CCCXX1V LIFE OF BACON. 



The cry having been raised, the lowest members of the 

 profession, a common informer and a disgraced registrar, 



made for dismission, by the consent of the counsel on both sides, which my 

 lady disliking, took Churchill, the register, into her coach, carried him to 

 my Lord Chancellor s, and so wrought, that he was willed not to enter the 

 last order, so that my lady was left at liberty to prosecute it in Chancery, 

 brought it to a hearing, and at length got a decree. Keeling being 

 examined, saith, that near about the time of passing this decree, my lady 

 took 100/. he saw it, and she made him set down the words and styles 

 which she would use in the delivery of it. Then she goeth to York House, 

 and delivered it to my Lord Chancellor, as she told him. She carried it 

 in a purse ; my lord asked her what she had in her hand ? She said, a 

 purse of her own making, and presented it to him, who took it, and said, 

 what lord could refuse a purse of so fair a lady s working ! After this my 

 lord made a decree for her, but it was not perfected ; but 200/. more being 

 given (one Gardener being present), her decree had life. But after the 

 giving of the 100/. because she had not 200/. ready in money, one Shute 

 dealt with her to pass over the land to my Lord Chancellor and his heirs, 

 reserving an estate for life to herself ; but she knowing no reason to dis 

 inherit her own children, and confer it upon a lord who had no children, 

 asked Keeling, her man, what he thought of it ? He, like an honest servant, 

 was against it. Shute knowing this, sets upon Keeling, and brought him 

 to be willing my lady should do it, with power of revocation, upon payment 

 of 200/. in a reasonable time. Keeling lets fall some speeches, as if he 

 had left York House for the corruption which was there, which he himself 

 knew in part. Gardener, Reeling s man, confirmed the payment of the 

 300/. for the decree, viz. 100/. before, and 200/. after. This purchased 

 decree being lately damned again by my Lord Chancellor, was the cause 

 of this complaint. 



Keeling saith, Sir John Trevor did present my Lord Chancellor with 

 100/. by the hands of Sir Richard Young, for a final end to his cause. Sir 

 Richard Young answered, that when he attended upon my Lord Chancellor, 

 Sir John Trevor s man brought a cabinet, and a letter to my Lord Chan 

 cellor, and entreated me to deliver it, -which 1 did openly; and this was 

 openly done, and this was all I knew of it. 



Sir Edward Coke said, it was strange to him that this money should be 

 thus openly delivered, and that one Gardener should be present at the 

 payment of the 200/. 



Mercurii, 21st Martii, 18th Jacobi, Lady Wharton. Sir Robert Philips. 

 That Gardyner s man affirmeth, that, three days before the hearing of the 

 cause the Lady Wharton put 100/. in a purse, went to York House, and, 



