windows, to be about the age of Edward III. was pulled down to make room for the present substantial fabric. This, though a fine room, is comparatively small it is ornamented with emblematical paintings by sir James Thornhill, and full length portraits of the celebrated Littleton, who died in 1481, and his commentator Coke, a distinguished lawyer and judge in the reigns of James I. and Charles I. Besides these, there are portraits of other particular judges deserving of remembrance.

Besides the hall and church, the Inner Temple contains a good library, open to students and others on application to the librarian from ten in the morning till one; and in the afternoon, from two till six. The other buildings consist of several extensive courts or squares, some of larger, some of lesser dimensions, and all surrounded by houses or chambers well inhabited. A beautiful garden on the Thames side, chiefly covered with greensward, and having a spacious gravel walk or terrace on the water's edge, fronts the hall. This is laid out with great taste, and kept in perfect order, and in summer-time forms a crowded promenade; from whence the view up and down the water is extremely rich. Blackfriars bridge, part of Westminster bridge, and the elegant back front of Somerset house, with the winding Thames, the opposite busy shore, and the beautiful swell of the distant Surry hills; all together form an assemblage of objects unrivalled in variety and magnificence. Before the hall itself is a broad paved terrace, excellently adapted for the purposes of walking

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and conversation when the gardens are not sufficiently dry.

Though the greater part of the buildings in the Temple, bath Inner and Middle, that is to say, the chambers, are handsome and convenient, and excellently adapted to the purposes for which they are destined; yet being of brick, and chiefly of modern date, they have nothing in their appearance to interest but their neatness and uniformity. Each house, consisting of several sets of chambers, is ascended by a common staircase in the manner of the houses at Paris and Edinburgh; and each set of chambers usually occupies a floor, the rents of which differ in proportion to their situation, size, elegance, &c.

The various divisions of the buildings in the Temple for the most part retain the names of their founders, though others are denominated from their vicinity to the principal offices, and other circumstances; as the King's Bench Walk, from being situated near the King's Bench Office, Churchyard Court, from adjoining the churchyard, &c. The particulars of these, with several other erections now destroyed, as recorded in the registers of the house, are given in the Origines Juridiciales, and are as follows:

"The wall betwixt the Thames and the garden was begun in 16 Hen. VIII. Mr. John Pakington (afterwards serjeant at law) and Mr. Rice being appointed overseers of the work. This Mr. Pakington was treasurer here, in 20 Hen. VIII. and caused the hall to be tiled. He also built divers chambers between

the library and Barington's Rents, and gave 101, to the treasury; for which respect it was ordered by the society, 5th of Febr. 25 Hen. VIII. that those new chambers should be thenceforth called Pakington's Rents. The lodgings in that court, now known by the name of Tanfeild Court (by reason of sir Laurence Tanfeild, chief baron's residence there), were first erected by Henry Bradshaw treasurer in 26 H. VIII.; whence they were long after called Bradshaw's Rents.

"In 1 Mariæ the kitchen was new-built, every knight and double reader being taxed at 10s. towards the charge thereof; every single reader and bencher at 6s. 8d.; and every utter barrister, and other of this society, at 3s. 4 d.

"In 2 Eliz. were those buildings raised near the alienation office, and called Fuller's Rents, by an order of the society 22 Nov. 5 Eliz. by reason that John Fuller was then treasurer.

"In 16 Eliz. the great carved skreen in the hall was made, Thomas Bromley, then solicitor to the queen, being treasurer; and in 18 Eliz. those buildings paled about, that stood near to the alienation office (commonly called the Black Buildings), were erected by Mr. Bonhamn, Mr. Bourchier, and Mr. Williams which buildings were pulled down for enlargement of the walks in an. 1663..

"In 19 Eliz. the alienation office was built by the appointment of Robert Dudley, then earl of Leicester.

"In 23 Eliz. those lodgings in the Middle Temple Lane, called Crompton's Buildings (in part where