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

7 2 A CALENDAR OF THE [1613
PARLIAMENT held on 27 April, I I James I., A.D. 1613, before RALPH
RADCLIFFE, GEORGE WILDE, RICHARD BROWNLOWE, WILLIAM
TOWSE, EDMUND PRIDEUX, GEORGE CROOKE, and others. EDWARD
STAPLETON, treasurer.
Order that Anthony Diott, a bencher, shall forbear commons,
because at last Lent a butcher sold flesh in a cellar under a chamber
of the said Diott, parcel of his chamber ; and after notice had been
given him, he permitted the butcher to sell meat for two or three
days.
PARLIAMENT held on 4 May, iii James I., A.D. 1613, before RALPH
RADCLIFFE, GEORGE WILDE, RICHARD BROWNLOWE, WILLIAM
TOWSE, GEORGE CROOKE, and others. EDWARD STAPLETON,
treasurer.
Forasmuch as it is found that the gentlemen of this House, contrary
to the orders, make sale of their chambers for great sums of
money, and by experience of other Houses of Court it is seen that by
the sale of chambers by the governors of such House much benefit
and profit has grown to the general state of the same, with contentment
of the students, and forasmuch as this House is much indebted
by reason of the late show and sports made by the gentlemen of this
House before his Highness at Whitehall, amounting (over and besides
the stock of this House) " not so little as 1,200/I.," which requires
some extraordinary and unwonted course of supply, but no means are
as yet discerned therein so fitting as such husbandly course of admittances,
it is therefore ordered that all admittances to any chamber
in possession or reversion (other than benchers' chambers) shall be
made by act of parliament and not by the treasurer alone, as heretofore,
and everyone so admitted shall pay, over and above the usual
fine, such further sums as shall then be assessed, as the worth of the
chambers will afford to be sold between party and party, three parts
of which sum shall upon surrender be repaid.