whilst the attendants at table continued to be, and are still called _paniers_, as in the days of the Knights Templars.[182] In the sixth year of the reign of Edward III., (A. D. 1333,) a few years after the lawyers had established themselves in the convent of the Temple, the judges of the Court of Common Pleas were made KNIGHTS,[183] being the earliest instance on record of the grant of the honour of knighthood for services purely civil, and the professors of the common law, who had the exclusive privilege of practising in that court, assumed the title or degree of FRERES SERJENS or FRATRES SERVIENTES, so that an order of knights and serving-brethren was most curiously revived in the Temple, and introduced into the profession of the law. It is true that the word _serviens_, _serjen_, or serjeant, was applied to the professors of the law long before the reign of Edward III., but not to denote a _privileged brotherhood_. It was applied to lawyers in common with all persons who did any description of work for another, from the _serviens domini regis ad legem_, who prosecuted the pleas of the crown in the county court, to the _serviens_ or _serjen_ who walked with his cane before the concubine of the patriarch Heraclius in the streets of Jerusalem. The priest who worked for the Lord was called _serjen de Dieu_, and the lover who served the lady of his affections _serjen d’amour_. It was in the order of the Temple that the word _freres_ serjens or _fratres_ servientes first signified an honorary title or degree, and denoted a powerful privileged class of brethren. The _fratres servientes armigeri_ or _freres serjens des armes_, of the chivalry of the Temple, were of the rank of gentlemen. They united in their own persons the monastic and the military character, they were allotted one horse each, they wore the cross of the order of the Temple on their breasts, they participated in all the privileges of the brotherhood, and were eligible to the dignity of Preceptor. Large sums of money were frequently given by seculars who had not been advanced to the honour of knighthood, to be admitted amongst this highly esteemed order of men. These _freres serjens_ of the Temple wore linen _coifs_, and red caps close over them.[184] At the ceremony of their admission into the fraternity, the Master of the Temple placed the coif upon their heads, and threw over their shoulders the white mantle of the Temple; he then caused them to sit down on the ground, and gave them a solemn admonition concerning the duties and responsibilities of their profession. The knights and Serjeants of the common law, on the other hand, have ever constituted a privileged _fraternity_, and always address one another by the endearing term _brother_. The religious character of the ancient ceremony of admission into this legal brotherhood, which took place in the Temple Church, and its striking similarity to the ancient mode of reception into the fraternity of the