Admitted 6 February 1593-4.
Son and heir of John Savile (q.v.). In 1600 he accompanied Sir Henry Nevill on his embassy to France, and was knighted at the coronation of James I., and created a Baronet 29 June, 1611. He represented Aldborough, and subsequently Yorkshire in Parliament, and was a Vice-President of the Council of the North. He died 23 June, 1632.
Admitted 14 February, 1564-5.
Eldest son of Henry Savile of Bradley, Yorkshire (and brother of the learned Henry Savile, the founder of the Savilian Professorships at Oxford. He was born in 1545. In 1586 he filled the office of Reader at the Inn. He became Serjeant-at-Law in 1594, and was raised to the Bench of the Exchequer in 1598. He was knighted by James I. in 1603. He was a friend of Camden, and one of the first members of the Society of Antiquaries. He died 2 Feb. 1607.
He was the author of Savile's Reports, which were published with the following title: Les Reports de Divers Cases, en le temps de Royne Elizabeth, Folio, London (1675). His name appears in the Records as one of the signatories of the memorandum recording the welcome of Sir Francis Drake (q.v.) to the Inn 4 Aug. 1586.
Admitted 15 August, 1622.
Second son of William Say of Slinfold, Sussex. He was educated at Oxford, where he graduated 1623. He was admitted the same day as his elder brother Edward, and was called to the Bar 24 June, 1631, and elected a Bencher of the Inn 5 May, 1654. He entered the Long Parliament for Camelford in 1647, and was a strong parliamentarian, and one of the High Court appointed to try the king, and whose signature appears in the death warrant. In 1650 he became a member of Council of State, and once acted as Speaker of the House of Commons during the absence of Lenthall. On the Restoration he escaped to the Continent, where he died in or soon after 1665.
Admitted 21 February, 1664-5.
Natural son of Charles II., born at Rotterdam 9 April, 1649. The record of his admission in the Register rims: "Illustrissimus nobillissimus Jacobus Dux Monmuthiæ Comes Doncastriæ Baro Tindalliæ admissus in Societatem Medii Templi specialiter ex assensu Magistri Joannis Turner modo lectoris et aliorum." At this time he was not quite fourteen years of age, and was then under the protection of Lady Castlemaine, having been acknowledged at Court as a prince of the blood. In the year previous he had been made a Knight of the Garter, and had received honorary degrees from both Universities. He was accompanied to the Temple by the Duke of Buckingham (q.v.), who was admitted the same day. The events of his life and the circumstances of his defeat at Sedgemoor in 1685 and his death form part of the history of the country, and need not be repeated here.
