"In the round walk (which is the west part without the quire) there remain monuments of noblemen there buried, to the number of eleven. _Eight_ of them are images of armed knights; _five_ lying cross-legged, as men vowed to the Holy Land against the infidels and unbelieving Jews, the other three straight-legged. The rest are coped stones, all of gray marble."[481] A manuscript history of the Temple in the Inner Temple library, written at the commencement of the reign of Charles the First, tells us that "the crossed-legged images or portraitures remain in carved stone in _the middle of the round walke, environed with barres of iron_."[482] And Dugdale, in his Origines Juridiciales, published 1666, thus describes them: "Within a spacious _grate of iron in the midst of the round walk_ under the steeple, do lye _eight_ statues in military habits, each of them having large and deep shields on their left armes, of which _five_ are cross-legged. There are also three other gravestones lying about five inches above the level of the ground, on one of which is a large escocheon, with a lion rampant graven thereon."[483] Such is the ancient account of these monuments; now, however, _six_ instead of five cross-legged statues are to be seen, making _nine_ armed knights, whilst only _one_ coped gravestone remains. The effigies are no longer inclosed "within a spacious grate of iron," but are divided into two groups environed by iron railings, and are placed on either side of the entrance to the oblong portion of the church. Whatever change was made in their original position appears to have been effected at the time that the church was so shamefully disfigured by the Protestant lawyers, either in the year 1682, when it was "thoroughly repaired," or in 1695, when "the ornamental screen was set up in it;" inasmuch, as we are informed by a newspaper, called the Flying Post, of the date of the 2nd of January, 1696, that Roger Gillingham, Esq., treasurer of the Middle Temple, who died on the 29th of December, 1695, æt. seventy, had the credit of facing the Temple Church with New Portland stone, and of "_marshalling the Knights Templars in uniform order_."[484] Stow tells us that "the first of the crossed-legged was William Marshall, the elder, earl of Pembroke," but the effigy of that nobleman now stands the second; the additional figure appears to have been placed the first, and seems to have been brought from the western doorway and laid by the side of the others.