NOTE GGG. 



sent to my Lord Chancellor s letter ; whereupon message is sent to the Lord 

 Chancellor, by Sir James Woolridge, to this effect : that the Lords received his 

 lordship s letter, delivered unto them by the Lord Admiral ; they intend to pro 

 ceed in his cause (now before their lordships) according to the right rule of jus 

 tice ; and they shall be glad if his lordship shall clear his honour therein ; to 

 which end, they pray his lordship to provide for his defence. 



Die Martis, videlicet, 20 die Martii, post meridiem, Domini tarn Spirituales 

 quam Temporales, quorum nomina subscribuntur, praesentes fuerunt : 



p. Carolus Princeps Walliae, &c. 



Archiepus. Cant. p. Jac. Ley, Miles et Bar. Ds. Capit. 



p. Archiepus. Eborum. Justic. Locum tenens, &c. 



Answer from the Lord Chancellor, by Sir James Woolridge : that the Lord 

 Chancellor returns the Lords humble thanks for their lordships assurance of 

 justice in his cause, and well wishes to him of the success. The one secures, 

 the other comforts him. That he intends to put their lordships in mind hereafter 

 of some points contained in his lordship s letter, for that the same were not 

 spoken of in the message delivered unto him. 



Sir George Hastings, Knight, and Sir Richard Yonge, Knight, jurati a voir 

 dire to all questions asked by the court, or committees, or by any authorized by 

 the court, whether their answer be by word or set down in writing. 



Edward Egerton was sworn a voir dire ; and, being sworn, he delivered a 

 petition, touching the proceedings in his cause in the Chancery ; cujus quidem 

 tenor sequitur in JKEC verba : 



&quot; To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in this present 

 Parliament assembled. 



&quot; The humble petition of Edward Egerton, Esquire. 



&quot; Humbly sheweth, that your petitioner, being unmarried, and sickly, by 

 indenture of uses and other conveyances, entailed divers manors and lands in 

 the counties of Chester and Stafford to the use of your petitioner, and the heirs 

 males of his body ; and, for default of such issue, to remain to Sir John Egerton 

 and his heirs ; which said conveyances were made voluntarily, without any 

 consideration paid for the same, with power of revocation. 



&quot; That Sir John Egerton having, by deed executed in his lifetime, conveyed 

 all his own lands unto Sir Rowland Egerton, his son and heir, and having 

 advanced in marriage all his daughters, did make his last will and testament in 

 writing, under his hand and seal, having first bound the said Sir Rowland in a 

 statute of five thousand pounds, to perform his said will. 



&quot; That the said Sir John, by his last will, in general words, devised all his 

 lordships, manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, to your petitioner and 

 his heirs, and made your petitioner sole executor. 



&quot; By which said will, all the estate of the said Sir John, in any part of your 

 petitioner s lands (if he had any estate therein, as indeed he had not), was law 

 fully devised to your petitioner and his heirs. 



&quot; That the said Sir Rowland Egerton unduly obtained of Sir John Bennett, 

 Knight, letters of administration, to be granted unto two of his sisters, after the 

 said will exhibited to be proved, whereby your petititioner was put to three 

 thousand pounds charges in suits of law. 



&quot; That Sir Rowland Egerton hath also, by indirect means, gotten into his 

 hands the said indenture of uses, and all your petitioner s other writings and 

 evidences, and ref useth to let your petitioner to see the said indenture of uses, 

 or to deliver to your petitioner a true copy thereof ; albeit the same doth in law 

 appertain to your petitioner. 



&quot; That the Lord Ellesmere, late Lord Chancellor of England, before the 

 probate of the said will, did decree, that the said Sir Rowland shall have and 

 enjoy the manor of Wrinehill and Heywood Barnes, being a great part of your 

 petitioner s inheritance, worth six hundred pounds per annum, without any 

 cause of equity contained in the said decree. 



