Volume II 1603-1660 - The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

xciv INTRODUCTION.
master, with the replies by the inns, occupy many pages of miscellaneous
reports. They are voluminous and verbose, and testify
to the great interest taken by the lawyers and others in the details
of this dispute. In the result, Mr. Noy (the attorney general), a
member of Lincoln's Inn, declared against most of such claims with
the expression, that if he were visitor he should proceed against the
doctor, lanquam c/a/us cE suAerbus.'
In 1638-39 Dr. Micklethwaite again appealed to the king, with
the result that his majesty directed the decision of the referees as to
payment of salary to be duly enforced.' The order, which is
said to have been made by agreement, is attached to the king's
direction.' I t does not, as will be seen, support the doctor's claim
for precedence, nor for tithes, nor for any episcopal jurisdiction over
the members of the two inns, but it settles the payments to be made
to him during his life on a liberal scale. It is as follows :
" The said Master has 20 Chambers in Parsons Court and in the churchyard
which his predecessors have let at their pleasure and which, in value
one with another, are worth a chamber, but by building may be much
improved in value. He has also for the rolls of 18d. per ann: of every gentleman
in both houses, of the Inner House but £14 los., of the Middle House
4.I7, in all £3' ios., which is all that he has of the houses for his ministry.
"It is ordered that he deliver up his chambers to the two houses,
receiving for those and for his tithes and oblations £200 , in equal proportions,
every term, provided that those monies which have been lately detained be
paid, and that when they build Parsons Court, they make him a convenient
lodging. He is to preach every Sunday and so long as he shall reside the
Temple shall allow him diet for two men : he shall also have the rolls
of the gentlemen brought to him every term that he may know who do not
communicate that either by private admonition they may be reformed or that
the orders of the house may pass upon them. He is to be present at all
meetings about repairing the church and all his rights of office are to be
preserved entire."
In the meantime other scandals had arisen. In 1635 the clerk
of the church being discharged for misconduct, Dr. Micklethwaite
made no new appointment, and the church was without a clerk
for a year. While his disputes were pending before the privy
council, the master locked up the church and carried away the keys,
declining to permit the imparlances to be held there. Nor would he
' Addison, " Temple Church," p. 36.
" State Papers, Dom. Car. I.," vol. ccccvi., No. 55. Ibid., No. 56.