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A message from the lords, to signify that they have taken into consideration 

 the last conference, and shall need the testimony of two members of this 

 ise 5 and therefore desire that voluntarily, and without ordering, as private 

 MIS, they make declaration upon oath, and the like for others, if occasion 



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Answer returned, that the gentlemen would attend voluntarily as private men, 

 and (upon private notice) be examined. 



Sir Robert Phillips reports from the committee appointed for the examination 

 of Churchill, from which particular a general may be extracted, conducing to 

 the discovery of corruption in the Lord Chancellor. 



The Lady Wharton having a cause depending in chancery, many orders 

 were made in it ; amongst the rest, there was an order made for dismission, by 

 the consent of the counsel on both sides ; which my lady disliking, took 

 Churchill, the Register, into her coach, carried him to my Lord Chancellor s, 

 and so wrought, that he was willed not to enter the last order ; so that my lady 

 was left at liberty to prosecute it in chancery, brought it to a hearing, and at 

 length got a decree. Keeling being examined, saith, that near about the time 

 of passing this decree, my lady took WOL he saw it, and she made him set 

 down the words and stiles, which she would use in the delivery of it. Then 

 she goeth to York House, and delivered it to my Lord Chancellor, as she told 

 him. She carried it in a purse ; my lord asked her what she had in her hand ? 

 She said, a purse of her own making, and presented it to him ; who took it, 

 and said, what lord could refuse a purse of so fair a lady s working ! After 

 this, my lord made a decree for her, but it was not perfected ; but 200/. more 

 being given, (one Gardener being present), her decree had life. But after the 

 giving of the 100L because she had not 200/. ready in money, one Shute dealt 

 with her to pass over the land to my Lord Chancellor, and his heirs, reserving 

 an estate for life to herself; but she knowing no reason to disinherit her own 

 children, and confer it upon a lord who had no children, asked Keeling, her 

 man, what he thought of it? He, like an honest servant, was against it. 

 Shute knowing this, sets upon Keeling, and brought him to be willing my lady 

 should do it, with power of revocation upon payment of 200/. in a reasonable 

 time. Keeling lets fall some speeches, as if he had left York House for the 

 corruption which was there, which he himself knew in part. Gardener, Keel- 

 ing s man, confirmed the payment of the 300/. for the decree, viz. 100/. before, 

 and 200/. after. This purchased decree being lately damned again by my 

 Lord Chancellor, was the cause of this complaint. 



Keeling saith, Sir John Trevor did present my Lord Chancellor with 100/. 

 by the hands of Sir Richard Young, for a final end to his cause. Sir Richard 

 Young answered, that when he attended upon my Lord Chancellor, Sir John 

 Trevor s man brought a cabinet, and a letter to my Lord Chancellor, and en 

 treated me to deliver it, which I did openly ; and this was openly done, and 

 this was all I knew of it. 



Sir Edward Coke said, it was strange to him that this money should be thus 

 openly delivered, and that one Gardener should be present at the payment of 

 the 200/. 



Ordered, 



That Sir Robert Phillips do deliver to the lords this afternoon the Bishop of 

 Llandaff s and Awbrey s letters, and all other writings that he hath. Then 

 adjourned. 



[From the Journals.] 



Die Martis, videlicet, 20th die Martii. The Lord Treasurer reported the 

 conference yesterday with the commons. 



At which conference, was delivered the desire of the commons, to inform 

 their lordships of the great abuses of the courts of justice ; the information 

 whereof was divided into three parts : 1. Of the persons accused. 2. Of the 

 matters objected against them. 3. Their proof. The persons are, the Lord 

 Chancellor of England, and the now Lord Bishop of Landaph (being then no 

 bishop, but Doctor Feild). The incomparable good parts of the Lord Chan- 



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