The Library of the Middle Temple.

ugliness. Let us be just to the Canon Law. If it gave us casuistry and the inquisitor, it gave us also equity and ameliorations of the Common Law; for no one can read its sen tences without seeing that here is the true

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Anatomized," "A Pair of Spectacles for those who Read Baxter," "Run from Rome," "A Currycomb for a Coxcomb," " The Dole ful Knell of Thomas Bell" (a Protestant), etc., etc. But in the matter of manuscripts

THE TEMPLE CHURCH. source of our equity doctrines, introduced and administered by ecclesiastical chancel lors. Of tracts, miscellanei libelli (vulgo Anglicc Pamphlets nuncupati), there is a most varied and interesting assortment : "The Compleat Woman," "The False Jew," "The Army

the library cannot be said to be rich. The most valuable possession it can boast in this way are the " Notes of Cases," by Lord Nottingham; a twenty-four folio volume of "Pleadings at Common Law," by Godfrey Sykes, a pleader of some fame in his time; "Law Cases of the Time of Elizabeth," and