gentlemen pentioners to furnish the same. At another table, on the other side, were set the maister of the game, and his chiefe ranger, maisters of household, clerkes of the greene eloth and cheeke, with diners other strangers to furnish the same. On the other side, agaiusto them, began the table of the lieutenant of the Tower, accompanied with diuers captaines of footbandes and shot. At the neather ende of the ball, began the table of the high butler and panter, clerkes of the kitchen, maister eooke of the priue kitchen, furnished throughout with the souldiours and guard of the prince ... . " The prince was serued with tender meates, sweet fruités, and daintie délicates, confectioned with curious cookerie, as it seemed woonder a word to serue the prouision. And at euerie course, the trompettes blew the courageous blaste of deadlye warre, with noise of drum and fyfe, with the sweet harmony of viollens, shakbuts, recorders, and cornettes, with other instruments of musicke, as it seemed Apolloe's harpe had tewned their stroke." After dinner, prizes were prepared for " tilt and turney, and such knighteley pastime, and for their solace they masked with bewtie's dames with such heauenly armonie as if Apollo and Orpheus had shewed their cunning."* Masques, revels, plays, and eating and drinking, seem to have been as much attended to in the Temple in those days as the grave study of the law. Sir Christopher Πα t ton, a member of the Inner Temple, gained the favour of Queen Elizabeth, for his grace and activity in a masque which was acted before her majesty. H e was made vice-chamberlain, and afterwards lord chancellor !f la A. » . 1668, the tragedy of Tancred and Gismund, the joint production of five students of the Inner Temple, was acted at the Temple before queen Elizabeth and her court.J • Leigh's Arnione,ftp]. 119. ed. 1576. t Xaunttm's Fragmenta RegniiV, p. 24S. t Ckatmer** Diet. Biogrnph., vol. Jcvii. p. 227.