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

t6o9-to] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 47
and kitchen referred to John Hare, Richard Brownelowe, Roger
Dale, Edward Stapleton, John Heele, and the treasurer.
Edward Rowland to be head butler, if Thomas Lello, who is infirm
and decrepit, does not recover before Trinity term.
PARLIAMENT held on 6 February, 7 James I., A.D. 1609-10, before
ANDREW GREY, and others. GEORGE CROKE, treasurer.
Order that fellows owing above 30s. to the House shall have their
names put upon the screen in the hall at dinner time, three days
together, by the head butler, and if any such fellow do not pay within
ten days, he shall be disadmitted from his chamber, and the treasurer
may admit any other fellow of the House therein who will pay such
debts, yet, notwithstanding, the debt of the principal debtor shall
remain good to the House. And if the debtor has no chamber, he
shall be put out of commons per mandalum and a me recipiatur shall
be entered upon his name and he shall not be received back into
commons till he has cleared the rolls and paid a fine of 40s.
Order for the steward not to allow any fellow to owe commons
for more than a month.
Memorandum, that Mr. Edward Bromley, a bencher, being
solely elected serjeant at law upon Monday, 5 February, 16o9[-10],
took his leave in the open hall where the treasurer, on behalf of the
House, presented him with a purse and iou. in money. And from
thence " the benchers and fellows of this House without the Inns of
Chancery " attended him to Serjeant's Inn, where having his robes put
on he went to Westminster, the benchers and fellows following him.
And upon Wednesday following the same serjeant being called to be
one of the barons of the Exchequer and sworn, upon Tuesday went
from his chamber in Serjeants' Inn to Westminster in his judge's
robes being then attended by the society of this House and the Inns
of Chancery, where the Inns of Chancery first set forth from Serjeants'
Inn, then the young gentlemen of this House, then the bar, then
the bench, the ancients coming last, and the baron last of all.