Tor-Mohun.
_Green Pots used for drinking from by Members of the Temple_ (Vol. viii.,
p. 171.).--The green pots mentioned in Sir Julius Cæsar's letter had been
introduced into the Inner Temple about thirty years before its date. This
appears from the following passage in Dugdale's _Origines Juridiciales_
(1680), p. 148., where he refers to the register of that Society, fol.
127 _a._:
"Untill the second year of Q. Eliz. reign, this Society did
use to drink in Cups of Ashen-Wood (such as are still used in
the King's Court), but then those were laid aside, and green
earthen pots introduced, which have ever since continued."
When were these green pots discontinued? Paper Buildings were erected
nearly fifty years before Dugdale's time. The new part built in 1849 was
on the south of these, which may, perhaps, have been the site of the
dust-hole of the Society, and thus become the depositary of the broken
pots mentioned by B.