Interior of the old Inner Temple Hall.
Facsimile of passage in Manningham’s Diary, referring to Twelfth Night.
The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple cover the site formerly occupied by the Knights Templars. After their suppression in 1312, the Temple Church and the surrounding buildings passed into the possession of the Crown. Thirty years later the Hospitallers, or Knights of St. John, were the owners, who eventually leased the ground and buildings to the lawyers, who have remained in possession ever since.
¶ The Tragidie of Ferrex
and Porrex,
set forth without addition or alteration
but altogether as the same was shewed
on stage before the Queenes Maiestie,
about nine yeares past, vz. the
xviij. day of Ianuarie. 1561.
by the gentlemen of the
Inner Temple.
Seen and allowed. ce.
❧ Imprinted at London by
Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer
Aldersgate.
