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

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370 APPENDIX NO. X.<br />

strance expressed our intentions, <strong>the</strong>n we shall desire <strong>the</strong> Lords to<br />

make what order shall be thought fit for <strong>the</strong> absolute dissolution <strong>of</strong><br />

all future Christmasses. We beseech your Lordships to have that<br />

honourable regard to <strong>the</strong> entire preservation <strong>of</strong> our ancient privelege<br />

as to give us leave to be <strong>the</strong> sole reformers <strong>of</strong> our own disorders, and<br />

<strong>the</strong> whole society shall acknowledge this as an infinite obligation<br />

from <strong>the</strong> Board.<br />

APPENDIX No. XI.<br />

PETITION OF THE INNER AND MIDDLE TEMPLES<br />

FOR EXEMPTION FROM ASSESSMENT WITH<br />

REPORT TO THE COUNCIL, A.D. 1654.<br />

State Papers, Domestic,1654, Commonwealth, vol. lxvi., No. 5.<br />

To HIS HIGHNESS THE LORD PROTECTOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH<br />

OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.<br />

<strong>The</strong> humble Peticion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Society</strong>es <strong>of</strong> both <strong>the</strong> <strong>Temple</strong>s.<br />

Sheweth,<br />

That those ancyent Socyetyes have att all times past (even<br />

those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> late troubles) which your highnes' great valour and<br />

prudence hath now putt to an end by <strong>the</strong> favour and just indulgence<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Supreame Governors <strong>of</strong> this Nation, been free (like o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

Colledges and <strong>Society</strong>es <strong>of</strong> learning) from any publique tax or<br />

ymposicion ; <strong>the</strong>y indeed consisting ei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> young gentlemen<br />

(students in <strong>the</strong> lawe) who live upon <strong>the</strong> exhibition <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir parents<br />

or <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> elder sort practizers or publique <strong>of</strong>ficers in Courts <strong>of</strong> Justice,<br />

who all <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m are rated for <strong>the</strong>ir estates in <strong>the</strong> Countryes where<br />

<strong>the</strong>y live, and have (in <strong>the</strong> Inns <strong>of</strong> Court) only Chambers for resort <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>ir Clyentes in Tearme time<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir humble Complaint to your highnes is—That some few <strong>of</strong><br />

those men in <strong>the</strong> last Act, named Commissioners for <strong>the</strong><br />

present Assessment within <strong>the</strong> Cittye <strong>of</strong> London, have <strong>of</strong> late<br />

ymposed <strong>the</strong> some <strong>of</strong> One hundred pounds a moneth upon<br />

your petitioners, which, although itt be an ease inconsiderable<br />

to <strong>the</strong> Citty, is a bur<strong>the</strong>n insupportable upon <strong>the</strong> Societies<br />

and will tend to <strong>the</strong> discouragment <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> gentry in sending<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir sons thi<strong>the</strong>r and to <strong>the</strong>ir great prejudice in <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

educacion and knowledge and destruction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Socyetyes.

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