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

128 A CALENDAR OF THE
that the stewards for the time being shall nominate and appoint six
gentlemen of what degree soever, to keep the boxes either by themselves
or some other gentleman, at their entreaty, for an hour or two
before supper.
And that two of the butlers shall attend after dinner and after
supper either to keep the boxes (if need be) or to be employed as the
stewards shall think fit sub pcena. And likewise if the watch bring
word to the butlers or stewards that it is twelve o'clock, before it be
so, of purpose to defraud the House of their just due, that then the
said watchmen shall be punished by imprisonment or otherwise, and
the butler to be fined for his false information.
That no waiter in any ordinary be admitted to keep any box
nor be suffered to bet nor to come among us, but to be warned to
depart and leave the society, which if he do refuse after once
warning, then to be committed to the Tower and punished as a
transgressor of our laws.
That if any question arise betwixt gamesters, that if the stewards
cannot resolve the question, that then they shall send to any of the
society that can resolve the doubt, to come to resolve it, and so to
quiet the gamesters, and if any gentleman refuse, that then he shall
be punished by the discretion of this Court.
For the payment of the boxes, whether double or single, we
desire further to advise.
ACCOUNT for Christmas, 1621. Amongst others, the following items
occur :—
Green say for the music hangings, 5s. ;
to the captain, I Is. ; rabbit suckers, 26,
15s. 2d. ; "Jerusalem hartichockes," 2s.;
hire of holbeards, 6d.
ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.
PARLIAMENT held On 25 November, 19 James I., A.D. 1621, before
JOHN SOTHERTON, SIR ROBERT HEATH, SIR JOHN WALTER, SIR
THOMAS TREVOR, EDMUND PRIDEAUX, GEORGE CROKE, and
others. SIR THOMAS COVENTRVE, treasurer.
Prideux, George Croke, Cholmly, and Bridgman to inquire as
to the privileged chambers in Hare's Court.