"Capitalis Justitiarius," says an antient MS. account of the creation of serjeants-at-law in the reign of Henry the Seventh, "monstrabat eis plura bona exempla de eorum prædecessoribus, et tunc posuit les _coyfes_[585] super eorum capitibus, et induebat eos singulariter de capital de skarletto, et sic creati fuerunt _servientes ad legem_." In his admonitory exhortation, the chief justice displays to them the moral and religious duties of their profession. "Ambulate in vocatione in quâ vocati estis.... Disce cultum Dei, _reverentiam superioris(!), misericordiam pauperi_." He tells them the coif is sicut vestis _candida_ et immaculata, the emblem of purity and virtue, and he commences a portion of his discourse in the scriptural language used by the popes in the famous bull conceding to the Templars their vast spiritual and temporal privileges, "_Omne datum optimum et omne donum perfectum desursum est descendens a patre luminum, &c. &c._!"[586] The _freres serjens_ of the Temple were strictly enjoined to "eat their bread in silence," and "place a watch upon their mouths," and the _freres serjens_ of the law, we are told, after their admission, did "dyne together with sober countenance and lytel communycacion." The common-law lawyers, after their location in the Temple, continued rapidly to increase, and between the reigns of Richard the Second and Henry the Sixth, they divided themselves into two bodies. "In the raigne of king Henry the Sixth," says the MS. account of the Temple, written 9 Charles the First, "they were soe multiplied and grown into soe great a bulke as could not conveniently be regulated into one society, nor indeed was the old hall capable of containing so great a number, whereupon they were forced to divide themselves. A new hall was then erected which is now the Junior Temple Hall, whereunto divers of those who before took their repast and diet in the old hall resorted, and in process of time became a distinct and divided society." From the inquisition taken 10. E. III. A. D. 1337, it appears that in the time of the Knights Templars there were _two halls_ in the Temple, so that it is not likely that a fresh one was built. One of these halls, the present Inner Temple Hall, had been assigned, the year previous to the taking of that inquisition, to the prior and brethren of the Hospital of Saint John, together with the church, cloisters, &c., as before mentioned, whilst the other hall remained in the hands of the crown, and was not granted to the Hospitallers until 13 E. III. A. D. 1340. It was probably soon after this period that the Hospitallers conceded the use of _both halls_ to the professors of the law, and these last, from dining apart and being attached to different halls, at last separated into two societies, as at present.