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

1644-5] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 271
(being visited with the plague) to be re- Sum total of receipts, 172/i. rs. 4d.
moved to the pest house, 13s.6d.
Sum total of payments, rgg/i. los. rod.
To Browne for faggots for a bonfire on 5 I So the House is debtor to the chief
November, 1641, los. butler, 27/1. gs. 6d.
Auditors :—Jo. Shuter,
Merefield.
Fra. Dynne, Wm. Babington, and Jo.
ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.
PARLIAMENT held Oil 13 November, 20 Charles I., A.D. 1644, before
THOMAS LANE, THOMAS GATE, RICHARD ASKE, EDWARD JOHNSON,
and others. NICHOLAS CHOLMLEY, treasurer.
Confirmation of the special admission made to William Norborne,
son of John Norborne of Studley in the county of Wilts, on 13
February, 1642 - 3, at the request of Walter Norborne of the bench.
Special admissions of Robert Johnson, eldest son of Edward
Johnson, a bencher ; of Alexander Freeman, sister's son of Thomas
Gate, a bencher ; and of Samuel Wightwick, eldest son of Samuel
Wightwick, one of the assistants of the bench.
The petition of James Ellis, chief cook, for a chamber in the
Inn, he having left a house and cook shop in the city, is granted.
Butler Buggin was sworn to the bar on 6 November, 1644, in
the open hall at dinner time.
Robert Sparrow, Edmund Wyld, George Cure, J ohn Coysh,
William Blomfield, and John Lane called to the bar and to take
antiquity of Goodfellow, Pecke, and Buggin, in case they be their
ancients. The call of Richard Hopton and John Tooke to be considered
at the next parliament.
PARLIAMENT held 6 February, 20 Charles I., A.D. 1644-5, before JOHN
SELDEN, THOMAS GATE, RICHARD ASKE, EDWARD JOHNSON, and
others. THOMAS LANE, treasurer.
Treasurer :—Thomas Lane.
John Tooke called to the bar, and Jeremy Whichcotte, who is not
of full eight years standing, but in respect of his time at Clifford's Inn
and his many exercises, is also called to the bar. And William Gore
is called to be an associate of the bar.