“To the Brethren of the Middle Temple, L4. in part of L8.
     appointed alms for the support of three chaplains to celebrate
     divine service, at Easter Term, in the 41st year, by writ patent.”

And in p. 88. is the following writ for payment at Easter Term, 4 Edward I. 1276:—­

“Pay out of our Treasury, from the day of the death of the Lord King Henry, our Father, of renowned memory, for each year, to our beloved Master and Brethren of the Knights Templars in England, L8. which our father granted to them by his charter to be received yearly at our Exchequer, for the support of three chaplains, daily for ever, to perform divine service in the New Temple, London, one of whom is to perform service for our aforesaid father, the other for all Christian people, and the third for the faithful deceased, as was accustomed to be done in the time of our aforesaid father.  Witness, &c.”

I presume that there can be no doubt that the grant referred to in the last extract is that which is mentioned in the first.  But if so, what is meant by “Brethren of the Middle Temple?”

Both entries are before the suppression of the order, and it was not till long after the suppression that the Temple was occupied by the lawyers as a place of study; nor till long after the establishment of lawyers there, that is to say, more than a hundred years after the date of the first extract, that the Temple was divided into two houses, called, as now, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple.  Added to which, the church of the Temple is in that division which is called the Inner Temple.

Can any of your correspondents favour me with the precise words of the original record, or explain the meaning of the term used?

EDWARD FOSS.

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MINOR QUERIES.

Henry Lord Darnley.

Can any of your readers inform me where the celebrated Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, was born?  His birth took place in England, where his father, Matthew Stuart, Earl of Lennox, was residing, being banished from Scotland.  Henry VIII. gave the Earl his niece in marriage, and several estates in Yorkshire; among others, the lands of Jervaux Abbey, and the adjacent manor of West Scrafton.  Middleham Castle, which was then perfect, and belonged to the King, lies between these, and was probably at least an occasional residence of the Earl, though we have no correct account of its occupants after the death of Richard III.

W.G.M.J.  Barker.

Banks of the Yere, Nov. 28. 1849.

Coffee, the Lacedaemonion Black Broth.

Your “notes on Coffee” in No. 2. reminded me that I had read in some modern author a happy conjecture that “coffee” was the principal ingredient of the celebrated “Lacedaemonian black broth,” but as I did not “make a note of it” at the time, and cannot recollect the writer from whom I derived this very probable idea, I may perhaps be allowed to “make a query” of his name and work.