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 Temple Students and Temple Studies. retayned for the plaintiff, and he argued for the defendant; soe negligent that he knowes not for whom he speakes." A similar piece of negligence is told of Dunning, afterwards Lord Ashburton. "' I was brought up as my friends were able; when manners were in the hall I was in the stable",' quoth my laundress when I told her of her saucy boldness.' " And

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"Ha! the divel goe with thee,' said the Bishop of L. to his boule — when himself ran after it." There is nothing hardly worth remembering in the whole book, and yet all is tempting to quote. Manningham's quaint affectation of shrewdness and evident desire to be up-to-date beget an affectation as hard to justify as it is to avoid. From this time onward the story of the Temple is an open book. If afterwards the societies lost the power they possessed in the time of James, there have been few

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great movements in politics or letters to which they have not contributed. Such Puritans as Ireton, Pym and Whitelocke mark one generation; Congreve and Wycherley mark the next. And with them are Somers, North, Jeffreys, Thurlow, Cowper, Yorke and Blackstone — all "behemoths" of their kind, and helping, in some degree, to make the history of their age. It is not

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necessary to say anything of the years which made them famous. It is more to the pur pose to see Whitelocke the Puritan, in 1632, spending much time and money in the pro duction of a masque for the Queen, which was presented by the Inns of Court — the author, James Shirley, once clerk in holy orders, but now set up for a play-maker and turning out five-act comedies with com mendable regularity. Or the Chancellor North, in his brother's biography, living in Elm Court, " a dismal hole," and famous as