nouse much in debt, and the incumbrance was not discharged for some years afterwards; for in 17 Elizabeth, (16 Junii,) there was an order made in the Parliament, That forasmuch as by one decree, made 8 Feb. 13 Eliz. the old pensions had been augmented for three years then next following, towards the payment thereof; and by another, held 10 Feb. 16 Eliz. that they had been augmented one year more, to the same purpose, and that all these helps are not sufficient, that the augmentation of the said pensions should continue yet one year longer.' (Herbert's Inns of Court, 246.)

Turning to the left from the Middle Temple Hall, and passing through an arch-way we arrive at the garden of the Inner Temple. Shakspeare has made the Temple Garden the scene of the 'brawl" between the houses of York and Lancaster, when the cognizances of the white and red roses were chosen by the partizans of the two families. Richard Plantagenet's lodging being in the Temple, renders the locality of the scene more probable. Mortimer says to one of his jailers, "Tell me, keeper, will my nephew come? Keep. Richard Plantagenet, my Lord, will come. We sent unto the Temple to his chamber, And answer was return'd that he will come." The altercation, it appears, had begun in the Temple Hall, for Suffolk says,

"Within the Temple Hall we were too loud; The garden here is more convenient."

After the plucking of the roses, Warwick exclaims,

"This brawl to-day,

Grown to this faction in the Temple Garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night." There appears to be some doubt whether the Inner or the Middle Temple Garden is entitled to these classical associations. It is thought the latter possesses the preferable claim.

The garden runs along the bank of the Thames, and the walk, or terrace, upon the brink of the river, forms a healthy and pleasant promenade, ornamented with a fine view of Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Abbey to the right, and of Blackfriars' Bridge and St. Paul's to the left. In its prospect the garden of the Inner Temple is much superior to its rival of the Middle Temple, though the latter is adorned with a short avenue of fine lime-trees, which in summer forms a most refreshing shade. May no sacrilegious bencher meditate their destruction! In these gardens may be seen those pensive desœuvré lawyers,

"Who in trim gardens take their pleasure ;" while their more fortunate brethren are acquiring fame and profit amid the heat, the noise, and the bustle of the courts.

The great gate of the garden leads directly to the Hall of the Inner Temple, a building inferior in size and beauty to that of which a description has just been given. However, in the Hall of the Inner Temple some of those more jovial customs have lingered, which have become extinct in the other societies. A sound of revelry, which would have delighted the ear of Saunders, may still occasionally be heard amid its walls, though even into this ancient mansion the sober manners of the times have intruded, and the custom of giving wine to the whole Hall on a call to the bar, is becoming unusual.

Attached to the Hall is the Library of the Inner Temple, a neat room; but by no means a building suited to the purpose to which it is devoted. The Library is small, and the times at which it is open are such as to render it of very little, if of any, use, either to the student or to the practising barrister. It is singular, and not altogether creditable, that a society, so superfluously wealthy as that of the Inner Temple, should not have discovered the propriety of applying some part of their useless riches to the formation of a magnificent Library, open during at least two-thirds of the day to all the members of the society. The hours are at present from ten in the morning until three in the afternoon, the very period at which it is impossible either for the student or the barrister to

make use of the Library. It is an usual occurrence to find the room entirely empty.

Nearly opposite to the library stands the Temple church, a very venerable building, of which a detailed account has been already given. No place can awaken more various and interesting associations than this ancient and curious structure. It carries us back to the time of Cœur de Lion and the Crusades, in which the Knights of the Temple were distinguished by their pre-eminent valour. Their lances were first in the field, and their banner the first upon the walls of the Saracens. Of the exploits of the Milites Christi, as the Templars were par excellence termed, some further account will probably be given in a subsequent part of these volumes.

But there are other associations connected with this church more congenial to the mind of a lawyer, Here repose the ashes of many of those "grave men and singularly well learned," whose names are much more familiar in a legal mouth than any "household words;" Selden, and Plowden, and a long train of other worthies. In the church-yard slumbers one of a far different mould, the simple-hearted Oliver Goldsmith. He lived for some time in the Temple, in Brick Court, and was buried within its precincts.

Several names much celebrated in the annals of our literature are recalled to our mind as we walk

through the Temple. Chaucer is reported to have been a Templar, and in later days, Johnson occupied a miserable set of chambers in Inner Temple Lane. The Mitre Tavern, situated at the termination of a passage leading from the Temple to Fleet-street, was a favourite haunt of the great Lexicographer. The chambers in King's Bench Walk, in which lord Mansfield resided, are immortalized in the verse of Pope:

"To number five direct your doves,

There spread round MURRAY all your blooming loves ;"

and in the parody of Cibber:

"Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks, And he has Chambers in the King's Bench Walks." [To be continued.]

"A thief being arraigned at the bar for stealing a mare, in his pleading urged many things in his own behalf, and at last nothing availing, he told the Bench, the mare rather stole him than he the mare; which in brief he thus related: That passing over several grounds, about his lawful occasions, he was pursued close by a fierce mastiff dog, and so was forced to save himself by leaping over a hedge, which, being of an agile body, he effected; and in leaping, a mare standing on

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