Origines juridiciales, or, Historical memorials of the English laws, courts of justice, forms of tryall, punishment in cases criminal, law writers, law books, grants and settlements of estates, degree of serjeant, Innes of court and chancery also, a chronologie of the lord chancelors and keepers of the great seal, lord treasurers, justices itinerant, justices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas, barons of the Exchequer, masters of the rolls, Kings attorneys and sollicitors, & serjeants at law / by William Dugdale, Esq. ...

On Thursday Aug. 15^•. An. 1661. 13 Car. 2. Sir Heneage Finch Knight and Baronet, Solicitor general to the King; being Reader, kept his Feast in the great Hall of the Inner Temple.

TO the honour of whom, and of the whole Society, the King came in his Barge from White Hall, accompanyed by the Duke of Yorke; and attended by the Lord Chancel∣lour, Lord Treasurer, Lord Privy Seal, the Dukes of Buckingham, Richmund, and Ormund; Lord Chamberlain of his Household; the Earls of Ossory, Bristoll, Berks. Portland, Strafford, Anglesey, Essex, Bathe, and Carlisse; the Lords Wentworth, Cornbury, De la Warre, Gerard of Brandon, Berkley of Stratton, and Cornwallis; the Comptroller and Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesties Household, Sir Will. Morice one of his Principal Secre∣taries of State: The Earl of Mid∣dleton Lord Commissioner of Scotland; the Earl of Glencarne, Lord Chancellour of Scotland; the Earls of Lauderdale and New∣burgh, and other the Commissioners of that Kingdome; with the Earl of Kildare and other Commissioners of Ireland.

At the Staires where his Majesty landed, stood to receive him, the Reader; and the Lord Chief Iustice of the Common Pleas, in his Scarlet robe and Collar of SS.

On each side, as his Majesty passed, stood the Readers Servants in Scarlet Cloaks and white Tabba Doublets; there being a way made through the Wall into the Temple Garden: and above them on each side the Bench∣ers; Baristers, and other Gentlemen of the Society, all in their Gowns and formalities, the loud Musick playing from the time of his landing till he entred the Hall; where he was re∣ceived with xx. Violins, which continued as long as his Majesty stayed.

D••nner was brought up by fifty select Gentlemen of the Society in their Gowns, who gave their atten∣dance all Dinner while, none other appearing in the Hall but themselves; the King and the Duke of Yorke sitting under a Canopy of State at a Table set at the upper end of the Hall, advanced three steps above the rest. The Lord Chancellour with the rest of the Noblemen sitting at a long Table on the right side of the Hall; and the Reader with those of the Society on the other side.

On the 3••••. of November following, to the farther honour of this Society, his Royal Highness the Duke of Yorke, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Dorset, and Sir William Morrice K••ight one of his Majesties principal Secretaries of state, were admitted of this House; the Duke of Yorke being then called to the Barr and Bench.

And on the 4th. of November 14 Car. 2^••. his highness Rupert Prince Palatine, Thomas Earl of Cleveland Iofcelyn Lord Percy, Iohn Lord Berklye of Stratton with Henry and Ber∣nard Howard of Norfolke were ad∣mitted of this Society.