LETTERS FROM THE CABALA. 39 



demn, the supposed last day of my lord chancellor s life) 

 there were two indictments preferred of &quot; Praemunire,&quot; for 

 suing in chancery after judgment at common law ; The one 

 by Richard Glandvile, the other by William Allen ; the 

 former against Courtney the party in chancery, Gibb the 

 counsellor, and Deurst the clerk. The latter against 

 alderman Bowles, and Humfrey Smith, parties in chancery, 

 serjeant Moore the counsellor, Elias Wood solicitor in the 

 cause, and Sir John Tyndall master of the chancery, and an 

 assessor to my lord chancellor. For the cases themselves, 

 it were too long to trouble your majesty with them ; but 

 this I will say, if they were set on that preferred them, they 

 were the worst workmen that ever were that set them on ; 

 for there could not have been chosen two such causes, to 

 the honour and advantage of the chancery, for the justness 

 of the decrees, and the foulness and scandal, both of fact 

 and person, in those that impeach the decrees. 



The grand jury, consisting (as it seemeth) of very sub 

 stantial and intelligent persons, would not find the bills, 

 notwithstanding that they were much clamoured by the 

 parties, and twice sent back by the court; and in con 

 clusion, resolutely 17 of 19 found an &quot; Ignoramus ;&quot; wherein, 

 for that time, I think &quot; Ignoramus&quot; was wiser than those 

 that knew too much. 



Your majesty will pardon me, if I be sparing in de 

 livering to you some other circumstances of aggravation, and 

 concurrences of some like matters the same day, as if it had 

 been some fatal constellation. They be not things so 

 sufficiently tried, as I dare put them into your ear. 



For my opinion, I cannot but begin with this preface, 

 that I am infinitely sorry that your majesty is thus to put 

 to salve and cure, not only accidents of time, but errors of 

 servants. For I account this a kind of sickness of my lord 

 Coke s, that comes almost in as ill a time, as the sickness 

 of my lord chancellor. And as I think it was one of the 



