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

xxxiv INTRODUCTION.
p. 92 the hall in 1615 at a cost of I 5S. In May, 1609, a license was
P. 43 granted to Edward Heyward 'and others to build Heyward's Buildings
on the site now occupied by Paper Buildings. The dimensions of
these buildings were 88 feet long by 26 feet broad and they were to
be four stories high, of which the top story had an open gallery. They
were to be erected between the conduit head and the gardener's
p. 64 house. They contained sixteen chambers, and a ground rent of
20S. per annum, which was reserved for the whole house, was
P. 119 assessed at is. 3d. each chamber. Here Selden was for some years
p. 121 a resident, occupying a double chamber. At a later date (i 620) new
buildings were erected in the Temple Lane at a cost of £285, and
P. 119 the rebuilding of the chambers near Ram Alley to make them uniform
with Fuller's Buildings was also under consideration. The tenants
of chambers, as formerly, paid no rent, but they were under covenant
to repair to the satisfaction of the inn, and there are several instances
pp. 52, 120 of fellows being expelled from the chambers for not repairing after
due notice. Another ground for expulsion from chambers was the use
of sea coal in contravention of the following order of 4th November,
p• 126 162 1 : " N either the masters of the bench nor any other of the fellows
of this society shall burn sea coal in his chamber after the end of
Michaelrnas term upon pain of forfeiting his chamber." Members
pp. So, 102 were also expelled and disbarred for immorality in their chambers,
p. 5 and for not communicating in due course. In the case of fellows not
p. 29 paying their share of the reader's dinner or other accustomed charges,
the practice was to sue them in the court of requests or in the court
of exchequer, and to appoint a member of the bench to be counsel for
the inn. In February, 1609-1o, an order was drawn up reciting the
p. 48 patent of i6o8 whereby the freehold of the two Temples was vested
in the benchers and declaring that, whereas the alienation office and
garden had been built within the Inner Temple, but without any cost
to the society, for the future the crown should have the right to
employ the alienation office and garden and the chambers over the
office for such public purpose or for the use of any of the fellows of
the society as the king or his successors should think fit. The
alienation office appears to have been built in the time of Queen
Elizabeth. It received payment on all fines on alienation by the
queen's tenants in chief and it issued licenses to alienate which had
' He seems to have made a considerable profit out of this building. See p. 114.