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

1612] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 69
PARLIAMENT held on 3 November, io James I., A.D. 1612, before
GEORGE WYLD, WILLIAM TOWSE, EDMUND PRIDEUX, GEORGE
CROOKE, ROGER DALE, and others. ANTHONY DYOT, treasurer.
Stone, reader for Lent, and Prideux and Scambler, attendants.
Auditors :—Prideux and Lloyd of the bench, and Weare and
Coventree of the bar, for the treasurer, Hele and Cholmeley of the
bench, and Bridgman and Heth of the bar, for the steward.
Officers for Christmas :—Sir Ralph Hare, Sir John Lenthorp,
and Sir John Barnardiston, marshals ; Sir George Browne, Thomas
Bushop, and Wright, stewards ; and Sir Edward Pitt, Seabright, and
Warneford, butlers.
Whereas such as were admitted to chambers (wherein none had
interest by act of parliament in respect of building) usually sold their
chambers to others for great sums of money to the prejudice of the
House, the ordering thereof was referred to next parliament.
Complaints were made of the nuisance by Barrow of the Cat
and Fiddle by making a door through a brick wall upon the backside
of Derham and Lane's chambers, that two chimneys of the house,
called the Mitre, in the same place, were likely to fall, and that
Gibbs, the cook, in Ram Alley, had encroached upon the land of
this House. The reformation of which matters is referred to Walter,
Lloyd, and the treasurer.
Upon former consultation had with some or the bench of the
Middle Temple, it was ordered that no buildings should be made by
any of either of the Houses where either has any ground or
chambers adjoining to the other, without conference of either Society
with the other, and their mutual assent therein first had.
Treasurer :—Edward Stapleton.