=53=: 2. =Inner Temple.= The Inns of Court are legal societies in London which have the exclusive right of admitting candidates to the bar, and provide instruction and examinations for that purpose. There are four of these Inns of Court,--Lincoln's Inn, Gray's Inn, the Middle Temple, and the Inner Temple. The last two derive their names from the fact that they occupy buildings and gardens on the site formerly belonging to the military order of Knights Templar, which was dissolved in the fourteenth century. The famous Temple Church is the only one of the buildings of the great Knights Templar establishment that now remains. We hear but little of the Templar in the following papers; Steele did not find the character as interesting as it might have been expected he would. =53=: 8. =Aristotle= (384-322 B.C.), the greatest of Greek philosophers in his influence upon later thought, was also perhaps the greatest, as he was the first, of literary critics. The Templar probably cared quite as much for Aristotle's _Rhetoric_ and _Poetics_ as for his philosophical works. =53=: 9. =Longinus= (210-273) was the author of a treatise _On the Sublime_, more admired two centuries ago than it is to-day. =53=: 9. =Littleton.= Sir Thomas Littleton (1402-1481), a noted English jurist, author of a famous work in French on _Tenures_. =53=: 10. =Coke.= _The Institutes of Sir Edward Coke_ (1552-1634), a reprint and translation of Littleton's book, with copious comment,--hence popularly known as _Coke on Littleton_,--are a great authority upon the law of real property. =53=: 17. =Tully.= Marcus Tullius Cicero. =53=: 29. =Exactly at five.= In the Queen Anne days the play began at six, or often as early as five. The Templar is going to the Drury Lane Theatre. He passes New Inn, which was one of the buildings of the Middle Temple, crosses the Strand, and through Russell Court reaches Will's Coffee-house, where he looks in for coffee and the news, and he has his shoes rubbed and his wig powdered at the barber's by the Rose Tavern, which stood just beside the theatre. =54=: 6. =Sir Andrew Freeport.= Steele's Whig sympathies may be seen in this picture of the intelligent and enterprising merchant. The trading classes of England belonged then almost entirely to the Whig party; the landed aristocracy, on the other hand, country squire and country parson, were almost always Tories. See note on p. 242. =54=: 22. =A penny got.= This would seem to be the source of Franklin's Poor Richard's maxim, "A penny saved is a penny earned." =57=: 6. =Hoods.= The hood was an important article of woman's attire at this time. See Addison's delightful paper, _Spectator_, No. 265.