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

1647] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 277
arrears and the chief butler to make a roll of such chambers and the
rents at which they are let.
Order that the butlers make a roll of all the chambers " in their
several walks " and the names of those admitted to them.
Order that the auditors of the weekly accounts shall cast all the
expense of the House for that week into commons without leaving
anything in apparels more than is allowed by some of the bench, and
they are not to meddle with anything but the present week's accounts.
Order that henceforth every fellow shall pay his commons at
every week's end, or at the fortnight's end at farthest.
PARLIAMENT held On 2 July, 23 Charles I., A.D. 1647, before RICHARD
TOMLINS, THOMAS DENN, WILLIAM BABINGTON, EDWARD JOHNSON,
and others. THOMAS CHAPMAN, treasurer.
The petitions of the four puisne butlers for an addition to their
former allowances, and their arrears of wages " during such time of
these unnatural wars as there was no commons in this House," and
for board wages for last Lent, and of the under-porter for the child
taken up in Figtree Court, are referred to the bench table.
It was since ordered at the table that the butlers should have 40s.
a piece allowed them more and paid to them by the treasurer towards
their support, till the House might better afford to allow them more.
PARLIAMENT held On 3 November, 23 Charles I., A.D. 1647, before
RICHARD TOMLINS, EDMUND PRIDEAUX, THOMAS DENN, THOMAS
LANE, WILLIAM BABINGTON, RICHARD ASKE, EDWARD JOHNSON,
THOMAS TWISDEN, and others. THOMAS CHAPMAN, treasurer.
Phillip Wyott chosen reader for next Lent vacation, and Denn,
Prideaux, and Twisden, his attendants.
Auditors :—Babington, Twisden, Walker, and Pecke for the
steward's accounts, and Lane, Johnson, Wyld, and Palgrave for the
treasurer's accounts.
Confirmation of the appointment of William Maye as successor
to Robert Haynes, the late porter.
Henry Wynn, John Trafford, and Edward Harrys called to the
bench.