CCCX1 LIFE OF BACON. 



Smithwick In the case of Smith wick and Wyche, the charge was, 

 d che that Smithwick had presented 600 to the Chancellor, 

 but he had decided against him, and the money was repaid. 

 The fact was, that Smithwick had paid 200 to Hunt, one 

 of the Chancellor s servants, unknown to the Chancellor ; 

 that the decision was against Smithwick, and that the 

 Chancellor, when he saw an entry of the sum in his 

 servant s account, had defalced it, and ordered it to be 

 returned, (a) 



He might, in the same manner, have decomposed all the 

 charges. He might have selected the fourteen cases in 

 which the presents were made after, and many of them 

 long after judgment had been pronounced. (6) He might 

 have taken each particular case where the presents were 



() In the cause between Smithwick and Wyche, the matter in question 

 being for accompts ; the merchants, to whom it was referred, certified on 

 the behalf of Smithwick ; yet Smithwick, to obtain a decree in his cause, 

 was told by one Mr. Borough (one near the Lord Chancellor), that it must 

 cost him 200/. which he paid to Mr. Borough, or Mr. Hunt, to the use of 

 the Lord Chancellor ; and yet the Lord Chancellor decreed but one part 

 of the certificate; whereupon he treats again with Mr. Borough, who 

 demanded another 100/. which Smithwick also paid, to the use of the 

 Lord Chancellor; then his lordship referred the accompts again to the 

 same merchants, who certified again for Smithwick : yet his lordship de 

 creed the second part of the certificate against Smithwick, and the first part 

 (which was formerly decreed for him) his lordship made doubtful. Smith 

 wick petitioned to the Lord Chancellor for his money again, and had it all, 

 save 20/. kept back by Hunt for a year. 



To the twenty-first article of the charge, namely, &quot; In the cause between 

 Smithwick and Wyche, he received from Smithwick 200/. which was 

 repaid:&quot; I confess and declare, that my servant Hunt did, upon his 

 account, being my receiver of the fines upon original writs, charge himself 

 with 200/. formerly received of Smithwick ; which, after that I had under 

 stood the nature of it, I ordered him to repay, and to defalke it out of his 

 accounts. 



(6) 1. Egerton and Egerton. 2. Hody and Hody. 3. Monk s case. 

 4. Trevor and Ascue. 5. Holman and Young. 6. Fisher and Wrenham. 

 7. Scott s case. 8. Lenthall. 9. Wroth s case. 10. Lord Montagu s. 

 11. Bunch s case. 12, Buswell. 13. Barker. 14. French merchants. 



