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with a bason and ewer, of 52J. but doubtful, whether this before he was 

 ord Keeper, or presently after. 



That persuaded by Sir George Hastinges, and Sir Richard Yong-, to gratify 

 iy lord. That he sold tythes ; raised 400/. carried it to Whytehall, to my 

 Chancellor s lodging; called for Sir George and Sir Richard Yong, and 

 sy them sent in this gold in a purse ; who carried it in to my lord ; who started 

 it it. saying, it was too much. That thanks returned to him from my lord. 

 Edward Egerton saith, he had a further message ; that my lord said, he 

 lot only enriched him, but bound him to do him all lawful favours. 



This denied by Sir George and Sir Richard Yong; but the delivery of the 

 money .confessed by them. 



That it was ordered by the committee, Edward Egerton should have time, to 

 bring in all the petitions, references, bills, answers, injunctions, orders, and 

 writings, concerning this business. 



That a circumstance appeared, that some indirect way open in these cases. 

 That Egerton, acquainted with a divine, now a bishop, broke to him his suits : 

 he undertook to broke for him ; took from him a recognizance of 10.000/. with 

 a kind of defeazance, that, if his land were decreed him, he should pay 6000/. 

 to those honourable persons, by whom he should receive favour. That this was 

 confirmed by Bishop Feild s letters. That this letter had some honesty in it ; 

 for, if the business succeeded not, in verbo sacerdotis he should have his recog 

 nizance again. 



A circumstance, concerning Mr. Johnson, a member of this house, a moral 

 honest man: That, as Egerton saith, Johnson persuaded him to take out of 

 his petition the matter of money, and then his lordship would give way to it ; 

 and, if he would go in the afternoon to my lord, with Sir George and Sir 

 Richard Yong, my lord was like to let him have the money he had lent him : 

 but this Johnson denied. 



Sir Richard Yong: grieved, to hear, or speak, of this. That he summoned 

 to answer here in a great senate ; therefore will neither deny, nor blanch, truth. 

 That Edward Egerton and he long acquainted: cousins. Beholding to the 

 Lord Chancellor, who had been formerly of his counsel. That Sir George and 

 he dining with my lord at Whytehall, Edward Egerton brought them a bag of 

 gold : that they presented it to my lord, as a thankful remembrance from a 

 client, to buy him a suit of hangings for his house, which then preparing. 



Mr. Noye : two complainers of wrongs .done by them ; Awbrew, and Eger 

 ton. That they accuse the Lord Chancellor of a great crime. We must needs 

 now, either clear, or condemn him. 



That strange, there should be witnesses in this case : yet here some. Liketh 

 not, Sir George or Sir Richard should have made any apology. The accusa 

 tion against one, that hath taken an oath, as a counsellor to the king, and chan 

 cellor : if the offence true, wrongeth the king, and the land in general. 



It seems to be next to impossible that communication of these proceedings 

 was not immediately made to the Lord Chancellor, and yet it is certain that he 

 sat in the House of Lords on the 17th March, as appears from the following 

 entry on the journals : 



Die Sabbati, videlicet, 17 die Martii, Domini tam Spirituals quam Tempo- 

 rales, quorum nomina subscribuntur, praesentes fuerunt : 



p.. Carolus Princeps Walliae, &c. 



Archiepus. Cant. p. Vicecomes St. Alban, 



p. Archiepus. Eborum. Magn. Cane. Anglias. 



Epus. London. p. Vicecomes Maundevil, 



p. Epus. Dunelm. Mag. Thes. Angliae. 



&c. &c. 



This was the last time he sat as Chancellor in the House of Lords. 



