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

102 A CALENDAR OF THE [1617
PARLIAMENT held on I I May, 15 James I., A.D. 1617, before SIR
THOMAS COVENTRY, solicitor general, JOHN WALTER, attorney of
the Prince, RALPH RATCLIFF, EDMUND PREDEAUX, and others.
RICE GWYNN, treasurer.
Edward Osborne, reader, and George Crook and James Weston,
attendants.
Webb, who presently intends to go over to Ireland and there
continue with Sir Oliver St. John, now Lord Deputy of Ireland,
is called to the bar at the request of the Lord K eeper. And also in
respect of the sufficiency and good deserts as well of Edward
Littleton himself as of his father and other his friends, he is likewise
called to the bar.
Myngay, Heath, and Trevor called to the bench.
PARLIAMENT held on I June, 15 James I., A.D. 1617, before SIR
THOMAS COVENTRYE, knight, solicitor general, HUGH HARE,
EDMUND PRIDEAUX, and others. RICE GWYNN, treasurer.
Whereas Goaff,' an utter barrister, " was this last vacation found
in his chamber with a woman, very suspiciously, about twelve of the
clock at night, for the which affence having been this present term
convented at the bench table end, where, upon his answer, he was
falsified in divers things wherewith he was charged and plainly
proved to his face by divers gentlemen that did take the woman
in his chamber (who did affirm that she was in his bed) " for the
which his said offence, by the judgment of the table, he was expelled
the House, which judgment is confirmed, and further he is disbarred
and the House shall have the forfeiture of his chamber.
Sir Henry Crook (second son of Justice Crook) master of the
Pipe Office, at the request of Justice Crook, is called to be an
associate of the bar and to have his place at the upper end of the bar
table.
1 Spelt in another place, " Gough."