NOTE Z Z. 



Among the qualities of a good judge there is one remaining and fit to tmn&amp;lt;y 

 up the rear, which the king looked upon as to be presaged in his new officer 3 , 

 an hand clean from corruption and taking gifts, which blind the eyes of the 

 wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. Deut. xvi. 19. It was loudly 

 exclaimed, and the king was ashamed to have so far mistaken the persons, that 

 there were sucking horse-leeches in great places. Things not to be valued 

 at money were saleable, and what could not gold procure? As Menander 

 writes. 



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That is, friends and judges and witnesses, you may have them for a price ; 

 nay, such as sit in the place of God will serve you for such wages. The wise 

 king having little prevailed by monitions and menaces against this sordid filthi- 

 ness, cast his liking upon a man whom he might least suspect for gripleness 

 and bribery. The likeliest, indeed, of all others to shake this viper from his 

 hand, and to be armed with a breastplate of integrity against the mammon of 

 iniquity, for he was far more ready to give than to take, to oblige than to be 

 beholdinge. &quot; Magis illud laborari ut illi quamplurimi debeant,&quot; as Sallust 

 of Jugurtha. 



He was well descended of a fortunate and ancient lineage, and had made 

 his progress to advancements by steps of credit, a good bridle against base 

 deviations. What then made an unsavoury historian call him country pedant? 

 A reproach with which H. L. doth flirt at him, in his history of King Charles, 

 a scornful untruth. So 1 shake off this bar, and return to the reverend dean, 

 who was in a function of holy calling next to God. Among them I know all 

 have not been incorrupt : the sons of Samuel turned aside after lucre, and took 

 bribes and perverted judgment. 1 Sam. viii. 3. But commonly, I trust, they 

 do not forget what a scandal it is if God s stewards, turn the devil s rent 

 gatherers. He was also unmarried and so unconcerned in the natural impulsion 

 of avarice to provide for wife and children. Our old moral men touched often 

 upon this string that justice is a virgin IlapQevu e&amp;lt;?i SiKrj, says Hesiod, and 

 therefore fit to be committed to the trust of a virgin magistrate. He was never 

 sullied with suspicion that he loved presents : no not so much as Gratuidad di 

 Guantes as the Spaniards phrase is, but to go higher, they are living that know 

 what sums of value have been brought to his secretaries, such as might have 

 swayed a man that was not impregnable, and with how much solicitousness 

 they have been requested to throw them at his feet for favours already received, 

 which no man durst undertake, as knowing assuredly it would displace the 

 broker, and be his ruin. And it was happy for him, when five years after lime- 

 hounds were laid close to his footsteps to hunt him, and every corner searched 

 to find a tittle of that dust behind his door. But it proved a dry scent to the 

 inquisitors, for to his glory, and shame to his enemies, it could never appear 

 that the least birdlime of corruption did stick to his fingers. 



Among the exceptions with which Lord Cranfield did exagitate him, one may 

 require a larger answer than he thought him worthy of in that humour. He 

 replies to him very briefly to him in the laconic form, because such brittle ware 

 would break with a touch. The treasurer was misinformed or coined it out of 

 his own head. That the Keeper dispatched great number of cases by hearing 

 petitions in his chamber, and he did usually reverse decrees upon petitions. 

 That 40,000 had been taken in one year among his servants by such spurious 

 and illegitimate justice. 



That he did much work by petitions and treble as much in the first year as in 

 those that succeeded, it is confessed. First, the hindrances had been so great 

 which the court sustained before he began to rectify them, that unless he had 

 allowed poor men some furtherance by motions or petitions, they had been 

 undone for want of timely favour. 



Secondly, all high potentates and magistrates under them have ever employed 

 some at their hand to give answers to supplicants that made requests unto them. 



