WRAYNHAM. CCXXXV 



hath of himself commanded me this day to set forth and 

 manifest his fault unto your lordships, that so he might 

 receive deserved punishment. In this pamphlet Mr. Wrayn- 

 ham saith, he had two decrees in the first Lord Chancellor s 

 time, and yet are both cancelled by this Lord Chancellor 

 in a preposterous manner : without cause ; without matter ; 

 without any legal proceedings ; without precedent, upon 

 the party s bare suggestions, and without calling Mr. 

 Wraynham to answer: to reward Fisher s fraud and per 

 juries; to palliate his unjust proceedings; and to confound 

 Wraynham s estate : and that my lord was therein led by 

 the rule of his own fancy. But he stayeth not here. 

 Not content to scandalize the living, he vilifies the dead, 

 the Master of the Rolls, a man of great understanding, 

 great pains, great experience, great dexterity, and of great 

 integrity ; yet, because he followed not this man s humour 

 in the report thereof, he brands him with aspersions.&quot; 



And Mr. Serjeant Crowe, who was also counsel for the 

 prosecution, said, &quot; Mr. Wraynham, thus to traduce my 

 lord, is a foul offence ; you cannot traduce him of corrup 

 tion, for thanks be to God, he hath always despised 

 riches, and set honour and justice before his eyes. My 

 lords, I was of counsel with Fisher, and I knew the merits 

 of the cause, for my Lord Chancellor seeing what recom 

 pense Fisher ought in justice to have received, and finding 

 a disability in Wraynham to perform it, was enforced to 

 take the land from Wraynham to give it to Fisher, which 

 is hardly of value to satisfy Fisher s true debt and 

 damages/ 



Wraynham was convicted by the unanimous opinion 

 of the court ;() and the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 



(a) Consisting of Sir Edward Coke, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 

 the Lord Chancellor Bacon, the Lord Chief Justices of the King s Bench, 



