Green Pots used for drinking from by Members of the Temple.—During the summer of 1849, when the new part of Paper Buildings in the Temple was being built, the workmen, in making the necessary excavations, dug up a great number of pots or cups, which are supposed to have been used for drinking from by the students. I have recently met with the following letter from Sir Julius Cæsar to Sir W. More, which may be interesting to some of your readers:
"After my hartie commendac'ons, &c. Whereas in tymes past the bearer hereof hath had out of the Parke of Farnham, belonging to the Bishopricke of Winchester, certaine white clay for the making of grene potts usually drunk in by the gentlemen of the Temple, and nowe understandinge of some restraint thereof, and that you (amongst others) are authorized there in divers respects during the vacancye of the said Bishopricke; my request, therefore, unto you is, and the rather for that I am a member of the said house, that you would in favoʳ of us all p'mytt the bearer hereof to digge and carrie away so muche of the said claye as by him shalbe thought sufficient for the furnishinge of the said house wᵗʰ grene potts aforesaid, paying as he hath heretofore for the same. In accomplishment whereof myself with the whole societie shall acknowledge oʳselves much beholden unto you, and shalbe readie to requite you at all times hereafter wᵗʰ the like pleasure. And so I bid you moste heartilie farewel.
"Inner Temple, this xixᵗʰ of August, 1591.
"To the right worshipful Sir W'm More, Knight, geve these."
This letter is printed in the Losely Manuscripts, p. 311.
B.
Bristol.
Quarles and Pascal.—In Quarles' Emblems, book i. Emblem vi., there is a passage:
"The world's a seeming paradise, but her own
And man's tormentor;
Appearing fixed, yet but a rolling stone
Without a tenter;