The Organ, frequently reconstructed and finally renewed by Forster and Andrews, 1882, has been famous for generations. It was originally built by Bernard Schmidt. Dr. Blow and Purcell, his pupil, played upon it in competition with that built by Harris. The decision of this Battle of the Organs was referred to the famous, or infamous, Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys, who was a good musician, and in this matter, at least, seems to have proved himself a good Judge. The _Triforium_[25] is reached by a small Norman door in the North-West corner of the oblong. A winding staircase leads to the Penitential Cell--4 feet long, by 2 feet 6 inches wide--where many of the Knights were confined. To the Triforium many tablets and monuments (_e.g._, of Plowden), once in the Church below, have been removed. Among the epitaphs in brass, quoted at length by Dugdale, is one in memory of John White: ‘Here lieth a John, a burning, shining light; His name, life, actions, were all White.’ The Templars’ Church was equally divided between the two Societies of Lawyers from ‘East to West, the North Aisle to the Middle, the South [Illustration: THE EAST END OF THE TEMPLE CHURCH AND THE MASTER’S HOUSE] to the Inner Temple.’ This fact, with many others, clearly indicates the basis of perfect equality upon which the two Societies were agreed to stand, and on which, in spite of subsequent claims to precedence on the part of both, declared groundless by judicial authority, they will henceforth continue. As to the Round, it appears to have been used by both Societies in common, largely as a place of business, like the Parvis of St. Paul’s, where lawyers congregated, and contracts were concluded. Butler refers to this custom in his ‘Hudibras’: ‘Walk the Round with Knights o’ the Posts About the cross-legged Knights, their hosts, Or wait for customers between The pillar rows in Lincoln’s Inn.’ BUTLER: _Hudibras_. Joint property of the two Societies, also, is that exquisite example of Georgian domestic architecture, the Master’s House (1764). This perfect model of a Gentleman’s Town-House owes its great charm almost entirely to its beautiful proportions, and to the appropriate material of good red brick and stone of which it is built. It is a thousand pities that blue slates have been allowed to supplant the good red tiles that should form the roof. The House itself is the successor of one which was erected (1700) after the Great Fire.[26] The original Lodge is said to have been upon the site of the present Garden, directly in line with the east end of the Church. In the vaults beneath this Garden many Benchers of both Inns have been laid to rest. In this Lodge, then, dwells the Master of the Temple Church.