said of _The Middle Temple Records, with Index and Calendar_, edited by C. Hopwood, K.C. (died 1904), Master of the Bench of that society. To these must be added _A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars_, by Mr. John Hutchinson, and a privately printed list of _Masters of the Bench of the Inner Temple_ from 1450 to 1883, with _Supplement_ to 1900. Judge Baylis, K.C., Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple, has given much valuable information in his well-known work on the Temple Church, which has gone through several editions. More recently, Mr. H. Bellot, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, has aimed at recording the legal, literary, and historic associations of the Inner and Middle Temple, and in a Bibliography appended to his book gives some idea of the immense mass of material which has accumulated round the history of the Temple. May "the two Learned and Honourable Societies of this House"--as they are designated in the Bidding Prayer used every Sunday in the Temple Church--long continue to be the home, not merely of professional learning, but of general culture. FOOTNOTES: [73] The Outer, or "outward," Temple passed into private ownership at an early date. [74] A Knight of the (whipping) Post was a cant name for a disreputable person, who would be willing to give false evidence. HOLBORN AND THE INNS OF COURT AND CHANCERY BY E. WILLIAMS Just as Holland denotes the hollow land, so Holborn, or Holeburn, implies the hollow bourne--the bourne or river in the hollow. This once forcible little stream descended four hundred feet in a journey of six miles, taking its rise in Ken Wood, the beautifully timbered estate of the Earls of Mansfield at Highgate. After passing through several ponds, skirting the existing Millfield Lane, it crossed the foot of West Hill and continued its course through what is now known as the Brookfield Stud Farm, till, somewhat to the north of Prince of Wales' Road at Kentish Town, it encountered another stream of almost equal rapidity, the birthplace of which was in the Happy Valley at Hampstead. The united current then rolled on through Camden Town and St. Pancras towards Battle Bridge at King's Cross, from whence it flowed through Packington Street, under Rosebery Avenue, into Farringdon Street, creating steep banks on its flanks, which still remain the measure and evidence of its ancient energy; until, finally, it debouched into that tidal estuary from the Thames mediaevally known as the Fleet. Holborn Viaduct, at a much higher altitude, now spans the hollow where once stood Holeburn Bridge, at the wharves on either side of which "boats with corn, wine, firewood, and other necessaries" would unload. But in 1598 John Stow knew of this burn only as Turnmill Brook. Now it no longer exists; the damming of its waters for the erection of mills in the Middle Ages, and its more recent absorption by the water companies, have led to its complete disappearance.