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

1639] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 249
PARLIAMENT held on I 0 February, 14 Charles I., A.D. 1638-9, before
SIR EDWARD LITTLETON, THOMAS GARDINER, RICHARD PRITHERGH,
JOHN MARTIN, and others. EDWARD HERBERT, treasurer.
Order, reciting the order made on 4 November last, touching
the viewing of certain chambers, that a view be taken of such
chambers and a report thereof made to the table with all speed, that
the fines on them may be assessed and fellows admitted.
For the preventing of the admission hereafter of any attorney or
solicitor from any Inn of Chancery and that none but students may be
admitted here, it is ordered that no person shall from henceforth be
admitted into this Society upon any certificate from an Inn of
Chancery, unless the same be subscribed and attested by such utter
barristers of this House as shall be reader there for the time being.
Orders that George Farmer, prothonotary of the court of
Common Pleas, lately called an associate to the bar, shall in respect
of his office sit uppermost at the ancient bar table ; that the order
against coming into the buttery and kitchen and sending out pots and
dishes, shall be copied out and published on the screen ; that the
petition of the chandler for money owing for pots be referred to
Pritherth, Martin, and Denn ; and that the debts to the steward
shall be paid.
PARLIAMENT held On 5 May, 15 Charles I., A.D. 1639, before THOMAS
GARDYNER, NICHOLAS CHOLMELEY, EDWARD TROTMAN, THOMAS
DENN, and others. EDWARD HERBERT, treasurer.
Edward Johnson chosen reader, and Fletcher, Ludlowe, and
Woodroff his attendants.
A composition of i2/i. granted to John Johnson for his vacations
and amercements, he having had the misfortune to receive a dangerous
hurt on his head, whereby he could not keep any vacations, and
because he had been a reveller in the House, and had at the time of
the great mask disbursed 5/1. for hire of a horse and furniture, and
paid 20S. on the Aid Roll.
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