In her examination of the seven translations penned by Robert Ashley from the 1580s to the 1630s, Satterley brings to light some of the ideas and attitudes of the man whose collection began Middle Temple Library. The chapter explores the intellectual impact of conviviality and community in the inns, and innsmen’s development of each other’s ideas. Her examination of the paratexts around his translations shows Ashley’s interest in the link between the inns and power, particularly as expressed through patronage networks and advice giving. Though translating classical and more contemporary texts at the inns was a long-standing tradition, Ashley was quite unusual in continuing his work into the seventeenth century and his later translations such as Almansor and Cochn-China reveal much about how travel and attitudes to ‘otherness’ have shifted by this point.