Abbeys of St. Augustine, at Canterbury, St. Alban's,
and other monasteries." The monks became printers instead of scribes;
but they would not ordinarily convert their churches or chapels into
printing-houses. The workmen, it is true, term the meetings held for
consultation on their common interests or pleasures, their _chapels_;
and whether this may have arisen from any particular instance in which a
chapel was converted into a printing-house, I cannot say. In order to
ascertain the origin of this term these Queries may be proposed:--Is it
peculiar to printers and to this country? Or is it used also in other
trades and on the Continent?

John Gough Nichols.

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THE NEW TEMPLE.

Although I am unable to give a satisfactory reply to Mr. Foss's
inquiries, such information as I have is freely at his service. It may,
at all events, serve as a finger-post to the road.

My survey gives a most minute extent, of 35 preceptories, 23 "camerae" of
the Hospitallers, 13 preceptories formerly commandries of the Templars,
74 limbs, and 70 granges, impropriations, &c., and, among them all, not
a single one of the valuation of the New Temple itself. _Reprises_ of
that establishment are entered, but no _receipts_.

The former are as follows:

"In emendationem et sustentationem ecclesie Novi Templi, London,
et in vino, cera, et oleo, et ornamentis ejusdem ... x m.

"In uno fratri [_sic_] Capellano et octo Capellanis secularibus,
deservientibus ecclesiam quondam Templariorum apud London,
vocatam Novum Templum, prout ordinatum est per totum consilium
totius regni, pro animabus fundatorum dicti Novi Templi et alia
[_sic_] possessionum alibi ... lv m.

"Videlicet, frati Capellano, pro se et ecclesia, xv m., et
cuilibet Capellano, v m., ubi solebant esse, tempore
Templariorum, unus Prior ecclesie et xij Capellani seculares.

"Item in diversis pensionibus solvendis diversis personis per
annum, tam in Curia domini Regis, quam Justiciariis Clericis,
Officiariis, et aliis ministris, in diversis Curiis suis, ac
etiam aliis familiaribus magnatum, tam pro terris tenementis,
redditibus, et libertatibus hospitalis, quam Templariorum, et
maxime pro terris Templariorum manutenendis, videlicet,
Baronibus in Scaccario domini Regis Domino Roberto de Sadyngton,
militi, Capitali baroni de Scaccario, xl." &c. &c.{124}

enumerating pensions