PARTICULAR CHARGES. CCCXXxix 



Sir Thomas Perrot and Sir Henry Holmes presented the 

 Chancellor with some gold buttons, worth forty guineas, (a) 



In the case between Reynell and Peacock, the charge Reynell 

 was, that there was much money given on both sides, and d k 

 a diamond ring. The facts turned out to be that presents 

 were given on both sides; that Sir George Reynell was a 

 near ally of the Chancellor s, and presented the gratuity 

 as a New Year s gift for former favours, when the great 

 seal was first delivered to the Lord Keeper, and when 

 presents were, as of course, presented by various persons ; 

 and that by the intervention of a friend and neighbour at 

 St. Albans, he borrowed a sum of Peacock, (b) 



In the cause of Barker and Hill, the charge was, that Barker and 

 the Chancellor had been bribed by a present made by Hil1 * 

 Barker. The fact was, that the sum was presented some 

 time after the decree had been made, (c) 



(a) See note G G G. 



(6) I confess and declare, that at my first coming to the seal, when I 

 was at Whitehall, my servant Hunt delivered to me 200/. from Sir George 

 Reynell, my near ally, to be bestowed upon furniture of my house, adding 

 further that he had received divers former favours from me, and this was, as 

 I verily think, before any suit begun. The ring was certainly received 

 pendente lite, and though it were at New-year s tide, it was too great a 

 value for a New-year s gift, though, as I take it, nothing near the value 

 mentioned in the charge. 



To the twentieth article of the charge, namely, &quot; That he took of Pea 

 cock lOQl. at Dorset House, at my first coming to the seal, as a present, 

 at which time no suit was begun; and at the summer after, I sent my 

 then servant Lister to Mr. Rolfe, my good friend and neighbour at 

 St. Albans, to use his means with Mr. Peacock, who was accounted a 

 moneyed man, for the borrowing of 300/. and after by my servant Hatcher 

 for borrowing of 500/. more, which Mr. Rolfe procured ; and told me at 

 both times it should be without interest, script, or note, and that I should 

 take my own time for payment of it. 



(c) To the twenty-third article of the charge, namely, &quot; In the cause of 

 Mr. Barker, the Lord Chancellor received from Barker 700^.&quot; I confess 

 and declare, that the sum mentioned in the article was received from 

 Mr. Barker some time after the decree past. 





