LORDS DISSATISFACTION. ccclv 



confession therein was not fully nor particularly set down, 

 and for many other exceptions against the submission 

 itself, the same in sort extenuating his confession, and his 

 lordship seeming to prescribe the sentence to be given 

 against him by the house. 



Their lordships resolved, that the Lord Chancellor should 

 be charged particularly with the briberies and corruptions 

 complained of against him, and that his lordship should 

 make a particular answer thereunto. It was, therefore, 

 ordered that the particulars of the charge be sent to the 

 Lord Chancellor, and that the lords do expect his answer 

 to the same with all convenient expedition. They were 

 sent accordingly. () 



(a) They are subjoined. They are twenty-three in 

 number, expanded by the Chancellor to twenty-eight. 



1. In the cause between Sir Rowland Egerton, knt. and 

 Edward Egerton, the Lord- Chancellor received five hundred 

 pounds, on the part of Sir Rowland Egerton, before he 

 decreed the same ; proved by the depositions of Sir Row 

 land Egerton : of John Brooke, who deposeth to the pro 

 viding of the money, of purpose to be given to the Lord 

 Chancellor, and that the same is delivered to Mr. Thelwall, 

 to deliver to the Lord Chancellor : of Bevis Thelwall, who 

 delivered the five hundred pounds to the Lord Chancellor. 



He received from Edward Egerton, in the said cause, 

 four hundred pounds; proved by the depositions of Sir 

 Richard Young, knight, Sir George Hastings, knight, 

 Rolphe Merefeild, and Tristram Woodward. 



2. In the cause between Hody and Hody, he received a 

 dozen of buttons, of the value of fifty pounds, a fortnight 

 after the cause was ended ; proved by the depositions of 

 Sir Thomas Perient, knight, and John Churchill, who 

 speaks of a greater value, by the report of Hody. 



3. In the cause between the Lady Wharton and the 

 coheirs of Sir Francis Willoughby, he received of the Lady 



