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

140 A CALENDAR OF THE [1623
PARLIAMENT held on 3 November, 21 James I., A.D. 1623, before
JOHN SOTHERTON, SIR ROBERT HEATH, SIR J OHN WALTER, SIR
THOMAS TREVOR, EDWARD STAPLETON, and others. SIR
THOMAS COVENTRYE, treasurer.
Pritherche, reader, and John Harris is discharged of his double
reading. Elize Hele and Leving, attendants.
Officers for Christmas :—Marshals, Sir John Leventhorpe, knight
and baronet, Sir Warwick Hele, and Sir Francis Fortescue, knights.
Stewards, Sir Thomas Bishop, knight and baronet, Sir Peter
Manwood, knight, and Thomas Hanchett. Butlers, Sir James Pitt,
knight, John Warnford, and Thomas Lucas.
Auditors :—Humphrey Weare, George Vernon, Lewis Hele,
and Richard Weston, for the steward's accounts, and Jurden, Fanshawe,
Littleton, and Chapman, for the treasurer's accounts.
Treasurer :—Sir Thomas Coventrye continued.
Elize Hele, Risden, and Scamler to call before them the
gentlemen who have been stewards for Christmas the last four or
five years and inquire what is owing to the brewer for beer spent at
Christmas, and why payment has not been made for it.
General admission of Henry Bridgman at the request of
Serjeant Bridgman, his kinsman.
GENERAL ACCOUNT BOOK.
ACCOUNT from the Feast of All Saints, 20 James I., A.D. 1622, to the
same Feast, 21 James I., A.D. 1623.
PAYMENTS.
To Routh, for reading divine service in
the Temple Church this year, 5/i.
To the four serjeants at their going, 20/i.
For four purses for them, 6s.
For a play on All Saints Day, 7/i.
To John James, carver, for carving one
beast at the garden gate, 3s.
To John Taylor, for our part, for paving
the Middle Temple Lane, and before
the church door, 29/i. is.
For gravel for the new walks before the
King's Bench office, and before the
houses of office, di. I6s.
To Tumor, the goldsmith, for mending
one gilt ewer, one gilt salt, and one
silver candlestick, 55.
For faggots for two bonfires, when the
Prince came home, 8s. 6d.
For torches to search the House in the
long vacation time, 55.
For torches for the revels, I8s.