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

APPENDIX NO. VIII.
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APPENDIX No. VIII.
COPIES OF PROCEEDINGS IN THE CHANCERY SUIT
OF SIR JULIUS CIESAR, ALIAS ADELLMERE, KNIGHT, MASTER OF THE
ROLLS AND ONE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL, SIR JOHN WALTER,
LORD CHIEF BARON OF THE EXCHEQUER, SIR GEORGE
CROOKE, ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF THE KING'S
BENCH, AND OTHER COMPLAINANTS AGAINST
HENRY, EARL OF MANCHESTER, AND
OTHER DEFENDANTS.
A.D. 1630.
Inner Temple Muniments, Ofiscellanea No. XIV.
ANSWER OF SIR NICHOLAS OVERBURY, KNIGHT.
This defendant states that the church, the buildings, lodgings,
courts, ways, lanes, and passages belonging to the Inner and Middle
Temples are intermixed that they can hardly be distinguished the one
from the other, and that when in time past any dispute arose it was
amicably settled without reference to the courts. He does not know
that the lane or passage leading directly from Fleet Street to the
Temple Bridge has been always used by both the said Societies as a
common way for the carriage of all necessary provisions for the uses
of both the said Houses, and he denies that the said lane is paved or
pitched with stone or kept at the equal charges of both the said
Societies, or that the bridge was built, kept, and maintained at any
part of the charge of the Inner Temple. Some twenty years ago
both the Temples erected a shed for the shelter of their watermen
upon the soil, as he contends, of the Middle Temple. He has known
the Inns of Court for fifty-two years or thereabouts and for all that
time there had been an ancient large brick gate house at the end of
the Middle Temple Lane, next to Fleet Street, which belongs, as he
thinketh, to the Middle Temple only. And at the end of the said
lane next the Thames there was a great gate or door which was
kept by the Middle Temple.
THE ANSWERS OF SIR LAWRENCE HYDE AND JOHN JERMY.
These defendants say, among cLher things, that all the Middle
Temple Lane belongs to the Middle Temple, except a new building
set up in the north-west corner of the Inner Temple Gardens abutting
upon the said lane over and on both sides of the new arched gate
there, which building, the Fine Office, and Mr. Brownlow's office
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