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

cxviii INTRODUCTION.
property were shown in a remarkable degree by the fines on
p. 324 admittance to these new buildings. For those in the Inner Temple
Lane the fines varied from £65 on the third to ,‘Ioo on the first
P. 327 floor ; for those in Parson's Court they varied from ,60 on the third
P. 327 floor to Z1 20 on the first. The amount laid out upon the church by
the two inns amounted to £704 I 7s. 6d. at the present value of
about ,4"3,000. It consisted of various repairs to both portions of the
p. 303 church, including a leaden roof, paving and tiling to the round walk,
p. 328 " whitening the church," and repairing the church tower. The
p. 328 large garden cost at least £429 14s. 5d., and £42 5s. 6d. was spent
in gravelling Hare Court. The principal item in the garden account
was the laying of new turf. This was brought in lighters from
P. 312 Greenwich park in the spring of 1651, along with the necessary
sand. The various agreements with the collectors for the poor of
Greenwich, together with the prices of turf and of wages, are fully
set out in the butler's accounts.
On 30th November, 1654, John Selden died at the mansion of the
Earls of Kent, in Whitefriars, where he had lived for many years, and
where his celebrated library was collected. He had up to the time
of his death occupied a chamber in the house of his old friend and
intimate companion, Edward Heyward, to whom he dedicated his
" Titles of Honour." His rooms were on the top story on the spot
now proximately occupied by No. i Paper Buildings, and included
a little gallery in which he could walk, overlooking the Temple
garden. He suffered somewhat for his opinions, and for the part which
he took in public affairs. He was imprisoned by King James in
1621-2. He was one of the managers of the impeachment of the
Duke of Buckingham in 1626. He defended Sir John Hampden
for refusing the forced loan in 1627. He was imprisoned with the
nine members in 1629, and was not released until 1631. But he was
trusted and consulted by King James ; by Lord Bacon, for whom he
wrote a pamphlet on the respective positions of lord chancellor and
lord keeper ; by the house of commons, as to their procedure ; by
the house of lords, as to their privileges, and, under the commonwealth,
by the council of state. He was the intimate friend of
Michael Drayton, of William Browne of Tavistock, of Hobbes of
Malmesbury, of Camden, of Ben Jonson, and of Samuel Butler, author
of " Hudibras," who lived with him for some years in the house of