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

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were exchanged at a loss of 6s. There are also entries of payments
for burnishing the plate and mending a silver candlestick, 14s. 4d. ; for P 45
mending a gilt ewer, 18d. ; for burnishing eight silver bowls, 2S. 6d. ; P. 44
for mending the ewer and two silver candlesticks, 5s. 6d., and others p. 110
of a minor importance.
In July, i6o6, it was formally notified to the society that Sir
Edward Coke had been called to be Chief J ustice of the Common
Pleas. His appointment as attendant to Sir John Jackson, the
reader, was thus cancelled : he was in due course made a serjeant, p. 16
received as a gift from the house the sum of L-Io in a ginger coloured
leather purse, went the Norfolk circuit as judge of assize, and ceased
to be a fellow of the inn. He retained, however, his chambers in
the Temple, making use of them for a considerable time in each
year. Thenceforth his story is no longer that of the advocate, but of
the judge and the patriot.
In November, 1576, the Earl of Leicester was admitted into p. 286
certain rooms and chambers which he had recently erected adjoining
a chamber which John Dudley and William Glaseor then occupied,
being the south end chamber of Fuller's Buildings. In consideration
of his expenditure on these buildings he was empowered by himself,
his heirs and executors, for a period of sixty years to appoint any
fellow of the inn to be admitted to the said rooms free of charge.
The earl was also empowered to enclose and convert into a garden a
certain vacant space to the east of the said buildings, and to admit
any person he thought fit to that garden as well as to the rooms
and chambers aforesaid. Of this space the wall of Serjeant's Inn
formed the northern boundary, Lombard Street the eastern, Fuller's
Buildings the western, and the alienation garden the southern. In
October, 1588, Mr. Coke and Mr. Scott consented that Mr. George
Croke, son of Mr. Justice Croke, should be admitted into an upper
chamber which they then jointly occupied. At the same time the
Earl of Warwick wrote to the treasurer requesting that Mr. Edward
Coke, councillor at law, should be admitted into the chambers which
had descended to him as heir at law of his brother, the late Earl
of Leicester, and Coke was thereupon admitted into " the south
end chamber of the buyldynges made by Mr. Fuller and into certen
romes therunto adjoyned buylded by the same late Erle." This
south end chamber had formerly been occupied by John Dudley and