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inheritance, and the other for goods and chattels, but all 

 upon one bill ; and some good time after the first decree, 

 and before the second, the said five hundred pounds were 

 delivered me by Mr. Tobie Matthew, so as I cannot deny 

 but it was upon the matter, pendente lite. 



&quot; 15. To the fifteenth article of the charge, viz. William 



Compton. Compton being to have an extent for a debt of one 

 thousand and two hundred pounds, the Lord Chancellor 

 stayed it, and wrote his letter, upon which part of the debt 

 was paid presently, and part at a future day. The Lord 

 Chancellor hereupon sends to borrow five hundred pounds; 

 and because Compton was to pay four hundred pounds to 

 one Huxley, his lordship requires Huxley to forbear it six 

 months, and thereupon obtains the money from Compton. 

 The money being unpaid, suit grows between Huxley and 

 Compton in Chancery, where his lordship decrees Compton 

 to pay Huxley the debt, with damages and costs, when it 

 was in his own hands: I declare, that in my conscience, 

 the stay of the extent was just, being an extremity against 

 a nobleman, by whom Compton could be no loser. The 

 money was plainly borrowed of Compton upon bond with 

 interest ; and the message to Huxley was only to intreat 

 him to give Compton a longer day, and in no sort to make 

 me debtor or responsible to Huxley ; and, therefore, though 

 I were not ready to pay Compton his money, as I would 

 have been glad to have done, save only one hundred 

 pounds, which is paid; I could not deny justice to Huxley, 

 in as ample manner as if nothing had been between 

 Compton and me. But, if Compton hath been damnified 

 in my respect, I am to consider it to Compton. 



Awbrey. &quot; 16. To the sixteenth article of the charge, viz. in 

 the cause between Sir William Bronker and Awbrey, the 

 Lord Chancellor received from Awbrey an hundred 

 pounds : I do confess and declare, that the money was 



