_The New Temple._--As your correspondent L.B.L. states (Vol. ii., p.
75.) that he has transcribed a MS. survey of the Hospitallers' lands in
England, taken in 1338, he will do me a great kindness if he will
extract so much of it as contains a description of the New Temple in
London, of which they became possessed just before that date. It will
probably state whether it was then in the occupation of themselves or
others: and, even if it does not throw any light on the tradition that
the lawyers were then established there, or explain the division into
the Inner and Middle Temple, it will at least give some idea of the
boundaries, and perhaps determine whether the site of Essex House,
which, in an ancient record is called the Outer Temple, was then
comprehended within them.