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

354 APPENDIX NO. VIII.
belong to the Inner Temple. They also say that the officers of the
Inner Temple have taken for the use of their Society the yearly rent
of a bookbinder's shop near the Inner Temple Lane and of a sempster's
shop adjoining a chamber of the Middle Temple, being the
soil of the Middle Temple.
ANSWER OF RICHARD SWAYNE.
This defendant says that he was admitted to the Middle Temple
in 1573, at which time the lane leading from Fleet Street to the
Temple stairs was called the Middle Temple Lane, and that there
was a mud wall adjoining the same lane which divided the Inner
Temple from the Middle Temple where now divers buildings have
been erected by the Inner Temple with passages into the said
lane. At the same time there was a gate house at the north end
of the said lane with a house adjoining on either side. He further
says that the Inner Temple had another lane called the Inner
Temple Lane leading from Fleet Street " to the south end of that
lane to a pair of stairs there going to the church and cloister there,
notwithstanding the Society of the Middle Temple had divers
chambers on the east side of the said Inner Temple Lane."
PROOFS OF THE EVIDENCE.
William Sherife, he knows that Fig-tree Court in the Inner
Temple is divided from the Middle Temple with a stone wall on the
west side of that court.
John Collins proves five rolls purporting to be the accounts of
Richard Hone in 14 Elizabeth, of John Bullock in 29 Elizabeth, of
Ranulph Hurlston in 24 Elizabeth, of John Dolman in 4 Elizabeth,
and of Ellis Hall 1 in 13 James I., and he also proves an account
book.
INTERROGATORIES AND DEPOSITIONS.
The depositions are very long. Amongst them are those of
John Collins, who refers to the rolls and treasurer's account book
mentioned above.
Richard Allen deposed that he had examined the frame and the
manner of building the gate house of the Middle Temple Lane
towards Fleet Street, and he conceived the ground-work or fabric to
be very ancient and more ancient than the building of brick erected
thereon, for the foundation is a very ancient building of stone, and
the upper part much later, built of brick.
George Gouldstone states that he knows the shop on the west
side of the said gate house, where spectacles are now sold, and at
the back part of the said shop there is a little door, now dammed
up, which was built for a postern doorway when the said gateway
For Ellis Hele.