INNS OF COURT 267 
Paper Buildings in 1610, the Great Garden was cut in 
two, and the eastern portion went to form the broad 
stretch with its trees known as Kings Bench Walk. 
Elm trees were planted, and the walks and seats under 
them repaired from time to time, and kept in good 
order. The part to the west was carefully tended, and 
became from that year the chief garden. In James Ids 
reign, that age of gardening, when every house of any 
pretensions was having its garden enlarged, and Bacon 
was laying out the grounds of Gray’s Inn, the Temple 
was not behind-hand. The accounts show constant 
repairs and additions and buying of trees. The items 
for painting posts and rails are very frequent. Pro¬ 
bably they do not always refer to outer palings, but it 
may be that the Tudor fashion of railing round the 
beds, with a low trellis and posts at the angles, still 
prevailed. One of the largest items of the expenses 
was for making 44 the pound’’ in 1618. This, it is 
said, was a pond, but no record of digging it out, or 
filling it with water occurs, while all the payments 
in connection with it went to painters or carpenters, 
and therefore it was more probably a kind of garden- 
house, much in favour at that time, made by the wall, 
to command a view over the river. The chief items 
with regard to it are 
“1618. To John Fielde, the carpenter, for making 
4 the pound ’ in the garden, £19.” 
“ To Bowden, the painter, for stopping and 4 refresh¬ 
ing ’ the rails in the 4 wakes ’ (walks), the posts, seats 
and balusters belonging to the same, and for stopping 
and finishing the 4 pound’ by the waterside, £g f xos.” 
Again in 1639 the entry certainly implies some kind 
of summer-house and not “ a pond ” : 14 Edward Simmes, 
