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

198 A CALENDAR OF THE [1632
time excessive rates for the same have been demanded and allowed
at the accounts without any act of parliament to warrant the same,
by means whereof the price of commons hath been much enhanced."
It is therefore ordered that from henceforth till the last parliament
of Michaelmas term the steward shall be allowed for every pound of
beef, and for every loin of mutton, i4d., and the butler shall be
allowed for his cheese, 3d. a week, of every fellow for such weeks as
he is in commons.
Order that two pennyworth of bread and no more shall in term
time be allowed in the kitchen every meal " for the breadding of the
batlings of the benchers and first mess of the bar, and out of term
less, according to the number of benchers then in commons," and
that the bread be penny loaves, which it is conceived will go further
and serve better for that purpose than the small bread, and the bread,
so to be allowed, shall be delivered to the head cook or under cook
by a butler, according to the above rule, under pain of 3s. 4d. That
the bread be received by one of the butlers and weighed, and if it
should want weight according to the assize appointed by the Lord
Mayor, he shall inform the treasurer at the next meal, so that the
baker be amerced or put from serving the House, and no allowance
shall be given in respect that three loaves go for a penny as of late
it hath been used.
Order " that no coxcombe pasties (as they term them), being a
late innovation, shall be allowed unto the cook out of Mr. Reader's
venison, neither shall he take the chines of his salmons or any other
fees out of his meat and provision, being all new encroachments, and
also that the cook or any other officer of the House, shall not demand
of Mr. Reader any other fee than what was constantly paid before
James I., and that Mr. Reader for avoiding of precedents, which
may charge his successors, shall not pay any other fees to any officer
of the House than such as have been anciently paid."
Order that neither the steward nor any other officer of the House
shall charge the House with more than he pays for provisions, upon
pain, for the first offence, of being amerced, and for the second, of
losing his place.
Licence granted to Henry Rolles and Emanuel Downing to
re-build their chambers in the Temple Lane, with brick, four storeys
high, to correspond with the brick buildings on the other side ; and