ANTIQUITIES. 



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the first grand vacations in summer, 

 after their comyng ; and two the 

 first Christmasses, that be solemnly 

 kept, after their comyng, upon 

 peyne of forfaiturc of xxs. for every 

 dei'aut. 



Item, all they that are fellows of 

 the house, except at the time of 

 their admittance they be dispensed 

 withal 1, or for their lernyng be 

 promotyd, and made utter-baristers, 

 are compelled to exercise all such 

 roomes and offices, as tiicy shall be 

 called unto, at such time as they 

 shall kepe a solempne Christmass, 

 upon such pcynes a^i arc by old cus- 

 tomc used to be assessed for the re- 

 fusal of occupying of such offices. 



Furthermore, in the mme grand 

 vacations, when that one of the 

 elders doth rede and expound an 

 estatute, such baristers as are of 

 long continuance, do stand in a 

 place together, where as they re- 

 herse some one opinion, or saying 

 of him that readeth, and by all 

 ways of learning and reason, that 

 can be invented, do impugne his 

 opinion ; and sometimes some of 

 them do impugne it, and some other 

 do approve it, and all the rest of 

 the house give eare unto their dis- 

 ])utations ; and at last the reader 

 doth confute all their sayings, and 

 confirmeth his opynion. 



Also in the same grand vacations, 

 every day at night, except Sonday, 

 Saturday, or some feste ofix. les- 

 sons, before three of the elders or 

 benchers at the leste, is pleaded atul 

 declared in homely law-French, by 

 such as are young lerners, some 

 doubtful! matter, or questions ia 

 the law ; wliicli afterwards an utter- 

 barister doth nherse, and doth 

 argue and reason to it in the law- 

 French ; and after him an other 

 uttcr>barister duth reason in the 



contrary part in the law-French 

 also ; and then do the three benchers 

 declare their myndes in English ; 

 and tills is that they call motyng ; 

 and the same manner is observed 

 in the terme-time. 



Furthermore, besides this ; after 

 dyner and supper the students and 

 lerners in the house, sit together 

 by three and three in a company ; 

 and one of the three putteth forth 

 some doubtfull question in the law, 

 to the other tw o of his company ; 

 and they reason and argue to it ia 

 English ; and at last, he that put- 

 teth forth the question, declaryth 

 his minde, also shewing unto them 

 the judgment or better opinion of 

 his boke, where he had the same 

 question : and this do the students 

 observe every day through the yere, 

 except festival! days. 



Also after the term ended, and 

 after the two grand vacations ended, 

 then the young men that be no 

 uttcr-baristers do dispute and ar- 

 gue in lawe-Frenche, some doubt- 

 lull question before the utter-baris- 

 ters, who at the last do shew their 

 opinions, in Englysh, thereunto ; 

 and this manner of disputation is 

 called mcaiie vacation motes, or 

 chapel motes. 



Item, that the Myddil Temple 

 doth finde two readers, which are 

 utter-baristers, unto two houses of 

 chancery ; that is to say, 'Stronde- 

 Inne, and New-Inne : which read- 

 ers do reade unto them upon some 

 statute in the terme-time, and in the 

 graund vacations : and they of the 

 house of Chancery do observe the 

 manner of disputations and motyng, 

 as they do in the Temple: and their 

 readers do bring eche of them two 

 with him of the Temple, and they 

 argue unto it also. 



And besides this, ia the graund 



•vacation 



