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

1611] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 61
Whereas one light belonging to the church, by reason of a study
belonging to Mr. Blundell of the Middle Temple, is stopped up, the
treasurer of this House is requested to confer with the treasurer of
the Middle Temple to the end the same light may be restored.
Whereas information was given that divers gentlemen upon
their bringing in of their first moot in the vacation time made divers
feasts or banquets to the utter barristers that sat at the moot and
others, and spent thereupon great sums of money, some 20 nobles,
some 8/i, and some tog to the disgrace of the students who were
unable to bear so great a charge and did therefore forbare the
exercise, whereby two moots were lost, the treasurer is requested
to inquire into the matter.
Whereas John Hare, a bencher, complained that by the new
buildings in the Middle Temple over Baldwin's chamber, near to the
church, the lights of his office and his other buildings above are
greatly stopped up, and his glass windows, by bringing of the timber,
greatly broken, the treasurers of both Inns having considered the
matter, it is referred to George Wylde, Brownelowe, Towse,
Prideaux, George Croke, Gwynne, Cholmeley, and the treasurer to
join with the treasurer and others of the Middle Inn to consider " if
any part of the said buildings be upon the church or in prejudice of
the church."
The order touching Davyes' house to stand, but whereas
fourteen gentlemen of this House and others of the Middle Temple
who have chambers in his house in Falcon Court, desire to continue
their passage to the hall and church for their private use, the
treasurer is requested to examine the truth thereof.
Order that Myddleton's shed in the churchyard adjoining the
church shall be plucked down, and that there shall be no washing or
drying of clothes in the churchyard, " but that after a brick wall shall
be made at the end of either buildings and a fair gate in the middle,
by the said builders, the churchyard shall be kept fair and clean."
Whereas someone has built on the church wall over against
Lord Coke's chamber, the treasurer is requested to inquire as to
the same.
The petition of Nicholas Hawley, the baker, referred to the
treasurer.