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

1632] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 197
Stewards of the reader's dinner :—Thomas Flexney, William
Farrar, and Thomas Ashton.
Special admission of Sir Henry Newton, of Charlton in the
county of Kent, bart., at the request of Wightwick, reader in Lent
vacation last.
" At this parliament Mr. Leving, Mr. Den, and Mr. Weston,
three of the benchers of this House, are desired to give meeting and
confer with the bench of the Middle Temple to consider what reparations
are necessary and fit to be had and made in and about the
Temple church, to the end the same, being agreed upon by both the
Houses this term, may be effected in this next vacation following."
" Forasmuch as information was given at this parliament that
there is some cause of suspicion that some gentlemen of this society,
that do usually abide in commons, do seldom or not at all receive the
communion in the Temple church, it is therefore ordered that a
butler shall be sent to Mr. Doctor Micklethwait to require of him a
sight of the Church Book, wherein the communicants' names are
entered, to the end the same may be compared with the Buttery
Book, whereby it may appear if any fellows of this society have not
received the communion in the Temple church according to the
orders of this House. And it is further ordered that if such default
shall appear in any fellows of this House, that then the orders of
this House shall be forthwith put in execution against such offenders."
PARLIAMENT held on 17 June, 8 Charles I., A.D. 1632, before EDWARD
LITLETON, N ICHOLAS CHOLMELEY, THOMAS RISDON, and others.
SIR RICHARD S HILTON, treasurer.
Upon the report of Cholmeley, Risdon, Prythergh, and Tratman,
it was ordered that the acts of 5 July, 21 Elizabeth, 3 November,
28 Elizabeth, 6 July, 4 James I., 5 May, 9 James I., 23 June,
20 James I., and 8 February, 20 James I., touching the duties of
officers and as to the provisions of the House, be duly observed and
strictly put in execution.
" And whereas such allowances as have heretofore been made
unto the steward for his meat and unto the butler for his cheese,
have been settled by parliament and not otherwise, and yet of late