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I shall not be found to have the troubled fountain of a 

 corrupt heart, in a depraved habit of taking rewards to 

 pervert justice : however, I may be frail, and partake of 

 the abuses of the times.&quot; For such appeals there would 

 not, before such a tribunal, have been any necessity. 



Passing from these general observations, how easy would Particular 

 it have been to have examined each particular charge, by charges 

 separating the bundle, and breaking it stick by stick ? 



In the case of Holman and Young, it was alleged that Holman 

 1000 had been given to the Chancellor by Young, (a) 



(a) 22nd March. In a suit between Hull, plaintiff, and Holman, de 

 fendant, Holman, deferring his answer, was committed to the Fleet, where 

 he lay twenty weeks, and petitioning to be delivered, was answered by 

 some about the Lord Chancellor, the bill shall be decreed against him 

 (pro confesso), unless he would enter into 2000/. bond to stand to the 

 Lord Chancellor s order ; which he refusing, his liberty cost him, one way 

 and other, better than 1000?. Holman being freed out of the Fleet, Hull 

 petitioned to the Lord Chancellor, and Holman, finding his cause to go 

 hard on his side, complained to the Commons; whereupon the Lord 

 Chancellor sent for him, and, to pacify him, told him, he should have what 

 order he would himself. 



From the Tract. Mercurii, 21st Martii, 1620. Sir Robert Philips 

 reports from the committee to examine Keeling and Churchill, who in 

 formed of many corruptions against my Lord Chancellor. 1 . In the cause 

 between Hull and Holman, Hull gave or lent my lord 1000/. since the 

 suit began. 



From the Journals. March 21, 18th James. Hull and Holman. Sir 

 R. Philips. Another case; Hull and Holman. Holman, refusing to 

 answer, committed ; there lay twenty weeks : after required to answer, and 

 to give bond of 2,000/. to stand to my Lord Chancellor s order in it. 

 That one Manby, about the Exchange, dealt in this business with Mr. 

 Mewtys. That Holman, finding his order vary, resolved to complain to 

 this house. That, upon Friday last, my lord sent for Hull and Holman; 

 offered to make an indifferent end between them: and that Holman told 

 Keeling he was a happy man now, he could have any thing from my Lord 

 Chancellor. 



To the seventh article of the charge, namely, &quot; In the cause between 

 Holman and Young, he received of Young 100/. after the decree made for 

 him :&quot; I confess and declare, that as I remember, a good while after the 



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