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

INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 53
Browne. Stewards, Sir Thomas Bushoppe, William Wright, and
Sir Edward Pitt. Butlers, Warnefeld and Seabright.
Treasurer :-Roger Dale.
Special admission of Roger Dale, son of Roger Dale, a bencher.
GENERAL ACCOUNT BOOK.
Entries similar to these occur frequently in the accounts.
ACCOUNT from the Feast of All Saints, 7 James I., A.D. 1 609, to the
same Feast, 8 James I., A.D. 1 6 10.
PAYMENTS.
For a play on All Hallows Day, 1609, 5/i.
To the stationer for twelve service books
for the masters of the bench, 40s.
For twenty hassocks for the masters of the
bench, 6s.
For a padlock, hinges, staples, and nails
for the alms tub in the buttery, " and setting
on to keep the broken bread for
the poor," I 241.
For six iron plates and na:ils for them to
hang up candles on our side of the
church, i 3d.
To a smith for mending the hooks of the
mooting table in the hall, 8d.
For a play on Candlemas Day, 5/1.
For a purse to put iou, into, which the
House gave to Serjeant Bromley at his
going forth, 12d.
For carrying away rubbish and soil out of
the churchyard,* 6s.
For washing the upper library, and making
clean against the Lent reading, 12d.
For new painting the Temple stairs in oil,
the one half, 45s.
For carrying away the old glass out of the
church into our library, 6d. ; the Middle
Temple, the one half, 3d.
To a joiner, for one round baluster in the
church, I 20 7.
To Thorneton, the glazier, for all the new
white glass in the church, and the King's
arms, 267i. 9s. ; the Middle Temple
paid the half, 13/1. 4s. 6d.
To a wire maker, for wire set before the
King's arms in the church, 24s. 6d.; one
half paid by the Middle Temple.
For making new bars of iron for the windows
in the church, 255. 4d.; the Middle
Temple paid one half.
For paving the Middle Temple Lane, the
Middle Temple paying 8/i. 55., and this
House 711. 5s.
For paving from the Water Gate to Waterhouse's
chamber, and from the wall before
the hall to the garden door, 335. 9d.
For a new leather chair for the treasurer of
the House to sit on, in the upper library,
IS.
For a new green carpet " to cast the
r.ccount upon every Saturday," 6s. 6d.
To Thomas Turner, a goldsmith, for one
new silver salt for my masters of the
bench, 56s. 6d.
To Terry, a goldsmith, for two new communion
cups for the Temple church,
abating of the exchange of one old one,
13/i. 125. 2d. ; the Middle Temple paid
the one half, 671. i6s. id.
For a black leather case for one of them, 4s.
To John Feild, the carpenter, for altering
the parliament house and new building
the new pastry, for all carpenters' work,
bricklayers, plasterers, masons, smiths,
and glaziers, by tax agreed upon,
88/1. 16s. 8d.
For five new doors for the pews of the
masters of the bench, t2s. 6d.