The Society of the Inner Temple was very active (says Mr. Foss) during the reign of Henry VIII. in the erection of new buildings. Several houses for chambers were constructed near the library, and were called Pakington's Rents, from the name of the treasurer who superintended them. Henry Bradshaw, treasurer in the twenty-sixth year, gave his name to another set then built, which it kept until Chief Baron Tanfield resided there in the reign of James I., since which it has been called Tanfield Court. Other improvements were made about the same period, one of these being the construction of a new ceiling to the hall and the erection of a wall between the garden and the Thames. The attention paid by the governors of the house both to the morals and dress of its members is evidenced by the imposition, in the thirteenth year of the reign of Henry VIII., of a fine of 6s. 8d. on any one who should exercise the plays of "shove-grote" or "slyp-grote," and by the mandate afterwards issued in the thirty-eighth year of the same reign, that students should reform themselves in their cut, or disguised apparel, and should not have long beards. [Illustration: THE TEMPLE IN 1671. (FROM AN OLD BIRD'S-EYE VIEW IN THE INNER TEMPLE.)] It is in the Temple Gardens that Shakespeare--relying, probably, on some old tradition which does not exist in print--has laid one of the scenes of his _King Henry VI._--that, namely, in which the partisans of the rival houses of York and Lancaster first assume their distinctive badges of the white and red roses:-- "_Suffolk._ Within the Temple Hall we were too loud; The garden here is more convenient. * * * * * "_Plantagenet._ Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. "_Somerset._ Let him that is no coward, nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me. * * * * * "_Plantagenet._ Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? "_Somerset._ Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet? * * * * * "_Warwick._ This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction in the Temple Garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night." _King Henry VI._, Part I., Act ii., sc. 4.