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

44 A CALENDAR OF THE [1609
The consideration of the petition of Baughe and others "for
erecting a building upon the old foundation near the Temple" shall
be referred to Harris, Bromley, and Gwyn.
PARLIAMENT held On 3 November, 7 James I., A.D. 1609, before
ANDREW GRAYE, GEORGE WILDE, RICHARD BROWNLOWE, WILLIAM
TOWSE, GEORGE CROOKE, and others. EDMUND PRIDEAUX,
treasurer.
Allowance as formerly to the servants of the House for watching
at the summer vacation during the sickness.
Fletcher, reader for Lent, and Towse and Chomley, attendants.
Auditors :—Harris, Gwyn, Edwardes, and Weare, for the treasurer's
account, and Dyett, Crooke, Coventre, and Shelton, for the
steward's account.
Orders that the former officers for Christmas be continued; that
Wilde, Brownlowe, Towse, Prideaux, the treasurer, and Walter be
appointed to confer with the master of the Temple touching his title
to the lodgings near the Temple church ; and that Thomas Cesar
be discharged his reading for
Treasurer :—George Crooke.
GENERAL ACCOUNT BOOK.
* Entries similar to these occur frequently in the accounts.
Account from the feast of All Saints, 6 James I., A.D. 1608, to
the same feast, 7 James I., 1609.
Sum total of the steward's receipts, To John Dryver for seven loads of gravel,
547/i. I IS. to mend the Lord Cooke's passage from
To Thomas Masters, Master of the Temple, his chamber into Sergeant's Inn, and
for the whole year's rent of this House for his own garden, at 14d. the load—
due at Michaelmas last, 1609, t7/1.6s. 8d. 8s. 2d.
For a play on All Hallow's Day, 1608, To a goldsmith, for mending the bottom
I5s. of a gilt ewer, I 8d.
For a lanthorn to hang at the church door To the gentlemen's revels in Michaelmas
going into the Parson's Court, 2S. 6d. term, three revelling nights,* 3/i.
Given to a blind man by the appointment To a stationer, for setting the title of my
of the bench, 3s. 4d. Lord Cooke's Reports in golden letters,
For levelling of the hall floor and the which he gave to the House, 18d.
south door of the church, 3s. 4d. For a play at Candlemas Day last, 5/i.