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

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INTRODUCTION.
That no tithes are paid to him.
To this it is replied that no tithes were ever paid to
or even claimed by any master.
That whereas he is to have of every fellow i 8d. per ann., he
only has from the Inner Temple I4 ios. per ann., and
from the Middle Temple LI7 per ann.
As to these payments, which were claimed in excess of
his salary, as reserved by the patent of 6 Jac. I., it is replied
that he has no right in the matter but only receives the
payments by courtesy.
That the Temples having covenanted by the deed of 6 Jac. I.
to build a mansion, it is not built nor anything in place of it.
Convenient lodging, it is said, has been provided for
him by the two societies.
That they allow the buildings of the master to fall into ruins.
This is denied. It is alleged that the buildings do
not belong to the master, and that they are in fact carefully
repaired by the inns.
That gentlemen occupying chambers belonging to the master
of the Temple are permitted to assign without his consent.
Parson's Buildings, it is said, do not belong to the
master but to the society, and the master has no right to
interfere with their management.
That they deny him all ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
No ecclesiastical jurisdiction, it is answered, has ever
been admitted or claimed.
That they deny him authority to send for delinquents.
They persist that he has no such authority.
o. That they deny him access to the rolls of the buttery, so as
to see who are in commons and do not come to communion.
They say he has no such right, but as regards persons
not coming to the communion, if found to be in default they
are in due course expelled by the society.
1. That when both houses meet in the church the master of the
Tample is not acquainted therewith nor called to the same.
To this it is replied that the church is the antient
ordinary meeting place of committees appointed by either
house as a place of most indifferency between those neigh-