Footnotes
344:* P. 899, 900.
345:* ante, p. 255.
347:* Joan Sariaburiensis. Polycrat. lib. vi. cap. 1.
347:† Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 296, 297.
347:‡ (NOTE: There is no footnote reference for ‡ on this page--JBH) Cart. vi. E. 2. n. 41. Trivet. cont., p. 4. T. de la More, p. 593.
348:* Pat. 8. E. 2. in. 17. The Temple is described therein as "de feodo Thom æ Comitis Lancastriæ, et de honore Leicestric."
349:* Processus contra comitem Lancastriæ. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 936. Lel. coll. vol. i. p. 668. La More, Walsingham.
349:† Cart. 15. E. II. m. 21. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 940.
350:* Dugd. Baron., vol. i. p. 777, 778.
350:† Rot. Escaet. 1. E. III.
350:‡ H. Knyghton, apud X script col. 2546.7. Lel. Itin. vol. vi. p 86. Walsingham, 106.
350:§ Claus. 4. E. III. m. 9. Acta Rymeri, tom. iv. p. 461.
351:* There was in those days an escheator in each county, and in various large towns: it was the duty of this officer to seize into the king's hands all lands held in capite of the crown, on receiving a writ De diem clausit extremum, commanding him to assemble a jury to take inquisition of the value of the lands, as to who was the next heir of the deceased, the rents and services by which they were holden, &c. &c.
351:† Claus 3. E. III. in. 6. d. Acta Rymeri, tom. iv. p. 406.
352:* Claus. 4. E. III. m. 7. Acta Rymeri, tom. iv. p. 464.
352:† Pat. 6. E. III. p. 2. m. 22. in original, apud Rolls Garden ex parte Remembr. Thesaur.
353:* Rot. Escaet. 10. E. 3. 66. Claus 11 E. 3. p. 1. m. 10.
354:* Sunt etiam ibidem claustrum, capella Sancti Thomæ, et quædam platea terræ eidem capellæ annexata, cum una aula et camera supra edificata, quæ sunt loca sancta, et Deo dedicata, et dictæ ecclesiæ annexata, et eidem Priori per idem breve liberata . . . . Item dicunt, quod præter ista, sunt ibidem in custodia Wilielmi de Langford infra Magnam Portam dicti Novi Templi, extra metas et disjunctions prædictas, una aula et quatuor cameræ, una coquina, unum gardinum, unum stabulum, et una camera ultra Magnam Portam prædictam, &c.
355:* In memorandis Scacc. inter recorda de Termino Sancti Hilarii, 11. E. 3. in officio Remembratoris Thesaurarii.
355:† Pat. 12. E. 3. p. 2. m. 22. Dugd. Monasticon, vol. vii. p. 810, 811.
355:‡ Ex registr. Sancti Johannis Jerus. fol. 141. a. Dugd. Monast., tom. vi. part 2, p. 832.
355:§ Ibid. ad ann. 1341.
356:* Rex omnibus ad quota &c. salutem. Sciatis quod de gratiâ nostrâ speciali, et pro bono servitio quod Rogerus Small nobis impendit et impendat in futuro, concessimus ei officium Janitoris Novi Templi London Habend. &c. pro vitâ suâ &c. pertinend. &c. omnia vada et feoda &c. eodem modo qualia Robertus Petyt defunct. Qui officium illud ex concessione domini Edwardi nuper regis Angliæ patris nostri habuit . . . . Teste meipso apud Westin. 5 die Aprilis, anno regni nostri 35. Pat. 35. E. 3. p. 2. m. 33.
357:* Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. The wages of the Manciples of the Temple, temp. Hen. VIII. were xxxvis. viiid. per annum. Bib. Cotton. Vitellius, c. 9. f. 320, a.
357:† Annal. Olim-Sanctæ Mariæ Ebor.
358:* Walsing. 4 Ric. 2. ad ann. 1381. Hist. p. 249, ed. 1603.
359:* Rot. claus b. E. 2. m. 19. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 292, 293, 294.
359:† Unam robam per annum de secta liberorum servientium, et quinque solidos per annum, et deserviat quamdiu poterit loco liberi servientis in domo prædictâ. Ib. m. 2. Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 331, 332.
359:‡ Quolibet anno ad Natale Domini unum vetus indumentum de veteribus indumentis fratrum, et quolibet die 2 denarios pro victu garcionis sui, et 5 solidos per annum per stipendiis ejusdem garcionis, sed idem garcio deserviet in domo illâ. Ib.
360:* Thomas of Wothrope, at the trial of the Templars in England, was unable to give an account of the reception of some brethren into the order, quia erat panetarius et vacabat circa suum officium. Concil. Mag. Brit., tom. ii. p. 355. Tunc panetarius mittat comiti duos panes atque vini sextarium . . . Ita appellabant officialem domesticum, qui mensæ panem, mappas et manutergia subministrabat. Ducange, Gloss. verb. panetarius.
360:† Regula Templariorum, cap. lxvii. ante p. 25.
360:‡ Concil. Mag. Brit., tom. ii. p. 371 to 373, ante, p. 235.
361:* Dugd. Orig. Jurid., p. 212.
361:† Nullus clericus nisi causidicus. Will. Malm., lib. iv. f. 69. Radulph de Diceto, apud Hist. Angl. Script. Antiq., lib. vii. col. 606, from whom it appears that the chief justitiary and justices itinerant were all priests.
362:* Spelm. Concil., tom. ii. ad ann. 1217.
362:† INNOCENTIUS, &c. . . . Præterea cum in Angliæ, Scotiæ, Walliæ regnis, causæ laicorum non imperatoriis legibus, sed laicorum consuetudinibus decidantur, fratrum nostrorum, et aliorum religiosorum consilio et rogatu, statuimus quod in prædictis regnis leges sæculares de cætero non legantur. Matt. Par., p. 883, ad ann. 1254, et in additamentis, p. 191.
363:* Et quod ipsi quos ad hoc elegerint, curiam sequantur, et se de negotiis in eadem curia intromittant, et alii non. Et videtur regi et ejus concilio, quod septies vigenti sufficere poterint, &c.--Rolls of Parl. 20. E. 1. vol. i. p. 84, No. 22.
363:† Dugd. Orig. Jurid., cap. xxxix. p. 102.
364:* Ante, p. 118. Mace-bearers, bell-ringers, thief-takers, gaolers, bailiffs, public executioners, and all persons who performed a specific task for another, were called servientes, serjens, or serjeants.--Ducange Gloss. Pasquier's Researches, liv. viii. cap. 19.
364:† Will. Tyr., lib. i. p. 50, lib. xii. p. 814.
365:* Dugd. Hist. Warwickshire, p. 704.
365:† Et tunc Magister Templi dedit sibi mantellum, et imposuit pileum capiti suo, et tunc fecit eum sedere ad terram, injungens sibi, &c.--Acta contra Templarios. Concil. Mag. Brit., tom. ii. p. 380. See also p. 335.
365:‡ It has been supposed that the coif was first introduced by the clerical practitioners of the common law to hide the tonsure of those priests who practised in the Court of Common Pleas, notwithstanding the ecclesiastical prohibition. This was not the case. p. 366 The early portraits of our judges exhibit them with a coif of very much larger dimensions than the coifs now worn by the serjeants-at-law, very much larger than would be necessary to hide the mere clerical tonsure. A covering for that purpose indeed would be absurd. The antient coifs of the serjeants-at-law were small linen or silk cape fitting close to the top of the head. This peculiar covering is worn universally in the East, where the people shave their heads and cut their hair close. It was imported into Europe by the Knights Templars, and became a distinguishing badge of their order. From the freres serjens of the Temple it passed to the freres serjens of the law.
366:* Ex cod. MS. apud sub-thesaurarium Hosp. Medii Templi, f. 4. a. Dugd. Orig. Jurid. cap. 43, 46.
367:* MS. in Bib. Int. Temp. No. 17. fo. 408.
368:* Burton's Leicestershire, p. 235.
368:† After the courts of King's Bench and Exchequer had by a fiction of law drawn to themselves a vast portion of the civil business originally transacted in the Common Pleas alone, the degree of serjeant-at-law, with its exclusive privilege of practising in the last-named court, was not sought after as before. The advocates or banisters of the King's Bench and Exchequer were, consequently, at different times, commanded by writ to take upon them the degree of the coif, and transfer their practice to the Common Pleas.
370:* Malcom. Lond. Rediviv., vol. ii. p. 282.
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