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

1636-7] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 231
Henry Rolle continued as reader, and the recorder, Fletcher,
and Crooke to be his attendants.
Auditors :—Chapman, Boulstrode, Woodrove, and Ludlowe for
the steward's accounts ; and Prithergh, Denn, Hallowey, and
Moreton for the treasurer's accounts.
Stewards for the reader's dinner :—Webb, Sir Henry Croke,
and Edward Heyward.
Special admission of John Henly, third son of Robert Henly, a
bencher of the Middle Temple.
Orders that Prithergh, Chapman, and Babbington shall view the
water and pipes belonging to the House and to report to the table ;
that the petition of the inhabitants of Ram Alley to have the gate
into the Temple opened, be refused, for the safety of the House in
this dangerous time of sickness ; that the petition of Daniel Banckes
to set ladders in the Temple Lane for repairing and trimming his
house over the Temple Gate, when he will trim and beautify the
gate and repave the street before it, be granted ; and that Chapman
and Lane shall view the alterations made by the said Daniel at the
Temple Gate and see if the post there be removed or anything done
in prejudice of the House.
Treasurer :—Sir Edward Littleton, continued.
GENERAL ACCOUNT BOOK.
ACCOUNT from 3 November, II Charles I., A.D. 1635, tO
29 January, 12 Charles I., A.D. 1636-7.
PAYMENTS.
To Richard Wigston, turnspit, for a pension
of 2S. a week for 17 weeks, when
his house was visited with the sickness,
14S.
To the two washpots towards their charges
to carry them into the country, when
the House commons dissolved, ril.
To the Blackfriars players for a play acted
here on Candlemas day, 1635, 71i.
To four porters for keeping the hall doors
that day, 4s.
For a load of faggots for a bonfire,
5 November, 1635, 7s. 6d.
To Robert Violett for rushes for the
library and inner buttery this year,
12S. 6d.
For a load of faggots for a bonfire and for
porters to bring them to the gate,
17 November, being the Queen's birthday,
8s. jod.
For the same, on 19November, being the
King's birthday, 7s. 6d.
To George Bodge for a dozen of hassocks
for the benchers. pews, 4s. 6d.
For work about the locks of the church, 3s.
To the gardener for four young elms to
set about the House in the rooms of
others that died, 4s.
To the clerk of the Lord Chief Justice of