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

1654] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 309
The request of certain fellows to make garrets in the roofs over
their chambers in the building over the Upper Bench Office, is referred
to the bench table.
PARLIAMENT held on 8 February, 1653-4, before EDWARD BULSTROD,
UNTON CROKE, EDWARD JOHNSON, JOHN MEREFIELD, and others.
EDMUND PRIDEAUX, treasurer.
Special admission of John Danvers, son-in-law of York, a
bencher.
PARLIAMENT held on 6 May, 1654, before CHARLES HALLOWAY,
RALPH BEARD, ROGER HEATH, and others. EDMUND PRIDEAUX,
treasurer.
Pension assessed double.
Philip Wyott again chosen reader, and Denn, Mr. Treasurer,
and Beard, his attendants.
Order that all such vacationers of or under the bar, as were in
commons and served the last vacation or any part of it, be discharged
of so much proportionably, and such as were absent all or any part
of the said vacation, are to be charged for the same respectively, as
heretofore has been used, and a roll made thereof accordingly.
Order that upon every assignment of a chamber in this House
all duties owing to the House or steward by the seller or buyer shall
be fully paid and discharged, or in default every grant of admittance
into such chamber shall be void, and the chamber to be in the disposal
of the House, and the duties to be paid out of it.
Confirmation of the appointment of John Collins as steward,
and Richard Fifield to succeed him as chief butler and William
Picke, the late steward's man, is admitted as puisne butler.
PARLIAMENT held on I June, 1654, before EDWARD BULSTROD,
UNTON CROKE, CHARLES HALLOWAY, JOHN MEREFIELD, and
others. EDMUND PRIDEAUX, treasurer.
Stewards for the reader's dinner :—Yorke, Tooke, and Wyld.
Special admission of William Hill, son and heir apparent of
Hill, of the bench.