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 178 NOTES AND QUERIES, [w* s. iv. AUG. 26. 1005. died, now many years ago, at a house at the corner of the Peckhara Road and Lyndhurst Road, recently demolished to give place to flats. Her daughter was the wife of the late Rev. Daniel Moore, M.A., from 1844 to 18G6 the incumbent of Camden Church, Camber- well, and afterwards vicar of Holy Trinity, Paddington. If ME. UTTON would like to see this book I shall be pleased to hear from him. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. Westminster. LTJLACH, KING OF SCOTLAND (10th S. iii. 490).—Lulach, King of Scotland, was son of Oilcomgain, Maormor of Moray, and Gruoch (daughter of Bodhe or Boede, son of Ken- neth IV.). who married for her second husband Mac-Beth, the Maormor of Ross, afterwards King of Scotland, 1039 - 56. Lulach reigned from 5 December, 1056, to 3 April, 1057, when he was slain at Essie, in Strathbogie, and was buried with Macbeth in lona. He left a daughter who had a son Angus, who was chief of Moray, and was slain in 1130. I cannot find any information respecting the clan MacLulich or MacLulach. JOHN RADCLIFFE. NOTES ON BOOKS, Ac. Middle Temple Record*. Edited by Charles Henry Hopwood, K.C. 4 vols., whereof one Index. (Butterworth &Co.) IT is gratifying to find the Records of the Inns of Court being placed gradually beyond the reach of destruction and rendered accessible to those best qualified to profit by their contents. What our regretted friend F. A. Inderwick did for the Inner Temple Records has been begun for the Middle Temple on the initiative of Charles Henry Hopwood, K.C., the Treasurer of the Inn 1895-6. Unfortunately, as is too often the case with men of ripening years, Mr. Hopwood has not lived to see the accomplishment of the projected labour. The portion now given to the world consists of the Minutes of Parliament of the Middle Temple, translated and edited by Mr. C. Trice Martin, B.A., with an inquiry into the origin and early history of the Inn by Mr. John Hutchinson, the librarian. Parliament is a term which has long been applied to the consultative assembly of the members of each of the two Temples. The minutes contained in various books lettered A, D, C, B, and K, following in the order given, cover the period between 16 Henry VII., 7 July, 1501, and 'X Nov., 1703, when the publication is suspended. An index of persons and places mentioned constitutes, as has been indicated, a fourth volume. The opening minute in the Records shows that others of an earlier date, though no longer accessible, must have existed, since in chronicling (7 July, 1501) the election as treasurer of John Brooke it narrates how after- wards, in the Quinxaine of St. Michael the Arch- angel then next following, William Bollyng, the last treasurer, delivered to the same John the Book of the Constitution of the same place, with the rolls (the italics are ours). The loss of these is, of course, greatly to be deplored. As those of the Inner Temple have also disappeared, Mr. Hutch- inson, in his introductory chapter, is disposed to ascribe their loss to some disaster within the Temple, in the way of fire or otherwise, left un- recorded. Fires in the Temple were numerous, and in one or other of these the records- may easily have perished. The theory accepted by Mr. Inderwick that the documents may have perished during the rebellion of Wat Tyler, who, according to Thomas of Walaingham, destroyed "plurima munimenta quse juridici in custodia habuerunt," still, as Mr. Hntchinson points out, leaves blank a period of one hundred and twenty years. In the nature of the matters discussed at the successive parliaments the records of the two- Temples—consisting of the appointment of readers, the infliction of what are technically called tines, the suppression of irregularities and disorders, and the like — are similar. As regards their commencement the records of the Middle and Inner Temples are virtually coeval, dating from the beginning of the sixteenth century, while those of Lincoln's Inn go back to 1422. Sump- tuary edicts are alike quaint, the penalties for wearing beards of more than a certain growth bringing a iine heavy for the period. At a parlia- ment holden 25 June, 3> & 4 Philip le. Mary, it is decided, among other things, that none of the Com- panies of the four Houses of Court, except Knights or Benchers, shall wear in their doublets or hose any light colours except scarlet and crimson, or wear any upper velvet cap, or any scarf or wing in their gowns. For the first breach of this edict the penalty is 3s. 4</., for the second expulsion. "On like pain" none of the Companies of the said Houses shall wear their study gowns into the City any further than Flete Brydge, Holborne Brydge, or Savoy. None born in Ireland should be ad- mitted fellow, a rule which at special solicitation was sometimes put on one side. Enactment*against the admission of "common attorneys" of course occur. No hawk may be kept within the Inn. Without the assent of the Masters of the Bench no " lord of Mysrule " shall be set up by the gentle- men of the Inn except " at a Grand Cristmns."' A rather enigmatical entry appears 2 June, 10 Kliz., where leave is given to Mr. John Popharo, the Reader, "to bring in thirty bucks during his read- ing." A like privilege is accorded other readers. In 1583 appears, "There shall be no reading this Autumn on account of the plagne, which is scattered about in every part of the city and chiefly in our House." In the Parliament helrl 24 Jan., 1639, we find that " Notwithstanding the publication of the order of 22 Nov. for breaking up at Christmas and locking the hall door, divers gentlemen of the Society, with their swords drawn in a contemptuous and riotous manner, assembled on St. Thomas' eve in the even- ing and broke open by violence the doors of the Hall, buttery, and kitchen, and set up commom and play in the Hall contrary to order." For this, naturally, penalties were exacted. The most startling entrv we find is that in regard to the Parliament holden 17 June, 1642. We then read how " A bastard child was brought into the House and laid at the chamber door of Mr. Richard Dewes, charged to be father thereof, and to have begotten