.

Cije Black Books! of ILincoln'* 3htm 181

to the Treasurer by the persons concerned in the breaking the
said rails, before the next Councell, that then the servants and
porters of the House attend the Councell to give an account of
the names of the persons who broke the said railes."

Council held on February I2th, 1692
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : [William] Norcliff.

" Ordered that the patten of the Chappell be changed for a
better, and a summe not exceeding ^4 to be added in the
exchange."

" Ordered that it be considered at the first Councell of next
terme concerning buildings upon the dead wall next Chancery
Lane, or of any other wayes in order to putt the House out
of debt."

" Mdm. M r Astry left the chair without consent of the
Counsell, when D r Barbon was called in."

" Ordered that it be considered at the first Councell of next
terme whether it be regular for the Chairman to leave the chair
without consent of the Councell." *

Council held on February i7th, 1692.
Seven Benchers present.

A Committee is appointed to "consider the Articles made fo. 8.
with M r Serle, and all Orders relating thereto, and enquire how
farr they have bin and shall be complyed with or violated: and
from time to time require from D r Barbon a strict performance."

" Ordered that M r Treasurer and M r Long doe direct the
setting up the Boundary Stone prepared by M r Long, and D r
Barbon is to be desired to be present if he think fitt."f

Council held on April i9th, 1692.

Eleven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the intended new bogghouse be not placed
nearer to the kitchen garden wall than the outside of the seaventh
window of the new building, and so to be carryed on southward ;

* M r Astry was the senior Bencher at this Council. M r Martyn, the Treasurer,
was present.

f A stone tablet fixed in the east wall of No. u, New Square, bears this
inscription : " Solum super quod haec structura erigitur, ab australi parte hujus saxi
54 pedes cum pollice septentrionem versus continens, pertinet ad Societatem hanc.
Ac eciam tota terrse portio ab hoc saxo orientem versus usque ad limitem veteris
structuras horto culinari proximum." Above are the date, 1691, and initials of
Henry Long, the Treasurer in that year. In the left hand corner is a lion rampant,
the arms then used by the Inn, as to which see note, p. 14.

1 82 Wbt ISlack asoofeg of IUiuoln'0 inn*

and that D r Barbon be desired to beginn and finish the said new
bogghouse forthwith."

fo. 9. Call to the Bar, May 6th, 1692 :

Hugh Hodges.

fo. 10. Call to the Bar, May 9th, 1692 :

William Loraine and William Gratwick.

fo. ii. Call to the Bar, June 7th, 1692 :

Richard Lloyd.

Council held on June 2ist, 1692.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that D r Barbon shall be admitted into this Society,
and to the chamber he now inhabits."

fo. 12. " Ordered that M r Treasurer be desired to write to the Lord

Chief Justice Reynolds*, and any other of the Judges in Ireland ;
and to request them, in the behalfe of this Society, that M r Charles
Richarsy, or any other Irish gent, of this Society, (not being
therein called to the Barr), may not be admitted to practise in
Ireland as a Barrister at Law before such time as he shall have
a certificate of his bene discessit, under the hand of the Treasurer
of this Society for the time being."

Council held on October 2 7th, 1692.
Eight Benchers present.

" D r Barbon attending this Council, the Masters of the Bench
claimed, and are of opinion and declare, that, by virtue of the
Articles made between M r Serle and this Society, there ought to
be a wall built by the purchasers of M r Serle's interest, to begin at
the south east corner of the kitchin garden and to be carryed on
tenn foot distant from Chichester Rents and other buildings lying
south thereof, down towards Bell Yard, as far as the south end of
the east range of buildings of Serle's Court, and thence that a
cross wall be carryed unto the south east end of the same range of
buildings; in which cross wall a gate ought to be made for all carts
and carriages; and that all the ground between the said walls, so
to be built, and the said range of buildings, ought to be for the
sole use and convenience of this Society, and that no more
buildings be erected on the said ground, so to be inclosed, than
what are already built."

" And it is also ordered that the old Bill in Chancery, against
Doctor Barbon and others, be continued and amended as to new
parties and charges, and that M r Treasurer take care therein."

Richard Reynell, CJ.K.B. Ireland.

Macfe 3$oofes of Eiitcoltt's Emt* 183

Council held on November 2ist, 1692. fo. 13.

Ten Benchers present.

Six gentlemen, "who, having no chambers in this House, yet
contrary to the Rules of this Society, lodge within this House in
severall other gentlemen's chambers," must attend the next Council.

M r Serjeant Coward and M r Serjeant Powys are allowed a fo. 14.
year in which to dispose of their chambers.*

t M r Cavendish Weedon is admitted into a whole Chamber
or apartment in the floor over the lowest rooms in Serle's Court,
on the west side of the second staircase westward from that gate
in the said Court which leads to Bell Yard. He pays no fine to
the House, according to the Articles, this being the first admission.

Accounts of Nicholas Martyn, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 22nd, 1692, to Jan. 22nd, 1693.

Receipts : ^"840 i8s. 6d. Including ^79 i8s. 4d. from
Henry Long, Esq., the late Treasurer; i each from M r Thomas
Fisher and M r David White for graves under the Chapel ;
16 193. from M r Golfer's executors.

Payments: ^799 125. 3d. Including 11 75. to William
Kellaway for two loads of pots, salts and candlesticks ; 10 195. 4d.
for money and purse given to Samuel Eyre, Serjeant at Law ;
the like to William Coward and to Littleton Powis, Serjeants at
Law ; i 6 8s. to John Longland, architect.

Balance: ^41 6s. 3d.

Officers for 1693 : 1693.

Treasurer : M r John Green.
Keeper of the Black Book : M r Edward Byde.
Dean of the Chapel : Sir James Butler.
Keeper of the Library : M r John Eldred.

Council held on February i3th, 5 William and Mary, fo. 17.

1693.

Eleven Benchers present.

M r Astrey and M r Martyn are desired to prepare a draught
of an Order relating to the exercises to be performed both by the
Barristers and students of this Society, in the vacations.

" Ordered that Sir James Butler [and other Benchers] doe
wait upon his Grace the Arch Bishop of Canterbury,^ and return
him the hearty thankes of the Society for his extraordinary favor

* Samuel Eyre, William Coward and Littleton Powys were called to be
Serjeants this year from Lincoln's Inn.

f Red Book II, p. 10; Serle's Court Book I, p. 12.
j Tillotson.

1 84

in administring the Sacrament, and for his most admirable sermon ;
and to acquaint him that it is the unanimous desire and request
of the whole Society to his Grace that he would be pleased to
order the sermon to be printed."

" Ordered that the Library Keeper doe enter the name of
M r Long, one of the Masters of the Bench, into the List of
Benefactors of this House, for his generous present to the Society
of a crimson velvett pulpitt cloath, bordered round with a rich
gold fringe, and a crimson velvet cushion."

fo. 1 8. Council held on May loth, 1693.

Eight Benchers present.

M r John Scott is appointed Steward during the pleasure of
the Bench ; he must give a bond for ^600, with three others
besides himself.

" Ordered that Sir James Butler, Deane of the Chappell, be
desired to give los. to M r Gookin before the end of this terme,
out of the charity money, upon condicion he doe not beg within
this Society, and if he come within this House for that purpose,
the officers are hereby ordred to turn him out, and he to expect
no further releife."

Council held on May 23rd, 1693.

Nine Benchers present.

" Whereas upon solemne and mature deliberation had of the
great inconveniencies which did arise to this Society by reason
of keeping Ember Weekes and fish daies other then Frydaies and
Satterdaies in every week, by reason whereof severall gentlemen
put themselves out of commons and deserted the Hall, being
unwilling to be tied to eat such unwholsome diet as salt fish and
ling in the summer season, to the great prejudice of their healthes
-'Tis therefore ordered for the future that no Ember Weekes
or fish daies, other then Frydaies and Satterdaies in every week,
be observed in this Society, and that flesh be provided for dinners
on all other daies ; but that all fasting eves remaine still as
they were."

fo. 19- Council held on July 3rd, 1693.

Eight Benchers present.

Nine gentlemen, " inhabitants in the new buildings in Serl
Court," are ordered to attend and be admitted into their respective
chambers, according to the rules of the House.

Richard Savage is appointed Cook to the Society, during
pleasure.

" Ordered that all the rubbish, ashes, dirt, and filth of this
House and likewise of Serle Court, be carried and laid in the

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Base Court beyond Bog House Court; and that the Cheif Porter
give notice thereof to all the inhabitants in Serle Court, and that
the Panierman doe give notice thereof to all landresses and
others in the old House; and that the Panierman, as more
particularly belonging to his place, doe take especiall care to see
the same performed."

" Ordered that Sir Thomas Cooke be desired forthwith to
finish the gardiner's house, and to put up particions and all other
conveniences and necessaries within the said house, and to erect a
decent and hansome raile or paile on the outside before the said
house."

" Ordered that Sir Thomas Cooke be desired forthwith to
build a brick wall for the inclosing the back yard beyond the Bog
House Court, for the use of the House, according to the true
meaning and intention of M r Serle's Articles with this Society,
which are as follow: ' It is agreed that the said Henery Serle, his
heires, executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and will at his
and their like costs and charges, erect a good and sufficient brick
wall, of a brick and a half thick and tenn foot high, to run south-
ward from the south east corner of the said kitchin garden wall,
and range equall with the buildings on the east side of the said
Feilds, tenn foot distance from the same, towards Bell Yard, and
to extend to that place which shall range equally with the outside
of the said third range of buildings, and from thence to goe
again in a direct line to the south east corner of the said
new buildings; in the latter part of which said new wall shall
be a sufficient gate-place, and a sufficient gate sett upp, for
all sorts of carts and carriages to goe in and out thereat.'
Ordered that the Cheif Butler doe wait upon Sir Thomas Cooke
with this Order."

I Council held on July 5th, 1693.

Seven Benchers present.
James Jackson is appointed Porter to the Back Gate and fo. 2C
Postern Gate of Serle Court until next Michaelmas; he is to
observe the same order as to letting in coaches as is used at the
Chancery Lane Gate.

Council held on October 3ist, 1693

Eleven Benchers present.

Sixteen inhabitants of Serle Court must show cause why they
are not admitted to their respective chambers, and those of them
who are not admitted to the House must also show cause why
they are not so admitted.

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86 Cf)t Macfe 3$oofeg of !Ltncoln'0

Council held on November loth, 1693.

Seven Benchers present.

fo. 21. "Ordered that every person that shall be admitted into any

chambers or parts of chambers in Serle Court shall upon their
admission enter into a bond of ^40 penalty to pay their commons
and to pay and perform all other duties to the House."

" Upon the information of M r Custerton, chief workeman to
Sir Thomas Cook, that the old wall towards Lincolne's Inne
Feilds, being very infirme and weak, will hardly be able to
support the Terrace Walk ;" the bricklayers and carpenters of the
Society are ordered to inspect and report.

Call to the Bar, November i8th, 1693 :
William Gwidott junior.

Call to the Bar, November 24th, 1693 :
Robert Drake.

fo. 22. Council held on November 28th, 1693.

Twelve Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Morse solicite in the suite between this
Society and Sir Thomas Cook, and that he apply himself in it to
M r Ewers, M r Holford and M r Dobyns, three of the Masters of
the Bench."

Council held on December 6th, 1693.
Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Parishioners and Churchwardens of Saint
Clement's Dane have leave from this Society to put up a boundary
stone into the wall of the new building westward in Serle Court,
at their own proper costs and charges, and without doing any
detriment or prejudice to the said building. Upon their petition." *
" Ordered that no commons be sent out of the kitchen to
gentlemen's chambers or other places, but onely into the Hall."

Accounts of John Greene, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
January 22nd, 1693, to January 22nd, 1694.

Receipts: ,968 195. 4d. Including 16 igs. from the
executors of Henry Colfer.

Payments: ^908 175. nd. Including 2s. 6d. for strawberries
and lemons.

Balance: ^60 is. $d.

* This stone, having on it an anchor, the letters, S. C. I)., and the date 1693,
is still in place on the east front of No. 1 1, New Square.

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187

Officers for 1694 : 1694.

Treasurer: M r Edward Byde.
Keeper of the Black Book: M r Richard Holford.
Dean of the Chapel : M r Luke Astry.
Keeper of the Library: M r William Gwydott.

Council held on January 29th, 5 William and Mary, 1694. f- 2 3-
Six Benchers present.

" Order'd that noe Order of Councell doe affect any Master
of the Bench unles it bee soe perticulerly expressed in the Order,
as hath been heretofore ordered." *

The porters and other servants of the Inn are authorised to
demand and receive a fine of 6d. from every laundress or other
person whom they can find emptying slops or ashes, etc., in any
part of the Inn except the Base Court, "and may for their better
incouragement in their dilligence herein dispose the said penalty
to their owne use."

Council held on February 5th, 1694.
Five Benchers present.

M r Serjeant Powis has a year more allowed him in which to fo. 24.
dispose of his chamber.

Council held on February I2th, 1694.
Nine Benchers present.

Sir Thomas Cook, Knight, is admitted a Fellow of this fo. 25.
Society. He is made a Barrister and an Associate to the Bench,
on payment of ^50.

Ordered that M r John Symonds be entered as a benefactor
for his gift of five books to the Library, being the Synopsis
Criticorum. f

"Ordered that M r RenierJ and all gentlemen who shall be
admitted of this Society, haveing been formerly admitted of any
other Inns of Court, shalbe allowed all priviledges and advantages
they were justly intitled to at the other Inns of Court."

Call to the Bar: John Hall.

Council held on February i5th, 1694.

Five Benchers present.

M r Gwydott, the Library Keeper, is desired to leave the keys fo. 26.
of the Library and archives with the Chief Butler, before he goes
out of town.

* See Vol. II, p. 45.

f By Mathew Pole or Poole, London, 1669-76, still in the Library.

I Probably James Regnier, adm. Jan. 24, 1694.

1 88 ftfy ISIarfe ISoofeg of Lincoln's Inn,

Council held on April 3Oth, 1694.

Eight Benchers present.

" Upon mocion made by M r Treasurer that, pursuant to
the nominacion of Sir Thomas Cooke, M r Henry Penton, a
Barrester of this Society, may bee admitted into the chamber, one
paire of staires, lookeing on the Terras Walke, in the staire case
built on the ground belonging to this Society,* granted to the said
M r Serle for severall assignements, and into the vaults built in the
Court before the said staire case"- the same shall be considered.!
fo. 27. A book is to be provided for Serle's Court, in which shall be

entered the Articles made between this Society and M r Serle,
and all Orders since made relating to the ground or buildings ;
also all future Orders, and all admittances to chambers there.

Call to the Bar : George Lysons.

" The Masters of the Bench, haveing taken consideracion
of the generous present made to this Society by M rs Dionisse
Long, relict of Henry Long, Esq., deceased, late one of -the
Masters of the Bench, being a velvett covering and two large
crimson velvett cushions for the Communion Table, and a velvett
covering for the Reader's desk, border'd round with a rich gold
fringe, like to that which the said Master Long in his life time
presented for the pulpitt cloath and cushion, j doe order that the
Library Keeper doe forthwith enter the said M rs Dionisse Long
amongst the Benefactors of this House for her said generous
present ; and that the hearty thanks of the Masters of the Bench,
on behalfe of themselves and the Society, bee given to her for
the same by letter, to be subscribed by the Treasurer and sent
to her, shee being now in the country."

" The letter written to M rs Long by Edward Byde, Esq.,

Treasurer."

" By comand from the Masters of the Bench of the
Honourable Society of Lyncolne's Inne, I doe render to you
their hearty thanks for your generous present to the said Society,
which they accepted very kindly. And as a gratefull acknowledg-
ment they have ordered your name to bee enroll'd amongst their
Benefactors, and doe most heartily wish your welfare and
prosperity, of which they shalbe glad to bee informed.
" I am, Madam, with great respect,

" Your humble Servant,

"4 May, 1694. " Enw: BYDE, Trer."

" To Madam Dionisse Long,
" These present."

* No. n, New Square. f He was admitted on May 4th. J See ante, p. 184.

of fLincoln's mt, 189

Council held on May loth, 1694. fo. 28.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that all persons inhabiting in Serle's Court and not
admitted of this Society, doe, by the next ' Councell, procure
themselves to bee admitted of this Society, or remove out of the
said buildings; and that those who are admitted of the Society
doe by the next Councell attend M r Treasurer with their
respective titles or nominacions to their respective chambers,
and bee admitted to the said respective chambers ; or, in default
or neglect thereof, all the said respective chambers to be then
forthwith padlock'd, according to the rules and usage of the
House."

Call to the Bar, May i8th, 1694 : fo. 29.

George Nayler, and John Pedley.

Council held on June nth, 1694. fo. 30.

" Ordered that the inhabitants of the shopps att the end of
Holborne Row in Lincolne's Inn Feilds, [at Turnestile, margin],
fronting Lincoln's Inn Garden, bee forthwith indicted and
prosecuted for a nusance in erecting and continueing a pump
there, and throwing their wast water downe the gutter before the
said Garden, to the annoyance of this Society."

Council held on June i8th, 1694. fo. 31.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that . . . Sir Thomas Cooke, within four
dayes after notice hereof, doe nominate to the Treasurer six
persons, fitly quallifyed to bee admitted of this Society, and to bee
also admitted into the six chambers now occupyed by the
Commissioners for Stamping Paper and Parchment."

Council held on June 27th, 1694. fo. 33.

Seven Benchers present.

M r John Cooke, eldest son of Sir Thomas Cooke, is
admitted a Fellow, and also admitted into two chambers "in the
staire case on the west side of Serle Court, neare the Posterne
Gate leading to Clare Markett."*

During this vacation the Treasurer may admit fit persons,
both as Fellows of the Society and also to chambers in Serle
Court, pursuant to the Articles made with M r Serle.

Council held on July 2nd, 1694. fo. 34.

M r Custerton is to be paid ,100 for finishing "the Terras
Walke and the pallisadoe pales."

* There was formerly a passage into Searle St. between Nos. 9 and 10, New Square.

190 fje ISlacfe #oofeg of fLincoln'g Emt.

fo. 35. Council held on October 29th, 1694.

Seven Benchers present.

Complaint having been made that several of the servants
of the Society have gone into the country in vacation time, and
absented themselves without leave, "It is ordered that from
this time none of the servants of this Society doe presume to goe
into the country without leave first obteined from two of the
Masters of the Bench, whereof M r Treasurer to bee one, if in
towne."

Council held on November 6th, 1694.
Ten Benchers present.

fo. 36. " Itt being moved by some of the Masters of the Bench

that Robert Dormer, Esq., an antient Barrester of this Society,
being now Chancellor of the County Pallatine of Durham, and a
person very well deserveing all due respect from this Society, may
be made an Associate of the Bench," Ordered accordingly ; he
must enter into a bond that he will come to the Bench when
called in his turn.

M r Thomas Windford, an ancient Barrister, and one of the
Prothonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas, is made an
Associate of the Bench, paying as much as any Prothonotary has
previously paid for the like favour.

James Jackson is made Porter of Serle Court ; he is to have
a gown and staff as the other Porter has.

Council held on November i5th, 1694.
Six Benchers present.

fo. 37. Call to the Bar :

William Lysons, John Glanville, Thomas Windford, and
Henry Fleming.

"Itt being now moved on behalfe of D r Maynard, the
Preacher of this Society, hee being lately marryed and now
liveing at a great distance, that it is very inconvenient for him
and his servant to come to the Hall for their commons, and
therefore makes it his request to have the allowance in money
for his and his servant's commons, hee submitting to pay for his
commons when he shall take the same in the Hall, (which hee
designes as often as hee can conveniently) ; Whereof this Councell
haveing consider'd, itt is order'd accordingly."

Accounts of Edward Byde, Esquire, the Treasurer, from Jan.
22nd, 1694, to Jan. 22nd, 1695.

Receipts: .1,237 4 s - IQ d. Including ^"55 from Sir Thomas
Cooke, Knight, for his Association to the Bench; 16 195. from
the executors of Henry Colfer.

Payments: 1,113 : 3 S - 7^- Including 6d. for coffee.
Balance: ^123 us. 3<i.

Officers for 1695 : 1695.

Treasurer: M r John Hawles, K.C.
Keeper of the Black Book: M r William Dobbyns.
Dean of the Chapel: M r William Guydott.
Library Keeper: M r Thomas Jones.

Council held on May 6th, 7 William III, 1695.* fo. 41.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that D r Maynard be desired to print his sermons
preached in this Chappell against the Socinians."

Council held on June i2th, 1695. fo. 43.

Five Benchers present.

M r Rich has leave to make a passage into Chichester's
Rents, according to the propositions by him lately made to the
Bench. The passage shall be subject to such Orders as the
Bench shall make from time to time concerning the same.

Sir Thomas Millington has leave to open a passage on the
north side of the gardener's house, through that part of the
kitchin garden, " and make the wall straight, and of an equall
height, soe as to answer the end of such designed passage to and
from the said Sir Thomas Millington's intended new buildings ;"
but he is not to open the passage or to break down the wall until
further Order ; he must make a recompence to the House equal
in value to that which M r Rich is to make. When completed
he must place a lamp in the passage, which shall always remain
subject to the Rules and Orders of the Society.

The gardener must prohibit " all unfitting persons and boyes
from goeing into the garden, at his perill ;" a copy of this Order
must be put upon the gate.

Council held on November 8th, 1695. fo. 44.

Eight Benchers present.
M r Robert Dry is re-appointed Steward. t
All gentlemen hereafter admitted to this Society, must, if
of full age, either find manucaptors or give a bond for ^"40 ; those
under age may procure some other person to give bond for
them.

* Queen Mary died on Dec. 28th, 1694; no change was made in the
calculation of the regnal years.

f He had previously been Steward from 1689 to 1693. See ante, pp. 169, 184.

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yft. 45. Council held on November igth, 1695.

Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

" Upon the humble peticion of M r Richard Turner, one of
the Fellows of this Society, setting forth that he had liv'd five
years with an attorney, spent some time in the Plantacions, and
had been two yeares admitted of this Society; that he designed
forthwith to goe to the Island of Barbadoes, with purpose not to
retorne in many yeares; and therefore prayed to be excused for
his non-performance of exercise, declaring that he designed not to
take any advantage of his seniority, or to practice in England till
he shall bee of full standing." Ordered accordingly; "the said
M r Turner giveing to this Society an obligation of ^50 penalty,
with condicion not to practice in England nor claime any seniority
by virtue of this Call to the Barr till his full standing of seven
years, to pay all duties to the House and the moyety of all absent
commons for the five yeares dispensed with by this Order; and
upon executing such bond, the said M r Turner bee published a
Barrister next Barr moot."

Council held on November 28th, 1695.
Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that Sir Thomas Millington have leave to open a
passage, on the north side of the gardener's house, to his new
erected buildings, upon condition that the said Sir Thomas
Millington doe first raise the wall on the south side of the kitchen
garden two foot, and likewise raise all that part of the wall on the
east side of the said kitchen garden two foot more in height then
the same now is; that hee likewise sett upp and fix a sufficient
wooden gate, and a boundary stone (if thought fitt), in such places
as M r Treasurer shall appoint; And that the said Sir Thomas
Millington doe alsoe performe all other his contracts and agree-
ments made between him and this Society." *

1696. Officers for 1696 :

Treasurer : Sir Richard Holford.

Keeper of the Black Book : M r William Dobyns.

M r James Wittewrong.
Dean of the Chapel : M r William Guidott.
Library Keeper : M r Nicholas Martyn.

* There is no Treasurer's Roll for this year. On the front of the Gate House,
under the royal arms, is a stone inscribed " Insignia hsec refecta et decorata
Johanne Hawles Armig. Solicitat. General. Thesaurario 1695."

Macfe ISoofesa: of ILmcoltt's Enm 193

Council held on January 28th, 7 William III, 1696. fo. 46.

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

William Norris, upon reading a certificate from the Treasurer
of the Middle Temple that he was of full standing in that Society.
He shall not have " any priviledge of seniority or precedency,
save only from the commencement of seaven yeares next
preceeding this his call to the Barr."

" Ordered that all persons inhabiting in Searle's Court who
have not paid the Preacher's Roll and other duties of the House,
bee proceeded against according to the Rules of this Society."

Council held on February i2th, 1696. fo. 47.

Five Benchers present.

"In order to prevent all disorders for the future, It is ordered
that all the back gates of this House bee kept shut by the Porters
of this Society on every Lord's Day, dureing the time of Divine
Service and Sermons."

Council held on April 3Oth, 1696.
Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer bee desired to take care to
remedy the nusance of the ditch in Great Lincolne's Inne Fields."
James Wittewrong, Esq., is appointed Black Book Keeper,
M r Abbott being sick.*

Council held on May 2oth, 1696. fo. 48.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Order concerning M r Weedon's proposalls
bee suspended till the first Councill next terme, and that he may
proceed only in erecting the pillar and clock, &c., in Serl's Court,
according to his proposalls."

Call to the Bench : fo. 49-

Robert Dormer, Esq., at present an Associate to the Bench.

Council held on May 25th, 1696.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bench.:

Henry Penton, William Cook, John Keen, and Samuel
Somerford, Esquires ; to be published at the first exercise
next term.

* It was Abbott's turn, according to his seniority. M r Dobbyns was merely
continued until further order.

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Call to the Bar :
Robert Button, Joseph Thurston, and [Edward] Wilmott.

Council held on June i;th, 1696.
Five Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

M r Robert Dormer, to be published at this exercise. M r Edwin
Griffin * and M r Eldred Lancelot Lee, to be published at the next
fo. 50. exercise.

" Upon M r Webb's letter to M r Treasurer signifieing as if he
expected to be called to the Bench, It is ordered that his seniority
be saved till hee shall be in town, or further Order."

Council held on June 27th, 1696.

Nine Benchers present.

fo. 51. "Ordered that six pews in the nave of the ChappeH be

reserved for the Benchers till the singing Psalmes begins; That
the three uppermost pews on the south side of the Chappell and
two pews on the back of the Benchers' pews, be reserved for the
senior Barresters."

fo. 52. Council held on November 6th, 1696.

Thirteen Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

Sir John Franklin, Knight, with his seniority saved ; he is
requested to give his answer by the next Council.

Call to the Bar : Charles Button.

fo. 53. Council held on November /th, 1696.

Sixteen Benchers present.

" Upon debate of the matter relateing to M r Dormer's
seniority in relation to the Benchers of the late call ; after he,
together with M r Edwin Griffin, M r Henry Penton, M r Eldred
Lancelott Lee, M r William Coke and M r John Keene, was
withdrawne by consent ; the question being put whether the said
M r Dormer shall have the precedence of the others, it passed in
the negative."!

* Edmund, on call to the Bar, ante, pp. 75, 77.

Dormer was junior to all the others, but was Chancellor of the County
Palat ne of Durham, See ante, p. 1 90.

Macfe ^oofes of ^Lincoln's Jfttn, 195

Council held on November i3th, 1696.
Six Benchers present.

M r Asgill's chamber in Serle's Court shall be padlocked, as
he is not a member of this Society.

Council held on November 2oth, 1696.

Seven Benchers present.

" Whereas the chamber in Serle's Court wherein M r John
Asgill lodgeth was by a former Order, for the just cause therein
mentioned, to be forthwith padlockt, which accordingly was done
by the Porter of this Society; but the said M r Asgill soone after
caused the padlocke to be broken off, and had before threatened
to pistoll any that should putt any padlock on the said chamber.
Wherefore it is ordered that an affidavit be made of the trueth of
the matter by the Porters of this Society, and that M r Treasurer
and M r Wittewrong doe attend the Lord Chiefe Justice,* and
desire his Lordship's warrant against M r Asgill, or that his
Lordship would be pleased to take such other course as his
Lordship shall think reasonable."

Council held on November 28th, 1696. fo. 54.

Thirteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that Sir Thomas Coke t be acquainted that it is the
opinion of the Masters of the Bench in Councell that he ought to
allow James Jackson, the Porter of Serle's Court, att the least
,10 per annum, besides the lodg and lodgings which he now
hath."

Officers for 1697: 1697.

Treasurer : M r William Dobbins.
Keeper of the Black Book : M r James Wittewronge.
Dean of the Chapel : M r Nicholas Martin.
Master of the Library : M r John Greene.

Council held on January 29th, 8 William III, 1696. fo. 55.

Nine Benchers present.

" William Martyn, late of Lincoln's Inn in the County of
Middlesex, Esq., did by his last will and testament, beareing
date the ist day of August, 1696, give bequeath and appoint
as followeth verbatim, viz 1 :

" And whereas I have justly due unto me by Cuthbert
Brereton of Norwich and John Brereton, his brother, the summe

* Probably Sir John Holt, C.J.K.B.

f Or Cooke; one of the proprietors of Searle's Court.

i 9 6 Cf) ISlacfe ISoofeg of Emcoln's

of ,2,000 principal! money, besides a yeare's interest att ,5 per
cent., except ,5 os. 6d. received, which yeare ends the i5th day
of this present August ; which ,2000 and interest is secured to me
and my heires by a conveyance, inrolled in Chancery, of the
revercion or inheritance of the Manor of Bastwick, with seven
severall farmes, and lands in the parishes of Carleton S* Peter,
Claxton, and elsewhere adjoyning, in the County of Norfolke ;
wherein both the said Breretons craftily and wickedly defrauded
me by disposeing of my money taken out of the hands of Sir
Jacob Asteley, Baronett, contrary to their own agreement and the
covenant under the hand and scale of the said Cuthbert Brereton :
on which estate (according to my best information) there may be
debts and legacies of M r Thomas Gilbert's, pryor to my title, to the
value of about ,2,000, more or lesse. And as a further security
for the said debt to me, the said Cuthbert Brereton hath assigned
to me a judgment obteyned by the said Cuthbert Brereton against
Sir Edmond Dowlay, Baronett, upon which it is affirmed by. the
said Cuthbert Brereton there is at least .1,000 due: I doe give
and devise unto my said executrix the interest of the said ,2,000
which from the time of my decease shall grow due or be due att
the time of my death, for and dureing the term of her natural life,
she paying out of her receipts of the said interest the summe of
,40 yearely, by quarterly payments, unto the Parson or Vicar of
the parish church of Bures aforesaid, and to his successors, and
also to the Reader of the Chappell in Lincoln's Inn and his
successors the summe of ,10 a yeare; and the residue of the
incombe or proceed of the said ; 2,000 (after the said payments
made) I give and bequeath unto my sayd wife for and dureing her
life, to be by her imployed towards her owne better maintenance,
or to such other pious uses as she in her discretion shall think fitt:
And from and after the decease of my said wife, I doe give and
devise the said ,2,000, and interest then after to grow due, unto
Sir James Butler, Knight, Sir Thomas Powis, Knight, James
Stedman and Luke Astry, Esquires, and other the Benchers and
fo. 56. Trustees for the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, and to their
successors for ever, all my right and estate in and to the said
,2,000, they applying the interest and produce thereof to such
intents and purposes as is before expressed in relacion to my wife:
And I alsoe make it my request that the Benchers and Trustees
of the said Society of Lincoln's Inne, as often as from time to
time my wife shall have occasion to apply herselfe to them for
advice or assistance, will vouchsafe to advise and direct her in the
readiest and safest method they can. Item, I give and bequeath
to the Preacher of the said Society who shall be in being att my
decease, the summe of ;5. Item, I make and ordeyne my dear

197

and loveing wife, M rs Elizabeth Martyn, to be my full and sole
executrix, and doe request Brother Silvester Chilcott to be super-
visor thereof."

Council held on May i/th, 1697. fo. 58.

Ten Benchers present.

The money borrowed by the House at interest now amounts fo. 59.
to ,1400.

As the Base Court constantly stands open, it has been
commonly used by the inhabitants of Chichester Rents and others.
It is now ordered that the doors be kept locked all day, except
between 6 o'clock and 8 o'clock in the morning from Lady Day to
Michaelmas, and between 7 o'clock and 9 o'clock in the morning
from Michaelmas to Lady Day.

Call to the Bar, June 9th, 1697: fo. 60.

Mathew Lock.

Council held on June i7th, 1697.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Mathew Lock, depositing 405. into the
hands of the Cheife Butler of this House, be permitted to goe out
to the Barr upon a discontinued exercise this terme, he bringing
in his full moot the next terme, that then his 403. to be returned."

Call to the Bar : Simon Mason. fo. 61.

Call to the Bar, November loth, 1697 : fo. 62.

Thomas Turner.

Call to the Bar, November 2Oth, 1697 :
William Williams and Thomas Greene. fo. 64.

Council held on November 29th, 1697.
Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Browne, the [Divinity] Reader to this
Society, doe forthwith pay into the hands of the Cheife Butler of
this Society all the moneys which he hath received on account of
the duties ariseing by a late Act of Parliament touching marriages
and burials, with an exact account how and when it did arise." *

" Ordered that a compotacion betweene this Society and the fo. 65.
Brethren of the Middle Temple be had as formerly.''!

* Stat. 7 & 8 W. III. An Act for the enforcing the Laws which restrain
Marriages without License or Banns, and for the better registering Marriages,
Births and Burials.

f See Vol. I, p. ii.

i 9 8 Cf)t &lacfe #oofeg of ^Lincoln's

Accounts of Williams Dobyns, Esquire, the Treasurer,
from Jan. 23rd, 1697, to Jan. 23rd, 1698.

Receipts: .1187 55. id. Including 41 i8s. 3d. from Sir
Richard Holford, balance from last year ; ^500 borrowed on
bonds; 8 from the Principal of Thavies Inn, for two years' rent
up to Michaelmas, 1695 ; i from M r Edmund Hawles for a
grave under the Chapel.

Payments : i 149 173. 5d. Including 100 due on a bond ;
195. for sugar, lemons, coffee, tea and tobacco, at several
times; 21 133. 4d. to D r Maynard, the tax on his stipend;
,8 135. 4d. to M r Adam Browne, the Divinity Reader, for the
like ; 16 TOS. to Richard Paxston, architect.

Balance : ^37 73. 8d.

1698. Officers for 1698:

Treasurer: M r James Wittewronge.
Keeper of the Black Book: M r Edwin Griffin.
Dean of the Chapel: M r John Greene.
Master of the Library : M r Edward Byde.

Council held on January 27th, 9 William III, 1698.
Nine Benchers present.

The chamber of Thomas Jones, Esq., a Bencher, shall be
sold unless he pay his arrears by the next Council.

fo. 66. Council held on February 5th, 1698.

Twelve Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

Thomas York; he has leave " to goe out upon a discontinued
exercise, he first paying two guineas to the Chief Buttler, to be
repayed him upon performance of the second part of his exercise
the next terme."

fo. 67. Call to the Bar, May i7th, 1698 :

Simon Mason and Frederic Coleman.

Council held on May 24th, 1698.
Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that all the Masters of the Bench doe pay their
absent commons and Preacher's Roll before the end of the term."
* James Wittewrong, Esq., is admitted to a ground chamber
at No. 10, Serle's Court, on paying a fine of 10.

* Red Book II, p. 46 ; Serle Court Book I, p. 31. This appears to be the
earliest instance of reference to chambers by their numbers. It did not become
general for some time later.

JSIacfc &oofes of Utncoln'g Inn* 199

Council held on June 2nd, 1698.
Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that no Order be made against the Benchers or fo. 68.
any of them, but att such Councell where the major part of the
Benchers in towne are present."

" Upon the peticion of Ralph Smith, Joseph Dampny and
John Inch, servants of this Society, It is ordered that the severall
assessments upon their respective salaryes be paid out of the
public treasury."

Call to the Bar, June 6th, 1698 :
Isaac Ewer.

Call to the Bar, June 29th, 1698 : fo. 69.

Mathew Hale.

Council held on July 2Oth, 1698.
Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that no person be admitted to make any alteracions fo. 70.
in the Chappell, or to measure any part therein, without an Order
of Councell."

Council held on November 9th, 1698.
Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Thomas Foulerton doe enter into a bond
of ^200 to M r Treasurer, with condicion not to practise the law
as a Barrister in England or Ireland untill seven yeares be passed
from the time of his admission ; and that if he shall returne into
England or Ireland to practise the law, he shall purchase a
chamber or halfe a chamber in the House, and pay all his absent
commons, vacacions and other dutyes that shall afterwards become
due ; and shall before his going hence pay all his dutyes due till
this time."

"Ordered that M r Treasurer doe apply to some Justice for fo. 71.
a warrant against M r Phelps for breaking of the padlock putt on
M r Hodges' chamber."

Council held on November I4th, 1698.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

Edmund Percivall; he must deposit 403. with the Chief
Butler, " as a caution that he will receive the Sacrament upon the
next Sacrament day."

Also John Browne,

200 CJe 33Iacfe ISoofeg of Eincoln'g

Council held on November 2ist, 1698.
Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: Thomas Fullarton.*

fo. 72. [A list of those who are in arrear for absent commons and

the Preacher's Roll, 36 in number. The total arrears for absent
commons amount to ^948 53. 6d., and for the Preacher's Roll to
^219 8s. 6d. The largest items are .57 145. 6d. and \6 123.
respectively.]

fo. 73. Council held on December 5th, 1698.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that James Jackson, Porter of Serle Court, have
the same perquisites and allowances from the gentlemen there, of
wood and coales, as the Porter of the other part of the Society
hath."

1699. Officers for 1699:

Treasurer : M r Edwin Griffin.
Keeper of the Black Book : M r Henry Penton.
Dean of the Chapel : M r Edward Byde.
Master of the Library : Sir Richard Holford.

fo. 75. Council held on February i3th, 10 William III, 1699.

Five Benchers present.

No one shall be permitted to have keys of the Bog-house,
save members of the Society, their clerks and servants.

fo. 79. Council held on May 22nd, 1699.

Eight Benchers present.

" Upon Sir Richard Holford's mocion, Ordered that it be
considered next terme whether D r Maynard shalbe presented, and
with what."

" Whereas by the Order and usuage of this House, noe
person whatsoever is nor ought to lodge or inhabite in any
chamber in this House in his owne right, untill admitted thereto
according to the Rules of the House ; and the New Court or
Buildings, called Serle Court, are now by agreement made part of
this House, and to be subject to the Rules thereof; And
complaints having beene severall tymes made to the Masters of
the Bench that divers persons doe lodge and inhabite in chambers
in the said new buildings called Serle Court, not being admitted
thereto by this Society, though thereto required by severall

* See ante, p. 199.

Macfe ISoofes of Uincoln^ Enm 201

Orders of Councell, whereof they have had due notice ; and
thereby the revenue and dutyes are lessned, and this Society
damnifyed, and the Rules of the House broken." It is therefore fo. 80.
Ordered that any person henceforth occupying in his own right
any chamber in Serle Court without being duly admitted, shall be
deemed to be admitted, in order to enforce the payment of a fine
upon the second admittance, and all other payments and duties
to this Society, including the Preacher's Roll, as if such person
had been actually admitted. The Chief Porter shall give notice
hereof to M r Rowe, who acts as agent for the proprietors of the
said buildings.

Council held on June i4th, 1699.
Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : William Brooke.* fo. 81.

M r Robert Price, on payment of half his arrears for absent
commons before the next Council, shall be pardoned the other
half, " in respect of his being a Member of Parliament and his
attendance there."

Council held on June 26th, 1699. fo. 83.

Nine Benchers present.

M r John Greene, a Bencher, has leave to alter "a great
window in his chamber to a shash window."

All Benchers must pay their absent commons and Preacher's
Roll.

All gentlemen of the Society that are in arrear above ^15
must pay before the next adjourned Council, or their chambers
shall be padlocked.

"Whereas by an Order of the 2nd of June, 1698, it was
ordered that noe Order should be made against the Benchers or
any of them but at such Councell where the major part of the
Benchers then in towne should be present It is now ordered that
the said Order be discharged, the majority of the Benchers now in
towne being present att the making of this Order."

Council held on June 28th, 1699. fo. 84.

Eight Benchers present.

The locks and keys of the Benchers' Garden are to be altered;
no keys shall be given out but to Benchers, when called for by
them.

* Called Brookes on admission.

VOL. III. 2 D

202 CJe ISlacfe JSoofeg of flincoln'g

fo. 85. Council held on July 5th, 1699.

Nine Benchers present.

M r John Greene, a Bencher, has leave " to lett one lodge in
his chamber, during his absence beyond the seas."

Council held on October 3Oth, 1699.

Twelve Benchers present.

" Ordered that all Students of this Society, before they shall
be called to the Barr, or be quallifyed for the same, shall perform
fower Bolts at least, besides their other exercises."

Call to the Bar: Peter Davis.

fo. 87. Council held on November 9th, 1699.

Seventeen Benchers present.

fo. 88. " Ordered that M r Francis Gastrell, Batchelor of Divinitye,*

be and is hereby chosen Preacher to this Society in the place of
D r Edward Maynard ; and that hee have the same exhibition,
allowances and chamber, which the said D r Maynard had when
he was chosen Preacher to this Society, and that the same duty
and attendance be expected from him."f

Council held on November i3th, 1699.

Eight Benchers present.

fo. 89. " Orderred that it bee referred to M r Treasurer and M r Byde

to examine what the building and finishing the two shopps
in the new Court cost M r Cavendish Weedon, one of the
Barristers of this Society, and what hee hath received in rent ;
and that the said M r Weedon be reimburst what it cost him,
discounting the said rent so received by him ; and that it bee
reported att the next Councell."

Council held on November 25th, 1699.

Six Benchers present.

fo. 90. The name of M r Thomas Jones, one of the Masters of the

Bench, shall not be included in the list of those screened for non-
payment of their eaten commons, upon his promise to pay all
arrears forthwith. If he makes default, his name shall be
screened on the first day of next term, and his chamber padlocked.
" Ordered that the Right Honourable Sir John Hely, Knight,
Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in the
Kingdome of Ireland, and one of his Majestie's Most Honourable

* Of Christ Church, Oxford; B.D. 1694, D.D. 1700.
f See ante, pp. 34, 180,

Macfe iSoofes of Etiuoln's 3hm, 203

Privy Councell there, and an Ancient Barrister of this Society, bee
called to the Bench, and published the next exercise." If he shall
hereafter come to reside in the Society and act as a Bencher, then
he must procure a chamber in the Society.

Accounts of Edwin Griffin, Esquire, the Treasurer, from Jan.
23rd, 1699, to Jan. 23rd, 1700.

Receipts: ^915 is. 5<i. Including ,37 8s., balance from last
year; ^100 borrowed on a bond; ^ from Francis Neale,
Principal of Thavies Inn, for a year's rent up to Michaelmas, 1696.

Payments: ^88 1 8s. 9d. Including i is. to the officers of
the Middle Temple; 75. for glass bottles; 2s. to M r Hungerford's
clerk for two warrants.

Balance: ^33 123. 8d.

Officers for 1700: 1700.

Treasurer : M r Henry Penton.

Keeper of the Black Book : M r Eldred Lancelot Lee.
Dean of the Chapel : Sir Richard Holford.
Master of the Library : M r William Dobyns.

Council held on January 27th, n William III, 1700. fo. 91.
Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : Robert Knight.

" Ordered that all women lodgeing in the old buildings or
new square belonging to this House, have notice forthwith to
remove out of the same."

Council held on February ist, 1700. fo. 92.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r John Turner and his wife have notice
forthwith to remove out of the chamber in Searle's Court where
they now lodge, he not being admitted into this Society."

Council held on February i2th, 1700. fo. 93.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered, upon the addresse and subscription of severall
gentlemen of this Society att and under the Barr, to the number
of one and thirty att the least, who are desirous to keepe commons
for a fortnight after this terme, and a competent number of them
now attending and declaring their resolution to keepe dinner and
supper, duely and in their gownes, and to observe the Rules and
Orders of the House, if they may have the approbation of the
Bench to continue in commons, as above, that the said

204 b* #te cfe #fc* of lUncoln'* Inn,

gentlemen, and as many more of this Society as shall think fitt,
doe continue commons for a fortnight, they performing the usuall
exercises, and behaveing themselves in all other things according
to the Rules of this Society."

fo. 94. Council held on April 23rd, 1700.

Eight Benchers present.

f' 95- John Hungerford, Esq., a Barrister, is hereby expelled the

Society for twice breaking a padlock off his door ; and also for
saying of Eldred Lancelott Lee, Esq., one of the Benchers, who
attended to see to the padlocking, " M r Lee is a Rascall, and I
will break his head if I can meet him abroad." His chamber
shall be seized and sold ; he has seven days allowed him to
remove his goods.

fo. 96. Call to the Bar: John Washer.

Council held on May 3rd, 1700.

Eight Benchers present.

fo. 97. M r John Hungerford appeared at this Council and expressed

his sorrow for his disobedience and contempt, and apologised to
M r Lee; he has paid all his arrears. All former Orders relating
to the seizure of his chamber or his expulsion from the Society are
accordingly vacated,

Council held on May 7th, 1700.
Twelve Benchers present.

" Ordered that from Lady Day to Michaelmas in every year
the evening service shall not begin till half an hour after two
a'clock."

" Ordered that M r Gastrell, Preacher to this Society, have his
sallary for Michaelmas Term last, deducting thereout the guineas
that were paid to those who preached whilst the place was vacant,
before he was elected."

" Ordered that D r Maynard, late Preacher to this Society, be
presented with 20 from this Society, to buy him a peice of plate."
fo. 98. " Ordered that the proposall made by M r Weedon for setting

up an organ in the Chappell of this Society, be rejected."

"Ordered Upon the humble request of Cavendish Weedon,
Esq., a Barrister of this Society, that the new version of the Psalmes
by M r Tate, his Majesty's Poet Laureat, and the Reverend M r
Brady, one of his Majesty's Chaplins in Ordinary,* and by his
Majesty in Councell recommended, as also approved by the late

* Published in 1696; revised edition 1698.

Macfe iSoofeg of Utncoln's $nn> 205

Reverend D r Maynard * and M r Gastrell, the present Preacher to
this Society be admitted into use in the Chappell of this Society
the first Sunday in the next terme, instead of the old translacion
the said M r Weedon att his own charge furnishing the Bench and
Barr Seates, and all such seates in like manner as this Society
hath usually done, with two bookes of the said new version of the
Psalmes in each seat, well bound, and the armes of this Society
impressed thereon. And that publick notice of this Order be
given on Sunday next in the said Chappell, that the members of
this Society may be provided with the same books against that
time."

Council held on May i3th, 1700.

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: Edward Horsman.

Upon the petition of Robert Dry, the Steward, asking for
some allowance in respect of his losses caused by the dearness of
provisions, It is ordered that he shall be paid 10 95. 5^d.,
namely, id. per mess on 712 messes of beef in Easter, Trinity and
Hilary Terms, 1698; ijd. per mess on 837 messes of mutton
during the same terms; and id. per mess on 502 messes of fish
during the year 1698.

Ann Bellamy, widow of Charles Bellamy, late one of the
Butlers, shall have 23. 6d. from every person admitted to the
Society or called to the Bar, so long as she shall stay in town, or
until a fourth Butler be appointed.

Council held on June 4th, 1700. fo. 99.

Five Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : William Cartwright.

M r Harrison, and also the smith and the carpenter who broke
open M r Lysons' chamber door, are to be forthwith summoned
before Justice Hungerford.

Council held on June 8th, 1700.
Six Benchers present.

M r Harrison, who broken open M r Fotheringall's chamber, fo. 100.
declaring that he had nothing to do with the Council, is to be
summoned before Justice Hungerford.

" Ordered that after all the present Benchers have served all
the offices belonging to this Society, itt begin att the senior
Benchers to serve the same again."

* D r Maynard was not dead; the text means "late Preacher."

206 CJe ISlacfe &oofeg of Htncoln'g Inn*

Council held on June i4th, 1700.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Order made the 7th of May last relating
to the useing the new version of the Psalmes in the Chappell
of this Society be revived ; and that the notice given in by
M r Weedon be read in the said Chappell on Sunday next."

fo. 101. Council held on June iQth, 1700.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Weedon have ^50 paid him by the
Treasurer, out of the first moneys arising out of Serle's Court,
for the two shopps by him built in the said Court, deducting
thereout all his arreares for absent commons, Preacher's Roll,
and all other duties to this House."

fo. 1 02. Francis Thorpe, M r Dormer's servant, shall be prosecuted
before Justice Hungerford for breaking the padlock off his
master's chamber door.

Council held on November 8th, 1700.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that from henceforth no coach be admitted to
come within the Gates of this House after 10 a'clock at night ;
and that the keyes of the Great Gates of this House be left at
the chamber of the Blackbook-keeper every night immediately
after 10 a'clock."

fo. 103. Call to the Bar :

Samuel Brewster, John Tarver, and Richard Jervoise.

" Ordered that the proprietors of every chamber in Serle's
Court be answerable for all the duties of this House for the
persons who reside therein."

" Ordered that Prayers do begin at half an hour after three
a'clock in the afternoon in the two winter termes, and that the
same be begun on Munday next."

" Takeing into consideration the slender appearance of the
Barristers as well as students of this Society in commons every
terme, with the vast summes severall gentlemen of this House
have formerly run in arreare for absent commons, far beyond the
value of their severall chambers ; and also the great charge this
House is putt to by servants' wages and the late dearness of all
manner of provisions, whereby this Society is run much into debt ;
and also the members thereof, as it were, totally deserting
commons, in hopes of abatement for what they never had It is
therefore Ordered that no abatement shall be made of absent or
vacacion commons which shall happen or grow due after this
terme."

Macfe &oofeg of Utiuoltt'g l r nm 207

Council held on November i5th, 1700.
Six Benchers present.
" Ordered that one candle do serve two nights in the Hall."

Council held on November 22nd, 1700. fo. 104.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that Sir Richard Holford be desired to gett an
authentick certificate from the Heralds' Office of the armes of this
Society."

Accounts of Henry Penton, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
January 23rd, 1700, to January 23rd, 1701.

Receipts: ^1003 9 s - 3^. Including ^"8 from John Hardestey,
Principal of Furnival's Inn, for a year's rent ; 2 from Sir
Thomas Millington for two years' rent of the passage called
Bishop's Court; i from William Williams senior, for land for
his interment under the Chapel.

Payments: ^1001 55. 8d. Including 125. od. for sugar,
lemons, tobacco, coffee, and apples, at various times ; 2 to
Joseph Dampney, the third Butler, for setting the Psalms in 1699;
10 1 6s. 6d. each to John Greene, John Keene, and Henry
Turner, Serjeants at Law * ; 133. 7d. paid for the Window Act.f

Balance : 2 35. 7d.

Officers for 1701 : 1701.

Treasurer : M r Eldred Lancelott Lee.
Keeper of the Black Book : M r Samuel Somerford.

W Robert Dormer.

Dean of the Chapel : M r William Dobyns.
Master of the Library : M r James Wittewronge.

Council held on January 27th, 12 William III, 1701. fo. 104.
Six Benchers present. (2)

" Ordered that M r Treasurer do pay to Sir Richard Holford
one and fifty shillings for procuring an authentick Certificate of
the Armes of this Society, pursuant to an Order of the 22th of
November last."

" Memorandum that the Masters of the Bench, having as an fo. 105.
acknowledgment of their friendship and respects to Doctor
Edward Maynard, late Preacher to this Society, now Rector of

* The Call was between June 26th and Nov. 8th.

f The window tax was levied on houses which contained more than six
windows, and were worth more than ^5 a year ; established by 7 Will. Ill,
cap. 1 8. The Society only paid for vacant chambers.

2o8 CJe Macfe ISoofeg of Uincoln'g 5nn*

Boddington in Com. Northampton, ordered a peice of plate of
the value of 20 to be presented to him with the Armes of this
Society engraven on it ; and Sir Richard Holford, Knight, one of
the Masters of the Bench, having undertaken it, acquainted the
Masters of the Bench that the Coate of Armes now used, being a
Lyon Rampant purpure, in a Feild Or, is not (as he is informed)
the proper Coate of Armes of this Society, but belongs to the
family of Lacy, Earle of Lincolne ; and by an ancient manuscript*
in the Library it appears that in 1516 the Coat of Armes of this
Society is Azure, seme de fer de moline, or, on a dexter canton,
or, a Lyon Rampant, purpure ; and comparing it with books in the
Herald's Office, this seems to bee the proper Coat of Armes of this
Society. Whereupon it was on the 22th day of November last
ordered in Councell, that the said Sir Richard Holford be desired
to gett an authentick Certificate, from the Heralds' Office, of the
Armes of this Society. And the said Sir Richard Holford now
reporting to the Councell that he had applyed himself to the
Herald's Office, and had obtained an authentick Certificate by a
table wherein the said Coate is handsomely depainted, attested by
M r Gregory King, Lancaster Herald, and placed in a frame,
which he now produced ; and that he had prepared a peice of
plate of sixty nine f ounces and two penny weight, which comes
to a pretty deale more than the 20 allowed ; and had caused the
said Coat of Armes to be fairly engraven thereon, under which are
these words and letters :

Jurispiti Lincolniensis

Edro Maynard, S. T. P.

hoc dicant

T.
H. P.

" And that he had sent it inclosed in a handsome leather case
to Doctor Maynard, who received it safe, and returnes his humble
thanks to the Masters of the Bench for their very kind respects.
And the said Sir Richard Holford now declares that, with the
leave of the Bench, he will give what it amounts to above the

20^

"Whereupon it is ordered that the said Sir Richard Holford
have the thanks of the Masters of the Bench for his care and pains
in this matter, and for his addicion to the value of the plate; and
that the Coate of Armes above mencioned be hung up in the

* This MS. cannot be identified,
t The margin has " 96."

j The piece of plate here referred to was bequeathed by D r Maynard to
Magdalen College, Oxford; he calls it a flagon. Diet. Nat. Biog.

ISlacfe 3$ooftg of fLincoln'* Enn, 209

Councell Chamber for one year, and then hung up in the Library,
and there preserved." *

Call to the Bar :

Richard Bridges and Peter Hughes.

" Ordered that all gentlemen who shall come to eat repasts in
the Hall of this Society shall first pay all the money due for any
repasts by them before eaten."

" Ordered that no gentleman shall have any commons in the
Hall of this Society who is in arreare for commons eaten the
preceeding terme."

Council held on May gth, 1701. fo. 108.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered, upon M r Somerford's request, that hee bee
discharged of being Black book Keeper, by reason of his want
of health." M r Robert Dormer is appointed in his place.

Call to the Bar, May i4th, 1701 :
George Carew.

Council held on May 28th, 1701. fo. no.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bench:

John Weddell, Peter Warburton and Robert Price, Esquires,
three ancient Barristers of this Society.

Council held on June 2nd, 1701. fo. ni.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that the summe of ^8 bee given to Venterus
Mandey, as an acknowledgment for the Book (entituled Synopsis
Mathematica Universalis t) he lately presented and dedicated to
the Masters of the Bench of this Society, and to bee deposited in
the Library thereof."

John Briquett^ is appointed Steward; he must give security,
as former Stewards have done.

" Ordered that it bee recommended to the Masters of the
Bench of the last Call that they assist att the exercise of the
House for one yeare, or till another Call."

* This painting of the arms of the Inn is believed to be the one now hanging
in the Steward's office ; the block on the title page of this volume is copied from it.

f Translated from the Latin of John James Heinlin; published at 6s. In the
" Epistle Dedicatory," Mandey states that he had served the Society for thirty three
years in his trade of bricklayer or builder.

j Or perhaps Brignett or Briguett.

VOL. III. 2 E

210 *&& JSlacfe JSoofeg of mncoln's JEnm

fo. 113. Call to the Bar, October 29th, 1701 :

Jacob Preston.

fo. 114. Council held on November 7th, 1701.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that William Dobyns and Jame's Wittewronge,
Esquires, two of the Masters of the Bench, doe attend the
Hono ble Robert Harley, Esq.,* Speaker of the House of Commons,
to know his pleasure, whether hee will accept of being a Barrister
att Law and an Associate to the Masters of the Bench."

Council held on November i3th, 1701.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Att well and the rest of the proprietors doe
forthwith erect a gate, at their own costs and charges, according
to the true intent and meaning of the Articles made between
Henry Serle, Esq., and the Masters of the Bench of Lincolne's
Inne, at the south end of the Base Court, now inclosed with a
brick wall."t

fo. 115. "Upon the report of William Dobins, Esq., and James

Wittewrong, Esq., two of the Masters of the Bench, that they had
attended on Robert Harley, Esq., one of the Fellowes of this
Society, and late Speaker of the House of Commons, to accquaint
him that the Masters of the Bench were pleased to call him to the
Barr, and make him an Associatt to the Bench, which great favor
he very readily complied with, and returned his hearty thankes
to the Masters of the Bench for the same. 'Tis therefore Ordred
that the said Robert Harley, Esq., late Speaker of the Honorable
House of Commons, be called to the Barr and made an Associate
to the Bench of this Society." \

Council held on November 28th, 1701.
Ten Benchers present.

M l Samuel Somerford, whose turn it is to be Treasurer, is
excused through ill health.

"Ordered that an Order made the eight of June, 1700, for
directing the choosing of Officers for this Society, be vacated and
rescinded. "

Accounts of Eldred Lancelot Lee, Esquire, the Treasurer,
from Jan. 23rd, 1701, to Jan. 23rd, 1702.

Receipts: .1,378 55. 4d. Including ^100 borrowed on a

* Afterwards Earl of Oxford. \ Harley was admitted on July 25, 1701.
f See ante, p. 185. See an/e, p. 205.

2 I I

bond ; ^399 6s. 8d. for admissions to chambers and chamber
fines ; ,387 93. gd. for commons and compositions for not being
in commons.

Payments: ,1,329 43. od. Including ^"200 due on bonds;
2 153. for 5 bushels of baysalt at us. ; 20 for "old coale"
and " charcoale " ; 2 to Joseph Dampny, the 3rd Butler, for
setting the Psalm, for this year; i 6s. ;d. for the burial of
Robert Cage.

Balance : ^49 is. 4d.

Officers for 1702 : 1702.

Treasurer : Robert Dormer, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : John Weddell, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : James Wittewrong, Esq.
Master of the Library : Edwin Griffin, Esq.

Call to the Bar, February 7th, 13 William III, 1702 :
Ellis Wynne. fo. 117.

Call to the Bar, May 6th, i Anne, 1702 : fo. 118.

Richard Belasyse.

Call to the Bar, May i5th, 1702 :
Thomas Wilkinson.

Council held on May i8th, 1702.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : fo. 119.

Richard Foley, Thomas Kyffin and Thomas Pemberton.

M r Patrick Craford [Crawford] was admitted to Gray's Inn
on November i8th, 1672, and called to the Bar there on February
4th, 1679 [-80], as appears by a certificate signed by William
Dixon, Esq., the Treasurer of Gray's Inn. Ordered that M r
Craford have the like seniority in this Society.

Call to the Bar, June 25th, 1702: fo. 120.

[John] Champante ; "but he is to have prsecedency only from
the time of his being called."
Also Edward Phillips.

Council held on October 28th, 1702.
Eleven Benchers present.

* He was admitted Sept. 22, 1678.

212 CfK iSlacfe ISook* of ^Lincoln's

Call to the Bar : Greaves Martyn.

fo. 121. Thomas Lant is appointed Head Porter in place of Hugh

Pattle, deceased.

"Ordered that James Jackson, Porter of Serl Court Gate,
have two keies of the two uppermost pewes, above the pulpitt
on the north side of the Chappell, delivered to him ; and no other
person to lett any body into them but him."

" Memorandum that upon the 28th day of October, 1702,
Sir John Fleet, Alderman of London, and Collonell of the Redd
Regiment,* did sent two of his officers in his name to desire leave
of the Masters of the Bench that his Regiment might be permitted
the next day to draw up in Lincoln's Inn, and stay there for
two howres, it being the Lord Major's (Mayor's) day, and the
Queen dined at Guild Hall, and so very convenient for him
in respect of his post that day. The Masters of the Bench were
pleased to grant his request, upon promise that no gunns should
be fired, nor no drums beaten but what was necessary for their
marching in and out. And it was performed accordingly."

Call to the Bar, November 6th, 1702:
Paul Jodrell.

Council held on November i3th, 1702.

Six Benchers present.

" Whereas the way us'd by the inhabitants of Byshop's Court
and Chichester Rents, leading into this House, is inconvenient to
this Society 'Tis order'd that the twoe gates erected on the said
way be shut up on Monday sennight: and that in the mean time
the Head Porter give notice thereof to the inhabitants."

fo. 122. Council held on December 3rd, 1702.

Eight Benchers present.

"Ordered that all the Masters of the Bench, or any four of
them, be appointed a Committee to praepare the draught of a Bill
for the obtaining of an Act of Parliament to exempt Serle Court
from parish duties; and that they may prsefer the same to either
House, att theire discretion, for the acquireing of the same."

Accounts of Robert Dormer, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1702, to Jan. 23rd, 1703.

Receipts: ^929 95. 3d. Including 12 from Edmund
Themilthorp, Principal of Furnival's Inn, for a year and a half's
rent.

Qf the City Trained Bands,

!)e 2$Iacfc Books of Etncoltt's Imu 213

Payments: ^908 53. 2d. Including ^10 i6s. 6d. and a purse
to M r Serjeant Powis, and the like to M r Serjeant Price; 53. to
M r Jodrell for a copy of the petition of S. Clement Danes.

Balance: 21 45. id.

Officers for 1703: 1703.

Treasurer : John Weddell, Esq.

Sir James Butler.

Black Book Keeper : Peter Warburton, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Edwin Griffin, Esq.
Master of the Library: Henry Penton, Esq.

Council held on January 28th, i Anne, 1703.
Six Benchers present.

"Whereas the placeing or setting up of the armes or names fo. 123.
of the Treasurers of this Society hath occasioned a considerable
change in former Treasurorships, which will be much reduced in
the succeeding Treasurorships by the following method :

"It is ordered that the coates of armes, names and yeares of
every Bencher since the last Reader, that have officiated or shall
for the future officiate the place of Treasurer of this Honorable
Society, bee put up in the east window of the Chappell, over the
Communion Table ; and that the armes of the House as blazoned
in Gwillam's Heraldry be placed in the middle window above
them all, and that coate only to be used hereafter in all matters
concerning the House ; and that for the future no Treasurer's
armes nor names be put up in any other place ; and that M r
Price, glasier, doe waite upon them [the Treasurers] respectively
for their severall coates, names and yeares, and put them up
accordingly with all convenient speed."

Call to the Bar, Eebruary 8th, 1703 :
Thomas Tomlinson.

Council held on February I2th, 1703.

Seven Benchers present.

The inhabitants of the east side of the New Square offer fo. 124.
at their own charge to plant two rows of trees in the Base Court,
" whereby the sayd ground may lye cleane and wholesome, and
be a refreshment to their chambers." The offer is accepted ; and
it is ordered " that the gardiner of this Society doe at the charge
of the sayd inhabitants of that side of the Court, plant the sayd
trees and lay the gravell walke, and take care of and look after
the same."

214 C8* iSlacfe Boofeg of Utncoln'g

Council held on April 23rd, 1703.
Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that all gentlemen that shall be admitted into this
Societye may be admitted with manucaptors as formerly, but
before they come into commons shall give bonds in the summe of
^40 to pay and performe the dutyes of this Societye, and there-
upon theire manucaptors be discharged."

M r John Barton is admitted into a whole chamber on the
ground floor in Field Gate Row, Kitchin Garden Court, out of
which there is a new door lately made towards Serle's Court, late
Roger Monpesson's, on payment of ^10.

fo. 125. Council held on May 7th, 1703.

Seven Benchers present.

" Upon consideracion now had of the peticion of many
Barristers and gentlemen of this Societye concerneing one
Baker, a glover, who pretends to have a lease of some lower
chambers neare adjoyneing to his shop at the gate leadeing to
the new market,* sheweing that such lease would be a scandall
and prejudice to this Societye and against the knowne Rules and
Orders of the same It is ordered, (James Wittewrong, Esq.,
one of the Masters of the Bench, being now present,) that the
stairecase out of Baker's shop into Master Wittewrong's chamber
be taken away and the trapp-dore stopped up, and the wall made
up, and that the said glover shall have no use of the said
chambers, and that the chymnye in the sayd shop be demolished."

Council held on May loth, 1703.

Six Benchers present.

fo. 126. " Ordered . that the Treasurer doe pay all necessary expences

and charges that shall be made in defence of Thomas Lant, Chiefe
Porter of this Societye, at the Sessions to be held for this Countye
of Middlesex, and elsewhere, on the prosecucion of Thomas
Donnaby, and also what shall be necessarily expended in the
prosecucion of the said Donnaby, the said Donnaby being strongly
suspected to be one of them that frequently meet under the
Chappell to committ the abominable sin of S."

M r Horatio Walpole t is admitted into the chamber up the
Chapel Stairs, on the surrender of M r Capper, paying ^8 as a
fine for his admission.

* Clare Market continued to be so called long after its commencement. The
gate here referred to is no doubt the passage into Serle Street, formerly existing
between Nos. 9 and 10, New Square.

t Brother to Robert, i st Earl of Orford, and uncle to the celebrated Horace,
who were both members of the Inn; afterwards Ambassador to France; created
Baron Walpole, 1756. See Chalmer's Biog. Diet

iSlacfe iSoofeg of Eincoltt's 5nm 215

Council held on June I4th, 1703.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Cavendish Weeden doe not remove or
take away the cistern near the bogg house, nor any thing of or
belonging to it ; that he remove not the clocke, the mairemaid,*
nor any thing belonging to them, nor any thing fixed or annexed to
this House."

Council held on June i6th, 1703.
Eight Benchers present.

Ten roods of the Terrace wall must be taken down and
rebuilt as soon as conveniently it may be.

Council held on June 24th, 1703. fo. 127.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered, upon the Councell's being informed of the demise
of John Weddell, Esq., Treasurer of this Society, that James
Butler, mil., be desired to take upon him the Treasurorship untill
the 28 of November next."

" Ordered that M r Serjeant Keen be buryed under the
Chappell, at his friends' request."!

Council held on October 29th, 1703.
Six Benchers present.

" Ordred that M 1 Robert Eyres, one of the Fellowes of this
Society, be instructed to defend the riott against Thomas Lunt,|
Cheif Porter."

" Ordred that Praiers begin at 5 of the clock in the afternoon,
as formerly."

" Ordred that a staffe with a silver head be forthwith bought,
not exceeding five guineas, for the use of the Cheif Porter of this
Society for the time being; and that the armes of this House, as
blazoned in the east window of the Chappell over the Communion
Table be ingraven or putt upon it."

Call to the Bar : James Strode.

M r Serjeant Green and M r Serjeant Turner have a further fo. 182.
three years allowed them in which to dispose of their respective
chambers ; they must pay all duties to the House in the meantime,
as if they remained members of the Society.

* This perhaps refers to the dial and fountain erected by Weedon in the
middle of New Square. See ante, p. 193. Strype says that there were four Tritons
holding shells from which the water issued, but does not speak of any mermaid.

f See Chapel Register. J Sic; see ante, p. 214.

The Staff heads now in use are dated 1828, and probably replaced the one
mentioned in the text.

2 i6 Cfie ISlacfe ISoofeg of Eincoln'0 Inn,

Call to the Bar, November i3th, 1703 :
Thomas Chambers.

Accounts of John Weddell, Esquire, and James Butler,
Knight, the Treasurers, from Jan. 23rd, 1703, to Jan. 23rd, 1704.

Receipts: .1,099 145. 4d. Including .476 for admissions
to chambers and chamber fines.

Payments: 1,033 7 s - 2 ^-

Balance : 66 75. 2d.

1704. Officers for 1704:

Treasurer: Peter Warburton, Esq.
Black Book Keeper: Sir James Butler.

Luke Astry, Esq.

Dean of the Chapel: Henry Penton, Esq.
Master of the Library: Eldred Lancelot Lee, Esq.

fo. 129. Council held on January 28th, 2 Anne, 1704.

Seven Benchers present.

* " Ordered that M r Atwell doe forthwith put in a life into the
Coffee-house room in Serle's Court; and that M r Atwell be desired
to shew cause att the next Councill why he should not answer all
the arrears and duties of the Coffee-room in Serle's Court which
would have accrued if a life had been put in."

Council held on February 8th, 1704.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Baugh, Solicitor in the cause against
Lant, the Porter of this House, take care to deferr the prosecucion
against the said Porter untill next terme, so that at next Councill
a Committee of the Masters of the Bench be appointed to attend
M r Attorny Generall.t and endeavour to obteyne a nolle prose qui
in that matter."

fo. 130. Luke Astry, Esq., senior of the Masters of the Bench, \

is appointed Ciistos Libri Nigri in place of Sir James Butler,
lately deceased.

Council held on February i2th, 1704.

Seven Benchers present.

Thomas Turner, Esq., living in Serle's Court, reports that
the officers of the Liberty of the Rolls, threaten to distrain on his
chamber for parish duties. Notice shall be given to M r Atwell.

* Serle's Court Book I, p. 48. \ Called to the Bench in 1675, ante, p. 102.

f Edward Northey. See ante, pp. 214, 215. At No. 2.

Macfe asoofeg of Uittcoltt'g $niu 217

Call to the Bar: George Fothergill.

Council held on May i6th, 1704.
Eleven Benchers present.

D r Gastrell, the Preacher, shall have an extra ^10 a year,
and shall pay for eaten commons.

Call to the Bar:

John Wadman, and Marshall Hill.

"Ordered that a booth erected in Lincolne's Inne Upper fo. 131.
Fields, without the licence of this Societye, and contrary to
covenants and agreements made with this Societye, be forthwith
demolished, and that for the future the officers of this Societye in
vacacion time obstruct any such erections."

Call to the Bench:

Henry Poley, Esq., now of this Society, and formerly a
Bencher of the Middle Temple.

Council held on May 22nd, 1704.

Twelve Benchers present.

M r Dobbyns is to attend " M r Attorney Generall, and
present him the thanks of the Masters of the Bench and the rest
of the Fellowes of this Societye, for his justice and favour in
granting a nolle prosequi to an indictment preferred against the
Chief Porter." *

Call to the Bar : Charles Edwin.

Call to the Bench :

Edmond Bridges, Patrick Crawford, and Edward Strode,
Esquires, Ancient Barristers of this Society ; if they accept the
call they must pay all duties before publication, and they must
take their seniority as named in this Order, t

Peter Warburton, Esq., the Treasurer, brought in a list of
debts to the Society for vacation and absent commons and
Preacher's Roll, amounting to ,1,800 and upwards.

Council held on May 29th, 1704.
Six Benchers present.

* See ante, pp. 214, 215, 216.

f The reason for this last paragraph is that Mr. Crawford was not admitted to
Lincoln's Inn until 1700; his call to the Bar at Gray's Inn was prior to Mr.
Strode's call at Lincoln's Inn. See ante, p. 211.

VOL. III. 2 F

218 Cfte Macfe ISoofeg of ^Lincoln's

" Ordered that the answer of this Society to a paper
presented to the Master of the Rolls by the inhabitants of the
Rolls, and by him sent to the Masters of the Bench in Councell,
be entred into the Black Book.

" To the Right Ho ble Sir John Trevor, Knight,
Master of the Rolls, and one of Her Majesty's
Most Ho blc Privy Councell.

"May it please your Honour,

" The Masters of. the Bench of the Ho ble Societye of
Lincolne's Inne, haveing this terme while they were in Councell
assembled received from your Honour a paper intitled A Case
betweene the Rolls Libertye and Lincoln's Inne humbly presented
to his Honour, the Master of the Rolls, doe humbly return this
answer thereto :

" First, they willingly take this opportunitye to retorne your
Honour theire humble thankes and acknowledgments for the greate
respect and regard your Honour hath alwayes shewed to the said
Societye, and particulerly in the several! messages (relateing to the
accommodateing the matters mencioned in that Case) which your
Honour hath sent to the Treasurers* for the time being and other
the Benchers of the said Societye; and the said Benchers can not
but acknowledge it as reasonable that your Honour should have a
due regard to the benefitts and priveledges of your Liberty of the
Rolls and the inhabitants there.

" But in regard the matters in the said case mencioned tend
to draweing in one of [the] Courts of the said Societye, called
Serle Court, to be subject to the Rolls for the poor and other
parish dutyes, assessed and collected within the said Libertye, as
the said Libertye is part of the parish of S* Dunstan,

"The said Benchers doe humbly crave leave to declare that
they conceave themselves oblieged to defend the said Societye
against all attempts of the said Libertye, by all lawfull ways and
meanes whatsoever.

fo. 132. "And the rather in regard such attempt, if it prevayle, may

give incouragement to three other parishes to make the like

* This is interesting as showing the growing tendency to consider the Treasurer
as head of the Inn during his year of Office, of which there is little or no trace until
after the discontinuation of the Readers. It must be noted, however, that the
process was not yet complete; the name of Peter Warburton, the Treasurer for this
year, is written last in the list of Benchers present at this Council, he being the
junior Bencher present; whereas the Reader, during the time of his Reading, always
headed the list.

of Utiuoln's nn* 219

demaunds upon them, although such demaund was never before
made upon them.*

"And the said Benchers can not but take notice that this
proceeding is the more unreasonable and ungratefull in the said
inhabitants of the said Libertye, because they have great
dependance upon and benefitts from the said Societye, which, if it
were withdrawne, may bring a prejudice upon the said Libertye
not to be retrieved.

" And the said Benchers have reason to believe the generalitye
of the said inhabitants of the said Libertye doe not approve of
these proceedeings.

" The said Masters of the Bench doe likewise apprehend that
this innovacion may likewise concerne the other three Innes of
Courts, and all or most of the Innes of Chancery, and that the
liberties and priviledges of the whole profession of the law may be
much concerned in these matters ; and doe conceave, therefore,
that it is fitt for them to consult the rest of the profession, or such
of them as are proper, touching a matter of such generall concerne."

M r Astry, M r Penton and M r Treasurer are ordered to wait
on the Master of the Rolls with the above answer.

M r Bridges, Mr Crawford and M r Strode, having accepted
their Call to the Bench, shall be published at the first exercise next
term, they first paying half their absent commons and vacations
and whole of all other duties.

Council held on June 22nd, 1704.

Nine Benchers present.

" The bricklayer's bill now offered in Councell by M r Treasurer,
amounting to a greate summe of mony, occasioned by the late
greate tempestuous winde," shall be considered.!

* Nos. i to 4, New Square, are within the parish boundary of S. Dunstan's;
Nos. 5 to 10, and part of No. n, within that of S. Clement Danes'; the remainder
of No. 1 1 and the western side of the garden within that of S. Giles' in the Fields ;
and the rest of the Inn within that of S. Andrew's, Holborn. See the map in Cases
of Supposed Exemption from Poor Rates, by Edward Griffith, where the question
of the extra-parochiality of the Inn is discussed in much detail

f 1703, Nov. 27. "About one this morning a terrible storm arose, which
continued till past 7, the wind south west; the like not known in the memory of
man; blew down a vast number of the tops of houses, chimnies, &c.
divers of the great trees in St. James' Park, Temple, Grayes Inn, &c., blown down;
. . . the Bishop of Bath and Wells and his lady were killed by the fall of a
stack of chimneys at Wells." Luttrell, Diary, v, 363, etc. Dr. Gastrell, the
Preacher, who was also Chaplain to the House of Commons, preached a special
sermon on this tempest, before the House, on Jan. igth, 1704. Diet. Nat. Biog.

220 Wbt 3$lacfe Boofe* of mncoln'g Emt,

fo. 133. Council held on June 28th, 1704.

Ten Benchers present.

The Order made on M r Turner's proposals, for planting the
Base Court with trees, is discharged.*

" Ordered that publick notice be given that the emptye
upper roomes in this House are to be disposed of at moderate
rates."

" Upon the report of M r Treasurer that he hath heard and
bin informed that there is a rent or summe of 2os. per annum
payeable and oweing to this Society by the owners and proprietors
of the houses called Chichester Rents, and that the said rent or
summe of mony hath bin long unpaid, and by some person or
persons claymeing interest in the same houses is denyed to be
paid : Upon debate of the said matter in Councell, It is ordered
that the lease made by this Societye of a passage into the said
houses called Chichester Rents, if it can be found, be produced in
the next Councell."

Richard Foley, Esq., a Barrister of this Society, and one of
the Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas, is called to be an
Associate of the Bench, on payment of 30 guineas, t

Council held on July 5th, 1704.

Eight Benchers present.

" Upon perusall of the lease of the passage into Chichester
Rents, It is ordered [that] the said passage be shutt up, as M r
Treasurer shall direct, if the said rent and the arreares thereof
be not paid upon shewing this Order."

fo. 134. Council held on July i4th, 1704.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that no persons presume to enter into or walke in
the gardens belonging to this Societye with maskes on, and that
this Order be sett up on the gates of the said gardens; and that
the officers belonging to this Societye take care that this Order be
duelye observed."

\ M r William Atwell, for himself and partners, " haveing
disposed of all that roome or chamber, called by the name of
Serle's Coffee House, in the new square of building in Serle's

* See ante, p. 213.

f In the margin, "p d 30 guineas, being ^32 55.", which makes the guinea
equivalent to ^i is. 6d.

J Serle's Court Book I, p. 50,

asiacfe Boofes of Uituoltt'g $nm 221

Court in Lincoln's Inne, in the staircase number 3, lyeing
between the Prothonotarye's Office east and the wall of the
gate way west," nominates M r John Exton of Lincoln's Inn,
gentleman, thereto ; who is admitted for his life, accordingly, on
payment of

Council held on November loth, 1704. fo. 135.

Twelve Benchers present

" Ordered that the subscriptions made for the water for the
fountaine be inspected at the next Councell, and then considered ;
and the contract made by the Treasurer for ^"10 about the water
be then paid." *

Council held on November 24th, 1704. fo. 136.

Twelve Benchers present.

William Rogers, Esq., and John Hiccocks, Esq., Barristers
of this Society, and two of the Masters of Her Majesty's Court of
Chancery, are called to be Associates of the Bench, on payment of
35 guineas each and all arrears.

Council held on November 28th, 1704.
Twelve Benchers present.

" Ordered that, upon the payment of 2os. by M r Graundman
to M r Rich for the year 1703, and continueing the support of the
lamp, and paying the reserved rent for the future, the gate into
Chichester Rents be sett open."

Council held on December 8th, 1704. fo. 137.

Seven Benchers present.

" M r Astry acquainted the rest of the Masters that M r Baron
Price, one of the Barons of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer,!
had declared himself under a greate sence of the cevilityes of this
Society e, and more particularly of the Masters of the Bench, shewed
to him; and that he was willing and desirous to give some
testimonye of his gratitude and respects to the said Societye, had
desired the said M r Astry to acquaint theire Masterships that he
was willing to present such bookes as may be usefull to and in the
Library, to the value of ^25, as should be by them approved of."
The offer was thankfully accepted.

" M r Astry acquainted the other Masters of the Bench then
present that the Library of this Societye is now so full of bookes
that there is little roome left therein to receave more, offering then

* Evidently the fountain in Searle's Court ; see posf, p. 225.
j Robert Price, so appointed 1703.

222 Cfic Black ISoofe* of !Uttcoln'$

proposalls to make the said Library at his owne charge receptant
of more bookes It is ordered that any three or more of the
Masters of the Bench doe goe with the said M r Astry into the
Library, and heare the said proposalls, and report theire opinions
of them at some Councell in the next terme."

Accounts of Peter Warburton, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1704, to Jan. 23rd, 1705.

Receipts : ,1,348 75. id.

Payments : ^1,336 8s. od. Including 2 8s. for 2 doz.
bottles of " white Lisborne."

Balance : i i igs. id.

1705. Officers for 1705 :

Treasurer : Henry Poley, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : Edmond Bridges, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Eldred Lancelot Lee, Esq.
Master of the Library : Robert Dormer, Esq.

fo. 138. Council held on January 27th, 3 Anne, 1705.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Astry, one of the Masters of this Bench,
bee desiered to bring to the next Councell a catologue of such
bookes as he shall think most convenient for the benefitt of this
Society, which M r Barron Price is pleased to give to this Society."

" Ordered that Friday, the 2nd of Februrary next, be held a
Grand Day in this Society, as antiently, and that the Lord
Haversham,* M r Speaker of the House of Commons,! and the
Judges and Serjeants of the Society, also Sir Thomas Cook, an
Associate of the Bench, be forthwith invited to dinner on that
day ; and that a sermon be then preached by D r Gastrell, and that
the Master of the Revells doe then attend, and that the Steward
prepare and forthwith bring in a bill of fare fitt for such
entertainement, and prepare the same accordingly."

In future the Chief Butler is not to allow any deduction on
account of taxes out of M r Golfer's legacy of 20 a year, as he
has done for some years past, since it appears by the will that the
legacy is to be paid clear of all deductions.

" Complaint being made att this Council by several gentlemen,
members of this Society, that William Benfield and Hugh Moore,
Collectors within the Liberty of the Rolls for the poore of that

* Sir John Thompson, Bart., so created 4 May, 1 696 ; his wife was dau. of
Arthur Annesley, ist Earl of Anglesey ; probably the John, son of Maurice Tompson,
adm. March 3, 1664.

f Robert Harley, afterwards cr. Earl of Oxford; adm. July 25, 1701.

Macfe Boo&s of Eincoln'g Enn* 223

Liberty, within the Parish of S* Dunstan's in the West, with a
Bedell, had lately, in breach of the antient rights and priviledges
of this Society, entred into severall chambers in Serle's Court,
parte of the said Society, and demanded of severall gentlemen for
their said chambers severall summes of money pretended to be
assessed on them for their said respective chambers, as being
within the said Parish and Liberty, for relieff of the poore of the
said Liberty in the said Parish ; and the said officers threatning
to distreine for the same This Council, haveing taken the same
into consideracion, and upon reading of an Order made att a
Councill held for this Society on the like attempt, dated the 29th
day of May, 1704, thereby humbly representing to his Honour,
the Master of the Rolls, their reasons for not admitting of such
an innovacion, not only upon this but all other Societyes of the
law, which reasons it was hoped the inhabitants of the said
Liberty would have been satisfyed with It is now Ordered by
the said Councill that the Chieff Butler doe forthwith give notice
to the said Collectors that this Society doth expect from them
and the said inhabitants that they doe not further prosecute their
said demands ; and that this Society is resolved to stand by their
fellow members, and defend them and the ancient rights and
priviledges of their said Society to the utmost." The Butler is
to give the Collectors a copy of this Order, which is also to be
screened.

Council held on February 7th, 1705.
Five Benchers present.

Four gentlemen must attend the next Council " to shew cause fo. 139.
why they did rise from the Barr Mess on the 5th of this instant
February, and depart the Hall before grace was said."

Whereas the Order of the last Council, relating to the demand
of Poor Rates from some of the inhabitants of Serle's Court, was
screened in the Hall, "but was afterwards taken down upon the
submicion and promise of the Collectors for the said poore, to
observe the said Order and forbear any further demands of that
nature," and the Justices who signed the distress warrant were
willing to withdraw it; "but that one Foell, an inhabitant within
the said Liberty, had got the said warrant, and threatned to proceed
thereupon, in violacion of the constitucion and libertyes of this and
all other the Societyes of the Law." The former Order shall again
be screened, and also this one ; " and further alsoe, that such defence
shall be made against all such attempts for rateing any the
inhabitants of the said Serle's Court, or levying the same, as is
agreable with the just and antient usages and custome of this and
the other Societys of the law."

224 && ifrlacfe ISoofeg of

Council held on February 1 2th, 1 705.
Nine Benchers present.

The Land Tax shall be allowed to be deducted from the rent
of Furnival's Inn.

"Ordered that James Wittewronge, Esq., one of the Masters
of the Bench, doe pay for the use of this Society the ^100 he
standeth bound for, and that this Society pay interest for the said
jCioo untill they repay the same againe in course."

Richard Savage, the Cook, prays for an allowance in respect
of last Grand Day, when he hired five cooks for two days, and
two turn-spits. [Allowed ^"5 at the next Council.]

Council held on February iQth, 1705.

Nine Benchers present.

fo. 140. The rent of Thavid's Inn is three years in arrear. If not

paid within ten days, proceedings shall be taken to recover the
same.

Council held on May 3rd, 1705.

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Job Hanmer * and John Barton.

John Briquett, the Steward, petitions for some allowance,
" setting forth his great losses by the dearness of fish, and haveing
but i6d. allowed him by the House for a taile of salt fish, with
butter and eggs, together with four whitings or plaise, and haveing
noe allowances for the same since Easter Terme, 1701, since
which time there have been spent 1310 mess, 2 parts, and
the loss at 4d. a mess comes to 21 i6s. iod., besides what
was lost by ling." [^"5 granted, May 2ist.]

fo. 141. Call to the Bar, May 9th, 1705 :

Edward Corbett and Thomas Wyndham.

fo. 142. Council held on June 5th, 1705.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that the late address of the gentlemen of this
Society to the Quatuor in commons, relateing to the takeing away
of suppers and casting them into dinners, be further considered
att the next Council."

The Steward shall have an additional 2d. per mess for fish,
until further order.

* In the Admission Register his Christian name is misprinted John, vol. i,
P- 353-

Macfe ISoofes of Hittcoltt'g $nm 225

" Upon the humble petition of James Jackson, Porter of the
south gate of Searl's Court, setting forth that he hath carefully
wound upp and taken care of the clock in the pillar in Searl's
Court, and cleansed the Fountaine and Walkes, and found broomes
for that purpose, and collected the subscription money, and found
candles to watch in his lodge, from Lady [Day] last to this time,"
for which he prays some allowance.

Call to the Bar, November I5th, 1705: fo. 145.

John Sayer, John Byde, and Francis Thacker.

Council held on November 28th, 1705.

Twelve Benchers present.

Ordered that the door from M r Jones's chamber into Chancery
Lane be forthwith shut up, and that he be allowed ^"50 by the
House in lieu thereof.

Officers for 1706: 1706.

Treasurer: Edmund Brydges, Esq.
Black Book Keeper: Patrick Crawford, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Robert Dormer, Esq.
Master of the Library: Peter Warburton, Esq.

Council held on February i8th, 4 Anne, 1706. fo. 147

Seven Benchers present.

* " Ordered that the gate to Chichester Rents be well repaired,
and a substantiall barr of iron put in the middle, as formerly,
within a week; and in default thereof that the said gate be shutt
up."

Council held on April i7th, 1706.

Eight Benchers present,

M r Weedon's proposal concerning a fountain in the Great
Garden shall be considered, according to the subscriptions. The
Treasurer shall report as to the expense.

Council held on April 25th, 1706.
Five Benchers present.
The cost of a fountain in the Great Garden will be ,95 ; a
subscription list shall be opened, f

* Serle's Court Book I, p. 52.

f Kip's view of the Inn, in the 1720 edition of Strype's " Stow," shows a small
fountain in the southern part of the garden, as well as the dial column with the
spouting tritons in New Square.

VOL. III. 2 G

22 6 {K iSlacfe asoofeg of Hincoln'g Emu

Call to the Bar :
John Powle and John Felton.

fo. 148. M r Weedon's proposal to build on the east side of the garden

shall be further considered.

fo. 148. Council held on May 3rd, 1706.

Ten Benchers present.

The gentlemen of the Society petition for " the taking away
of suppers, and allowing the whole money for the encrease and
better providing of dinners." To be considered.

" Ordered that no anthem be performed in the Chappell on
Sunday next ; and that no innovacion or alteracion be made
in the service in or structure of the said Chappell but by Order
in a full Councill."

Council held on May 3ist, 1706.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that a convenient place wherein to sett the engine
for quenching of fire, lately given to this Society by M r Atwill and
his partners," be considered of.

Call to the Bar: Gilbert Browne.

" Upon the petition of John Wadman, Esq., and others,
complaining of a nusance occasioned by John Hungerford, Esq.,
his keeping of doggs in the vacancy under the staires of their
stairecase It is ordered that the said M r Hungerford be desired
to remove from thence his doggs forthwith."

fo. 149. Council held on June i2th, 1706.

Eleven Benchers present

" Ordered that no Barr Moot be brought in upon a discontinued
exercise without speciall leave of the Bench."

Council held on June 25th, 1706.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the engine for quenching of fire be placed at
the end of the gardiner's house, where the cistern was, and that
. . . a fitt place for the said engine to stand in be provided."

Council held on October 29th, 1706.
Ten Benchers present.

fo. 150. "Ordered that musick be provided, and that they attend on

the eve of the Grand Day and on the Grand Day, and noe
more."

ISoofeg of Etncoln'g

Council held on November 5th, 1706.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that musick do attend every Saturday night in
this term, for the gentlemen to dance; and that such musick have
a summe not exceeding 405. per night for such their attendance."
[Vacated, Nov. nth.]

Council held on November iith, 1706.
Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

Robert Beach and William Parker.

* " Upon the humble petition of Joyce Warren, spinster,
shewing that by Indenture, dated the I7th day of June, 1703,
Peter Keckwich, a gent of this Society, did mortgage to the
petitioner his chamber in Serle's Court, on the east side of the
same Court, in the staircase No. 3, and the vault belonging to the
same, (then and now in his possession), and all his interest therein,
for ,200; and praying that the Honourable the Masters of the
Bench would license the Sherriffe of the County to enter into the
said chamber and seise the same, or give the petitioner such other
remedy as to them, the said Masters of the Bench, should seem
meet. It is ordered that the petitioner do apply to the proprietors
of Serle's Court for a nomination to the said chamber, and then
the Bench will proceed to do what is just."

Accounts of Edmund Bridges, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1706, to Jan. 23rd, 1707.

Receipts: ,1,533 175. 8d. Including $ 75. nd. from
Henry Poley, Esq., the Treasurer last year ; ^847 for admissions
to chambers and chamber fines ; 6 8s. from Christopher Yates,
Principal of Furnival's Inn, for a year's rent.

Payments : ,1,531 45. 3d. Including ,200 due on a bond ;
interest on .1,200, due on bonds; ,67 125. 4d. for wine;
,25 8s. 6d. to William Price, the glass-painter; ,10 to
Maximilian Apprice for water for one year,f and .2 to the
turncock.

Balance : ,2 135. 5d.

[NOTE. Robert Dormer, a Bencher, was created a Serjeant
this year. " 1706, Feb. 9. Robert Dormer, Esq., Knight of the
Shire for Bucks, and Chancellor of Durham, having kist the
Queen's hand for the Judge's place in the Common Pleas, . . .
was this day sworn a Serjeant, and on Monday takes his place as
Judge." Luttrell, Diary, vi, 15.]

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 53. f From the New River.

228 f)e Black 3$oofe0 of Etncoln'g Unit*

1707. Officers for 1707 :

Treasurer : Patrick Crawford, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : Edward Strode, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Peter Warburton, Esq.
Master of the Library : Henry Poley, Esq.

fo. 152. Call to the Bar, January 28th, 5 Anne, 1707 :

Alexander Horton.

Council held on January 3ist, 1707.
Ten Benchers present.

"Ordered that a peice of plate of the value of 12 be
presented to Doctor Gastrell in testimony of the respect of this
Society towards him, and to be prepared and delivered to the
said Doctor Gastrell by the Treasurer as the gift of the Masters
of this Bench."

* Upon consideration had of the continuance of M r Serjeant
Green and his ancestors in this Society, for one hundred years, f
and of the presents to this House made by his ancestors,
Itt is ordered that the time for selling his chambers be enlarged
for three yeares from the end of Trinity Term next, and that his
successor be excused of paying a fine upon the next admittance to
his chamber, on the said Serjeant's surrender."

fo. 153. Council held on February i2th, 1707.

Seven Benchers present.

"Ordered that itt be endeavoured to get a clause in a Bill
now depending before the Honourable the House of Commons for
the beatifieing of Grate Lincoln's Inn Feilds, to exempt the
Society of Lincoln's Inn from any pretence of payment of parochioll
dutyes, and for preserving their rights and priveledges in and to
the said Feilds." A Committee is appointed to carry this out.J

" Ordered that M r Treasurer and M r Lees dispose of the
offerings at the three last Sacraments to the poor, as they think
fitt; and that the Lecturer of this Society for the future doth keep
a true account in writing what is given on every Sacrament day,
before the delivery of such moneys to the second butler of this
Society, to the end the poor bee not defrauded."

fo. 154. Council held on May 2nd, 1707.

Eleven Benchers present.

* Red Book II, p. 95.

t John Green, (adm. 1659, Bench 1685, Serjeant 1700), was son of John
Green, (adm. 1631, Bench 1657, Recorder of London 1658), who was son of John
Green, (adm. 1605, Bench 1628, Serjeant 1640).

J See Appendix.

Macfe Boofeg of mncoln's Emu 229

M r Cavendish Weedon's petition " of his seniority and right fo. 155.
of call to the Bench of this Society, and of which he is like to be
quoted * by a late call of his juniors," is adjourned.

Council held on May 7th, 1707.
Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

Sir James Mountague, Solicitor General;! to be published
at the exercise on Friday night next.

Also M r Robert Eyre, Q.C., M r Fleetwood Dormer, M r John
Hungerford and M r Charles Cox, ancient Barristers of this
Society; to be published as above.

Also M r Cavendish Weedon, on his petition showing "that fo. 156.
M r Thomas Chevely has declined his Call to the Bench, and that
he, the said M r Weedon, in time of admittance was next after M r
John Hungerford, the last of the said Call, and praying, in regard
the House intended to Call four, that he might have the benefitt
of such Call;" to be published as above.

Call to the Bar: Abraham Gapper.

Call to the Bar, May 14th, 1707:
John Wood and John Massey.

Council held on June i7th, 1707. fo. 157.

Fourteen Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : - - Tolson.^

M r Cavendish Weedon's motion for erecting a gallery at the
west end of the Chapel, is rejected.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer be desired to take care that
the Benchers' Garden be not made common."

Call to the Bar, July 2nd, 1707:
John Griffes [Griffiths]. fo. 158.

Council held on October 27th, 1707.

Thirteen Benchers present.

" It is ordered that Saturday, the first day of November next,
be held a Grand Day, as antiently; and that M r Sollicitor Generall
[Sir James Mountague], M r Treasurer, and M r Cox, be desired

* See ante, p. 61.

f Appointed in April, 1707.

| Query, Richard Tolson, adm. April 25, 1677.

230 f)e iSlacfe ISoofeg of lUncoln's $mu

forthwith to wait upon the Noblemen and Officers of State, Judges
and Serjants, that do or did formerly belong and are or were
members of this Society, and also on his Grace the Duke of
Queensberry,* the Lord Chancellor, t Lord Privy Seale,J and the
two Secretaryes of State for that parte of the Kingdom of Great
Brittain lately called Scotland, and desire the favor of their
company at dinner in this Society on the same day; and that a
sermon be then preached by Doctor Gastrell, and that the Master
of the Revells do then attend ; and that the Steward prepare and
forthwith bring in a bill of fare fit for such an entertainment, and
prepare the same accordingly."

fo. 156. Council held on November 5th, 1707.

Twelve Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Thomas Slatter and Thomas Turner

" Ordered that the two darke benches under the Chappell be
forthwith removed, and sett in more convenient places in the

light.-

William Price is appointed glazier and glass-painter to the
Society.

fo. 1 60. Council held on November iQth, 1707.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Edmund Poley, Esq., one of the Fellows of this Society, late
Envoy to the Prince Elector of Hanover, and formerly to other
Courts. He shall be published at the next exercise, and
thereupon shall be admitted to be an Associate of the Bench, first
paying ^50.

Also George Townsend, Esq., one of the Fellows of this
Society, "who has been resident here above 25 years, and now is,
and for 7 years past, and upwards, has been one of the
Commissioners of the Excise." He shall be published at the
next exercise, and thereupon shall be admitted to be an Associate
of the Bench, first paying ^50. ||

* James Douglas, 2nd Duke.

t William Cowper, afterwards Earl Cowper. He had been one of the
Commissioners for the Union with Scotland.

| John Holies, Duke of Newcastle.

^ 1707, Nov. i. "This day M r Crawford, a Scotch gentleman, Treasurer of
Lincoln's Inn, splendidly entertain'd in that Hall most of the Scotch nobility, as
also several English." Luttrell, Diary, vi, 229.

|| Adm. July 3, 1686.

ISlacfe &oofcs of IUncoln'0 $nm 231

Council held on November 28th, 1707. fo. 161.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that for the recovery of the 10 per annum given
to the Reader of this Society by the will of William Martin, Esq.,
late one of the Barristers of this Society, deceased, and for the
securing the ,2,000 by such will given for the benefitt of this
Society, that M r John Moss, one of the Fellows of this Society,
do forthwith cause a Bill or Information to be filed, as the
Masters of the Bench or any three of them shall think fitt, and do
prosecute the same for the speedy and effectuall securing, settling,
and recovery thereof ; and that the Minister of the parish of
Bures S l Mary, in the County of Suffolk, be let in by such Bill or
Information to the recovery of the charity to him given by such
will, he paying and bearing his proportion in charges and
expences according to his legacy and charity to him thereby
given."

Officers for 1708: 1708.

Treasurer: Sir James Mountague, Sol. Gen.
Black Book Keeper: Robert Eyre, Esq., Q.C.
Dean of the Chapel : Edmund Brydges, Esq.
Master of the Library: Patrick Crawford, Esq.

Council held on February 6th, 6 Anne, 1708. fo. 163.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Dean of the Chappell do for the future
distribute the Charity money given at the Sacrament to and
amongst such poor persons as are comunicants according to the
Liturgy of the Church of England as by law established." *

Council held on February 2Oth, 1 708.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered, upon the request of my Lady Franklyn, that the
;ioo given to the use of this Society by Sir John Franklyn be
paid to and received by M r Treasurer." f

Council held on April 27th, 1708. fo. 164.

Eight Benchers present.

* This Order was vacated at the next Council, on Feb. i2th.

t A portrait of Sir John Franklin hangs in the Benchers' Drawing Room. It
bears this inscription " S r John Franklin of Mauourn in the County of Bedford
knight one of y e Masters in Ordinary of the High Court of Chancery for y e space
of 33 years Obiit August y e yth, 1707, and lyes interred in the Parish Church of
Bonehurst in the County of Bedford."

232 CiK Macfe &oofeg of ^Lincoln's Inn.

Call to the Bar:

Paul Foley and William Smyth.

" Ordered that the money given by Sir John Franklyn . . .
be applyed according to the direccions given in and by the last
will and testament of the said Sir John Franklyn, and not
otherwise."

Council held on May i2th, 1708.
Nine Benchers present.

fo. 165. M r Adam Browne, Clerk, [the Chaplain], petitions for a loan

of ^30 or ^40, " which he is willing to allow out of his sallary
from this Society of Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas Termes, if
he shall so long live, or, if not, out of his sallary of Wood Street
Compter, which is now due and will be paid at Michaelmas next,
amounting to ^30." ^30 is lent.

M r Charlwood Lawton has petitioned for a lease of a piece
of ground; M r Martyn, one of the Benchers, is requested to
settle it*

Council held on May i7th, 1708.

Nine Benchers present.

" Upon the humble peticion of Richard Stannynought,
Porter to this Society, setting forth that he perceiving two men
under the Chappell of this Society, and making up to them, they
endeavoured to run away; but in pursuit the peticioner took

one of them, whose name is Pridy, in a very indecent

posture, whom he detained that [? night] ; and next morning
carried him before M r Justice Hungerford,f one of the Masters
of the Bench, who bound him over to the Sessions." M r Rolfe
is ordered to prosecute the matter, and M r Hungerford is desired
to give the necessary directions for his so doing.

fo. 166. "Upon the humble peticion of John Tarver, Esq., Barrister

and member of this Society, setting forth that Her Majestic having
been gratiously pleased to make him her Remembrancer in the
Court of Exchequer to be establish! for the north part of Great
Britaine, called Scotland; and that for the faithfull discharge of
that office his attendance will for some time at least be necessarily
required at Edingburgh; and praying that during his absence he
may have leave to lett his chambers and compound his commons."
Ordered that he may let his chambers to any member of the
Society, subject to the duties of the House, and on payment of his
arrears, if any.

* See/otf, p. 238. f I.e., a Justice of the Peace.

iSlacfe 2$oofes of Umcoltt's Inn*

Council held on June Qth, 1708.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

M r Thomas Lee, an ancient Barrister ; to be published at
the next exercise.

Also M r William Rogers, an ancient Barrister, and one of the
Masters of the High Court of Chancery.

Also the Honourable Charles Egerton, Esq., M r William fo. 167.
Fellowes, M r Francis Wilkinson, and M r Gilbert Horsman, ancient
Barristers.

Council held on June 23rd, 1708.
Fourteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer and the three senior Masters
of the Bench and the Master of the Library do prepare catalogues
of books to be bought with Sir John Franklyn's money."

Council held on June 3Oth, 1708.

Twelve Benchers present.

" M r Lulman was called in, and thanked for his letter about fo. 168.
the admittance to the copyhold estate near Yarmouth, and desired
to deferr making the third proclamacion for some time, and he
should hear from M r Nicholas Martyn, one of the Benchers, what
person the Society will make choice of to be admitted tenant to
the estate."

Council held on October 25th, 1708.
Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Morse be employed to take care of the
charity devised to Lincoln's Inne by M r William Martyn, and that
he doe apply to M r Nicholas Martyn, M r Dobyns and M r Penton,
or any one of them, for advice and direccion therein."

" Upon the peticion of James Jackson, setting forth that,
being Porter of the south gate of Serle's Court, he hath carefully
wound up and taken care of the clock in the Pillar in the said
Court, and cleansed the fountaine and walks, and hath found
brooms for that purpose, and collected the subscripcion money, and
found candles to watch in his lodge, from our Lady Day, 1704, to
this time." He asks for an allowance in respect thereof. Referred
to a Committee.

Council held on November 8th, 1708.
Six Benchers present.

VOL. III. 2 H

234 Cfie Macfe 2$oofe$ of mncoln's

fo. 169. Call to the Bar:

[Marmaduke] Allington and [Charles] Frankland.*
" Upon the peticion of William Dunch, Esq., Barrister of this
Society, setting forth that he had lately bought of the House half
a chamber in Kitchen Garden Court, which fell by the death of
M r Horsman ; and that, at the time of his death, the lobby or
antiroom was in common between him and M r S l Johns, and that
there were then two desks for clerks and two antient lights
belonging to it ; but that since that time M r S l Johns, or else
M r Pembroke (who bought of him), hath without the said M r
Dunch's knowledge or consent inclosed part of the lobby, and
thereby stopt up one of the lights, soe that the said M r Dunch
hath wholly lost the use of it, and the lobby is much darkned."
It shall be vie wed. t

fo. 170. Council held on November 29th, 1708.

Thirteen Benchers present.

Whereas Sir John Francklyn, Knight, deceased, left ^50 to
be laid out in books for the Library, and it has been decided to
expend the same on books of the Civil, Canon, and Feudal
Law M r Crawford, the present Master of the Library, has
made an application to " the most learned Civilian, M r Alexander
Cuningham,! who now is about publishing a new edition of the
Corpus Juris Civilis, for his recomendacion of an usefull
collection of the bookes above mencioned, who hath been pleased
to send to M r Crawford a catalogue thereof."

Accounts of Sir James Mountague, Knight, Attorney General
the Treasurer, from Jan. 23rd, I7o8, to Jan. 23rd, 1709.

Receipts: ,1,124 I 5 S - I ^- Including 2 igs. 7d. from
Patrick Crawford, Esq., the late Treasurer ; 6 8s. from Nicholas
Hall, Principal of Furnival's Inn, for a year's rent due Michaelmas,
1708 ; ;i from James Allen for ground under the Chapel.

Payments : ,1,073 J 8s. 3^- Including ,200 for apparels.

Balance : ,50 i6s. lod.

1709. Officers for 1709:

Treasurer: Robert Eyre, Esq., Sol. Gen.
Black Book Keeper: Fleetwood Dormer, Esq.
Library Keeper: Sir James Montague, Att. Gen.
Dean of the Chapel: Patrick Crawford, Esq.

* Charles Francklyn, adm. May 2, 1700.

f See the description of a set of chambers, vol. II, p. 90, and Introduction, p. xv.
J Professor of Civil Law in the University of Edinburgh. See Diet. Nat. Biog.
The heading gives 7 Anne, 1709, which is evidently an error.

iSIacfe ISoofes of Uttuoln'g Inn,

Call to the Bar, February 8th, 7 Anne, 1709: fo. 172.

Henshaw Halsey.

Council held on May 25th, 1709.
Thirteen Benchers present.

Call to the Bench: fo. 173.

John Hiccocks, Esq., one of the Masters in Chancery and a
member of this Society.

Call to the Bar: Robert Darwin.

The Committee report that James Jackson, the Porter in
Searle's Court, should have $ a year on his petition. Ordered
accordingly.*

Call to the Bar, July ist, 1709: fo. 174.

Thomas Powys and George Hadley.

Council held on July i3th, 1709

Nine Benchers present.

" Order'd that the Lady Franklyn, relict of Sir John Franklin, fo. 176.
formerly one of the Masters of the Bench, deceased, and a great
benefactor to the Library, have leave to hang up such inscription
as to her shall seem fitt at the end of the stand in the Library
wherein the said Sir John Franklyn's books are placed."

Council held on October 29th, 1709.
Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

Joseph Hull, Esq., an ancient Barrister, on his own request;
" upon condition neverthelesse that the said M r Hull shall submitt
and consent to take his place as Puisne Bencher, and not pretend
to .any seniority, for any cause whatsoever, over any person called
to the Bench before him." \_fo. 174]- 1

Call to the Bar, November i7th, 1709: fo. 177.

Wyndham Harbin, and Henry Dry.

Officers for 1710: 1710.

Treasurer : Fleetwood Dormer, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : Charles Coxe, Esq.
Master of the Library : Edmund Brydges, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Sir John Hawles.

* See ante, p. 233. f He was senior to most of the existing Benchers.

236

3$lacfe Books of Lincoln's Inn.

fo. 178. Council held on January 2710 8 Anne, 1710.

Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Robert Hoi ford.

" Ordered that upon every Petty Grand Day 2s. be added
to every messe under the Bench ; and that noe wine or meat for
the future be sent from the Bench to any person."

fo. 179. Call to the Bar, February 3rd, 1710:

Ellis Wynn.*

Call to the Bar, May 6th, 1710:
James Reynolds and George S l Amand.

fo. 18 1. Call to the Bar, May 22nd, 1710:

Price Hughes and [John] Norris.

fo. 182. Council held on June 28th, 1710.

Eleven Benchers present.

fo. 183. The petition of the gentlemen of the Society, "touching the
reduceing dinners and suppers into one," is continued.

Call to the Bar, November i5th, 1710:

Lewis West, Charles Williams, Henry Window, and John
Ecton.

Council held on November 22nd, 1710.
Eleven Benchers present.

fo. 184. " Resolved that from the first day of the next terme the

dinners and suppers of this Society be reduced into dinners only,
to be provided at two of the clock, according to the prayer of the
petition for that purpose."

Council held on November 28th, 1710.
Eleven Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

Sir Robert Raymond, Knight, Solicitor General; to have
precedence as a Bencher from Nov. nth, 1709, the date of his
Call to the Bench at Gray's Inn.

Also Edward Harley, Esq., an ancient Barrister, " by consent
of the Barristers of this Society who are his seniors."

Council held on December 2Oth, 1710.
Six Benchers present.

Apparently the person called in 1702 ; see ante, p. 211.

&Iacfc ISoofes of Eituoln's nn* 237

"Whereas by an Order made the last Councill it was referred
to the Masters of the Bench (calling to their assistance such of the
senior Baristers of this Society as they should thinke proper) to
consult how to putt a former Order, made for reduceing the dinners
and suppers of this Society into dinners only, in execucion, and to
report their opinions therein in writeing at the next adjorned
Councill . . . And whereas the said Masters of the Bench
have this day made their Report in writeing, and thereby proposed
that the same commons may be from henceforth provided for
Sundays, as have been for the tyme past used and accustomed;
and that Mundays, boyled beefe be provided for commons, and
exceedings at the charge of the House, after the rate of 2s. per
mess; that the same commons be provided for Tuesdayes as have
been used for the tyme past; that Wednesdays, roast loyns of
mutton be provided for commons, and exceedings at the charge
of the House after the rate aforesaid; that the same commons be
provided for Thursdays as have been used for the tyme past; that
fish be provided for commons on Frydays, as heretofore have been
usuall; and that Saterdays, roast loyns of mutton be provided for
commons, and exceedings at the charge of the House after the
rate aforesaid; that in order for procureing better small bear for
the future use of this Society, it is thereby proposed that the price
thereof may be raised; and that if any gentleman of this Society
shall hereafter thinke fitt to repast on a day of exceedings, he is
to pay for every such repast is. 4d. ; and the said Masters did
thereby further propose that the Steward of this Society for the
tyme being should for the future provide the House exceedings."
Ordered accordingly; to begin in Hilary Term next.

Accounts of Fleetwood Dormer, Esquire, the Treasurer,
from Jan. 23rd, 1710, to Jan. 23rd, 1711.

Receipts: ,1,695 4 s - 8d. Including ,2 55. 7d. from Robert
Eyre, Esq., the late Treasurer ; ^627 for admissions to chambers
and chamber fines; ^514 143. 3d. for commons and compositions
for not being in commons ; ^271 is. 6d. on the Preacher's Roll.

Payments: .1,690 IDS. 30!. Including 10 IDS. in a purse
to Sir Robert Eyre, Knight, Serjeant at Law ; 6s. for chains
for the Library.

Balance : 4 145. 5d.

Officers for 1711 : 1711

Treasurer : Charles Cox, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : John Hungerford, Esq.
Master of the Library : Fleetwood Dormer, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Sir James Montague.

238 f) ISlacfe Eoofeg of Eincoln'g Inn*

fo. 185. Council held on February I2th, 9 Anne, i/u.

Nine Benchers present.

" Orderd that M r Browne, the Reader, attend at the next
adjourned Council to answer to a complaint relating to a
clandestine marriage in the Chappell of this Society."

Council held on April 27th, 1711.
Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that the two watchmen go about every hour,
and continue till 4 a clock in the morning in summer time and
6 in winter."

fo. 1 86. "Orderd that M r Lawton's lease be sealed, with the

reservacion of a good fatt turkey of 10 Ibs. weight to be paid
upon the last Munday in Michaelmas Terme yearly."*

Council held on May i4th, 171 T.
Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

John Winkly, and Michael Biddolph.

" Upon the humble petition of the Steward of this Society,
shewing that he hath neither sallary nor board wages, and that the
profitts of his place are much impaired by the reduceing dinners
and suppers into one, the only perquisitt of his place being absent
parts, which cheifly accrued by suppers It is orderd that the
Steward be allowed ^10 per annum from the beginning of Hillary
Terme last, by way of sallary."

Call to the Bar, June 6th, 1711:
Clement Breton.

fo. 187. Council held on June 2oth, 1711.

Seven Benchers present.

" Upon the humble remonstrance of severall gentlemen of this
Society, shewing that the servants of the House have of late so
far encroachd upon 'em as to introduce a practice of promiscuously
letting in gentlemen wholly strangers, and ordinary persons of
their own acquaintance, into the pews of the Chappell of this
Society, without any distinction or preference first had to the
gentlemen of the House; whereby they have often wanted
convenient room, and been prevented from attending upon Divine
Service there It is ordered that the officers of the House do not
lett any ordinary persons or tradesmen into the pews of the
Chappell of this Society till after the Second Lesson be over.'

* See ante, p, 232.

iSlacfe 2$oofeg of Ettuoln's Enm 239

Accounts of Charles Coxe, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1711, to Jan. 23rd, 1712.

Receipts: ^695 los. gd.

Payments: ,688 is. 5d. Including ,9 1 1 s. 9d. paid for the
taxation of empty chambers and the Window Act.

Balance: 7 95. 4d.

Officers for 1712 : 1712.

Treasurer : Sir Robert Raymond, Sol. Gen.
Black Book Keeper : Thomas Lee, Esq.
Master of the Library : Charles Coxe, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Fleetwood Dormer, Esq.

Council held on February 5th, 10 Anne, 1712.* fo. 188.

Five Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :
Richard Wareing and Thomas Frewen.

Call to the Bar, July 2nd, 1712 : fo. 189.

John Toller.

Call to the Bar, November nth, 1712: fo. 190.

James Reynolds the elder.

t M r James Reynolds senior is admitted into M r Horatio
Walpoole's chamber, up the Chapel Stairs, 2 stones high.

Call to the Bar, November i9th, 1712:
Thomas Edwards.

Council held on November 22nd, 1712.

Eight Benchers present.

" Whereas it is found inconvenient in warning of Councells
of this Society that there should bee summons for two days
successively, and that there should bee a full Quatuor in the Hall
when such severall notices are respectively given, and in defect
thereof such Councell should not meet It is now ordered that
after a Councell hath been warn'd in the presence of a Quatuor,
the same may again bee warned the second day altho' there shall
not then bee a full Quatuor in commons in the Hall."

* Apparently no Councils were held between June 30, 1711, and Jan. 26, 1712.

f Red Book II, p. 136. Horatio was brother to Robert, Earl of Orford. He
filled many public offices, and was created Baron Walpole of Wolterton in 1756.
Died 1757.

240 Cfje 33lacfe ISoofes of ILtncoln'g Unit*

fo. 191. " Upon the mocion of Eldred Lancelott Lee, Esq., one of the

Masters of the Bench, It is hereby declared to bee a Standing
Order of this House, that all publick moneys belonging to this
Society ought and shall bee payd to the Cheife Butler for the time
being, as it has been for many years last past."

" Upon the mocion of Charles Cox, Esq., one of the Masters
of the Bench, informing this Counsill that, pursuant to former
Orders herein before made touching a prosecucion att law uppon
some of the securityes given to this Societye by the will of
William Martyn, late one of the Fellows of this Society, execucion
had been taken out upon a judgment obteyn'd against one John
Brereton, and his goods thereon levyed by the Sheriffs of Norfolk,
and ,250 had been thereupon paid to the Cheife Butler for the
use of this Society; but an action had been commenced by John
Brereton, son of the said John Brereton, pretending these
goods were his, which action was tryed against the defendant,
Framingham Joy \or Jay], to whome the said goods were sold
by the said Sheriffe, att the last Assizes for the County of
Norfolke, and the plaintiff recovered ,170 damages, besides
26 costs ; And forasmuch as by an Order of Councill held the
1 4th day of May, undecimo Anne Regine nunc, etc., it was
ordered that the said Sheriffe and the party to whome he sold the
said goods should bee indemnified by this Society." Ordered
that the Chief Butler do pay the ,196.

Accounts of Sir Robert Raymond, Knight, Solicitor General,
the Treasurer, from Jan. 23rd, 1712, to Jan. 23rd, 1713.

Receipts: ,1,167 6s. 8d. Including ,501 for admissions to
chambers and chamber fines; ,219 155. for compositions for
absent commons.

Payments: ,1,131 6s. 7d.

Balance: ,36 os. id.

1713. Officers for 1 7 1 3 :

Treasurer: John Hungerford, Esq.

Black Book Keeper: William Rogers, Esq.

Master of the Library : Sir Robert Raymond, Sol. Gen.

Dean of the Chapel: Charles Coxe, Esq.

fo. 192. Call to the Bar, January 27th, n Anne, 1713:

Bankes Robert Jenkinson.

Council held on May 6th, 1713.
Seven Benchers present.

Blacfe ISoofes of ^Lincoln's $ttm 241

Call to the Bar:

Hugh Wrottesley and John Harris.

"It is ordered that the first Saturday in every terme and the
last day in every terme be stated and standing Councills, without
any warning or notice thereof given in the Hall."

Council held on May i8th, 1713. fo. 193.

Eleven Benchers present.

" Pursuant to the Report of a Committee appointed to
inspect the Orders and consider of proper methods to regulate
the expences of this Society It is ordered that the Treasurer
of this Society shall not for the future lay out or expend above
the summe of $ without a speciall Order of Councill, saveing
only for the settled and constant expence of this Society."

Call to the Bar, June 6th, 1713 :
Charles Crofts.

Council held on June I7th, 1713. 'fo. 194.

Twelve Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: Amos Shephard.

Also John Willes, on his petition "setting forth that hee
being admitted here in Hillary Terme, 1708 [-9], and being now
a Fellow of All Souls Colledge in Oxon and of 12 years and 3
termes standing in that University, and haveing taken the degree
of M.A. six termes before hee was entered of this House, and
being alsoe B.C.L. and of sufficient standing to take his Doctor's
degree in that Faculty, and haveing performed a great part of his
exercises here."

Council held on June 25th, 1713.

Eleven Benchers present.

" The Principall and Antients of Thavies Inn, in consideracion fo. 195.
of the vast expenses that they have been att in repairing and
improveing the said Inn, desireing a new lease to bee granted to
them by this Society for soe many years as, with the remainder of
the lease now in being, will make up 50 years, there being about 5
years to come of their old lease." Referred to a Committee.

Council held on November i2th, 1713.
Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : fo. 196.

Guise Hall and Thomas Pembroke.

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242 bt Macfc ISoofeg of flincoln'*

"It appearing plainly to this Councill that the wall which
formerly made the partition between the Benchers' Garden and
the Court called Searle's Court, was pulled down att the request
and att the proper cost and charges of Sir Thomas Coke,
M r Carey, and D r Barbone, they then undertakeing to build and
erect pallisadoe pales in the roome thereof, for the makeing a better
prospect to the said Court ; and the said pallisadoe pales, soe
erected by them, being now in great decay It is therefore ordered
that M r Atwell, claiming under them or some of them, doe forthwith
repair and amend the said pales and rayles." Otherwise, he must
attend the next Council to show cause to the contrary.

Call to the Bar, November 2ist, 1713:
Wornell Hunt.

fo. 197. Council held on November 28th, 1713.

Thirteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Brown, the Chaplain, doe not presume to
marry any person in the Chappell of Lincoln's Inn, without leave
of the Deane of the Chappell for the time being, or, in his absence,
without the leave of the senior Bencher then resident there."

Accounts of John Hungerford, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1713, to Jan. 23rd, 1714.

Receipts: ,1,005 I 9 S - 9^- Including ^200 borrowed on bonds.
Payments: ^979 los. 2d. Including ^200 due on bonds.
Balance: 26 93. 7d.

1714. Officers for 1714:

Treasurer : Thomas Lee, Esq.

Black Book Keeper : William Fellows, Esq.

Library Keeper : John Hungerford, Esq.

Dean of the Chapel : Sir Robert Raymond, Sol. Gen.

fo. 199. Council held on April i7th, 13 Anne, 1714.

Fourteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Treasurer of this Society, Sir Robert
Raymond, Knight, her Majestie's Solicitor General, and Sir
James Mountague, Knight, be and are hereby desired to wait
on the Right Reverend Father in God, Francis, Lord Bishop of
Chester, late Preacher of this Society, and to congratulate him
on his being promoted to the said See." *

* Dr. Gastrell was consecrated Bp. of Chester on April 4th, 1714; he died
Nov. 24th, 1725. See Diet. Nat. Biog., where, however, the date of his appoint-
ment as Preacher is incorrectly given. His work, The Christian Institutes,
published in 1727, was dedicated to this Society.

&lacfc 3$oofc$ of Umcoln's 5nn* 243

"The Reverend William Lupton, D.D., being this day
unanimously elected to be Preacher of this Society in the place of
Francis Gastrell, D.D., now Lord Bishop of Chester, It is there-
upon ordered and declared that the said D r William Lupton be and
is Preacher of this Society in the room of the said Bishop of
Chester, and that he have the same exhibition, allowances and
chamber as the said Bishop had when he was elected Preacher,
and that the same duty and attendance be expected from him.
And the Treasurer of this Society, Sir Robert Raymond, Knight,
her Majestie's Solicitor General, and Sir James Mountague,
Knight, are hereby desired to acquaint the said D r Lupton there-
with."*

t If M r Atwell and the other proprietors of the New Square
do not forthwith repair " the palisado pales between the said Square
and the Benchers' Garden " by the end of this present Easter
Term, "all the shops under both gates in the said Square and all
the other shops in the said Square " shall be shut up.

Council held on April 24th, 1714.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Edmund Browne and Jenkin Price.

" In respect that IDS. beer is allowed in the Hall instead of
75. beer formerly used It is thought fit and so ordered that no
more ale be for the future at the charge of this Society brought
into the Hall."

The Chaplain or his substitute shall give a note in writing
to the Dean of the Chapel, or in his absence to the senior
Bencher then in town, of the Christian and surnames of all
persons married by them, with their respective additions ; and the
same shall be entered in a book to be provided for that purpose.*

Call to the Bar, May loth, 1714 : fo. 200.

Marmaduke Darrell and Charles Baldwyn.

Council held on May 29th, 1714.
Twelve Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : John Smith.

D r Lupton, the Preacher, has leave to alter the windows of
his chamber.

* See ante, p. 202. f Serle's Court Book, I, p. 80.

\ The earliest extant Register of Marriages in the Chapel begins in May, 1695.

244 ^i)* #lacfe iSoofeg of ^Lincoln's

fo. 202. Council held on November i;th, i George I, 1714.

Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

William Boulting, and William Hamilton.

The latter, who was prevented by sickness from receiving
the Sacrament on the first Sunday of this term, must, before
publication to the Bar, deposit ^5 with the Treasurer, as caution
money for his receiving the Sacrament on the last Sunday of this
term. *

Accounts of Thomas Lee, Esquire, the Treasurer, from Jan.
23rd, 1714, to Jan. 23rd, 1715.

Receipts: ,1,127 IOS - 9^. Including 6 i6s. from M r John
Sayer, Principal of Furnival's Inn, for a year's rent; \ from M r
John Squibb for ground for his burial under the Chapel.

Payments: ,1,098 6s. 9d. Including 200 to John Briquett,
the Steward, for apparels; 2s. 6d. for a bottle of French wine; 75.
for mending and boiling two candlesticks in the Chapel; 10 los.
to Sir James Mountague, Knight, and 6s. 6d. for a purse;* 6s. 6d.
for 13 doz. candlesticks; i to M r Henry Carey for setting the
Psalms in the Chapel during Trinity and Michaelmas Terms,

Balance: ^29 45. od.

1715. Officers for 1 7 1 5 :

Treasurer: William Rogers, Esq.

Black Book Keeper: Francis Wilkinson, Esq.

Library Keeper: Thomas Lee, Esq.

Dean of the Chapel: John Hungerford, Esq.

fo. 204. Call to the Bar, February 7th, i George I, 1/15:

Mathew Hawkins.

Council held on February I2th, 1715.
Seven Benchers present.

fo. 205. Call to the Bench :

Spencer Cowper, Esq., " Attorny General to his Royall
Highnesse the Prince of Wales, and one of his Majestie's Counsel
learned." [fo. 204].

* He was made a Serjeant on Oct. 26th, 1714, and a Baron of the Exchequer
on Nov. 22nd following.

f This had previously been done by Joseph Dampney, the third Butler.

Macfe Boofes of Uttuoltt'g $nm 245

* If M r John Ducket will leave his moiety of a chamber in
Garden Court, Garden Row, to the disposal of the House within
a month, then he shall be permitted to have the garret No. 7 in
Garden Row ; otherwise the former Orders for seizing and
padlocking his said chamber shall be put in execution.

Council held on February 22nd, 1715.

Six Benchers present.
A Committee is appointed " to inspect the title of certain

copyhold lands in the county of , holden of the Lord Aber-

gavenny, and devised to this House by the last will of M r
Martin, deceased," and to report. f

Call to the Bar, May 7th, 1715: fo. 206.

John Turner and Thomas Bower.

Call to the Bar, May i6th, 1715 :
Henry Lawton and Thomas Jones. fo. 207.

Council held on June 3rd, 1715. fo. 210.

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bench:

M r Richard Buckby, M r John Eyre, M r Robert Holford, a
Master in Chancery, and M r Samuel Browning, a Master in
Chancery.

Council held on June i8th, 1715. fo. 211.

Six Benchers present.

Thavys Inn is reported to be in a very flourishing condition; fo. 212
a Committee is appointed to consider of a fresh lease thereof.

M r John Hall, an ancient Barrister, who had been invited to
the Bench, has declined the same " in very civil terms."

Council held on June 27th, 1715. fo. 213.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that all the chambers now in the disposition of the
House, or which shall hereafter be so, shall from time to time be
skreened in the Hall of this Society, that the members of this
Society may have notice thereof."

Call to the Bar :
John Cheveley and Thomas Workhouse.

* Red Book II, p. 147. This is the earliest instance of numbers to staircases
out of New Square.

f See ante, pp. 231, 233.

246 Cfje ISlacfe Boofeg of ^Lincoln's

In consideration of the great debts of the House, It is ordered
that all gentlemen in arrear for absent commons shall be allowed
to compound for the same, upon payment of half of what is
due, before the adjourned Council after this term. But if any
such compounders be hereafter called to the Bench or the Bar, or
sell their chambers or leave the Society within two years, they
shall pay the balance.

fo. 214. Council held on July 6th, 1715.

Nine Benchers present.

" Upon the subscription of thirty-five gentlemen, being
vacation Barristers and Students of this Society, to keep vacation
commons, it was represented to this Counsell that an inovation
had lately been practised in keeping the said vacation commons,
contrary to the Antient and Standing Rules of this Society.
Upon consideration whereof, It is ordered that the said gentlemen,
the subscribers, be admitted to keep vacation commons, but the
same is to be according to the said Antient Rule, viz. : that
is. 6d. per week is to be allowed by the said gentlemen
respectively for bread and beer, and the remaining 55. per week
for all other provisions ; and this Order is to be skreened ; and
the Steward of this House is to see that the same be observed at
his peril."

M r Rogers, the Treasurer, is empowered to receive proposals
for building on that part of the Garden towards Chancery Lane ;
he is desired "to take care that publick notice be given hereof by
an advertizement to be inserted in the Gazet."

fo. 216. Council held on October 29th, 1715.

Eighteen Benchers present.

The Treasurer is requested to lay before the next Council a
plan of the proposed new buildings towards Chancery Lane.

M r Horsman having perused the deeds and evidences of this
Society and " continued an abstract thereof which was entered into
a vellum book," the thanks of this Council are given to him; and
the Treasurer is desired to give him such fee or present as he shall
think fit.

" Upon the petition of Joseph Mason, clerk, alledging that the
place of Reader in the Chappell of this Society was become vacant
by the death of M r Adam Brown, late Reader to this Society, and
praying to be admitted to serve this Society in the said place; and
upon the question put betwixt the said M r Mason and other
candidates for the said place, it being carryed by a great majority
for the said M r Mason It is ordered that the said M r Mason be
admitted into the place of Reader in the Chappel of this Society."

ISIadt ISoofcs of Utncoltt'g Knn> 247

Council held on November 23rd, 1715. fo. 217.

Eight Benchers present.

* M r Hungerford has leave to consolidate his chambers on the
ground floor in Gate House Court, Chancery Lane Row, No. i,
"so as to pay and be chargable with single commons only, but as
to the Preacher's Roll and all other duties of the House (except
commons) the said chambers are to be chargable as before the
consolidation."

Call to the Bench : M r William Gratwick, an ancient
Barrister, with his seniority according to his admission.

The Treasurer is ordered to pay two guineas to John Ward, fo. 218.
the turnspit, "for paying the surgeon that couch'd his eyes."f

Officers for 1716: 1716.

Treasurer: Spencer Cowper, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel: Thomas Lee, Esq.
Library Keeper: William Rogers, Esq.
Black Book Keeper: Gilbert Horsman, Esq.

Council held on February loth, 2 George I, 1716.
Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: fo. 220.

Thomas Wyndham, and Dormer Parkhurst.

" Ordered that the new dutyes on windows be payd out of
the Treasury for three years and one halfe, from Michaelmas, 1710,
to Lady Day, 1714."!

Call to the Bar, April 2ist, 1716 : fo. 222.

John Greene and Mathew Skinner.

Council held on May i4th, 1716. fo. 223.

Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

Laurence Carter, Esq., Solicitor General to his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, and one of his Majesty's Counsel
learned.

Call to the Bar :
John Watts.

* Red Book II, p. 156.

f In a previous petition, Ward states that he is almost blind.
J The Window Tax was first established by Stat. 7 Will. Ill, c. 18.
His name heads the list of the Benchers present at the Council held on
June 1 2th.

248 fln&e Blacfe a&oofes of SLittcoln'g

y#. 224. Council held on June 2Oth, 1716.

Eight Benchers present.

A Committee is appointed " to consider what expence might
be saved to this Society by burning sea coal in the kitchen."

fo. 225. "Ordered that M r Stroud, bricklayer, be appointed Surveyor

and Overseer of all work to be done att the charge of this Society
in relation to repaires or any alterations to be made in the buildings
belonging to this House, and that noe such worke be done without
his advice and direction," (unless by particular Order of the
Council).*

BOOK XI. Council held on October 27th, 1716.

p. 2. Sixteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that none except members of this Society be
admitted into the seats or pews of the Chappell till the first Lesson
is begunn."

"Ordered that the Rev d M r Maugie f (who supplyed the
place of D r Lupton dureing his indisposition and absence) be
desired to print his sermons on the Lord's Prayer which he lately
preached in the Chappell of this Society."

p. 3. Council held on November 2Oth, 1716.

Nine Benchers present.

p. 4. " Upon the humble petition of Henry Carey, setting forth

that he hath for severall years sett the Psalme in the Chappell of
this Society, for which haveing noe greater consideration than
403. per annum, and praying some further augmentation It is
ordered that the petitioner have 205. per annum added to his
former sallary."J

1717. Officers for 1717:

Treasurer : Laurence Carter, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : William Rogers, Esq.
Library Keeper : Spencer Cowper, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : John Hiccocks, Esq.

/. 7. Council held on January 26th, 3 George I, 1717.

Nine Benchers present.

The lease of Thavies Inn may be renewed for 51 years on
payment of a fine of ^100.

* These words were added on July 2nd.

t Thomas Maugey, D.D., Chaplain at Whitehall, afterwards Prebendary of
Durham. The sermons mentioned in the text were issued in 1716, and new
editions in 1717 and 1721. See Diet. Nat. Biog.

\ Henry Carey, the well-known poet and musician, the author of " Sally in
our Alley," and the reputed author of " God save the Queen." See Diet. Nat. JBiog.,
and Appendix.

iSlacfe ISoofes of SUncoln's Enn. 249

Council held on February 5th, 1717.

Twelve Benchers present.

" On consideration of the severall Orders heretofore made p. 8.
relateing to building on part of the Garden towards Chancery Lane,
and the petition of severall gentlemen whose chambers are
contiguous thereto and would be thereby affected It is ordered
that all such orders be discharged."

Call to the Bar :

Henry Betts and Edward Pittman.*

t " Itt is ordered that if any member of this Society, having
chambers therein, shall apply for a bene discessit, he shall dispose of
his chambers before such bene discessit shall be granted."

Council held on February i2th, 1717.
Eight Benchers present.

" Notice having bin taken that severall gentlemen of this
Society appeare in the Hall either without gowns or with only
pieces of gowns, contrary to the known Rules of this Society Itt
is ordered that for the future no gentlemen shall appeare in the
Hall but in a decent gown, and that this Order be serened the
first day of the next terme."

No gentleman shall be permitted to be in arrear for absent p. 9.
commons above three years. A Committee is appointed " to waite
on the Serjeants att Law who have chambers in the New Square,
to know what they will be pleased to doe in respect of the payment
of their absent commons, and to lett them know 'tis the unanimous
request of all the Masters of the Bench that they will take that
matter into their consideracion."

Council held on February 2ist, 1717.
Six Benchers present.

John Bridges, Esq., lately admitted a member of this Society, p. 10.
who was admitted of the Honourable Society of the Middle
Temple on April 23rd, 1684, shall have the same privileges as if
he had been at that time admitted of this Society.

Council held on May nth, 1717.
Seven Benchers present.

All petitions hereafter presented to the Council must be
signed by the petitioner. The Chief Butler shall see that this is
done.

* Called Edmund on admission. t Red Book II, p. 166.

VOL. III. 2 K

250 f)e #lacfe 3$oofe$ of lUncoln'g

p. i\. Call to the Bar :

Giles Gardiner and Francis Brace.

Council held on May 2oth, 1717.
Six Benchers present.

p. 12. The draft lease of Thavies Inn is now approved of; it shall

be forthwith executed.

" Ordered that for the future no commons be carried out of
the Hall on any pretence whatsoever." To be screened.

p. 13. Council held on June 3rd, 1717.

Nine Benchers present.

The lease of the house near Newgate Market, now in the
possession of M rs Morgan, shall be renewed on payment of a
fine of 1 80 before next term.

/>. 14. Council held on June 22nd, 1717.

Five Benchers present.

" On the representacion of M r Horsman, one of the Masters
of the Bench, that the seats in the Chappell are not convenient
for the wives of the Masters of the Bench and their families " ;
M r Treasurer is to consider the matter.*

" Ordered that there be cleane linnen throughout the Hall
every day dureing the terme."

/. 15. Council held on July 2nd, 1717.

Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

William Dunch, Esq., John Brown, Esq., and Henry Martin,
Esq., Ancient Barristers of this Society.

p. 1 6. M r Wilkinson, one of the Masters of the Bench, has leave

to break out a window in the north wall of No. i, Searle's Court,
which wall is built on the ground of this Society, t

Council held on July loth, 1717.

Thirteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that Henry Cary be discharged from setting the
Psalm in the Chappel, and that John Minshall do the same for
future, and do from time to time receive from the Reader direction
what Psalm shall be sung."J

* The hooped petticoats, which came into fashion about 1710, were probably
the cause of this complaint.

f See ante, p. 172 n.

\ In the margin Carey is called "the Psalm raiser." See anfe, pp. 244, 248;
and Appendix.

Mack ISoaks of Uincoln'g Enn. 251

Council held on July igth, 1717. /. 17.

Nine Benchers present.

"This Councill being informed that the Right Honorable the
Master of the Rolls * intends to pull down the house belonging to
the Rolls, in order to rebuild the same Itt is ordered that the
Masters of the Bench now present, or as many of them as please,
do attend his Honour, and inform him that if he please he may
make use of the Hall belonging to this Society, till he shall think
proper to make use of the Hall belonging to his own House." f

Council held on November 4th, 1717. /. 18.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that new table-cloaths be provided for the use of
the Bench table, and that there be cleane ones every day."

Council held on November i2th, 1717. /. 19.

Eight Benchers present.

" Information having bin given to this Councill that M r Molony
has appeared frequently in the Hall in a Barr gown, tho' on
enquiry itt does not appeare to them he was ever called to the
Barr." He must appear at the next Council.

Call to the Bar, November 2Oth, 1717 : p. 21.

Thomas Trengrouse ; " having an advantageous opportunity
of goeing to Jamaica with Sir Nicholas Laws, Governour thereof,"
he is pardoned the exercises he has not performed.

Accounts of Lawrence Carter, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1717, to Jan. 23rd, 1718.

Receipts: .2,762 i6s. gd. Including ,171 8s. gd., balance
from last year; ^677 133. 4d. for admissions to chambers and
chamber fines ; 972 is. 2d. for commons and compositions for
not being in commons; .310 ics. on the Preacher's Roll ; 180
from M rs Elizabeth Morgan, a fine for the renewal of her lease of
the house in Newgate Market; ^100 from M r Nathaniel Brand,
Principal of Thavies Inn, a fine for a new lease for 51 years from
the feast of the Annunciation, 1717, and \o 155. for arrears of
rent after deduction of i 155. for taxes ; 6 125. from M r Coleman,
Principal of Furnival's Inn, for a year's rent after deduction of
i 8s. for taxes ; i from M r Thomas Chetle for ground under

* Sir Joseph Jekyll, so appointed July 1 3th inst.

t /.<?., for hearing causes; see the charge for a green cloth in the Treasurer's
Accounts, /0-S7 1 . The new Rolls House was completed in 1724, and demolished in
1895 to make room for an extension of the Record Office.

252 CfK ISlacfe ISooks of fUncoIn'0

the Chapel for the burial of Humfrey Winche, Knight*;
.17 i os. for poundage deducted from the tradesmen's bills which
ought to have been paid by the Steward, but were paid by Order
of the Treasurer to the amount of ^343 iis. 4d. ; is. 8d. fora
bottle of wine at the Bench table.

Payments: ,2,598 os. id. Including 155. to M r Carewf for
setting the Psalms in Hilary Term, and the like in Easter and
Trinity Terms; IDS. for rose water and glasses; 8s. to M r Hamyden
for copying the Catalogue of books in the Library; .1,000 due on
bonds and notes ; 2s. for a copy of the Articles between the Society
and M r Attwell; \ is. paid as a fee for a buck given by my
Lady Malbrough; j 6s. for 4 bottles of wine at the " Blewpost" ;
8s. for sugar and lemons for the Grace Cup and for tobacco, in
Michaelmas Term; 14 to M r Goodwin for 16 Books of Common
Prayer; 6 95. for the calculation and drawing of the south sun-
dial; 145. 6d. for glasses; j is. for bonfires \_pro focis letitie\ for
the feast days this year; i 193. 6d. for mending the engine ;||
155. to M r Host for mending the " Meremaid ; " IF i is. 6d. for
a green cloth to cover the Bench table when the Master of the
Rolls sits; ** 7 I2S. 6d. for a new gown for the Porter of Searle's
Court; 51 los. 4d. for wine, and 20 los. for French wine.

Balance: ^164 i6s. 8d.

1718. Officers for 1718:

Treasurer : William Fellowes, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Spencer Cowper, Esq.
Master of the Library : Laurence Carter, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : William Gratwick, Esq.

p- 24. Council held on January 25th, 4 George I, 1718.

Seven Benchers present.

John Briquett, the Steward, is discharged from his office, at
his own request.

p- 25. Council held on February ist, 1718.

Seven Benchers present.

* In the Burial Register he is called Knight and Baronet; the latter title was,
according to Burke, wrongly assumed. Extinct Baronetcies, 573.
f Carey.

I Apparently the celebrated Sarah (Jennings), wife of John Churchill, Duke of
Marlborough. The Duke's father, (Sir Winston Churchill) and his brother, Jasper,
were members of the Inn.

$5 This is the first occurrence of a charge for bonfires on feast days ; called in
the paper draft of the Treasurer's Roll, " burnfiers on rejoiceing days."

II See ante, p. 226. U See ante, p. 215. ** See ante, p. 251.

&Iacfc 2$oofes of ^Lincoln's Emu 253

" Ordered that leave be given to the proper officers of the /. 26.
Parish of S f Clement Danes to renew the marks of the boundaries
of their said Parish."

Council held on February i2th, 1718.

Thirteen Benchers present.

" Resolved and declared that Councils may for the future be
held in the Grand Week of any term, for the better dispatch of the
business of this Society."

Call to the Bar, May 3rd, 1718 : p. 29.

Ambrose Powis and William Walbanke.

Call to the Bar, May i3th, 1718 :
Randall Wilbraham and John Shafto.

Council held on May 26th, 1718. /. 31.

Ten Benchers present.

James Porter, the third Butler, is appointed Steward during /. 32.
pleasure, at a salary of ^30 a year ; he shall take no poundage or
other gratuity for what he shall buy for the House.

Call to the Bar, June i4th, 1718: /. 33.

Robert Wilmot and John Coxe.

Council held on June 26th, 1718. p. 34.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that a new lock be forthwith made to each of the
gates of the lesser Garden belonging to this House, commonly
called the Benchers' Garden, to which the gardiner of this Society
only shall have a key; and that the said gardiner do every night
lock up the said Benchers' Garden at the same time that he locks
up the large Garden ; and that after the Gardens are so locked up,
the said gardiner do attend upon the commands of any of the
Masters of the Bench to let them and their friends into either of
the said Gardens, as often as he shall be required so to do."

Council held on July iith, 1718. p> 35.

Eleven Benchers present.

An Order is made for improving and beautifying the gardens
according to the proposals of Richard Colchester, the gardener.

A new lease shall be granted to the members of Furnival's
Inn, for 60 years from Midsummer last, at the old rent and with
the usual covenants, on payment of a fine of ^50 and the surrender
of the old lease.

254 fi* iSlacfe ISoofeg of fUncoln's Inn*

/. 41. "At an Extraordinary Council held on Saturday, the

6th day of December, 1718, upon occasion of the
robbery committed in the chamber of John Browne,
Esq., one of the Masters of the Bench."
Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that for the future no coaches with company in
them be permitted to come in at either of the gates belonging to
this Society, after 1 2 of the clock at night.

" Ordered that two Watchmen be added to the number
appointed for the daily watch, from the 23rd of October to the
loth of March in every year; and that two convenient stations
or centry boxes shall be set up and erected in such places within
this Society as M r Carter and M r Wilkinson, two of the Masters
of the Bench, shall think fitting to appoint ; and that these Watch-
men do relieve one another every hour.

" Ordered that the Watchmen of the House doe visit every
staircase in this Society once every hour in the night, and that
they do call and give notice of the hour of the night at the door of
every staircase ; and that from the 23rd of October to the loth of
March they do not go off the watch till 6 of the clock in the
morning ; and that in going their rounds they do not always begin
at the same staircase, but differently, sometimes beginning at one
staircase and sometimes at another.

" Ordered that an Advertisement be published in the Gazette,
promising the reward of ^40 to such person or persons as shall
discover the persons that robbed the said M r Browne's chamber ;
to be paid by the Treasurer of this Society upon conviction of the
said robbers or any of them ; and that application be made to one
of the Secretaries of State to procure a promise of his Majestie's
gracious pardon to any one of the persons concerned in the said
robbery that shall discover his accomplices, so as they may be
apprehended and brought to justice.

" Ordered that the Porters and Watchmen of this Society do
take effectual care that no loose or suspitious persons be suffer'd
to continue in the House after 10 of the clock at night, but that
such persons be either turned out of the House or secured in
the Porter's Lodge."

Accounts of William Fellowes, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1718, to Jan. 23rd, 1719.

Receipts: ,2,273 9 s - 3^. Including ^752 145. for absent
commons ; .336 2s. 6d. for eaten commons.

Payments: .1,839 8s. icd. Including 305. to John Minshall
for setting the Psalm in Hilary and Easter Terms; 6s. 6d. for
mulled sack for the Council Chamber; i 35. 6d. "for the head

Macfe ISoofes of ILittcoltt'g Enm 255

of a stafe, for Jackson, the Porter, to watch withall " ; 2s. 6d. for
i Ib. of wax candles; 10 73. id. "for straburies, peeses, tongues,
jellies"; 45. 7d. to M r Savage, the cook, "for two chicking and
aspparagrase " ; 6s. 9d. "for a coole tanckard at the adjorned
Councell";* 53. to M r Edwards, the silver-smith, " for studs and
fastning the silver on the Common Prayer Book that lyes one the
Communion Table "f; 133. 6d. for 3 flasks of French wine from
"the Fountaine " in the Strand; 35. gd. for 3 pints of French
white wine; 2S. 6d. for 2 pints of sack; i6s. "for 32 glasses of
jelley;" 35. for 2 quarts [?] of white wine for the Grace Cup, from
"the Anchor"; 55. to "a poor woman, for brining home a dish
that was stole "; 3 6s. 9d. " for drinck for the bonefiers, 1718,"
and 4. 155. for faggotts for the same ; j i 125. to the cook " for
32 mincit pyes the Steward had for commons."
Balance: ^434 os. 5d.

Officers for 1719: 1719.

Treasurer : Francis Wilkinson, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Laurence Carter, Esq.
Master of the Library : William Fellowes, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : Robert Holford, Esq.

Council held on January 24th, 5 George I, 1719. p. 42.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that the picture of the late Lord Cheefe Justice
Rainsford, left to this Society by Richard Buckby, Esq., deceased,
late one of the Masters of the Bench, be sett up in the Library."

Council held on February 3rd, 1719. /. 43.

Twelve Benchers present.

" Upon the mocion of William Fellowes, Esq , the present /. 44.
Master of the Library, Itt is ordered that he and all gentlemen
who shall hereafter be Masters of the Library, before they buy
any books for the Library, do lay a list before the Councill of the

books intended to be bought."

", . \

Call to the Bar :
John Roberts.

Council held on February i2th, 1719. / 45-

Nine Benchers present.

* July nth. t Now exhibited in the Library. See Vol. II, p. 330.

\ See ante, p. 252. Now in the Council Chamber.

256 Cfte 3$lacfe &oofe$ of Ufncoln'g Enn,

^. 46. Call to the Bar :

Roderick Guynne, "upon reading a letter from Robert Price,
Esq., one of the Barrens of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer,
which gave him a good character, and requesting it as a favour
from this Society." He was admitted on March 2nd, 1713-4,
" but should have been admitted two yeares sooner if it had not
been omitted by the person to whom orders were given for that
purpose."

Also Spicer Wheldon.

/. 49. Council held on April 28th, 1719.

Nine Benchers present.

p. 50. Call to the Bar :

Samuel Holford.

/. 51. "This Council being now informed that William Fellows,

Esq., one of the Masters of the Bench, and a Master of the High
Court of Chancery, hath made a very noble present to this Society
of a silver monteth, weighing 139 oz. 9 dwt. 10 grs., was now
brought in to the Councill Chamber and showne unto the Masters
of the Bench then present, and hath the following inscriptions
engraven on it, viz*, on the one side the Coats of Arms and Crest
of the said William Fellows, and underneath the same these
words, Donum Gulielmi Fellowes de Eggesford in Com Devon,
Armigeri, Unius Magror Cur Cane , et de Banco hujus Hospitij,
Anno Dom\ 1718.

" On the other side, the insignia of the said Society, with these
words ingraven underneath, Honorabili Societati Lincohiiensis
Hospitij. It is ordered that M r Treasurer and M r Rogers, two
of the Masters of the Bench, do waite upon the said Mr. Fellowes,
and give him thanks, in the name of this Society, for his generosity
and kindness to the said Society in this very valuable present."

Council held on May nth, 1719.

Ten Benchers present.

/. 53. " An Order since the last Councill having been made by the

Quatuor in commons in the Hall, that no person should bring any
doggs into the Hall at dinner time, it being found very inconvenient,
and great disturbances frequently arising thereby; and that Jackson,
the Head Porter, should put the Order in execution and keep all
dogs out of the Hall (to whome soever belonging) whilst gentlemen
were at dinner Complaint was made at this Council that Robert
Darwin, Esq.,t a Barrister of this Society, did notwithstanding,

* This is still in the possession of the Society. f Father of Erasmus Darwin.

Black Boofeg of Eiiuoln'g 3hm 257

bring a dog into the Hall at dinner time, tho' informed of the said
order, which was screened for the better publication of it. And
the Porter offering to put the said Order in execution, and to turne
his dog out of the Hall, the said M r Darwin did offer to fling a pot
at the Porter's head, and threatned to knock him downe; whereby
the said Porter was intimidated, and unable to execute the said
Order." M r Darwin now attended, expressed his sorrow, and
promised to offend no more.

Call to the Bench :
Sir William Thompson, Sol. Gen., and John Wills, Esq., K.C.*

Council held on May 3Oth, 1719. /. 54.

Five Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: /. 55.

Benjamin Dry and Richard Lely.

" Ordered that the office of the Master of the Gardens be
revived, and that M r Brown, one of the Masters of the Bench, be
appointed to execute the said office ; and he is hereby impowered
to give proper directions to the Gardiner and his servant."

Call to the Bar, June 5th, 1719 : /. 57.

William Heally and Edward Jones.

Council held on June i7th, 1719.
Twelve Benchers present.

Call to the Bench : /. 58.

John Bridges, Henry Collett, George Townsend, William
Guydott, William Melmoth,t and Isaac Ewer, Esquires. p. 59.

" Ordered that ^40, remaining in the hands of this Society p. 60.
of M r Golfer's Charity, be distributed by M r Treasurer, by giving
j5 apeice to the eight following persons :

M r Sharpe at Tatham, Lancashire.

M r Burne at Hartlepoole, Durham.

M r Wharton, lodging in Wood Street, London.

M r Hawkins in White Cross Street, London.

M r Torbuck at Ellinngham, Hampshire.

M r Caleb Parfet at Stroude in Kent.

M r Charles Tough at Berwick.

M r Knowles at Hipswell in Yorkshire.^:

* Afterwards Alt. Gen., and (1737-61) C J. C. P.

f Author of The Great Importance of a Religious Life, 1711. See a new
edition of this work, with many antiquarian notes on the Inn generally, by Charles
Purton Cooper, 1849. See also, Diet. Nat. Biog.

\ They were probably "poore but pius ministers." See Golfer's will, vol. II,
p. 427. See also p. 258.
VOL. HI. a L

258 IFbt Macfe 3$oofe0 of Utncoltt'g Inn*

p. 62. Council held on October 24th, 1719.

Twelve Benchers present.

/. 63. Richard Bellasyse, Esq., a Barrister of this Society, shall

have his standing in this House as from the date of his admission
at the Middle Temple, namely, June i8th, 1689.

p. 64. Call to the Bench, October 29th, 1719:

George Clive, Esq.

Council held on November 2oth, 1719.
Twelve Benchers present.

Five pounds of M r Golfer's Charity money shall be paid to
M r Thomas White, Vicar of Ashbury in Wiltshire.

p. 67. Council held on November 28th, 1719.

Thirteen Benchers present.

/. 68. Five pounds of M r Golfer's Charity money shall be paid to

M r Preist, Curate of Bibery in Gloucestershire.

Accounts of Francis Wilkinson, Esq., the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1719, to Jan. 23rd, 1720.

Receipts: ,2,260 iis. lod. Including ,459 45. for commons
and compositions for not being in commons ; i from M r Clerk
for ground under the Chapel.

Payments : .1,813 4 s - 3id. Including 35. for 4 pints of white
wine at the Ship; i is. for cleaning the picture of Justice
Ranford ;* i6s. for 32 jelly glasses ; 45. 6d. for 6 pints of white
wine at Linwood's ; 125. for jellies for Grand Day ; ,14 2s. 6d. to
M r Rayner for a picture of Justice Halet ; 5s. to Sir William
Thompson's clerk, as a fee for half a buck; 21 us. to M r
Edwards, the silver smith, for a cover for the basin \_pro opaculo\
pelvis] in which the Masters of the Bench wash their hands ; .330
to M r Gibbs for work in the Hall ; is. 4d. for brandy for the Hall ;
is. to the cook for cooking M r Lawton's peacock; ^"16 i6s. to
M r Hamer for the clock in the Hall ; 55. for 2 doz. lemons, and
6s. for brandy and sugar for punch ; 6 2s. for wood for bon-fires
[pro focis leticie\.

Balance : ,447 75. 6Jd.

* Sic; Rainsford ; see an/e, p. 255.

t See an/e, p. 114. There is no trace of any second portrait of Hale.
J Sic. Opaculo is probably an error for opercu/o. See the inventory of
June 8th, 1727, post.

Macfe JSoofes of Hincoln's IFnm 259

Officers for 1720 : 1720.

Treasurer : Sir William Thompson, Sol. Gen.
Black Book Keeper : John Willes, Esq., K.C.
Library Keeper : Francis Wilkinson, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : William Fellows, Esq.
Master of the Walks : John Browne, Esq.

Call to the Bar : January 23rd, 6 George I, 1720 : /. 71.

John Robarts.*

Council held on February i2th, 1720. /. 74.

Twenty-three Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer [and others] may put out what
mony the House can spare, on such securities as they shall think
fit-" \_<5 O1 were paid for ^500 " S. Se Bo ds "; (margin); South
Sea Bonds.]

Edward Capper, Clerk, is appointed Chaplain. /. 75.

Call to the Bar, May 7th, 1720: /. 81.

Oliver Horsman.

Council held on May 3Oth, 1720.

Nine Benchers present.

Ordered that George Townsend, Esq., one of the Masters of /. 82.
the Bench, "have liberty to come into Councill notwithstanding
he has not dined in the Hall."

" Upon the petition of M r Edward Capper, Chaplain to this
Honourable Society, It is ordered that the said M r Capper do
surrender the living that he now enjoys, before the first day of
Michaelmas Term, and that he then acquaint the Councill of his
having so done." t

Council held on July 6th, 1720. /. 88.

Eight Benchers present.

M r Capper, the Chaplain, is admitted to the garret, formerly p. 89.
M r Horton's, three pair of stairs, No. 16, [Old Square].

Council held on November 2ist, 1720. /. 92.

Ten Benchers present.

\ " Ordered that the Proprietors of Serle Court repair the
pavements round the said Court, they being obliged to the same
by Articles between them and the Masters of the Bench."

* Apparently the same person as was called on Feb. 3rd, 1719 ; ante, p. 255.
f This was done; p. 92. \ Serle's Court Book, I, p. no.

260

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of Umcoln's Inn.

1721. Officers for 1721 :

Treasurer: John Willes, Esq., K.C.

Library Keeper : Sir William Thompson, Knight, Recorder

of London.

Dean of the Chapel : Francis Wilkinson, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : John Brown, Esq.
Master of the Walks : William Melmoth, Esq.

A 98.

Council held on February 6th, 7 George I, 1721,
Fifteen Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :
Richard Edwards.

p. 101. "Ordered that all the Porters doe turn out beggars and idle

boys, whenever they see any about the House ; and that two
Porters every Sunday assist the Head Porter to keep beggars
from the Chappell, and to have 6d. apiece for soe doing."

p. 102. Council held on February i3th, 1721.

Eight Benchers present.

p. 103. " Ordered that M r Edward Capper, the present Chaplaine to

this Society, doe demand of M r Adam Browne, Lectturer of
Richmond, son of M r Adam Browne, late Chaplaine to this Society,
the Regester Book of all the marriages consumated in the time of
his said father being Chaplaine to this Society, or any other
Regester Books whatsoever which he may have in his custody." *

p. 104. Council held on April 29th, 1721.

Seven Benchers present.

p. 107. Call to the Bar:

Solomon Emblin.*

" Ordered that the Order for having salt fish and whitings for
commons in the Hall on each Friday in Easter and Trinity Termes
in this Society, be vacated ; and that for the future the first messe
of the Benchers that shall be sitting in the Hall in these termes,
doe, on each Thursday in every week of those termes, give order
what shall be provided for commons for the succeeding Friday,
either fish or flesh."

* The earliest Marriage Register now in the possession of the Society begins
in May, 1695.

f His Christian name was " Sollom," his mother's maiden name, and is so given
in the Admission Register. See Diet. Nat. Biog.

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Council held on May 6th, 1721. p. 108.

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Philip Burton and John Lacy.

"Ordered that, instead of fish, which by ancient custome is p. 109.
the commons every Fryday, the Steward shall provide such
commons as the Quatuor at the Bench Table shall direct or
appoint ; and, in case there shall happen to be a failure of the
Quatuor to give such directions, that then the Steward shall
provide the same commons as he did the preseeding Friday. And
this Order to continue untill the first Councill in Michaelmas Terme
next."

Council held on June loth, 1721. p. 112.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that for the time to come the first Councill in every p. 113.
terme be the first day of each terme, and that the former Order
for holding it on the first Saturday in the terme be vacated."

Council held on June 28th, 1721. /. 116.

Thirteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that D r Wilkins have M r Selden's voll., Collectanea /. 119.
ad Titulos Honoris, out of the Library, upon his note to the
Master of the Library to return the same upon demand; and upon
the return of those, for to have the Annotationes Quedam, upon the
same termes." *

Council held on October 23rd, 1721. p. 124.

Seven Benchers present.

t The whole stack of chimneys belonging to No. 23, Gate
House Court, is in a very ruinous condition and in danger of
falling. It shall be rebuilt with convenient expedition.

Council held on October 27th, 1721. /. 127.

Six Benchers present.

" Upon reading the petition of John Hope, gent, one of the
Fellows of this Society, setting forth that having lately contracted
with William Cleland, Esq., for his chambers in the Chappel
Staircase, over the Pention Roome and under the Library of this
Society, upon taking downe the wainscott which inclosed a partition

* The first of these volumes is Hale MS. XI; the second cannot be identified.
David Wilkins, S. T. P., Archdeacon of Suffolk, edited Selden's works, (3 vols. in
6; 1726), to which the Inn subscribed.

t Red Book II, p. 213.

262 Cfit 3$ladt #oofes of fUncoln'g

in the said chamber (which he intended to remove), he had
discovered a breach in the grand beame or summer, upon which
the Library, the Clock, and Cupulo, and the whole building
depends, which were in great danger of falling, as is alleaged, and
therefore praying that a new beame might be putt in and the
building sufficiently secured." M r Bigge, the Chief Carpenter,
reported that there was no breach in the grand beam, and no
danger unless the partition was removed. Ordered that the
partition be not altered.

M r Waller must replace the "fane"* lately taken down from
over his chambers.

p. 128. Council held on November i6th, 1721.

Fourteen Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

James Clitherow and William Mears.

/. 129. Rushworth's Collections purchased for $ 55. and ;i 8s. for

binding, t

Henry Edwards, Esq., a Barrister of this Society, and one of
the Masters of the High Court of Chancery, is called to be an
Associate of the Bench, on payment of 30 guineas, j

p. 130. Council held on November 28th, 1721.

Ten Benchers present.

/. 131. " M r Treasurer having acquainted the Councill that he had

bought ^500 South Sea Bonds at ^i 175. 6d. per cent discount
for the use of this Society, the Councill approved of M r Treasurer's
care and good management."

[" Note that the ^"500 of S. Se. Bonds that the House had
before, were sold by the Treasurer's order before this Michaelmas (?)
Term, 1721 ; the Masters not approveing of it, these were bought."
Margin^

p. 132. Council held on December 7th, 1721.

Nine Benchers present.

" Whereas this Society is about repairing the west window of
their Chappel, it was in this Councill proposed by William Fellows,
Esq., one of the Masters of the Bench, that in case this Society
would erect an orgen loft under the said window, that he, the said
M r Fellows, for the great respect and honnour he hath for the

* A vane or weathercock.

t Doubtless the edition in 8 vols., published 1721.

\ This Order is repeated on Jan. 23rd, 1722.

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Society, and for the better and more solemn celebration of Devine
Service therein, would at his owne expence freely give an orgen
suitable to the Chappel It is ordered that thanks be given to the
said M r Fellows for his said generous offer, and that the same be
taken into consideracion."

Officers for 1722 : 1722.

Dean of the Chapel : John Hiccocks, Esq.
Treasurer : Gilbert Horsman, Esq.
Master of the Library : John Willes, Esq.
Master of the Walks : George Clive, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : Henry Martyn, Esq.

Council held on January 23rd, 8 George I, 1722. p. 133.

Eight Benchers present.

William Kinaston, Esq., a Barrister of this Society and one .
of the Masters of the High Court of Chancery, is called to be an
Associate of the Bench, paying 30 guineas.

Call to the Bar, February 6th, 1722 : /. 136.

Thomas Gardiner.

Council held on February 2Oth, 1722. p. 138.

Nine Benchers present.

* A Committee is appointed "to consider what is fit to be done
to prevent the danger of fire from the shops and low buildings
under the south and west rowes of buildings belonging to Serle's
Court, and also to prevent the like danger from families inhabiting
chambers in the said Court. "t

Council held on April nth, 1722. /. 139.

Nine Benchers present.

\ Upon the report of the Committee, "who were attended by
the carpenter and bricklayer of this Society, that there were
chimneys built in the severall shops on the south and west sides
of the New Square in the respective occupations of the persons
following, viz* : M r Sterne, a barber, M r Sedwick, a sadler, M r
Hughs, a stationer, M r Andrews, at the Seven Stars, M r Trigge,

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 124.

f These are evidently ranges of buildings outside the Square. '1 hose on the
south are still standing, and form part of Carey St. Rocque's Map of 1746, seems
to show some similar buildings in Serle St., adjoining the west side of Nos. 10
and n, New Square.

\ Serle's Court Book, I, p. 124.

The sign of the Seven Stars still exists; now Nos. 53 and 54, Carey St.

264

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a barber, M r Ball, a distiller, and M r Smith, a cork cutter, which,
in the opinion of the said workmen were thought dangerous in
respect of fire." The carpenter and bricklayer are also to view
" the lower rooms under M r Hart's Coffee House, and particularly
that part of them which he useth for brewing,'' and report.

p. 141. Council held on April i7th, 1722.

Thirteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer, and any other of the Masters
of the Bench, do return the thanks of this Society to M r Fellowes
for his generous offer of an organ for the Chappel, and to excuse
their not accepting thereof; they being of opinion that it would be
a means of darkening the Chappel, besides other inconveniences,
and would likewise draw a considerable annual charge upon the
Society."

*" Ordered that all the chimneys in the severall shops and
low buildings under the south and west rowes of buildings belonging
to Serle's Court, be pulled down by the respective occupiers of the
said shops, within the space of one month from this time ; the said
chimneys being found dangerous in respect of fire, and also great
annoyances to the gentlemen's chambers of this Society which are
near the said shops. And it is also ordered that for the future no
fires be made in any of the said shops."

The like order as to the shops on the east side of Serle's
Court, adjoining or near to the wall of the Kitchen Garden.

/. 142. Council held on May ist, 1722.

Six Benchers present.

Posts are to be set up all along the garden wall in Chancery
Lane, 4 feet from the wall, to keep off coaches and carriages.

The Treasurer is desired to buy " the book called Ughelli
Italia Sacra, in folio in 9 volumes, for the Library." Paid %.
\Margin\.\

p. 148. Council held on November 6th, 1722.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :
Richard Westfield, Thomas Geeres, and William Martin,
(who was admitted to the Inner Temple above seven years since).
/. 149. " Upon the humble petition of the Reverend M r Edward

Capper, Chaplain to this Society, setting forth that the Lecturer-
ship of the Parish of S* Giles in the Fields being likely to become

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 125.

f By Ferdinandus Ughellus; published at Rome, 1644-62; still in the Library.

Macfe ISoofes of IUiuoln'0 Enm 265

vacant, and that he hath been invited by many of the cheife
parishioners to supply such vacancy It is ordered that the said
M r Capper have leave to appear as a candidate for the Lecturership
aforesaid."*

Call to the Bar, November i3th, 1722 :

John Attwood. He was admitted in June [2ist], 1717, and
must pay 15 "in commutation for the time he wants to make
up his full standing."

Council held on November 28th, 1722. p. 150.

Seven Benchers present.

"This Society being possessed of two setts of Rymer's p. 151.
Fcedera, and M r Innis haveing offered to give ^105 for one of
them," the sale is ordered accordingly ; the money is to be laid
out in the purchase of other books.

Council held on December loth, 1722. A p. 152.

Eight Benchers present.

"Ordered that M r Bridges and M r Ewer be desired to lay /. 153.
before the Lord Cheife Baron [James] Montague, in order for his
approbation, a catalogue of such other books as may be thought
proper to supply the place of Rymer's Fcedera, formerly given by
his Lordship to this Society, and now lately sold, with his
Lordship's consent, for ,105, the Society haveing another sett of
those books in their Library."

t Charles Talbot, Esq.,j is admitted to a chamber in No. 10,
Serle's Court, two stories from the foundation and on the south
side of the staircase ; he paid a fine of ^10 to the Treasurer ; on
the nomination of the Assignees of a Commission of Bankruptcy
of M r William Hammond.

Officers for 1723 : 1723.

Treasurer : John Hiccocks, Esq.
Master of the Library : Gilbert Horsman, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : John Willes, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : Edward Harley, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Robert Holford, Esq.

Call to the Bar, February 4th, 9 George I, 1723 : /. 154.

Robert Eyre and Coulson Fellowes.

* The election took place in May, 1724, when Mr. Capper was not elected.
He was again unsuccessful in 1729. Parton, Hospital and Parish of St. Giles in
the Fields, 1822, p. 410.

t Serle's Court Book, I, p. 127.

\ Lord Chancellor and Baron Talbot, 1733.

VOL. HI. 2 M

2 66 W^t ISlacfe ISoofcg of fUncoln'g

p. 155. Council held on February I2th, 1723.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that there be a Sacrament the first Sunday in
every month, except the preceding or subsequent Sunday be
the first Sunday in the term, and then the Sacrament to be
administred the first Sunday in the term ; and that this Order
be communicated to D r Lupton by the Dean of the Chappel."

Call to the Bench, May Qth, 1723 :
p. 162. Joseph Kirk, John Browne,* and John Washer, Esquires.

p. 164. Call to the Bench, May i6th, 1723 :

Peter Davis, Esq.

p. 167. Council held on June i4th, 1723.

Twelve Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Society do purchase the area [of Serle's
Court], the shopps adjoyning to the Kitchen Garden wall, the
shopps under the two gate wayes of the said Court, the Bogghouse,
laystall, and other wast ground." A Committee is appointed to
carry this order into execution.

p. 170. Council held on July i2th, 1723.

Thirteen Benchers present.

The chambers of D r Lupton, the Preacher, are too narrow
and inconvenient ; it is ordered that an additional closet be built
for him, to be carried up by the Library window, adjoining the
Doctor's chamber.

p. 171. "Complaint being made that the servants of this Society,

togeather with gentlemen's servants, do in the time of Devine
Servis leave the Chappell, send for drink, and behave themselves
disorderly It is ordered that the two Cheif Porters of this Society
attend each at the doore of one of the ills [aisles] in the Chappell,
in their proper habitts, with their Porter's staves, all the time of
Divine Servis and that the rest of the servants, whose duty itt
is to attend ai the Chappell, doo attend in the Chappell all the
time of Devine Servis ; and that two Badge Porters doe attend
at the Chappell Staires to keep away the beggers, and to prevent
the disorderly practis complained of, for the time to come."

p. 174. Council held on November I2th, 1723.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the 405. rent of the Kitchen Garden, now paid
to Thomas Ludlam, the Cooke, to provide roots and greens for

* There was already a Bencher of this name, called in 1717, see ante, p. 250;
they were distinguished as "senior" and "junior."

Macfe Boofes of ^Lincoln's Enn, 267

the use of this Society, be for the future payd to the House ; and
the said roots and greens are for the future to be provided by the
Steward at the expence of the House."

" Ordered for the future that all repasts on Mundays,
Wensdays and Saterdays be charged at is. 6d., and those on
Sundays, Tusdays, Thursdays and Fry days be charged at is. ;
and this Order is to be screened." [" Thay was formerly is. 4d.
and lod." Margin.^

Accounts of John Hiccocks, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1723, to Jan. 23rd, 1724.

Receipts: ,2,257 2s. 5d. Including ^"684 6s. 7d. from the
late Treasurer ; ^806 os. 5d. for commons and absent commons ;
^2 5 interest on ^500 South Sea Bonds at $ per cent. ; y 45.
from M r [Hadley] Doyley, Principal of Furnival's Inn, for a year's
rent.

Payments: .1,609 5 s - 8d. Including 2 145. for a dozen
of French wine; i is. to Sir Robert Raymond's servant as a
fee for 2 bucks; 6s. for cleaning the Sacramental vessels \vasapro
mensa eucharistica\ ; 6s. 8d. for 4 bottles of wine at the sign of the
Rummer in Chancery Lane; ^4 us. 6d. for billets, faggots and
fossil coal.*
, Balance: ^647 i6s. Qd.

Officers for 1724: 1724.

Treasurer : Robert Holford, Esq.
Master of the Library: John Hiccocks, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : John Browne, senior, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : William Guidott, Esq.
Master of the Walks : John Willes, Esq.

Council held on January 29th, 10 George I, 1724. /. 179-

Fifteen Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: /. 180.

William Eyre, Charles Clark and Howell Gwyn.

"It is resolved . . . that no person for the future shall be /. 181.
admitted to move or peticion for any chamber, unless itt be for
his own use ; and shall not be admitted to make use of his
seniority in order to preferr any junior."

" Resolved . . . that the House will not for the future, upon
the calling any gentleman to the Barr, dispence with the non-

That is, mineral coal, sea coal; to distinguish it from ' coal,' charcoal.

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performance of any exercises, or with the want of above one yeare
of seven whole yeares standing from the time of his admission to
be a member of this Society "

p. 182. Council held on February 6th, 1724.

Thirteen Benchers present.

/. 183. William Martyn, Esq., a Barrister of this Society, has taken

possession of part of the Base Court or Long Yard, making a door
into it and sinking a well, without leave from the Bench. He
must attend the next Council.

p. 184. Council held on February i2th, 1724.

Fourteen Benchers present.

p. 185. M r Martyn's door into the Base Court shall be stopped up,

but the window above it may remain. The pit or well may
continue in its present state for seven years, he paying an
acknowledgment of 55. a year.

p. 189. Council held on April 22nd, 1724.

Eight Benchers present.
The chimneys of the two shops erected on or near the Kitchen
Garden wall are a great nuisance to the gentlemen having
chambers near to ; the proprietors must pull down the chimneys
within ten days, or, in default, they shall be pulled down or
stopped up by the Society's workmen.

p. 192. Call to the Bench, May 7th, 1724 :

/. 193. William Bird, Marmaduke Alington, George Carew, Thomas

Owen, and Samuel Mead, Esquires.

/. 195. Call to the Bench, May i8th, 1724:

John Powell,* Esquire.

/. 196. Council held on June 5th, 1724.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :
Richard Brydges, Esquire.

p. 197. Call to the Bar:

John Spooner, on his petition " shewing that ... in the
year 1713, he (having obtained a certificat of his good behavior
from the then Treasurer of this Society) went to S* Christopher's

* Or Powle.

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in the West Indies, and was admitted to practice as a Barrister
there and in the Leeward Islands, and was in a year or two after-
wards made by his present Majesty, and still continues to be, his
Sollicitor Generall of those Islands, and hath done very great
service to the Crown in those parts, and upon that account hath
been well received by the Ministers here, and came lately to
England to vindicate the title of the Crown to a great plantacion
in S 1 Christopher's, and is within a month or two to returne to his
stacion in the West Indies."

Council held on June i8th, 1724.
Nine Benchers present.

"Ordered that. M r Treasurer and M r Willes do attend
M r Attorney Generall and M r Lutwich, and desire them to admitt
themselves members of this Society, pursuant to the Standing
Orders of this Society."*

"Ordered that .1,200 South Sea Annuity be purchased, and p. 198.
that the same be transferred to M r Treasurer and M r Melmoth
in trust for Lincoln's Inn."

t Charles Mountague, Esq., is admitted for his life into the
chamber at No. 2, Serle's Court, late belonging to his father,
Lord Chief Baron Mountague.

Council held on October 23rd, 1724. /. 205.

Seven Benchers present.

M r George Robins, one of the Fellows of this Society, has /. 206.
bequeathed 20 to buy books for the Library.

\ Sir Philip Yorke, Knight, Attorney General, is admitted
into a chamber in No. 4, in Garden Court, Chancery Lane Row,
now in the disposition of the House, on payment of 12.

Council held on November i6th, 1724. /. 208.

Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :
Mr. Attorney General.

Call to the Bar : /. 209.

Robert Ord.

* See Order of May xoth, 1694, ante, p. 189. Sir Philip Yorke, Attorney
General, and Thomas Lutwyche, Esq., were admitted on July 26th, 1724.
t Serle's Court Book, I, p. 130.
| Red Book II, p. 247.

270 C|)e 3$lacfe iSoofes of fLincoltt'g Enn.

p. 210. Call to the Bench, November 28th, 1724 :

The Right Hon. Thomas Wyndham, Esq., C. J. C. P.
Ireland, and a Privy Councillor there.*

p. 211. Council held on December 8th, 1724.

Seven Benchers present.

.500 South Sea Bonds and 600 South Sea Annuities are
to be sold, and tradesmen's bills amounting to ; 1,280 is. 6Jd.
shall be paid.

Accounts of Robert Holford, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1724, to Jan. 23rd, 1725.

Receipts: ,4,197 155. 8d. Including .1,703 135. 4d. for
admissions to chambers and chamber fines ; .1 from M r Robins
for a grave under the Chapel ; .1 from M r West for the like;
,531 55. from the sale of 500 South Sea Annuities ; .460 6s. 3d.
for absent commons ; .313 ios. for eaten commons.

Payments: 4,081 35. zod. Including ^10 ios. and a purse
to Sir Robert Raymond, Knight, Serjeant at Law ; 45. 6d. for
glasses and rose water ; 55. for 3 bottles of white wine on S.
George's Day, and the like on S. Mark's Day; ,10 ios. and a
purse to Sir Lawrence Carter, Knight, Serjeant at Law : the like
to Serjeant [Mathew] Skinner ; i for 4 bottles of " Redd Clarrott "
from Fisher's; .1,263 f r 1,200 of South Sea Annuities at
105^ ; ,310 to M r Hamond for the purchase of the shops by the
Kitchen Garden, and 10 ios. for the costs; 350 for the iron
rails [inclosing the Benchers' Garden.]

Balance: .116 us. lod.

1725. Officers for 1725:

Treasurer: Sir Philip Yorke, Att. Gen.
Master of the Library: Robert Holford, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel: Henry Martin, Esq.
Black Book Keeper: William Melmoth, Esq.
Master of the Walks: John Hungerford, Esq.

/. 212. Council held on January 23rd, n George I, 1725.

Twelve Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:
John Edwards.

* Adm. at L.I. July nth, 1698; appointed Nov. gth, 1724.

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Call to the Bench:

The Rt. Hon. Bernard Hale, Esq., Lord Chief Baron of the
Court of Exchequer in Ireland and a Privy Councillor there.*

Call to the Bar, January 28th, 1725: p. 214.

John Nicolls.f

Council held on February i2th, 1725.
Six Benchers present.

"Ordered that each of the Serjeants at Law who have />. 215.
chambers in this Society, and also Dr. Lupton and M r Kapper,
have keys to the Benchers' Garden ; and that no other persons
except the Masters of the Bench have a key to the said Garden,
without an Order of the Councell."

Avis Dobbs, pamphlet seller, tenant of one of the shops in
the New Square, petitions for an abatement of rent and certain
repairs.

Council held on February 25th, 1725. . p. 217.

Eleven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the engine for cutting the trees in the garden
be taken ten foot shorter."

Council held on April 22nd, 1725. /. 218.

Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Thomas Edwards and Thomas Gill.

\ The shops in Serle's Court adjoining M r [George] Carew's
chamber are to be taken down, and the rails continued. M r
Carew may enlarge his window towards the New Square.

Council held on May roth, 1725. /. 221

Eleven Benchers present.

D r Lupton is desired to print the sermon he preached in the
Chapel on May 2nd last.

" Ordered that the shops which were taken down near M r
Carew's chamber, be built on the west side of Lincoln's Inn Hall,
next the entry to the said Hall, and on the north side of the
entrie."

* Adm. at L. I. Feb. 15, 1710; appointed June gth, 1722.

f Nicoll on admission.

j Serle's Court Book, I, p. 136. Mr. Carew's chambers were at No. 17,
Old Buildings, ground floor, (Red Book II, pp. 33, 356, 361), between the present
Nos. 1 6 and 18 ; they are now entered from New Square, and numbered 13.
The present No. 17 is at the south end of the old Hall, and occupied the space
behind the screen.

272 CfK i&lacfe asoofes of Hfncoln'0

^.223. "A representacion signed by severall of the Barristers and

Students of this Society being laid before this Councell, setting
forth that they being, pursuant to a late Order of the Bench,
refused keys to the new railed garden, did conceive the said Order
to be an infringement of their right for the Benchers to appropriate
the said garden to themselves, since the Barristers and Students
have an equall right to and interest in their respective chambers
to which the said Garden belongs, and it being the ground of the
Society at large, and repaired at the publick expence, and never
before appropriated to the sole use of the Benchers.

" And further setting forth that they who have or may have
a right to keep Vacacion Commons think themselves aggrieved
by being refused liberty to keep them according to the usage of
this Honourable Society, and yet be obliged to pay a fine for not
keeping those Vacacion Commons, which is not in their power
to do.

" It ig Ordered that such Barristers or Students as are
obliged to keep Vacacion Commons shall have a liberty to keep
the same, if there is a subscription of 21 gentlemen for that
purpose ; and such number may consist as well of those who are
not obliged to keep Vacacion Commons, as of such as are. And
in case any Barrister or Student who is obliged to keep Vacacion
Commons, shall not think fit to keep the same, he shall be at
liberty to compound the usual forfeitures paid in such cases, for
one half thereof.

" And it is further Ordered that all gentlemen who keep
Vacacion Commons shall come into the Hall with their gowns,
and wear them during the time of dinner ; and each gentleman
is to allow is. 6d. per week towards the expences of bread, beere,
charcoal, &c."

As to the Benchers' Garden, the consideration thereof is
adjourned until next term.

* The proprietors of Serle's Court, representing that several
of the chambers and houses in that Court have been disposed of
to different purchasers, all of whom depend upon the one title,
pray that the title deeds of the Court may be kept in the Library,
or some other convenient place, and taken care of by this Society.
Ordered accordingly.

p. 227. Council held on June i6th, 1725.

Seventeen Benchers present.

" The Masters of the Bench taking into their consideracion

that part of the representacion laid before them by severall

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 138.

Macfe ISoofes of fUncoIn'ss Enm 273

Barristers and Students of the Society upon the loth of May last,
which relates to the Benchers' Garden; although they are well
satisfyed that the right of making Orders and giving direccion
concerning all the publick Buildings, Gardens and Walkes belonging
to the Society, is in the Masters of the Bench, as incident to the
Government of the House; and that the said Benchers' Garden is
and hath been always deemed to be for the separate use of the
Benchers Yet for accomodating all the gentlemen of the Society,
both Barristers and Students, for the future, have thought fit to
order that one of the officers, servants or porters of the House, to
be from time to time appointed by the Treasurer for the time
being, shall attend at the great iron gate of the said Benchers'
Garden to open the same to any of the gentlemen of the Society,
at such times as the gate of the Great Garden hath been usually
opened."

Council held on June 3Oth, 1725. /. 230.

Fourteen Benchers present.

* The owners of chambers in Serle's Square must contribute
16 a year, being half the cost of providing a porter and watchman
for the Gate there and cleaning the Bog House. It is proposed
to raise this sum by an assessment of 55. 6d. a year on each
ground chamber, and 45. 6d. a year on each chamber "up i and 2
pair of stairs."

As to the gravelling and paving of Serle's Court, the
Articles made between M r Serle and the Bench do not contain
any agreement on that head, but it is conceived that it ought to
be done by the owners of chambers in the Square. An estimate
has been obtained for doing this, amounting to ^109, which it is
proposed to raise by payments of i 175. 6d. for each ground
chamber, and i IDS. for each chamber one and two pair
of stairs.

Council held on October 23rd, 1725. /. 231.

Ten Benchers present.

t Peter Davis, Esq., a Bencher, has leave to resign his
chamber in Chapel Court, Chapel Row, to Robert Davis, his
son, one of the Fellows of this Society. Fine, 10.

Council held on October 25th, 1725. /. 232.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that an humble invitation be made to the Right
Honourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer,^ the Chief Justice

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 143. f Red Book II, p. 255.

I Robert, Lord Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford; adm. 1697.

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274 !)* &lack fcooks of Huuoln's

of England,* the Master of the Rolls, f the Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas,j and the rest of the Judges and Serjeants at Law
of this Society, to dine in Lincoln's Inn Hall on Candlemas Day
next."

/. 233. Call to the Bar, November 8th, 1725 :

Edward Clive.

Council held on November i2th, 1725.
Eight Benchers present.

" Proposals by the York Buildings Company to the
Society of Lincoln's Inn, for a reservoir to be made
in some part of the Society's ground.

" Imprimis, that a circular or oval or oblong bason (which
of them the Society pleases) of 70 feet diameter if circular, and
of 70 by 50 if oblong, and 7 or 8 feet deep, viz. 3 feet above
ground and 4 or 5 sunk, or such dimentions as the Society will
allow of, be dugg at the Company's charge in such part of the
New Square or common garden as the Society think fitt, with
a coping of stone work and iron rails round, according to the
plan hereto annexed.

" 2. That the said reservoir be supply'd with Thames water,
from which the Company shall lay a communication pipe to the
basons belonging to the Inn, to serve the Society with water on
such terms as they themselves shall judge reasonable.

" 3. That the ground for the said reservoir be granted rent
free ; the Great Square shall at the charge of the Company be
kept watered all the summer, so as to free it from dust ; and what
gravell is dugg from the reservoir shall be laid by the Company
in such place or places as the Society shall direct.

"4. That they shall see the Fire Engine belonging to the
Society kept in good order, with every thing necessary to
extinguish fire in case a misfortune should happen, and shall
present the Society with one of Newsham's engines." ||

" 5. That they shall be permitted to lay proper pipes from
the abovesaid reservoir or bason to convey the water to the
Temple and other places adjacent, the Company making the
pavement, or wheresoever they digg, as good as before their
digging.

' That the reservoir shall be made so as to fling up the water
from some proper figure to be fixed in the middle of it, and the
other fountains to be made to play.

* Sir Robert Raymond. f Sir Joseph Jekyll. J Sir Robert Eyre.

Serle's Court Book, I, p. 145.

|| Richard Newsham, a maker and patentee of fire-engines; see Diet.
Nat. Biog.

Black ISoofes of ILincoln'g Jtnn*

275

"In case of fire the water can be forced into leathern pipes
by the great engine at York Buildings,* and from the superior
height of water in their great reservoir at Marylebone Fields, by
fixing the leathern pipes to fire pluggs made in the mains which
distribute the water through the town, from which leathern pipes
the water can imediately be directed in much greater quantities,
and with greater force and certainty on the fire, than by any
other engine."

These proposals shall be considered.

Council held on November 29th, 1725. p. 235.

Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Robert Davison f and John Bluett.

" M r Hungerford having acquainted this Councell that M r p. 236.
Cowper had desired him to pay six guineas to commute for his
Treasurer's Feast, and M r Hungerford having now paid the same
to the Chief Butler It is ordered that the Chief Butler do attend
the several gentlemen who have succeeded the said M r Cowper
as Treasurers to this Society, and desire each of them to make
the like payment."!

Accounts of Philip Yorke, Knight, Attorney General, the
Treasurer, from Jan. 23rd, 1725, to Jan. 23rd, 1726.

Receipts: ,2,152 155. 2d. Including ,35 interest on
joo South Sea Annuities.

Payments : .1,829 6s. io^d. Including 3 P a ^ f r Sir
Ralph Winwood's book over and above the money subscribed ;
i us. 6d. for binding the same; 10 us. to Baron Hale in
money and for a purse on his being created Serjeant at Law ;
7 45. to M r Edwards, the silversmith, for 2 doz. silver gilt
spoons; $ 125. to M r William Coles for mending the fire-
engine; ^4 is. i id. for mending, cleaning and painting 42
lamps; \ is. to M r Ewer for a book written by M r Thomas

* York Buildings, Strand, at that time a general name for the streets and
houses erected on the site of old York House, but now restricted to one street.
Wheatley and Cunningham, London, Past and Present, where is also an account of
the waterworks.

t Adm. May 5, 1721. Admission Register, I, 387, where the name is mis-
printed Davis. He is described simply as generosus, and may have come from
some other Inn. The text states that he was of " full standing," /. e. seven years.

\ Spencer Cowper was Treasurer in 1716. In the margin is " Rec d 63 li."

Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I,
collected (chiefly) from the original papers of Sir Ralph Winwood, by Edmund
Sawyer. 3 vols. folio, London, 1725.

276 i)* ISlacfe iSoofe* of Einroln'0 Inn.

Herne by the subscription of M r Hiccocks* ; 22 is. for 10 doz.
of French wine bought of M r Hungerford's friend, and i 145.
for bottles ; 2 2S. to John Hiccocks, Esq., the subscription for a
book called Antiquitatum Asiaticarum Reliquia in royal paper. f
Balance : ,323 8s.

1726. Officers for 1726:

Treasurer: John Browne, senior, Esq.

Charles Talbot, Esq., Sol. Gen.j
Master of the Library: Sir Philip Yorke, Att. Gen.
Dean of the Chapel : Sir William Thompson.
Black Book Keeper: George Clive, Esq.
Master of the Walks: Francis Wilkinson, Esq.

p. 238. Call to the Bar, January 24th, 12 George I, 1726:

Edward Simpson and Richard Chandler.

p. 239. Council held on January 29th, 1726.

Twelve Benchers present.

The guests invited for Candlemas. Day have accepted the
invitation; after dinner there is to be "the usuall enterteinment of
musick and dancing, with proper illuminations on such occasions.
And for that purpose, to the intent that all things relateing there-
unto may be performed in the most decent and becoming manner,
and thereby all confusion and disorders as much as possible
prevented It is ordered that the said Hall be illuminated upon
next Munday night, and that the musick appointed be rehearsed
upon Tuesday next at dinner ; and that the ticketts for such
enterteinment be delivered out in the numbers and manner
following, viz : to each Bencher of this Society four ticketts, to
the Master of the Revells twenty ticketts, to the two Gentlemen
Sewers two ticketts each, to the Assistant Sewers one tickett
each, to the two Gentlemen Singers two ticketts each, to M r
Fothergill two ticketts, to each Barrister of the said Society who
have chambers in his own right one tickett, and to the Italian
Singers four ticketts ; the which said ticketts are to be numbered
i, 2, 3, etc."

/> 240. Council held on January 3ist, 1726.

Twelve Benchers present.

The Order as to the tickets for the entertainment on
Candlemas Day "hath given great uneasiness and discontent to

* Hearne published several works about this date.

t This work cannot be identified, either in the Library or in any bibliography.

J Appointed July zyth, on the resignation of M r Browne.

Macfe ISoofes of fLincoln^ $nn* 277

the greatest number of the gentlemen of the said Society, who,
being thereby excluded from the benefit of any of the said ticketts,
would in consequence be deprived of those priviledges they
alwaies on such occasions used to enjoy in common with the rest
of the members thereof, now by vertue of the said Order entitled
to such ticketts. To preserve peace and prevent disorders,
therefore, that may arise in the makeing of such distinctions, It is
ordered that there shall be no publick ball upon the said day, or
any seates put up in the said Hall," and the former Order as to
tickets is cancelled.

"And M r Brown, the present Treasurer, . . . signifying /. 241.
his desire to be dispensed with from attending and acting in his
place as Treasurer upon the said Grand Day, It is so ordered
accordingly.

"And it is further ordered that the Master of the Revells be
allowed out of the publick treasury of the said Society for his
enterteinment on the said Grand Day, the summe of ^25 and no
more."

Council held on February ist, 1726.
Eighteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that all the Barristers and Students do on Candlemas
Day next take their places at the table before the Judges come
into the Hall, and be standing up in their places when the Judges
enter the same ; and that no gentleman under the Barr shall take
place of any Barrister that shall be in the Hall at the time of
saying grace; and that the Barristers shall take place according to
their senioritys."

" Ordered that the Councell Chamber and Hall be lighted p. 242.
up on Candlemas Day next with wax candles -in glass sconces in
such places as are convenient."

Call to the Bar, February 4th, 1726:
John Pollin. /. 243.

Council held on February 7th, 1726.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

The Right Hon. Sir Robert Walpole, Knight of the Bath,
and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

" Ordered that no gentlemen, Barristers or Students of this
Society, shall take their places at the table in the Hall till grace
is said ; and that no gentleman under the Barr shall take place
at the table of any gentleman of the Barr that shall be in the Hall
at the time of saying grace."

278 ^e Mack iSoofes of ^Lincoln's; Inn.

/>. 245. Call to the Bar, February loth, 1726 :

Gwynn Vaughan.

Council held on February i2th, 1726.
Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that no gentleman be admitted to any chamber
to qualifye him to be called to the Barr, for a less fine than the
summe of ^20."

M r Edward Ford, a member of this Society, is allowed 205.
for the relief of his necessities.

p. 246. Council held on February 25th, 1726.

Nine Benchers present.

p. 247. Thomas Judson, the Steward's man, is appointed Caterer to

the Society, in the room of James Porter, appointed Second
Butler.*

Mr. Farshall, the Chief Butler, is to be paid 10 IDS. "for
his great care, trouble and diligence on the Grand Day, and
other services done to this Society."

p. 248. The Cook is allowed ^5 extra for his expenses on the Grand

Day.

Council held on April 27th, 1726.
Seven Benchers present.

/. 250. The Lord Chief Justice of England, [Sir Robert Raymond],

has leave to compound his absent commons, upon payment of one
half of what is due ; t if he shall sell his chamber within two years
he must pay the remainder.

The Treasurer is to pay to M r William Hill, a poor member
of this Society, 2 2s. towards his support.

/. 253. Council held on May nth, 1726.

Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:
Henry Montague and William Dobyns.

Call to the Bench :
Charles Talbot, Esq., Solicitor General.

/. 255. Council held on May 23rd, 1726.

Seven Benchers present.
p. 256, M r Thomas Ludlam, the cook, shall be immediately discharged.

* In Porter's petition for the post of Second Butler, he calls himself Third
Butler.

f This was the usual rate of composition.

&Iacfe Boofeg of fLincoln's Inn. 279

" Ordered that 24 old silver spoons be exchanged for 24 new
fashioned silver spoons in a case."

Council held on June i4th, 1726. p. 258.

Eleven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

William Lampton.

"Ordered that the Order of the 18 May, 1713, relating to
the Treasurer's laying out no more than ^5, be constantly read
at the first Councell in every terme ; and that a copy thereof be
deliver'd to every Treasurer upon his entring upon the office."*

Council held on June i6th, 1726. p. 259.

Eight Benchers present.

t The Report of the Committee on the New Square.

" Whereas there is a yearely summe of $ now paid for
cleaning the Boghouse, and 26 a yeare paid to the Porter of
the New Square for himself and a watchman, whereof one moiety
is paid by the House and the other moiety was paid by Atwill and
Hamond. And whereas there is a yeare and halfe of the said
yearely payments due and in arrears at Midsummer next,
amounting to ^24. And whereas the area of the New Square
and the pavements of the gutters belonging thereto are very much
out of repair. And whereas it has been computed that the
charges of new gravelling the Square and repairing the said
pavements, exclusive of such part as belongs to the old part of
the Society, will amount to ^"73 or thereabouts, which, together
with the said ^24, will amount to gj.

"It is proposed that the respective proprietors of chambers
in the New Square shall pay down the summe of ^320^ to the
House, in consideration of being for ever acquitted and discharged
from paying their respective proporcions of the said yearely
summes of $ and ^13 a yeare, to be raised and paid by the
respective proprietors in the following proporcions, viz 1 : Each
proprietor of a ground chamber to pay 5 ios., and each
proprietor of a chamber one pair and two pair of staires to pay
4 ios. And that as to the charges of gravelling and repairing
the Square, amounting to the said summe of ^73 or thereabouts,
it is proposed that each proprietor of a ground chamber shall pay
towards the said charges i 55., and each proprietor of a chamber
one and two pair of stairs i.

* See ante, p. 241. f Serle's Court Book, I, p. 153.

\ 20 years' purchase on 16 a year.

280 Cfce UI/uU ISoofes of Umcoln's Enn.

" And that in consideration of the said severall payments the
House do forever take upon themselves the payment of the said
yearely summes of $ and ,13, to the Porter and for keeping
the Boghouse, and do within a reasonable time new gravell the
said Square and make good the severall pavements of the gutters
belonging thereto.

"And it is further proposed that the House do for ever after
keep the area of the said Square well gravelled, and the gutters
and pavements of the said gutters in the said Square in good
repaire. And in consideration of the annual expences which the
Society will be at by the doing thereof, there shall be paid to the
House the further summe of ^73, to be raised " as aforesaid.

The Report is adopted and agreed to.

Call to the Bar :
Capell Appleby.

p. 262. Council held on July 27th, 1726.

Nine Benchers present.

Charles Talbot, Esq., Sol. Gen., is appointed Treasurer for
the remainder of the year, M r Brown having resigned.

* " Ordered that the New Square be forthwith repaired,
according to the proposition subscribed by the proprietors of
chambers belonging to the same and agreed to by the Masters
of the Bench ; and that the Treasurer and Masters, of the Bench
now present, or any three of them, from time to time give proper
directions concerning the same.

" And to the intent that no obstruction be given to the
carrying on and compleating the said repaires as soon as possible
It is further ordered that no gentlemen's or hackney coatches
or horses be permitted to come into the said Square, or any
carriages whatsoever, untill the next terme, except such as are
necessary for and employed in bringing in gravell and other
materialls for the carrying on the said repaires. . . . And to
the end the Inn may be the sooner and better enlightened, and
mischeife for want thereof effectually prevented It is further
ordered that the person employed for that purpose do begin to
put up the lights thereof upon the 8th day of August next."

/. 264. Council held on October 28th, 1726.

Six Benchers present.

Serle's Court Book, I, p. 155.

of ILiiuoln'0 5nm 281

Call to the Bench :

Richard Foley, Esq., an Associate of the Bench and a
Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas ; without prejudice
to the rights of his seniors.

Call to the Bar, November 8th, 1726 :
Henry Banks.

Council held on November 28th, 1726. p. 266.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that the two uppermost seates, opposite to and p. 267
devided by a partition of wainscot from each other, in the body
of the Chappell, be fited up, in like manner as the Benchers'
seates are, for the Judges, Serjeants and King's Councell of this
Society, and appropriated for their recepcion when they are pleased
to attend Devine Service there ; and that the three next successive
seates below each of the said uppermost seates be kept and reserved
for the sole use of the Benchers thereof; and that the two next
seates to the lowest of the seates kept and reserved for the
Benchers, be left for the Barristers of this Society; and that no
gentleman under the Bench be admitted into any of the seates
appropriated and reserved for the Masters of the Bench."

* Those having chambers in the New Square must pay their
proportions for the gravelling by the first Council of next term;
in default their chambers shall be padlocked.

Council held on December 8th, 1726. /. 268.

Eight Benchers present.

M r Robert Nicholson, the pewterer, shall be paid ^42 IDS.
and no more, for the use and loss of pewter on February 2nd last.

Accounts of Charles Talbot, Esquire, Solicitor General, the
Treasurer, from Jan. 23rd, 1726, to Jan. 23rd, 1727.

" Note that John Browne, Esq., was the Treasurer for
Hillary Term, i725[-6], Easter and Trinity Terms, 1726 ; he
sold his chamber No. 12, in Chapell Court and Dyall Row, and
Charles Talbot, Esq., his Majesty's Sollicitor General, was
Treasurer for the rest of the time. This booke hath been
carefully adjusted. "t

Receipts: ,2,609 Is - 3^. Including ,391 us. 8d. for
absent commons ; .488 1 2s. 6d. for eating commons ; ,498

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 157.

t This account is taken from the rough day book, which probably does not
contain all items, as it is not balanced up.

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282 fie ISlacfe 3&oo&g of Hmcoln'g

i6s. 8d. upon Serle's Court Roll; 7 45. from M r Thomas
Denton, Principal of Furnival's Inn, for a year's rent, less i6s. tax.

Payments: ^2412 153. 6d. Including 6 125. 8d. for
46 Ibs. of white wax candles at 2s. 8d. the lb. ; ^13 is. 6d. for
extra help in the kitchen on Grand Day in Hilary Term, and
21 for music ; 43. to M r Hart, the coffee man, for fine pale ale ;
25 to the Master of the Revels, in full for his dinner; 153. for
binding two vols. of Montfaucon's Antiquities; i is. to
M r Talbot's clerk as a fee for a buck ; 17 53. 8d. for round and
square trenchers ; us. 3d. for pots bought at the Temple ; ^174
155. i id. for wine.

Balance: ^124 133.

1727. Officers for 1727 :

Treasurer : Henry Martyn, Esq.

Master of the Library : Charles Talbot, Esq., Sol. Gen.

Dean of the Chapel : William Guidott, Esq.

Black Book Keeper : Isaac Ewer, Esq.

Master of the Walks : Gilbert Horsman, Esq.

/. 269. Council held on January 23rd, 13 George I, 1727.

Twenty-two Benchers present.

"The Rev d M r Thomas Herring, B.D., being this day elected
to be Preacher of this Society in the place of the late Rev d D r
William Lupton,* deceased, It is thereupon ordered and declared
that the said M r Herring be and is Preacher of this Society, and
that he have the same exhibition, allowances and chamber as the
said D r Lupton had when he was elected Preacher ; and that the
same duty and attendance is expected from the said M r Herring ;
and that M r Attorney General [Sir Philip Yorke] is hereby desired
to acquaint the said M r Herring therewith. f

" Ordered that Mr. Treasurer do give five guineas to the
Rev d M r Batty, for having supplyed the place of the late Rev d D r
Lupton several times during the said D r Lupton's ilness."

\ Sir Philip Yorke, Knight, Attorney General, has chambers
at No. 4, Serle's Court, one story high on the west side of the
stair case.

p. 271. Council held on February 6th, 1727.

Nine Benchers present.

* Died at Tunbridge Wells, Dec. i4th, 1726. Cooper's Me lino th.

\ See ante, p. 243.

t Serle's Court Book, I, p. 158.

Macfe ISoofes of ILittcoltt's Him. 283

Call to the Bar :

Edward Willes.

The constables who attended at the House on the Grand
Day in last Hilary term, shall be paid 55. each.

" Ordered that the old flaggon, cup, and salt cellar be
distinctly weighed, and brought before the Masters of the Bench at
the next Council, in order to exchange the same for two tankards
or cups ; and that the goldsmith attend at the same time with
patterns."

Council held on February i3th, 1727. /. 272.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that the old plate ... be changed for two cups
and covers, of 20 value each cup and cover, including, the
charge of engraveing the armes ; and that M r Treasurer pay the
overpluss mony above what the old plate will make."

Council held on April 27th, 1727. p. 277.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Taylor White.

* " Ordered that a pavement be made cross the New
Square, from the broad pavement on the east side thereof, at the
passage leading to Chichester Rents, to the pavement on the west
side thereof, at the passage leading to the little back gate ; and
that M r Treasurer do agree and pay for the same cross pavement."

* " Ordered that the proprietors of the shopps in the passage
leading from the New Square to the little back gate do repair the
pavement in the said passage within a fortnight, or in default
thereof the said little back gate to be shutt up."

Call to the Bar, May 2nd, 1727:
Edward Hale.t

Council held on May 15th, 1727. /. 278.

Nine Benchers present.

\ " Ordered that M r Farshall desire M r Dixon to produce the
conveyance made to him of the area of the New Square, to
M r Treasurer, in order to have a conveyance from the said
M r Dixon of his trust estate therein to the present Trustees for
the House."

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 162.

f Edward Bisse Hale.

\ .Serle's Court Book, I, p. 166.

284 ^!K 5$lacfc JSoofeg of Lincoln's Enm

p. 279. Call to the Bar, June 2nd, 1727 :

John Davis and Robert Keyworth.

Council held on June 8th, 1727
Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Richard Hassell, John Hassell, Philip Henry Warburton and
George Prichard.

p. 280. " An Account of what House Plate the Chief Butler hath

in his care that hath been presented to the Hon ble
Society of Lincoln's Inn, and is as followeth :

" Ex dono M" Elizabeth Wharton, 1652, a Bason and Ewer, w* ... 202 oz.

Ex dono Edw d Rich, Gent, 1666, a Cupp and Cover, w' ... ... 56

Ex dono Aurthur, Earl of Anglesey, 1675, a Bason and Ewer, w 1 ... 174^

Ex dono Tollemache Duke, Gent., 1676, a pair of Candlesticks, w 1 i53<;

Ex dono Rich d Raynsford, 1676, a Grace Cupp, w'... ... ... 51^

Ex dono Sir John Franklyn, 1707, two Flaggons, two Cupps and

four Covers,* w' ... ... ... ... ... ... 300

Ex dono W m Fellows, Esq., 1718, a Monteth and Coller, w 1 ... 138^

Ex dono John Wynnyffe, Esq., a Cupp and Cover, w 1 ... ... 56

Ex dono John Greene, Esq., a Grace Cupp, w* 32!

HOUSE PLATE.

A Bason Cover, w* ... ... ... ... ... ... 58 \

24 Spoons, w* ... ... ... ... ... ... 50

24 silver gilt Jelly Spoons, w 1 ... ... ... ... 13"

p. 281. Call to the Bar, June i6th, i George II, 1727 :

Edward Stables and Robert Davis.

/. 282. Council held on June 2ist, 1/27.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer do lay out a sufficient sum of
mony in the purchase of ,800 South Sea Annuity Stock, in the
names of M r Holford and M r Melmoth."
p. 283. " Upon the complaint made by the Cook of this Society that

the dishwasher doth not come at proper times to do her business,
and is very sluttish, and altho' he has reprimanded her for it, yet
she still continues the same, and gives him saucy language, an<
will not do as he orders her ; and lately, upon some difference
between her and the second cook, she threw a pott at his head,

* Sir John gave the chalices, but the flagons were bequeathed by his uncle
Nicholas, in 1658. See Vol. II, p. 420.

Macfe &oofeg of Eincolit'g Enn, 285

and wounded him so that the Surgeons could hardly stop the
blood and were afraid he would loose his life, and is at present
very ill " the Treasurer is ordered to inquire into the matter.

Council held on July 6th, 1727. p. 284.

Ten Benchers present.

The ,800 South Sea Annuity Stock cost .818. /. 286.

" Ordered that M r Holford and M r Melmoth do declare the
said trust in writing, as well of the said ^800 South Sea Annuitys
lately purchased, as of the ^700 South Sea Annuitys heretofore
purchased in their names in trust for this Society."

Council held on November 6th, 1727. p. 288.

Fourteen Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

George Hyde, and Joseph Hinxman.

Also Edward Walpole, although only admitted on Nov. 29th,
1723, "he being obliged to be called to the Barr as a qualification
for his being Master of the Exchequer Office of Pleas;" he must
pay " all such arrears and dutyes as are or would become due in
case he had stay'd untill he had been of full standing."

" Ordered that no person for the future shall be admitted into /. 289.
any chambers consolidated, upon the surrender of any person,
without paying a distinct fine for each chamber or part of a
chamber so consolidated."

Council held on November loth, 1727.
Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

John Philips and Charles Waller.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer do give unto Jackson, the Porter, /. 290.
a guinea for playing the engine at the fire in Butcher Row, 1 * and
to Baker half a guinea, and to the other four Porters, undercook
and washpott that assisted, 55. a piece."

t It is reported that William Martin, Esq., a Barrister of this
Society, is doing some building at No. 5, New Square, which will
be dangerous in respect of fire, and will spoil the uniformity of the
Square, and for which he has not obtained the leave of the Bench.

* A block of houses formerly stood to the east of S. Clement Dane's church,
which was taken down in 1813, and the site thrown into the Strand. The narrow
street to the north of this block, along the present frontage of the Law Courts, was
Butcher Row.

t Serle's Court Book, I, p. 170.

2 86 riir fcl.irU i>nnfc$ of lUncoln's I-nn.

He must attend the next Council, and not go on with the work in
the meantime.

Council held on November i3th, 1727.
Thirteen Benchers present.

* M r Martin attended this Council, and expressed his sorrow
for altering his roof without leave. Ordered that he do forthwith
at his own expense restore the same to its former condition.
M r Bigg, the carpenter of the House, shall see that it is done in
a substantial and workmanlike manner.

p. 291. Council held on November i6th, 1727.

Nine Benchers present.

* M r William Martin refusing to carry out the Order of the
last Council, It is ordered that he, for his said contempt, be and
he is hereby expelled this Society, and declared to be no longer
a member thereof.

p. 294. Council held on November 23rd, 1727.

Twelve Benchers present,
t "Ordered that M r [Robert] Darel do forthwith remove
M r Martyn out of his, the said M r Darel's, chamber up two pair
of stairs in No. 5 in the New Square, he, the said M r Martyn,
being no member of this Society ; And that the said M r Darel do
forthwith put the roof of the said chamber in the form and
condition the same was in before it was lately taken downe."

Council held on November 28th, 1727.

Ten Benchers present.
/. 295. " Ordered that M r Treasurer do write a letter to M r Towers

in answer to his to M r Treasurer relating to M r Tankred's
designed benefaction to this Society, and to acquaint the said
M r Towers that it does not at present stand with the conveniency
of this Society to discharge the incumbrances upon the said
M r Tankred's estate."

Accounts of Henry Martin, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1727, to Jan. 23rd, 1728.

Receipts: ,3,212 i6s. 5^d. Including ^124 135. 2jd. from
the late Treasurer; "1,430 for chamber fines, (including one of
.250 and one of ^260) ; '.545 6s. 6d. for absent commons ;
^"403 2s. 6d. for eaten commons.

* Serle's Court Book I, p. 171. \ Serle's Court Book, I, p. 172.

Cfje Blacft &oofeg of ^Lincoln's; Enm 287

Payments: ,3,148 33. 5<I Including 55. to "W m Redington,
to encourage him to burne the charme and looking after the
people in the kitchen" ; 155. 6d. for white wine for the grace cup
and for cool tankards for the adjourned Council [in July] and red
wine ; 8s. to the Porters for watching about the Inn on Coronation
Day [Oct. nth]; 10 IDS. and a purse to Serjeant [Spencer]
Cowper ; the like to Serjeant [Edward] Corbett ; 73. 6d. for 6
pints of Canary ; ,5 for a dial ; ig 175. id. for port.

Balance : ^64 133. ojd.

Officers for 1728: 1728.

Treasurer : William Guidott, Esq.
Master of the Library : Henry Martin, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : William Melmoth, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : Joseph Kirke, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Marmaduke Alington, Esq.

Council held on January 29th, i George II, 1728. p. 300.

Fifteen Benchers present.

* M r Robert Darrel has not obeyed the various Orders
relating to his chamber ; therefore the chamber shall be forthwith
padlocked.

k Council held on February ist, 1728.

Thirteen Benchers present,
t M r Darrel's chamber was duly padlocked on Jan. 3ist. It
ow appears that William Martyn, Esq., who was recently
expelled this Society, has procured some person unknown to break
open the padlock, and, with M r Martyn, to enter the said chamber.
The servants who saw this are to make affidavits, and the Lord
Chief Justice of the King's Bench \ is to be applied to for a
warrant.

Council held on February 8th, 1728. /. 301.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

John Powel.

" Ordered that for the future no gentleman be called to the
Barr before he is admitted into a chamber, or part of a chamber,
of the value of 20, or deposit in the hands of the Treasurer of
this Society the sum of 20, or so much mony as will make up
such chamber or part of a chamber [to] the value of 20"

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 175. f Serle's Court Book, I, p. 176.

1 Sir Robert Raymond.

288

ISoofeg of SLiiuoln's

" Ordered that the Sacrament bread and wine be alwayes
provided at the charge of the Society, and that none of the Sacra-
ment mony be given to any of the servants of the House during
the time they are servants."

p. 305. Call to the Bench, May i5th, 1728 :

The Hon. John Verney, Esq., one of his Majesty's Counsell
at Law [p. 303].

p. 306. Call to the Bar, May 2ist, 1728 :

Thomas Hill.

p. 308. Call to the Bar, June 27th, 1728 :

Isaac Hawkins Browne.

p. 312. Council held on July 24th, 1728.

Six Benchers present.
A 3 J 3' Joseph Kirke, Esq., a Bencher, has leave to make an

additional sash window in his dining-room.

Council held on October 23rd, 1728.

Eight Benchers present.
p. 314. " M r Capper desiring to be continued to officiate as Chaplaine

till Christmas next, and no longer The Masters of the Bench
have made choice of M r Gershom Rawlins to succeed the said
M r Capper, and it is ordered that he be admitted Chaplaine to this
Society at Christmas next."

* " Ordered that the supply of New River water in the
Fountain in the New Square be referr'd to the inspection ol
M r Clive and M r Carew."

/. 315. Call to the Bar, November 6th, 1728:

Henry Ballow and John Lee.

/. 317. Call to the Bar, November i2th, 1728:

Edward King.

Accounts of William Guidott, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1728, to Jan. 23rd, 1729.

Receipts: ,2,287 4 s - 3jd. Including ^315 each from John
Browne, Esq., a Bencher, and from M r Henry Asgill, for
admission to chambers.

Payments : ,2,207 IIS - 3jd. Including 123. lod. for a new

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 181.

C()e Macfe ISaofeg of Uincoln'g nn* 289

porter's badge ; 75. for 4 bottles of port from the " Golden
Lyon " in Fleet St. ; \$ 6s. to the coalman, for faggots, billets,
and sea-coal.

Balance : jg 135.

Officers for 1729: 1729.

Treasurer : The Hon. John Verney, Esq.
Master of the Library : William Guidott, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : George Clive, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : John Browne, Esq.
Master of the Walks : George Carew, Esq.

Council held on February 6th, 2 George II, 1729. p. 321.

Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Edward Louisaman,* Edward Poore and John Dyson.

A Committee is appointed to " examine and see who are the
heirs of the surviving Trustees of Pickets Feild, in order to obtain
a conveyance from the heir of such survivor."

" Ordered that the Globes in the Library be repaired."

Call to the Bar, April 23rd, 1729 : p. 324.

James Morgan.

Council held on May 8th, 1729. p. 326.

Seven Benchers present.

" Upon the Report of M r Guidott, M r Clive and M r
Alington, that they had viewed the Base Ground, and that in
their opinion the makeing of a gate in the east wall thereof will
not be any prejudice to the Society It is ordered that Richard
Foley, Esq., one of the Masters of the Bench, have liberty at his
own charge to make and sett up a new gate, for a cartway into
the said Base Ground, in the east wall thereof; and to stop up
the present gate there now, in the south wall, during such time
as the Society shall enjoy the way thro' the new Gate down to
Weeden Street"!

Council held on May i9th, 1729. p. 328.

Eleven Benchers present.

" Upon the petition of Edward Bisse Hale, Esq., a Barrister /. 329.
of this Society, setting forth that he is the great-grandson and

* The name is here written in one word, as printed, but it should apparently
be two words. He is subsequently referred to as " Mr. Mann," in several places.

f This street is not mentioned in Wheatley and Cunningham's London Past
and Present.

VOL. III. 2 P

290

Black Boofeg of lUncoIit'g

;o.

A 331-

A 334-

heir at law of the late Lord Cheif Justice Hale,* and is impowered
by his will to transcribe any of the books that were by him left
to this Society, but is only to take one book at a time, and is to
give security to return it at a time to be prefixed by the Masters
of the Bench ; and praying the said books may be delivered to
him by one at a time, for so long time as to the Bench shall seem
meet " Referred to a Committee.

The gardener [among other specified duties] must " cutt the
small trees and the Dutch elm hedge in the Benchers' Garden,"
and ''nail the jessamine in the Great Garden."

Council held on June 6th, 1/29.
Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

Thomas Hay ward and John Prudam.

t M r James Harris junior, a Fellow of the Society, pays ^350
for admission to the chambers late of Wadham Windham, Esq.,
deceased, at No. 16, Kitchen Garden Court, Field Gate Row, one
on the first floor and the other on the third floor.

Call to the Bar, June iSth, 1729:
Robert Warner.

Council held on June 25th, 1/29.
Eleven Benchers present.

M r Farshall is to make enquiries " how and on what terms
the House may be supplyed with New River water."

Council held on July 9th, 1729.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that a leaden pipe be layd from the Fountain in

the Bench Garden to the pump place at the corner of the Square,

and a new pump be putt up there for the use of the House."

" Ordered that the Masters' Clerks for the future have the
same commons on exceeding and other days as the servants of the
House have, and the same wyne on the Grand Dayes; and nothing
from the Bench table for the future."

Council held on November 28th, 1729.
Nine Benchers present.
Willes and others are to " wait on M'

Hun^erford,

relating to M r Hungerford's legacy of ^200 to this Society, to

* He was eldest son of Gabriel, son of Rober;, eldest son of Sir Matthew,
f Red Book II, p. 292.

iSlacfc tSoofcg of Etncoln^ nn. 291

know if she will pay the same, and accept of interest to be paid
her for the same during life.'^

Call to the Bench, December 9th, 1729: p. 336.

William Fortescue, Esq.f

Officers for 1730: 1730.

Treasurer: William Melmouth, Esq.
Master of the Library: The Hon John Verny.
Dean of the Chapel: Isaac Ewer, Esq.

Joseph Kirke, Esq. [Feb. i2th.]
Black Book Keeper: John Washer, Esq.
Master of the Walks: Richard Brydges, Esq.

Council held on January 29th, 3 George II, 1730. /. 340.

Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

Thomas Slater, Esq., Graves Martyn, Esq , Paul Jodrell,
Esq., Henry Dry, Esq., James Strode, Esq., and Job Hanmer, /. 341.
Esq.

Call to the Bar : p. 342.

Robert Cholmely.

Council held on February loth, 1730. /. 343.

Eleven Benchers present.

\ Solom Emlyn, Esq., Barrister, surrenders a whole chamber
in Kitchen Garden Court, one story high, over the Council
Chamber, to Robert Cholmeley, Esq., Barrister.

t Council held on February i2th, 1730.

Ten Benchers present.
"Ordered that M r Wills, M r Fortescue and M r Treasurer doe /. 344.
waite on M r3 Hungerford, and receive the ^200 given by her late
husband's will to the Society, which is payable after her death ;
and that they are desired to give her their bond for the payment
of interest for the ,200, after the rate of 4 per cent, per annum,
during her life, for which they are to be indemnified by the
Society."*

' k The legacy was paid in 1741, M rs Hungerford being presumably then dead,
t Attorney General to the Prince of \Vales, and King's Counsel.
\ Red Book II, p. 296. See ante, p. 260, and /AT/, p. 300. The staircase was
No. 14.

292 Cfte iSlacfe &oofeg of ^Lincoln's

p. 345. Council held on February igth, 1730.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that the diall in Diall Court be repaired."

Ordered that the 200 given by Mr. Hungerford's will, or
so much as may be necessary, shall be "laid out in the pulpit and
beautifying and adorning the Chappell."

" The clause of M r Hungerford's will relateing to this Society.

"And my will and mind further is that out of the money to
be raised by sales of my said estates ^200 be paid to my friend
Melmoth, one of the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn, to be by him laid
out for the benefit or ornament of the said Society as he shall
think fitt, in which, if he pleases, he may take some notice of me."

/. 346. Council held on April I7th, 1730.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that Mr. Treasurer is desired to give himself the
trouble to. enquire what will be the expence of setting up an
horizontal dyall in the Great Garden."

/. 348. Sir Lawrence Carter, Knight, one of the Barons of the

Exchequer, has leave to compound his absent commons.

Council held on April 22nd, 1730.

Ten Benchers present.

" Upon complaint of M r Dyrell, M r S l John, M r Coxe,
M r Thomas Keniston and M r Edward Keniston, that last night a
fire was in the chambers of M r Oliver Horsman which endangered
the whole staircase, which was occasioned by his being disordered
with drink, and complaining that he frequently came into his
chambers in drink ; And the said M r Horsman attended this
Councell, and proposing that he was willing to sell his chambers,
and that in the meantime he would not lye in them, and that they
should be padlocket for the securely of the Society It is ordered
that a padlock be put upon the said chamber forthwith."

A dial of 1 8 in. diameter is to be set up in the middle of the
Great Garden.

P- 349- Call to the Bar, April 23rd, 1730 :

, John Hopkins, he "being constantly resident from the time
of his admission, and wanting but two terms of six years, and
having observed the Rules of this Society and performed all his
exercises."

Council held'on April 3oth, 1730.
Eight Benchers present.
" Ordered that another window upon the Chapel Staircase be
made, conformable to that already made there."

Macfe ISoofes of ^Lincoln's 5im 293

Call to the Bar : p. 350.

Thomas Coke, "wanting but one term of six years standing,"
etc. [as John Hopkins above].

Council held on May n, 1730. p. 352.

Eighteen Benchers present.

" The humble petition of Thomas Geers, Esq., on the
behalf of Sir Thomas Cookes Winford, Barr f , one of
the Fellowes of the said Society.

" Sheweth

" That by Articles enterd into between the then Masters of
the Bench and M r Henry Serle, the builder of Serle's- Court, (now
part of the said Society), it is expressly stipulated that no other
buildings than the three ranges of building, whereof the said
Court consists, should be erected or built on the ground therein
mentioned and described, but that the rest of the said ground
should at all times thereafter be open, wast, and unbuilt, for the
prospect and recreation of the Society and members thereof; and
it is thereby agreed that the part of the said ground behind the
first range of building should be made use of for a laystall for
ever for the Society, and be enclosed with a brick wall 10 foot
high, with a gateway at the south end thereof.

"That under the said Articles, your petitioner apprehends
the Masters of the Bench are become interested in the premises
as Trustees for keeping the same open and unbuilt, for the benefitt
of the Members of the said Society.

" That there is a high building now erecting and cariing [?]
on upon part of the said void peice of ground next Bell Yard, by
Richard Foley, Esq., one of the Masters of the Bench, in violation
of the said Articles, as your petitioner apprehends, and to the
great prejudice and detriment of the said Sir Thomas Cookes
Winford in Serle's Court aforesaid, and contrary to the intent of
severall Orders made by the Masters of the Bench from time to
time, who have interposed, and ordered encroachments and
buildings attempted to be erected on the said ground to be
demolished ; to which Orders your petitioner refers.

" Your petitioner therefore humbly submitts the case of the
said Sir Thomas Cookes Winford (who resides in the country) to
your Worships' consideration, and humbly hopes the Bench will
effectually execute the said trust, and take such measures that the
said building may be stayed and taken down, and the said ground
be restored to its former state, and that such other redress may be
had in the premises as shall be just."

The Bench decided that the building referred to was not p. 353.
contrary to the said Articles.

294 CJe JSlacfe ISoofeg of fUiuoIn'0

"Upon the petition of M r Nath : Moody, stationer, setting
forth that he was admitted into a shop under Chancery Lane Gate
about 5 years agoe, which said shop was very much out of repair,
and cost the said M r Moody near /, 20 It is ordered that M r John
Willoughby, who was lately admitted into the said shop, do pay
the said M r Moody the sum of ^5, and in default thereof that he
be discharged from the said shop."

p. 354. Council held on May 29th, 1730.

Seven Benchers present.

: The expense of repairing the Fountain and the broad
pavement in the New Square will come to ^157 ios. ; this must
be paid by the proprietors of chambers there, at the rate of
2 ios. for each ground chamber, and 2 for each chamber one
and two stories high.

p. 355. Council held on June 2nd, 1730.

Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Robert Harley.

" Ordered that the Chappell be shutt on the Monday next
after the term, in order for its being adorned and beautifyed."

" Ordered that the Chappell be beautifyed and adorned
according to the severall plands brought by the Treasurer, and that
the Lord's Prayer, Comandments and Belife be sett upp at the
east end of the Chappell."

Council held on June i7th, 1730.
Eleven Benchers present.

/. 356. " Ordered that M r Frewen have leave to erect a monument

for M r Parker, deceased, against one of the pillars under the
Chappel." t

" That the Armes under the Chappel being greatly in decay,
Ordered that the workmen do look into them, and fasten those
that are loose. '

/ 358. Council held on June 24th, 1730.

Ten Benchers present.
The garden wall next to Lincoln's Inn Fields must be rebuilt
so far as is necessary.

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 190.
f "William Parker, Esq', was buried incerto die; the affidavit is dated
January 9, i727[-8]." Burial Register.

of mncaln'g $mt* 295

" Ordered that the windowes in the Chappell be taken down,
and cleaned, new-leaded and naeled [?], and put up again ; and
that M r Treasurer be desired to make a contract with M r Price
for the same."

" Ordered that the Ten Commandments, the Creede and
Lord's Prayer be put upp on the east window in the Chappell,
and that M r Treasurer be desired to agree with M r Price for the
same."

" Ordered that M r Treasurer be desired to make a bargane
for to gett the east window repaired."

Council held on October 29th, 1730. p. 360.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Joseph Ayloffe* and William Browning.

"Ordered that a book be provided wherein the Treasurer's /. 361.
Accounts for the time being shall be entered in English, by way of
Debtor and Creditor, and past by two Masters of the Bench, and
not be entered in a Roll as formerly." f

" Ordered that the Judges', Masters' of the Bench, and the
Ladys' Pewst be lind in such manner as the Treasurer thinks
fitt."

Council held on November 4th, 1730.
Thirteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that no ladys be lett into any pews below the
Pulpitt, and that no strangers be lett into any of the pews, till
after the First Lesson, unles introduced by a gentleman of the
ouse."

Call to the Bar, November 23rd, 1730 : /. 362.

The Hon. William Murray and Tristram Fish.

Council held on November 28th, 1730. /. 364.

Nine Benchers present.

"Ordered that M r Attorny General [Yorke], M r Solicitor
reneral [Talbot], M r Willes, M r Verney, M r Fortescue, M r
Melmoth, M r Clive, or any three of them, are desired to meet
some of the Benchers of the Middle Temple, to agree upon one
uniform way of calling gentlemen to the Barr."

* The eminent antiquary. See Diet. Nat. Biog.

f This is part of a new system of accounts and checks on the tradesmen and
^rvants, which is set out at considerable length.
\ See an/e, p. 250.

296 CJe Macfe ISoofeg of ^Lincoln's

^. 366. Council held on December 9th, 1730.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that it be recomended to the present and future
Library Keepers for the time being, to purchase the Statue
[Statutes] as they come out, and to complate them, and all the
law bookes licensed by the Judges."

" Ordered that the servants be admitted to lett Ladyes into
the next seate below the Pulpitt, as formerly."

Accounts of William Melmoth, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1730, to Jan. 23rd, 1731.

Receipts: ,2,523 is. 6d. Including 45 i8s. 6d. balance
from last year; 772 135. 4d. for chamber fines; 8 (less i8s.
tax) from Mr. Wandford Gill, Principal of Furnival's Inn, for a
year's rent ; 60 interest of ,1,500 South Sea Annuities.

Payments: "2,482 2s. od. Including "5 35. 4d. to a brick-
layer "for curing a smoaking chimney for D r Herring"; 45. to
two men " to try if all the coats of armes were fast under the
Chappell " ; i us., " forgott to charge the rowling-stone* in
M r Varney's Account"; ,8 IDS. to M r Nathaniel Watham, fora
horizontal dial ; 37 6s. lod. for iron rails round the fountain ;
i os. 6d. to John Atkinson, for making a Catalogue of Books in
the Library.

Balance : 40 1 95. 6d.

1731. Officers for 1731 :

Treasurer : William Fortescue, Esq.

Master of the Library : William Melmoth, Esq.

Dean of the Chapel: John Browne, Esq.

Black Book Keeper : Marmaduke Alington, Esq.

Master of the Walks : Thomas Owen, Esq.

p. 368. Council held on January 28th, 4 George II, 1731.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Attorney Generall [Yorke], M r Sollicitor
Generall [Talbot], [and others], be desired to wait upon the Right
Honourable the Lord Raymond, to congratulate him in the name
of this Society upon his being advanced to the honour of a Peer
of this Realm." f

/. 371. Council held February 25th, 1731.

Nine Benchers present.

M r Price, the glass-painter, shall be paid 30 as soon as he
has put up and finished another window in the Chapel.

* A stone roller for the Garden.

f Sir Robert Raymond, C.J.K.B., was created Baron Raymond of Abbot's
Langley, Jan. i5th, 1731. He died in 1733.

Macfe iSoofcg of ILttuoltt'g Unn* 297

Call to the Bar, May 5th, 1731 : p. 372.

Thomas Denison and Thomas Martyn.

Call to the Bar, May 2Oth, 1731 : p. 374.

George Wyndham.

Council held on May 3ist, 1731. p. 375.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that the petition of Robert Kirke, the cook of this p. 376.
Society, be rejected, and that the oysters and cheese to be used
at the Bench table for the future be provided by the House."

Council held on June i8th, 1731.
Nine Benchers present.

"Ordered that on reading the letter from Ireland to the
Treasurer of this Society, the order therewith sent relateing to
giveing of Certificates to gentlemen that are members of this
Society for their removall to the Inns at Dublin, be skreened ;
and that all future Certificates be made according to that Order."

Council held on June 29th, 1731. /. 378.

Five Benchers present.

" It is desired that M r Melmoth be pleased to attend M r
Baron Comyns,* to acquaint him that pensions are never paid
but upon a new nomination, a surrender of chambers, or being
called to the Barr or the Bench ; and that all arreares of pensions
are to be paid upon any of those occasions."

Call to the Bar :
Owen Meyrick.

Call to the Bar, July 6th, 1731 : /. 379.

John Hamilton, who performed his exercises at the Temple.

Council held on July 2ist, 1731. /. 381.

Five Benchers present.

^500 South Sea Annuities were sold for ^540 to discharge /. 382.
the debts of the House.

" Ordered that the grace cupps in the Hall and the tankard
at the Adjourned Councell, be for the future filled with arrack
punch."

* John Comyns, so appointed 1727 ; J. C. P. 1736 ; C B. E. 1738.

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29 8 CJe iSIacfe ISoofcg of Eincoln'g

^. 383. Council held on November i6th, 1731.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the bookseller imployed by this Society do
give in a list annually, upon the first day of Michaelmas Term, of
the law books printed the preceding year, in order to be put into
the Library, and the Statutes ; and that he bind up the Statutes
that are wanting in the Library, includeing the last Session's, to be
placed in the Library."

p. 385. Council held on November 29th, 1731.

Nine Benchers present.

" Upon reading the petition of William Price, glazier, thereby
setting forth that he hath been at much greater expenses in the
repairing and finishing of the windows in the Chappell than he
did at first expect, by reason that the same were so very bad that
he was oblidged, after he had taken them down, to make great
part thereof new; and praying that the Masters of the Bench of
this Society would be pleased to make him some further allowance
over and above the ^120 for which the said petitioner had agreed
to repair and make good the said windows." Allowed ^30 extra.*

p. 387. Council held on December 8th, 1731.

Seven Benchers present.

p. 388. " Ordered that the bookseller provide for the Library the

severall books following, viz. :

s. D.

Clergyman's Vade Mecum, 2 vol. ... ... 60

t Fitzherbert's Natura Brevium, with Judge

Male's Notes, 4 to 16 o

All the State Tryalls that are not in the Library.

Law of Tenures ... ... ... ... 46

t Shower's Reports, vol. 2nd ... ... ... i i o

t Salkeild's Reports, vol. 2nd & 3rd ... ... i 17 o

Raymond's Reports ... ... ... ... 220

t Shower's Cases in Parliam 1 ... ... ... 16 o

t Wood's Institutes ... ... ... ... i 40

t Carthew's Reports ... ... ... ... i i o

t Comberbatch's Reports ... ... ... 1 8 o

. f Laws of the Plantacions relateing to the

Church, &c., by N. Trot ... ... ... 10 o

t Rastell's Entrys, 1596 ... ... ... ... 12 o

t Tremain's Pleas of the Crown... ... ... i i o

[NOTE. Minutes directing the purchase of books will not be
hereafter inserted, unless of special interest.]

* See ante, pp. 295, 296. f Still in the Library.

Macfe asoofeg of Ettuoltt's Enm 299

" Ordered that M r Hammond be desired to procure the
title deeds of the New Square to be brought into the Library of
this Society, there to be deposited for the benefitt of all persons
concerned therein."

" Ordered that there be a Sacrament the first Sunday of
every month, except the precedeing or subsequent Sunday happens
to be the first Sunday in the term, and then the Sacrament is
to be administered on the first Sunday in the term. And so,
in like manner, if the first Sunday in the month happens to be
the precedeing or subsequent Sunday to the last Sunday in the
term, then the Sacrament is to be administred on the last Sunday
in the term. And that this Order be communicated to Doctor
Herring by the Dean of the Chappell."

Accounts of William Fortescue, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1731, to Jan. 23rd, 1732.

Receipts: .2,352 iis. 4d. Including 461 for absent
commons ; 5 from M r Pageter, Principal of Thavies Inn, for a
year's rent.

Payments: ,2,302 i8s. 4d. Including 2 8s. for i doz. of
Burgundy wine from the Bedford Head; 2s. 6d. to "a woman
that keept a child that was dropt under the Chappell "; 6 143. for
venison [in Trinity Term]; 313. for 8 bottles of arrack, and 45.
for a quart of arrack; 35. 4d. for lemons for arrack punch ; 25
gs. gd. for port wine and sack.

Balance: 49 135. od.

Officers for 1732 : 1732.

Treasurer : George Clive, Esq.
Master of the Library : William Fortescue, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : John Washer, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : George Carew, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Richard Foley, Esq.

Call to the Bar, January 24th, 5 George II, 1732 :
Isaac Preston. P- 39-

Council held on February 7th, 1732.
Five Benchers present.

Call to the Bar: / 39 1-

Thomas Turner and John Wood.

* Robert Cunningham is admitted to a whole chamber, one

* Red Book II, p. 309. See ante, p. 291. The staircase was No. 14.

3 oo Cfte &lacfe ISoofes of ^Lincoln's

story high, in Kitchen Garden Court and Library Staircase, on
the surrender of Robert Cholmeley.

p. 392. Council held on February i2th, 1732.

Six Benchers present.

" Upon the mocion of William Guidott, Esq., one of the
Masters of the Bench, wheather the gent, that petition to
compound their absent commons should have the benifett of such
Order from the time of his petition or from the time of his payment
of the money it is apprehended it would be of service to the
Society to make an Order that they shall not have the benifett
till that time two years that they paid their money Ordered for
the future that the gent, have the benifett of their composition
only from the time they pay their money."

p. 393. Council held on February 22nd, 1732.

Six Benchers present.

^400 South Sea Annuities shall be sold to enable the
Treasurer to discharge the debts to the workmen and others.
[Realized ^442 55. Margin.]

p. 396. Council held on May 4th, 1732.

Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

William Compton and Hildebrand Alington.

" Ordered that it be referred to M r Treasurer, [and others],
to consider what book or books shall be bought with M r Robins'
legacy of ^20."

/. 397. Council held on May 22nd, 1732.

Ten Benchers present.

"Ordered that M r Farshall do attend M r Dixon to know
what is done in relation to the purchase of the area of the New
Square for this Society."

/. 401. Council held on June 9th, 1732.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that upon the application of any person to be
elected or appointed any officer, servant, or workman of this
Society, that the consideration of such application be adjourned
over to the next Council, and that this be a Standing Order."

Call to the Bar :
William Melmoth, Thomas Kyffine (who lacks two terms of

JSIacfe JSoofes of fLituoln's Inn* 301

six years), and Richard Thomson, Esq.,* lately made Second
Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster.

Council held June 28th, 1732. p. 403.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that no gentleman of this Society do come into /. 404.
the Hall but in their proper gowns, nor come in nor go out with
their hatts on."

Council held on July I3th, 1732. i>. 405.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that it be referred to M r Treasurer to treat and
agree with the carpenter and painter, for making, painting, and
gilding, three new Dial Boards, and for what iron work shall be
necessary to fix up the same in the strongest manner."

Call to the Bar, October 23rd, 1732 : p. 406.

Richard Mounteney ; as he has no chamber in the House,
he must deposit 20 in lieu thereof with the Treasurer, as security
for his future duties.

Call to the Bar, November i4th, 1732 : p. 408.

William Dixon, junior, and John Tracy.

Council held on November 28th, 1732. /. 409.

Eight Benchers present.

^"300 South Sea Annuities are to be sold to enable the
Treasurer to pay the debts of the Society. [Realized ^328 ics.
Margin, .]

" Ordered that henceforth the gate going into Bishop's
Court and the gate leading into Chichester Rents be locked up
at 7 a' clock in the evening from Michaelmas to Lady Day, and
that they be locked up from Lady Day to Michaelmas at 9 in the
evening."

" Ordered that notice be given to the proprietors of Bishop's
Court and Chichester Rents that the gate leading to the said
Court and Rents will be shut up at Midsummer next." t

" Ordered that an advertisement be put in the Dayly
Advertiser, for six days successively, offering a reward of ^10 to
be given to any person who shall discover the mother or the
person who dropd the two children, or either of them, in this
Society, so as the said mother or person be brought to justice for
the same ; to be paid by M r Farshall, the Chief Butler."

* Adm. June 3rd. Called to be an Associate of the Bench on payment of

; June i $th; p. 402.

f Discharged on April iQth, 1733.

302 Tf)e Ulacft ISoofes of Htncoln'g

Accounts of George Clive, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1732, to Jan. 23rd, 1733.

Receipts : ,2,449 3 s - 3^. Including \ for ground under the
Chapel for the burial of Mr. John Dobson.

Payments: ,2,418 us. ^d. Including ,57 145. to Newsham
for a fifth size [fire-] engine with leather pipes ;* i 2s. gd. for a
punch-ladle ; 35. for nursing a foundling ; 6s. more for nursing
two foundlings; i i8s. for Raymond's Reports; i 45. for 4
weeks nursing two children at 35. a week each ; 1 2s. 6d. for a
coffin, shroud, and all fees for the burial of one of them ; $ 145.
for 3 1 quarts of arrack for punch ; "34 95. 9d. for port wine.

Balance : ,30 125. od.

1733. Officers for 1733:

Treasurer : Joseph Kirke, Esq.
Master of the Library : George Clive, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Marmaduke Alington, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : Richard Brydges, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Graves Martyn, Esq.

p. 418. Call to the Bar, April 26th, 6 George II, 1733 :

Mathew Lamb.

p. 420. Council held on June 5th, 1733.

Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

p. 421. Everard Buckworth ; he "is to waive his first admission of

this House and to take his standing from his five years last past
before his call to the Barr." [p. 4i9.]t

Also Philips Coleman, Joshua Pembroke and Walter Yate.

" Ordered that for the future no Master of the Bench shall
nominate above two persons as objects of charity for the Sacrament
money."

\ " Ordered that such gentlemen as shall desire for the future
to deposite money in defalt of a qualification chamber, on being
called to the Barr, shall deposite 21 145. 6d., subject to the
same dutyes, fees, and contingencies as if admitted to a garrett."

Beversham Filmer, Esq., a Barrister of this Society, is
admitted to the chambers in Serle's Court, No. 5, two stories high
from the foundation, on the east side of the staircase, late in the
possession of Lord Raymond, deceased, C. J. K. B.

* See ante, p. 274.
t Apparently adm. May 5th, 1720.

\ Red Book II, p. 317. This sum includes i for the Treasurer's fee, los.
for the Butler's fee, and 45. 6d. for the petition and order. Ibid. t p. 320.
Serle's Court Book, I, p. 202.

Macfe Boofes of fUtuoln'* Enm 303

Council held on June i3th, 1733. p. 422.

Twelve Benchers present.

" Ordered that no person shall be permitted to ride any
horse or mare within the Society in order for sale, nor shall any
person be permitted to ride or bring thro' the Society any horse
or mare but what belongs to sume member of this Society for his
use." The Porters must see to this.

" Ordered that Sir Philip Yorke [and others] be desired to /. 423.
meet the Benchers of the Middle Temple in relation to qualifying
gentlemen to be called to the Barr."

Council held on June 28th, 1733.
Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer pay to M r William Smith,
Sollicitor, a member of this Society, the sum of 20, to enable
him to bring on the cause to a hearing, relateing to M r Martyn's
legacy.

" Ordered the two butteresses on the west side of the Hall be
worked up in the same manner to support the rooffe as the two
butteresses on the east side."

" Ordered that an arch be turned at each end of the passage
by the Hall door."

Council held on July i2th, 1733. / 4 2 4-

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Auditor Harley be desired to imploy a
proper person to make a catalogue of my late Lord Chief Justice
Hale's manuscripts, and that such catalogue be entered in a book
to be kept with the said manuscripts."

Council held on November 8th, 1733. p. 426.

Eleven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

John Brown, junior, and Pierce Galliard.

" Ordered that no person be admitted to preach as a candidate
of this Society but what is recommended by two of the Masters of
the Bench to the Dean of the Chappell."

" Ordered that the Rev d M r Crank be desired to preach on
Sunday morning next.

" Ordered that the Rev d M r Watts be desired to preach the
next Sunday after, in the morning. And that all candidates for
Preacher of this Society be at liberty to preach in the afternoon
of that Sunday, or any succeeding Sunday in the morning and
afternoon, untill a Preacher be chosen."

" Memorandum that the Rev d D r Herring, Dean of Rochester,

304 &iK UUcfe ook$ of !Ltiuoln'0

coming into Council and signifyeing his desire to resign his
Preachershipp of this Society, was axecepted."*

p. 427. Call to the Bench :

The Right Hon. Horatio Walpole, Esq.

Call to the Bar, November 2Oth, 1733:
John Rous.

p. 429. Council held on November 28th, 1733.

Fourteen Benchers present.

" The Rev d M r Edward Crank, B. D., being' this day elected
to be Preacher of this Society in the place of the Rev d D r Thomas
Herring, Dean of Rochester, who resigned his Preachershipp of
this Society It is thereupon ordered and declared that the said
M r Crank be and is Preacher of this Society, and that he have the
same exhibition, allowances, and chamber as the said Dean Herring
had when he was elected Preacher, and that the same duty and
attendance is expected from the said M r Crank ; and that M r Willes
is hereby desired to acquaint the said M r Crank therewith." f

" Ordered that the marble round the Communion Table be
covered with matts."

/. 432. Council held on December 7th, 1733.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer do make folding doors where
the arches now are entering into the Hall, as also such further
alterations in the Hall as may be necessary to accommodate the
CourL"|

Accounts of Joseph Kirke, Esquire, the Treasurer, from Jan.
2 3 rd !733> to Jan. 23rd, 1734.

Receipts: ,2,469 os. icd. Including ^380 from M r Richard
Sambourne for two chambers late of John Frewen, Esq., deceased;
16 (less tax) from M r Whitehall, Principal of Furnival's Inn, for
two years' rent.

Payments: .2,453 7 s - 4-d. Including .10 IDS. to Sir Philip
Yorke"upon his goeing out Serjeant," and 2s. for a purse; IDS.
paid the carpenter's to drink that made the Lord Chancellor's
Court."

Balance: .15 135. 6d.

* Dr. Herring was appointed Dean of Rochester, Jan. 3ist, 1732; Bp. of
Bangor, 1737: Archbp. of York, 1743; Archbp of Canterbury, 1747; died
March i3th, 1757. See Diet. Nat. Biog.

\ See ante, p. 282.

j The Lord Chancellor used the Hall as a Court, see/0j/, p. 305, 312.

Charles Talbot, the Sol. Gen., appointed Nov. agth; cr. Baron Talbot
Dec. 5th.

Macfc iSoofes of fUncoIn's $nm 305

Officers for 1734 : 1734.

Treasurer : John Browne, Esq.

Dudley Ryder, Esq., Sol. Gen.*
Master of the Library: Joseph Kirke, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : George Carew, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : Thomas Owen, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Paul Jodrell, Esq.

Council held on January 3ist, 7 George II, 1734. BOOK XI I.

Thirteen Benchers present. /. 2.

Call to the Bench :
Dudley Ryder, Esq., Solicitor General.

Call to the Bar :
Richard Serle and Richard Samborne.

Call to the Bar, February 7th, 1734 : /. 4.

George Hilborne.

Call to the Bar, May i6th, 1734 : /. 9.

Jenks Lutley,f Edward Thelwall and John Mitford. The
latter wants one whole term of six years.

Council held on May 27th, 1734 : p. \\.

Fourteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Attorney General,! M r Solicitor General,
M r Fortescue and M r Treasurer be desired to attend the Right
Hon ble the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain }, and to return
the humble thanks of this Society to his Lordship for the honour
he has done them in makeing use of the Hall of this Society, and
humbly to desire that his Lordship will continue to use the same
as long as his Lordship shall soe please ; and to signifye to his
Lordship that if there be anything wanting to make it more
commodious and convenient, that this Society will be ready to
make such alteration as shall be most agrebale to his Lordship."

Call to the Bar, June 26th, 1734 : p 14-

Francis Rocke.

* See post, Oct. 2 3rd

tin the Admission Register, June lyth, 1727, this name is misprinted
Tut ley.

I John Willes. Dudley Ryder || Lord Talbot.

VOL. III. 2 R

3 o6 riic UlarU UooUs of lUncnln's I-nn.

p. 1 8. Council held on October 23rd, 1734.

Five Benchers present.

Ordered that Dudley Ryder, Esq., Sol. Gen., be Treasurer
for the remainder of the year in place of John Browne, Esq.,
deceased.

p. 21. Council held on November 5th, 1734.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that the gentlemen of the Chancery Jury for
inquiring into the fees, etc., have the liberty of setting in the
Councill Chamber of this Society at all convenient times, for the
dispatch of the publick business," (provided any of the gentlemen
are of this Society.) *

1735. Officers for 1735 :

Treasurer : Dudley Ryder, Esq., Sol. Gen.
Master of the Library : Joseph Kirke, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Richard Brydges, Esq,
Black Book Keeper : Graves Martyn, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Henry Dry, Esq.

/. 27. Council held on February 5th, 8 George II, 1735 :

Eleven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Samuel Harreson and Robert Harper.

/. 28. The South Sea Annuities standing in the names of Master

Holford and Master Melmoth are to be sold to pay the tradesmen.
M r Meredith must remove his family from his chamber by
the first day of next term.

p. 35. Council held on February 26th, 1735.

Eight Benchers present.

t " Ordered that M r Farshall do wait upon M r Howell, to
know what he has done in searching for the heir of the surviving
Trustee of Cup Feilds."

/. 38. Council held on March 26th, 1735.

Seven Benchers present.

The deeds and writings relating to Cupp Fields are to be
scheduled, and delivered to M r Farshall, the Chief Butler, who

* Added Nov. 28th. Commissioners had been appointed to inquire: (i)
What officers, clerks and ministers, or their substitutes, of right belong to the
several offices of Masters in Chancery, Accomptant-General and Affidavit Office:
(2) What fees, etc., every of these officers ought to take, or have of late unjustly
extorted. The inquiry was made by "a Jury of reputable Attorneys and Sollicitors,
returned by the Sheriff of Middlesex." Gents, Mag., 1734, p. 625.

f Serle's Court Book, I, p. 206.

Macfe 2$oofes of Hituoltt's $nm 307

shall attend the House of Lords and the House of Commons
therewith as often as there shall be occasion. *

Call to the Bar, April 23rd, 1735 : p. 39.

Samuel Henry Pont and Henry Gapper.

Council held on May 7th, 1735. p. 41.

Ten Benchers present.

" Memorandum that the Council, being informed by M r
Fortescue that the Rev. M r Crank by reason of his ill state of
health is desirous to resign his Preachership of this society, have
accepted his said resignation."

The Rev. M r Watts is desired to preach in the Chapel on
Sunday, the nth instant.

Council held on June 6th, 1735. /. 44.

Thirteen Benchers present.

" The Rev. M r George Watts, Master of Arts, being this day /. 47.
elected to be Preacher of this Society in the place of the Rev.
M r Edward Crank, B.D., who resigned his Preachership of this
Society It is ordered thereupon and declared that the said M r
Watts be and is Preacher of this Society, and that he have the
same exhibition, allowance and chamber as the said M r Crank had
when he was elected Preacher, and that the same duty and
attendance is expected from the said M r Watts. And that M r
Attorney General f is hereby desired to acquaint the said M r
Watts therewith. "J

" Ordered that the Trustees for repairing Lincoln's Inn p. 48.
Feilds have liberty to meet in the Council Chamber when and as
often as they shall think proper."

Council held on June 25th, 1735.

Twelve Benchers present.

" Ordered that for the future no persons be recommended to /. 49.
the Dean of the Chappel by any persons, to be objects of chanty
to partake of the Sacrament money, but by the Judges and
Serjeants of this Society, the Benchers, and the Preacher, who
may name but two apeice, and the Reader, who may name but
one."

Council held on July 9th, 1735. p- 51.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that the east front between the Chappell and Hall /. 52.
be rebuilt, and that the same sashes be made use of as are now

* See Appendix. t John Willes. \ See ante t p. 304.

3o8 JK ISlacfe Boofes of Eincoln'g Enn*

there, and that new ones be made where there are none, except
in the Buttery, where barrs, etc., are to be made."

Various sums of money were ordered to be given to persons
who had helped to extinguish the recent fire in the Inn, including
i os. apiece to S' Clement's engine, Gray's Inn engine and S'
Dunstan's engine.*

/. 53. Council held on July i 5th, 1735.

Nine Benchers present.

" Whereas M r Cheveley, by the direction of the Trustees
appointed by Act of Parliament for enclosing, cleaning and
adorning Lincoln's Inn Feilds, hath attended at this Council
to know whether the Benchers of the Honourable Society of
Lincoln's Inn have any objection to the Trustees making a
coach way, as well as a footway, on the east side of Lincoln's Inn
Fields, next to the Terrass Wall of the said Society, in the same
manner as the other ways and passages of the said Fields are
designed, (which are proposed to be as follows : the coachway
45 foot, and the footway 10 foot wide ; the coachway to be
divided from the footway by stone posts), and to report the
answers of the gentlemen of the Bench The Council have taken
the said proposals into their consideration, and they have no
objection to them, provided the Trustees shall take care to prevent
a coachway's being made at any time hereafter from Great Turn
Style in Holborne into Lincoln's Inn Feilds, by such methods
as they shall think proper ; and likewise provided that the said
coachway proposed to be made by the Trustees under the wall
of the said Society be from time to time kept watered and cleaned
in the same manner as the other coach ways about the Fields."

Council held on October 23rd, 1735.
Six Benchers present.

p- 54. Call to the Bar:

Joseph Kirke, junior.

p. 55. " Upon the petition of M r Robert Adams, setting forth that

he hath livery stables over against the wall of the Long Yard
belonging to the Society of Lincoln's Inn, and that the ground
from the outside of the said wall to the kennell belongs (as he
apprehends) to the said Society, and that if he may have leave to
cover the said ground from the top of the wall, he, the said
M r Adams, will always keep it clean and in good repair, and not

* It appears from the Treasurer's Accounts that the fire was at No. 4, Old
Buildings.

ISIacfe Boofeg of ILincoltt's nm 309

be any hindrance to the carts or waggons that come up the said
ground, and will be a preserving the said wall." The place shall
be viewed and the question considered afterwards.

Council held on November i8th, 1735. /. 56.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

Paul Jodrell, junior, and Thomas Vivian.

Also John Leacroft, on his petition "setting forth that he is /. 57.
desirous to be called to the Bar this term, and apprehending it
would cost about ^80, besides the treating the Hall, in that case
he would lay aside all thoughts of being called," and desiring that,
on payment of five years' duties (which will come to "34, besides
his admission to a chamber which will be 20 more), he might be
called to the Bar. It was ordered that he should be called on
payment of ,35 ios., performance of all his exercises, and taking
a chamber ; but he must waive his seniority of admission,* and
take his standing from five years before his Call.

Also Floyer Sydenham, who was admitted at the Inner /. 58.
Temple on Jan. 2ist, 1728, and here on April i2th last.

" Ordered that the Sunday's morning service begin not before p. 57,
half an hour after 10 of the clock, and the afternoon service
as usual."

Call to the Bar, November 25th, 1735 : /. 59.

James Tilson.

Accounts of Dudley Ryder, Esquire, Solicitor General, the
Treasurer, from Jan. 23rd, 1735, to Jan. 23rd, 1736.

Receipts: ,2,168 iis. 70!. Including 62 2s. 3d. from the
late Treasurer: ^"14 from Nathaniel Brand, Principal of Thavies
Inn, for 3 years' rent (less tax) ; 237 i8s. by the sale of South
Sea Annuities.

Payments: 2,097 Ils - 3^- Including 55. to the Beadle of
S. Andrew's Parish "that fetch'd away a child drop't No. 21,
Old Buildings' ; i 125. 6d. to the woman that nurseth the
foundling to buy clothes ; 1 2s. for a month's keeping the
foundling; 3 143. 6d. for fruit on Grand Day in Trinity Term;
2s. for oranges and lemons for the punch ; i 55. for prosecuting
the woman that stole the dial ; 33. for a barrel of Colchester
oysters; \ 173. 6d. to the woman that nurses the two children,
and for the burial of one of them.

Balance: 71 os. 4d.

* He was admitted June 26th, 1724.

3io W^t ISlacfe ISoofeg of Eincoln'0 Emt.

1736. Officers for 1736:

Treasurer: John Washer, Esq.

Master of the Library: Dudley Ryder, Esq., Sol. Gen.

Dean of the Chapel : Thomas Owen, Esq.

Black Book Keeper: Paul Jodrell, Esq.

Master of the Walks: James Strode, Esq.

p. 66. Council held on January 23rd, 9 George II, 1736.

Seven Benchers present.

/. 67. " W T hereas it appears to us that the appointing a Master of

the Bench to be Treasurer of this Society before he is acquainted
with the Orders and usages of the House, is putting a much
greater trouble and difficulty upon such Master than it would be if
he should be appointed Treasurer after he hath had an opportunity
of knowing the same by being Master of the Bench some time
before such appointment, and he would also after such experience
execute that office more beneficially to the Society It is therefore
ordered that for the future no person be nominated or appointed
to be Treasurer of this Society till he hath been four terms a
Master of the Bench of this Society."

/. 68. Call to the Bar, February 5th, 1/36:

John Wadman, Thomas Robinson and Phipps Davison.*

/. 69. Council held on February i2th, 1736.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that for the future every gentleman that signs the
paper for keeping vacation commons, do, at the time of signing
and subscribing the same, pay his money for the commons to the
Chief Butler."

/. 70. Council held on May 2Oth, 1736.

Five Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :
Richard Hollings, Esq., K.C.t

/. 71. Call to the Bar:

Thomas Harris and Edmund Gibson.

* In the admission Register his name is misprinted Philip.

\ The only Richard Hollings appearing in the Admission Register was admitted
June 5th, 1729, who is probably the one here referred to. If so, he must have
come from some other Inn, and have been already called to the Bar. He is
described as "a Barrister of this Society" in 1729, (Red Book II, p. 293). No
Richard Hollings occurs in Foss's list of King's Counsel for this reign.

Macfe ISoofes of fLtncoln's $nm 311

Council held on June 25th, 1736. p. p$.

Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :
John Spooner and Anthony James.

Call to the Bench :

Gilbert Browne, Esq., John Roberts, Esq., Thomas Turner,
senior, Esq., William Kinaston, Esq., a Master in Chancery, /. 76.
Nicholas Fazakerley, Esq., and John Wood, senior, Esq.

Council held on November nth, 1736. p. 83.

Twelve Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Black Book Keeper for the time being /. 85.
be at liberty to lend any Master of the Bench, who shall desire
the same, any book in his custody belonging to this Society,
takeing a receipt to redeliver the same, so that only one book
be borrowed by any such Master at one time."

" Ordered that the coat of arms of the Right Hon ble Thomas,
Lord Wyndham, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, one of the Masters
of the Bench, be put up in one of the windows of the Common
Dining Hall of this Society."

" M r Turner acquainted the Chairman * that the Trustees of
Lincoln's Inn Feilds had desired him to acquaint the Masters of
the Bench of this Society, that they had ordered a key of the
garden in Lincoln's Inn Feilds to be delivered to every Master
of the Bench who shall desire the same."

" Also . . . that the Trustees of Lincoln's Inn Feilds desired
that they may have liberty at their own charge to erect a shed in
the south east corner of the said Feilds, for depositing of a fire
engine and other utinsills for the use of the garden in the said
Feilds." The place shall be viewed.

Call to the Bar, November 23rd, 1736 : /. 86.

Edward Hasted, John Ord, and Willoughby Aston.

Council held on November 29th, 1736. /. 87.

Fourteen Benchers present.

' Ordered that the Library Keeper attend in the Library
the whole year from 9 to i in the forenoon only, and from Lady
Day to Michaelmas from 4 to 7 in the afternoons."

* For this expression see ante, p. 181. William Guidott's name occurs first in the
list of Benchers present at this Council, presumably as the senior Bencher present
who had no special precedence.

312 %$t Mack iSoofeg of fLincoltt's 5nn

p. 90. Council held on December 8th, 1736.

Twelve Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Baron Clive* be desired to wait on the Lord
Chancellor [Talbot], Lord Hardwick, and the Master of the Rolls,
to acquaint them that the Council Chamber and any other room of
the Society are at their service whenever they please to make use
of them, and take it as a great honour done to this Society."

Accounts of John Washer, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1736, to Jan. 23rd, 1737.

Receipts: ,2,035 Is - 2 & Including 6 6s. from Dudley
Ryder, Esq., "his commute money in lieu of Treasurer's Feast";
i 6s. for candles the Lord Chancellor had for the Court in 1733.

Payments: 1,848 2s. od. Including ^"10 ics. to William
Fortescue, Esq., Serjeant at Law, and is. for a purse; the like to
John Toller, Esq., Thomas Hussey, Esq., Abraham Gapper, Esq.,
and Richard Draper, Esq., Serjeants at Law; 2 igs. to M r Heyly,
Attorney at Law, for prosecuting the woman that stole the dial in
the Garden; i IDS. for strawberries and cherries (June 3rd);
$ i os. for a buck; 6 for the new dial, and 35. for mending the
windows broken by the workmen fixing it; i 6s. for slating the
summer-house.

Balance: ,186 195. 2d.

1737. Officers for 1737 :

Treasurer : Marmaduke Alington, Esq.
Master of the Library : John Washer, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Graves Martyn, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : Henry Dry, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Job Hanmer, Esq.

p. 93. Call to the Bench, February 3rd, 10 George II, 1737 :

John Browne, Esq., K.C. t

/. 98. Council held on May 3rd, 1737.

Thirteen Benchers present.

p. 99. " Ordered that no commons for the future be allowed to the

clerks of the Masters of the Bench."

Call to the Bar :

Hon. John Talbot, James Reynall4 Levet Blackborne,
Edward Southby and Pvichard Pyot.

* George Clive, appointed Cursitor Baron, Nov. 6, 1735.
f Not in Foss's list of King's Counsel.
J Called John James on admission.

Ul U. 111. !.< tl ff J^lltlt J I J

Council held on May i7th, 1737. p. 100.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that every Master of the Bench who speaks in
Councill address himself to the Chair, and speak standing."

Call to the Bar: p. 101.

Thomas Bernard.

" Ordered that M' Treasurer be desired to give direccions
what cloths [clothes] are necessary to be bought for the foundling."

Council held on May 23rd, 1737.
Eleven Benchers present.

The deeds and writings relating to M r Martyn's legacy are to /. 102.
be delivered to M r Smith, " in order to proceed in the ejectment
relating to that estate, he giving a receipt for the same."

" Ordered that on Sacrament Days, prayers in the afternoon
do not begin till half an hour after three, and that the Reader doe
give notice thereof every such Sunday, in the morning."

All " the stokoe work " in the Chapel is to be repainted next
Long Vacation.

Council held on June loth, 1737. /. 104.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered, for preventing fire, that for the future noe other /. 105.
lamps be lighted by any gentleman in any of the stair-cases, but
in globular lamps."

Council held on July I3th, 1737. /. 1 1 1.

Ten Benchers present.

For the better extinguishing of fire, it is resolved that water p. 112.
be laid on in several places in the Inn, according to M r Hutchinson's
scheme, who has agreed to do the work for ^180, and to finish
it by Michaelmas next. An agreement shall be entered into with
the York Buildings Company * to supply the water there, and
also in the kitchen, at a cost of 10 per annum. t The Governors
of the New River Water are to be thanked for their offer.

Council held on October 24th, 1737. p> 115-

Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :
George Overman and Richard Hopton.

* Seean.'e, pp. 274, 275.

t The agreement was dated, Feb. 3rd following, and is entered on p. 126.

VOL. III. 2 S

* [A long Report as to the various admissions into the
chambers in No. n, New Square. The six persons, for whose
lives the six chambers are now held respectively, are :

Paul Foley, Esq., of the Inner Temple.

Thomas Midlycott, Esq., in Boulton Street.

William Hale, Esq.

Harry Waller, Esq.

Henry Penton, Esq., of Winchester.

Sir Roger Meredith of Leeds Abbey, Kent.
It is recommended that upon the nomination of every new
life, the Order should specify how many nominations have been
made before, and that enquiry should be frequently made whether
the persons for whose lives the chambers are held are living ;
also that the stone in the wall should from time to time be cleaned
and made legible, f]

/. 116. Call to the Bar, October 27th, 1737 :

Paul Feild.

/. 1 1 8. Council held on November i7th, 1737.

Eleven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Associates of the Bench for the time
being have the same liberty to name two persons for the charity
money as the present Masters of the Bench have."

P. 119. Council held on November 28th, 1737.

Seven Benchers present.
p. 121. "Ordered that none of the King's Councill who shall be

called to the Bench hereafter, shall be appointed Treasurer but

in the order he is called to the Bench."

Accounts of Marmaduke Alington, Esquire, the Treasurer,
from Jan. 23rd, 1737, to Jan. 23rd, 1738.

Receipts: ,2,771 75. 8d. Including ,1,195 6s. 8d. for
admissions to chambers and chamber fines.

Payments: ,2,723 135. 6d. Including 55. to the Beadle
of Saint Andrew's, Holborn, "that fetch't a child that was dropt
in Lincoln's Inn"; "3 35. for two haunches of venison (June
2 5 tn ) ; /6 6s., "the remaining part of the money for the History
of Thuanies "J ; \ is. for a doz. of port.

Balance : .47 145. 2d.

* Serle's Court Book, I, pp. 214-217. f See ante, p. 181.

J A new edition of this work, 7 vols., folio, had been published in 1733.

Mack iSoofes of Lincoln's Entu 3 1 5

Officers for 1738: 1738.

Treasurer : Richard Rollings, Esq., K.C.
Master of the Library : Marmaduke Alington, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Paul Jodrell, senior, Esq.
Black Book Keeper : James Strode, Esq.
Master of the Walks : John Roberts, Esq.

Council held on February 3rd, u George II, 1738. p. 123

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Samuel Prat.

"Ordered that the fruit shop under the Gate in Chancery p. 124.
Lane be removed, and the Gate kept open in the day time."

* John Hammet, Esq., Barrister, is admitted to the whole
ground chamber, No. 17 in Kitchen Garden Court and Field
Gate Row, late of George Carew, Esq., Bencher, deceased,! on
payment of ^400. Ordered "that a door and door case be
made into the New Square, and the old one to be stopt up at
the expense of this Society."

Call to the Bar, April iQth, 1738: p. 128.

Arthur Jones.

Call to the Bar, May 2nd, 1738: /. 129.

James Abercromby, who has been admitted upwards of
twelve years, upon payment of five years' duties, and 20 in
lieu of a chamber; "but the said M r Abercromby is to waive
his first admission of this House, and take his standing only
from the five years last past before his Call to the Barr."J

Call to the Bar, May 8th, 1738: /. 130.

Robert Hutton (lacking one term of full standing) and Robert
Salkeld [lacking two terms).

Council held on May i5th, 1738. /. 131.

Eleven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the proposall for discontinuing the sermon in
the afternoon on Sundays is unanimously rejected, and that

* Red Book II, p. 361. t See ante, p. 271.

I He was admitted Jan. 29th, 1725-6. The sums paid are set out in the
margin ; absent commons ^18, vacation commons 6, pensions i 6s. 8d.,
ca ^ Po5i Library money 133. 4d., eating commons i8s., Preacher ^2 IDS. ; total,
^34 8s.

3 i6 C6e #larfe #oofeg of Lincoln's Emu

Sunday service, morning and afternoon, be as usual. And that
the books of this Society be search't by the gentlemen now
present, or any three of them, to see what is the antient
constitution in relation to the Preacher in regard to his duty of
preaching in this Society," and to report.

p. 135. Call to the Bar, June 6th, 1738 :

Henry Dry, junior, and Lloyd Williams.

p. 137. Council held on June 2ist, 1738.

Eleven Benchers present.

p. 139. "Whereas at a Councill held the i7th day of May last* it

was ordered that every Master of the Bench who speaks in
Councill, address himself to the Chair and speak standing, Now
therefore, for preserving the better order and decency in debating
of matters in Councill, It is hereby ordered that when any Master
of the Bench shall speak standing he shall not be interrupted
therein by any other Master of the Bench; and in case of any
such interruption happening, the Chairman (for the time being ) is
hereby desired to call to the person, so interrupting another whilst
speaking, to observe this Order."

p. 140. Council held on July 3rd, 1738.

Twelve Benchers present.

M r Joddrell, Dean of the Chapel, presents the report of the
Committee on the duties of the Preacher, quoting at length the
Order appointing M r John Tillotson as Preacher, Nov. 26th, 1663.1
" Upon taking this report into consideration, wee are of
opinion and do order that the duty laid down in the said Order
for the Preacher, ought to be observed by every one who is or
shall be the Preacher of this Society. And for the better
understanding of the said Order, wee doe declare that it is not
expected that the Preacher do himself preach in the afternoon on
every Lord's Day in term time and next before and after every
term, but that he doe upon every afternoon of those days provide
a good and able Preacher in his roome. And it is ordered that
a coppy of this be delivered to the Rev d M r Watts, Preacher of
this Society. And it is further ordered that as often as there shall
happen to be a vacancy of a Preacher to this Society, and a new
election to be made, that a coppy of this Order be delivered to
every person who shall stand as a candidate."

p. 141. The fruit stall in the New Square shall be forthwith removed.

Sic ; May lyth, 1737. See ante, p. 313. f See ante, p. 34.

Macfe 23oofeg of fLincoln's Emu 317

For the future no person shall be permitted to make any stand
there for selling any things.

Ordered that the Porters " do not permit or suffer any person
whatsoever to cry or expose to sell any goods whatsoever within
the Courts and passages of this Society, and that they do from
time to time clear the House from all beggars and other disorderly
persons."

Call to the Bar, October 23rd, 1738 : p. 142.

Horatio Walpole, (third son of the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert
Walpole), and Miles Harrison.

Call to the Bar, November I5th, 1738 : p. 144.

Richard Lansdown and George W rough ton.

Council held on November 23rd, 1738. p. 146.

Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Robert H olden and Benjamin Hatley Foote.

" Ordered that the pedestal of the dial standing in the center
of the middle walk in the Garden be forthwith taken clown, and . ... : ,
disposed of by the Treasurer for the benefitt of the House."*

Council held on December 7th, 1738. /. 149.

Eleven Benchers present.

A Committee is appointed "to consider of making one or
more chimneys in the Hall, for coal fires."

"Ordered that Prayers in the afternoon for the future do p. 151.
begin at 4 a'clock from the loth of October to the loth of February,
and that the first bell be rung a quarter before 4, and the second
at 4 .... and that no candles be used during these times but at
the deske; and that from the loth of February to the loth of
October, prayers will begin in the afternoon at 5 a'clock, and that
a copy of this Order be delivered to the Reader."

The workmen report that the kitchen chimneys over the ovens /. 152.
are in a ruinous condition and cannot be shored or supported.
They shall be pulled down immediately, and the gentlemen having
chambers over the kitchen have notice to remove at once for fear
of accidents.

Accounts of Richard Hollings, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1738, to Jan. 23rd, 1739.

* The dial had been stolen. See ante, pp. 309, 312.

318 CJe ISlacfe JSoofeg of ILtncoln'g

Receipts: .2,161 6s. 2d. Including 7 45. from M r Cottrel,
Principal of Furnival's Inn, for a year's rent, less tax.

Payments: ,2,078 us. lod. Including ^54 55. for "old
coal"; 16 i8s. for faggots, billets and sea-coal; 125. "for
burnishing, boyling and soldering the large silver candlesticks that
stands on the Communion Table on Sundays"; 2 2s. "for
marking, cleaning and numbering all the books in the Library,
being 6 days' work " ; ^4 i is. " for binding 7 books of the History
of Thuani"; 5 IDS. to M r Alington for a buck; 2 i6s. to
Thomas Atkinson for 4 doz. of china plates; ^4 i6s. for 2 doz.
of claret; i 145. 8d. for 2 Westphalia hams.

Balance: ^"82 145. 4d.

1739. Officers for 1739:

Treasurer: John Browne, Esq.
Master of the Library: Richard Hollings, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel: Henry Dry, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book: Job Hanmer, Esq.

John Roberts, Esq.
Master of the Walks: Thomas Turner, Esq.

/. 1 60. Council held on May 9th, 12 George II, 1739.

Six Benchers present.

"Ordered that Master [John] Roberts be Black Book Keeper
for the rest of this year."

Call to the Bar:

Mathew Hutton and John Bayes.

* John Howell, gent., one of the Fellows, setting forth that
there being at the end of his chambers next the Kitchin Garden a
new room, erected for a pastry, prays that he may have leave to
erect over the same a room with a chimney, at his own expense.

1 William Travers, gent., one of the Fellows, setting forth
that there is a vacant space over the ovens lately erected by the
Society adjoining to the back part of his chambers, prays that he
may have leave to erect a room over the same, at his own expense.

p. 162. Call to the Bar, May i8th, 1739:

Charles Townesend.f

* Red Book II, p. 377. HowelPs chamber was at No. 21 ; it is described, on
his admittance, as " one whole chamber, two stories high, in Gate House Court
and Stone Pace Row, over part of the kitchen." (Ibid., p. 322.) No order was
made on these petitions ; see June 28th, below.

t Adm. Aug. 22, 1712. He paid ^70 35. 6d. for arrears of absent commons.
The total arrears and fees on Gall amounted to ^102 is. 4d.

Macfc iSoofeg of Etncoln's Inn, 319

Council held on May 25th, 1739. /. 163.

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

Henry Frederick How.

" Ordered that Thomas Turner, Esq., Master of the Walks,
do give directions to provide five new seats or benches in the
Garden, of oak, and paint them, and to repair the Great Gate into
Chancery Lane, and plaister and paint the four alcoves."

Council held on June 28th, 1739. /. 168.

Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Francis Wilks and William Milborne.

In future no workman's or tradesman's bill over 10 shall be p. 169.
paid until it has been laid before the Council and examined by a
Committee.

* " Ordered that no further buildings be carried up either
over the ovens or over the pastry room, and that the workmen
do proceed forthwith to cover over the ovens in the most
substantial manner."

Call to the Bar, July 6th, 1739 : /. 170.

Joseph Harrison.

Council held on July nth, 1739. p. 171.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Rev d M 1 " Watts, the Preacher of this
Society, be desired to print his sermons or discourses of the
Parables, which he has lately preach'd in Lincoln's Inn Chappel."
A Committee is to view the Buttery, and report what is
proper to be done in order to make it more commodious for the
Chancellor.!

Council held on July 26th, 1739. /. 174.

Six Benchers present.
The Buttery shall be altered according to M r Bigg's plan.j /. 175.

* Red Book II, p. 381. The remains of these ovens were taken down in the
spring of 1899.

f Lord Talbot died on Feb. 14th, 1737, and was succeeded by Philip Yorke,
Lord Hardwicke. Hardwicke continued to use the Hall of Lincoln's Inn for his
Court occasionally, as Talbot had done (ante, pp. 304, 305, 312.) He held his
first sitting there on Feb. 24th, 1736-7 ; see note at the commencement of Atkyns'
Reports. The Buttery lay between the Hall and the Chapel ; see ante, pp. 307,
308.

I No details are given.

of ILincoIn'0

p. 176. Council held on November i5th, 1739.

Seven Benchers present.

p. '.77. Call to the Bar :

George Eckersall, Marshall Rider, and Charles Lethieullier.

Ordered that five guineas be paid to M rs Jane Crawford,

daughter of Patrick Crawford, Esq., deceased, late one of the

Masters of the Bench, she being in ill health and reduced to

great want.

p. 178. Twelve persons have made encroachments on the north wall

of the Great Garden; they must attend the Council on the 28th
inst. at 8 o'clock in the evening.

Council held on November 28th, 1739.

Nine Benchers present.

Upon. the report of the Committee on the consumption of
wine, " It is ordered that M r Farshall do every day, immediately
after the cloth is drawn, give an account in writeing of the wine
that is spent at the Bench and in the Hall to the Quatuor, and
that the said account be then signed by the president."
p. 179. "Ordered that prayers in the afternoon shall, from the end

of this term, begin at half an hour after three a'clock, and continue
till the first day of next term ; and that the first bell begin to
ring a quarter after three a'clock ; and that noe candles be used
but in the Reader's desk ; and that notice be given to M r
Rawlins."

Accounts of John Browne, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1739, to Jan. 23rd, 1740.

Receipts: ,2,474 i8s. 6d. Including 2 2s. from M r Dayrell
for the pedestal in the Great Garden* ; ^7 45. from M r Nicholas
Cotterell, Principal of Furnival's Inn for a year's rent (less tax);
^4 i os. from M r Eliot Taylor, Principal of Thavies Inn, for the
like; .813 6s. 8d. for chamber fines.

Payments: ,2,107 8s. 4^- Including 7s. for the Lord
Chancellor's picture t; i 45. for 2 months' nursing the foundling;
\ 95. for schooling the foundling; 2 8s. for clothing the
foundling.

Balance: ,367 los. 2d.

* See ante, p. 317.

f Sir Philip Yorke, Lord Hardwicke, C.J.K.B., was appointed Chancellor,
Feb. 2ist, 1737. A mezzotint portrait, now hanging in the Council Chamber, is
probably the one referred to ; engraved by Johan Faber, dated 1737.

Macfe 2$oofes of iUttcoltt's Enm 321

Officers for 1740 : 1740.

Treasurer : Richard Brydges, Esq.
Master of the Library: John Browne, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : James Strode, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : Thomas Turner, Esq.
Master of the Walks : William Kinaston, Esq.

Council held on January 23rd, 13 George II, 1740. /. 183.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered the bell to ring a quarter before 4, and to goe to
prayers at 4 a'clock, and that notice be given in the Chappel thereof."

Call to the Bar, February 7th, 1740 : /. 185.

James Morgan.

Council held on April 23rd, 1740. /. 192.

Thirteen Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : /. 193.

Ambrose Dickins and Luke Spence.

" That in regard the care of the Hall and keeping it clean
is the duty of the Pannierman, he to have a moiety of the profits
to be received by the Porter, arrising by my Lord Chancellor's
setting in the Hall, except the hat money." *

Council held on May 9th, 1740. p. 196.

Twelve Benchers present.

"Ordered that the shop under Chancery Lane Gate be/. 198.
forthwith removed."

" Ordered that this Society subscribe for the large paper of
M r Thurloe's Collection of State Papers" [Margin. P d 5 55.]

Call to the Bench, May loth, 1740 : /. 199.

John Floyer, Michael Biddulph, Robert Fenwick, Marmaduke
Dayrell, William Hamilton, John Green, John Idle, and Henry /. 200.
Montagu, a Master in Chancery, Esquires.

Call to the Bar, June 2Oth, 1740 : p. 204.

Thomas Falkner and Philip Herbert.

Council held on June 25th, 1740. /. 206.

Eleven Benchers present.

Joseph Johnson undertakes to supply the Hall with small /. 208.
beer, value IDS. a barrel, for one year for ^30.

" Ordered that no wine, or exceedings, or more then one dish
upon double dish days, be allowed the officers or servants of the

* Possibly gratuities for taking care of hats, etc. The quotations given in the
N. E. D. all apply to a different use of the term.
VOL. in. 2 T

322 Cfie ISlacfe iSoofcg of Eincoln's

Society; but upon the Grand Day, then they be allowed a bottle
of wine to each mess, and what is left at the Masters' table."

p. 211. Council held on October 23rd, 1740.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Evening Prayers in the Chappel on the
week days doe for the future begin at the hour of five, as hereto-
fore accustomed, and the first bell to begin a quarter before five."
A Committee is appointed to consider the consumption of candles
in the Chapel and the Porter's Lodge.

p. 212. Call to the Bar, November iith, 1740:

Thomas Staunton and Richard Aston.

/. 214. Call to the Bar, November 2Oth, 1740:

Peter Holford.

^. 218. Council held on December loth, 1740.

Nine Benchers present.

/. 219. M r Attorney General [Dudley Ryder], and six other Benchers,

are appointed a Committee " to inquire into and redress all
greivances, extravagant expences, and other mismanagements
relateing to this Society."

Accounts of Richard Brydges, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1740, to Jan. 23rd, 1741.

Receipts: ,2,197 4 s - Io d-

Payments: 2,097 Is - 5^. Including 13 35. to the charman ;
jCio los. each to M r Baron Reynolds* and M r Serjeant Willes, t
and 35. for two purses; us. 3d. for salmon and lobsters, etc., at
the Adjourned Council (July 4th); 6 35. for a fat buck in Trinity
Term; ,10 los. to M r Serjeant Eyre, and 2s. 6d. for a purse ; J
6s. to the Chief Porter, " money he spent in getting the child that
was dropt under the Chappell to be kept by S* Andrew's Parish,
and 53. to the beadle for taking the child away.

Balance: 100 35. 5d.

1741. Officers for 1741 :

Treasurer : Thomas Owen, Esq.

Master of the Library : Richard Brydges, Esq.

Dean of the Chapel : John Roberts, Esq.

Keeper of the Black Book : William Kinaston, Esq.

Master of the Walks : Nicholas Fazakerley, Esq.

* James Reynolds; C.J.C.P. Ireland, 1727; Baron of the Exchequer, 1740.

t This can hardly refer to John Willes, who was made a Serjeant in 1737 on
his appointment as C.J.C.P. Foss gives an Edward Willes as King's Serjeant in
1745; perhaps identical with the E.W. appointed Chief Baron in Ireland in 1757.

\ William Eyre. Foss includes him in the Call of 1745.

Macfe Boofes of Uiiuoltt's Enrn 323

Council held on January 23rd, 14 George II, 1741. p. 221.

Seven Benchers present.

The Committee on Grievances, etc., report that the York
Buildings Company have vacated their agreement to supply the
House with Thames water,* and that they are in treaty with the
New River Company to supply the House at the former rate of
10 per annum from their mains near the Terrace wall in
Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Council held on January 29th, 1741. /. 223.

Eleven Benchers present.

The Committee on Grievances, etc., make the following
recommendations :

That "on the Grand Day in each terme no more then four
dishes be provided and allowed to each mess at the Bench Table,
including the commons of the House, and no more then three
dishes at the Barr messes, their commons being also included.

" That French wine be drank in the Hall, Council Chamber,
or Buttery, only on Grand or holydays for the future at the
expense of the House " ; and that "all the port wines used in the
House for the future be bought at the best hand and of a
merchant, not exceeding one guinea a dozen, which ought to
contain three gallons.

" That for the future, (in respect to the uncertainty of
providing commons for repasters, and as a saveing), no repast
whatsoever be allowed or kept in the Hall or Buttery, except
upon Barr Mootes only, or, when the term shall begin or end on
Wednesday, for that day only."

That the weekly accounts and disbursements for commons /. 224.
be laid in the Buttery Room every Saturday morning at
i o'clock ; and that the two junior Benchers in commons for the
week do audit and sign the same.

That the accounts for the preceding term be laid on the table
by the first Butler at every Adjourned Council.

That every year there be a special Council to audit and
examine the Treasurer's Accounts.

These recommendations are approved and confirmed. Notice
of the new Order as to repasts shall be screened forthwith.

" Moved by M r Alington, seconded by M r Floyer,f that the
Council consider ' whether it be not for the honor and benefitt of
the Society that no gentlemen to be called to the Barr in this
House for the future be required or permitted to treat the Hall on
being called to the Barr.' ' Adjourned.

* See ante, p. 274.

f The first instance where the seconder of a motion is recorded.

324 CJe #lacfe 23oofeg of lUneoln'g

p. 225. Call to the Bar, February 9th, 1741 :

Walden Hanmer, Griffith Phillipps and Samuel Benyon.

p, 228. Council held on February 26th, 1741.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Barr Moote treats be for the future taken
away; and that every person called to the Barr doe pay ^5 for
the use of the Library, in lieu of the 135. 4d. formerly paid."
/. 229. " Ordered that noe University Order be for the future

allowed."

Council held on April I5th, 1741.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

Lancelot Lee and Charles Greene.
Commons are raised 2s. a week, on account of the excessive
dearness of provisions.
/. 230. " Master Melmoth reports that he has received on the loth

of April, 1741, M r Hungerford's legacy, viz: ^200, for the use o
this Society." *

/. 234. Call to the Bar, June 4th, 1741 :

David Poole.

p. 245. Council held on November i3th, 1741.

Nine Benchers present.

Ordered that a Chappell clerk be elected, at a salary of
and a gown when necessary. He must attend whenever there
is a sermon.

p. 246. Council held on November 28th, 1741.

Five Benchers present.

p. 247. M r Newsham offers to keep both the [fire] engines and the

leather pipes in good order for i los. a year. Accepted.

/. 249. Council held on December loth, 1741.

Twelve Benchers present.

" It is the opinion of the Committee that the expences of
eating commons in the Hall is in part occasioned by the fees
claimed by the cook as belonging to him out of every loin of
mutton, under which pretence he takes to himself in weight near
half of the mutton brought into the kitchen ; and the expences
are further encreased by the extravagant bills brought in by him
for dressing the dinners on Grand Days.

See a rife, pp. 290, 291.

Blacfe ISoofes of IUncoln'0 Enm 325

"Ordered that for the future the cook be allowed no fees or
perquisites except the drippings, nor any bills for dressing dinners
on the Grand Day or any other days ; but that in lieu thereof he
be paid in money 7 every term, and be allowed the proffits of
the dripping, and his commons, which are lookt upon to be an
ample compensation for his service about 16 week in the year."

" That the Steward do for the future buy the loins of mutton
in the market, without the several rumps or kidneys, and take care
that the same, and allso the beef, be trimed fit for dressing."

" The cook accepted the offer."

Henry Duffield is chosen Chapel Clerk. p. 250.

Accounts of Thomas Owen, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1741, to Jan. 23rd, 1742.

Receipts: ,2,783 i8s. 4d. Including 450 from Hugh
Hayward for the chambers late of Master [Richard] Brydges,
leceased.

Payments: .2,301 133. od. Including i 45. 3d. for tongues,
oysters, etc., at the Adjourned Council [Feb. 26th]; i 133. for
the foundling's schooling; 7 for a fat buck; 125. for salmon and
lobsters, and 45. lod. for sugar, oranges, lemons, bread, beer, cheese,
etc., at the Adjourned Council [July ist]; 4 45. for tent;* 53. to
the Beadle of S. Andrew's, Holborn, "for his being ready in
fetching away dropt children" ; IDS. 6d. to two porters " for cleaning
two very nasty rooms and some gutters."

Balance: 482 53. 4d.

Officers for 1742 : * 742

Treasurer : Paul Jodrell, Esq.f
Master of the Library : Thomas Owen, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Thomas Turner, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : Nicholas Fazakerley, Esq.
Master of the Walks : John Wood, Esq.

Council held on January 23rd, 15 George II, 1742. /. 251.

Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Richard Ryder and Thomas Gregge.

" Ordered that the Sacrament money be distributed by the
Dean of the Chapell four times in every year, to and amongst
those poor only who are recommended by the gentlemen of the

* Probably for the Sacrament.

f Appointed Jan. 23rd, Graves Martyn having refused to act.

26 CJe &lacfe i$oofeg of Lincoln's

Bench only who are resident in town, and that a list of such
gentlemen be prepared by M r Farshall, and presented at the next
Council."

252. "An Inventory of the plate belonging to the Hon ble

Society of Lincoln's Inn, taken the i5th day of
January, 1741 [-2] by William Reeve, Goldsmith,
Lombard Street :

Imprimis, a large goblet, the gift of the
Right Hon. Sir Richard Raynsford,

Lord Chief Justice of the King's oz. DWT. s. D.

Bench ... ... ... ... 5110 *3 H 8

2. A goblet, the gift of John Green, Esq. 32 15 8 14 8

3. A large bason and ewer, the gift of

Philip, Lord Wharton, in memory of
Sir Rowland Wansford, May the 7th,
1652 ... ... ... 199 10 53 4 o

4. A large bason and ewer, the gift of

the Right Hon. Arthur, Earl of
Anglesea, Lord Privy Seal, Feb. 2nd,
1675 ... ... ... ... ... 174 10 46 10 8

5. A monteth and collar, the gift of

William Fellows, Esq. ... ... 139 o 38 4 6

6. A cup and cover, the gift of Edward

Rich, Esq. ... ... ... ... 56 o 14 18 8

7. A cup and cover, the gift of John

Wynniff, Esq. ... ... ... 56 o 14 18 8

8. A large cullinder ... .. ... 58 o 15190

9. A pair of wax-candlesticks ... ... 80 240

10. Twenty-four table-spoons ... ... 50 o 13150

11. Twenty-four gilt tea-spoons... ... 13 o 3 13 8

12. A punch ladle ... ... ... 25 0123

13. Four sauce spoons, 1740 ... ... 27 5 799

14. A pair of large candlesticks for an

alter, the gift of Telemachus Duke,

Esq 153 10 40 5 10

15. Two large gilt flaggons, the gift of

Nich. Franklyn, Esq., 1708* ... 149 o 40 19 6

16. Two large gilt chalices and covers,

the gift of John Franklyn, Esq., 1708 119 5 32 15 9

17. Two gilt salvers ... ... ... 30 10 8 12 n

1320 ozs. ^"356 13 5
See ante, p. 284 n.

Macfe ISoofeg of Eituoln's 5nn, 327

Council held on February 9th, 1742. p. 253.

Eleven Benchers present.

Ordered that ^15 a year be paid to the New River Company
for supplying this Society with water.

" M r Melmoth acquainted the Council that in last Trinity /. 254.
vacation the legacy of ^200 bequeathed to him by the will of John
Hungerford, Esq., late one of the Benchers of this Society, after
the death of his wife, to be laid out for the benefit or ornament of
this Society as he, the said M r Melmoth, should think fit, had been
laid out by him (together with the further sum of ^9 93., which
he received of D r Mangey, one of the executors of the said John
Hungerford, on account of interest of the said legacy), in setting
up of stone posts, and obelisks, and proper lamp-irons, in and
about this Society " [The account, which is set out in full, includes
^165 to the mason for 107 stone posts, 10 obelisks, and 15 coach
steps.]

" M r Melmoth also acquainted the Council that, M r Hungerford
having intimated an inclination in his will that when the said
legacy was laid out some notice might be taken of him, he the said
M r Melmoth had prepared a memorial for that purpose, which he
now laid before the Council. And the same being approved of, it
was ordered to be inscribed upon a proper peice of marble, and
set up in such place and in such manner as he shall think proper."

Council held on March 4th, 1742. /. 255.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that an account of all the moneys received for the
use of the Library be made out against the next Council day, and
that a book be kept in the Library of receipts and disbursements."
"Ordered that John Wood, Esq., be at liberty to lay the
Alcove Walk with ashes, the walk under that to be gravelled, and
likewise to gravell the first walk entering into the Great Garden."

Council held on May 5th, 1742. /. 257.

Ten Benchers present.

The Cook is to be allowed 60, to be paid ,15 a term, and /. 258.
is to find sea-coal and charcoal for the Hall, kitchen and Buttery
Room,* and Scotch coal for the Council Chamber.

Call to the Bar : Lomax Martyn.

Council held on May 2Oth, 1742. /. 259.

Eleven Benchers present.
The salary of Henry Duffield, the Chapel Clerk, is increased /. 260.

* See ante, p. 319.

f)e ISlacfe ISoofeg of fLincoln's

from ^5 to ^10 a year. He must duly attend the Chapel every
Sunday, and at the Monthly Sermons, and all Holy and Saints'
Days, and all Epistle and Gospel Days.

p. 262. Council held on June i8th, 1742.

Seven Benchers present.
" Ordered that the Benchers' Garden be kept private as
formerly."

" Ordered that the Chapel Clerk do attend all marriages and
funeralls in the Chapel, that no churchings be there, and that
M r Rawlins have notice thereof."

p. 263. Call to the Bar, July ist, 1742 :

Claudius Amyand and the Hon. Horatio Townsend.

p. 266. Council held on October 28th, 1742.

Six Benchers present.

Robert Pauncefort, K.C., Francis Chute, K.C., William

Noel, K.C., Thomas Clarke, K.C., Hon. Heneage Legg, K.C.,

Hon. Alexander Hume Campbell, K.C., and Nathaniel Gundry,

K.C., are invited to the Bench.*

p. 268. Council held on November nth, 1742.

Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

Nicholas Munckley and Hugh Hay ward.

The Order of Council made on January 29th, 1741, to the

effect that there should be no repasts except as therein mentioned,

is now repealed. There may be repasts as usual. This Order

to be screened.!

/. 269. Call to the Bar, November 24th, 1742:

William Hale and Abraham Isaac Elton.

/. 270. Council held on November 29th, 1742.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that his Majestie's Attorney and Sollicitor General

after they have accepted of an invitation to the Bench are not

comprised within the Order made the 28th day of November,

* All refused but Gundry, who was called in 1743. Noel and Clarke were
subsequently called, in 1754.

f See ante, p. 323. { See ante, p. 314.

Blacfe ISoofes of ^Lincoln's; Emu

Call to the Bench, December i5th, 1742 : p. 272.

Hon. William Murray, Esq., Solicitor General.

Accounts of Paul Jodrell, senior, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1742, to Jan. 23rd, 1743.

Receipts: ,2,215 IS - 7^. Including i for a grave for
M r Ralph Barnes, deceased ; 4. from M r William Tayleure, .
Principal of Thavies Inn, for a year's rent, less tax.

Payments: ,1,715 xos. 7d. Including 10 los. and 2s. 6d. .
for a purse for M r Serjeant [Thomas] Denison ; % 6s. 7d. to
M r Gyles for 7 vols. of Thurloe State Papers in large paper, the
2nd payment ; 2 125. 6d. for binding them ; ,3 2s. 6d. for claret
and burgundy, (July 5th) ; 8 to John Bunce for 20 pictures at
8s. apiece; 8 i8s. to the same for 17 more pictures; i is. to
William Reeve, goldsmith, for weighing and appraising all the
House plate, taking the inscriptions thereof respectively in
English ; i 6s. for 2 silver marrow-spoons.

Balance: "499 iis. od.

Officers for 1743 : 1743.

Treasurer : James Strode, Esq.
Master of the Library : Paul Jodrell, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : William Kinaston, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : John Wood, Esq.
Master of the Walks : John Floyer, Esq.

Call to the Bar, February 8th, 16 George II, 1743 : /. 274.

John Tripp * (wanting one term) and Roger Cumberbach.

Council held on March 2nd, 1743. /. 277.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that the two side walks in the Great Garden, /. 278.
which now lye ruff, be new gravelld in the manner as the other
walks in that Garden have lately been done ; and that the upper
close walk, next the Alcove, be laid with cockle shells."

Call to the Bar, May loth, 1743: /. 280.

Nicholas Wall.

Council held on May i6th, 1743. /. 281.

Ten Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

Francis Capper, Esq., Edward Milles, Esq., Randal Wilbraham,
Esq., John Coxe, Esq. and Spicer Weldon, Esq. /. 282.

* Adm. June i4th, 1738.
VOL. in. 2 u

330 Cfie iSlacfe &oofc$ of Uincoln'0

" Ordered that M r Baron Reynolds,* M r Justice Denison.f
M r Baron Clarke, J Lord Chief Baron Idle of Scotland, and
M r Treasurer Owen, and M r Treasurer Jodrell, and M r Treasurer
Strode's arms be put up in the Hall and Chappell windows in the
usuall manner."

p. 283. Council held on June 3rd, 1743.

Eleven Benchers present.

p. 285. " An objection having been made to the allowance of an

item of 16 [iSs.j in M r Jodrell, the late Treasurer's, Account,
charged for prints which he hung up in the Councell Room, in
regard that by a Standing Order of this Society no Treasurer is
at liberty to lay out of his own accord more than the summe of
$ without an Order of Councell It is ordered that $ only,
part of the said 16 [i8s.], be allowed the said M r Jodrell in his
said accounts for so many of the said prints as are of that value ;
and that the present Treasurer do purchase of the said M r
Jodrell the rest of the said prints, and pay him what he laid out
for the same more than the summe of 5 ; and that the Treasurer
be desired to buy so many more prints as will make the set of
Judges compleat, and add them to those allready hung up in the
said Councell Room."

/. 287. Council held on June i5th, 1743.

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

William Johnson, Hambleton Custance and Thomas Place.
/. 288. " Ordered that no Bencher of this Society have the liberty or

priviledge of admitting more then one son gratis; which hath
always been the usuage of this Society."

"Ordered that no more punch be henceforth introduced into
the Hall or Council Chamber."

Call to the Bench, June i6th, 1743:
Nathaniel Gundry, Esq., K.C.

/. 298. Council held on November 28th, 1743.

Eleven Benchers present.

p. 299. " Ordered that M r Farshal do, before the Adjourn'd Councel,

pay the sum of ,1,025 155., admitted to be in his hands, into the
the hands of M r Child and Co., Bankers, and that the same be

* James Reynolds, appointed May, 1740.

t Thomas Denison, appointed J.K.B., Feb. loth, 1741.

J Charles Clarke, appointed Nov. 29th, 1742.

John Idle, appointed Nov., 1741.

Macfc Books of Uttuoltt's 5nm 331

placed to the account and credit of James Strode, Esq., Treasurer
of this Society; and that all moneys of or belonging to this Society
be for the future from time to time paid into the hands of the said
Bankers, and placed to the account and creditt of the Treasurer
for the time being, for the use of the Society."

John Idle, Esq., Lord Chief Baron of Scotland, is to be invited /. 300.
to accept the office of Treasurer for the ensuing year.

Council held on December i3th, 1743. p. 301.

Eight Benchers present.

Lord Chief Baron Idle is not in town, and so cannot be /. 302.
waited on ; M r Solicitor General is appointed Treasurer.

Accounts of James Strode, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1743, to Jan. 23rd, 1744.

Receipts: ,2,749 175. 4d. Including i from Oliver S l John,
Esq., for his burial ground under the Chapel.

Payments: 2,693 T 5 S 2 ^. I ncluding 10 ics. to M r Serjeant
[Charles] Clarke, and is. 6d. for a purse ; i 73. for mugs, cups
and glasses; 145. "for 2 long staves for the 2 Head Porters, for
common use in the day time, to walk about with"; 1,025 1 5 S -
into the hands of Samuel Child, Esq., and Company, Bankers ;
135. "for a new home, to sound for the gentlemen to come to
dinner."

Balance : ,56 2s. 2d.

Officers for 1744 : 174A.

Treasurer : Hon. William Murray, Sol. Gen.
Master of the Library : James Strode, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Nicholas Fazakerley, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : John Floyer, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Michael Biddulph, Esq.

Council held on January 23rd, 17 George II, 1744- P- 33-

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Head Porter, Thomas Wharton, have
half of the profitts of the wine sold in the Hall, with the
Pannierman."*

Call to the Bar, February 3rd, 1744 : / 34-

Robert Biddolfe and John Dyneley.

Call to the Bar, April igth, 1744 : p> 3 ia

Christopher Griffith.

* See ante, p. 321.

332 C&e ISlacfc iSoofes of fUncoln'*

p. 311. Call to the Bar, April 26th, 1744 : William Lister.*

Council held on May 7th, 1744.
Eight Benchers present.

/. 312. " Ordered that when any gentlemen is to be called to the Barr,

M r Farshall do attend with the Books of Admissions, and M r
Judson with the Book of Exercises."

/. 313. Report of the Committee on the Library, which is hereby

adopted and confirmed.

1. "We are of opinion that an account of the books in old
edition and the duplicates be wrote out and valued, in order to
their being exchanged for new editions ; or, in regard the old
editions will sell for very little, we submitt whether it would not
be better to keep the old editions, which are often usefull, and buy
new editions, at least of the most usefull books.

2. "We are of opinion that the present Catalogue of the
Library be amended by adding and distinguishing the several
editions, sizes and dates of the books, and continue in the same
alphabetical order ; and we recommend Mr. Daniel Bellamy, a
member of this Society, to compleat the said Catalogue. And
when compleated, two fair copies to be made thereof in bound
books, one of the which (together with the old one) be kept in the
Council Chamber, and the other fair one in the Library.

/. 314. 3. "That no books be taken out of the Library without an

Order of Council, or the Master of the Library for the time being
under his hand, and the party borrowing the same giving a receipt
to be entred in a book kept under lock in the Library, and that
the time be limitted for returning the same by such Order.

4. " We are of opinion that the Library Keeper shall not
appoint any person to officiate in his absence without the approba-
tion of the Master of the Library, for the time being.

5. " We are of opinion that new locks be put on the presses
wherein Lord Chief Justice Hales's Manuscripts are deposited,
and the keys thereof to be kept by the Master of the Library for
the time being, or, in his absence, by some other Master of the
Bench in whose hands he shall think fit to deposite the same.

6. " We are of opinion the Books in the Schedule hereunto
annexed are proper to be purchased and added to the Library,
and that M r Atkinson, a tenant of this House, who has valued
the books designed to be bought, do furnish the same.

JOHN WOOD,
EDWD. MILLES,
JOHN GREEN.

* Jn the Admission Register misprinted Lester.

Macfe 3$oofeg of Etttcoln'g Unn 333

" Viner's Abridgment, 7 vols., now published.

Nelson's Abridgment.

Holt's Reports.

Fitz Gibbons [Reports in K.B.].

Cases in Chancery, 1736.

Cases in Equity, Forester.

7 Modern, so many as wanting to compleat the sett.

Cases in K.B., W. 3 time, 1738.

Finch Reports, 1725.

Reports of K.B., 1740.

Reports in Equity, 1741.

Hawkins' Pleas of the Crown.

Treatises of Judicature of Master of the Rolls.

Lilly's Abridgment.

Bacon's Abridgment, to be compleated.

Selden's Works.

Chamber's Dictionary.

Monsieur Bayle's ditto.

Moreri ditto.

Dictionare de Comerce Pa: Saven, 4 vol.*

D r Shaw's Abridgment of Bacon.

Cay's Abridgement of Statues \sic~\.

Horseman's Conveyances.

Tanner's Notitia.

Puffenderf.

Grotius by Barbeyrac."

Council held on May 25th, 1744. p. 315.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that Mr. Farshall do inquire a proper master of the
trade of a shoemaker for placing out John Lincoln, foundling, to
be apprentice."

Call to the Bar, May 3ist, 1744 : /. 316.

Anthony Thomas Abdy.

Council held on June 28th, 1744. p- 322.

Nine Benchers present.

^800 of 3 per cent. Government Annuities shall be purchased
in trust for the Society, out of the moneys in the hands of
Child & Co.

* Apparently the Dictionnaire Universel du Commerce by Savary ; not how in
the Library.

334 fi* ^tacfe ISoofes of Etncoln'g

^. 326. Council held on November 22nd, 1744.

Fourteen Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

p. 327. Richard Jackson, George Wanley Bowes and Walter Jodrell.

/. 328. The ^800 3 per cent, annuities of 1743, cost ^740.

Council held on November 28th, 1744.
Seventeen Benchers present.

p. 330. M r Bellamy shall have 12 I2S. for making the Catalogue of

the Books in the Library, upon his delivery of two fair copies
thereof.

p. 331. Thomas Pake is appointed Steward in the room of Thomas

Judson, deceased, who was Steward, Second Butler and Under-
Library- Keeper.

p. 332. Council held on December i2th, 1744.

Seven Benchers present.

p. 333. " Ordered that M r Newsham make a new fire-engine with a

constant stream, and to be paid ^25 for the same, and to be
allowed the old engine ; and he is to keep the new engine,
together with the large engine, in repaire for the future at the old
salary of 305. yearly."

p. 334. " Ordered that the servants of the House eat their commons

in the usual room, or have no part of the commons."

Accounts of the Hon. William Murray, Solicitor General, the
Treasurer, from Jan. 23rd, 1744, to Jan. 23rd, 1745.

Receipts : 2,927 145. lod. Including ,400 from Paul Feild,
Esq., for the chambers on the ist floor, No. 10, Dial Court, Dial
Row, late of Edward Gibson, Esq. ; ,1,025 155. from Samuel
Child, Esq., and Co.

Payments : ,2,672 73. id. Including 8s. for the stamps on
the admittances of several Bencher's sons ; .43 45. for port wine
for one year up to the end of Trinity Term ; 740 for ,800 3 per
cent. Government Annuities; i is. for 3 gallons of red port;
i2s. 6d. for madeira; IDS. "paid the Beadle of S* Andrew's,
Holborne, being ready to fetch away a child when dropt in any
part of that parish."

Balance : .255 75. 9d.

1745. Officers for 1745 :

Treasurer : John Roberts, Esq.

Master of the Library : Hon. William Murray, Sol. Gen.

Dean of the Chapel : John Wood, Esq.

Keeper of the Black Book : Michael Biddulph, Esq.

Master of the Walks : Robert Fenwick, Esq.

Macfe 2$oofeg of ^Lincoln's Emu 335

Call to the Bar, February 5th, 18 George II, 1745 : /. 337.

Barham Rushbrook.

Council held on February 27th, 1745. p. 342.

Six Benchers present.

Ordered that M r Farshall do put out John Lincoln* p. 343.
apprentice to Richard Rider, barber, for the term of seven years ;
that he pay the said Richard Rider "15 ; and that he fit out the
boy decently w r ith clothes.

It is reported that William Bird, Esq., one of the Masters p. 344.
of the Bench, is lately dead in Virginia. M r Farshall is ordered
to make inquiries.

Call to the Bar, May 9th, 1745 : p. 348.

Robert Jocelyn (wanting one term), Brownlow Dayrell, and
Thomas Kymer.

Call to the Bar, June i4th, 1745 : /, 351.

Edmund Burton and Charles Corbett.

Call to the Bar, June 27th, 1745 : /. 353.

John Richmond Webb.

Council held on July i7th, 1745. p. 358.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that the lock of the Library door be changed, and
that the books newly bought in be chained up."

Call to the Bar, November 6th, 1745 : /. 361.

Charles Wellard.

Accounts of John Roberts, Esquire, the Treasurer, from Jan.
23rd, 1745, to Jan. 23rd, 1746.

Receipts: 2,381 125. gd. Including 6 8s. from John
Whitehall, Principal of Furnival's Inn, being a year's rent less
i i2s. for taxes.

Payments: ,1,941 ics. 7d. Including 8s. to Henry Roberts
for my Lord Chief Justice Willes' picture in the Council Chamber;
.25 to M r Newsham and Ragg for a new engine [i.e. a fire-engine];
.10 IQS. and a purse to M r Baron Clive "on his going out
Serjeant "f; 45. 6d. to M IS Mansfield| for 9 forms of prayer;

* A foundling ; see ante, p. 333.

f Edward Clive, appointed a Baron of the Exchequer, April, 1745.

\ She kept the "pamphlett shop" in New Square; see/<w/, Feb. 24th, 1750.

336 CJe iSlacfe ISoofes of Hfncoln'*

i os. " for 20 form of prayer books on the fast day, the i8th Dec.
last."*

Balance: ^440 25. 2d.

1746. Officers for 1746 :

Treasurer: William Kinaston, Esq.f

Library Keeper : John Roberts, Esq.

Dean of the Chapel : John Floyer, Esq.

Keeper of the Black Book : Marmaduke Dayrell, Esq.|

Master of the Walks : William Hamilton, Esq.

p. 367. Council held on January 23rd, 19 George II, 1746.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that, in regard to the distemper among the cattle,
every Wednesday and Saturday during this term there be a boiled
fowl, bacon, and greens, instead of a calf's head and tongues."

p. 368. Council held on January 28th, 1746.

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Henry Butler Pacey, lately made Second Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas, "in honour of his being admitted such
officer." He must pay five years' duties. ||

M r Attorney General [Sir Dudley Ryder] having read at this
Council a letter from the Rev d M r Watts, setting forth his desire
to resign his Preachership to this Society, the Council desire
M r Attorney General to return thanks to M r Watts for his past
services, and sorry for his ill state of health, and their acceptance
of his resignation."

/ 369. Council held on February 4th, 1746.

Six Benchers present.

The Hon. Henry Bathurst, Esq., one of the Fellows of this

Society, and one of his Majesty's Council learned in the Law,

is invited to the Bench. [Refused. Margin.']

Call to the Bar : The Hon. Charles Yorke.

* See Gents. Mag., 1745, pp. 609, 642, 666, and 1746, p. 33. The sermon wa
preached by William Warburton, Chaplain to the Prince of Wales, and afterwards
Preacher of Lincoln's Inn.

f Thomas Turner refused.

J Robert Femvick refused.

See Gents. Mag., 1745, pp. 630, 665.

II He was admitted on Jan. 23rd instant.

JSlacfe asoofcs of Hincoln^ $mt< 337

Council held on February 26th, 1746. p. 372.

Six Benchers present.

M r Farshall is authorised to receive the legacy of ^200 left p. 373.
to this Society by the Right Hon. the Lord Wyndham,* late
Lord Chancellor of Ireland, deceased, and to give a discharge for
the same. He must also copy or extract so much of the will as
relates to the legacy.

Council held on April i6th, 1746. p. 374.

Seventeen Benchers present.

" The Rev d M r William Warburton, M.A., being this day
elected to be Preacher of this Society in the place of the Rev d
M r George Watts, who resigned his Preachership of this Society,
to take place on the ist of June It is ordered thereupon and
declared that the said M r Warburton be and is Preacher of this
Society from the said ist of June, and that he have the same
exhibition, allowance and chambers as the said M r Watts had
when he was elected Preacher, and that the same duty and
attendance is expected from the said M r Warburton, as is
expressed in the Standing Orders relating to the Preacher ; and
that M r Attorney General [Ryder] and M r Solicitor General
[Murray] and M r Treasurer is hereby desired to acquaint the said
M r Warburton therewith."!

" Extracted from the Register of the Prerogative Court of /. 375.
Canterbury.

" In the testament or last will of Thomas Wyndham, late
Baron Wyndham, deceased, dated the 2Qth of July, 1745,
remaining in the Registry of that Court, among other things
therein contained is as follows, to wit :

"'And to the Society of Lincoln's Inn aforesaid, for
adorning the Chappel or Hall or both, as the Benchers shall
think fit, the sum of ^200 of like money.'

" Proved at London with a codicil annexed, the 24th of
December, 1745, before the Judge, by the oaths of Sir Wyndham
Knatchbull, Bart., Thomas Wyndham, Esq., and Matthew
Goodfellow, executors." . . .

Council held on April 24th, 1746. /. 376.

Five Benchers present.

* Thomas Wyndham; adm. 1698; bar 1705; bench 1724; created Baron
Wyndham of Finglass in the Peerage of Ireland, 1731; Chancellor of Ireland,
1726 to 1736. Died Nov. 1745.

f See ante, pp. 307, 316.

III. 2 X

3$lacfe iSoofeg of

Call to the Bar: Jeremiah Dyson.

Henry Butler Pacey, Esq., a Barrister of this Society, and
Second Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, is admitted
to be an Associate of the Bench, on payment of ^50.

/. 381. Council held on May 3oth, 1746.

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bench:
Robert Harper, Esq., John Pollen, Esq., William Lambton,
/. 382. Esq., Taylor White, Esq., John Hassell, Esq., John Hammet,
Esq., and Joseph Kirke, Esq.

Robert Warner, Esq., who was also invited, refused to accept
the Call [p. 380].

Call to the Bar: John Upton.

/. 390. Call to the Bar, October 23rd, 1746:

John Freeman, junior.

/. 391. Call to the Bar, November 4th, 1746 : Richard Ray.

Accounts of William Kinaston, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1746, to Jan. 23rd, 1747.

Receipts : ,2,443 6s. 6d. Including .200 from Sir
Wyndham Knatchbull Wyndham, one of the executors of the
late Lord Wyndham ; 6 8s. from M r James Jackson, Principal
of Furnival's Inn.

Payments: .1,942 173. 2d. Including IDS. "paid at
several times with M r Ashmall and M r Smith, who were always
ready to sign the book as manucaptors " ; 9 i8s. for Land Tax
and Window Tax for the chambers late of Francis Chute, Esq.,
deceased, who died insolvent ; 35. to M rs Mansfield, for 6 forms oi
prayers on the fast day [Jan. 7th].

Balance : ,500 95. 4d.

1747. Officers for 1747 :

Treasurer : Nicholas Fazakerley, Esq.
Master of the Library : William Kinaston, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Michael Biddulph, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : William Hamilton, Esq.
Master of the Walks : John Greene, Esq.

3$Iacfc iSoofcs of ^Lincoln's Imu 339

Council held on January 23rd, 20 George II, 1747. BOOK XIII.
Eight Benchers present. p. i.

Roe Rotheram, silk stocking maker, is admitted tenant of
the shop in the New Square lately occupied by Moses Rolls,
tailor, deceased, at the same rent.

Call to the Bar, February 5th, 1747 : Edward Willes. p. 3.
Call to the Bar, May 2ist, 1747 : William Pym. /. 9.

Call to the Bar, June I9th, 1747 : p. 12.

Richard Ripley and John Bell.

Call to the Bar, June 3Oth, 1747 : p. 13.

William Dawson, Walter Long, Marmaduke Dayrell, junior,
and Henry Cholmley.

Call to the Bar, October 23rd, 1747 : p. 22.

The Hon. Charles Townshend.

Also Lovell Stanhope, who was admitted October i7th, 1743,
and thus wants one year of his full standing. He has been
appointed Law Clerk to attend the offices of the Principal
Secretary of State, for which it is necessary that he should be at
the Bar. He must pay all arrears and duties, and also what
would have become due if he had stayed until he was of full
standing.

Call to the Bar, November igth, 1747 : /. 24.

William Dod and Richard Wilbraham.

Council held on December I2th, 1747 : p. 28.

Eleven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the legacy given by the late Lord Windham
be laid out in a picture to be drawn by M r Hogarth, to be placed
against the wall at the west end of the Chappell, according to the
subject proposed by M r Hogarth."*

Accounts of Nicholas Fazakerley, Esquire, the Treasurer,
from Jan. 23rd, 1747, to Jan. 23rd, 1748.

* This picture, representing S* Paul before Felix, now hangs in the vestibule
between the Hall and the Library. See Appendix.

340 ^fje iSlacfe 2$oofeg of IUncoln'0 Inn.

Receipts : ,2,735 8s. 8d. Including ^4 from Thomas
Whitfield, Principal of Thavies Inn, for a year's rent, less tax.

Payments: ,2,437 95. 6d. Including 10 ics. and a purse
to M r Serjeant [David] Pool.

Balance : ,297 195. 2d.

1748. Officers for 1748:

Master of the Library: Nicholas Fazakerley, Esq.
Treasurer : John Wood, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Marmaduke Dayrell, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book: John Green, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Henry Montague, Esq.

p. 37. Council held on March iith, 21 George II, 1748.

Eight Benchers present.

p. 38. Report of the Committee as to commons, etc.:

"We . . . have treated with the cook of this Society for
providing commons according to the plan hereunto annexed, and
at the rates and upon the terms therein mentioned, which the cook
is willing to accept, and we are of opinion will be for the benefit
of this Society.

/. 39. " And we are also of opinion that commons be provided only

for the whole weeks in Easter and Michaelmas Term, beginning
the first Sunday in the Term, and for the whole weeks and half
weeks only in the other two terms.

" And that every person coming into commons for repasts only,
shall for the future pay is. 6d. for each repast.

"And have also contracted with other officers of the Society
upon the terms in the annexed papers mentioned.

" And we are also of opinion that the office and salary of th(
Steward of this Society should from henceforward cease.

" And we are of opinion that it is not necessary at present t(
encrease the summe which the members of the Society now paj
for commons."

All of which is ordered and confirmed accordingly.

/. 38. " Ordered that the Steward be now discharged from his

office, and be paid his salary for the next term, this Society
having no farther occasion for such officer." *

* The office of Steward was revived on Feb. i2th, 1767, when most of tl
duties theretofore performed by the Chief Butler were assigned to him. In tl
meantime the Chief Butler is occasionally called the Steward.

ISlacfe

34 i

Commons for Lincoln's Inn, 1748, to be varied by the p. 39.
Masters of the Bench in commons according- to the

season, keeping however as near as may be to
things of the same value as are undermentioned :

EASTER TERM.

Sunday. Sirloin of beef, roasted, 7 Ibs. to a mess undrest,

with pickles and horse raddish ; and baked plumb

pudding.
Monday. A neck of mutton, boyled, with proper roots and

greens ; a fowl, roasted, with gravy and egg

sauce.

Necks of veal, roasted, with 100 of asparagus.
Boyled brisquets of beef, with roots and greens,

7 Ib. weight ; 4 pidgeons, roasted.
Roast beef, as on Sundays ; with pudding or p. 40.

asparagus.
Fresh fish in season, with proper sauce ; a loin of

mutton, roasted, with pickles and horse-raddish.
Boyled tongues, roots and greens; a couple of

rabbits.

Tuesday.
Wednesday.

Thursday.

Friday.

Saturday.

Sundays.
Monday.

Tuesday.
Wednesday.

Thursday.

Friday.
Saturday.

TRINITY TERM.

The same as in Easter Term, except cucumbers

instead of pickles.
Beans and bacon, and a neck of mutton, roasted,

with pickles and horse-raddish.
A neck of veal, roasted, and a dish of pease.
Bacon and a fowl, with greens ; a shoulder of mutton

roasted.
Roast beef, with horse-raddish and cucumbers, and

a dish of pease.
The same as in Easter Term.
The same as in Easter Term.

MICHAELMAS TERM.

Sunday. Roast beef, and pickles and horse-raddish; and

plumb pudding, baked.
Monday. Boiled pork, with pease pudding and turnips ; and a

fowl, roasted.
Tuesday. A boiled fowl and oyster sauce ; a shoulder of

mutton, roasted, with pickles, &c.
Wednesday. Boiled beef, with roots and greens ; and a couple of

rabbits.

342 CJe Black 3Soofe$ of 3Uncoln'g

Thursday. Roast beef, and horse-radish, pickles ; and a hot

apple pye.
Friday. i2d. in oysters; a dish of fresh fish, according to

the season ; a loin of mutton, roasted.
Saturday. Boyled tongues, with roots and greens ; and a brest

of mutton, roasted, with pickles.

/. 41. HILLARY TERM.

The same as Michaelmas Term, only a baked plumb pudding,
instead of rabbitts, on Wednesday.

The Benchers' commons to be the same with the rest of the
Hall, all the four terms.

All exceedings for the Bench table to be drest by the cook,
and paid for as usual.

An addition to be made on Grand Days to the commons, to
be settled by the Masters of the Bench as usual, to be dressed
by the cook, and to be paid only prime costs.

The officers and servants to have for their commons the
most substantial dish of the commons for that day, at 35. 6d. the
mess.

To find everything to compleat the commons in the eating,
except beer, and to be allowed his usual salary.

To be allowed for providing cups, pans, ladles, sives, brooms,
pails, kitchen knives, choppers, &c., 405. each term.

To provide firing at ^50 per annum.

To be paid at the rate of 6s. each mess, and in proportion
for each single person dining in commons in the Hall the sum
of is. 6d.

The broken meat from each table to belong to the servants,
as usual.

I agree to these proposals, and to begin the next term.

ANTHONY TRACY."
March nth, 1747.

/. 44. Call to the Bar, May i8th, 1748 : Richard Pye.

p. 46. Council held on June i6th, 1748.

Seven Benchers present.
p. 47. " Ordered that for the future the exceedings for the Bencl

table 2S. 6d. daily." [sic.~]

Call to the Bar : Lumley Arnold.

33lacfe 2$oofcs of ILttuoln's: Inn* 343

Call to the Bar, June 25th. 1748 : p. 48.

John Parry and John Wycliffe.

Council held on June 29th, 1748. p. 49.

Twelve Benchers present.

"Ordered that the ^200 left by my Lord Wyndham be paid /. 53.
to M r Hogarth."*

Call to the Bar, November i7th, 1748. p. 57.

Thomas Ansell, John Skynner and William Burlton.

Call to the Bar, November 24th, 1748 : John Hatch. /. 58.

Accounts of John Wood, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1748, to Jan. 23rd, 1749.

Receipts : ,2,415 195. gd.

Payments: ,2,103 145. lod. Including i 45. 6d. for
Lisbon wine ; ^200 to M r Hogarth for the picture; 175. lod. for
canary.

Balance: ^312 43. nd.

Officers for 1749: 1749.

Library Keeper : John Wood, Esq.
Treasurer : John Floyer, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : William Hamilton, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : Henry Montagu, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Francis Capper, Esq.

Council held on January 23rd, 22 George II, 1749. /. 63.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that a Catalogue of the several Manuscripts which p. 64.
are in the Library be made, under the direction and inspection of
the Master of the Library ; and that all the keys of the several
presses and chests, wherein those Manuscripts are kept, be delivered
to him, and do remain in his custody, and that such presses or
chests be not opened but by the license of the Master of the
Library for the time being."

Call to the Bar, February 7th, 1749 : /. 65.

Peter Burrell and Mathew Hale.

* See Appendix.

344 We ISlacfe asoofeg of ILtncoln'*

/. 66. Council held on February I3th, 1749.

Eleven Benchers present.

/. 68. " Ordered that M r Hogarth be desired to send home the

picture, and that it be placed in the Council Room till further
Order."

M r Prothonotary Pacey, [an Associate to the Bench], has
leave to enter his son as the son of a Bencher.

/. 72. Council held on April I9th, 1749.

Eight Benchers present.

* Thomas Emlyn, gent., one of the Fellows, is admitted to a
whole chamber, one story high, over the Council Chamber, late
of Robert Cuningham, Esq., deceased ; fine ^450.

/. 73. Call to the Bar, April 28th, 1749 :

Michael Biddulph, junior, and John Moss.

p. 74. Council held on May 8th, 1749.

Six Benchers present.

Ordered that ^500 3 per cent. Government Annuities of the
year 1743 be purchased.

p. 76. Council held on June 8th, 1749.

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

Frederic Halsey, wanting two terms.

/. 77. " Ordered that M r Treasurer be desired to purchase a pipe of

Red Port for the use of this Society." [Order discharged June
1 4th;/. 79.]

Council held on October 23rd, 1749.
p. 83. Twelve Benchers present.

Richard Farshall, the Chief Butler, is dead.

Upon the petition of Anthony Tracy, the cook, setting fortl
that by the late regulations the profits of his office have beei
considerably reduced, the statements wherein are verified by
affidavit annexed It is ordered that his salary be increased
term.

[The original affidavit is inserted in the Black Book. From it,
it appears that from Easter Term, 1748, to Trinity Term last,
both inclusive, his profit on his agreement as to commons amountec
to 11 1 6s. 5^d., and 6 6s. 6j-d. from the sale of dripping.]

* Red Book II, p. 479. The chamber is also described as in Kitche
Garden Court, and Library Stair Case. Ibid., 309, 476.

Macfc &oofcs of fttncoln's Inn* 345

Call to the Bar, November i4th, 1749 : p. 86.

Paul Panton, and Holland Cookesey ; the latter wants one
term.

Accounts of John Floyer, Esquire, the Treasurer, from Jan.
23rd, 1749, to Jan. 23rd, 1750.

Receipts : ,2,846 i6s. 2d.

Payments : ,2,606 45. 6d. Including i 53. for Bibliotheca
Britannico-Hibernica by D r Tanner; 2 2s. for 6 gals, of mountain.*

Balance: ,240 us. 8d.

Officers for 1750 : 1750.

Master of the Library : John Floyer, Esq.
Treasurer : Michael Biddulph, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : John Greene, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : Francis Capper, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Randal Wilbraham, Esq.

Call to the Bar, February 8th, 23 George II, 1750 : /. 91.

John Trenchard.

Council held on February I2th, 1750. p. 93,

Six Benchers present.

The humble petition of George Hall, second Butler and /. 94.
[under-] Library Keeper, setting forth that he has been allowed
6d. per term from every gentleman of this Society for his
attending the Library, and i2d. per year as second Butler, as
formerly allowed to others in the same place, and that there are
many gentlemen who refuse to pay him the same. Referred to a
Committee.

Council held on February 27th, 1750. /. 95.

Five Benchers present.

" Upon the humble petition of Joseph Keen, chymist, near the /. 96.
end of Chancery Lane, Holborn, setting forth that he hath* lately
purchased a repairing lease of the Governors of S 4 Bartholomew's
Hospital, of five houses, two of which are in Chancery Lane and
three next adjoyning in Holborn ; and that the said houses being p. 97.
in a ruinous condition, he is about repairing the same, and finds it
necessary to take down and rebuild the end of one of the said
houses which joins to the Garden Wall belonging to this Society ;
and that the rafters of the roof of his laboratory hath for many
years bore upon the said Garden Wall without detrimenting the

* A kind of Malaga. McCullock, Diet, of Commerce.

VOL. III. 2 Y

346 Ci)e ISIacfe #oofeg of fLincoIn'0

same ; and that his business requires him to lengthen his said
laboratory a few foot. Therefore beging leave for his workmen to
go in and out of the garden, and erect scaffolds for that purpose,
and also liberty to rest the rafters of his said laboratory a few feet
further on the said wall, so as not to prejudice the same." Referred
to a Committee.

Elizabeth Mansfield, who has been tenant of a shop in the Inn*
for 23 years, "and all that time never troubled this Society for any
favour," petitions to be allowed a year's rent in order to do some
urgently needed repairs. Also that her rent may be reduced from
^4 IDS. to ^3, inasmuch as "her business is so very much
lessened by the vast decay of trade for many years last past that
she finds it a difficult matter to get a livelyhood." [Granted, May
2nd; p. 99].

/. 99. Council held on May 22nd, 1750.

Fourteen Benchers present.

p. 100. Call to the Bar:

Bamber Gascoigne.

" Ordered that notice be given as soon as may be to M r
Joseph Keen not to build or encroach upon the ground or limits
belonging to the Society of Lincoln's Inn, nor cause any further
erections to be built on the premises aforesaid."

p. 101. Council held on May 28th, 1750.

Ten Benchers present.

p. 1 02. " Ordered that M rs Morgan be at liberty to renew the lease

of the house in Newgate Street for a term of 31 years from the
end of her former lease, under the terms of the former lease, upon
her paying ^100 for a fine, and entring into a covenant to lay
out ^200 at least in necessary and substantial repairs."

" Ordered that 6d. a term be paid by every member residing
in the Society of Lincoln's Inn to the Under Library Keeper,
pursuant to former Orders."

/. 104. Call to the Bar, June 28th, 1750 :

William Nailour and Edward Webley.

p.' log. Call to the Bar, November 3rd, 1750 :

Jonathan Morton Pleydell and Charles Cocks.

/. no. Call to the Bar, November 2Oth, 1750: Charles Gould

* The " pamphlet shop " in New Square

ISIacfe ISoofes of Emcoltt's JEmu 347

Council held on November 28th, 1750. p. in.

Eight Benchers present.

"Ordered that the picture be put at the upper end of the /. 113.
Hall, and that it be referred to the next Council to consider of a
frame for it."

Council held on December i2th, 1750. p. 114.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that the frame of the picture is approv'd of, and
M r Treasurer is desired to see the same when framed placed up
in the Hall."

Accounts of Michael Biddulph, Esquire, the Treasurer,
from Jan. 23rd, 1750, to Jan. 23rd, 1751.

Receipts : .1,846 i8s. lod. Including ,39 dividend on
.1,300 3 per cent, annuities; .100 from M rs Elizabeth Morgan
as a fine for her new lease, to commence at Lady Day, 1759.

Payments : ,1,506 6s. od. Including los. for a barrel of beer
given to the boys of S* Andrew's parish, May 24th ; ,15 155. for
Tractatus Tractatuum* 29 vols., folio; .10 los. and a purse,
is. 6d., to M r Justice [Nathaniel] Gundry, as Serjeant f ; 155. for
carrying away 3 children dropped in the Inn.

Balance: .340 125. lod.

Officers for 1751 : 1751.

Library Master: Michael Biddulph, Esq.
Treasurer: William Hamilton, Esq. J
Dean of the Chapel: Henry Montague, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book: Randal Wilbraham, Esq.
Master of the Walks: John Coxe, Esq.

Council held on January 23rd, 24 George II, 1751. /. 116.

Ten Benchers present

Call to the Bench:

Edward Poor, Esq., Paul Jodrell, Esq., James Morgan, Esq.,
and Thomas Turner, junior, Esq.

Beversham Filmer, Esq., Hon. Edward Walpole, and Robert
Harley, Esq., who were invited to the Bench on the same occasion,
did not accept, [p. 1 1 3].

* Tractatus Univer si Juris, Venice, 1584-6.

t Appointed a Judge of the Common Pleas in May, 1750.

\ Marmaduke Dayrell refused,

348 CJe ISlacfe iSoofeg of ILmcoln's

p. 117. Call to the Bar: Thomas Anguish.

" Ordered that this Society for the future, after Monday next,
dine at 3 of the clock, except on Sundays, and on Sundays to dine
at the usual hour. And that publick notice thereof be given in the
Hall."

p. 1 1 8. Call to the Bar, February 5th, 1751 :

Richard Davies and Robert Waring Darwin.

p. 1 20. Council held on February 26th, 1751.

Nine Benchers present.
/. 121. "Ordered that M r Hogarth be at liberty to take the picture

and retouch it, if he think proper, before it be framed."
"Retouched accordingly." Margin.

p. 122. Council held on April 24th, 1751.

Seven Benchers present.

/. 123. " Ordered that the resolution of the Governors of S fc Barthol(

mew's Hospital, touching the right claimed by this Society to 3 feet
of ground lying on the north side of the Garden Wall of this Society,
now in the occupations of several tenants to the said Hospital ii
Chancery Lane and Holborn, be taken into consideration the next
Council. And that all the gentlemen of the Bench be in the
meantime attended with copys of the said resolution."

M r Johnson, the Chief Butler, is to pay M r Gossett ^25 for
the picture frame.

/. 125. Call to the Bar, May 9th, 1751: Lawrence Carter.

p. 127. Council held on June 7th, 1751.

Seven Benchers present.
" Ordered that application be made to M r Woodcoc
desiring him to be concerned as solicitor on behalf of this Society
relating to the dispute between this Society and the Governors o
S* Bartholomew's Hospital, touching the right to the north wall of
the Great Garden and the 3 foot of ground on the north side of
the said wall, claimed by this Society; and that the said M
Woodcock be desired to prepare a case for the consideration of
the Masters of the Bench, and do all other things proper
solicitor relating to the said dispute."

6. 128. Call to the Bar, June igth, 1751 :

Spencer Schutz, George Toilet, William Kilborn, Bake
John Littlehales and Richard Hulse.

Macfc 2$oofe$ of Utncoln^ Enm 349

Council held on June 26th, 1751. p. 130.

Eight Benchers present.

"Ordered that the arms of M r Baron [Edward] Clive and p. 131.
M r Justice [Nathaniel] Gundry be put up in the Hall at the
expence of this Society."

Council held on November 5th, 1751.
Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : p. 135.

Mathew Waters, and Thomas Corbett.

* David Richard, peruke maker and barber, is accepted as
tenant at will of one of the shops in New Square, at a rent of

5 i os-

Call to the Bar, November 2ist, 1751 : p. 136.

The Hon. Robert Harley (wanting one term), and William
Russell.

Council held on November 28th, 1751. /. 137.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that when any gentleman of this Society, who hath
two chambers in his own right, hath kept the Grand Week and
one other for one chamber, and afterwards keeps a third week in
the same term, and paid for all those commons, the third week to
be allowed for the second chamber."

Accounts of William Hamilton, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1751, to Jan. 23rd, 1752.

Receipts : ^2,343 8s. gd.

Payments : ,1,595 55. i^d. Including 73. 6d. for coffee and
tea at the Benchers' Treat, (March 5th).

Balance : ^748 33.

Officers for 1752: 1752.

Library Master: William Hamilton, Esq.
Treasurer: Henry Montague, Esq. [p. 143.]
Dean of the Chapel: Francis Capper, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book: John Coxe, Esq.
Master of the Walks: Robert Harper, Esq.

Council held on January 23rd, 25 George II, 1752: /. 142.

Eleven Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer be desired to pay 5 guineas to
M r Vertue for the print of the Chappell."

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 276.

350 CjK ISlacfe Boofeg of Utncoln'0

P> H3- ,600 Bank 3 per cent. Annuities are to be purchased.

" Bought at ^606 155." Margin.

p. 144. Call to the Bar, February 6th, 1752:

Charles White and George Gent.

p. 145. Council held on February I2th, 1752.

Five Benchers present.

/. 146. .300 Bank 3 per cent. Annuities are to be purchased.

" Purchased at ^306 75. 6d." Margin.

p. 151. Call to the Bar, April 3Oth, 1752 :

Richard Capper and John Parker.

/. 152. Call to the Bar, May 6th, 1752 : Richard Wharton.

/. 156. Call to the Bar, June I2th, 1752 : John Bland.

/. 159. Council held on July 2nd, 1752 :

Thirteen Benchers present.

* A Committee is appointed to consider the best way of
insuring a constant supply of water ; also to make a list of the
names of the proprietors of chambers in the New Square who
have not suffered by the late fire, and to consider proposals and
recommendations for taking down the "cornish" of their several
houses, and what may be substituted in the room thereof.

/. 162. Council held on July 9th, 1752.

Eight Benchers present.

The inhabitants of that part of Chancery Lane lying between
Chancery Lane Gate and Holborn, desirous of providing water in
case of accidents by fire and also of keeping that part of the Lane
watered daily during the summer, petition for leave to sink a well
in the upper part of the Lane, under the garden wall, and to fix a
pump there, at their own expense. They have applied to the
New River Company for water for those purposes, but have been
refused. It is referred to the Committee on the Supply of Water.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer be at liberty to distribute at his
own discretion any sum not exceeding ^40 amongst the turncocks
and guards and such persons as assisted with engines in
extinguishing the late fire, except those belonging to the sever
Fire Offices."

* Serle's Court Book, I, 281. The fire took place on June 27th, at Nos.
and 1 1, New Square. See Appendix.

ISlacfc iSoofcg of Eittcoltt's JEnm 351

* " Benjamin Spicer, one of the Keepers of the two engines
belonging to the Parish of S 1 Clement's Danes, the one a large
and the other a lesser engine, maketh oath and saith that he,
together with 50 other men at the least to assist in working the
said two engines, did attend with both the said engines at the
late fire which happened in Lincoln's Inn on Saturday, the 27th
day of June last, for the space of six hours at the least, viz*, the
first of the said engines from about a quarter after one o'clock,
and the other before two o'clock in the morning of the said day ;
and that both the said engines continued there till about 7 o'clock
of the same morning in order to help in extinguishing the said
fire ; and that the said lesser engine remained there the Sunday
and Monday following." The only remuneration he or any
others have received is from the Parish of S* Clement's Danes,
two sums of i i os. and i for the first and second engines,
pursuant to the Act of Parliament, f and from the Commissioners
of his Majesty's Stamp Office the several sums of 6 and 2 55.
Sworn July i3th, 1752, before Henry Montague.

Council held on July i6th, 1752. /. 164.

Eight Benchers present.

" Upon the report of M r Treasurer that the New River
Company have desired to know in what manner this Society
propose to be supplyed with water in cases of fire It is ordered
that the said Company be acquainted that the Society propose to
be supplyed with water from their pipes in Chancery Lane and
Lincoln's Inn Fields on the west side of the Garden Wall, with
proper keys to turn the water from the Company's main pipes into
the said pipes in Chancery Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields when
occasion of fire shall make it necessary; and from thence into such
reservoir or receptacle as this Society may think proper to make,
not exceeding 5 feet in depth and 45 feet in diameter."

Council held on July 23rd, 1752. /. 166.

Six Benchers present.

The Committee on the Supply of Water recommend that the
basin in the Benchers' Garden be enlarged to 5 feet in depth and
40 feet of surface; in order to guard against the great inconvenience
which happened at the late fire, such reservoir should be kept
constantly full of water, and should therefore be connected with

* Original affidavit inserted in the Black Book. " N.B. Affidavits of the like
nature were made by the several keepers of the engines who received any share
of the money distributed, and such affidavits are deposited in the hands of
Mr. Johnson, the Chief Butler."

t 7 Anne, cap. 17, sec. 2,

352 CJe iSIacft iSoofes of fLtncoln's

the New River Company's pipes, both in Lincoln's Inn Fields and
Chancery Lane, with cast-lead or wooden pipes. [Etc.; a lengthy
report].

/. 169. Council held on July 3oth, 1752.

Seven Benchers present.

^"300 3 per cent. Bank Annuities ordered to be purchased.
Cost ^313 i os.

" Michaelmas Term being abreviated,* It is ordered that the
whole of the next term be kept in the same manner as it formerly
was before the Order of Council of the i ith day of March, 1747."!

/. 174. Council held on December i2th, 1752.

Ten Benchers present.

| Jonas Appleyard, innholder, of the Star Inn, has leave to
erect a shed resting upon part of the Society's wall, the same to
continue during the pleasure of the Bench ; reserving the right of
Lincoln's Inn for a free passage for carts and other carriages up to
the door placed in the wall under the said shed, for the purpose of
removing ashes, etc., from the laystalls belonging to the Society
on the other side of the wall. As an acknowledgment, " one good
fatt turkey for the use of the Masters of the Bench " must be paid
yearly on the last Monday but one in Michaelmas Term. This
minute is signed by Charles Montague, the landlord, and Jonas
Appleyard, the tenant, and attested by Joseph Johnson, the Chief
Butler of the Inn.

Accounts of Henry Montague, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1752, to Jan. 23rd, 1753.

Receipts: .3,048 33. 5d. Including ^730 135. 4d. for
chamber fines; 6 us. 2d. from Stafford Squire, Principal of
Furnival's Inn, for a year's rent, less taxes; .37 ios., half year's
dividend on .2,500 3 per cent. Bank Annuities, due at
Christmas.

Payments: ^2,946 75. ojd. Including 6 us. 6d. to the
gardener, for removing elms and planting box in the Garden ;
16 155. 6d. to Thomas Gilpin, the silversmith, for gilding all
the Communion plate, &c. ; \ is. each to the following fire-
engine men, S* Clement's, S l Dunstan's, S l Bride's, Bridewell,

* By 24 George II, cap. 48, Michaelmas Term began on Nov. 6th instead
Oct. 23rd or 24th as previously.

t I.e., 1747-8 : see ante, p. 340.

t Serle's Court Book, I, pp. 283, 284.

It was doubtless this Inn that gave its name to Star Yard.

Macfe ISoofes of Eiiuoltt's $mu 353

Gray's Inn, S* Andrew's, Inner Temple, Middle Temple, S l
Giles's, S fc George's Bloomsbury, Foundling Hospital, and the
Duke of Bedford's ; i is. to the New River turncock for
assisting at the late fire ; los. 6d. to the two Temple porters,
2 2S. to the Serjeant and the Guard, and ,4 iis. to our own
porters, on the same occasion; ,1,225 : 7 S - 6d. for ,1,200 Bank
Annuities.

Balance: 101 i6s. 4Ad.

Officers for 1753: 1753.

Library Master: Henry Montague, Esq.
Treasurer: Francis Capper, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel: Randal Wilbraham, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book: Robert Harper, Esq.
Master of the Walks: John Pollen, Esq.

Call to the Bar, January 23rd, 26 George II, 1753: /. 177.

Joseph Banks, who has been admitted upwards of thirteen
years,* on payment of five years' duties; he must "waive his first
admission to the House, and take his standing from his first five
years last past before his Call to the Bar."

Call to the Bar, February 6th, 1753: /. 178.

Charles Delaetf and Robert Gale.

Council held on February I2th, 1753. /. 180.

Ten Benchers present.

" Upon reading the petition of several of the Barristers and
Students of this Society, setting forth that the cook, notwithstand-
ing the continued representations made by the members of this
Society for many years past and the remonstrances of the
Benchers on Tuesday, the 3Oth of last month, hath frequently
since sent bad and unwholesome meat to the several messes
. belonging to this Society, and praying that he may be removed
and discharged." Adjourned.

\ Luke Robinson, Esq., Barrister, w r ho has lately purchased
one whole ground chamber, No. 25, Gate House Court, Chancery
Lane Row, complains " that there is erected a shop or shed in
Chancery Lane, joining to the said chambers, and part thereof
under the window of the said chamber and other part thereof

* Adm. June i3th, 1739. He paid 16 45. for absent commons, 6 for
vacation commons, Ji 6s. 8d. for pensions, and 2 ros. to the Preacher's Roll,
in addition to the usual fees of 10 for Call and Library.

t Sometimes written De Laet. \ Red Book III, pp. 4, 5.

VOL. in. a Z

354 t5%e JSlarfe ISoofeg of Etncoln'g $mu

close to the said window, which is a great nusance and darkens
the windows, and is otherwise greatly inconvenient," and prays
that it may be removed. Ordered [Feb. 27th] that the shop
or shed be removed at the expense of the Society on payment
by M r Robinson of \o IDS. to the Second Butler in consideration
of his interest therein.

* A Committee is appointed " to consider of the purchase
proposed to be made of the scite and soil of the sheds in Serle
Street, behind part of Lincoln's Inn Square, in order to be laid
into and widen the said Street; and whether it may be proper for
this Society to contribute any and what sum of money towards
such purchase."

/. 1 88. Call to the Bar, June 27th, 1753:

Frederic William Guy Dickens, t

P. 193. Call to the Bar, November 2oth, 1753 :

Thomas Lane (wanting three terms, but proposing to
purchase a place in the law, which cannot be done unless he is
a Barrister), William Bateson, Mathew Skinner, John Birch and
William Rogers.

p. 194. Council held on November 28th, 1753.

Eight Benchers present.

\ " Ordered that ^55 be paid to Francis Capper, Esq., by
M r Johnson, the Chief Butler, in order to make up the deficiency
of the purchase money for the scite and soil of the shops am
sheds in Serle Street, behind part of Lincoln's Inn New Square,
the said M r Capper having completed the deed of purchase."

Accounts of Francis Capper, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1753, to Jan. 23rd, 1754.

Receipts: ,2,846 33. ^^d. Including .1,240 i6s. 8d. for
chamber fines ; "15 from Mr. [? John] Barnardiston, for one year's
rent for the chambers, No. 21, late George Hyde, Esq., deceased,
due at Christmas last ; .10 from John Willes, Esq., for half
year's rent for the ground chamber, No. 3 in the old Buildings
due Michaelmas last.

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 285. See ante, p. 263.

t This name is a little uncertain ; besides the form in the text, it occurs
GuyDickens, Guydickens, and Guidickens. It is always indexed under G. A Rev.
Frederick William Guydickens died Oct. 14, 1779. Gtnts. Mag.

% Serle's Court Book, I, p. 290. See above.

S These are the first cases of chambers being let at a rent. The records
the Inn throw no light as to when or why this was first done.

Macfe 2$oofeg of Etttcoltt's Enm 355

Payments: ,2,470 133. 5d. Including IDS. for a barrel of
beer given to the boys of S* Andrew's parish, (May 3ist) ; 4 8s.
for 4 fruit-dishes and 6 basins; ^518 153. for ,500 3 per cent.
Bank Annuities.

Balance : ^375 93. njd.

Officers for 1754: 1754.

Library Master: Francis Capper, Esq.
Treasurer: Randal Wilbraham, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel: John Coxe, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book: John Pollen, Esq.
Master of the Walks: William Lambton, Esq.

Council held on January 23rd, 27 George II, 1754. p- 199.

Seven Benchers present.

" Upon the motion of M r Attorney General [Sir Dudley /. 200.
Ryder], It is ordered that the Trustees of Sir Hans Sloane's
Museum have liberty of meeting in the Council Chamber, as they
shall think proper." *

Call to the Bar, February 7th, 1754 : /. 204.

Philip Carteret Webb and Robert Harper, junior.

Council held on May 8th, 1754. / 2I O-

Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

Charles Wellard, John Probyn, f Robert H olden, and Arthur
Jones, Esquires.

Thomas Martin, Mathew Lamb, Thomas Kyffin, Edward
Lovisia Man,J Samuel Henry Pont, Richard Samborne, Thomas
Nugent and Thomas Harris, Esquires, were invited to the Bench
at the same time, but refused [pp. 201, 202, 203].

The Hon. Richard Mountney, Esq., one of the Barons of the /. 211.
Exchequer in Ireland, who had been invited to the Bench, writes

* After the death of Sir Hans Sloane, Jan. nth, 1753, his collections were
offered to the nation as laid down in his will. An Act of Parliament, 26 George II,
cap. 26, was passed, authorizing the purchase of Sloane's museum, and of the Harley
MSS., and also of a suitable place for housing them. Montague House in Great
Russell St., Bloomsbury, was bought the same year. The offer in the text was
doubtless made pending the necessary repairs to what was afterwards known as the
British Museum.

t John Hopkins, nephew and heir of Edmund Probyn, Chief Baron ; assumed
the name of Probyn after his uncle's death in 1742. Adm. 1725 ; bar 1730.

\ See ante, p. 289.

356 Cjbe #lacfe &oofes of tLincoln'g Inn,

" that he is extremely sensible of the honour done him by the
Bench, in inviting him to become a member of it, but as his lot
happens to be cast in another country, he thinks himself obliged to
decline accepting a post in which it cannot be in his power to be
of the least use to a Society which he so much respects, and to
which he is so much indebted."

/. 212. "Ordered that the Order of the 28th of November, 1/37,

relating to the King's Council, be repealed."*

/. 213. Call to the Bench, May i7th, 1754 :

The Hon. William Noel, Esq., K.C., Thomas Clarke, Esq.,
K.C., and the Hon. Charles Yorke, Esq., K.C. Henry Banks,
Esq., K.C., and Mathew Lamb, Esq., K.C., were invited at the
same time, but refused, [p. 211.]

Call to the Bar :
Theodore Johnson and John Ord.

P. 215. Council held on May 27th, 1754.

Six Benchers present.

" Upon the humble petition of Henry Duffield, Pannierman
to this Society, setting forth that he having the care of the Hall
in keeping it clean and providing all the glasses, &c., praying to
have the profitt arising from the wine there sold It is ordered
that the said Pannierman only do for the future provide wine
for such gentlemen in the Hall as desire to have it, in the same
manner as Thomas Bevan, the late Pannierman did."t

/. 216. Call to the Bench, June i4th, 1754:

Henry Gapper, Esq., Levet Blackborne, Esq., and Anthony
Keck, Esq.j

Samuel Harrison, William Hale, Richard Cope Hopton, and
Ambrose Dickins, Esquires, were invited at the same time, but
refused, [p. 214.]

p* 217. Call to the Bar, June 2ist, 1754 :

Jeremiah Nicholls and Benjamin Yate.

p. 218. Call to the Bar, June 27th, 1754:

Francis Wardle and the Hon. John Yorke.

* See ante, p. 314. t See ante, p. 331.

J Anthony James, adm. 1731; bar 1736; assumed the name and arms of
Keck in 1737. Burke, Landed Gentry, 1847.

In the Admission Register, his name is misprinted James Wordle.

Mack iSoofcs of Uincoltt'g JFnm 357

Council held on July 17th, 1754. /. 221,

Six Benchers present.

Lewis Jones, Esq., a Barrister of this Society and Second p. 222.
rrothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, is called to be an
Associate of the Bench, on payment of 50.

Call to the Bar, November 6th, 1754 : William Selwyn. /. 223.

Call to the Bar, November 2Oth, 1754 : /. 224.

John Day and William Waller.

Council held on December i2th, 1754. /. 227.

Twelve Benchers present.

"Ordered that M r Treasurer do return the thanks of this /. 228.
Society to the executors of the late Christopher Tancred, Esq.,
deceased, for transmitting to him copies of the deed and will of the
said Christopher, whereby several benefactions are given to the
Students of this Society."*

Accounts of Randal \Vilbraham, Esquire, the Treasurer,
from Jan. 23rd, 1754, to Jan. 23rd, 1755.

Receipts: ,2,504 133. 5^-d. Including 660 6s. for absent
commons ; 4 IDS. from M r James Read,f Principal of Thavies
Inn, for a year's rent, less tax.

Payments: ,2,365 IDS. od. Including 2s. 6d. "for taking
away a man dropt down dead in the Square" ; is. for a letter going
to Ireland ; 6s. for cleaning the snow off the Chapel, March I4th ;
\o IQS. to Lord Chief Justice Ryder, going out Serjeant, and
is. 6d. for a purse j ; 73 6d. to the porters for taking away a child
dropped at No. 5 in the Square; 513 153. for 500 Consolidated
3 per cent. Bank Annuities, at iO2|-; 16 for 32 large standing
elms.

Balance: 139 35.

Officers for 1755 : 1755.

Treasurer : Hon. William Noel, K.C.
Master of the Library: Randal Wilbraham, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Robert Harper, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : William Lambton, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Taylor White, Esq.

* Tancred died on Aug. aist, 1754. See Diet. Nat. Biog.
t Or Praed ; he is sometimes called one, and sometimes the other.
I Sir Dudley Ryder, the Attorney General, was appointed C.J.K.B., May 2nd,
1754-

358 TJ)e ISlacfe &oofe$ of Etncoln'g

p. 231. Call to the Bar, February 8th, 28 George II, 1755 :

Edward Bullock.

p. 237. Council held on April 27th, 1755 :

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Halfpenny have leave to take away the
two statues in the Benchers' Garden, in a week's time, upon
payment of .5."

/. 238. "Ordered that the dutyes and Land Tax charged on the

chambers, No. 10 and u in the New Square, where the late fire
happened, be discharged for two years to Michaelmas last, and
the same to be paid out of the common stock."

Call to the Bar, May 7th, 1755: Maurice Bernard.

p. 239. Council held on May I2th, 1755.

Seven Benchers present.

p. 240. " Upon consulting with M r Mills, Surveyor to the New River

Company, about fixing a proper place for a supply of water for the
use of this Society in case of fire, he was of opinion that the bason
in the Benchers' Garden may be made equally as usefull for such
purpose as a new one in the old Garden, and for much less expence."
To be considered.

Council held on May 3Oth, 1755.

Seven Benchers present.

p, 241. "Ordered that a plantation be made between the Terrace

Walk and the north wall of the old garden, in such manner as to

conceal the wall and to prevent the backs of houses from being seen."

" Ordered that the gardener takes care to rowl the gravel

walks, and to mow and rowl the grass slopes and square, and tc

water twice a week all the late planted trees, and to keep th<

Gardens clean and in good order, and also to keep out low am

indecent people ; and that he attend the next Council."

" Ordered that the Chappie windows be taken down am
repaired."

Council held on June i3th, 1755.
Five Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Thomas Hotchkin and Alured Pinke, junior.
p. 242. " Ordered that the Chappel be shut up on Monday next, being

the 1 6th instant, in order to be repaired and beautified, and tha
M r Rawlins do immediately publish the same in the Chappel."

Macfe iSoofeg of fLtiuoIn'g Enm 359

Accounts of the Hon. William Noel, Esquire, the Treasurer,
from Jan. 23rd, 1755, to Jan. 23rd, 1756.

Receipts: ,2,628 125. 3^d. Including ,470 from John
Maddocks for two whole chambers, 2 and 3 stories high, late of
Lord Chief Baron Idle, deceased*; ,105 for the year's dividend
on ,3,500 Consolidated 3 per cent. Bank Annuities ; ,451
175. 6d. for the sale of ,500 of the same, ex dividend, at gof.

Payments : .2,271 8s. 8|d. Including ,10 los. and a purse
to Lomax Martyn, Esq., going out Serjeant ; .32 6s. 6d. for
Land Tax for the chambers in the New Square where the late
fire was; .3 35. for Sir John Strange's Reports, 2 vols. ; .1 is.
for a set of Acts, 27 George II ; ,88 iis. 6d. to William Price,
the glass-painter.

Balance : "357 35. ;d.

Officers for 1756 : 1756.

Treasurer : Hon. Charles Yorke, K.C.
Master of the Library : Hon. William Noel, K.C.
Dean of the Chapel : John Pollen, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : Taylor White, Esq.
Master of the Walks : John Hammet, Esq,

Call to the Bar, January 23rd, 29 George II, 1/56 : /. 254.

John Grayhurst.

Call to the Bar, February 5th, 1756 : /. 255.

George Winn and John Crofts, junior.

Call to the Bar, May 2ist, 1756 :
Thomas Emlyn and Thomas Kynaston. p. 263.

Call to the Bar, May 26th, 1756 : /. 265.

John Lee and Thomas Wilson.

Call to the Bar, May 3ist, 1756 : /. 266.

Maynard Clarke, who has been admitted upwards of 20 years,
and is now desirous of being called, though not with an intent of
practising. He must waive his first admission, and take his
standing as from five years last past.

Council held on June* 1 8th, 1756. /. 268.

Seven Benchers present.
" Ordered that a gate be made in the New Square, facing the

They were at No. 9, Garden Court.

360 f)e &lacfc a$oofeg of ^Lincoln's

long walk, . . . and that the pavement leading thereto be made
suitable." A good lock shall be put on the gate, and numbered
keys thereto be delivered to the resident Benchers. [A list of
31 persons to whom keys were delivered is given in the margin ;
they are not all Benchers.]

p. 269. Council held on July 7th, 1756.

Six Benchers present.
p. 270. " Ordered that the wall next Chancery Lane be coped, and the

largest holes stopt, and the ground adjoyning thereto be planted with

proper shrubbs."

p. 271. Council held on July 2ist, 1756.

Six Benchers present.

P. 273. " It is ordered that a proper peice of water be made in the

Benchers' Garden before next term."

p. 274. An Extraordinary Council held on November 2nd, 1756.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that the gates leading to Portugal Street, Chichester
Rents and Bishop's Court, from Lincoln's Inn, be shutt on Monday
next* from 10 in the morning for the remaining part of that day.

"That the two great Gates be shutt from 10 in the morning
for the remainder part of that day, and that six Porters and two
Constables attend at each of those Gates in order to lett in the
Nobility, Judges, and other company who are to dine at the
Serjeants' Feast, as likewise to lett in the members of the Society
and their friends.

"That the passage to the Hall be boarded up, arid doors
made as usual to lett the company into the Hall; and that two
Porters and a Constable attend at each of those doors.

" That the Garden Gates be shutt all that day.

" That the Gardener, his man, and two Porters, do patrole
the Terras Walk, to prevent any person from coming over
the wall.

"That M r Johnson, the Steward to this Society,! do hire
twelve extraordinary Porters, or such number of Porters as shall
be necessary, to do the necessary duty on that day ; and he do
appoint the several Porters to their several stations.

" That great care be taken that there be no disturbance or
riott committed in the Inn on that day.

" That in case the Porters or other servants do not ke<

* Nov. 8th. f Johnson was the Chief Butler. See ante, p. 340

Macfe ISoofes of ^Lincoln's Emu 361

good order or are negligent in doing of their dutys, that M r
Johnson do report their misbehaviour at the next Council.

"That the cooks, Messrs. Davis and Cartwright, who are /. 275.

to dress the Serjeants' Dinner, have the use of the kitchen, and
all the offices belonging thereto, together with the furniture of the

same ; and that M r Johnson do intimate to them that they are
to provide such chairs for the company as shall be wanting."*

Council held on November 6th, 1756.
Eight Benchers present, including Lord Mansfield. t
The Principal and Ancients of Furnival's Inn may renew
their lease on payment of a fine of ^50. The new lease shall be
for 6 1 years from Michaelmas last at a rent of % a year; they
must not assign the lease without leave of the Council of this
Society, nor demise any portion to any person who does not
practice or profess the law.

Call to the Bar, November 23rd, 1756: /. 277.

Granado Pigott and Elijah Impey.j

Council held on December i3th, 1756. /. 282.

Eight Benchers present.

Sir Robert Henley, Knight, Attorney General, is admitted
to the late Lord Chief Justice Ryder's garrets at No. 21, Gatehouse
Court, Stonepace Row, three stories high, on payment of 20.

Accounts of the Hon. Charles Yorke, Esquire, the Treasurer,
from Jan. 23rd, 1756, to Jan. 23rd, 1757.

Receipts: ,2,095 *6s. iid.

Payments: ,1,981 2s. id. Including 6 for 12 large standard
English elms ; 153. for i doz. " chinea " plates; 2 duty for 800 oz.
of silver plate; 10 IDS. to the Hon. M r Serjeant Murray, and
2s. for a purse.

Balance: ^114 14$. lod.

* The occasion of the Feast was the " going out Serjeant " of the Hon.
William Murray, Att. Gen., who had been appointed C.J.K.B. See Diet. Nat.
Biog. and Life, by John Holliday of Lincoln's Inn, 1797.

f William Murray was created Baron Mansfield, Nov. 8th, 1756. Complete
Peerage. Either the day of the month is wrong, or else the title must have been
used before the date of the Patent. Created Earl of Mansfield, 1776.

| Afterwards Chief Justice of Bengal.

Red Book III, p. 34.
VOL. in. 3 A

362 C6e Black 3$oofe0 of Eincoln'g

1757. Officers for 1757 :

Master of the Library: Hon. Charles Yorke, Sol. Gen.
Treasurer : John Coxe, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : William Lambton, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book: John Hammet, Esq.
Master of the Walks: Joseph Kirke, Esq.

/. 284. Council held on January 24th, 30 George II, 1757.

Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

Sir Robert Henley, Knight, Attorney General, and Edward
Willes, Esq., K.C.

Call to the Bar :

/. 285. George Chad, John Burrows, George Colman and James

Bensley.

p. 287. Call to the Bar, February 3rd, 1757 :

George Lewis Newnham and Thomas Ryder.

/. 290. Call to the Bench, February 25th, 1757 :

Charles Pratt, Esq., K.C.

/. 297. Council held on June loth, 1757.

Eight Benchers present.

A Committee, appointed to examine the roof of the Chapel,
report that the lead with which it is covered is very much out of
repair ; they recommend that the lead be sold, and that the roof
be covered with copper.

/. 300. Council held on June 2ist, 1757.

Five Benchers present.
" Order'd that a sun dial be made and put up in a
workmanlike manner at the west end of the Garden Row, by
M r Halfpenny and M r Chambers, agreable to the plan and
estimate by them now produc'd, with the same motto inscrib'd
in gold letters as on the old dial ; the whole expenses, excepting
the smith's work, not to exceed the sum of 21 ms."

Call to the Bar :
Hon. Robert Walpole, Samuel Salmon, Frederic Montagi
p. 301. Edward Salusbury Jones, and Mathew Wilson.

Mack ISoo&s of ILiiuoln'0 $im* 6

Council held on July i4th, 1757. p. 304.

Six Benchers present.

" Order'd that the Chappel be shut up on Monday next in
order to the reperation of the roof, and that notice be given
thereof next Sunday."

Council held on November 7th, 1757. p. 307.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Chapel be opened for the performance /. 308.
of Divine Service on Sunday next ; and that the Reverend
M r Stephens do officiate as Chaplain therein untill the next Council.

" Ordered that the office of Chaplain of this Society being
vacant by the death of the Rev. M r Rawlins, a successor be
appointed the last day of this term ; and that the several petitions
of the Rev. M r Stephens, M r Davis, M r Pennicott, M r Mills and
M r Reeves, be adjourned to the next Council ; and that every
other person who may apply to succeed the said M r Rawlins, do
make such application before the next Council."

The new Chaplain shall have an increase of ^10 a year in
his salary, and his board wages shall be 1 2s. a week.

Council held on November i7th, 1757. /. 309.

Ten Benchers present.

"Ordered that every future Reader of this Society shall
perform his office personally and not by deputy, except for the
space of two months in the Long Vacation, or on any extraordinary
occasion with the consent of the Dean of the Chapel, or in his
absence, the Treasurer, or, in the absence of both, the senior
Master of the Bench who shall be then resident."

"Ordered that M r Robertson and M r Brooksbank be added
to the number of candidates for the office of Reader, and that each
of the candidates do perform Divine Service and preach in the
Chapel before the day of election, and be desired to accept a
gratuity of one guinea."

Council held on November 28th, 1757. /. 310.

Nineteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that R d Stephens, Clerk, M.A., being duly elected,
be admitted Chaplain of this Society."

The Arms of the Lord Keeper [Sir Robert Henley], Lord
Mansfield [William Murray, C. J. K. B.] and M r Justice Noel,
shall be placed in the Hall.

Accounts of John Coxe, Esquire, the Treasurer, from Jan.
2 3rd, 1757. to Jan. 23rd, 1758.

364 f)e Macft l&oofes of Eituoln'0

Receipts: ,2,172 135. gd. Including \ for the burial
ground under the Chapel, for Jeremiah Nicholson, Esq.*

Payments: ,1,350 8s. gd. Including ^10 IDS. to M r Serjeant
[William] Noel, and 2s. for a purse; 2 duty for 800 oz. of silver
plate; 2 25. to the Earl of Tinley's f keeper, for three young
fawns, as a present ; ^7 75. to the several candidates for the
Chaplain's place ; ^84 IDS. for port and claret for the year; 195.
for i doz. of red port.

Balance: 822 55. od.

1758. Officers for 1758:

Treasurer : Charles Prat, Esq., Att. Gen.
Master of the Library : John Cox, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Taylor White, Esq.
Keeper of the y Black Book : Joseph Kirke, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Edward Poore, Esq.

p. 315. Council held on January 23rd, 31 George II, 1758.

Five Benchers present.

/. 316. Lord Chief Baron Ord's arms shall be put up in the Hall

with the others.!

Call to the Bar, February loth, 1758 : John Round.

/. 318. Council held on February 27th, 1758 :

Six Benchers present.

"Ordered that the chambers of John Parker, Esq., at his
own desire, being at No. 20, three stories high, in Kitchen Garden
Court and Field Gate Row, be seized for the use of this Society."

p. 320. Call to the Bar, May 3rd, 1758: William Ambler, junior.

/. 322. Council held on May 3Oth, 1758 :

Nine Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : Richard Bagot.

" Ordered that Johnson do at the next Council deliver an

account of the six senior Barristers from the last that refused

being called to the Bench."

* There is no entry of this burial in the Register.

f Sic. No doubt a clerical error for Tylney.

% Robert Ord, adm. June 3oth, 1718; bar Nov. i6th, 1724. The date of his
appointment as Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer of Scotland appears to have
been in Dec. 1755. See Gents. Mag., vol. 25, p. 573, and Diet. Nat. Biog.

I Red Book III, p. 49.

iSiacfe iSookg of ILittcoln'g #mt. 365

Council held on June 28th, 1758. p. 327.

Twelve Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

Richard Spooner, Esq., Job Walden Hanmer, Esq., John
Coxe, Esq., Theodore Johnson, Esq., Robert Salkeld, Esq., Owen p. 328.
Salusbury Brereton, Esq., Peter Holford, Esq., a Master of
Chancery, Lewis Jones, Esq., an Associate of the Bench, and
Second Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, Charles
Ambler, Esq., and Sir Anthony Thomas Abdy, Baronet.

Miles Harrison, Esq., George Wroughton, Esq., Nicholas
Munckley, Esq., and Hugh Hayward, Esq., declined the invitation.

* " Ordered that the Treasurer do pay the sum of ,30 by
way of bounty towards defraying the expence of the new pavement
in Serle's Street, between Lincoln's Inn Back Gate and Lincoln's
Inn Feilds; and it is expressly declared that this Order shall no
ways subject the Society to the repairs of such pavement for the
time to come, or be looked on as admitting that the said Society
is in any manner obliged to contribute towards the said expence."

Call to the Bar, November 6th, 1758 : John Hyde. p. 330.

Council held on December i2th, 1758. p. 333.

Thirteen Benchers present.

The draft lease of Furnival's Inn is now approved of; it p. 334.
shall be delivered to the Principal to be engrossed and executed,
together with a counterpart, at the expense of that Society.

t " Upon the petition of John Roberts, setting forth that the
petitioner hath several years rented a chamber, No. 3, in the New
Square, called Serle's Coffee House, that the landlord, who is
owner of the said Coffee Room, always pays the dues and duties
to this Society in respect thereof, notwithstanding which, M r Roberts
hath been taxed at the rate of ^40 a year to the poors and other
taxes in and for the Liberty of the Rolls, which he has allwayes
paid up to Lady Day last." Referred to a Committee.

Accounts of Charles Pratt, Esquire, Attorney General, from
Jan. 23rd, 1758, to Jan. 23rd, 1759.

Receipts : ,2,999 7 s - 4-d- Including ,646 gs. for absent
commons; i for the burial ground underneath the chapel of
Mr. Robert Ashmall, deceased.*

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 304. f Serle's Court Book, I, p. 305.

t Buried Sept. yth.

366 CJe 3$lacfe Boofes of fLincolit'g

Payments: .2,135 os. id. Including 6 IDS. for 13 large
elms, and 9 for 18 large English elms ; ^305 i8s. to William Bigg
and Son, carpenters; ^18 i8s. for Journals of the House of
Commons, 23 vols., half bound, double lettered; 5 175. 6d. to
George Pengree for engraving plates of copper ; ^3 35. 8d. to the
gardener for flowers in the Hall, etc. (paid June 22nd) ; is. 6d. for
12 forms of prayer for the victory over the French on June 23rd
last.*

1759. Officers for 1759:

Master of the Library : Charles Pratt, Esq., Att. Gen.
Treasurer : Edward Willes, Esq., K.C.
Dean of the Chapel : John Hammet, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : Edward Poore, Esq.
Master of the Walks : James Morgan, Esq.

p. 338. Council held on May 2nd, 32 George II, 1759.

.Nine Benchers present.

p. 339. " Upon the humble petition of Anthony Tracy, cook to this

Society, setting forth that for these nine years last past provisions
having been so exceeding dear that he has been a considerable
loser in providing the commons, to the amount of ^30 and
upwards, that he is not able to furnish the said commons, unless
relieved." Referred to a Committee.

340. Council held on May 25th, 1759.

Fourteen Benchers present.

Call to the Bar : Thomas Heron and Daniel Lloyd,
t '' Upon the petition of Charles Delaet, Esq., a Barrister
of this Society, setting forth that he having two chambers in
Kitchen Garden Court,| the one a ground chamber, and the other
one pair of stairs over the same, that the building behind the said
chambers, that serves as a dressing room or study to both the
said chambers, is very ruinous, and in danger of falling, and other
parts of the said chambers settled by the weight of the clock house
and Library over them." To be viewed.

/. 342. Council held on June 27th, 1759.

Eight Benchers present.

* The Battle of Crefeld, or Crevelt.
t Red Book III, pp. 58, 59.
J No. 15. The study was ordered to be replastered and "the cornished worl
painted.

ISlacfe ISoofes of fLittcoIn's nm 367

Call to the Bar :

Thomas Needham, William Mainwaring and Herbert
Mackworth.

" Ordered that a large and handsome reservoir of water be
made in the ground formerly called the Benchers' Garden, and
finished during the ensueing vacation."

Council held on July i8th, 1759. p. 344.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that Mr. Attorney General,* Mr. Sollicitor General, t /. 345.
and Mr. Coxe, late Treasurer's arms be put up in the Chappell in
the usual manner."

Call to the Bar,- November 6th, 1759 : /. 346.

Jamineau Cheveley.

Council held on December i2th, 1759. p. 348.

Eight Benchers present.

" Upon the report of Mr. Payler and Mr. Brereton made
upon the petition of Henry Duffield, Clerk of the Chapell, It is
ordered, in regard his profits have been considerably lessened
by the late Marriage Act, j that 403. a year for the future be added
to his salary."

Accounts of Edward Willes, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
January 23rd, 1759, to January 23rd, 1760.

Receipts : ,2,396 45. 7d. Including i for burial ground
under the Chapel for William Travers, Esq., deceased ; the like
for Edmund Sawyer, Esq. ; || ^50 from Stafford Squires,
Principal of Furnival's Inn, a fine for a new lease for 61 years
from Michaelmas, 1756.

Payments: ,1,968 i8s. lod. Including ,10 IDS. and is. 6d.
for a purse for Anthony Keck, Esq., going out Serjeant ;
,213 iis. to George Pengree, the " copperman," for covering the
Chapel with copper ; 2s. for cleaning the Kitchen Garden well ;
145. for 24 forms of prayer for the General Fast on Feb. i6th,
and ditto for the Thanksgiving on Sunday, Feb. i8th;^ 93. for '

* Charles Pratt. t Hon. Charles Yorke.

| An Act for the better preventing of Clandestine Marriages, 26 Geo. II,
cap. 33. This Act had the effect of restricting marriages to parish churches or
parochial chapels, except by special license. Commonly called "Lord Hardwicke's
Act."

A member of the Society ; buried Feb. 4th.

|| Buried Oct. i7th.

11 Perhaps for the taking of Goree in December, 1758, by Commodore Keppel.

3 68 CJ)e 2$lacfe iSoofes of Utncoln'g

forms of prayers and thanksgiving the 2Qth inst. [Nov.] on
taking of Quebec* ; is. for form of prayer on Admiral Hawke's
defeating the French fleet, t
Balance : ^427 55. pd.

1760. Officers for 1760:

Master of the Library : Edward Willes, Esq., K.C.
Treasurer : Robert Harper, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Joseph Kirke, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : James Morgan, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Thomas Payler, Esq. }

p. 349. Council held on January 23rd, 33 George II, 1760.

Eight Benchers present.

"Upon the humble petition of Thomas|| Roberts of Serle's
Coffee House, setting forth that having agreed for a lease of the
ground chambers, No. 3, in Serle's Court, on the right hand of
the Gate leading into the said Court from Carey Street, on the
east side of the Court, being the chambers on the left hand up the
stone stepps, with the rooms under them thereunto belonging, late
in the tenure or occupation of his Honour, the Master of the
Rolls,! and praying to have the said chambers converted into a
Coffee House It is ordered that the said Mr. Roberts be at
liberty to use the said chambers as a Coffee House, for the better
accomodations of the gentlemen of this Society."

Council held on February i2th, 1760.

Ten Benchers present.

* "Ordered that the sum of ,495 6s. 5jd., the amount of the
bills of the severall workmen employed in repairing the pavement,
iron-rails and area walls in Lincoln's Inn New Square, be paid by
the owners and proprietors of chambers in the said Square in the
several proportions following." [A list follows of the proprietors
of the chambers in Nos. i to 9, inclusive, with the amounts assessed
upon them.]

* The Battle of the Heights of Abraham took place on Sept. i2th and
Quebec surrendered on the i8th.
f At Quiberon, on Nov. aoth.

I Called to the Bench in 1751, as Thomas Turner junior; see ante, p. 343
Burke (Extinct Baronetcies, 404,) says that he assumed the surname of Payl
sometime after the death of Sir Watkinson Payler of Thoralby, co. York.

Serle's Court Book, I, 307.
|| Called John ; ante, p. 365.

II Sir Thomas Clarke, appointed 1754.
** Serle's Court Book, I, p. 308.

Blacfe Books of Ettuoln's Enm 369

Call to the Bar, June 2Oth, 1760 : p. 355.

Rogers Holland, Joseph Clarkson, and Thomas Falconer.

Also Polydore Plumptre ; on his humble petition, " setting
forth that being lately come into the possession of the office of
Clerk of the Pleas of his Majestie's Court of Exchequer in the
Kingdom of Ireland under a grant by Letters Patent from his
late Majesty, King George, and praying to be called to the Barr
this term, tho' without any view or design of practising as a
Barrister at Law." He must pay five years' duties, and deposit
,20 in lieu of a chamber.*

Council held on July 9th, 1760. p. 357.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Bigg, the carpinter, do mend the beam p. 358.
in the Chapel Staircase, according to the proposell now made,
with proper iron work ; and that the said staircase be ornamented
with a Tuscan block cornish ; and that the Benchers' and Ladies'
seats in the Chapel be new lined, and all the seats new varnished."

Council held on November 6th, i George III, 1760. p. 359.
Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Treasurer give orders for a velvet purple-
coloured covering for the Communion Table, with a gold fringe,
and a gloria, and two velvet cushions for the said table, a cushion
for the Pulpit and a valiant for the Reader's Desk, in like manner
as the old, together with other necessarys for that purpose."

" Ordered that the Grand Day for this present Michaelmas
Term, and every succeeding Michaelmas Term, be kept and
celebrated on the second Thursday in each of the said Michaelmas
Terms."

Accounts of Robert Harper, senior, Esquire, the Treasurer,
from Jan. 23rd, 1760, to Jan. 23rd, 1761.

Receipts: ,2,400 175. lod.

Payments: ,1,932 143. 2d. Including ,31 to the Bishop of
Gloucester,! his salary for Hilary Term ; 2 2S. for 12 cut glasses,
at 38. 6d. each; ,63 to Thomas Gilpin for 6 silver candlesticks
and sockets; 8s. 6d. for moving things out of the Chapel in order
for being white-washed and painted; 2 los. duty for 1,000
ounces of silver plate; ,499 ios. for ,600 consolidated 3 per
cent. Bank Annuities at 83^-; 2 2s. 6d. for cutting the trees in
the Garden " fan n -fash ion."

Balance: .468 33. 8d.

* Adm. June 6th, 1760. f Valance.

% D r Warburton, the Preacher, was so consecrated, Jan. 2oth, 1760
VOL. in. 3 r.

370 CJe Black iSoofeg of ILfncoln'g

1761. Officers for 1761 :

Master of the Library : Robert Harper, Esq.
Treasurer : John Pollen, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Edward Poore, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : Thomas Payler, Esq.
Master of the Walks : John Probyn, Esq.

p. 363. Council held on January 23rd, i George III, 1761.

Twelve Benchers present.

/. 364. " Levet Blackborne, Esq., one of the Masters of the Bench of

this Society, having communicated a letter from the Right Rev d
William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester, purporting his intention to
resign the Preachership at the end of this term, this Council
desire the said M r Blackborne to return his Lordship the thanks
of this Society for his past services, and that they accept of his
resignation."

"Ordered that no person be permitted to preach as a
candidate to this Society, but such as is recommended by two
of the Masters of the Bench to the Dean of the Chappell, or in
his absence to the Treasurer, or in the absence of the present
Treasurer to M r Harper, the late Treasurer ; and that no
candidate be admitted to preach till after this term ; and that the
Masters of the Bench proceed to the election of a Preacher the
first day of next term."

" Ordered that the arms of the present Lord Chancellor, in
the Hall of this Society, be altered by adding his new titles, the
coronet, and supporters."*

366. Council held on February i2th, 1761.
Ten Benchers present.

367. Report of a Committee on the duties, etc., of the Preacher.
Reciting the appointment of the Rev. John Tillotso

November 26th, 1663,! and the conditions then laid down; an
reciting that D r Tillotson's successors in the office of Preacher,
namely, M r Maynard, M r Gastrell (afterwards Bishop of Chester),
D r Lupton, M r Herring (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury),
and M r Crank, were all appointed on the same terms; and reciting
that on the election of M r Watts, who succeeded M r Crank, the
duties of the Preacher as to preaching on Sunday afternoons were
altered, by an Order made on July 3rd, 1738 \\

* Sir Robert Henley, Att. Gen., was appointed Lord Keeper, June 3oth, 175;
created Baron Henley, March 27th, 1760; appointed Lord Chancellor, Jan. i6t
1761; created Earl of Northington, May iQth, 1764.

t See ante, p. 34. \ See ante, p. 316.

Mack iSoofes of ^Lincoln's Enn, 371

" We are of opinion that the same rules and orders should be
laid down, pursued and observed upon any future election of a
Preacher to this Society, and that no further alteration should be
made therein, except with regard to the exhibition and allowance
of ^124 a year, which we apprehend should properly commence
and have equal duration with the service and duty of the Preacher,
and that the same should take place from the time of his being
thereto appointed, and to be paid by quarterly payments, untill his
removal, resignation, or death;" payment to commence three
calendar months from the date of the appointment, and to be p. 368.
apportioned up to the day of removal, resignation, or death.

Ordered that the new Preacher shall be elected on the terms
and with the alterations above set out ; he shall have two calendar
months' leave of absence in the Long Vacation, but must find
an able preacher to take his duties while he is away.

" Ordered that the Dean of the Chappel, or in his absence,
the two senior Masters of the Bench now present, shall appoint
a person to preach every Sunday during this Vacation, when any
candidate is not appointed to preach."

Council held on February 25th, 1761. /. 369.

Thirteen Benchers present.

11 Ordered that the Treasurer of this Society do give his
consent for incorperating the Trustees named in the will and
settlement of the late Christopher Tancerd [sic], Esq., deceased,
and for the purposes mentioned in the Bill."*

Council held on April 8th, 1761. /. 37-

Nineteen Benchers present.

The workmen's bills amount to ,1,041 45. 7d. ; sufficient of
the 3 per cent. Bank Annuities shall be sold to pay them.

"The Reverend Doctor Thomas Ashton being this day /. 371.
unanimously elected Preacher of this Society in the place of the
Right Rev. William [Warburton], Lord Bishop of Gloucester,
who resigned his Preachership of this Society It is ordered
thereupon and declared that the said Doctor Ashton be and is
Preacher of this Society, and that he have the same exhibition,
allowances and chambers as the said Bishop of Gloucester had
when he was elected Preacher, t and that the same duty and

* There had been a lawsuit over the will, in which the trustees succeeded in
establishing the trust on Nov. 8th, 1757. A private Act of Parliament, 2 George III,
cap. 15, was subsequently passed, by which the trustees were incorporated, and
were authorised to make rules concerning the charity. Diet. Nat. Biog.

f See ante, p. 337.

372 Cfte ISlacfe 2$oofeg of Eincolix'g Enn,

attendance is expected from the said Doctor Ashton as is expressed
in the Order of the 1 2th of February last, relating to the Preacher;*
and Mr. Attorney General t is hereby desired to acquaint the said
Doctor Ashton therewith."

/. 372. Call to the Bar, April i7th, 1761 :

Hans Winthorpe Mortimer and Thomas Griffin.

p. 373. Call to the Bar, April 27th, 1761 : Robert Thorpe.

Council held on May 4th, 1761.

Five Benchers present.

\ " Ordered that the chambers one story high, up the Chappel
steps, late of M r John Hope, deceased, and now in the disposition
of the House, be appropriated to the use of the Rev. M r Stephens,
Reader to this Society, during the time of his continuing Reader
and that he shall personally inhabit the same, in lieu of and in
stead of the other chambers which he is now permitted to hold
and injoy."

p. 375. Council held on June 8th, 1761.

Eleven Benchers present.

Call to the Bar:

Marmaduke Constable, James Wallace and Samuel Short,
junior.

"Ordered that the Order dated the 8th of May, 1754, be
reversed; and that the Order dated the 28th of November, 1737,
be and stand revived, but without prejudice to Charles Ambler,
Esq., he being at this time one of his Majesty's Council, and one
of the Masters of the Bench of this Society."

p. 377. Council held on June 24th, 1761.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that new iron rails be put up at the foot of the

Chapel steps, before the Buttery windows, in the room of the old

wooden rails."

/. 382. Call to the Bar, December nth, 1761 :

Lionel Place, who has been admitted nearly 20 years, and

* See ante, p. 370.

f Sir Charles Pratt, appointed June, 1757.
I Red Book III, p. 68.
See ante, pp. 314, 356. The Orders related to the precedence of King's
Counsel.

JSlacfe aSooftg of ^Lincoln's Entu 373

performed all his exercises, and has been a member of Furnival's
Inn 12 years; he must waive his first admission, and take his
standing as from five years before his Call.*

Accounts of John Pollen, Esquire, the Treasurer, from Jan.
23rd, 1761, to Jan. 23rd, 1762.

Receipts : ,3,334 7s. 4d. Including 25 for a year's rent
of the ground chambers at No. 23, late of Thomas Kyffine, Esq.,
deceased; 1,140 155. by the sale of ,1,300 3 per cent Bank
Annuities at 87^.

Payments: ,2,519 6s. 5d. Including ,87 153. for ,100
Consolidated 3 per cent. Bank Annuities, at 87!; is. for form of
prayers on the surrender of Pondicherry,t Bellisle,j Dominica,
and late success in Germany.||

Balance: "81505. ud.

Officers for 1762 : 1762.

Master of the Library : John Pollen, Esq.
Treasurer : Charles Ambler, Esq., K.C.
Dean of the Chapel : James Morgan, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : John Probyn, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Robert Holden, Esq.

Call to the Bar, February ist, 2 George III, 1762 : p. 384.

Barnard Foord.

Council held on February i2th, 1762. /. 385.

Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :
John Richmond Webb, Esq., K.C.

" Ordered that M r Stevens 1 have liberty to let his chambers, /. 387.
so as he let the same to a member of this Society."

Council held on February 26th, 1762.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that when any Master or other member of this p. 389.
Society is presented to the Coif, he shall be received in the Council
Chamber by the Masters of the Bench the morning he takes his
leave of this Society, and no person to come into the Hall without

* Also p. 384.

f Surrendered June i5th, 1761.

% Surrendered June 7th, 1761.

Taken June 7th, 1761.

|| At Filingshausen, July i5th and i6th.

II Apparently the Chaplain ; see ante. p. 372.

374 ^fi* ISlacfe ISoofeg of lUncoltt'g

having their gowns on, as hath been accustomed. And this Order
to be screened."

p. 391. Call to the Bar, May 5th, 1762 :

Joseph Reade, junior, on his petition " setting forth that he is
desirous of being called to the Bar this term, having kept commons,
performed all his exercises, and conformed himself to the Rules of
this Society, wanting two terms of his full standing, that he is a
native of New Yorke in North America, and that it is necessary
for him to go thither immediately, which he intends to do, and
reside there." He must pay five years' duties.

Council held on May 24th, 1762.
Fourteen Benchers present.

p. 392. Call to the Bar:

Anthony Dawson; admitted upwards of fourteen years ago;

he must waive his first admission, and take his standing as of five

years before his Call.*
p. 393. " Ordered that M r Harper and M r Probyn be desired to meet

the other Inns of Court to settle the Rules and Regulations of

gentlemen being called to the Barr; and that they make their

report the last day of next term."

p. 395. Call to the Bar, June 2ist, 1762:

John Brettell, Paul Methuen and Arthur Murphy.

Council held on June 3Oth, 1762.
Seven Benchers present.
"Proposals, June i8th, 1762.

" That the standing for the Barr be five years from admission;
none to be called under the age of 2 1 years ; that 1 2 terms'
commons be actually kept; that Masters of Arts and Batchelors
of Laws of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge be
dispensed with two years' standing, but not with any commons
no exceptions with regard to Ireland or the West Indies ; n<
Attorney or Sollicitor, Clark in Chancery or Exchequer, to be
called till they have discontinued practising as such for two years.

J. ORLEBAR. ROB T - HARPER.

JN- PROBYN. R. CLAYTON.

RIC D MORLEY. P. DAVALL.

JAMES BURROW. SAM L - WEGG."t

* Also p. 396.

f A joint Committee of two Benchers from each Inn of Court. Harper anc
Probyn were of Lincoln's Inn ; John Orlebar and .Peter Davall were of the Midc
Temple ; James Burrow and Richard Clayton were of the Inner Temple : Kiel
Morley and Samuel Wegg of Gray's Inn.

Macfe 3$oofes of Eincoln'g JFtm, 375

u Upon the Report of M r Probyn and M r Harper, who by p. 397.
Order of Council of the 24th of May last were appointed to meet
the gentlemen from the several Societies of the Inner Temple,
Middle Temple and Gray's Inn, in order to consider of certain
Rules to be observed concerning the qualification of persons to
be called to the Barr, reported that they had met and conferred
with the gentlemen appointed by the said Societies for that
purpose, and that proposals being offered on that subject and
reduced into writing, were approved of, and signed by all the
gentlemen present, as containing regulations proper to be observed
and practised by all the Inns of Court.

" Now having perused and considered of the said proposals,
and in approbation and conformity to the same, It is ordered that
for the future " the rules set out above shall be observed in this
Inn.*

Thanks are returned to M r Probyn and M r Harper for their p, 398.
great care and trouble in the matter.

Council held on July i4th, 1762. /. 399.

Seven Benchers present.

The Benchers' seats in the Chapel are to be made broader /. 401.
and lower.

" Ordered that the clock be repaired, and the three dial
plates be new painted and guilt, and the clock to be put in good
order."

Council held on November 6th, 1762. p. 402.

Seven Benchers present.

Regulations for Dinners :

EASTER TERM.

Sunday. Roast beef, etc., and plum pudding.

Monday. A neck of mutton, boiled, proper roots, and roast

fowl.

Tuesday. Neck or breast of veal, roasted, 100 asparagus.

Wednesday. Fresh fish and shoulder of mutton.

Thursday. Roast beef, plum pudding or gooseberry pie.

Friday. Fresh fish, and loin of mutton, roasted, etc.

Saturday. Boiled leg of lamb and roasted tongue.

* The rules are here repeated, with some trifling verbal differences, e.g.,
"plantations" instead of "West Indies."

;;6 Cfte asiacfe 9$oofeg of ^Lincoln's JFnit.

TRINITY TERM.

Sunday. Roast beef, cucumbers, gooseberry pie and basin

of cream.

Monday. Beans and bacon, neck of mutton roasted.

Tuesday. Neck or breast of veal, roasted, a dish of peas.

Wednesday. Boiled fowl, bacon, etc., shoulder of mutton, roasted.

Thursday. Roast beef, etc., dish of peas or fruit pie.

Friday. Fresh fish, loin of mutton, roasted.

Saturday. Boiled leg of lamb, and roast tongue.

p. 403. MICHAELMAS TERM.

Sunday. Roast beef, etc., plum pudding.

Monday. Boiled leg of country pork, and roast fowl.

Tuesday. Boiled fowl, etc., and roast shoulder of mutton.

Wednesday. Soup and bouilli, and neck or breast of veal.

Thursday. Roast beef, etc., hot apple pie.

Friday. Oysters as usual, fresh fish, loin of mutton, roasted.

Saturday. Boiled tongue and roast fowl.

HILARY TERM.
The same as Michaelmas Term.

Council held on November 29th, 1762.
Five Benchers present.
/. 405. [The Orders of the Inner Temple, Middle Temple and Gray's

Inn, as to the new Rules for Call to the Bar, are set out in full.]
p. 407. " Ordered that there be no more bonfires made in the street

or gates of this Society on any account whatsoever, and that this
Order be delivered to the Chief Porter of this Society."

Accounts of Charles Ambler, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1762, to Jan. 23rd, 1763.

Receipts: .2,641 6s. icd.

Payments: .2,189 I2S - 5^. Including ^10 IDS. and 2s. for
purse to Charles Pratt, Esq., Serjeant at Law;* 2 is. 6d. for
large, high, elms; 436 ics. for ^600 Consolidated 3 per cent.
Annuities at 72|; 6d. for "form of prayers of delivery of Queen
of a Prince " f ; 6d. for prayers on taking the Island of Cuba;J

55. for 8 soup dishes and 3 doz. soup plates.

Balance: ^451 145. 5d.

* Appointed C.J.C.P., Jan. 23rd, 1762, on the death of Sir John Willes.
f Born Aug. i2th, 1762; afterwards George IV.
J Havannah surrendered on August i3th.

ISlacfe Boofes of ^Lincoln's nm 377

Officers for 1763 : 1763.

Treasurer : William Lambton, Esq.
Master of the Library: Charles Ambler, Esq., K.C.
Dean of the Chapel : Thomas Payler, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book: Robert Holden, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Arthur Jones, Esq.

Call to the Bar, February 8th, 3 George III, 1763 : p. 411.

Samuel Burroughs Phipps.

Council held on February 25th, 1753. /. 412.

Ten Benchers present.

George Hall, the Second Butler and Library Keeper, /. 414.
complains that the gentlemen refuse to pay his Roll, as usual.
He prays for a yearly allowance.

Council held on April 2Oth, 1763. /. 415.

Five Benchers present.

" The Rev. Doctor Ashton, Preacher to this Society, having
sent a letter to the Treasurer, which said letter has been read
at this Council, setting forth that the late severe stroke with
which it has pleased God to visit him, has left him in an utter
incapacity of performing his duty It is ordered that M r
Treasurer be desired to write to the said Doctor to acquaint him
that this Council is very sorry to hear of his indisposition, and
heartly hope to hear of his speedy and perfect recovery ; and
that in the meantime, and till he can in person attend, he will
give directions for appointing a Preacher as usual."*

Council held on May :6th, 1763. /. 416.

Six Benchers present.

Report on the petition of George Hall : /. 417.

" Wee find that the attendance of the said George Hall
; is from 9 in the morning till one, every day in the year, and allso,
in the summer time, from four till seven in the afternoon, and that
he has an allowance of 125. a year for cleaning the Library, and
, 4s. a year for mops and brooms.

" Wee also find that it has been the constant method for a
; great many years past to appoint the same person Library Keeper
i and Second Butler.

" Wee also find that the said George Hall was appointed to

* The illness to which he refers was palsy, see Diet. Nat. Biog. He died
March ist, 1775.
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these offices about eighteen years agoe, and that he has a salary
from the House of ^8 a year as second Butler, commons in the
Term time, and an allowance of 55. a week communibus annis,
which amounts to about ^"10 a year ; that he has 6s. 4d. upon the
admittance of every member, which communibus annis amounts to
about 6 135. 4d. a year; and that he is entitled to IDS. for
[?from] every gentleman upon his being called to the Barr, which
communibus annis amounts to abou ^3 a year.

" Wee find that it has been usual for every member residing
in the Society to pay 6d. a term to the Under Library Keeper's
Roll, and is. a year to the Second Butler's Roll.

"Wee find that the Petitioner has received on account of the
said Rolls for the last year about ^10, and that he never received
in one year above ^14; and that if he was to receive from every
member residing in the Society, it would amount to upwards of
^"30 a year.

" Wee find that an Order of Council was made on the 28th of
May, 1750, for every member residing in the Society to pay 6d.
a term to the Under Library Keeper, pursuant to former Orders.*

"Wee are of opinion that it will be proper for "the Bench to
support their Orders, and to enforce payment of the said Rolls, by
refusing to grant any favour to such of the resident members who
have neglected to pay to the said Rolls, by calling them to the
Bar, compounding their commons, or in any other way, till they
have discharged the arrears of those Rolls; and to make an Order
for that purpose."

Ordered that, in consideration of the long, diligent, and faith-
/. 418. ful services of the said George Hall, his salary be increased to \6
a year, without prejudice to his other emoluments.

" Ordered that M r Johnson do in the name of this Society
subscribe ^50 to the Roll for opening the Devill's Gapp in Great
Queen's Street." t

Council held on June 3rd, 1763.
Ten Benchers present.

p. 419. Call to the Bench :

Alexander Wedderburn, Esq., K.C.

" Ordered that M r Johnson do wait upon the Under Treasurei

of Gray's Inn for a copy of the Orders relating to the tenure b)

* See ante, p. 346.

f The western entrance into Great Queen Street was by a narrow pass
under a house, familiarly known as " The Devil's Gap," or " Hell Gate." It wa
taken down in January, 1765. Wheatley and Cunningham.

Biacfe ISoofes of ^Lincoln's Jtnn* 379

which their several chambers are held ; and if any difficulty arises
in obtaining the said copies, that an application be made to the
Bench of the said Society of Gray's Inn ; and that M r Johnson
do pay for such copies."

" Ordered that M r Johnson do wait upon the several other
Societys, and desire copies of the several forms of the Bonds
entered into by gentlemen upon their admission into those
respective Societys."

* Alexander Wedderburn, Esq., K.C., is admitted into a
whole chamber, three stories high, No. 20, Kitchen Garden Court,
Field Gate Row; fine 20.

Council held on June 22nd, 1763. p. 420.

Five Benchers present.

"Ordered that M r Johnson do, on or before the first day of/. 421.
next term, prepare an account of all the moneys which have
annualy arose by the falling in of chambers for ten years last past,
distinguishing how much money arose in each year; and also that
he at the same time lay before this Board an astimate of what each
ground floor, one pair of stairs, in each of the several staircases
in the Old Buildings, might be annualy lett to a tenant."

A Committee is appointed to consider the bonds taken on
admission by the other three Inns of Court, and to prepare one or
more drafts of bonds for the use of this Society.

Council held on July 6th, 1763. p. 422.

Eight Benchers present.

t " It appearing to this Council that the stacks of chimneys
between the staircases No. 4 and 5 in the New Square, are in a
very ruinous and daingerous condition, and that the several
proprietors of chambers in the said staircases ought to repair the
said chimneys. It is ordered that such several proprietors be
requested forthwith to repair such chimneys "

Call to the Bar, November 22nd, 1763 : Edward King. /. 424.

Accounts of William Lambton, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1763, to Jan. 23rd, 1764.

Receipts : ,1,966 is. i id. Including ^ from Peter Basford,
Esq., Principal of Thavies Inn, for a year's rent, less tax.

Payments: ,1,806 173. nd. Including is. 8d. for a bottle
of Lisbon from the tavern ; 8s. for 24 forms of prayer for the
General Thanksgiving, the 5th inst. [May], upon the conclusion

* Red Book III, p. 84. f Serle's Court Book, I, p. 317.

380 Cf)e &lacfc 2$oofeg of Eincoln'g

of the peace* ; ^13 for turning and gravelling the Terrace Walk,
turning Bird Cage Walk, and gravelling the walk next Chancery
Lane, with drift; ^14 45. for 71 loads of gravel for the Terrace
Walk, and $ is. for road drift for the other walk; 2 IDS. for
silver plate duty on 1,000 oz. ; 45. for the coat of arms from York
and porterage t ; is. for forms of prayer and thanksgiving on the
birth of a prince \ ; 16 55. 6d.jto William Peckitt, glass stainer
at York, for 6 Treasurer's arms in the Chapel.
Balance : ^159 45. od.

1764. Officers for 1764:

Master of the Library: William Lambton, Esq.
Treasurer: Taylor White, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel: John Probyn, Esq.
Black Book Keeper: Arthur Jones, Esq.
Master of the Walks: Henry Gapper, Esq.

p. 427. Council held on January 23rd, 4 George III, 1764.

Eight Benchers present.

/. 428. " Ordered that notice in writing be put up in the Hall on the

first day of Hilary Term annually for ever, of the name of such
person, being one of the four law students, as shall be appointed
to make a speech and oration in Latin in the publick Dining Hall
of this Society, in perpetual remembrance and commemoration of
the several donations and charities made, founded and established
by the will of Christopher Tancred, Esq. ; in which notice shall be
appointed the day and hour on which such speech or oration shall
be made."

P. 429. " Ordered that no Order of this Society shall be reversed

or any election gone upon at any other time than the first and last
days of every term, unless notice in writing be given to every
member [of the Bench] resident in town, one whole day at least
before such Council shall be held ; and declare this Order to b(
a Standing Order of the Society."

Council held on February i3th, 1764.

Ten Benchers present.

|| "It being reported to the Council that the great gate at

Serle's Court Gate is so extremely old and decayed that the same

is incapable of amendment ; and it being necessary that a pair

of new gates should be forthwith made, and that the expence

* The Peace of Paris was signed on Feb. loth. f See below.
\ Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, born Aug. i6th.
See/or/, May gth. || Serle's Court Book, I, p. 321.

3$lacfe ISoofeg of ^Lincoln's 3hm* 381

thereof ought to be defrayed by the owners of chambers in the
New Square It is ordered that 55. be paid by the owners of each
chamber in Serle's Square towards the making of a new pair of
gates. And it is further ordered that M r Johnson, the Steward
of this Society, do collect such 53. each from the owners or the
occupiers of the said chambers for the purpose aforesaid."

Council held on May 9th, 1764. p. 433.

Nineteen Benchers present.

" Declare that the office of Chief Butler of this Society is
now vacant by the death of Joseph Johnson.* It is ordered that
Tuesday next be appointed for the election of a Chief Butler in
his room. It is further ordered that notice be given to every
Bencher in town of such day of election, one day before the day
appointed for such election." f

Council held on May i5th, 1764. p. 435.

Twenty two Benchers present.

Francis Rhodes, Chief Butler's Assistant and Wash Pot, is
appointed Chief Butler. He must give a bond, himself in ^400,
and two sureties in ^100 each.

Call to the Bar:

Joshua Cotton, being of full standing and having kept twelve
terms commons and performed all exercises, first paying all his
arrears and duties ; to be published at the next exercise, \

Call to the Bar, May 29th, 1764: /. 436.

George Wingfield, John Lewis, and Hugh Vernon.

Council held on June 22nd, 1764. /. 438.

Fifteen Benchers present.

Call to the Bench:

Sir Fletcher Norton, Attorney General. |

He is admitted to the garrets, three stories high, No. 21, Gate
House Court, Stone Pace Row; fine 20. 11

Thomas Grint is appointed Steward's Man, vacant by the /. 439.
election of M r Rhodes as Chief Butler.

* Buried April 29th. f See ante, p. 380.

\ This is now the common form.
Sic\ should be William Hughes Vernon.

II Appointed Dec. i6th, 1763, on the resignation of the Hon. Charles Yorke;
admitted at L.I., May i5th, 1764.
IT Red Book III, p. 89.

382 C&e Macfe ISoofes of Ettuoln'g

/. 440. Council held on July iith, 1764.

Seven Benchers present.

p. 441. " Ordered that the bell be rung from Lady Day to Michaelmas

as six of the clock in the morning, and from Michaelmas to Lady
Day at seven of the clock in the morning."

" Ordered that M r Rhodes do pay out of the Society's money
.50 into M r Child the Banker's hands, to the account of the
Devil's Gap." *

Accounts of Taylor White, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1764, to Jan. 23rd, 1765.

Receipts: ,2,161 is. id. Including ,652 6s 8d. for
chamber fines ; i for burial ground under the Chapel for
Thomas Heaton, deceased; 2 IDS. from the undertaker of
Francis Capper, Esq., deceased,! for the said M r Capper being
buried in linen under the Chapel ; ,8 from M r Leigh, Principal
of Furnival's Inn, for a year's rent ; ,90 for a year's dividend on
,3,000 3 per cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities.

Payments: ,1,647 6s. 8d. Including i 155. for a horn
for the Pannierman ; 6 for trees planted in the Base Court.

Balance: .513 145. 5d.

1765. Officers for 1765 :

Treasurer : Sir Fletcher Norton, Knight, Att. Gen.
Master of the Library : Taylor White, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Robert Holden, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : Henry Gapper, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Levett Blackbourne, Esq.

/. 447. Council held on January 23rd, 5 George III, 1765.

Six Benchers present.

/. 448. Upon the petition of Thomas Grint, Assistant Steward,

stating that the salary, profits and perquisites arising from his
place amount to no more than ,22 a year, "and is much less
profitable than any other office or employment belonging to this
Society" Ordered that ,8 a year be added to his salary.

"Ordered that the Treasurer or Steward J do give M r Hall,
the second Butler, 1 5 guineas, in consideration of his long services
and infirmities."

* See ante, p. 378. f A Master of the Bench ; buried March 3rd.

J The office of Steward had been formally abolished, (ante, p. 340), but
name was sometimes given to the Chief Butler (ante, p. 360).

iSlacfe ISoofes of ^Lincoln's Inn, 383

Call to the Bar, February 9th, 1765: Daniel Newman.* /. 449.

Council held on February I2th, 1765.
Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that no person shall be capable of being a Bencher /. 450.
of this Society unless he shall have been a member thereof full
seven years after he hath been a Barrister ; but this Order is not
to extend to his Majestie's Attorney and Sollicitor General ; and
declare this to be the Standing Order of the House."

" Nele Ashby, one of the Fellows of this Society, being the
owner of chambers, No. 9, in Garden Court in Garden Row, one
story high, petitioned this Council that he might be at liberty
to leave said chamber to M r John Holiday, one of the Fellows
of the Society. Which petition was unanimously rejected on
account of the dangerous state of health of the said M r Ashby." f

"Ordered that for the future all questions relating to the
election of Preacher, Chaplain, or any of the officers or servants
of this Society shall be determined by ballotte ; and such ballotting
shall be by bitts of paper whereon the name of every candidate
shall be wrote and delivered to each Bencher, who shall put or
deliver such ballotte of the person which he ballotts for to the
Chairman of the Counsel, in order to be cast up or numbered ;
and this declared to be a Standing Order."

"Ordered that for the future three Masters of the Bench
shall be sufficient to make a Counsel for calling any gentleman
to the Barr, but for no other purpose."

Council held on February 26th, 1765. p. 451.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Wilbraham be desired to return M r Baron
[John Tracy] Atkyns the thanks of this Society for his present
of his Reports to the public Library."

" Ordered that M r Rhodes, the Chief Butler, do pay to the
Commissioners of the Common Sewers, or their Collector or
Clerk, the sum of ,37 ios., charged on this Society for cleansing
repairing and amending the common sewer in Chancery Lane
and other sewers running into the same. Rated at ,1,000."

Call to the Bar, May i3th, 1765 : /. 453-

John Galley and James Pinnock.

* Adm. Feb. 8th, 1765 ; probably he had kept his terms at another Inn.
f He was buried under the Chapel on Feb. 2 1 st.

384 6c Macfc iSoofeg of fLincoln'*

/. 454. Council held on May 2oth, 1765.

Fifteen Benchers present.

"Ordered that the Reverend D r Ashton, as Preacher of this
Society, be acquainted by the Treasurer thereof that [it] is the
resolution of the Masters of the Bench of this Society to declare
his office of Preachership vacant the last day of next term, unless
in the mean time he shews sufficient reason to the contrary." *

/. 455. Council held on June 7th, 1765.

Eleven Benchers present.

" D r Ashton having by letter to the Treasurer of this Society
signified that he has resigned the Preachership of this Society, to
take place the 26th day of this instant June It is hereby declared
that the said Preachership be declared vacant from the said 26th
of this instant June. And it is ordered that from that time the
Dean of the Chappel, or, in his absence, the two senior Masters of
the Bench present in the Society, do appoint a proper person to
preach every Sunday next vacation, except at such times when a
candidate is to preach."

/. 456. " Ordered that M r Rhodes do pay out of the Society's money

50 guineas into M r Child the Banker's hands, towards paving
Great Queen Street, Long Acre, and S* Martin's Lane."

Call to the Bar, June 22nd, 1765: Philip Fonnereau.

/. 458. Council held on July loth, 1765.

Nine Benchers present.

P. 460. " Ordered that M r Holney do make a report of the expence

of altering the kitchen chimney to make it proper to burn
sea-coal ; and that the smith make an estimate of the iron-work
necessary for the same purpose."

/. 461. Council held on November 6th, 1765.

Fifteen Benchers present.

/. 462. The Reverend M r Richard Hurd, B.D., being this day

unanimously elected Preacher of this Society in the place of
D r Thomas Ashton, who resigned his Preachership It is ordered
thereupon and declared that the said M r Hurd be and is Preacher
of this Society, and that he have the same exhibition, allowance
and chambers as the said M r Ashton had when he was elected
Preacher, f and that the same duty and attendance is expected from

* See ante, p. 377. \ See ante, p. 371.

Macfe Boofes of Htncoln's Enn, 385

the said M r Kurd ; and that the Honourable M r Attorney
General is hereby desired to acquaint M r Hurd therewith." *

"Ordered that M r Rhodes do pay to the Rev. M r Penn 25
guineas for his preaching during the last vacation."

" Ordered that the two uppermost seats, one on the right /. 463.
hand and the other on the left hand of the Communion Table in
the Chappel, be reserved for the Ladies of the Benchers of this
Society and their Familys; and also ordered that the three other
seats above the step on each side be reserved for the Ladies of
Barristers and Gentlemen belonging to this Society."

Call to the Bar, November 23rd, 1765: John Edwards, p. 464.

Council held on November 28th, 1765. /. 465.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that one of the keys of the Garden Gate be p. 467.
delivered for the use of the Commissioners of the Stamp Office."

"Ordered that M r Rhodes do apply to the Trustees of
Lincoln's Inn Fields, at their next meeting at Lincoln's Inn, to
desire that keys of the said Fields may be delivered to him for the
use of the Benchers of this Society."

Accounts of Sir Fletcher Norton, Knight, the Treasurer,
from Jan. 23rd, 1765, to Jan. 23rd, 1766.

Receipts: ,2,684 ^9 S - 2 & Including i for the burial of
Neale Ashby under the Chapel ; j IDS. from M r Reeve, for a
quarter's rent for the chambers up the Library stair case, late
D r Ashton's ; 17 155. from the owners of chambers in Serle's
Court, towards making new gates into Carey Street.

Payments : 2,013 is. 4d. Including 37 los. to the Clerk
of Common Shores, f a tax levied on the Society; 10 los. and
2s. 6d. for a purse to M r Serjeant [Richard] Aston, going out
Serjeant \ ; 155. for 3 hot water plates ; i 73. for 14 china sauce
boats for the Bench Table ; 26 55. to M r Penn for preaching
in the Long Vacation ; is. 8d. for a bottle of Lisbon at the
Adjourned Council, Dec. iith.

Balance: 671 175. lod.

* The Hon. Charles Yorke, appointed Sept. lyth, 1765, on the resignation of
Fletcher Norton.

f Sewers ; see ante, p. 383.

i He resigned the office of CJ.C.P. Ireland (to which he was appointed in
1761) and was made one of the Judges of the King's Bench, April igth, 1765.
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386 ^TJe ISlacfe JSoofeg of fUncoln'0

1766. Officers for 1766:

Treasurer: Edward Poore, Esq.

Master of the Library: Sir Fletcher Norton, Knight.

Dean of the Chapel: Arthur Jones, Esq.

Keeper of the Black Book: Levet Blackbourne, Esq.

Master of the Walks: Richard Spooner, Esq.

/. 470. Call to the Bar, February 8th, 6 George III, 1766:

John Claxton.

/. 474. Council held on April i6th, 1766.

Seven Benchers present.

/. 475. " Ordered that M r Gilpin's bill for 4 doz. of silver hafted

knives and 4 doz. of silver forks, amounted to ,88 2s. 3d., be paid."
" Ordered that for the future when any chambers are screened
as being to be sold by the House, the price set upon them on view
by the Masters shall be added to the notice, and that any member
of the Society shall have liberty to offer a larger price at any time
within seven days from the time of the chambers being so screened;
and if no one offers more, the senior person petitioning to have the
chambers at the price set by the Masters, shall have the same."

Council held on May i2th, 1766.

Eight Benchers present.

P. 477. "Ordered that the arms of Lord Camden,* the Bishop of

Gloucester,! and Sir Richard Aston be put up in the Hall, and
that the arms of Charles Ambler, Esq., William Lambton, Esq.,
Taylor White, Esq., and Sir Fletcher Norton, Knight, the four
last Treasurers of this Society, be put up in the Chappell in the
usual manner."

f , -T, ^, , j , ., -- .

Sir John Russell, Bart., William Weller Pepys,t and Charles
Mellish.

/. 484. Council held on November 6th, 1766.

Five Benchers present.
/. 485. " Ordered that a Survey be taken of the Old Buildings, and

that a plan be made or drawn out for rebuilding the same ; and

that it be referred to any two or more of the Masters of the Bench

to procure such plan to be made."

* Charles Pratt, C.J.C.P., had been created Baron Camden in 1765; he was
appointed Lord Chancellor July 3oth, 1766.

f William Warburton. | Called William Pepys on admission.

ISIacfe Boofes of fUncoln's 5nn. 387

Call to the Bar, November 25th, 1766 : p. 486.

Nash Grose, John Pickering and Edward Reeve.

Also Giles Rooke, "having been regularly admitted to the /. 487.
degree of Master of Arts in the University of Oxford, and being
thereby of full standing in this Society according to the Order
of the 3Oth of June, 1762,"* and having kept twelve terms
commons.

Call to the Bench, November 28th, 1766 : /. 488.

The Right Hon. Charles Townsend, Esq.f

Accounts of Edward Poore, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1766, to Jan. 23rd, 1767.

Receipts: ,3,335 45. 7d. Including 790 135. 4d. for
chamber fines.

Payments: 3,322 45. od. Including 900 35. 6d. to M r Child
to the credit of the Society.

Balance: 13 os. 7d.

Officers for 1767: 1767.

Master of the Library: Edward Poore, Esq.
Treasurer: James Morgan, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel: Henry Gapper, Esq.

Arthur Jones, Esq.

Keeper of the Black Book: Richard Spooner, Esq.
Master of the Walks: Job Walden Hanmer, Esq.

Council held on January 23rd, 7 George III, 1767. /. 492.

Eighteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that for the future no person be admitted a Member
of this Society unless a Bencher signs his name to the said
admission, according to the ancient rule of this Society.

Call to the Bar, January 3ist, 1767: /. 493.

Thomas Chamberlayne, Abel Moysey, James Adair and
George Morgan.

Call to the Bench, February 4th, 1767: /. 494-

William de Grey, Esq., Attorney General. J

* See ante, p. 374.

f Second son of Charles, 3rd Viscount Townshend ; appointed Chancellor of
the Exchequer by Pitt, Aug. 2nd, 1766, See Diet. Nat. Biog.
\ Appointed Aug. 6th, 1766; adm. at L.I. Jan. 26th, 1767.

388 Cfie ISIacfe ISoofeg of fUncoln'g Inn*

p. 495. Council held on February i2th, 1767.

Sixteen Benchers present.

A Committee is desired " to view the Anchor and Baptist
Head Tavern, and report . . . whether the same is to be
disposed of, and on what terms."

" Ordered that the two officers of Chief Butler to this Society
and of Steward's Man be vacated and extinguished, and that
for the future the duty and business of those two offices be
separated and divided between two persons now to be chosen, one
of whom is to be called the Steward, and the other the First
Butler, to this Society."

Thomas Grint is appointed Steward,* and Thomas Nixon,
First Butler.

p. 496. Council held on February 27th, 1767.

Eight Benchers present.

p. 497. " Ordered that no member of this Society be suffered to be

in arrear two terms for eating commons, and that such person be
not permitted to dine in the Hall until his arrears shall be paid."
To be screened.

The duty and business of Thomas Grint, the Steward to

this Society :

To keep proper accounts of all moneys received and paid
by him ; to make out the bills of eating commons, vacation
commons, absent commons, pensions, Preacher's Roll, and Land
and Window Taxes, and deliver them to the First Butler for
collection ; to receive all chamber fines, deposit moneys in lieu
of chambers, and all fines due to the House on admittances to
chambers surrendered ; to enter all admissions and receive the
fees thereon ; to enter in a special book all fees received by him
or the First Butler for the use of the Treasurer, Dean of the
Chapel and Keeper of the Black Book, and to deliver an account
and their respective fees to each of them every Hilary Term ; tc
submit a regular yearly Treasurer's Account at the last Council ir
Hilary Term ; to keep the proper register of Chambers, both fc
the Old Buildings and for Serle's Court ; "that immediately aftt
his receiving any money belonging to the Society he pay the same
into the shop of M r Child & Co., Bankers, in the name of three
Masters of the Bench " ; to take down the names of those who
dine in Hall in term time, and to attend the Bench table " as mud
as he can conveniently"; to give all necessary orders to the worl
men, and to pay their bills, and those of the other tradesmen; tc
give due attendance in his office, and see that all the servants

* Grint was appointed Steward's Man on June 2 2nd, 1764.

3$Iacfc ISoofes of fUncoltt'0 Entu 389

their respective duties; to take an inventory of the plate, for which

he shall be responsible. He must enter into a bond of ^400 /. 498.

penalty, with two sureties of ^100 each. He shall have a salary

of ^45 paid quarterly, and the following fees, viz: IDS. from

every person admitted, IDS. on every admittance to a chamber,

los. on every surrender of a chamber, IDS. on every deposit in lieu

of a chamber, 125. from every person called to the Bar, 2s. 6d. for

every petition presented to the Bench, and 2 25. a year for

keeping the Steward's Office clean.

The duty and business of Thomas Nixon, the First

Butler to this Society :

To collect the moneys due on all bills for eating commons,
vacation commons, absent commons, pensions, and Preacher's
Roll, and the fines on admittances of nominees to chambers in
Serle Court, for collecting which he shall have 6d. in the pound,
except on bills for eating commons, for which he is not to be
paid by the House ; to collect the Land Tax and Window Tax,
for which he is to have 3d. in the pound, as allowed by Act of
Parliament ; to collect all rents due to the Society, for which he
is to have is. in the pound ; to pay all moneys received by him

\ to the Steward, after deducting his poundage ; to record in a
book all bills delivered and the times of payment ; to attend the
Bench table at dinner, and take care of the wine and account for
the same at the end of every term ; he shall be entitled to have
the best mess and the best bottle of wine left every day at the
Bench table ; he must provide good small beer, for which he shall
be allowed j IDS. a term ; to keep an account of the number of
workmen and the number of days they work ; to give constant /. 499.

; attendance in the Inn, and see that good order is kept ; to take
an inventory of the linen, for which he shall be responsible, and to

< see to the washing of it ; he may make use of the Steward's

: Office for keeping his accounts and doing the business of the
Society. He shall have a salary of 20 paid quarterly, and a fee
of 2s. from every person admitted to the Society.

" Ordered that the servants to this Society be for the future
placed at dinner in the following manner, viz. : at the first mess,
the Steward, the Cook, the First Butler, the Second Butler ; at
the second mess, the Third Butler, the Fourth Butler, the Pannier
Man, the Chief Porter ; at the third mess, the Wash Pot, the

! Preacher's Man, the Cook's Man, the Fill Pot."

Call to the Bar, May 6th, 1767 : p. 5-

Robert Morris, M.A. of Cambridge.*

* On admission he is described as of Oriel College, Oxford.

390 C&e Macfe iSoofeg of Eincoln'g

/. 503. Call to the Bar, May 25th, 1767:

Jeremy Pemberton and James Straker.

Council held on June ist, 1767.
Five Benchers present.

"Ordered that Arthur Jones, Esq., be Dean of the Chapel in
the room of M r Gapper, deceased, for the remainder of the present
year."

/. 504. John Bristow is appointed [fire-]engine maker to the Society in

the room of Richard Ragg, who is going abroad.

/. 506. Call to the Bar, July 4th, 1767:

Thomas Neate, Henry Earle, Richard Calvert and Philip
Yorke, M.A. of Cambridge.

p. 507. Council held on July 8th, 1/67.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that the thanks of this Society be given to M r Baron
Atkyns for his present of the second volume of his Reports."

" Ordered that the double row of lime trees fronting the New
Square be taken down, and the statues be removed."

p. 510. Council held on November 6th, 1767.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that two guineas and a half be paid to the woman
for cleaning the prints in the Council Chamber."

" Complaint being made by Henry Montagu, Esq., one of
the Masters of the Bench, that he is greatly annoyed and disturbed
by M r Richard Lowe and his family and visitors by making of
noises over his head, and that the carpenter and bricklayer of the
House have been very saucy to him " the Steward shall warn
M r Lowe ; the workmen must attend the next Council.

/. 511. For the future the servants of the Inn shall have the

undermentioned salaries paid quarterly : the Steward ^45, the
First Butler 20, the Second Butler ^25 155., the Third Butler
^13 155., the Fourth Butler ^17 155., the Pannier Man and
Chapel Clerk .33 155., the Chief Porter /8, the Head Porter*
,8, the Gardener ^20, the Washpot ^13, the Washpot's Man
and Hatchkeeper 6, the Boghouse Keeper ^5, and the
Turnspit

p. 512. Call to the Bar, November 26th, 1767 :

John Nicholls and Abraham Grimes.

* Of Serle's Court.

Macfe JSoofcg of fLincoln's Enm 391

Council held on November 28th, 1767.
Seven Benchers present.

"Ordered that for the future every member of this Society p. 514.
who shall be indebted "10 or upwards for absent commons do
apply for leave to compound for the same within twelve months
after a bill for such commons shall be delivered to him by the
officer of this Society, and, in default of such application within
the time aforesaid, that such member shall not afterwards be at
liberty to compound for such commons. And this is declared to
be a Standing Order of this Society."

"Ordered that for the future no servant of this House/. 515.
presume to take away any old materials, furniture, utensils, or
other things belonging to this Society, under pretence of perquisites,
but that the same be disposed of by the Treasurer for the time
being."

" Ordered that the proper officer give in at the next Council
a list of the names of the several persons who now have the use
of the cellars under the Hall."

Council held on December nth, 1767. /, 516.

Seven Benchers present.

" A list of the names of several persons who have the use of
the cellars under the Hall, viz. :

" M r Serjeant [George] Nares, Richard Cope Hopton, Esq.,
Charles Mellish, Esq., Robert Morris, Esq., John Aylett Stow,
Esq., and other gentlemen at present unknown."

* William de Grey, Esq., Attorney General, is admitted to
part of a chamber, four stories high, at No. 21, Stone Pace Row,
Gate House Court. Fine 20.

Accounts of James Morgan, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1767, to Jan. 23rd, 1768.

Receipts : ,3,162 IDS. ^d. Including .382 8s. 6d. by drafts
on Robert Child and Co. ; i for burial ground for M r John
Foster.

Payments: 2,971 i6s. ii^d. Including 132 43. 8d. for
table cloths; .240 os. lod. in full for Land Tax for 1776;
83 35. in full for Window Tax for 1776 ; "792 33. 7d. to Robert
Child and Co.

Balance : 190 135. 4fd.

Red Book III, p. 124.

392 Cfte 3$Iacfe 3$oofes of ILfncoln'*

1768. Officers for 1768:

Treasurer: William de Grey, Esq., Att. Gen.
Master of the Library: James Morgan, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Levet Blackborne, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book: Job Walden Hanmer, Esq.
Master of the Walks: John Coxe, junior, Esq.

BOOK XIV. Council held on January 23rd, 8 George III, 1768.

p. i. Five Benchers present.

p. 2. " Ordered that for the future when any gentleman of this

Society is called to the honourable degree of a SeFJeant at Law,
no public speeches be made in the Hall, but that the Treasurer
wait upon the gentleman with the usual compliment and the
congratulations of the Society."

Call to the Bar, February loth, 1768 :
Steddy Grinfield and Francis Burton.

p. 3. Council held on February i2th, 1768.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that a plan of the ground of Lincoln's Inn, with
the buildings thereon standing, be forthwith taken, and that a
Surveyor be employed for that purpose, who is to be appointed by
any three of the Masters of the Bench."

p. 4. " Ordered that no servant of the House do permit any person

for the future to have the use of any of the cellars belonging to
this Society, without leave of the Masters of the Bench." :

"Ordered that for the future the usual Adjourned Councils
after the terms be held at one of the clock in the afternoon, and
that instead of having a supper, as usual, a dinner be provided at
half an hour past 3 o'clock ; and that the next Adjourned Council
be on Saturday, the 27th instant, and that a dinner be then
provided for eight persons, to consist of fish, chickens, bacon anc
greens, roast beef, and tarts."

p. 5. Council held on February 27th, 1768.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that from and after the first day of Easter Ter
next, a bond with sureties be taken instead of manucaptors upor
every admission to the House ; and that it be referred to any two
or more of the Masters of the Bench now present to settle tl
penalty and the form of the condition of such bond." f

* See ante, p. 391. f See below, April zoth.

Macfe ISoofes of Eituoln's Emu 393

" Ordered that no person be permitted to compound for p. 6.
absent commons for three years next after he shall be called
to the Bar, but shall be obliged to pay the whole of such absent
commons."

" Ordered that the prints of Lord Chancellor Talbot, Lord
Northington,* Lord Mansfield, f and Lord Camden \ be purchased,
and framed at the discretion of Levett Blackborne and Owen
Salusbury Brereton, Esquires, two of the Masters of the Bench."

" Ordered that the arms of the late Right Honourable
Charles Townshend, Esq., and of M r Justice Willes be put up
in the Hall."

" Ordered that the Masters of the Bench who are in commons
do sit in turn at the call of gentlemen to the Bar; and that every
Master who shall sit upon such occasions shall have a service of
sweetmeats, value 5$., and a bottle of wine from each gentleman."

Council held on April 2Oth, 1768. p. 7.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the chest in the Library be broke open in the
presence of any two of the Masters now present, and that they
take thereout any deeds, leases or plans relating to Thavy's Inn."

" Ordered that some person be appointed by Arthur Jones,
Richard Spooner and Lewis Jones, Esquires, ... to take care of
Thavy's Inn, at such salary or wages as they shall think proper ;
and that the said gentlemen consider of an advertisement for
letting the said Inn as soon as possible."

" Ordered that the Order made at the last Council, for a bond /. 8.
to be taken instead of manucaptors, be vacated and discharged,
and that for the future every person who shall be admitted into
this Society shall be admitted by a Bencher, without manucaptors;
but before he shall come into commons shall enter into a bond
with sufficient security in the penalty of ^40; and before he shall
be called to the Bar, shall enter into a bond with sufficient security
in the penalty of 100] and that the conditions of the said several
bonds shall be according to the respective forms hereunder written,
and that the sureties in both the said bonds shall be either a
member of the said Society or two house-keepers || ; and that upon
entring into the second bond the said first bond shall be delivered
up to be cancelled."

* Robert Henley, Lord Keeper 1757, Chancellor 1761-1766.

t William Murray, C.J.K.B., 1756-1788.

t Charles Pratt, C.J.C.P., 1762-1766, Chancellor 1766-1770.

Edward Willes, Solicitor General, apptd. J.K.B. Jan. 27th, 1768.

|| S.e., house-holders.

VOL. III.

394

iSlacfe iSoofes of Efncoln'* JEmt*

COMMONS BOND IN ^40 PENALTY.

"The condition of this obligation is such that if the above
bound who hath been admitted into the Honourable

Society of Lincoln's Inn aforesaid, or the above bound

or either of them, their or either of their heirs, executors
or administrators, do and shall from time to time and at all times
hereafter well and truly pay or cause to be paid to the Steward
of the said Society for the time being, all such sum and sums of
money as shall grow due and payable for the commons and diet
of the said and also do and shall pay and discharge

to the Treasurer of the said Society for the time being all such
other duties and payments as the said ought to pay

and discharge as a member of the same Society then this
obligation to be void, or else to remain in full force and virtue."

p. 9. BAR BOND IN 100 PENALTY.

"Whereas the said being a member of the

Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn aforesaid, is now by Order
of the same Society called to the degree of an Utter Barrister,
whereby divers duties and charges may hereafter from time to
time grow due and payable to the said Society by the said

The condition therefore of this obligation is such that
if the said do and shall from time to time and at ali

times hereafter during his life duly and orderly perform pay and
discharge all such debts, duties and charges, sum and sums of
money as shall grow due and be chargeable upon him for Pensions
Preacher's duties, commons, taxes, fines, penalties, amerciaments
and all other duties whatsoever, hereafter to be due or imposed
upon him by order of and according to the custom of the said
Society then this obligation to be void, or else to remain in full
force and virtue."

Call to the Bar, May 5th, 1768 : James White.
Call to the Bar, May i3th, 1768 : Philip Keys.

Council held on May i6th, 1768.
p. 10. Nine Benchers present.

" It is reported by Richard Spooner, Esq., that the chest in
the Library hath been broken open, . . . and that there was in
the said chest the counterpart of the lease of Thavy's Inn, but that
no plan thereof was found therein."

" Upon application made by Beversham Filmer and Thomas
Lloyd, Esquires, on behalf of the parish of S* Andrew, Holbo

Macfe 2$oofes of ^Lincoln's Inn, 395

above the Bars, and the parish of S* George the Martyr,
representing that they apprehend that the Society of Lincoln's Inn
is liable to be assessed for the support of the poor, but if not, that
the said Society would make them a compliment, without prejudice
to their right "adjourned.

"Ordered that the Steward do procure three Acts of Parliament
for better regulating the poor of the Parishes of S* Andrew
Holborn, above the Bars, and of S* George the Martyr."

"Upon the motion of John Coxe, junior, Esq., one of the /. n.
Masters of the Bench, that the Hon. Charles Yorke, Esq., one
other of the Masters of the Bench, may have the picture of Lord
Chief Justice Hale, which is now in the Library, in order to be
copied for him, and that the same may be delivered to the Rev.
M r Hurd It is ordered accordingly, on M r Hurd's giving a
receipt for the same."

" Ordered that for the future, when any gentleman shall
desire to be called to the Bar, the Quatuor in the Hall may
appoint the next or any other day for that purpose, and that the
Masters of the Bench present at such day, being three or more
in number, and meeting either in the Council Chamber or the
Buttery, shall be deemed a Council sufficient for calling such
gentleman to the Bar, without other warning, but for no other
purpose."

Council held on June 3rd, 1768. /. 12.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Boucher's bill on the prosecution of
George Holland and William Turner, amounting to ^28 is. be
)aid ; and that M r Boucher wait on M r Lewis Jones for further
)rders about the prosecution."

" Ordered that M r Thomas Clark, bricklayer to this Society,
do forthwith take a plan of Thavy's Inn, and give his thoughts in
what manner the same may be best to be let."

Council held on June 22nd, 1768. p- H-

Nine Benchers present.

Ordered that the cellar under the Buttery, which has been /. 16.
for some years locked up, be broke open in presence of any two
of the Masters of the Bench, and be hereafter kept for the use
of the First Butler."

" Upon the motion of the Hon. Charles Yorke, Esq., one
of the Masters of the Bench, representing that William, Lord
Bishop of Glocester, intends to found a lecture, in the form of
sermons, for proving the Truth of the Christian Religion from the
completion of those Prophecies in the Old and New Testament

396 Cfte Black Boofeg of tUncoln'g

which relate to the Christian Church, especially to the apostasy
of Papal Rome; and that his Lordship is desirous -that the Rev.
M r Hurd, (now Preacher to this Society), and all the succeeding
Lecturers, may have leave to preach the same annually, on three
Sundays, after Morning Service, in the Chapel belonging to this
Society, viz: on the first Sunday after Michaelmas Term, and
also on the first Sunday before and the first Sunday after Hilary
Term It is ordered that leave be given pursuant to the said
request, and that M r Yorke will be pleased to signify the same to
his Lordship, with the just sense entertained by the Masters of the
Bench of his attention and regard to the Society upon this
occasion."*

" Ordered that a dinner be provided for ten persons at the
next Adjourned Council, consisting of fish, sirloin of beef, roasted
chickens, peas, and tarts, and of fruit after dinner."

p. 17. Council held on July 6th, 1768.

Seven Benchers present.

Thomas Morgan, stationer, tenant of the shop at the Great
Gate, is admitted tenant at will of the ground floor chamber at No. i
in the Old Buildings, adjoining the said shop, at a yearly rent of
, and may continue tenant of the shop at the yearly rent of
he may move his shop door 4 feet towards the Inn, and is
allowed 405. toward the expense.

1 8 Council held on November 7th, 1768.

Six Benchers present.

t Thomas Grint, the Steward, is admitted tenant at will of the
chambers, two stories high, at No. 2, Gate House Court, at a
yearly rent of ^10; he is allowed 4 45. towards painting, etc.

Call to the Bar, November i5th, 1768:
Thomas Vincent, Daniel Parker Coke, and Edmund Dayrell.

19. Call to the Bar, November 25th, 1768: William Post.

Council held on November 28th, 1768 :

Eight Benchers present.

| Robert Morris, Esq., Barrister, prays leave " to new
fashion in the Venetian stile the windows of his chamber at No.
21, in Kitchen Garden Court and Field Gate Row," and to make

* The Warburton Lectures are still given in the Chapel.

f Red Book III, p. 133.

j Red Book III, pp. 134, 136. No. 21 is in Gate House Court.

Mac& 2$oofcg of SUncoln'g Enm 397

a bow window looking into the Kitchen Garden. Granted, Dec.
1 3th.

" Adjourned the Council to Tuesday, the 1 3th day of December p. 21.
next, at one o'clock ; and ordered that a dinner be then provided,
consisting of cod's head, sirloin of beef, chickens and egg sauce,
and a piece of bacon, and tarts."

Accounts of William de Grey, Esquire, Attorney General,
from Jan. 23rd, 1768, to Jan. 23rd, 1769.

Receipts : ,3,007 is. lofd. Including ^700 from drafts
on Messrs. Child and Co.

Payments: ,2,802 145. n^d. Including 10 IDS. and a
purse to M r Justice Willes * ; 2s. 6d. to " the man in possession at
Thavies Inn, for a padlock and candles, and 6s. for a grate,
fender and tongs in the lodge there, and ^ os. 6d. to him
for keeping possession from April 6th to 28th"f ; 195. to M r Agar
for prints of Lord Northingtonj and Lord Camden, and frames ;
i 45. for "advertizing Thavies Inn in the Daily Advertizer and
Gazatteer, 4 times each paper at 35. a time " ; los. for a barrel
of beer for the boys of S. Andrew's parish on " Possessioning
Day" ; lod. for 5 forms of prayer for the Queen [Nov. 2ist]; ||
^179 i8s. i^-d. for Land Tax for 1767; ^300 paid to Messrs.
Child and Co. ; various sums for advertising Thavies Inn.

Balance: ,20463. njd.

Officers for 1 769 : 1769.

Treasurer: Thomas Payler, Esq.

Master of the Library: William de Grey, Esq., Att. Gen.
Dean of the Chapel: Richard Spooner, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book: John Cox, junior, Esq.
Master of the Walks: Theodore Johnson, Esq.

Council held on January 23rd, 9 George III, 1769. /. 23.

Eight Benchers present.

"Ordered that Soulden Lawrence, gent., one of the four Law
Students of this Society, pursuant to the will of Christopher
Tancred, Esq., deceased, is by the appointment of the Treasurer
to make a speach or oration in Latin on the 2nd day of February
next, at o'clock, in the publick Dining Hall of this Society, in

commemoration of the several donations established by the will of
the said M r Tancred."

* Edward Willes, appointed a judge of the King's Bench, Jan. 27th, 1768.

f There are sundry other payments under this head.

I Robert Henley. Charles Pratt.

|| Princess Augusta Sophia was born Nov. 8th, 1768.

398 Cfie #lacfe 23oofes of

/. 24. " Ordered that Thavies Inn be advertized to be sold in the

Daily Advertiser once in every week, the advertizement to run
thus :

" To BE SOLD, and not let, the Inheritance of a large peice
of ground called Thavies Inn, near S e Andrew's
Church, Holborne, with all the Buildings thereon.
Proposals, sealed up, to be left on or before the 1 2th
day of April at the Steward's Office in Lincoln's Inn,
where a plan of the ground may be seen."

p. 25. Council held on February I3th, 1769.

Five Benchers present.

Robert Morris, Esq., Barrister, prays leave to continue th(

wall of the cook's storeroom to such a height as to make a closet

over the same to his chambers, No. 21, Stone Pace Row, Gat(

House Court. Granted, Feb. 27th.

p. 27. The Council is adjourned to the 27th inst., when a dinnei

shall be provided similar to the last, with the addition of a lobstei

and a crab.

p 29. Call to the Bar, April I2th, 1769 :

John Swale, junior, M.A., John Willett Adye, George
p. 30. Mason, and John Floyer.

/. 32. Call to the Bar, April 26th, 1769 :

John Ranby, George Talbot Hatley Foote, and Thorn;
Mytton.

/. 33. Call to the Bar, May 6th, 1769 : The Hon. John Scott.

Council held on May 8th, 1769.
Ten Benchers present.

/. 34. " Ordered that the arms of Sir Fletcher Norton, as Lord Chief

Justice in Eyre, be put up in the Hall of this Society."*

/. 35. Council held on May 26th, 1769.

Fourteen Benchers present.

Call to the Bench : James Wallace, Esq., K.C

Call to the Bar :
Edward Benton, junior ; he has made an affidavit " that h<

* Appointed Chief Justice in Eyre of his Majesty's Forests south of the 'i
Feb. 1 9th, 1769; Speaker of the House of Commons, 1770; cr. Baron Grant
of Markenfield, co. York, 1782.

Macfc Boofeg of fltttcoltt's nm 399

hath not practised as an Attorney at Law or Sollicitor in Chancery
for upwards of two years last past, tho' admitted as such more than
that time."

Also Thomas White.

" Declare that it is the opinion of this Council that M r Thomas p. 37.
Middleton of Lincoln's Inn is the best bidder for the absolute
purchase of Thavies Inn, with the appurtenances, at the sum of
^4, 100, and that it will be necessary to obtain an Act of Parliament
to enable the Feoffees and Benchers of Lincoln's Inn to make a
good title to the said purchaser. And it is also the opinion of this
Council that the money arising by sale of the premises ought to be
applyed for the rebuilding or otherwise improving of Lincoln's Inn,
at the discretion of the Benchers for the time being, and that it
will be proper to declare the trust thereof in the said Act
accordingly.

"And it is ordered that the said M r Middleton, the purchaser,
do make a deposite in the shop of Messrs. Child and Co.,
Bankers, of the sum of 200, before the last day of this term, to
be paid in the names of the Benchers in whose names the money
of the Society now stands ; and that the purchaser be at liberty to
take possession of the premises, to secure the property thereof."

" Ordered that the plans of Thavies Inn be delivered to the
)urchasor thereof when applyed for."

Call to the Bar, May 27th, 1769 : /. 38.

Henry Howorth, and Charles Tirrell Morgan.

Council held on June I4th, 1769.
Six Benchers present.

John Floyer, Esq., Second Prethonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas, is admitted to be an Associate of the Bench on
payment of 30 only, (instead of the ^50 usually paid), in regard
his father was sometime a Bencher of this Society.

Council held on June 28th, 1769. /. 42.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that a proper Letter of Attorney be prepared to be /. 43.
executed by the Right Hon ble the Lord Chancellor,* the Hon ble
M r Justice Willes,f and the Hon ble Charles Yorke, Esq., the
surviving Trustees of the principal sum of ,3,000 Consolidated
Bank Annuities standing in their names and in the name of
Nicholas Fazakerly, Esq., deceased, in trust for this Society, to

* Charles Pratt, Lord Camden, apptd. July 3oth, 1766.
f Edward Willes, J. K. B.

400 Cfje ISlaefe ISoofeg of ^Lincoln's

empower Messrs. Child & Co., Bankers, to receive the dividends
now due thereon, for the use and to be placed to the account of
this Society."

Ordered that ,2,300 3 per cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities
be purchased.

p. 44. Extraordinary Council held September 7th, 1769.

Five Benchers present.

" The Commissioners under the Act of Parliament for paving
the streets, having moved the posts and rails from before the part
of the buildings of Lincoln's Inn fronting Chancery Lane, the
Treasurer thought it proper to call this Extraordinary Council ;
when, upon an inspection of the premises, and of a plan of this
part of Chancery Lane, drawn by M r Clark, the bricklayer of this
Society, It is ordered that, to protect the property of the Society,
an area be dug, according to the plan given by the said M r Clark,
and that a stone curb and iron rails be placed on the outward
extremity thereof." .

/. 45. Council held on November 6th, 1769.

Six Benchers present.

Call to the Bar :

Alexander Thomson, Jeremy Bentham, and John Bigge
Thornton.

" Upon reading the memorial of M r Thomas Middleton, the
purchaser of Thavies Inn, It is ordered that the said M r Middleton
be at liberty to pursue such measures as he shall be advised to
recover the rent and arrears, and also the possession of the
chambers in the occupation of John Harrison in Thavies Inn ;
and that he be at liberty to make use of the names of the Feoffees
of this House. And he is desired to consult with M r Ashurst of
Lincoln's Inn how he shall proceed."

p- 47. Call to the Bar, November 24th, 1769 :

James Donithorne.

Council held on November 28th, 1769.
Five Benchers present.

/. 49. " Ordered that for the future Prayers in the afternoon d(

begin at 4 o'clock from Michaelmas to Lady Day."

Council held on December i2th, 1769.
Six Benchers present.
" Ordered that a survey be taken, and a plan thereof draw:

Black Boofcg of ^Lincoln's JFtm. 401

out, of that part of Lincoln's Inn called the Old Building, by
Mr. Clarke, the bricklayer of this Society."

Accounts of Thomas Payler, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1769, to Jan. 23rd, 1770.

Receipts: ,3,619 i8s. o^d. Including ,200 from Messrs.
Child and Co. ; 874 135. 4d. for chamber fines ; ,5 from
John Harrison for half year's rent of his chambers in Thavy's
Inn, due Michaelmas, 1768.

Payments : ,3,290 os. 4d. Including i8s. gd. for i doz.
china and 15 stone plates; 2 75. 7d. for 2 doz. pewter plates;
3 45. for flowers in the Hall (June 26th) ; i6s. Sd. for 2^ years'
rent paid at the "Chamber's Office" N for a vault in front of
Thavy's Inn, due at Lady Day, at 6s. 8d. a year ; IDS. 6d. to
J. Boydell for Lord Camden's print; 1,079 195. 4d. to Messrs.
Child and Co.

Balance: ,329 175.

Officers for 1770: 1770.

Treasurer : Robert H olden, Esq.
Master of the Library : Thomas Payler, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Job Walden Hanmer, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : Theodore Johnson, Esq.
Master of the Walks: Owen Salusbury Brereton, Esq.

Council held on January 23rd, 10 George III, 1770. /. 50.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that the surviving Trustees of this Society be
desired to petition the House of Lords for leave to bring in a
Bill to enable the said Trustees to convey Thavy's Inn with the
appurtenances to M r Thomas Middleton, according to his bidding ;
and that Richard Spooner, Esq., be desired to prepare such
petition and bill ; and that the said M r Middleton do solicite the
same."

" Ordered that the Cook be paid, till further Order, one
guinea a year for his attendance in dressing the dinners for the
Adjourned Councils."

Jeremy Pemberton, gent, one of the four Tancred Students, /. 51.
is to make the Latin oration on February 2nd next.

Call to the Bar, January 3oth, 1770: p. 52.

John Thomas Batt, the Hon. Frederic Robinson, Edmund
Calamy, and Humphrey Sibthorp, M.A., Oxon.

* Qy> Chamberlain's Office, see an/e, p. 157 n.
VOL. in. 3 F

402 CJe ISlacfe iSoofeg of Eincoln'0

/. 53. Call to the Bar, February 7th, 1770:

Nicholas Martyn ; his affidavit states that he " was heretofore
a Clerk in Chancery, that he hath not directly or indirectly
practised as a Clerk in Chancery, or as an Attorney or Solicitor in
any of his Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or in any
other Court whatsoever, either in his own name, or in the name of
any other person, for two years now last past, and upwards."

Also Philip Livingston, junior.

/. 54. Call to the Bar, February ioth,. 1770: Thomas Hanmer.

Council held on February i2th, 1770.
Seven Benchers present.

In the opinion of this Council it is not necessary to obtain an
Act of Parliament in order to make a good title to Thavy's Inn ;
the previous Orders relating thereto are therefore discharged.
p. 55. Richard Spooner, Esq., one of the Benchers, is requested to

prepare an abstract of title to Thavy's Inn for Mr. Middleton, the
purchaser ; and, if Mr. Middleton shall consent to proceed in his
purchase, then to prepare a draft conveyance.

/. 57. Council held on February 26th, 1770.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that John Harrison, and the other occupiers of
chambers in Thavy's Inn, do pay their rent to Mr. Middleton or
Mr. Goodwin, his agent."

" Ordered that two guineas be paid to Thomas Nixon, the
first Butler, in consideration of the difficulty he is put to at present
to give change on the House bills, which is his duty to receive, by
reason of the great scarsity of silver."

" Ordered that the thanks of the Benchers of this Society be
given to the Rev. Doctor Ashton for the kind present he made t(
them of his sermons."

/. 59. Council held on May 2nd, 1770.

Seven Benchers present.
* John Soley, Esq., and Nathaniel Templeman, gentleman,
have leave to erect at their own expense a bow window on the
north side of their chambers at No. 13 in Dial Court and Chapel
Row, lying one over the other, to project six feet from the wall of
the building ; they must employ the workmen of the House.

* Red Book III, p. 151.

Macfe ISoofeg of fLincoltt'g Enm 403

Call to the Bar, May i6th, 1770: p. 61.

Jacob Preston and Gifford Warriner.

Council held on May 28th, 1770. p. 62.

Twelve Benchers present.

* [A long report by Randal Wilbraham, Richard Spooner
and John Coxe, three Masters of the Bench, appointed to consider
the proper remedies to be taken for the recovery of the arrears of
duties due to the Society for M r Bond's chambers at No. 7, Serle's
Court. They are of opinion that there is no legal remedy, and
advise a Bill in Chancery in the names of six of the Benchers, on
behalf of themselves and all other the Benchers, Barristers, and
Fellows of the Society. The proposed Bill is sketched out ; it
recites, inter alia, " that the Society of Lincoln's Inn is a voluntary
Society, very anciently established for the use and practice of the
Law, and that it has been subject to wholesom Rules and Orders
for the regulation thereof, which Rules and Orders have been
generally obeyed and performed, by means whereof the Courts of
Justice have been supplied with fit and able men to administer
Justice, and with proper advocates to attend the said Courts, by
which the dignity of the Law has been supported and maintained."]

Council held on June I5th, 1770. /. 63.

Eight Benchers present.

"Ordered that the evidences and leases of Thavy's Inn be
produced at the next Council, to be inspected, in order to discover
what incroachments have been made on the property of this
Society."

" Ordered that for the future the Treasurer of this Society for
the time being take place of all other the Masters of the Bench, in
the Hall, at dinner, at the Council, and in the Chapel."

" Ordered that, in consideration of the poverty of Richard
Stanley, the Head Porter of Serle Square, that the pump and
water-cart made use of for watering the said Square be repaired at
the expence of this Society."

Call to the Bar, June 3Oth, 1770 : John Pollen, junior. /. 65.

Council held on July 4th, 1770.
Six Benchers present, f

" Ordered that the Hall be new floored, in manner according
to the former flooring, so as that part of the Hall made use of by

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 351.

t " Robert Holden, Treasurer," heads the list.

404 l)t Macfe ISoo&g of ?Uncoltt'$

the Lord High Chancellor, when he sits in the said Hall, be
elevated and raised in the same manner as the same now is ; and
that the tables be plained, and put in good condition ; and also
that the Hall and Withdrawing Parlor, and passages, be painted
and whitewashed at the same time."

p. 66. " Ordered that the two benches in Stone Pace Row be removed

and distroyed."

" Ordered that ten guineas be given to M r Henry Gibbs, clerk
to John Cox, junior, Esq., for his trouble in making a digest to
many Orders of this Society."*

/. 68. Council held on July i6th, 1770.

Nine Benchers present.

The turret and the roof of the Hall are to be repaired ; a
stone shall be put up with the date when the repairs were done
and the Treasurer's initials. f

p. 69. " Ordered that the taylor's shop adjoining to the Hall be

removed, and that the yearly allowance to be made to the third
Butler in respect of such removal, be adjourned."

\ "Ordered that a proper Bill for the recovery of the arrears
of duties due to this Society for M r Bond's chambers at No. 7 in
Serle Court be prepared by M r Ainge, under the inspection of
Arthur Jones and Richard Spooner, Esquires, and that they
employ a solicitor for prosecuting such Bill."

p. 70. Council held on November 6th, 1770.

Five Benchers present.

M r Clarke, the Bricklayer, is to make an estimate for building
a house in the Garden Row, according to his draft of the elevation.

/. 72. Call to the Bar, November 24th, 1770:

John Lowes, Nathaniel Gundry, Archibald MacDonald, and
William Morgan Clyfford.

/. 73. Council held on November 28th, 1770.

Six Benchers present.

* This MS., known as " Coxe's Digest," is preserved in the Steward's Office.
Its full title runs " A Digest of some of the Principal Orders of Council of the
Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, extracted from the several Books of the
Society, from the ist year of the Reign of Henry the 6th to the loth of his present
Majesty, King Geo: the 3rd, by the Order of John Coxe junior, Esq., C. L. N. for
the year of our Lord 1769." A prefatory note is signed " H. Gibbs."

t Ireland's view of the Hall, 1800, shows this stone, inscribed T.

R.H.

1700
\ Serle's Court Book, I, p. 353. See ante, p. 403.

Macfe iSoofes of Eincoln's Enm 405

Mr. Clarke must "proportion the expences for building each
chamber in the house in Garden Row."

The Third Butler shall have 3 35. a year added to his
salary, "in lieu and stead of the rent which he used to receive for
his own use for the shed adjoining to the Hall, and lately made
use of for a taylor's shop, and now by Order of Council taken
down."^

The cook shall be allowed 33. 6d. for the exceedings at each /. 74.
mess at the Bench Table, till further Order.

"Adjourned the Council to Thursday, the i3th day of /. 76.
December next, at one o'clock; and ordered that a dinner be then
provided at half an hour past three o'clock, consisting of a large
cod's head, peas soup, roast beef, woodcocks, sweet meat tart, iced
cream, raspberry and plain."

Council held on December i3th, 1770, /. 77.

Seven Benchers present.

" Whereas the resolutions of the Vestry and Committee
respecting the paving the Parishes of Saint Andrew Holborn,
above the Bars, and Saint George the Martyr, Middlesex, not
being read at the Council till this day, and having no other
meeting till the 24 day of this instant December at 1 1 o'clock in
the forenoon It is ordered that the gentlemen of the said Vestry
and Committee be acquainted therewith, and that the Council
would be glad to see any of the said gentlemen at the same time."
"The Memorial of the Church Wardens and Overseers of
the Poor of the Parish of Saint Clement's Danes being read at
this Council. ... It is ordered that the Steward to this
Society do acquaint the Memorialists that this Society have never
paid any Parochial Duties to any Parish, and do not apprehend
any part of their Inn liable thereto/'

Council held on December 24th, 1770. p. 79.

Eight Benchers present.

" Ordered that under the inspection of the Dean of the
Chapel, a small bolt be fixed on the inside of each of the Benchers'
pews, and that the said pews be not locked when any person is
therein."

" Ordered that the ancient Rules and Orders of this Society
for collecting Pensions of 55. 4d. per annum yearly of every
member of this Society, whether he has a chamber or not, be
confirmed and put in force ; and that all arrears of the said
Pensions be forthwith collected and got in."

* See ante, p. 404.

406 Cfte Blacfe 3$oofeg of ^Lincoln'*

Accounts of Robert Holden, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1770, to Jan. 23rd, 1771.

Receipts : ,2,792 145. 6jd.

Payments: ,2,431 135. 3d. Including $ 35. icd. for the
Adjourned Council dinner in July; ^150 to the Banker's Account.

Balance : ^361 is. 3jd.

1771. Officers for 1771:

Treasurer: Arthur Jones, Esq.

Master of the Library: Robert Holden, Esq.

Dean of the Chapel: John Cox, junior, Esq.

Keeper of the Black Book: Owen Salusbury Brereton, Esq.

Master of the Walks: Peter Holford, Esq.

p. 82. Council held on January 23rd, u George III, 1771.

Seven Benchers present.

Edward Law, one of the Tancred Students, is appointed to
make the Lation oration.

/. 86. Council held on February 26th, 1771.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that for the future ,50 a term be paid to the
Rev. Doctor Hurd, the Preacher to this Honourable Society, as
his salary, subject to farther Order ; and that the first payment
thereof be immediately paid to him for Hilary Term last past."

" Ordered that the conveyance of Thavy's Inn to M r Middleton
be engrossed, and that the same be tendered to be executed to the
Trustees and Benchers of this Society by the Steward of the
House, and that he be one witness to attest the execution thereof."
" Done." Margin.

" Ordered that M r Clarke, the bricklayer to this Society, do
leave his estimate for pulling down and rebuilding the Terrace
wall belonging to this Society, next Lincoln's Inn Fields, and
proceed to build the wall accordingly, seven feet and an half high ;
and that the same be coped as now, so that the coping does not
exceed ^13, using all the old coping that is not quite decayed."

p. 87. Lord Camden has leave to compound for his absent commons

for his chamber at No. 4 in Serle Court, upon payment of half of
what is due. Paid .5 175.

p. 88. William Gildart, Esq., one of the Fellows of this Society,

petitions for leave to have his name taken out of the House books,
he having a desire not to follow the profession of the Law.
Granted, upon payment of half of what is due for absent and
vacation commons, and the whole of all other arrears and duties.

ISlacfe Boofeg of Eincoln's nm 407

Council held on March igth, 1771. /. 89.

Ten Benchers present.

" Ordered that the sun-dial in Chapell Court and Dial Row
be forthwith repaired by M r Sisson." *

" Ordered that the Watch Houses be removed from the
Terrace wall in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and that the Secretary to the
Trust of the said Fields be informed thereof."

Council held on April i7th, 1771. p. 90.

Nine Benchers present.

"Ordered that M r Adam,f M r Paine,J M r Britingham and
M r Taylor, be respectively applied to, to draw proper plans for
the rebuilding the old part of Lincoln's Inn upon any part of the
ground belonging to the Society."

Call to the Bar, April 22nd, 1771 : /. 92.

John Holliday and John Jackson.

Council held on May 13th, 1771. /. 93.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that a letter be directed to the Worshipful the p. 94.
Benchers of Gray's Inn, and signed by the Keeper of the Black
Book, informing them that a letter of their Steward's, wrote by
order of their Bench, was laid before this Council, relating to the
General Order made in 1762 for regulating the Call of Barristers;||
and particularly with respect to the clause in that Order, that no
Attorney, Solicitor, Clerk in Chancery or Exchequer, should be
called to the Bar till after two years discontinuing practice as
such. The Benchers of Lincoln's Inn have ordered their books
to be carefully looked into, and find that only two applications
were made by two gentlemen to be called to the Bar that had
been admitted, the one an Attorney, the other a Clerk in Court
of Chancery. The name of one is Edward Benton, who now acts
as Master of the King's Bench Court, who was called to the Bar
the 26th day of May, 1769, but not before he had made an
affidavit that he had not practiced as Attorney or Solicitor for two
years then last past. The other instance was that of Nicholas
Martyn, a Clerk in Chancery, who was called to the Bar the 7th
day of February, 1770, but not before he had made affidavit that
he had not practised directly or indirectly . . . for two years

* He is elsewhere called "M r Joseph Sisson, Mathematician." B.B. XIV,
p. 305.

t Robert Adam. \ James Paine or Payne. Robert Taylor.

|| See ante, p. 374.

408

Cfje iSlacfe ISoofeg of fLincoln's

then last past. And no one who continues to practice has beer
called, nor should they think themselves authorized to call any one
under such circumstances."

* John Stone, Esq., Barrister, has leave, at his own expense,
to make a water closet, to lay on New River Water for the same
to alter the windows, and to make "a Buzaguloe Stove," at hi<
chambers at No. 25, Gate House Court. He must employ the
House workmen.

/. 96. Council held on May 3ist, 1771.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that for the future no carpets be beaten in th(

Garden . . . but such as belong to the gentlemen of this Society

and that the Steward do appoint a proper time and place in th(

Garden for that purpose."

P. 99. Council held on June 6th, 1771.

Six Benchers present.
M r Marriott, Secretary to the Trustees of Lincoln's Ini
Fields, attended ; he was desired to request the said Trustees t(
attend at the Council on the i9th instant, at 8 o'clock in th(
evening, "to consider what place maybe most proper to statioi
the watch-houses in Lincoln's Inn Fields."

Call to the Bar, June icth, 1771 :
Thomas Brown and Francis Hargrave,

/. 100. Call to the Bar, June i7th, 1771 : Richard Wilsford.

Council held on June I9th, 1771.
Eight Benchers present.

Call to the Bench : John Skynner, Esq., K.C.

p. 103. Council held on July 4th, 1771.

Eight Benchers present.

The Steward is ordered to wait on the Secretary to the
Trustees of Lincoln's Inn Fields, and request them to remove the
watch-boxes now placed against the Terrace wall, as they are the
cause of a very great nuisance to this Society and to the public in
general.

"Ordered that the Land Tax for Thavy's Inn be paid."

Red Book III, p. 162.

Macfe 2$oofes of Utncoltt'g Enm 409

Council held on November 6th, 1771. /. 104.

Three Benchers present.

" Ordered that for the future in Michaelmas Term the
commons for Saturdays, instead of tongues, be half a calves head,
bacon, and greens."

"Ordered the same be in Hilary Term."

"Ordered that for the future in Easter Term the commons
for Saturdays be a leg of lamb, and pigeon pies."

" Ordered that the same be in Trinity Term."

"Arthur Jones, Esq., Treasurer, . . . having informed /. 105.
the Benchers assembled in Council of a letter which he received
from M r Wilmot, acquainting him that the Lord Chancellor * had
recommended it to his Majesty to make a present of the Journals f
to this Society. They beg leave to return their most grateful
respects to his Lordship, and hope he will be pleased to make
their most dutiful thanks to his Majesty for his great favour
graciously conferred upon them ; and beg that the warrant for the
books may be made out in the name of Robert H olden, Esq.,
their Librarian."

"The Society of Lincoln's Inn present their compliments to
M r Wilmot, and return him their thanks for the trouble he has
had relating to the inclosed, and beg that he would be pleased to
present the same to my Lord Chancellor."

Call to the Bar, November 23rd, 1771 : /. 106.

Samuel Buck, Richard Paul Jodrell, Francis Talbot Scott,
and Weston Helyar.

Call to the Bar, November 25th, 1771 :
Joseph Laurentius Littlehales, and Martin Bladen Hawke.

Council held on November 28th, 1771. / 107.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Nixon do apply to M r William Graham
for the Journals of the Lords and Commons mentioned in the
Order dated the 27th of November, 1771, and signed George
Rose."

"Ordered that the Order made the 23rd day of January,
1768, relating to persons being called to the degree of a Serjeant
at Law, be reversed." J

* The Hon. Henry Bathurst ; so appointed and created Baron Apsley, Jan.
23rd, 1771 ; succeeded as Earl Bathurst in 1775.

f Of the Houses of Lords and Commons. See below.
+ See ante, p. 392.

VOL. in. 3 G

4 io Cfje Elacfe a&oofeg of fUncoln's

p. 1 08. " Ordered that for the future members of this Society duly

qualified, except as to their not having chambers at that time, be
invited (notwithstanding such exception) to the Bench, on the
usual terms."

p. 109. Council held on December i2th, 1771.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that the Order for application to four gentlemen,
viz. : M r Adam, M r Paine, M r Brittingham and M r Taylor, for
drawing plans for rebuilding the old Inn, be discharged ; and
ordered that application be made to M r Taylor solely, for the
same purpose." *

Accounts of Arthur Jones, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1771, to Jan. 23rd, 1772.

Receipts: ,3,389 us. 6Jd. Including ^600 draft on
Robert Child and Co.

Payments: .2,761 i6s. id. Including ,10 IDS. and a purse
6s. to William de Grey, Esq., on his going out Serjeant t ; $ 6s.
for 12 water plates ; ig 2s. 6d. for the Land Tax for Thavis Inn
for 1769 ; ^250 to Child and Co.

Balance: 627 153.

1772. Officers for 1772 :

Treasurer : Alexander Wedderburn, Esq., Sol. Gen.
Master of the Library : Arthur Jones, Esq.
Dean of the Chapel : Theodore Johnson, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book : Peter Holford, Esq.
Master of the Walks : Lewis Jones, Esq.

/. no. Council held on January 23rd, 12 George III, 1772.

Fourteen Benchers present.

/. 112. Joseph Pickering, one of the four Tancred Students, is

appointed by the Treasurer to make the Latin oration.

\ " Ordered that M r Grint wait upon the Committee for the
pavements at S 4 Clement's, and acquaint them that this Society
will not interfere with the charges made on the chambers in Serle's
Court for the pavement in Serle's and Cary Streets, the said
chambers being freehold, and liable to all such charges, exclusive
of this Society. "

* See ante, p. 407. Mr. Paine and Mr. Matthew Brittingham supplied plans,
etc., which are now in the Library.

f Appointed C.J.C.P., Jan, 25th, 1771.
t Serle's Court Book, I, p. 361.
See /tor/, p. 415.

ISlacfe iSoofes of ILincoltt'* Enm 411

* " Ordered that the great gate in Serle's Court be opened
for the admittance and going out of Sedan chairs."

Council held on February i2th, 1772. /. 113.

Eight Benchers present.

On the petition of the Badge Porters and Watchmen of this /. 114.
Society, their pay of is. 3d. a night for watching in the Inn, is
increased to is. 6d., to be paid quarterly, instead of half-yearly as
heretofore. " And it is expected that for this indulgence the said
Porters and Watchmen be strictly dilligent in their respective
duties in all things relating to this Society."

"Ordered that 'no preference shall be given for the future /. 115.
with respect to the office of Treasurer, (except in the case of the
Attorney General for the time being) ; but the senior Bencher
who has served the other offices, and is next in turn, shall be
Treasurer. And this to be a Standing Order."

Council held on May 6th, 1772. p. 116.

Eight Benchers present.

" This Society having been applyed to for payment of a Rate
made for the pavement of Chancery Lane It is Ordered that no
Rate be paid by this Society for that purpose untill the
Commissioners of Pavements do ascertain, and acknowledge the
right of this Society to, the ground on the outside of the Garden
wall of this Society in the said Lane, as far as where the posts
stood, which were removed by Order of the said Commissioners."

"Ordered that for the future the name of the office of/. 118.
4 Washpott ' of this Society be changed to that of the ' Fifth
Butler,' and that 7 a year, additional to the present salary, be
allowed to Isaac Stevens, the present officer, for his steady and
diligent behaviour." .

" Ordered that the Library Keeper do deliver Dugdale's
History of the Lincolnshire Fenns to M r Robert Kelham t of
Hatton Garden, he giving a receipt for the same, and undertaking
the redelivery of it within six weeks."

\ " Upon the motion of John Coxe, Esq., one of the Masters
of the Bench, that Theodore Johnson, Esq., one other of the
Masters of the Bench, may, on payment of the sum of ^20, be
considered as if admitted to part of a chamber, there being no such
chamber to be disposed of at present It is ordered that the said
M r Johnson be considered in all respects as if he was admitted to

* Serle's Court Book, I, p. 361.

f The well-known legal antiquary; adm. at L. I., July 8th, 1734. See Diet.
Nat. Biog.

\ Red Book III, p. 170.

4 i2 tEfje iftacfc 3$oofe$ of ^Lincoln's

a part of a chamber, on his payment of the said sum of 20 as a
fine, with the usual fees, to the Treasurer . . . before the next
Council."

[A like Order for (Job) Walden Hanmer, Esq.]

p. 119. Call to the Bar, May 23rd, 1772:

Joseph Pickering, (M.A., Oxon.), John Adams, John Butler,
Nathaniel Thornbury, Abraham Charles Adye, and Richard
Ingram.

p. 1 20. Council held on June ist, 1772.

Seven Benchers present.

/. 121. ''Ordered that the Commissioners for Pavements be desired

to cause a minute to be entered in their book, declaring that the
ground on the outside of the Garden wall of this Society, as far as
where the boundary posts stood in Chancery Lane, now paved
with flagg pavement, and being on a line with the present area,
does not belong to the Publick ; and that on such declaration
being so entered, the Steward of this Society do forthwith pay the
assessment charged on this Society for the pavement of the said
Lane."

" This Council being informed that Messrs. Adams, Pain, and
Wyatt intend to prepare plans for the rebuilding the old part of
Lincoln's Inn, according to the former Order of the i7th day
of April, 1771,*- It is ordered that M r Grint, the Steward, do
wait on them to know their intention relating thereto, and to
desire that they do prepare such plans, and deliver the same to the
Steward before the first day of next Michaelmas Term."

p. 122. Council held on June iQth, 1772.

Five Benchers present.

/. 123. M r Grint is to call on M r Adams, M r Pain and M r

Brittingham to know if they intend to make plans for the new
building of Lincoln's Inn ; if so, the plans must be delivered before
the first day of next term.

t Francis Burton and William Ainge, Barristers, having three
whole chambers at No. 13, Dial Court, Chapel Row, two on the
ground floor and one on the first floor, have leave to make at
their own expense a bow window on the east side of the said
chambers, they employing the workmen of the House.

/. 124. Call to the Bar, July 2nd, 1772 :

William Jones, (M.A., Cantab.), Edward Poore, John
Longley, Lancelot Brown, and Thomas Potter.

* See ante, p. 407. f Red Book III, p. 176.

ISlacfe 3$oofeg of Uincoln's Enm 413

Council held on July 8th, 1772. /. 125.

Nine Benchers present.

Lord Melbourne * has leave to compound his absent commons
for his chambers at No. 7 and No. 8, Serle's Court.

" Ordered that upon M r Middleton, the purchaser of Thavies /. 127.
Inn, paying or causing to be paid the remainder of his purchase
money, (being ,3,850, which with ,50 allowed him for his law
and other expences amounts to ,3,900, and which with ,200
before paid by him, making ,4,100, is the full of his purchase
money), into the hands of Messrs. Child and Co., to be placed to
the account of this Society, the deeds and writings relating thereto
be delivered to the said purchaser."

A new clock is to be erected.

Council held on July 22nd, 1772. /. 128.

Seven Benchers present.

Ordered that ,4,500 of the cash in the hands of Messrs. /. 129.
Child and Co. be laid out in the purchase of 3 per cent. Consolidated
Bank Annuities, in the names of Alexander Wedderburn, Charles
Ambler, Arthur Jones, John Coxe, junior, and Lewis Jones,
Esquires, in trust for this Society.

Call to the Bar, November i3th, 1772: /. 132.

Thomas Ponton.

Call to the Bench, November igth, 1772: /. 133.

George Lewis Newnham, Esq., K.C.

Call to the Bar, November 26th, 1772:
John Hersent Thorpe and Rowland Burton.

Council held on December i4th, 1772. /. 139.

Seven Benchers present.

Call to the Bench :

John Soley, Esq., Walter Long, Esq., William Dod, Esq.,
Richard Ray, Esq., John Parry, Esq., and John Madocks, Esq.

Richard Ripley, Esq., Joseph Banks, Esq., Thomas Kymer,
Esq., B[arham] Rushbrook, Esq., John Bell, Esq., Jeremiah
Dyson, Esq., John Upton, Esq., Michael Biddulph, Esq., and
Richard Wilbraham Bootle, were invited to the Bench at the same
time, but refused, [pp. 134-136.]

* Sir Peniston Lamb, Bart; adm. at L.I. June 12, 1769; created Baron
Melbourne, 1770. He had two chambers at No. 7, on the first floor, and two
at No. 8, on the ground and second floors.

414 ^6* a$lacfc ISoofeg of fLincoln'g

p. 143. "Ordered, in case any demands shall be made on this

Society from the several parishes claiming dues thereon, or in case
any extraordinary demands be made from the Commissioners of
Paving, that M r Pardoe be appointed Sollicitor to defend the
rights of this Society."

Accounts of Alexander Wedderburn, Esq., Solicitor General,
from Jan. 23rd, 1772, to Jan. 23rd, 1773.

Receipts : .4,420 6s. 8|-d. Including ,604 8s. for absent
commons ; .968 for chamber fines ; i from the executors of
George Wanley Bowes, for ground under the Chapel* ; .370 from
Child & Co. by draft.

Payments : 3,909 i8s. id. Including 10 los. to William
Kempe, going out Serjeant, and 6s. for a purse ; the like for
George Hill ; "1,270 to Child and Co.

Balance: 510 8s. 7|-d.

1773. Officers for 1773:

Treasurer: Levet Blackborne, Esq.

Master of the Library: Alexander Wedderburn, Esq., Sol. Gen.

Dean of the Chapel: Owen Salusbury Brereton, Esq.

Keeper of the Black Book: Lewis Jones, Esq.

Master of the Walks: James Wallace, Esq., K.C.

p. 143. Council held on January 23rd, 13 George III, 1773.

Nine Benchers present.

/. 145. John Sayer, gentleman, is appointed to make the Tancred

oration on Feb. 2nd.

" Ordered that no carriages whatever be permitted to enter in
at Chancery Lane Gate, between the hours of 1 1 and i o'clock in
the forenoon, on every Sunday during Divine Service in the
Chappel of this Society."

" Ordered that .40 be paid to M r Clarke, the bricklayer of
this Society, in full for his bill for the surveying and planing of
Thavies and Lincoln's Inn."

/>. 146. Call to the Bar, January 29th, 1773 : Henry Jodrell.

p. 148. Call to the Bar, February 5th, 1773 : Robert Hudson.

/. 151. Council held on February 26th, 1773.

Ten Benchers present.

* Buried Feb. 2gth.

ffi)t Macfc iSoofes of Eincoln's Emt, 415

* "Ordered that M r Pardoe do on behalf of this Society
appeal to the Committee of the parish, precint, or liberty in which
Lincoln's Inn is, against the rate or assessment made upon Serle's
Court in pursuance of the Act of the nth Geo. 3rd for rendering
more effectual several acts made relating to paving, cleaning and
lighting the squares, streets, lanes, and other places, within the
City and Liberty of Westminster and parts adjacent ; and that
M r Pardoe do prosecute such appeal."

* " Whereas a representation of the Members of this Society
having Chambers in Serle's Court hath been made to us, that they
have been assessed by the Committee of S l Clement's Danes the
sum of ^213, instead of the sum of ^25 assessed upon those
chambers, in pursuance of the Act of Parliament, as part of the
Inn. And whereas at a Council held on the 23rd day of January,
1772, an Order was made by the Benchers of this Society then
present, of which a minute was made (as usual) in the words
following, viz. : ' M r Grint to wait upon the Committee at S*
Clement's to let them know the Society do not interfere with
charges on Serle's Court, which are freeholds, and pay all charges
on those sides of Serle's Court.' And whereas the proper officer
of this Society, in drawing up the Order hereinafter mentioned
from the said minutes, misapprehended the true sense thereof,
and prepared the same in the words following, viz. : ' Ordered
that M r Grint wait upon the Committee for the pavements at
S* Clement's, and acquaint them that this Society will not
interfere with the charges made on the chambers in Serle's Court
for the pavements in Serle's and Cary Streets, the said chambers
being freehold, and liable to all such charges, exclusive of this
Society.' And whereas by the true sense of such minutes the said
Order did not declare, nor was the same intended to declare, that
the freehold chambers in Serle's Court were excluded out of
or were not part of this Society It is therefore ordered that
so much of the said Order as consists in the words, ' exclusive of
this Society', be discharged.

" And it is resolved that this Society take proper measures
for defending the said members from the payment of the said tax
of ^213, it appearing to us that the chambers in Serle's Court
have always been assessed to all publick rates as a part of the Inn,
and have paid all duties to the Inn ; and that out of the fund,
consisting of their payments as well as others, the payment for the
new pavement in Chancery Lane has been defrayed. And it not
having been the intention of the Bench to declare that Serle's

Serle's Court Book, I, p. 367.

4i6 6* iSlacfe Boofeg of fLittcoln'g Inn*

Court was no part of the Inn, but merely that they ought to pay
the assessment for their own chambers, as part of the Inn,
and therefore it is ordered that the payment of ^25 be for the
present advanced by the Treasurer, and paid to the Collector of
the Paving Rate ; and that the same be re-embursed to the
Society, and collected in the same manner and proportions as
other taxes and assessments paid by the Society on account of
Serle's Court are collected."

^Extraordinary Council held on April i6th, 1773.
Six Benchers present.

* " Ordered that endeavours be used with the Commissioners
of Westminster Pavement to postpone for a fortnight the hearing
of the appeal brought by the owners and occupiers of Chambers
in Serle's Court against the rate made on them. But if such
adjournment cannot be obtained, in that case it is ordered that the
Orders contained in the Black Book Lib. 9, and the Articles of
Agreement between M r Serle and this Society, be produced by
M r Grint, and also Serle's Court Book ; and that notice of this
Order be given to such of the proprietors of chambers in Serle's
Court as are resident there."

/. 156. Council held on June nth, 1773.

Six Benchers present.

/. 157. "Ordered that the Watchmen of this Society who shall be

appointed for the evening watch do go upon duty at 6 o'clock in
the evening during the months of October, November, December,
and January ; and at 8 o'clock during the months of February,
March, April, and May ; and at 9 o'clock during the months of
June, July, August, and September ; and that such Watchmen be
allowed and paid 6d. per night for such their evening watch, over
and besides what is paid for the nightly watch."

" Ordered that the porters of this Society do take particular
care to keep beggars, and all persons crying of old cloaths and
other things, out of the districts of this Inn, and to cause all such
persons to depart therefrom. And whereas divers nusances are
committed by persons laying ashes and other soil in the Courts
of this Inn, This is to give notice that whoever shall be found
so offending, will be prosecuted, and a reward of 2s. 6d. for
information paid by the Steward of this Society."

" Ordered that the above-mentioned Order be stuck up in
proper and convenient places about this Inn, as conspicuous as
possible."

* Serle's Court Book I, p. 369.

Macfc 3Soofes of Etncoltt'g Enm 417

Call to the Bar, June 2ist, 1773 : /. 158.

William Hoar, George Story, David Murray, James Kirk-
patrick, and Shoulden Lawrence.

Council held on July I4th, 1773. /. 160.

Seven Benchers present.
" Ordered that the windows on the south side of the Library p. 161.
be made new, and that the windows elsewhere in the said Library
be repaired."

Council held on July 28th, 1773. /. 162.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that M r Pardoe do apply to Samuel Phipps, Esq.,
a Barrister of this Society, to prepare a draught of a Bill in
Parliament for the better enabling this Society to enforce their
Regulations and Orders, and also the better to establish the
Agreement formerly made by this Society with Henry Serle, Esq.,
and to explain the several Acts of Parliament relating to Taxes
and Parochial Duties, so far as they relate to this Society." *

Call to the Bar, November i2th, 1773 : /. 164.

Charles Webster, Godfrey Webster, junior, and John
Campbell.

Call to the Bar, November 26th, 1773 : /. 165.

Richard Gilpin and William Withers.

Council held on November 29th, 1773.
Nine Benchers present.

"Ordered that the three bills for law charges, amounting to /. 167.
gs. id., for prosecuting and defending the suits relating to
William Turner, a Badge Porter, and William Britchfoot, a
Supernumerary Watchman of this Society, for an assault on them,
on their duty, be paid ; but that no such kind of bill be paid for
the future, unless the matter be first laid before the Masters of the
Bench."

Council held on December i3th, 1773. /

Nine Benchers present.

t " Upon the humble petition of the occupiers of the shops
under the gateway leading into Serle Street, setting forth that the
Watchmen of this Society are negligent, and refuse to give any
assistance in protecting the said shops from being robbed, under
pretence that the care of the said shops is no part of their duty
It is ordered that the several Watchmen of this Society be for the

* See Appendix. f Serle's Court Book, I, p. 371.

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4 i 8 Cfte iSlacfe Boofeg of fLituoln'g Inn*

future strictly carefull in protecting the said shops from being
robbed, as much as any other part of the premises belonging to
this Society."

Accounts of Levet Blackborne, Esquire, the Treasurer, from
Jan. 23rd, 1773, to Jan. 23rd, 1774.

Receipts : .2,889 5 s - jjd- Including ^42 from the Hon. John
Yorke, two years' rent for No. 5 ; % from Henry Leigh, one
year's rent of Furnival's Inn ; .25 from the Duke Montagu,* one
year's rent, No. 23.

Payments : ,2,873 i6s. 3d. Including .240 os. lod. for
Land Tax for 1771 ; 2 2s. for 2 crab sticks; i8s. for 2 pair
of scales to weigh gold ; 10 los. to James Pearson for staining
M r Payler's, M r Holden's and M r Arthur Jones's arms in glass.

Balance : ,15 8s. lojd.

1774. Officers for 1774:

Treasurer : [Job] Walden Hanmer, Esq.

Master of the Library : Levit Blackburne, Esq.

Dean of the Chapel : Peter Holford, Esq.

Keeper of the Black Book : Sir Anthony Thomas Abdy,

Bart., K.C.
Master of the Walks : John Skynner, Esq., K.C.

p. 170. Council held on January 2ist, 14 George III, 1774.

Nine Benchers present.

" Ordered that the sum of ^25 25. 6d. be paid to the
Collector of Duties for paving the streets for the Parish of S l
Clement's Danes, pursuant to an Order of Council made on the
26th day of February, 1773 ; and that all subsequent rates be also
paid accordingly." f

p. 171. Council held on January 24th, 1774.

Thirteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that a petition of the like kind with that of Gray's
Inn (mutatis mutandis] be prepared by M r Pardoe, to be signed
by a competent number of the Benchers of this Society; and that
Alexander Wedderburn, Esq., his Majestie's Sollicitor General,
James Wallace, Esq., Charles Ambler, Esq., John Skynner, Esq.,
or Walden Hanmer, Esq., be requested to present the same on
Wednesday next to the Honourable House of Commons."!

* Presumably George Brudenell, 4th Earl of Cardigan and 2nd Duke
Montagu. He does not appear to have been a member of the Inn.
f See ante, p. 415. \ See Appendix.

ISlacfc ISoofcg of Eittcoln's $nn 419

Soulden Lawrence, Esq., one of the Tancred Students, is to /. 172.
make the Latin oration on February 2nd.

Council held on January 28th, 1774. /. 173.

Seven Benchers present.

" Ordered that the several instances wherein this Society
have relieved their poor members, officers and servants, when they
have been unable to provide for themselves, be collected from the
different books of this Society, and that a copy of all such Orders
be delivered to M r Pardoe, in order to support the allegations in
the Petition of this Society, now depending in Parliament."

Call to the Bar, February 3rd, 1774 : /. 174.

James Templer, William Brodie, and William Grant.

Council held on February I2th, 1774.
Six Benchers present.

Lord Camden has leave to compound his absent commons for /. 176.
his chambers at No. 4, Serle Court.

" Ordered that M r Grint do wait on the Master of the- Walks, p. 177.
and desire him to inform the Bench what is doing in the Garden ;
and to apprise him of the Standing Order of this Society, that not
above ^5 be laid out without the special Order of the Masters of
the Bench."

" Ordered that M r Grint do, on behalf of this Society, offer
M r Delaet the sum of ^500 for his chambers, upon his, M r Delaet's,
paying his dues." *

Council held on April 2Oth, 1774. /. 179.

Five Benchers present.

"Ordered that the sum of 45. a week be paid by M r Grint, /. 180.
the Steward of this Society, to M rs Britchfoot for nursing of George
Lincoln,! the foundling dropped in this Inn on the I4th of
February last, and that the said M r Grint do make enquiry for a
nurse to take care of the said child for the future."

Call to the Bar, May 4th, 1774: / 182.

Randal Ford and Gilbert Elliot.

Council held on May i6th, 1774. / 183.

Five Benchers present.

" Ordered that the two uppermost urns on the ends of the
Chappel, being in danger of falling down, be properly secured."

* The chambers were at No. 15, Old Buildings,
f Baptised in the Chapel, March i8th.

420 l)e 9Iacfe iSoofes of Uincoln's

Council held on June 3rd, 1774.
Five Benchers present.

/. 184. "Ordered that the west end of the Chappel, on the outside,

be stocoed."

p. 185. Call to the Bar, June :6th, 1774 :

Henry Atherton, George Arnold Sargent, William Houghton,
and Crisp Sheard Molineux.

p. 1 86. Council held on June 22nd, 1774.

Ten Benchers present.

/. 187. "Upon reading the Memorial of the Accountant General

and Deputy Registers of the High Court of Chancery, setting
forth that an Act had passed this session of Parliament * for
erecting proper offices for the Registers and Accountant General
of the Court of Chancery, and for purchasing ground and houses
necessary for those purposes, to be conveyed to and vested in
Thomas Anguish, Esq., Accountant General of the said Court, to
hold to him and his successors for ever, in trust for the purposes
mentioned in the said Act concerning the said Offices ; And that
the Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor t had expressed his pleasure
to have such Offices erected in Lincoln's Inn in case the Masters
of the Bench should think proper to grant ground for those
purposes ; and that the Memorialists, being desirous to fullfill his
Lordship's intentions as far as in their power, desired to be
informed whether it would be convenient and agreeable to the
Masters of the Bench to grant a piece of ground for the purposes
aforesaid It is ordered that it be referred to a Committee of such
of the Masters of the Bench as shall meet in the Council Chamber
on the 27th of this instant June, at 8 o'clock in the evening, to
consider whether there is any and what plot of ground belonging
to this Society fit and proper for the purposes mentioned in the
Memorial of the Accountant General and Deputy Registers of the
High Court of Chancery, and to report their opinion in writing
at the next Adjourned Council ; and that all the Masters of the
Bench be specially summoned to receive the said report ; and that
the Memorial be taken into consideration at the next Adjourned
Council upon the said report ; and that the Memorialists have
notice of the said Committee, and be desired to attend the same."
" Ordered that for the future no person be called to the Bench
unless such person be proposed by one of the Masters of the

* 14 George III, cap. 43.

f Henry Bathurst, Lord Apsley, afterwards Earl Bathurst.

2$Iacfe ISoofes of fLincoln'g Enn* 421

Bench then present, and such proposal seconded by another Master
of the Bench."

"Ordered that M r Grint, the Steward of this Society, do wait
on the Right Hon. Sir Fletcher Norton, Knight, Speaker of the
House of Commons, and one of the Masters of the Bench of this
Society, to desire his permission for putting up his arms in the
Hall of this Society."

" Ordered that for the future the dinner of this Society during p. 188.
term time be served up precisely at 4 o'clock in the afternoon."

Council held on July 8th, 1774. /. 189.

Thirteen Benchers present.

" Ordered that the following answer be given to the Memorial
of the Accountant General and Deputy Registers of the High
Court of Chancery : That the Masters of the Bench are very
desireous to comply with the pleasure of the Lord Chancellor to
have the Offices of the Accountant General and the Registers
erected in Lincoln's Inn, and have appointed Alexander Wedder-
burn, Esq., his Majestie's Sollicitor General, Charles Ambler,
Esq., and P. Holford, Esq., three of the Masters of the Bench, to
treat and agree with the Accountant General and the Registers
for that purpose, subject to the approbation of the Bench, and to
report the same at the next Council "

Council held on July I5th, 1774. p. 190.

Eleven Benchers present.

" The Committee named in the Order dated the 8th day of
this inst. July, reported that they had consulted with M r Taylor,
and made the following proposal to the Registers and Accountant
General, and also to the gentlemen of the Six Clerks Office,
viz. :

" ' The Society of Lincoln's Inn can allow a space of ground
of about 300 feet in length by 40 in breadth, clear and detatched
from all buildings, for the accommodation of the Registers, the
Accountant General, and the Six Clerks. The Society of Lincoln's
Inn desires therefore to be informed how much space the gentlemen
of the several Offices require, what will be the plan of their building,
and on what terms they propose to take the ground, whether upon
payment of a sum in gross, or by the reservation of rent.

" 'The Society has no restrictions to propose, except that the /. 191.
plan of the intended building may be conformable to the general
plan of building new Chambers which the Society has now in
view; and that, if any persons are ever permitted to live in the
Offices, they may be made subject to the rules and discipline of
Lincoln's Inn.'

422 CJ* iSlacfe i&oofe* of fUncoltt's

"And that the following answers were received, viz:

" ' In answer to the proposal made by the Society of Lincoln's
Inn, the Accountant General and Registers are desireous of
having their offices built on the southermost part of the vacant
ground next Chancery Lane ; that the space necessary for those
offices will be 140 feet in length and 40 feet in breadth ; they
propose to purchase the ground of the Society with a sum in
gross ; that the buildings shall be a ground floor and one story
over it, and that the plan of each front shall be such as the Society
shall approve ; and they don't intend that any person (except a
porter) shall live in their offices.'

" ' In answer to the proposal made by the Society of Lincoln's
Inn, the Sworn Clerks of the Court of Chancery are desireous of
having their Office built upon the southermost part of the vacant
ground in Lincoln's Inn, upon the following terms : that the
ground for the office be 180 feet in length and 50 feet in breadth-,
in range from the east end of the Chapel, the breadth to include
areas ; that the Society be restrained from erecting any building
within 70 feet of the west side of the ground proposed for the
office, or within 20 feet of the south side ; the ground between
the place proposed for the new building and Chancery Lane to
remain vacant for the use of the Office ; the freehold, according to
the Act, must be vested in the Six Clerks and their successors ;
this answer must be submitted to the consideration of the Lord
Chancellor, and will require the consent of the Six Clerks, who
are at present out of town ; the price must be intirely submitted
to the Lord Chancellor, but the payment postponed till after the
building in compleated and paid for.'

" Resolved to agree to let the Registers and Accountant
General have a quantity of ground out of the Garden, next
Chancery Lane, 1 20 feet in length and 40 feet in width, according
p. 192. to their first proposal ; the price to be settled between M r
Sollicitor General, M r Ambler and M r Holford, on the part of the
Society, and the Registers and Accountant General, with the
approbation of the Lord Chancellor ; and that M r Taylor set o
the ground; and that the consideration of the proposal with
respect to the ground to be granted for building the Six Clerks'
Office, be postponed 'till after the Six Clerks have been consulted
in relation thereto."

" Ordered that M r Taylor be desired to treat for the purchase
of the public house and the bake house at the upper end of the
Gardens, for the use of this Society ; and to report whether
the proprietors are willing to sell the same, and at what
price."

" Ordered that M r Taylor be desired to prepare a plan for

^lacfe iSoofeg of Utttcoltt's $tm, 423

carrying on the building of new chambers, and to lay the same
before the Society."

" Ordered that it be referred to Peter Holford, Esq., and
John Madocks, Esq., two of the Masters of the Bench, to treat
with the proprietors of the chambers in Garden Row, for the
purchase of their several interests therein."

Council held on July 28th, 1774. /. 193.

Six Benchers present.

" Ordered that notice be given to the Committee of Paving
that the Society of Lincoln's Inn intend to take in their ground
which runs along the wall of their Garden in Chancery Lane, to
the line where the old posts stood, and to desire them to take away
the flat stone pavement which they have laid thereon."

"Resolved that the Benchers of this Society do approve of /. 194.
the general plan of the ground plott of the buildings in Lincoln's
Inn, proposed to be erected, which hath been prepared by M r Taylor,
and signed by him on this day, and marked with the letter A.*

" Ordered that the said plan be laid before M r Norris and
M r Robinson, surveyors employed by the Accountant General
and Registers and by the Six Clerks, for their approbation of the
dimensions and situation of the ground allotted in the said plan for
their offices; and in case they shall approve thereof, that M r
Taylor do mark out the ground, according to the said plan, for
both or either of the said offices which shall be so approved of;
and that it be referred to M r Taylor to make drawings of the
elevation of all the said buildings in the said general plan; and
that the elevations of the above-mentioned offices be proposed to
the said surveyors for their approbation; and in case the same be
approved, it is resolved that the building of the said offices do
conform to such elevation.

" Ordered that when the said plan and elevation shall be
approved of, that the Accountant General and Registers be
requested to have an estimate made of the expence of building
their Offices, according to the said plan and elevation, and to
furnish this Society with a copy thereof; and that the like request
be made to the Six Clerks."

Council held on August 2nd, 1774. P- I 95-

Six Benchers present.
" M r Norris, surveyor employed by the Accountant General

* The new chambers designed by Taylor form Nos. i to 6, Stone Buildings,
(No. 7, was added in 1845) ; tne Six Clerks' Office is now used for the Drill Hall of
the Inns of Court Volunteers, and for other purposes. The Registers' and
Accountant General's Offices are now turned into chambers, and numbered 8, 9,
and n, Stone Buildings.

424 ftfy Black Boofeg of fLttuoltt'0

and the Registers of the Court of Chancery, attending and
approving of the plan of elevation for their Offices, marked C,
and signed by M r Taylor ; and M r Dickens, one of the Registers
of the said Court, being present and informing the Bench that the
Lord Chancellor had seen the said plans, and approved thereof-
Resolved that the building for the said Offices be according to
that plan." An estimate of the cost shall be made by M r Taylor,
on behalf of the Society, and M r Norris, on behalf of the
Accountant General and the Registers.

"Ordered that M r Taylor be desired to produce at the next
Council an estimate of the expence of building the carcase of the
chambers, according to the general plan."

" Ordered that the bason in the Garden be filled up, and the
lead and other materials be disposed of to the best advantage."

" Ordered that Lord Chancellor Yorke's arms be put up in the
Hall, if agreeable to the family."*

p. 196. Council held on August 6th, 1774.

Six Benchers present.

" Resolved that the plan marked B, and the elevation marked
D, be approved of as the plan and elevation of the chambers
contained in the general plan."

" Ordered that M r Clarke, the bricklayer employed by this
Society, build the basement story of seven setts of chambers in
the Garden, according to M r Taylor's plan of the building,
extending northward from the plan of the intended Hall 240 feet
in the east front, and 219 feet 9 inches on the west front, under
the direction of M r Taylor."

p. 197. - " Ordered that the arms of the Right Hon. the Lord High
Chancellor be put up in the Hall, if he shall approve of the same."t

In pursuance of the Order of July i5th last, M r Taylor makes
the following report :

"The fee of the public house and bakehouse, adjoining to the
north east end of the north wall of the Garden, is the property of
S e Bartholomew's Hospital, and, with three other houses adjoining,
are in lease to M r Joseph Keene,j on a term of which 17 years will
p. 198. be unexpired at Michaelmas next. . . . But to avoid keeping the
gentlemen of the Register and Six Clerks Offices longer in
suspence, the plan may be varied agreeable to the outlines here-
with delivered, which allots for the Offices of those gentlemen a
piece of ground in length from north to south 319 feet and in

* The Hon. Charles Yorke, second son of Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. He was
appointed Chancellor in succession to Lord Camden, Jan. lyth, 1770, and die "
three days afterwards.

f Henry Bathurst, Lord Apsley. } See ante, pp. 345, 346.

ISlacfe ISoofeg of Utttcoln'g Inn. 425

width from east to west 60 feet, opposite the centre building
intended for a Hall, by which the north and south ends of those
Offices will be equally contiguous to the Hall. The intended
buildings on other parts of the ground contain a Library, Hall,
and 160 setts of chambers."

Call to the Bar, November i2th, 1774 :
Michael Angelo Taylor.*

Council held on December I2th, 1774.
Five Benchers present.

M r Taylor having certified that the work done by M r Clarke /. 199.
exceeds the sum of ,1,000, Ordered that that sum be paid to him
on account.

The Registers and Accountant General, being satisfied with
the site, plans, &c., of the proposed new Offices to be built for
them, wish " to have a conveyance of the said space of ground,
with proper indemnities, that they may begin their buildings early
in the spring."

" Ordered that conveyances be prepared of so much of the /. 200.
lid ground as shall be allotted for the Accountant General and
Registers Offices."!

Accounts of Sir Walden Hanmer, Baronet,! from Jan. 23rd,
1774, to Jan. 23rd, 1775.

Receipts : ,4,621 155. 6^d. Including i for the burial
)f John Roberts under the Chapel ; the like for C. Pryor and
[. Templeman ; ,285 133. 4d. for chamber fines ; ,1,525 by
drafts on Messrs. Child and Co.

Payments: ,4,382 135. 3d. Including ,10 los. each to
fames Adair and Nash Grose, Serjeants at Law, with purses ;
'525 to Charles Delaet for his chambers at No. 15 ; ,10 IDS.
for 3 Treasurers' arms ; Dec. i2th, ,1,000 to M r Clarke on account
)f the new building ; ,250 to Child & Co.

Balance : ,239 2s. 3^-d.

Officers for 1775: 1775.

Treasurer: John Coxe, junior, Esq.
Master of the Library: Sir Walden Hanmer, Bart.
Dean of the Chapel: Lewis Jones, Esq.
Keeper of the Black Book: James Wallace, Esq., K.C.
Master of the Walks: George Lewis Newnham, Esq., K.C.

* Son of Robert Taylor, the architect. See Diet. Nat. Biog.
t The Orders relating to these offices and those for the Six Clerks are very
numerous, and many of them very lengthy. A selection only is here printed.
\ So created, May 2ist, 1774.

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426 C&e &lacfc iSoofeg of Etncoln'g

p. 204. Council held on January 23rd, 15 George III, 1775.

Eight Benchers present.
" Ordered that the consideration of M r Pardoe's bill, amounting

!8s. 4d. for law charges in trying the action, Middleton
against Fielding, Knight, relating to the New Square being rate-
able to the Poors Rates, and for soliciting a Bill in Parliament
relating to the same matter, and an appeal from a rate made by
the Commissioners of Pavement on a dispute between them and
the said Inn, be adjourned to the next Council."*

/. 205. " Ordered, with the approbation of James Wallace, Esq.,

the Black Book Keeper for the present year, that the Black Book
and other books wherein are entered the Orders of this Society
be deposited in the Steward's Office, under the care of the
Steward, to be by him safely kept and locked up in the said
Office, and not to be produced to any person who is not a
Bencher of this Society, without an Order of the Bench ; And,
that for the present year John Rawson f be the Deputy Black
Book Keeper ; And for the future the Deputy to be nominated
by the Principal Black Book Keeper for the time being, and that
the said Deputy be allowed to receive for his own use and benefit,
all the fees accruing therefrom."

Joseph Pickering, one of the Tancred Students, is appointed
to make the Latin oration, on February 2nd next.

/. 208. Call to the Bar, January 26th, 1775 :

John Gascoyne Fanshaw, Barwell Browne, and John Parry.

p. 209. Call to the Bar, February loth, 1775 : Thomas Orde.

/. 213. Council held on March ist, 1775.

Six Benchers present.

The price of the piece of land to be sold for the new Offices
for the Registers and Accountant General of the Court of
Chancery, being 1 1 1 feet 6 in. in length and 54 feet 6 in. in depth,
is fixed at ,3,000.

/. 214. Council held on March 8th, 1775.

Seven Benchers present.
"Ordered that Robert Taylor, Esq., be desired to wait upon

* See Appendix, f The Third Butler.

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the several gentlemen proprietors of chambers in Garden Row
hereafter mentioned, to know from them upon what terms they
will dispose of their several chambers." [A list follows.]

Council held on March loth, 1775. p. 216.

Six Benchers present.

M r Taylor reports that the following gentlemen are willing to
sell their chambers in Garden Row for the prices mentioned, and
that he thinks the prices are reasonable:

M r Long, No. 6, ^500; M r Bell, No. 7, ^"367 IDS.; M r Ford, .
No. 7, ^600; M r Skynner, No. 7, ^420; M r Prime, No. 8, ^525.

" Ordered that Robert Taylor, Esq., the Surveyor, be paid
the sum of ^72 I2s., being his commission money at ^5 per cent,
on the money laid out for the work already done for the new
buildings."

Council held March 2Oth, 1775. p. 219.

Six Benchers present.

[Scheme for completing the new buildings begun in the
Garden, proposed by a Committee of the Bench appointed for that
purpose, and now approved of, and ordered to be carried into
execution.] *

" That the building in the Garden be compleated, and divided
into setts of chambers, according to M r Taylor's plan markt B
and D, and approved of in Council on the 6th day of August,

1774- r

" That such members of the Society as shall be willing to

become purchasers of the said setts of chambers respectively, and
shall be approved of in Council, be at liberty to contract for the
same."

[Here follows a table of the amounts to be paid for the sets p. 220.
in the first, second, third and fourth staircases from the south end
of the building f ; the amounts vary from ^809 155. 4d. for the
ground floor of the second staircase (No. 5), to 161 145 5fd. for
the attic floor north of the fourth staircase (No. 3)].

"That an interest shall be granted in the said chambers to p. 222.
the tenants thereof for the lives of three persons and the survivor
of them, and, after the death of the survivor, for the life of one
other person ; such lives to be named by the proprietor of such
chambers respectively the three lives at the time the last

* The main provisions alone are here inserted.

f Now numbered 6, 5, 4 and 3, respectively, in Stone Buildings.

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payment shall be made, and the last life within one month after
the death of the survivor of the three lives and left with the
Treasurer of the Society. And in case the said four liv