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

1631] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 189
was passed over from being chosen steward for the reader's dinner
and forfeited his chamber by discontinuance, that if he pay the duties
owing to the steward he shall be discharged from his duties to the
House.
PARLIAMENT held on 22 May, 7 Charles I., A.D. 1631, before SIR
ROBERT HEATH, WILLIAM FLETCHER, NICHOLAS CHOLMELEY,
THOMAS RISDON, and others. SIR RICHARD SHILTON, treasurer.
Order at the request of Doctor James Chambers, physician in
ordinary to his Majesty, that Roger Heath, a fellow, be admitted to
a chamber in trust for the use of the said Dr. Chambers, that he may
there keep his office lately granted him by the King, for which
admittance he shall pay 4o/i., and that the said Heath may hold
another chamber to his own use.
Order that Samuel Wightwick, chief clerk for the Pleas in the
Court of King's Bench, shall, in respect of his office, sit at the upper
end of the ancient bar table, and have ancienty of all utter barristers
there.
Thomas Browne called to the bar, at the request of Justice
Vernon.
PARLIAMENT held On 12 June, 7 Charles I., A. D. I631, before
THOMAS RISDON, SIR THOMAS FANSHAWE, RICHARD PRYTHERGH,
TIMOTHY LEVINGE, and others. SIR RICHARD SHILTON, treasurer.
Stewards for the reader's dinner :—Anthony Stoughton, George
Wylde, and Edward Heyward.
Order that Pore having lost his part of a chamber by the pulling
down of the old chambers in Figtree Court, the treasurer is requested
to admit him to another chamber or the moiety of one.
The petition of Leonard Beckett, that for 25 years he had sold
books in the shop over against the door of the Temple Church, for
which he pays yearly 4/i. los., over which shop the buildings of the
Middle Temple are, during the next long vacation, to be taken down,
he therefore prays that he may be continued in that or the like shop,