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

1623]
INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 141
To the gentlemen revellers, for wine, three
nights, 31i.
For a gallon of burnt sack for the revellers
before the revels, 5s.
For new covering the Grace Book, clasps
and bosses, 4s. 6d.
For mending the steps in the steeple,
5s.
For paving the little court between the
Temple and Ram Alley, 3/i. 3s. 6d.
Sum total of the receipts, 1,273/i. 12S.
3d.
Sum total of the payments, 469/4
2S. 4d.
And so there remains in emendels,
8o3/i. 19s. iid.
CHRISTMAS ACCOUNT BOOK.
ACCOUNT for Christmas, 1623. Among the items are the following :-
To the trumpetters, 2 2S. ; flour for potatoe
pies, 4s. 6d. ; legs of mutton for minced
pies, 5s. ; suet for the same, 10 lb.,
4s. 2d. ; flour for the same, 3s. 6d. ;
2 legs of veal for marrow pies, 5s. 8d. ;
12 lb. of suet for the same, as. ; eggs
for the same, 2s. 6d. ; flour for the same,
4s. 6d.; marrow bones for the same, 16,
9s. ; to the soldier, 2S. ; a hare, i2d.
ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.
PARLIAMENT held on 23 November, 2 1 James I., A.D. 1623, before
JOHN SOTHERTON, SIR ROBERT HEATH, SIR J OHN WALTER, SIR
THOMAS TREVOR, ROGER DALE, EDWARD STAPLETON, and others.
SIR THOMAS COVENTRYE, treasurer.
Order with the consent of the solicitor general that a rent of 511.
shall be yearly paid for the King's Bench office.
Order upon report of the committee, that the stewards for
Christmas in whose hands any money remains unpaid, shall be put in
suit for the same.
Special admissions of Nicholas Wolfe, at the request of the
solicitor general ; and of Whatman, second son of Whatman of
the bench.
Order that Christmas commons shall not be kept beyond the old
accustomed time of three weeks.
Richard Cooke, Isaac Allen, William Harrison, Giles Boyse (?),
Christopher Ridley, Samuel Wilmer, Francis Lloyd,'Adrian Stoughton,
Richard Saverye, William Warren, Thomas Brooke, Francis Fortescue,
Edmund Prideaux, and Hugh Cholmley called to the bar.