. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. ed to the bar,before he had been examined as to his learning and abilities bythe whole body of benchers, and had performed various grand andpetty mootings ; but now these ceremonies are dispensed with,and any student who has attended commons for a stated number ofterms in the course of five years, is entitled to demand a call to thebar. The benchers, however, still retain the power of refusingthe call to any student, against whom they may conceive a prejudice,and in some instances are supposed to have exercise
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. ed to the bar,before he had been examined as to his learning and abilities bythe whole body of benchers, and had performed various grand andpetty mootings ; but now these ceremonies are dispensed with,and any student who has attended commons for a stated number ofterms in the course of five years, is entitled to demand a call to thebar. The benchers, however, still retain the power of refusingthe call to any student, against whom they may conceive a prejudice,and in some instances are supposed to have exercised this rightrather invidiously. At commons, there are three degrees of tables,one for the benchers, a second for barristers, and a third for stu-dents. Formerly they cut their meat on slices of bread, and drankout of wooden trenchers and green earthen jugs. Members of these societies, though required to attend at com-mons, need not be resident; and many of those by whom thechambers are occupied are solicitors and private gentlemen, whohave no connection with either of the St. Mary^s Church. The early history of this venerable fabric is enveloped in obscu-rity. Weever in his Funeral Monuments, on the credit, as hestates, of British story, refers to a tradition of the Temple havingbeen one of those originally founded by Dunwallo Mulmsitius, asa place of refuge and sanctuary for thieves and other offenders,about the year of the world 4748; and Dunwallo himself, withother British kings, is reported to have been buried here. This,however, is only traditional; the authentic history of the church canbe traced to as early a period as 1185, in which year it was dedi-cated in honour of the blessed Virgin, by Heraclius, patriarch ofJerusalem ; who, at the above time, was entertained by the knightstemplars, whilst on a mission from pope Lucius IIL to Henry orderto invite that monarch to ascend the throne of Jerusalem. This edifice narrowly escaped destruction in the great fir
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