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

202 A CALENDAR OF THE [1632
For charges in the suit against the Middle
Temple, 6/1. 135. 4d.
Half the charges of the carpenter for
work done about the roof of the Temple
church, I7s. 6d.
To Richard Cale, the plumber, for half
his charges for work, lead, and solder,
used upon the roof of the Temple
church, 23/i. 15s. 9d.
For cleaning the leads over the hall stairs,
6d.
To the smith for mending the iron work
about the buttery hatch, is.
For io spikes used about the Temple
stairs, and for a new key to the church
door, 45. 95.
To Richard Butler, the glazier, for making
4 new coats of arms for the hall windows,
51i. Dos.
For faggots for a bonfire the 4 November,
1631, at the birth of the princess, 8s. 4d.
For the like bonfire, 5 November, 1631,
8s. 4a7.
Sum total of the emendels and receipts,
1,363/i. 175. id.
Sum total of the payments,429/1. 8s. Id.
And so there remains in emendels,
934/i. 95.
ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.
PARLIAMENT held on 25 November, 8 Charles I., A.D. 1632, before
EDWARD LITLETON, NICHOLAS CHOLMLEY, THOMAS RISDON, and
others. SIR RICHARD SHILTON, treasurer.
" It is ordered that a committee of the bench of this House shall
be appointed by the board 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, may be undertaken in the beginning
of this next spring."
Order that the allowances to the steward and butler be continued
till the first parliament of Easter term.
Special admission of Francis Cooper, son and heir apparent of
Edward Cooper of London, servant to the Lord Keeper, at the
request of his father.
" The ruins and decay of the dining hall of this House being
taken into consideration, and the building of a new hall being much
desired by this society, and the greatest part of the bench now present
willingly offering a large contribution towards the same, yet forasmuch
as so great a work will surmount a far greater charge than
the voluntary contribution of the gentlemen usually residing in
commons and the stock of the House will be able to defray, without
some extraordinary addition thereunto," it is ordered there shall be a