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given and received; but the manner of it I leave to the 

 witnesses. 



&quot; 17. To the seventeenth article of the charge, viz. in Mounta- 

 the Lord Mountague s cause, he received from the Lord gue 

 Mountague six or seven hundred pounds ; and more was 

 to be paid at the ending of the cause : I confess and 

 declare, there was money given, and (as I remember) by 

 Mr. Bevis Thelwall, to the sum mentioned in the article 

 after the cause was decreed ; but I cannot say it was 

 ended, for there have been many orders since, caused by 

 Sir Frauncis Englefeild s contempts; and I do remember 

 that, when Thelwall brought the money, he said, that my 

 lord would be further thankful if he could once get his 

 quiet; to which speech I gave little regard. 



&quot; 18. To the eighteenth article of the charge, viz. in the Dunch. 

 cause of Mr. Dunch, he received of Mr. Dunch two 

 hundred pounds : I confess and declare, that it was 

 delivered by Mr. Thelwall to Hatcher my servant, for me, 

 as I think, some time after the decree ; but I cannot 

 precisely inform myself of the time. 



&quot; 19. To the nineteenth article of the charge, viz. in the Reynell 

 cause between Reynell and Peacock, he received from 

 Reynell two hundred pounds, and a diamond ring worth 

 five or six hundred pounds : I confess and declare, that, at 

 my first coming to the seal, when I was at Whitehall, my 

 servant Hunt delivered me two hundred pounds, from Sir 

 George Reynell, my near ally, to be bestowed upon 

 furniture of my house; adding further, that he received 

 divers former favours from me ; and this was, as I verily 

 think, before any suit begun. The ring was received 

 certainly pendente lite ; and, though it were at New year s- 

 tide, yet it was too great a value for a New year s gift, 

 though, as I take it, nothing near the value mentioned in 

 the article. 



