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

26 A CALENDAR OF THE [i6o6
" The order of 3 November, 28 Elizabeth, to be observed that
no women be admitted into the kitchen, and the like law, 5 July,
2 1 Elizabeth.
" If any fellow of this House, being admitted into a chamber of
this House, shall, by the space of six days in any one term or
vacation, lie in his said chamber, not being in commons, without
licence of the treasurer for the time being, then he so offending shall
lose his said chamber and stand disadmitted therein and the treasurer
to admit any other fellow to the same.
" Whereas heretofore it hath been used in this House to have a
call of barristers but once in three or four years, which was the cause
that the number was great of those that were then called, which gave
occasion of much speech and marvel to the judges, it is therefore
ordered at this parliament for avoiding of so great numbers to be
called at one time, that from henceforth in the first parliament of
every Hilary and Trinity term there shall be a call of barristers, and
at every of those calls, not to call to the bar above the number of
four, and those to keep all the exercise of the term wherein they are
called and the next vacation following.
" That from henceforth no case shall be kept upon the Sunday
at night, as hath been heretofore used, nor on the fifth day of
November, being the day of the King's Majesty's deliverance, that
now is.
" Whereas heretofore two gentlemen of the bar have always
borne the charge of the reader's dinner, and two gentlemen under
the bar the charge of the reader's drinking, which now is grown to
be very chargeable, wherefore for the easing as well of the stewards
of the reader's dinner as of the drinking, it is ordered at this parliament
that from henceforth there shall be always three of the bar,
stewards of the reader's dinner, which three shall equally contribute
to that charge, and none of them to exceed the sum of 2011. And
for the reader's drinking there shall be only two stewards chosen of
the gentlemen under the bar as usually heretofore hath been, and
each of them shall pay to the reader for the time being, towards the
furnishing of his table for his drinking, 611. I3s. 4d. and no more, and
they to be at no further charges."
Thomas Clerke discharged from being surety for William
Hodson.