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shaven upon pain of putting out of com mons." Again, in the first year of Elizabeth another order appeared " that no fellow should wear any beard above a fortnight's growth." But the fashion at that time of wearing beards grew so rapidly that the very next year, at a council held in Lincoln's Inn, it was agreed that all orders before that time touching beards should be repealed. The chief butler had orders to take the names and inform the benchers of those who

wards one of the gentlemen was called on to give the judges a song. But that other kinds of play were not neglected appears from an order issued on the 7th of Novem ber in the fourth year of Charles I. Herein it was ordered that "all playing at dice, cards, or otherwise, in the hall, buttery, or butler's chamber should be thenceforth barred, and forbidden at all times of the year, the twenty daies in Christmas only excepted." At the present day a student, if he be

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offended in the matter of hats, boots, long hair, and the like, -' for which he is com monly out of the young gentlemen's favor." A delinquent was punished by fine or by "putting him forth of commons; which is," explains the chronicler, " that he shall take no meate nor drynke among the fellow ship until the elders list to revoke their judgment." The masques and revels held in the halls of the Inns were often most magnificent entertainments. Stage plays were some times performed; and at other times the barristers danced with each other, and after-

duly qualified in legal knowledge, may ob tain his call to the bar after keeping twelve terms. Students who are at the same time members of one of the universities in the United Kingdom "keep term " by dining in hall three times during term; other stu dents must dine six times every term. The ceremony of " call " varies slightly at the different Inns. The student dines in hall that night. At the Inner and Middle Tem ples he must appear in evening dress; at the latter he must also be fully robed as a barrister, in wig, gown, and bands. The men called sign the roll, and the senior